George Wallace

The seeds of the 13th Orlando Fringe Festival were planted the fall before its presentation in May of 2004. Edward DeAuguilera became the Fringe's first full-time executive director. It was a short tenure (more on that in a moment). And producer Chris...

We continue our look back at 20 years of the Orlando Fringe Festival. To see all the posts in this series, click on the small blue type that reads “Orlando Fringe 20″ underneath the headline on this article. Let's cut right to the good news:...

In the final stretch of competition, "Amazing Race"-ers stare down wind, rednecks and Brazilian body waxes....

President Barack Obama has had a pretty good month. U.S. forces killed Public Enemy No. 1, Osama bin Laden, and the most popular Republicans in the field of those likely to challenge his re-election bid have been dropping by the......

Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic representative, is among the wounded in the Tucson shootings....

Edwin Newman, known to several generations of television viewers as the dry-witted NBC reporter and commentator who covered coronations and assassinations and wrote two bestselling books on Americans' mangling of the English language, has died. He was 91....

DO VOTERS HAVE TO love you to elect you? That's a question all political candidates and strategists ponder from time to time. Tuesday's debacle in the California governor's race provides some food for thought on this count. In elections for high...

When Jerry Seinfeld announced plans to stage a comedy fund-raiser for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, he was not worried that stand-up routines might seem too trivial in the wake of the deadly events that shook the nation. "It's always been too trivial,...

The world needs many things besides (but still including) that "love, sweet love" thing. The world needs poets rhetorically nimble enough to articulate the breadth of our anxieties and hopes. The world needs leaders who can guide us through the perils...

Friday October 24, 1997      From "Do the Right Thing" to "Get on the Bus," director Spike Lee has made some of the most hard-edged and unsettling American films on racism and its effects. Yet none has been as moving as this, his first feature-length...

Friday March 17, 2000      Amos Gitai's somber, elegiac "Kadosh," which means "sacred" in Yiddish, takesus into the sequestered world of Mea Shearim, the Orthodox Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, where its devout citizens are committed to preserving an...

Friday March 10, 2000      Better than Harrison Ford, John Travolta or even Leonardo DiCaprio, getting the devil involved in your picture is a sure way of getting it made. Not necessarily as a producer or financial backer (though that probably wouldn't...