Charitable events, 3K, 5K and 10K turkey trots, holiday arts and crafts, and Thanksgiving eve concerts in Orlando.
The likes of Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé have been defrosted for their seasonal reign over radio stations. Yes, it must be the Yuletide season, but now some new players are ready to bring 1990s-style Christmas cheer. Better Than Ezra’s lead vocalist and one-third of festive supergroup Ezra Ray Hart, Kevin Griffin, reveals his recipe…
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen local playwright, actor and theatrical impresario Michael Wanzie on an Orlando stage. And it’s been even longer since we’ve seen his singular creation Deloris Scrud in the dramatic flesh. Orlando has either been incredibly naughty or nice, because both Wanzie and Scrud are back to ring in the holiday…
Osteria Ester, the “Italian American” restaurant concept by James Beard-nominated restaurateurs Jason and Sue Chin, will open for friends and family Nov. 22 in the old Soco space in the Thornton Park District.
If you’re searching for a fabulous excuse to be out in Orlando this week, look no further than Q Fest, the four-day celebration of LGBTQIA+ theater and film filling The Center from Nov. 13-16.
I walked into a diner one fall evening in a bit of a state. The better team losing a certain winner-take-all baseball game had me enveloped in a brooding stupor for nearly 48 hours. Not that I felt a need to act out a cinematic trope, mind you, but stepping into this diner, an empty…
The Beast in Me — Afflicted by writer’s block since losing her son, an author (Claire Danes) gets interested in life again when a suspected murderer moves in next door. And why shouldn’t she? In the best-case scenario, she could get a whole new novel out of it. Especially if she can figure out how…
“We are running off of pure love of doing what we do, and I want it to be an escape for people. I want them to have 30 minutes to an hour out of their day where they can just be a little freak and run around and punch and whatever.”
Orlando Beer Festival takes place this weekend at Festival Park, promising hundreds of varieties of beers, seltzers and spirits.
Performers at this pop-punk weekender include Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Pennywise, Less Than Jake, Thursday, MGK, Angel Du$t, Yellowcard, Falling in Reverse and many (seriously) more.
On Saturday, Redlight Redlight hosts a fundraiser to benefit the Florida Immigrant Coalition, a group that provides legal assistance to immigrant communities. The admittedly catchy event name will be prominently displayed on cans of Redlight’s Zwickel Festbier, available on the day with $1 from each four-pack going to FLIC.
It’ll be a full concert lineup of new shoegaze and heavy bands featuring No Clue, Deer, Fawn and Suisside. What do they have to do with the Renaissance? Don’t know, don’t care — because it’s a great slice of the rising young class of Orlando indie talent. But for those who do care, the organizers…
Mirroring the state of our national discourse, they dispense with reasoned discussion of the issues — among them immigration, the economy, food — and instead go for each other’s jugular. Ain’t that America?
Behind all the freaky mania of Rushad Eggleston’s alter ego is a deeply accomplished string master whose career includes being a member in revered alt-bluegrass band Crooked Still (alongside local celeb Aoife O’Donovan), string supergroup Fiddlers 4, and Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings.
Please Be Kind have been around for more than a handful of years, but it’s their recent resurgence that’s especially worth watching. After some small pre-pandemic releases and then an extended hiatus, the group helmed by bandleader and songwriter TJ Perry (they/them) are back and in high gear, now gigging regularly and finally ready to…
Officially reforming last year after nearly a quarter-century, the groundbreaking band are back live to bring their progressive fury — which boldly spans punk, metal, rock and rap — to a whole new generation and, of course, their cool dads who were there back in the day.
Siddiq is a Houston-based comedian with a unique style of storytelling he honed while incarcerated. With his mix of razor-sharp humor and a fearless voice, he made his name on a four-part series of comedy specials, The Domino Effect 1-4, with over 40 million views on YouTube. In 2013, Siddiq had his breakthrough moment when…
