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Oct 27 - Nov 2, 1999 / Vol. 15 / No. 43

Take back the night

Unless you live in a catacomb, you must have noticed that Halloween took on a distinctly adult tenor this year. Orlando’s schedule of holiday parties and performances featured so many Bimbo Witches, dominatrices and Vampire Stripper Sluts from Hell that it appeared a vast conspiracy had been undertaken to turn an innocent, kid-friendly observance into…

Steve Schneider

Decisions, decisions

In a building in Westwood, Mass., sits a room with a computer on which more than 20 million files wait, growing in number and complexity every day, each one starting with a name. They are medical files, and they include information about a person’s penchant for hang gliding or weakness for smoking. They are available…

Ericson, Edward Jr.

Decisions, decisions

In a building in Westwood, Mass., sits a room with a computer on which more than 20 million files wait, growing in number and complexity every day, each one starting with a name. They are medical files, and they include information about a person’s penchant for hang gliding or weakness for smoking. They are available…

Ericson, Edward Jr.

Historically troubled

Dorothy McMichen is proud of her Concord Street house. It’s a 1920s-era building that she converted into an office for her law practice. In fact, the revamping was so successful, she bought the house next door and plans to remodel it as well. In about a month, her plans may have to be changed. Coming…

Samantha Mazzotta

I’ll have the breast, please

The debate about what constitutes art is never far from the headlines. But moralizing lawmakers are not the only barriers to public displays. Urban sophisticates have few places to call their own in Orlando, but those who make and remake the “scene” have carved for themselves a comfortable hangout in the two bistros named by…

Orlando Weekly Staff

A moustrap of our own making

On Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1999, at 8 a.m., Orange County’s “War on Mice” was officially turned over to the state of Florida. At that moment, the “Incident Command System,” run by district manager John T. Koehler of the Florida Department of Agriculture, kicked in, and the amateurs were moved aside. The “war” would now be…

Al Krulick

A portrait with a wood cut

In August, a Columbus, Ga., school district assigned aides to alter textbook photos of Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting, “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Some grown-ups thought that parts of Washington’s pocket watch, dangling against his thigh, might appear to fifth-graders to be the Founding Father’s penis. After locating the appropriate paint, the aides spent two weeks…

Chuck Shepherd

Dark ages

It’s not yet 10 p.m. on a desolate downtown Sunday, but Kimber Parrish is first in line outside Barbarella for “Das Maschine,” the evening’s carnival of dark sounds. Though she’s bereft of the fright wig she wears as the Bride of Frankenstein in Universal’s “Halloween Horror Nights,” her own jet-black hair and matching evening dress…

Steve Schneider

True beauty and anguish

What shall we do with all this useless beauty?” once crooned Elvis Costello. And in so many words, among so many more, one of rock & roll’s premier malcontents sketched a good part of his own professional dilemma. Costello owns a special place in pop music, somewhere between schoolteacher and dropout, storyteller and wall-eyed punk.…

Billy Manes

Power of the Unknown

Fright night’s got a brand-new bag, thanks to the touchstone “Funked-Up Halloween Ball” at Sapphire, a prance and gamble beyond the attractions’ habitual theme nights. The local lineup and activities pioneer the fusion of the familiar, the fantastic and the fresh, with a traditional costume contest and other ghoulish festivities. From house to rock, obscure…

Sonja S. Mongar

Paradise costs

“Candid Camera” was a TV show whose folksy slogan promised to show people “caught in the act of being themselves.” This meant entrapping and covertly videotaping them in G-rated situations. Hilarity ensued. Voyeur TV has prospered despite its peeping-Tom quality and the fact that TV is no place for realism. I don’t want to catch…

Liz Langley

Interlude of art, culture, cuisine

The concept of “food as art” is not new; ask any chef who labors over the presentation of a dish. But the connection between art and food takes a fresh twist in a series of stimulating gourmet socials at Orlando Museum of Art (2416 N. Mills Ave.). Dubbed “Spanish Interlude,” the first “tasting” is 7:30…

Colleen Moore

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