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Beyond the Box: Orlando's War on Panhandlingnew
The latest in a long history of the city's attempts to curtail panhandling in Orlando, efforts that landed the city on the National Coalition for the Homeless' list of the 20 meanest cities in America in 2003.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
09-20-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Jesus TVnew
Orlando's new starring role in the gospel of prosperity.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-17-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Blisternew
What if a slightly less mucus-drenched take on Jabba the Hutt was never able to land his blimp-like personality square inside the Orlando consciousness to corporatize pedophilia?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-22-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
New Law Cracks Down on Used CD Salesnew
Mandatory fingerprinting, holding periods and detailed filing systems are now required by Florida law for all stores dealing in secondhand products, including CD stores, leading some to cry foul.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-07-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
What's Hate Got to Do With It?new
Almost 10 years after Matthew Shepard's murder, that's still the question.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-31-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
One Long, Glorious Mood Swingnew
For all of those who worried that that the twisted cathedral-ism of Wainwright's Want Two was signaling the end of the progression so winningly scorched by its similarly named predecessor, Want One, this should come as a relief.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-31-2007 |
Reviews
Erasure's Edge Remains Largely Dullednew
Andy Bell and Vince Clarke carry on with periodic brushes with brilliance, typically buoyed by the very same synthetic loony-bounce that earned them little respect in their Erasure heyday.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-31-2007 |
Reviews
Really Saying Nothingnew
Bananarama and the accidental genuis of carefree collaboration.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bananarama
Orlando's Plan to Generate Power from Garbage May Be a Boondogglenew
Thermoselect says its "gasification" process doesn't create harmful emissions or enlarge the city's carbon footprint; it would even eliminate the need to separate recyclables from household garbage -- if that sounds too good be true, well, it might be.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-21-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Blisternew
If there are indeed two sides to every story, then why am I always stuck underneath a mound of pubic hair on the dark one like a bed penny on a fat trick?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-17-2007 |
Commentary
Richard Lewis Lights Up the Darknew
Say what you want about veteran comedian Richard Lewis, odds are he's already said it.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
04-30-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
TB is Back and More Virulent Than Evernew
The development of Extensively Drug-Resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is causing a new global crisis, one that threatens a new pandemic of the disease that most Americans think is a thing of the past.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
04-09-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
The Virtual Battlegroundnew
The U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, the biggest organization you've never heard of, helps train soldiers to stay alive.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
02-26-2007 |
War
No Fat Chicksnew
When Kurt Spath moved home to Orlando this past spring, the same dating service he used in South Florida wasn't providing him "high-quality" women.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
02-01-2007 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Blisternew
When I was a little god-fearing girlwith grocery-cart legs and Hershey's on my face, I knew but one rhythm, and one only.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
01-18-2007 |
Commentary
