Orlando Legals Legal Public Notices ALL ABOARD STORAGE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Personal property of the following tenants will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder to satisfy a rental lien in accordance with Florida Statutes, Sections: A83.801 – 83.809. All units are assumed to contain general household goods unless otherwise indicated. Viewing of…
The University of South Florida is sharpening a plan to build an on-campus football stadium that would culminate what the school calls a “longtime vision for the university community.” The USF football team has played its home games in Raymond James Stadium, home of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, since 1998. The relatively young football…
House Democrats want the state’s next spending plan to be more “people-centered” as Gov. Ron DeSantis prepares to send a full budget proposal to the Legislature. Democrats said during a conference call Tuesday that they expect the Republican-controlled Legislature during the 2022 session to produce a “generous” budget because it will be an election year.…
There’s no doubt that the state of Florida has done what it can to obfuscate the data on COVID-19. The switch from a daily report to a weekly one just as we began to see the worst numbers of the pandemic is proof enough on its own. But University of Florida researchers are alleging a…
Seven years after the idea was first floated, Winter Park’s brand-new library is finally opening this weekend. A ceremonial ribbon-cutting and community open house will start at the new library on December 11 at 9 a.m. “After seven years of meticulous planning, budgeting, imagining, creating, designing and building, we are thrilled to celebrate the grand…
The Orlando Pride have had a busy 24 hours. Shortly after announcing the trade of two of their long-time stars to Gotham FC, the club shared the name of its new head coach. UCLA’s Amanda Cromwell will be the latest leader of the NWSL team. Cromwell has a deep history in the area, having coached…
Orlando Pride’s backfield power couple are moving to the big city. The team announced this week that goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris and defender Ali Krieger were moving on to play for Gotham FC. Harris and Krieger are multiple World Cup-winners and are one and two, respectively, in terms of all-time appearances for the Pride. Harris has…
A proposal filed Monday by Sen. Randolph Bracy, D-Ocoee, aims to make Juneteenth Day a paid holiday for all state government employees. The Florida Legislature in 1991 designated June 19 as “Juneteenth Day” to commemorate the freeing of slaves but did not mark the date as a legal holiday. Bracy’s measure (SB 1164) was filed…
Average gasoline prices in Florida dropped four cents during the past week and are expected to continue to fall because of concerns about how the omicron variant of the coronavirus could affect global fuel demand, according to the AAA auto club. The average price Sunday for a gallon of regular unleaded gas in the state…
Beloved pop-up Jam Hot Chicken will open its first brick-and-mortar location tomorrow. The Winter Park shop will start with a soft opening and limited menu at 11 a.m. on Dec. 7. According to the restaurant’s Instagram, the shop will offer a limited menu while they work out the kinks of adapting to a full-sized space.…
It’s not your imagination. Homes in the Orlando area really are being snapped up by banks and businesses at an astonishing rate. A new report from Redfin reveals that investors purchased 18% of all homes in the United States in the third quarter of 2021. And the problems is even worse in Orlando. Over 23%…
Seminole County hopes to lessen the pressure on their testing sites this holiday season by handing out six packs of at-home COVID-19 test. The county’s Office of Emergency Management, in partnership with the Florida Department of Health, are distributing the six-packs of Binax-NOW rapid home tests at Winter Springs High School on Saturday, December 11.…
Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando have announced a new location for their Orlando shelter, following a devastating fire in September. The shelter and adoption agency were working on building a new location prior to the fire, though the total loss of their Conroy Road facility sped up the process. The new facility will be located…
Though Pete Davidson infamously threatened to warn other comedians not to play UCF’s Addition Financial Arena in 2019, comedian John Mulaney has decided to throw caution to the wind and headline the arena in May. Mulaney is coming to the Addition Financial Arena in Orlando next year as part of his just-announced “From Scratch Tour”…
The crazier side of the internet has been on the “nefarious things are hiding inside furniture” for quite a while. Q adherents might be disappointed to learn that a Florida man did find something inside his new couch: a five-foot boa constrictor. Clearwater Police shared that they were called to a condo to remove a…
A divided federal appeals court Sunday rejected Florida’s request to at least temporarily block a Biden administration rule that would require health-care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, turned down a motion by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody for an injunction…
Downtown gallery space Snap! Orlando has announced their first exhibition set for 2022, and it’s Nick Brandt’s traveling This Empty World photography series. Opening Feb. 5 and running through April 22, This Empty World — the exhibition and book — showcases color photos shot by English activist-photographer Brandt in Kenya, aiming to demonstrate humankind’s seismic impact on the natural…
“Unspoken band rule is to always outdo ourselves — no pressure.” It’s half past eight on a Thursday evening, and Orlando’s DIY psych-grungers ‘yeah, sure’ fill the Zoom screen. Lifelong friends, creative partners, and a pair of actual siblings, vocalist Alex and drummer Hondu Knight, alongside guitarists Chris Kutsor and Jerry Pierce are about to…
The Dr. Phillips Center has just unveiled a handful of boffo new concerts and performances that will mark 2022 as a pretty eclectic year for the downtown performing arts venue. You’ll have jazz, dance and stand-up comedy offered up to you on the acoustic silver platter that is the newly-opened Steinmetz Hall, while a doo-wop…
In the wake of an injunction against a federal vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, AdventHealth has rescinded its own employee mandate. A previous deadline of December 6 to receive the first shot and January 4 for the second shot has been rendered moot. While a statement from the hospital noted that vaccines were “safe and…
Like most places in America in 2021, obscene wealth has corrupted what once made Austin great. A welcome holdout in this era of extreme gentrification and increased unliveability for all but a privileged few is an abundance of places to grab a couple tacos for relatively cheap. Torchy’s Tacos is nowhere close to the best…
The city of Orlando will ring in the holiday season tonight with a celebration around Lake Eola and a ceremonial tree lighting. The annual bash kicks off at 5 p.m. with the opening of a food truck rally and vendor market near the massive tree. A pre-show by the Orlando Concert Band will start at…
The University of Central Florida’s faculty union is asking administrators for answers on how UCF plans to spend $112 million in federal pandemic relief money that the union says the school is “sitting on” while the turnover rate of faculty members climbs. The university’s chapter of the United Faculty of Florida on Thursday held a…
Disagreeing with two judges in other parts of the country, a Pensacola-based federal judge is standing behind her decision to reject Florida’s request for an injunction against a Biden administration rule that would require health-care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers issued a 19-page order Wednesday that said she…
A divided Florida Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a judge’s decision to impose a maximum prison sentence in a firearm case after the defendant maintained his innocence and refused to show remorse. Justices, in a 5-2 decision, said Leon County Circuit Judge Robert Wheeler’s decision to impose a 15-year prison sentence did not violate the…
@thatdisgirl The Grinch was crabby, but liked my makeup👏🏻 ##fyp ##foryourpage ##thegrinch ##christmas ♬ original sound – Alessa Dufresne A TikTok of The Grinch interacting with a guest at Universal is the latest example of actor improv in Orlando parks to go viral. In the clip, The Grinch roasts theme park reporter Alessa Dufresne over…
There’s always been a whiff of scam about the Immersive Van Gogh experience that’s long been promised in Orlando. From the hard-to-parse differences between competing exhibits with similar names to the lack of an announced venue, something seemed off about bringing Van Gogh’s swirling landscapes to the City Beautiful. That little gnawing doubt only got…
A proposal that would allow juveniles who have completed diversion programs to have nonjudicial arrest records expunged for any offense except a forcible felony is moving swiftly through the Senate. Currently, minors who have gone through a diversion program only can be granted a records expungement for misdemeanor offenses. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal…
Stalwart downtown Orlando music venue Soundbar on Wednesday announced that the space’s doors will be closing effective today, bringing to an end an eclectic calendar of live music programming that jumped genres effortlessly. An afternoon post on the @soundbar.orl Instagram account broke the (very) bad news to followers. “It comes with deep sadness that we…
Calling the measure “Miya’s Law,” state legislators are seeking to require apartment landlords to conduct background checks on employees. Bills filed in the House and Senate (HB 577 and SB 898) come after the death of 19-year-old Miya Marcano, a Valencia College student who went missing from her Orlando apartment in late September and was…
It’s that time of year where every attraction figures out how to shoehorn Christmas cheer into the thing they already offer. You can’t swing a Yule log without hitting an alligator in a Santa hat or getting tangled up in millions of Christmas lights. We’d think aquariums would have a natural barrier between themselves and…
Planned Parenthood chapters around the country have been doing the good work of ensuring abortion access and defending our reproductive freedoms for decades now, and their work became exponentially more urgent when the Texas state legislature passed a six week abortion ban earlier this year, before most people even know they are pregnant. Now, with the U.S.…
UPDATE: Following publication of this article, a representative for Fried reached out to Orlando Weekly. She wanted to make it clear that Fried does not support “shutting back down.” Original story continues below. The state’s most prominent Democrat says she’s not waiting on word from the Joe Biden administration when it comes to Florida’s response…
In a proposal drawing heavy fire from local governments, a Senate committee Tuesday approved a measure that could lead to cities and counties facing lawsuits because of decisions that lead to reduced revenue or profits for businesses. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 7-4 to back the proposal (SB 620), which would allow businesses to sue…
Churches and other religious institutions couldn’t be stopped from packing the pews during future health crises under a measure that started moving forward Tuesday in the Florida Senate. The Senate Military and Veterans Affairs, Space and Domestic Security Committee backed a measure (SB 254) intended to shield religious services from being shut down because of…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s a favorable time to get excited about your long-range future — and to entertain possibilities that have previously been on the edges of your awareness. I’d love to see you open your heart to the sweet dark feelings you’ve been sensing, and open your mind to the disruptive but nourishing…
Premieres Wednesday, Dec. 1: Candified: Home for the Holidays Season 1 — Like cooking shows? Like property shows? Here’s a chance to slake your jones for both at once, as “Candy Queen” Jackie Sorkin and her team build houses entirely out of sweets. It’s like a Venn diagram showing the intersection of Every Kid’s Dream…
On Friday, the Dow collapsed by 2.5%, its worst post-Thanksgiving performance since 1931. The culprit wasn’t inflation, but rather the uncertainty sparked by the Omicron variant — which sounds like the title of a bargain-bin sci-fi novel — a new strain of the coronavirus that produced an “exponential rise” in COVID cases in southern African…
Orlando’s Chris Mendez has gradually been making the creative slide from the turntables as DJ Cub over to the production chair as TranQilo, and the first peek at his production work came early this year on the excellent debut release by promising young local artist Jazzy Soto. That glimpse was particularly noteworthy because Mendez’s thumbprint…
Be a mensch and mask up if you go out. Street Cleaner, Watch Out for Snakes, Moondragon, Pressure Kitten: By definition, all synthwave evokes 1980s cinema. But few acts make it come to life like San Diego’s Street Cleaner, who isn’t content to simply conjure the soundtracks; rather, he performs live in full costume like…
Dear Dan: I have a friend who is a trans man. Recently he just got out of a shitty relationship. His ex suddenly lost interest in him and wouldn’t work with him on fixing it. He’s heartbroken. He told me women often reject him once they find out he is trans and he’s tired of…
I hope you haven’t already had your fill of attraction updates, because the recent IAAPA Expo dovetailed directly into Destination D23, the first in-person event in over 18 months from the official Disney fan club. The weekend-long event, which took over the Contemporary Resort’s convention center, was a curious combination of nostalgia-soaked reunion celebrating Walt…
Our selections of the best stuff to do this week. Wednesday, Dec. 1Casey Jones II, FloziggFinal “WPRK Comes Alive” showcase of the year and a blowout 69th birthday for the venerable college radio station features two fast-rising young hip-hop artists. See them here first. 7 p.m., Mary Jean Plaza, Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter…
