When modern German restaurant Schmankerl Stub’n closed for good after being open less than a year, chef-owner Daniel Gabor vowed to return “anywhere but downtown Orlando” and in a “better established area for restaurants, foot traffic and parking.” That place? Ocoee.
After Amazon Fresh pulled out of the Trelago Market in Maitland, word comes that Trader Joe’s will open a 12,500-square-foot store in the shopping plaza. No opening date has been announced … Guntur Kitchen, specializing in South Indian dosas, uthappams and biryanis, has opened at the Wildmere Plaza in Longwood
You read that right; Drunken Monkey kicks off the holiday week bright and (very) early at 9 a.m. with Thomas Milovac and Jonas Van den Bossche. These are two cats that can do it all, from swoon to swing to skronk to shriek, so you’ll likely get a bit of everything — though on the…
Orlando Fringe mainstay Chase Padgett (6 Guitars, Nashville Hurricane), brings his popular Christmas revue this weekend to the intimate Pugh Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center. Expect Padgett to give popular Christmas tunes the full ax treatment — we mean guitar — and tell some stories and jokes along the way.
But all this talk of genre minutiae is secondary. The cardinal point is that this is a good record. It’s proof positive of a band that cares more about songs than stripes. Even without any of their previous punk jolt, Dogs Bite is Porch Coffin’s most poignant batch of songs to date. It shows that…
In what Rogers called the “dumbest, gayest Christmas spectacle you can imagine,” his annual holiday tour Christmas in December blends comedic sketches, satire and plenty of campy live music.
Happening at Orange County Convention Center, Holiday Matsuri weekend consists of cosplay contests, anime panels, voice actor meet-and-greets, vendors, gaming tournaments and themed dances.
All it takes is the donation of a nonperishable food item to enjoy a four-band lineup that includes alt-rockers The Pinko Beats, heavy blues rockers Sauss, indie poppers Philos and indie rockers The Wild Branch.
Like a particularly shitty Grinch (without the heart-growth potential, howsoever), Gov. Ron DeSantis and his cronies have been oddly obsessed with depriving Floridians of the festive fun of the all-star holiday revue “A Drag Queen Christmas.”
Fallout — The apocalypse is truly upon us in Season 2, with a storyline that takes us to what’s left of Las Vegas and makes room for new cast member Justin Theroux. We’ll also find out what caused the great conflagration in the first place
Locals historically hide from the locust-like swarms of visitors during late December, but if current trends continue, 2025 might be your best opportunity in years to experience the major resorts’ Christmastime charms without crushing crowds.
Bey converses with OMA curator Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon on themes of “Landscape, History, and Memory.” The free artist talk on Access for All Day also includes a poetry performance from Justin Lang.
Through some sort of sonic wizardry, they manage to conjure maximalist stoner doom metal with the slash and agility of a two-piece band. I was at their 2018 Florida debut at Will’s Pub and I still bear the burns from their heat.
Horror theater troupe Phantasmagoria heads back to an Orlando stage, yet again bringing haunts to the holiday season. Phantasmagoria caps off 2025 with a set of live performances interpreting the morality tales of Charles Dickens, A Very Dickens Christmas!
Expect an evening of sliced eyeballs, severed hands and outer-limits rock. Good, wholesome fun for all you deviants. This innovative multimedia event is part of La CinOMAthèque, the art film series by Orlando Museum of Art and the Enzian.
