AltWeeklies Wire
Blister: So This is the 70s?new
"I can't fit into any of my bell-bottoms anymore," Taylor wafts into the room, lighting up the floor panels with each weary step. He's wearing giant Playboy circle sunglasses and moping like a Klute-era prostitute. I'm a vision in head-to-toe white polyester leisure, all tightly suited and barely able to zip up. Oh, who the fuck are we kidding?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-02-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Equality Florida, Anita Bryant
Blisternew
Regular commentary on Orlando culture.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-25-2009 |
Commentary
Orlando Opera Fans Get the Shaft, While the Former CEO Gets a Cruisenew
The Orlando Opera recently suspended its operations and filed for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the opera board paid off contracts, gave its employees severance pay and, in a particularly stunning display of tone-deafness, now wants to send the CEO who oversaw the opera's collapse on a Caribbean cruise as a birthday surprise.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-25-2009 |
Theater
Blister: Truth or Dare at the Peacock Room in Orlandonew
Truth or dare, as we all know, is the more blow job–friendly version of Spin the Bottle, but still retains that odd smell of menstruation and sweaty freckles so important to growing up. Hmmm, what's that smell right now?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-19-2009 |
Commentary
Summer Art Shows in Orlandonew
We look at three new art shows that'll be hanging around all ... you know.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young, Rex Thomas and Laura Stewart |
06-19-2009 |
Art
The Orlando Police Beatnew
May 26, 2:59 am: Attention, whoever stole a television and a DVD player from the homeless shelter: You’re an asshole. Sincerely, Police Beat.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
06-19-2009 |
Commentary
Police Beatnew
An award-winning weekly breakdown of police-reported criminal activity in Orlando.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffery C. Billman |
06-04-2009 |
Commentary
Commentary: Happytownnew
A popular weekly commentary on happenings in Orlando, Florida.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffery C. Billman and Billy Manes |
06-04-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: crime and justice, Bill Dillon
A Week's Worth of Orlando Queer in 24 Hoursnew
You don't have to drop your Tinker Bell wad in the dark corners of Cinderella's castle in order to appreciate Orlando's Big Gay Fantastic. Orlando is gay all the time.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-04-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Orlando, recreation
Team-Building Bowling Leads to Plastic Heels and Smoke Machinesnew
Seemingly tame bowling shenanigans involving two hours of light ribaldry, the greased-up wings of dead chickens and innumerable buckets of beer are usually a gateway to somebody sexually falling into somebody else in the bushes outside a karaoke bar, and, with any luck, some inappropriate behavior featuring nudity and very blue language. Let the games begin.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-21-2009 |
Comedy
Tags: humor
The Decline and Fall of Orlando's Arts Worldnew
United Arts of Central Florida is charged with mitigating adverse circumstances, but have the circumstances reached a crisis point? Not according to executive director Margot Knight, who tries to keep her head above the treacherous arts-world waters by "following one number and being chased by another."
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-21-2009 |
Performance
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
Two Artists Render the Mundane Mysteriousnew
Critics have long argued the differences between poetry and painting. Both Jess and Jack R. Smith validate the Roman poet Horace’s claim: "Ut pictura poesis (As is painting, so is poetry)."
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
02-05-2009 |
Art
Post-Election Competition Heats Up the Video Game Worldnew
In the gaming world, the election very much continues, as the annual holiday onslaught of games competing for your hearts, votes and dollars is heating up to a level that might make even a CNN hologram -- and Wolf Blitzer, too -- burst into flames.
Orlando Weekly |
Aaron R. Conklin |
12-04-2008 |
Video Games
Defame Orlando Shreds the Downtown Orlando Scenenew
Since April, Defame Orlando has been stirring the downtown pot with its Internet observations on coke-addled club promoters, local girls gone wild, scenesters in long jean shorts and boat shoes, fixed-gear-bike riders and fame whores.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
12-04-2008 |
Tech
