AltWeeklies Wire
Aroma Therapy at Memories of India IInew
Memorable dishes of fragrant Indian fare invigorate in Lake Mary.
Orlando Weekly |
Faiyaz Kara |
10-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
Who Loves the Living Dead?new
If you share my fondness for flesh-eaters, you would have found plenty of fellowship at Spooky Empire's Ultimate Horror Weekend. The Wyndham Resort attracted so many lurchers last weekend that I had to park at T.G.I. Friday’s and shamble across I-Drive.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
10-23-2008 |
Theater
Election '08: Who Judges the Judges?new
You know nothing about local judges, but you still elect them.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
10-23-2008 |
Politics
Is ACORN a Scapegoat or Villian?new
The venom conservatives have directed toward the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in the waning weeks of this presidential election has truly been something to behold.
Orlando Weekly |
Adriana Ruiz |
10-23-2008 |
Politics
Going Inside Both Presidential Campaigns in Floridanew
I spent a week volunteering for both campaigns to get a perspective most reporters must speculate about from the outside. And because I wanted unvarnished access, not a public relations tour, I engaged in the ethically murky but necessary practice of concealing my role as a reporter.
Orlando Weekly |
Adriana Ruiz |
10-23-2008 |
Politics
Blister: This is What It's All Come Down Tonew
SThe plate tectonics of our oversized socioeconomic structure have screeched and scratched against each other one too many times, pressing hairline fractures into gaping voids and smashing the jagged slabs of our seemingly solid foundations willy-nilly across the arid landscape.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
10-17-2008 |
Comedy
The Orlando Police Beatnew
Oct. 3, 7:10 a.m.: Orlando criminals have evolved since our last edition, wherein I chronicled the bungled efforts of some dunderhead who couldn't figure out how to smash a glass window.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
10-17-2008 |
Commentary
Happytown: The Come Out With Pride 2008 Packetnew
As much as we love broad strokes and low-hanging fruit around here -- along with expletives in lieu of real words -- even we weren't sure what to make of the thick packet we were issued by Come Out With Pride 2008 in advance of this past weekend's queer festivities.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes and Bob Whitby |
10-17-2008 |
Commentary
Tags: gay pride parade, Young Democrats
First Shot: Fraud at the Multiplex?new
The makers of An American Carol have pinned their flick's underwhelming $3.7 million opening weekend on a shadier phenomenon: fraud at the multiplex.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: David Zucker, An American Carol
Soupy Sales at Seoul Gardensnew
Exemplary broths a-bubble at this charming Maitland, Fla., eating house.
Orlando Weekly |
Faiyaz Kara |
10-17-2008 |
Food+Drink
A Lot of Belly (Dance) for Your Bucknew
Hundreds of women find their zhuzh at Orlando Bellydance and their inspiration in Suspira, owner, founder and the petite powerhouse who teaches all of her 800-plus students herself.
Orlando Weekly |
Liz Langley |
10-17-2008 |
Performance
Attorney Lawson Lamar Finally Has a Challengernew
Mercedes Leon, a 45-year-old Republican, is running against him. But she faces long odds.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
10-17-2008 |
Politics
Coming Soon to Your TV: Even More Billy Mays!new
Soon you'll find Mays and his business partner Anthony Sullivan gesticulating their way into the world of reality television with an inventing showcase called Pitchmen, due to air next spring. Can Billy Mays get any more in-your-face? You bet he can.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
10-17-2008 |
TV
Happytown: Mayor Buddy Dyer and Same-Sex Partnersnew
Last week, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer announced that the city will henceforth offer same-sex partners the benefits it awards to married couples (though not to straight unmarried couples, because they're living in sin). And it only took our "progressive" mayor and his Democrat-dominated city council five years to do it.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Adriana Ruiz |
10-17-2008 |
Commentary
Blisternew
Sometimes I wish everything could go a little more smoothly. Cracking a glance at my visage in the mirror this morning, I feel the sudden urge to cover myself in khaki and pull out a chisel while simultaneously wiping my brow and staring at the sun.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
10-17-2008 |
Comedy
