Getting off on Techni-cality
Movie: Far From Heaven
Getting off on Techni-cality
Movie: Far From Heaven
Different strokes
After months of labor-management strife at the Taronga Zoo (Sydney, Australia), workers have resisted managers’ alleged solution for getting Kibabu the gorilla to mate — following his rejection of all females for six years now — which would be to have the keepers sedate him, then stimulate him manually and collect his sperm in a…
Where’s the (irradiated) beef?
The town of Mulberry sits halfway between Tampa and Lake Wales on Highway 60. Make the trip and you’ll find the Mulberry Phosphate Museum, which displays both reasons why anyone should care about Mulberry in the first place: prehistoric fossils of 40-foot sharks and saber-tooth tigers from an area once submerged under an ocean, and…
So you wanna be a rockstar?
OK, so you’ve formed your band (or found your DJ, or found the stool you’ll be using in your solo act). Hopefully, you’ve practiced. And maybe you’ve even found the time to write songs that don’t suck. So now it’s time to become a rock star. If you pay attention to the advice of Orlando…
Between the lines at Orange and Concord
Working for the Orlando Sentinel has got to suck. They put out an entire newspaper, like, every day. Unless they are old and fat, thus rendered incapable of performing office gopher duties for Hal Boedeker, Sentinel scribes can expect hours of redundant, frowny-face work. Unless they happen to be Scott Maxwell. The spry 30 year-old…
Sweet home Alachua
When John “JJ” Grey and the other members of Mofro were getting started a few years ago in London, people would hear the band’s name and say, “Oh, I get it … ‘More Afro.'” Not quite, says Grey. “It just means nothing. It’s just Southern. Something we say all the time, like, ‘Who’s that mofro?'”…
New blood for old
Returning to the stages his band once dominated, Bloodlet guitarist Matt Easley feels the need to make it clear that the group’s recent reappearance isn’t all that it’s being made out to be. “We decided to take a break,” he says. “We didn’t really break up.” Although hailed in hardcore and metal circles as a…
Organic ale from dark to pale
Beer-lover alert: Whole Foods Market (1989 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; 407-673-8788) carries not only an wide selection of brews from England, Belgium, France and just about anywhere else you can think of, but several organic beers well worth their hops. Just like vegetable crops, beer ingredients can be grown organically and without chemical additives. If…
She’s mildly unusual
“Run over there! She’s coming up over there!” bullies the tattooed Harley guy to the right of me. Gay, but only ironically so, said facial-hair-foible is, hear told, one of Cyndi Lauper’s close and personal friends. I’m only a little bit jealous. “Yeah, I know,” I harrumph. “I’m interviewing her tomorrow.” It’s middle school all…
The gay chorus
The amendment city commissioners deliberated over Monday night should have been no big deal. It adds homosexuals to the city’s civil rights code to shield them from discrimination. It’s mostly symbolic anyway, as the penalty for violating the code is $500 per incident. But the issue grew out of proportion until it became a fight…
What color is your cyanide capsule?
So you’ve just been let go from your job of several years, and you don’t know what to do with yourself. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Almost every American has been forced into an unplanned career change at one time or another. And the phenomenon is all the more common these days, with major…
The big pitch
Jerry Eisinger is one of the guys who you always imagine wearing a suit. Red-headed, fresh-faced and quick with a handshake, he has the ingratiating mien of the world’s oldest Eagle Scout. His partner and foil, Mark Ferrera, is just as magnetic a personality, albeit of a shorter, darker and more balding variety. (Imagine a…
