Brendan O'Connor

The local restaurant scene has a tendency to shift and ebb like sand in the desert, with what was once hot becoming, well, not, in the blink of an eye. Orlando’s fickle foodie preferences can mean lineups out the door to get a cookie one week and throngs of hungry diners trying to fit a $15 hot dog in their...

Rhode Island is a place I had never thought about, let alone really understood prior to a press tour I somehow tripped into this past October. It was somewhere between Narnia and Finland on the made-up ranking of places I knew were real but didn’t ever think I’d get to visit one day. To be frank, I usually got it...

Paranormal investigators Katrina Weidman and Heather Taddy visit the Cassadaga Hotel for their new show “Mysteries on the Map,” which debuts on Very Local this month. Illustration by Michellina Jones. Since I’ve been on this planet, I’ve seen some things, and not all of them are explainable. Mostly because I wasn’t really paying attention when they happened, or I’d taken...