Review – At Rope’s End
Artist: New Bomb Turks
Review – Starmaker
Artist: Julie Plug
Review – Comparsa
Artist: Deep Forest
Review – At Rope’s End
Artist: New Bomb Turks
Review – Starmaker
Artist: Julie Plug
Review – Comparsa
Artist: Deep Forest
Review – Telegraph
Artist: Richard Davies
Review – At Rope’s End
Artist: New Bomb Turks
Review – Starmaker
Artist: Julie Plug
Review – Comparsa
Artist: Deep Forest
Review – Telegraph
Artist: Richard Davies
Review – At Rope’s End
Artist: New Bomb Turks
Review – Starmaker
Artist: Julie Plug
Review – Comparsa
Artist: Deep Forest
Review – Telegraph
Artist: Richard Davies
Not only Christians have the right
To while away the time waiting for car repair, I brought Axcess magazine, featuring sisters pornstress Christy Canyon and author Carla Sinclair, and enjoyed reading it. I kept it appropriately hidden, though. That kind of material offends some people, already up to their armpits in irritation with car repairs. While politely hiding my morning Porn…
Urge overkill
Is President Clinton a sex addict? His case helps the cause Every evening about sundown, a small group of sex addicts swaps stories in a drab little room about a mile from the White House. On torn Naugahyde chairs, they pick apart the most intimate details of their lives, and sometimes, the president’s. “I don’t…
Abstract future
Local visual artists fear they’ll be left out of the arts center picture Caught in the wake of rising rents and disappearing space, visual artists are scrambling for studios and galleries. This comes at a time when painters, sculptors, photographers and potters seemed to be finding creative homes in a struggling arts district near downtown…
An absence of ballots
On April 14 the 11,000 voters of Spring Lake, Parramore, Callahan, Holden Heights and a neighborhood called Florida Center North will go to the polls — or, if tradition holds, 10 percent of them will go to the polls. Another 9 percent will vote by absentee ballot. By the day’s end, the citizens of Orlando’s…
The political beat goes on
The Downtown Business Coalition’s first foray into city politics ended with mixed results for its chosen few./p> In District 1, Dack Cole lost to incumbent Don Ammerman, despite leg work, endorsements and about $10,000 from the coalition. District 3 Commisioner Bruce Gordy, who accepted only endorsements and mentions in coalition advertisements, won easily, as expected.…
Prisoners to pay to play
In return for permission to participate in special programs, Orange County jail prisoners soon will be expected to provide labor for nonprofit groups. “We think the inmates ought to be giving something back to the community,” says jail spokesman Allen Moore. Such an arrangement apparently won’t violate imates’ civil rights. “The Constitution outlaws slavery for…
Orlando out of commission
The Orlando Area Sports Commission is now the Central Florida Sports Authority, because Orlando wouldn’t play ball. The commission renamed itself in a March 12 press conference, after a series of disputes with the city that had help found it in 1992 to promote sports, tourism and the accumulation of cash. First, says authority director…
The swoosh of corporate influence
Did you hear that Nike is in the news? I don’t mean they simply made news, but that Nike is messing in the news. Worse, the “newsrooms” aren’t even fighting back. Start with a column that Stephanie Salter wrote last year for the San Francisco Chronicle, in which she offered a bare-knuckled assessment of Nike’s…
Riding the power-pop road to Wellville
Wellville, with the Crustaceans, Barbarella, March 20, 1998 Things just seem to keep falling into place for Wellville. The band has only been together since January of last year and has slowly built an audience appreciative of the power-pop, confessional songwriting of vocalist Liz Larizza. It all started with a young girl’s passion for Joni…
Marleys refine reggae legacy
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, House of Blues, March 20, 1998 David “Ziggy” Marley has carried a heavy burden on his dreadlocked head for more than a decade. Would the best-known child of Jamaica’s reggae legend assume a role as the genre’s next big thing? Not quite. Reggae stars such as Shabba Ranks, Shaggy…
Living legend still breaking all the blues
John Mayall, with James Cotton, House of Blues, March 25, 1998 At age 64, singer/multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, currently on tour with James Cotton for a series of shows dubbed the “Harmonica Blowout” concerts, has outlasted most of his contemporaries in the world of British blues. While many of the architects of London’s blues scene of…
