Aug 4-10, 1999

Aug 4-10, 1999 / Vol. 15 / No. 31

Grope springs eternal

Even at an orgy, somebody has to be in charge. Friday night’s AntiBabe TV extreme-fashion performance at Theatre Downtown began with a stern lecture from designer/founder Jodi Thomas, who let it be known in no uncertain terms that the evening’s extravaganza of sexually-charged shock theatrics would be a tightly run ship. There would be no…

Steve Schneider

The doctor will sell you now

Elise Leonard seems like the kind of doctor everyone wishes they had. The Plantation ophthalmologist is friendly, listens well and likes to spend time with patients. But behind that demeanor is a growing frustration that her income, like that of many doctors, is declining — even though she’s treating more patients than ever. “All our…

Harris Meyer

The life of the party

HEAD GEEZER said the T-shirt worn by Jack Gargan at the Reform Party’s national convention two weeks ago, and before the delegates left Detroit the saying rang true: Backed by Jesse Ventura, this geezer from Florida beat two Ross Perot loyalists to become the party’s new chairman, signaling a shift away from the wound-too-tight, nearly…

Theresa Everline

Mouse traps

The much-feared millennium hiccup means you’ve been scheduled since January to work the night of Dec. 31, and probably New Year’s Day as well. That means you won’t be among the throngs who booked Disney World vacations for that week in such large numbers that resort reservations agents have been turning away bookings since early…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Water marks

“They have broken ground, so there’s nothing more we can do about it,” says the Sierra Club’s Mary-Slater Linn regarding Seminole Community College’s new Oviedo campus. Because 60 percent of the campus sits below the Econ River flood plain, the Sierra Club had been trying to block the construction. Concerns about storm-water run-off persist, even…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Prescription for fair prices

This book took shape with the premise that understanding the origins of someone’s art is crucial to experiencing that person’s imagery. The notion questions the modernists’ posit of seeing the artist as a conduit through which art and meaning mysteriously flow. Art does not speak for itself. I doubt that it exists beyond the sensibilities…

Jim Hightower

In the cellar? Uri Geller!

According to a June medical-journal report, a team of Philadelphia researchers recently found that laboratory rats could order water for themselves just by imagining it. Certain areas of their brains were found to emit electrical charges that could be used to open a robot water reservoir whenever the rats appeared to be thirsty. Scientists believe…

Chuck Shepherd

Exhibition game

Before I left for New York a friend said, “Go to Times Square to see a peep show.” Isn’t that cute? “Peep show” is like “naked ladies,” an antique term that makes sex sound giggly. Until “shag,” Americans didn’t have a term that made sex sound fun without sounding stupid. Peep shows are almost extinct…

Liz Langley

Heart won’t let go

Ann and Nancy Wilson, the sisters at the center of the Seattle-based band that kicked out such ’70s hard-rock staples as “Magic Man” and “Crazy on You,” have an odd relationship with the moniker of their group. “The Road Home,” the last album credited to Heart, was released nearly five years ago. And the siblings…

Philip Booth

Three strikes from indie metal gods

The Melvins have always been described as heavy metal for those who hate heavy metal. Drummer Dale Crover agrees: “We’re too weird for heavy-metal people and too metal for alternative people.” And despite a major-label ride with Atlantic Records in the mid-’90s, the Melvins are still an underground band with a cult following. For more…

Christopher Howard

Turn it up

With two years of experience behind us, we decided to change the judging process for the 1999 Orlando Music Awards, based on all-around feedback and the desire to move forward. But the essence of the event remains: “To recognize and celebrate the Central Florida music scene, and to help nurture and promote the careers of…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Same as it ever was, maybe even better

It’s not hard to figure out the reason for the success of the Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense,” the movie regarded as the standard-bearer for concert films. It’s all in the stage show. Moviegoers see pretty much what audiences saw during the art-funk band’s 1993 tour in support of the album “Speaking in Tongues.” Director…

Philip Booth

Building a ‘Mystery’

“Everyone in the comic business wants to do movies and everyone in the movie business wants to do comics,” says Mike Richardson, who founded Dark Horse Comics in 1986, then segued into Dark Horse Entertainment four years later to produce film versions of their popular series like “The Mask and Barb Wire.” “I can tell…

Serena Donadoni

Wake-up call

We didn’t expect to be greeted with a remote beeper and a 20-minute wait for a table when we arrived at Le Peep on a Saturday morning. But then, it was our first visit, and those who live in the Bay Hill/Dr. Phillips area were way ahead of us. In fact, Le Peep has been…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Capone’s captures meals on the run

All the road construction around Park Avenue in Winter Park doesn’t invite lingering. That makes the newly opened Capone’s Untouchable Italian even more desirable, as it specializes in carry-out and delivery. Capone himself would have a hard time passing up the vigorous aromas coming out of the kitchen. There’s no dining area per se, just…

Colleen Moore

Mythical strings

Once upon a time there was a magnificent family of guitarists known as the Romeros. The patriarch, Celedonio, composed music in addition to teaching and playing guitar to and with his sons: Celin, Pepe and Angel. The quartet became famous throughout Spain and the world, and composers like Joaquín Rodrigo and Federico Moreno Torroba wrote…

Garaud MacTaggart

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