Jul 2-8, 2003

Jul 2-8, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 27

Movie: Together

Our Rating: 3.50 China has long been known as a breeding ground for musical prodigies, a fact that director Chen Kaige (“Farewell My Concubine”) takes as the basis for “Together.” With an eye on adolescence and a sonata’s worth of schmaltz, the movie explores the bond between a motherless violin phenom and his instrument –…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Together

Our Rating: 3.50 China has long been known as a breeding ground for musical prodigies, a fact that director Chen Kaige (“Farewell My Concubine”) takes as the basis for “Together.” With an eye on adolescence and a sonata’s worth of schmaltz, the movie explores the bond between a motherless violin phenom and his instrument –…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Different smokes

I’ve had the pleasure of being around champion barbecue chefs several times in my life, and I can tell you that they all have two things in common. First, they smell like smoke, always. If you’re standing somewhere and suddenly think the building is on fire, there’s probably a competition barbecuer standing behind you, exuding…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Firing for political gain?

Expect the Republican entry in next spring’s mayor’s race to bring up layoffs instigated last month by Democratic Mayor Buddy Dyer. The reason? The terminations make it appear that former mayor Glenda Hood, a Republican, was running a fat, inefficient government. “Sometimes in an effort to make yourself look better, you make your predecessor look…

William Dean Hinton

Unfortunate son

He grew up in southeast Orlando in the 1970s, when the eastern edge of the city stopped at Conway Road and a boy could take a .22 and shoot rabbits in the orange groves north of the airport. He built three tree houses in his backyard, connected by cables and a swing, then moved onto…

William Dean Hinton

To die for

Her name is Snow, and her devastatingly pretty face is truly the stuff of fairy tales: translucent, porcelain skin, rosy cheeks, raven hair and pouty pink lips. But unlike fictional damsels in distress, Snow is in no need of rescue. Tattooed with multicolored stars, she seems absolutely gleeful stark naked on the Internet. You won’t…

Deb Berry

Sandwiches with a sense of humor

Seizing the opportunity to work this seemingly obvious but rarely employed cinematic pun, an eatery called My Beautiful Luncheonette (932 N. Mills Ave.; 407-896-1592) has opened in Orlando in the rainbow district. (You remember, the gay-Asian-British-flavored classic, “My Beautiful Launderette?”) Nestled in place of the former and almost-legendary Mad-Lyn’s Cafe (now a catering company), the…

Joseph Hayes

Sonic swarm

In nature, the locust destroys farm fields and inflicts damage on everything that that crosses the insects’ path. Similarly The Locust, a San Diego noise grindcore quartet, traverses and tramples on musical pastures and wreaks havoc on any musical normality. Spitting out one-minute-long songs of full-on rage through toe-curling screams, shredding guitar and manic time…

Omar Perez

Soul music

At 28, Asaan Brooks, better known in the music world as Swamburger, speaks with a charisma not unlike that found in great leaders. His eyes light up when he talks about the “movement.” I’m not here to talk about the “movement,” though. The original topic of discussion — and reason I’m here — is one…

Cynthia Ariel Conlin

Delta’s blues

In these days of little purple-pill and frowning-pet-rock pharmaceutical advertisements parading as public service — and crying, bleeding, even dying all the way to the bank — it’s nice to know that a good celebrity hookup makes the medicine go down better than a spoon full of sugar. This week’s sugar, or saccharine, comes in…

Billy Manes

… and justices for all

Though the U.S. Supreme Court ended its session last Thursday without a single justice announcing his or her retirement, smart politicos know that it’s never too early to start planning for a vacancy on the bench. Let’s face it: Some of those judges are so old, they knew God before he had a book deal.…

Steve Schneider

One step closer

Catch her on the right (wrong?) day, as I did, and Francine Ream will give you an earful about just how crappy life can be. She hasn’t held a steady job since October, the temp agency she signed up with to help make ends meet isn’t calling, and her computer died last week. Then there’s…

Bob Whitby

Number of the beast

Michael Machetti, 31, filed a lawsuit in Riverside County, Calif., in April against Bullseye Tattoo and its owner, charging that the tattoo removal he had done on his neck had infected him with the flesh-eating disease necrotizing fasciitis. Machetti said he went for the removal because co-workers had complained about the familiar two-word obscene phrase…

Chuck Shepherd

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