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Mar 19-25, 2003

Mar 19-25, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 12

Movie: The Way Home

Our Rating: 0.00 A smash hit in South Korea, director Jeong-Hyang Lee’s film details one summer in the life of a spoiled little city boy who learns the value of traditional lifestyles.

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Way Home

The Way Home Studio: Paramount Classics Website: http://www.paramountclassics.com/wayhome/ Release Date: 2003-03-14 Cast: Eul-Boon Kim, Seung-Ho Yoo, Eun-Kyung Yim, Kyung-Hoon Min, Hyo-Heui Dong Director: Jeong-Hyang Lee Screenwriter: Jeong-Hyang Lee Music Score: Dae-Hong Kim, Yang-Hee Kim WorkNameSort: The Way Home Our Rating: 0.00 A smash hit in South Korea, director Jeong-Hyang Lee’s film details one summer in…

Orlando Weekly Staff

New Planet in area deli system

Locals will recall the many moods of 511 E. Horatio in Maitland, from grills (Joe’s, and Noah’s Gourmet) to colorful and puny (Purple Cow Calfe) to almost nonexistent (the ephemeral Big Sur California Cook’n). Now Deli Planet II (407-629-7827) has landed, cloning itself from the original on South Orange Avenue, but without the inflatable aliens.…

Joseph Hayes

Delta dawning

The blues has undergone so many transformations in the past century that identifying the start of the form has become as difficult as categorizing the music itself. Alan Lomax’s “The Land Where the Blues Began” (The New Press) offers a rare and ambitious look into the cultural and musical heritage that gave rise to the…

Robert Mola

Velvet hammer of the gods

Scandinavian design has always been noted for its organic beauty and its lack of ostentatious ornamentation. Straightforwardly stylish with clean, smooth lines, it doesn’t matter if it’s a chair or a bowl, the basic tenets of post-war Nordic art have remained true to a vision of airy elegance. Scandinavian music is a different story. A…

Jason Ferguson

Black is back

The irony of being a Norwegian band is that, even though your country’s original-music scene is roughly as large as that of a medium-sized American city, it’s still somewhat difficult to make an impression. Granted, the country has recently yielded a crop of ethereal electronica like Royksopp, and Norway’s next-door neighbors in Sweden have all…

Jason Ferguson

Waiting for a $onny day

No matter what anyone may try to tell you, Orlando can be a pretty nice place to live if we all learn to make do without certain luxuries. You know, like money. Last week, newly elected mayor Buddy Dyer discovered that his predecessor, Glenda Hood, had socked him with a slightly larger budget deficit than…

Steve Schneider

Me and my Doppleganger

I feel so cheap. Ever fancy a perfect parallel universe in which somebody wearing your very own insecurities is succeeding wildly and completely stealing the karmic gifts clearly designed for you? Somebody who smells of sweet charity while you smell of cigarettes and urine? Sniffle, sniffle. I’m having a moment here. And a pee. My…

Billy Manes

The anti-Hood

He got off to a rocky start, beginning his first council meeting by saying, “Let’s see. I’ll call the meeting to order. That would be a good first order of business.” But Buddy Dyer quickly established himself as a congenial leader, one who includes and praises fellow commissioners, and one who demonstrates a firm grasp…

William Dean Hinton

Read no evil

Monday night, March 17, as President Bush put the final spin on the greatest PR switcheroo in modern history, I decided it was high time I thanked my parents for my birthday. There are a couple advantages to being over 30, one of which is that I’m not military material. I can think of no…

Bob Whitby

Canker bad

The state’s chain saws are about to fire up again, this time targeting 967 backyard citrus trees in east and southwest Orange County. This was expected — homeowners’ efforts to stave off the Department of Agriculture were rejected by the courts in January. The Orlando Sentinel’s March 18 story on the increasingly tense situation featured…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Single R seeks same

It’s official, ladies. Your U.S. congressman is a bachelor. On March 5, Ric Keller and wife Cathleen were granted a divorce in Orange County district court, just shy of their 11th wedding anniversary. No reason was listed in the divorce petition. But in a settlement agreement filed last month, the Kellers said marriage counseling didn’t…

William Dean Hinton

What the flock?

University of California, Santa Barbara, researcher J. Gordon Melton’s new edition of the “Encyclopedia of American Religion” lists 2,630 denominations in two dozen informal “families” (e.g., 116 Catholic flocks, “hundreds” of Pentecostal flocks), according to a January Associated Press report. Among the least mainstream: the `John F.` Kennedy Worshippers, the Nudist Christian Church of the…

Chuck Shepherd

Reefer mad man

James McDonough is fuming. McDonough, Florida’s first drug czar, is sitting on a makeshift dais in a ballroom of the Orlando Renaissance Hotel March 14 as part of a three-member panel convened for a town-hall meeting on substance-abuse policy. The panel was put together by groups for and against relaxing drug laws. McDonough, though, is…

Jeffrey C. Billman

On the bus

It is a gloomy Friday afternoon on the section of highway where I-4 meets the East-West Expressway. Gloomy because gray clouds hang low over the city, and gloomy because the roadway is so congested with traffic we are reduced to a stop-and-go putter. Traffic estimates from Metroplan Orlando for this particular stretch of roadway say…

William Dean Hinton

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