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May 24-30, 2000

May 24-30, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 21

Republican vs. Republican

“I got plenty of calls from Christian allies asking, ‘Are you sure this is what you want to do? Have you lost your mind?'” No, Doug Guetzloe — the low-wattage radio host and political rabble-rouser-for- hire — hadn’t lost his mind for endorsing Orlando’s first openly gay elected official. But he did nearly suffer a…

Orlando Weekly Staff

A passion for the past

A small group is gathered in the lobby of the Langford Hotel for a public meeting designed to let us know the fate of this unquestionable, if unofficial, Winter Park landmark. Some people use the hotel as a second home when they’re in town, and some just know it as a part of their lives.…

Liz Langley

Lies, damn lies and Florida’s drug war

Arthur Ponsonby, the first Baron of Shulbrede (1871-1946) said: “When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.” In our country’s 80-year “War on Drugs,” the truth has been mangled, garroted, tortured and disfigured in more ways than one would have thought imaginable. And yet, in their jihad against the evils of intoxication, the Drug…

Al Krulick

Change agents

Anyone looking for a sign that the two new members of Orlando’s City Council will be the mayor’s handmaidens should observe how they handled a flap over invitations to their June 1 swearing-in. It seems the city provided Vicki Vargo and Patty Sheehan each with a mere 25 invites to the most important ceremony of…

William Dean Hinton

Keep your eye on the rodent

In summers past, some parishes in the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati have hosted a fund-raising game in which a small rat is placed on a roulette-type wheel; players then spin the wheel and take bets on which slot the rat will stagger to. According to a Scripps Howard News Service report, local animal-rights activists have…

Chuck Shepherd

Garden-variety kidnapping

The Kids in the Hall once did a sketch called “The Editors,” which showed two such types in their office doing their job of editing copy, and then showed them walking down the street and “editing” the street. They changed things like the colors of the flowers. They saw a couple kissing in a park…

Liz Langley

Get the scoop on Jerimiah’s

Anyone craving a sweet rush after a flick at the Regal Winter Park Village 20 can now stroll next door and visit a new branch of Jerimiah’s. Unlike the Aloma Avenue Jerimiah’s, which serves only Italian ices, this new location offers more than a dozen flavors of homemade ice cream, including a succulent “cherry Seinfeld”…

Richard J. Grula

Icey does it

His breaks might be funky, but for still-local and nationally renowned grooverider DJ Icey, nothing is as funked up as his label deal with London/Ffrr that bit the dust last year, yet another victim of the brutal shake-ups at the major labels. In the ensuing corporate melee, Icey’s record was lost in the shuffle, never…

Mark Padgett

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