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Dec 13-19, 2000

Dec 13-19, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 50

Net solutions for every holiday

Whichever holiday you’re celebrating, invite your multicultural crowd and stock the groaning board with recipes from the ‘net. For a Rockwellian Christmas, what better place than Reader’s Digest? More than 100 recipes range from baked ham to lemon bars. Light the virtual menorah at Holidays.net, while learning how to pickle a herring and make sweet-potato…

Joseph Hayes

Hoard mentality

Consider this: In its most recent earnings statement, the Walt Disney Co. announced that its “revenues for the year increased 9 percent to $25 billion.” That’s BILLION. With a B. Obviously, we’re talking about a company with incredible resources and cash flow. Yet there was Disney CEO Michael Eisner in London last week, poor-mouthing the…

Jim Hill

Gold medal ring toss

This Friday, Dec. 15, Florida 2012 CEO Ed Turanchik will deliver to the U.S. Olympic Committee a document that could change the face of Central Florida forever. The 600-page proposal will contain the seeds of what the former Hillsborough County commissioner hopes will grow into a successful campaign to bring the 2012 Summer Olympics to…

Neil DeMause

Crowd control

“Tonight’s gonna be a hell of a night, man,” Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy Alex Roman mutters as he parks his patrol car at the entrance to University High School. It’s the Friday before the University of Central Florida’s Homecoming, about 10:30 p.m., and every sheriff’s deputy in the university’s vicinity is surrounding the College Suites…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Ink dries on tattoo zone

The city is molding the final draft of an ordinance limiting the number of tattoo and body-piercing shops downtown. The proposal, unveiled last week to shop owners, limits tattooing and body piercing to certain high-density zoning districts, including the downtown area. But the number of tattoo shops downtown would be limited to the number that…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Just saying no to dough

Vicki Vargo’s final answer on the commissioners’ controversial new pay raise: no thanks. The District 3 city commissioner will siphon her $8,400 increase into a special account, which she promises to spend on her constituents’ needs. (How’s that for buying votes?) After taxes, the amount comes to $5,175 annually — or about 164 feet of…

Orlando Weekly Staff

View to a thrill

Years from now, Monday night’s City Council meeting at Boone High School will be remembered as the final public duty of longtime city clerk Grace Chewning, who spent 47 years in Orlando city government. (She started as a cemetery clerk when she was 16.) But some might still be smiling as they remember it as…

Orlando Weekly Staff

The long and short of it

Doctors in England are under criticism, according to a November report in Canada’s National Post, for having performed a leg-stretching surgery on Emma Richards, 16, apparently only for the purpose of making her happier about her height. She had aspired to be a flight attendant (minimum height: 5-foot-3) but had stopped growing at 4-foot-9. Surgeons…

Chuck Shepherd

Down the habit hole

Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs. — Lily Tomlin I probably know as much about aliens as anyone they’ve ever probed, and as much about zombies, ghosts and exaguinated cattle as Mulder and Scully put together. If a show has a name like “The Unexplained,” “In Search Of” or “Ripley’s Believe It or…

Liz Langley

Gardner sows seeds of ‘Sarcasm’

Hear now the philosophy of Blake Gardner: Failure is nothing to fear, but sarcasm goes a long way. The comic actor/writer will tackle those twin themes this Saturday, Dec. 16, at iMPACTE! Productions, when he hosts a fund-raising party for his digital film short, “The Art of Sarcasm.” He’ll also perform a retooled version of…

Steve Schneider

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