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Apr 22-28, 1998

Apr 22-28, 1998 / Vol. 14 / No. 16

Money Talking

Florida’s billionaires want to pay less taxes and have more freedom. They do not particularly care if their freedom destroys your view of the sunset, disrupts the serenity of your street, or pollutes your river or the Gulf of Mexico. They’d even like other taxpayers — you, for instance — to pay them millions of…

Ericson, Edward Jr.

Beauty that’s really skin deep

It’s now easier to find a place to get tattooed than to get frozen yogurt. Ten years ago it was a shocker to see an inky rose on a model’s ankle in one of the edgier magazines. Now it would be nothing but an aside on “The E! Gossip Show” if the Queen Mother rolled…

Liz Langley

Employing the Internet

When one is faced with the prospect of unemployment, whether through separation or by choice, the conventional wisdom is that you economize everywhere possible in case your “dry spell” lasts longer than you planned. Cut out all expenses apart from basic housing, food and transportation, the experts say . These days, you might want to…

Charles Martin

Population boom

An anti-immigration push wants to preserve ‘American’ culture — but doesn’t say so For a more balanced view of population and environmental impacts, the 1st Orlando Earth Day Symposium will offer discussion on topics from organic pollutants, dangers to wildlife embryos, and global warming. Orlando Museum of Art, April 25th, 1998 Immigrants, including a growing…

Mary Meehan

Hey Joe: What’s with the earings?

He wore no shirt and tie, no “Yes, Mrs. Cleaver” haircut; this was not your father’s Disney rep. I stared at him on the TV when I first saw him and marveled at his tribal earrings, his curlicue, cartoon-villain mustache and his sincerity, the real kind. No doubt about it: Disney has put a lot…

Liz Langley

What, me break the law?

Rep. Bill McCollum denied breaking any campaign finance laws last weekend at a constituent meeting where supporters of the Republican incumbent appeared to be a mostly silent majority. The traditional game of polite town-hall softball turned into spirited fast pitch in College Park, with the audience of about 35 people at Edgewater High School more…

Mary Meehan

Sound advice on performing arts

Booking Broadway shows into the Carr Performing Arts Centre is an inexact science. What sells elsewhere (the gay- and AIDS-themed “Angels in America,” for instance) may not sell here. And what might sell here may not be available right away, as promoters steer the newest tours to major cities first. Then there is the burden…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Rescue effort undermined

Operation Rescue will not go unchallenged when its traveling band of protesters show up in Orlando around the time of Gay Days at Walt Disney World during the first weekend of June. Bob Kunst, the Miami-based gay activist who led the grass-roots movement that took on and toppled Anita Bryant in Dade County two decades…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Lawson Lamar’s gender gap?

State’s Attorney Lawson Lamar has down-played the allegations since they began surfacing. But he may finally be forced to answer them after a lawsuit was filed in federal court last week alleging his office discriminates in matters of pay against its women employees. Donna C. Lindamood, a former assistant state’s attorney, charges in her lawsuit…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Planting new seeds of discontent

There it is again — that big, wet smooching sound you hear every time big business gets together with big government. This time it’s the U.S. Department of Agriculture playing kissy-face with the giants of agribusiness, which keep finding new ways to mess with Mother Nature for their own fun and profit. In their latest…

Jim Hightower

Roby exhibit shows respect for realism

“Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection,” Cornell Fine Art Museum, Rollins College, Through May 3, 1998 It was a dream come true for the Cornell Fine Art Museum when a freshman attending Rollins College named Joe Roby IV dropped by several years ago and asked if they would like to exhibit his grandmother’s…

Catherine Kean

Nutrajet: spies in the house of pop

Nutrajet, with the Tarantulas, Barbarella, April 25, 1998 There must be few things cooler than having your likeness appear on a bottle of beer, especially if it’s a rock & roll beer. Take the case of Greg Reinel — singer/guitarist for Orlando-based power-punk duo Nutrajet — whose spiky hair and sarcastic expression grace the label…

Dennis Walking

Spies in the house of pop

There must be few things cooler than having your likeness appear on a bottle of beer, especially if it’s a rock & roll beer. Take the case of Greg Reinel — singer/guitarist for Orlando-based power-punk duo Nutrajet — whose spiky hair and sarcastic expression grace the label of the Hard Rock Cafe’s new Hard Gauge…

Dennis Walking

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