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Dec 3-9, 2003

Dec 3-9, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 49

Movie: Honey

Honey Studio: Universal Pictures Website: http://www.honey-movie.com/ Release Date: 2003-12-05 Cast: Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Joy Bryant, Lil’ Romeo Director: Bille Woodruff Screenwriter: Alonzo Brown, Kim Watson Music Score: Mervyn Warren WorkNameSort: Honey Our Rating: 0.00 Jessica Alba (TV’s “Dark Angel”) plays a hip-hop dancer navigating an urban landscape of career opportunities and improper sexual advances.…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Km. 0 – Kilometer Zero

Km. 0 – Kilometer Zero Length: 108 minutes Studio: TLA Releasing Release Date: 2003-12-05 Cast: Concha Velasco, Georges Corraface, Carlos Fuentes Director: Juan Luis Iborra, Yolanda Garcia Serrano Screenwriter: Juan Luis Iborra, Yolanda Garcia Serrano WorkNameSort: Km. 0 – Kilometer Zero Our Rating: 0.00 Sex farce follows the misadventures of 14 people whose lives intersect…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Honey

Our Rating: 0.00 Jessica Alba (TV’s “Dark Angel”) plays a hip-hop dancer navigating an urban landscape of career opportunities and improper sexual advances. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Climbing Vines

Shakespeare’s Juliet pondered, “What’s in a name?” Obviously Juliet wasn’t in the restaurant business, because names seem to be of primary concern to those vying for dining dollars. Because of a lawsuit brought by an out-of-town claimant, Wildfires Bar ‘n’ Grill in Thornton Park recently changed its name to Wildsides. And just as we were…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Classical love

Matt Haimovitz is buried in national acclaim for bringing his cello into sold-out nontraditional venues and ripping out some of the most insane classical Bach you ever want to hear. He’s no ordinary cellist; rather, he’s a prodigy who’s all grown up. Touring in support of his new album, “Anthem,” featuring music by American composers,…

Ben Fogelson

What, no Jacuzzi?

The man convicted of blowing up the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people, lives in relative luxury in a private four-room suite in Glasgow’s Barlinnie prison, according to a November report in Britain’s News of the World. Abdelbaset al Megrahi, who is serving a minimum 27-year sentence, has a color…

Chuck Shepherd

Negative reactions to ugly truths

It could be worse. A four-day compilation hangover composed of various and sundry alcoholic binges, tryptophan hiccups and whatever else it is one does to try to make lugubrious seem fantastic. All I have to show for it is a stomachache, a stuffy nose and that peculiar Xanax haze that makes your jaw hang open…

Billy Manes

Terminal sensitivity

Los Angeles officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms “master” and “slave” on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. “Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County, this is not an acceptable identification label,” Joe Sandoval, division manager of purchasing and contract services, said…

Steve Schneider

Stinking the mailbox

By now you’ve probably seen Local 6’s “exclusive” investigation into Orkin Pest Control’s tendency not to pull permits for houses the company repairs. Perhaps you also remember reading something strikingly similar two months ago in this paper [The Orkin scam, Sept. 25]. This is just the beginning. Collier Black and Elizabeth Allen, the two homeowners…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Adios, Jaymont block

When developer Cameron Kuhn and some business partners bought the long-dead Jaymont block for $10.8 million last month, they promised a project that would “change the city.” They weren’t kidding. Shortly after the deal was announced, Kuhn filed an application for a demolition permit for the South Orange Avenue property, located between Pine and Church…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Women and children last

Sallie Cleveland thought her days of raising children were long over. Cleveland and her husband, Jimmy, had raised eight of their own, seven of whom grew up to be relatively successful in and around Sanford. The exception was the couple’s second-to-youngest child. Their daughter had developed an addiction to crack cocaine so bad she spent…

William Dean Hinton

Second annual Comics Contest

OK, we admit it. Last year we kind of screwed up the Comics Contest a little bit. But it was the first time we’d ever done anything like this, and well, cut us some slack. Errors were made. Like allowing syndicated artists to compete against rank amateurs, and not separating entries and awarding prizes for…

Staff writers

Classical love

Matt Haimovitz is buried in national acclaim for bringing his cello into sold-out nontraditional venues and ripping out some of the most insane classical Bach you ever want to hear. He’s no ordinary cellist; rather, he’s a prodigy who’s all grown up. Touring in support of his new album, “Anthem,” featuring music by American composers,…

Ben Fogelson

Barnyard hosts meaty revelations

Happily feeding at his trough, Leo the pig is approached by a sunglasses-clad cow called Moopheus. The dour bovine explains about The Meatrix, “the lie we tell ourselves about where our food comes from,” and with one red pill, Leo’s illusions are shattered. Found at www.themeatrix.com, this animated parody of The Matrix is funny, but…

Joseph Hayes

Can’t stop the rock

In terms of passion, poor Ted Leo seems to suffer from a burden of riches. Undeterred by his slow-grow cult status, he’s been guitar-slinging in crappy DIY spaces and crashing on college kids’ floors for the better part of two decades. He’s weathered countless flash-in-the-pan indie trends, gone through one band after the next and…

Nate Cavalieri

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