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Great Chicago Fire & Brewery

When you visit Great Chicago Fire & Brewery, you can expect an extensive menu of Chicago-specific foods, including Chicago-style Italian beef, Italian sausage, gyros, meatball subs, Chicago-style tamales and pizza puffs. Most of the ingredients come directly from Illinois, including…

Great cruise ships

Getting there is better than being there. Story: Joe Angione If you’re like my wife and me, you’ve taken many ocean cruises to places like the islands of the Caribbean and European ports. However, our 23 cruises have left us…

GREAT FLORIDIAN TRIATHLON TO SERVE AS 2020 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Clermont’s annual Great Floridian Triathlon already is pretty special as the marquee event within the Great Floridian Multisport Festival. But next year’s competition is going to be extra-special. A lot more is going to be on the line since USA…

August is a great month

Celebrate with your favorite foods. In addition to being National Wellness Month, Family Fun Month, and National Crayon Month, August also honors an amazing selection of foods. As a result, I decided to share with you some of my favorite…

See great art

Some 29 artists and 21 art studios in Lake County are opening their doors this month for the eighth annual Off the Beaten Path Florida Arts Tour, a free, self-guided event from 10am-5pm March 30-31. To see all of the…

Clermont’s Great Campout Fun!

For the third year, the city of Clermont hosted the Great Campout at beautiful Waterfront Park. The event once again sold out with nearly 40 of the 60 families participating returning participants from past years. The event was held from…

Chart a Course for a Great Pie

If you’re looking for a fun day trip that includes something delicious, try the fifth annual Florida Key Lime Pie Festival. You can eat it in a cup, in a coconut, by the slice, and enjoy the entire pie. There’s…

BOOK CLUB: The Worst Hard Time—The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl

STORY: Diane Dean If the high temperatures in Florida are wearing you out, reading “The Worst Hard Time” will give you a reality check on suffering. The Great Depression of the 1930s was tough, yet the majority of settlers in…

Jeffrey Ryerson: A Bit of Red, Yellow, and Faith Make Great Art

PHOTO: Fred Lopez Jeffrey Ryerson came to the expressive art he does now by way of biomedical illustration, which was his major at the University of Tennessee, the school of abstract expressionism and the premier school for theory. “My specialty…