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Jan 10-16, 2001

Jan 10-16, 2001 / Vol. 17 / No. 2

Tiny restaurant has global outlook

Don’t let the name fool you: The Sunrise Restaurant is more than a morning place. And its cuisines come from lands that circle the globe. This little former fast-food place at 1125 S. Semoran Blvd (407-736-0771) is one answer to the musical question, “How can you please everyone?” From 6 a.m. to noon, it’s a…

Joseph Hayes

Old Dirty bastards

Thanks to a resilient group of die-hards, the punk spirit lives on in Orlando. With a fan base that includes an established set of leeches who flock to every show mimicking their fashionably despicable yet intentional drag ensembles, Dirty Barby have risen to the challenge, unleashing their hair-raising act on our city. The group’s performances…

Derek Krause

A wayward shepherd

Compared to some of her neighbors, Leandra Simmons was lucky. Her two-bedroom apartment in the Sanford projects had no roaches, leaky roofs or broken doorknobs. “I had it straight,” says the 32-year-old nurse. “When I moved in, I had no holes and no problems. We had two snakes that came into our apartment, but that…

William Dean Hinton

Beating ’round the Bush

The year was 1990, and Florida Democratic Party leaders were facing the unthinkable: Republican Gov. Bob Martinez, whose approval rating was below 50 percent during his entire term, might actually win re-election. There he was in the spring leading all potential Democratic challengers in pre-election polls. Into this lurch stepped “Walkin'” Lawton Chiles. The popular…

Michael Hoover

Sending a message

2000 was a good year to be a trial lawyer. Across the country, juries turned in record-shattering verdicts, punishing corporations and further fueling Big Business’ “tort reform” efforts. Not counting class-action lawsuits — including the $145 billion win scored against the tobacco industry last July in Miami — at least 11 personal-injury lawsuits topped out…

Orlando Weekly Staff

414 no more

Coming as a surprise to no one, the city of Orlando is in the final stages of acquiring a Parramore liquor store that suddenly found itself in the crosshairs `Down and out, Sept. 28`. The Orlando City Council approved $377,500 in December to buy 414 Liquors from Yong Han and Sak Soon Lee, whom many…

Orlando Weekly Staff

In search of

Time for a confession. Sometimes in my head I fancy myself ringside for the battle to end all battles, the Trojan war, if you will, of pop music: the inevitable ‘N Sync vs. Backstreet brawl. Color me a sensationalist — not a pedophile — but so well-matched a challenge of sweet nubility and oversprayed denial…

Billy Manes

To soothe the savage beast

The debut CD from the Thai Elephant Orchestra (Lampang, Thailand) was scheduled for December release, featuring six pachyderm prodigies playing crude versions of traditional instruments (drum, gong, bass, xylophone) and recorded intact, without overdubbing, to create music that (in the words of a New York Times writer) “strike`s` some Western listeners as haunting, others as…

Chuck Shepherd

Lei away

As I write this it’s Jan. 2, another “millennium” celebration is behind us, another, smaller, less enthusiastic bout of wondering whether this was the year the rapture finally would come and all those cars sporting the bumper stickers would be “unmanned.” (Ever notice that you never see one of those stickers on a Jaguar or…

Liz Langley

Taken for a ride

Paul Pressler had a dream. He wanted to set people free — but only in a theme-park sense. Pressler’s goal was to reinvent the Disney theme-park experience. He wanted to get people out of those hour-long lines and back where they belonged: inside the shops and restaurants, where they’d be free to spend money. That’s…

Jim Hill

Storming the Gates for the slain truth

Before you hear it anywhere else, here’s a shocking piece of news: Bill Gates is dead. Well, not in our reality. Here, the bespectacled boy-king is still hale and hearty, ever on the lookout for new precepts of fair competition to shatter. But he’s a certified stiff in “MacArthur Park,” a digital film feature coming…

Steve Schneider

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