Itâ??s the depression, stupid!
Could the mysterious glowing ball of “green cheese” suspended in our night sky be a catalyst for chaos here on earth? Is it merely coincidence that the word “lunatic” derives from the Latin word meaning “moon”? For centuries, the superstitious and the scholarly have toyed with the notion that a full moon unleashes aggression in…
Delta burp
This isn’t such a happy town for the nine Orlando Sentinel employees who were unceremoniously sacked last week. Blaming “the difficult economic times we are in,” and below-target advertising revenues, publisher Kathy Waltz sent out a memo Nov. 8 informing all Sentinel employees of the layoffs, and of the paper’s plan to leave unfilled 11…
Movements in the market
Thursday • 18 HARBINGER After adding another guitarist and shedding the “Trio” part of their moniker last year, Orlando’s Harbinger have hit their stride on their latest, the three-song EP Millhopper. Consisting of bassist Christopher A. Wren, drumming powerhouse Daniel P.M. Fox and Darin E. Hughes and Charles E. Amyx III on guitars, Harbinger plumbs…
Corporate litter on the beach
Time for another journey into the Far, Far, Far-Out Frontiers of Free Enterprise. Today, Spaceship Hightower takes you to the increasingly-alien world of beaches. The seashore is supposed to be a place to get away from it all — to soak-up some rays, catch a wave and chill out. But these days, our beaches are…
Firing back
For more than 12 years Chris Lindamood earned high marks from bosses who rated her legal work in the office that prosecutes criminals in Orange and Osceola counties. Even on Jan. 9, 1998 — the day Lindamood was fired by State Attorney Lawson Lamar’s right-hand man — she received an evaluation for the previous year…
Helter shelter
Financial woes last week forced the firing of nine employees at the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, but money trouble hasn’t stopped President Tom Allison from pursuing expansion plans. Even as the pink slips were being handed out Allison was meeting with community groups about a proposal that would significantly expand services to…
Illuminating America
The search for a uniquely American identity in art was a concern of artistic and intellectual circles in the first half of the 20th century. Our Nation’s Colors: A Celebration of American Painting, comprising about 70 paintings from the Wichita Art Museum and currently on exhibit on Orlando Museum of Art, illuminates this search through…
The Florida winter had ju…
The Florida winter had just started to make its presence known on the streets of downtown as Kimball Collins hit Orange Avenue after finishing his DJ set at the Beach Club one Saturday late in 1988. He had been noticing people entering the old Beacham Theater a few hundred yards away, and his curiosity was…
Leaving Las Vegas fruitful for Method
Although the Crystal Method’s Scott Kirkland is dead-tired the day following a show in Oklahoma City, it isn’t necessarily from the previous evening’s festivities. Kirkland is just waking up the day after celebrating the one-year anniversary of the wildly successful debut album from the electronica duo’s critically acclaimed, big-beats-from-mission-control debut recording, “Vegas.” In a whirlwind…
Higher state
Philadelphia-based DJ Josh Wink is no stranger to Orlando’s dance scene. Known for his blond dreadlocks and drug-free, vegetarian lifestyle nearly as much as for his maverick house music-based sound, Wink first flew to Orlando for a Memorial Day-weekend rave in 1993. Since then he has spun sets at the Club, worked raves at the…
Can’t get him out of her head
When I saw him I couldn’t believe my eyes. Then I couldn’t believe his ears. Then I couldn’t believe my own. The web photos of Shannon Larratt, Internet entrepreneur and founding editor of Body Modification Extreme magazine, showed him with facial piercings and earlobes stretched and gutted to accommodate large rings. I had contacted him…
Revisionist history clouds days of disco
Movie: 54
Revisionist history clouds days of disco
Movie: 54
Humble chickpea a Falafel highlight
College students and cheap, ethnic eateries seem to go hand in hand. Where there’s a school of higher learning, you’ll usually find a stable of offbeat, funky restaurants where the young and impoverished can chart untried culinary territory. For sure, the University of Central Florida area needs more of these type of restaurants. But for…
Screening out usual film fare
Dinner theater takes on a whole new meaning at Muvico Pointe 21 theaters (2100 International Drive, 352-3573). The snack bars offer much more than just popcorn, sodas and candy. In fact, there’s enough food to qualify for dinner. What’s more, here you don’t have to sneak it into the theater. Try the 7-inch pepperoni pizza…
