Fritters for all time
Judging from their blissful, soporific smiles and stacks of leftovers, we passed a satisfied family on our way into Dixie Crossroads in Titusville. “We came all the way from Deltona, and it was worth it,” someone said. We drove from Orlando to dine at this established beacon of fish-house cuisine, and we knew it would…
Cool doesn’t count if it requires a sweat
It’s sad enough that TV is so integral to my life that I took all the channels I could get like an alcoholic gargling down a bottle of nail polish remover. What’s sadder is that now, possessed of The Learning Channel, Discovery and A&E, the only televised journey I’ve taken into history has been through…
Feel Game?
If, on the periphery of your awareness, you’ve heard the term “hash” referring to something other than cheap chow or high-priced hemp but didn’t quite catch the details, here they are: around Orlando and around the world, a hash is — well, not a race, exactly. Call it a challenge, of sorts, partaken of originally…
Gambling on a ride for life
A California AIDS organizer is assured of profits, while charities await uncertain results Those infected with HIV/AIDS face gambles enough in their day-to-day existence. Now, some of the agencies on which they depend for support are themselves gambling — and the payoff from the Florida AIDS Ride is anything but certain. Indeed, in its second…
Closed minds and open records
Except for another last-minute meltdown, the Orange County School Board expects to have chosen its replacement for Superintendent Donald Shaw by mid-May.;;After several months of work, the two candidates still standing at press time were Dennis Smith, superintendent of the Irvine, Calif., school district and Peter Horoschak, the superintendent in Albuquerque, N.M.;;Getting to this point…
Freedom’s just another word
Police arrest a man for speaking too long at a City Council meeting. A man is handcuffed for handing out leaflets in a city park. A congressional candidate is told to remove himself from the sidewalk in front of the Arena, lest his signs pose a danger to the public. The City Beautiful has long…
Hammering the Pentagon
Well, I paid my taxes. The IRS said I owed $1,800 … so I sent them a toilet seat and a hammer.;;It’s not talked about much by politicians and the Establishment media, but at least six-out-of-every-ten dollars that we sent to Uncle Sam on April 15 will go to the Pentagon and its military contractors…
