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Mar 22-28, 2000

Mar 22-28, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 12

Who’s boomin’ who?

If you’re new to Central Florida and haven’t yet visited Daytona Beach, it’s easy to find. Just take I-4 east to Route 92. When you notice that the cars next to you are riding awfully low to the ground and the music coursing through their stereos is making your teeth rattle, you’re getting close. Those…

Steve Schneider

Call it macaroni

We were waiting for a table at Romano’s Macaroni Grill, and we had plenty of company. Flurries of customers milled around the front door and lined up in groups on the sidewalk outside, prepared for one hour waits. We had chosen to bide our time in the bar, lulled into complacent resignation by Peroni beers…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Boyz town

It is nearly noon on a balmy spring day that feels more like summer, and famous bass-booty rappers 69 Boyz are giving a pep talk to a more-than-eager standing-room-only Jones High School crowd. After word got out that the Boyz were making a visit to the school, the planned career-day appearance quickly turned into a…

Mark Padgett

Glow and behold, it’s Jesus

Welsh artist Donald Jackson began work in March on a hand-lettered, 1,150-page Bible, whose specially pigmented ink will produce illuminated calligraphy and illustrations; the $3 million, six-year project is by St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. At the other end of the technology spectrum, the Henderson (Ky.) Gleaner in February profiled retired bricklayer Truman Meredith,…

Chuck Shepherd

Hood winks

Last Tuesday, Orlando voters gave Mayor Glenda Hood good reason to smile. Following what was the city’s most expensive and probably most viciously contested mayoral election, residents endorsed Hood’s bid for a third term. Whether they backed her because they liked what she’d done or because her chief challenger, Bruce Gordy, brought little more to…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Warm and tender

County commissioners representing the Florida Keys have become the first U.S. governmental agency to join the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in combating global warming. Monroe County commissioners will send a delegate to United Nations Climate Summit at The Hauge in November and join other governments in Florida to push for a reduction in…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Twenty-one and counting

Florida reached another milestone last week when Joseph N. Green became the 21st inmate released from death row since 1972 — a number that far exceeds death-row exonerations in any other state in the country. Illinois is second with 13. In Illinois, however, Gov. George Ryan — a death-penalty advocate — had the sense to…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Not so magical mystery tour

He bragged about having millions to invest yet drove around in a beat-up Ford Escort. He was so disciplined he didn’t drink or smoke. Yet he wasn’t organized enough to carry a briefcase or business card. And he made a lot of promises — a six-month tour of America, an international tour, contracts with FUBU,…

William Dean Hinton

Turn your kitchen over to a pro chef

Are you all thumbs in the kitchen or just too busy to cook? It’s still possible to have a top-notch dinner whipped up in your own home. Hire a chef for a night through New World Personal Chef Service (15452 Bay Vista Drive, Clermont; 352-406-8351). Chef Andy Williams, formerly of the Brown Derby at Disney-MGM…

Colleen Moore

Hurts so good

We’re in constipated Daytona traffic behind two motorcycles. One is carrying a statuesque blond with a big ass wearing only a sheer tank top and black leather chaps. The other is carrying a strawberry blond in a red mesh shirt. “She hates her,” says Elizabeth, drawing a line of animosity in the air between the…

Liz Langley

DeLand artist takes nothing for granted

At first glance, the works displayed in “Impressions of Arthur Rayford,” the current exhibit at the DeLand Museum of Art, echo the style of the “folk art” that is in vogue, which may be one reason the DeLand native’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries in Boston and New York. A few minutes…

Morris Sullivan

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