Jan 3-9, 2001

Jan 3-9, 2001 / Vol. 17 / No. 1

Raves for Puerto Rican outpost

I can’t count the number of times while driving that I’ve heard people shouting “mofongo” at me, and I took offense. Now I know they were merely enthusiastically recommending Mr. Mofongo, the Puerto Rican restaurant just east of State Road 436 at 5643 E. Colonial Drive (407-482-0150). “Mofongo,” for those still harboring doubts, is the…

Orlando Weekly Staff

A tall figure stands alon…

A tall figure stands alone in his bedroom. The door is closed, the phone turned off. The youthful 27-year-old is cut off from his friends, his girl, the world. Here in his solitude, he drops the needle cleanly into the groove with an air of authority; he’s done this before. A pulsing beat starts to…

Mark Padgett

Resolution solutions

Besides the confetti and the corks, this time of year involves another kind of ritual; a three-word phrase, ” New Year’s resolution.” As the stroke of midnight approaches, so does the need to decide how to become a better person. While the idea is to whole-heartedly embrace a shortcoming that needs to be amended, for…

Natalie Frith

Revelation No. 9

“Looking back on the things I’ve done, I was only trying to be someone,” wisp the Backstreet Boys on their current breadwinner, “Shape of My Heart,” dubiously harmonizing with the exploitative overlap of silly head voices ringing their corresponding Auld Lange Synes within me. Time for a bit of retrospect, then: a wee chance at…

Billy Manes

Proof of life: a real-world version

An October New York Times dispatch from India highlighted the growing problem of intra-family frauds in which one member will claim a living relative’s land or wealth by swearing to the government that the relative is dead. An advocacy group, the Association of Dead People, helps aggrieved citizens figure out just how to prove that…

Chuck Shepherd

Ken Burns delves into all that ‘Jazz’

Ken Burns sounds like nothing if not an evangelist as he waxes lyrical about “Jazz,” the lovingly assembled 10-part series that debuts at 9 p.m. Jan. 8 on WMFE Channel 24. The celebrated filmmaker, whose previous “The Civil War” and “Baseball” documentaries drew a cumulative audience of about 85 million viewers, is on a mission…

Philip Booth

Doing time

Dewar’s Scotch Whiskey used to have an ad campaign called Dewar’s Profiles, with brief bios of people who were doers who drank Dewar’s, people who did things like climb Mount Rushmore and camp on a presidential nostril, or run large corporations surrounded by quailing underlings — in other words, things people couldn’t do if they…

Liz Langley

Projected mileage

This soon after the holidays, it’s difficult to get excited about an out-of-town car trip. If you want to put your life and limb in the hands of lunatics with acceleration issues, bumper cars fill the bill nicely. You don’t even have to pack a lunch. The exception to the rule is next week’s Sarasota…

Steve Schneider

The bear essentials

Starting this month, the 100 Acre Woods gets a million-dollar makeover. On Jan. 22, the Walt Disney Co. is looking to relaunch its lucrative Winnie the Pooh franchise with an ambitious new television series, “The Book of Pooh.” Through a clever mix of ancient Japanese puppeteering techniques as well as state-of-the-art computer technology, Edward Bear…

Jim Hill

Backward thinking

At last we are upon Bill Clinton’s famous bridge to the 21st century, gazing into the unknown vistas of the new millennium. It’s exciting to contemplate the challenges. The problems we face as a nation — indeed, as a planet — of interconnected societies, economies and ecosystems are enormously complex. They require a new and…

Al Krulick

Recent

See all

Gift this article