THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
by Bao Le-Huu
Looking good so far, Magic, looking good. Keep beatin’ that ass all day long. The beat

EASY NUT TO CRACK
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 ...

HAPPYTOWN
by Billy Manes and Bob Whitby
While it might have been more hilarious had it included a tiny black tuft of lip hair, last week’s half-assed Hitler-as-Charlie-Crist YouTube parody did succeed in drawing some national attentio ...

OLD DOG
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

THE DEVIL'S MUSIC
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 ...

OLD DOG
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

NEW DOWNTOWN HABITAT
by Lindy T. Shepherd
Blank Space Art Lounge Grand Opening 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday 201 E. Central Blvd. 407-481-9010 www. ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - HANA SUSHI
by Joseph Hayes
Altamonte Drive near I-4 isn't exactly known as a dining hot spot, what with the never-ending strip of fast food, chain food and, well, almost-food lining the road. Still, there are a few shining moments in the otherwise ketchup-slathered landscap ...

POLICE BEAT
by Jeffrey C. Billman
Oct. 23 (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 ...

THEATER: FROZEN BY THE EMPTY SPACES THEATRE CO.
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

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - BEEWON KOREAN CUISINE
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 ...

VISUAL ART: THE JAPAN CRAZE AND WESTERN ART 1880-1920
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 ...

ALL HAIL KING BILL FREDERICK AND SENTINEL CUTS BACK ON COVERAGE
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 ...

DVDS NUTS!
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 ...

REVIEW: FILM - NO PLACE OR WORK
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UP IN THE AIR
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 ...

AN INAUSPICIOUS DEATH
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 ...

SEX SELLS
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 ...

EAT AT DOUG'S
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 ...

THE PARTY'S OVER
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 ...

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 ...

REVIEW: FILM - CATCH AND RELEASE
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 ...