BIG CLASSIC
by Jonathan Cunningham
Orlando is about to get crunk. With 70,000-plus black folks expected to descend on Orlando this weekend for the Walt Disney World Florida Classic football game between the Bethune-Cookman College Wildc ...

THEATER REVIEW: JEKYLL & HYDE
by Al Krulick
Lack of extremes Jekyll & Hyde Through Nov. 28 at Greater Orlando Actors Theatre 669 Cherry St., Winter Park 407-872-8451

HOLIDAY GUIDE 2009: BARTENDER
by Billy Manes
It’s the Island of Misfit Toys. Slightly saddened faces etched deep with perennial rejection line up and hang down along the bar as other people play out their sweater-stretching Christmas convivi ...

SHE’S A MAN-EATER
by Wade Tatangelo
Neko Case 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19 The Plaza Theatre 407-228-1220 $25-$28 ‘It’s gratifying to be up there wi ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - SANAA
by Bob Whitby
‘Eighty percent of everything you see here is authentic,” says Charlie, our greeter for the evening at Sanaa, the newest dining option at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge. “Sana ...

SAVAGE LOVE
by Dan Savage
I am a 40-ish married straight woman living in New York. I have been happily married in a monogamous relationship for 11 years. My husband and I met when we were in our early 20s. After listening to all of the ...

HAPPYTOWN
by Billy Manes and Bob Whitby
“I guess Mr. Harris must have taken the week off,” were the prophetic (and chipper!) words of Mayor Buddy Dyer at the end of the Nov. 2 Orlando city council meeting upon noticing the absence of h ...

ANTI-POP: PASSAGE TO INDIE
by Justin Strout, Jason Ferguson and Bao Le-Huu
Listen, we don’t have a lot of time or space (thanks … everything!) so here are the basics you need to know. It’s the Anti-Pop Music Festival’s fifth year. As far as headliners go, it’s all right. As far as ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - APPLETON’S CAFE
by Faiyaz Kara
A good old-fashioned country diner may seem a wee bit out of place on the modern suburban thoroughfare of Lake Mary Boulevard, but that hasn’t stopped families from tolerating Appleton’s fruity decor (a decor that ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - PICCOLO GELATO CAFE
by Faiyaz Kara
Seeing affogato, a scoop of gelato splashed with a shot of espresso (see “Bites of spring,” Feb. 15, 2007) on the menu at Piccolo, a primo gelato joint in the Whole Foods plaza on Turkey Lake Road, gave me cause fo ...

SEX AND OUR CITY
by William Dean Hinton
It used to be that New Orleans, that gaudy, tacky hole in the earth where sin and smut are marketable attractions, was the one community that Central Florida civic and business leaders feared the most. New Orleans -- and its famously seedy streets ...

FALL GUIDE 2009
by Orlando Weekly Staff

HOLIDAY GUIDE 2009: STRIPPER
by T.I. Fraser
The common wisdom is that suicides skyrocket during the holidays. Though this is entirely unsupported by research, the public buys it because it’s so easy to envision. The de facto mandate of famil ...

BEST OF ORLANDO 2008
by Avery Beckendorf, Jeffrey C. Billman, Faiyaz Kara, Seth Kubersky, Bao Le-Huu, Billy Manes, Ian Monroe, Deanna Morey, Lindy T. Shepherd, Justin Strout, Jessica Bryce Young, and Bob Whitby
Can you believe another year has passed? It seems like only yesterday that we were printing our fabulously popular Best of Orlando issue – which by the way is the original and best Best of Orlando, not that ...

FALL GUIDE 2008
by Orlando Weekly staff
Air slightly drier than a damp washcloth? Temps hovering below 90? People venturing outside to do stuff? It’s called fall, and it’s when things get good around here. The arts come alive. Parties and ...

ASSASSINS
by Al Krulick
The will to kill Assassins Through Nov. 22 at Seminole State College 100 Weldon Blvd., Sanford 407-708-2040 $10 ...

BEST OF ORLANDO 2006
by Jeffrey C. Billman, James Carlson, Jason Ferguson, Amber Foster, Billy Manes, Steve Schneider, Lindy T. Shepherd, Shan Stumpf, Bob Whitby and Jessica Bryce Young
Wander the streets in search of answers no longer, Orlandoans, the Best of Orlando has finally arrived! In these pages you'll glean priceless insight from the City Beautiful's most trusted scribes on where to sup, shop, sightsee and find solitud ...

COUNCIL WATCH
by Billy Manes
Only nine days earlier, on Nov. 6, the city – and for a moment, the nation, at least on the cable news crawls – bore witness to a cacophony of gunfire that shut down downtown, so t ...

HOLY CRAP!
by Seth Kubersky
Sacrilegious trinity Holy Crap! Final show 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Parliament House 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail www.wanzie.com

ANTI-POP: PASSAGE TO INDIE
by Justin Strout, Jason Ferguson and Bao Le-Huu
Listen, we don’t have a lot of time or space (thanks … everything!) so here are the basics you need to know. It’s the Anti-Pop Music Festival’s fifth year. As far as headliners go, it’s all right. As far as ...

BLISTER
by Billy Manes
The light just went off, that old major airline seatbelt signifier of settling down, of woes left behind like microscopic dust particles in an imagined inner-eyelid rearview mirror. Sure, they’ll dance there, kick ...

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. I hope you will have many such days in the coming weeks ...

RUNNIN' AND HUSTLIN'
by Justin Strout
At this point in their career, it’s safe to assume Orlando hip-hop production duo the Runners are sitting next to your favorite rapper right now. On this muggy Satur ...

REVIEW: FILM - COCO BEFORE CHANEL
by William Goss
Before Coco Chanel was Chanel, the cutting-edge founder of a brand synonymous with fashion, Coco was simply an icon-to-be sleeping her way to the top and defying stuffy cultural mores of the era all along ...

GIRLS ON FILM
by Jason Ferguson
There's a Suicide Girl weeping in the back of the van on the way to yet another venue. She's just gotten off the phone with her boyfriend, and he was none too happy about the fact that she had been engaging in a fair amount of extracurricular sexu ...

WHY METALLICA SUCKS
by Jason Ferguson
The results are in and boy does Metallica suck. When we first announced our "Why Metallica Sucks" contest, I was worried that nobody would respond and that my suspicions about this once great band falling into a pit of mediocrity would be unfounde ...

SAVAGE LOVE
by Dan Savage
I am a 30-year-old woman, married for five years to a man eight years my senior. Lately I have become more aware that I am turned on by the idea of bondage, specifically men locked up in chastity devices. I am ...

OPERATION MBI SHAME
by Orlando Weekly Staff

EDIBLE CHRISTMAS WREATHS
by Ron Bechtol
Writer and satirist Calvin Trillin once opined, perhaps not altogether facetiously, that the turkey was a poor choice for Thanksgiving dinner despite its native-bird status and (likely erroneous) association with ...

HAPPYTOWN
by Bob Whitby
Didn’t get enough crazy last summer with tea-partiers shouting angry slogans at anything and everything they could shake a fist at? Well, voter, now you have an alternative. You can be an official member of the

ON THE SIDE: GREEN PARTY
by Courtney Gilmartin
Farmers markets are a dime a dozen in Central Florida, with weekend markets popping up everywhere from Maitland to Waterford Lakes. The newest kid on the block is located at Knights Plaza at the UCF Arena. Howeve ...

BAD EDUCATION
by Jeffrey C. Billman
For Michael Satz, Florida Metropolitan University seemed like a good choice. Already working as a paralegal, Satz could get his bachelor's degree and enroll at Nova Southeastern Law School. FMU, a subsidiary of California-based Corinthian Colleges ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - SOUPS & STEWS BY LEA
by Faiyaz Kara
Concocting a superior soup is no easy task – in fact, it’s one of the defining tests of a chef’s mettle. Master the art and you might garner a following like Al Yeganeh, keeper of the Original SoupMan franchise an ...

GETTING IT TOGETHER
by Justin Strout
Orlando Film Festival Wednesday-Sunday, Nov. 4-8 Plaza Cinema Café

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