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Mar 3-9, 2004

Mar 3-9, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 9

King of the sea

Even if you’re one of those chow-time populists whose bullshit sonar starts pinging whenever a “name” chef opens another high-concept, decor-forward eatery, you’ll feel your cynicism melting away upon contact with Todd English’s bluezoo, the upscale seafood restaurant — sorry, they prefer to call it “coastal cuisine” — newly located in the Walt Disney World…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Touching the Void

Touching the Void Studio: IFC Films Website: http://www.pathefilms.co.uk/touching_the_void Release Date: 2004-03-05 Cast: Aaron Nicholas, Nicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey, Richard Hawking, Joe Simpson Director: Kevin MacDonald Screenwriter: Joe Simpson WorkNameSort: Touching the Void Our Rating: 0.00 Interviews and re-enactments help tell the story of a disaster-plagued 1985 mountain-climbing expedition in the Peruvian Andes. (Not reviewed)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Starsky and Hutch

Starsky and Hutch Studio: Warner Bros. Website: http://starskyandhutchmovie.warnerbros.com Release Date: 2004-03-05 Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn, Fred Williamson Director: Todd Phillips Screenwriter: Scot Armstrong, Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant Music Score: Barry Peterson WorkNameSort: Starsky and Hutch Our Rating: 0.00 It’s Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in the Gran Torino as director…

Orlando Weekly Staff

The inaugural Happytown™

The press release came, as so many do, in a stack of flotsam from inventors, nutritional-aid makers, screeds from the radical right about the gays marrying and so on. Usually we throw them all out. And we almost threw out the envelope from The Waverly, too. Until we spotted the key words: mermaids, mojitos, buffet.…

Bob Whitby

See no future, pay no rent

“It has the basic rhythm of the original ‘Revolution’ going on with some 20 loops we put on, things from the archives of EMI. We were cutting up classical music and making different size loops … all those different bits of sound and noises are all compiled.” — John Lennon on the creation of “Revolution…

Ian Monroe

I Love Crackheads

With the B List fading in the junkyard-Geo mirror, I’m now officially on the prowl for a dirtier, sexier, more absurd, or in this case, more illegal version of our City Beautiful. Peeling back the ears, and rolling back (and on) the years, Orlando possesses a sticky history — even more so than most suburban…

Billy Manes

Blog cabin republican

(In an effort to ape the tech-savvy tactics of Howard Dean, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has started a web log, or “blog,” at his official site, www.votenader.org. We’ve been monitoring the site for a while now, and we’ve kept a record of Nader’s every post — many of which mysteriously disappeared from the site…

Steve Schneider

YOU BLEW IT, REDNECKS!

The weekend after the Daytona 500, the redneck populace embraced Dale Jr. and put him on a pedestal. Why? Because his daddy done died on the same racetrack that Junior just tamed. If these NASCAR yokels had an ounce of common sense and weren’t entertained by watching cars turn left all day, they would look…

Drew Garabo

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