Orange County’s mayoral race this year has been considerably under the radar, considering it has significant implications for the future of a county that nearly 1.4 million people call home. And that’s not to mention major tourist attractions such as Disney World and Universal Studios that drive the county’s multibillion-dollar tourist economy. Four candidates are…
Tuesday, Aug. 18, Orlando Weekly brings back the Best of Orlando bash for the first time since 2019. Finalists, friends, family and supporters will learn the results together in real time as the winners of the Best of Orlando® Awards, the city’s most coveted readers’ choice awards, are revealed.
Phantasmagoria, Orlando’s Victorian horror troupe and well-known theatrical risk-takers, staged American Idiot last year at the Valencia College Theater, selling out every night. After a meeting hosted at DiDonna’s, it was decided that American Idiot would return to Orlando on a bigger stage, and with bigger ideas.
epo Man follows two repo men (young punk and world-weary mentor) through the seedy underbelly of L.A. as they seek a Chevy Malibu that may or may not be a UFO.
That arcadian space is where the music of Doug Spears is. And the brand-new album by the Central Florida folkie, his first in over 15 years, is a return there. The 15-song Blacktop Road isn’t a reinvention, it’s a reminder of both Spears and the world he represents. Even as roots music is enjoying mainstream…
This lineup’s only for the sickest metalheads who appreciate technique and brutality in equal measure. New York technical death-metal headliners Malignancy are the rare, eye-popping intersection of grindcore and guitar heroics, while the uproariously named Anal Stabwound are a blinding tech-death machine from Connecticut. Houston gore grind act Mysteryxmeat make berserk mutant sounds that most…
Grammy-nominated Ronn McFarlane and Andrew McEvoy interpret Renaissance-era string music at the Timucua International Guitar Festival.
