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Limoncello Remixednew
Limoncello is a sweet, fiery Italian lemon liqueur. Our Remixed version takes a few shortcuts and adds a surprise – pompelmo (grapefruit) instead of limon, for a more refreshing, bittersweet liqueur that’s perfect mixed with Campari, chilled, or over ice. Drink in moderation – it’s strong stuff.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
03-14-2012 |
Food+Drink
Sugar-Coatednew
College students are hooking up with rich older men through sugar-daddy websires. Is it modern romance, or just an easy way to the sweet life?
Orlando Weekly |
Lauren Holliday |
02-09-2012 |
Culture
Artist on the Outsidenew
How the work of one of the famed Florida Highwaymen ended up behind bars in an Orlando jail.
Orlando Weekly |
Christopher Balogh |
01-19-2012 |
Art
Deep Dishesnew
Eat right on New Year's Day and you’ll be lucky the rest of the year.
Orlando Weekly |
Michelle Gienow |
12-30-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: hoppin' john
Return of the Son of the Bride of Halloween Masks IInew
Our annual Halloween mask tribute to the scary monsters and super creeps that color our dreams. Now with more shady trial lawyers, angry old conservatives and frustrated young liberals!
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
10-27-2011 |
Commentary
Remixnew
A remixed version of the classic Zombie cocktail.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
10-06-2011 |
Food+Drink
There was New Yorknew
A trickle of snapshots from the day the towers fell, on display at the Southeast Museum of Photography, accumulates into a relentless flood of memory.
Orlando Weekly |
Richard Reep |
09-08-2011 |
Art
Food Truck Fevernew
Orlando's mobile food scene sheds its training wheels.
Orlando Weekly |
Katie Westfall |
03-29-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Food Trucks
Road Warriornew
Patton Oswalt: Comedian, critic, ambassador of Etewaf.
Orlando Weekly |
Jess Harvell |
01-21-2011 |
Comedy
Tags: Patton Oswalt, etawaf
She is Samus, Hear Her Roarnew
What Metroid: Other M tells us about Samus Aran and other female video-game characters.
Orlando Weekly |
Aaron Conklin |
09-09-2010 |
Video Games
Tags: Metroid, Samus Aran
Books for Cooks: Have Yourself a Tasty Little Christmasnew
It's a perfect moment to give cookbooks for the holidays: They're relatively inexpensive and they'll keep home cooks safely cocooned, exploring the boundaries of the pantry rather than the limits of their bank accounts. So, don we now our vintage aprons (also a nice cook's gift, by the way) to recommend a few.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
12-08-2009 |
Food+Drink
Blister: Orlando's Big Bang Turns 20new
Big Bang is presently slurring its way through the nostalgic echo chamber of its 20th anniversary party at the Independent Bar downtown. It's an odd bit of nostalgia, because although we are both old bitter record collections, gathering dust in our synth-laden grooves, it is not our nostalgia.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-30-2009 |
Commentary
Happytown: The World's Best Bodypaintersnew
Yes, indeedy, we are the champions -- or more accurately, we are the home of the champions, twin brothers Brian and Nick Wolfe, who just won a gold medal in the "brush/sponge" division at the World Bodypainting Festival in Seeboden, Austria. The brothers Wolfe beat teams from 38 other countries to claim the trophy and the 2,000-euro cash prize that came with it.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes, Lindy T. Shepherd and Bob Whitby |
07-30-2009 |
Commentary
Blister: Such is Our Horrible, Delicate Balancenew
The world is a bitter, deep-fried cocktail onion layered in pathos and prejudice; it just spins and it stinks and it spins again while we all have sex with gravity in hopes that it will keep us around, keep us down on the pickled, pungent surface of it all just long enough to be thrown up in ashes or pushed under, ever deeper into the skin.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-24-2009 |
Commentary
Happytown: The Sad Hobo Dance of Baked Beansnew
In an email issued on July 16, the Orlando Police Department has some tips for making sure that you do not become a victim of poor people's sticky fingers. Best among them is that you should call 911 if anybody is acting suspiciously in your line of vision, because "you, the resident, know what activity is normal for your area." There are people outside! And they are dancing!
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman and Billy Manes |
07-24-2009 |
Commentary
