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Bill McCollum's Reefer Madnessnew
If you believe Florida attorney general Bill McCollum, weed is stronger than ever. But his dire warnings are scarier than what the facts support.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
11-29-2007 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
Imitate Borat, Lose Jobnew
Between 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Nov. 2, Universal Orlando valet Steve Barton and some co-workers took their dinner break and walked upstairs to order coffee at a Starbucks. Barton decided to order his latte while impersonating Borat Sagdiyev, the fictional Kazakh journalist and alter ego of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
11-27-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Future is ... Now?new
The future, insofar as transportation goes, is a dud. The people movers, monorails and flying cars Hollywood promised a generation ago are nowhere to be found. In Florida, such innovations as bullet trains and light rail are nonstarters.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
11-27-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Slick Fictionnew
This holiday season, it may well be time to stroke your indulgences and remember that you are indeed the only living thing that matters in this world.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
11-15-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Wanting That Green Glownew
This year I want green gifts. I want items that can help me reduce my impact on the environment. But much like eating vegetarian comes with a higher price tag, so does saving the world.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
11-15-2007 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
Screw China!new
The reason I'm going China-free this holiday season is Wal-Mart. The mega-retailer's relentless, cutthroat push to the bottom is killing our economy like a two-pack-a-day habit. Wal-Mart gets approximately 97 percent of the junk they sell from China, so buying there is un-American.
Orlando Weekly |
Bob Whitby |
11-15-2007 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
A Few Good Specimensnew
Without hobbies, one goes insane. To stave off the inevitable madness for another year, in early 2007 I took up the idea of building a cabinet of curiosities, a hobby with a long and glorious tradition.
Orlando Weekly |
Ian Monroe |
11-15-2007 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
My Boozy Christmasnew
For Christmas, all we really want is booze. Here are some gift ideas for the alcoholically-inclined.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
11-15-2007 |
Food+Drink
Reissues Add to the Joy Division Oeuvrenew
Despite improved sonic quality and the inclusion of bonus discs containing full, era-specific live sets, these reissues serve to reinforce what most people already know about Joy Division -- which isn't a bad thing.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
'Martian Child' Rises Above Average Family-Positive Sweetnessnew
Director Menno Meyjes pulls an engaging film out of the potential claptrap, while also putting across a message about the beauty of nonconformism.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Martian Child, Menno Meyjes
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
An Intriguing Take on the Misfitsnew
It doesn't take a lot of courage or ingenuity to cover the Misfits -- if you're a punk rock band, that is. Mumpsy, however, is not.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-25-2007 |
Reviews
'Deep Water' is About More than Sailing Around the Worldnew
Deeply researched and compellingly presented, Deep Water is as much about one man's misadventures on the ocean as it is about loneliness, desperation and the danger of dreams.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-25-2007 |
Reviews
The Cost of Warnew
Governing is, at its simplest level, about prioritizing. Every dollar spent on the Mesopotamian civil war could be spent here. Here's a look at what some of that war money could buy.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
10-25-2007 |
War
Operation MBI Shamenew
On the heels of the agency's arrest of three Weekly employees, we take a closer look at how Orlando's vice cops really operate.
Orlando Weekly |
Staff |
10-23-2007 |
Crime & Justice
