DJ culture on the skids
Movie: 24 Hour Party People
Love and chili
Movie: Mostly Martha
Grumpy old sluts
Movie: The Banger Sisters
Ivory lessons
Movie: The Piano Teacher
Review – Boom Selection_Issue 01
Artist: Monster Mash
Review – Hometime
Artist: Alison Moyet
DJ culture on the skids
Movie: 24 Hour Party People
Review – Boom Selection_Issue 01
Artist: Monster Mash
Love and chili
Movie: Mostly Martha
Review – Hometime
Artist: Alison Moyet
Grumpy old sluts
Movie: The Banger Sisters
Review – Boom Selection_Issue 01
Artist: Monster Mash
Review – Hometime
Artist: Alison Moyet
Ivory lessons
Movie: The Piano Teacher
Parramore school near possible Superfund site
A section of the low-income Parramore neighborhood may soon have the dubious honor of making the federal Superfund site after tests revealed high levels of cancer-causing agents leaching into the Florida aquifer. The Environmental Protection Agency announced at a Sept. 10 meeting that polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, released decades ago by a coal gasification plant, have…
A developer’s dream
Kim LaFleur is the last guy you’d expect to be in league with Doug Guetzloe’s anti-sales-tax crusades. LaFleur is a slow-growth activist, a lifelong Democrat and the father of a Cheney Elementary second-grader. He understands the need for good schools and money to pay for them. Nonetheless he loaded up his eye-catching 1961 Willys Jeep…
This green house
My life had never prepared me for home renovation. Heck, before I moved to Orlando I’d never lived in a house before — I moved from one city apartment to another, so while I knew about calling the landlord when the kitchen light stopped working, the concept of contractors, masonry workers and Sheetrock installers was…
Born under a chad sign
What comes around, stumbles around. By the time you read this column, Florida may still be embroiled in its latest mortifying election snafu. And you may think you know the extent of the damage. Guess again. Here’s a recap of some of the election-week imbroglios already uncovered by the mainstream newspapers and TV crews, accompanied…
No sign of intelligent life
In the science fiction movie “Sphere,” a government scientist — played by Dustin Hoffman — and his comrades are assigned to investigate an extraterrestrial presence lurking on the ocean floor. As the three proceed, the alien grants them a bewildering array of psychic powers they can’t understand or control. When the trio finally realizes they…
Among the rednecks
This highbrow-on-the-low-road schtick is starting to take a toll on the word nymph you see before you. It’s become all too apparent that my plastic wit and bottle blond tufts are just vain attempts at burying the truth, which is this: I, ladies and gentlemen, am a redneck. Check the facts: My first concert was…
Turkey takeout for car-confined
Judging by the massive amount of money that fast-food chains rake in, a lot of people consider the drive-through a major dining destination. I’m not a burger fan, but sometimes you find yourself on a stretch of highway where the closest thing to a waiter’s greeting is “Do you want fries with that?” So the…
Lifestyles of the full and clueless
The 60,000 delegates from 182 countries to the recent World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, luxuriated not only in four- and five-star accommodations but an elegant food-and-drink layout that included tons of lobster, oysters, filet mignon, salmon, caviar, pâ?°t? de foie gras, champagne, fine wines and mineral water — while an estimated…
Ax the Tax gets waxed
Doug Guetzloe, the recalcitrant leader of the Ax the Tax group, loves to boast about his ability to defeat tax proposals brought before Orange County voters. “Eight-to-zero,” the barrel-chested, 48-year-old Guetzloe would say, referring to the lopsided run of county tax issues he claims to have helped kill. But last week Guetzloe took a tumble,…
