Halloween haunts
Those of us with a taste for the morbid can thank our lucky stars that Halloween is quickly becoming Orlando’s holiday of choice. Every year, the spooky season gets longer, offering up more and more entertainment options that promise at least as many chills as the Central Boulevard Lynx terminal on a Friday night. Already…
Death on I-Drive
Did the Orange Conuty Sherrif’s Office overlook a murder? Moments after midnight on a rainy Feb. 23, 1993, a beautiful young Ethiopian woman named Almaz Andarge was found dead at the Clarion Plaza Hotel where, after morning classes at Mid-Florida Technical Institute, she worked as a maid. A security guard found her in Room 261,…
Invading your family’s privacy
While insisting no laws have been broken or civil rights trampled, the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office has stiffened the requirements to be met by detectives intent on accessing the otherwise private records of suspects’ family members. “We, however, in order to avoid this problem again, have changed some of our internal procedures in the way…
Fort Gatlin’s last stand
A granite tablet placed across Summerlin Street from the abandoned “Navy Sound Lab” by the Daughters of the American Revolution marks the site of Fort Gatlin, built in 1838 to protect the first settlers of what is now Orange County from the Seminole Indians. In the more than 150 years that have since passed, most…
Trying to get into your genes
Here’s one of those news stories that sound good — until you think about it. President Clinton has proposed legislation to keep employers, insurance companies and HMOs from discriminating against us employees and consumers on the basis of genetic make-up. That’s good to know, isn’t it? But wait — what’s bad to know is that…
Timing right for Eitharong
Last spring and summer saw an uncomfortable number of Orlando galleries close their doors. But the opening of a new downtown venture with a familiar name may signify that the tide is again turning. Tony Eitharong, whose previous gallery on Mills Avenue presented its last exhibition in 1993, has secured a space across from the…
