Jazz composer and musician Chris Ryan Williams is in the surreal spot of making gorgeous and contemplative music as the world crumbles into turmoil and dystopia. But he’s using his work and his platform to build community and connections.
Dykeoke lands at Will’s Pub this week, marking the Dyke Nite event series’ arrival at the venue, certain to draw in an enthused crowd.
My pick for the worst bill of the year is House Bill 479, which would ban cities and counties from imposing “laws, regulations, rules, or policies” to protect wetlands and prevent water pollution.
The building formerly housing chef Peter Liu’s Peter’s Kitchen now holds Ming Garden, operated by the owners of Mills 50 mainstay Ming’s Bistro …
A Gourmet Chinese Cuisine has a devoted base of Cantonese regulars. Two Cantonese classics — beef chow fun ($19) with house-made noodles and Hakka-style braised pork belly ($19) with preserved mustard greens — are as good as it gets.
Last year, founding member Téa Campbell announced her departure from MM@TA, and the band separated from their label, Fueled by Ramen. Vocalist Edith Victoria and drummer Ada Juarez rode out the storm, continuing as a duo and embracing their independent roots.
The Milk District brewery helps usher in Orlando Beer Week, heavy metal-style. The Heavy Metal Parking Lot-themed (Google it!) event Sideward Sabbath features barbecue, brews and an unholy host of Southern metal bands throwing down.
Over three days this week, the Central Florida Film Festival takes over Epic Theatres with a packed slate of celluloid worthies — around 185, all told.
“This hasn’t been my lane per se,” he says. “But things happen and you get inspired and you follow that.”
Wholly predicated on a persona that plays the rap game with the swagger of a pro wrestler, he pushes garishness to grandeur like few can. At first glance, it all looks like a sensational joke. But it’s pulled off with a flair that’s as genius as it is ridiculous. The result is a masterful character…
Glare, All Under Heaven and Orlando’s 0 Miles Per Hour are a new generation of shoegaze going beyond strict My Bloody Valentine constructionism
Hourglass Brewing hosts Fortunes and Familiars, wherein attendees can enjoy yoga and tarot readings while surrounded by felines from Liberation Cat House is search of new homes.
That’s what cruise industry marketeers have dubbed the traditionally slow months from January through March, when they now offer some of their most attractive discounts of the year.
Stage 2 Table is a for-us-by-us community event that mobilizes great music for a much-needed cause. In other words, a 360-degree win.
Free Bert — Human dad bod Bert Kreischer plays himself in a sitcom that finds him having to adopt a whole new set of behaviors — including wearing a shirt once in a while — if he wants his family to fit in in their respectable new neighborhood.
Chaica (A505318) is 8 years old, sweet, affectionate, gentle and, sadly, has spent far too much of her life in and out of the Orange County Animal Services shelter.
The Aussie background does not deter Jon Bennett’s appeal to American audiences (see Dundee, Crocodile, after all).
Ghost’s sixth album, Skeletá, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 in March of last year and is arguably the new sound of modern stadium rock.
