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Apr 30 - May 6, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 18

Movie: The Lizzie McGuire Movie

The Lizzie McGuire Movie Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/lizzie/index.html Release Date: 2003-05-02 Cast: Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Robert Carradine, Hallie Todd, Jake Thomas Director: Jim Fall Screenwriter: Susan Estelle Jansen, Terri Minsky WorkNameSort: The Lizzie McGuire Movie Our Rating: 0.00 The Disney Channel diva celebrates her graduation from junior high with a trip to…

Orlando Weekly Staff

At least they know they’re Free

Six weeks ago, the Dixie Chicks were consumed in a media-stoked tempest that, even then, seemed less real than surreal. Outraged by rather innocuous comments made in London by Chick Natalie Maines — including “We’re ashamed the President is from Texas” — country-radio stations across the nation pulled the group’s music from rotation, an extraordinary…

Chris Parker

Something from nothing

Les Savy Fav bassist Syd Butler isn’t just the president of his company, he’s also a client. Concern for his band’s welfare (rather than his hairline) prompted him to open the Frenchkiss label that LSF and seven other acts call home. “I have to go to label-guy personality when I talk to my bandmates sometimes,”…

Omar Perez

Riding Mekong river with couple of cooks

Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford are the kind of couple that movies are made about. They met while bicycling across the Himalayas and combine pleasure with business by writing award-winning amalgams of travelogues and cookbooks, full of atmospheric photos and mouth-watering recipes. Their latest, “Hot Sour Salty Sweet” (Artisan; $45) has the couple following the…

Joseph Hayes

I ran so far away

Iran. Iran’s so far away … And I had to get away to a brighter time when The Dixie Chicks weren’t shedding tears to Diane Sawyer about rednecks and bulldozers, or when Madonna wasn’t defending throwing grenades at the president. Back when The Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann” was rerecorded to say “Bomb Iran” and a…

Billy Manes

Orlando’s most wanted

Let Rumsfeld worry about the remnants of Saddam’s regime — homeland security requires that these enemies of the Sunshine State be captured or killed at all costs. Her boyfriend’s band finally played that career-making Tuesday-night gig at Kashmir, and now all of us luckless spuds on her e-mail list are going to spend the next…

Steve Schneider

Phone calls from way over the edge

In the increasingly homogenized media landscape, corporate-controlled daily newspapers continually attempt — and fail — to appear locally engaged to their readership. This goes far beyond reportage. Dailies almost always get local, important news before anyone else does (whether they tell the whole story is something else altogether); their battalions of beat reporters and stringers…

Bob Whitby

Guns N’ Moses

In case you hadn’t heard, the National Rifle Association dropped by the Orange County Convention Center April 24. About 50,000 members attended the 132nd-annual meeting and show. They came to pay tribute to outgoing NRA president Charlton Heston, select a new president, wave the flag, pat themselves on the back for getting George W. Bush…

Bob Whitby

RU NAKD2

Gilbert Gomer won his recent appeal, allowing him to put JEWBAN on his Florida license plate. Gomer, a Miami resident, bought the plate last August by paying the $12 extra fee. But the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles received a complaint from someone who took JEWBAN too literally, as in “ban Jews.” The DMV put…

Jeffrey C. Billman and William Dean Hinton

Like a virgin

Unlike her predecessor in the secretary of state’s office, Glenda Hood has promised to disconnect herself from politics in the presidential elections. Good for her. Also unlike her predecessor, Hood will be overseeing an election system that’s never been tried before. Not so good for her. Hood inherited an office with a method of voting…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Dumpster diving

John Berry noticed the problem almost as soon as he moved into the University House apartments last August. His subscription to Playboy magazine was noticeably absent each month even though the bill managed to find its way to his mailbox. That told Berry one thing: The magazine’s publisher knew where he lived even as the…

William Dean Hinton

Writing it really real

It’s hard to be the Hardy Boys. Lukewarm adventures with lanterns in caverns are hard to come by, after all, and in a largely fantasy-free nation, they can be hard to relate to — especially for the kids who, for whatever reason, cannot live them. Chris Crutcher, 57, a longtime young-adult author and therapist based…

Billy Manes

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