Apr 15-21, 1998

Apr 15-21, 1998 / Vol. 14 / No. 15

Salsa on the sidewalk

With its French doors thrown open and its patio seating extending onto the sidewalk, Wall Street Cantina tries a little too hard to be hip. Actually it’s the location on Wall Street Plaza that lends a cool, slightly seedy edge. The plaza’s brick pathways and planters are a little scraggly and derelict, and so are…

Orlando Weekly Staff

An absentee vote for redistricting

Once again, a District 5 election came down to the candidate able to collect the most absentee ballots U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp said that it was mostly curiosity that led him to set aside time last Thursday to hear a lawsuit seeking to stop this week’s runoff election for an Orlando City Council…

Lawrence Budd

Rasta prophet

Burning Spear, Blue Room, April 20, 1998 Winston Rodney, a.k.a. Burning Spear, takes an unexpected detour on his new album, “Appointment With His Majesty.” The 52-year-old reggae veteran has recorded a tribute to the late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia called “Appointment with His Majesty.” Spear’s leathery tenor offers lyrical snapshots of a typical Dead…

Philip Booth

If you want something done right …

My editor says I should make some sort of disclaimer right up front in this column for writing about sex two weeks in a row. Somehow that would be like making one fourth-grader apologize to all the other fourth-graders for making armpit noises in the middle of a lecture on Nathaniel Hawthorne. Like it’s really…

Liz Langley

Lions & Tigers & Wares, Oh My!

>Looking beyond the dead beasts at Disney’s new zoo: An unusual tour of the Animal kingdom In his plans for Disneyland and the original Jungle Cruise, Walt Disney envisioned placing real animals along the river’s banks. Zoo people told him that wild animals are, for the most part, nocturnal and that guests would see them…

Jeff Truesdell and Ray Kampf

Deep(ak) thoughts

New age sage’s simple teachings raise complex questions about religion/spirituality The telephone voice is sesame-oil smooth, perfectly suited for guiding seekers through the nomenclature of Eastern philosophy. Recognizable to nearly anyone not living underground for the past decade, it belongs to Deepak Chopra`CHOH-pruh`, arguably the late-20th century’s best-known propagator of the mind/body/soul ethic. While explaining…

Dee Rivers

Hormonal rage

A chemical manufacturer bullies a TV station, killing a report on Florida dairy dangers Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, investigative reporters for Tampa Bay’s WTVT-Channel 13 were proud of their four-part series on Monsanto’s bovine growth hormone (BGH). The station, a new Fox affiliate, was proud too — it bought radio ads to promote the…

Jeannette Batz

An absentee vote for redistricting

Once again, a District 5 election came down to the candidate able to collect the most absentee ballots U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp said that it was mostly curiosity that led him to set aside time last Thursday to hear a lawsuit seeking to stop this week’s runoff election for an Orlando City Council…

Lawrence Budd

Healthy visual pollution?

Whole Foods, the national natural-foods marketer, recently raised its street sign outside its new store on Aloma Avenue — more than a month after local competitor Chamberlin’s Market & Cafe debuted its new marketing campaign on a large billboard directly across the street from the Whole Foods’ store. Still, Whole Foods’ display is diminutive next…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Hired help douses fire fees

Former Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan is offering refunds to donors following last week’s collapse of his campaign amid embarrassing sex allegations.Ryan had raised about $1.5 million since winning the Republican nomination, said Jason Miller, who managed Ryan’s campaign. Miller said the campaign expects about half of the donors to request refunds.Ryan, a 44-year-old investment…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Fridge Henge’s cool reception

Fridge Henge, the assemblage of abandoned refrigerators at Wall and Division streets, is supposed to make an artistic statement. But some Parramore neighborhood leaders see it as nothing more than another racist insult. “When I first saw that, I thought, ‘Someone’s having a rummage sale,'” says Gerald Bell, an Orlando NAACP vice president. After realizing…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Screwing up defense contractors

And now here’s your friendly U.S. Defense Department with another screwy idea! The Pentagon — home of the infamous $600 toilet seats — is at it again, buying everyday stuff at exorbitant prices. Take your common set screws, which any “Harry’s Hardware” store will sell to you for 57 cents each. But a new report…

Jim Hightower

Visionary paints a spiritual journey

“Visionary Artists,” Crealde School of Visual Arts, Through May 15. 1998 Anita Wooten undertakes a deeply spiritual journey through her painting. She says it is a journey that explores “the visions anyone may experience in those moments between sleeping and waking; between life and death, (and the) beauty and tragedy present in the human condition.”…

Catherine Kean

Blood money

Biotech researchers are searching for rare genetic traits with market potential. Your body could be next John Moore’s spleen was worth $3 billion. It was also killing him. His doctors saved his life, but took his genetic fortune. A rare disease called hairy cell leukemia had swollen Moore’s spleen to 40 times its normal weight.…

Monte Paulson

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