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Jul 26 - Aug 1, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 30

Hanging out at the magick market

Friends warned me about last Saturdays Sunfest 2000 at the First Unitarian Church of Orlando. Despite its title, the event wasn’t an outdoor reggae marathon, but a goods-and-services fair for Wiccans, pagans, astrology buffs, Renaissance revivalists, Christian spiritualists and probably even a Libertarian or two. “You’re going to meet a lot of nuts there” was…

Steve Schneider

Tour of duty

By all estimations, the Warped Tour should have died a miserable death years ago. Now in its sixth year, the traveling summer festival of youth-friendly punk rock and street sports seemed destined for failure once it slipped out of the underground and into the hands of Vans corporate sponsorship. But something went terribly right on…

Alan Sculley

Make an example of yourself

Before I turned 14 and discovered pot and eyeliner, I was that kid who would die for good grades and commend my soul to whoever gave extra credit for it. Today this anal desire for perfection would get me a therapist, but in Catholic school it sometimes got me held up as an example of…

Liz Langley

I want a new drug

All I remember is that I was blacking out, and I couldn’t move. My feet went numb, and every time I’d try to stand up, I would just go down again.” Nelson is 25 years old, and his six-foot frame fills half of a velour love seat in the living room of a small apartment.…

Emma Trelles

Rooms to grow

For several years there’s been a battle within the Walt Disney Company. People at the highest level are constantly squabbling, desperate to determine Mickey’s destiny. But this epic in-house war may finally be over. And it appears the accountants may have won. The debate: Should the Mouse strive to be the No. 1 entertainment company…

Jim Hill

No place like home

It was a hot August afternoon last year when D. Uriyah Ajamu peered from the front door of his Parramore home to find two men pointing rifles at him. Ajamu’s first thought was irrational. Like a carjacking, he thought the two men wanted to steal his house. The two men weren’t thieves. They were part…

William Dean Hinton

PSO receives an encore

The recent cash crunch at Performance Space Orlando [Theater space takes extreme measures, July 6] has been resolved. Though owner Winnie Wenglewick fell short of her deadline this month to sell all 300 of the $10 “Angel Tickets” that she hoped would ensure the Mills Avenue black-box theater’s solvency, the 240 tickets she did move…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Recall made easier

Last fall, Glenda Hood dodged a recall petition after City Clerk Grace Chewning impounded signatures asking for the mayor’s removal. An ambiguous state law appeared to give Chewning that power. It said the clerk’s office had the right to determine if the petition was “facially valid” before being sent to the supervisor of elections. But…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Armless pastime

In June, the Nottingham (England) Evening Post profiled archer Paul Hawthorne, who has won various titles despite losing an arm in a motorcycle accident 15 years ago. Until recently, Hawthorne competed by holding the bow string with a leather strap in his teeth and pulling his head back. But the practice has cost him one…

Chuck Shepherd

Who wants to feed a millionaire?

Lotto fever has a strange effect on people. Whenever the accrued jackpot reaches the upper two digits — as it did last Wednesday, rolling over into a tidy $65 million — there’s a new urgency to the betting rituals of folks who regularly augment their purchases of beer and Lucky Strikes with game cards. And…

Steve Schneider

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