Some wondered if the closing of the muck farms around Lake Apopka might also signal the final harvest of the Zellwood Sweet Corn Festival. The 25th annual festival, to be observed this weekend at the Zellwood fairgrounds will be the last preceding the June 30 closing required as part of the $90 million state and…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Krulick unleashes his campaign

Al Krulick knows he’s facing long odds in challenging Bill McCollum, the Longwood Republican seeking his 10th term in Congress while toting a war chest loaded down with special-interests’ cash. Yet Krulick, an actor, writer, director, producer and occasional Orlando Weekly theater critic, just kicked off his second run at McCollum, winner of the first-ever…

Orlando Weekly Staff

12-gauging the eagleâ??s recovery

The skies seemed to brighten last week for bald eagles and other avian species whose increased numbers have convinced federal officials to recommend that the national bird and 28 other species be removed from protection under the Endangered Species Act. While hailing the federal proposal as an environmental victory, officials from the Florida Audubon Society…

Orlando Weekly Staff

The new Chinese stain on Levis

Last fall, Levi Strauss announced that, because of a worldwide glut in the production of jeans, it was shutting down 11 of its U.S. manufacturing plants and terminating 6,400 workers. Just five months later, however, Levi Strauss has reversed itself, saying it will now expand the number of factories it has for making jeans. Guess…

Jim Hightower

Zellwood corn no longer?

Orlando Weekly Staff

E.C. Scott’s soul continues to roll

House of Blues, May 18, 1998 For more than 15 years, Ecrettia “E.C.” Scott has been a fixture on the West Coast blues scene, building a reputation as one of the finest soul singers currently touring the dives, digs and palaces of the modern-day blues circuit. While Scott’s earliest avowed influences all came from the…

Garaud MacTaggart

All-Stars fan Sublime flame

House of Blues, May 14, 1998 The heroin-overdose death of Sublime frontman Brad Nowell in May 1996 left a huge void in the lives of many of the Long Beach, Calif., band’s friends as well as his surviving band members. While drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson struggled with their grief, their third album,…

Nick Kracher

Armed with scripture and a .38

In April the Kentucky legislature approved a bill to permit preachers to carry concealed weapons in church. Some ministers had claimed they needed protection when transporting their offering-plate proceeds, but the executive director of the Kentucky Council of Churches said she was “appalled” by the legislature’s decision. Sob story On the day before Good Friday,…

Chuck Shepherd

Undie taker

Nicolino spends his every waking moment trying to get women out of their bras. This would seem to make him pretty normal. Except that Nicolino is actually successful. And not just with a handful here and there. We’re talking about a thousand women at a time. “I’m no pervert. I’m just a regular, normal, body-loving…

Liz Langley

City Council relies on base instinct

Despite lingering questions, the Orlando City Council took a decisive step Monday toward picking the developer responsible for turning the abandoned 1,100-acre Naval Training Center into a “traditional” neighborhood — albeit one of 3,200 residences and 1.8 million square feet of commercial development built in the midst of already established neighborhoods on Orlando’s northeast side.…

Lawrence Budd

Court encounters the color issue

The judge who sentenced the former UCF football coach discovers conduct doesn’t count amongst the tailgaters Last week U.S. District Judge Anne Conway sentenced former University of Central Florida football coach Gene McDowell for his string of lies to federal agents, prosecutors and a grand jury about the cell-phone scandal within the UCF football team.…

Richard C. Crepeau

Movie: Woo

Our Rating: 2.50 At last, heartthrob Jada Pinkett Smith gets her star turn with top billing in a major feature, and she’s not robbing banks, either. Initially, “Woo” seems every bit the fun dating film that’s guaranteed to give urban 20-somethings their six bucks of fulfillment. Unsurprisingly, it’s no more than that, although at times…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Woo

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Woo

Woo Length: 1 hour, 20 minutes Studio: New Line Cinema Website: http://www.newlinecinema.com/woo.html Release Date: 1998-05-08 Cast: Jada Pinkett, Tommy Davidson, David Chapelle, Pam Grier, Isaac Hayes Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer Screenwriter: David Johnson Music Score: Michel Colombier WorkNameSort: Woo Our Rating: 2.50 At last, heartthrob Jada Pinkett Smith gets her star turn with top…

Orlando Weekly Staff

May 13-19, 1998

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