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Apr 21-27, 1999

Apr 21-27, 1999 / Vol. 15 / No. 16

Wrap party

The Orlando International Fringe Festival is a lot like Christmas. It comes once a year, it’s eagerly anticipated, and it seems to go by in a flash. And when it’s over, you’re left with abject guilt that you didn’t make the most of it. After a week in which my own festival attendance had been…

Steve Schneider

Outside the frame of farm photos

Gone are the farms at Lake Apopka, thanks to last year’s government buyout meant to restore the water’s health. Controversy remains in the form of dead birds and pesticide remnants. Luckily, the lives of the migrant workers who knew the farms intimately have been preserved on film. Twice in the last four years photographer Peter…

Theresa Everline

Bargain for dollars

While carpooling home from work one afternoon, Jason Andress learned, quite by accident, that he was paid significantly less than his co-workers. Although he had the same qualifications and was hired around the same time as his higher-paid co-workers, he earned approximately $4,000 less than they did. His first assumption was some vague sort of…

Steve Helling

Trouble underfoot

Children develop leukemia three to nine times more often when pesticides are used around their home; brain tumors and other cancers in children have been linked with exposures to insecticides. … — The EPA Children’s Environmental Health Yearbook Twelve years ago, Sophia Metcalf packed up her four kids, divorce papers and a new accounting degree…

Dee Rivers

Tag-team medicine

It’s time to learn a new word for your medical vocabulary, especially if you’re covered by United HealthCare of Florida: hospitalist. The term, coined just three years ago, signals a palpable shift doctor/patient relations. A hospitalist works exclusively with inpatient care, replacing a person’s primary-care physician during the duration of a hospital stay. Proponents of…

Theresa Everline

The dirt on power plants

Old power plants exempt from Clean Air Act regulations pose a growing threat to Florida, according to a report released this week by the Florida Clean Power Coalition. The organization of several environmental groups says Tampa Bay is particularly threatened: 70 percent of the air pollution settling on the bay comes from stationary sources like…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Organizing jives

It’s been all peace and love at Universal Studios as the Actors’ Equity union attempts to organize 300 of the park’s performers. At least that’s the impression left by the union’s propaganda. A flier passed out last week at the Mark Two Dinner Theater looks more like a promotion for upcoming shows than a demand…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Auto motives

In separate incidents over a 48-hour period in March, a fuming Spring Hill, Tenn., man fired about 90 rounds from an AK-47 point-blank into his car alongside a major highway after it died on him, and another man was turned down at the courthouse in Knoxville, Tenn., when he applied for a marriage license to…

Chuck Shepherd

Big number, little benefit

Wow, the Dow above 10,000! Is this great news, or what? USA Today gushed that “10,000 is more than a number. … It’s like Mark McGwire beating the home run record. It’s like the calendar turning to the year 2000. … It’s a cultural milestone.” It’s being hailed not only as a milestone for the…

Jim Hightower

Howleâ??s dueling muses find truce

Winsomely kooky but meditative and wise, Danielle Howle elicits a charmed respect from critics and fans alike, as she travels along her well-worn folk-musical path. While contemporaries like Mary Lou Lord and Elliott Smith brood awkwardly for that quintessential busk-and-bake effect, Howle somehow seems more believably at home in the songs. Still, Howle’s voice –…

Billy Manes

Battle-ready Bombs ready to attack

Though their music remains grounded in 1960s garage twang, The Hate Bombs are currently living out their own version of World War II. It isn’t the defection of guitarist Mick Crowley from the long-lived local quartet that’s at issue; both camps claim that relations remain exceedingly friendly. Instead, the lock-step multinational unit — one German…

Steve Schneider

The silence of the damns

“Ninety-four percent of our communication is nonverbal, Jerry,” Kramer once said, and it’s probably true. Crossed arms, goo-goo eyes and swift, sudden kicks to the nether regions all express more than mere words can, and more articulately because they’re done without the editor of thought. If you begin your deliberate speech with, “Look, I’m just…

Liz Langley

Beyond expectations

Until recently, Apopka was a town with an erratic dining scene, not exactly a place where you would go in search of an epicurean adventure, Italian or otherwise. Now two years old, Caffe Positano reflects the changing face of Apopka, with its fine food prepared with passion, appreciation and flair. Situated in an ordinary shopping…

Orlando Weekly Staff

New delights are deli-cious

Just when the deli scene near downtown was about to lapse into a deep sleep, along comes Anh Hong a Vietnamese takeout deli open from 8 a.m.-9 p.m. every day at Colonial Drive and Mills Avenue. Drive and Mills Avenue. Skip the token sandwiches and step up to the hot buffet. Here you can choose…

Colleen Moore

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