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September 22, 2002


The Runaround   Maybe inmate No. 089956 really runs long-distance races on a dirt track in the prison yard. Maybe he's exaggerating. Either way, he'll reach the finish line in 2019. Story

[Times photo illustration:
Patty Yablonski]


A sin to see it, a shame not to
When Roman Catholic bishops in Mexico label the film blasphemous, a curious public flocks to theaters to see The Crime of Father Amaro, about a young priest's sexual indiscretions.

Sunday journal: Sojourn in a good place to live
They lived two presidents over from me, on Jackson Street, across U.S. 1 from Hollywood Central Elementary, by the nameless pink motel with the pay phone. None of us suspected while they were here. They could have been anybody.

Sunday Arts

Delectable diversity from Dali
In two exhibits with vastly different messages, the artist infuses common objects with surrealistic whimsy and delves into the psychic ties uniting love and death.

Emmy may get it right this time
Some perennial favorites will sit out the fun tonight, as the Emmy Awards show prepares to shine the spotlight on actors from Six Feet Under, The West Wing, Friends and Sex and the City.

Musical rest? Not for the Florida Orchestra
Jahja Ling is gone as music director. Stefan Sanderling doesn't take over until next season. What that means for the Florida Orchestra is that the 2002-03 season is something like an interregnum, which Webster's defines as "an interval between two successive reigns, when the country has no sovereign."

A season of old and new
The Florida Orchestra centers on an impressive foursome: an ex-music director and resident conductor, and the next music director and a runnerup for his job.

Arts talk
Florida Craftsmen celebrates 50th

Audio files
SLEATER-KINNEY, ONE BEAT (KILL ROCK STARS) America's best rock band? That's a pretty heavy title, but Time said it's so of Sleater-Kinney, the dynamic all-chick trio from Olympia, Wash., now based in Portland, Ore. Fans of the band know the magic; the ladies certainly changed my so-called rock 'n' roll life back in 2000 when I saw them perform at Ladyfest in their hometown.

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