Jessica Young

This year, the Florida Film Festival screened Terence Malick’s Badlands with iconic film star Sissy Spacek in attendance. The six-time Academy Award nominee has worked with many of Hollywood’s finest directors, and has won an Oscar, three Golden Globes and a Grammy (for her role as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter).

Valedictory or jubilant?

'Dress up as your favorite Stardust gewgaw'

6 days ago ... Jessica Bryce Young has been working with Orlando Weekly since 2003, serving as copy editor, dining editor and arts editor before becoming ...

TR Fire Grill in Winter Park closed its doors today. The concept restaurant by Romacorp., the Orlando-based owner of the Tony Roma’s rib chain, was open for two years in the Ravaudage complex at the corner of 17-92 and Lee Road, but never quite found widespread popularity.

Every January, the health resolutions kick in: eat better, exercise more, maybe stop drinking alcohol altogether. But you know what Oscar Wilde (everyone’s ideal life coach) said: “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

Both graphic novels and food writing have recently moved off the specialty bookshelf and into the spotlight, with regular attention paid by NPR and in national newsmedia to both trendy chefs’ memoirs and tales told frame by frame, whether nerd fantasy or family history.

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Jiro Dreams of Sushi, David Gelb’s 2011 documentary about sushi sensei Jiro Ono, was a surprise hit, attracting not just foodies but a fairly wide audience – certainly wider than Gelb could have expected for a subtitled 81-minute doc. But the portrait of a Japanese workaholic struck a nerve with American audiences.

If you wish Vine still existed, new(ish) app TikTok is for you. If you aren’t already acquainted with the joys of “the youth”’s favorite new DIY music video meme machine, you will be soon – Facebook is gearing up a lesser version of it of their own, a sure sign they consider it worthy of buying or crushing.