AltWeeklies Wire
Did the Feds Bust a Suspected Ponzi Scheme Too Soon?new
Headed by a secretive grandfather and run out of a former flower shop, AdSurf Daily has almost all the trappings of a money-laundering case: victims, a raid by the feds and a very public takedown of a suspect business. What makes this case different is the fact that there are few who consider themselves victims of ASD.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Morey |
11-06-2008 |
Business & Labor
Blisternew
We could have done so much better than this. All that promise of youth -- the flecked shiny bits in polyurethane roller-skate wheels beaming reflections into personal Xanadus.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
10-30-2008 |
Comedy
Tags: humor, Gibson Guitar VIP Showroom
This Little Undergroundnew
As happens with any stimulus, the heavy Swedish metal I've been around lately has apparently modulated my tolerance quite a bit. That would explain why my impression of Opeth is locked in a state of nonplus.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
10-30-2008 |
Music
Happytown's Endorsementsnew
You may not have heard, but there's an election coming up Nov. 4. Suddenly you're asking yourself, "Who and what would my dear friends at Happytown vote for?" Wonder no longer. It's endorsement time.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
Author Tyler Gray on His Lou Pearlman Exposenew
From Lou Pearlman's first failings as an unscrupulous blimp salesman through the investment schemes, modeling agencies, airlines and entertainment ventures, Gray details how this tubby, disingenuous kid from Queens used deception and deflection to live a life he truly did not deserve.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
First Shot: A Look at This Week's Movie Openingsnew
This Friday marks the opening this year's non-Saw Halloween fare, including the latest shocker in which a couple of innocents are beset by sociopaths who seem intent on hunting them down and killing them.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Scheider |
10-30-2008 |
Movies
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
Ewwww, Scary!new
Our annual wearable tribute to the truly horrifying, just in time for Halloween. Instructions: Cut along the dotted lines, open eye and mouth holes, immediately suspend all trick-or-treating and return to Washington.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
Blister: At the Come Out With Pride Paradenew
The first year that the gay parade morphed from a trickle of 4x4s outside Club Firestone to the overpopulated- yet-declawed Lake Eola version, I was pampered in a free-drinks, air-conditioned tent with Savannah as we prepared a running dialogue of "Yayyyyyy!" and "Wowwww!" to suit our vaunted MC positions.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
10-23-2008 |
Comedy
This Little Undergroundnew
The local music community got in on political action with the well-organized Obamarama Concert for Change. Besides a brief set by the incomparable Sam Rivers crew, I caught talented local act K-G and the Band delivering their smooth, robust blend of Afrobeat, funk and soul.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
10-23-2008 |
Performance
Orlando City Council Watchnew
This looked like it could get good. Overhead, the flat-screen beamed images of a sweaty-backed Mayor Buddy Dyer being tackled by a gaggle of kids from the Parramore Kidz Zone, while on the council floor embattled state Sen. Gary Siplin made the rounds in a light fedora and pinstripes. Was it Personal Caricature Day? No.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
10-23-2008 |
Commentary
The Orlando Police Beatnew
Oct. 9, 7:55 a.m.: Your humble columnist has had a hell of a week, and to be perfectly honest pounding out this mush is just about the last thing in the world he wants to do right now. But duty calls, and like Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance (that's the only musical I know, swear to God), I answer.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
10-23-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Happytown: The Throngs Adore Sen. Hopey in Floridanew
Presidents Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were in fine form, rattling off candy-coated bits of rhetoric effortlessly while standing next to each other in pure Dream Ticket formation.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes and Adriana Ruiz |
10-23-2008 |
Commentary
The Dwarves Remain Forever Uoungnew
While the Dwarves are on the stage, each song is like a punch in the face, helped along by the yelling, fist-pumping and genital-swinging of the Dwarves' masked guitarist Hewhocannotbenamed.
Orlando Weekly |
Tara Lightfoot |
10-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: punk rock, The Dwarves
First Shot: 'The Hanoi Hilton'new
Until we read of Warner Brothers' decision to delay release of The Hanoi Hilton, we had no idea Sen. McCain had done time in a Vietnamese prison. Wonder why that hasn’t come up yet.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-23-2008 |
Reviews
