Garbage in, artage out
“We’ve got, like, ‘Sanford and Son’ in here, baby!” Sandra Monday was visibly thrilled as she surveyed the selection of refuse that had been carted into Java Jabbers Coffeehouse for last Saturday evening’s Recycadelic Relics art happening. Knick-knacks and castoffs of all shapes and sizes were strewn across a table inside the tiny beatnik hangout,…
British take on teen’s coming out
Movie: Get Real
Half-baked recipe
Movie: American Pie
‘Road’ thrill
Movie: Arlington Road
British take on teen’s coming out
Movie: Get Real
Half-baked recipe
Movie: American Pie
‘Road’ thrill
Movie: Arlington Road
Evolution of a warning
The dangers posed by air bags were well documented by the time their widespread use began in the late 1980s and early ’90s. It was the general public that remained in the dark. It could have been different. From the outset auto manufacturers and government regulators knew that small women and children were particularly susceptible…
Crash test kids
This week, the great, unwashed masses get their turn at the soapbox. We sent the following questionnaire to an assortment of our regular readers, allowing them to state their opinions and preferences on a variety of matters of the day. Our crack team of Taiwanese math whizzes then tallied the results, breaking them down by…
Celebration’s learning curve
Along with Celebration’s regulated architecture, self-touted community values and Disney pedigree comes a well-bought superiority complex. So it’s not surprising that last month residents complained about a proposed expansion of Celebration School. The change threatens the small class sizes and mixed-age approach that the school now offers. The Osceola County School District and the Celebration…
Let there be billboards
By now, you’ve probably seen the messages from on high — high above metro-Orlando freeways on billboards, that is. “You think it’s hot here? — God” As far as we can tell, the Almighty hasn’t taken up self-promotion. Rather, the “God Speaks” campaign, as it has come to be known, is an advertising product of…
Dress to impress
It’s official: We are not a city of slobs. That’s according to Urban Marketing Collaborative, a Toronto market-research firm hired by Orlando’s Community Redevelopment Agency, which in turn is working on the Downtown Orlando Horizon 2000 Monthly Plan Update. The Urban Marketing Collaborative has been using surveys to evaluate downtown’s retail and entertainment market. The…
Support for all our fears
In May, the firm Triumph International Japan said it would soon market the Armageddon Bra, with a sensor in the shoulder strap to warn wearers against doomsday objects falling from the sky. Also in May, an evangelical Christian organization in Hereford, England, announced that it had trained a 24-hour-a-day camera on Jerusalem’s eastern gate to…
High-tech schmoozing
Time for the newest Hog Report! This time we have high-powered, high-tech hogs like Bill Gates of Microsoft, Lou Gerstner of IBM and other corporate heavies who waddled into Washington for a three-day “High Tech Summit” convened on Capitol Hill by the joint economic committee. It was billed by the committee’s Republican leaders as “a…
Topped out
Since most of you weren’t it, most of you may not know that the valedictorian is the kid whose class-high GPA earns them the right to speak at the commencement ceremony. But picking one person as valedictorian has become a pain in the ass. Accusations of parental politicking and of kids taking easy classes to…
Crash test kids
For Isaac Day Jr., the calculus of automobile safety and the vagaries of chance collided on the sunny afternoon of June 26, 1998. Ola Day Smith was driving her 1994 Dodge Caravan through Belle Glade, in western Palm Beach County. Smith’s 19-year-old son, Isaac Day, was in the passenger seat with his son and namesake…
Bags of trouble
When it comes to air bags, 1999 has not been a great year for the Chrysler half of DaimlerChrysler. A combination of lawsuits, government inquiries and a massive recall has hit the automaker within the past six months. The trouble began in February when a Pennsylvania jury handed down a $58.5 million judgment against DaimlerChrysler…
Review – Green Chimneys
Artist: Andy Summers
Review – Here Comes the Bride
Artist: Spin Doctors
Review – Cheating at Solitaire
Artist: Mike Ness
Review – Freedumb
Artist: Suicidal Tendencies
Review – Green Chimneys
Artist: Andy Summers
Review – Here Comes the Bride
Artist: Spin Doctors
Review – Cheating at Solitaire
Artist: Mike Ness
Review – Freedumb
Artist: Suicidal Tendencies
Review – Green Chimneys
Artist: Andy Summers
Review – Here Comes the Bride
Artist: Spin Doctors
Review – Cheating at Solitaire
Artist: Mike Ness
Review – Freedumb
Artist: Suicidal Tendencies
Dance Inc.
If you follow club culture, you’re already familiar with dance-floor demons DJ Rob-E, Baby Anne, Andy Hughes, Atmosphere and Jason Brown. Individually, these performers are impressive; collectively, they are an electronic tour de force that flies under the banner of Phattraxx Records. Jumping into the recording business with this already-established lineup of jocks, the young…
Sad undertow flows from punk to folk
Twenty-five years after he accidentally created the seminal San Francisco punk band the Nuns, singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo is finding the roots of his identity. All but crushed by the suicide of his second wife, the Austin, Texas-based Escovedo delivered two solo albums on Watermelon Records — “Gravity” in 1992 and “Thirteen Years” in 1993 –…
Cooperating artists bond over junk
The practice of recycling needn’t be restricted to practical concerns. For some, parting with those treasures — the ones that look like junk to uninspired others — might even be a easier if they knew the object could live on, transformed into a “work of art.” Creative forces will be at play this weekend on…
‘Witch’s’ broom sweeps small screen
It’s a sad fact of the film lover’s life: Everything you see in a movie’s prerelease trailer may not be present and accounted for when the finished product bows. The Blair Witch Project follows the trend, with at least one of its promotional spots featuring a scene nowhere to be found in the film’s final…
Reeling from culture shop
The Oriental Supermarket is like the Home Depot of Asian cooking. In fact, a miniforklift might be in order if you want to cart home a few bags of rice — at 50 pounds each, they’re stacked by the door like sacks of fertilizer. It’s fun to explore the brightly lit aisles stocked with dozens…
Reeling from culture shop
The Oriental Supermarket is like the Home Depot of Asian cooking. In fact, a miniforklift might be in order if you want to cart home a few bags of rice — at 50 pounds each, they’re stacked by the door like sacks of fertilizer. It’s fun to explore the brightly lit aisles stocked with dozens…
