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Apr 5-11, 2000

Apr 5-11, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 14

A quick course in manors

You know you’ve really made it in life when all of the rooms in your house have their own names. I don’t think I had ever dwelled on that simple truth before my visit of last Saturday to Delaney Manor, a three-floor, 5,000-square-foot home in downtown’s venerable Cherokee Residential District that serves as this year’s…

Steve Schneider

Brits are hooked on ‘Phonics

The light begins to fade and the music swells. The audience goes ballistic as the gleam of pop idolatry illuminates the blank stage. The stoic icons in Stereophonics slam the first chords of the night and the bass player … disappears? “I’m so hyped up that I forgot that I told the sound engineer during…

Joseph Henkin III

Meating of the minds

Some people can’t even stand to have dinner with their relatives. The History Channel recently showed people who like to have a dinner of their relatives. The happy cannibals of New Guinea were there on cable, feasting on their fellow tribesman and saying things like, “Now I’ll always have a part of my mother with…

Liz Langley

A shore point for the public

Imagine a Florida with lakes, rivers and creeks whose shores are as bald as a desert. No stately cypress trees with roots clawing at the land. No perch from which egrets can eye their next fish dinner. No shade for the fisherman. If a proposed piece of legislation is passed, you might not have to…

Lynn Waddell

Tactical error

The tall, bearded man at the door the night of Nov. 10, 1998, was not just another visitor to Keith Gibbs’ College Park home. “You got any?” the man asked. “What you talking about?” Gibbs answered. The man wanted marijuana. “My boys always come here to buy pot,” the guy said. “No, I don’t think…

William Dean Hinton

Notes from a courtroom

They were unemployed, pregnant, disabled, career criminals and businessmen brought together last week outside courtroom 7D because they owed money to Orange County. At first there was nothing for the 40 people to do but wait — ironic, given that they were in court because they had tested the patience of the legal system. An…

William Dean Hinton

Folding under questioning

Spearfish, S.D., Highway Patrol officers arrested a 17-year-old boy on Feb. 19 and charged him with stealing a car in his hometown of Madison. According to police records published in the Madison Daily Leader, the troopers were finishing a meal at a Perkins Restaurant when the boy, who was seated in an adjacent booth, suddenly…

Chuck Shepherd

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