Over 150 national and local artists will put their works on display at this year’s “Festival of the Masters” in the Downtown Disney area of the Walt Disney World Resort. The festival, which requires participating artists to have earned a primary award in a juried art festival in the past three years, will take place […]

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Today I had a chance to visit the new Winter Garden Village shopping area (in the Orlando suburb of Winter Garden). While this shopping complex won’t hold its official “Grand Opening” until November 10, several of the stores and restaurants in this outdoor shopping Mecca are already open for business.
Those of you who followed any […]

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Driving around Orlando I’ve seen a few Epcot International Food & Wine Festival billboards showing cartoon-looking food and wine items together with the tagline “We met at Epcot.” I thought these billboards were quirky but what really caught my attention was a television commercial showing two “characters” - a talking bottle of wine and a […]

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Thursday night the Orlando Sentinel hosted a party in Downtown Orlando to announce the winners of its first-ever “101 Best” competition that allowed their reading audience to vote on their favorites in Central Florida in 101 categories.
Because these winners were chosen by the residents of Orlando themselves (and not merely some board of critics) you […]

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Candy corn. Love it or hate it, when you see the orange, yellow and white candies on store shelves each year, you know what it means. Halloween is coming.
With Halloween, there’s trick-or-treating. With trick-or-treating, there are costumes. With costumes, there are opportunities.
Opportunities to scare. Opportunities to laugh. Opportunities to disguise. Opportunities to … well … […]

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I knew Pointe Orlando (a dining, shopping and entertainment complex located on the tourist-centric International Drive) had completely lost its way when anchor store FAO Schwarz closed down, along with a hefty percentage of the other merchants located nearby, and yet Hooters was still alive and well. By this point I had stopped finding reasons […]

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