Looks like another trendy traveler is looking our way to compose a road trip guide for other trendy travelers who are mystified by Florida’s swamp-to-beach ratio. The Guardian chose Florida as the first state to experiment with for their Road Trips USA series where their journalists rely on Twitter tips from knowledgeable residents to...
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Tasty Tuesdays, one of our favorite homegrown food-truck roundups, branches out into brunch starting this Sunday, March 10. Gather up in the parking lot behind Sandwich Bar, Spacebar and Etoile Boutique (2424 E. Robinson St.) for tasty breakfast items served from 11am-3pm by Local Yolk’l and 5 Gastronomy (menu below; also on the Tasty Tuesdays...
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We made it. It’s not all about the Mouse ears that puts us on the map – we now have a “true” Orlando Edition of Monopoly. Not that crummy, fanny pack version made in the late 1990′s, this one is created for the local. This unauthorized game calls out joints like Stardust Coffee and...
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CBS affiliate WKMG reports that a 29-year-old man, Faron Thompson, was arrested in Orlando on suspicion of trying to force his fiancee to swallow her diamond engagement ring because she no longer wanted to live with him. Thompson was arrested Sunday on charges of battery via strangulation and child neglect, according to the station....
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When I first started attending sci-fi and fantasy fan convention over 20 years ago, I could still identify almost all the Japanese animation available in the dealers' and screening rooms, and you could count the grown-ups dressed as cartoon characters on one hand. At this past weekend's 13th annual Anime Festival Orlando, I only...
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If you’re around Orlando or Kissimmee today, you may be greeted with a slight reminder of what this election is really about. Hint: It’s not just Anglo-Saxons! This week’s “symbolic” extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class may be igniting a swarm of cackles out of the House chambers – we’re...
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So let’s get the silly stuff out of the way first, because all news should be led with silly stuff, right? As I posted on my Facebook account earlier today, “You know it’s a rough Monday when you’re buttonholing Marco Rubio next to the Bounty paper towels at BJ’s. Just sayin’.” And a...
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Dean Martin made a career out of acting drunk and happy. The charade — he was actually drinking ice tea — allowed him to make it look as if his artistry was carefree and unrehearsed. Tod Kimbro’s persona is drunk, happy, gay and debauched. It allows him to pass off his artistry as cool...
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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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All Orlando Jimmy John's are serving subs for $1 tomorrow (Thursday, March 15) 11am-3pm, 11am-3pm. Get in line now! Read the full post for more information:
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