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May 14-20, 2003

May 14-20, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 20

Currying flavor

Most of what we’re familiar with as “Indian food” comes from the northern part of the subcontinent. Tandoori, tikkas and yellow curry are wonderful things, but special treats are found to the south and western coast. Indian lobster? You bet. Reggie D’Souza, who has owned the Northern-themed Far Pavilion restaurant on I-Drive for many years,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Reloaded Length: 2 hours, 18 minutes Studio: Warner Bros. Website: http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2003-05-15 Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett-Smith Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski Screenwriter: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski WorkNameSort: The Matrix Reloaded Our Rating: 3.50 A lot has changed since “The Matrix” bowed in 1999. Its…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Down with Love

Our Rating: 0.00 Renée Zellweger as Doris Day? That’s the gist of this retro romance, in which a feminist author is pursued by a womanizing journalist (Ewan McGregor). (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Matrix Reloaded

Our Rating: 3.50 A lot has changed since “The Matrix” bowed in 1999. Its high-leaping, time-suspending fight scenes have been copied innumerable times, and the entire culture of cyberpromise that birthed the project has been thrown into stark relief by the dot-com bust. As for the legion of acolytes who took the movie’s hand-me-down existentialism…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Down with Love

Down with Love Studio: 20th Century Fox Website: http://www.down-with-love.com/ Release Date: 2003-05-16 Cast: Ewan McGregor, Renee Zellweger, Sarah Paulson, Rachel Dratch, David Hyde Pierce Director: Peyton Reed Screenwriter: Eve Ahlert, Dennis Drake WorkNameSort: Down with Love Our Rating: 0.00 Renée Zellweger as Doris Day? That’s the gist of this retro romance, in which a feminist…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Attack of the dumb, rich girls

Three-hundred-ninety-seven days, 16 hours and 53 minutes until the Olsen Twins are legal. Ashley (right-handed, sweet and very pretty) is two minutes senior to li’l sis, Mary-Kate (left-handed, likewise sweet and not as pretty). And here is where the differences for these two nubile People Magazine beautiful people seemingly end. Or do they? “Well, there…

Billy Manes

My book of vices

Like a lot of folks, I was heartsick to learn that former education secretary William Bennett was nursing a multimillion-dollar gambling habit. I had greatly enjoyed Bennett’s many books on the subject of our national moral decay, including “The Death of Outrage,” “The De-Valuing of America” and “All Up in Your Business III: Let’s Talk…

Steve Schneider

Target practice

It was the third day of the National Rifle Association’s annual conference, April 27, and Tim Condon thought he was home free. He had already survived two days of sore feet, meddlesome security officers and zealous members of the Million Mom March yelling anti-gun slogans through a bull-horn. Condon, a 53-year-old Tampa attorney, traveled to…

William Dean Hinton

Flying high

Ray Rhoden’s first solo flight was scheduled for early in the morning on Feb. 28. At 6:30 p.m. the night before, his flight instructor called, telling Rhoden to get a good night’s rest. His dream of becoming an airline pilot — which he’d traveled from Jamaica to pursue — was inching closer to reality. Fifteen…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Party now, prison later

Concert promoters and club owners: Be very afraid. Your business is in danger thanks to a rider three U.S. senators tacked onto the federal Amber Alert bill, which became law April 10. According to the bill, club owners and concert promoters can be fined or imprisoned if an audience member is found to be using…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Sierra Club vs. UCF

Sue Eberle doesn’t give up. For nearly a decade, Eberle has battled the University of Central Florida’s ongoing expansion, unsuccessfully pushing local and state lawmakers to force UCF to house more students on campus and take its neighbors’ wishes into consideration when deciding how to expand. In January, when UCF’s 13 trustees (all appointed by…

William Dean Hinton

Third time’s the charm

Year of the Rabbit should break the curse of Failure Ken Andrews’ 10 years in the trenches of the rock business should be a cautionary tale. It would be a brief one, beginning and ending thusly: There once was a guitar player from L.A. who knew how to write, play and produce great music that…

Jason Ferguson

Bombay the right way

Bollywood sounds finally get U.S. release There are 1.7 million Indians living in America, a number that’s more than doubled in the last 10 years. And those 1.7 million people are among America’s best educated (67 percent hold advanced degrees) and most financially solvent (their average income rests around $61,000 a year). Suffice it to…

Jason Ferguson

Fringe Festival sweetens the pot

Finally, a reason to go to the Orlando International Fringe Festival that doesn’t involve tortured actors or nudity. Mead, the nectar of the gods — or a rampaging Viking or two — will be served by the folks from Redstone Meadery in Colorado. Basically fermented honey, the black raspberry and boysenberry nectars are brewed with…

Joseph Hayes

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