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John Morgan offered anybody $100K to name his new political party, city officials proposed a new crosswalk for Mills Avenue, Florida snagged a win in the fight against Live Nation-Ticketmaster, and other news you may have missed last week. Plus “This Modern World”
9 S.O.S., not NIMBY Grassroots group Support Orlando Shelters was formed after an anti-shelter campaign helped kill a proposed shelter in SoDo
11 The Meeks shall inherit the crown! Orlando’s Myki Meeks crowned winner of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 18
17 Holding on by a thread Mär Martinez’s first solo exhibition of her evocative paintings opens this week
19 Live Active Cultures
Traditional religion is currently resurgent in American politics, so perhaps it deserves to be taken seriously on stage as well. An ideal place to begin might be acclaimed theological drama Agnes of God, presented this week by EpiCharis Theatre
31 Couchsurfing
New shows streaming this week: Criminal Record, Santita, Apex and more
33 Forever country
Singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt headlines the Nashville South showcase at Ten10, and there will be tears in your beer
35 This Little Underground Altamonte Springs band Intoxicated’s new album,
23 Cooking with gas Roma’s Bistro, inside a Marathon gas station in Casselberry, fuels patrons with Honduran staples 23 Tip Jar Restaurant dish and food events around town 25 Recently Reviewed
photo by Jody Domingue; cover design by Pedro Macias
John Morgan offered anybody $100K to name his new political party, city officials proposed a new crosswalk for Mills Avenue, Florida snagged a win in the fight against Live Nation-Ticketmaster, and other news you may have missed last week.
BY MCKENNA SCHUELER, ANA GOÑI-LESSAN/NSF, LIV CAPUTO AND JAY WAAGMEESTER/FLORIDA PHOENIX
» John Morgan said he’ll pay $100K to name his new political party Orlando’s most famous attorney, billionaire John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan, confirmed last week that he will not be running for Florida governor this year. He also said, however, that he does plan to launch a new political party in Florida — and he wants to pay someone $100K to come up with the perfect name for it. Morgan told Politico that he would share more details on submission rules “soon,” but as of publication, we haven’t seen any updates on this front. We’ll keep you posted. Morgan said he was inspired to launch a new political party due to frustration with both major parties and their failure to adequately represent the politically diverse Florida electorate that voted overwhelmingly to legalize medical marijuana in 2016 and raise the state minimum wage in 2020 (since lawmakers declined to do this through the legislative process themselves).
» City officials proposed new crosswalk on Mills Avenue
Jaywalking from one late-night bar to the next is a common sight along Mills Avenue, much to the chagrin of drivers and fellow pedestrians observing the most brazen attempts to cross with no small amount of horror. But that pattern of mad-dashing across Mills, threatening the safety of pedestrians and drivers alike, could potentially change by the end of the year. According to Laura Hardwicke, the city of Orlando’s safety mobility manager, city officials are hoping to build a new crosswalk at the intersection of Mills Avenue and Canton Street by the end of 2026. The city is hosting a public town hall about the Mills 50 crosswalk proposal on Tuesday, April 28, at the Colonialtown Neighborhood Center from 6-7:30 p.m. About 60 percent of the design concept is already finalized, featuring a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon and a “pedestrian island” mid-way across, so pedestrians don’t have to worry about crossing all five lanes of traffic at once. Since Mills is a state road, the city had to get approval from the state DOT, which Hardwicke said has been very cooperative. Still, the state DOT told the city they didn’t have the funding for it, so the city has decided to cover the cost of the new crosswalk, estimated at about $500,000, according to Hardwicke.
» Florida seeking to bar undocumented students from state colleges
Undocumented immigrants would be barred from admission to Florida’s 28 state colleges under a proposed rule by the Florida Department of Education. The rule would also give schools the discretion to consider students’ past misconduct in making admission decisions. A hearing on the proposed rule is set for May 14 at Miami Dade College. Under the proposal, each board of trustees in the Florida College System would be required to “ensure that all students admitted to the Florida College System institution are citizens of the United States or lawfully present in the United States.” Students would have to “provide clear and convincing documentation that he or she is a citizen of the United States or lawfully present in the United States” before admission. State universities, notably, are not covered or included in the proposal. The move comes after some Republican lawmakers sought to limit the amount of non-American students at public higher education institutions, even if they are in the country legally. Florida has already passed legislation that repealed in-state tuition rates for approximately 6,500 immigrant students who were brought to the country illegally when they were children by their parents.
» Florida and other states snagged win in ongoing fight against Live NationTicketmaster States red and blue, including Florida, won over a federal jury that has declared Live Nation and Ticketmaster constitute an illegal monopoly. The ticket companies stood accused of breaking anti-trust laws by controlling concert promotion and venue operations and blocking out potential competitors. The jury agreed, ruling certain tickets had been overcharged by approximately $1.72 each. Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office said the company could be ordered, among other penalties, to pay the $1.72 back. The Florida attorney general’s office claimed that Uthmeier “secured a verdict” against the ticketing giant. His news release did not acknowledge the dozens of other states in the lawsuit. About 30 states and the District of Columbia fought alongside the U.S. Department of Justice, with Live Nation and Ticketmaster listed as defendants. Still, the matter isn’t completely resolved. A Live Nation spokesperson told the Florida Phoenix, “The jury’s verdict is not the last word on this matter,” explaining that “pending motions will determine whether the liability
and damages rulings stand.” The spokesperson added, “Of course, Live Nation can and will appeal any unfavorable rulings on these motions.”
» DeSantis delayed a redistricting special session while focusing on AI and vaccines
Gov. Ron DeSantis delayed a long-anticipated special session to redraw the state’s congressional maps, pushing it back by one week and expanding the call to address artificial intelligence and vaccine mandates. The special session — which includes two of the governor’s top bills that failed during the 2026 regular session — will take place between April 28 and May 1, amending DeSantis’ previous special session scheduled for this past Monday. Some Florida GOP Congress members, meanwhile, have worried that a mid-decade redistricting would backfire and accidentally give Republicans fewer seats than they started with. In a memo to state senators, Senate President Ben Albritton said Republican Sen. Clay Yarborough of Jacksonville will file an identical version of his vaccine bill and Republican Sen. Jason Brodeur of Sanford will file identical legislation to the AI Bill of Rights he carried through the regular session. Both bills passed the Senate but failed in the House without a committee hearing. This followed a larger theme of the lower chamber’s resistance to pro-DeSantis legislation and symbolized the overall friction between the House and Senate. That tension has been clearly reflected in budget chairs’ failure — for the second year in a row — to agree on a spending plan for the coming fiscal year.
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S.O.S., NOT NIMBY
Grassroots group Support Orlando Shelters was formed after an anti-shelter campaign helped kill a proposed shelter in SoDo
BY MCKENNA SCHUELER
Orlando’s cost of living problem isn’t a question — it’s a known fact. The area’s average rent prices skyrocketed nearly 40 percent from 2019 to 2023. And with rising property insurance and mortgage rates in recent years, owning a modest home — or even renting — has increasingly become out of reach for the average person or family.
That’s especially true for older adults living on a fixed income — who make up an increasing percentage of the region’s homeless population — and many people working in the region’s booming tourism industry, who often work multiple jobs just to stay afloat as their employers boast millions or even billions of dollars in annual revenue. Nationwide, rent prices have exceeded Americans’ income gains by 325 percent since 1985.
That’s why, when city leaders began exploring the idea of repurposing the vacant Orange County Work Release Center south of downtown
into a new homeless shelter last year, some neighbors were quietly shocked by the aggressive opposition to the idea that followed.
After all, more than 1,000 people were found to be sleeping on the streets in Central Florida last year — a figure that doesn’t take into account families living in hotels or doubled up in others’ homes — and data show that shelter capacity in the region is woefully insufficient to meet the rising need.
The state had also just passed a ban on sleeping on public property, just a year after lawmakers banned local governments from enacting rent control to help prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place.
Nonetheless, the city’s new shelter idea rapidly spurred an oppositional campaign dubbed “Stop SoDo Shelter,” a textbook case of NIMBYism (“not in my back yard”) in action.
Neighbors began planting anti-shelter signs in their yards, which spread throughout
minority or majority, depending on who you ask — began contacting her to ask if she could help them organize a campaign to counter the anti-shelter narrative. “We want to get organized, we just don’t really know how,” Perry recalled hearing from neighbors. “We’re really disturbed by how our community is being represented.”
For the last several months, a group of about five to seven people have consistently attended city and county commission meetings in “Support Orlando Shelters” T-shirts, as part of what Perry describes as a “gentle” public pressure tactic. Not only do these group members maintain a consistent presence at government meetings, urging local elected officials to invest in homelessness resources. They also thank city and county leaders for the times they do so.
“The county’s budget is our money, the people’s money,” Kathleen Fitzgerald, wearing a Support Orlando Shelters shirt, told Orange County commissioners earlier this month at a board meeting. “You are merely charged with being good stewards of that money,” she said.
“Having said that,” she added,“I want to thank you for signing off on $39 million in federal grants that will provide funds for the Coalition for the Homeless to build a new shelter for women and children, and $15 million for United Against Poverty to replace and enlarge its food pantry.”
neighborhoods south of downtown near the proposed site on Kaley Street.
Shelter opponents, drawing on negative stereotypes about homeless people, argued that the new shelter would drive down property values, create an unsafe situation for families, and invite issues such as drug use, aggressive behavior, and burglaries.
“While I do understand the pressing need to address homelessness, I believe the current plan, as it stands, poses a significant risk to the safety and security of the community, and to property values,” one neighbor told the Orlando Sentinel City leaders ultimately abandoned the idea last March, after facing sufficient pressure from an organized cadre of neighbors. But others in the neighborhood, who didn’t feel confident enough to speak up at the time, are now organizing a grassroots campaign to urge a reversal, and are broadly urging local governments to invest in systems to support their homeless neighbors.
“We are so past the point of exhausted in resources,” said Lee Perry, founder of the Support Orlando Shelters, a name pointedly shortened to S.O.S, or a cry for help.
Perry, a local political consultant and environmental activist, formerly worked on staff with Orange County commissioners Nicole Wilson and Kelly Martinez Semrad. Through that, she has insider knowledge of the challenges that leaders, and local nonprofits, face in addressing rising homelessness numbers.
After the Stop SoDo Shelter campaign managed to defeat the Kaley Street shelter proposal, Perry said others in the neighborhood — a quiet
“This is how I want my tax dollars being spent,” she told commissioners. “And I support your continued efforts to make the lives of everyone in Orange County better.”
Rising demand
The city of Orlando and Orange County governments have invested millions of local and federal funds into addressing homelessness and affordable housing development over the past few decades. But Perry said that investment isn’t stretching far enough today in the face of rising demand.
Local food pantries and homeless nonprofits — offering services ranging from shelter, to laundry and mail services, showers, counseling, and case management — are struggling to keep up.
Pastor Scott Billue, founder of the homeless service nonprofit Matthew’s Hope Ministries, isn’t shy about what he thinks.“They’re not even fucking talking about it,” he told Orlando Weekly of local officials. “That’s what pisses me off.”
His nonprofit, based out of Winter Garden, provides on-site and mobile outreach to homeless people in Orange and Brevard Counties. Formerly homeless himself, Billue said what most concerns him right now is the rise in homeless seniors, plus adults who are mentally or physically disabled — not mentally ill — who are outliving their caregivers.
“Thirty-five percent of the people walking in my door for services right now are first-time homeless Baby Boomers, and no one is talking about it,” said Billue, who’s 63 years old and a Baby Boomer himself.
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Part of the issue, he said, is that the upper end of his generation is starting to “die off,” leaving behind spouses who must find a way alone to cover higher insurance costs and property taxes and weather other inflationary pressures, such as higher gas prices.
“They’ve lived a very normal life up to this point. Had careers. I’ve had everything from literally nurses to NASA engineers to you name it,” said Billue, referring to the approximately 1,300 encounters his nonprofit has with homeless people each week.
Every day, he said they’re serving people who have been arrested under Florida’s new anti-camping ban, which officially took effect in January 2025. Drafted in collaboration with a conservative think tank, the law prohibits people in Florida from sleeping on public property, such as a city bench or on the sidewalk.
These are people without any other suitable options, who are woken up multiple times per night by the police as a result, according to Billue, simply to be told,“You can’t be here.” People who have the option to shuffle to another location, out of the cops’ view, or go to jail.
County data show there isn’t enough shelter space to go around — with a shortage of hundreds of shelter beds, as it is — and some existing shelters aren’t suitable for people with certain medical needs or pets that they rely on to keep them safe and provide comfort.
“If they’re getting improper rest, their situation is going to get worse and they’re going to react more poorly,” Billue said.
He believes city and county leaders have historically “done a lot of throwing money down a dark hole” and want to place the concept of homelessness in a box that can be neatly defined, explained and organized. “I’ve been homeless, trust me. There’s no frickin’ box.”
Every person, or family, on the streets, he argued, is homeless for a different reason. Maybe they lost their job during the pandemic and were evicted. Now, with an eviction on their record, they can’t get a landlord to rent them an apartment. Or, maybe they work 40, or even 50 or 60 hours a week earning minimum wage, and it’s still not enough to afford a safe, reliable rental in Orlando to call home.
Billue believes that local officials should prioritize bringing “those of us that are in the trenches” together to find a way to bring the public and private sectors together to “actually address the issue, rather than kick the can down the street again.”
Stopgap initiatives such as mobile bus shelters — a project led by Matthew’s Hope in Brevard County, through a partnership with the county government — are “just a stepping stone,” he said. “That’s not an answer.”
He recently attended a monthly meeting of Support Orlando Shelters this past month, where he helped train attendees on how to provide public comment during local government
meetings and offered suggestions on what they could say, or do, to have the most impact.
“We don’t need to be ugly about this, but we need to sit there and get them to start thinking differently,” Billue said.
Strength in numbers
Support Orlando Shelters currently meets monthly at the Broadway United Methodist Church in Lake Eola Heights, hosts mutual aid drives, and uses its email list of about 200 people to mobilize members to city council and county commission meetings, if they have the time to show up. (Most meetings occur weekday mornings or afternoons, severely limiting the ability of many residents to be there.)
“What we really want to do is inspire folks who maybe have never spoken at a public comment meeting before to maybe come out and speak one time,” said Perry. “And then maybe challenge yourself to maybe meet with your local commissioner, whether at the city or the county level, and ask them to do a little bit more.”
They’ve invited activists involved with the anti-shelter movement to join their meetings, and they’ve also invited local homeless service providers, the Farmworker Association, and government officials such as city commissioner Patty Sheehan and Orange County commissioners Kelly Semrad and Mayra Uribe (who’s running for Orange County mayor this year) to speak as well.
Perry said that most homeless nonprofit providers in the area, save for Billue perhaps, are too afraid to air their concerns about local government investments publicly, for fear that they’ll risk receiving additional public funding in the future.
Orange County is currently considering a proposal to build a new 150-bed shelter in the Goldenrod area east of downtown — a project that Support Orlando Shelters supports, with caveats.
According to Perry, the shelter likely won’t be completed or ready for years to come, if it’s even approved. She compared that question mark of a location to the vacant Work Release Center on Kaley Street that already has bunk beds, lockers, vending machines, and approved permitting and licensing for things such as a ceiling hood in the kitchen for food preparation.
“The Goldenrod shelter is a fantastic opportunity,” Perry said. But,“How many years is it going to take to get, you know, some flesh on the bones with that project?”
Consistency is Support Orlando Shelters’ current priority. A consistent presence at local government meetings. Consistent monthly meetings. And, ideally, consistently bringing more people into the group to show the community — and its elected leaders — that they can’t incarcerate the problem of homelessness away. Most people don’t want to go alone to a government meeting, said Billue. “But when they start getting a handful of people that will go out together, they feel a lot more empowered. And I’m hoping to see that happen with this group.” mschueler@orlandoweekly.com
THE MEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE CROWN!
Orlando’s Myki Meeks crowned winner of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 18
BY MATTHEW MOYER
Orlando drag performer Myki Meeks won Season 18 of RuPaul’s Drag Race over the weekend, snatching the crown and beating out fellow finalists Darlene Mitchell and Nini Coco.
A packed Renaissance Theatre in Orlando — where Meeks honed her craft as a member of the Off the Record drag ensemble — positively exploded, as did venues and living rooms across the City Beautiful, on Friday night during a live watch party when RuPaul crowned Meeks as “America’s Next Drag Superstar.” Meeks progressed to the top two after performing an original song, and then tidily won the lip sync challenge to bring the crown home.
“This is for my friends, my family, all of Orlando, live fiercely, love boldly, and write it in the books baby, the Meeks shall inherit the crown!” said an exuberant Meeks upon winning.
The win netted Meeks a $200,000 grand prize and an official makeup collaboration with Anastasia Beverly Hills Cosmetics.
Despite an early stumble in the “Rate a Queen Talent Show,” as the season progressed Meeks became a “dominant force” — per the Hollywood Reporter (and we agree) — among the cast, even
winning the last three main challenges in a row.
“There hasn’t been an Orlando queen on a regular season since Season 9. This is Season 18, so almost 10 years. It’s a whole new generation, and I’m just excited to represent them,” Meeks told Orlando Weekly right before the season kicked off. Mission accomplished.
“I’ll be honest, I’m not at all surprised that Myki did so well on that show. Sometimes, good things happen to good people and Myki is a genuinely kind, hardworking and talented artist who deserves this moment,” said Donald Rupe, creative director at the Ren, to OW over the weekend. “Drag is art and art is life. We’re so proud to be Team Myki, and we’re so excited to continue to invest in the art of drag in Orlando.”
Though Meeks’ travel schedule just got a hell of a lot more busy, you (as of this writing) can still catch her locally at the Ren Theatre for Off the Record Wednesday night, along with fellow finalist (fourth place) Juicy Love Dion. Tickets are probably close to sold out but you, the eternal optimist, can try to grab some at the Ren’s website (tickets.rentheatre.com).
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CENTRAL FLORIDA
EARTH DAY 2026
ANIMAL HAVEN
ARTIST CORNER
Music presented by Rahoe Productions and Representation, entertainment presented by Vanja Dance
Howard Middle School: Jazz
Laura Cooper: Post apocalyptic gothic spirituals Vanja Dance: Belly dance
Anthony Rouhana: Introspective folk rock
A MAGI World Belly Dance: Belly dance
John David Williams: Singer, songwriter, musical shape-shifter
Bellywood Studios: Belly dance
Summer Grace: External processor and indie pop singer songwriter
Ashleigh Bellydance: Belly dance
Juniq: Soulful R&B folk pop fusion Family
Tessa Marie: A mix of indie-folk, soulful vocals, and yearning
Vintage Dance Company: Lindy hop
Justin Alcaraz: Raw and rustic indie folk with mellow vibrations
Hsin Yung-I Chuan School of Tai Chi and Qigong: Tai chi
FOOD DEMOS
Demonstrations sponsored by Vegetarians of Central Florida and presented by Solutionary Species
Chef Aimee Hoffman
Mindfully Rooted: Meals & Movement
“Mindfully Rooted Meals”
Chef David Tran
Loving Hut Vegan Cuisine
“Rainbow Salad and Power Grains”
Chef Shannon Blair
Solutionary Species
“Easy, Climate-Friendly Foods”
All food and beverages served at Central Florida Earth Day are 100% vegan.
Many offerings are local/organic, and there are plenty of raw options.
PRESENTATIONS MIND BODY SPRIT
Presentations sponsored by Vegetarians of Central Florida and presented by Solutionary Species
Veganism: The Most Powerful Environmental Choice
Mike Sanabria
Impacts of Constitutional and Charter Amendments
Valerie Anderson, Kelly Semrad and Mayra Uribe
How to Advocate for the Environment
Dr. Anna Eskamani, Carlos Guillermo Smith
Protecting the Planet Through Compassion
VeganEvan and Shannon Blair
Know Your Rights While Protesting Katherine Perriel, Dr. Malila N. Robinson
keep the conversation flowing with local vegans.
Classes presented by WarriorONE
HOLDING ON BY A THREAD
Mär Martinez’s first solo exhibition of her evocative paintings opens this week
BY MATTHEW MOYER
“I
pictured myself like a cat walking around the city to explore. I lived at the top of a very tall hill, so every walk started with me descending. I would descend down into the city, and up and down through
not because it is inherently fascinating — though it is — but because these wanderings, often in the company of a Turkish friend “talking and gossiping and daydreaming and bitching,” were time very well spent. These nightly perambulations provided inspiration and psychogeography for her exhibition of paintings, a loom, a fence, a wire, a thread, debuting in Maitland this week, with an opening reception on Friday night.
A loom, a fence, a wire, a thread, is, mind-bogglingly (we had to double-check with Martinez, so dubious were we) the emerging artist’s first solo exhibition in the city that she called home for many years. It is a sort of double homecoming for Martinez, both to her former hometown and a former creative home base at the Art & History Museums of Maitland. This institution once awarded her studio space — a priceless commodity for a practicing artist no matter where you live — as part of a multi-year residency that began in 2021.
“That was a gigantic milestone for me. At that time, because I had just graduated from the University of Central Florida, I suddenly lost my studio space because I was no longer in school,” Martinez says. “They essentially provided me an office where I was able to operate independently, and then also feel like I was a professional artist.”
The paintings that make up a loom, a fence, a wire, a thread were mostly created a long way from the Orlando area, though. This body of work was born from a Fulbright Scholar grant for the creative arts that took Martinez to Istanbul, Türkiye.
“I went abroad to create a body of new paintings. The project I had proposed was an investigation of the hand-weaving techniques that are seen in Turkish textiles,” she says. “I was living in Istanbul, and it was a challenging time. But a wonderful time.”
The earliest threads of this exhibition, however, go back far earlier than Martinez’s trip abroad for her Fulbright research. It stretches back to a lifelong fascination with the rugs her family took with them as they fled Syria for the United States — as both heirloom and for the intricate stitching and patterns. During the pandemic lockdown, Martinez began to think more deeply about the history and migratory path of these rugs, both the journey to the United States and the “micro migrations” that are the footsteps of several successive generations of family. That interest led her to researching Turkish and Middle Eastern textiles, the commonalities between weaving techniques around the world and even new inspiration for her own paintings.
A LOOM, A FENCE, A WIRE, A THREAD
6:30 p.m. Friday, April 24 Through July 5
Art & History Museums — Maitland 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland artandhistory.org
$6
against the fateful and precise symmetry of barbed wire, fences, walls — indicating boundaries and separation, or perhaps hostility on the part of authorities — or the less foreboding gridwork inspired by weaving.
“I like a painting that is somewhat at odds with itself. We live in a complex world, and there are complex relationships,” she says. “With the razor wire, I was thinking about how it can sometimes mimic that inherent sensuality of the thread. There was all this spiraling wire that I saw when I was on my walks, and it made me think about these borders and barriers and barricades. They’re things used to protect, but also to restrict, and there’s a complicated relationship with that. With who’s on what side of the border.”
A highlight of the exhibition is “turning endlessly upon myself,” a painting of two golden figures crackling with solar energy — one folded uncomfortably in on themselves, one in an alert crouch — the two bodies blending into one another (interwoven, perhaps?), against the backdrop of a rug being woven (or unraveled) from top to bottom. Is it an ending, a beginning?
“I like the tension between the figures. There’s gender dynamics at play with weaving, especially in a contemporary sense,” she says. “The carpet is not fully woven. It is a story that is continuing. So you see it unfurled at the top. Or one could look at that as a disintegration, but I think it’s a great path of possibility. And with the figures, there’s often a strange body posturing in my work where it’s hard to discern what’s going on. Is it sexual? Is it playful? Is it aggressive? I like this uncertainty that’s between them, especially as one figure turns upon themselves.”
There are repeating color motifs in these paintings. Cool blues and purples, contrasted against loud, kinetic bright yellows and oranges and reds for the humans inhabiting these works. It’s a palette that dazzles and draws in the eye.
these hills at night. It gave me a whole new insight on the place I was living for the year, and I really wanted to get to know it.”
We’re talking about night walks in Istanbul with New York-via-Orlando artist Mär Martinez
“Different regions are known for different types of patterning and weaving, but the mechanics of weaving are relatively unchanged,” she says. “It’s almost in this part of, like, the collective consciousness. Outside of the invention of the mechanized loom and chemical dyes, it’s been pretty constant. It’s an architecture of warp and weft, so it’s over, under, over, under.”
These paintings are bold and colorful, with soft human figures all asymmetrical and unpredictable curves and soft fleshy lines juxtaposed
“I’m not a subtle person. I want things that are electric. I want to live in a world where there is beauty, even while there is tension. So my personal tastes tend toward the extreme, but I do feel like color is able to express a lot of emotions,” she says.
“It’s a kaleidoscopic experience. And I also want to say that the color choice specifically makes it feel mythic and communicates something that’s a little bit more archetypal. I’m not aiming for photorealism or representationalism. I want it to feel like it can transcend what it actually is, which is paint on a canvas.”
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“TURNING ENDLESSLY UPON MYSELF/SOMETHING WITHSTANDING,” ACRYLIC ON CANVAS (MÄR MARTINEZ)
Traditional religion is currently resurgent in American politics, so perhaps it deserves to be taken seriously on stage as well. An ideal place to begin might be acclaimed theological drama Agnes of God, presented this week by EpiCharis Theatre
After decades of decline, traditional religion is currently resurgent in social discourse and American politics, so perhaps it deserves to be taken seriously on stage as well. An ideal place to begin might be the acclaimed theological drama Agnes of God , which is being presented April 23 & 24 by the brand-new EpiCharis Theatre. This week I spoke with producer-director Charis Watler, whose personal, spiritual and socioeconomic odyssey is every bit as compelling as the play she’s presenting. Growing up in a strictly conservative evangelical Christian family, Watler was home-schooled until halfway through 10th grade and had her first exposure to performing arts through her church’s youth group performances. When her family moved into a homeless shelter, she began attending a charter high school where she encountered her first acting class. “It really changed who I was and how I saw community,” she recalls. “I had trouble relating to people my age [but] theater was a shared purpose and a shared mission that we all had together.”
Going to school alongside wealthier students while living in a shelter was “embarrassing” and isolating, but Watler says she’s “always had this internal drive to work harder than everyone else,” which led her to winning a Disney Dreamer and Doer award, and going on to get an associate’s degree from Valencia College. “I think I’ve always wanted to be better than what I came from,” Watler
says. “There was some people that didn’t make it out of that homeless shelter — I hear every once in a while about someone who OD’d that was living there — but I was already pushing forward.”
It was while taking a directing class from John DiDonna at Valencia that Watler met playwright Bethany Dickens Assaf, after being randomly assigned one of her five-minute scripts. “She loved what I directed, and she’s been offering me opportunities ever since,” Watler says about the Whiskey Theatre Factory co-founder, who invited Watler to join WTF as artistic director. Orlando Fringe Festival-goers will remember Watler from her roles in WTF’s Saints of Orange County and the Critics’ Choice Best Drama Vast of Darkness, for which I praised her “slow-burn performance as an unqualified astronaut.” That role was written by Dickens Assaf specifically for Watler, which she calls a “huge honor and a huge achievement.” But she’s also been active offstage in the director’s chair, helming productions for CFCArts’ Youth Theater. More recently, Watler resigned from WTF to form her own theater company — named EpiCharis Theatre, after a martyred saint — with the mission of presenting challenging stories about the intersection of mental health and spirituality.
“There’s only so much of my personal art I could do in youth theater, and there was also only so much of my personal self I could put into Whiskey Theatre Factory,” Watler says, praising WTF’s focus on pro-female new plays while explaining, “I’m not a writer, so I felt like that wasn’t really my place. I really want to start doing art that speaks to me personally.”
EpiCharis Theatre’s debut production, John Pielmeier’s Agnes of God, is a excellent example of the religious and psychological themes Watler wants her new company to explore. Best known from the 1985 film version with Anne Bancroft, Jane Fonda and Meg Tilly, the play stars Hayley Sanz in the title role as a novice nun accused of infanticide, who insists her newborn was immaculately conceived. Clashing over Agnes’ claims are the hard-nosed Mother Superior (Sandi Linn) and Dr. Livingston (Sarah Mathews), a skeptical psychiatrist who uncovers Agnes’ past history of abuse.
Although written long before her birth, Watler says she connected with Pielmeier’s play
upon encountering it in high school because it’s a play that “celebrates questions and questions answers. I grew up in an environment that very much discouraged asking questions and discouraged questioning authority. … Agnes of God offers critique and questions in a way that doesn’t tell you what to believe at the end, and I think that’s powerful.” She also says that Agnes’ mental health issues hit close to home, so she wants to show disorders like schizophrenia “in an authentic light” to destigmatize them. Watler sings the praises of her cast, calling Sanz’s depiction “exactly what I was wanting ... for people to see Agnes as her own person who is capable of making her own thoughts and decisions”; and saying that Linn “has such a lovable and compelling way of portraying [Mother Superior] that we really grow to care about her in ways that I didn’t first pick up.” Watler’s especially grateful to Mathews, who joined the cast late after another actress dropped out. “I had never met her before, and she completely blew me away in auditions. She makes such strong choices that I often am breathless; I cry every rehearsal because of her.”
Finally, the fourth character in this immersive production is the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Maitland, which will host the play in its historic chapel, along with an accompanying God and Science visual art exhibit. “As little hope sometimes that I have in churches locally or across America, the churches have really been coming through for this project,” says Watler, who held rehearsals at Audubon Park Community Church. “That’s kind of given me more hope in Christianity as a whole, like through this experience of doing this play.”
Watler readily admits that the political landscape is “fraught” when it comes to Christianity, and says that “Christianity can be both the beauty and hope that you find in life, and also the torment, even at the very same time.” Her ultimate aim with EpiCharis, Watler says, is to create theater for “people who are spiritually homeless, or come from that background and are now unsure of what they believe in, [that] allows them to be able to talk about it with other people that have those same problems [and] same questions.”
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COOKING WITH GAS
Roma’s Bistro, inside a Marathon gas station in Casselberry, fuels patrons with Honduran staples
BY FAIYAZ KARA
The last time I reviewed a gas station restaurant, it was the summer of 2020 and a festering pestilence the world sought to eradicate dominated the headlines. Covid-19 was a nuisance, too. In Florida, folks took to wearing face masks about as happily as politicians took to the Epstein files. So, when I paid a visit to GitN-Messy BBQ inside a Citgo Quik Mart and saw a masked Chuck Cobb plating some mighty fine smoked brisket, sausage and ribs before erecting a towering hot chicken sandwich I couldn’t help but dub the “Colossus of Cock,” I told myself I needed to explore the city’s fueling stations more often. Nine months later, a horrible motorcycle incident took Chuck away from us.
As I write about Roma’s Bistro inside the Marathon gas station in Casselberry, it dawns on me that April 29 will mark the fifth anniversary of Chuck’s untimely passing. He may have wondered, as I did, why a place called Roma’s Bistro didn’t serve pasta, but rather plates of Honduran and Mexican eats. Not until my third visit did I come to learn that “Roma” is a portmanteau of owners Angie Rodriguez’s and Delmy Madrid’s surnames. Fitting, then, that the tacos
Hondureños ($9 for four) seemed to be a hybrid of sorts as well — of cole slaw and taquitos. Yes, Honduran tacos are of the rolled and deep-fried variety, and the four chicken-stuffed corn flutes were crowned with a heap of cabbage dressed in what tasted like a ketchup/mayo-based sauce. A dusting of white cheese, pico de gallo and a side of pickled radishes, onions and jalapeños made this a hearty, crunchy lunchtime meal. Order the enchilada Hondureño ($4) and you’ll get a crispy tostada topped with ground beef, everything the taco came with, and a sliced boiled egg. It’s another solid offering, though I’d recommend splashing on some of the house chile de arbol sauce and forgoing the hot sauce bottles placed on the five tables inside this “bistro.”
Be sure to splash some inside the baleada, arguably the most “Catracho” of dishes and a fixture on the streets from Tegucigalpa to San Pedro Sula. The popular breakfast-time handheld is made by flattening a dough ball onto a piece of shortening-slicked tin foil that’s cooked on a flat-top, exposed side down. The foil is carefully removed and the thick tortilla is flipped before being filled with refried beans, cheese, sour
ROMA’S BISTRO
815 FL-436, Casselberry 407-775-5077
instagram.com/romas_bistro $
cream, eggs, avocado and wee bits of steak ($7).
“Really, really good,” said the wife after I shared half with her. But her near-blasphemous utterance — “This is better than Kappy’s” — after scarfing down the Philly cheesesteak ($9) was more than a mouthful. “I like that the peppers and onions were freshly cut before being griddled,” she said. “You can taste that crispy freshness.” No argument there, but I was more into the birria tacos ($13 for three), which had bits of melty fat in the broth. And fat is how I felt after sampling the dense flan ($4) and creamy tres leches ($4) that Roma’s cooks, Paolina and Helene, both make.
Straight-up street tacos are just $3 a pop and prove popular with the many blue-collar patrons that pop by on the daily. Hot bar items, too, like chicken guisado ($10) and beef and potato guisado ($10) served with rice and beans and salad. It’s all simple, home-style comfort, much of it made to order. I may have waited 10 minutes to get my desayuno catracho ($9), a breakfast platter of scrambled eggs, sweet plantains, refried beans, half an avocado and sour cream one weekday morning, but I quite enjoyed watching all the components being made in this surprisingly well-equipped kitchen.
So just be patient, and keep in mind that this is a Marathon … not a sprint. fkara@orlandoweekly.com
OPENINGS & CLOSINGS:
More details about Noodle Shawty: The downtown concept by Brandon King and Galo Tenorio will open May 15 at 28 S. Orange Ave. in the old Dapper Duck space, featuring a premium matcha bar serving ceremonial matcha with seasonal summer flavors, along with fresh ube donuts in the morning. For lunch and dinner, noodle dishes, wings and hibachi bowls will be served in a fast-casual environment. And for the late-night crowd, the kitchen will stay open until 4 a.m. Thursday through Sunday … Grand Roopram Roti Restaurant, a Surinamese restaurant specializing in roti wraps, curries, turmeric fried chicken and wok-fired delights, has opened at 3200 Parkway Center Court in Rosemont, near the intersection of Lee Road and North Orange Blossom Trail. The restaurant has locations in the South American nation as well as the Netherlands … Nearby, Tieling Express has opened at 5205 Edgewater Drive offering meat and veg skewers, dumplings, pancake wraps, savory crepes, spicy hot pot, noodles and more … Look for Catchè, billed as Orlando’s only handcrafted chè cafe, to open at 1220 E. Colonial Drive in Mills 50. In addition to the Vietnamese sweet soup, the cafe will serve Vietnamese coffee, fresh juices and desserts. A “mid-May” opening date has been announced … Also in Mills 50, Robin’s Creamery, a halal-friendly ice cream shop also offering gelato, premium matcha, Dubai chocolate, boba tea, coffee and sorbet, will open in the old Smoker’s Safari space at 926 N. Mills Ave. No opening date has been announced … Cuca Libre Restaurant (not to be confused with Cuba Libre Restaurant) has opened at 2589 S. Hiawassee Road in MetroWest plating gourmet burgers, Neapolitan- and Brazilian-style pizza, and grilled dishes. The concept is by Brazilian TV host/ influencer Zilu Camargo … Eola Food Hall will have 12 food stalls, up from the original 10, when it opens this August. The vendor lineup hasn’t been released, but expect everything from Asian street food and birria tacos to açai and matcha to be served out of the 15,000-squarefoot venue. The space will also house a wine room, speakeasy and cocktail bar.
NEWS & EVENTS:
The International Vegan Food Festival goes from 2-8 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at Wall Street Plaza downtown featuring vegan food vendors from around the world as well as live music and prize giveaways.
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KAPPO TSAN
Norigami’s David Tsan brings his unique Taiwanese-Japanese concept to the chain-riddled environs of O-Town West. Tasting menus are offered, as are à la carte options, of which the Taiwanese cabbage, shiitake mushrooms cooked in butter, and charcoal-kissed meats and veg are highlights. So are the nigiri and sashimi tastings, but regulars to Norigami already know that. Closed Tuesdays. (reviewed April 15) 11815 Glass House Lane, 407-778-1050, kappotsan.com, $$$$
THE GOODWAY CAFE
French flavors seep into chef Amandine Vibert’s plant-based dishes, notably in the galette bretonne, her soups du jour and baguette sandwiches. Cold-pressed juices, smoothies, teas and coffees are offered as well as vegan pastries like croissants and muffins. Open Monday-Saturday at 8 a.m. (reviewed April 8) 111 W. Magnolia Ave., Longwood, 703-372-0821, goodwaycafe.com, $$$
GUNTUR KITCHEN
The fiery fare of Andhra Pradesh is what’s fired out of this humble little kitchen in Longwood. Stuffed mirchi bhajji, ghee karam idli, deep-fried punugulu and chicken dum biryani are all worth the order, as is puri with potatoes. Red sugarcane juice proves palliating, as does gulab jamun. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. (reviewed April 1) 525 S. Ronald Reagan Blvd., Longwood, 407-260-1502, $$
SEEMO’S SHAWARMA
The Palestinian-style chicken and beef shawarma being served out of this fire engine-red trailer in Azalea Park is of the highest order, but the falafel may very well be the finest in the city. Don’t overlook the smashburgers or the deep-fried Cajun corn. Open Saturday and Sunday. (reviewed March 25) 866 S. Goldenrod Road, 407-733-6626, instagram.com/seemosshawarma, $$
THE BAKER’S SON
Fresh-baked breads, pastries and desserts with Pinoy leanings are the draw to this Kissimmee bakeshop, but a roster of savory items, from lumpia and empanadas to longanisa and popcorn chicken, are just as noteworthy. Open daily. (reviewed March 18) 4797 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Kissimmee, 689-610-1965, thebakersonusa.com, $$
CAFÉ DE WAN
Sisters Habibe and Esra plate Turkish breakfasts, baked goods and some mighty fine borek in their charming Casselberry restaurant. Open daily.
(reviewed March 11) 1015 FL-436, Casselberry, 651802-2835, instagram.com/cafedewan_, $$
LEIAH
High-quality dishes go into Leiah’s four-, six- and eight-course tasting menus, but those concerned with affordability can order à la carte — the wagyu pastrami sandwich, burger, rock shrimp ceviche and potato foam are all worthy. The three-course lunch menu for $34 presents one of the best value meals you’ll find in the city. Closed Sunday.
(reviewed Feb. 25) 409 N. Magnolia Ave., 321-2475578, leiahrestaurant.com, $$$$
JJ’S SCRATCH COCINA
JJ’s full-service concept serves an impressive mix of dishes inspired by the flavors of the Mediterranean and the Americas, from a knockout halibut ceviche to a bright and vibrant plate of tabbouleh, beet-infused hummus, falafel and pita. The fast-casual side of the business still operates as a ghost/takeout operation. Open daily.
(reviewed Feb. 11) 2950 Curry Ford Road, 407900-0375, jjsscratchcocina.com, $$
OSTERIA ESTER
Osprey chef-partner Michael Cooper spins refined staples of Italian-American classics in Thornton Park. Pasta dishes like lasagna rotolo, braised beef tortelloni and gnocchi sardo are can’t-miss. Veal chop parmigiana offers a more substantial option, but don’t pass on the carpaccio piemontese, burrata or butterscotch budino. Wine and cocktails kick the bibulous with a taste of The Boot. Closed Mondays. (reviewed Feb. 4) 629 E. Central Blvd., 407-203-3577, osteriaester.com, $$$
DESI BISTRO
The Bangladeshi cuisine at this UCF-area restaurant includes a host of craveable delights ranging from heady beef rezala to boldly spiced mutton ribs to luxuriant butter dal fry. Fried luchi is the bread of choice, and don’t pass on the corpulent samosas, pani puri or refreshing nimbu pani with black salt. Open daily. (reviewed Jan. 28) 12058 Collegiate Way, 407-233-4692, desibistrofl.com, $$
A GOURMET CHINESE CUISINE
Cantonese classics of the highest order — beef chow fun, salted fish or Hakka-style braised pork belly — is served out of a cavernous modern space. Yes, there are some Sichuan options as well, mouthwatering chicken in chili oil and Sichuan peppercorn marbling beef being two worthy options. Dim sum is offered all day. Open daily. (reviewed Jan. 21) 1101 E. Colonial Drive, 407868-8709, agourmetfl.com, $$$
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HANGRY BISON AND BEIGNETS & BREW TAKE TOP HONORS AT BRUNCH IN THE PARK 2026
At this year’s Brunch in the Park — held April 10 at Lake Eola Park — attendees cast their votes, and two clear favorites rose to the top.
BY ORLANDO WEEKLY STAFF
Hangry Bison took home Best Brunch Cocktail, while Beignets and Brew earned Best Brunch Bite in this year’s People’s Choice awards.
With locations in Winter Park and Winter Garden — and a newly opened third outpost in Lake Mary — Hangry Bison has built a following for its bold, bourbon-forward approach. That identity showed up clearly in their cocktail of the day, proving that bourbon — not typically associated with brunch — can absolutely hold its own.
Over in downtown Orlando, Beignets & Brew delivered one of the day’s standout moments. Known for its hot, made-to-order New Orleansstyle beignets, the concept stepped outside its shop for the first time to serve a festival crowd — and walked away with the top bite of the day.
The wins came out of a field of more than 20 local restaurants, all serving brunch bites and cocktails to a completely sold-out crowd of more than 1,000 attendees. The lineup spanned across the city’s dining scene, including The Drake Kitchen + Bar, Hangry Bison, Black Coffee / Cafe Negro, Easy Bakes, Lime Fresh Mexican Grill, The Stubborn Mule, RusTeak, Elevated Eats by Chef Juvon, Capybara Ramen, Jeff’s Bagel Run, Foxtail Coffee Co., Fin @ Siam, and San Julian’s Kitchen, among others — a snapshot of Orlando’s evolving food scene in one place.
NUTRL Vodka Seltzers flowed just as freely as the food, while Hard Rock VIP guests also enjoyed P1 Vodka, Dude, Wow Bloody Marys with garnishes from the toppings bar.
From the first pours to the last bites, the day felt like exactly what it’s meant to be: a snapshot of Orlando’s evolving food scene, all in one place, for one afternoon — with Mr. Mogembo behind the decks keeping the energy moving as guests lingered, circled back for favorites, and settled into the rhythm of it.
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premieres you won’t want to miss this week.
BY STEVE SCHNEIDER
Premieres Wednesday:
Criminal Record — In Season 2, a stabbing at a political rally has ominous implications for all of London. Terrorism? No, worse: One of the town takeaways is now a skewer short. (Apple TV)
Hulk Hogan: Real American — The last recorded interview with the wrestling legend is a highlight of this four-part documentary. Hear him recount in his own words the many highlights of his celebrated career. And also which minorities it’s safe to let your daughter date. (Netflix)
Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool — The country superstar’s very own doc shows how she vaulted to the top of the charts from her humble beginnings in a trailer. But I don’t know what the big deal is, because it was the trailer to Hoppers and pretty much everybody saw it. (Netflix)
Santita — Paulina Dávila and Gael García Bernal headline the story of a wheelchair-bound Mexican woman who is deter-
mined to experience her first orgasm in two decades. Or as Ben Shapiro would call her, a selfish whore. (Netflix)
This Is a Gardening Show — Zach Galifianakis salutes Earth Day with a six-part miniseries about living with a green thumb. Meanwhile, over on Newsmax, Lindsey Graham is still out there living with a brown nose. (Netflix)
Premieres Thursday:
Flunked — A French ne’er-do-well agrees to go undercover as a high-school math teacher to help the police and keep himself out of jail. Gosh, remember when French teachers were on the up-and-up and just wanted to cop an innocent feel?(Netflix)
Running Point — Ray Romano joins the cast in Season 2, playing the new head coach of the underdog b-ball team the L.A. Waves. Look for his character to reappear in next season’s Untold: Everybody Loves Point Shaving. (Netflix)
If Wishes Could Kill — Young adults are the target audience of a Korean series about a magic app that grants its users’ wishes but makes them pay with their lives. Which seems a lot more legit than promising to pay you in crypto for engagement. (Netflix)
Joe Bob’s Wicked Witchy Wingding — His Last Drive-In show may have gotten the ax, but Joe Bob still has to burn off his Shudder contract with four specials before he can depart for greener and more ghoulish pastures. This one’s a celebration of Walpurgisnacht, the German night of the witches. As usual, Joe Bob isn’t saying which movie he’s showing to mark the occasion; before you place a bet on Polymarket, remember Bezos has exclusive rights to Melania. (Shudder)
Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 — The animated sequel to the streaming landmark is set after the events of Season 2, when we all thought Eleven had shut the gate to the Upside Down forever. But now we learn something slipped through first. And I think we all know what that means: the greatest threat to children since Chappell Roan discovered brunch. (Netflix)
The Trials of Winnie Mandela — The “Mother of the Nation” is recalled by her surviving family and others who knew her best, to form a more complete picture of her complicated legacy. Of course, “complicated” is what they call it when you’re on the right side of the cattle prod. On the business end, they just call it OH
JESUS LADY FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S HOLY PLEASE STOP (Netflix)
Premieres Friday:
Apex — It’s Deliverance meets Cliffhanger as rock climber Charlize Theron tries to run from her troubles with an invigorating excursion to the Australian wilderness, only to find herself pursued by serial killer Taron Egerton. There was a warning in the brochure, but nobody reads past the part about wiping with poison oak. (Netflix)
Cochinas — The setting is the Mexico of 1998 as a woman fights to keep her family fed by launching the country’s first adult video store. See what breathtakingly original ideas you can come up with when you stumble across some used VHS copies of Clerks and Zack and Miri Make a Porno at the bodega? (Prime Video)
New Bandits — In the second season of the Brazilian crime drama, gang leader Ubaldo and his sisters have to balance a thirst for revenge with the demands of their faith. Which makes me wonder what in the heck religion they’re following that doesn’t thoroughly condone and support a thirst for revenge in the first place. Are they some sort of Buddhist crew or something? (Prime Video)
Supernova Strikers: Genesis — Sign in at 9 p.m. to watch a bunch of Mexican luminaries pummel one another in a multi-card amateur boxing event being streamed live from Azcapotzalco. It’s kind of like Celebrity Deathmatch, only nobody’s made out of clay. (Except for the country’s current teen heartthrob, one Adobe Gillis.) (Netflix)
Premieres Saturday:
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal — Prelims start at 5 p.m. ET with the main card following at 8, as former UFC bantamweight champ Aljamain Sterling and No. 7-ranked featherweight Youssef Zalal take to the ring in Vegas. Hey, remember when you could read a sentence like that and not immediately think “Nah, I’ll just wait to see what happens at the White House?” (Paramount+)
Premieres Monday:
Straight to Hell — Here’s a chance for Western audiences to learn all about Kazuko Hosoki, whose fortune-telling skills made her one of the celebrities of postwar Japan. The elevator pitch: What if Walter Mercado had been born 8,000 miles away and was slightly more butch? (Netflix)
Premieres Tuesday:
My Killer Father: The Green Hollow Murders — A cold case heats up again when an Iowa woman reveals she used to help bury bodies for her serial-killer dad. See, that was back when we understood chores build character. (Paramount+)
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FOREVER COUNTRY
Singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt headlines the Nashville South showcase, and there will be tears in your beer at Ten10
BY MIA SCHAEPERKOETTER
Tennessee musician Lilly Hiatt brings the emotion that defines both her songwriting and her city to Orlando for the Modern Music Movement’s Nashville South 7 show. Hiatt balances folky singer-songwriter authenticity with the grit and power of alternative rock. Her fourth album, Forever (2025), is a reflection on the four years between the release of Forever and Hiatt’s previous album, 2020’s Walking Proof
“I’m not ever trying to gun for some sort of trendiness, but sometimes it just so happens that a style of music people are rediscovering is kind of the style of music I make,” Hiatt tells Orlando Weekly
Hiatt’s Forever follows her journey of falling in love, moving to a new house and starting fresh as a musician.
“[This album] is a little more focused than maybe all the other things I’ve done,” Hiatt says.
and Hiatt share similar musical influences, Hiatt explains. “My husband, Coley, played a lot on the record, too. He’s the same as me, you know. So that’s just kind of where our ears took us,” Hiatt says.
Forever’s themes unfurled naturally, Hiatt says. “It’s usually based on the first song I make for the record, which the first one on [Forever] was ‘Hidden Day.’ So that set a tone of a sonic environment, and then I just go off that,” Hiatt says.
Hiatt embarked on a solo tour over the winter. A longtime member of rock bands, Hiatt has over time learned to navigate the stage solo.
“It’s more of a ‘hanging out in somebody’s living room’ vibe than like you’re at a rock show,” Hiatt says. “I’m more open when I’m by myself because I don’t get too nervous about my banter, because I’m not sharing a stage with anyone. So usually some stories get told, and we laugh and I play my tunes.”
Nashville-based Hiatt plans to bring a taste of Music City to Orlando for her Nashville South performance at Ten10 Brewing Co.’s BSide room.
“When I think of the Nashville spirit, I want to perform well, like I want to represent the skill aptly, I try to stay sharp and practiced and ready to go,” Hiatt says. “But also, there’s going to be some quirkiness in there, because that’s part of the Nashville spirit too.”
White is someone well-acquainted with this Nashville spirit. She’s the daughter of Nashville Hall of Famer and Grammy-nominated country and rock legend John Hiatt. As she began her first major tour, she received advice from her father that the industry is a difficult one to navigate and find peace.
“He said it’s not an easy industry, it’s not an easy business to find peace in,” Hiatt says. “But he said it in a way where he was insinuating that it’s possible, but it’s going to take some work to keep your head grounded and peaceful through doing this for your life.”
NASHVILLE SOUTH 7: LILLY HIATT
8 p.m. Saturday, April 25 Ten10 Brewing Co. 1010 Virginia Drive ten10brewingcompany.com $10
“It knows what it’s doing, and there’s no lollygagging on it too much.” The album was recorded and produced in Hiatt’s home studio, with every song going through Paul Kolderie, whose CV includes work with alt-luminaries like Hole, Radiohead and Pixies.
There’s a prominent alternative rock sound on Forever, which Hiatt explains is a consistent underlying influence. “I did grow up on all the grunge bands and I worshiped Hole and Pearl Jam,” Hiatt says.“So it’s just only natural, like that is how I learned to play guitar.”
Coley Hilson, Hiatt’s husband, also played a major role in the production of Forever. Hilson
On Forever , Hiatt sings songs of growth, change and a learned appreciation for stability.
“This is the most settled my life has ever been. I used to really thrive off it being unsettled. And I still do to some extent,” Hiatt says. “There is a stability that I’ve learned is just as powerful as the high you get off of playing music.”
Hiatt has been vocal about music being a positive and healing force for both herself and the audience.
“I think there’s a lot to be troubled about now, and rightfully so, and I spend a lot of time mulling those things over,” Hiatt says. “But also, I have to remind myself I can still go to a concert and have a good time and laugh and hang out, like that’s part of healing stuff and it’s important. I go to shows to do that, you know? I don’t go to get, like, a sermon about something or another.”
Hiatt just wants her Orlando audience to feel connected and a li’l rejuvenated. “I just hope they leave feeling like their soul got fed something. It’s just that feeling you get when you’re like, ‘My heart feels good tonight after that.’”
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LOCAL RELEASES
Innovation matters only to academics and casual fans. For the true believers, tinkering with a touchstone isn’t artistic; it’s heresy.
Formed in 1993, devout Altamonte Springs band Intoxicated were forged in the orthodox fire of classic Florida death metal. In fact, one of their early mentors was none other than death-metal OG Chuck Schuldiner of Death. During their 1990s run, Intoxicated cut their teeth and ripped out a string of EPs. But the band was shelved in 1999 when bandleader Erik Payne joined the touring lineup for party-metal legend Andrew W.K. alongside contemporaries Donald Tardy and Ken Andrews of Obituary.
For almost 20 years, Intoxicated remained on ice while Payne trotted the globe in Andrew W.K.’s road band. Finally, in 2019, he returned to reawaken his original monster. Ever since, Intoxicated have been not just reformed but refreshed and on a noteworthy creative clip with an EP (2020’s Walled) and finally a debut full-length (2022’s Watch You Burn). Now, they come with sophomore album The Dome. Released on Redefining Darkness Records, The Dome is proudly and ferociously free of evolution or experimentation. It’s a 10-track fusillade of Florida death metal par excellence. It’s as fierce and unrelenting in its attack as it is in its traditionalism. You want invention? Go spin Neurosis. But if you want time-honored perfection, then drop the needle anywhere on The Dome because this is what feeds the need when you want death metal in its truest state. Opening track “Carved in Stone” blasts out the gate in a battle stampede of gunning guitars and jackhammer beats. From there, it’s a campaign of velocity and ruthlessness across 10
Altamonte Springs band Intoxicated’s new album, The Dome, is proudly and ferociously free of evolution or experimentation. It’s a 10-track fusillade of Florida death metal par excellence
sorties. No foggy effects, psychedelic breakdowns or droning digressions, just pummeling death thrash carved of hard bone and built to lay waste. The Dome was born to sharpen the blade, not reinvent the wheel. It’s textbook Florida death metal — pure, simple and lethal.
The Dome is a work of deep tradition done with faith, force and integrity by masters. It now streams everywhere and is also available on vinyl and CD. After a recent tour with Obituary, Intoxicated are back in town for a hometown show this week with Gatecreeper, Eternal and Dying Remains. (7 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, Conduit, $25)
CONCERT PICKS THIS WEEK
Chameleons, The Veldt: Since their 1981 inception, British band Chameleons have always been up against fate. After a seminal 1980s era that yielded exceptional music of shadowy majesty that helped shape the iconic post-punk
landscape, they folded before they could reap proper credit or reward. Since then, Chameleons have sputtered through cycles of resurrection and dissolution. Even against those star-crossed odds, their legacy endures.
Chameleons’ latest current rise, going since 2021, just last year culminated in their first studio album in nearly a quarter-century. Now the pioneering survivors come to Orlando, where we know our alternative music history well, on the miraculous and unlikely tailwind of the critically hailed Arctic Moon LP as part of a North American tour. Come see these living post-punk gods and give them their rightful due in person. Opening will be excellent North Carolina soulgaze band The Veldt. (6 p.m. Friday, April 24, The Social, $30)
Maren Morris: Despite her mass appeal, Maren Morris has remained something of a country-music outsider, eventually renouncing the establishment altogether a few years ago because of its backwardness. Oh, she’ll be just fine. For all the conservative hayseed blowback she’s received for her progressive and humanist stances, Morris’ loaded list of 24K collaborators, deepening profile and pop fandom have more than offset. From her pop chops alongside Zedd and Grey to her Americana bona fides in preeminent supergroup The Highwomen, Morris has outgrown her roots to become a post-country icon. Now, she stands liberated and above the commercial country dumbfuckery, like a warrior standing on a hill of her haters’ skulls with the rest of the big, bold world behind her and a widescreen horizon in front of her. (6:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, House of Blues, $60.50) music@orlandoweekly.com
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22
Alyssa Edwards
Drag star Alyssa Edwards returns to Orlando, this time at the Plaza Live for her “To RuPaul, Thanks for Everything” (deep drag cut, look it up!) roadshow. The Ru-crowned “Queen of the Mothertucking World” is touring a new live show that is part memoir and all razzle-dazzle, with jokes, songs and show-stopping performances to spare. If you need some proof of her outsized influence, check out the recent tribute/roast of Alyssa Edwards episode in the just-wrapped, Myki Meeks-winning season of Drag Race. Then get to the gig. 8 p.m., The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave., plazaliveorlando.org, $53-124.
— Matthew Moyer
SATURDAY, APRIL 25
Central Florida Earth Day Festival
The 21st Annual Central Florida Earth Day promises eco-friendly fun, education and community at Lake Eola Park this weekend. Presented by Vegetarians of Central Florida, the long-running festival is the largest Earth Day celebration in the region, featuring exhibitors, interactive activities and a wide variety of vegan food vendors promoting sustainable and compassionate living. And if you’ve been peeping the headlines recently, you know we need to start taking this same ethos way more seriously beyond a once-a-year party. 10 a.m., Lake Eola Park, North Rosalind Avenue and East Washington Street, cfearthday. org, free. — Juanita Olarte
SATURDAY, APRIL 25
Orlando Pickle Fest
The Orlando Pickle Fest is taking over Festival Park, and it’s a big dill. The event boasts an abundance of pickles and spotlights a peck of local
food, art and vendors. Vendors will offer a variety of pickled drinks, an à la carte pickle-tasting menu and a craft marketplace. The festival also brings briny competition in the form of a pickle-eating contest. The sour fun continues with a pickle mechanical bull and axe-throwing. With local bands performing all day (sour ed.: no Skankin’ Pickle?), enjoy a day full of fun, food and pickled pride. Noon, Festival Park, 2911 E. Robinson St., battlebrosevents.com, $14. — Mia Schaeperkoetter
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 25-26
Forbidden Kingdom
Royalty raves on as Bassrush’s Forbidden Kingdom festival returns to the Central Florida Fairgrounds. Stacked with nightlife, immersive environments and major names in EDM, Forbidden Kingdom ties the whole experience together with the neat bow of a storyline. The stages and settings follow the story of “The Forbidden Tale” as the kingdom’s inhabitants, the Cyberians and Thereons, face off in an intense rivalry. Forbidden Kingdom boasts four stages — each representing a phase in the festival’s story — The Forbidden Realm, The Dragon’s Lair, The Mystic Garden and The Crystal Spire. Performers include A Hundred Drums, Hedex, Basstripper, Bella Renee and Ivy Lab. To keep the party going, Zeds Dead, YDG and Svdden Death are hosting pre-parties and after-parties at The Vanguard. Consider these side-quests carefully as you fight (the heat) for the Kingdom! Central Florida Fairgrounds, 4603 W. Colonial Drive, forbiddenkingdomfestival.com, SOLD OUT. — MS
SUNDAY, APRIL 26
Lake County Pride Fest
From start to (hopefully) finish, the organizers of Lake County Pride in Eustis have put in the hard work and impassioned persistence that personifies the fierce resilience at the heart of Pride cele-
Wednesday:
Alyssa Edwards at the Plaza Live
WEDNESDAY–TUESDAY, APRIL 22-28, 2026
brations. As of this writing, Sunday’s party is still on, promising live performances, drag, vendors, food trucks and sundry fun for the whole family. Some Orlando performers are making their way out to deep-red Eustis to join in the fun, including the Orlando Gay Chorus and Billy Mick. Also performing are Rabiosa Santlorans, Karma Rose, Nova Celeste, Twisted T and Kelly Jarrard, among many others. “During this difficult time for many, we hope to give that joy back to the community we love!” Danielle Olivani, president and founder of Lake County Pride, told OW awhile back. And we believe them. Noon, Ferran Park, Eustis, lakecountypride.org, free. — MM
MONDAY, APRIL 27
PinkPantheress
Brit singer and producer PinkPantheress brings her very in-demand “An Evening With” tour to the states this week, up to and including two Florida shows. The young pop architect has had quite the year, winning a Brit Award for Best Producer — the first woman and youngest artist ever to nab said honor — and having “Illegal” remixed by electronic rule-breaker Four Tet. If you pounced on tickets fast enough, you can hear and see for yourself just what’s this all about, then. 8 p.m., Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd., entertainment.hardrock.com, SOLD OUT. — MM
MONDAY, APRIL 27
Reona
An almost unprecedented run of Japanese avant-garde musicians driving the artform of noise to the outer limits and to Orlando — we’re talking Ryosuke Kiyasu and Tatsuya Nakatani — continues with Reona this week. This show will be unique and surreal on so many levels, not least due to the headliner herself. Reona combines tap-dancing techniques with junk-metal noise
Monday: PinkPantheress at Hard Rock Live
and non-percussion, creating physical, mesmerizing sheets of sound and rat-tat-tats of discord. There’s really no one else operating in her aes-
thetic zone right now. Additionally, the venue is the new temporary location of My Sister’s House at Broadway Bowl. Eye- and ear-popping on all levels. 6:30 p.m., My Sister’s House, 10749 E. Colonial Drive, instagram.com/mysistershouse presents, $10-$15. — MM
CONCERTS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22
Baby Keem 7:30 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $78$224; 407-934-2583.
Driveways, Have Mercy, Eternal Boy 6 pm; The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive; $20; 407-704-6261.
Dion Kerr Trio 7:30 pm; Timucua Arts Foundation, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave.; $10-$30; 407-279-0902.
Nail Bite, Strange Culture, Firsun, Severed Silence, Indebted 6 pm; West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; $20-$25; 407-322-7475.
Reona, Planet Shithead, Bog Phantom, Pulse Cut, Much of Orlando 6:30 pm; My Sister’s House, 10749 E. Colonial Drive; $10-$15.
SatchVai Band, Animals As Leaders 8 pm; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; $79-$312; 407-351-5483.
The Maine 5:30 pm; House of Blues,
Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $47-$72; 407-934-2583.
MONDAY, APRIL 27
PinkPantheress 8 pm; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; SOLD OUT; 407-351-5483.
The Moss Park Strings 7 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.
TUESDAY, APRIL 28
Indie 900 Jam 9:30 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.
Krooked Kings 7 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $25; 407-246-1419.
EVENTS
Alyssa Edwards Renowned as one of the most famous drag performers in herstory, Alyssa Edwards is an American entertainer, choreographer, and globally recognized television personality. Wednesday 8 pm; The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave.; $53-124; 407-228-1220; plazaliveorlando.org.
Annual Winter Park Paint Out
Details about specific daily events can be found here: polasek.org/ events. Wednesday 9 am-5 pm, Thursday 9 am-5 pm, Friday 9 am-7:30 pm and Saturday 9 amnoon; Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-6476294; polasek.org.
Breakthrough T1D One Walk Join
Breakthrough T1D for the largest global event for the type 1 diabetes community. This family-friendly event welcomes participants of all ages and abilities to raise T1D awareness and move us closer to a world without T1D. Registration is required. Saturday 8 am; Cranes Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; free; 407-5718863; uptownaltamonte.com.
Brechner Speaker Series: Tracing Florida Journeys
A fourth-generation Floridian, Leslie Kemp Poole explores the stories where Florida’s landscapes, history, and literature meet. She is the author of four books, including Tracing Florida Journeys: Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and
Now (2024). In this talk, she shares insights from that book and from years spent reading, researching, and tracing the path of naturalist William Bartram through Florida. Sunday 2 pm; Orange County Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-836-8500; thehistorycenter.org.
Central Florida Earth Day
Saturday 10 am; Lake Eola Park, North Rosalind Avenue and East Washington Street; free.
Chris Tucker Friday 8 pm; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $50-$227; 844-5132014; drphillipscenter.org.
Florida Puerto Rican Parade
Saturday 11 am; Downtown OrlandoCentral Boulevard, Orange Avenue and Central Boulevard; free.
Lip Sync Battle The Osceola Arts annual Lip Sync Battle has become a premier event attended by over 600 community leaders, business owners and civic organizations. It raises crucial funds that allow us to continue to connect our community to accessible arts programs. Saturday 6 pm; Events Center at Osceola Heritage Park, 1875 Silver Spur Lane, Kissimmee; osceolaarts.org.
Night in Berlin Step into a night inspired by Berlin. Enjoy live music by Steve’s Euromusik, dinner, and an open dance floor throughout the evening. Whether you come with friends, a date, or on your own, Night in Berlin brings classic supper-club style with a social vibe. Saturday 6 pm; German American Society of Central Florida, 381 Orange Lane, Casselberry; $0-$35; 407-834-0574; orlandogermanclub.com.
Orlando Pickle Fest
Sour, crunchy, a very big dill. Pickle-themed food, drink, merch and axe-throwing, because nothing makes sense anymore. Saturday noon; Festival Park, 2911 E. Robinson St.; $15-20 battlebrosevents.com.
Poetry Walk: Ink & Drink
This event is part of the Poemville celebration, where poetry installations pop up throughout Audubon Park. Check-in will take place inside The Lovely Vintage Market, 2906 Corrine Drive. Saturday 2 pm; Audubon Park Garden District, East
Winter Park Road and Corrine Drive; $15; audubonparkgardens.com.
Sammy Obeid Thursday 7 pm; Funny Bone Comedy Club, 9101 International Drive; $33; 407-4805233; orlando.funnybone.com.
Shen Yun Sunday 7:30 pm and Monday 2 & 7:30 pm; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave; $66-$207; 844-513-2014; drphillipscenter.org.
Sunset & Chill The Sunset & Chill experience is back and bigger than ever. Celebrating five years of good vibes, great music and community spirit! Join Sanford and Orlando Entertainment and The Sanford Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for the fifth annual Sunset & Chill Scholarship Fundraiser. Friday 6 pm; Cranes Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; free; 407-5718863; uptownaltamonte.com.
Volume IX: Luck Be A Lady Tuesday 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10-$18; willspub.org.
Will’s Pub Spelling Bee Competition Buying a GA ticket does not enter you into the Spelling Bee competition. Monday 7 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $5; willspub.org.
ART
McRae Art Studios Spring Open House McRae Art Studios celebrates its 40th anniversary with a Spring Open House. Explore working studios of 22 artists, meet the artists, and view The Faces of McRae, a new self-portrait exhibition. Enjoy original artwork across mediums, live music and a donation bar. Saturday 6 pm; McRae Art Studios, 1000 Arlington St.; free; 407-601-5152; mcraeartstudios.art.
Opening Reception: A Loom, A Fence, A Wire, A Thread
Celebrate the opening of this new contemporary art exhibition featuring art by Mär Martinez, a Syrian American artist, with music by DJ Nigel John, La Patronas Tacos & Birria food truck, a cash bar on our beautiful National Historic Landmark campus for free! Friday 6:30 pm; Art and History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland; free; 407-539-2181; artandhistory.org.
Meet Buddy!
Buddy (A572523) is a surrender whose owner just couldn’t care for him anymore. Buddy is 6 years old, calm and incredibly sweet. He’s good with other dogs, and genuinely seems to enjoy their company, but it’s people with whom he really shines. Buddy is a happy and beautiful dog, smiling, wiggling, ready to play and snuggle at any moment. When we pet him, he melts into our hands. To us, Buddy is a perfect dog, and we wish people would just stop walking past him. Buddy has been here for almost 77 days, with very little interest. That may not seem like long time, but here at the shelter, he is one of our longest residents. And yet, he’s the same sweet and carefree dog he was in January. His heart refuses to give up or give in. Buddy’s story is a sad one, but one look at his face, and you know he’s only looking for tomorrow. For the next chance to snuggle and play. For the next chance to love.
Orange County Animal Services is located at 2769 Conroy Road in Orlando, near the Mall at Millenia. The shelter is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. every day except Wednesday, when it’s open 2-6 p.m. For more information, please call 407-8363111 or visit ocnetpets.com.
RV Sales RV Repairs
WANTED - All motorhomes, fifth wheels and travel trailers any condition. Mobile repair service. Cash paid on the spot. RV transport service available! Call 954-595-0093!
Legal, Public Notices
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: #5188 6205 W. Colonial Dr. Orlando, FL 32808 (321) 235-6610 on May 8, 2026 at 12:00pm- Guerda ToussaintClothes, boxes, furniture, Eric Daise - Clothes, furniture, Vernell JacksonClothes, electronics, boxes, Enaise Duveillaume-Clothes, toys, appliances, Veronica Hayes- clothes, appliances, furniture, Kimbala Lalau Reynolds-Clothes, furniture, Torrance Jones-Shoes, boxes, Derrick Edmonds-Electronics, clothing, Bruce Bolden-Electronics, boxes, Tammy Jackson-Household, electronics, Olguine Policap-Furniture, mattress/bedding, Robert Loriston-Mattress/bedding, Sydni Thomas-bags, Lavontay Ricks-Toys, clothes, Atina Burks-Furniture, electronics, clothes, Maira Gomez-Furniture, appliances, boxes. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those listed below at the location indicated: Extra Space Storage #8558, 610 Rinehart Rd. Lake Mary, FL 32746 (407) 333-4355 On May 5th, 2026 at 12:00 PM Kacey Columbus-Decorations and household items, Robert Larkan-Household items ,clothes. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.Storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 7244 Overland Rd Orlando, FL 32810 (407) 794-7457 on May 8th, 2026 11:30am Clyff Harrigan-Household Goods/ Furniture, TV/Stereo Equipment. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location and times indicated: May 5th, 2026 at 12:00 PM Extra Space Storage, Store #6309, 292 W Central Pkwy, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 (407) 378-6671. Dennis Martinez:household items, furniture. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: #3654 9001 Eastmar Commons Blvd Orlando, FL 32825 (407) 901-6180 on May 8th, 2026 at 1:00PM Joan Agosto-household items, Joan Agosto-household items, Juan Jesus Rodriguez-household items, Arianee Williams-household item. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: May 8th, 2026 at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 10:00 AM Extra Space Storage #4115: 1010 Lockwood Blvd, Oviedo, Fl 32765, 407-930-4370 The Great House Ministries-Clothing, Furniture, Household Items, Mattress and Bedding, Appliances, Wall Art. Derekica Taher- Household Items, Office Equipment, Wall Art. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: #1632 2631 E Semoran Blvd. Apopka, FL 32703 (407) 408-7437 on May 8th, 2026 11:00AM Meghan Shumway-Household items, John Booker-Household items, Raymond Carmichael-Household items. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property
described below belonging to those individuals indicated: #3403 11583 University Blvd. Orlando, FL 32817 (407) 777-2278 on May 8th, 2026 1:30pm- Ameka Cheathamhousehold items. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: May 8th, 2026 at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00PM Extra Space Storage #4112, 3364 W State Rd 426 Oviedo, FL 32765 (407) 930-4293 Angel Graham : Household Goods, Clothes . Camille Gardener: Household Goods. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below on May 8th, 2026, @12:00pm at the location indicated: Store 8439: 1420 N Orange Blossom Trail Orlando FL, 32804, (407) 312-8736. Blas Franklin Fabre-Household Items,clothing and shoes,electronics. The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Life Storage/ Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: #5180 1561 Lee Rd Winter Park, FL 32789 (321) 207-6665 on May 8th, 2026 12:00PM - Jason Hogdon-Household items, Yarise Moralesl-Household items, Christopher Lane-Household items, Alexander Calhoun-Medina-Household items. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 10959 Lake Underhill Rd. Orlando, FL 32825 (407) 502-0120 on May 8th, 2026 1:00PM Chiseah Rubiera - Household items, Falisia Jarrett- Household items. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchas-
es must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals indicated: #3699 - 12280 East Colonial Drive Orlando, Fl 32826 (321) 286-7324 on May 8th, 2026 12:00pm Thomas Gaither-guitars and case. Kwame Jackson-glass table and fan. Ramon Borroto-Bowflex Max Trainer, clothes. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belongings to those individuals listed below at the location indicated May 8th, 2026 at the times and location listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00 PM Extra Space Storage #1633 831 N. Park Ave Apopka Florida 32712. John Slusher - Household items. Kathleen Skerritt - Household items. Gilberto SantanaMattress and TV. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures. com Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below, belonging to those individuals listed below at the location and times listed below. 05/05/2026 at 12:00 PM Extra Space Storage, 1451 Rinehart Rd, Sanford, FL 32771 (407) 915-4908. The personal goods stored in there by the following. Marlin Prince-Household items,t. vsEsaw Coons-Boxes,BagsLaShalonda Robinson-Shelving,popcorn maker,boxes. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: May 7th, 2026, at the times and locations listed below: The personal goods stored therein by the following: 10:00AM Extra Space Storage, 6068 Wooden Pine Drive. Orlando, Florida 32829 407.974.5165: Joshua McNeil- Queen size mattress, dining room chairs, clothes: Karen CarrubbaBedroom furniture, kitchen appliances, personal items: Neymer De Oliveira- Tools
pressure washer The personal goods stored therein by the following: 11:15AM Extra Space Storage, 1305 Crawford Ave. St. Cloud FL 34769, 407.504.0833: Melissa Somers; Boxes, totes, luggage- Angel Marrero; boxes, totes, chairs, luggage The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00PM Extra Space Storage, 14800 Narcoossee Rd. Orlando, FL 32832 407.987.4115: Marcos Rivera - furniture and tools; Maria Maita - household items, furniture The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00PM Extra Space Storage, 12915 Narcoossee Rd. Orlando, FL 32832 407.501.5799: Tunyantorn Aphibarnrat- 5 mattress, couch, dining table, TV, Boxes; Zadimir Berriis- Living room furniture and boxes; Miguel BarusoHome goods. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 1:15PM Extra Space Storage, 11261 Narcoossee Rd. Orlando FL 32832, 407.280.7355: malik senior- Boxes and furniture The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:45 PM Extra Space Storage, 9847 Curry Ford Rd Orlando, FL 32825, 407.495.9612: Alex Rodriguez-mattresses business; Efren Cardenas-Household goods; Denys Ortega- Tools and personal items; Felix Sanchez- Clothing few hand tools and business and personal paperwork. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 10:30 AM Extra Space Storage, 13597 S Orange Ave, Orlando, Florida 32824 407.910.2087: Jose Garcia; Cabinets & Shelves, Motor Vehicles & Parts, Electronics, Sports & Outdoors, Boxes, Tools & Supplies, Totes, Buckets. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 01:30 PM Extra Space Storage, 13450 Landstar Blvd, Orlando, Florida 32824 407.917.8672: Kenneth Harris- futon, sofa, stools, clothes, mattresses, computer tables, grill, boxes, chairs, desk; Kenneth Harris- Household Items; Brandon Tention- Shoes and clothes; Maria RodriguezHousehold Goods/Furniture; Ignamari Campos- Household Goods/Furniture; Hamza Qureshi- 2-3 bedroom, mattress, couch; Christian Cordero Perez- Props, fixtures; Devin Bieber- Household Goods/ Furniture, TV/Stereo Equipment, Tools/ Appliances, Office Furn/Machines/Equip; Xenia Blanco- Household goods. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 01:00 PM Extra Space Storage, 7627 Narcoossee Rd, Orlando, Florida 32822 689.278.1735: Alexandria Robertson –Luggage, Totes, Tools. Emily Boyle – Bags, Totes, Arts and Crafts. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:30 PM Extra Space Storage, 35 Goldenrod Rd S, Orlando, Florida 32807 407.487.3270: MALEEK T MURPHY: Bins, Luggage, Fan; Cindy Sanchez: Bags, Christmas Tree, Furniture The personal goods stored therein by the following: 10:45 AM Extra Space Storage, 6174 S Goldenrod Rd, Orlando, Florida 32822 407.955.4137: Elizabeth Nunez - home goods The personal goods stored therein by the following: 10:15 AM Extra Space Storage, 5753 Hoffner Rd, Orlando, Florida 32822 407.212.5890: Yanira Justiniano – Toys, Wall Art, Clothing, Sports & Outdoors, Ironing Board; Gerald Eaton – Kitchenware, Old Stuff, Toys, Wall Art, Books, Boxes, Christmas Decor, Hats, Totes; Guillermo Ortiz Lopez Mastache – Motor Vehicle = Gray, 2017,Vin# 1FMCUOGD7HUA09773, Ford Escape (VEHICLE IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE SALE) The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:45 PM Extra Space Storage, 4650 S Semoran Blvd, Orlando, Florida 32822 407.901.3864: Audra baker- Christmas décor ,household items, clothes ; Joe Baker- garage items, pingpong table, plastic containers, bedding
items ; Villetta Byard-household items, handbag, luggage, toys, plastic containers ; Roberto Gonzalez- Household goods, furniture, mattress, Tv, kitchenware. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 02:00 PM Extra Space Storage, 2334 S Semoran Blvd, Orlando, Florida 32822 407.930.4541: Jaidenn Roman: 2 TV’s 2 Dressers and other small belongings. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 11:45 AM Extra Space Storage, 4020 Curry Ford Rd, Orlando, Florida 32806 407.901.0194: Rantonette Chavon Dalton- Household goods; Joseph Sousa- Household goods, furniture. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:15 PM Extra Space Storage, 408 N Primrose Dr, Orlando, Florida 32803 321.285.5021: James Brutton- boxes of clothing, queen bed and box springs. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: May 8th, 2026, at the times and locations listed below: The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12pm Extra Space Storage, location #1657, 11071 University Blvd., Orlando FL 32817 3213204055; Zachary Sales: totes, sports, clothes, toys, bedding, pressure washer. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: May 8th, 2026, at the times and locations listed below: The personal goods stored therein by the following: 2:30pm Extra Space Storage #7886, 15551 Golden Isle Blvd, Orlando FL 32828 4077101020: Donald Chester: giant helmet, exercise equipment, hoverboard. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property
Legal, Public Notices
Fictitious Name Notice
Location: Pinellas County
Fictitious Name: LendFriend Mortgage
Owner: LendFriend Mortgage LLC
Address: 600 Congress Ave, Office 15092, Austin, TX 78701
Owner is: Limited Liability Company
Laws Entity was Formed: TX
Date of first use of name in FL: 04/14/2026
General nature of business: Mortgage Brokering /s/ Maxwell Liporace, Member
FLORIDA DISCOUNT SELF STORAGE
Personal property of the following tenants will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy a rental lien in accordance with Florida Statutes, Sections 83.801 - 83.809. Auctions will be held on the premises at locations and times indicated below. Wednesday May 13, 2026, Thursday May 14, 2026. Contents: Misc. & household goods and vehicles. The viewing is at time of sale only. The owners or their agents reserve the right to bid on any unit, and to refuse any bid. 2580 Michigan Ave Kissimmee,FL 34744 (Wed, May 13 @ 11:30am) 0609-Lynette Espinosa, 1002-James Tensen, 1023-Carlos Rodriguez, 1159-Isabel Velazquez 5622 Old Winter Garden Rd Orlando,FL 32811 (Wed, May 13 @ 1:00pm) 0232-Ariana Alcin, 0537-Sylvester Robinson, 0545-Antavious Gray, 0564-Jennifer Cashen, 1066-Bruce Myrick, 1420-Ariana Alcin 6401 Pinecastle Blvd Orlando,FL 32809 (Wed, May 13 @ 2:30pm) 87-Hidelfonso Rengifo 3625 Aloma Ave Oviedo,FL 32765 (Thurs, May 14 @ 11:00am) 0910-Marcus Bost, 1002-Joel Rodriguez 17420 SR 50 Clermont,FL 34711 (Thurs, May 14 @ 1:00pm) 0325-Corey L Battey, 0347-Tasha A Miller, 0414-George Rodriguez, 0422-Zulaika Khan, 0824-Roman Franklin 2300 Hartwood Marsh Clermont,FL 34711 (Thurs, May 14 @ 2:00pm) 236-Jovan Branchedor, 251-Noel A. Marquis, 259-Noel A. Marquis, 641-Jarik Kapyo Johnson, 1413-Ilincaln A. Gutierrez. Run dates 4/22/2026 and 4/29/2026
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION CASE NO: P23-DP-0013 IN THE INTEREST OF: C.F. DOB: 12/9/2012, minor child. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, TO: Dustin Stewart,, address unknown. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the above referenced child for adoption. You are hereby commanded to appear on May 11, 2026, at 1:30 PM before the Honorable John Galluzzo at the Seminole County Juvenile Justice Center, 190 Eslinger Way, Courtroom 2 Sanford, FL 32773, for an ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THIS CHILD (OR CHILDREN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD OR CHILDREN NAMED IN THIS NOTICE. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision
of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Court Administration, 301 North Park Avenue, Sanford, Florida 32771, telephone number (407) 665-4227 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS, my hand as Clerk of said Court and the Seal thereof, this 23rd day of March, 2026. [Grant Maloy] CLERK OF COURT AND COMPTROLLER By: /s/ Deputy Clerk
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION: 7 CASE NO.: DP25-203 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: E.G. DOB: 7/14/2025. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO: Emmala Glaude, Mother of the Minor Child (Address Unknown), YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the following child for adoption: E.G. born on July 14th 2025. You are hereby commanded to appear on June 1st, 2026, at 9:30 A.M. before the Honorable Heather Pinder Rodriguez, Judge of the Circuit Court, in Court Room 6 of the Thomas S. Kirk Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 E. Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for an ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THIS CHILD(REN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD OR CHILDREN NAMED IN THIS NOTICE. WITNESS my hand as Clerk of said Court and the Seal thereof, this 13th day of April, 2026. This summons has been issued at the request of George Lytle, Esquire Florida Bar Number: 985465, Children’s Legal Services, State of Florida Department of Children and Families 400 W. Robinson Street, S912 Orlando, FL 32801 george.lytle@myflfamilies.com
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, By: /s/ Clerk (seal)
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, CASE NO.: DP24-357 (5) IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD L.A.C. DOB: 9/25/2024, NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS To: ASHLEY MONTEFUSCO Address unknown. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the above referenced child for adoption. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the following child for adoption: L.A.C. born on 9/25/2024. You are hereby commanded to appear on May 20, 2026, at 10:00 AM before the Honorable Reginald Whitehead at the Thomas S. Kirk Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street Orlando, Florida 32806, for an ADVISORY HEARING/PRETRIAL CONFERENCE and on June 17, 2026, at 10:00 before the Honorable Reginald Whitehead at the Thomas S. Kirk Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street Orlando, Florida 32806 for an ADJUDICATORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVI-
SORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THIS CHILD (OR CHILDREN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD OR CHILDREN NAMED IN THIS NOTICE. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801, telephone (407) 836-2303 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS, my hand as Clerk of said Court and the Seal thereof, this 26th day of March, 2026. This summons has been issued at the request of: Barbara Dirienzo, Esquire FBN: 902500 Barbara.Dirienzo@myflfamilies.com Children’s Legal Services Children’s Legal Services. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk.
Life Storage/Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: #3404 2650 N Powers Dr. Orlando, FL 32818 (407) 982-1032 on May 8th, 2026 at 1:00PM Natacha Pierre Louis-Boxes/ Household Items, Bob Schmidt-Landscaping/Construction Equipment. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Life Storage/ Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
MY NEIGHBORHOOD STORAGE CENTERS Personal property of the following tenants will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy a rental lien in accordance with Florida Statutes, Sections 83.801 - 83.809. The public sale will take place online at www. storagetreasures.com on the dates indicated for each property, respectively Contents: Misc. & household goods and vehicles. Viewing can begin approximately 2 weeks before the time of sale only. The owners or their agents reserve the right to bid on any unit and also to refuse any bid. 108 E. Colonial Dr Orlando, FL 32801 (Wednesday May 13, 2026 9:30am) 2000-Myah Green, 2065-Alex Hayton, 2096-Windell Conyers, 2170-Ariel Castillo, 2243-Jay Hughes, 2289- Brittany Hall, 2347-Eddie Marrero, 3036-Ricky Vaughn, 3353-Cadejah Jennings 300 W Oak Ridge Rd Orlando, FL 32809 (Wednesday May 13, 2026 11:30am) 0028-Yvis Briceno, 0242-Angelina Cruz, 2131-Saul Lara 15610 Sweet Grove Lane, Winter Garden, FL 34787 (Wednesday May 13, 2026 2:30pm) 1071-David Schemel, 2057-Keri Cohen, 2061-Lauren Cantor, 2190-Sylvana Stephen, 2212-Peter Bailey
Notice of Public Auction for monies due on storage units located at U-Haul company facilities. Storage locations are listed below. All goods are household contents or miscellaneous and recovered goods. All auctions are hold to satisfy owner’s lien for rent and fees in ac-
cordance with Florida Statutes, Self-Storage Act, Sections 83.806 and 83.807. The auction will start at 8:00 a.m. on May 7th, 2026 and will continue until all locations are done. Auctions will be held online: www.storagetreasures.com. U-Haul Moving & Storage at Maitland Blvd, 7803 N Orange Blossom Trl Orlando, FL 32810; D32 Jamarius Grant $511.70, 0209 KELILE ROBERTS $520.70, D60 Russell Sipp
$511.70, U106 BRENDA WARLEY $219.80, B72 Vanesha Brown $575.70, D51 Russell Sipp $837.70, U112 WILLIE JACKSON
$519.80, 0359 Jayce Thompson $580.70, L72 Lajuene Williams $534.85 U-Haul Moving & Storage of Apopka; 1221 E Semoran Blvd Apopka, FL 32703; 1284 VIRGINIA WHEELER $370.70, 1060 NICOLE CALIXTE
$835.70, 1082 Leslie Bergeron $589.85, 1321 Lashanne Edwards $622.50 U-Haul Moving & Storage of Altamonte Springs; 598 W Hwy 436 Altamonte Springs, FL 32714; B132 Mystery Room
$1,154.75, A106 JASON SCHNACK $1,179.75 U-Haul Moving & Storage at Semoran Blvd, 2055 State Rd 436 Winter Park, FL 32792; 1419 Linda Turner $493.70, 1413 claud fisher $466.70, 2116-19 Irving Teos $1,029.50, 2502 Mystery Room $439.80, 1112 Hawkins Jenkijns $466.70, 1551 JUAN BOYD $334.85, 1116 greg fils $466.70, 1225 JOHN BONANO MARTINEZ $799.85, 1400 mystery room $419.80, 1115 DAVID RIVERA $649.85, 1086 mystery room $559.80, 1364 David Garcia
$649.85, 1051 DAVID RIVERA $455.60, 2466 Wislet Napaul $439.80 U-Haul Moving & Storage of Longwood; 650 N Ronald Reagan Blvd Longwood, FL 32750; A099 ynonne nunoo $379.85, B079 Honorato Neri Servin $679.70, E086 Mystery Room
$364.85, D010 Peterson Bennoit $679.85, E018 ETHAN Kiffmeyer $586.70, B090 KENNETH DOTSON $379.85, E015 Andrea Beasley $331.70 U-Haul Moving & Storage at Lake Mary Blvd; 3851 S Orlando Dr. Sanford, FL 32773; 5062 Michael Scott
$619.85, 2742 Dana Groomes $349.80, 1487 Juli Miller $343.70, 1203 JAQUAISHA
$514.85, 1296 Mystery Room $319.85, 2056 HUNTER RENDE $379.80 U-Haul Moving & Storage of Sanford; 3101 S Orlando Dr Sanford, FL 32773; 1971 Chris Rubiera $314.85, 1133 Stanley Louis
$664.80, 1442 Melissa Tomovick $334.85, 1261 Shane Agrue $324.80, 1153 Robert Hansen $409.75, 1390 Tiffany Diaz $694.85 U-Haul Moving & Storage of Sanford on Rinehart Rd; 1811 Rinehart Rd Sanford, FL 32771; 2143 Roxanna Dixon $784.85, 1097 Anthony Jordan $439.85, 3088 Jesse Adams $539.80, 2033 DANIEL ASTACIO
$424.85, 3035 Nelson Thomas $424.85, 2103 Arianna Solis $604.85
Legal, Public Notices
NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION FOR MONIES DUE ON STORAGE LOCKERS LOCATED AT UHAUL COMPANY FACILITIES. STORAGE LOCATIONS AND TIMES ARE LISTED BELOW. ALL GOODS SOLD ARE HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS, MISCELLANEOUS OR RECOVERED GOODS. ALL AUCTIONS ARE HELD TO SATISFY OWNER’S LIEN FOR RENT AND FEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTES, SELF STORAGE ACT, SECTIONS 83.806 AND 83.807, STARTS AT 8:00am and RUNS CONTINOUSLY. Auction will be held online: www.storagetreasures.com
U-Haul Ctr 14651 Gatorland Dr. Orlando Fl. 32837 05/14/2026 8:00am : 368 John Eustace, 1201, 550, 549 Glap Metal recycle llc Gilberto Rodriguez, 527 Michael Zurita, 241 Marlyn McNair, 540 Christine Melillo, 284 Lissette Rodriguez, 661 Andre Lyons. U-Haul Ctr 7800 Narcoossee Rd. Orlando Fl. 32822 05/14/2026 8:00am: 3301 Richard Benavente, 2375 Elexies Prieto, 3063 Francis Rast, 2298 Julius Matias, 2393 Chad Simo, 1012 Cordell Deshields. U-Haul Ctr. 2400 Orange ave Orlando Fl. 32807 05/14/2026 8:00am: 1921 Alina Novitskaya, 2101 Robert Owens, 1067 Jean Pico Soria.
U-Haul Ctr. 4001 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando Fl. 32803 05/14/2026 8:00am: D239 Othell Watson. U-Haul Ctr. 508 N. Goldenrod Rd. Orlando Fl. 32807 05/14/2026 8:00am:536 Samuel Redding, 328 Frantzie Jones.
U-Haul Ctr 13301 S. Orange Blossom Trl. Orlando Fl. 32837 05/14/2026 8:00am: 2126 Perla Ortega Perez, 2147 Jennifer Avery, 2101 Wendy Farias Suarez, 3226 Christian Maldonado, 3416 Alisa Estepa, 3021 Jennifer Simmons, 1619 Carlos Benitez. U-Haul Ctr. 3830 S. Goldenrod Rd. Orlando Fl. 32822 05/14/2026 8:00am: 1217 Jorge Mendez, 1019 Hipolito Aviles Vega, 2006 Jamelia Jarrells, 3184 Gregory Logsdon, 2010 Robert Ferreyra, 2038 Angel Garcia.
U-Haul Ctr. 2629 E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy, Kissimmee Fl. 34744 05/14/2026 8:00 am: 2231 Pablo Mengana, 2311 Gloribel Perez Caraballo, 1008 Gregory Mackey, 3061 Jason Crout, 3083,3094, 3095 Miguelina Coley, 3000 Robert Wilson, 2336 Luz Enid Ortiz Ramos, 2180 Snyder Saint-Cyr, 2149 Pablo Mengana, 3354 Jacoby Spain. U-Haul Ctr. 11815 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando Fl. 32826 05/14/2026 08:00am: 1516 Shaterica Vaughn, 1254 Ann Bridge.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 1001 Lee Rd Orlando Fl 32810 (407) 489-3742 on May 8th, 2026 12:30PM Tara Ingram- dishes, clothing & shoes, household items, boxes. Bobby Hodges- dishes, toys, clothing & shoes, boxes. Mark Wuollet- AC unit, new tires. Astria White- lamps, cabinets, clothing & shoes, household items, furniture. Roneshina Griffin- clothing & shoes, household items. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and pad at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates,
Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below on May 8th, 2026, at the location indicated: Store 1333: 13125
S. John Young Pkwy, Orlando FL. 32837, 407.516.7005 @ 10:00 AM: Adriana Soares
Procopio-home items,Danielle Surges- 30 boxes. Store 7143: 6035 Sand Lake Vista Dr, Orlando, FL 32819 @ 10:15 AM: Marcos Tomas - customer is storing boxes; John Robin - household items; Timothy Saddler - household goods, clothes. Store 1335: 1101 Marshall Farms Rd Ocoee Fl 34761 (407) 516-7221) @ 10:30 AM: Englebert Redondo Marquez- Dresser, boxes : Pierre Charles - Household items, furniture, office Store 1334: 5603 Metrowest Blvd Orlando Fl 32811. (407) 516-7751) @ 10:45
AM : Erica Belgrave - boxes, furniture, tv’s; Sedrick Allen - supplies, electrical items, auto parts; Julissa Jimenez - 2 boxes and bags; Jasmine Downer - personal items, boxes, clothes, household items bedroom items; Peter M. Weed - Hot dog trailer Store 3024: 11955 S Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando Fl 32837. 407-734-1315@ 11:00 AM : Diane M Jefferson – Boxes, documents, piano keyboard, tote, bag, wall art. Melvin De La Torre- Mattress, recliner, tool box, cooler, luggage, clothing. Store 3378: 475 Celebration Pl, Celebration FL 34747, 321.286.73231.939.3752 @ 11:15
One bed room apartment, Tony White Home goods, Maudnel Hunt Furniture, Melvin Valerio 1 Bedroom Furniture Store 3502: 1236 S Vineland Rd, Winter Garden Fl 34787, 407.794.6460 @11:45 AM
PM Andrew Tedesco –Clothes,shoes, bags,Totes:Nafis Ferguson-Furniture,Electronics,Clothes,Household Appliances: Lee Thomas-Clothes,shoes,desk,Bags :Leandra Redding-Clothes,Housedhold appliancesFurniture,Shoes Store 7420: 800 Beard Rd, Winter Garden, FL 34787 @ 12:30 PM : Donald Ringel: Tools and decorations- Kim Jones: Furniture, toysOsmar Millard: Furnitures, tools, bites, mattresses, tv’s- Henry Harold: furniture. Store 7557: 11920 W Colonial Dr Ste 10, Ocoee, FL 34761, 407-794-6970 @ 12:45 PM : Rezlin Thomas – Household items. Store 4107: 9080 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy, Kissimmee Fl 34747, 407.238.1799 @ 1:15 PM:Sylvette Karamoko-Furniture, boxes, totes, shelves; Jeremiah Howard Housegoods & clothing;, Felix Santiago Diaz-King size bed and bedding, totes; Eric Smith-Furniture, seasonal and home decor Store 7865: 25 E Lester Rd, Apopka, FL 32712, 407-551-5590 @1:30 PM: Cristina Garcia-clothes, furniture. - Jennifer Varga Canfield - 3-bedroom home furniture clothing, tools, dishware, toys, baby items. - Ciairra Lewis-boxes from her business. Store 4217: 5698 S Orange Blossom Trail Orlando, Fl 32839, 407-930-4463 @1:45 PM : kenneth edwards tires and totes, lamar laguerre suitcases, mark shehan totes and luggage, annisa romeo kids items, luchiea cossom perrsonel items, nadine pierre personel items, adelis garcia furiture, bed frame, boxes, luhiea cossom, personnel totes Store 1317: 5592 L B McLeod Rd Orlando FL 32811. (407) 720-2832) @ 2:00 PM: Mercier Smith/ equipmentRonald Smith/ Boxes, Tools- Styles smith/ Personal items- Felicia Frasier/ Personal
Items. Store 6454: 2312 S. Division Ave. Orlando, FL 32805, 689-303-3205 @ 2:15 PM. Briana Burton-Figueroa; full size mattress set, desk, 5 boxes. Ashley Williams; furniture - desk, beds, couches, boxes. Jared Haley; home goods and furniture. Store 7590: 7360 Sand Lake Rd, Orlando, FL 32819 407.634.4449 @ 2:30 PM : Oshane Monteith- tools; Stacia Cline, furniture, couch, boxes, clothes Store 6667: 910 Citrus Grove Rd Minneola, FL 34715 (352) 415-2585 @ 2:45 PM: Andrea Turk – Household, Furniture, Office Equipment, Tools, Mattress, Mirror, Boxes. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL
PROPERTY Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Site #3102, 2650 w 25th St. Sanford, FL 32771 on 05/05/2026 @ 12:00 pm Taj Nahal:Household items,furniture,boxes Ruby Crudale:dolly, totes, boxes,book case. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL
PROPERTY Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Site #3086, 130 Concord Drive, Casselberry, FL 32707, 5/5/2026, @ 12:00 pm: David Morales-Household goods, furniture, pool Mark Kienholz - bikes, parts, household goods Fallon Bennett- Household goods, furniture. The auction will be listed an advertised on www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Management, LLC #0695 - 4554 Hoffner Ave Orlando, FL 32812 to satisfy a lien on May 5, 2026 at approx. 10:30am at www. storagetreasures.com: Jesus Manuel Ortiz Semidey, Miguel Cruz, Cerissa Jordan, Ashley Lopez, Maher Waqqad, Michael Rivera, Carlos Stokes, William Vasquez, Justyce Berry. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for Owner CubeSmart # 5341 – 2310 W Carroll St, Kissimmee, FL 34741 to satisfy a lien on May 5, 2026 at approx. 11:00am at www.storagetreasures.com:
Christopher Wallace, Johnnathan Muñoz Gomez, Phillip Coley, Laurie A Nunez McGovern, Michelle Lynette Ranes, Luis German Malave Arriaga NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for Owner CubeSmart # 4586 8235 N Orange Blossom Trail Orlando, FL 32810 satisfy a lien on May 5, 2026 at approx. 12:30pm at www.storagetreasures.com: Jonathan Aldana, Ashely Curtis, Elizabeth Swartz, Maria Demonia, Shelby Carolyn Collins, Verticee Lamar Jr. Thomson, De Anna Cliatt NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for Owner CubeSmart # 5695 - 1159 Tomyn Blvd., Winter Garden, Florida, 34787 satisfy a lien on May 5, 2026 at approx. 1:00pm at www. storagetreasures.com: Phil Pennington, Kashawna Morrison, Franessa Smith, Janine Walker NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Management, LLC #0671 – 100 Mercantile Ct. Ocoee, FL 34761 to satisfy a lien on May 6, 2026 at approx. 10:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Randy Leon Stone, Payton Everding NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Management, LLC #0693 - 1015 N. Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, FL 32818 to satisfy a lien on May 6, 2026 at approx. 11:00am at www. storagetreasures.com: Rodney Antone Johnson, Rodney Johnson, Roderick Earl Graham, Peter Moreau, Betty Toldson, Johnny Clark Jr., Marc Fatal NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Management, LLC # 0420 –5301 N. Pine Hills Road, Orlando Fl 32808 to satisfy a lien on May 6, 2026 at approx. 11:30am at www.storagetreasures.com :Kenneth David Henry,Timothy Brooks, Glenwood Cox, Lexi Buckland,Lamar Woolbright NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Management, LLC #0430 - 7400 West Colonial Dr, Orlando Fl 32818 to satisfy a lien on May 6, 2026 at approx. 12:00pm at www. storagetreasures.com: Kristopher Aaron Monroe, Harris Rudolph Jr, Rudolph Harris Jr, Theresa Williams, Antimo Iovine NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for Owner CubeSmart # 5508 – 1851 West Landstreet Rd Orlando, FL 32809 satisfy a lien on May 6, 2026 at approx. 12:00pm at www. storagetreasures.com: Marion Meeks
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for Owner
CubeSmart # 6698 – 45630 US Hwy 27 Davenport, FL 33897 satisfy a lien on May 6, 2026 at approx. 12:30pm at www. storagetreasures.com: Adesh Jagdeo, Christopher Rivera, Kaliyah Jordan, Chelsea Ellis, Tremel Coleman, Sorina Dewolfe, Tajah Davis NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the
following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for Owner CubeSmart # 5868 – 4752 Conroy Storage Lane, Orlando, FL 32835 to satisfy a lien on May 7, 2026 at approx. 10:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Gary Johnson, Taylor Gill, Ryan Allen, Nadine Joseph, Eduin Roberto NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Management, LLC #0351 - 10425 S John Young Pkwy Orlando, FL 32837 to satisfy a lien on May 7, 2026 at approx. 11:00am at www.storagetreasures.com: Edwin Yoma ,Kyle Nelson NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for Owner CubeSmart # 5962 – 49671 Hwy 27 Davenport, FL 33897 to satisfy a lien on May 7, 2026 at approx. 11:30am at www.storagetreasures.
com: Naja Torrance, Vidal Viera, Erica Martinez, Jomaris Aponte, Eduardo Cruz, Shelby Scott, Josiah may. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for Owner CubeSmart # 5961 – 1540 Sullivan Rd. Davenport, FL 33896 to satisfy a lien on May 7, 2026 at approx. 12:00pm at www. storagetreasures.com: Arlene Gordon, Ryan Jose Alicea, Brain Jay Stosko, Rachel Abigayle Irizarry, IDA LLC. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Asset Management, LLC as Agent for Owner CubeSmart # 5694 – 7220 Osceola Polk Line Rd. Davenport, FL 33896 to satisfy a lien on May 7, 2026 at approx. 12:00pm at www.storagetreasures.com: Amy Hillsehiem, Rickey Gray, Isidoro Torres Gonzalez, Steve Chorzelewski, Harry Nestor Pabon, Shawnta Anton Leon Taylor, Andrew Jacob Appold.
Employment
Accounting Specialist needed 4 Anelise Cleaning Services, Orlando, FL 2 use acctg SW 2 prep & validate weekly fin rpts including CF, labor Cs, AR, vendor pymt, & profitability. Assist in budget prep & monitor CP w/ fin stds. Req. B deg. F/T mail res: ACS, 4803 Distribution Ct, #3, Orlando, FL 32822
Accounts Services Rep needed 4 Anelise Cleaning Services, Orlando, FL 2 answer inquiries & ct clts 2 relay acct info. Ct new leads. Prep quotes, proposals w/ sales terms, & close clt transactions in accordance w/ Co policies. Prep itemized invoices, track & rec amt due. Req B deg. F/T mail res: ACS, 4803 Distribution Court, Unit 3, Orlando, FL 32822
e.Construct.USA, LLC in Orlando, FL is seek’g a Precast Engineering Project Manager to oversee planning, dsgn, coord., & execution of precast concrete projs f/ conception thru completion. No WFH benefit avail. No trvl req’d. Slry:
$87,360/yr. Email resume to: info@econstruct.us.
Glasstone Group Inc in Orlando, FL seeks full-time Sales Director to plan, direct, and coordinate sales, analyse sales statistics, review records to project sales, monitor customer preferences, and direct personnel training + evaluation. Req. 24 mts exp in any sales position. Mail resume to M. Teixeira 4700 Millenia Blvd, Suite 360, Orlando, FL 32839.
IT Support Tech. needed for Swing USA LLC, Celebration, FL 2 backup net. data; Configure sec. settings 4 bus. and cust. net. devices incl. sec. cameras 2 local net. 4 props. maintd. by us; Using diagnostic testing sw, identify networking problems., test comp. sw or hw; Install software, incl. security or firewall sw; Anlyz. Net. data 2 determine net. usage, disk space avail., or server function; Req. 2 yrs work exp. in network or IT field. FT, mail resume to 800 Celebration Avenue, Suite 126, Celebration, FL 34747.
Marketing Specialist needed in Orlando, Florida. Duties: support planning and execution of marketing activities to increase brand awareness and customer engagement; analyze customer profiles, sales data, and promotion results to evaluate effectiveness and identify growth opportunities; assist with in-store promotions, seasonal campaigns, product launches, merchandising, and digital marketing content, including social media and online promotions; coordinate with internal teams, vendors, and media partners to ensure accurate, timely, and consistent execution; monitor competitor activities and market trends, prepare performance reports and recommendations, and support customer loyalty and membership programs to drive repeat purchases. Salary: $45,906/yr; Req: Associate’s in any field + 24 months experience. Apply w/ CL, resume, transcript to Teso Life Colonial LLC, 7174 W Colonial Dr., Orlando, FL 32818. (Attn: JOB)
Seeking Cleaners 4 Anelise Cleaning Services, Orl, FL 2 disinfect equip. & sups, use germicides & sterilization techniques. Perf Res & Com clning svcs., deep cln, disinfect bths, vacuum, dust, & rplc linens. Cln up 2 3 Res or Com props. Per day. Travel 2 work sites as needed. F/T mail res: to ACS, 4803 Distribution Ct, #3, Orlando, FL 32822.
