Vivé les riot grrrls
Movie: 8 Women
Review – Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid and The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg
Artist: The Flaming Lips
Vivé les riot grrrls
Movie: 8 Women
Review – Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid and The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg
Artist: The Flaming Lips
Review – Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid and The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg
Artist: The Flaming Lips
Sentinel: Shopping is big news
Few events ignite the passions of a metropolitan readership like the opening of a mall. And it isn’t every newspaper that can give such a momentous event the ink it deserves. Credit the Orlando Sentinel, then, for last week’s near-constant coverage of the Mall at Millenia opening. The frenzy to document the “story” extended from…
How to grow Lillies
The Lillie Stoates Awards for local theater have long yearned for a shot of legitimacy. Independent, unsanctioned and honoring the efforts of an ever-dwindling number of theaters, the program this year doled out awards in only six categories, recognizing a mere three organizations (the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, People’s Theatre and the Orlando Theatre Project). What’s…
Weight and see
In September, Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported that the Federal Attorney General’s office had ruled that eyesight and medical tests required of flight crews and air-traffic controllers could no longer be given because they violate the country’s anti-discrimination laws. The Civil Aviation Safety Agency, concerned about physically unqualified pilots, announced immediately that it would appeal the…
Want to beat a DUI?
Early Sept. 1, a tan, four-door Nissan sedan caught the eye of Seminole County sheriff’s deputy Edward Cortez. The Nissan, Cortez later wrote in his report, was moving at a “fast rate of speed” and weaving in and out of traffic on Red Bug Lake Road. The car’s right blinker went on but the car…
Close encounters of the clammy kind
Ever get the feeling that space aliens are swirling over your head and trying to ruin your life (or at least your column)? Well I have. Enter Orlando’s own Brian Morton, the self-proclaimed Crop Circle Guy, and his own brand of localized paranoia. With a website (www.cropcircleguy.com), a band with a drag-queen theme (The Collective…
Crack Libs
To download .pdf files . Say what you will about Orlando Weekly, but we know when we’re licked. For some time now, we’ve tried to stay one step ahead of the Noelle Bush situation, analyzing her soap opera of cocaine and courts with the razor-sharp irreverence that only professional satire can provide. It isn’t always…
Dead again
Owl Goingback is becoming to Orlando what Jack Skellington is to his town in the film “The Nightmare Before Christmas:” the toastmaster general of Halloween, the man who leads the annual parade of carefully coordinated frights — and who is called upon year after year to top himself. The supernaturally inclined author of six novels…
Havin’ a Hello Kitty Halloween
If you’re bored with low-grade Halloween candy, you might try “turning Japanese” this season. In Japan, confectioners are artists. The Kasugai company makes real fruit gummies in flavors like melon and red apple, and cola candies that fizz in your mouth. Everyone will scream for fruity Hello Kitty candies by Sanjuko Candy Land. Meiji strawberry…
Not snubbing salsa
I would like to comment on the Latin backlash letter `Oct. 17` written by Cesar Andrades. Although I agree that Pura Plena cannot really be considered a Latin-music band, I was happy to see someone other than Cuco Reyes win the category. Pura Plena plays more of a folklore-style music, whereas the other nominees play…
Cash for grades
Here’s the official story: Cheney Elementary School principal Kathleen Sanborn couldn’t wait until June to find out how her school did on the state’s all-important Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. So in the middle of “FCAT week” in February 2000, she “hand graded” a sample of fifth-grade tests, roughly two classes, erasing stray pencil marks that…
