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A last-minute gift guide for deadbeats and procrastinators
DEA to help “fake pot” more closely resemble the real thing
Attention, synthetic cannabis connoisseurs: you have two hours to get to your nearest corner store to stock up on K2, Mr. Nice Guy, Spice, and any other “incenses” that you’ve enjoyed over the past year. At midnight, it might all be gone. On Nov. 24, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that in “no fewer than…
eddie “four loko” huang serving bao in orlando!
No, not our Bao … the Taiwanese sandwich. Chef Eddie Huang, of Baohaus, Xiao Ye (now closed), and the infamous New York Times zero-star review, will be in town visiting his parents over the holiday break and is taking the opportunity to sling hanger-steak baos and bao fries at their restaurant, Cattleman’s Steakhouse. Here’s a chance to…
more holiday books! hurry hurry!
A few books that didn’t make it into my gift guide: How to Cook a Wolf, M.F.K. Fisher: It may seem old-fashioned — and it is, with its WWII focus on cooking around food rationing and keeping a Victory garden — but reading about techniques used before microwaves, food processors and bread makers were standard…
Eat read cook
Eleventh-hour gifts for the foodies on your list
This Little Underground
Our live music columnist has some great local news, including the resurrection of the historic Beacham Theatre, Orange You Glad’s pub crawl and more
Live Active Cultures
Seth Kubersky thinks the holidays are the best time for locals to hit the theme parks
Art on the run
The Grab-n-Go Show
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “There’s always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in,” wrote novelist Graham Greene. I’ll add to that: There are at least three moments in adulthood when a new door opens and invites the rest of the future in. Judging by the astrological omens, I’m guessing…
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Silly twists spoil an otherwise spooky, accomplished holiday mood piece
Happytown
A hitch in redistricting draws the attention of the ACLU, Gov.-elect Rick Scott makes Florida’s miseducation even worse and there’s a hairball in your homeless food!
I Love You Phillip Morris
Jim Carrey marries his darkness and his zest in a bizarre love story
Guys with guns, girls with guts
The Coen Brothers’ newest Western is their most old-fashioned yet
A good read
Looking back at our favorite books published in 2010
The Italian connection
A massive DVD set that scrapes the bottom of the spaghetti-western barrel
The King’s Speech
The King’s Speech is a sprightly look at a royal problem
Culture 2 Go
If you missed December’s Downtown Arts District Third Thursday Gallery Hop (and sadly, I did, because I was out of town), you missed the debut of a new tenant at the City Arts Factory. Redefine, a “pop-up” gallery that’ll feature urban-influenced art, opened on Dec. 16 with Walkman Muse, a solo show featuring the work…
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Crumbs
UCF’s prestige is growing, but some university employees are rewarded more richly than others
Savage Love
My mother left her e-mail logged in on my computer, and I decided to be an asshole and snoop out of boredom
The best (and worst) albums of 2010
OW’s music critics pick the best from a banner year in sound
7-Eleven doing it wrong
Proof: banh mi are SO OVER. * * Just kidding, banh mi = still awesome, but don’t buy them at 7-Eleven.
More Floridians, more Congressional districts, more gerrymandering
The new Census numbers are in, and thanks to a 17.6 percent population increase over the past decade, Florida will get two additional seats in Congress come 2012. That much, we know for sure. What’s a matter of disagreement is what these two new Congressional districts, or for that matter, the existing 25, will look…
