Ode to Greek
I wasn’t really expecting big things on my first visit to Athena Cafe. But then they started bringing out the wealth of Greek cuisine: humus, dolmans, moussaka, spanakopita. As I sampled my way from one dish to the next, I decided that in the next life, I’m going to ask to come back as a…
Chance encounters
Even when the first guy wrote the first encyclopedia, the world was already too incomprehensible for that knowledge to matter. And with each passing day, more is added to the list of things you don’t know, can’t know and haven’t done. The caprices of life are so far beyond our comprehension that even really smart…
Fairvilla regains voice
After more than a month of silence, Fairvilla is back on the air. Two weeks ago, WHTQ-FM (96.5), owned by Cox Communications of Atlanta, began running advertising spots featuring the city’s “adult megastore.” The spots, which give little indication that Fairvilla’s inventory includes a broad array of sex toys, had been summarily pulled from the…
Early fallout from plutonium launch
Seven years ago, when Alan Kohn needed a budget to do his job at Kennedy Space Center, he threatened his bosses. “I sort of forced the budget from the payload manager by threatening to go to the protest groups,” Kohn remembers. He got $10,000 to protect 20,000 government workers from the possible radiation fallout in…
Dressed for repression
Nudists fighting to preserve their cherished stretch of Playalinda Beach are losing their longtime nemesis. But just as Wendell Simpson, superintendent of Canaveral National Seashore, begins cleaning out his office, U.S. Rep. David Weldon has jumped up to fill the void left in the anti-nudist ranks.;;For the last seven years, Simpson has made it more…
Pan-asian panoply
East is East and West is West, and here the twain meet in a community of diverse cultures. East is east and west is west and the twain are meeting in Central Florida. From Orlando’s original Asian commercial district in Colonialtown, to the one-time cattle kingdom of Kissimmee, to Longwood’s burgeoning business sector, the Pan-Asian…
Penny ante?
Orange county’s sale tax increase is not yet on the ballot. But here’s how much it’s cost so far. It’s not yet on the ballot, but Orange County already has begun paying for expenses related to the 1-cent sales-tax hike proposed by County Chairman Linda Chapin. Since April, Chapin’s assistants have been tapping county funds…
Okie cops bang Tin Drum rudely
Just before July 4th, control of Hong Kong was turned over by the British to the Chinese government, and there was much tongue clucking by American pundits and politicians about how this move might threaten the individual liberties of Hong Kong people. But while our leaders profess to be worried about the erosion of human…
