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Nov 24-30, 1999

Nov 24-30, 1999 / Vol. 15 / No. 47

Reds are gonna bowl

Contrary to popular belief, liberalism isn’t dead in this country. It’s merely gone back into the bowling alleys. While other young idealists waste their time arguing Marxist theory in such tried-and-true, insular environments as coffeehouses, the members of the Red and Black league are slowly infiltrating our precious lanes. Gathering at 9 p.m. every Tuesday…

Steve Schneider

Out of the blues

There’s the country blues, and there’s the city blues. And as Daytona Beach-based blues musician Mark Hodgson sang at a recent performance at a DeLand roadhouse, “Sometimes I get the blues I can’t even use.” But considering Hodgson’s recent productivity, he’s easily found countless uses for the blues. The most recent project of the 40-something…

Christopher Howard

One step toward ‘One Florida’

Two weeks ago, Gov. Jeb Bush made a move to head off the growing support for a proposed ballot measure that would end Florida’s affirmative-action policies. Abruptly stopping affirmative action would damage the Republican Party’s 2000 year election efforts by energizing women and minorities to vote, so Bush attempted an end-run around the racial-preference foes…

Al Krulick

Reversing the trade winds

When President Clinton and bigwigs from more than 100 nations hit Seattle next week to discuss the global economy at the World Trade Organization’s annual summit, they’ll be greeted by a bit more than spiffy fruit baskets in their hotel suites. Awaiting the WTO delegates will be a sea of protesters, ranging from labor unionists…

Jason Gay

Eye of the beholder

On Saturday night, Nov. 13, an inspector from Orlando’s City Code Enforcement division paid a visit to several downtown vendors, removing material she said fell outside the parameters of their licenses and issuing a warning against the display and sale of adult-themed products. “She came in and required all the adult material to be removed,”…

Dee Rivers

Building block

Born of Mayor Glenda Hood’s determination to push a performing arts center and impose a new identity on downtown’s moribund retail core, the arts district idea emerged as the anchor to a newly designated “cultural corridor.” Starting roughly at City Hall, that corridor zigs and zags slightly along a northward route that parallels Magnolia Avenue…

Jeff Truesdell

Another rash of sightings

As they look for a man who has appeared in public several times since early July wearing baby clothes, police in North Platte, Neb., are calling their suspect “The Big Bonnet” (his most prominent article of clothing). The man was last spotted Oct. 29, when he was spied bending over a bench and paddling himself.…

Chuck Shepherd

Recall notice

For all the really cool games we played as kids — Battleship, Pop yer Top, Let’s Throw My Cousin’s Glasses Into a Tree — there were a lot of stupid ones you just had to endure. I hated Telephone, a dumb game where a phrase gets whispered from kid to kid until what comes out…

Liz Langley

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