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The Fate of One of Florida's Most Unique Springs Rests in the Hands of a Developernew
Warm Mineral Springs may have started as a quiet backwater, but those days are over. The future of the springs now depends on how much revenue it can generate, rather than its value as an archeological site or a natural resource.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
08-13-2009 |
Housing & Development
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
Happytownnew
A weekly overview of the screwed-up happenings in Orlando.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes and Lindy T. Shepherd |
06-11-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Orlando, Orange County
Florida Bicyclists Tell of Their Encounters with Carsnew
All too often in Florida, bicycles and automobiles don't get along.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
06-11-2009 |
Transportation
Tags: bicycle safety, Florida
Bikes at Play in Orlandonew
Building monster bikes out of recycled parts is as much about fun and friendship as it is about staying true to bike culture and using less fossil fuel.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
05-21-2009 |
Recreation
There's Nothing Soft About 'The Pillowman'new
Irish playwright Martin McDonagh is all about the blood in his dark drama -- both the kind of blood that's beaten out of a suspected criminal by corrupt police, and the kind that flows between two brothers.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
11-14-2008 |
Theater
Boxes of Memories: Sonny King's Circus of Oldnew
Memories are all that remain of the original Silver's Circus, and it's the vivid recollections of travels with his dad's circus in the late 1940s that Sonny King lovingly crafted into a colorful series of 13 detailed dioramas that debuted last year at the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
10-30-2008 |
Art
The Global Peace Film Festival Features Seriously Moving Pictures from Around the Worldnew
The Global Peace Film Festival showcases up the 30 feature films (mostly documentaries) and almost 20 shorts from around the globe that offer differing interpretations and perspectives on the subject of "peace."
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd, Liz Langley, Bob Whitby, Al Krulick and Seth Kubersky |
09-18-2008 |
Theater
Submerged in Summer Reading: Seasonal Reads by Orlando-Area Scribesnew
Because it's been such a busy season of book releases, we grabbed a handful that had an Orlando connection and set to reading. Lo and behold, there was promise and perfection to be found among the titles.
Orlando Weekly |
Liz Langley, Bob Whitby and Lindy T. Shepherd |
07-24-2008 |
Books
Tags: summer reading, Pioneers, After Hours at the Almost Home, 100 Miles, 78 Days, and One Heck of an Adventure, and the Home Party, Earl Tupper, Hiking the Florida Trail: 1, Photography of Bruce Mozert, Silver Springs: The Underwater, The Fortuneteller’s Lay, The Year of Disappearances, Tupperware Unsealed: Brownie Wise, Two Pairs of Boots
Befringed and Bewildered? Surviving Orlando's International Fringe Theatre Festivalnew
Dwarfs with flashing tools? Check. Red dildo in the hand of a randy senior citizen? Check. Devil's weed, racial jokes told in blackface, the politics of pee and the mysteries of the clit? Check, all four.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
05-15-2008 |
Performance
Fifteen Minutes of Dissonant Harmonynew
The poem "Vision of the Earth" expresses a golden hope that Keith Lay says he's always felt inside, even as a young boy who knew he wanted to be a composer from the time he was 15 years old.
Orlando Weekly |
Pat Greene and Lindy T. Shepherd |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Keith Lay, Vision of the Earth
'Ballad' Shows the Dark Side of Supporting the Troopsnew
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez documents the 1997 murder on the banks of the Rio Grande of a 17-year-old high-schooler, Esequiel Hernandez, who was shot by four undercover Marines while walking the family goats near his home in Redford, Texas.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
No Way to Pretty This Bizarre Picture Up
There are two upbeat components to this tragic story about a Lory Yazurlo, a fiercely independent woman left a quadriplegic after an accident in an 18-wheeler, who lives and works at her own pig sanctuary in Bunnell, Fla., on a 20-acre settlement from CSX.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
03-27-2007 |
Reviews
Wild West Existence Not for the Faint of Heart
The synopsis of Off the Grid sets up the documentary as a rare glimpse into a community of misfits who call home a waterless wasteland on 15 square miles in the middle of nowhere.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
03-27-2007 |
Reviews
Heartache is as Ageless as Hard-Ons
Spin a globe and pick any spot to find, as sure as the sun shines, a place where teen boys think about sex.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
03-27-2007 |
Reviews
