AltWeeklies Wire
Orlando Council Watch: Paying Attention to Gov't So You Don't Have Tonew
Given current budget woes, there was a lot of whimsy this time around as the sitcom characters of The Dais gathered for another civic powwow.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
09-18-2008 |
Commentary
The Orlando Police Beatnew
Aug. 29; 1:01 p.m.: A 42-year-old battered an Old Navy rent-a-cop who busted him shoplifting. Officer Baker concludes his report with the following bit of redundancy: "The arrestee was arrested."
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
09-12-2008 |
Commentary
Happytown: What Happens When Knights Get Angry?new
A group of jockish University of Central Florida Knights fans have recently taken offense to the city's paper of record, the Orlando Sentinel, with regard to its handling of the death of wide receiver Ereck Plancher. You may recall the paper’s "coach won't talk to us!" martyrdom and laugh a little.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby |
09-12-2008 |
Commentary
The Orlando Council Watchnew
It had been ages -- OK, five unbearably long weeks -- since the last opportunity to sit inside the city machine and listen to progress slowly ticking, but from the looks of things it must have been much longer.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
09-12-2008 |
Commentary
Happytownnew
A website, brought to you by Portland, Ore.'s Planned Parenthood of Columbia-Willamette, is called Take Care Down There (www.takecaredownthere.org), and it's all about sex ed. It's direct, forthright and pretty damn funny. Plus it gives kids valuable info, like how to use a condom and the fact that oral sex can transmit disease.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes and Bob Whitby |
09-05-2008 |
Commentary
Orlando Magazine Misses Mark Pulliam's Bullshitnew
In its August issue, Orlando magazine ran a profile titled "The Natural" about the dazzling life of Winter Garden jack-of-all-trades Mark Pulliam, a former New York Yankee and an artist to the stars with a commissioned portrait hanging in the offices of the Yankees to his credit. Great story, except it turns out that Pulliam's preferred medium is bullshit, and Orlando magazine didn't catch it.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes, Ian Monroe and Deanna Morey |
09-04-2008 |
Commentary
Orlando City Council Watchnew
Those hoping for a hot-summer ethical showdown in reference to the recent Daisy Lynum redneck scandal -- something about racist ropes that doesn't bear repeating -- would be sorely disappointed at this dull installment of Your City at Work.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-24-2008 |
Commentary
Tags: Orlando, Daisy Lynum
Orlando City Council Watchnew
Paying attention to Orlando's government so you don't have to.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-26-2008 |
Commentary
Tags: Orlando
Florida is Stuck on Stupidnew
Here we are again. The earth has orbited the sun. The continents have drifted farther apart. The seasons came and went, as they do. Que sera, sera. But through it all, one ironclad reality remained: Our state is stuck on stupid.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
05-29-2008 |
Commentary
I Heart Billnew
This is a reporter's letter to his man crush -- Bill Clinton.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
06-22-2006 |
Commentary
Dog Playing Pokernew
We reaffirm the innocent right of UAE companies to guard America’s borders -- a right routinely granted to nations like Great Britain and Japan without the whiff of protest.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Commentary
