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Nov 22-28, 2000

Nov 22-28, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 47

Big success

You may remember timpano as the drumlike pasta dish featured in the movie Big Night. The new restaurant Timpano does not offer that dish (pity), but it does feature fine food and some of the best service in town. Timpano Italian Chophouse is a “concept” of the people who brought us TGI Friday’s, starting two…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Dinner’s a click (and a fee) away

The review looks great, but how to get the food without leaving home? Get online and order! Ez2get.com can find downtown in its database but can’t locate College Park. They deliver from, among others, Hooter’s on Church Street, Pannullo’s on Park Avenue or Cheng’s on Colonial Drive. A $6.95 “destination charge” is added to deliveries.…

Joseph Hayes

Feather-light musical has a big heart

From the moment the audience members hear the deep male voices of the chorus — brazenly singing the proud anthem “We Are What We Are” as the men strut and kick their way across a glittery stage in heavy makeup and slinky silk pajamas — they realize they might be in for a rather off-center…

Al Krulick

Ruff going at the mall

This is the time of year when one traditionally counts one’s blessings. If you’re lucky enough not to work for the Disney Store, consider yourself doubly blessed. That specialty retail chain is shaping up to be the worst place at the mall to work this holiday season. And just what makes the Disney Store such…

Jim Hill

Shocking developments

Probably you’ve heard that Florida is the Lightning Capital of the U.S., and maybe you’ve wondered if it’s just another marketing label, like Sunshine State or Margaritaville. Who knows? Maybe the state’s tourism officials want to lure every last Ben Franklin wannabe. It’s a fact, though, and a label “well-deserved,” according to one study, “Florida…

Theresa Everline

School’s still out

The Nap Ford Community School limped to victory Nov. 14 when the Orange County School Board voted 4-2 to approve the first city-sponsored charter school. But controversy still surrounds the project, which city leaders see as a step toward revitalizing the Parramore neighborhood. Several school board members were angry that school administrators failed to ensure…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Real TV

City Commissioner Don Ammerman is pushing for Orlando to begin broadcasting city council meetings on public access television within 90 days. The reason? He says his constituents keep asking why Orlando meetings aren’t on the tube. “I don’t have a good answer for them,” he says. Ammerman began looking into televised council meetings five weeks…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Back in: black

There are people who’ve told me I should be ashamed,” says Carol Mundy as she looks around at what’s in her dining room, where there’s a small sofa but no place left to dine. She calls it “my room full of little derogatory stuff.” Every flat surface in the room — indeed, in just about…

Theresa Everline

Who’s afraid of Terri Wolfe?

“It’s essential that there be many people who are deeply committed to their places. I believe every community, every watershed, every bioregion needs a core of people who see that place as their home. They might not have been born there — in most cases, people cannot stay where they were born; life takes them…

David Jasper

Theory of relativity

“Science may have caught up with the Bible,” says a recent Reuters story, a fun idea for those of us who enjoyed watching people storm into the Pacific Northwest looking for their own “Twin Peaks” experience or into Maryland for their own private “Blair Witch.” I know the Bible is supposed to be bigger than…

Liz Langley

Call it a transit strike

Regular users of the Lynx bus service know that fear is often part of the experience. Will the crummy shock absorbers send standing patrons hurtling to the floor in a broken-boned heap? Will the crazy old woman in the third seat halt her conversation with no one in particular to stab the nearest rider in…

Steve Schneider

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