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Feb 11-17, 2004

Feb 11-17, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 6

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The wilds of east Orlando, almost to the edge of civilization where Colonial Drive intersects Alafaya Trail, is not an area that immediately springs to mind for those on the hunt for good sushi; burgers, steakhouses, Wal-Mart and used-car lots, yes. Sushi, not so much. Tucked away in the Alafaya Commons Plaza, a few stores…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Zoa gets their rocks off

Later this night, the band and crew of Zoa will take me out for a night on the town. It will be revealed that the bass player’s real name is Billy and that he becomes bad boy “Fenwick” when he blacks out; that the band does indeed like to drink; and that their sauced-up camaraderie…

Billy Manes

Metal for the masses

To think that a death metal band like Opeth won a Grammy in its homeland of Sweden — while a band like Tool is the most daring we can muster in America — may come across as a bit of a surprise. That they were competing for their “Grammi” against bands like Entombed and Sahara…

Omar Perez

The Sex Issue

Seven reasons why our annual Sex Issue is in the form of a nonsensical jumble of lists, instead of jam-packed with salacious photos of attractive models engaged in simulated sexual congress:/p> 1) After the Super Bowl halftime fiasco, Orlando Weekly is now printed on a five-second delay 2) Staff believes that kids these days don’t…

Staff writers

Wrapped in false bliss

In the immortal words of perennial pop soothsayer Peter Wolf, he of the J. Geils Band, well, “Love Stinks.” Yeah, you can have your Benatar “Battlefields” or your Crackhead Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” But come Valentine’s Day — which has come, in case you’ve dropped your life like a box of chocolates –…

Billy Manes

Fangs for nothing

The news wires went crazy last week with stories that the office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist had been contaminated with ricin, a toxin twice as deadly as cobra venom. For one thing, there was the immediate fear of bioterrorism to contend with. And of course, it was a time to reflect on the…

Steve Schneider

A modest proposal

News of the Weird reported in 2002 that Armin Meiwes, 41, had been arrested for killing and eating a 42-year-old man in Kassel, Germany, but presented videotaped evidence that the murder was consensual (which would still be a crime in Germany but with a lighter sentence). Prosecutors have since learned that the “international cannibal community”…

Chuck Shepherd

Is that a porn star in your pocket?

When G.I. Joe used to come back from battling the forces of COBRA, he only had two real options for relaxation: Go over to Barbie’s Dream House for a little heavy petting in her Corvette, or have sexual congress with the easy but foul-smelling Strawberry Shortcake. Thanks to Plastic Fantasy (www.plasticfantasy.com), Joe is no longer…

Eric Resnick

D-MAC goes AWOL

A flier at Guinevere’s coffeehouse listed a Jan. 29 jazz-and-blues event at D-MAC (Downtown Media Arts Center), located directly upstairs. But organizers had to move the event, because there isn’t any D-MAC yet. There isn’t even any tangible progress toward a D-MAC yet. At last report `”Thumbs-up to D-MAC and other digital progressions,” Oct. 10`,…

Lindy T. Shepherd

The devil his due

Two weeks ago this wildly popular columnist wrote a squib defending the Orlando Sentinel, of all things, for their October series investigating deaths from the prescription drug OxyContin. Predictions that monkeys would take wing and swine recite poetry when Slug wrote a kind word about the Sentinel failed to materialize. In an odd twist, however,…

Bob Whitby

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