Second annual Photo Awards
The evidence suggests that we’re on to something here. Last year’s Orlando Weekly Photo Contest — our first — drew 78 entries. This time the number jumped dramatically — 170 images, submitted by 55 photographers from Kissimmee to St. Augustine. That left our three esteemed judges (page 28) with plenty to sift. But just as…
Telecom giants make love, not war
From Hightower’s “Department of I-Told-You-So” comes a report that the highly touted Telecommunications Deregulation Act of 1996 ain’t working. Here’s a recent headline on the front page of USA Today: “Telecom Deals Signal Deregulation’s Failure.” The deals they’re talking about are all the mega mergers taking place among long-distance phone companies, local phone companies, television…
Home is where the art is
Homeless Artists Benefit, Ethnic Art Gallery, July21-August 21, 1997 The best thing that ever happened to Everett Spruill, the artist, was when Everett Spruill, the Hyatt hotel manager, was given an ultimatum: “Either the beard goes or you do.” “I took my 10-year retirement and severance pay and opened an art gallery,” says Spruill. The…
Felons to be freebooters
Bootlegging CDs may be a big business carrying big potential penalties (“Getting the Boots,” July 10). But despite the maximum 25-year sentence hanging over the 13 defendants arrested in March, several have entered plea agreements that may allow them to walk.;;Nothing is guaranteed. Judge G. Kendall Sharp may decide to throw the book at ‘em…
Club owner feels Hood-winked
Just last week, Marsa, proprietor of The Club at Firestone, Orlando’s top late-night venue, felt pretty good about the future of late-night dances, which have been under attack in the political push to squeeze out “raves” as assumed magnets for drug use. ;; He and Hood had spoken at length about raves. Marsa believed that…
Tracking the elusive Medfly
Maeve McConnell is the perfect spokesperson for the $17 million government program employing malathion to eradicate the Mediterranean fruit fly, the destructive little pest threatening Florida’s citrus industry. Not only is McConnell well spoken on the issue, but she also can offer herself as living proof of the pesticide’s low toxicity. ;; One day, while…
