Our share of Monicagate
Florida owned a big chunk of Monicagate last week: Starr report showed it was Palm Beach mogul Alfonso Fanjul who interrupted POTUS by phone at a most inopportune time to lobby against the ‘Glades-restoring sugar tax, to wit, on 2-19-96, just when POTUS was telling Monica to please get lost. The real scandal is, How…
A different set of family values
Movie: One True Thing
Bum ‘Rush’
Movie: Rush Hour
A different set of family values
Movie: One True Thing
Bum ‘Rush’
Movie: Rush Hour
A drug war in Orlando?
Esequiel Hernandez Jr. wandered into the drug war only steps from his backyard. And you could, too, if you live in Orlando or one of the other 20 regions designated as “High-Intensity Drug-Trafficking Areas,” or HIDTAs. These include not only the 150-mile-wide swath along the U.S.-Mexico border, but also nearly every major urban area in…
Betting on blight
Al French wandered into town two years ago, fresh from a pre-medical school excursion to a Caribbean island, still embroiled in a nasty divorce and a million-dollar bankruptcy workout. A friend gave him an office here to, in his words, “play with real estate.” Within a few months French had mysterious out-of-town backers and an…
Hereâ??s a story with wiggle room
Thomas Stanley Huntington, 52, pleaded no contest to fraud in Aztec, N.M., in June in a scheme to sell “California Red Superworms,” which he had sworn could eat up nuclear waste. He told buyers (who paid $125 a pound) that a nearby radiation-waste cleanup plant would buy all the worms they could breed, but it…
Chryslerâ??s top brass crasses in
Thursday • 25 CENTRAL FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW Fast cars, foxy ladies and free stuff – the pull has got to be strong to get turkey-stuffers off those couches and away from TV sets. So they aim to please at this annual futuristic round-up, the convention center floor spilling over with fine rides. Among the…
Review – Scraps at Midnight
Artist: Mark Lanegan
Review – Blue Wonder Power Milk
Artist: Hooverphonic
Review – Big Mamaâ??s Biscuits
Artist: Sherman Irby
Review – Come on In
Artist: R.L. Burnside
Review – Scraps at Midnight
Artist: Mark Lanegan
Review – Blue Wonder Power Milk
Artist: Hooverphonic
Review – Scraps at Midnight
Artist: Mark Lanegan
Review – Big Mamaâ??s Biscuits
Artist: Sherman Irby
Review – Blue Wonder Power Milk
Artist: Hooverphonic
Review – Come on In
Artist: R.L. Burnside
Review – Big Mamaâ??s Biscuits
Artist: Sherman Irby
Review – Come on In
Artist: R.L. Burnside
Review – Scraps at Midnight
Artist: Mark Lanegan
Review – Blue Wonder Power Milk
Artist: Hooverphonic
Review – Big Mamaâ??s Biscuits
Artist: Sherman Irby
Review – Come on In
Artist: R.L. Burnside
Forecast calls for a storm of funk
New Orleans jazz-funk combo Iris May Tango took their name from a hometown newspaper, The Times-Picayune. Two hurricanes were set to collide in the Gulf of Mexico, prompting the headline: “Humberto, Iris May Tango.” Although the name wasn’t chosen for its metaphoric possibilities, the symbolism is perfectly appropriate for the band. Iris May Tango draw…
Family harvests rich heritage of Celtic music
When Irish-born Michael Leahy emigrated to Canada in 1825, fiddle in hand, he unknowingly planted the seeds for a musical dynasty. Five generations later his descendants carry on their heritage of Celtic music and dance as the musical group Leahy, which comprises four brothers and five sisters from a family of 13 raised on the…
Drug war masquerade
REDFORD, Texas — On the day he died, Esequiel Hernandez Jr. took his goats to the river. He let them from their makeshift pens of wire and branch, then shooed them down the dusty lane. They wandered past the ruins of the Spanish mission, through the abandoned U.S. Army post and down a stony bluff…
The ‘Scopes trial
Gay Days and Disney World have always had a sort of “don’t ask, don’t tell” relationship, whereby Disney pockets big bucks from the annual red-shirt confab while maintaining plausible deniability to boycott-happy wing nuts who think gays ought to be stoned if caught in public. It’s a pretty profitable gig for the Mouse, now that…
A nutty proposition
That the world works backward is a fact we all know but seldom acknowledge. It is not until you light a cigarette that the waiter shows up with your food. It is only when you have stopped looking for an elusive object that it will turn up directly in your path. It is only when…
Plugging into Panera Bread
Panera Bread in Winter Park has become a magnet for people who want to conduct business over breakfast, lunch or dinner — and not just because of all those fresh-baked sourdough breads, asiago cheese bagels and raspberry cheese croissants. Panera (118 W. Fairbanks Ave., 645-3939) is one of the area’s few computer-friendly restaurants, equipped with…
