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Jan 28 - Feb 3, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 4

Movie: The Perfect Score

The Perfect Score Studio: Paramount Pictures Website: http://www.perfectscoremovie.com Release Date: 2004-01-30 Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Darius Miles, Leonardo Nam Director: Brian Robbins Screenwriter: Mark Schwahn, Marc Hyman, Jon Zack Music Score: John Murphy WorkNameSort: The Perfect Score Our Rating: 0.00 This week’s other Scarlett Johansson movie is an ensemble crime comedy about…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Orlando Avenue’s full of beans

The run of Orlando Avenue near Winter Park Village is quickly becoming a haven for Hispanic food. Following on the heels of Chipotle (525 S. Orlando Ave.; 407-628-3207) is Coconuts Cafe (911 N. Orlando Ave., 407-767-7878). Coconuts serves beef empanadas, croquettes and some of the largest Cuban sandwiches you’ll ever see — even pressed, they’re…

Joseph Hayes

Scratch that glitch

One of the ultimate gigs, according to Randy Garcia, would be to compose music for video games: melodies repeated so frequently throughout play (á la Tetris) that they have to be well done. Therefore, it’s no surprise that most of his electronic music (recorded under the name R_Garcia) includes the blip and bleep sounds familiar…

Cynthia Ariel Conlin

Beer and loathing on the campaign trail

Sounding hoarse from the intense campaign — running nights “without sleep, a lot of cold pizza … some warm beer” — Kerry told supporters, “I feel like I’m back in exam week in college.” — Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 22, 2004 A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF JOHN KERRY, WINTER TERM, 2004 Jan. 20, 2004 —…

Steve Schneider

Need to know

Derek Leroy McSmith of Forest City, Ga., has filed 10,618 formal open-records requests to local governments in the last eight months, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report. Most were, he said, to satisfy his curiosity about how government works, but one day, he asked for 490 magazines and on another day, he checked out 100…

Chuck Shepherd

Something’s cooking

Too bad the turnout was so low at the local celebration of the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade Jan. 22 at the First Unitarian Church of Orlando. Arguably one of the most important Supreme Court decisions, Roe v. Wade opened the door for legal abortions, establishing the boundaries over which the government cannot step…

Lindy T. Shepherd

Welcome to the jungle

In a small patch of woods in east Orlando there is a group of people who make their homes the best they can, in tents, lean-tos and huts. The people who live here — homeless and mostly jobless — are among the hundreds of “squatters” staking out vacant plots of land in and around Orlando,…

Emily Ruff

Drug deals

First came the e-mail hinting at dirt on the Orlando Sentinel. And I bit. Then came the phone call, and I bit again. Then came the documents, and I continued to chomp. Who can resist the tantalizing allure of afflicting the afflicters? Most people, probably, but I do not count myself among them. I know…

Bob Whitby

On the upside

The new great depression is nigh. Hovering somewhat daftly between the claustrophobic rant of The Nails’ classic “88 Lines About 44 Women” and the smack-toothed howl of Jim Carroll’s “People Who Died,” most of my friends — including those friends who aren’t really friends but acquaintances seemingly closer than friends, decorating the downward-spiral pages of…

Billy Manes

To the left on your radio dial

Lizz Winstead was having brunch in Manhattan’s Noho Star on Jan. 4, wearing a Hüsker Dü T-shirt. Slight and fierce, with a tinge of gray at the roots of her curly, brownish-blond hair, Winstead was talking about her career in comedy and the prospects for Central Air, the soon-to-debut, left-wing talk-radio network for which she’s…

Rachel Donadio

Things you’re not supposed to know

What were they thinking? Did the folks at Disinformation (www.disinfo.com) really think that a pseudo-newsmagazine about chicks with dicks, time travel conspiracies and Kembra Pfahler’s sewn-together labia would fly on television? Probably not — they’re smarter than that — but when executives at England’s Channel 4 offered up rather a large chunk of change to…

Jason Ferguson

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