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Thoughts on pet stains and more: advice from the cleaning pros.

KISSIMMEE – Stephen R. Craig spends quite a bit of time talking to people about pet stains. He also knows a thing or two about toilet paper – the good, the bad, and the ugly. And he’s noticed an odd tendency that some people have, when they’re expecting guests to arrive, to put toilet paper [...]

Review: Dead Sara live.

ORLANDO — It was pouring on Monday night. Standing safely inside the Amway Center, glancing out the panoramic windows on the terrace level, I watched downtown Orlando get positively soaked from the kind of torrential downpour more typical of the rainy season in June than of February. The skies seemed dark and ominous, almost threatening, [...]

Review: ”Wicked.”

ORLANDO – It says something about our continued national fascinating with the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz” that not only have generations been raised on the adventures of Dorothy in the land of Oz, but that L. Frank Baum’s classic story continues to inspire artists today. Director Sam Raimi’s new movie “Oz the Great [...]

Vacation home industry teaches “Property Management for Dummies.”

CELEBRATION – Since the housing market crashed in 2008 and Florida found itself in the unenviable position of leading most other states when it comes to home foreclosures, it’s been a common practice for banks to impose liens against customers who have fallen well behind on their mortgage payments. But it isn’t just banks that [...]

Review: ”Hollywood En Pointe.”

ORLANDO – Decades after Hollywood established the practice of taking hit Broadway musicals and turning them into Academy Award-winning movies, the opposite trend has proven to be equally durable, most notably through the efforts of Disney. The theme park giant, which launched the first feature-length animated movie in 1937 with “Snow White and the Seven [...]

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