We celebrate the family with strategies for connection and creativity, such as gardening together, taking music lessons, and setting some rules for high-tech toys. Plus check out our bucket list of fun excursions.
Check out profiles of Cooper and the other cover finalists as part of our fourth annual pet issue, which also features stories on therapy dogs, a look at the problem of pet obesity, and a list of Orlando’s Top Vets.
Thousands of readers cast votes online for their top picks in dozens of categories, from Best Independent Coffee Shop to Best Local Burger to Best Public Golf Course, and more.
Our annual guide to private schools and institutions of higher learning will help you chart an educational future for your family. The comprehensive guide—which includes everything from enrollment numbers to tuition costs—is presented in easy-to-use chart
Read accounts from doctors about advances in robotics and other areas, along with stories about memorable cases -- including that of a shark bite victim who still had the shark attached.
Bring out your inner sparkle with fall’s most illuminating trends. Professional stylist Tammara Kohler
of Fused Fashion in Orlando offers
tips on how to wear some of the season’s brightest fashions.
Ready to take a springtime vacation in Florida, even if it’s only for a long weekend? Here are 13 destinations—some you may have never considered or even heard of—that are near and far from home.
Our dining critic selects his favorites for 2010 in 25 categories that range from Indian to Italian, barbecue to burgers, seafood to sandwiches to schnitzel. (And wait till you see
his pick for pizza!)
The favorites of our readers in 85 categories, ranging from best restaurant for atmosphere to best bicycle store to
best nail salon. As we do every year, we awarded the
“Best of” designation based on total votes in each category. New to the list this year are short features on some of the winners, so you’ll know, for example, just who the heck
Eric Eisnaugle is and how IKEA got its name.
Teresa Jacobs’ frequent battles against the status quo as an Orange County commissioner proved she could fight. Now a candidate for county mayor, Jacobs is determined to show she can lead too. By Sean Holton
Enjoying the finer things doesn’t mean you have to break the bank. Some sharp-eyed bargain hunting and a little careful planning can drastically reduce the cost of shopping, dining,
bar-hopping, golfing, moviegoing and other leisure-time activities. Of course, all that bargain hunting and careful planning can be tedious and stressful, but not to worry. We’ve already done most of the work for you
on the following pages.
From jewelers to gyms, bars spaces to car places, people of top caliber to restaurants of definable character, our annual Best of Orlando list reveals the top picks in 89 categories as decided by our readers. We awarded the “Best of’’ designation based on total votes for a candidate—none of that Electoral College nonsense. And to prove that we respect the voters’ wishes, we didn’t disqualify their choice as the “Person who most exemplifies Orlando.”
We can take a joke.
Let’s mock the midnight bell,’’ Mark Antony urges in Antony and Cleopatra. Ah, even Shakespeare knew that some of the more exciting nightlife doesn’t begin until long after sundown. That’s certainly the case in O-town, where we’ve gone in search of some of the lesser-known slices of life that are out of the ordinary, thanks in part, to the odd hours they occupy. We were not surprised to find out that the later the hour the odder the experience.
