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Jan 14-20, 2004

Jan 14-20, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 2

Movie: Disney’s Teacher’s Pet

Our Rating: 0.00 A Disney rep we spoke to predicted that folks will be taken in by this animated musical, which follows a family dog in his quest to live the life of a human boy. A warm reception would be no shock to us: The TV cartoon that inspired the movie was one of…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Disney’s Teacher’s Pet

Disney’s Teacher’s Pet Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/teacherspet/main.html Release Date: 2004-01-16 Cast: Nathan Lane, Shaun Fleming, Rob Paulsen, Debra Jo Rupp, David Ogden Stiers Director: Timothy Bjorklund Screenwriter: Bill Steinkellner, Cherie Steinkellner Music Score: Stephen James Taylor WorkNameSort: Disney’s Teacher’s Pet Our Rating: 0.00 A Disney rep we spoke to predicted that folks will…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Spots of tea make a heady splash

There are enough coffee bars in the downtown Orlando area to keep several armies awake. But unless you dunk your own bag, there are damn few places to sit down for a nice cup of tea. That’s changed with the arrival of Evertea, dubbed a “tea trade house” (120 W. Church St., 866-420-6444). Since history…

Joseph Hayes

Astro black

— Sun Ra As a living, breathing science-fiction movie, Sun Ra was continually espousing far-out doctrines describing interplanetary utopias for the struggling black masses on Earth. Picking up threads of Egyptology, Freemasonry and the Underground Railroad and mythologies from Atlantis to Urantia, Sun Ra moved well past the role of jazz musician and became something…

Jason Ferguson

Fashion emergency

With huge New Year’s Eve celebrations and college football bowl games only days away, the U.S. government last month dispatched scores of casually dressed nuclear scientists with sophisticated radiation detection equipment hidden in briefcases and golf bags to scour five major U.S. cities for radiological, or “dirty,” bombs, according to officials involved in the emergency…

Steve Schneider

Fighting nerdy

Dutch artist Iepe created the sport of chess boxing, which began in earnest in Amsterdam in November with several matches of six four-minute chess rounds alternating with five two-minute boxing rounds, with victory coming by knockout, checkmate or, if the match goes the distance, judges’ scoring of rounds. Both the Dutch Chess Federation (KNSB) and…

Chuck Shepherd

Oedipus wrecks

Here’s the story/ Of a lovely lady/ Who was bringing up one very wealthy boy … Or so it would seem. The mother of Backstreet bad boy A.J. McLean has just released a matronly memoir on the plastic-Camelot ascent of the boy band to beat all boy bands throughout the mid-’90s, and she is clearly…

Billy Manes

Your next mayor?

To his credit, Ken Mulvaney realizes that, at best, he’s a long shot. He’s a Republican in a Democratic town, facing a Democratic mayor who far surpasses him in money, fundraising prowess and sheer political ambition, and who gets the added bonus of sharing a ballot with the state’s Democratic presidential primary, which should help…

Jeffrey C. Billman

At the drop of a blog

In a world where miscellany is this year’s topicality, the Cult of the Blog has taken on a monstrous life of its own — countless miscreants and ne’er-do-wells the world over are clack-clack-clacking unedited observations into the global lexicon while you sleep, quality control be damned. That said, however, even in the face of the…

Billy Manes

Catch me if YOU can

Editor’s note: The following is a true story. We’d just like to mention that Orlando Weekly does not condone criminal behavior, and does not recommend you try this at a theme park near you. Orlando Weekly believes in wholesome living, drinking lots of milk, getting plenty of sleep and obeying the law. Please read responsibly.…

Keith Finley

The ice cream man cometh

Officially, it’s the PantsOnFire-mobile. More colloquially, creator Ben Cohen calls it “the burning Bush” or, simply, “George.” Whatever it’s called, the 12-foot statue towed behind a dark blue Crown Victoria is the marriage of wealth, political activism and eccentricity. Cohen, of course, gained quasicelebrity status as the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, the…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Willa won’t

Slapping the carelessly sewn layers of blond extensions from my eyes, I realize that my entire life has somehow secretly become dictated by both sympathy and derision for the Britney/ Paris social complex. Somebody hiccups? I think of Britney. Somebody snorts? I defer to Paris. I’m a cheap party mime stuck in a VH1 sound-byte…

Billy Manes

Kill the deal

So the Mutt and Jeff of downtown development — Lou Pearlman and Robert Kling — have fallen out of favor with Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer. It’s about time. Dyer getting tough with these Church Street hucksters is a welcome display of backbone, doubly so this close to an election. Pearlman and Kling will squeal like…

Bob Whitby

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