May 7-13, 2003

May 7-13, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 19

Movie: Daddy Day Care

Daddy Day Care Studio: Columbia Pictures Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/daddydaycare/ Release Date: 2003-05-09 Cast: Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn, Anjelica Huston, Lacey Chabert, Jeff Garlin Director: Steve Carr Screenwriter: Geoff Rodkey WorkNameSort: Daddy Day Care Our Rating: 0.00 Laid-off ad exec Eddie Murphy hits upon a novel moneymaking scheme: running a child-care center in his home. (Not reviewed.)

Beating goes on

An April Wall Street Journal report highlighted several states’ elementary school “anti-bully” policies that have banned rough-housing, name-calling, pointed gossip and even “mean looks,” and encourage teaching the little kids a language of sensitivity and tolerance. However, one problem some kids fear from such training and language is that, as they move up to middle…

Mother’s Day Cards From Dr. Laura

Why should Maya Angelou and Hallmark have all the fun? Celebrity greetings reach a new plateau of inspiration with these … Just not on the phone, in my mailbox or within a thousand miles of my physical person. But that’s O.K. I’m fine. Really.Enjoy the Snickers bar.You’ve earned it.   If they think I’m a…

Keep your pants on

Seminole County kids learn that sex is bad, and almost nothing else that could save their lives You can’t fault Seminole County Public Schools administrators for talking almost apologetically about their district’s strict, abstinence-only sex-ed program: “It doesn’t matter what my opinion is,” says Mary Lane, secondary curriculum specialist. “The school board has directed it…

Meet the new bosses

Two attorneys take control of the local ACLU, promising reform and a renewed fight for liberty In 1990, a small group of undercover Orange County cops known as the Duke Boys devised a scheme to turn a small-time crack dealer named Charles Chestnut into a police informant. After arresting Chestnut in an Apopka nightclub, they…

The name game

Imagine you are poor, beleaguered Lou Pearlman. You look like Jiminy Glick. You’ve inflicted a lot of really bad music on the world and someday, by god, you’ll have to answer for it. You’ve made a lot of money, but there are persistent rumors that your empire is really a house of cards. And the…

Banned books

A classics-heavy list of literature that’s just too dangerous for your kids to read. Censorship: The change in the access status of material, made by a governing authority or its representatives. Such changes include exclusion, restriction, removal, or age/grade level changes.— as defined by the American Library Association In the past year more than 100…

Punks in prayer

Midway smells of hot sweetness and warm ketchup mingling with wafts of body odor. Over here, sounds of spindling, indie rock bleed into thumps of grindcore, while passing folk search for a rhythm that suits their wandering minds. Over there, it’s Indian-style circle time in soothing acoustic reflection, backing up against a pogo of pop-punk…

Tastes like chicken

I once read that frogs will move toward a light source, but for some reason can’t differentiate a light from a solid-white wall. Perhaps the same can be said of Les Claypool. Earmarked by Claypool’s distinctive voice, whimsical lyrics and funk-rooted bass, Primus flourished among the Lollapalooza-era bands who redefined “alternative,” that infamous shibboleth that…

West Indies in Winter Garden

Singh’s Roti Shop (5812 Old Winter Garden Road, 407-447-3447) is a little piece of the West Indies, with flavors and smells like nothing you’ll find anywhere else. The amazingly varied menu starts with influences of Indian and Chinese cooking and then goes wild with spices. Singh’s specializes in roti — flat wheat bread similar to…

Other side of the tracks

Nobody survives MTV. Sure, the double-edged butter knife of palatable hipness has tempted many a 20-something almost-there New Yorker into careerist dreams of celebrity ascension via the title of “veejay.” But the fine print on the contract must read something like: 1) We’ll fire you when your representative trait trend fades. 2) You’ll never go…


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