New Year, new all of us
If you’re tired of your cat not pulling their weight around the house in terms of tricks and playing musical instruments, you’re in luck. Motor over to Clermont because a trainer of the Acro-Cats will be revealing their secrets on Thursday. Animal trainer Samantha Martin is conducting a “How to Train Your Cat” seminar ahead…
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…
It’s his first show in Orlando in four years
MCO is one of four Florida airports listed.
April will bring both showers (well, most likely) and Americana godfathers Wilco to Orlando. The Jeff Tweedy-led ensemble are set to criss-cross North America this spring, starting March 23 in Chicago. The trek includes just three Florida dates: Orlando on April 18, the St. Augustine Amphitheater on April 19, and Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall on April…
Universal Orlando has unveiled the lineup of their Mardi Gras series of concerts starting next month — and it’s a multigenerational crew of chart-toppers. Universal’s Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval happens from Feb. 4-April 16 at the theme park. And in addition to the “Mythical Realms of Mardi Gras” parade and special menu, the ongoing event will also…
The stop is one of four Florida dates.
Orlando Fringe ArtSpace is open now
It would be funny, in a tragicomic way, if the stakes weren’t so high.
The couch racing and beer chasing event of the year
One of the guidelines would require avoiding materials ‘that may lead to student indoctrination.’
[Editor’s note: We bring your attention to this review from January’s Winter Mini-Fringe, after confirming with the artist that the show is essentially unchanged. A special performance of “How I Met My Mother” is scheduled for noon Monday, May 29, at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Association of Central Florida.…
Last May, standup comic Paco Erhard earned explosive laughter from Orlando Fringe audiences with 5-Step Guide to Being German, which I called “a fast-paced hour of international humor.” For his follow-up, Paco Erhard: Worst. German. Ever., Erhard focuses his politically incorrect wit on his newly adopted home of America, and the results are even more…
Two weekends of family-friendly bounce house fun
He hopes to make the issue a priority in the 2023 legislative session
Kiddie games, vendors, career training, live music and much more
The Grammy-award winning group plays Orlando Jan. 19
Jason Campbell, the talented chef who made Luke’s Kitchen + Bar one of the best dining destinations in the city, is leaving the Maitland mainstay after three and a half years for an opportunity with Team Market Group. Campbell’s last day of service will be Jan. 21, so you have a week to pop in…
An interloper from Gainesville is set to take on a neighborhood stalwart in a turf war for sushi supremacy. That might sound like the opening monologue of a cooking battle on Japanese television, but it’s about to go down in the North Quarter. Natsu Omakase, from the same owner behind the Seafood Dock in Gainesville,…
So far, the company has spent $20 million in the effort.
You can read more about what I saw inside at the opening weekend of new concert venue Conduit elsewhere on this site, but here’s what happened onstage on Sunday, Jan. 8. It’s hard to call it a warm-up when a night kicks off full-throttle with a double dose of thrash metal like this one did,…
The sign outside still says “Haven Lounge,” as it has for ages. But inside, it’s now a completely new story. The Winter Park heavy-metal institution known colloquially as “The Haven” has just reopened as Conduit. The Haven’s long tenure in the music scene alone makes that fact notable. But what makes the ripple exponential, and…
Freebies and relaxed restrictions to bring back some magic
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical opened in Manhattan in late 2019, years after many of the “Queen of Rock & Roll”’s paler and/or maler peers had already been immortalized as jukebox musicals. With a compelling life story and classic musical catalogue, Turner deserves a bio-musical as good as Jersey Boys or Beautiful. But even though…
Two Florida lawmakers filed legislation Tuesday that would add Florida to a growing list of states that have moved to decriminalize or legalize fentanyl test strips. Fentanyl test strips are a form of drug testing equipment that can identify the presence of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin that’s often…
It bears repeating that 2022 was a year when third-culture cooking really made an impression in restaurants around this city. A new generation of chefs, influenced by the culture of their ancestry and the culture in which they were raised, blended diasporic nuances into their dishes to create a new food language. Many of those…
Capricorns, 2023 is the year you get an upgrade in areas of your life where you’ve been a late bloomer
Plus more local food news
There is just so far that some dudes and guitars can take you. Belly dancers, however, are an entirely different matter. In fact, belly dancing is a grand and ancient form that melds body and music into an intoxicating singularity thaaat … sorry, just got mesmerized there with the mere thought of it. Anyway, Disco…
Get ready to bust out those kilts and pretend that you actually enjoy bagpipe music — it’s once again time for the Central Florida Scottish Highland Games. For 45 years now, the event has been celebrating Scottish tradition and culture in Winter Springs. Complete with athletic competitions, dancing, music, art, food and sundry explorations of…
For all the academic praise heaped on artistic evolution, there’s something to be said for not f*cking with a golden formula. So thank god for acts like Southern Culture on the Skids, who, through four decades of existence, are smart enough to know that their campy and rollicking take on American roots rock has been…
The University of Florida is making sure its newly hired president, former Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, can dive into the job: It is spending $300,000 to build a new swimming pool behind the stately mansion where Sasse will live with his family, the school confirmed. Construction on the expensive addition to the 7,400-square-foot, four-bedroom…
So far, the embattled company has been dropped by DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon.
Bio-digital jazz, man.
Core Orlando fans of their Midwestern powerhouse menu still have a bit of a drive
The newly christened Fringe ArtSpace promises to be the affordable, accessible downtown venue that local performers have long desired
Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 11: Chasing Waves — What it once did for Jamaican bobsledding, Disney now tries to do for a Japanese surfing, with a docuseries that profiles some of that nation’s top practitioners of the sport. The hardest part was telling Doug E. Doug that board shorts don’t work with a kimono. (Disney+) Gina…
Even die-hard fans and followers of Orlando musician and artist Ms. Meka Nism are going to see bold new sides of her creative life in 2023. As the year begins, the iron-lunged singer has her metal project Meka Nism on pause, giving her time to devote to solo music, theatrical projects, reissuing music from her…
Little Lazy, Liquid Pennies, The Bums, Sad Halen: This bill of Little Lazy, Liquid Pennies, The Bums and Sad Halen is nice sampler of under-the-radar indie talent from the I-4 corridor. Orlando will be repped by the excellent shoegaze rock of Sad Halen, the jaunty indie pop of the Bums and the celebratory blues rock of…
Foremost, this night will be a single release for John Lee Wyatt of indie-folk act the Lamplight Shivers. But top to bottom, it’s a notable bill loaded with credentialed locals, from the deep Americana heart of Patrick Hagerman to the rootsy soul of Beartoe to the urbane pop sounds of former Leisure Chief leader Derek…
Havoc Under-ground return with the fifth edition of their all-day punk-rock takeover Sanford Punk Fest this weekend. Involving two stages and 18 acts, this one will be a 12-hour mosh pit that brings punk bands from all over to mix it up with some of Florida’s best. Lineup includes the Bastard Suns, Antagonizers ATL, Dial…
In the past several years, Jordan Foley has built a reputation on stage as one of the leading young lights in Orlando’s Americana scene. His biggest strides came with the solidification of his full band, Jordan Foley & the Wheelhouse. Now, all that impressive stage mileage will finally coalesce on their first album as a…
Florida native Chase Padgett debuted his signature one-man show, 6 Guitars, in 2010 and has since toured it through multiple cities and countries and received countless awards. In the show Padgett alternates between six characters — a 20-year-old lead guitarist for the heavy-metal band Dragon Toads of Fury, a nauseatingly sweet folk singer, a Mexican…
Orlando is currently in the very lucky position of being home to young jazz up-and-comers like Thomas Milovac, Syoma Klochko, Ryan Devlin and Keegan Matthews, which gives us an up-close seat to see possible futures of jazz. And this weekend, we can get an up-close seat at more far-flung possible futures, when the Timucua Arts…
Rollins Museum of Art starts 2023 off with an aesthetic bang in four new exhibitions on Saturday, Jan. 14. In Our Eyes: Women’s, Nonbinary, and Transgender Perspectives From the Collection looks at issues of representation in art across time and medium. The exhibit is guest-curated by Rollins’ Dr. Kimberly Dennis and students in the Museum…
