We reviewed popular YA author (and former Orlando high school teacher) Jenny Torres Sanchez’s first novel, The Downside of Being Charlie, last year, but with Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia, Sanchez has hit her stride.
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Saturday, April 6 – Local Orlando Restaurant Chefs and Their Recipes 2 p.m. Orange County Library, Herndon Branch 4324 E. Colonial Drive 407-835-7323 ocls.info free Ricky Ly of TastyChomps is one of our favorite hustlers. The UCF grad has turned something most of us have – a deep enjoyment of eating out – into...
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Nafisi, who finally left Iran in the mid-1990s, wrote about this experience and the impact this exercise had on the lives of these oppressed women in her bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which spent 117 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and earned Nafisi a reputation as...
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Douglas will meet fans and sign copies of her book, a memoir of stories about her childhood, her beginnings in gymnastics, her struggles with racial bullying and, of course, her exhilarating successes at the 2012 London Olympics.
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In the current issue of Orlando Weekly, you can read in Live Active Cultures about the lessons I learned reading From Dreamer to Deamfinder: A Life and Lessons Learned in 40 Years Behind a Name Tag. Yesterday, I sat down for an interview with the author, Ron Schneider, best know to Disney fans as...
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Despite our nearly requisite love for Francois Truffaut’s mod-bathed film adaptation, presented tonight as part of the Enzian’s ongoing Cult Classics series, a love that overlooks Julie Christie’s dual role as Guy Montag’s wife and midlife-crisis pixie redeemer (??), Bradbury hated it.
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This week, the Winter Park Public Library makes it easy to support them with this fundraising bash styled after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz-age celebration/condemnation The Great Gatsby.
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Orr posits that writing can “bring ordering powers to the chaos that surrounds us.”
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We continue to be knocked out by its execution of a relatively simple idea: to create a literary portrait of the city.
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Leave behind the cat videos to mingle with some writers.
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Food Truck Wars News: Some say city’s temporary use permit for mobile food vendors is unfair By Erin Sullivan 6/19/2013
‘Arrested Development’ success in keeping the family together Film & DVD: Don’t let early reviews of the new Netflix episodes ruin it for you By Ashley Belanger 6/19/2013
Another Round Food & Drink: Diversified drinking in Mills 50 By Aimee Vitek 6/19/2013
Marco Rubio’s gay panic News: Senator sticks foot in mouth when discussing gay immigrants By Billy Manes 6/19/2013
Deafheaven’s ‘Sunbather’ is basically the new black Music: The black metal band basks in the brightness of their sophomore album By Robert Miller 6/19/2013
Soapboxer: A portrait of Trayvon Martin as a young black thug News: On the disgusting, racist ploy to drag a dead kid through the mud By Jeffrey C. Billman 6/12/2013