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Editorial Staff Writers Monivette Cordeiro, Xander Peters Calendar Editor Thaddeus McCollum Music Editor Matthew Moyer Digital Content Editor Colin Wolf Contributors Peg Aloi, Rob Bartlett, Jen Cray, Jason Ferguson, Liv Jonse, Holly V. Kapherr, Faiyaz Kara, Seth Kubersky, Bao Le-Huu, Cameron Meier, Richard Reep, Joey Roulette, Moriah Russo, Leah Sandler, Steve Schneider, Madeleine Scott, Nicolette Shurba Editorial Interns Linzie Lawton, Shayla Phillips, Gunnar Shuler Advertising Director of Sales Jeff Kruse Major Accounts Specialist Leslie Egan Senior Multimedia Account Executive Dan Winkler Multimedia Account Executives Scott Navarro, Scotty Spar Classified and Legal Rep Jerrica Schwartz Account Manager Danielle Lebron Marketing and Events Events & Marketing Director Eric Landrum Marketing and Events Manager Rachel Hoyle Events and Promotions Coordinator Kevin Ruane Marketing Interns Kelsey Stidham, Hayley Ullman

Cover story photos by Rob Bartlett

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NEWS + FEATURES

FOOD + DRINK

MUSIC 37 Blackest ever black

7 Your Words

23 Level up

Let Chelsea Wolfe sing you into the abyss

Readers react to blog posts and stories from the April 18 issue

Vertical farms like ECG’s HyCube grow more produce while using less space and energy – and can nearly eliminate chefs’ carbon footprint

37 Picks This Week

7 “This Modern World”

27 Tip Jar

9 ICYMI News you may have missed in the past week

11 Informed Dissent Far from being presidential, Trump is a tantrumprone child without a scrap of grace or decorum

Claddagh Cottage is back, a new food hall is set to open in Sanford, plus more in our weekly food roundup

30 Recently Reviewed

Great live music rattles Orlando every night of the week

39 This Little Underground Lou Barlow forgoes the rock clubs for an Audubon Park living room; Klimchak baffles downtown passersby

Short takes on restaurants we’ve reviewed recently

12 Havana or bust Yes, it’s still legal to visit Cuba. Here’s how to do it

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ARTS + CULTURE

21 Live Active Cultures

FILM

40 Selections 42 The Week 43 Down the Road

Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here explores everyday horrors

Orlando museums may lack multibillion-dollar

33 Film Listings

endowments, but they know the value of quality

Cinema-oriented events to go see this week

over quantity

CALENDAR

33 Never better

Back Pages

35 On Screens in Orlando Movies playing this week: Avengers: Infinity War and more

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Readers react to blog posts and stories from the April 18 issue. On April 18, we published a report that Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. contributed another $105,000 last month in its effort to pass a constitutional amendment that stymies gambling in Florida, bringing their total contributions to more than $4.6 million. As of March 31, political action committee Voters in Charge, which is leading the charge for the proposed amendment, had raised approximately $6.74 million. In all, Disney has donated at least 70 percent of the committee’s fundraising. The proposed constitutional amendment is set to appear on the November 2018 ballot.

@Gary Mancuso Sad they can’t take that money and give their employees decent wages. On April 18, we reported that voters will get a chance to decide this fall whether to ban near-shore oil and gas drilling and prevent people from vaping or using electronic cigarettes in many places under a proposed constitutional amendment approved last week. The amendment was one of several approved by the commission, but it garnered criticism – some disagreed with linking multiple unrelated issues in a single proposal.

@Oscar Hernandez Monopolizing mother fuckers! Figures that they don’t even have casinos aboard their cruise ships. Bad enough they don’t pay their theme park employees worth shit. Now they want to rid our state of casinos? Never going to happen!

@Amir M. Sadeh They’re coming after the vape pens!

@Joel Whiteside Life’s a gamble, not a fairy tale. Disney will kill us all.

@Rashaad Genie Send all the vapers to offshore drilling sites.

@Jean Alford What the heck does vaping have to do with offshore drilling? They are on the same amendment to be banned.

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BY XANDER PETERS

UCF furthers its self-proclaimed national championship celebration, FEMA grants a last-minute extension for displaced Puerto Rican families, a student was shot in Ocala just before the national walkout on gun violence and other things you have missed last week. »

UCF slaps ‘2017 National Champions’ banner on Spectrum Stadium: Despite that honor officially going to the University

of Alabama, UCF emblazoned the phrase “2017 National Champions” on the side of Spectrum Stadium, which was unveiled at Saturday’s annual spring game. Going even further beyond the realm of truth, team members from the 2017 season are ordering Super Bowl-like rings, too.

FEMA grants last-minute extension for displaced Puerto Rican families in Florida: The Federal Emergency Management Agency granted an aid extension to around 600 Puerto Rican families displaced by Hurricane Maria on Friday, after some had begun moving out of their temporary housing following an announcement earlier this week that their aid would expire April 20. The Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration announced that the deadline now extends through at least May 14. “FEMA put these families’ lives in turmoil and it caused a lot of unnecessary suffering,” says Father Jose Rodriguez of Jesús de Nazaret Episcopal Church in Orlando, which is a member of the Vamos4PR coalition.

A Florida student was shot just before the national walkout on gun violence: Friday morning, a 17-year-old student at

Forest High School in Ocala was shot and wounded minutes before the planned national walkout on gun violence. The incident occurred at around 8:42 a.m. The shooter is believed to be a 19-year-old who’s not a student, and who’s now in custody. According to a Marion Public Schools spokesman, the injured student was transported to a hospital after taking a round in the ankle. The wound was not considered life-threatening.

Orange County may reinstate waiting periods, universal background checks for firearm purchases: Orange County

Mayor Teresa Jacobs announced last week that the County Commission will vote next month to reinstate a three-day waiting period and establish universal background checks for firearm purchases. Jacobs’ announcement came less than two weeks after she instructed County Attorney Jeff Newton to draft an ordinance reinstating the waiting period, which was struck down following the passage of a 2011 state law that cracked down on local leaders considering gun regulations. Those penalties under the 2011 state law go as far as to include fines up to $5,000 and the possibility of an elected official being removed from office by the governor.

Study ranks Publix second to last for reducing food waste: A new study ranks Publix Super Markets as second-to-last when it

comes to reducing food waste, earning the chain a “D” grade. The study by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Ugly Fruit and Veggie Campaign rated major U.S. supermarkets based on their accountability in food waste, prevention efforts and recovery and recycling. “Supermarkets have an enormous influence on the food system,” the study says. The highest possible score a supermarket could receive in the study was 50 points, but Publix only received 11. xpeters@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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MAKE AMERICA PEEVISH AGAIN! Far from being presidential, Trump is a tantrum-prone child without a scrap of grace or decorum BY JE FFREY BILLM A N

You’ve seen the photo, right?

The ex-presidents and their wives, minus the Carters, plus Melania, who all gathered and smiled for the birdie in Houston for Barbara Bush’s funeral? And you’ve probably also seen someone contrast that image of comity and civility with the current president of the United States golfing and rage-tweeting from what he has now taken to calling his “Southern White House,” but is really a private club in which, if you pay him enough money, you can get access to the leader of the free world. It’s a poignant comparison, even if it glosses over such niggling historical details as the George W. Bush administration’s torture and extraordinary rendition programs and a war started under false pretenses. But it hearkens back to a time, just a few years ago, when (nostalgia tells us) sober-minded adults were running the show, not some narcissistic man-child watching Fox News and screaming into the ether about WITCH HUNTS! – sad, desperate to be loved and admired, battered by an ever-gathering storm. Consider just the last couple of weeks. There were the FBI’s raids of his longtime fixer, Michael Cohen; the president’s desperate attempts to keep those documents away from investigators’ eyes; the talk that Cohen is about to flip. The revelation that special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly has evidence that Cohen went to Prague

to meet with a Russian operative, a key corroboration of the Steele dossier. The revelation, in open court, that Mueller’s prosecutors believe former campaign manager Paul Manafort acted as a go-between for the campaign and the Russians. And the James Comey book tour and the release of the Comey memos, which showed that the president kept bringing up Russian hookers and the Steele dossier’s salacious “golden showers” allegation while also pressuring his then-FBI director to go easy on his ousted national security adviser. So, this weekend, some 1,100 miles away from where earlier American leaders gathered to bid farewell to the matriarch of one of the country’s two most prominent political families, Donald Trump had himself an airing of grievances worthy of Festivus. He was mad at the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prizewinning Maggie Haberman (he called her a “third-rate flunkie”) over a story that quoted insiders saying they were worried about Cohen turning on Trump. He lashed out at a “drunk/drugged up loser” who spoke to the Times for that story. (Haberman tweeted that he meant former campaign aide Sam Nunberg, not longtime political ally Roger Stone, whom Haberman says Trump is scared of.) He insulted Chuck Todd’s appearance and/or ethnicity after the NBC host suggested the administration hadn’t gotten much out of North Korea. (Trump falsely said the North had committed to denuclearization.) He

called Comey a “proven leaker and liar” and the memos “dumb.” He insinuated (wrongly) that Comey had broken the law because some of the information in those memos was later deemed classified. (Ironically, that was the same thing that started the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.) He parroted right-wing pundits on Fox News who proclaimed his innocence, as if that feedback cycle would convince anyone who hadn’t already drunk the Kool-Aid. In so many words, the president threw a weekend-long temper tantrum on Twitter – that is, in front of the whole world. Nearly every president has found himself the subject of spiteful attacks or politically charged investigations. Barack Obama was accused – by Trump, no less, plus a number of racist lunatics – of having been born in Kenya, not Hawaii. Bill and Hillary Clinton were all but accused of murdering Vince Foster, and Bill had to endure an impeachment trial for lying about a blowjob. Poppy Bush was up to his ears in Iran-Contra. Shrub had the Valerie Plame affair and the economic collapse and the crushing reality that he’ll go down in history as a transcendently terrible president. But most presidents – and all of those in that now-famous photo – have had the maturity to take these attacks in stride. You have to go back to Richard Nixon to find one who unraveled so completely, and even then, the scope of Nixon’s paranoia didn’t emerge until the end game was in sight. Here, Trump’s insecurities are being broadcast for all the world to see. Perhaps a decade from now, what happens over the next couple of months will seem to have been obvious. But right now, it doesn’t seem clear to me: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly promised Trump last week that he wasn’t an FBI target in order to keep his job; Attorney General Jeff Sessions reportedly said he would quit if Rosenstein was fired. And God only knows what’s in those Cohen files that the president is so desperate to keep from the public eye. The presidency is a pressure cooker – doubly so when there are credible allegations of unethical, even criminal, deeds floating about. These kinds of accusations dogged most of the people in that famous photo at one point or another – all but the Obamas, who, outside of the Benghazi fever dreams of the AM radio right, ran a largely scandal-free operation. But none of them lashed out so petulantly at their critics; they all managed to handle even the nastiest of allegations with a modicum of grace and decorum, with a recognition that the office they hold is bigger than them. That is a skill far beyond the capabilities of the current White House occupant. @jeffreybillman on Twitter feedback@orlandoweekly.com

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Yes, it’s still legal to visit Cuba. Here’s how I did it. STORY BY ERIN SULLIVAN, PHOTOS BY ROB BARTLETT

or a while after President Barack Obama relaxed the restrictions on travel for U.S. citizens to visit Cuba, it seemed like everybody I knew was making the trip. The airfare on JetBlue, the first commercial airline to offer direct flights from Orlando to Havana, was dirt cheap and the flight is super short – about an hour in the air. Who wouldn’t want to visit the island, long off-limits to the average American, that Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén famously described as “a green crocodile/with eyes of stone and water”? But then Trump happened, and he quickly announced that he planned to reverse Obama’s kinder, gentler approach to Cuba. While he didn’t outright ban travel to Cuba, the Trump administration modified the rules just enough to make it unclear whether travel between Cuba and the U.S. was really worth the risk. Up to $250,000 in fines and 10 years in prison probably aren’t likely to be the end result of a weekend visit to Havana, but they are the penalties on record under the United States’ Trading With the Enemy Act. But don’t let those daunting threats and menacing travel warnings fool you – for now, travel to Cuba is still perfectly legal for U.S. citizens. You just have to do it right. CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

A Cocotaxi in Old Havana PHOTO BY ROB BARTLETT

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We procrastinated on planning a

trip to Cuba, taking it for granted that once Obama opened the door to cultural exchange between Cuban and American people, it would only swing wider as time went on. Clearly, we were wrong. Trump’s new travel rules went into effect in November 2017, and it was widely reported in many mainstream media outlets that they would make it difficult and expensive for Americans to travel to Cuba, that travel to Cuba would only be allowed with authorized tour guides and that the changes were intended to have a chilling effect on the sudden boom in interest among Americans wishing to visit the island. That last part has definitely proven to be true – over the past six months, travel to Cuba has declined significantly, according to multiple sources. Earlier this month, USA Today reported that some Cuban travel companies are projecting a 25-30 percent drop in U.S. visitors to the nation because people are either confused or afraid to risk the trip. During our recent visit to Cuba, we were told by multiple Cuban citizens we met that they don’t see as many Americans as they did in the previous two years. Philip Stewart, manager of corporate communications for

JetBlue, did not comment specifically on whether the airline had experienced a drop in ticket sales between the U.S. and Cuba. He does say that JetBlue still offers about 50 flights per day between the two nations and “remains dedicated to fostering travel and cultural connections between the two countries.” “We continue to see strong demand among people visiting family in Cuba – travelers generally not impacted by the revised travel policies,” he says. While those revised policies do completely change the rules on one particular category of travel – so-called “people to people” travel, which under Obama permitted visits to Cuba by pretty much anybody, is now only permitted under the auspices of a U.S.-based organization – they only complicate some of the others. You can still go to Cuba. You just need to work a little harder to justify your trip and you need to stay within a few key guidelines. For instance, there’s now a whole list of Cuban military-affiliated businesses that Americans are not allowed to patronize. Sadly, many of the large hotels in Havana are now off limits to U.S. citizens, including the famous Hotel Ambos Mundos, which operates a mini-museum in the room where Ernest Hemingway lived for seven years. Make sure you know that list before you go, and I’d suggest printing a copy to take

with you when you travel. “Educational” travel is also more limited now and must be overseen by a U.S.-based organization. We sought clarity on the rules from multiple sources before we booked tickets to Havana. I called JetBlue, which directed me to their website explaining that as long as I could stick to the rules, my travel would be legal. I also inquired with the United States Treasury, which did not respond to my email for guidance on the new restrictions. Fortunately, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control offers an online FAQ to help travelers navigate the process. I also reached out to my network on social media to learn about how others had fared during their trips since the rules had changed – and I was surprised to hear how many of my friends and acquaintances thought it was no longer easy, and perhaps no longer legal, to travel to Cuba. And that’s a damn shame, because, as I discovered when I finally did book a trip, it’s both. If you visit the U.S. Department of State Travel Advisory website, you’ll be hit with a dire warning about travel to high-risk destinations, and the page on Cuba bears a message about how there’s reduced staffing at the U.S. Embassy in Havana due to the sonic attacks against American diplomats. However, Cuba is generally a pretty safe place for travelers to visit. When we went, orlandoweekly.com

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we were told by everyone we talked to, including our host, that we would be safe walking the streets at any hour, that guns are extremely uncommon and that most people appreciate tourists because they bring a much-needed boost to the local economy. Indeed, we did walk the streets of Cuba until very late, and we were stopped frequently by people – most of whom wanted to ask us where we were from and whether they could interest us in a pedicab ride or a taxi. If you’ve been eager to visit Cuba, but you weren’t sure how to navigate the process under the new administration, here are some tips to help you figure it out. But first, a disclaimer: I’m not a travel agent or a lawyer, so this information should not serve as a substitute for your own research – this story is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Remember, the rules are always subject to change, especially since Cuba just elected a new president on April 19 (the first nonCastro to be in power in decades) and your comfort level with my interpretation of the rules may not match mine.

Don’t call it a vacation.

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travel needs to fall into one of 12 categories authorized by the U.S. government. And, naturally, each category has its own set of extremely general guidelines for your trip. You can visit the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control website, sift through the minutiae and sweat the difference between “humanitarian” and “people-to-people” activities. Or you can just skip ahead to the travel category that most savvy travelers have been using since Trump changed the rules: Support for the Cuban People. Despite what some opportunistic travel companies and guides will tell you, this broad category allows U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba without any special paperwork and without buying an expensive package or going in a group. It allows for individual travel provided “each traveler engage(s) in a full-time schedule of activities that result in meaningful interaction with individuals in Cuba and that enhance contact with the Cuban people, support civil society in Cuba, or promote the Cuban people’s independence from Cuban authorities.” What, exactly, does that mean? Lucky for you, it can mean a lot of things – since the rule is so broad, you can design your own itinerary of meaningful interaction that supports civil society and enhances\ contact with the Cuban people. While you could hire a guide or go with an authorized tour group, you can also make your own itinerary using Airbnb and a variety of Facebook groups dedicated to Cuban travel to help you craft an itinerary and find enough “meaningful” activity to fill out your days. We booked a number of activities via Airbnb’s newish “experiences” feature, which have allowed

Cuban economists, classic car owners, restaurateurs, professors and artists to market themselves to an international audience. Say what you will about Airbnb and the sharing economy, but it has created a whole new category of entrepreneurship in a country where government is the primary employer and salaries are notoriously low – approximately $15-$30 U.S. per month.

Just embrace Airbnb.

I know, I know. The sharing economy has its downsides, but in Cuba, it has created opportunities that are literally changing lives. We spent one of our days in Havana taking a tour of the city in a Chevy Bel Air convertible owned by a guy who had spent almost his entire career working in a factory for the government. His daughters, in tune with the opportunities Airbnb was bringing to people with the ability to get on the web, convinced him to start offering driving tours in his family’s beautifully well-preserved classic car. Today, he spends his days driving tourists around Havana’s Vedado, Miramar and Buena Vista neighborhoods, showing them spots they aren’t likely to see on a typical tour – and pulling in more than the average monthly salary for a Cuban worker per rider every single time he does a tour. “I was happy before, and I wasn’t looking to change my life,” he told us during our drive, “but I’m very happy that I did this.” Since U.S. travelers aren’t permitted to stay in many of Cuba’s national hotels, Airbnb is also a good bet for booking a stay at one of the many, many, many casa particulares (private guest houses or bed and breakfasts) that operate on the island. Accommodations range from opportunities to stay in a private home with your hosts to private apartments where you can do your own thing. No mat-

The 1960s-era Hotel Habana Rivera on El Malecón PHOTO BY ROB BARTLETT

ter which you choose, make sure to read the reviews before you book – many hosts offer convenient amenities for an additional fee, like breakfast or help arranging transportation to/from various destinations. Our host dedicated an entire afternoon to us, showing us around, talking to us about life in Cuba and answering questions about everything from crime to the economy. His introduction to Cuba helped set the stage for our visit.

Don’t get sold.

Fusterlandia PHOTO BY ROB BARTLETT

Before you go to Cuba, it’s only natural to do your research, but don’t get sold by anyone who tries to tell you that you “can’t” go unless you buy a spendy package from an authorized guide. Sure, you can do that, if you want to, but it’s not required. We created our own four-day itinerary of Support for the Cuban People, which included activities like a visit to a local animal rescue, where we spent a day learning how the organization is working to spay and neuter street dogs and feral cats in Havana; a morning with an organization that teaches people new skills so they can develop economic independence; and an afternoon meeting artists working in a cooperative gallery. We also had an opportunity to learn a little more about religion in Cuba because we happened to be there on Easter, a Catholic holiday. In 1959, after the Cuban Revolution, Cuba was officially declared an atheist counorlandoweekly.com

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try. The archbishop and many Catholic priests were deported, private schools were nationalized and Christmas was removed from the official holiday list. That changed in 1992, when Cuba declared itself secular and Catholics were once again permitted to join the Communist Party. I was curious to see how Easter would be celebrated, and we stopped to visit two churches set up in living rooms open to the street, as well as a mass in La Catedral de la Virgen María de la Concepción Immaculate de La Habana. Interestingly, several of the people we met were perplexed when we asked them about the Easter holiday – a 30-year-gap in religious expression will do that to a culture, I guess.

Spanish language skills are not required, but they sure do help.

Though you can get by on English alone, you will certainly encounter people who don’t speak English at all. It would be a shame not to be able to converse with them, so it’s worth your time to review some basics. No need to buy Rosetta Stone – get your library card and take an online course using Mango or Rocket Languages.

Your credit cards won’t work.

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Josué and his convertible, Marilyn

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MEANINGFUL INTERACTIONS Artecorte Community Project

Produce vendors in Old Havana

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your credit cards and bank cards will not work. At all. Bring enough cash to cover your trip, and you can exchange it at the José Martí International Airport when you arrive. We brought approximately $100 per person per day to cover our expenses, which ended up being far more than we needed. The exchange rate for the U.S. dollar was 1:1 in Cuban Convertible Pesos (more commonly known as CUC), but there is a 10 percent tax on exchanging American money. To avoid that tax, you can first convert your money to another currency in the United States, then exchange for CUC. We saved about $50 in taxes by converting to Euros before we left.

won’t be hassled about it by anyone. We sailed through customs on our way in and out, and nobody asked us any questions except for what we wanted to declare (one bottle of rum, one Cuban cigar). However, travelers are required to keep records of their transactions for five years, in case the government later decides to audit your trip. Since many of our transactions took place in living room bars and storefronts, which don’t offer much in the way of receipts or documentation, I took photos of our activities, kept business cards from some of the paladares (family-owned restaurants) we frequented and kept a simple journal of each day’s activities. Just in case.

No Wi-Fi, no problem. Access to a lot of basic amenities If you fly JetBlue, get your visa and health insurance at you’ve grown accustomed to in the States can be limited in Cuba – rule of the ticket counter.

thumb is that if you absolutely need to have it when you’re traveling, you should bring it with you. That includes medications, cosmetics and toiletries, which can be hard to find. Access to Wi-Fi is also extremely limited. If you must have it, you’ll need to buy a Wi-Fi card, which generally gets you about an hour of time on the internet, then visit a public Wi-Fi hotspot to log in. However, my advice is: Just don’t bother. There are too few opportunities in this modern world to put your phone Document your trip. away. Take advantage of this one and Chances are, if you’re following the immerse yourself in another world rules and abiding by the law, your trip while you still can. to Cuba will be uneventful and you feedback@orlandoweekly.com When you buy your tickets online, you’ll need to declare which category you’re traveling under. Then, when you arrive at the airport, you’ll need to visit the ticket counter to purchase your visa (an additional $50 per person). No matter which category you declare, you’ll receive a tourist visa, and you’ll also need to fill out some paperwork for health insurance, which is included in your ticket price and is required by the Cuban government.

One of the best experiences we had during our visit to Havana was one of the most unlikely. We had a block of about two hours we needed to fill in order to meet the requirement of a “full time” schedule of activities, so two nights before we left for Havana, I booked a tour of a community project called Artecorte. Founded in 1999, this nonprofit organization is a cultural project that offers unemployed adults an opportunity to train to become barbers or hairdressers. The founder, a barber named Gilberto “Papito” Valladares, operates a salon/ barbershop that also functions as a school and museum of barbershop culture in Havana. Full of Cuban art dedicated to hairdressing, antique barber chairs and vintage hairdressing equipment, the museum is also a salon where Papito does color, cuts and styling. But he and his team also run a series of fantastic free programs for kids and adults alike. With the cooperation of the city of Havana, he has developed a public-private partnership that allows Artecorte to run a hairdressing school and a bartending school, as well as operate a number of free programs for community members, including painting classes for children, a carpentry program for adults, badminton and futsal programs for kids, and workshops and activities at senior centers. The nonprofit organization receives no government funds for its work and it exists to improve living conditions for people in the community, to promote solidarity among entrepreneurs and to support similar development in other communities. According to Camilo Condis, the general manager of Artecorte, the program has proven that “self-sustainability at a local level is possible.” He says that Artecorte is also working on a new program to promote the use of bicycles in the city of Havana by offering free road-safety courses and a bicycle mechanic’s program. For more information on that initiative, you can visit cuba8.org. You can book a tour of Artecorte as an “experience” through Airbnb, and you can learn more about the organization by visiting artecorte.org.

The Aniplant Project

When you visit Havana, it won’t be long before you notice the dogs and cats roaming the streets. orlandoweekly.com

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Some are owned dogs that live a carefree life, scavenging, napping in doorways and going home when it suits them. Others, clearly, don’t have a home base to return to. Aniplant is an independent nonprofit organization that exists to help these animals by offering education, spay/neuter, medical care and a modest shelter where dogs are housed while recovering from surgery or awaiting adoption. Cuban law puts restrictions on which organizations can function in a variety of fields, and Aniplant is the only animal-welfare organization permitted to operate in Havana. The organization, which is run by one powerhouse of a woman named Nora García Perez, exists on donations, volunteer support and the help of dedicated veterinarians who volunteer their time and resources to assist. Aniplant is not listed on Airbnb – we learned about the organization through word of mouth, and I emailed to ask if we could visit and bring donations. With the help of our very generous veterinarian’s office, Animal Medical Clinic of Orlando, we gathered as many sutures, sterile gauze, latex gloves, heartworm medications and vitamin supplements as we could into our bags and left it all behind with Aniplant. If you love animals and plan to visit Havana, I recommend that you look this organization up and ask how you can help. Their website is theaniplantproject.org.

Cruise Around West Havana

If you want to learn more about art, culture and the landscape of Havana, I cannot recommend this Airbnb tour (“Cruise around the West Havana”) highly enough. Josué will take you on a trip through Vedado, Miramar and Buena Vista, stopping at culturally significant spots along the way, bring you to visit his favorite coffee shop, and talk to you about what it’s like to work and live in Cuba. One of the high points of his tour is a stop at Fusterlandia, the absolutely breathtaking village that is almost entirely adorned with the mosaic art of José Rodríguez Fuster, a Cuban artist who specializes in ceramics and painting. I could describe it to you, but there are plenty of photos that accompany this story that do a better job showing than my telling could do justice. But go to Airbnb, visit the experiences tab and look up Josué and his tour. You won’t be sorry. – ES

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BY SETH KUBERSKY ‘THE DOMES OF THE YOSEMITE’ (1867) BY ALBERT BIERSTADT | PHOTO COURTESY MORSE MUSEUM

I recently returned from my

annual research trip to Anaheim, where I managed to escape the theme parks long enough to visit Los Angeles’ J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty Center is famous as one of America’s finest art institutions, and its campus is certainly stunning, with Richard Meier’s stark modernist architecture offset by elaborate landscaping and priceless views of California’s most valuable real estate. The only problem is that Getty, the world’s wealthiest man, was also a notorious cheapskate (see the recent film and TV series about his refusal to pay ransom for his kidnapped grandson), so his collection is crammed with second-rate works by the students of better-known artists. By contrast, while our museums here in Orlando may lack the Getty’s multibilliondollar endowment, at least they’ve learned the value of quality over quantity. Better yet, they’ve shown that huge things can come in small packages, as the current star of the Morse Museum proves. The intimate Park Avenue institution may look modest from the outside, but its current exhibition of “The Domes of the Yosemite” by Albert Bierstadt is one of the biggest art events – literally and metaphorically – to hit Winter Park in years. Bierstadt, who lived from 1830 to 1902, created his monumental 10-foot-wide

Orlando museums may lack multibilliondollar endowments, but they know the value of quality over quantity

by 15-foot-tall landscape in 1867 as a commission for a Connecticut financier’s rotunda, but it has been displayed since 1873 at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in Vermont. That century and a half of time and gravity took their toll, dulling and distorting the canvas to the point where the artist’s autograph was no longer visible. But then, because industrialist-philanthropist Charles Hosmer Morse was a native of St. Johnsbury, his namesake foundation contributed $100,000 toward having the painting sent to ArtCare Conservation Studio in Miami, where it was painstakingly restored over many months. In February, “The Domes of the Yosemite” made its post-conservation debut at the Morse, in its first public appearance

outside the Athenaeum in 145 years. To be displayed here, it had to be rolled up like an enormous rug, then suspended on a custombuilt support that is attached to the wall; the frame visible around the painting is only a skirt that doesn’t actually touch the canvas. Bierstadt’s view of Yosemite Falls and the iconic Half Dome rock formation dominates the wall of the gallery where it resides, flanked by a few of the illuminated Tiffany stained glass windows that the Morse is best known for, along with other contemporaneous 19th-century objects. The depiction, which was influenced by the Hudson River school of American painting, is notable for the naturalistic detail of the mountainous landscape – which Bierstadt sketched and photographed in person, back in the pre-railroad era when visiting Yosemite required weeks of stagecoach travel – and the heavenly lighting that’s been revealed by the removal of old varnish. But what strikes the viewer first and foremost is its overwhelming enormity: At nearly 150 square feet, it’s larger than some rooms I’ve lived in. That size played a key role in making “The Domes of the Yosemite” one of the most famous artworks of its age. Its tour of New York City, Philadelphia and Boston in the late 1860s gave post-Civil War audiences on the East Coast their first view of the orlandoweekly.com

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expanding American West. Mark Twain, like many critics of the day, gave the work a mixed review, saying it was “very well worth going to see,” but adding that “as a portrait I do not think it will answer. Portraits should be accurate [and] I believe that this atmosphere of Mr. Bierstadt’s is altogether too gorgeous.” Even if you agree that the Yosemite landscape isn’t as gorgeous as the painting makes it look (and who would?), it’s easy to understand how audiences of the time could stare into “The Domes of the Yosemite” for hours, falling into its seemingly endless depth like an IMAX 3-D image. Bierstadt’s masterpiece will only be on display at the Morse through July 8 before it returns to Vermont, and it’s unlikely to return to Orlando in our lifetimes. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, and admission is only $6 for adults, with discounts for students and seniors. But if you attend the season’s final free Friday night event on April 26, you can enjoy the painting sans admission fee, along with music from the Paint It Black Orchestra and a complimentary curator tour of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Laurelton Hall exhibit. And free Family Tours of the landscape gallery start on June 19; space is limited, so register in advance at morsemuseum.org. skubersky@orlandoweekly.com

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LEVEL UP

Vertical farms like ECG’s HyCube grow more produce while using less space and energy – and can nearly eliminate chefs’ carbon footprint BY FAIYAZ KARA

ristian Toma, co-founder of Orlando-based Eco Convergence Group, hands me a pair of shoe coverings, a hair net and a white lab coat prior to entering the HyCube – a 2,000-square-foot self-contained hydroponics box situated on the sprawling grounds of the Orlando World Center Marriott. We stand like irradiated victims of fallout under the vents of a mounted air conditioning unit for an “air wash,” then step through the invisible wall and into a gleaming white room in full view of 21 LED-illuminated towers stacked with leafy greens. It’s all an effort to keep contaminants out of this ultra-hygienic environment, where everything from temperature and humidity to light intensity and nutrient recipes is strictly controlled to create ideal plantgrowing conditions. This is vertical farming, the hottest trend in hyperlocal horticulture and one that’s

seen traction in larger urban centers because of its sunless, soilless, indoor-friendly, yearround approach. In a world where the need to grow upward rather than outward becomes increasingly crucial, vertical farms level up by maximizing growth space and plant output, allowing for produce to be grown anywhere there’s demand. Plus, they do so sustainably and without the added costs and inefficiencies of food transportation. With the door to the hotel’s main restaurant, Latitude & Longitude, situated just outside the entrance to the HyCube, the carbon footprint is practically negligible. “We call it ‘pick to plate,’” says Toma, “and this HyCube installation will cover most, if not all, of the hotel’s needs for lettuce. We’re talking well over 100,000 heads of lettuce being produced here per year, and 13,000 pounds of herbs, greens and edible flowers.” At any time, the vertical stacks

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host between 15,000 and 25,000 plants, not counting microgreens and baby leaf greens, all while consuming less water and using less space than conventional outdoor and greenhouse farming. Produce cultivated through vertical farming methods not only has shorter crop cycles, but year-round crop cycles. Because temperature, humidity, light and nutrient requirements are consistently met, crops normally limited to specific growing seasons or regions can be grown throughout the year. Seasonality is a non-factor for Latitude & Longitude and other Marriott World Center restaurants. Rather, crop selection is based entirely on restaurant needs and chefs’ menu plans. ECG claims the locally grown produce is non-GMO, fresher and has higher nutritional value than conventionally grown vegetables, as their methods don’t require pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, hormones or antibiotics. An automated nutrient leaching system pumps a proprietary solution of more than 10 nutrients to feed the plants, and does so without discharging any waste. The HyCube’s recirculating hydroponic systems use less than two gallons of water to produce one fully grown head of lettuce. By comparison, conventional lettuce farming orlandoweekly.com

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uses an average of 12 gallons per head. Toma, a scientist and engineer in the biomedical industry, and his late business partner, Cristian Ivanescu – an engineer in the semiconductor field who passed away in December of last year – used their experiential knowledge when founding ECG and developing the HyCube. “We combined semiconductor cleanroom environment technology related to climate and temperature control with plant science,” says Toma. “Plus we have some proprietary nutrient solutions and a cultivation management aspect designed to maximize nutrient uptake by the plants.” All the parameters that are ideal for plant cultivation are set and monitored in HyCube’s data-driven production system which, Toma says, makes for happy plants. “Our plants are happy, and when they’re happy, they eat a lot, and when they eat a lot, they grow.” The more than 500 linear GreenPower LED light modules, for example, only emit blue and red light as plants absorb and use only those colors of the spectrum to grow. “It’s one way we maximize the energy consumption – by optimizing the light spectrum,” says Toma. “We know how to handle CONTINUED ON PAGE 25

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44 planting spots. The yield is more than 80,000 plants annually, which James Katurakes, executive chef of Centerplate, uses in the convention center’s food program. Epcot’s Living With the Land attraction has been showcasing the benefits of hydroponics (of which vertical growing systems play a part) at its four greenhouses for more than a decade. The convergence of entertainment, technology, education, horticulture and gastronomy is intentional – much of the produce grown in the pavilion winds up on plates at the Garden Grill and Sunshine Seasons restaurants inside the park. Of course, biowalls, vertical gardens, garden walls and herb walls have been fixtures at many higherend restaurants – Prato and Boca employ them locally – but the HyCube’s technology, architectural punch and visual signature set it apart. “The HyCube offers five to six times the plant production PHOTO BY FAIYAZ KARA volume than the towers at the convention center in roughly the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23 same square footage,” Toma says. “It also provides a more equal ecosystem control environments and cleanrooms and for the plants, each level receiving uniform we applied that knowledge to our installa- light and nutrients which are constantly tion. Now we have a patent pending design monitored. At the convention center, the of both the rack system and the waterflow plants at the bottom receive less light versus those at the top. Also, each of the 80 towers system.” at the convention center must be constantly o why vertical farming? For one, peo- checked, which is very laborious. We offer ple need to be fed. With the world’s more grow space with just one-tenth of the population expected to near 10 bil- labor required to operate the system.” In a highly competitive hotel market, lion people by 2050, more than 6.5 billion of whom will live in urban areas, vertical HyCube, which came at a cost of well over farming’s flexible, modular, space-saving $1 million, poses as a differentiator for Marriott. There’s even a dining space built set-up isn’t just attractive, it’s necessary. The world’s first commercial vertical specifically for special chef’s table–style farm, Sky Greens, opened in land-scarce, dinners where hotel guests can enjoy the densely populated Singapore in 2012, and “garden” view. “We’re on a very high-end property,” says they’ve sprouted up all over the world since Toma, “and for hotels, [aesthetics] matthen, from food deserts to Arabian deserts. But beyond the need to feed, the con- ter a lot. HyCube’s architectural value and sumer trend toward clean eating has played the statement it makes, especially with the lighting at night, underscores the effect a factor in the rise of vertical farms. “More and more we find guests asking it has on the hotel’s guests. Which means us ‘How green is your hotel?’ ‘How safe is other high-end hotel properties will likely your food?’ ‘Where is your food coming look at the benefits of vertical farming and from?’” says Toma. “Many hotels are mov- follow suit.” “We have an aggressive rollout plan in ing toward local for various reasons, but this is the most local you can get. From the hospitality industry, and we’re going picking a head of lettuce to plating it, it can to make some announcements very soon,” be just a couple of hours or less, so this is Toma adds. “We have quite a few projects the freshest, cleanest and safest option you in the works, so the idea is definitely taking off.” can have.” No doubt. For HyCube, and urban The 2,000-square-foot Center-toTable Gardens inside the Orange County farming in general, the future’s certainly Convention Center utilizes vertical farming looking up. with 81 towers resembling poles, each with fkara@orlandoweekly.com

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OPENINGS As if Sanford weren’t cool enough, now they’re getting a food hall of their own. Called Henry’s Depot, it’ll take over the historic Sanford railroad depot on West First Street with Dixie Dharma, Twisted Greek and Nutty Peanut already signed on. Look for a late-summer opening … Also in Sanford, Hollerbach’s Willow Tree Cafe is expanding into the space next door that previously housed Maya’s Books & Music … Claddagh Cottage Irish Pub has opened at long last in the Hourglass District. They’re currently in soft opening mode … Hawkers’ newest outpost in Windermere celebrated its grand opening Monday, April 23 … Look for Fresh Kitchen to open its second Orlando location in the old Noodles & Co. spot on South Orange Avenue in SoDo on Monday, May 7 … Arooga’s Grille House & Sports Bar will move into the old WingHouse space on South Semoran Boulevard just south of Goldenrod Road … Sus Hi Eatstation is aiming for an April 28 opening in Lake Nona and a May 12 opening at Millenia Gardens … Saporito, an Italian organic bakery and kitchen, will open soon on Old Winter Garden Road near Maguire Road in Ocoee.

NEWS Winter Park Biscuit Co. pops up to serve vegan biscuits at Redlight Redlight Saturday, April 28, beginning at 10 a.m. Note: This time, there’s a one biscuit per person limit … Kadence will close Mondays and Tuesdays beginning May 1. Their Japanese breakfasts will be served 9-11 a.m. Saturdays and 9-10 a.m. Sundays … Norman’s at the Ritz-Carlton has revealed its spring chef’s tasting menu, featuring such items as Florida flounder crudo and peach-barbecued Rohan duck breast. Cost is $120 to indulge in the multi-course menu ($60 extra for wine

pairings) … Duffy’s Sports Grill near the Millenia Mall has extended their hours to 2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays … Chef Hari Pulapaka of Cress Restaurant in DeLand will cook at the 2018 James Beard Foundation Awards in Chicago May 7. The four-time JBF Award semifinalist will cook a lionfish bhel puri for the gathered masses … Stamp Out Hunger, the 26th annual food drive organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers, is May 12. Folks can participate in the oneday drive by leaving nonperishable items outside their doors. This year, Farm Share will be the official Florida partner. Visit farmshare.org for more info.

EVENTS Pizza Bruno and Sugar Top Farms collaborate on Pizza in the Field, a threecourse pizza dinner Tuesday, May 1, at 6 p.m. at Sugar Top Farms in Clermont. Cost is $40 ($25 extra for wine pairings) … K Restaurant hosts a five-course Greek Wine Dinner Wednesday, May 2, at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $125 … The five-course Discovery Dinner Series, at which dishes are unannounced until they’re laid before diners, happens Thursday, May 3, at Big Fin Seafood Kitchen. The “immersive, hands-on food adventure” is the third in the series. Cost is $75 … The Taste of Haiti goes from 2-8 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at Gaston Edwards Park on Lake Ivanhoe … The Ravenous Pig’s Guest Chef Series continues Sunday, May 6, at 6:30 p.m. with a Florida Dinner prepared by chefs James Petrakis and Nick Sierputowski of the Ravenous Pig and Clay Conley of Buccan in Palm Beach. Cost is $75 ($35 extra for wine pairings). Got restaurant dish? Send tips to dining@orlandoweekly.com

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MO-CHICA CEVICHEPERUVIAN GRILL I-Drive Peruvian restaurant serves up the standards in decent enough fashion, but there’s very little here that sets it apart. A bracing and balanced ceviche mixto with octopus, calamari, shrimp and corvina is worth a look, but anticuchos lack flavor, as does the house causa. A seafood chaufa was plagued with uncooked rice kernels, and pisco sours proved innocuous. Lomo saltado fares better and they do serve up a killer flan (aka crema volteado). Open daily. 5700 International Drive, 407-7238416; $$

THE EDISON The Disney offshoot of the famed downtown L.A. restaurant/nightclub dazzles with its looks, but baffles with its uninspired and pedestrian menu offerings. Slabs of overdone bacon served on a mini clothesline, heavily breaded and goopy crab cakes, dry meatloaf served with very little gravy, and a meh lamb burger present lost opportunities at creativity. Flashes of brilliance come in the form of corn dogs and fiery lamb meatballs in harissa. A Rocky Road shake served inside a big-ass beaker is kitschy fun. Disney Springs, 1570 E. Buena Vista Drive, 407-560-9288; $$$$

CHEF WANG’S KITCHEN Beijing-born chef Jian Hua Wang serves some of the best Chinese food in the city. In addition to Northern Chinese and Dongbei specialties, Wang serves Sichuan classics – don’t pass on an infernal bowl of “water boiled spicy fish filet” or the veg-friendly “spicy napa heart wok.” A plate of Japanese eggplant, peppers and potato proffers a taste of the north. Other hits: beef chow fun and sturdy pan-fried beef knishes – dumplings reminiscent of Shanghainese sheng jian bao. Closed Tuesdays. 5148 W. Colonial Drive; 407-930-3188; $$

STICKY RICE LAO STREET FOOD Within the spectrum of flavors at the city’s sole Laotian eatery, you’ll find the familiar flavors of sweet and spicy along with flurries of funky, fermented and fishy. Popular

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dishes include pork tapioca dumplings, sticky chicken wings and lemongrass beef jerky; the cucumber salad and papaya salad offer a blast of umami courtesy fermented crab, crab paste and shrimp paste more suited to advanced palates. Can’t pass on the sticky rice – no Laotian meal is complete without it from beginning to end. 1915 E. Colonial Drive, 321-800-6532; $.

GARP & FUSS Winter Park restaurant in Park Avenue’s Hidden Garden pleases with its pub grub (great wings, burgers, boiled peanuts!) as well as more sophisticated gastropub fare like delicate crab cake bites or butternut squash ravioli with brown butter and fried sage. Handhelds range from fried chicken to Chicago-style Italian beef sammies. The Key lime pie in a jar is a worthy meal-capper. Closed Mondays. 348 N. Park Ave., Winter Park, 407-960-5560; $$$

THE GLASS KNIFE Luxe patisserie offers a gorgeous line of cakes, cookies, doughnuts and specialty pastries to satisfy the sweetest of tooths. Coffee from Onyx Coffee Labs (with whom they have an exclusive partnership) makes a perfect pairing, be it drip, pour-over, nitro cold brew or espresso-based. Savory items are served throughout the day – the cheddar biscuit sandwich and chicken pot pie prove gratifying. There’s a sizable covered outdoor patio, and it’s dog-friendly. Open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. 276 S. Orlando Ave., Winter Park, 407-500-2253; $$

EL BUDA Chef Roberto Treviño’s dishes fuse Latin and Asian flavors and the results are nothing short of remarkable, be they dumpling of pork and plantains; ropa vieja bibimbap; churrasco with ho fun noodles, or edamame frito. On most days, Treviño will improvise off-menu dishes, and if dumplings con coco or sushi-grade tuna in Sichuan-pepita sauce make an appearance, order it. Either way, don’t pass on the duck breast with misohoney potatoes. Desserts lean toward the Latin. Closed Mondays. 116 W. Church St., 407-203-8171; $$$

PETER’S KITCHEN CHINA BISTRO From the man that brought us Tasty Wok and Ming’s Bistro comes Peter Leung’s namesake house of Hong Kong delights. Dim sum is a popular draw on weekends, but dim sum items can also be ordered daily for lunch: chicken feet, turnip cakes, custard buns or stellar eggplant stuffed with fried shrimp. Can’t-miss items: butter lobster and beef chow fun, though less adventurous palates will gravitate toward buzzy orange chicken. Open daily. 3922 E. Colonial Drive, 407-895-8174; $$ n

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FILM LISTINGS

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Avengers Assemble! Film Festival: Thor: Ragnarok After Hela, the Goddess of Death, takes over Asgard, Thor is banished to a strange planet, only to be reunited with the Incredible Hulk. Wednesday, 6:30 pm; Winter Park Public Library, 460 E. New England Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-623-3300; wppl.org. The Cat Returns From Studio Ghibli comes this story about a schoolchild who saves a cat from getting hit by a truck and ends up being whisked away to the Kingdom of Cats. Wednesday, 7 pm; multiple locations; $13.31; fathomevents.com. Cobra Kai / The Karate Kid Screening of the classic ’80s teen movie, along with the premiere of the new sequel series from YouTube. Wednesday, 7 pm; multiple locations; $13.31. Ghost Stories A celebrity skeptic is given three seemingly supernatural cases to attempt to debunk. Opens Friday; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $11; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

Joaquin Phoenix as Joe

NEVER BETTER

sonal demons loom larger, and it’s unclear if he’ll be able to overcome the new atrocities and obstacles thrown in his path. Not Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here for the faint of heart, Ramsay’s story of explores everyday horror young girls stolen by powerful men nods to other recent powerful works with simiBY PE G A LOI lar themes, like the 2011 Australian film n You Were Never Really Here, Lynne dish and lies down on a leather couch, eat- Sleeping Beauty or the 2013 Israeli thriller Ramsay’s status as an artist of uncom- ing them one by one. Speaking softly under Big Bad Wolves, minus their fairy-tale sympromising originality and skill is his breath while John continues speaking, bolism. Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal of Joe, stronger than ever. Despite only making Joe dreamily asks himself, “Why are there a man beset with visions of doom yet with four features in nearly two decades, the never any green ones? I like the green a curiously animalistic survival instinct, is a Scottish filmmaker’s work is studded with ones.” He then finds a green jellybean and white-hot tour de force. Lynne Ramsay’s films weave stories of awards and accolades. Ramsay’s films are crushes it slowly between his fingers before tragedy and brutalatmospheric, gritty, disturbing and strange- eating it. This detail is ity ripping peoples’ ly redemptive. They’re linked by characters thrumming with so lives apart. But whose narratives are heavily laced with much visual and seninstead of mainviolence, loss, guilt, alienation and trauma. sual significance, and it YOU WERE NEVER taining a distant, The protagonist in You Were Never Really conjures images from REALLY HERE artistically neutral Here, Joe (Joaquin Phoenix), a hired gun her previous films: It’s Opens Friday, April 27 vantage point, safely for a secretive yet high-profile investiga- hard (for me, anyway) removed from gore tion firm, has also suffered traumatic loss, not to think about and pain, Ramsay but the details are shaky, shown in snip- Kevin (Ezra Miller) pulls us in, perilouspets that cause him to react with panic and in Ramsay’s last film, ly, deliriously close. physical discomfort. It’s hinted that Joe is a We Need to Talk About Her deft alchemical combat veteran, but it’s not at all clear what Kevin, (2011) pouring war he fought in. There’s a brief but horrific Fruity Pebbles cereal on the countertop melding of cinema’s moving parts – action, flashback shot of a shipping container full and lightly crushing the colorful pieces mood, sound, image, rhythm, language, of young girls, trapped and suffocated, and with his fingers before eating them. It’s also color, music and symbolism – yields filmic Joe is still haunted by them. Despite his hard not to think of James in Ratcatcher works that are like moving medieval tapesfragile state, Joe’s work as a ruthless mer- (1999), who yearned for the green mead- tries, tinged with human mysteries that feel ows outside Glasgow, or the title character ancient, and yet achingly familiar, swirling cenary is focused and efficient. There’s a moment near the beginning in Morvern Callar (2002), who wanted to in the archetypal consciousness of pain, of the film when Joe visits his boss, John lose herself in the verdant Spanish wilder- yearning, evil and redemption. It’s surpris(John Doman), to find out about his next ness, or the fact that both of them had a ing that Ramsay and Phoenix waited so long before merging their dark arts in this assignment. He listens while John describes craving for sweets. Joe’s latest assignment goes wrong when brutal, beautiful film; their collaboration the job: locating and rescuing a young girl who’s been kidnapped by sex traffickers. he is ambushed and must reinvent the is richly rewarding, even if hard to watch. He grabs a handful of jellybeans from a protocols he’s become used to. His perfeedback@orlandoweekly.com

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Labyrinth The Jim Henson movie starring David Bowie returns to theaters. Sunday, 2 & 7 pm; Tuesday, 7 pm; multiple locations; $13.31; fathomevents.com. Lean on Pete Film about a 15-year-old boy who develops an attachment to a racehorse bound for the slaughterhouse. Through May 3; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $11; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. Like Arrows Christian film ostensibly about parenting. Tuesday, 7 pm; multiple locations; $13.31; fathomevents.com. More Q Than A: Blood Simple The Coen brothers’ first feature is a crime thriller about a man who hires a private investigator to murder his cheating wife. Wednesday, 7 pm; The Gallery at Avalon Island, 39 S. Magnolia Ave.; $5-$7; avalongallery.org. Peanut Butter Matinee: Short Circuit A military robot becomes self-aware after a freak accident and moves in with Steve Guttenberg. Sunday, noon; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $8; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. The Rich Weirdoes Present: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Screening of the cult classic with a shadow cast, props and callbacks. Friday-Saturday, 11:15 pm; AMC CityWalk, 6000 Universal Blvd.; $11; richweirdoes.com. Shakespeare Film Festival: Hamlet Free screening of a film based on Shakespeare’s play about murder in the Danish court. Monday, 11 am; Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-835-7323; ocls.info. Trapped in the Trade: Film Viewing and Discussion A docudrama that shines a light on the world of human trafficking, followed by a discussion. Wednesday, 6:30 pm; Herndon Library, 4324 E. Colonial Drive; free; 407-8357323; ocls.info.

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ON SCREENS IN ORLANDO

Avengers: Infinity War

BY ST EVE SCHN EID ER THIS WEEK: Animal Crackers Behold, the second John Krasinski/Emily Blunt movie in just under a month. (A polite hint here, guys: When some couples are looking for a fun hobby to get into, they just do goat yoga together.) This time, however, the Quiet Place clan get to use their outside voices – or at least their recording-booth voices, which they apply to the animated story of a magical box of animal crackers that turns you into whichever critter you happen to be eating. The cast also includes Ian McKellen, Sylvester Stallone and (as always, the one you should really be interested in) Gilbert Gottfried. But overall, the movie, just by dint of its release this week, is destined to end up another kind of animal: the sacrificial lamb. Which brings us to … (MPAA rating not available at press time) Avengers: Infinity War And so begins the grand finale to a fabulously successful experiment that only got off the ground because Robert Downey Jr. couldn’t get insured to do a respectable picture. A decade later, the Marvel Cinematic Universe can boast the best artistic track record of any franchise in film history (unless you were totally OK with Sherlock Holmes fighting the Nazis for a bunch of installments back in the ’40s). And in full tribute to the dramatic depth and nuance Marvel Studios has sustained lo these past 10 years, all anyone can ask right now is, “Which characters are gonna get iced?” Yes, modern comic-book culture has cultivated a very specific definition of gravitas. But I’m counting

on the Russo brothers to deliver more than just a big-budget snuff film, because those guys sure haven’t let us down yet. One thing, though: Can I request that none of my ticket money go to whichever ghoul is currently hauling Stan Lee’s carcass from con to con? (PG-13)

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ALSO PLAYING: Gemini In the latest offering from mumblecore director Aaron Katz, the personal assistant to a Hollywood starlet becomes the chief suspect in her boss’ murder. “Nearly perfect” – Salon. “A soul-killing exercise in narcissism” – San Francisco Chronicle. “Looks like I get to call this one” – the coin in your pocket. (R) I Feel Pretty It’s Shallow Hal in reverse, as Amy Schumer takes a blow to the noggin that makes her think she’s the most beautiful woman on Earth. Since the first trailer dropped, practically everybody in the country has had an opinion on whether the premise of this flick is insulting or uplifting. But like I always say, self-acceptance is like Miller High Life: You only go looking for it after 25 wings. (PG-13) Traffik During a romantic mountain getaway, two young lovers are terrorized by a bunch of bikers who are trying to retrieve a cell phone for a group of sex traffickers. Boy, bikers and sex traffickers working together – and to think I laughed at the Dalai Lama when he started dropping that “universal harmony” jazz. (R) orlandoweekly.com

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[ concert preview ] rhythms and thundering doom metal riffs on Abyss sent shockwaves through her legion of dedicated followers, with many longtime fans hailing the album as her finest work. What next emerged from the abyss was another creature altogether. In September of last year, Wolfe released Hiss Spun, her sixth full-length record and the first to fully expand upon the doom, post-metal and sludge influences hinted at in her earlier work. She released the album through Sargent House, a Los Angelesbased label that has handled all of her studio recordings since her debut, The Grime and the Glow, in 2010. Recorded at GodCity Studio by Kurt Ballou, guitarist with metalcore heavyweights Converge (with whom Wolfe collaborated on the 2016 Blood Moon tour), Hiss Spun draws inspiration from grunge and industrial artists like Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails. The result was the heaviest and most aggressive record in Wolfe’s catalogue, made possible in part by contributions from Troy Van Leeuwen, from Queens of the Stone Age (who toured with Wolfe in 2014), and Aaron Turner, vocalist and guitarist of Isis. Far from the delicate dirges of her early records, Hiss Spun is Wolfe’s definitive rock & roll album. The culmination of lifelong influences, the album’s heavier undertones trace back to her roots in rock music. Named after a Joni Mitchell song, Wolfe CHELSEA WOLFE | ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN PHILLIPS was perhaps destined for a life of singing and songwriting from birth. She inherited her earliest musical influences from her father, a country musician who introduced her to artists like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath at an early age. In nearly a decade into the abyss of writing music and performing around the world, her body of work has grown from a handful of frail, ghostly ballads into eclectic and ambitious record to date. The a sinewy, towering beast, only becoming aptly titled album explored new depths stronger with each release. From the bareof her trademark sound, bones folk of her first with pulsing electronics recordings to the grunand distorted, downCHELSEA WOLFE gy doom of her latest tuned guitars adding yet with Ministry work, Wolfe has creanother layer of dark7 p.m. Thursday, April 26 ated her own shade of ness to the cavernous Hard Rock Live black with masterful niche she’s carved in 6050 Universal Blvd. precision. Through it alternative music’s dis407-351-5483 all, the gloomy siren’s mal underworld. hardrock.com haunting voice has led When the world first $33-$38 the way deeper into the gazed into Abyss, the darkness, giving us no album gazed back with choice but to close our a vengeance. Prior to its release, Wolfe’s oeuvre was mostly col- eyes and follow. She is currently supportored with stripped-down acoustic songs ing industrial metal heavyweights Ministry and dark folk serenades, as well as a brief on the nationwide “AmeriKKKant” tour, detour into electronic experimentation on which stops by the Hard Rock Live on her fourth studio album, Pain Is Beauty. Thursday. The incorporation of pounding industrial music@orlandoweekly.com

BLACKEST EVER BLACK Let Chelsea Wolfe sing you BY TYLER BARNEY

everal years ago, a British company developed Vantablack, a material “so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing.” Officially recognized as the world’s darkest manmade substance, it absorbs virtually all visible light, creating the visual effect of a black hole on any surface it covers. Should Vantablack ever find itself in want of a sonic companion, it need look no further than Chelsea Wolfe. With an essence and aesthetic embodying all things dark, the enchanting singer-songwriter has made a name for herself as a subculture sorceress, casting a spell on fans of acoustic, folk, drone, goth rock and extreme metal. Shortly after the aforementioned optic void was unleashed upon the world, Wolfe released a fitting musical accompaniment with Abyss in 2015, her most

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GREAT LIVE MUSIC RATTLES ORLANDO EVERY NIGHT Canker Blossom Baltimore pop-punk trio throws down at Will’s with local support from Caffiends, Corgi Feldman and the Last Locals. Get ready to sing along. 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, at Will’s Pub, $7

The Ludes and Shewbird Two local noise merchants, last seen opening for Lydia Lunch back in November, wreak havoc in Thornton Park. Show is free. 6 p.m. Thursday, April 26, at the Veranda at Thornton Park, free

Lebowski Fest The opening night of a raucous celebration of the 20th anniversary of cult film The Big Lebowski promises a live set of covers from the movie and sundry shenanigans. 8 p.m. Friday, April 27, at Will’s Pub, $10

Collective Underground New underground house night brings in DJs from Orlando, Miami and Tampa for a free weekly party. 10 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at Vinyl Arts Bar, free

Lil Durk Only the Family leader and MC Lil Durk recently left Def Jam, and the proof of him thriving as an independent artist came quickly with the stellar Just ’Cause Y’all Waited EP. 10 p.m. Sunday, April 29, at Gilt, $15-$25

Reggae Mondae: Hor!zen Stalwart local reggae head Hor!zen brings tunes from across the spectrum of Jamaica’s musical heritage, and keeps it live with toasting and mixing. 10:30 p.m. Monday, April 30, at Tanqueray’s, free

Band on a Bus: Gary Lazer Eyes Take a party bus to the gig, where headliner Gary Lazer Eyes will serenade you with a stripped-down set en route. Get to the club and see a full set, then celebrate the second anniversary of Turnt Tuesday. 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, at Blackstar, free

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BY B AO L E - H U U LOU BARLOW | PHOTO BY JEN CRAY

This week, a couple of creden-

tialed solo artists, both uniquely engaging but in wildly different ways.

LOU BARLOW HOUSE SHOW, APRIL 17

In the past year and a half, OW photographer and longtime music scenester Michael Lothrop has made some major music-fan dreams happen in his living room. The previous one in late 2016 was hosting Eric Bachmann (Archers of Loaf, Crooked Fingers) for a special house show, which is a rare up-close thrill that few ever get to have with a star. The latest one, fixed by Tierney Tough’s OYG Presents, was at least on par with that. Like Bachmann, Lou Barlow is an American indie hero who packs the cred of multiple canonical acts in his CV, the most notable being Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and Folk Implosion. And before a sold-out (actual) house, he gave a generous two-hour engagement. The performance included songs from all three of his noteworthy bands, including a cool fusion of the Folk Implosion hit “Natural One” with Smog’s “A Hit.” And through crowd urging, he wound up turning a conversational tangent into a Tammy Wynette cover (“Set Me Free”) that had as much soul as it did mirth. It’s the kind of performance that’s raw, pure and unfiltered, an interesting light in which to view an artist like Barlow, who’s made multiple careers riding sometimes ear-ravaging rock sounds. And hearing his songs breathe so differently was fresh. But the most special aspect of a show like this is its exceptional intimacy. Depending on the person, it can make for an encounter of a lifetime. With his generosity of candor, Barlow delivered on

How many Lou Barlow shows have you been to where the door guy was an adorable Corgi? House shows cut through almost all barriers between audience and artist. that. Though a bit reluctant at first (and perhaps inherently), he actually proved to be a big, interesting and open personality. There was unblinking humanity, like in the story about his father having open-heart surgery (successful, by the way) on the very day of this show. There was humor, lots actually, that blossomed throughout until it verged on standupworthy by the conclusion. There was even a mid-set tax-day text received from his accountant. And of course, there was lots of great backstory for the songs. It’s a fan fairy tale. I mean, how many Lou Barlow shows have you been to where the door guy was an adorable Corgi? House shows like this cut through almost all barriers between audience and artist, allowing only the purest communion with music, face to face and warmed by the same fire. It’s as direct a glimpse inside as it gets. This wasn’t just hearing Barlow’s music in a new way, it was engaging Lou Barlow the person. Not a bad way to experience a legend.

KLIMCHAK, GALLERY AT AVALON ISLAND, APRIL 16

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unusual In-Between Series, this one was out there. Atlanta composer Klimchak doesn’t just write and perform music but specializes in odd instruments, some of which are designed and built or modified himself. From the looks of some pictures floating around online, these aren’t so much DIY folk versions of cigar box guitars, but rather wild and completely original creations straight out of imagination. In Klimchak’s Orlando debut, he came packing an arsenal of instruments ranging from familiar to modified to foreign, right on down to normally non-musical objects like knitting needles and pingpong balls. There were small electronics. There were percussion instruments that were electronic (a Roland HandSonic), acoustic (a drumhead) and sometimes both (the alchemy between the drumhead and whatever it was hooked up to). Spanning metal, wood, string, wind and even nonlyrical voice, it was an incredible array of sounds, all engaged in intriguing interplay across both electronic and acoustic media. The three-piece suite that Klimchak performed started as a drone soundscape with music that moved like orchestrated weather and ended up in an odyssey of rhythm. It was a study in texture, movement and the kind of lightning-capturing improvisation that sometimes saw him playing things until they fell to the floor or flew out of his hands. His unconventional performance and rig baffled passersby outside. Inside, however, it was a ride. baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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Thursday, April 26

Candidate Town Hall Series CIVICS

The second installment of this town hall series is your latest chance to get to know your Democratic front runners before voting season comes around, and it’ll be here before you know it (Aug. 28). Take the time to get acquainted with Chris King, a Winter Park businessman and first-time candidate. He’ll be facing off against former congresswoman Gwen Graham, former Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine and Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum in the Democratic primary in August. You can come back for town halls with Levine (May 3) and Gillum (May 31) in the coming weeks. – Xander Peters 6 p.m. | First Unitarian Church of Orlando, 1901 E. Robinson St. | indivisiblecfl.org | free

Thursday, April 26

ZipOde Throwdown LITERARY

ZIP codes didn’t even exist until 1963, when they were introduced to help improve mail delivery: “Zone Improvement Plan” = your mail zips right through the system! Since then they’ve become a form of shorthand, functioning as adjectives to describe the neighborhoods they serve. Everybody knows 90210, right? Our local NPR affiliate, WMFE, tapped into this ZIP code team spirit when they introduced “ZipOdes” a few years ago – a form of neighborhood-defining poetry in which each of five lines contains the number of words corresponding to your ZIP. (Orlando Weekly is based downtown (32801), so we might submit something like: “Barflies by night,/office workers/by day. Round the clock, homeless eyes watch/… /everything.”) Hear more – and better – hyperlocal versifying at Thursday night’s ZipOde Throwdown – a local contender for NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest will play, and organizers ask attendees to “Please bring a side dish or drink to share that represents your ZIP code. It can be homemade or from a local restaurant (include the business card and/or label your dish with the ZIP code).” Tastes like home! – Jessica Bryce Young 7:30 p.m. | Timucua Arts House, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave. | zipodethrowdown.eventbrite.com | free

Friday, April 27

Whiskey Business EVENTS

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Make your drinking habit look like a cool hobby and tell everyone you’re getting drunk for a cause. Whiskey Business raises money for the Barber Fund, an organization that helps those living with cancer by paying medical bills, buying groceries, getting patients to appointments and more. Who doesn’t like a charity event that has plenty of booze? There’s a massive selection of whiskies and scotches from around the world – and even some distilled locally. It’s also a great chance to meet brand ambassadors who can teach you a thing or two about what you’re drinking. Then you can take that knowledge and pretend to be a total whiskey snob and impress all of your friends. – Gunnar Shuler 7-10 p.m. | Cheyenne Saloon, 126 W. Church St. | whiskeybusinessorlando.com | $20-$75

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Saturday, April 28

Fang x Panic: Joy Division/New Order Tribute MUSIC

Blackstar and Odd Jobs’ weekly Fang party merges with the until recently on-hiatus Panic night for the first in a series of tribute events honoring masters/mistresses of post-punk. They begin with arguably the most important of them all, Joy Division (and what came next, New Order). It’s impossible to quickly or adequately sum up the importance of the pitch-black music that Manchester’s Joy Division made in the early 1980s and the whole new soundworlds opened up by New Order in the decades following, so maybe a total-immersion night in their catalog is the best kind of historical crash course. The Panic DJs will be spinning JD and NO deep cuts and remixes all night and there will be live transmissions from a Joy Division tribute band (what a world we live in), followed by – intriguingly – local hands Zap Danger and Pressurewave (!) doing New Order sets. Here are the young men … – Matthew Moyer 10 p.m. | Odd Jobs, 46 W. Concord St. | oddjobs.bar | $5

Sunday, April 29

Poca’s Hottest Sauce Cook-Off EVENTS

Local entrepreneur Wendy Davis has gone from being a hobbyist saucier to the head of a burgeoning empire. Her line of hot sauces and condiments inspired by local artists and musicians, Poca’s Hottest, is stocked on shelves at the likes of Winn-Dixie and Amazon, and she even has a brand-new cooking/music hybrid show on Amazon Prime, Hot Saucy. This weekend, Davis and friends team up for the annual Poca’s Hottest Sauce Cook-Off. Contestants bring dishes made with Poca’s Hottest products for judging, while 10 bands perform, competing for the honor of having Davis’ next concoction named after them. You’ll only get to sample the competing dishes if you spring for the VIP tasting pass, but if you miss out, there’s still a taco bar stocked with a full line of Poca’s Hottest sauces. The family-friendly event is also a food drive for Second Harvest Food Bank, so bring some canned goods and get a few dollars knocked off the price of admission. – Thaddeus McCollum 2 p.m. | Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. | willspub.org | pocashottest.com | $20-$40 PHOTO BY MIRIAM LORENZI

Monday, April 30

Yanni

Even amongst the legion of eccentrics responsible for New Age music, Yanni always stood out. The lion-maned synth enthusiast brought nth-degree pomp and circumstance to the usually tranquil world of New Age. The crown jewel of his recorded canon has to be Live at the Acropolis, an undertaking that was pure artistic ambition and potential overreach – Yanni spent $2 million of his own money to film and record an over-the-top live show at the aforementioned Acropolis of Athens in 1993, with a 60-piece orchestra joining his band for the night. The gambit paid off, with both the album and video becoming hits, and Yanni staging ever more ambitious shows at the Taj Mahal and Beijing’s Forbidden City. The other payoff, however, was a bout of severe depression that saw Yanni give up music for a couple of years and virtually disappear. Now Yanni is on a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of Acropolis and, in the environs of the Walt Disney Theater, you can expect on stage hair-whipping on a level with Willow Smith or Obituary. – MM

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7:30 p.m. | Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave. | 844-513-2014 | drphillipscenter.org | $49.50-$124.50

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25-TUESDAY, MAY 1 COMPILED BY THADDEUS MCCOLLUM

MUSIC WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 Canker Blossom, Caffiends, Corgi Feldman, the Last Locals 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $7. Florida Man, the Slashers, Daniel Heitz 8 pm; Iron Cow, 2438 E. Robinson St.; $5. Scott Whitfield 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $20; 407-636-9951.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26 Blunts & Blondes, Foreign Suspects, Vampa 9 pm; Blackstar, 42 W. Concord St.; $15; 407-872-0066. Jeff Rupert Quartet 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $15; 407-636-9951. The Ludes, Shewbird 6 pm; The Veranda at Thornton Park, 111 N. Summerlin Ave.; free; 407-872-8454. The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die Sunday at the Social

Ministry, Chelsea Wolfe & the God Bombs 7:30 pm; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; $35-$45; 407-351-5483. Open Mic: The Voice of Melrose 6 pm; Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-835-7323. Rollins Red Carpet 10 pm; Gilt Nightclub, 740 Bennett Road; $10; 407-504-7699. Velvet Sessions: Scott Stapp 6:30 pm; Hard Rock Hotel, Universal Orlando; $35-$55; 407-503-7625. The Welzeins, Someday River, Sonic Graffiti 8 pm; Iron Cow, 2438 E. Robinson St.; free.

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 Brink: DJ Joe Gauthreaux 10 pm; Blackstar, 42 W. Concord St.; $5; 407-872-0066. Escapa Latin Ensemble 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $15; 407-636-9951. John Mark McMillan, Ascend the Hill, Lapeer 6 pm; The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave.; $20-$30; 407-648-8363. 42

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Julee Bruise 8 pm; The Nook on Robinson, 2432 E. Robinson St.; free.

Doc Ellis Orchestra, JackMantra, Electric Shrine, Infidel 7:30 pm; Shovelhead Lounge, 900 S. Highway 17-92, Longwood; $10; 407-332-9199.

Lebowski Fest 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10.

Fang x Panic: Joy Division/New Order Tribute 10 pm; Odd Jobs, 42 W. Concord St.; $5.

Lost in Trancelation: X-Dream, Robb Blak, DJ Agni 9 pm; Bikkuri Sushi, 1915 E. Colonial Drive; $10; 407-894-4494.

Getter 10 pm; Gilt Nightclub, 740 Bennett Road; $15-$30; 407-504-7699.

Oona Dahl, Pete Bones 9 pm; Iron Cow, 2438 E. Robinson St.; contact for price.

Lebowski Fest 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10.

Orlando Rocks: Blessing a Curse, Felicity, LuvLost, Sweet Cambodia 7:30 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; free; 407-934-2583. A Swingin’ Good Time 8 pm; Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $39.50-$44.50.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 Collective Underground: Mendoza, Santos, User 10 pm; Vinyl Arts Bar, 75 E. Colonial Drive; free.

Local Brews, Local Grooves: Beemo, Rocktown, Slickwood, Mike Lynch Band 4 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $11-$60; 407-934-2583. The Met Live in HD: Cendrillon 12:55 pm; multiple locations; $25.56; fathomevents.com. Miss Jacqueline Jones 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $15; 407-636-9951. Moloko Plus 9 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

Reading Between the Wines

Reading Between the Wines The Adult Literacy League’s biggest fundraising gala takes over the Orlando Science Center. Enjoy a spread of wine and food samples from some of the best area restaurants, along with an extensive silent auction and a keynote address from famed novelist and comic book writer Brad Meltzer. 6 p.m. Wednesday; Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St.; $99; adultliteracy league.org

Booze and Boards The Geek Easy celebrates International Tabletop Day with an afternoon of drinking and gaming. Bring your unused games to participate in the game swap, enter raffles for new games, and even enjoy open play on several games with the opportunity to win copies of that game. All this while enjoying craft beer from the bar. Noon-6 p.m. Saturday; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; mygeekeasy.org Local Brews, Local Grooves House of Blues gets into the beerfest game with this afternoon devoted to Florida craft beer. Sample brews from the likes of First Magnitude, Funky Buddha, Dead Lizard and Bold City. Meanwhile, local bands like Beemo, Slickwood and Rocktown take the stage to provide a musical backdrop. 4 p.m. Saturday; House of Blues, 1490 E. Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista; $11-$60; hob.com/orlando

Tuffy’s Grand Opening Sanford’s newest bottle shop opens up with a bang this weekend. Check out a variety of beer and housemade cider from Tuffy’s Bottle Shop while enjoying a block party featuring performances from the Legendary JC’s, Kaleigh Baker and Whyte Tygers. Noon-10 p.m. Saturday; Tuffy’s Bottle Shop & Lounge, 200 S. Myrtle Ave., Sanford; free; facebook.com/tuffyscider

Janelle Monae July 28 at House of Blues The Brian Jonestown Massacre, May 3 at the Social Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, May 8 at the Beacham

Oh Wonder, May 16 at the Beacham New Found Glory, May 17 at House of Blues Hot Water Music, May 19 at the Social

Florida Music Festival, May 10-12 in Downtown Orlando

Big Boi, May 23 at the Beacham

Green Velvet, May 10 at the Beacham

David Crosby, April 29 at the Plaza Live

Mike Birbiglia, May 12 at the Plaza Live

Petit Biscuit, May 30 at the Beacham

Hayley Kiyoko, May 12 at the Beacham

The Dickies, June 1 at Will’s Pub

Justin Timberlake, May 14 at Amway Center

Flatbush Zombies, June 1 at the Plaza Live

August Greene, May 15 at the Dr. Phillips Center

Joyner Lucas, June 2 at the Beacham

Guided by Voices, May 16 at the Social

Peter Hook & the Light, June 3 at the Plaza Live

Lucero, Frank Turner, June 10 at House of Blues The Glitch Mob, June 10 at the Plaza Live Dua Lipa, June 13 at House of Blues Paul Van Dyk, June 23 at Gilt Nightclub Maxi Priest, June 23 at House of Blues American Aquarium, June 25 at Will’s Pub

Glass Animals, July 26 at House of Blues Sales, July 26 at the Social Rod Stewart, July 26 at Amway Center Janelle Monae, July 28 at House of Blues Bomba Estéreo, Aug. 10 at the Plaza Live Shakira, Aug. 14 at Amway Center Steel Panther, Aug. 17 at the Plaza Live

Daryl Hall & John Oates, June 26 at Amway Center

Paul Simon, Sept. 11 at Amway Center

Erasure, July 8 at the Dr. Phillips Center

Fall Out Boy, Sept. 16 at Amway Center

Sam Smith, July 11 at Amway Center

Owl City, Sept. 26 at the Plaza Live

Deafheaven, July 17 at the Social

Andrew W.K., Sept. 28 at the Beacham

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THEWEEK A Swingin’ Good Time 8 pm; Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $39.50-$44.50.

SUNDAY, APRIL 29 Alan Parsons Live Project 7 pm; The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave.; $57-$77; 407-228-1220. Bad Bunny 7 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; $40.50-$60.50; 800-745-3000. Curtis & Loretta, Steve Erickson 2 pm; Winter Park Public Library, 460 E. New England Ave., Winter Park; $15 suggested donation; 407-679-6426. Dr. Bill Prince 3 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $15-$20; 407-636-9951. Lil Durk 10 pm; Gilt Nightclub, 740 Bennett Road; $15-$80; 407-504-7699. Memphis May Fire, Fire From the Gods, Set for the Fall, Good News We’re Dead, A Valiant Effort 7:30 pm; Soundbar, 37 W. Pine St.; $18-$20. Pianos Become the Teeth, the World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die 5 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $17-$20; 407-246-1419. Poca’s Hottest Cook-Off: The Ludes, the Legendary JC’s, Druid Lord, Leisure Chief and more 2 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $20-$40.

MONDAY, APRIL 30 Wastelands, Problem Pack 9 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; contact for price; 407-270-9104. Yanni 7:30 pm; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $49.50-$275; 844-513-2014.

TUESDAY, MAY 1 Band on a Bus: Gary Lazer Eyes 9 pm; Blackstar, 42 W. Concord St.; free; 407-872-0066. Open Mic Night With Hannibal Callens 8 pm; Copper Rocket Pub, 106 Lake Ave., Maitland; free; 321-202-0011.

THEATER 7 Campy Sins A gay porn producer and his actors must produce a legitimate Shakespearean play or face jail. Friday-Saturday, 7 pm; Footlight Theatre, The Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; $20; 407-496-2772; parliamenthouse.com. 46

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9 to 5: The Musical A musical comedy featuring the music of Dolly Parton. Wednesday-Friday, 8 pm, Saturday, 2 & 8 pm; Rollins College, Annie Russell Theatre, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; $20; 407-646-2145; rollins.edu. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Stage adaptation of the popular children’s book. Saturday, 2 pm; Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, 812 E. Rollins St.; $14-$20; orlandoshakes.org. Cabaret: Laura Hodos Wednesday, 7:30 pm; Winter Park Playhouse, 711-C Orange Ave., Winter Park; $23-$28; 407-6450145; winterparkplayhouse.org. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Friday-Saturday, 7:30 pm, Sunday, 2:30 pm; Gateway Center for the Arts, 880 N. Highway 17-92, DeBary; $17-$19; 386668-5553; gatewaycenterforthearts.org. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Musical based on the Victor Hugo novel. Friday, 8 pm, Saturday, 2 & 8 pm, Sunday, 2 pm; Garden Theatre, 160 W. Plant St., Winter Garden; $30$34; 407-877-4736; gardentheatre.org. Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt Saturday-Sunday, 2 & 5:30 pm; Orlando Repertory Theatre, 1001 E. Princeton St.; $15-$25; 407-896-7365; orlandorep.com. National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Production of the Tennessee Williams play, starring Sienna Miller and Jack O’Connell. Saturday, 11 am; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $20; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. Once Upon a Crime: A Murder Mystery Dinner Show A murder mystery set in the deceptively idyllic Story Book Town. Saturday, 7 pm; I-Drive Grand Resort & Suites, 7056 S. Kirkman Road; $35; 863-420-5320; mayhemshows.com. Rock of Ages Friday-Saturday, 7:30 pm, Sunday, 3 pm; Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center, 201 S. Magnolia Ave., Sanford; $20-$27; 407-321-8111; wdpac.com. She Won’t Tell Inspirational play about a baby switched at birth. Sunday, 7 pm; Bob Carr Theater, 401 W. Livingston St.; $38.50; 407-246-4262; drphillipscenter.org. Something Rotten! Wednesday-Friday, 8 pm, Saturday, 2 & 8 pm, Sunday, 1 & 6:30 pm; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $34.25-$89.50; 844-513-2014; drphillipscenter.org.

COMEDY Chris Gorges, Tiffany Barbee FridaySaturday, 8 pm; Bonkerz – Boardwalk Bowl, 10749 E. Colonial Drive; $10; 407-629-2665; bonkerzcomedyproductions.com.

SUNDAY, APRIL 29

Bad Bunny MUSIC

There’s nothing cutesy about this conejito. Puerto Rican singer/rapper Bad Bunny mixes the grinding beats of Southern trap with Spanish you’ll never hear coming out of your abuela’s mouth. The 24-year-old’s deep, gravelly voice creates a sensual flow that has defined a new iteration of reggaeton for this generation. The Latin trap star is bringing his first North American tour, “La Nueva Religion,” to Orlando this weekend for a party you won’t want to miss. – Monivette Cordeiro

7 p.m. | Amway Center, 400 W. Church St. | 407-440-7900 | amwaycenter.com | $40.50-$60.50

Comedy at the Nook Monthly comedy showcase. Wednesday, 8 pm; The Nook on Robinson, 2432 E. Robinson St.; free; thenook.tk. Mark Evans, Jamie Ward Friday-Saturday, 8 pm; Bonkerz – Otters on the River, 4380 Carraway Place, Sanford; $10; 407-6292665; bonkerzcomedyproductions.com. Shit Soup Weekly stand-up showcase. Wednesday, 9-11 pm; Bull and Bush, 2408 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-896-7546.

Spring Fling: A Classic Burlesque Revue A burlesque cabaret bringing the art of traditional burlesque and striptease with some of Florida’s sparkliest gems. Thursday 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $12-$15; 407-928-5561; willspub.org.

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Derek Woods New work from the cartoon and zine artist. Opens Saturday, 6-9 pm, through May 19; The Nook on Robinson, 2432 E. Robinson St.; free; thenook.tk.

Mozart’s Muses: An Evening of Opera & Burlesque Burlesque cabaret featuring live opera performances. Friday, 6:30 pm; The Mezz, 100 S. Eola Drive; $35; 407-423-9999; operadelsol.org.

Luminosities Christie Miga’s nature-based art show in a butterfly garden. Friday, 8 pm; Mead Garden, 1300 S. Denning Drive, Winter Park; free. orlandoweekly.com

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THEWEEK Melbourne Art Festival Weekend art festival with a juried art show, live music, food and more. Saturday-Sunday, 9 am-5 pm; Wickham Park, 2500 Parkway Drive, Melbourne; free; 321-255-4307; melbournearts.org. Spring Art Sale Pick out beautifully crafted works of art in time for Mother’s Day. Saturday, 10 am-4 pm; Crealdé School of Art, 600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407-671-1886; crealde.org.

EVENTS Angel’s of the Lost Ark An Indiana Jonesthemed cocktail event featuring Angel’s Envy whiskies. Thursday, 8 pm; The Nest, 4963 New Broad St.; various menu prices; 407-629-6601; thenestbarorlando.com. Apopka Art and Foliage Festival Outdoor festival with art, plants, live entertainment and more. Saturday-Sunday; Kit Land Nelson Park, South Park Avenue and East Orange Street, Apopka; free; apopkaartandfoliagefestival.org. Bangrak at the Guesthouse Bangrak returns to the Guesthouse for more Thai drinking food and snacks, Thai tunes, and cocktails out of the

Airstream. Sunday, 6-9 pm; The Guesthouse, 1321 N. Mills Ave.; $5-$15; 407-630-6574. Booze and Boards International Tabletop Day event with a board game swap, raffles, open play and more. Saturday, noon-6 pm; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407-332-9636. Central Florida Brewfest Central Florida’s finest micro craft breweries showcase their best brews in one beautiful location. Saturday, 12:30 pm; Revolution the Off Road Experience, 4000 State Road 33, Clermont; $49; 352-400-1322; cflbrewfest.com. Charles Phoenix Retro Disneyland Slideshow Vintage slides and storytelling about the early days of Disneyland. Saturday, 11 am & 2 pm; Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista; $29-$58; charlesphoenix.com.

Drink and Think: Philosophy and Discussion Open discussion on a variety of topics. Tuesday, 8 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free; willspub.org. Florida Puerto Rican Parade & Festival Parade and festival dedicated to Puerto Rico. Saturday, 11 am-9 pm; Seneff Arts Plaza, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; free; 844-513-2014; drphillipscenter.org. German Fest Celebration of German culture with food, music, drinking, dancing, games and more. Saturday, noon-10 pm; German American Society of Central Florida, 381 Orange Lane, Casselberry; $5-$10; 407-834-0574; orlandogermanclub.com. Get Your Jazz On Enjoy a selection of gourmet food, wine, cocktails and more while enjoying live jazz in the Alfond’s courtyard. Friday, 6:30 pm; The Alfond Inn, 300 E. New England Ave., Winter Park; $50-$65; 407-998-8090.

Cocoa Beach Uncorked All-inclusive samples from the area’s most celebrated chefs. Saturday-Sunday, noon-4 pm; Alan Shepard Park, 211 E. Cocoa Beach Causeway, Cocoa Beach; $55-$75; cocoabeachuncorked.com.

Kidsfest Sign up for free or nearly free workshops on arts and crafts, food, music, sustainability and more. Kids of all ages welcome. Saturday, noon-4 pm; Audubon Park Garden District, East Winter Park Road and Corrine Drive; free; audubonparkgardens.com.

Dapper Day Unofficial meet-up of dressed-up Disney fans. Saturday, 10 am; Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista; price of admission; 407-824-4321; dapperday.com.

LGBT Career Fair Career fair with several hiring companies. Friday, 11 am-3 pm; The Center, 946 N. Mills Ave.; free; 407228-8272; thecenterorlando.org.

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Open House Invitational Learn about Islam and the Muslim community from the source while enjoying an international dinner. Saturday, 5:30 pm; Islamic Society of Central Florida, 1586 N. Goldenrod Road; free; 407-273-8363; iscf.org. Playlist Live Convention for internet content creators and their fans. Friday-Sunday; Marriott Orlando World Center, 8701 World Center Drive; $130-$505; 407-239-4200; playlist-live.com. Rhythms at the Roost Outdoor events with vendors, food, drinks and live music. Saturday, 7-10 pm; Cranes Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; free; 407-571-8863; altamonte.org. Sanford After Dark Monthly street market with music, art, vendors, food and drink and more. Saturday, 8 pm; Little Fish Huge Pond, 401 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; free; 407-221-1499. Science of Wine Fundraising gala with more than 150 wine varieties and bites from 30 different restaurants. Saturday, 7-10 pm; Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St.; $100-$125; 407-514-2000; osc.org. Shake It to Break It Guinness World Record attempt for the World’s Largest Macarena Dance. Sunday, 10:30 am; Orlando City Stadium, 655 W. Church St.; free; 321236-0102; shakeittobreakit.com.

StarterStudio Demo Day Ten startups take the stage to pitch their business and show you why their startup will succeed. Tuesday, 7 pm; Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $19; drphillipscenter.org. Volunteer Fair Talk with various organizations that offer volunteer services to the community. Sunday, 2 pm; Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-835-7323; ocls.info. Walk for Purpose Fashion Show Fashion show with guest speakers, special performances, giveaways and cultural cuisine. Sunday, 5 pm; Loud Gallery, 1907 N. Orange Ave.; $10$15; 305-764-4219; luminariesincolor.org. Whiskey Business Sample whiskey and cocktails from top brands, speak with brand ambassadors and enjoy live entertainment. Friday, 6-10 pm; Cheyenne Saloon and Opera House, 128 W. Church St.; $40-$70; 407839-3000; whiskeybusinessorlando.com. Winter Park Paint Out Plein air artists take to the grounds of the Polasek for a week to create landscapes. Through Saturday; Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-647-6294; polasek.org/wppo.

LEARNING Florida Wildflower Symposium Learn about Florida’s wildflowers and the wildlife they support with field trips, butterfly and garden walks, presentations, hands-on workshops, a native plant sale and exhibitors. Friday, noon-5 pm, Saturday, 9 am-5 pm; Orange County – UF/IFAS Extension Education Center, 6021 S. Conway Road; $45-$60; 407-622-1606; flawildflowers.org.

CIVICS Candidate Town Hall Series Town hall meetings with Democratic gubernatorial candidates. Thursday, 6-9 pm; First Unitarian Church of Orlando, 1901 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-898-3621.

LITERARY Diverse Word Spoken word open mic. Tuesdays, 8 pm; Dandelion Communitea Cafe, 618 N. Thornton Ave.; free; 407-362-1864; dandelioncommunitea.com. Loose Lips Local writers read works inspired by current events. Tuesday, 8 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free; willspub.org. Meet the Author: Sarah Weeks Meet Sarah Weeks, the author of Save Me a Seat (co-written by Gita Varadarajan) and Pie, two Sunshine State Young Readers Award favorites. Wednesday, 6:30 pm; Alafaya Library, 12000 E. Colonial Drive; free; 407-835-7323; ocls.info.

Reading Between the Wines Fundraiser gala for the Adult Literacy League, featuring wine, food, a silent auction and a keynote address from novelist Brad Meltzer. Wednesday, 6 pm; Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St.; $99; 407-514-2000; adultliteracyleague.org. Wednesday Open Words Poetry and spoken word open mic. Wednesday, 8:30 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364; austinscoffee.com. Writing Workshop with Sarah Weeks Sarah Weeks presents a writing workshop for kids and teens with interactive writing exercises and writing tips. Thursday, 3:30 pm; Windermere Library, 530 Main St., Windermere; free; 407-835-7323; ocls.info. ZipOde Throwdown A selection of poems written about local zip codes. Hosted by Trevor Fraser and featuring musical interludes. Thursday, 7:30 pm; Timucua White House, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave.; free; 407-595-2713; wmfe.org.

SPORTS Central Florida Mah Jongg Experienced American Mah Jongg players meet weekly using the National Mah Jongg 2015 card and rules. Wednesday, 12:30-4 pm; MetroWest Country Club, 2100 S. Hiawassee Road; free; 561-704-9302. Critical Mass Community bike ride from Loch Haven Park to downtown. Friday, 5:30 pm; Loch Haven Park, 777 E. Princeton St.; free; 407-246-2283. Deadly Sins Run Club Bi-weekly run club. Dogs welcome. Thursday, 6:30 pm; Deadly Sins Brewing, 750 Jackson Ave., Winter Park; free; 407900-8726; deadlysinsbrewing.com. Falcon Run Club Biweekly runners club with discounted beer afterwards. Monday, 6:30 pm; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; free; 407-423-3060. NAMI Walks The free fundraising walk includes local vendors, service suppliers and family entertainment. Saturday 9 am; Cranes Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; free; 407-253-1900; namigo.org. Orlando Walk for Lupus Fundraising walk for lupus research and awareness. Saturday, 4-7 pm; Lake Eola Park, North Rosalind Avenue and East Washington Street; free; 561-279-8606; walktoendlupusnowfl.com. Yoga at CityArts An hour of fluid, dynamic, lighthearted vinyasa flow surrounded by fine art. Saturday, noon; CityArts Factory, 29 S. Orange Ave.; $15; 407-648-7060. n

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I’m a straight man in my 30s. I’ve been with my wife for 12 years. I have had several affairs. Not one-night-stand scenarios, but longer-term connections. I didn’t pursue any of these relationships. Instead, women who knew I was in an “exclusive” relationship have approached me. These have included what turned into a one-year affair with a single woman, a three-year affair with a close friend of my wife, a seven-month affair with a married co-worker, and now a fairly serious four-months-and-counting relationship with a woman who approached me on Instagram. On the one hand, I do not regret my time with any of these women. On the other hand, I have been deceitful and manipulative for almost my entire adult life. I am a terrible husband in this respect. Also, I’m going to get busted eventually, right? Finding out about this would crush my wife. I love her, we get along great and the sex is good – if I weren’t such a lying piece of shit, you could even say we make a pretty good team. We are also very socially and financially entangled. I don’t want to leave, but I suspect I should. And if so, I need help considering an exit strategy. Part of my motivation for writing is that I am particularly attached to the woman I’m having an affair with now, and both of us fantasize about being together openly. I’m a liar, a cheat, a user and a manipulator – and it just keeps happening. A Seriously Shitty Husband On Losing Everything P.S. I’m expecting you to rip me to shreds. It doesn’t “just keep happening,” ASSHOLE, you keep doing it. And these women didn’t “turn into” one-year, three-year, seven-month and four-months-and-counting affairs on their own. You turned them into affairs by continuing to show up. And while you claim that each of these women pursued you despite knowing you were in an exclusive relationship, it doesn’t sound like you ran from any of them. At best, you broke into (or slowed to) a trot, which allowed each one of these lady predators to overtake you. The first step toward holding yourself accountable for your appalling actions – a close friend of your wife? really? – is doing away with the passive voice. Don’t ask yourself, “How’d that happen?!?” as if the universe were conspiring against you somehow. You weren’t hit by a pussy meteor every time you left the house. You did these things. You had these affairs. You. Zooming out: If all it takes for some rando to get her hands on your otherwise committed cock is to DM you on Instagram, you have no business making monogamous commitments. If you’d sought out a partner who wanted an open relationship – a wideopen one – you could have had concurrent, committed, nonexclusive relationships and avoided being “a liar, a cheat, a user,” etc. Seeing as you’re a reader, ASSHOLE, I suspect you knew an honest open relation50

ship was an option – that ethical nonmonogamy was an option – but you didn’t pursue that. And why not? Maybe because you don’t want to be with a woman who is free to sit on other dicks. Or maybe the wrongness and the self-loathing – the whole bad-boy-on-the-rack routine – turn you on. Or maybe you’re the wrong kind of sadist: the un-self-aware emotional sadist. You say you love your wife, but you also say she’d be crushed if she discovered what you’ve been doing. Be honest, ASSHOLE, just this once: Is the destruction of your wife a bug or is it a feature? I suspect the latter. Because cheating on this scale isn’t about succumbing to temptation or reacting to neglect. It’s about the annihilation of your partner – a (hopefully) subconscious desire to punish and destroy someone, anyone, fool enough to love you. The tragedy is how unnecessary your choices have been. There are women out there who aren’t interested in monogamy, there are female cuckolds out there (cuckqueans) who want cheating husbands, and there are masochistic women (and men) out there who get off on the thought of being with a person who would like to crush them. So long as those desires are consciously eroticized, fully compartmentalized and safely expressed, you could have done everything you wanted, ASSHOLE, without harming anyone. So what do you do now? It seems like you want out, and your wife definitely deserves better, so cop to one affair, since copping to all of them would crush her – or so you think. People are often way more resilient than we give them credit for, and convincing ourselves that our partners can’t handle the truth is often a convenient justification for lying to them. But on the off chance it would crush your wife to be told everything, just tell her about Ms. Instagram. That should be enough. P.S. Get your ass into therapy, ASSHOLE. I’m a 42-year-old gay man. I’ve been with my husband for 21 years. We met in college and, except for a six-month break, we’ve been together ever since. I made an open relationship a requirement at the start. While my husband had jealousy and trust issues, he hooked up with others regularly. After a few tense years, we started couples therapy. During therapy, my husband revealed that he was never in favor of the openness. After trying some new arrangements – only together, only at sex parties, DADT – he realized he wasn’t comfortable with any situation. He told our therapist that every time I hooked up with someone, he was retraumatized because it reminded him of the time I broke up with him for six months 20 years ago. I agreed to a monogamous relationship, and I’ve gone a year without hooking up with anyone else. He seemed genuinely relieved and said he felt more secure. But almost

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immediately, he began talking about how he wanted to hook up with others. I’m at a loss. I feel tremendous guilt for even thinking about splitting up, so I keep hoping we’ll stumble on the thing that will work for us. I don’t know what to say when he says I should be monogamous to him while he gets to hook up with others. He says this would be best, since my hooking up triggers him. We are at an impasse. It sucks that we could break up over this. Gay Marriage Having Crisis I’ve written about a few gay couples – and a few straight ones – where one half gets to hook up with others while the other half doesn’t. But they were cuckold couples, GMHC, and the half who didn’t “get to” hook up with others didn’t want to hook up with others. The cuck half of a cuckold couple gets off on their partner “cheating” on them. While people outside the relationship might perceive that as unfair – one gets to cheat, the other doesn’t – what’s more ideal than both halves of a couple getting just what they want? But if an eroticized power imbalance – an honest one – doesn’t turn you on, the creepily manipulative arrangement your husband is proposing certainly isn’t going to work. Which means it’s both ultimatum and bluffcalling time. So long as your husband thinks he can dictate terms by pointing to his triggers and his trauma, GMHC, he has every incentive to continue being triggered and traumatized. So with your couples therapist there to mediate, tell him your marriage is either open or closed. You’re not interested in being his cuckold and he can’t point to his trauma to force you into that role. You’re a handsome couple – thanks for enclosing the lovely picture (sometimes it’s nice to see the face of the person I’m responding to!) – with a long history together, and here’s hoping things work out. But if they don’t, GMHC, neither of you is going to have a problem finding a new partner. He can get himself a guy who likes being dictated to, if that’s really what he wants. And you can find a guy who wants an open and egalitarian relationship, which is what you deserve. P.S. If your therapist is taking your husband’s side in this, GMHC, get a new therapist. On the Lovecast, piss play! With the hosts of “American Sex Podcast”: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net ITMFA.org

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Legal, Public Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION CASE NO.B16-0023- DP IN THE INTEREST OF: A. H. DOB: 04/28/2013 SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AND GUARDIANSHIP, STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Jennifer Nelson (AKA Nikki or Nicole) 207 Stevenage Drive, Longwood, FL 32779 A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this Court regarding the above referenced child. You are to appear before Kenneth R. Lester, Jr., Circuit Judge, on the 29th day of May, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. at the Seminole Juvenile Justice Center, 190 Eslinger Way, Sanford, FL 32773, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. The mother/father are hereby advised, pursuant to §39.802(4)(d) and §63.082(6) (g), Florida Statutes, that a parent whose rights have not yet been terminated has the right to seek a private adoptive placement for the child, and to participate in a private adoption plan, through an adoption entity as defined in 63.032(3), Florida Statutes. As required by §63.165, Florida Statutes, the State further gives notice of the existence and purpose of a state registry of adoption information. The purpose of the Florida Adoption Reunion Registry is to reunite persons separated by adoption where both parties seek such reunion. Persons affected by an adoption may list themselves and their contact information on the registry. Registration is completely voluntary. Additional information is available at http://adopt orida.com/ Reunion-Registry.htm. Contact information for the registry is as follows: Florida Adoption Reunion Registry, Florida Department of Children and Families, 1317 Winewood Blvd., Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0700. Pleadings shall be copied to: Marissa Maxwell, Esquire, State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, Children’s Legal Services, 2921 S. Orlando Drive, Ste. 150, Sanford, FL 322773 (407-328- 5656). Witness my hand and seal of this

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court at Sanford, Seminole County Florida on this 6th day of April, 2018. Grant Maloy, Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller BY: /s/ Deputy Clerk, Court Seal. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ALACHUA COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.:01-2015- DR-649 DIVISION: AD IN THE MATTER OF THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AND PROPOSED ADOPTION OF: C. M. R. (M) DOB: 09/25/2003, MINOR CHILD. NOTICE OF PETITION AND HEARING TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS PENDING ADOPTION, THE STATE OF FLORIDA TO: DONRELL CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS, 43 years old, African merican tall with lac hair and weight un nown. ddress un nown. ou are here y notified that a petition under oath has een filed in the a ove-styled court or the termination o your parental rights to C. M. R. a male child orn revard County Florida on 09-25- 2003, and or su se uent adoption. ou are here y commanded to e present and personally appear or a inal Hearing on the rd mended etition or Termination o arental Rights and or ermanent Commitment or Su se uent doption e ore the Honora le Ro ert . roe a udge o the Circuit Court in Cham ers Room amily Civil ustice Center lachua County Courthouse East niversity venue ainesville Florida, 32601 on WEDNESD the th D O E 2018 AT 9:00 A.M, or as soon therea ter that counsel may e heard. DER SECT O . FLORIDA STATUTES, FAILURE TO TIMELY FILE A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO THIS NOTICE AND THE PETITION WITH THE COURT AND TO APPEAR AT THIS HEARING CONSTITUTES GROUNDS UPON WHICH THE COURT SHALL END ANY PARENTAL RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE OR ASSERT REGARDING THE MINOR CHILD. YOU ARE ENTITLED TO HAVE AN ATTORNEY PRESENT TO REPRESENT YOU IN THIS MATTER. IF YOU WANT AN ATTORNEY BUT ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD ONE YOU MUST NOTIFY THE COURT AND THE COURT WILL APPOINT AN ATTORNEY TO REPRESENT O . nder the mericans with Disa ilities ct i you are a person with a disa ility who needs any accommodation in order to participate in a proceeding you are entitled to e provided with certain assistance at no cost to you. lease contact the D Coordinator East niversity venue Room ainesville lorida at at least

days e ore your scheduled court appearance or immediately upon receiving this notification i the time e ore the schedule appearance is less than days i you are hearing impaired please call . you are dea or hard o hearing and re uire an S interpreter or an assisted listening devise to participate in a proceeding please contact Court nterpreting at interpreter circuit .org. This notice shall e pu lished once a wee or our consecutive wee s in The Orlando ee ly newspaper at Orlando lorida. T ESS my hand as the cler o said Court and the Seal there ore this th day o M RCH . . . ess r y Cler o Circuit Court s Deputy Cler . O CE O ADRIANE M. ISENBERG, P.A., driane M. sen erg Es uire ainesville lorida hone acsimile: (352) 331-4996, Florida ar o. aisen erg isen erglaw.com legalassistant isen erglaw.com ttorney or ermanent uardian. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA E ED SO CASE NO.: DP09-447 IN THE INTEREST OF: J.P. DOB: 05/08/2009 MINOR CHILD. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING, STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Nery Perez-Jimenez Address Unknown A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above referenced child(ren), a copy of which is attached. You are to appear on June 19, 2018 at 9:15 a.m. before the Honorable Judge Daniel P. Dawson, Judge of the Court, at Juvenile Justice Center at 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806 on for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THESE CHILD(REN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD(REN) NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. Witness my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County Florida on this 10th day of April, 2018. This summons has been issued at the request of: Jennifer Shepard, Esquire FBN: 93027, Attorney for the State of Florida, Children’s

Legal Services, jennifer.shepard my families. com. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, By: /s/ Deputy Clerk, (Court Seal). IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 03/Shea/Westgate CASE NO.: DP16-513 In the Interest of: D. A., DOB: 06/20/2010, A. G., DOB: 04/10/2015, D.J., DOB: 07/08/2011, female children. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Alberto Green, Address Unknown, WHEREAS a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child(ren), a copy of which is attached. You are hereby commanded to appear before Judge Timothy R. Shea, on 8th day of May, 2018 at 9:300 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD(REN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD(REN) NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes. WITNESS my hand and seal of this court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 3rd day of April, 2018. This summons has been issued at the request of: Layali Salem, Esq., Florida Bar 0111746, Children’s Legal Services, State of Florida, 882 S. Kirkman Road, Suite 200, Orlando, Florida 32811, (407) 563-2380, Layali.salem my families.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal). IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 03/Shea/Westgate CASE NO.: DP17-157 In the Interest of: R. B., a female child, DOB: 03/09/2017 SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Tiara Banda, Address Unknown, WHEREAS a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights un-

der oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child(ren). You are hereby commanded to appear before Judge Timothy R. Shea, on the 5th day of June, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD(REN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD(REN) NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes. WITNESS my hand and seal of this court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 11th day of April, 2018. This summons has been issued at the request of: Layali Salem, Esq., Florida Bar 0111746, Children’s Legal Services, State of Florida, 882 S. Kirkman Road, Suite 200, Orlando, Florida 32811, (407) 563-2380, Layali.salem my families.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal). IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION: 03 CASE NO.: DP15-441 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILDREN: D.M. DOB: 02/07/2015, E. F. DOB: 02/19/2014 SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA To: Devins Morgan, Address Unknown A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before Judge Timothy Shea on June 4, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED

TO THIS NOTICE. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 10th day of April, 2018. This summon has been issued at the request of: Nancy A. Robak, Florida Bar No.: 88796, Senior Attorney for Florida Department of Children and Family. nancy. robak my families.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT BY:/S/ DEPUTY CLERK (court seal). IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION: 03 CASE NO.: DP14-511 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILDREN: H.S., DOB: 07/07/2005 SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA To: Liz Sanchez Garriga, Address Unknown A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before Judge Timothy Shea on July 2, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 10th day of April, 2018. This summon has been issued at the request of: Brittany Nesmith, Esquire, Florida Bar No.: 109542, Senior Attorney for Florida Department of Children and Family. Brittany.nesmith my families. com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT BY:/S/ DEPUTY CLERK (court seal). NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Personal property of the following tenants will be sold for cash to satisfy rental liens in accordance with Florida Statutes, Self Storage Facility Act, Sections 83-806 and 83-807. Contents may include kitchen, household items, bedding, toys, games, boxes, barrels, packed cartons, furniture, trucks, cars, etc. There is no title for vehicles sold at lien sale. Vehicles sold “as is” and for parts only.

Owners reserve the right to bid on units. Lien sale to be held online ending Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at times indicated below. Viewing and bidding will only be available online at www.storagetreasures. com beginning 5 days prior to the scheduled sale date and time! Also visit www.personalministorage. com/ Orlando-FL-storage-units/ for more info. PERSONAL MINI STORAGE FORSYTH - 2875 FORSYTH RD. WINTER PARK, FL 32792 - AT 10:00AM: #241-Alberto Centeno Rivera,1997 Trailer Vin# NOVIN0201134221,1999 Vessel, Vin# KAW13807L899; #246-James Robert Hooper II MICHIGAN MINI STORAGE - 200 W. MICHIGAN ST ORLANDO, FL 32806 - AT 10:30AM: #46- Tavish Williams; #78-Darrelyn Bryant; #81-Drew Greenwald; #123-Scott Zubarik; #132-Scott Zubarik; #177-Guadalupe Burgos Camacho; #186-Michael Madden PERSONAL MINI STORAGE LAKE FAIRVIEW - 4252 N ORANGE BLOSSOM TR. ORLANDO FL 32804 - AT 11:00AM: #154-Samuel, Grey; #155- Swarthout, David Roy; #819-Monegan, Lirena Renee; #859-Tucker, Collenn Martha; #996-Hall, Margaret Jean PERSONAL MINI STORAGE WEST - 4600 OLD WINTER GARDEN RD. ORLANDO FL 32811 AT 11:30AM: #83-Darla Marie Williamson; #114- Fabienne Bruno; #114-Wangue Decembre; #168- Kamala Ellison; #206-Georgie Mae Carnegie; #218- Isaac James Carnegie; #240-Corey Lamar Stephens; #246-Luiz Jose Antonio Filho; #259- Michael Andrew Edge; #322-Esquire Investment Properties, LLC; #322-Arsalan Baig; #362-Flora Mateo Gonzalez; #373-Jennifer Denise Hair; #390-Georgie Mae Carnegie; #418-Charles Stone; #424-Chaketha Denise Kaeton; #486-Shantella Hunt; #487-Newton Beckett; #508-Nettie Sherese Smith; #618-Tyrone Fields; #623-Carl Lee Woods; #631-Bredrick Antonio Golston; #639- Malik Evans. NOTICE OF SALE The following vehicles will be sold at Public Auction for cash to satisfy lien pursuant to F.S. 713.78 on May 15th, 2018 at 9:00 am at Dynamic Towing, 6408 Old Cheney Hwy., Orlando, FL. (407) 273-5880 2008 TOYT JTKDE167180268816 2007 TOYT 2T1KR32E37C648361 2016 HD 1HD1KTM14GB682610 2008 MERZ WDDGF54X78F064665 2006 CHRY 2A4GM68486R602201 2012 HOND 1HGCP3F75CA004608.

NOTICE OF SALE Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale: 2004 Honda VIN# 2HGES16324H638163 1995 Ford VIN# 1FTCR14XXSTA40863 2002 Honda VIN# JH2PC35072M306809 1996 BMW VIN# WBACD4325TAV44155 2007 Chevy VIN# 1G1AK15F977221284 2008 Pontiac VIN# 1G2ZG57B684180794 2006 Mercedes VIN# WDDDJ75X06A068210 1996 Jeep VIN# 1J4EZ58S8TC101119 1996 Chrysler VIN# 1B4GP44R1TB320539 2005 Volvo VIN# YV1CZ852451207353 To be sold at auction at 8:00 a.m. on May 9, 2018 at 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC NOTICE OF SALE Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale: 1N6AA06A66N536171 2006 NISS 1N4AL3AP2FN329129 2015 Nissan To be sold at auction at 8:00 a.m. on May 5, 2018, 238 N Cottage Hill Road, Orlando, FL 32805 All Auto Towing, INC. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Laurie J Samulonis Bowers, of 100 W Grant St. #2072 Orlando FL, 32806, pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, is hereby advertising the following fictitious name: Modern Float It is the intent of the undersigned to register “Modern Float” with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Dated: 4/20/18

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Legal, Public Notices NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Mindful Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the following times and locations: May 15th, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. at the Mindful Storage facility located at: 900 Cypress Pkwy. Kissimmee, Fl. 34759 (321) 732-6032 The personal goods stored therein by the following:#1161- Households, #2086-Furniture, #2088-Households, #2089-Households, #2091Households, #2100-Furniture, #2104-Furniture, #2117-Furniture, #2127-Furniture, #C104- Households, #C137-Furniture, #D220Households, #E212-Households, #E215- Furniture, #G201- Households, #G221-Households, #I217-Furniture. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Mindful Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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