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Oct 25-31, 2000 / Vol. 16 / No. 43

Control topper

Funny the distances that we’ll go to communicate the utterly unnecessary markings of our choreographed misanthropy — boys and girls in contextual alchemy, trying to find something that’s already been found a million times before. Take myself, for example, loped over the wheel of my beat-up sedan on a Friday afternoon, photographer and potential decoy…

Billy Manes

A day at the circus

The handful of students gathered to see George W. weren’t going to take no for an answer. They had been waiting at least an hour in the bright sunshine and they had something to show the G.O.P. candidate: signs that read “Eat my Bush,” “Stay out of my uterus” and placards that showed a red-white-and-blue…

William Dean Hinton

The perfect president

I watched every minute of every presidential debate. I suffered through each sigh, grimace, nod, head fake and eye roll. I observed the moderator, Jim Lehrer, get tossed around like a toy doll. I saw three different Al Gores over three successive weeks, and I know more about what’s in George Bush’s heart than his…

Al Krulick

Hunting big game

It appears that every arm of the Disney empire has been trying to cash in on the success of ABC’s hit game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” Every arm, that is, except Walt Disney Imagineering. So as Hyperion Press hustled to produce a “Millionaire” trivia book, Disney Records rushed out a “Millionaire”-themed album,…

Jim Hill

Levey not leaving

The city’s chief administrative officer, Richard Levey, was considering stepping down from his position Jan. 1 to pursue a management job at the Orlando Airport, according to sources at City Hall. Tom Kohler, executive director of the Downtown Development Board, was rumored to be the favorite to replace Levey — a move some neighborhood associations…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Can a union save inmates?

The jail has had five deaths this year, including Michael Williams, whom the Weekly reported last week died under suspicious circumstances. Medical staff members said they are often blamed for deaths when it is actually the jail’s procedures that hinder adequate health care. “Inmates are dying in jail when that could be prevented — if…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Radiohead makes it more difficult

You’re Radiohead. You’ve released one of the best albums of the 1990s, “OK Computer.” It’s a powerful, visionary work that deftly combines old-school guitar rock, modern electronica and ambitious song arrangements, evoking the memory of such innovative albums as the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” and Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.”…

Alan Sculley

On the highway to Haven

While the fates of the performing arts continue to follow a “one step forward, two steps back” pattern south of Colonial Drive, theater companies are deepening their recognition that Loch Haven Park has almost every amenity the downtown area doesn’t. You know, like stages. The latest set of Loch Haven boards to be opened up…

Steve Schneider

A poor excuse for a life

There are some people who believe your soul chooses the situation it wants to be born into, so that it can learn the lessons it needs in order to move up to perfect enlightenment. If this theory is true, my soul was freebasing Black Flag, wearing a blindfold and listening to Motorhead when it nudged…

Liz Langley

Bill McCollum’s history of quashing the little guy

If the spin doctors working Bill McCollum’s campaign for the U.S. Senate had their way, most of the voting public would believe the following story about him: He was a small-town boy who came from a rural Central Florida town, overcame the loss of his mother at an early age to advance, almost out of…

William Dean Hinton

Linda Chapin’s legacy of hard battles & great luck

Should Democrat Linda Chapin win the 8th District congressional seat left open by Republican Bill McCollum’s run for the U.S. Senate `see Bill McCollum’s history of quashing the little guy`, she should take a moment to thank the two things that got her there: opportunity, and her own ego. Six years ago, Chapin — then…

Jeffrey C. Billman

For the odds, here’s Jiminy the Greek

According to a New York Times dispatch, Chinese promoters once again staged their national “cricket-fight” championship matches in Beijing in October, despite fears from within their ranks that illegal gambling is ruining a “sport” that has endured for 1,000 years. Thousands of men descend on farms in the Shandong province each summer, seeking crickets whose…

Chuck Shepherd

Tears for teachers

Mayor Glenda Hood cried and got her way. In an emotional, contentious City Council hearing Oct. 23, a charter school 11 years in the making took another step toward reality in the beleaguered Parramore neighborhood. The tears came courtesy of Hood, who was apparently overcome by what she views as a monumental issue. After her…

William Dean Hinton

Counting on your patience

As Einstein said, time is relative. It can be measured in dog years, Internet years and restaurant-in-Central-Florida years. Using that gauge, being around for almost two years makes 310 Park South an area veteran. The restaurant, glass doors open wide on to the hustle of Park Avenue, can be called what few others in the…

Orlando Weekly Staff

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