Feb 9-15, 2000

Feb 9-15, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 6

Pirate raid

For several months now, Orlando’s worst-kept secret, pirate radio station 95 Live (95.9 FM), has been operating undeterred from its “secret” downtown location. But tune in these days and you’ll hear nothing but static. On the morning of Sunday, Feb. 6, police were summoned to the the station’s Pine Street location by a distraught contest…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Simply bovine

A September Deutsch Presse-Agentur report profiled Mr. Rainer Thoenes, 33, from the German village of Kalkar, who earns a nice living as a hairdresser for cows being readied for cattle shows. “The trick,” said Thoenes, “is to highlight the cow’s strong points [straight back, slim legs, plump udders] and hide the weak ones.” But his…

Chuck Shepherd

Irregular beats

Poor Mopey Face. Being single, the chintzy foil Valentine hearts leering from every window this month don’t signal love to you, but the lack of it. You’re over it. You’re done. And you’re right. Valentine’s Day is all kinds of wrong for all kinds of reasons. For one thing, if you love someone, you shouldn’t…

Liz Langley

Instant gratification

Valentine’s Day is here! I myself am expecting a pirate’s chest full of rubies and pearls, part ownership in the Cadbury company and an actual, still-beating human heart wrapped in tasteful paper designed by Martha Stewart. I suppose I’d better get my lazy ass in gear and acquire a boyfriend. Because of my trashy, lurid,…

Liz Langley

Old school vs. new school at jazz outreach

Some people are purists. Some people are innovators. Fortunately when it comes to the inherent nature of jazz, there’s room for both. At least that’s what Jeff Rupert, director of Jazz Studies at the University of Central Florida, wants his students to learn and wants Orlando to have a chance to discover with the free…

Sonja S. Mongar

Troubled waters

An ever-expanding population in Florida is having a frightening impact on a finite amount of water. Driven by the illusion that the resource is pure and plentiful and protected, we conduct business and pleasure as usual, while our water source suffers the folly of fools. That folly, notably man-made nitrate contamination, is suddenly surfacing from…

Dee Rivers

Brace for the finish

By Jeff Truesdell So this is what it means to have a choice: Bruce Gordy, candidate for Orlando mayor, blames Glenda Hood for throwing roadblocks in his way during the six years he’s served on the City Council — years during which projects dear to his College Park constituency languished. Mayor Hood, confronting her first…

Jeff Truesdell

Tapped out

“Honor guard, prepare to fire,” a voice booms in the still of a cold Sunday morning. “Aim, fire!” The sharp crack of gunfire whips through the air outside the American Legion office. “Aim, fire!” the voice repeats. Again, in unison, seven men adorned in full military regalia pull the triggers on their rifles. “Aim, fire!”…

Jeffrey C. Billman

O give us a break

With all the talk about the city “branding” itself and “creating an identity,” Orlando has taken a step in the direction of the generic. The Orlando Arena, which even earned the affectionate local-color “O-rena” nickname, has — poof — been rechristened as the TD Waterhouse Centre. Surely at the news city residents raised their voices…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Taking it slow

Because of several legal challenges to recent legislation that would limit the number of appeals by death-row inmates, the Florida Supreme Court put a temporary hold on the new law. The changes would have allowed death-row inmates only two state appeals, with just six months permitted between the two filings. The old rules, back in…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Bubbling hot

If you want to have a quiet, relaxed Italian dinner for two, stay clear of the new Maitland mecca Buca di Beppo – but I mean that in a good way. Only one month after opening on the former Bubble Room site, Buca di Beppo is a neighborhood magnet. Few people know that the name…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Pushing carts out of the way

Imagine a world with 24-hour supermarkets that deliver to every doorstep — no carts, narrow aisles or checkout lines. That is the virtual reality now that more and more grocers are wiring up for online shoppers, including the Goodings Supermarket at Heathrow (120 International Parkway; 333-9792). Just visit www.goodings.com and click “home delivery” to send…

Colleen Moore

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