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Mar 11-17, 1998

Mar 11-17, 1998 / Vol. 14 / No. 10

Portishead samples sour times with grit

Portishead, with DJ Andy Smith, The Club, March 19, 1998 It was 1994. Electronica was making waves in the U.K. and in the U.S. underground while American commercial radio was still trying to properly exploit “alternative” rock. During this period, the electronic music scene of Bristol, England — which would soon bring the world Tricky…

Daniel Fuller

British DJ spreading the tao of trance

Paul Oakenfold, The Club, March 12, 1998 It’s the weekend in Liverpool, England, and somehow or another you and your mates have managed to bum your way into Cream — definitely the best club in world on Saturday nights, when megasuperstar DJ Paul Oakenfold mans the turntables. At 3 a.m. you’re packed tightly into the…

Maya Singer

Billy Bacon sizzles on stage

Billy Bacon and the Forbidden Pigs, Sapphire Supper Club, March 14, 1998 The swing revolution has given rise to the Royal Crown Revue, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Combustible Edison and droves of other self-styled hepcats. It seems like such a musical renaissance ought to bode well with Billy Bacon and the Forbidden Pigs. For nearly…

Philip Booth

This author’s life fueled by notification

Tobias Wolff, Visual Arts Auditorium at UCF, March 19, 1998 Although he has received many awards for his short stories, Tobias Wolff may be best known for his memoirs: “This Boy’s Life” won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, and Wolff recounted…

Garaud MacTaggart

Gone with the wind

News gathering is so up to the minute that it’s hard to get any real information. Just try to have a chat with your neighbor over whether the avocado tree is in your yard or theirs without Van Susteren, Cochran and Rivera convening four hours of panel discussions on “Crisis in the Backyard,” or Koppel…

Liz Langley

Raiders of the Last Ark

Corporations, courts and Congress join the fray for the key to the Internet. What’s at stake: The internet is changing our world. Experts believe its users will grow from about 100 million to 1 billion during the next few years — a tenfold increase. There’s a lot of money to be made selling Internet addresses.…

Monte Paulson

Prison correction

Traditional programs aren’t working. Should we give churches a chance? For 22 years, Karl Holsberg, senior chaplain of the Good News Jail and Prison Ministry at the Orange County jail, was a police officer sworn to arrest the sorts of criminals he is now devoted to helping. That experience makes him intimately familiar with public…

Lawrence Budd

Rabid representation

‘I think the bill sets a dangerous precedent. How many groups or professionals are going to get in line?’ All he wants to do, insists Bob Sindler, is to encourage more people to vaccinate their pets against rabies What he actually is doing, insist his critics, is pushing to restrict access to vaccination records so…

Lawrence Budd

Universal’s Twister spin

Universal Studios may have pulled the plug ” temporarily ” on its Twister attraction following this month’s killer storms. But there it was: a full-page color ad splashed across the back of AAA’s Going Places magazine, whose 2.1 million copies began reaching mailboxes across Florida and the southeast last week. Be among the first to…

Jeff Truesdell

New York Knickerbockers

It was a leap to the fast lane when Chuluota-based artist Carl Knickerbocker `”Killer Wit,” Feb. 5` recently shared Madison Avenue gallery space with Pop Art icon Roy Lichtenstein. Call it serendipity or a karmic Knickerbocker connection, but when Magidson Fine Art gallery’s Lichtenstein exhibit came up one wall short, New York art agent Carole…

Lindy T. Shepherd

McCollum’s money matters

Remember the “screaming granny” TV commercial? U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Longwood, does. It helped him get elected. Shortly before the 1996 congressional elections, according to McCollum’s media strategist, “every adult in Central Florida should have seen” the spot, which warned of Democratic chicanery and the impending death of Medicare. McCollum was one of four GOP…

Lawrence Budd

Deleting American high-tech jobs

According to park rangers, a tourist to the Grand Canyon actually asked: “Was this man-made?” Well, the middle class these days finds itself in a hole that’s even deeper than the Grand Canyon, and, yes, their hole “is” man-made, made by global corporate executives and their puppets in Washington. An example of this hole-digging is…

Jim Hightower

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