SAVAGE LOVE
by Dan Savage
I am a recently married 30-year-old straight guy. My wife is great, and in fact, I have a baby on the way. My relationship with my wife is a good one. My problem lies with my addiction, if you will, to receiving head from a part ...

FREEZE FRAME
by Deanna Morey
Editor's note: This is a corrected version of the story. This corrected version was updated 11/6/2008 at 4:09 p.m. Last summer brought both steamy weather and a newfound prosperity for Quincy-bas ...

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 ...

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 ...

26 YEARS
by Deanna Sheffield
The drive to the Hardee Correctional Institution in Bowling Green is a journey through small towns, farms and empty lots. The prison itself is on a road lined with soaring palm trees. There are row ...

FREEZE FRAME
by Deanna Morey
Editor's note: This is a corrected version of the story. This corrected version was updated 11/6/2008 at 4:09 p.m. Last summer brought both steamy weather and a newfound prosperity for Quincy-bas ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - KAFE KALIK
by Faiyaz Kara
I have to confess: Before dining at Kafé Kalik, my only taste of “Bahamian” cooking was the Bahamian seafood chowder and the Bahamian grilled steak kabobs at Bahama Breeze. So the prospect of dining on au ...

NAUGHTY GIRLS NEED DUB TOO
by Billy Manes
Just ask Paris Hilton, who, with nasty old Carmen Electra in tow, just accepted doe-eyed-sex-princess kudos for "best celebrity DJ" at South Beach's seminal (and semen-filled) annual Dancestar awards ceremony. Everybody has a little DJ in t ...

FREE BILL DILLON!
by Deanna Morey
Bill Dillon has spent the last 27 years in Florida’s Hardee Correctional Institution for the vicious 1981 murder of James Dvorak [see “26 years,” Oct. 11, 2007]. Dvorak was bludge ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - TABLA BAR & GRILL
by Faiyaz Kara
A few weeks ago, I mentioned how chefs in this city haven’t ventured outside the frontiers of traditional Indian cookery, opting instead to stick to conventional, time-honored plates. Well, things have taken a tur ...

HAPPYTOWN
by Jeffrey C. Billman and Bob Whitby
Remember Bill Dillon, the convicted killer who has spent the last 27 years (and counting) in prison for a crime he probably didn’t commit [see “Free Bill Dillon!,” July 31]? On ...

THE BIG SALUTE
by Liz Langley
If you want a vivid picture of how our culture handles the penis, look at the guy wearing the Speedo. He’ll be easy to spot – most ...

THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
by Bao Le-Huu
Having just finished its fourth year of claim-staking the local music scene, the Anti-Pop Music Festival is rapidly gaining on the McRib as the most anticipated happening around here. This year’s ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - XUSHI FACTORY
by Faiyaz Kara
If you were to guess that a vivid, sex-bent, Hawaiian-themed sushi joint inside a Brazilian strip mall was the set of a debaucherous flick directed by John Waters, I’d likely say your presumption was spot-on. And ...

SECRETS AND LIES
by Lee Gardner
Not long after U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Hayden learned he was going to be named the director of the National Security Agency in 1998, he and his wife went out on a date. The Haydens lived in Seoul, South K ...

BLAME IT ON ISLAM
by Bob Whitby
Come on now, what's so bad about Shannon Burke? Yes, his radio show (5:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. weekdays, WFLA-AM, 540) is lowbrow cud for way-right-wingers who want to reassure themselves that they're not alone in this often non-white, often non-Christi ...

HAPPYTOWN
by Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby
You know how our friends at the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation are on a mission to erase sexual vice from our midst? No more rub-and-tug massages. No more $20 blow jobs on t ...

NOTHING SOFT ABOUT IT
by Lindy T. Shepherd
There’s a new theater company in town, making its debut with a show for a new generation. The Pillowman, it’s called, and 30-something Irish playwright Martin McDonagh is all about the blood in his dark ...

MAD MAN
by Billy Manes
Here stands an opulent empire built on disposable novelty. Over the foyer looms a giant crystal chandelier above a wrought-iron spiral staircase; a formal dining room is se ...

ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD
by Justin Strout
Last week, local mood merchants Kingsbury announced a relaunch of their website as a portal to every piece of music they’ve recorded, as well as all of their lyrics, “embarrassing” photos, music videos and “the ...

SAVAGE LOVE
by Dan Savage
I have a bigot in the family. My brother’s mother-in-law is scared this country is “on its way” to legalizing same-sex marriage, which is “against what her Bible tells [her].” Debating the issu ...

LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
by Seth Kubersky
Last week the New York Times reported on one of the few products to see a recent upswing in sales: Spam. If the economic outlook is so bleak that canned pork pudding is making a come ...

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 ...

FIRST SHOT
by Steve Schneider
A lot of you readers have probably felt some concern that this column often seems like little more than a platform for our incendiary political views, behind the flimsy guise of a movie roundup. Well, with this be ...

SPREADING THE WEALTH
by Billy Manes
It’s one of the most eclectic commercial stretches remaining in downtown Orlando. Stretching from the picturesque, historic Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts down to the quickly growing medical community sur ...

HOLIDAY GUIDE
by Orlando Weekly Staff
Don't let the economy undermine your holidays! There’s no place like home for the holidays, if you still have one. And if you do, count yourself among the lucky ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - NILE ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT
by Faiyaz Kara
Mention “Ethiopian” and “food” in the same breath and you’ll likely be greeted with an incredulous snicker, a famine-related wisecrack or silence, followed by a look of utter perplexity. Granted, Ethiopia is more commonly associ ...

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Below is the list of promoters, musicians, music journalists, radio programmers and general insiders in the Orlando music industry whose suggestions determined the nominees for the 2000 Orlando Music Awards. The readers of Orlando Weekly ...

WINTER PARK'S WAR ON SIN
by Deanna Morey
In March 2006, with local news cameras in tow, Winter Park cops raided Club Harem – the city’s only strip club – and arrested seven people on charges ranging from drugs to (overly) dirty dancing. As this newspaper ...

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 ...

REVIEW: FILM - HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
by Anders Wright
The characters in Mike Leigh’s films are rarely happy or lucky. The British director, who earned directing and screenplay Oscar nominations for his last film, Vera Drake, rehearses with his actors for mo ...

MURDER IN THE CITY BEAUTIFUL
by Jeffery C. Billman and Megan Schumacher
Recent statistics from the FBI show that violent crime is up nationwide, ending a five-year decrease. Murder and manslaughter rates went up nearly 5 percent nationwide, the largest percentage increase since ...

DEAD WRONG
by Edward Ericson Jr.
Randy Freeman stands up formally to ask his question, with challenge in his voice. "Who called it the ‘Ocoee Massacre,’" he demands. Twenty-five feet away, on a small riser in the corner of the coffee shop at Border’s Books on the outski ...

REVIEW: RESTAURANT - PAXIA ALTA COCINA MEXICANA
by Faiyaz Kara
Does it really make a difference that one popular southwest grill on Edgewater Drive has given way to another? Well, in the case of Paxia trading spaces with Moe’s as College Park’s Tex-Mex joint of choice, the an ...

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FIRST SHOT
by Steve Schneider
Before the movie industry horned in on the act, Thanksgiving used to be a time for family. Why, some of our fondest memories of growing up involve bolting the door to our uncle’s den so we could watch a televise ...

THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
by Bao Le-Huu
Wait, what went down last week? Oh, right … the single greatest moment of American history in our lifetime. Downtown was absolutely electric on Election Night, its ventricles pumping with a vigor ...

REQUIEM FOR A STRIP CLUB
by Issac Stolzenbach
Michael Pinter Jr. emerges, beaming, from a white stretch limousine, August 1994 Penthouse Pet Alex Taylor at his side. Pinter works his way down the line of guests massed outsi ...

LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
by Seth Kubersky
When Disney shut down its Pleasure Island nightclub complex (as reported in Live Active Cultures, Sept. 25), I privately planned a personal protest. “Boycott,” I said silently to myself, swearing ...