Aug 12-18, 1998

Aug 12-18, 1998 / Vol. 14 / No. 32

Foreign intrigue

Hopefully in “Return to Paradise,” we were able to give the audience a question,” says Anne Heche, who plays attorney Beth Eastern in the new psychological thriller. Like the filmmakers themselves, working on the politically provocative motion picture filled Heche’s head with inner conflicts. ; ; “‘How truthful am I about my responsibilities?’ ‘Do I…

Serena Donadoni

Ripple effect

Late last summer, researchers at Bluewater Network in San Francisco tried this neat experiment: They filled a 50-gallon tank with water from the San Francisco Bay. They then inserted a two-stroke jet-ski engine into that tank and let it hum away at idle for an hour and a half. When the little engine had finished…

Marjean Curtis

Exit center stage

Orlando International Fringe Festival finally goes full-time, while the remaining founder heads for the door Perhaps more than any other recent event, the 7-year-old Orlando International Fringe Festival has provided a spark for a downtown struggling with its identity. For 10 days each spring, the festival’s run of offbeat and sometimes daring drama, comedy and…

Jeff Truesdell

Cleave me in peace

In March, a 20-year-old man was charged with attempted murder in Prince Albert, Saskatche-wan, for stabbing a 29-year-old man, an acquaintance, in the head. The victim walked out of his apartment after the stabbing, fully conscious and speaking, despite the fact that the butcher knife was still embedded in his skull. He survived. Astro nut…

Chuck Shepherd

Red Lobster bites back

The headline says “Loving the Lobster,” but maybe it should say “Swallowing the Bait.” Watermark, the Orlando-based gay and lesbian newspaper, last week recounted the battle local and Illinois-based gay rights activists fought against Orlando-based Darden Restaurants Inc., which owns the Red Lobster and Olive Garden chains. A former assistant manager of a Chicago-area Red…

Ericson, Edward Jr.

Hot and heavy

This summer’s wildfires may have taught Florida its lesson: Agriculture Commissioner Bob Crawford is pushing for more money for “prescribed burns” while state planners have met with California officials to learn the mysteries of building regulation. After 2,200 fires, nearly 500,000 acres burned, $150 million in costs to fight, 126 homes destroyed, 25 businesses destroyed,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Going postal

Don’t get us wrong: Orlando Weekly loves propaganda as much as the next simpleton. But our friends at the U.S. Postal Service have shaved so many edges off their package, while compacting so much random stupidity into it, that the resulting ball approaches cosmically treacherous density. And it’s designed to suck the light from the…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Back in the saddle

After amusingly anointing himself underdog, Orange County Chairman candidate Mel Martinez re-emerged this week as the consensus choice favored by a trio of mayors including Glenda Hood. That followed revelations in the Sentinel — which Martinez wouldn’t discuss — about phone calls to possible voters branding opponents Fran Pignone as a millionaire tax cheat and…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Athletic Devils acquire a halo

Time again for Hightower’s “Wide, Wide, Wide, WILD World of Sports.” Today’s feature: A devil gets a halo! It’s the Blue Devils of Duke University I’m talking about, one of the most popular names in sports. Because of this popularity, the university sells some $20-million-a-year worth of products bearing the Blue Devil logo — everything…

Jim Hightower

All That: making the brass funky

All That epitomizes the immense diversity of musical styles in New Orleans. Merging elements of funk, big band, jazz, rock and hip-hop, All That tops New Orleans’ list of party bands and are now taking their infectious grooves on the road to try out new material for rookie audiences. “We’ve got about two or three…

Alex Oliver

Hunter bags fresh game in New York

Charlie Hunter is a citizen of groove-jazz nation — the informal community of American musicians who mix the heady improvisational style of John Coltrane with funk and R&B rhythms and the jamming philosophy of the Grateful Dead. The San Francisco guitarist once was a prominent member of the genre’s West Coast branch, along with Bay-area…

Philip Booth

Getting up there

When Ronald Reagan was 77 years old and our president, the comedian Dennis Miller said, “Seventy seven, and he has access to The Button? My grandfather’s 77. We won’t let him work the remote control for the television.” Now former astronaut and current Ohio senator John Glenn is 77, and this October they’re sending him…

Liz Langley

Puerto Rico’s sons of salsa

Cuba has long been considered the fountainhead for salsa stylings, but other countries within the Caribbean basin have had considerable impact on the way the music sounds today as well. Puerto Rican musicians have melded the danzon, jibaro and plena rhythms at the heart of their island’s indigenous music with salsa’s Afro-Cuban rhythms, creating a…

Garaud MacTaggart

Rossi’s

It’s a Tuesday ritual for spaghetti junkies on the south side of town: Hefty, homestyle dinners for about $3 at Rossi’s. This mom-and-pop restaurant is celebrating nearly 34 years in the same location by slashing prices on a special anniversary menu. The deals are outrageous — roughly half-price for some of the most popular items.…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Spaghetti dive on the south side

It’s a Tuesday ritual for spaghetti junkies on the south side of town: Hefty, homestyle dinners for about $3 at Rossi’s (5919 S. Orange Blossom Trail; 855-5755). This mom-and-pop restaurant is celebrating nearly 34 years in the same location by slashing prices on a special anniversary menu. The deals are outrageous — roughly half-price for…

Colleen Moore

Spaghetti dive on the south side

It’s a Tuesday ritual for spaghetti junkies on the south side of town: Hefty, homestyle dinners for about $3 at Rossi’s (5919 S. Orange Blossom Trail; 855-5755). This mom-and-pop restaurant is celebrating nearly 34 years in the same location by slashing prices on a special anniversary menu. The deals are outrageous — roughly half-price for…

Colleen Moore

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