Rock and rumble all night
No one knows for sure if heavy metal is making a comeback. But if Chris Jericho has his way, it’s going to look more like pro wrestling than ever. A Canadian-born grappler currently affiliated with the World Wrestling Federation, Jericho flailed his way into Hard Rock Live last Friday night to introduce Orlando fans to…
Mutant epic controls its wilder genes
Movie: X-Men
Partly cloudy but still Fiennes weather
Movie: Sunshine
Mutant epic controls its wilder genes
Movie: X-Men
Partly cloudy but still Fiennes weather
Movie: Sunshine
Taking the cure
It’s midsummer, and the temperature and humidity are both hovering in the 90s. Here in Central Florida, we experience the opposite of cabin fever, holed up in our air-conditioned caves, dreaming of the few cool months when being outdoors isn’t a brutally challenging battle against heat and mosquitoes. One wonders how humans managed to survive…
Body by NASA, brain by Mattel
Accomplished toy inventor Brian Walker, 44, told the Newhouse News Service in June that he will by next summer launch himself on the world’s first homemade space shot. His self-built, 9-foot spacecraft, he said, will be propelled from a 30-foot-long trailer, blasting off at 4,000 mph and using 10 tanks containing 7,000 pounds of hydrogen-peroxide…
The ‘Lost’ tribe of Longwood
What if I told you that the greater Orlando area is home to a comedy troupe that swells with a whopping 120 members? You’d think one of the Sak Lab Rats must have whelped a big litter of pups, right? Not at all. The army of jesters to which I refer is the Lost &…
Welcome to dot-com deadpool
Though he’s only 24, Philip Kaplan’s already been through the anxiety of seeing his company’s stock plummeting and its product not selling, of hearing investors grumbling about a lawsuit. It’s a bad gut feeling, one more and more people working for Internet start-ups are getting these days. You signed on to a dot-com business for…
Getting more out of life
“Ordinary people. I hate ’em.” Harry Dean Stanton said this in “Repo Man,” and I see his point. Maybe ordinary people are not all worthy of hatred, but they’re sure not all worthy of being on TV. Why tune in when you can catch someone without a script say things you don’t hear every day…
One broken body
We who are many are one body.” Those words, on a long white banner hanging over the main lobby inside the Cleveland Convention Center, border a drawing of a torso and arms covered by a long-sleeved clerical vestment. The arms are outstretched; the brown-hued hands face upward, as if toward heaven. Indeed, the people here…
One overworked ‘Imagination’
It’s set the record for the greatest number of complaints a new attraction has ever received at a Disney theme park. It’s the subject of hundreds of angry letters from parents, who accuse the Walt Disney Company of betraying their children’s trust. It’s the cause of furious in-fighting between management and Walt Disney Imagineering. It’s…
Don’t like it? Push it aside
Fresh off her June 1 swearing-in, Mayor Glenda Hood was ready to set the tone for her third term in office. Addressing the City Council from the floor of the council chambers at the June 12 meeting, she announced the city had “image issues” she wanted the council to begin tackling. Among the complaints brought…
Art offensive
The crowd was buzzing, the pianist was tinkling his keyboard and everyone filled their black paper plates with black beans and rice, blackened chicken and blackberry tarts. The color reflected the theme of the June 15 opening of the latest public art exhibit at City Hall, The Black Velvet Show, which runs through Sept. 17.…
A change is in the water
The St. Johns River Water Management District is finding itself in a bit of a quandary lately. The district is understaffed and its workers are overloaded. Staff recently circulated a memo outlining some basic ideas to “improve the permitting and compliance efficiency” of the district’s permitting office. Although these proposals are only in the discussion…
Where helmets are headed
July 1 marked the first day of Florida’s no-helmet law. Motorcyclists who carry more than $10,000 in medical insurance can ride their bikes without the cumbersome problem of attaching a plastic cap to their heads. But if another Southern state is any indication, cyclists will need that insurance. Louisiana repealed its helmet law last summer.…
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Review – It’s in the Sound
Artist: Little Red Rocket
Review – Afro Cuban Jazz
Artist: Snowboy and the Latin Section
Review – White Pepper
Artist: Ween
Review – World Musette
Artist: Les Primitifs du Futur
Review – It’s in the Sound
Artist: Little Red Rocket
Review – Afro Cuban Jazz
Artist: Snowboy and the Latin Section
