Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2003

Aug 27 - Sep 2, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 35

Movie: Jeepers Creepers 2

Jeepers Creepers 2 Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Website: http://www.mgm.com/ua/jeeperscreepers2/ Release Date: 2003-08-29 Cast: Jonathan Breck, Justin Long, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Ray Wise, Billy Aaron Brown Director: Victor Salva WorkNameSort: Jeepers Creepers 2 Our Rating: 0.00 Sequel to the 2001 horror hit has the voracious people eater making a high-school basketball team his next meal. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Yasser Arafat’s radio

At one point in my life, I owned nearly three dozen Muslim-gauze recordings. To the voracious collectors of music out there — those fans of Prince or Zappa or other prodigious studio rats — that probably doesn’t sound like a whole lot. However, Prince has enjoyed 25 years in the studio, and Zappa clocked 27…

Jason Ferguson

Wine fiends refocus those glassy eyes

The latest wine obsession isn’t a grape or vineyard, but the vessel you drink it from. Oenophiles swear that the better the quality of the glass, the better the wine tastes. While we’ve always preferred our vino in Flintstones jelly jars (love that Betty), the two European brands of choice for those in the know…

Joseph Hayes

Yasser Arafat’s radio

At one point in my life, I owned nearly three dozen Muslim-gauze recordings. To the voracious collectors of music out there — those fans of Prince or Zappa or other prodigious studio rats — that probably doesn’t sound like a whole lot. However, Prince has enjoyed 25 years in the studio, and Zappa clocked 27…

Jason Ferguson

The wonder years

Whereas this column was supposed to detail the pratfalls and pistol whips associated with the ironically silent, clearly modern Blue Man Group (the greatest drag show ever, according to local gay sloganeers, Watermark), the joke just didn’t seem funny anymore. Sure, there was the standard hiccup-and-giggle ass-showing of my shoulder-rubs with the Sentinel folk –…

Billy Manes

Viral indifference

(Editor’s note: Like many businesses, Orlando Weekly was hit hard last week by the Sobig.F virus that’s been wreaking havoc with e-mail servers around the world. And since we receive and process the vast majority of our editorial content electronically, the risk was high that stories earmarked for this issue could be horribly corrupted. Through…

Steve Schneider

Power, corruption and lies

In January 1947, city leaders of Winter Park attempted to purchase the privately owned electrical company that powered the city — the Florida Power Co. — for the quaint sum of $350,000. According to the city’s charter, Winter Park officials had to schedule a referendum before they could offer bonds to pay for the purchase,…

William Dean Hinton

Follow the money

Two weeks ago in this space I promised to donate 50 percent of the $800 George W. Bush so kindly sent me (for having two kids) to the worthy cause of ridding America of George W. Bush. The deal was this: I would leave it up to readers to decide where best to apply the…

Bob Whitby

Out of the rat’s mouth

Without doubt, spam has caused a global and daunting predicament with no real solution in sight. But it should come as no surprise that there’s a sensational Florida muck-up in the mix, as there seems to be in so many no-boundary disasters these days, be it Sept. 11, anthrax or the presidential election. In this…

Lindy T. Shepherd

The potty never stops

There’s a world of difference between good bad taste and bad bad taste, and most of it boils down to self-awareness. Think back to that hysterically funny roommate you had in college — the one who prided himself on knowing the exact wrong thing to say in any social setting. Good times, right? Now ponder…

Steve Schneider

Spammed if you do. Spammed if you don’t.

During the research and writing of this piece I received an average of 69 spam e-mails per day. Do you know just how low an interest rate you can get? Care to help the Nigerian Empress Ndugndugndug smuggle $500 million out of Africa? Are you in dire need of a truly unstoppable penis? If you’re…

Ben Fogelson

Baby on board

As straphanger Joyce M. Judge, 42, stared out the window of the Boston subway car during morning rush hour on July 30, she started dripping profusely, and a minute or so later, a baby fell out from underneath her skirt and slid around on the car’s floor. According to witnesses — some of whom vomited…

Chuck Shepherd

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