Jun 18-24, 2003

Jun 18-24, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 25

Movie: From Justin to Kelly

From Justin to Kelly Studio: 20th Century Fox Website: http://www.fromjustintokelly.com/ Release Date: 2003-06-20 Director: Robert Iscove Screenwriter: Kim Fuller WorkNameSort: From Justin to Kelly Our Rating: 0.00 “American Idol” crooners Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini stars in a quickie musical romance that some are likening to Grease. (Well, Clarkson is, anyway.) The movie wasn’t screened…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: From Justin to Kelly

Our Rating: 0.00 “American Idol” crooners Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini stars in a quickie musical romance that some are likening to Grease. (Well, Clarkson is, anyway.) The movie wasn’t screened in time for review, so you’ll just have to trust your own feelings. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Steal some of Olive’s takeout thunder

Between the options to eat in or take out, there’s the Olive Branch (314 Hannibal Square, 407-629-1029), directly across the street from Hot Olives (463 W. New England Ave., 407-629-1030), a settled-in spot known for the casual nosh or two. And now we have the cutely named offshoot, where those noshes are available to take…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Steal some of Olive’s takeout thunder

Between the options to eat in or take out, there’s the Olive Branch (314 Hannibal Square, 407-629-1029), directly across the street from Hot Olives (463 W. New England Ave., 407-629-1030), a settled-in spot known for the casual nosh or two. And now we have the cutely named offshoot, where those noshes are available to take…

Joseph Hayes

Less is more

If bands were houses, radio is the suburbs, with rows of cookie-cutter tracts and acre upon acre of structures showing little more imagination than you’d expect from a gaggle of risk-aversive accountants and sputtering insurance salesmen. Yet rising above this colorless landscape stands Calla, a foreboding castle of a band, suffused with grandeur and mystery.…

Chris Parker

Life and illusion

In the culinary world, the odds of baking an authentic Shepherd’s Pie using lowly Stove Top mix are slim to none. Washington, D.C.’s Phaser may not be out to replicate English cuisine but somewhere down the line, they’ve managed to combine the elegance of an Englishman with the grit of a Yank and create a…

Omar Perez

Laughing through the pain

“Hey LADY!” That’s all I’m thinking, and that’s all I want. The inimitable, french-fried delicacy, Jerry Lewis, is in town, and I’m all aflutter. Once a bastion of humor and wit, sitting suggestively beside a drunk Dean Martin in almost-gay reverie, Lewis should make for an interesting bit of repartee, right? Well, no. Despite a…

Billy Manes

English as a first language

With school out for summer, Dog Playing Poker feels an urgent need to do its part in keeping our kids literate over the lazy months. Come to think of it, their parents’ grammar and spelling skills could use a tune-up, too — as can be gleaned from a quick look at our nation’s church bulletins,…

Steve Schneider

Storming the castle

All the ethical hand-wringing that has accompanied America’s fascination with “reality” television is just about as gross as the bowl of cheese maggots that dude spit up on “Fear Factor.” The constant howls and moans of “pundits” pondering the fate of “quality television” (the ultimate oxymoron) has nearly eclipsed the very real fact that television…

Jason Ferguson

Rock bottom

Each day, millions of Americans engage in discussions about how our country has gone off course and how ultraconservatives have taken over our government. As we put our hearts and souls into figuring out how to achieve regime change at home in November 2004, these conversations are growing in volume. How we engage this election…

Don Hazen

By hook, crook or the book

Tow truck drivers don’t have it easy. Those bold wreckers can be knights in shining armor when a car breaks down on a dark state road. Or they can be something akin to thieves for people who park, say, at the 7-Eleven in Thornton Park, buy a bottle of water and then walk next door…

Lindy T. Shepherd

Puke ’til you party

As reported in News of the Weird in March 2002 (to apparently many skeptical readers), the 37-year-old female inmate who died at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada, succumbed from a toxic reaction to methadone that she had consumed by drinking the vomit of a fellow inmate who was on a methadone maintenance…

Chuck Shepherd

Picking scabs, part two

Funny thing about newspapers: When they are denied access to information, or threatened with a lawsuit should they print something someone doesn’t want to see in print, they squeal like school girls. But when a newspaper becomes the story, the indignity vanishes. We speak, of course, of that stalwart defender of the First Amendment, the…

Bob Whitby

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