Britney Spears is out of control. A few weeks back she was making soft-core news for popping out of her floppy flapper tassel dress (got milk?) while perking peerlessly to the tune of her own “poor Britney” power ballad, “Lucky,” at the Fox Teen Choice Awards. Last week at the MTV Video Music Awards, her…

Billy Manes

Separation of church and weights

YMCA. What swan dives to mind as soon as you hear those four letters? If you’re under 60, it’s probably the Village People song about finding “it” there. I’ve always found it a weird footnote of pop culture that this gay caricature tune is something most men, women and children have belted out and even…

Liz Langley

History in the taking

Just south of New Smyrna Beach lies a pristine sliver of flora and sand. At the Canaveral National Seashore, sea turtles nest, manatees bob in the aptly named Mosquito Lagoon, and 30 miles of beaches barely blemished by footprints stretch to the horizon. Hundreds of years ago indigenous tribes walked and fished this area. For…

Theresa Everline