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Jun 4-10, 2003

Jun 4-10, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 23

Movie: Pokemon Heroes

Our Rating: 0.00 The fifth installment in movies’ longest-lived toy tie-in takes the cartoon crew to a water city, where they meet two new characters with “strong psychic abilities and the power to diguise themselves as humans.” (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Siamese dream

While there is a host — nay, horde — of sushi bars within walking distance of Lake Eola, we haven’t seen very much Thai food downtown, which is odd considering how much pad Thai can be found elsewhere. One of the places known for that sweet, sticky rice-noodle dish is Thai Cuisine on Edgewater Drive.…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: 2 Fast 2 Furious

Our Rating: 0.00 Director John (Shaft) Singleton takes the keys to the gas-guzzling franchise, now running without a Diesel in its tank. Paul Walker, however, is back as cop Brian O’Conner, newly bounced from the force and trying to win back his badge by infiltrating Miami’s street-racing scene. Model Tyrese Gibson plays the under-cover agent…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Pokemon Heroes

Pokemon Heroes Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Studio: Miramax Website: http://www.miramax.com/pokemon_heroes/ Release Date: 2003-06-06 Cast: Addie Blaustein, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Veronica Taylor Director: Kunihiko Yuyama, Jim Malone Screenwriter: Jim Malone, Hideki Sonoda WorkNameSort: Pokemon Heroes Our Rating: 0.00 The fifth installment in movies’ longest-lived toy tie-in takes the cartoon crew to a water city,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: 2 Fast 2 Furious

2 Fast 2 Furious Studio: Universal Pictures Website: http://www.thefastandthefurious.com/ Release Date: 2003-06-06 Cast: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes, Cole Hauser, Devon Aoki Director: John Singleton Screenwriter: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas WorkNameSort: 2 Fast 2 Furious Our Rating: 0.00 Director John (Shaft) Singleton takes the keys to the gas-guzzling franchise, now running without a Diesel…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Mea culpa

Two weeks ago, this newspaper published a cover story about a manatee hunt club in the woods of Volusia County [Eat at Doug’s, May 22]. The response, as you might expect, was explosive. Some people demanded I cough up my sources and turn in these manatee killers. Others wanted me to introduce them to the…

Jeffrey C. Billman

By the bootstraps

Everybody is discriminating in favor of the person who is educated,” Orange County school Superintendent Ron Blocker told a church full of school officials June 2. Given the numbers Blocker released which showed black school children lagging considerably behind their white and Hispanic counterparts, the superintendent’s statement was meant to add an urgency to the…

William Dean Hinton

‘Stag party

The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin By Barbara Ulrich; introduction by Jerry Stahl (Feral House) In the early 1930s, Germany teetered on the brink of what would become the most diabolical period in its history. The broken nation reeled from the devastating effects of the Great War: Inflation spiraled out of control, epidemics of influenza…

Deb Berry

Fairweather Jonestown

In the late ’80s, a handful of politically motivated and thoroughly talented punk rockers got together in, of all places, South Carolina and formed a band called Antischism. Antischism made a small impact locally, but their extension of Crass-inspired hardcore got them plenty of attention within the “crust-punk” scene in the U.S. and in Europe.…

Jason Ferguson

Little devil

There’s a new book out called “Sound of the Beast” (HarperCollins) with a subtitle that insists it’s “The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal.” In reality, the book — penned by Ian Christe, a usually dependable metal scribe — is little more than an unauthorized biography of Metallica that basically positions every other metal act…

Jason Ferguson

More wine, less attitude

Add Wine Brats to the list of Goth Girls, Gay Dayers and Alt-Punks out for a good time in Orlando. Aimed firmly at the Wine X www.winexwired.com magazine crowd (the kind of publication that has a column called “The Wine Bitch”), the Wine Brats call themselves “an active group of adult wine enthusiasts who are…

Joseph Hayes

The queen and I

Noor, Noor, Noor, how do you like it? How do you like it? Something of a media frenzy, then, as Queen Noor of Jordan has scheduled herself for an extremely odd book signing at Border’s in Winter Park. And why not? She’s recently been seen doing a begloved royalty wave from atop The New York…

Billy Manes

License to grill

Last week, a lineup of expert witnesses testified in the court case brought by Sultaana Freeman, the Muslim woman who was fighting for her right to wear a veil in her driver’s-license photo. Authorities on both sides of the issue discussed the merits of Ms. Freeman’s claim that she should be allowed to maintain her…

Steve Schneider

When the bottom falls out

Dry: A Memoir By Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin’s Press, 289 pages, $24.95) You smell of booze. Layers of greasy-spoon breakfasting, BreathAsure tablets, distracting clothing and even Donna Karan for Men applied lovingly to your tongue can’t disguise last night’s 4 a.m. mantra of, “What am I going to do?” with regards to the megalomaniacal clientele…

Billy Manes

Fermenting, flocculation and filtration, oh my

Visions of Laverne and Shirley watching an assembly line of bottles at the Shotz plant might be the only mental image we have of a brewery, but Rob Bernys has another idea. Bernys is the wizard behind the malt at Orlando Brewing Partners (www. orlandobrewing.com), open since November of last year and Orlando’s only microbrewery.…

Joseph Hayes

Our top picks for a seasonal good timeâ?¦

Noodling Inspiration (June 12-29)</b These may be lean times for theater in general, but has anybody noticed that the climate for original works seems to be getting better and better? You don’t have to wait for next November’s Festival of New Plays to get the discovery ball rolling: The trend kicks into gear next week…

Staff writers

The soused sounds of summer

As you may have figured out from the tone of the rest of our quite-liquid “Summer Guide,” we here at Orlando Weekly think that summer is an incredibly parched-throat kind of season. And, for that reason, we’re trying to direct you toward appropriate (and inappropriate) ways to use the heat as an excuse for near-alcoholism.…

Jason Ferguson

Neighborhood bars of character

Summer is a thirsty season. And we had this idea about going to a bunch of dive bars, drinking on the company dime then writing about it as some sort of weak justification for the whole exercise. It’s a tough job and we’re the someones who have to do it. But when we actually started…

Staff writers

Sparkling conversation

There are drinking games — the standard quarter-toss into a centrally located libation destined to incite either nausea or ridicule, or the proverbial throw-it-back cordial for every time Cher references herself in the third person — that effectively turn binge drinking into an isolated, excusable art form. Then there’s the professional drinking life — a…

Billy Manes

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