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Feb 23-29, 2000

Feb 23-29, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 8

Days of swine and races

There were many fine reasons to wallow in the pastoral surroundings of Mead Gardens for last weekend’s “Pig in the Park,” the third annual pork-themed fund-raiser for the Mead Gardens Preservation Association. Delicacies were offered by 35 competing barbecue cooks. Tent booths were set up to vend arts, crafts and down-home apparel. Rides and games…

Steve Schneider

Dexterâ??s hosts a vintage tour

Around the world in 80 wines: That’s the itinerary for the fourth annual Dexter’s Wine Tasting and Silent Auction 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, at Harry P. Leu Gardens (1920 N. Forest Ave.). After the gardens close, the plantation-style Garden House will swing with hundreds of wine lovers, live jazz, tidbits from Dexter’s chefs…

Colleen Moore

The last picture show: cueing up, reeling in

Over the past 17 years, the Central Florida Film & Video Festival has been a mainstay on Orlando’s cultural calendar. So why is executive director Jason Neff “putting it all in a box and closing the lid” after this weekend’s lineup of independent documentaries, shorts and features sees the light of the projector? For the…

Steve Schneider

The child is father to the maniac

In January, government troops in Ratchaburi, Thailand, quashed a hospital takeover by members of the Burmese rebel gang “God’s Army,” largely ending a three-year victory run by the 200-strong Baptist fundamentalist insurgents. The group’s leaders: charismatic twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, now believed to be age 12. The Htoos — who were often photographed chewing…

Chuck Shepherd

Volunteers find ways to get in the act

When Mandi Budd arrived to escort a New York filmmaker to last year’s Florida Film Festival, she thought she’d spend 20 minutes waiting at the airport. Then she heard her name over the intercom system. A festival organizer was on the phone. The filmmaker’s flight was delayed, and the airline was uncertain when she would…

William Dean Hinton

The (other) sporting life

Spring-training baseball will soon be upon us. But why not skip big-league rehearsals and satisfy your sports appetite with the world of amateur athletics? Since it launched in 1997, the 200-acre, nine-venue Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex has been the site of the national headquarters of the Amateur Athletes Union (AAU). The organization hosts…

Mark Padgett

Jesse’s gospel truth

There are no clergymen in Jesse Carter’s family. His nickname, The Reverend, started as a friend’s joke. He professes no particular love of organized religion. Nor does he look like a preacher. As he takes the stage of Stardust Video & Coffee to host a recent edition of the Wednesday “Discontinuum” open-mike night, Carter wears…

Steve Schneider

Seaside auto motives

Crossing the beach from sand dune to sea in Daytona Beach on a sunny Saturday can be like crossing I-4 on the Friday afternoon before a three-day weekend. Until March 1. On that day, the cars finally will come off of a central one-mile stretch of Daytona’s seaside north of the Main Street Pier, diverting…

Jeff Truesdell

A campaign casualty?

In their mailboxes this week, 30,000 Orlando households finally will receive what his campaign has named The Bruce Gordy Plan for Orlando’s Future, attaching an agenda to a candidate who has been more vocal about wanting to oust Glenda Hood and be mayor than about what he would do as mayor. Woven into a plank…

Jeff Truesdell

Sprawling questions

When he took office last year, Jeb Bush overcame people’s depictions of him as a real-estate developer who would eviscerate Florida’s growth-management laws. The issue was one that Democratic challenger Buddy MacKay hit hard, asking during one radio debate, “Do we want a developer running state government in the state of Florida?” That question is…

William Dean Hinton

Radio waves

Easily the most cutting-edge radio station in Central Florida, 95 Live (95.9 FM) was pulled off the air Feb. 6 ` see Pirate raid, Feb 10`. The recently available police report offers a few more details — and raises some questions — about the causes. According to three visitors, the low-watt pirate station went too…

Orlando Weekly Staff

‘Fatale’ attraction

Ready for a return engagement? “Femmes Fatale,” the Club Juana theatrical revue that was staged last spring to challenge Seminole County’s anti-nudity ordinance, is once again on the marquee at the Casselberry establishment. The first — and hopefully not the last — performance is scheduled for March 1. What can the eager public expect this…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Everything old is nude again

There is something very empowering about being able to bring a room to a bewildered silence. Ditto about being able to make people crinkle up their faces and repeat what you just said with disbelief: “Octopus?” “Saran Wrap?” “Helen Keller?” Every once in a while you give vent to an opinion that couldn’t surprise the…

Liz Langley

Nashville’s nuances

What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the phrase “behind the music” ? Most likely it’s VH-1’s addictive sex/drugs/redemption celebrity series. But when you consider who’s literally behind the music — especially today’s country and roots music — you’ve got to look at singer/songwriters. These people tend to live double…

Theresa Everline

Pulling up to Audio Image…

Pulling up to Audio Images recording studio in his light-blue Mercury Sable, jazz pianist Dick Hyman could easily be mistaken for any retired Florida driver. But when the Venice, Fla., resident walks into the small Bradenton studio, he is in his element, where an entire history of jazz piano can be channeled through Hyman’s 10…

Curtis Hayes

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