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Aug 16-22, 2000

Aug 16-22, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 33

Lobster tales: thrill of the hunt

If you can’t stand the site of those Yankee Maine lobsters killing time in a cramped holding tank, claws rubber-banded, waiting for the boil pot, there is a more sporting method of scoring the taste of the tender water “bugs”: Go native and bag your own Florida spiny lobsters in their ocean habitat. Like clockwork,…

Lindy T. Shepherd

Emeril gets his kicks in O-town

If you couldn’t snag seats to witness Chef Emeril Lagasse heat the pans and amuse his fans at CityWalk last April, rest easy. Thanks to Food TV, you can catch his blatant but tasty corporate cross-promotion with the week-long special “Emeril Kicking It Up in Orlando,” running Aug. 21-27 and repeating in eternity after that.…

Richard J. Grula

Split personality

When you go to a “restaurant and pizzeria,” you don’t normally expect two distinct environments. But that’s exactly what Positano’s has: a front room offering a boisterous, family-oriented pizzeria, and a back room featuring elegant, sophisticated Italian dining. This dual identity can be confusing. Entering from the front, we found ourselves awash in family meals,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Slither and yon

According to reports filed by police and health-department authorities in Huntsville, Ala., in July, a father apparently purchased several poisonous snakes for his 13-year-old son to keep around the house as pets; after the boy was bitten by one, however, the father may have hidden the snakes for fear that they would be confiscated. Among…

Chuck Shepherd

Speed trapped

It was my first ride in a helicopter, and I didn’t even know it,” says Peggy, a thin, gray-haired woman recalling the day she was airlifted from her east Orange County subdivision after neighbors found her unconscious in the street. No one knows what happened to Peggy on May 24; the woman, who asked that…

Jeffrey C. Billman

A quiet voice

The letter was almost an insult, a slap in the face to Kevin Seraaj. “I was stunned,” says the president of the Central Florida Advocate newspaper. “Maybe even appalled.” The letter told Seraaj he was being booted from an Orange County NAACP task force investigating Orlando banks and federal lending guidelines to black communities. The…

William Dean Hinton

McCollum’s bills

Pity Bill McCollum. If his news releases are any indication, our congressman and wannabe senator is being dragged kicking and screaming into the world of money politics — something he would never do on his own. He is complaining that Florida 2000, a joint committee set up by Democratic candidate Bill Nelson and the Democratic…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Finding a good lesson plan

My younger daughter is nervous. She begins kindergarten next week. It’s a very big step. So many unknowns. I tell her I understand. “I was a little boy too, once, you know.” There’s a pause, a look, a cuddle, a coax. Ah … there it is! That glorious (if, at the moment, somewhat parsimonious) smile.…

Al Krulick

No one expects the cable intervention

If you’ve ever drawn glares by loudly declaring, “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!” or discovered what “blancmange” is by watching a tennis tournament, or recited a litany of euphemisms to describe a dead parrot (“bereft of life … gone to meet its maker … this is an ex-parrot!” ), you’re probably wondering why the…

Adele Marley

Get on the sane page

“What are you thinking about?” If you are a woman, you have looked at a man, a silent, staring man, who appears filled with sorrow or emptied of a frontal lobe, and asked this question. Men often waft into a catatonia that’s as irresistible to women as bubble wrap. So you ask. And he says,…

Liz Langley

Laying down the law

“At Folsom Prison” (Columbia/Legacy), “Complete Live at San Quentin” (Columbia/Legacy), “Murder” (Columbia/American) This show is being recorded for an album … so you can’t say ‘hell’ or ‘shit’ or anything like that,” Johnny Cash jokes on his searing live record “At Folsom Prison.” “They said, ‘You gotta do this song, you gotta do that song,'”…

Theresa Everline

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