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Sep 10-16, 2003

Sep 10-16, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 37

Hanging a left

The title of Franken’s latest book, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair” and “Balanced Look at the Right” (Dutton), was not intended to slip under the radar, and it didn’t. The former “Saturday Night Live” prankster got himself another No. 1-selling book in no time, due in large part to the…

Pat Greene

Movie: Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Once Upon a Time in Mexico Studio: Sony Pictures Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/onceuponatimeinmexico/ Release Date: 2003-09-12 Cast: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Ruben Blades Director: Robert Rodriguez Screenwriter: Robert Rodriguez WorkNameSort: Once Upon a Time in Mexico Our Rating: 0.00 Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp star in the final installment of Robert Rodriguez’s El…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: No Good Deed

No Good Deed Length: 1 hour, 43 minutes Studio: MAC Releasing Release Date: 2003-09-12 Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Doug Hutchison, Stellan Skarsgard, Grace Zabriskie Director: Bob Rafelson Screenwriter: Christopher Canaan, Steve Barancik, Dashiell Hammett WorkNameSort: No Good Deed Our Rating: 0.00 A cop (Samuel L. Jackson) enters a complex web of deception when…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Extra-Floridinary

This book took shape with the premise that understanding the origins of someone’s art is crucial to experiencing that person’s imagery. The notion questions the modernists’ posit of seeing the artist as a conduit through which art and meaning mysteriously flow. Art does not speak for itself. I doubt that it exists beyond the sensibilities…

Lindy T. Shepherd

Sucks to be you

Joe Pernice’s lyrical melancholy has its antecedent in his New England roots. Speaking from a hotel the day after a show at Martha’s Vineyard, I greet him with the clarion call of all miserably hopeless dreamers: “Did you catch the Red Sox game last night?” “No, don’t do that to me, man,” he responds with…

Chris Parker

More Flavors and Tastes to tackle

With such a wide variety of local “ethnic” restaurants, it seems almost impossible that there could be something new to add. But two offerings from Hippocrene Books are a good start towards exploring new flavors. “Flavors of Burma” by Susan Chan is an introduction to an overlooked country twice the size of Vietnam, with wonderfully…

Joseph Hayes

¿Comprende?

Humans by nature tend to be open to other cultures — until they don’t understand them. While rock fans in non-English-speaking countries have accepted listening to music with English lyrics, Americans can be less accommodating of music sung in a non-native tongue. It’s part of the reason why Café Tacuba guitarist Joselo Rangel thinks the…

Omar Perez

All that glitters

“In my favorite book, ‘The Alchemist,'” reveals Ghanaian-born Rhian Benson, “there is a quote that basically says that the universe conspires with you when you are on the path to your dreams to help you achieve your goals.” For Benson, that fable of the shepherd boy Santiago and his serendipitous journey encouraged her determined spirit…

Felicia Pride

Sexually shellfish

A herpes-like virus has infected up to 10 percent of baby lobsters in the Florida Keys, leading some fisheries experts to wonder whether the disease explains recent dips in lobster catches. Biologists doubt the disease can be transferred to humans, but have alerted the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just in case. —…

Steve Schneider

Boy oh Boy George

I have a confession. I was once a poor, hair-glued, eyelined club kid, hallucinating my way around Tallahassee in search of some breakbeat heaven — a well-lit nightmare (er, club) full of miscreants with a like-minded propensity for ecstacy. And while I found it (ecstacy, that is), it never bore the significance of the halcyon…

Billy Manes

Fall Guide Selections

Oct. 4 Headdress Ball 2003: Society events of any real merit are hard to come by in these parts. Face it, the moths are more likely to hit your cummerbund or spaghetti strap pressed up in the cobweb corner of your closet than you are. But the annual Headdress Ball is coming, and certainly worthy…

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