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Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 44

Energy straight from the source

Coffee and Internet access: They go together like skateboards and beer. Nothing like answering important e-mail while throwing back your third espresso. While just about every caffeine pusher in town is also a wireless connection hotspot, the folks at Natura Coffee & Tea brew what they consider the finest beans available: from Cafe Britt, a…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Energy straight from the source

Coffee and Internet access: They go together like skateboards and beer. Nothing like answering important e-mail while throwing back your third espresso. While just about every caffeine pusher in town is also a wireless connection hotspot, the folks at Natura Coffee & Tea (12078 Collegiate Way, Orlando; 407-482-5000) brew what they consider the finest beans…

Joseph Hayes

Fare hike

Death Cab for Cutie is known for being fiercely independent-minded and very DIY. But they were living up to the tag a little too much this Saturday evening, when they were forced to install their own lighting setup at a Virginia gig. “This will be a whole new level of doing it yourself,” bassist Nick…

Omar Perez

Interminable depths

Since its first releases in 1939, the Blue Note label has become the standard-bearer for some of the best moments in recorded jazz, with a reputation for quality that has inspired legions of voracious collectors. The appetites of those collectors has meant that the label’s storied catalog has been in a constant state of update,…

Jason Ferguson

Calling all dead people

I see dead people. Or at least people I wish were dead. Bawdy, blond-banged corpse-whisperer Sylvia Browne is in town to yell at living people and promote the latest of her must-read tomes of afterlife soothsaying. The little people (who, for the most part, aren’t so little) are at Barnes & Noble in droves to…

Billy Manes

Gettin’ play

Eric Hissom would prefer to think that the American stage play is better than a dying breed. And it’s not just because his title at Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival is Director of New Play Development. “If you’re a fan of the theater, you should consider supporting new plays, because that’s what replenishes the art form,” he…

Steve Schneider

One strike and you’re out, for a bit

Shortly after Robin Wilkinson got her job with the State Attorney’s Office back on Oct. 15, I received a call from an attorney who used to work in the same office. He was more than a little miffed about the fact that Wilkinson, who was arrested for drunk driving July 25, and pleaded guilty to…

Bob Whitby

Shooting the messenger

On May 27, 2003, Ryan Spevack, a 20-year-old student at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Ariz., launched two Internet gripe sites, the now-defunct www.shittyschools.com and the ongoing www.fullsailsucks.com. The latter is a swipe at Winter Park-based Full Sail Real World Education, a for-profit school that offers its 4,000 students an education in fields…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Fields of dreamers

Everybody knows the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are a joke. With a 63-99 record, the team wound up this season in last place in the American League East, 38 games behind the AL champion New York Yankees. Not surprisingly, Tampa Bay was second-to-last in attendance behind the lowly Expos, who have been openly shopping for…

William Dean Hinton

Up in the old hotel

On any normal weekend day by the pool of the Sheraton Four Points, there would be a scene of pasty hipsters in reverie throwing back pills and the Bloody Marys to chase them. On this recent Sunday morning there is only a pudgy family of snowbirds drying off and looking for their keys. Two lone…

Billy Manes

The beat goes on

On Sept. 29, 2003, Seattle police arrested Hyon Kim, 40, for exposing himself and masturbating at a Sleater-Kinney concert. According to a report in alternative newsweekly The Stranger, Kim had been engaging in such behavior for nearly a year — mostly at S-K shows, but also at performances by other indie rock personages. He might…

Steve Schneider

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