AltWeeklies Wire
Happytown: The World's Best Bodypaintersnew
Yes, indeedy, we are the champions -- or more accurately, we are the home of the champions, twin brothers Brian and Nick Wolfe, who just won a gold medal in the "brush/sponge" division at the World Bodypainting Festival in Seeboden, Austria. The brothers Wolfe beat teams from 38 other countries to claim the trophy and the 2,000-euro cash prize that came with it.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes, Lindy T. Shepherd and Bob Whitby |
07-30-2009 |
Commentary
Orlando City Commissioners Get an Open Line of Credit ... Taxpayers Get the Billnew
If you had a $30,000 annual slush fund courtesy of someone else, what would you do? If you were Orlando city commissioner Daisy Lynum, you'd travel. A lot.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman and Billy Manes |
07-30-2009 |
Economy
Blister: Such is Our Horrible, Delicate Balancenew
The world is a bitter, deep-fried cocktail onion layered in pathos and prejudice; it just spins and it stinks and it spins again while we all have sex with gravity in hopes that it will keep us around, keep us down on the pickled, pungent surface of it all just long enough to be thrown up in ashes or pushed under, ever deeper into the skin.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-24-2009 |
Commentary
Happytown: The Sad Hobo Dance of Baked Beansnew
In an email issued on July 16, the Orlando Police Department has some tips for making sure that you do not become a victim of poor people's sticky fingers. Best among them is that you should call 911 if anybody is acting suspiciously in your line of vision, because "you, the resident, know what activity is normal for your area." There are people outside! And they are dancing!
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman and Billy Manes |
07-24-2009 |
Commentary
Matthew Falconer Shows How to Run a Campaign and Alienate Peoplenew
Developer, politician, everyman: Falconer bases his run for Orlando mayor on being in touch with the regular folk.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-24-2009 |
Politics
Happytown: Attention, Area Fatasses -- You're Not Alonenew
According to a recent report from the Trust for America's Health, nearly one-quarter of Florida adults are obese, and a third of our children are obese or overweight. What's most depressing about the report is that Florida's about average.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffery C. Billman and Billy Manes |
07-16-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: obesity, public transportation
Happytown: RIP Billy Maysnew
Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Billy freaking Mays; all these people we've grown up with taking the dirt nap, all within days (or hours) of each other. In the wake of all of this bad news we almost overlooked the most recent economic forecast released by UCF prognosticator Sean Snaith. But we didn't.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman and Billy Manes |
07-02-2009 |
Commentary
Blister: So This is the 70s?new
"I can't fit into any of my bell-bottoms anymore," Taylor wafts into the room, lighting up the floor panels with each weary step. He's wearing giant Playboy circle sunglasses and moping like a Klute-era prostitute. I'm a vision in head-to-toe white polyester leisure, all tightly suited and barely able to zip up. Oh, who the fuck are we kidding?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-02-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Equality Florida, Anita Bryant
Blisternew
Regular commentary on Orlando culture.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-25-2009 |
Commentary
Council Watchnew
Regular commentary on the Orlando City Council.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-25-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Orlando City Council
Happytownnew
Regular commentary on Orlando government and community events/news.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman and Billy Manes |
06-25-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Orlando
Orlando Opera Fans Get the Shaft, While the Former CEO Gets a Cruisenew
The Orlando Opera recently suspended its operations and filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the opera board paid off contracts, gave its employees severance pay and, in a particularly stunning display of tone-deafness, now wants to send the CEO who oversaw the opera's collapse on a Caribbean cruise as a birthday surprise.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-25-2009 |
Theater
Blister: Truth or Dare at the Peacock Room in Orlandonew
Truth or dare, as we all know, is the more blow job–friendly version of Spin the Bottle, but still retains that odd smell of menstruation and sweaty freckles so important to growing up. Hmmm, what's that smell right now?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-19-2009 |
Commentary
Florida Hometown Democracy Aims to Get Constitutional Amendment on 2010 Ballotnew
That amendment would require referenda on changes to counties' comprehensive land use plans; in essence, whenever some developer wants to replace wetlands with a surfeit of McMansions, you get to vote no. Democracy, geddit?
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman and Billy Manes |
06-19-2009 |
Commentary
A Dubious Development Project in Orlando Sits Idlenew
Almost three years after the city approved a sweetheart development deal for a political ally, the the 3.5-acre property sits idle, used only for overflow parking. There's no sign of construction, much less the slew of single-family homes and offices that were supposed to be finished by year's end.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-19-2009 |
Housing & Development
