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Steinmetz Hall has understandably been the center of attention since its debut a few weeks ago as Central Floridians got their first look at the shiny new venue at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando.But let’s take a look at what else has been going on in the arts world.

The Pointer Sisters performing in New York City in 1983, the year the group released its album em Break Out /em , which included four top 10 hits. If you spun the dial of your AM/FM radio on any given day in the early 1980s, chances are you heard a Pointer Sisters record. The group was in heavy rotation in a variety of formats whose playlists included Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and the Human League or Patti LaBelle and Earth, Wind and Fire. The electro-pop sound of the Pointer Sisters "Jum...

By Lois Barber A recent storm hit my ancient apple trees especially hard. I have been losing these trees on a steady basis for the last five years, with only five straggly trees where a small grove once was. The survivors do not bear fruit, and no longer even flower, and they are, really, a bit of an eyesore, with leaves only at the tips of their top branches. My husband wants to chain saw them, but I want to let them live until they succumb to natural causes. My home was built in 1790 and a wa...

The caucus is out in favor of impeachment. i dont think that tells the full story i know for a fact a lot of members who have come out for impeachment have done so because its the easy thing to do and its demanded in their district and they believe, also, that its not the best politics for them but pelosi has made clear she believes the politics are bad for democrats and shes not, again, moved an inch off of that and she refuses to talk about it i mean, at her press conference last week, she was...

President is still in office. you know, they could put forward a conspiracy indictment that includes the president as an unindicted coconspirator for political reasons. one of the things that really came clear out of michael cohens testimony yesterday is that this is looking more and more like a racketeering or rico case that you have an overlapping group of players. you have an overlapping group of criminal conspiracies. you have an overlapping set of crimes. this is not individual instances. t...

York which invented it under, wait for it, u.s. attorney rudy -- >> giuliani. interesting. you think that sdny is not as powerful as special counsel? >> i think investigating the president they have less jurisdictional limits and its much awkward or difficult for them to get their story they can only speak through indictments, as garret was saying. so if thaw can indict the president, thats sitting doj poli policy hoard how thaw can get a report to congress. >> thats got be to the last wrurd. ...

Full well and so does rudy jo e juligiuliani that in this volat political environment you can speak code, you can make references, and you can intimidate them and generate threats. it is just the kind of political climate we life in now. i think he has genuine reason to be concerned. >> what accommodations are you open to making for him on this, putting it under, taking it out of the public square? what acome daugss do you think are reasonable for his safety? >> i think it is still a desirable t...

Chief executives intent. he doesnt get to do that. >> harris: thats andy mccarthy right there! a >> andy: thats what the memo says. its a brilliantly-done memo, which is not surprising, because barr was the head of the office of legal counsel during the first bush administration. george h.w. bushs administration. those guys are the lawyers lawyers in the justice department. if you read this 20 page memo, it reads like an olc, office of legal counsel, justice department memo. its actually a stell...

Terms of meddling in our election and should want to know the answers. and the best way to know that is not by a transcript where you only read words, but where you see the body language and you can assess the credibility of a witness. its much more compelling to see the testimony than to read it. >> charlie, trump caused quite a stir again yesterday by telling reporters that hed be willing to talk to mueller under oath. take a listen. >> would you do it under oath, mr. president? >> you mean li...

Bannon. hes a toxic figure. >> yep. joe? >> you know, mike barnicle, i dont know why they would have to go into his personal life and his -- and make personal attacks against a guy where sort of a he said she said in divorce documents when they have charlottesville. when they have the things that he printed at breitbart. if you want to make somebody toxic, there is no he said she said when you go to what he printed in breitbart, some of it under -- what he said -- and stated openly, anti semitic...