Apr 19-25, 2000

Apr 19-25, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 16

Worthy of gods

The Greek island of Mykonos is located in the Aegean Sea. Its curving streets — designed to confuse attacking pirates in the 16th century — are today lined with restaurants that helped define it as a vacation mecca. Now a slice of Mykonos has come to us in the form of Mayerion Mykonos, a small,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

They know beans

While some other Cuban kitchens tag onto the pan-Latin craze and expand their menus to include influences from Central and South America, the humble Black Bean Deli in Winter Park remains doggedly devoted to homespun Cuban food. After 18 years, it’s still a prime choice for sturdy, soul-warming lunches and dinners. As soon as you…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Leafing through salad options

Since salads have become the staple of healthy eating, it makes sense that more restaurants are specializing in them. One of the newest on the scene is Crispers at Winter Park Village (480 N. Orlando Ave., Suite 134; 407-622-4403). A more upscale version of the Sweet Tomatoes salad bars, Crispers devotes half of its menu…

Colleen Moore

What would Jesus drive?

For once, I’ve come out of a weekend feeling rested and purified. You see, I went to church on Good Friday … and I didn’t even have to get out of the car to do it. Praise be to the good folks at the Central Christian Church for making it possible. For the fourth year…

Steve Schneider

Touch down

With this week’s debut of his Tommy Boy coming-out party, “The Piece Maker,” the self-professed “Taino Turntable Terrorist” is armed and ready to set the world on fire with his party-starting jams. To street-centric clubgoers, mix-tape collectors and hip-hop heads, the MC/DJ/B-boy/remixer/producer is already part of their program. Now it’s time for the rest of…

Mark Padgett

Class Action

Each weekday for the past three-and-a-half years, Sage Morris-Webster has ridden the bus from a parking lot at the T.D. Waterhouse Centre to her job at the Orange County Courthouse. Each weekday, she encounters a handful of kids, toting knapsacks and lunch pails, riding the bus along with her and away from their Parramore homes.…

William Dean Hinton

Well undone

Harmel Peterson has lived in his Pinellas County home for 33 years, but not until 1998 did he find out what county officials discovered four years earlier: Wells in his neck of the woods showed signs of ammonia and nitrogen — early evidence of contamination. “I was incredulous,” he says. “Nobody notified me. The county…

Dee Rivers

Conflicting interests

Glenda Hood wasn’t the only one who needed a truth squad during the recent mayoral campaign. So many rumors, half-truths and cheap shots were uttered over issues ranging from taxes to racism to light rail that voters, much more than the candidates, needed a functioning BS meter. Among the rumors was that two-time incumbent Glenda…

William Dean Hinton

Better homes and shanties

“I may be homeless,” Chester Goode, 46, told a Miami Herald reporter in April, “but I’m the most stylish homeless person you’ll ever meet.” The interview took place in Goode’s black-fabric-walled, tarpaulin-roofed space in the woods off 18th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a domicile decorated with framed impressionist paintings, potted palms, fluted vases, decorative…

Chuck Shepherd

From wanderer comes poetry in motion

In the beginning was the word, and the word was good. Words of life — alive, living in the air that you breathe. In print, the language is silent, not stilled. … That is, until you start thinking aloud. — Bennett Mark Bennett is a wandering poet and satirist compelled by acute observations. “101 details”…

Sonja S. Mongar

It’s a pleasure

Try to ignore the neon-lit surroundings on International Drive and instead focus on Ran Getsu and its pleasing impression of formal Japanese dining. The clean, cool lines of the two-tiered restaurant overlook a traditional garden and koi pond. At night it bustles like a Tokyo market: Traditional drum and dance teams snake through the restaurant…

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