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Jan 12-18, 2000

Jan 12-18, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 2

Minding the media’s business

With the merger of AOL and Time Warner — the largest in history — the stunning wave of concentration of ownership in media and communication industries over the past decade continues. There were 12 major telecommunication companies in 1996; today there are six. The media system itself is now dominated by eight or nine massive…

Robert W. McChesney

Execution of justice

Texas, according to writer Molly Ivins, is the National Laboratory for Bad Government, where they pride themselves on trying bad ideas first. Right now the governor and presidential wannabe is on the road, working hard to market phantom tax cuts, church-school tax subsidies (a/k/a “vouchers”), and welfare deform. But as Floridians found out last week,…

Michael King

Lunch, where is thy sting?

According to a December Boston Globe report from Xi’an, China, the Three Brothers Scorpion Restaurant claims to be the first in the country to have reintroduced the 18th-century fascination with the scorpion into domestic cuisine. Health benefits are a major factor in the arachnid’s renewed popularity: Scorpion venom (reduced in potency by a six-month process…

Chuck Shepherd

Don’t change for the better

Lounging around in the afterglow, you have to admit that the millennial New Year’s Eve well illustrated how long, teasing foreplay can add greatly to the final fireworks. The celebrations were spectacular, from the Eiffel Tower to Lake Eola, where we spotted Glenda Hood and my friend who was drinking champagne out of a bag…

Liz Langley

‘Wood works

Picture this: A smart-looking grill and tavern at Heathrow, part of an up-and-coming chain founded by a couple of Darden Restaurants refugees. We thought we knew the drill: big brews, plenty of animal protein and a menu that tastes like it was prepared by bookkeepers from corporate headquarters. But we really loved Stonewood Tavern and…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Gravy train

So your mom doesn’t make meatloaf for you anymore? Head over to the Princeton Diner, the College Park institution that spills over with fans. Then take a number and get in line. The morning crowd greets the day right with buttermilk pancakes, fresh from the griddle and crisp on the edges. And lunchers get fortified…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Island flavors shine at Sunrise

Just as an island vacation can rejuvenate your spirit, an tropical-themed culinary excursion can wake up your taste buds. For proof, visit Caribbean Sunrise Restaurant and Lounge. The place isn’t much to look at from the outside, but the new mom-and-pop eatery puts together some spicy lunch platters. The West Indian menu constantly changes, but…

Colleen Moore

Piping hot

Kirk McLeod and his four Seven Nations bandmates don’t wear kilts onstage anymore, but they’d better have accouterments of a different sort at the ready — coattails. And judging by the number of imitator bands that have sprung up in the last couple of years, those coattails will need to be extra-large. It hasn’t become…

Ogi Overman

Baby Anne breaks off some funk

Behind a steady string of high-profile gigs, a handful of original vinyl singles and a hot-selling 1999 mix CD, Orlando funky-breaks DJ Baby Anne has become one of the most sought-after jocks in the Southeast and a rising star on the national dance-club circuit. To many she’s known as “The Bass Queen,” a tag she…

Mark Padgett

Swimming out of safe waters

“There are so many nice people here,” Brandon Moss marveled Friday night, as he watched a throng of formally dressed Orlandoans file past him in an informally structured receiving line. Though he was merely welcoming an audience to the cinema that’s nestled within the wooded environs of Disney Institute, the New Jersey-born film producer and…

Steve Schneider

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