Ah, the joys of the sandwich. There’s nothing quite like bread with stuff inside it. Adding to the variety of stuff inside bread is Primo Hoagies. Known in song and story in Philadelphia and South Jersey, Primo brings Philly-style fresh-baked bread and tasty Thumann’s deli meats to the downtown lunch crowd, along with some unusual…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Good for a laugh? Nope

Movie: The Independent

Orlando Weekly Staff

Back to basics

Ask almost anyone, “What’s your favorite restaurant?” and the answer will change regularly. Ask, however, “What’s your favorite kind of food?” and the response is likely to be quick and consistent. Upbringing and environment usually set our preferences early in life. And, as a transplanted New Yorker, I have long placed Chinese food high on…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Two much of a good thing?

True fact: Walt Disney didn’t like sequels. Back in 1933, after his studio’s “Three Little Pigs” became such a huge hit, exhibitors begged Walt to produce a follow-up to the Academy Award-winning short. So Disney quickly put a sequel, “The Big Bad Wolf,” into production. The cartoon hit theaters with much fanfare in April 1934.…

Jim Hill

A supreme whitewash

The leadership of the Aryan Nations white-supremacy organization kicked out its founder, Richard Butler, in January for allegedly tarnishing the organization’s name. According to one leader, Butler “surrounded himself with idiots.” Another leader said the group needed to get rid of the “troublemakers and riffraff” to “clean up `our` image,” although he was the same…

Chuck Shepherd

Bully

The kids aren’t alright in director Larry (Kids”) Clark’s world, and this time around, in “Bully,” they not only have sex and drugs on their minds but also murder. Based on the book “Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge,” by Jim Schutze, the film quickly introduces the physical and emotional abuse carried out…

Brad Haynes

Wet Hot American Summer

The video release of another 2001 independent film, which also has not been screened here, offers a much more lighthearted look at youth. “Wet Hot American Summer,” conceived by Michael Showalter and David Wain of MTV’s “The State,” sets out to spoof the summer-camp film genre. Unfortunately, this slight piece of fluff is less a…

Brad Haynes

Good stuff, Philly style

Ah, the joys of the sandwich. There’s nothing quite like bread with stuff inside it. Adding to the variety of stuff inside bread is Primo Hoagies, 233 N. Magnolia Ave., (407) 423-0123. Known in song and story in Philadelphia and South Jersey, Primo brings Philly-style fresh-baked bread and tasty Thumann’s deli meats to the downtown…

Joseph Hayes

Putting speech in its place

After the Watergate scandal broke, President Nixon desperately sought to rebuild his shattered reputation. He scoured the country for a place to give his comeback speech — entitled “What’s Right with America” — somewhere that would be free of the contentious debate and protests surrounding himself and the Vietnam debacle. Surprisingly, Nixon actually found such…

Jeffrey C. Billman

A rock and a hard place

The pamphlet Gregory Reddish received last March had to have been a joke. “Welcome to Orlando,” it read. Reddish, a dentist who owns his Michigan Street office, tossed the letter out. But weeks later, more city information appeared in his mail. Reddish soon discovered that his business had been annexed into Orlando without his consent.…

William Dean Hinton

‘A Terrible Beauty’

Many of the pictures are certain to make a viewer shudder, and their cumulative effect is haunting. They are also quite beautiful. “Everyone who sees them for the first time remarks on their beauty,” says writer turned photo-archivist Michael Shulan. “But it is a terrible beauty, borne of fire, dust and death.” Shulan is one…

William A. Sievert

Your space or mine?

It is always easier to fix other people’s problems than it is to fix one’s own. Joan Rivers gets paid to critique the appearance of celebrities even though she herself looks like a gargoyle with a Dillard’s card. Ellen Fein co-wrote “The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work” while filing for divorce. We…

Liz Langley

Writing’s on the wall

Orlando is a city under constant construction — a city with acres of white, bare walls. With all of that wall space, there ought to be lots of original works of fine art hanging on them. And in a city with hundreds of visual artists, you’d think that many of the canvases would bear local…

Patricia Madden

A presidential precedent

“You’re on the list?” coiffures the wedge at the Club at Firestone’s entryway. The B List, baby. Check the B List. Hiccup. “Yes,” I burp, weary from a holiday Sunday that already should have seen all lists with my name on them burned. It’s Presidents’ Day! Let’s set a precedent! “Is your guest with you?”…

Billy Manes

Feb 20-26, 2002

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