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Nov 4-10, 1998

Nov 4-10, 1998 / Vol. 14 / No. 44

Election wrap-up

Jeb Bush bio’s tell us that Florida got the honor of the Texan’s presence because wife Columba fell in love with Miami’s Latino community, and now she is said to be enthusiastic about the Governor’s Mansion in, of course, the world- famous Latino community of Tallahassee. And Diane Ellis, the reality-challenged Pinellas County state House…

Chuck Shepherd

Shelter from the storm

Is a mat on a concrete floor a bed? According to the city of Orlando it is, if a homeless person sleeps there. And the city has too many of them, says an obscure rule made last decade. So as of Nov. 2 there’s a moratorium on “residential social service facilities.” Mayor Glenda Hood says…

Ericson, Edward Jr.

Strike two

ABC camera crews and technicians walked off their jobs Monday to protest a proposed change in health benefits to a Disney plan they regard as inferior. The strike by the 2,200 workers in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., was spurred, according to the union, by ABC’s refusal to provide…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Boom town?

Our favorite recent news item comes from What the *#?!, a newsletter aimed at theme-park workers and published by Service Employees International Union Local 362. According to their account, a supervisor at the Magic Kingdom on June 6 sent several hourly workers into a closed-down Space Mountain looking for “anything unusual.” The workers didn’t know…

Orlando Weekly Staff

MOJO risinâ??

Politics is like baseball: The seasons are long and dull, and only toward the end does it get exciting (if then). So unless you’re a political junkie — definition: watching “Meet the Press,” “The Chris Matthews Show,” “Face the Nation” and “This Week” back-to-back despite a Sunday-morning hangover — you don’t care yet. Soon, however,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Brand recognition

Phoenix body modifier Steve Haworth, last written up in News of the Weird in 1993 when he was just getting started in business and had begun to offer skin branding (with a genuine branding iron), is now up to customer No. 450, according to a U. magazine story in September. He says his most exciting…

Chuck Shepherd

Border lines

Even the most carefully researched, meticulously edited paper can make a mistake from time to time. So you can imagine the pickle Orlando Weekly is in. What follows is a blanket apology for some of the more egregious errors that wormed their way into our recent issues. A news story in our Nov. 6 issue…

Theresa Everline

Getting money for nothing

Time for another Gooberhead Award, presented periodically to those who’ve got their tongues going 90 miles an hour but have forgotten to put their brains in gear. Today’s Goober could go to an entire corporation, AT&T, but Ma Bell’s general gooberness got one-upped by Brain Adamik, a telephone-industry stock analyst. I’ll get to Adamik in…

Jim Hightower

Back with a vengeance

When Rancid burst onto the national scene in 1993 with the release of their self-titled debut album, little did they know that they would help spearhead a worldwide punk revival. The atmosphere was right — “alternative” music had been taken over by bands that paid more attention to marketing than music, and the cottage industry…

Matt Kelemen

They’re no gentlemen

Don Caballero follows the “Full House Theory.” Invented by drummer Damon Che, the theory states that when this Chicago-based indie-intrumental group performs a concert with a crowd of only 10 to 20 people, they cannot do anything wild and crazy in fear of club owner repercussions. In a packed venue, however, Don Caballero raises the…

Christopher Howard

High-lonesome legacy

Del McCoury is one of the best male bluegrass singers in the world. Possessed of a voice that’s the essence of “high lonesome,” McCoury has recorded more than a dozen albums as a bandleader and was named best male vocalist for three straight years by the International Bluegrass Music Association. That’s not bad for a…

Garaud MacTaggart

Blues-generation next

The streets of Harlem provided the soundtrack for the adolescent and teenage life of Shemekia Copeland, whose early learning experiences ran the gamut from gospel meltdowns to boom-box anthems to horn duos in subway stations to impromptu jams at neighborhood parks. Copeland, 19, daughter of late guitar legend Johnny Clyde Copeland, heard her dad’s Texas…

Philip Booth

Spice up your politics

If you really want to grind the gears of someone you know who got a degree in something that sounded really good at the time but who is using their jumbo IQ to get just the right amount of foam in the mochaccinos at Starbucks, tell them this: Ginger Spice just got a job as…

Liz Langley

Out of the bottle and into the night

A cool, crisp autumn night, live jazz in a garden house overlooking moonlit Lake Rowena — that’s the setting for the Third Annual Wine Tasting at Harry P. Leu Gardens (1920 N. Forest Ave.) from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13. Jazz group Indigo City, recently featured at the Montreux Jazz Festival, will set the…

Colleen Moore

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