Inspired Asian
Perhaps it was Asian inspiration, or maybe the work of skilled restaurateurs. But on a busy Friday night, when the house was nearly full at Tasty Thai Cuisine, the atmosphere remained genteel and serene, orderly and focused. The neighborhood secret must be getting out: Something special is going on in the kitchen here. The minimal…
Middle man
Southern Baptist preacher Jim Henry on the boycott he says should never have happened;;When, exactly, did it become news that Southern Baptists don’t cotton to gays and lesbians? ;;If last week’s announced boycott of all things Disney by America’s largest Protestant denomination surprised anyone, it was the media. Fretting about Disney’s role in what they…
Sentinel news never too old
From Washington, D.C., reporter Gerry Shields published different front-page stories Sunday in Orlando and Evansville, Ind. Shields, now the Capitol reporter for the Scripps-Howard News Service, accomplished this only because The Orlando Sentinel story had been sitting for a while — about five months, in fact. Shields, who left the Sentinel in January, learned of…
Spreading the mayor’s good news
The O-Town News is more than the mayor’s personal newspaper. The new bimonthly publication, which appeared last week in 90,000 mailboxes in Orlando, is the latest sign of a comprehensive communications strategy conceived by Mayor Glenda Hood’s staff. In addition to the newspaper, which will cost $96,000 a year to print and mail, the plan…
McDonald’s fried in England
In the longest trial in British history, McDonald’s has exacted a quarter-pound of flesh from two unemployed environmentalists. The judge declared June 19 that Helen Steel and Dave Morris had partially libeled the $30-billion a year corporation by publishing and distributing a factsheet: “What’s Wrong With McDonald’s?: Everything They Don’t Want You To Know.” The…
The last dance?
Jon Marsa, proprietor of The Club at Firestone, says its 4th Anniversary Party on July 3 will be the venue’s final late-night party, a.k.a. rave, unless the Orlando City Council backs away from a recommendation to shutter all-night clubs at 4 a.m. “I’ve already pulled all my booking. I’m not going to be the one…
A political battle that pays off
Remember all the Gloom & Doom predicted by those lawmakers and lobbyists who fought the raise in the minimum wage this past summer? “Somebody’s going to get hurt. Somebody loses a job or somebody closes up shop,” wailed Bob Dole himself. Rep. Robert Walker of Pennsylvania flatly proclaimed that the increase in the minimum wage…
