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Banh voyage
A cruise through Colonialtown in search of Orlando’s best banh mi
Go the distance: Sea of Green by Doug Rhodehamel
Artist Doug Rhodehamel (aka the paper-bag mushroom guy) usually doesn’t have to worry about attendance at his openings, many of which are one-night installations. But the Friday, Nov. 5, reception for his latest project, Sea of Green, might be a different story, because it’s going to be an hour’s drive from Orlando at the Lake…
Spit-shined
Glistening rotisserie-fired chicken keeps this joint whirling
12th Annual Central Florida Jewish Film Festival
The 12th Jewish Film Festival mines stories outside of Israel
This Little Underground
Life’s good right now, lovers
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Politics as usual If Bin Laden wanted to destroy America, he has no better stooge than Karl Rove to do his handiwork for him. Look at all the fear-mongering and name calling that our leadership has descended into – and we, the people, are mimicking this playground-bully behavior (“Creatures from the Tea Party Lagoon,” Oct.…
Live Active Cultures
As I write this column, Halloween night is still hours away, and I’m already over it
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) In Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, one of the characters makes a vulgar observation about the odd attractions that sometimes come over us human beings: “Anyone who falls in love with a dog’s behind will mistake it for a rose.” It’s my duty to point out that the…
Savage Love
I’m a 23-year-old heterosexual male.
Trash cinema or schlock glories?
Mike White brings it on in a new book
Black and white reality
Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Milky way
A visit to the Milk Bar
Happytown
You want swans? We got swans. Also, political crack and cracked corporate politics!
Stories from Sanford
Touch and Go
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Unalike in dignity
Rappers Yelawolf and Wiz Khalifa struggle to remain true to themselves
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Outward bound
Local rapper S.K.I.P.’s new CD casts an eye elsewhere to find human stories
For Colored Girls
Tyler Perry gets out of the ladies’ way for this ensemble showcase
Maybe next time I’ll beeeee veto-proof
See that guy up there, all smug and crisp and maybe difficult and probably likely to be unbearable in the presence of a cigar and two fingers of scotch? That’s your new State House speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park. Isn’t he dreamy? Well, as is his prerogative, Cannon is doing tiny victory laps in his…
Bill Clinton stumps for Dems at Lake Eola
It was only seconds after I entered Lake Eola Park last night for the Democratic Party’s final rally in Orlando that I was talking politics. Unsurprisingly, it was with one of the park’s many homeless residents, who accosted me while pulling up his pants by the lake shore. “Excuse me, sir!” he called out. “Yeah?”…
