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MUSIC 37 Take me somewhere

Tennis intertwines life, art and love into seamless indie pop perfection

11 Pulse: In Memoriam

23 Glimmer of hope

A profile of Pulse Nightclub shooting victim Geraldo A. Ortiz Jimenez

Firefly’s got the atmo, but the menu of burgers, flatbreads and Southern-inspired fare needs work

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11 This Modern World 11 ICYMI

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39 Time to let go

News you need to know but may have missed in the past week

13 Informed Dissent One hundred days of Donald Trump – and the resistance that’s beating him

15 Florida is burning More than 100 wildfires have scorched our ‘abnormally dry’ state, and it could get worse

Kappo makes a comeback with the opening of Kadence – and doubles down on limited-seating exclusivity, Polonia Polish Restaurant closes – though your pierogi dreams aren’t quite shattered, plus more in our weekly food roundup

26 Bar Exam Little Fish Huge Pond reels ’em in to Sanford’s quirkiest little dive bar

Great live music rattles Orlando every night Gainesville’s Time headline the Femme Hop showcase of new faces, sounds and perspectives in dance and hip-hop music

41 This Little Underground Notes from FMF, Diet Cig’s strong case for most incandescent band alive, El Diáspora a new local conduit for Latin punk

31 Recently Reviewed Short takes on restaurants we’ve reviewed recently

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IN MEMORIAM: THE ORLANDO 49 Every week between now and the one-year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shootings, Orlando Weekly will profile a person killed on June 12, 2016. This week: Geraldo A. Ortiz Jimenez. Just hours before heading out to the gay nightclub Pulse, Geraldo Ortiz Jimenez was hitting the gym. An avid gym rat, Ortiz, known as “Drake” to his friends, wouldn’t even let up on his workout routine while he was on vacation. Just after seeing him, his friends would later learn on social media that Ortiz Jimenez and 48 others had been killed during a mass shooting at Pulse on June 12. “You’ll be missed at the gym here in PR [Puerto Rico],” his friend Wil Iglesias wrote on Facebook. The 25-year-old was visiting Orlando to see a Selena Gomez concert at the Amway Center, something he posted about for months on Facebook. Originally from the Dominican Republic and currently a college student studying law at the Universidad del Este in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Ortiz made the trip specifically to see his favorite singer. A self-proclaimed “Selenator,” he often

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posted videos singing along to Gomez’s music on his social media accounts. That weekend, while in Orlando, he posted a picture to his Instagram account as he posed with the singer’s wax figure while visiting Madame Tussauds. “With the love of my life,” Ortiz wrote in Spanish, pretending to give the singer a kiss on the cheek. Tiffany Ortiz, his niece, told the New York Times he had talked about the Orlando show nonstop since he bought the tickets a few months beforehand. “He loved her, he absolutely loved her,” she said. She said her uncle was a very sweet guy, a sentiment many friends echoed on his social media accounts, calling Ortiz a brother, a sweetheart and a great human being. “He always made everyone laugh and he was very kind of everyone,” Tiffany Ortiz told the Times. Ortiz seemed to take the lyrics from one of his favorite Gomez songs, “Kill ’Em With Kindness,” to heart. Just a few weeks before his trip to Orlando he posted a video on his Instagram account which showed him feeding an abandoned, crying kitten. “This kitten broke my heart,” he wrote, describing how he shared his own meal with the stray. – Deanna Ferrante

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Someone mailed a noose to Aramis Ayala, a Miami senator resigns after a tirade, widespread support for science and other things you may have missed this week. »

Sheriff’s Office investigates noose mailed to Ayala:

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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a noose mailed to the office of Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala after she announced she wouldn’t pursue the death penalty under her administration. Shortly after her announcement in March, state attorney’s office employees opened an envelope addressed to Ayala that contained an index card with a noose made of green twine taped to the card. Ayala, who is the first African-American to be elected state attorney in Florida, has received other lynching threats, including one from a Seminole County Clerk of the Court who posted on Facebook that Ayala should “get the death penalty” and be “tarred and feathered if not hung from a tree.” Artiles, R-Miami, resigned after charges that he violated Senate conduct rules when he berated Sen. Audrey Gibson, a black Democrat from Jacksonville, last week at a Tallahassee bar, calling her “girl” and “bitch.” Artiles also referred to other Republican senators as “niggas.” Artiles seemed ready to fight the charges until a story from the Miami Herald revealed Artiles’ political committee hired a former Hooters “calendar girl” and a Playboy model as paid political consultants. The two women reportedly have no experience, but did go on at least one fishing trip in Key West, where one of them posted on Instagram, “Caught 12 dolphins and got so excited that I threw up ... Jk I was just drunk. #ThanksFrank.” Hundreds of people in Orlando joined more than 600 cities across the world on Earth Day in the March for Science, a movement dedicated to defending science in a time when many feel basic facts are under attack. The thousands of scientists and supporters who gathered on April 22 say President Donald Trump’s policies, rollback of environmental regulations and budget cuts would threaten work on important issues, such as climate change. Trump, who once tweeted that climate change was a hoax, said in a statement Saturday, “We should remember that rigorous science depends not on ideology, but on a spirit of honest inquiry and robust debate.”

No bear hunts will happen in Florida for at least two years after the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission agreed public support was not as high for another hunt. In 2015, hunters killed 304 bears during a controversial hunt that ended after just two days. mcordeiro@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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100 DAYS OF DONALD TRUMP And the resistance that’s beating him Saturday marks the hundred-

day point for President Donald Trump. It’s an arbitrary demarcation, to be sure – though one the Trump campaign embraced in a hundred-day “contract” with the American voter – but this is the period in which presidents tend to be their most popular and their administrations most active. As such, they’re a good window into how effective a presidency will be. Trump’s first hundred days, by any objective measure, has been unequivocally disastrous. Ignore the polling (40 percent approval in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the lowest ever recorded in that poll’s 100-day mark and about 20 points lower than Barack Obama was in 2009). Ignore, too, the growing Russia scandal from which the administration has been unable to escape: the lies that cost National Security Adviser Michael Flynn his job, the FBI and congressional investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Putin’s government. Even ignore the racists, white nationalists and unqualified hacks installed into the highest levels of government, not to mention the avalanche of conflicts of interests that surround the president everywhere he goes and the narcissistic Twitter tantrums sparked by even the slightest criticism. What has he accomplished? In short, he put a guy on the Supreme Court. No small accomplishment, but that had less to do with Donald Trump than with Mitch McConnell’s ruthlessness, first in refus-

ing to so much as hold a hearing for must reach a budget resolution or the govPresident Obama’s nominee last year, then ernment will shut down. Trump is insisting in eliminating the filibuster after Trump’s that his foremost campaign promise – the nominee failed to secure 60 votes. He idiotic border wall, which is opposed by launched some missiles at a Syrian airbase all border-region Republicans – be funded and raised hostility with a nuclear-armed as part of that agreement, or else he’ll North Korea. He’s also signed 28 bills cut off funding for Obamacare subsidies, into law, about half of which reversed creating a health insurance death spiral. Obama-era policies on things like the Democrats, of course, won’t go for it, and environment; most of the others were because spending votes are subject to housekeeping. None were major pieces of the filibuster, Trump needs Democratic votes. Democrats legislation. know that. And His biggest initiawhether or not tives thus far have The petty man-child Trump’s savvy both been spectacuenough to reallar failures: the first, on the campaign trail is ize it – clearly his two efforts to the petty man-child in the fact that restrict travel to the the Oval Office, just as it’s unethical to U.S. from majoritydangerous, thin-skinned threaten to make Muslim countries, and ignorant. millions of peowas struck down by ple materially the federal courts worse off just as unconstitutional. to gain leverage The second, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, never occurred to him – if the health care was an abysmal malpractice of policy and market implodes on his watch, he’ll be politics, crafted hastily despite the fact blamed. Democrats know that, too. So the first hundred days has been that Republicans have theoretically been working on it for seven years. It crashed something of a mess. Of course, the 1,361 and burned after the Congressional days remaining in the first term is plenty Budget Office found that it would kick 24 of time in which to wreak havoc – to million people off health care rolls while stumble into a catastrophic war or kickgiving rich people a fat tax cut. There’s start a depression. Presidencies are just as been talk of reviving it, but right now that often defined by what happens to them as what they set out to do, by events beyond seems unlikely. Trump has some bigger immediate their control as their own initiatives, and issues to address. This week, Congress Trump’s will be no exception. But what orlandoweekly.com

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seems clear from this first leg is that there is no new Trump, no grown-up Trump. The petty man-child on the campaign trail is the petty man-child in the Oval Office, just as dangerous and thin-skinned and ignorant and uncurious and mercurial, surrounded by too many mediocrities and incompetents. It won’t get better. It will only deteriorate, become more unstable; the best case is that Trump limps along and manages to be utterly feckless, somehow steering clear of catastrophe until after the 2018 midterms, when an angry opposition dismantles unified GOP control of D.C. and puts a check on Trump’s power. There’s a lot of work between now and then. But the good news is the seeds of that victory have already been planted. You see them in the recent special elections in Kansas and Georgia, which revealed an energized progressive base that nearly stole two very red congressional seats. You see them in last weekend’s March for Science or in the massive Women’s March or in the countless other protests and rallies that have taken place all over the country. You see it in recordsmashing donations to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the swell of angry phone calls to members of Congress who want to dismantle Obamacare. The resistance is winning. But only if we keep fighting. @jeffreybillman on Twitter feedback@orlandoweekly.com

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A brushfire burns near Highway 50 outside Titusville, March 15

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More than 100 wildfires have scorched our ‘abnormally dry’ state, and it could get worse BY MON IVETTE COR D EI R O

he small brush fire had only spread through 10 acres near the border of Chuluota and Oviedo when Robert Yarborough got to the scene. The firefighter called in the blaze around 1:45 p.m. on April 8 and started working with a small crew from the Florida Forest Service and two tractor-plow units to contain it. Quickly, they realized they were outnumbered. Within two hours, the brush fire had been whipped by the winds into a towering frenzy of flames and smoke that ran through 165 acres. More than a hundred people were evacuated from nearby Girl Scouts Camp Mah-Kah-Wee before it was

charred to the ground. A lake slowed the inferno, but the breeze gave it strength to plow through in a scorching path toward homes in the Live Oak Reserve community. Yarborough and his crew had been joined by 150 firefighters, three helicopters, eight bulldozers and six engines to stand between the fire and further destruction. “It was very extreme,” Yarborough says. “Nobody ever got put in any danger fighting it, but it was very nerve-racking. At that point, you just fall back on your training and hope everything works out.” After working into the night, firefighters managed to stop the fire from burning down any houses, though it did get close – the flames licked trees and bushes that were inches from backyards into a blackened crisp. Last week, Yarborough and a small crew were hosing down the final hot spots that remained behind homes to prevent a sec-

ond fire. With ashes on his face, he looked up for a second and wondered aloud if the rain would come that day. State officials have been pondering the same question as Florida’s drought conditions continue to worsen, creating the dry ground needed to kindle small blazes into fiery rampages. Several fires have hit Central Florida already, including an aggressive 475-acre brush fire near International Drive and Daryl Carter Parkway that spread smoke along Interstate 4. Last Monday, a fire covering more than 7,000 acres in Naples was just 50 percent contained. In Orange County, less than an inch of rain has fallen in the past month and a half, and its surrounding counties are only slightly better. This has prompted a burn ban for Orange, Seminole, Osceola and 14 other counties. The South Florida Water Management District has since issued a water-shortage orlandoweekly.com

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warning for the 8 million residents living in its 16-county jurisdiction, which stretches from south Orlando to Key West. Earlier in April, Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency after a rash of wildfires and the potential for more. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam said at a news conference in Tallahassee last week that this is the most active fire season Florida has seen since 2011, with firefighters battling 106 active wildfires covering 124,000 acres. And all this is before Florida’s fire season peaks in late April, May and June. Officials say people should expect more fires and further water restrictions as the state waits for relief via summer rains. While most people agree the drought is a recurring weather pattern, some climate experts and environmentalists have gone even further, saying warmer temperatures could intensify Florida’s drought into something more dangerous. “A year ago, we were having record rainfall, we had flooding issues, discharge issues – much of the state was dealing with the issue and the problems surrounding too much water,” Putnam said. “And 365 days later, we find ourselves dealing with the problems of not enough water and drought. … Extremes beget extremes.”

ust how bad is Florida’s drought? It’s not bad enough that the governor has asked people to pray for rain. Back in July 1998, the dry season was so nightmarish it was described as “Florida’s hellfire.” Thousands of fires burned across the state, scorching more than 450,000 acres. Flagler County’s 35,000 residents were all forced to evacuate. In a desperate moment, Gov. Lawton Chiles even banned fireworks and asked Floridians to “join me and pray for rain.” Florida’s current drought has not reached that level. Not yet, anyway. The U.S. Drought Monitor shows that parts of Central and Southwest Florida have intensified to a severe drought this month, with surrounding areas having a moderate drought. Chris Fenimore, with the National Centers for Environmental Information, wrote the latest report for Florida and says more places in Northeast Florida and the Panhandle are showing signs of being “abnormally dry.” “We’re talking about 50 percent or less than normal precipitation,” he says. “Typically with a severe drought, you can expect water restrictions and shortages, fires, and damaged crops and pastures.” Fenimore says severe droughts like the one in Central Florida usually happen once every 10 years. “We certainly can expect more intense drought episodes as we’re entering a warm-

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er world,” he says. “You’ll also probably see more intense flooding and downpour as the climate changes.” The last rainfall to really hit Florida was in October, when Hurricane Matthew ripped through the state’s east coast, says David Zierden, a professor at Florida State University who is also the state’s climatologist. This past fall and into early winter, Zierden says, weak conditions from the La Niña climate pattern, which makes the Pacific Ocean cooler and Southern states drier, set the stage for Florida’s drier winter. Lake Okeechobee, which had an overflow problem last year after a wet summer, has now dropped its water level below the minimum range. “We’re having a very active wildfire season, which is certainly concerning,” he says. “But June will be the recovery month with afternoon showers. It should be a shortterm thing if the summer rainy season is as good as usual. If the summer doesn’t produce and we go through a normal dry season again next winter, that’s when the problems will start to compound.” Water districts across the state are encouraging Floridians to use their water wisely. Bill Graf, spokesperson for the SFWMD, says that for now, residents should observe the twice-a-week watering restriction. If people don’t voluntarily use less water, more restrictions could go

into place and officials could impose penalties. “When it’s raining, there’s less attention paid to it, but with this drought seemingly getting more entrenched, we want to encourage enforcement of those rules,” he says. The majority of the state’s water comes from the underground Floridan aquifer. Graf says if the drought continues to intensify, the district can look at users with consumptive water permits and cut the allocation of what they’re receiving. This can include golf courses, agricultural and nursery farms, mining activities and commercial users who pull water from the aquifer or other bodies of water. While the drought is serious, Graf says, it probably won’t severely affect the aquifer if people conserve water. Currently, the areas of Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole and Lake counties pump about 800 million gallons from the aquifer a day, a figure that remained relatively flat for almost two decades as more residents moved to Central Florida. Back in 2014, the Central Florida Water Initiative said Orlando was using as much water as it safely could from the aquifer, but the groundwater withdrawals were reaching the limits of sustainability. “The Floridan aquifer is sustainable right now to pump about 850 millions of gallons a day, not more,” Graf says. “With any real expansion of water use, we’re going to have to rely on alternative service.”

The aftermath of a fire in Oviedo shows how close it came to this house

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Residents should also be careful about accidentally starting fires, says Sean Gallagher, manager of the Orlando district for the Florida Forest Service. Don’t throw cigarettes on the ground or dump the contents of your barbecue grill in the backyard. While that might usually produce no reaction, in this drought, it could start a fire. If you get pulled over or have to change a tire on a grassy roadside, turn off your car – the heat could provoke flames if it comes into contact with dry vegetation, Gallagher says. Certain areas, like homes surrounded by trees, can be more at risk because it’s harder for firefighters to get through wooded areas when there’s a fire. “The drought is not going to necessarily cause more fires, but it does make it difficult to control,” Gallagher says. “You still need something or someone to start a fire. It’s not going to start by itself.”

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lorida’s droughts appear to be cyclical, but climate experts and environmental advocates say warming temperatures may exacerbate the consequences. Droughts are part of the state’s normal climate pattern and have happened every five to six years for decades, says Leonard Berry, a Florida Atlantic University professor who doubles as the director of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies. But due to climate change, Florida is having more intense rainstorms and longer periods without rain in warmer winters. Berry says a similar phenomenon is happening to the hurricanes that may come toward Florida. The number of hurricanes is not increasing, but we can expect the few hurricanes that hit the state will be more

intense because of higher water temperatures. Hurricane Matthew smacked into the Caribbean and east coast of the U.S. last year, directly killing 585 people, including some in Florida. Eric Rollings, chair of the Orange County Soil and Water Conservation District, agrees. In recent months, he’s seen local lake levels drop dramatically. He lived in Orlando during the 1998 fires, and this drought reminds him of when “it seemed like the whole state was going to burn.” “Hopefully, it’s not to that extent, but the thing is that when we don’t have rainfall, consumptive use permits are draining more out of the aquifer, and you have warmer months, it’s a recipe for brush fires,” he says. “People are going to start using a lot more water, and we have to ask, are we going to see sinkholes after a month or two?” Climate change may not be responsible for the drought itself, but Rollings says it is responsible for the severity. “I mean, look at all the different weather patterns,” he says. “These hurricanes coming through are huge. It’s like everything is on steroids.” Rollings thinks people in Orlando may not know the area is in a severe drought, so he wants to get the word out. “Don’t wait for an authoritative body to tell you can’t do something to protect your quality of life,” he says. “Every day we need to work together and conserve our water and resources. [We] have 20 million residents and 100 million visitors every year, so we’ve got to protect that – when it’s not there and the rules become more restrictive, you’re going to notice.” mcordeiro@orlandoweekly.com

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‘YOU BELONG HERE’ A look at Orlando artist Jessica Earley’s protest paste-ups BY L EAH SA N DLER

ith proposed budgets eliminating funding pastes are directly in response to some of Trump’s to arts-supporting organizations such as the most egregious statements and executive orders, National Endowment for the Arts and National Earley’s recognizable hand-lettered text providing Endowment for the Humanities, and executive orders counter-statements to Trump’s vitriol with words of on immigration limiting free travel across our borders love and acceptance. The most visible of these is a large banner pasted (affecting many international artists), Donald Trump has made political enemies of many in the creative class. His over a faded Andrew Spear mural on Mills Avenue (in inauguration in January ushered in a heightened energy front of the perpetually “soon to be open” Tako Cheena among grass-roots progressive movements, evidenced by Express), which reads “Jesus wouldn’t build a wall.” Two phenomena such as pink “pussyhats,” satirical takes on doves holding olive branches alight atop the banner, carthe “Make America Great Again” slogan, and elaborately rying its message to passing motorists and pedestrians. choreographed performances, signs and sculptures created Another, more sparsely designed poster asserts, “HE IS THE ENEMY NOT BECAUSE HE IS ORANGE BUT for protests. Here in Orlando, our arts community is responding and BECAUSE HE FEASTS ON DREAMS.” A third paste-up depicts a woman wearing a hijab, rendered resisting, invigorated by politically charged in delicate watercolor, with Earley’s handdialogues within and outside of the art lettered text simply stating, “You belong world. ORLANDO here.” Jessica Earley is known in Orlando’s art ARTISTS RESIST! With these gestures, Earley reclaims pubcommunity for her sincere, vulnerable and In Trump’s America, lic space with simple and powerful political often humorous embroideries, ink drawcreating art is discourse, providing a respite from the corings and watercolor portraits, as well as her a political act porate branding and advertisements often raw and emotional forays into performance paraded as street art to Orlando locals. art. Since November’s election, Earley has Functioning simultaneously as signifiers of directed her artistic energies into a guerrilla wheat-pasting project, informed by street art and public protest and nuanced works of art with poetic sensibility, intervention, contributing gestures of kindness and poetic Earley’s paste-ups make a significant contribution to the resistance to the Orlando streetscape. Many of these wheat material culture of resistance to the continued violence

perpetrated by those currently in power. With mainstream media outlets inundating our collective imaginary with the xenophobic and fascist sentiments espoused by Donald Trump, it is necessary to claim space within the public sphere to assert opposing viewpoints. Many of the spaces we consider common or shared (historically centers of discussion and the “free market” of ideas) have been robbed of their political potency and transformed into a free market of numb consumption and advertisement, decommissioning political bodies into neutralized ones. Earley’s project of guerrilla resistance gently subverts the corporate ooze into our public space, and reminds us of the emotional and political imperatives to resist.

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since Celebration VII ended at the Orange County Convention Center, which is barely been enough time to recover from the biggest Star Wars convention Orlando has ever seen. In over two decades of attending major events at OCCC, including countless Megacons and IAAPAs, I’ve never experienced anything close to the insanity of 2017’s Star Wars Celebration Orlando, which supposedly sold more than 50,000 tickets. Fans from around the world started camping out for coveted panel wristbands a day before the event was scheduled to start, and the queuing throngs were impressively peaceful considering the rampant disorganization demonstrated by convention organizers ReedPOP. After a full day of being misdirected by ill-informed Celebration representatives, I learned that I could get a far better view of the all-important discussion panels by staying home and watching live YouTube streams from my couch. Even so, there was something undeniably inspiring about standing shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds of fellow Star Wars fanatics as George Lucas, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford appeared on stage together … even if we were just watching a Jumbotron simulcast hundreds of yards outside the actual hall. Aside from literally bumping into Ian “Emperor Palpatine” McDiarmid as he strolled to an autograph session, my only close encounters with famous characters came courtesy of the cosplaying attendees.

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As usual, the fan-made costumes – ranging from screen-accurate likenesses of Sith and Jedi to a bling-encrusted Crystal Stormtrooper, and clever crossovers like “Garth Vader,” wandering the halls searching for “Obi Wayne Kenobi” – were the highlight of the con. With each successive Celebration I’ve attended, the massive main show floor has become increasingly overrun with slick marketing displays pushing the latest lines of officially licensed Star Wars products, such as Hasbro’s new “Forces of Destiny” female-focused action

In two decades of cons, I’ve never experienced anything close to the insanity of 2017’s Star Wars Celebration Orlando. figures (which are sadly still proportioned more like fashion models than the actual actresses, despite the pro-woman advertising). But it’s the less corporate components – like mom-and-pop vendors trading in vintage lunchboxes and board games from my youth, or a collection of customized cars inspired by characters like BB-8 and Darth Vader – that keep sci-fi fan conventions worth coming to, if only to admire the labors of love that these movies motivate fans to undertake.

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Trying to see any of Star Wars Celebration’s headliner events in person, such as the debut of the new teaser trailer for Episode VIII or Hamill’s touching tribute to Carrie Fisher, was an exercise in frustration if you weren’t willing to wait in line overnight. The one panel I did squeeze into – a Q&A with a laconic Billy Dee Williams – was notable mostly for Warwick Davis’ exuberant emceeing, while others I followed online offered scant solid details about upcoming Star Wars adventures. But there was one Celebration session that actually lived up to expectations, unveiling previously unknown information about the Star Wars attractions currently under construction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Celebration’s Disney Parks-produced discussion panel, which featured Imagineering’s Scott Trowbridge alongside Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo and Doug Chiang, provided our most detailed preview yet of the new lands opening in 2019 at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.

While the name of the location guests will visit is still a secret, it was confirmed that the new area represents a previously unseen planet on the galaxy’s Outer Rim, and is set in the post-Endor era of the Resistance and First Order. As previously rumored, we know that the land’s headliner rides will be a Millennium Falcon simulator, which will give each guest a job in crewing the iconic craft, and an indoor thrill ride through a battle featuring lifesized AT-AT walkers.

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What was new, and potentially gamechanging, was the suggestion that the entire Star Wars area will be interactive to an unprecedented degree. Details are currently fuzzier than a Wookiee’s chin, but Disney implies that every action guests take will impact their reputation and influence how the aliens and droids autonomously roaming the region react to them. Bang up the bird during your flight on the Falcon, and characters elsewhere will remember it later. Essentially, the entire Star Wars section of the park will resemble an immersive live action role-playing game where secret missions and Force-fueled stunts fill the streets, instead of being restricted to inside show buildings; watch the alleyways and rooftops for in-your-face fisticuffs between Stormtroopers and the citizens. How Mickey will manage the sure-tobe-overwhelming demand for such an experience, and what kind of expensive upcharges may be involved, remain the million-dollar questions. Disney has even surveyed guests about a proposed boutique Star Wars hotel where the story will surround you while you sleep; if you have to ask “how much?,” you definitely won’t be able to afford it. However, if the Mouse can make this innovative concept fly (along with others, like their recent patent for laser-deflecting lightsabers), Disney could finally leapfrog Universal’s Wizarding World, making Potter’s magic wands look like outmoded pieces of plastic. skubersky@orlandoweekly.com

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Kadence, the new sushi joint from the trio behind the now-closed Kappo, will open this summer in Audubon Park. Instead of being a 20-seat restaurant split into two distinct sections as we reported last summer, it will seat just 9 people for sushi omakase when it opens. Plans still call for future seating in the back for Kappo-style omakase dinners. Kadence will also open for breakfast, serving Lineage coffee and fresh pastries by Jennifer Banagale.

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to the classic poutine ($8). McNeil, a Canadian, takes great pride in his poutine and, the few overcooked fries notwithstanding, I could certainly appreciate the dish’s dark, peppery gravy and Wisconsin cheese curds. Amoresano has Southern roots, which show in the chicken-fried chicken ($16) slathered in country Firefly’s got the atmo, but the menu of burgers, flatbreads gravy. The superbly succulent meat, as well and Southern-inspired fare needs work as the side of green beans, had us believing the kitchen has potential. But the ossified BY FAIYAZ KARA loaf of unseasoned mashed potatoes was beyond poorly executed. he engaged, personable and thing was amiss in the kitchen. Desserts, like the pecan pie ($6) and Thing is, the upside-down pineapple enthusiastic owner of a dining establishment that straddles the burger ($15) with brie and a sweet-spicy moonshine cake ($7), which are also availline between mediocre and third-rate can sauce wasn’t all that bad, but the same able as shooters ($2 and $3 respectively), pose a bit of a conundrum to the restaurant couldn’t be said of our server’s suggestions are recipes from Amoresano’s grandcritic. An owner’s pleasant disposition can – take the onion rings, for example, which mother, who lived in Georgia. We opted for the full portions of have a mollifying effect, and even arouse resembled fried catfish these Dixie delights and compassion and empathy in the surliest thanks to a thick, heavy enjoyed them with a of scribes (not that I’m surly). Before you batter that pretty much FIREFLY KITCHEN & BAR few brews (there are 128 know it, conciliatory notes have found their negated any flavor of 480 N. Orlando Ave., Winter Park from which to choose, way into passages intended to lambaste onion. The steak and 407-677-5000 as well as 48 wines) on and, frankly, that’s a good thing. Very few mushroom flatbread fireflywinterpark.com their patio. restaurants I’ve visited have ever deserved ($9), another server $$ On one particular a thorough undressing, but that’s not to say recommendation, just Tuesday night, $3 signaa little tough love couldn’t do a restaurant looked hastily plopped ture drafts were downed some good. It can and, with this week’s together with chunks of overdone filet sparsely drizzled with a as trivia went on and we found ourselves review, it’s my sincere hope that it does. Lisa Amoresano and Jeff McNeil took highly touted chimichurri. It really lacked having a bloody good time despite the food, over Taps in Winter Park Village a couple that freshness factor in both look and taste, which has to count for something. The of months back, gradually transforming the a condition that also plagued the trio of joint has the bones and atmosphere to be a space into Firefly Kitchen & Bar. They’re a brisket sliders ($14). The meat, dry and real Winter Park draw, but before that haplovely pair, to be sure, but when our equally stringy, just tasted off, and a couple of bites pens, Firefly’s kitchen needs to churn out affable server pointedly directed us to shy was all it took to relegate the plate to the dishes that are, well, lit. away from the burgers, we knew some- edges of our table as we turned our focus fkara@orlandoweekly.com

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OPENINGS Buda Libre, by Iron Chef contestant Roberto Treviño, will open in the Maddey’s Craft & Cru space on Church Street this summer. The restaurant will specialize in Latin-Asian fusion and will have a “great bar program” to go along with “attractive food with lots of ‘flash’” … M Lounge, the upscale rooftop bar in Ivanhoe Village, is aiming to open the second week of May … Culvers, known for their signature “ButterBurgers,” will open in Casselberry mid-May … Rock & Brews has opened in Lee Vista … Look for Habit Burger and Café Rio to open in the Whole Foods Plaza on 17-92 later this year … Olde Dixie Fried Chicken has purchased a food truck and plans to be up and running mid-June. CLOSINGS After 10 years in Longwood, Polonia Polish Restaurant has closed. Fear not, though: Many of Polonia’s dishes are now on the menu at Biscuits Restaurant next door … The Fresh Market in Altamonte Springs will shutter May 3 … On Park Avenue, Paris Bistro has closed; look for Laurel Latin to take its place. NEWS/EVENTS Celeb chef news: Rick Bayless will host a four-course dinner with drink pairings at Frontera Cocina Monday, May 8, at 6 p.m. Cost is $125 … Jonathon Sawyer of Cleveland’s Greenhouse Tavern cooks at Ravello Thursday, May 4, at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $150 … Plant Street Market celebrates its second anniversary with a “Sip, Shop, Celebrate” event from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 7 … Paddlefish executive chef Mark Boor hosts an interactive cooking class at Publix’s Aprons School in Dr. Phillips Thursday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $45 … Mark Victoria Day (May 22) on your calendars for Poutine Palooza Part Deux in K Restaurant’s backyard. Got restaurant dish? Send tips to dining@orlandoweekly.com

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TR Fire Grill With a sleek indoor dining area and a chilled-out outdoor patio, TR Fire Grill can match your mood no matter what you’re looking for. You can easily tell from the interior decor that no space is wasted at TR Fire Grill. The inside screams sophistication, but it definitely gets cozy in the Chef’s Corner—an intimate section where guests can learn from Chef Bob Gallagher. However, if you’re looking for a bright, bustling brunch, you might want to grab a table on the patio. Munching on brunch while overlooking the vast brick patio and fountains of the upscale Ravaudage is never a bad way to spend a Sunday. TR Fire Grill is also mere steps away from the brand new Nordstrom Rack and just down the street from Winter Park Village, making this locale perfect for brunch and shopping… or a movie (in a recliner), you know, if that brunch put you in a food coma. Mom and dad would love this spot for its sophisticated vibe, but the Endless Mimosas make the TR Fire Grill experience equally appealing for a booth full of

friends. It’s also dog-friendly on the patio, so even if you’re brunching alone, you can always opt to bring your best friend. Like many true brunch spots, TR Fire Grill doesn’t play games when it comes to boozy libations. They give brunch mainstays like the mimosa a shot of adrenaline with unique juice flavors such as Orange Mango and Honey Tangerine, or you can go with classic Orange Juice if that’s how you like it. For just a few dollars extra, you can kick things up a notch with Endless Mimosas. Of the three mimosa flavors, the Honey Tangerine rules supreme. Each sip is unmistakably sweet, but its smoothness is what keeps us coming back for more. Another shining star on the drink menu is the Pressed Sangria for 2, in which local fruits are immersed in amaretto and Malbec. To add just a little something extra to the experience, this smooth sangria comes in a French press accompanied by two glasses filled with ice. A good drink menu calls for an equally good food menu, and that’s exactly what you get here. TR Fire Grill has become

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a master of remixing and revolutionizing brunch classics like chicken and waffles. However, they also embrace the changing tides of brunch by including more diverse items like the Quinoa and Black Bean Burger, a vegetarianfriendly option with white American cheese, tomato jam, caramelized onions, greens, pickles and fries. But do yourself a solid and start things off with an order of Wonuts. Churro-lovers have a new addiction with the advent of these waffle/donut hybrids dipped in gooey chocolate. Whether you choose the Wonuts as a starter or a dessert, you can’t go wrong. Or, if we may be so bold, go with the Wonuts as an appetizer and dig into the Red Velvet Pancakes with sweet-as-can-be cream cheese frosting, bacon, seasonal fruit and maple syrup for dessert. TR Fire Grill also takes a tired old brunch item like eggs benedict and gives it a makeover with the Southwest Eggs Benedict. The bacon and black bean potato hash, roasted tomatoes, mashed avocado and jalapeño hollandaise on the Southwest Eggs Benedict provides a uniquely flavorful foundation for the perfectly poached eggs. If you roll on the more traditional side, go for the Classic Eggs

Chicken and Waffle Benedict which pairs poached eggs with Canadianstyle bacon, tomato and asparagus, roasted red peppers and jalapeño hollandaise on an English muffin. Also, for the localvores out there, TR Fire Grill, as a member of Fresh from Florida, gets all their eggs from Lake Meadow Naturals in Ocoee, Fla.

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The ½ Pound Sunday Morning Burger is an absolute must for any bruncher who claims to “go hard.” The fried egg, cheese, hash browns and tomato jam come together on this burger in a sublime symphony of mid-morning/ afternoon-goodness. If you’re feeling green around the gills from last night’s escapades, we recommend getting a double order of fries. We can’t stop thinking about how perfectly, deliciously seasoned they were and how we wish we had a mountain of them every time we’re hung-over. If the upscale vibe, Winter Park location and well-versed menu sounds like it could be a hard on the wallet, worry not, friends. You can eat here well after payday. Each menu item falls in the $7-$16 price range, so it’s safe to say you can get out of here for under $25 per person, depending on how thirsty you are. Whether you’re in the suburbs or downtown Orlando, TR Fire Grill is the ideal brunch meetup. Its stylish decor, both inside and on the patio, is the perfect backdrop for a relaxed brunch with a group of friends or some family members. TR Fire Grill takes classic brunch items like the sangria and eggs benedict and effortlessly gives it a jolt of modern

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LITTLE FISH HUGE POND 401 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford, 407-221-1499, littlefish-hugepond.com

The quintessential Sanford dive bar, Little Fish Huge Pond loads up on board games, art, crazy lampshades and craft beer knowledge. Neighborhood brew geeks will fawn over Little Fish’s half-pour availability, while their better-adjusted friends will enjoy the delightful mishmash of kitsch couture and electronic dartboards; shy people will be drawn out of their shells at LFHP’s frequent themed parties. ESSAY QUESTION: WHY SHOULD I DRINK HERE?

SHORT ANSWER/MULTIPLE CHOICE: AFTER WORK OR AFTER HOURS? Consider your previous evening plans on notice. BEER/WINE OR LIQUOR TOO? No liquor, but there’s a refrigerator keg, which counts for everything! CHECK ALL THAT APPLY: fancy cocktails make ’em strong and keep ’em coming wine list (5 choices or more) craft beer beer: the usual suspects wide selection of bottles/cans (more than 12) wide selection on tap (more than 12) FOOD SERVED? YES Ask for the hamburger hash! SMOKING ALLOWED INSIDE? NO OUTSIDE DRINKING? NO

DOG-FRIENDLY? NO BATHROOMS: NIGHTMARE OR NOT BAD? Not bad BAG HOOKS? YES TVS? YES WHAT’S ON? The cheesiest of cheesy Amy Smart movies DJS? NO LIVE MUSIC? YES LOUD MUSIC OR BACKGROUND MUSIC? Background: Rockabilly and Ryan Gosling’s dulcet tones set the mood. GAMES? CHECK ALL THAT APPLY: pinball video games pool darts other: board games

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Mesa21 brings authentic Mexican dining to Orlando A new restaurant is building its success by redefining the meaning of real Mexican dining in American soil... and it starts in Orlando. For the better part of the last two decades, Tommy Rios and his family have helped some of America’s top brands enter the Mexican market. To do this, the family would regularly fly executives from the United States to Mexico City, and as tradition dictates, they’d always make sure their guests experienced one of Mexico’s strongest cultural offerings: its food. “Every time we had Americans come to do business with us in Mexico we would take them to have dinner at these amazing local places,” remembers Tommy Rios. “And every time they’d ask the same thing: ‘Why can’t we have places like this in America?’” 28

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In search of the authentic What Rios and his clients thought was missing in the United States were places that served authentic Mexican foods in upscale atmospheres that resembled those in Mexico’s top cities. “If you want to get Mexican food in the US, for the most part, you have to go for Tex-Mex or go to very specific mom and pop restaurants or to food trucks,” says Sandra Rios, COO at Mesa21. “But the reality is that that’s not how locals in Mexico enjoy their food.” That’s why the team at Mesa21 decided to bring a more authentic Mexican dining experience to the US: upscale Mexican dining that looks, tastes, and feels like a place where Mexicans would commonly go for food and drinks. It’s a concept that Rios hopes will change the way in which Americans enjoy the Mexican dining experience.

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“There’s a way to enjoy delicious and real Mexican food in an upscale and fun environment, just like locals do in Mexico,” says the team at Mesa21. Mesa21 The Rios family set their eyes on Orlando and decided to team up with Mexico’s third largest restaurant group – ON Group Mexico – and create ON Group USA to bring this new dining concept to the United States – Mesa21. Mesa21 now has two restaurants in Orlando – a fast-casual concept restaurant located in Clermont and a full-service concept that opened on Lake Ivanhoe on March 30 . The restaurants serve handcrafted cocktails and top shelf drinks alongside freshly prepared dishes, in an atmosphere that captures the excitement and attitudes th

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common in the upscale dining scenes of Mexico. There’s live music and friendly staff, and the Ivanhoe location boasts an amazing deck – quite possibly the best in Orlando – that sits five feet away from the lake. “We really think we’ve created a unique place for you to go with your family, or where you can go have a drink with your friends, or have a date night with your loved one, in the way that the local mainstream market in Mexico actually does it,” says Mark Cline, Director of Operations of Mesa21. “It’s not a tourist location—it’s an authentic upscale Mexican place in America.” No frozen food is allowed in Mesa21 While it’s clear that atmosphere plays a central role in making a restaurant feel authentic, Rios is convinced that the best way to get into his customers’ hearts is by serving delicious Mexican food. That’s why Mesa21’s new menu is filled with Mexican specialties like chiles rellenos, chicken with mole, tacos barbacoa and Mexican ceviche.

In addition to those classic Mexican dishes, Mesa21 – like most fine dining and casual places in Mexico – also serves American and European classics, albeit with a Mexican twist. “In Mexico, we have a lot of European and American influences as well, so we’ve decided to serve Caesar salads or great hamburgers, ribs and steaks that are all cooked and seasoned in Mexican spices,” says Sandra Rios. To ensure that the food remains as delicious and authentic as possible, Tommy Rios has decided to only use top-quality ingredients in his restaurants and flies Mexican chefs to Orlando to train his staff every other month. In addition to this, he also sends his cooks to train at some of Mexico’s best restaurants owned by the group. “Our staff has been over there to learn about the dishes, to develop new ones and to get that full one-on-one experience with some of Mexico’s best chefs,” says Sandra Rios, adding that this sort of cross-cultural experience gives her staff a deeper understanding of the concept that the restaurant is trying to achieve.

Growth and expansion Rios “is extremely grateful” for the warm welcome that the restaurant has received from Orlando’s local community, and says that as the restaurant continues to expand it will look to become more involved in the community and local events. “We’re very happy as a restaurant group to have picked Orlando as the starting point for our project,” says Tommy Rios. “The way that the city has received us, supported us, and welcomed us has been amazing, and we’re hoping to give back to the community more and more as we establish ourselves here.” At that point, Rios hopes, Mesa21 will be able to continue its expansion throughout the state. “Our goal is to have five to seven locations around Orlando, and then continue to move up through the Gainesville, Jacksonville, and Tallahassee areas and eventually into Miami,” says Sandra Rios. But in order to do that, the team at Mesa21 knows that they must change the way that many people in the United orlandoweekly.com

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States understand Mexican dining by serving high quality authentic Mexican food and creating an environment that truly represents Mexico’s best qualities. “Our mission is to redefine real Mexican dining in America – starting in Orlando, and to do that we really need to bring the Mexican local experience to the mainstream American market,” he says. For now, Rios is convinced that Mesa21 is on the right track to doing this. “We feel like Mexico and we taste like Mexico,” he says.

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REEL FISH COASTAL KITCHEN & BAR

Steadily improving fish house in the former Ravenous Pig space has a lot going for it, notably the owner’s zeal in making the venture a success. Also successful: a bracing ceviche of shark, snapper and hogfish; panko-breaded roasted oysters; and a quartet of fried green tomatoes atop zesty roasted pepper vinaigrette. There’s plenty of fried goodness for the fish camp lover in you, and if the whole roasted yellowtail snapper is available, get it. Closed Mondays. 1234 N. Orange Ave., Winter Park, 407-543-3474; $$$

LUKE’S KITCHEN AND BAR

There’s nothing novel at James Beard Award nominee Brandon McGlamery’s Maitland resto, but there’s plenty good – from the design to the cocktail program to such dishes as diver scallop ceviche, flavorful bone-in ribeye, and stellar swordfish. Meats like to get plonked atop starches and veggies here, BTW. More goodness: Peppery (though expensive) crab cake and the au poivre burger, which is our new favorite. Desserts won’t thrill, but they do satisfy. Open daily. 640 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland, 407-674-2400; $$$$

HUNGER STREET TACOS

The gourmet taco trend gains traction at Hunger Street Tacos, named after the famed Mexico City strip. Brisket, chorizo and chicken tinga tacos are twice-tortillaed in proper fashion. Vegan (sautéed hibiscus taco) and vegetarian options (squash blossom quesadilla; vegetable tinga) will please the meatless crowd. Desserts like chocoflan and Key lime pie with toasted meringue are more than just mere afterthoughts. Closed Sundays. 2103 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park, 407-545-5998; $

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Celebrity chef Art Smith returns to Disney with his aptly named restaurant showcasing all that’s good about Southern fare. His near-legendary fried chicken (get it with house-made doughnuts), shrimp and grits, fried catfish, chicken and dumpling soup, and pimento cheese keep the masses at Disney Springs fat and happy.

A few bites of the hummingbird cake will definitely slow the pace of your park perambulations. There’s a nice selection of moonshine cocktails, too. Open daily. Disney Springs, 1602 E. Buena Vista Drive, 407-560-0100; $$$

IPHO NOODLE HOUSE

Vietnamese fare comes to Maitland with this second outpost of the Lake Mary original iPho. The interior won’t lift your spirits, but a savory golden pancake folded with shrimp, pork and bean sprouts will. Same goes for their signature pho – the broth veers toward the sweeter side, but it’s hearty and can be made heartier with the addition of oxtail. Bracing beef and pork noodle soup with lemongrass is a cold-sufferer’s delight. Don’t overlook their clay pots, and ask for the banh mi menu if you’re not handed one. Open daily. 156 Lake Ave., Maitland, 321-422-0181; $

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CHROMA MODERN BAR + KITCHEN

The modern kitchen anchoring Lake Nona Town Center’s ultra-modern landscape serves up some time-honored dishes courtesy of chef Jason Bergeron. Succulent short-rib sliders, lamb ribs, littleneck clams and luxuriant bone marrow make sharing joyfully gratifying. Lackluster desserts could use some inspiration, but it won’t tarnish Chroma’s sheen. Open daily. 6967 Lake Nona Blvd., 407-955-4340; $$

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Rosario Spagnolo returns to Park Avenue in this joint venture with fellow Neapolitan Antonio Martino. What you get is an expected blend of authenticity and populist fare, and it’s a mix that doesn’t disappoint. Sure, better Neapolitan pizzas can be had elsewhere, but you won’t find a better space in which to enjoy a slice of pie, or antipasti, pasta con polpette or spezzatino di vitello. Open daily. 528 S. Park Ave., Winter Park, 407-335-4548; $$

DOMU

Popular ramen joint lives up to the hype offering near-perfect bowls of tonkotsu, shoyu, miso and curry ramen. There’s an uni pasta for those who want to forgo broth for the richness of sea urchin, but don’t overlook other soupless options like the crackling good Korean fried chicken with Korean butter sauce and the grilled octopus. Cocktails are taken seriously here. 3201 Corrine Drive, 407-960-1228; $$

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Dishes veer toward the weighty, and beverages toward the crafty. Fried Wisconsin cheese curds and equally addicting pork belly slicked in an “Asian” sticky sauce make fine starters, while burgers and Reuben tacos make fine entrée choices. Ending with a cronut topped with vanilla bean ice cream will only cement your decision to return. Closed Mondays. 100 S. Eola Drive, 407-930-1166; $$$ n

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Their Finest The Graduate

A Civil Action Part of a film series of Earth-

friendly movies with powerful themes about nature and the environment. Friday, 11 am-1 pm; Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-835-7323; ocls.info. Florida Film Festival Ten days of films from

40 different countries, parties, brunches and more. Takes place at Enzian Theater and Regal Winter Park Village. Through Sunday; multiple Sleight

locations; $11-$650; floridafilmfestival.com. The Graduate Special 50th anniversary screen-

BY STEVE SCHNEIDER OPENING THIS WEEK: The Circle This week’s wide releases have

enough genuine promise to make me almost feel guilty about looking for the worst in them. (Almost.) Take this adaptation of Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel, in which a new recruit to a successful tech firm learns that their work emphasizes innovation over certain lesser concepts, like privacy and basic human decency. It’s a concept that’s even timelier now than it was three years ago, so I almost flinch at suggesting that top-billed star Tom Hanks, who plays the founder of the conglomerate in question, might be doing Pulitzer-mandated community service for having helped to further the cause of Dan Brown. (Almost.) Meanwhile, co-star Emma Watson is on top of the world with Beauty and the Beast, supporting actor Patton Oswalt is a national treasure, the beloved Bill Paxton makes his final screen appearance ever, and oh shit this job just got way harder than I signed up for. Ordinarily, I’d assume that a Hollywood adaptation of a work so relentlessly dystopic was going to screw the pooch with incongruous third-act redemption – Minority Report, anyone? – but Eggers himself co-wrote the script with director James Ponsoldt, so maybe they’ll prove to have stuck to their nihilistic guns. Hope so, because I love an unhappy ending. (PG-13)

How to Be a Latin Lover Mexican film and TV

legend Eugenio Derbez portrays an outof-practice lothario who has to rehone his skills of seduction after his sugar momma of 25 years abruptly kicks him to the curb. Derbez’ Instructions Not Included was the most successful Spanish-language film ever, making more than $100 million on a mere $5 million budget, and it’s always nice to see a major release headlined by a performer over the age of 50. So hopefully Lover will prove that he deserves to end up as more than the answer to the question “Who was the Latino Yahoo Serious of the teens?” (PG-13) Sleight This year’s Sundance Film Festival

was the launching pad for filmmaker JD Dillard’s unconventional mixture of neighborhood drama and superheroics, all located in the person of a street magician who has to rely on his special talents of electromagnetic levitation to rescue his sister from a Los Angeles drug lord. The Hollywood Reporter said the film is “loaded with talent on both sides of the camera,” but Collider labeled it “silly” for trying to weld social commentary to the powers of Magneto. Hey, you know who else the critics once said that about? Magneto! (R)

ALSO PLAYING: Grow House DJ Pooh wrote and directed this

stoner comedy about a couple of hopheads who try to turn a quick buck providing product for medical marijuana dispensaries, only to learn that sucking down the cheebah is a lot easier than growing it. True to stereotype, Pooh, co-star Snoop Dogg and the rest of their happily baked crew went to the trouble of getting the movie released on 4/20, then totally forgot to tell us about it! But I bet they sure remembered when that Unicorn Frappuccino was going on sale. (R)

ing of the groundbreaking film starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. Wednesday, 2 & 7 pm; multiple locations; $13.31; fathomevents.com. More Q Than A: Lovesong Neglected by her

husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies. Wednesday, 7 pm; The Gallery at Avalon Island, 39 S. Magnolia Ave.; $5-$7; avalongallery.org.

Their Finest A World War II drama about a

Ministry of Information team that has to make an inspiring documentary about the Dunkirk evacuation while the blitz rains down on London. Lissa Evans’ source novel was titled Their Finest Hour and a Half, which is of course too wonderfully clever to put before a modern moviegoing audience that isn’t going to recognize an allusion to Churchill and doesn’t know that films used to run less than three hours. What flabbergasts me is that the original title didn’t even make it to marquees in the U.K., where the general populace is supposed to be much more clever and culturally literate. Something tells me Hyacinth Bucket would just hang her head at the shame of it all. (R) orlandoweekly.com

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sic with a shadow cast, props and callbacks. Friday, 11:15 pm; AMC CityWalk, 6000 Universal Blvd.; $11; richweirdoes.com. TED Cinema Experience This exclusive

show, created just for cinema audiences, includes a surprise curation of the best moments of TED2017. Sunday, 4 pm; multiple locations; $21.30; fathomevents.com.

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GREAT LIVE MUSIC RATTLES ORLANDO EVERY NIGHT Trilogy Venerable and musically storied jazz trio holds court at Blue Bamboo with vocalist and frequent collaborator Michael Andrew. Expect new readings of loved standards. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, at Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, $20

Laura Gibson Portland singer-songwriter Gibson weaves pensive and haunted sonic meditations on loss for her new album on Barsuk, Empire Builder. Hear a singular new voice live.

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produce the entirety of the new album on their own in a rented cabin in Fraser, Colorado. Moore relates how this decision affected her creative process: “We’re able to find more creative expression in things I feel we wouldn’t have any say over before or had any involvement with. I don’t have Tennis intertwines life, art and love into seamless indie pop the pressure to present myself in a certain way. We can say ‘no’ to what we want to perfection say no to. We can completely steer the BY NICOLETTE SHURBA course of our work and our art.” Moore carries a carefully crafted vision. here’s a certain serendipity that fol- the Black Keys to request that he produce Not only did the frontwoman pen her band’s bio, but she makes it known that lows Alaina Moore (vocals/guitar/ their record. “He helped us out of musical crutches the casual pop sounds of the album are not keyboards) and Patrick Riley (guitar/bass) of Tennis – the ongoing project that we had, things that you want a pro- to be dismissed as girl pop fluff. Rather, of two people who first met as classmates, ducer to do, but at the same time [he] Moore has chosen soft, casual tunes as then became friends, and finally a mar- respected the sanctity of our sound and a way to feel comfortable when playing music. “I am always, ried pair. Moore describes the band as an our autonomy and our always looking for extension of their relationship, one that vision for our band,” TENNIS, things to mellow Moore says. It’s not so began as a series of casual encounters. opening for Spoon me out, lower my Growing up in Denver, Moore and Riley much the final result 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 2 heart rate, and calm were in a loop of synchronicity. “It turns that is so satisfying about House of Blues, Disney Springs me down,” she says. out we had gone to a lot of the same shows this story for outsiders – houseofblues.com “Whenever I’m makgrowing up in Denver. I waited on him they were riding bikes $25-$100 ing music I’m looking at this little deli that I worked at called when Carney called to for catharsis and Zaidy’s, and I sold him clothing when I accept their invitation, calm. I’m not looking worked at American Apparel. We definite- and when it was clear ly had a lot of those moments where I feel he would be working with them a bit of for explosive energy because I feel like like the universe kept giving us so many excitable exercise occurred, jumping up I’m a trembling little heartbeat of a bird all chances to meet and I’m thankful that and down on the side of the road – but the the time. I want the opposite in the work we had so many opportunities to because journey to the conclusion, of nonchalantly that I make.” The journey and the humbling aspects I would have hated to have missed it,” emailing an artist whose work you admire explains Moore. The pair eventually tran- in the hopes that they’ll help you with of working with her life partner seem to be what keeps Tennis going. “We just played sitioned from simultaneous music school your own. Moore writes in her artist notes for a show in Columbia, Missouri, at this little dropouts to sailing on a boat together, and Tennis’ newest album, Yours Conditionally, club, and it sold out and they gave us this the rest is Tennis. Tennis’ first two albums, Cape Dory and that working with talented professionals little trophy that said, ‘Sold out, fuck yeah.’ Young & Old, were released by Fat Possum, on their past records gave Tennis the con- I was like, ‘This is a little achievement that which is where the band’s first leap of fidence to go forth with their own label, I am really fucking proud of.’” faith occurred: emailing Patrick Carney of Mutually Detrimental, and to record and music@orlandoweekly.com

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Experience Adele Award-winning (seriously!) Adele tribute artist and vocalist Andrea Tyler is probably the closest most of us are going to get to the superstar British soul vocalist; all the better to be experienced at Parliament House. 8 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at Parliament House, $15

Jeffrey Lewis Anti-folk singer-songwriter and outsider comic artist Jeffrey Lewis has been ferociously prolific since 1997, doing everything from covering Crass to lecturing on the Watchmen. It’s his weird world, we’re just living in it. 8 p.m. Sunday, April 30, at Will’s Pub, $6-$8

Lillie Mae Rische Stepping into the spotlight on her own after a stint backing Jack White, singer-fiddler Rische is a fresh musical force in country music, defying convention while embracing tradition. 8 p.m. Monday, May 1, at Hard Rock Live, $38-$53

Total Punk Turnbuckle Tuesday Pinball Tournament Sleazy punk, sleazier ECW wrestling videos, cheap drinks and now a sodden race to the gold on a bank of pinball machines. Go for the Family Guy one. 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, at Will’s Pub, free

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TIME TO LET GO Gainesville’s Time headline the Femme Hop showcase of new faces, sounds and perspectives in dance and hip-hop music BY MATTHEW MOYER

orth Florida’s Time, the duo of creative and life partners Michael and Madhava Collins, are giving devotional music a very radical overhaul. The fervent disciples of Krishna consciousness are taking the frothy, bubbly and extremely, shall we say, secular sonic framework of synth pop and marrying it to ancient prayers and self-penned exhortations to cast away material attachments. A spiritual message with a (ear) candy-coated shell, if you will. Time started several years back, when Michael Collins, a veteran of psych-weirdos Prince Rama, heard a piece that his wife Madhava had worked out on Ableton and was floored: “I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is amazing.’ … And I knew if we teamed up we could make something really amazing.” At that moment, Michael Collins abandoned his solo project and the couple’s personal and creative lives became inextricably linked. Madhava explained, “You can’t separate Time into Michael or Madhava. It has to be both of us together. We write our

songs collectively and we each bring something that the other doesn’t have.” Another inseparable element from Time’s music is the deeply personal spiritual aspect of their music. Michael Collins frames it as the next logical step from being a teenage anarchist punk: “The goal of anarchism is absolute freedom, and when I Fiona discovered Krishna [I] found that freedom isn’t necessarily found through external rebellion but more of in the temple and an internal rebellion ALWAYS NOTHING PRESENTS we just modernized against incorrect FEMME HOP VOL. 2 them with syntheattachments. … This 8 p.m. Friday, April 28 sizers and drum music is a chroniHenao Contemporary Center, machines.” cle of our spiritual 5601 Edgewater Drive The ideal way struggle and journey henaocenter.com to be introduced – seeking out this $10 to Time’s music is absolute freedom experiencing it live; through service it’s enough to make and through love.” Madhava links their music to the broader a believer out of the most hard-nosed, lineage of Krishna devotional music and Richard-Dawkins-quoting cynic. The chant: “Many of our songs are prayers twosome are an explosion of light, color, traditionally performed with harmonium movement, visuals, choreographed dancorlandoweekly.com

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es and delightfully exaggerated gestures. Every verse, every chorus becomes bigger than life, arena-level big, rave-level big. It’s no accident to either Collins, both keen observers of popular music spectacle and its hypnotic effects. “We want our visuals to be over the top – to contrast the sacred with the profane – to give people something to be hypnotized by and also to accentuate the otherworldliness of the music that we’re performing,” explains Michael Collins. “It’s like in rave culture, you see people trying to escape their temporary banal existence in this world by hitting the dance floor and being enveloped in psychedelic lights. … [We’re] just trying to immerse people, take them out of the everyday and place them in this temporary suspension of disbelief – where time almost seems to not exist. That’s what we’re seeking to emulate and create.” Time’s music, asserts Madhava Collins, is “a document of [their] spiritual journey.” We’d suggest you join them; a suite of ultracatchy electro-dance music sure beats a dour pamphlet or sermon any day. Time returns to Orlando this Friday to play the second Always Nothingcurated Femme Hop event at the Henao Contemporary Center alongside ethereal R&B mind-melter Dvwez and loop-chanteuse Tiger Fawn, with DJ sets from Cabyus, Deviant Art Heaux and Fiona. “It’s great to see this concept of Femme Hop transform from an idea on the internet to a platform where talented women under the radar receive the recognition they deserve,” event co-organizer Cabias Thomas enthuses. Billed as a “tribute to the extremely talented yet often overlooked women in hip-hop fuckin’ the game up,” this night is a chance to catch some new voices in Florida hip-hop and electro. For some, it might be your last chance to catch them in this intimate of a space. mmoyer@orlandoweekly.com

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- The Florida SMaSH Beer Festival was created to celebrate the creativity and camaraderie of brewers in the Sunshine State and provide an opportunity to give back to the community. Each brewery will concoct a beer made from the same single malt and single hop. With roughly 50 beers to sample, including one-offs from every brewery involved, there will be something to please everyone. For more info check out Florida Smash Beer Festival

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The 17th annual Florida Music

Festival is now in the books. For my part, maximum credit goes to all the acts that played the TLU showcase – Saskatchewan, the Welzeins, Zoya Zafar and PolyKarp – and the fest organizers, who went all out to let me have Sales headline. Revelations from my showcase include the usually solo acts of Zoya Zafar and PolyKarp coming big for the occasion with additional accompaniment. Zafar, in particular, showed a tantalizing glimpse of what her gorgeous music could be with a band. And Saskatchewan, who delivered the night’s best performance, are showing some new looks with pivots toward a stately jangle-pop direction. As this performance affirmed, it’s a beautiful and perfect new way to angle their perpetual dream. On the macro, adding WPRK to the list of stage curators was smart. Having scenemover Swamburger curate a stage again this year was a good idea. But him expanding it even further beyond his native hip-hop to include bands like Pathos, Pathos and Room Full of Strangers was genius.

DIET CIG WITH DADDY ISSUES, WILL’S PUB, APRIL 18

Diet Cig are an emerging New York band that first launched on respectable boutique label Father/Daughter Records (who also released the last album by Orlando’s own Saskatchewan) and just now stepped out with their first full-length (Swear I’m Good at This) on esteemed indie powerhouse Frenchkiss Records. The duo’s music is the sound of youthful earnestness delivered with directness and abandon. Even if you think you can feel it in their music, you

Leveraging vulnerability into power by pouring their hearts out alongside ear-to-ear smiles and high kicks, Diet Cig beam the kind of optimism that’s proof that we’re not all totally fucked. don’t really know shit until you see them live because their light is a thousand times more blinding in person, like Matt and Kim’s little punk cousins. That may all sound a little like death by giddiness, but it’s hard to argue with something so pure, especially when it’s delivered with this much verve and scrap. Frontwoman Alex Luciano is just an unstoppable supernova of world-changing will who turns sweetness into empowerment. Leveraging vulnerability into power by pouring their hearts out alongside earto-ear smiles and high kicks (!), Diet Cig beam the kind of fresh-faced, wide-eyed optimism that’s immaculate proof that we’re not all totally fucked. Who couldn’t use a big ol’ shot of that right now? Opening were tourmates Daddy Issues, a Nashville band on Infinity Cat Recordings, the label run by JEFF the Brotherhood. The trio kick out grunge-pop that drives good, expressive melodies with a lot of horses under the hood. The eraspecific influences are many – the grunge textures, the ’90s indie-rock melodics – but Daddy Issues’ rendition and blend are less overtly slavish and more reinterpreted anew than their many contemporaries.

And that makes these ladies a very promising act. Though not quite as finished as their headlining billmates, Daddy Issues’ music could’ve stolen the night were it not for Diet Cig’s practically peerless incandescence.

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El Diáspora is a new Orlando promoter doing something interesting and probably necessary: showcasing Latin punk. When you consider the sizable populations in both the punk and Latin communities of our area, the intersection is natural and has potential for prime synergy. The latest event was headlined by Brazilian band End of Pipe. Though they’re from a hemisphere away, their soulfully rugged music, all anthem and catharsis, is actually more evocative of a sound rooted only an hour and a half north of here in Gainesville – specifically, Hot Water Music. It’s as solid a foundation to start from as they come, and End of Pipe’s take on the style is sturdy and reliably hits its marks. Opening was Orlando band Boylectric, who deal in a slightly amorphous postpunk sound that’s hard-driving and diverse with some good influences, but could use some sharpening and experience. More than any of the individual bands, though, El Diáspora itself is the bigger story. If it can get a foothold in the scene, it could be a welcome cultural force as a punk-rock ambassador program, a thing that probably only Punching Babies’ annual Foreign Dissent showcase was doing here consistently until now. That’s something worth getting behind. baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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Red Hot Chili Peppers MUSIC

With their discernibly amped-up funk and intrusively percussive bass play, the California-bred Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Red Hot Chili Peppers set course for the Amway this week and are strapped with a game plan that, if patterns hold, is sure to involve some deliciously inappropriate innuendos. Four years into their third decade of existence, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have decided to follow their 2016 summer album, The Getaway, with a worldwide tour that features special guests Baby Metal and Jack Irons. For their 11th record release, the six-time Grammy recipients worked with producer and methodical beat-birther Brian Joseph Burton, better known as Danger Mouse. His addition undeniably altered the backdrop of the RHCP sound, but left intact what drew their large and always growing following in the first place. If you’ve never seen Flea, Anthony Kiedis and company live before, believe us when we say the funk now sits at 11. – Nick Wills with Baby Metal, Jack Irons | 7:30 p.m. | Amway Center, 400 W. Church St. | 800-745-3000 | amwaycenter.com | $49-$99

Saturday, April 29

Preserving History in the Aftermath of Pulse LEARNING

It’s National Poetry Month, and what’s more poetic than using your federally appointed numerical designation to honor your neighborhood? WMFE invites Central Floridians to get creative and write odes to everyone’s favorite five numbers: their ZIP codes. These ZipOdes must each be five lines – the number of words in each line is determined by the number in your particular ZIP. Then, come out and represent your ’hood at the ZipOde Throwdown, where you can show off your poetic prowess, listen to live music from local band Beemo and munch on lobster rolls from the Monsta Lobsta food truck. It might not be Yeats or Dickinson, but these poems are packed with a certain rhythm and heart that’ll satisfy even the toughest literary critic. – Deanna Ferrante 6 p.m. | Orlando Brewing, 1301 Atlanta Ave. | 407-872-1117 | wmfe.org | free

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with Ladrón, Acid Baptism, Protocol, Rhino | 7 p.m. | Sandwich Bar, 2432 E. Robinson St. | 407-421-1670 | $5

Every day, dozens of people visit the gay nightclub Pulse to leave flowers, teddy bears, rainbow flags and candles. If you think about it, that’s hundreds of tributes in the 10 months that have passed since the mass shooting at Pulse that killed 49 people. Not to mention the white crosses, banners, angel statues, art pieces and pinwheels that were brought to Orlando during the vigils after June 12. In the haze of those weeks as a community coped, some people would have let the items rot in the sun. But not the Orange County Regional History Center. Workers collected, preserved, catalogued and stored thousands of mementos left at vigils and tribute sites in the aftermath of Pulse for the One Orlando Collection Initiative. The things people left serve as a reminder that victims and survivors of Pulse were loved, and in the decades to come, will remind the world how Orlando responded on its most tragic day. Learn about the heroic efforts of the History Center staff from chief curator Pamela Schwartz and collections manager Whitney Broadaway at this afternoon presentation. – Monivette Cordeiro

Thursday, April 27

OUR PICKS FOR THE BEST EVENTS THIS WEEK

If Judge (April 30, right) could be seen as the avenging ghosts of hardcore past, a convincing case can be made that Barcelona’s Ultra are the ghosts of hardcore yet to come. The youthful Spanish contingent combines members of Absurdo and Anarquia Vertical into a combustible whole, merging elements of Euro and U.S. hardcore into a new form of world-spanning violence. Ultra’s recent 7-inch release on the untouchable La Vida Es Un Mus label out of the U.K. is almost foaming at the mouth in terms of fury and velocity: seven berserker songs bursting forth from a 45-rpm single – just like how Agnostic Front and Negative Approach used to do it. Flammable materials; handle with care. One of only two Florida shows for Ultra, with support from South Floridian Latinx firebrands Ladrón. – Matthew Moyer

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Planned Parenthood Generations Gala

Florida Salsa Festival

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After the 2016 presidential election, Dahlia Lithwick (senior editor at Slate, contributing editor at Newsweek, and a specialist on U.S. courts and the law) wrote: “It is shattering to contemplate starting again to relitigate fights over our bodies, access to contraception, equal pay, respect in the workplace, the right to love and marry the partner of our choosing, and the right to be unafraid of sexual violence and casual threats. We have a long climb ahead.” Today, as always, Planned Parenthood is one of the primary warriors fighting for those rights, and they’ve thrown themselves wholeheartedly into battle. But they need the support of others who want to defend reproductive freedom in order to keep fighting. This fundraiser gala, featuring special guests Lithwick and Sonya Renee Taylor, poet and founder of The Body Is Not An Apology, is one way to contribute. As Taylor has said, language has the ability to either create or destroy, so stand up and make your voice heard. – Jessica Bryce Young 6:30 p.m. | Heaven Event Venue, 8240 Exchange Drive | 407-872-8495 | facebook.com/ppswcfl | $100-$150

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Straightedge hardcore has never lent itself to halfmeasures or ironic stances, and New Yorkers Judge were about as hardline as you could get in the late ’80s. Formed by Mike Judge and Porcell after leaving Youth of Today in 1987, Judge was a far heavier, blunter and more confrontational proposition. Arguably, Judge was the most for-real and in-your-face about the straight-edge lifestyle of any of their peers. Despite the fuck-you antagonism dripping from every word out of vocalist Mike Judge’s mouth, the band’s music was an almost unfairly catchy blend of hardcore’s velocity and the added girth of metallic undercurrents, and they were loved and lionized for this by their devoted fans. In an interview years later, Judge recalled how he received a phone call from a fan about a Klan rally in his town and asking if Judge would come beat them all up! The band splintered and moved on to other things in 1991, burnt out by the constant fights and violence at their shows (their final show was in Tampa), but reunited in 2013 against all odds to play some triumphant comeback shows. And word is that they still deliver the brawny goods. The band has continued doing sporadic shows since then and this Orlando show is part of a brief, three-city Florida swing to settle unfinished business. An unlikely reunion if there ever was one; don't miss out on the chance to hear “New York Crew” live. Pregame with the There Will Be Quiet documentary online. – MM with Kids Like Us, Coldside | 6:30 p.m. | Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St. | 407-999-2570 | backbooth.com | $20

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If you usually find yourself dancing, eating salsa and boozing during the weekend, or you just can’t wait for Cinco de Mayo to put on your best sombrero, this event could be for you. The annual Florida Salsa Festival is back and ready to ring in Cinco early with unlimited tastings of more than 30 savory, sweet and spicy salsas along with plenty of margaritas, music and dancing. Finally, after sampling all the unlimited free salsa one person can consume, you get to contribute to friendly competition and vote for your favorite, then literally salsa (the dance, the music and the food) the day away until you’ve brought yourself into a saucy, spicy, tequila-induced coma. – Rachel LeBar 1-6 p.m. | Mucho Tequila & Tacos, 101 S. Eola Drive | floridasalsafest.com | $15-$45

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26-TUESDAY, MAY 2 COMPILED BY THADDEUS MCCOLLUM

MUSIC WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 Eugene Snowden’s Ten Pints of Truth 10 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free. The Met Live in HD: Eugene Onegin 6:30 pm; filmed production of Tchaikovsky’s opera about a man who refuses love until it is too late. Multiple locations; $25.56; fathomevents.com. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Baby Metal, Jack Irons 8 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; $49-$99; 800-745-3000. Reggae Night with Hor!zen and DJ Red I 10 pm; The Caboose, 1827 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-898-7733. Steven Marshek Group, the Palmettes, TV Dinner, Expert Timing 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $5. Timothy Eerie 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540. Trilogy 7:30-10 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $20; 407-636-9951.

[MUSIC] Sheryl Crow Saturday at the Dr. Phillips Center

THURSDAY, APRIL 27 Brandon Can’t Dance, Top Nachos, FayRoy, Poster 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Laura Gibson 8 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $15; 407-246-1419. Hear Me Out Showcase 7 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $7; 407-999-2570. Kaleigh Baker 10 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free. The Mellow Relics 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540. Raleigh Estes and Friends 8 pm; Muldoon’s Saloon, 7439 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-657-9980. Thursday Jazz Jams 8 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364. Umphrey’s McGee 7 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $25; 407-934-2583. 44

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Velvet Sessions: Eddie Money 6:30 pm; Hard Rock Hotel, Universal Orlando; $34-$65; 407-503-7625.

FRIDAY, APRIL 28 Afterlife, Adaliah, Stepdad 6 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $12; 407-999-2570. The Applebutter Express, Harmonica Man & the Sawgrass Band, FunkUs, Wild Root 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10. Artist Invasion With Handsome Jake 10 pm; Will’s Dirty Laundry, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free. Big Wild, IHF (Imagined Herbal Flows) 9 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $15; 407-246-1419. Brian Smalley 7-10 pm; Dead Lizard Brewing Company, 4507 36th St.; free; 407-777-3060. Chris Garcia 9:30 pm; Native Social Bar, 27 W. Church St.; free-$15; 407-403-2938.

D-Unity, Renzo Ruiz, Kenderdine Bros., Low End Theory 10 pm; Vinyl Arts Bar, 75 E. Colonial Drive; contact for price. Femme Hop: Cabyis, Deviant Art Heaux, Fiona, DVWEZ, Tiger Fawn, Time 8 pm; Henao Contemporary Center, 5601 Edgewater Drive; $10. Floorplay: Frankie Alex & Trini D. 10 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; free; 407-999-2570. Hyperclub: Cosmicosmo 10 pm; Downtown Credo Coffee, 706 W. Smith Street; $5; 407-250-4888. Layla Brisbois Band 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540. Shirley Wang and Mark Looney Noon-1 pm; folk songs, gospel music arrangements, piano solos and original compositions. Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-835-7323; ocls.info.

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Orlando Language Exchange It’s a scientifically proven fact – maybe – that alcohol makes it easier to learn a foreign language, which is why this monthly meetup of folks looking to practice their tonguework takes place in a bar. Grab a beer and cozy up with a speaker of whatever language floats your boat and do your part to improve cultural relations. Bonus points if you’re talented enough to show others some new tricks. 8 p.m. Wednesday; Sandwich Bar, 2431 E. Robinson St.; free; facebook.com/orlandolanguageexchange Fashion EDGE Fashion-forward or fashion victim, you’ll find plenty to enjoy at this party put on by Orlando International Fashion Week. Up-and-coming designers wow the audience with a runway show featuring their best designs adorning gorgeous models. Splurge for VIP if you want to sit down during the show. 6:30 p.m. Friday; Tier Nightclub, 20 E. Central Blvd.; $25-$35; orlandointernationalfashionweek.com

Science of Wine Orlando Science Center turns into an adult playground with tons of food and wine stations, interactive exhibits and more during the annual Science of Wine fundraiser. Enjoy samples from some of the area’s best restaurants, paired with a variety of fine wines. Then learn (or attempt to learn) about oenology with presentations about different aspects of winemaking and tasting. 7-10 p.m. Saturday; Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St.; $125; osc.org

Escape: Dreamland This month’s theme at the area’s biggest monthly fetishwear party invites attendees to dress in their favorite “Dreamland” costumes. Think Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, or anything else that the phrase “it was all a dream” might pop up in. You’ll be our hero if you manage to pull off a Sexy Newhart costume. Or Sexy J.R. Ewing. Or Sexy Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy” 7-inch single. 10 p.m. Saturday; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $5-$10; backbooth.com. PHOTO BY ROBERTA SORGE

Ninja Sex Party May 26 at Hard Rock Live Dragonforce, July 27 at the Beacham

Marty Stuart, May 4 at the Social

Nora En Pure, May 19 at the Social

Mon Laferte, June 5 at the Social

State Champs, May 5 at the Beacham

Face to Face, May 19 at Backbooth

Skillet, June 8 at House of Blues

Steve Winwood, May 6 at Hard Rock Live

Animals as Leaders, May 20 at the Beacham

Hall & Oates, Tears for Fears, June 9 at Amway Center

New Found Glory, May 8-10 at the Social

Morbid Angel, May 23 at the Beacham

PWR BTTM, June 10 at Backbooth

All Time Low, Aug. 6-7 at House of Blues

Bush, May 9 at Hard Rock Live

Del the Funky Homosapien, May 23 at the Social

Yacht Rock Revue, June 10 at House of Blues

Blondie, Garbage, Aug. 9 at Hard Rock Live

Real Friends, May 24 at the Beacham

Yngwie Malmsteen, June 14 at House of Blues

The Avett Brothers, May 25 at House of Blues

J. Cole, Aug. 16 at Amway Center

Tig Notaro, June 17 at the Plaza Live

Jimmy Buffett, May 13 at Amway Center X, May 13 at the Beacham Phoenix, May 13 at House of Blues New Found Glory, May 14 at House of Blues Bishop Briggs, May 16 at the Social Run River North, May 18 at the Social Richard Cheese, May 19 at the Beacham The Head and the Heart, May 19 at the Dr. Phillips Center

Say Anything, Bayside, May 25 at the Beacham Beach House, May 26 at the Social Ninja Sex Party, May 26 at Hard Rock Live Wolf-Face, May 27 at the Social Todd Rundgren, May 28 at the Plaza Live Joe Jackson, June 2 at the Plaza Live

Duke Dumont, June 29 at the Beacham

Shawn Mendes, July 28 at Amway Center Prince Royce, July 29 at Amway Center

Goo Goo Dolls, Aug. 30 at Hard Rock Live Ed Sheeran, Aug. 31 at Amway Center

Metallica, July 5 at Camping World Stadium

Apocalyptica, Sept. 6 at House of Blues

STRFKR, July 10 at the Beacham

Adam Ant, Sept. 9 at the Beacham

Rooney, July 12 at the Social

Needtobreathe, Oct. 13 at House of Blues

Ted Nugent, July 14 at the Plaza Live

Bruno Mars, Oct. 14 at Amway Center

Taking Back Sunday, July 20 at House of Blues

Descendents, Oct. 20 at House of Blues

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The Delusionaires MUSIC

The Delusionaires haven’t been a regular thing this decade since life geographically scattered its members. But in the early 2000s, this wild instrumental band was responsible for much of the sleaze and color oozing from Orlando’s underbelly. Musically, they’re as loose as the women they covet, smearing a grease slick of garage, hard rhythm & blues, and rock & roll with pure vice. And live, they’re all sweat and monkey business. It’s a trip of carnal nostalgia straight out of a Tarantino movie. Fortunately, their local ties are deep, and every few years or so they all find themselves back on the same old stomping grounds. Luckily for us, that means getting the gang together again for a one-off show, this time with support by Atlanta garage-rock traditionalists Bad Spell and St. Augustine beach band Kenny and the Jets. Go get dirty. – Bao Le-Huu with Bad Spell, Kenny & the Jets | 9 p.m. | Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. | willspub.org | $8

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Ultra, Ladrón, Protocol, Acid Baptism, Rhino 7 pm; Sandwich Bar, 2432 E. Robinson St.; $5-$7; 407-421-1670.

SATURDAY, APRIL 29 Adele Tribute Show 8 pm; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; $15; 407-425-7571. Blonk 8 pm; Copper Rocket Pub, 106 Lake Ave., Maitland; free; 407-636-3171. Charles Webster 10 pm; Vinyl Arts Bar, 75 E. Colonial Drive; $10-$15. Chloë Agnew 7:30 pm; The Venue, 511 Virginia Drive; $30-$50; 407-412-6895.

The Company 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540. The Dear Hunter, Pathos Pathos 7 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $25; 407-246-1419. The Delusionaires, Bad Spell, Kenny & the Jets 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $8. Eugene Snowden and Co. 10:30 pm; The Outpost Neighborhood Kitchen, 2603 Edgewater Drive; free; 407-930-6282. Game On Orlando: Wes Smith, Sh00ey 9 pm; Peek Downtown, 50 E. Central Blvd. Suite B; $10-$20; 407-734-5107. Lauris Vidal, Damion Suomi, Ian Little 9 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free. CONTINUED ON PAGE 48

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Sheryl Crow 8 pm; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $49.50-$99.50; 844-513-2014.

SUNDAY, APRIL 30 Ancient Sun 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540. Gwadcip$ 9 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free. Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts, Zap Dragon, Dog Island 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $6-$8. Judge, Kids Like Us, Coldside 6:30 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $20; 407-999-2570. MAYSfest 4 pm; The season finale concert of the Metropolitan Area Youth Symphony. Bob Carr Theater, 401 W. Livingston St.; $20-$40; 407-246-4262. Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions 2 pm; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $26-$151; 844-513-2014. Virginia Schenck 7 pm; Timucua White House, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave.; free; 407-595-2713.

MONDAY, MAY 1 Absinthe Jazz Trio 8:30 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free. Alex Dezen (The Damnwells) & His Band, Mike Dunn & the Company 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10-$12. Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Lillie Mae 8 pm; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; $38-$53; 407-351-5483. Featuring Humans, Dearest 8 pm; 64 North, 64 N. Orange Ave.; free; 321-245-7730. Jazz Meets Motown 8-11 pm; The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive; $10; 407-747-7223. Laila Biali 8-10 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $20; 407-636-9951; bluebambooartcenter.com. Open Mic Hip-Hop 9:30 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364. Reggae Mondae: Hor!zen 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540. Torque: Stereotype 10 pm; Native Social Bar, 27 W. Church St.; contact for price; 407-403-2938. 48

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TUESDAY, MAY 2 The Groove Orient 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540. Jazz in the Courtyard with the DaVinci Jazz Experiment 7-9 pm; Cafe DaVinci, 112 W. Georgia Ave., DeLand; free; 386-873-2943. Music Remembrance Jazz Trio 8 pm; Paradise Cove Restaurant and Bar, 4380 Carraway Place, Sanford; free. Punk on the Patio: Debt Neglector, Panther Camp, Abandon the Midwest 8 pm; 64 North, 64 N. Orange Ave.; $5; 321-245-7730. Singer-Songwriter Open Mic 7:30 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364. Spoon, Tennis 7 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $25-$57; 407-934-2583.

THEATER Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. Wednesday-Saturday; 7:30 pm; Sunday, 2 pm; Goldman Theater at Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $25$60; 407-447-1700; orlandoshakes.org. Cabaret Acclaimed musical about pre-WWII Berlin and the rise of the Nazi Party. ThursdaySaturday, 8 pm, Sunday 2 pm; The Historic State Theatre, 109 N. Bay St., Eustis; $11-$21; 352-357-7777; baystreetplayers.org. The Curious Savage A widow’s stepchildren place her in a sanitarium. Comedy. Friday, 7:30-9:30 pm; Gateway Center for the Arts, 880 N. Highway 17-92, DeBary; $17-$19; 386668-5553; gatewaycenterforthearts.org. Dogmai A dramedy about grief, guns and God. Friday-Saturday, 8 pm, Sunday, 3 pm; Dangerous Theatre Sanford, 115 W. First St., Sanford; $15-$20; 407358-6677; dangeroustheatre.com. An Evening With Mr. Johnson: It’s Hard Being a Dick A man confronts his insatiable penis about his cheating ways. FridaySaturday, 4 & 9:30 pm; Dangerous Theatre Sanford, 115 W. First St., Sanford; $15-$20; 407-358-6677; dangeroustheatre.com. Guys and Dolls Musical about small-time mobsters, gambling and love. ThursdaySaturday, 7:30 pm, Sunday, 2:30 pm; Athens Theatre, 124 N. Florida Ave., DeLand; $23$28; 386-736-1500; athensdeland.com. Into the Woods Musical retelling of classic fairytales with an adult twist. Friday, 8 pm, Saturday, 2 & 8 pm, Sunday, 2 pm; Garden Theatre, 160 W. Plant St., Winter Garden; $25-$29; 407-877-4736.

Legally Dirty Blonde A cabaret about the close friendship between two women. Thursday, 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $15; 407-636-9951; bluebambooartcenter.com. The Miracle Worker The true story of Anne Sullivan teaching blind and deaf Helen Keller to communicate. Thursday-Friday, 7:30 pm, Saturday, 2 & 7:30 pm, Sunday, 3 pm; Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center, 201 S. Magnolia Ave., Sanford; $10-$15; 407-321-8111; wdpac.com. [Miss] A new award-winning play by W.L. Newkirk about the true story of Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, who fought to keep thalidomide out of the US. Friday-Saturday, 8 pm, Sunday, 3 pm; Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $18; 407-761-2683; theprt.com. Pinkalicious, the Musical A musical about Pinkalicious, a young girl who can’t stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Based on the popular children’s book. Saturday, 2 & 4:30 pm; Margeson Theater, Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $14-$18; 407-447-1700; orlandoshakes.org. A Time to Go Walking An Irish play about life, love and loss. Friday-Saturday, 1 & 7:30 pm; Dangerous Theatre Sanford, 115 W. First St., Sanford; $15-$20; 407358-6677; dangeroustheatre.com. Urinetown, the Musical Tony Award-winning musical about a town gouged by a megacorporation that charges residents every time they have to use the bathroom. WednesdayFriday, 8 pm, Saturday, 2 & 8 pm; Rollins College, Annie Russell Theatre, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; $20; 407-646-2145; rollins.edu.

COMEDY The Amazing Johnathan Stand-up and magic. Friday, 8 & 10:30 pm, Saturday, 7:30 & 10:15 pm, Sunday, 7:30 pm; Orlando Improv, 9101 International Drive; $25; 407480-5233; theimprovorlando.com. Drunken Monkey Open Mic Comedy open mic. Fridays, 8 pm; Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar, 444 N. Bumby Ave.; free; 407-8934994; drunkenmonkeycoffee.com. Jack’s Open Mic Comedy Night Open mic comedy night hosted by Myke Herlihy. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9 pm; Jack’s Pub & Grub, 5494 Central Florida Parkway; free; 407-787-3886. Open Mic Comedy With Craig Norberg Comedy open mic for aspiring comedians. Sundays, 8 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364; austinscoffee.com. Other Bar Open Mic with Ken Miller Comedy open mic with rotating hosts. Mondays, 8 pm; The Other Bar, 18 Wall St.; free; 407-843-8595.

THEWEEK Public House Comedy Showcase Tuesday, 9 pm; The Public House, 12046 Collegiate Way; free.

DANCE Blacklist Babes Cabaret: Humpday Fringe Fundraiser Burlesque cabaret show to raise money for Fringe. Wednesday, 9:30 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $5 suggested donation; 407-270-9104. Don Quixote A classical production of the famed ballet. Saturday, 5-7 pm; Calvary Assembly of God, 1199 Clay St., Winter Park; $15$35; 407-896-0309; russianballetorlando.org. Florida Tribal Dance Showcase featuring students alongside professional dancers in a tribal bellydance. Saturday, 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $15; 407636-9951; bluebambooartcenter.com.

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KIN: Spring Dance Concert A two-time Orlando Fringe performing group, The Explore Composite, presents a modern and interpretive performance about what it means to be a dancer. Friday-Saturday, 7:30 pm, Sunday, 2 pm; Seminole State College, 100 Weldon Blvd., Sanford; $8$10; 407-708-2506; seminolestate.edu.

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Culture Pop: Architects as Artists Works of art outside the realm of traditional functional design. Featuring live music, poetry readings, complimentary food and a cash bar. Friday, 6 pm; Art & History Museums Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland; $5; 407-539-2181; artandhistory.org. Frida Kahlo: A Life Less Ordinary Dine & Learn A lecture on Frida Kahlo’s background and some of the unusual details of her work, accompanied by a meal at one of Mount Dora’s best restaurants. Tuesday, 6:30 pm; 1921 by Norman Van Aken, 142 E. Fourth Ave., Mount Dora; $30; 352-385-1921; modernismmuseum.org. Interim Form Exhibition from artists Richard Reep and Dina Mack that connects their work to an exploration of ritual, repetition, form and the intimacy of materials and spaces. Opens Thursday, 6-9 pm; The Art Gallery at Mills Park, 1650 N. Mills Ave.; free; 855336-3653; thegalleryatmillspark.com. Perception & Reality II Group exhibition featuring interactive art, immersive installations, CONTINUED ON PAGE 51

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digital and 3D art and more. Opens Friday, 7-10 pm, through July 1; Snap Downtown, 420 E. Church St.; free; snaporlando.com. Sketching With Skeletons Sketch animal skeletons. Thursday, 6:30 pm; Skeletons: Museum of Osteology, 8441 International Drive; $12; 407-203-6999; skeletonmuseum.com. Winter Park Paint Out See works in progress as well as recently completed works and watch artists painting in the gardens. Through Saturday,; Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-647-6294; polasek.org. Winter Park Paint Out Garden Party Celebrate the works of the Polasek Museum’s Paint Out artists in the gardens at twilight. Art available for purchase. Saturday, 6-9 pm; Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park; $100; 407-647-6294; polasek.org.

THEWEEK Jack King: Searching for Truth First inspired by the quest of Cuban rafters seeking sanctuary in the United States, King’s work dives deep into physical and spiritual quests as a continuing aspect of our collective human mythology. Through Saturday; Crealdé School of Art, 600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407-671-1886; crealde.org. Juried Student Art Exhibition Mondays-Fridays, 8:30 am-5 pm; Anita S. Wooten Gallery, 701 N. Econlockhatchee Trail; free; 407-582-2298; valenciacollege.edu. Le Salon Through Aug. 26; Snap Space, 1013 E. Colonial Drive; free; snaporlando.com. Local Art Night Thursday, 8-11 pm; DRIP, 8747 International Drive; $5; 347-855-3747.

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Art Talk Saturday, 2-8 pm; Three Masks, 1023 W. Colonial Drive; free; 407-426-7355. The Art Works of a Phantom Axiom Through May 20; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free; willspub.org. The Black Figure in the European Imaginary Through May 14; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-646-2526; rollins.edu. Bo Bartlett: American Artist Through May 7; Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E. Princeton St.; $5; 407-2464278; mennellomuseum.com. Brett J. Barr: Sketch Series III Through May 13; BART, 1205 N. Mills Ave.; free; 407-796-2522. Carnival Art Show Group art show revolving around carnival and circus themes. Through May 7; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; free; 407-423-3060. Charlene Edwards: Voices From Vietnam Through May 6; Lake Eustis Museum of Art, 1 W. Orange Ave., Eustis; $5; 352483-2900; lakeeustisartmuseum.org. Client Work Through May 13; Redefine Gallery, 29 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-648-7060. Geektastic Through May 6; Dandelion Communitea Cafe, 618 N. Thornton Ave.; free; 407-3621864; dandelioncommunitea.com. It’s All Fun and Games Through May 13; CityArts Factory, 29 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-648-7060.

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Pedestrian: Moments in Blue Through May 5; The Gatlin Creative, 4940 S. Orange Ave.; free; thegatlincreative.com. Perennials Showcasing the talents of studio art majors in ceramics, sculpture, painting, photography, digital media and design. Through Friday; UCF Art Gallery, 12400 Aquarius Agora Drive; free; 407-823-3161. Positive Negative Group show featuring new works by Plinio Pinto, Cake Marques, Chad Pollpeter and more. Through May 13; The Gallery at Avalon Island, 39 S. Magnolia Ave.; free; avalongallery.org. Sketching in the Galleries Saturday, noon; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; $15; 407-896-4231.

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Theatrix! Visual art depicting the history of theater, poets and performers. Through May 13; CityArts Factory, 29 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-648-7060. Traditional Arts of the Bedouin Artworks and artifacts showcasing the legacy of Bedouin craftspeople. Through Saturday, 10 am-4 pm; Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, 150 W. University Blvd., Melbourne; free; 321-674-8313; txtiles.fit.edu. Who We Are Now Through May 12; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; $15; 407-896-4231. You Are My Sunshine Ongoing; Art of Healing Gallery at Florida Hospital - Altamonte, 601 E. Altamonte Drive, Altamonte Springs; free; 407-303-5395; flhosp.com. Youth in Focus: Moments in Nature Through July 18; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach; free; 386-506-4475; smponline.org.

EVENTS Brunch With the Boys Benefit for Two Spirit Health Services with a catered buffet, drinks, a drag show and a raffle. Sunday, 11 am-4 pm; Savoy Orlando, 1913 N. Orange Ave.; $35; savoyorlando.com. Drag Brunch Brunch and a drag show featuring performers from RuPaul’s Drag Race and Orlando’s top female impersonators. Sundays, 1 pm; Señor Frog’s, 8747 International Drive; $19.95-$69.95; 407-351-2525; vossevents.com. Escape: Dreamland Monthly fetishwear party with live performances, a game show, DJs, a costume contest and more. Saturday, 10 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $5-$10; 407-999-2570; backbooth.com. Farmers & Artisans Market Locally crafted and grown products. Saturdays, 9 am-1 pm; Historic Downtown Longwood, West SR 434 and South County Road 427, Longwood; free; 321-222-7224; longwoodfl.org. Fashion EDGE An interactive up-and-coming designer competition during Orlando International Fashion Week. Friday, 6:30 pm; Tier Nightclub, 20 E. Central Blvd.; $25-$35; 407-317-9129; orlandointernationalfashionweek.com.

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Fiesta for Foster Children Fundraising event benefitting the Foundation for Foster Children. Featuring chihuahua races, adult pinatas, food and more. Friday, 7-11 pm; Full Sail Live, 141 University Park Drive, Winter Park; $25; 407-422-4615.

Planned Parenthood Generations Gala Dinner, cocktails and a program featuring Dahlia Lithwick and Sonya Renee Taylor to help support Planned Parenthood. Saturday, 6:30-9:30 pm; Heaven Event Center, 8240 Exchange Drive; $100-$150; 407-520-8249; ppaction.org.

Florida Salsa Festival Enjoy unlimited salsa samples from chefs and restaurants, salsa music and dancing and plenty of Corona and tequila. Sunday, 1-6 pm; Mucho Tequila and Tacos, 101 S. Eola Drive; $15-$45; 407-843-9676; floridasalsafest.com.

Pokémon MiniCon Free mini-con with food trucks, vendors, live music, costumes and more. Sunday, 10 am; Seneff Arts Plaza, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; free; 844-513-2014; drphillipscenter.org.

Get Your Jazz On Live jazz accompanied by complimentary drinks, roast pig and other accouterments. Friday, 6:30 pm; The Alfond Inn, 300 E. New England Ave., Winter Park; $50; 407-998-8090. Hair of the Dog Day A Lagunitas sponsored dog event. Raffle proceeds donated to In Harmony With Nature Rescue. Featuring doggy caricatures, Big Tim Murphy’s hot dog cart, a silent auction and more. Sunday, 2-6 pm; The Thirsty Topher, 601 Virginia Drive; Free; 407491-4342; facebook.com/thethirstytopher. Orlando Girl Geek Dinners Join for convo, food and drinks. All women welcome. Friday, 7 pm; Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; 407-623-3393; orlandogirlgeeks.com.

Say Hello Adoption Event Adoptable pets, food trucks, a market and more. Saturday, 10 am-4 pm; Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando, 2727 Conroy Road; free; 407-351-7722; petallianceorlando.org. Science of Wine Sample food and wine from top restaurants and vineyards. Saturday, 7-10 pm; Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St.; $125; 407-514-2000; osc.org.

LEARNING Dinosaur Invasion An outdoor exhibit of lifesize prehistoric creatures. Through Sunday, 9 am-5 pm; Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave.; $10; 407.246.2620; leugardens.org. Feel the Power of the Dork Side A comedic and educational look at science and technolCONTINUED ON PAGE 55

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ogy. Friday-Saturday, 7:30-8:30 pm; Maitland Civic Center, 641 S. Maitland Ave., Maitland; $20-$25; 770-883-4318; drpetecomedy.com. Orlando Language Exchange A safe space for language enthusiasts, linguists, language learners and people who simply speak some amazing languages of the world. Wednesday, 8-11 pm; Sandwich Bar, 2432 E. Robinson St.; free; 787-234-1937. Preserving History in the Aftermath of the Pulse Tragedy Chief curator Pamela Schwartz and collections manager Whitney Broadaway share details about the Orange County Regional History Center’s One Orlando Collection Initiative, dedicated to collecting, preserving, cataloging and storing over 3,000 condolence memorial items in the aftermath of the Pulse Tragedy. Saturday, 2-3 pm; Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-835-7323; ocls.info.

ZipOde Throwdown Local writers pay tribute to their neighborhoods with a series of odes to their ZIP codes. Thursday, 6-9 pm; Orlando Brewing, 1301 Atlanta Ave.; free; 407-872-1117; wmfe.org.

SPORTS

Central Florida Mah Jongg Experienced American mah-jongg players meet weekly using the National Mah Jongg 2015 card and rules. Wednesdays, 12:304 pm; MetroWest Country Club, 2100 S. Hiawassee Road; free; 561-704-9302.

Orlando City B vs. St. Louis Soccer. Thursday, 7:30 pm; Orlando City Stadium, 655 W. Church St.; $10; 855-675-2489; orlandocitysc.com.

Anthea’s Angels NAMI Walk Fundraising walk. Saturday, 8 am; Cranes Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; donations; 407-571-8863; namiwalks.org.

Florida Pole Fitness Championship An alternative fitness and dance show featuring aerialists and pole gymnasts. Friday-Saturday, 5 pm; The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave.; $25-$50; 407-228-1220; plazaliveorlando.com.

April Critical Blast Community bike ride through the streets of Orlando. Friday, 5:35 pm; Loch Haven Park, 777 E. Princeton St.; free; 407-246-2283.

Let’s Play Live Live eSports (video gaming) show. Friday, 7:30 pm; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; $55-$75; 407351-5483; hardrock.com/orlando.

Orlando City vs. Colorado Rapids MLS soccer. Saturday, 4 pm; Orlando City Stadium, 655 W. Church St.; $32-$255; 855-675-2489; orlandocitysc.com. Run for the Trees Jeannette Genius McKean Memorial 5K A 5K run/walk featuring a glimpse of privately owned old Florida. Finishers receive a young tree. Saturday, 7:30 am; Showalter Field, 2525 Cady Way, Winter Park; $30-$38; 407-896-1160; trackshack.com. n

Winter Park: The War Years New exhibit that recreates a living room, children’s room and kitchen as they would have appeared in the 1940s. Ongoing; Winter Park Historical Museum, at the Winter Park Farmers Market, Winter Park; free; 407-647-8180; wphistory.org.

LITERARY Diverse Word Spoken word open mic. Tuesdays, 8 pm; Dandelion Communitea Cafe, 618 N. Thornton Ave.; free; 407-3621864; dandelioncommunitea.com. Loose Lips The news as spoken word. Hosted by Tod Caviness. Tuesday, 8 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free; willspub.org. Poetry Open Mic Open mic from the Writers of Central Florida or Thereabouts. Monday, 8 pm; Copper Rocket Pub, 106 Lake Ave., Maitland; free; 407-636-3171; letsmakeitathing.com. S.A.F.E. Words Slam Finals Slam poetry competition finals with guest readers, live music and more. Saturday, 8 pm; Henao Contemporary Center, 5601 Edgewater Drive; $5; henaocenter.com. A (SEUL) Reading Burrow Press and SEUL poetry quarterly ream up to celebrate poetry month with a special reading. Thursday, 8 pm; The Milk Bar, 2424 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-896-4954. So You Think You Can Funny? Literary open mic focused on humor. Wednesday, 7-10 pm; Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; free; 407623-3393; facebook.com/stardustie. Wednesday Open Words Poetry and spoken word open mic. Wednesdays, 8:30 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364; austinscoffee.com. orlandoweekly.com

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Kiba (A350421) was surrendered because his owner could no longer keep him, so now he is looking for a new home. This handsome pup is 1 year old, and he’s very friendly. He is playful and affectionate, and he already knows the commands “sit” and “stay.” His previous owner said that he does well with other dogs. For the month of April, every applicant will have the opportunity to pick a “furtune” cookie which will contain the reduced adoption fee of $5, $10 or $15. Orange County Animal Services is located at 2769 Conroy Road in Orlando, Florida near the Mall at Millenia. The shelter is open 10 a.m. through 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 1 p.m. through 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, please call 407-8363111 or visit ocnetpets.com.

I’m a 31-year-old gay man. I’ve been with my fiancé for three years, and we are getting married in the fall. I’ve got a question about initiating sex in my sleep – I read somewhere that “sexsomnia” is the “medical” term, but maybe the internet invented that? According to my fiancé, I have initiated or performed some kind of sex act in the middle of the night and then gone right back to sleep. The next day, I don’t remember anything. This freaks me out for a couple of reasons: My body doing things without my mind being in control is concerning enough, but it feels kinda rapey, since I doubt I’m capable of hearing “no” in this state. My fiancé doesn’t feel that way; he finds it sexy. The other thing – and maybe I shouldn’t have read so much Freud and Jung in college – is that I’m worried my body is acting out desires that my conscious mind doesn’t want to acknowledge. According to my fiancé, the last time I did stuff in my sleep, I rimmed him and told him how much I wanted to fuck him. Rimming isn’t a typical part of our sex life (although I’d like it to be), and my fiancé has never bottomed for anyone (I’ve topped guys in prior relationships, but in our relationship I’ve only bottomed). Is my body doing things that my mind won’t admit it wants to do? Is there a way to prevent it from happening? Sexsomniac Hoping Eventually Eager Trysts Stop Sexsomnia is a real and sometimes troubling phenomenon, SHEETS, and not something the internet made up like Pizzagate or Sean Spicer. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine says sexsomnia is real – a real clinical condition – but they prefer the fancier, more “medical”-sounding name: sleep-related abnormal sexual behaviors. Dr. Michel Cramer Bornemann, a lead researcher at Sleep Forensics Associates (sleepforensicmedicine.org), describes sexsomnia as “sleepwalking-like behaviors that have sexualized attributes.” And sleep-rimming your delighted fiancé definitely counts. “Sexsomnia may be expressed as loud, obscene vocalizations from sleep (that are typically uncharacteristic of the individual while awake), prolonged or violent masturbation, inappropriate touch upon the genitals, buttocks and breast of a bed partner, and initiation of sexual intercourse,” Bornemann says. “The vast majority of sleep disorders are not reflective of a significant underlying psychiatric condition.” So your unconscious, late-night gropings/ initiatings/rimmings don’t mean you secretly desire to be an ass-eating top. And there’s no need to drag poor Sigmund or Carl into this, SHEETS, since you’re not doing anything in your sleep that you don’t desire to do wide awake. You wanna rim your fiancé, you’ve topped other guys and would probably like to top this one too – so neither of the examples you cite qualify as desires your

“conscious mind doesn’t want to acknowledge.” (Unless you wrote to me in your sleep.) Like all sleep disorders, sexsomnia is just something that happens to a very small number of people, SHEETS, there’s no need to endow it with deeper meaning. Take it away, Dr. Bornemann … “The brain is made of approximately 100 billion neurons, or electrical connections that allow effective communication between brain subunits. As with all electrical systems, errors in transmission may occur – these are called ‘switching errors.’ In sleep, switching errors may activate previously quiescent areas of the brain while other areas remain off-line. In sleep-related behaviors, it is thought that deep-seated subunits near the sleep-wake generating center become triggered, which activate primal automatic behaviors. Simply stated, electrical switching errors in sleep may unleash the animal that actually lies within us all – sometimes to an extent that may have unintended criminal or forensics implications.” In most cases, sexsomniacs will hump a pillow or jerk themselves off. The sexsomniacs who tend to make the news – the ones we hear about – are the “unintended criminals” Dr. Bornemann alluded to, i.e., people who’ve sexually assaulted someone while asleep. Luckily for you, SHEETS, your fiancé is okay with your “primal automatic behaviors.” But you might wanna watch Sleepwalk With Me, an autobiographical film by Mike Birbiglia, a comedian with a sleep disorder. Birbiglia wasn’t initiating sex in his sleep – he was jumping out of windows. A danger to himself and others, he sought treatment and is no longer jumping out of windows in his sleep. You’re not a danger to yourself or others currently, SHEETS, but if you got a new partner or your current partner’s feelings about surprise, middle-of-the-night rimjobs were to change, you could be a danger. So you should chat with a doctor now about drugs and/or other interventions. “My catch-all advice is to read this book called The Promise of Sleep by Dr. William C. Dement,” said Birbiglia in an e-mail after I shared your letter with him. “He’s sort of the father of sleep medicine. He talks about sleep hygiene extensively, i.e., how to have the best night’s sleep possible by avoiding TV, eating heavily, drinking, etc., a few hours before bed. I know this isn’t exactly an answer to SHEET’s specific question, but getting a better night’s sleep could probably help him across the board in ways that he doesn’t even realize.” My boyfriend wants to visit a private gay sex dungeon in Europe this summer but we want to play only with each other. Any tips on getting to play in an actual dungeon without having to put out for the guy whose dungeon it is? Requests A Curious Kinkster orlandoweekly.com

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Put Berlin on your itinerary, RACK. Google “SM Apartments” or “Hoist Basements,” break out your credit card, splurge and send pics. I’m a straight married man. My wife has a very close male friend who happens to be in a poly marriage. Recently, my wife said she would like us to be able to date others, have sex, romance, etc., but still remain a married couple. She specifically wants to date her friend. I am struggling. I am not closed off to having a conversation about nonmonogamy, but I struggle with the thought of her having a boyfriend. I want to be able to give this to her, but I feel like my mind and body are not letting me. Any advice is so much appreciated. Help Understanding Spouse’s Blunt And New Demand “Introducing nonmonogamy into an existing monogamous relationship can be tough, especially when it wasn’t your idea,” says Cunning Minx, host of the Polyamory Weekly podcast, who has been providing poly news, advice and insights to the masses since 2005 at polyweekly.com. “It’s even more stressful when there is a potential partner waiting in the wings! Yikes!” While Minx is a poly activist and advocate, HUSBAND, she thinks both parties need to be on the same page before going poly. And before you take that step – if you take that step – Minx thinks you need to ask yourself some questions. “HUSBAND should do a fear inventory,” said Minx. “What is he afraid of? What would it mean to him if his wife had a boyfriend? What if she wanted to love a woman – does the penis make a difference? If so, why? Then he should sit with his wife and take stock of the health of their current relationship.” You can say no to opening up your marriage, HUSBAND, but your wife may decide she wants out of the marriage if no is the answer – basically, this is a circumstance where one of you is going to have to pay a pretty steep price of admission. You’ll either have to accept polyamory, or your wife will have to drop it. There isn’t really a middle ground here – or is there? “It’s perfectly acceptable for HUSBAND to self-identify as monogamous while his wife practices polyamory,” Minx says. “It’s a difficult path, and will require a high level of internal security and self-awareness on his part, but ultimately your self-identity is your own decision.” On the Lovecast, a deep dive into the world of cuckolding: savagelovecast.com.

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Legal, Public Notices NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on May 16, 2017 at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored there in by the following: 1:30p.m. at the Extra Space Storage facility located at: 4390 Pleasant Hill Rd, Kissimmee, FL 34746 (407) 944-1408: Jordan Arce unit 521 Household Goods, Luis Rafael Mendez Rodriguez unit 460 Hshold goods, personal items, David Bauder unit 510 a couple tools, couch, tables, Larry Michael Zeznanski unit 558 Hshold Goods, Personal Items, Anthony Munez unit 5242 Personal Items, Jeanette Rivera Ortiz unit 5095 Hshold Goods, Juan Carlos Villegas Benitez unit 524 hhold goods. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Extra Space Storage reserves the right to bid. Sale is subject to adjournment. Thank You, Extra Space Storage.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA IN THE MATTER OF THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS FOR THE PROPOSED ADOPTION OF A MINOR CHILD. L.M., DOB: 03/05/2014 Case No.: 2016-DR-017027-O NOTICE OF ACTION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO: ERIC WILLIAM MCINTYRE of Orlando, FL; Caucasian male, DOB: 06/16/1977, Blonde hair, blue eyes, 5’8” approximately 155lbs., father of the minor child born on 03/05/2013. YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defense if any to it on ASHLEY FILIMON, P.A. whose address is 37 N. Orange Ave. Ste. 202 Orlando, FL 32801, and file the original with the Clerk of Court at 425 N. Orange Ave. Orlando, FL 32801 before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you and the Court may enter an Order granting the Termination of Parental Rights for adoption of the minor child. Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request. You must keep the Court informed of your current address. You must file a response with the Clerk by 5/18/2017. Dated 4/3/17. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, BY: /s/ Alva Coleman, DEPUTY CLERK. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE: I HEREBY CERTIFY that this has been filed in the Florida E-Portal this 3rd day of April, 2017. /s/ Ashley Filimon, Esq., Ashley Filimon, P.A.,afilimon@legalperson.com, 37 N. Orange Ave. Suite 202 Orlando, Florida 32801, 407-801-5022- Telephone, Florida Bar No. 0095954, Attorney for Petitioner.

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: 1995 Mercedes VIN# WDBHA22E0SF156462 1999 Toyota VIN# 1NXBR12E9XZ220801 2000 Honda VIN# 2HGEJ6619YH509194 2000 Ford VIN# 1FMZU62X3YZA90465 1992 Buick VIN# 1G3AL54N6N6410417 2013 Toyota VIN# 4T1BF1FK0DU228502 To be sold at auction at 8:00 a.m. on May 10, 2017, 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR THE 9TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION CASE NO. 2017-CP-001028-O IN RE: THE ESTATE OF ALEXANDER ANTONIO SANTANA, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS The summary administration of the estate of ALEXANDER ANTONIO SANTANA, Deceased, Case Number 17-CP-001028-O is pending in the Circuit Court for Orange County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801. The names and addresses of the personal representative and personal representative’s attorney are set forth below. All creditors are required to file all claims of the estate with this Court, within the later of THREE (3) MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION or THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT SO FILED WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. Publication of this Notice was begun on 4/26/17. Personal Representative: /s/ GUILLERMINA SANTANA, 19872 NW 64th Place, Miami, Florida 33016. Attorney for Personal Representative: /s/ BARBARA SANJURJO, ESQ., BARBARA SANJURJO P.A., 2630 SW 28TH STREET, SUITE 61, COCONUT GROVE, FL 33133, (305) 370-3990 Phone, (305) 370-3999 Fax, Fla. Bar. No. 0478636, Email: Barbara@sanjurjolaw.com.

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Legal, Public Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 2017 CA 001883-O ERICK IRIZARRY PAOLI; Plaintiff, vs. ISABEL IRIZARRY CARABALLO, Deceased, if alive, and if dead her unknown spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, judgment creditors, and all other parties claiming by, through, under or against her or parties or claiming to have any right, title, or interest in the property described in this complaint, Defendants. NOTICE OF ACTION TO DEFENDANTS: ISABEL IRIZARRY CARABALLO, Deceased. Last Known Address: Costa Norte, H115 Calle Palma, Hatillo, Puerto Rico 00659 If alive, and if dead her unknown spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, judgment creditors, and all other parties claiming by, through, under or against her or parties or claiming to have any right, title, or interest in the property described in this complaint, Current Addresses: Unknown YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action to quiet title on the following property in Orange County, Florida: Unit 22, Building 8, WALDEN PALMS CONDOMINIUM, a Condominium according to the Declaration of Condominium thereof, recorded in Official Records Book 8444, Page 2553, of the Public Records of Orange County, Florida and any amendments thereto, together with its undivided share in the common elements. has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Plaintiffs’ attorney, Jennifer R. Bondy, Esquire, OVERSTREET, MILES, CUMBIE & FINKENBINDER, P.A., whose address is 100 Church Street, Kissimmee, FL 34741 on or before 30 days from the first date of publication, and file the original with the Clerk of this Court either before service on Plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. DATED this 29th day of March, 2017. TIFFANY MOORE RUSSELL, Clerk of the Circuit Court Orange County, Florida, By: /s/ Lisa R Trelstad, Deputy Clerk, 2017.03.23 12:18:25-04’00’, Deputy Clerk, Civil Division, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Room 310, Orlando, Florida 32801, cc: Jennifer R. Bondy, Esquire, Overstreet, Miles, Cumbie & Finkenbinder, P.A., 100 Church Street, Kissimmee, Florida 34741, (407) 847-5151, Email: jbondy@omcflaw.com.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO.: 2016-CA-6862 ASHINGTON PARK HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, vs. VALERIE R. PEEBLES, UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF VALERIE R. PEEBLES, and UNKNOWN PARTIES IN POSSESSION, Defendants. NOTICE OF ACTION TO: VALERIE R. PEEBLES, 14510 Greydale Circle, Orlando, Florida 32826, Current residence unknown, if living, and ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PARTIES, including if a named Defendant is deceased, the personal representatives, the surviving spouse, heirs, devisees, grantees, creditors, and all other parties claiming, by, through, under or against that Defendant, and all claimants persons or parties, natural or corporate, whose exact legal status is unknown, claiming under any of the above named or described Defendants. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that an action to foreclose a lien on the following property located in Orange County, Florida: LOT 35, STONEMEADE, PHASE 1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 33, PAGE 113, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. Street address of: 14510 Greydale Circle, Orlando, Florida 32826, has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to Peter Hagood, Esquire, Hagood & Garvey, LLC., Plaintiff’s attorney, at 451 Maitland Avenue, Altamonte Springs, Florida 32701, within 30 days of the first date of publication of this notice, and file the original with clerk of this court (425 North Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801) either before, May 12, 2017 on Plaintiff’s attorney or immediately thereafter; otherwise a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition Tiffany Moore Russell, Orange County Clerk of Court. BY: /s/ Lisa R Trelstad, Deputy Clerk. Civil Division, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Room 310, Orlando, Florida 32801.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Jaylibeth Leon of 4208 Center Key Rd., Winter Park, FL 32792, pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, is hereby advertising the following fictitious name: Conquer Within Apparel It is the intent of the undersigned to register “Conquer Within Apparel” with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Dated: 4/18/17.

LOST OR ABANDONED PROPERTY FOUND OR RECOVERED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA. PROPERTY NOT CLAIMED WILL EITHER BE SURRENDERED TO THE FINDERS OR RETAINED FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT. CITY LIMITS OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA PICTURE IDENTIFICATION IS REQUIRED. APRIL 2017 1. CELL PHONE 4700 BLK DANZIG CT 2. HOVERBOARD 1500 BLK COMMON WAY 3. CELL PHONE HUGHEY AVE 4. LAPTOP SILVERSTAR RD 5. CELL PHONE 1900 BLK LAKEMONT 6. CELL PHONE/CASE SUNSET DR 7. GIFT CARD 4400 BLK VIRGINIA DR 8. I-PAD NARCOOSSEE RD 9. CELL PHONE ORANGE AVE 10. GARAGE DOOR OPENERS VICKREY PL/ANDRIC LN 11. CELL PHONE/ELECTRONICS 1200 BLK DORCHESTER 12. BRACELET 5300 BLK I-DRIE 13. I-PAD 2400 BLK CONWAY RD 14. CELL PHONE/CASE WESTMORLND/ANDERSON 15. JEWELRY 4900 BLK I-DRIVE 16. GIFT CARDS/CELL PHONE EAGLE WATCH CR 17. CELL PHONE WASHINGTON/ OBT 18. CELL PHONE LK MARGRET/ DIXIE BELL 19. COMPUTER/BRIEFCASE RALEIGH ST 20. CELL PHONE 2400 BLK RIO GRANDE 21. CAMERA CINDERLANE PARKWAY 22. OXYGEN TANK N. ORANGE AV 23. CAR SEAT/STROLLER 3300 BLK WILTS CR 24. CELL PHONE BENT PINE DRIVE 25. CELL PHONE CENTRAL BV 26. LAPTOP CENTRAL BV/ COURT ST 27. TABLET/HEADLAMP CONROY RD 28. CELL PHONES CONROY ROAD 29. BIKE LAKE BALDWIN/SHEA ST 30. BIKE NARCOOSSEE ROAD 31. BIKE YUCATAN DRIVE 32. BIKE PRIMROSE DR 33. BIKE MOSS ROSE WAY 34. BIKE AMELIA ST 35. BIKE LINDALE AVE 36. BIKE 3800 BLK BRANDY ST 37. MONEY COLONIAL DR 38. MONEY LIVINGSTON ST 39. MONEY SEMORAN BV FOR INFO CALL (407) 246-2445, MONDAYS – THRU- THURSDAYS, 8:00 AM TILL 4:30 PM Notice of Sale Orlando Business Center 2200 Forsyth Rd. Ste M-01, Orlando, FL 32807, 407-657- 0098. To, Unit #. Kurt Johnson – Mattress, box springs, baby stroller, tables, misc. household items, Unit # M30. Mario J Colon – Chair, ironing board, luggage, misc. boxes, clothes, And household items, Unit #L03. Orlando Business Center, 2200 Forsyth Rd. Ste M-01, Orlando, FL 32807, has possessory lien on all of

the goods stored in the prospective units above. All these items of personal property are being sold pursuant to the assertion of the lien on 5/11/17 at 11:00 A.M. in order to collect the amounts due from you. The sale will take place at 2200 Forsyth Rd. Ste M-01, Orlando, FL 32807. This is April 24, 2017.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION FOR MONIES DUE ON STORAGE LOCKERS LOCATED AT UHAUL COMPANY FACILITIES. STORAGE LOCATIONS AND TIMES ARE LISTED BELOW. ALL GOODS SOLD ARE HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS, MISCELLANEOUS OR RECOVERED GOODS. ALL AUCTIONS ARE HELD TO SATISFY OWNER’S LIEN FOR RENT AND FEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTES, SELF STORAGE ACT, SECTIONS 83.806 AND 83.807, STARTS AT 8 am and RUNS CONTINUOUSLY. Uhaul Ctr Ocoee-11410 W. Colonial Drive-Ocoee 5/10/17 1521 Jonathan Hernandez 3356 Truleia Fuller 3507 Dale Vied 3509 Dale Vied Uhaul Stg Haines City-3307 Hwy 17-92 W-Haines City 5/10/17 E0525 Jexsenia Rodriguez G0760 Masey Rodriguez Salva G0796 Kathleen Ward G0708 Sandy Thunberg G0773 Lourdes Cavilla G0736 Nick Pucci Uhaul Ctr Hunters Creek-13301 S. Orange Blossom Trail-Orlando 5/10/17 2083 Gregory Riegel 3628 Leslie Dailey 3165 Sherry Shelia 1339 Theresa Moore 1518 Michelle L Bowens 1719 Belgret King 3112 Antonio Clemmons Uhaul Stg Gatorland- 14651 Gatorland Dr-Orlando 5/10/17 1002 Alberto Matinez 627 Radshad Frazier 661 Miguel Arroyo 639 Bryan Ramirez. Notice is hereby given that Extra Space Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at location indicated: 1751 Fortune Rd Kissimmee FL 34744, 407-414- 5303 on 05/16/17 @ 11:00 am. Maggy Jean Jacques 5042 Shelfs & furniture, Diana Mendez 3096 Household goods/Boxes/ Furniture, Thomas Kevin Nicolson 1075 boxes/furniture/machines, Carmelo Perez 5070 Work Tools, Liza Guasp-Davila 3053 Fish tank/ Boxes/Office supplies, Francisco Santiago 5024 Household goods & Furniture, Marcelus Fervilon 5057 Household goods/Clothes, Stacey Modjeski 5049 four bedroom/ Household goods/Furniture/Boxes, Miguel Severian 2129 Tools, Jerry Joseph 2136 Household good & Furniture, Jennifer Kirby 2109 Household Appliances & Furniture. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE 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 83807. 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. Owners reserve the right to bid on units. Lien sale to be held online ending Wednesday, May 10, 2017 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- storageunits/ for more info. Personal Mini Storage Edgewater-6325 Edgewater Dr Orlando, FL 32810-at 11:30 pm: 0204 Tomeka K Simmons Sanders, 0424 Rodrique Dejandro Lee, 0637 Shanterria La Shay Scott, 0847 Rhonda Kay Dulany, 1036 Dorothy Ann Scott, 1226 Bianca R Gordon, 1329 Sasha Lucille Pollard, 1413 Stephanie Jean Brandon, 1421 Shawn Allen Bays, 1759 Lloyd O Neubauer Personal Mini Storage Forest City Rd-6550 Forest City Rd Orlando, FL 32810-at 12:00 pm: 1069 Laritza Marie Velez Soto, 2044 Willie Thomas Walton Jr, 3182 Patricia Pearlman, 4058 Jack Montana, 4083 Frank Clarence Grant Jr, 5012 Jean Claude Brutus, 6029 Charles Andrew Shows, 6047 Leonard Leroy Jefferson III, 9018 Kevin Bernard Williams 2005 Ford Escape VIN#1FMYU02Z05KB84883 Tag#SS671, Kingsland, Auto Pawn G310 2005 FORD ESCAPE VIN#1FMYU02Z05KB84883 Tag#SS671, 9037 Willie Thomas Walton Jr 1985 Toyota Pickup VIN#JT4RN55D7F0087163 Tag#CXNN27.

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property under The Florida Self Storage Facility Act Statutes (Section 83.801-83.809). The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on, Thursday, May 11th,2017 at 10:00AM, on lockerfox.com said property has been stored and which are located at: iStorage, 3400 Forsyth Rd, Winter Park FL 32792 Name, Unit #, Contents: Justin Turner, 396, Mattresses, Chair, Floor Fan Tamika Arthur, 621, Totes, Boxes, Laundry Detergent, Chairs Purchases must be paid for at the time of purchase by cash only. All purchased items are sold as is, where is, and must be removed at the time of the sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Dated the 26th day of April and 3rd day of May, 2017.

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, PACKED CARTONS, FURNITURE, TOOLS, TRUCKS, CARS, ETC. THERE’S NO TITLE FOR VEHICLES SOLD AT LIEN SALE. OWNERS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO BID ON UNITS. LIEN SALE TO BE HELD ONLINE WEDNESDAY MAY 17, 2017 AT THE TIMES INDICATED BELOW. VIEWING AND BIDDING WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT www. storagetreasures.com BEGINNING AT LEAST 5 DAYS PRIOR TO THE SCHEDULED SALE DATE AND TIME. www.personalministorage. com PERSONAL MINI STORAGE FORSYTH - 2875 FORSYTH RD. WINTER PARK, FL 32792 - AT 10:00AM: #258-Jason A Gaspard; #318- Jennifer Kay Dussing; #340-Julian Matthew Sheridan Davis; #341-Lilliam R Agosto; #391-Yasmani Fonseca #482-Dee Angel; #480-Joe King MICHIGAN MINI STORAGE - 200 W. MICHIGAN ST ORLANDO, FL 32806 - AT 10:30AM: #82-Luis Echavarria, #123-Scott Zubarik; #132-Scott Zubarik: #159-Mary Mills; 191-Nancy Nixon; #201-Roberta Lindeman PERSONAL MINI STORAGE LAKE FAIRVIEW - 4252 N ORANGE BLOSSOM TR. ORLANDO FL 32804 - AT 11:00AM: #483-Dorner, Joyce Johnson; #739-Jackson, Miles Stephen; #800-Caldwell, Kelvin Lee; #807-Dungan, Stephan Harold; #858-Thomas, Shanique Londraye; #928-Gonzalez, Erica PERSONAL MINI STORAGE WEST - 4600 OLD WINTER GARDEN RD. ORLANDO FL 32811 AT 11:30AM: #130-Alphonso Howard; #204-Terry Beden; #226-Shirley Hawks; #284-Ernesto Velez Rodriguez; #320-Frederick Key; #362-Jermaine Bonner; #382-Paul LaShawn; #408-Kandida Doretha Olivia Michel; #476-Chauncey McCloud; #527-Sammy Lee McKinney; #633-Bredrick Antonio Golston; #634-Llewellyn Hines.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: 1# DAN’S AUTO RECYCLING AND DAN’S AUTO SALE LLC gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on 05/22/2017, 09:00 am at 18730 EAST COLONIAL DR ORLANDO, FL 32820, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. 1# DAN’S AUTO RECYCLING AND DAN’S AUTO SALES LLC reserves the right to accept or reject any and/ or all bids. 9BWGT61J814056090 2001 VOLKSWAGEN.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Quantumcare Sports & Injury Centers, LLC, of 1151 Blackwood Ave. Ste. 170 Ocoee FL, 34761, pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, is hereby advertising the following fictitious name: Quantumcare Express It is the intent of the undersigned to register “Quantumcare Express” with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Dated: 4/17/17

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. 1996 FORD VIN#1FALP52U0TA105034 2000 PONTIAC VIN#1GMDX03E9YD190739 2004 BMW VIN#WBAET37434NH06170 To be sold at auction at 8:00AM on MAY 15TH, 2017, at 2500 N. Forsyth rd, Orlando Fl 32807. Around The Clock Towing inc.

RE: ESTATE OF ROSE M. ROBBINS, Deceased. NOTICE TO WERNER RUEGNER. The administration of the Estate of Rose M. Robbins, deceased, whose date of death was May 16, 2013. You may have a claim against decedent’s estate. You must contact Derek I. Ruegner or his personal representative at 321.217.8109 within two weeks of the date of the first publication of this notice. Dated 4/26/17 and 5/3/17.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Holly Ann Blanton, of 3506 Mayflower Ln, Apopka FL 32703 County of Seminole, pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, is hereby advertising the following fictitious name: Sud Buddiez Soap Company It is the intent of the undersigned to register “Sud Buddiez Soap Company” with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Dated: 4/18/17

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