Celestial Esscents: “Magick Mojo,” herbal teas, and a warm welcome

By Christine Anne Piesyk | September 17, 2007 |

Sadie’s Majick Mojo.  This homemade herbal remedy has phenomenal “word of mouth” promotion, enough to make it a best seller hard to keep in stock.

Sadie’s Magick Mojo is the creation of Peggy Spencer, proprietor of a new little shop of energy,” Celestial Esscents, on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard.

When Peggy’s Mom was dying, Peggy wanted her to be as comfortable as possible at home. One of problems her mother faced was that her skin was terribly itchy and hurt at the same time. She never seemed to find relief and the medicine she had did nothing.

Peggy decided she would come up with something to help her…and she did. She collected and assembled herbs, mixed them, cooked them and created a salve for her Mom, who was so amazed by the salve, she helped name it.  Hence, Sadie’s Magic Mojo.  It flies off the shelves at the new store.

“I usually can’t keep enough of it around because it sells so fast,” Peggy says of the healing salve which is marketed in little brown jars with old-looking labels that hint of the “majick” inside.  Customers tell her that as word of the salve gets around, she’ll have to consider going into “mass production.” «Read the rest of this article»

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Movie Review: Superbad

By David W. Shelton | September 17, 2007 |

Every once in a while, a film about teen angst actually gets it. With a genre that has multiple entries that are built to copy (often badly) the format of the legendary Fast Times of Ridgemont High, teen comedies are often far better at replication than in actually capturing what it’s like to be a frustrated dweeb who’s two weeks away from graduating. Teen comedies are often replete with awkward sex jokes, potty-mouth characters, and an attempt to “get the girl.”

Superbad has all of this, but it works. The brilliance of the script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg is that it presents the greatest reality of teen life: friendship. There’s only one thing more important to high school geeks, and that’s their best friends. Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) are the dynamic dweeb duo of the film who must wrestle with the fact that they’ll finally be separated when they go to different colleges in the fall.

It’s no coincidence that the names of the lead characters are the same as the screenwriters. They too were best friends when started the script when they were 13, and simply wanted ‘to see if they could write a movie.’ «Read the rest of this article»

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