Dec 1-7, 1999

Dec 1-7, 1999 / Vol. 15 / No. 48

One ‘Olive’ to the hourglass

If you’ve never witnessed a movie being made, your knowledge of the process may be limited to the common, offhand summation, “It’s a lot of waiting.” After spending last Wednesday on the set of Olive Juice, an independent film that’s currently being lensed in Central Florida, I can offer a slightly more informed perspective: It’s.…

Steve Schneider

Sticky situation

On Oct. 8, Orlando Weekly received an anonymous postcard from another dissatisfied customer. What follows are the exact allegations contained in that missive, paired here with the facts behind the fury. The anonymous correspondent’s charges of “greed” drew a vigorous defense from Orlando Weekly spokesman Alex P. Keaton. “Greed is good,” the hard-working PR flack…

Steve Helling

Sideshow infraction

Imagine walking through a huge shopping mall and suddenly coming upon a store that’s selling reproductions of your own art work. You’ve never heard of this store before, but there it is, plain as day, stocked with your paintings. Somebody you don’t know is making money from pictures that you’ve created. Aghast, you step inside…

Theresa Everline

Down the tubes

The National Safety Council recently said computers sold today will have a useful life of about three years; those sold in 2005 will last two years. At that rate, more than 31 million PCs will become clutter next year in the U.S. alone. This presents a toxic headache, a recycling challenge and a looming trade…

Eric Scigliano

Killer fall fashions

In November in Tokyo, a passenger was killed in a car accident that occurred when the driver, Tomomi Okawa, 25, rammed a concrete pole; according to police, she lost control when she missed the brake pedal because of her trendy but clunky platform shoes. And in September, teacher Misayo Shimizu, 25, died several hours after…

Chuck Shepherd

Giving the gift of gab

How to embarrass yourself in front of yourself: Read your horoscope every day. Every day think, “That’s totally accurate! How amazing!” Realize the book you’re reading from is dated 1997. I did this once because I saved my “Sydney Omarr’s 1997 Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for Scorpio.” (Yes, mine is the sign that is proud of…

Liz Langley

When “MP3” surpassed “sex…

When “MP3” surpassed “sex” as the No. 1 search term on the web earlier this year, it established once and for all that the most controversial file format to date is permanently locked into the music/technology landscape. You can’t get away from it. You’ll be hearing the term at every gathering and be seeing it…

Mark Padgett

Delivering a very peculiar Package

What do you do if you’re a bored kid in your early 20s who was raised in a small town in Pennsylvania on ice hockey, Metallica, Anthrax and Duran Duran? You borrow your mom’s Ford Explorer and go on tour. That’s what Atom Goren and “His Package” have been doing for the past few years.…

Tom Minarchick

Dose of Cuba on Orange Avenue

Since the demise of Elena’s Cuban Cafe a few years back, downtown has been sorely lacking an essential element: a low-budget Cuban diner on the main drag. The arrival of Orange Ave. General Store and Cafe remedies that gap. Located in the former storefront of Barnie’s Coffee & Tea Co., the quick dining/takeout cafe is…

Colleen Moore

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