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Apr 23-29, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 17

Same old song

Carrino’s has a reputation as a go-to spot for Bay Hill — and Windermere-based celebrities, sports figures and the odd boy band. (It’s the answer to a trivia question on a Backstreet Boys fan site: “What is the name of the restaurant where the Boys had to sing for their dinner?”) Hopefully the Boys didn’t…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Real Cancun

The Real Cancun Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes Studio: New Line Cinema Website: http://www.therealcancun.com/ Release Date: 2003-04-25 Director: Rick De Olivereira WorkNameSort: The Real Cancun Our Rating: 0.00 The line for the next Best Documentary Oscar forms here! The producers of MTV’s “The Real World” follow 16 spring breakers to Mexico, hoping to capture all…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Real Cancun

Our Rating: 0.00 The line for the next Best Documentary Oscar forms here! The producers of MTV’s “The Real World” follow 16 spring breakers to Mexico, hoping to capture all of the naked debauchery they can’t show us on TV. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

What’s on your mind?

“Women and entrepreneurship, because I’m an entrepreneur. I just licensed the patent for my product.”(Shows pamphlet for Top Secretª, a bra with hidden pockets for storage.) Lausanne Lee, entrepreneur and writer, Orlando “I’ve been in America 26 years. Believe me, my brother, these are the toughest times.” Robert Curry, homeless, Orlando “Hurry, stay calm. Need…

Phillip Mlynar

Ravin’ with Mickey, part two

Two years ago, Disney spokesman Bill Warren had this to say to the Orlando Sentinel when asked about an all-night rave planned at Epcot during Gay Days: “We do not and will not hold rave parties on our property, and we’re on the record of being supportive of the community’s overall position on raves.” A…

Bob Whitby

Among the atheists

Gone are the dark days of atheism, when philosophers like Giordano Bruno were burned at the stake for denying that Jesus possessed God-like power and contradicting the belief that souls have the ability to transmigrate to heaven. Even so, American atheists are a reclusive lot, trapped between a federal government they consider increasingly theocratic and…

William Dean Hinton

Pay-for-play goes away

On April 9, Clear Channel Communications announced, with great fanfare, that they would end their association with independent promoters this summer when contracts run out, echoing a decision made by Cox Radio in October. Lauded by the Wall Street Journal as a move that could “reshape longstanding relationships in the music industry,” the announcement makes…

Chris Parker

Passenger questionaire

Ahoy, mate! Welcome aboard the PacificÐAmerican Princess. While other cruise lines are pestering their customers with intrusive and upsetting bulletins about a certain international epidemic — which will remain nameless — we’re as committed as ever to bringing you a week of carefree fun in the sun. But before we leave port, we’d appreciate it…

Steve Schneider

Blitzkrieg bopped

Lawsuits were filed in Chicago in February and in Hangzhou, China, in January demanding that theaters stop showing advertisements (not just the “previews”) that run past a movie’s announced starting time. Lawyers Mark Weinberg and Zhang Yang charged the theaters with fraud because of the three- to four-minute ad blitzes they endured recently after they…

Chuck Shepherd

Richard who?

You may know Richard Jeni. Then again, you may not. Strung out over the cesspit of ’90s consciousness, Jeni’s career included various pay-cable comedy specials (award winning!), some sponsorship prostitution and a role as Jim Carrey’s annoying friend in the even more annoying special-effects venture, “The Mask.” He has stringy hair and bulging eyes, and…

Billy Manes

Symphony in funk major

The oversized funk outfit Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra is a band of apparent contradictions. The critically praised Brooklyn group, lately revered by world-music devotees and jam-band fans alike, is billed as “America’s only live Afrobeat party,” and that title is easily defended. These dozen or so brass and woodwind players, percussionists, guitarists, singers and other musicians…

Philip Booth

Designer labels hit soda fashion

To find a unique experience by accident is a wonderful thing. From the sign of the Bauer Brewing Company (223 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; 407-644-9991), I expected to find a wide variety of beers. And the left side of the store is indeed loaded with more than 100 brews from Sri Lanka, Scotland and…

Joseph Hayes

Choose your illusion

On show nights, the Winter Park residence of Robert Bowles is bedecked with signs that welcome visitors to “Tori’s Place.” The signs lead the curious away from the road and into the portals of Bowles’ immaculately decorated town home, where photographs and other mementos reflect a lifetime of family-centric, socially respectable activity. As newcomers take…

Steve Schneider

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