The University Club of Orlando, which, until 1992, didn’t allow women or minorities to join, has elected its first Black president – 44-year-old Michael Lane. Housed in a new downtown facility with membership challenged since…
Articles of Interest
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AMERICAN PIE
On February 8, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper Richardson, plunged out of the sky killing all three and creating the backdrop for Don McLean’s ubiquitous “American Pie,” considered a musical masterpiece…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: PIZZA SELLS
Sean Ferraro, aka “the Pizza Skiff Guy,” demonstrates once again that entrepreneurism is alive and well in the world. A graduate of FSU’s College of Hospitality, and coming from a family of restaurant owners, Ferraro…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: REACHING BACK
The media this past week were ablaze at the captivating photos being sent back for our view – and scientific scrutiny – by the recently launched James Web Space Telescope, now in a one-year, million-mile…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: BRAIN WAVES
Recent work at the University of South Florida by Professor Marvin Andujar, Director of the Neuro-Machine Interaction Lab, is demonstrating just how far we can go in capturing external activity through brain waves alone. By…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: CELESTIAL ORDER
In the midst of what can only be described as planetary disorder – relentless bombardment of Ukraine, a pandemic still raging, explosive inflation, an almost successful coup in the greatest democracy of the world –…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ELEPHANT’S PERSONHOOD
New York’s highest court ruled in a 5-2 ruling that Happy the Elephant is not a legal person allowed to be freed from her Bronx Zoo confinement under habeas corpus. What was surprising were two…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: FATHERS
Most of us have wonderful memories of our fathers. In one of my favorites, I had recently opened up a law practice in downtown Orlando when I got a call from Dad, saying he was…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: RIP IRV SHARGAA
With the media reporting the challenges of a sluggish labor market, it is refreshing to pause in remembrance of Irwin “Irv” Shargaa, who peacefully passed away surrounded by family at the age of 93, just…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: FOUR-DAY WORK WEEK
The post-COVID environment has left its mark – first, with the “Great Resignation,” then demands to work remotely, and now talk of a four-day work week. A new test in the U.K. with thousands of…