
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND EASY NUT TO CRACK OLD DOG THE DEVIL'S MUSIC OLD DOG THEATER: FROZEN BY THE EMPTY SPACES THEATRE CO. SOLE FOOD REVIEW: FILM - AN EDUCATION OPERATION MBI SHAME SEX AND OUR CITY PUNK LIKE ME VISUAL ART: THE JAPAN CRAZE AND WESTERN ART 1880-1920 ALL HAIL KING BILL FREDERICK AND SENTINEL CUTS BACK ON COVERAGE DVDS NUTS! FALL GUIDE 2008 REVIEW: RESTAURANT - BEEWON KOREAN CUISINE BEST OF ORLANDO 2008 REVIEW: FILM - NO PLACE OR WORK BEST OF ORLANDO 2006 UP IN THE AIR SEX SELLS EAT AT DOUG'S THE PARTY'S OVER BIG CLASSIC REVIEW: FILM - CATCH AND RELEASE AN INAUSPICIOUS DEATH FREEDOM ISN’T FREE
by Bao Le-Huu
Looking good so far, Magic,
looking good. Keep beatin’ that ass all
day long.
The beat
by Ben L. Kaufman
By now you’ve heard of ACORN, the national coalition of community organizers. It has embezzlement problems, and recently a few of its counselors offered tax, immigration and housing advice for a criminal enterpris ...
by Justin Strout
At the beginning of October, local podcaster Lee Douglas hit a milestone. It was his third year running the Old Time Rock & Roll podcast (available at
by Jeffrey C. Billman
Since the 1940s, the white concrete-block building at 6440 N. Orange Blossom Trail has housed a watering hole. Today, it’s the Junkyard Saloon, a gritty biker bar just north of Clarcona-Ocoee Road sandwiched be ...
by Justin Strout
At the beginning of October, local podcaster Lee Douglas hit a milestone. It was his third year running the Old Time Rock & Roll podcast (available at
by Laura Stewart
Searing and chilling
Frozen by the Empty Spaces Theatre Co.
Through Nov. 8 at Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.
407-328-9005
(2009-503761) 7:26 a.m.: Officer Williams has some issues with verb tense: “On the above listed date and time, unknown suspect(s) gain en ...
by Michelle Gienow
or the past three years, following the typical Michael Pollan–fueled, now-I’ve-seen-the-locavore-light conversion experience, I’ve been trying hard to feed my family good food. It’s more difficult than it sounds; ...
by Justin Strout
Many have come close, but An Education is the first film this year to grab me by the lapel and whisk me along with its characters, to make me care so deeply about them that I was roiling with every emotio ...
by Orlando Weekly Staff
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 ...
by Justin Strout
Afro-Punk
Presents
with Saul Williams, Krak
Attack, Earl Greyhound
9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5
The Social, 407-246-1419
$15-$17
by Rex Thomas
Two (cultures) for tea
The Japan Craze and Western Art 1880-1920, through Aug. 8, 2010, at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park
407-645-5311
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by Jeffrey C. Billman and Steve Schneider
The ink was hardly dry on Buddy Dyer's suspension from office when the powers that be from the Sentinel o ...
by Justin Strout
Food, Inc. For this documentary exploration of America’s food culture and its efficient method of possibly poisoning generations by devolving human sustenance into Frankenstein junk, PBS vet ...
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 ...
by Faiyaz Kara
Using market indicators has always been essential to making wise financial choices, and that doesn’t change when making dining choices. The realization that we were the sole non-Koreans inside this unpretentious K ...
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 ...
by John Thomason
A cheap, hollow shell of the terrifying and intellectually engaging Japanese film on which it’s based, Pulse is an apocalyptic nightmare that remains faithful to the original version’s groundbreaking ideas but makes them conform to a schlock ...
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 ...
by Deanna Sheffield
If you fly, you want Transportation Security Administration screeners to be happy in their jobs. These are the people charged with making sure someone doesn’t sneak knives, guns or other contraband aboard planes. Many screeners ...
by Deanna Morey
Editor's note: This is a corrected version of the story. This version was updated on 8/29/2008.
The swanky, gated Central Florida home looks like many others. Haley Sinclair, a pretty blond p ...
by Jeffrey C. Billman
Somewhere in Volusia County, in a patch of scrub pine dense enough to block the wind but not the sun, is a sinister-looking building -- a cross between a house and a shack -- that looks like the kind of place you'd find corpses stacked like cordwo ...
by Billy Manes
There’s a strange tale of wealth and greed, friendship and betrayal, wild parties and beautiful women winding its way through the courts in Seminole County. It involves two former friends, a legendary local wat ...
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 ...
by Cole Haddon
Catch and Release opens with a funeral, which is a not-so-funny way for a romantic comedy trying to pass itself off as a drama to begin. It seems Gray (Jennifer Garner) has lost her fiance only days before she was supposed to marry him. Unab ...
by Billy Manes
At the crack of dawn on July 22, Joel Boner, 30, awoke to a terrifying scene. Outside his tent at an Ocoee homeless camp at the intersection of State Road 50 and Bluford Avenue, two 19-year-olds – John Hawthorne a ...
by Billy Manes
When Gov. Jeb Bush signed into law the use of global positioning satellite devices to monitor the whereabouts of habitual sex offenders in 2005, it seemed like a sign of the times. It was a technological developme ...
WHAT YOU'RE DOING THIS WEEKEND
by: Jason Ferguson on 11/7/2009
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by: Jason Ferguson on 11/6/2009
by: Jessica Bryce Young on 11/6/2009
FIRST SHOT: LOST, FOUND AND BUSTED!
by: Steve Schneider on 11/6/2009
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