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Aug 20-26, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 34

Waiting for a set time to tea-off?

If you’re a fellow British-television fan, whether you follow “Ground Force” or “Hyacinth Bucket,” you know the joys of a good cup of English tea. And if you’re not, Aug. 28 is a good time to sample the variety as well as the traditional biscuits that go along with the ritual. That date the International…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Medallion

The Medallion Studio: Screen Gems Website: http://highbinders.emg.com.hk/ Release Date: 2003-08-22 Cast: Jackie Chan, Claire Forlani, Christy Chung, Lee Evans, John Rhys-Davies Director: Gordon Chan Screenwriter: Bey Logan WorkNameSort: The Medallion Our Rating: 0.00 In this supernaturally inclined action pic, even death can’t stop Jackie Chan from busting open the slave trade. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Dead inside

Whether it’s the incident when their tour bus slammed into a concrete barricade or the time their video shoot caught fire, Chimaira’s luck on the road hasn’t been the best. But it appears as if things are getting better. Or at least not as bad. “This tour is the first one we went through where…

Omar Perez

Looking back

The year 1993 saw two somewhat inauspicious debuts. On New Year’s Day, Björk played her debut solo gig at The Academy in Manchester. Eight months later, Studio K7 released the first in their second series of dance music videos, “X-Mix Vol. 1.” To a large degree, the two things had little to do with one…

Jason Ferguson

Un-Making the Band

It’s the sound of a dream dying. The lazy din of large girls milling about the Hard Rock Live, hoping to catch a fleeting glimpse of something, anything, that might prove that their pin-up obsession with five guys who could (but never did), was somehow justified. Justified like Justin. “Omigod, they’re in there!” varying versions…

Billy Manes

The big pitch

Late in the spring of 2015, I had the strangest encounter of my life. It was just after 10 in the morning, and I was opening up my sports-memorabilia store — a small but neat concern that, in a rare moment of deviltry, I had named Nobody’s Role Model Sports Cards and Collectibles. I was…

Steve Schneider

Time to get radio active

How do you get on the radio in Orlando if you’re not 1) a frothing-at-the-mouth conservative; 2) playing radio-friendly, market-tested music; 3) associated with Rollins College and WPRK; or 4) Jim Philips? Answer: Pay for the airtime yourself. That’s the path Steve Smith has chosen for his fledgling show RadioActive, which you can hear 1…

Bob Whitby

The devil’s in the details

Everyone hates I-4. That is, perhaps more than anything else, the one constant in Central Florida politics. (There’s even a clever website to that effect — www.ihatei4.com.) Politicians pledge to make the god-awful commute more bearable, but whatever gains they make are muted by the every-increasing number of cars. The interstate is the beast that…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Straight eye for the queer guy

By now even you’re tired of it. Despite the fact that “metrosexuality” — and ill-conceived term to denote the fey leanings of wealthier men embracing their vanity and their overnight bags — reaches nary an iota of the general populace outside of sushi-sick San Francisco and nightlife-nauseous New York, press pundits are bandying about the…

Billy Manes

“Pretty’s” face

The concept of England as a sometimes-sloppy melting pot of cultures is still finding its way on film. Having addressed the subject in 1985’s “My Beautiful Laundrette,” director Stephen Frears returns to the territory in his new thriller, Dirty Pretty Things. And this time, he’s assigned the role of the uneasy cultural walk-in to Chiwetel…

Steve Schneider

Waiting for a set time to tea-off?

If you’re a fellow British-television fan, whether you follow “Ground Force” or “Hyacinth Bucket,” you know the joys of a good cup of English tea. And if you’re not, Aug. 28 is a good time to sample the variety as well as the traditional biscuits that go along with the ritual. That date the International…

Joseph Hayes

Homegrown heaviness

It’s not uncommon to find the “streets” of Universal’s CityWalk overrun with high-school kids on any given weekend night. The pseudo-nightlife environment makes the kids feel cool while the theme-park safety makes parents feel less neglectful. Yet, on certain nights, the gossiping cliques are interrupted by a steady stream of black-clad rebellion; boys and girls…

Jason Ferguson

Wanna rock? Heres where:

Week to week, metal audiences in Orlando are blessed with a wide variety of concert choices, with strong showings from local bands and national ones. While most all-ages shows go down at Hard Rock Live or House of Blues, those gigs take place maybe two or three times a month. The rest of the time,…

Jason Ferguson

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