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Legal Public Notices 4/12/2023
Orlando Legals Legal Public Notices Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below at the property indicated: April 28, 2023 at the times and location listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00 PM Extra Space Storage 1101 Marshall Farms Rd, Ocoee 34761 (407) 516-7221 George Moore – Household Goods.…
Florida Senate passes bill that would punish businesses that let minors into drag shows
The bill would also would prohibit local governments from issuing permits to events that could expose children to drag — like Pride parades
Music festivals, markets and more Earth Day events in Orlando
Tree-hugging fun in the City Beautiful
SeaWorld and Busch Gardens running a Florida resident ticket deal for a very limited time
Two parks, two days, a hundred bucks.
Florida Republicans want to ban businesses from requiring masks or COVID-19 tests
The measure’s sponsor has called such mandates ‘discriminatory practices’
Deltona lawmaker calls transgender people ‘mutants’ and ‘demons’ over bathroom bill
The bill seeks to prevent trans people from using bathrooms that don’t line up with their sex assigned at birth
Gov. DeSantis puts millions toward I-75 expansion to accommodate new Central Florida Buc-ee’s location
The governor called Buc-ee’s the ‘Shangri-La of service stations’
Orlando’s former Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith announces bid for Florida Senate in 2024
He’s running for the seat currently held by Sen. Linda Stewart, who’s term-limited from seeking re-election to office.
Orlando abortion clinic faces fines over 24-hour waiting period law
The case centers on a waiting-period law that passed in 2015 but did not go into effect until April 25, 2022
Federal judge says Florida health official must testify in transgender Medicaid fight
The judge ruled that the official likely has ‘relevant, indeed significant, information not available from other sources.’
Win Taylor Swift tickets with Space Coast Credit Union’s giveaway this weekend
Even more Eras Tour ticket anxiety
PETA calls out SeaWorld Orlando after obtaining records of dolphin and trainer injuries
They have called on SeaWorld Orlando to send its animals to sea sanctuaries
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Florida medical marijuana doctor sues Department of Health, undercover agents who posed as patients
This week is the latest twist in a years-long legal battle between physician Joseph Dorn and state health officials
Florida unions zero in on Republican lawmakers, calling directly on them to kill the anti-union House Bill 1445
The bill targets public sector unions and has already gotten the OK from the Florida Senate
Ten big issues to be resolved as Florida’s legislative session reaches halfway point
The House and Senate have passed high-profile bills involving issues such as affordable housing and school vouchers
Glammy singer-songwriter Scott Yoder returns to play Orlando in April
Glammed-up and cape-bedecked, with an uncanny sense of melancholic melody
Walt Disney World to resume sales of annual passes this month
Can you hear the distant, ecstatic screams of Disney adults everywhere?
The LGBT+ Center Orlando opens 2023 scholarships for area students
The deadline for applications is June 1
Florida Republican targeting public sector unions got $19,000 from business groups last month
His PAC also got a $10,000 donation from a political committee tied to Florida’s ‘ghost candidate’ probe
Controversial Florida bill would allow people to sue over the removal of Confederate monuments
The proposal would give standing to people to file lawsuits if they believe they have ‘lost history’
Florida Senate passes bill that blocks doctors from offering gender-affirming treatments to trans youths
The bill could lead to felony charges for doctors who provide the treatments to minors
Orange County school board member Alicia Farrant claimed the district prioritizes LGBTQ students. That didn’t go over well
After the Moms for Liberty member got pushback from colleagues, she complained ‘Since day one, I’ve only been attacked’
Valhalla Bakery and Dharma Southern Chick’n leave Market on South for the Cheney Collective
Plus: Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs? Check out this all-you-can-eat cereal bar
The Mongolorian will (at long last) open this May in Mills 50
Equipment delivery delays were the culprit
Dirtybird CampInn music festival takes over an I-Drive resort hotel in June
Who wants to camp in a field, anyway
Petition to put recreational pot on Florida’s 2024 ballot tops 635K signatures
The political committee Smart & Safe Florida is leading the initiative effort, which has been bankrolled by the Trulieve medical-cannabis firm
The Boulet Brothers kick off ‘Dragula: Titans’ tour in Orlando on Saturday
In early 2018, Orlando Weekly blundered into Stonewall on a random weeknight and witnessed the horrifying majesty that was Victoria Elizabeth Black and her horror-drag Black Haüs family, giving their all in front of an intimate audience like it was a goddamn arena. At that point, Black was fresh off a stint on Season 2…
Gov. DeSantis asks Florida Supreme Court to toss out Andrew Warren’s case
Attorneys wrote that a petition filed by Warren at the Supreme Court ‘presents quintessential political questions’
New on Netflix: ‘Transatlantic’ finds the humor in Nazi-occupied Marseille during World War Two
Director Anna Winger took inspiration from the comedic elements of ‘Casablanca’
Get heavy with Hollow Leg, Drifter, Dirtwitch, Stoned Morose and Moat Cobra this week
New metal venue Metalworx Live has already gotten loud and hard, but this notable lineup will be pure heaviness. Orlando’s Hollow Leg are one of the area’s best, most underrated metal bands, with a blues-oozing sludge onslaught. Atlanta’s Drifter lay down instrumental stoner rock that’s heavy, expansive and exploratory. The slashing metal punks of Orlando’s…
Gringo Star, The Sh-Booms, and the Palmettes throw a (garage) rockin’ party at Will’s Pub this week
Although Atlanta’s Gringo Star rose on the garage revival wave, they distinguished themselves by emphasizing the genre’s melodic British Invasion roots much more than their punk peers. This time, they arrive ahead of their first album in five years, so expect some advance live peeks from the upcoming On and On and Gone, a strong…
Lightning Bolt to get sweaty and chaotic in Orlando this weekend
Rhode Island noise-punk band Lightning Bolt aren’t simply a band. They’re a full-room explosion, a live phenomenon that’s as legendary as it gets. While their attack is undeniably great, it’s what they’re able to incite that makes a Lightning Bolt concert a true and rare spectacle. When they played Will’s Pub in 2010, the entire…
Miya Folick will surely impress when she opens for Aly and AJ at the House of Blues
The golden twang that Aly & AJ have adopted on their just-released album With Love From is a swoony splendor indeed. But opener Miya Folick is who everyone should be talking about by now. The California alt-pop artist is indeed rising but, really, she should’ve blown up by now. Her genius and icon-readiness have been…
Tron Lightcycle/Run is officially open at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom
A mere 2,089 days after it was first announced
Orlando guitarist Bobby Koelble hit the road as part of all-star band Death to All
The band pays tribute to the music of his fallen friend Chuck Schuldiner
Eighth Letter releases new album ‘Far Too Close’ with an all-star cast of Orlando MCs
Although he runs in heavy rap circles, Orlando producer Eighth Letter usually rides solo on hip-hop’s fringe where it meets electronic music, specializing in abstract instrumentals that are a combination of beat science and space transmissions. His new album, however, is a very different matter. The 10-track Far Too Close LP finds Eighth Letter rolling…
Florida death metal godfathers Deicide to get evil at Conduit this week
Even by the deeply misanthropic standards of early 1990s Central Floridian death metal, Deicide was on a whole other trip, proudly Satanic to the point where frontman Glenn Benon even branded an upside-down cross on his forehead. This was a band not here to fuck around. Their first two albums, Deicide and Legion, are still…
Xeno + Oaklander, Martial Canterel make for a night of cutting-edge electronics at Will’s Pub Wednesday
Hump Day has perhaps never been this eldritch
