Feb 4-10, 2004

Feb 4-10, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 5

Movie: Catch That Kid

Catch That Kid Studio: 20th Century Fox Website: http://www.catchthatkid.com Release Date: 2004-02-06 Cast: Kristen Stewart, Corbin Bleu, Jennifer Beals, Max Theiriot, Sam Robards Director: Bart Freundlich Screenwriter: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Nicolai Arcel Music Score: George S. Clinton WorkNameSort: Catch That Kid Our Rating: 0.00 Following in the footsteps of the “Spy Kids” movies, this…

Movie: Catch That Kid

Our Rating: 0.00 Following in the footsteps of the “Spy Kids” movies, this tyke-tech caper focuses on a 12-year-old who wants to rob a bank to pay her dad’s medical expenses. Jennifer Beals plays her mother, which gives us a whole new set of Oedipal issues to wrestle with. (Not reviewed)

Increase your shortcake intake

An astonishing 5,000 acres of land in and around Plant City have been dedicated to one thing this year: strawberries. Since 1930 (with a break for World War II), the Florida Strawberry Festival has dished out shortcake, cobbler, sundaes and ice cream to hundreds of thousands of strawberry fanatics (over 1 million last year), and…

Leave them all behind

Often, genius is taken for insanity. The Dillinger Escape Plan may come across, to some, as a freak accident, the result of rampant guitars and a mishmash of metal that flies off the map of explanation. Even for those who like their rock heavy, it’s an acquired taste, but it’s one that’s ultimately rewarding. “There’s…

Ghost of the highway

Texas seems to lug along with it a peculiarly vast number of ghosts. Monster trucks, border towns, busty ing?nues and dusty roads all mark the Lone Star State, producing a simultaneously delightful and dire mythology — topped only by the sun-kissed guise of California or New York’s throbbing ant farm of Manhattanites. While you either…

Smack my beach up

Our Central Florida judges aren’t always the best at deciding cases, but, hoo boy, do they know a thing or two about the outdoor lifestyle. Last week, Circuit Judge Gene Stephenson caused a bit of an uproar with a comment he made about a rape case that was being tried in his Sanford courtroom. As…

God’s man in city hall

It was a calling, a calling from God.” Thus, retired Orlando Police Department captain and evangelical minister Samuel Ings explains his decision to enter the mayor’s race. Actually, the Man Upstairs implored Ings to run twice: Once, on Dec. 1, 2003, upon his retirement, and again on Christmas Day, when Ings returned from Jamaica. “The…

Vargo gets it

A year ago, the Orlando city council fell in love with Lou Pearlman’s plan to renovate Church Street Station by relocating the headquarters of his Trans Continental empire to the long-dead tourist mecca. For outgoing Mayor Glenda Hood, it was one last chance to seize some sort of downtown revitalization legacy, and the city’s Community…

Von Who?

Even those who admire Von Dutch don’t call him a nice guy. No, they use words like “bitter,” “racist” and “violent.” They describe someone who was jaded young and spent much of his life hiding from the world. His name was a reflection of that, the very symbol of his obstinacy, anger and distrust of…

Displacement and dialogue

The “Zones of Conflict” exhibition of photographs, inkjet prints and sounds opened Jan. 30 at Valencia Community College East Campus, and it’s an inventive DIY adventure — the self-installed debut of two faculty members from Florida State University, Daniel Kariko and Scott Groeniger. After driving down from Tallahassee a day before the opening and taking…

Was “Pirates” pirated?

Remember Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl?” One of the two Disney movies in recent memory that didn’t completely suck? (“Finding Nemo” being the other.) The triumphant performance by Johnny Depp playing a drunk, flaming Capt. Jack Sparrow? Of course you do. Everyone on the planet saw it, and two-thirds…

Blue colors

This is how it always happens. In that wicked space between free radical dream association (typically involving the Queer Eyes, Michael Jackson and everyone else I hate) and my first mind-numbing beverage, I’m faced with the prospect of utter humiliation by way of the telephone interview. The phone is ringing its rhythmic hate across the…

Hire ground

Edward DeAguilera’s résumé doesn’t exactly scream “cutting-edge theater.” At various times in his professional career, the 29-year-old DeAguilera has: managed political campaigns for Republican state representatives Bob Starks and Randy Johnson; helped market a health-products line developed by Roy Speer, creator of the Home Shopping Network; handled community affairs for the SPCA of Central Florida;…

Joy to the world

Jonathan Cantu, 39, and Charles J. Kern, 50, of San Rafael, Calif., each feeling slighted at the other’s Christ-mas gift, smacked each other over the head with flowerpots and were hospitalized. Brandi Nicole Nason, 20, of Hermosa Beach, Calif., also dissatisfied with a gift, allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail into her ex-mother-in-law’s house, causing $200,000…


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