An object for their obsessions
Movie: Malena
The little Prinze
Movie: Head Over Heels
A cheap date, not a moment too swoon
Movie: Olive Juice
High romance with a kick
Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
An object for their obsessions
Movie: Malena
The little Prinze
Movie: Head Over Heels
A cheap date, not a moment too swoon
Movie: Olive Juice
High romance with a kick
Movie: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Review – In the Flesh
Artist: Roger Waters
Review – More
Artist: Vitamin C
Review – Dog in the Sand
Artist: Frank Black and the Catholics
Review – Traffic
Artist: Various Artists
Review – In the Flesh
Artist: Roger Waters
Review – More
Artist: Vitamin C
Review – Dog in the Sand
Artist: Frank Black and the Catholics
Review – Traffic
Artist: Various Artists
Review – In the Flesh
Artist: Roger Waters
Review – More
Artist: Vitamin C
Review – Dog in the Sand
Artist: Frank Black and the Catholics
Review – Traffic
Artist: Various Artists
Golfer tees off new restaurant
I’ve never quite understood the sports/food connection. I don’t mean sports bars, where you go to have some wings and a beer or two while watching a few dozen football games on TV. That’s more like a public living room with waitresses added. I mean the idea of going to a restaurant because it has…
In harmony
Couples reach irreconcilable differences, band members discover creative differences, but husband-and-wife roots-rockers Mark Olson and Victoria Williams seem to know how to avoid the potentially ruffled feathers that come when two people who live together also work together. Olson was a founding member of the Jayhawks, whose Americana sound and graceful harmonies had just enough…
Stars and swipes
Stephen Hawking is probably the only theoretical physicist who could do Amex ads. He’s so smart that most of us probably aren’t quite sure what he’s famous for. In January Hawking got to pooh-pooh some of Einstein’s theories while giving the Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture for the Center for Philosophy and Foundation of Science, in…
A not-so-private eye
Orange Avenue business owners, your hope for more security has been answered — sort of. Revelers who want to hit downtown without running past a gauntlet of cops — don’t be fooled by the absence of uniformed patrollers. City officials this month will put up four video cameras on Orange Avenue and Pine Street that…
We told you so
As Orlando Weekly went to press last week, former City Clerk Grace Chewning did indeed return our phone call to state the obvious: that after 47 years of service to the city, Mayor Glenda Hood had given Chewning the boot. “They said they wanted a new direction for the city clerk’s office and I wasn’t…
Fists of tranquility
Get ready to be transported. For American audiences unfamiliar with Hong Kong martial-arts period pieces, or for those who think Hong Kong moviemaking is synonymous with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon will carry them places they haven’t encountered before. While it conjures up recognizable feelings (love, duty, passion and…
Immigrants beware
Last week, we reported that President Bush was mulling over Bill McCollum as the country’s next drug czar. If that job falls through, however, it doesn’t mean McCollum will have to leave the Beltway. The insider publication Roll Call recently reported that our former congressman was also on the short list to head the Immigration…
A bust is busted
Attorneys for Uriyah Ajamu sued the Orlando Police Department in December, alleging six counts of police misconduct resulting from an Aug. 6, 1999, drug bust in which police allegedly dragged Ajamu from his house and smashed his face on the sidewalk [No place like home, July 27]. Ajamu was not arrested. Ajamu’s suit alleges that…
A trailblazer bows out
“I’m having an early midlife crisis. Some people buy a shiny new sports car. Some people leave their spouse and find a young chippy. I’m trying to simplify my life.” As he talks, Bruce Ground’s brown eyes scan the shelves along the south wall of his Mills Avenue book store, Out & About Books. Maybe…
Law without order
Normally I don’t read the lurid stories in the local daily paper about murder, mayhem and the various indignities human beings have been perpetrating upon one another since the days of Cain and Abel. Similarly, I eschew our local tabloid TV-news fare of the more sordid aspects of human behavior. Tales of heinous brutality neither…
This smells like a success
Daily Variety reported in January that Britain’s Pathe Pictures had scheduled an April shooting date for the $7 million comedy “Thunderpants.” The film is described as the story of “an 11-year-old boy whose amazing ability `to break wind` leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his…
Will fifth park snap into place?
Since their company is the undisputed king of Central Florida’s theme-park market, you’d think the executives in charge at Disney would be able to kick back and relax a bit. The Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney/ MGM and Animal Kingdom combined are drawing record numbers of visitors. But if rumors can be believed, there’s a fifth…
‘Survivor’ of the fittest
“Regular people are fat!” Maybe I am irregular. That’s me in the corner, huddled on the WKMG-Channel 6 couch with some of Central Florida’s frequency-modulating radio crowd — none of whom, surprisingly, are fat — awaiting a promised press conference with “Survivor” nonsurvivor Gretchen Cordy. The “regular people” comment pours out of the Arbitron-friendly mouth…
Film fest sets a price above rupees
When he arrives at Maitland’s Enzian Theater this Saturday, Feb. 3, Krutin Patel will be the first visiting director ever to appear at the annual South Asian Film Festival. Filling that void, however, is a minor feat compared to another task the New Jersey filmmaker has in mind — replacing the image of the “typical”…
