BEST OF ORLANDO® NOMINATION BALLOT IS OPEN THROUGH MAY 6!

May 27 – Jun 2, 1998

May 27 - Jun 2, 1998 / Vol. 14 / No. 21

Scoops of creams

Three dozen flavors and only one of me. That was my dilemma when I stopped by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream cafe at the new Oviedo Marketplace shopping mall. The choices were lined up in neat rows behind polished glass, including old friends Chunky Monkey banana ice cream – so fresh it smelled like a…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Raising a middle (of-the-road) child

Doug and Veronica Wright celebrated their first wedding anniversary on March 17 on the U.S.-Canadian bridge at Niagara Falls because it is the only place they can meet. The American Doug is barred from Canada because of a criminal record that includes an illegal entry into Canada; Canadian Veronica is barred from the U.S. because…

Chuck Shepherd

Taking a stab at corporate piracy

Today’s big corporate CEOs are ruthlessly slashing the pay of employees while fattening their own purses. I’d call them a bunch of cutthroat pirates — except that would be awfully unfair to pirates. New studies are out showing that while the pirates of old certainly were not nice guys, they did have a code of…

Jim Hightower

Ben & Jerry’s: scoops of dreams

Three dozen flavors and only one of me. That was my dilemma when I stopped by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream cafe (977-0444) at the new Oviedo Marketplace shopping mall. The choices were lined up in neat rows behind polished glass, including old friends Chunky Monkey banana ice cream — so fresh it smelled like…

Colleen Moore

Blue Eyes evokes minimalist muse

Green shadows and geometric patterns slide across the brick wall behind the stage at Sapphire Supper Club, where Blue Eyes guitarist Mike Rizzo stands alone picking an evocative melody. He is soon joined by vocalist David Minshew, singing in a melancholy Nick Cave-like croon while the bass, drums and cello remain silent onstage. The cello…

Matt Kelemen

Fans still want to want Cheap Trick

House of Blues, May 28, 1998 It was the album that almost never was. Cheap Trick’s “Live at Budokan” wasn’t supposed to be released in the United States. The moderately successful pop- rockers from Rockford, Ill., intended the album, which documented their bracing April 1978 concert date in Tokyo, to be a mash note for…

Philip Booth

Searching for lifestyles that work

“Livelyhood,” WMFE TV-Channel 24, May 31, 1998 Layoffs, overwork, lack of child care — the problems of the modern workplace are legion. Yet we need not despair — or so says an Oakland-based production company, the Working Group, which showcases workers’ solutions in its PBS series, “Livelyhood.” That spelling of livelihood is no mistake; the…

Anne Decker

Lying like a rug

Exaggeration, embellishment, overstating reality, selective omission, little white lie; call it what you will, but the fact remains that legions of job applicants twist the truth on their resumes in some form or another — and thanks to the fears inspired by suit-happy applicants, more and more folks are getting away with it. Even I…

Laurel Chesky

Overstating their impotence

On July 16, the country’s first-ever national training conference on human trafficking was held in Tampa. The keynote speaker was President George W. Bush. It wasn’t the average stop on the campaign trail. Since 2000, shortly after President Bill Clinton signed the first antitrafficking policies into law, the Bush administration has placed a growing emphasis…

Liz Langley

Right to fight

The familiar media image of an abortion provider, head down, racing in or out of a clinic as protesters shout epithets and wave posters bearing graphic images, isn’t likely to be captured next week if news cameras are trained on either of two Orlando clinics run by Dr. James Scott Pendergraft IV. Those clinics are…

Jeanne W. Amend

Last chance for a slow dance?

The male detective and the scantily clad woman slow-danced in a circle, his wide girth limiting the fullness of the pair’s bodily contact in the seclusion of the small room where women entertained “VIP” customers at a South Orange Blossom Trail after-hours club. This uninspired encounter captured on a hidden security camera went no further.…

Lawrence Budd

The Club back on the street

Into the wee hours of Sunday, June 7, a stretch of Concord Street outside The Club — Orlando’s one-time after-hours techno mecca — will be alive with the late-night energy that brought the city widespread acclaim. But The Club’s fourth annual block party, part of the festivities tied to Gay Day at Disney, and partying…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Sea World 28 to ride again

“I have a couple of devious plans if this thing passes.” — Jeb Bush, on the class-size amendment. “On Friday, Gov. Jeb Bush visited three schools in the hurricane zone, issuing an executive order suspending certain state requirements limiting class size … ” — The New York Times, Aug. 21, 2004 Aug. 6, 2004 FROM…

Orlando Weekly Staff

The price of naked aggression

Brevard County deputies were busy again Sunday cleansing Playalinda Beach of nudists. They charged five more people under the county’s anti-nudity ordinance — bringing this season’s total to 18. “Everybody was well-behaved on Monday,” says Lt. Tom Stouch of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Department. Last year, 60 people were charged, while the nudists continued their…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Recent

See all

Gift this article