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Dec 8-14, 1999

Dec 8-14, 1999 / Vol. 15 / No. 49

Punk’s elder statesman revels in rootsier rock

Earlier this year Mike Ness, frontman of legendary Orange County, Ca., punk band Social Distortion, released his first solo album “Cheating at Solitaire.” Instead of using his solo career as a platform to be self-indulgent and/or repetitive, Ness took a chance on “Solitaire,” playing songs that owe more to people like Woody Guthrie and Hank…

Tom Minarchick

New World disorder

The World Trade Organization slunk away from riot-torn Seattle this past weekend after delegates from 135 nations abandoned their efforts to launch a new round of trade negotiations. Demonstrators danced in the soggy streets, celebrating after a week of mostly peaceful protests hobbled the ministerial meeting. But the Battle of Seattle that drew 40,000 activists…

Monte Paulson

White like me

To download .pdf files . Say what you will about Orlando Weekly, but we know when we’re licked. For some time now, we’ve tried to stay one step ahead of the Noelle Bush situation, analyzing her soap opera of cocaine and courts with the razor-sharp irreverence that only professional satire can provide. It isn’t always…

Tricia Booker

Pull the wool over their eyes

Two thieves abandoned their rental car in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in May, leaving a sheep and three goats in the car, allegedly rustled from a farmer. The sheep was wearing a dress, and the goats wore shirts, pants and hats. Police guessed the thieves had dressed the animals to avert suspicion, but with nightfall…

Chuck Shepherd

Going Deutsch

Gain’s German Restaurant doesn’t have the most charming name, but there is a good reason why the former moniker, Old Munich, needed to be replaced. Munich is located squarely in Bavaria, but the restaurant’s new owners, Hans and Kessy Gain, wanted their menu to reflect all types of German cuisine, not just Bavarian. And so…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Key player’s disposable heroes

Everyone owned a cheap Casio synthesizer when they were 10 years old. Kids bashed away on the plastic keyboard for two days before the machine broke or they just got bored with it. Upset kids — and annoyed parents — most likely tossed the unwanted Casio into the garbage or donated it to the Salvation…

Christopher Howard

Varina’s rings in before the New Year

Just in time for the change-over to the new millennium, Cuisine 2000 has phased in a new name: Varina’s. And while the restaurant is still a mainstay for Thai and fusion food in Winter Park, the owners have been adding Japanese influences. The place now sports a sushi bar, and the seating will expand into…

Colleen Moore

Rivers delivers

It’s instinctive to begin at the beginning when telling the story of Sam Rivers. It’s a thrilling tale of more than seven decades spanning every twist and innovation that defines the evolution of jazz. But on this late-November night, Sam Rivers’ 16- and 30-piece RivBea Orchestra is occupying Keene Hall on Rollins College’s campus as…

Sonja S. Mongar

Sharing the spirit of Hendrix

The recent revival of live music to Will’s Loch Haven Pub brought with it the resumption of one of the club’s more vital traditions: the semiregular “tribute nights” staged by area musicians in honor of their melodious forebearers. On Thursday, Dec. 16, the program continues with the third annual memorial to six-string god Jimi Hendrix.…

Steve Schneider

Love’s labors found

Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is the thing with feathers.” Woody Allen said, “How wrong she was! The thing with feathers turns out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.” (This from his book “Without Feathers.”) I say the thing with feathers was the guy in a South Beach store…

Liz Langley

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