Just wait till mom finds out
Spring is in the air — and on the beach as well. For the better part of March, thousands of college students from around the nation trek to Florida to engage in the revelry that is synonymous with spring break. They’ll tan all day on vast beaches and party all night in the clubs and…
Scoring some art in the park
“Drugs are back this year,” one of my neighbors wryly informed me last Friday evening. No, she hadn’t sampled a fresh batch of GHB; she’s a mature woman who doesn’t do that sort of thing. Instead, she had just returned from the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival in Central Park, where she had noted a…
Gold-plated brass
Movie: Erin Brockovich
Going nowhere
Movie: Final Destination
The good, the bad and the honest
Movie: Beyond the Mat
Dark victory on the home front
Movie: The War Zone
Well springs
Don’t expect the warm, quirky architectural vibes that seem to go along with Irish pubs when you visit newly opened An Tobar (which means “the well” in Gaelic). It’s built into the side of the Sheraton Orlando North in the office-complex jungle near the I-4 Maitland exchange. (If you’re approaching from Lake Destiny Drive, you’ll…
Gold-plated brass
Movie: Erin Brockovich
Going nowhere
Movie: Final Destination
The good, the bad and the honest
Movie: Beyond the Mat
Dark victory on the home front
Movie: The War Zone
Sophisticated squeeze play from Hugo
As of late, soul and funk are finding a new vitality in music’s fickle marketplace. Hugo, frontman for new-kids-on-the-local funk-block Squeezable Hugo, has put together a soulful package that is right in line with the rock/R&B amalgam currently fueling the national careers of Macy Gray, Angie Stone and D’Angelo. Hugo is bridging the two worlds…
Heil, Kermit!
It seemed strange when word spread in the ’80s that the Japanese were trying to buy our national parks, but then another Journey single came out and we forgot all about it. Last month, though, someone sold a real national treasure, and hearing the news was like hearing that our bestest friend had been shipped…
The politics of the pill
When Jane Miller handed in her prescription for birth-control pills several weeks ago, she assumed they would cost the same as other medications she’d bought under her parents’ Blue Cross/Blue Shield policy. Instead of paying $10, though, she had to hand over $35. Feeling stiffed, Miller, a University of Central Florida student who asked that…
A grab bag at the grocery?
Did city of Orlando mayoral aide Walter Hawkins use his influence in the mostly black Washington Shores community to depress sales at a city-subsidized grocery, so that a nonprofit group affiliated with Hawkins could buy the store more cheaply? That’s the allegation that makes Hawkins the latest defendant in a lawsuit linked to the struggling…
A moving experience
For more than nine years Orlando Weekly made its home in a suburban Winter Park office complex, leading any number of out-of-town marketers to call up and blindly ask (and we only share this with you because we’re such good friends), “Aren’t you the Winter Park paper?” Well, no, not then or ever. But now…
Wright or wrong
Standing at the podium, attorney Ken Wright looks perturbed. The project he and his client had thought was a done deal is instead struggling. “You can understand our frustration,” he says. Wright’s client, NW Oregon Inc., is asking the Seminole County Commission to rezone 32 acres of wetlands and dense forest it owns near I-4…
Right back where we started
And now the presidential race is down to two. Well, there are really three, but the third one is marginal. And, of course, a few are waiting in the wings — which could bring the total back up to four, or even five. So, even though we’ve been at this thing for a while, we’re…
The rising cost of education
In December, education officials in the borough of Islington in London, England, announced that they would begin to pay 30 14-year-old students to attend classes on Saturday mornings to improve their chances of graduation. The academically borderline students would sign a four-year contract for the extra sessions at a wage of almost $6 an hour…
Review – Two Against Nature
Artist: Steely Dan
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Artist: Pedro the Lion
Review – Quintessence Volume 2
Artist: The Stan Getz Quartet With Chet Baker
Review – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Artist: Oasis
Review – Two Against Nature
Artist: Steely Dan
Review – Winners Never Quit
Artist: Pedro the Lion
Review – Quintessence Volume 2
Artist: The Stan Getz Quartet With Chet Baker
Review – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Artist: Oasis
Review – Two Against Nature
Artist: Steely Dan
Review – Winners Never Quit
Artist: Pedro the Lion
Review – Quintessence Volume 2
Artist: The Stan Getz Quartet With Chet Baker
Review – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Artist: Oasis
Double vision
Gallery exhibits that incorporate comic-book art are customarily limited in focus, restricting in-sight to the “revelation” that newsstand illustration is owed a measure of grudging respect by the highbrow set. There’s more at work, however, in “Bizarro World! The Parallel Universes of Comics & Fine Art” than the impulse to temporarily accessorize a beret with…
Take a roll into pizza history
In the history of New York pizza, “hippie rolls” are a footnote from the 1960s. “A lot of pizza places had them back then. Hippies mostly bought them because they were so cheap,” says Dominic Tamborra of the rolled-up pizza cylinders his dad sold in Brooklyn. Tamborra has resurrected these delicious artifacts at his own…
The voices of history, loud and clear
I’ve known rivers/ ancient dusky rivers/ my soul has grown deep like the rivers” — these are words written by an 18-year-old Langston Hughes, performed by a 51-year-old Hughes, and a fitting opening for an immense collection of African-American spoken-word performance spanning nearly a century. Rhino/ Word Beat’s latest anthology CD, “Our Souls Have Grown…
