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Betting on the farm How the Homegrown Organic Local Food Co-op found Jesus | By Lindy T. Shepherd

Food fight! Airline caterers struggle to unionize | By Jim Gaines

Police Beat April 6(2010-161581) 8:21 p.m.: Police said they stopped a man on West South Street and South Te... | By Jim Gaines

Savage Love I'm a 27-year-old gay man. I had a really great first couple of dates with a guy, so for the third date I invited him to stay over | By Dan Savage

Happytown If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear, but if you happen to be one of the winsome ne'er-do-wells caught up in litigious Smurf village | By Jim Gaines and Billy Manes

Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): "In a recipe for salsa published recently, one of the ingredients was m... | By Rob Brezsny

Culture 2 Go Smiling with the gods | By Richard Reep

Live Active Cultures Things to do in Orlando when you're unemployed: Last week, I began my fantastic voyage into an exciting new frontier where many, many have gone before: the land of unemployment | By Seth Kubersky

Rivers of grass Clyde Butcher's old love of Florida in a new show | By Laura Stewart

This Little Underground Man, I sure hope you caught Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields last week | By Bao Le-Huu

Rock and bull A few standouts at Florida Music Festival 2010 | By Justin Strout and Trevor Fraser

House on fire The Ettes' garage rock is rough around the edges for a reason | By Reyan Ali

DVDs nuts Don't overlook these lesser-seen OW-approved titles | By Justin Strout

Mother superior Mother | Review by Justin Strout

In the company of the Corsican A Prophet | Review by Justin Strout

Hunka hunka burning cheese Fire up the saganaki (everybody's favorite oozy, melty, liquor-soaked flaming cheese appetizer) at Greek Fest | By Holly V. Kapherr

Show and sell Columbia Restaurant | Review by Faiyaz Kara

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High Anxiety A synthetic substitute for marijuana is drawing raves and warnings. | By Dan McGraw and Susan Costa

Slug So now we come to the final installment of this very, very occasional news column, which hasn't seen print since November 2008, right after the election | By Bob Whitby

Council Watch Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don't have to | By Billy Manes

Happytown Political espionage just isn't what it used to be | By Jim Gaines, Billy Manes and Justin Strou

Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Although obstacles and difficulties frighten ordinary people," wrote Fre... | By Rob Brezsny

Police Beat Someone broke the glass door on Las Primas Meat Market on Winter Rose Drive and snatched several packs of Newport cigarettes, but didn't take any money | By Jim Gaines

Slug So now we come to the final installment of this very, very occasional news column, which hasn't seen print since November 2008, right after the election | By Bob Whitby

Savage Love I am a mostly straight, 22-year-old woman. I am a pretty GGG kind of gal | By Dan Savage

'Hi, this is Pat Duggins Former Orlando radioman is still into space | By Seth Kubersky

Culture 2 Go Journey to the center Earth Days: American Experience 9 p.m. Monday, April 19 WMFE-TV ww... | By Justin Strout and Marc D. Allan

Live Active Cultures PlayFest 2010, aka Orlando Shakespeare Theater's annual Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays | By Seth Kubersky

Erykah's abyss Badu looks inward, loses her spark | By Jessica Hopper

This Little Underground The good news: NBA playoff fever begins again! The bad? It won't bump Nickelback off the arena's calendar | By Bao Le-Huu

In the land of the Blind Regional breakout boys Blind Man's Colour triumph | By Bao Le-Huu

Corporate tools The Joneses | Review by Justin Strout

Snark, the conquering hero Kick-Ass | Review by William Goss

Coal pizza Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza | Review by Faiyaz Kara

Working on the chain gang Chai Thai | Review by Faiyaz Kara

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Happytown While we have alreadyheld up a malfunctioning stage light to the gutted (and arguably faulty) prem... | By Jim Gaines and Billy Manes

Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): It would be a good week for you to perfect your ability to crow like a ro... | By Rob Brezsny

Police Beat Police found a man shot several times in the back of a housing complex in the 1000 block of Carter Street. He was taken to the hospital, but was "uncooperative" with police. Maybe nobody shot him. | By Jim Gaines

Savage Love I'm a young, straight feminist male and I've been dating my feminist girlfriend monogamously for almost two years. | By Dan Savage

Food porn Tits, ass, tacos and Tony Stamolis | By Alison Hallett

Live Active Cultures Sane people head south for spring break, trading sucky weather for sunshine | By Seth Kubersky

Culture 2 Go Holy healingThe Adventists10 p.m. Friday, April 9WMFE-TVwww.wmfe.orgWith a clear view from... | By Lindy T. Shepherd

The long goodbye Lakeland's Copeland play their last show | By Justin Strout

Uncaged bird Instrumentalists Red Sparowes' tidal tones | By Bao Le-Huu

This Little Underground A moment of silence for Garage Days, please. Despite earning a following and graduating beyond a stopgap to plug the summer concert lulls | By Bao Le-Huu

Florida Film Festival:Making faces The 19th-annual Florida Film Festival unveils cinema's variety of looks and voices | By Justin Strout, Rob Boylan, Trevor Fraser, William Goss, Billy Manes, Steve Schneider, Lindy T. Shepherd, Bob Whitby and Jessica Bryce Young

My best friend is an alien Former Dr. Phillips student Amber Benson helms indie film | By Justin Strout

DVDs Nuts! Don't overlook these lesser-seen OW-approved titles | By Justin Strout and Jason Ferguson

Florida Film Festival:4-15-2010 Waking Sleeping Beauty, New Low and K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces

Florida Film Festival:4-17-2010 The Warlords

Florida Film Festival:4-16-2010 The Sun Came Out, A Million in the Morning, Space Tourists, Welcome, Leaves of Grass, and Solitary Man

Florida Film Festival:4-13-2010 The Wind Journeys and Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

Florida Film Festival:4-9-2010 Paper Man

Florida Film Festival:4-10-2010 The Secret of Kells, How to Fold a Flag, Homewrecker, What's ‘Organic' About Organic?, My Suicide, Winter's Bone, The Tiger Next Door,The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Drones, Cleanflix, The Revenant and Cropsey

Florida Film Festival:4-11-2010 Don't Let Me Drown, The Lottery, Dumbstruck, Cooking with Stella, The Young Composers Challenge, Obselidia, No. 4 Street of Our Lady, Lovely, Still, Con Artist, Cummings Farm and Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Florida Film Festival:4-12-2010 Lost Sparrow, Mid-August Lunch, Bomber, Best Worst Movie, I Am Love and Punching the Clown

Florida Film Festival:4-14-2010 Racing Dreams, Harry Brown and The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

Guitar anti-hero The rise and fall of comedian Henry Phillips, onscreen and off | By John Thomason

Bad replication The Runaways | Review by Justin Strout

A night to remember? Date Night | Review by Justin Strout

Divine Miss M's Mama Millie's | Review by Faiyaz Kara

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County to independent cabbies: Get lost A new law further tightens Mears' grip on taxi service | By Jim Gaines

Happytown The region's political climate went up in smoke last week in a manner not seen since the heyday of the Clinton '90s | By Jim Gaines, Billy Manes, Justin Strout and Bob Whitby

Savage Love My boyfriend of almost two years broke up with me yesterday over the fact that I used to be an escort. | By Dan Savage

Blist-ex Columnist Billy Manes sends in the clowns for columnist Billy Manes. No Joke | By Billy Manes

Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): I'm worried about your ability to sneak and fake and dissemble. These ski... | By Rob Brezsny

Police Beat A resident in the 4000 block of Kirkland Boulevard saw a shadow creeping past his window and went out to discover that someone had stolen a lawnmower from his shed. The Shadow mows! | By Jim Gaines

Culture 2 Go Ballet wins 'Battle' Battle of the Sexes Performed March 19-21 at  Bob Carr Performing Arts... | By Laura Stewart, Marc D. Allan and Al Krulick

Live Active Cultures Mark this date: June 18, 2010. | By Seth Kubersky

PlayFest = a bunch of characters Writers, actors, directors, designers seek attention | By Lindy T. Shepherd

Personal finance Former Florida legends Floor briefly reunite | By Jason Ferguson

This Little Underground All right, I give in. The player haters win. | By Bao Le-Huu

The music of sound Sonic experimenter Oliver Ackermann sets up shop | By Bao Le-Huu

True to the moment The Ataris don't look back in anger | By Reyan Ali

Titans of industry Clash of the Titans | Review by Justin Strout

Poultry in motion The Best in Chicken | Review by Pat Greene

The highs of Lowe's K Restaurant | Review by Faiyaz Kara

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Keeping up appearances How to sell a local performing arts center when there's nothing local about it | By Billy Manes

Council Watch Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don't have to | By Billy Manes

Savage Love I'm a 23-year-old bi dude  seeing a guy who is intelligent, sweet, attractive | By Dan Savage

Blister I am a skin sock, a body bag, a frozen chicken breast with the tooth-cracking crisp of microwaved edges tonight, and it's getting me nowhere | By Billy Manes

Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) All but one of our planet's mountain ranges have been mapped: the Gamburts... | By Rob Brezsny

Police Beat Hey, Kool-Aid! Someone took a golf cart on a joyride in Village Walk at Lake Nona and drove it through a foam-filled stucco wall | By Jim Gaines

Happytown What's more dangerous to the 3,000 quickly aging orphans tied up in Florida's adoption web | By Jim Gaines, Billy Manes and Bob Whitby

Live Active Cultures Remember that old Suzanne Pleshette-Ian McShane movie If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium? | By Seth Kubersky

Culture 2 Go Filling the hole Superior Donuts Through April 18 at Mad Cow Theatre 105 S. Magnolia Ave... | By Seth Kubersky and Richard Reep

Everybody needs a little DLC Gamers and developers are forcing a new relationship | By Aaron R. Conklin

Memory lane Black Tambourine finds a fan base 20 years later | By John Thomason

This Little Underground I've been to two of the three Bread & Circuses Music Feasts (March 20, Will's Pub) and I still don't fully get it | By Bao Le-Huu

The good fight Hip-hop progressives Flobots have more on their minds than just 'Handlebars' | By Patrick Flanary

DVDs nuts Lesser seen OW-Approved titles | By Justin Strout

Midlife vices Greenberg | Review by Justin Strout

Snickering when wet Hot Tub Time Machine | Review by William Goss

On the hook Fresh on the Fly | Review by Faiyaz Kara