

Orlando area restaurants open now, opening soon: Sujuo Korean Eatery, Hayashi Tarō, Humble Crumb and more
The 14th annual Cows ’n Cabs party goes off Nov. 5 and 7 with some of the finest restaurants and adult beverage purveyors in town setting up on the sprawling grounds of Central Park’s West Lawn.
East Orlando’s Lert Thai dazzles diners with revitalized classics
We live in the Age of Enshittification. Improvement is increasingly rare and when it happens, it does so slowly and discretely. But there are exceptions: The transformation of Thai food in Orlando has been both meteoric and widespread. And with any movement there are originators — with any renaissance, shining lights. But like Michelangelo and…
Southern sludge lords Eyehategod are on their way back to Orlando’s Conduit
Most discerning metalheads would agree that you swing big with Southern sludge lords Eyehategod to guarantee maximum destruction.
Buzz Kull and Kontravoid bring the cold beats to Orlando
The EBM revival is real and in full swing in the underground right now, and that makes this the ideal time for the double-headed bill of Australia’s Buzz Kull and L.A.’s Kontravoid.
Title Fight spin-off Glitterer sure to shimmer at Orlando’s Conduit
The project started as a solo endeavor for Russin in 2017, eventually becoming a full four-piece band in 2023. Only one year later, this new-look Glitterer released their first collective album, Rationale. And clearly the chemistry was working, because they followed in short order with Erer in 2025. Glitterer is currently on tour across the…
Global Peace Film Festival is back in Orlando and more ambitious an undertaking than ever
If there’s an arts festival with a more challenging brief right now than Orlando’s Global Peace Film Festival, we’d like to see it.
New on Netflix: ‘Call My Agent! The Movie’ proves there is such a thing as French comedy
Streaming Thursday, Sept. 10: Call My Agent! The Movie — Joining the esteemed ranks of Twin Peaks and PAW Patrol, the French comedy series Call My Agent busts out into the world of feature films.
Orlando singer-songwriter Claire Vandiver drops long-awaited ethereal debut, ‘Evoke’
Over the past decade, Claire Vandiver has steadily established herself as a promising young voice in the Orlando music scene through a steady stream of limited releases, mostly singles.
It’ll be a musical monster mash when The Phantom A.D. haunts Will’s Pub
Will’s Pub will also get into the spooky spirit with The Phantom A.D., a California act that blends and bends classic horror like Dracula and Wolfman with classic rock & roll like garage, surf and rockabilly.
You saw him at Rolling Loud, now see rapper Ken Carson with the spotlight all his own
Hip-hop artist Ken Carson always keeps Orlando on his touring radar. So if you weren’t savvy enough to catch him earlier this year at Rolling Loud or in 2024 on his Chaos Tour, you’re in luck!
Spike Hellis push industrial music to the breaking point at Orlando’s Iron Cow
Spike Hellis are somewhere between Skinny Puppy and Nitzer Ebb, down to their hand-built platform to contain various synths and percussive devices.
Comedian Gauri B brings her ‘Years in the Breaking’ tour to Orlando
Gauri B’s stand-up uses dark humor and a sharp wit to bring laughs around politics, culture, relationships and social taboos.
Punk meets drag wild-style at the R!ot Dykes show at Conduit
The R!ot Dykes showcase at Conduit features drag and live music aplenty, but the true centerpiece promises to be a scissoring contest. (Don’t know what that is or feeling a little offended? Skip to the next selection and let the young people have their fun.) Aside from the pride and pageantry of competitive scissoring, you’ve…
Honorary Orlandoans Arrows in Action play two big gigs at the Social
“We were scheduled to start at the same time as one of the big headliners, and we were telling ourselves, ‘If nobody shows up, that’s OK,’” Viramontes-Pattinson says. “When we finally got out there, you couldn’t see the end of the crowd from where we were. It was probably the most people that we’ve played…
Orlando Out Fest is back to take over select local stages with challenging theater this week
“The governor and the current politicians are trying to erase us, whether it be a sidewalk or a mural or a light or whatever it may be, a bridge,” Wallace tells Orlando Weekly. “They’re just trying to make us kind of go away, and we’re not going anywhere. So now is really a crucial time…
Rosalia gets ‘Lux’ in Orlando this week with sounds for the id and the ego
Rosalia’s newest album, LUX, follows women across religious history in their search for the divine, pulling classical music into a slow dance with modern pop along the way. Last time Rosalía came to Florida (back in 2022 for III Points), it was all Motomami, minimalism and that endlessly memed gum-chewing “Bizcochito” performance. Now, she’s fronting…






