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EDC and Warped Tour storm downtown, JoBros peg the nostalgia meter, and more (pumpkin) spicy gigs this fall
Temperatures are plummeting to a bone-chilling 85 degrees, spooky ephemera crowds the big-box and dollar store shelves, and concert calendars go into overdrive … fall is well and truly here. And with that purely theoretical season change in the South comes a bounty of live music all over the City Beautiful in venues large and…
As ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ celebrates its jubilee year, a new documentary explores its roots
Director Andreas Zerr spent nearly a decade researching Rocky Horror and pursuing elusive interviewees, so you’d expect him to be a superfan, but when I interviewed him via video from his home in Hamburg, Germany, the opposite turned out to be true.
Orlando food news: Zayn&Co Palestinian food truck posts up at Digress; Águila Coffee opens Ivanhoe brick-and-mortar
Palestinian food truck Zayn&Co will be posted outside Digress Wine Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. serving coffee, tea, fresh juices and a variety of pastries and traditional Arabic baked goods
Celebrate ‘Rocky Horror’ at 50 at the Dr. Phillips Center with some very special guests
To mark a half-century of the seminal, genderfluid, glammy midnight monster musical, Rocky Horror Picture Show screens at our most lavish downtown venue.
Billie Eilish makes long-awaited Orlando return, and the show is very sold out
This Orlando show marks her first return to the city since her show in 2020 just days before the COVID lockdown, and fans will get a setlist that mixes older hits with new tracks from her Grammy-nominated album Hit Me Hard and Soft, featuring standouts like “Birds of a Feather” and “Lunch.”
Zombietoberfest haunts Audubon Park this weekend
On Saturday night, the neighborhood hosts a Halloween block party with the family-friendly Kidstoberfest, a spooky outdoor concert and a free outdoors showing of The Goonies. Costumes are encouraged for kids, adults and even pets, with contests and photo-ops.
Winter Park Autumn Art Festival returns for a weekend spotlighting Sunshine State artists
Celebrate local arts this fall at the 52nd Annual Winter Park Autumn Art Festival, the only juried fine art festival around exclusively featuring Florida artists.
Swaggering scuzz rockers Bass Drum of Death plan to make up for lost time with weekend Orlando gig
In more recent releases, including their flame-throwing new album Six, they’ve become a heat-seeking missile packing a hot payload of rock fuzz, punk propulsion, bluesy swagger and bull’s-eye melodies.
Witch-obsessed comedian Tim Murray is bringing his costumes, camp and cackles to Orlando one last time
Comedian, actor and writer Tim Murray, famed for his sharp-witted TikToks and stage work that blends Broadway flair with queer culture, is on his way to Orlando. Murray is bringing his solo show Witches!, a dazzling mix of stand-up, music and drag, to the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts to mark the spooky…
The Cairo Express rolls into Winter Park carrying Egypt’s contributions to world cuisine
Thirty days ago, I found myself on the corner of Wymore and Lee roads in Winter Park, behind the Chevron gas station and next to Salon Ciséaux, spoon-deep in a bowl of koshary served from The Cairo Express, a food truck operation run by Gigi Elgharbawy and her children, Iman, Mustafa and Omar.
You’ve never seen a puppet show like the one We Wiggle Dolls is bringing to Orlando
We Wiggle Dolls push the art form forward, both technically — techniques and construction — and, obviously, thematically, as a more grown-up endeavor. Featuring on the night will be Naughty Little No Good, Puppet Parts Productions, Yellowlemonshapedrock and Chaz Lord from Drippy Eye Projections. You should enter this with no expectations.
Arcade Apocalypse previews new songs at the Swirlery this weekend
On Nov. 7, Orlando EBM artist Arcade Apocalypse releases the new Virtual Façade EP. But locals get an exclusive advance at this SoDo release show, where he’ll do both a DJ set and live performance at monthly industrial/goth gathering Dark Matter.
Live at the Oak brings together diverse Orlando artistry under one historic tree
Sit under a beautiful 350-year-old live oak tree and enjoy poetry and performances at the Mennello Museum.
Leslie Jones to get seriously funny at Orlando’s Plaza Live
You may know her from Saturday Night Live, the Ghostbusters reboot, her singular Olympics commentary, guest spots on The Daily Show, Supermarket Sweep v.2, or even her podcast “The Fckry” and now you can see her in person at the Plaza Live.






