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Oct 15-21, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 42

Movie: The Housekeeper

Our Rating: 0.00 A French romantic comedy that details the deepening relationship between a lonely sound engineer and the woman he hires to take care of his Paris apartment after his wife leaves him. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Johnny’s Fillin’ Sta

Sometimes it seems like beef lovers might end up with smokers and cell phone users — out on the sidewalk (the cell phone part is wishful thinking). But there is at least one place where the burger connoisseur can indulge without fear of vegan reprisal. Johnny’s Fillin’ Station (2631 S. Fern Creek Ave., 407-894-6900) has…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Housekeeper

The Housekeeper Studio: Palm Pictures Release Date: 2003-10-17 Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emilie Dequenne, Brigitte Catillon, Axelle Abbadie, Catherine Breillat Director: Claude Berri Screenwriter: Claude Berri Music Score: Frederic Botton WorkNameSort: The Housekeeper Our Rating: 0.00 A French romantic comedy that details the deepening relationship between a lonely sound engineer and the woman he hires to…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Beat the Meatles

With the debut of Miami-based label The Smack Shire, three releases have been ushered out of the sometimes artful, sometimes sophomoric underbelly of the underground. The label’s founder, Gerard Klauder, has been working closely with longtime pal and label curator Tom Smith (formerly of To Live and Shave in L.A.) to launch the imprint. The…

Kelly Burnette

Johnny’s waves the red-meat flag

Sometimes it seems like beef lovers might end up with smokers and cell phone users — out on the sidewalk (the cell phone part is wishful thinking). But there is at least one place where the burger connoisseur can indulge without fear of vegan reprisal. Johnny’s Fillin’ Station (2631 S. Fern Creek Ave., 407-894-6900) has…

Joseph Hayes

Beat the Meatles

With the debut of Miami-based label The Smack Shire, three releases have been ushered out of the sometimes artful, sometimes sophomoric underbelly of the underground. The label’s founder, Gerard Klauder, has been working closely with longtime pal and label curator Tom Smith (formerly of To Live and Shave in L.A.) to launch the imprint. The…

Kelly Burnette

The epoch of belief

Colin Meloy hears stories in chords and melodies: vivid and imaginative stories such as that of a mother-turned-prostitute, a gin smuggler and affectionate WWI soldiers. But probably no Decemberists song is as gripping as “Leslie Anne Levine,” an account from a baby girl ghost, full of anger, misery and lovelessness. “That E major to that…

Jeff Skruck

Devil may care

When the harmonic convergence of Exene Cervenka and John Doe wound around the post-punk wasteland of the early ’80s, the critical mass clairvoyantly estimated that X might just take over the world. Albums like “More Fun in the New World” and “Under the Big Black Sun” were cacophonous celebrations of the minor key, minirevolutions pressed…

Billy Manes

Trade spaces with me

I’ve never really lifted a hammer. Nor have I screwed a screw (minus the driver), sawed a board or glued a stick — oh, wait, there was that pathetic matchstick cross I made in church camp, but I’d hardly count that as industrious. Fire is rarely industrious. Still, my midday booze slump is heightened by…

Billy Manes

20/20 hindsight

When the Mobility 20/20 transportation initiative went down in flames last week, the pundits said Orange County was doomed to decades of paralyzing gridlock. But here at the Orange County Commission and the City of Orlando, we think we have a better line on the message you, the voters, were trying to send. It’s not…

Steve Schneider

Big Vargo is watching

Royce Mathew has some far-out ideas. He thinks church and state should be separate. He thinks city officials should not be endorsing anti-gay groups. He thinks the state has no business legislating morality. He’s not from here, you see. He’s from California. Apparently, such radical views are not uncommon in that western Gomorrah. But Central…

Bob Whitby

I love my bullet train!

The 10-year-old in me is about to pee himself. I’m standing under I-4 at Robinson Street, beholding what’s being marketed as the future of Florida transportation. From the outside, it doesn’t look that much different from any other passenger train; maybe a bit sleeker. It’s the inside that makes me giddy. I mean, how often…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Taking a pass on marriage

When union representatives for LYNX, the region’s public bus system, sat down in the spring to discuss what issues they wanted to press during this year’s labor negotiations, they found they had 150 items on their wish list. Some were obvious: wages, sick leave and grievance procedures were a given. But they also included something…

William Dean Hinton

Missing something?

If there is one influence that has shaped worldwide political events over the past year, it’s the extent to which the Bush administration has exploited the events of Sept. 11, 2001, to solidify its military and economic control of the world at the expense of democracy, justice and the environment. But George W. Bush hasn’t…

Camille T. Taiara

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