Cheap Chinese
Where can you go if you don’t want to spend $12 for an art show? Two museums offer an alternative. This summer it’s going to be hard to go anywhere without being bombarded with an exotic theme: Chinese. Art and artifacts, that is. There’s the high-profile, high-priced spread that opened in May at Orlando Museum…
A dung deal on lakes
By mid-June it should be safe to go back into Clear and Fairview lakes, the dirtiest duo among 87 lakes monitored for water quality by Orlando and Orange County. Since December both lakes have been posted with warnings about potentially hazardous levels of “fecal bacteria.” Excrement, in other words. “It is recommended that water-contact activities,…
A merciful respite from raving
Ray Stines and Jon Marsa are as different as the styles of music that reverberate through the walls of their Orange Avenue nightclubs. About the time the last of the rock and roll crowd is straggling out of Stines’ Jani Lane’s Sunset Strip, younger late-night “ravers” are filing into Marsa’s Club at Firestone for a…
Giving foreign dictators wings
Who has the second-largest air force in the world? The USA is No. 1, but would you guess that No. 2 is Russia, China or Germany? Try Tuscon, Ariz. Out on the Arizona desert is a four-square mile compound on which sits an air superpower, with 139 patrol planes, 426 cargo planes, 562 helicopters, 570…
