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On the Side reviewer Holly Kapherr checks in with some news bites! She let us know that: La Sevillana, the Colombian joint on Curry Ford Road specializing in bandeja paisa and wood-fire barbecue, has closed. Muse Gelato, formerly on I-Drive “in the shadows of Wet ‘n Wild,” has moved to the Festival Bay Mall. It’s…
oyaji japanese cuisine closed.
Thanks to the anonymous commenter who alerted us with this comment: “Due to the poor economy and dwindling visitors, Oyaji’s has closed down. But to drown your sorrows, it has been replaced by a liquor store. Orlando has lost one of the few privately-owned restaurants that actually brought charm to this named-branded mega-suburbia.” We couldn’t…
FONZO’S PEAK
K2 satiates appetites one miniature morsel at a time
ATTENTION, HOLIDAY SHOPPERS
Deep pockets are essential when shopping at Nordstrom, but if outbound cash flow has you dizzy, a stop at the store’s secluded café this season is in order. Though it’s more fast-casual restaurant than café, the joint is a far cry from those plebeian Woolworth’s diners and, more importantly, a calming sanctuary from the Florida…
ONCE IN A LIFELINE
Underdog fantasy prizes pennies from heaven
LAST RIGHTS
Director Gus Van Sant’s return to relevance
SAMBA, SKATERS AND SWAGGER
Latin hip-hop group A Filial bang with nature
FOR WANT OF A BB GUN
In the beginning, there was the holiday special — comforting as a cauldron of cocoa and twice as tooth-rottingly sweet. Pathetic Peanuts pageantry and sexually ambiguous stop-motion elves are all well and good, but who can really swallow all that “peace on earth” pap? Finally, in 1983 there was born unto us a Christmas movie…
AFTER GHOSTS COME LAWYERS
Holiday season has its own set of laws. Lights must go up, trees must be trimmed, and stockings must be stuffed. When venturing out on family escapades, one must be certain to visit Santa at the mall, take in some version of The Nutcracker, and sit through yet another treacly evening of A Christmas Carol,…
THE CLEANER
;; When I saw the face in the blood, everything froze for a moment. The blood was everywhere – puddled and smeared, vivid and viscous, red and black on the floor and brown on the bathtub, where someone who couldn’t go on anymore had ended their anguish. One cannot help but imagine it: the despair,…
A ROAD RUNS THROUGH IT
On May 11, 2005, Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty stood before the Chamber of Commerce crowd gathered for his annual State of the County address and announced what would be his legacy project: A corridor of high-tech businesses and houses where people could walk or bike to work. There would be high-salaried jobs, big-name companies…
BOTTLED UP
“Owen Wilson: Class clown or ‘lost soul?'” wondered USA Today. “Tears of a Clown: What Happened to Owen Wilson?” asked ABC News. Endless essays about the nature of Owen Wilson flooded the media in the aftermath of the actor’s reported suicide attempt in August 2007, but lost in the scuttle to proclaim the affable character…
BLISTER
There are a number of mangled thoughts that crash through your head when suspended 3,000 feet over the clear blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle in a single engine prop plane. Like how did that Aaliyah “Rock Da Boat” song go? Is the water so light because it’s dangerously shallow? How the fuck did I…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s an ideal time for you to throw a party for all the people you’ve ever been and all the different selves who live within you now. Invite the teenager who once seethed with frustrated potential and the four-year-old who loved nothing more than to play. Include the hopeful complainer who…
SAVAGE LOVE
I am obsessed with my girlfriend sitting on my face, so I can eat her out while my nose penetrates her. It drives her crazy as well. I am wondering if you have heard of a dildo that could be mounted on my face, specifically on my nose, so that I penetrate her more deeply…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
We’re headlong into the holiday season and it’s supposed to be all about the kids, but this week showed me that the kids are due for some correcting. The Beat WTF is up with the yoots these days? You have worlds of access and information at your whim yet you still choose shit to listen…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
The Lowndes Shakespeare Center in Loch Haven Park plays host to a number of prestigious theater performances every year; the year-round Orlando Shakespeare Theater, the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival and the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays welcome thousands of theater patrons from Orlando and elsewhere. But a really important event occurred last weekend…
COUNCIL WATCH
There was something missing at this week’s civic triage of fundless funding and thoughtless thinking. No, it wasn’t the shit-eating grins of elected officials in dire economic straits. Nor was it the Florida Gators “sports” bravado illustrated in the orange-and-blue ties of the mayor and commissioner Robert Stuart. What was it, then? District 6 commissioner,…
TOLD YOU SO
Regarding the venues: I told you so. It brings no joy to say it, but there it is. A quote from this column last January: “It’s impossible to overstate just how pie-in-the-sky Orlando’s financing plan for the arena, the performing arts center and the Citrus Bowl really is. This nearly $2 billion borrowing binge (the…
HAPPYTOWN
Been kind of a bad week for the Tribune Co., owners of our beloved Orlando Sentinel. In case you hadn’t heard, the company declared bankruptcy Dec. 8. To boil it down, the deal Trib dark overlord Sam Zell worked to buy the company last December is so loaded with debt that it is about to…
COMMENTS
; Bring it on ; By invoking the Harris Act, assistant city attorney Kyle Shephard isn’t fooling anyone [“History denied,” Dec. 4]. The public mistakenly thought his charge was to protect and defend our ordinances, not to pick them apart at public meetings. ; The “clear as mud” Harris Act has been hanging around for…
ATTENTION, HOLIDAY SHOPPERS
Deep pockets are essential when shopping at Nordstrom, but if outbound cash flow has you dizzy, a stop at the store’s secluded café this season is in order. Though it’s more fast-casual restaurant than café, the joint is a far cry from those plebeian Woolworth’s diners and, more importantly, a calming sanctuary from the Florida…
WRECKING CREW
It was decided on that March night in Texas. The Austin sky was already black and the chill had started to roll in, but things would soon get hot, real hot, and even darker. Dead Confederate was about to take the big stage at Stubb’s for what would become a very buzzed-about 2008 South by…
