Orlando’s own Talii has released about 15 tracks since making her recording debut in 2018, but that’s only a fraction of the number of songs she’s recorded in that time. Her newest single, “More Than Friends,” dropped at the end of August. “It has an Afrobeat bounce to it,” she tells Orlando Weekly. “I worked…
UPDATE: This Thursday’s Judy Collins show at the Plaza Live has been postponed. The Plaza Live posted a statement on their website explaining the reasons … The Judy Collins show scheduled at Plaza Live this Thursday, September 15th is being postponed due to an injury Miss Collins has experienced . Details of the rescheduled date…
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…
California-based fast food chain Jack in the Box is looking to open stores in the Orlando area, according to a report from Orlando Business Journal. The company is seeking franchisees throughout Florida, including the City Beautiful, as part of an ongoing expansion plan for the more than 70-year-old chain that started in San Diego. There…
Pomp rockers and stateside U2 inheritors the Killers play Orlando this week, with not one but two albums’ worth of new material to rip through for the faithful. The band will be showcasing both 2020’s Imploding the Mirage and newest album Pressure Machine, out last month. Pressure Machine, written during the pandemic shutdown, focuses in…
Orlando music podcast “Bothering the Band” has a live taping lined up this week at a storied local live venue, complete with some local luminaries talking music. Mid-week, the “Bothering the Band” crew are taking over Will’s Pub to tape a new episode, promising conversations with local music and comedy types Jeff Richey, Subliminal Doubt,…
Pop-violin maestro Lindsey Stirling is set to waltz around North America as part of a holiday-music tour, and she will be decking the halls in Orlando. Stirling sets out on her ‘Snow Waltz’ in mid-November before reaching the City Beautiful right at the end of the month. Stirling will be touring behind her upcoming second…
The University of Florida and Florida State University maintained top-20 rankings among the nation’s public universities, according to a U.S. News & World Report annual list released Monday. UF remained fifth-ranked, tied with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Joe Glover, UF’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, called the result…
Plaintiffs challenging a Florida law restricting instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools are asking a judge to reverse an order stalling their ability to gather information in the case, arguing that the law is being used throughout the state to “censor any positive or supportive reference to LGBT people.” LGBTQ-advocacy organizations Equality…
Starting Wednesday, Orlando will be a carnivore’s paradise (veg-friendly options available, BTW) as Orlando Weekly’s annual Burger Week kicks off. It’s running from Sept. 14-28, because Burger Time is too big to be constrained in a mere seven days. As of this writing, 27 local eateries will be offering up specialty custom burgers for a…
Gasoline prices in Florida are at their lowest levels since February, according to the AAA auto club. Motorists on Monday paid an average of $3.44 for a gallon of regular unleaded gas, down from $3.52 a week earlier and $3.68 a month earlier. “The oil market finished flat last week, which should enable the state…
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Be sure to protect ya neck, because acclaimed Wu-Tang rapper GZA is coming to Dunedin, and he wants to play a few games of chess. Though he’s famously been a huge chess fan is whole life, the legendary emcee has been on a bit of a chess run as of late, battling fans in various…
Pay hikes, shorter shifts and shuttering facilities are some of the strategies Florida has employed to try to rehabilitate a prison system that leaders have said is in crisis. But despite the efforts, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is calling on Florida National Guard members to work at correctional facilities, a dramatic step meant to alleviate…
A Central Florida abortion clinic is challenging a potential $193,000 state fine, the third case to emerge in recent weeks about whether clinics properly complied with a law requiring 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed. A Leon County circuit judge on April 25 issued a decision upholding the law, which passed in 2015…
We may have been getting lost in end-of-summer reveries of late and spun some Treepeople — Built to Spill mainman Doug Martsch’s gloriously rough-hewn old indie project — but Martsch himself has no time for nostalgia. He’s on the road right now with his much more well-known, critically lauded concern Built to Spill, taking new…
A federal judge Thursday cleared the way for a University of Central Florida professor to continue challenging a new state law that restricts the way race-related concepts can be taught in classrooms. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker rejected arguments by the state that Robert Cassanello, an associate professor of history at the University of…
An appeals-court judge this week chided Florida health officials for not following up on promises to grant additional medical-marijuana licenses as required by state law, saying potential applicants are “understandably frustrated” and offering a legal playbook for entrepreneurs who have been shut out of the cannabis market for years. First District Court of Appeal Judge…
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The opening weekend of the History Center’s ambitious deep dive into Orlando music history is upon us, and you can get a sneak peek a day early and party like a (local) rock star on Friday. Figurehead: Music & Mayhem is a look at Orlando music through the 1980s and ’90s, with a particular focus…
Smithsonian Magazine is brining back their ‘Museum Day’ celebration this year and it’s going down on Saturday, Sept. 17 — with free admission to area museums and cultural centers on offer. For the duration of that Saturday, over 500 participating museums all around the country will offer free admission, including several in the Orlando area. Participating local…
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In a tale as old as time, yet another pop-up operator is looking for new and exciting ways to sell an experience to Orlando Disney adults. The planned Beauty and the Beast bar pop-up will turn downtown’s Oliv Bar into an immersive theater space and cocktail lounge acting out the age-old fairy tale (for legal…
The restaurant is also opening in Tampa, Miami and West Palm Beach.
Local comics chain Coliseum of Comics is opening another Orlando location. The newest outpost of the nearly 40-year-old comics shop will be in Southeast Orlando in the Shoppes at Eastwood Plaza. CoC’s owners expect the new shop, their 10th location, to open on Saturday, Sept. 17. “We’re looking forward to serving many of our customers…
New-model rap star Ken Carson is bringing his ‘X Man Tour’ to Orlando this month, and you’re advised not to miss a musician dubbed a “leader of the new school” by Complex. Still in his late teens, Carson was the first signee to Playboi Carti’s Opium Records imprint. Carson just dropped newest album X, continuing a…
A joint committee of the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine is scheduled to meet Sept. 30 to discuss a draft rule that could restrict doctors from providing treatments to transgender people under age 18. The meeting, which will be held in the Betty Easley Conference Center in Tallahassee, will…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist on Wednesday stepped up criticism of Gov. Ron DeSantis about the state’s troubled property-insurance market. “It’s in collapse. You know, we’re in free fall with the property insurance industry in our state, and our citizens are the ones who are suffering as a result of it,” Crist said during a…
The literal rarest snake in North America hasn’t been seen in over four years, until a Florida hiker came across a dead one that clearly bit off more than it could chew. According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, a threatened Rim Rock crowned snake was recently discovered at Coral Reef State Park in…
If there’s a J.D. Power Award for strapping large dead alligators to a bumper, then this Chevy SUV just won “Best in Class.” Last Sunday, Tampa resident Karen Kress posted a photo to Facebook showing a giant alligator on the back of what appears to be a Chevy Traverse. “Spotted on I-95 yesterday,” wrote Kress in the…
Four transgender Floridians have sued the state of Florida’s Medicaid administering agency over a recently passed rule that bars the use of Medicaid funding in the state for gender-affirming care. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday by a coalition of activist agencies and law firms on behalf of two adult and two minor transgender plaintiffs, alleges…
Though there are likely thousands of bands named after the undead ghouls that populate the films of Italian horror master Lucio Fulci, this Italian death-metal trio deftly sidestepped them all and paid direct homage to the source with their moniker. And what’s in a name? Well, Fulci create shambling, gory zombie-metal that lives up to…
No sleep ’til … Orlando! Rapper Action Bronson recently wrapped a European tour with Earl Sweatshirt and Alchemist, and now he’s out again on his own domestic headlining jaunt, coming to the City Beautiful this very evening. The MC-chef-television personality triple threat (we’ll belatedly throw author and actor into the mix) released his latest album,…
A Florida man survived for three days in the woods after being viciously attacked by an alligator. On July 17, Sarasota resident Eric Merda was swimming at Lake Manatee Fish Camp when his arm was latched onto by an alligator. “I look over and there’s a gator on my right-hand side so I went to…
God forbid, we rethink locking so many people up
Everything new and good this week on Netflix, Hulu, Shudder, Peacock, Paramount+, Disney+, Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime. Premieres Wednesday, Sept. 14: 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time — It’s going to take eight episodes to explain the influence of some of the most shocking and disturbing scenes in cinema. If you’re pressed…
Our editors’ picks of the best stuff to see and do this week. Friday, Sept. 9 Amy Schumer Last time Emmy-winning comedian Amy Schumer was in the news, the occasion was her co-hosting a rather unique installment of the Oscars (and emerging unscathed!). Schumer was in prime form, introducing herself with “I’m Amy Schumer, or…
‘Figurehead: Music and Mayhem in Orlando’s Underground’
OPENINGS + CLOSINGS: Sweet Buns, the Tampa-based Asian bakery with a location in Gainesville, will open on East Colonial Drive in Colonialtown North early next year. We can’t say where exactly yet, but owner John Zhao (who also owns YH Seafood Clubhouse, subject of this week’s review) says that the Orlando outpost will also house…
Documents show they were too cheap to do what’s required to save our official state animal.
If you’re coming out, be safe, be cool. Planning for Burial, Couples Therapy, Haize, Bloom Dream: This one’s for those who like it thick and moody. Pennsylvania one-man act Planning for Burial mines the atmospheric hinterlands of heavy music, merging shoegaze, metal and slowcore into an enveloping monolith of sorrow. Orlando’s Couples Therapy are also…
The prez seems to have hurt the feelings of the ‘f*ck your feelings’ crowd.
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