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Dec 22-28, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 51

Movie: Flight of the Phoenix

Our Rating: 1.00 The best part of Flight of the Phoenix is the sandstorm that spectacularly sucks down a cargo plane somewhere over the Gobi dessert in Mongolia, maneuvering the powerful silver liner in and out of the shifting sands like a holy worm in Dune. That’s the first 20 minutes or so. After that,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Flight of the Phoenix

Our Rating: 1.00 The best part of Flight of the Phoenix is the sandstorm that spectacularly sucks down a cargo plane somewhere over the Gobi dessert in Mongolia, maneuvering the powerful silver liner in and out of the shifting sands like a holy worm in Dune. That’s the first 20 minutes or so. After that,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Flight of the Phoenix

Our Rating: 1.00 The best part of Flight of the Phoenix is the sandstorm that spectacularly sucks down a cargo plane somewhere over the Gobi dessert in Mongolia, maneuvering the powerful silver liner in and out of the shifting sands like a holy worm in Dune. That’s the first 20 minutes or so. After that,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

“The comfort of routine”

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he will now personally sign letters of condolence to families of troops killed in action, after acknowledging that signing machines had been used in the past. — OfficialWire.com, Dec. 19, 2004 Dec. 23, 2004 Dear Bereaved Relative or Current Occupant: Allow me to personally express my deepest regret at the…

Steve Schneider

GIRLS JUST WANNA THROW BOMBS

M.I.A.Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 (Hollertronix) GWEN STEFANILove.Angel.Music.Baby.(Interscope) It’s appropriate that, among the many ridiculously catchy breaks on Piracy Funds Terrorism, the most ridiculously catchy is the “Sanford and Son” sample that anchors “URAQT.” The hook – compiled from a bare snippet of the show’s theme song – is instantly effective and, like the rest…

Jason Ferguson

“The comfort of routine”

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he will now personally sign letters of condolence to families of troops killed in action, after acknowledging that signing machines had been used in the past. — OfficialWire.com, Dec. 19, 2004 Dec. 23, 2004 Dear Bereaved Relative or Current Occupant: Allow me to personally express my deepest regret at the…

Steve Schneider

NAP FORD SCHOOL BY THE NUMBERS

From the outset, the Nap Ford Community School in Parramore has been something of a debacle. Pushed by Orlando city commissioner Daisy Lynum and former mayor Glenda Hood, Nap Ford was envisioned as a school specifically for a beleaguered, mostly black neighborhood, whose children had been bussed to outside schools since a desegregation order took…

Jeffrey C. Billman

MUSLIM IN AMERICA

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Clermont resident Imam Abdurrahman Sykes flew into Washington, D.C., just behind history. Four minutes before his flight’s landing gear touched the asphalt of the Washington Dulles International Airport runway, American Flight 77 had crashed into the Pentagon a few miles away. Wearing the same type of clothing he…

Leigh de Armas

YOU’VE BEEN DUMPED

“Freegans” are non-homeless Dumpster divers with a political or at least philosophical commitment not to waste perfectly usable discarded goods, including food, according to reports in Newsday (September) and the Houston Press (November). Most are driven by a belief that too many Americans have a fetishized view of newness, pointing out that restaurants discard much…

Chuck Shepherd

30 GOING ON 13

In another life, this column was the bastion of suicidal fat-girl hipness. We found it kind of funny – although, we found it kind of sad – that the dreams in which we were dying were the best that we ever had, and stuff. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, two unfortunate mullets from Bath, espoused…

Billy Manes

THERE’S A SCIENTIFIC REASON FOR THE SEASON

This is the season of light and that’s a fact based in the science of the stars and planets. Dec. 21 marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, when the angle of the earth tilts furthest away from the sun. After that, the earth begins to tilt back, the hours of sunlight…

Lindy T. Shepherd

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