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NEWS + FEATURES
7 Your Words + “This Modern World” Readers react, plus Tom Tomorrow
9 ICYMI Florida officials seek exoneration for the Groveland Four, more than a quarter of new 2019 Obamacare enrollees are from Florida, and other news you may have missed
11 Informed Dissent Sounds about white: What the saga of Silent Sam can teach us about institutional white supremacy
13 Playing the victim Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, is suing nearly everyone involved in his 2012 murder trial
14 Demolition dynasty Crashing cars runs in the family at Orlando’s Tour of Destruction. We spend a night at the speedway with three families who have a need for speed – and fire suits
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28 Brave new world Amazon’s holiday gift to sci-fi fans is a revitalized season of The Expanse
28 Film Listings Cinema-oriented events to go see this week
29 On Screens in Orlando Movies playing this week: The Two Popes, Jumanji: The Next Level and more
18 Culture 2 Go
MUSIC
Orlando Fringe lottery selects more than 100 productions from across the world for next year’s festival, plus more in local performing arts news
31 Pussy riot
19 Live Active Cultures
Philly punks Mannequin Pussy are racing headlong into the mainstream
Does Rise of the Resistance really live up to the hype, and could any theme park ride be worth losing so much sleep over? Frak yes!
31 Picks This Week Great live music rattles Orlando every night
FOOD + DRINK
33 This Little Underground Zeta comes heavy with Ceschi, Hurricane Party and Andy the Doorbum; Period Bomb tops femmeforward charge with Jün and St. Pete’s Lambchop
CALENDAR
21 Star search Terralina Crafted Italian shines a light on Northern Italian cuisine with varying success
34 Selections 36 The Week 37 Down the Road
21 Tip Jar MX Taco to brew their own beer, John Tesar to open Knife & Spoon in the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes, plus more in local food news
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42 Savage Love 42 Gimme Shelter 43 Classifieds
22 Recently Reviewed Short takes on restaurants we’ve reviewed recently
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Readers react. Last week we reported that the City Beautiful was named the 19th most dangerous city in the nation (“New study ranks Orlando among America’s least-safe cities,” Dec. 3), based on factors like natural disasters, financial security and mass shootings. Other cities in Florida that made it to the bottom of the list for safety are St. Petersburg, Miami and Jacksonville. According to the study, the safest cities in Florida are Cape Coral, Pembroke Pines and Tallahassee. @Chris Whittaker Mostly because 50 percent of folks there are two paychecks from being homeless due to tourism pay scale and sunshine tax. @Travis Ziegler Funny enough, if you fix the financial safety more people are less likely to turn to crime and are more capable of preparing for dangerous weather or even willing to evacuate if they are not concerned about missing work/pay. @Angel Aviles Only because we had one of the worst mass shootings in history and we are in the bull’s-eye of hurricanes. Besides that Orlando is a LOT safer than most of the cities I grew up in up north.
@Derek Perron So what you’re saying I should expect my insurance rates to go up. Florida’s Douchiest Lawmaker™, Rep. Matt Gaetz, continued his mission of embarrassing Floridians last week when he clashed with Stanford University Law School professor Pamela Karlan, a witness called by Democrats for the House Judiciary Committee hearing (“Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz got pissy with an impeachment witness,” Dec. 5). Gaetz has since enacted a few more installments of his apparent imaginary reality show, Gaetz Gets Loud, but readers had a few words to say about his interaction with Karlan. @Michael Johnson He can have a second career as the slimy frat bro character in a lowbudget Purge ripoff. @Phil Englett I watched this and thank God someone got pissy with the witnesses. What was the purpose of having these ivory tower idiots testify? @Dave Hardison Clowns should have to wear makeup. @Karen Garber They get elected … what does that say about the state of our electorate?
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Florida officials seek exoneration for the Groveland Four, more than a quarter of new 2019 Obamacare enrollees are from Florida, and other news you may have missed. »
Florida Ag Commissioner Nikki Fried and Orlando state Rep. Geraldine Thompson seek exoneration for the Groveland Four: Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and state Rep. Geraldine Thompson, D-Windermere, want exoneration for the Groveland Four, expanding on pardons granted in January by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Cabinet in a prominent case from Florida’s Jim Crow era. In 1949 a white Lake County woman accused four young black men – Ernest Thomas, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Walter Irvin, all now dead – of raping her. Thomas was killed by a posse after the rape accusation. Shepherd, Greenlee and Irvin were tortured to coerce confessions, went to trial, and were convicted by an all-white jury. Greenlee was sentenced to life in prison, but Shepherd and Irvin were sentenced to death. In 1951, while transporting Shepherd and Irvin from Raiford State Prison, Sheriff Willis McCall claimed the two handcuffed men attacked him. He shot them both, killing Shepherd instantly. Irvin survived by pretending to be dead. The pardons essentially excused the four men from the crime, but an exoneration would be an official statement that the four men didn’t commit the crime. Norma Padgett Upshaw, who made the rape accusations in July 1949, argued against the pardons, maintaining to this day that the Groveland Four were guilty.
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More than a quarter of new 2019 Obamacare enrollees are from Florida: Topping the nation, 796,858 Floridians have chosen health plans on the federal health-insurance exchange as of last week, according to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Nationally, 2,876,998 people have enrolled in plans for the first time or actively renewed coverage after the exchange open-enrollment period started Nov. 1, according to the data. (The data does not include information on people who were automatically re-enrolled in health plans.) The enrollment period continues until Sunday, Dec. 15, for coverage that will start Jan. 1. The information includes data on 38 states that will use the federal healthcare.gov platform for the 2020 benefit year. Under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, states could use the federal platform or create exchange programs. Florida’s enrollment has far outpaced other states. Texas had the second-highest enrollment in the healthcare.gov platform so far, with 400,436 people, followed by Georgia, with 173,337 enrollees.
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Florida to roll out new safety measures to curb deadly railcrossing accidents: Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Kevin Thibault announced a statewide rail-safety initiative intended to curb injuries and fatalities on or near rail crossings. An Associated Press report recently determined the Brightline passenger rail service in South Florida, which is being rebranded Virgin Trains USA and expanding into northern portions of the state, had the worst per-mile death rate of the nation’s 821 railroads. For the upcoming legislative session that begins Jan. 14, state Sen. Debbie Mayfield, R-Rockledge, and state Rep. Tyler Sirois, R-Merritt Island, have reintroduced the Florida HighSpeed Passenger Rail Safety Act, which in part would give the state Department of Transportation oversight of issues not pre-empted by federal law. The proposal (SB 676, HB 465) would require the state to exert its authority regarding rail corridors and railway operating equipment, pedestrian and road crossings, fencing for high-risk corridors, and training for local emergency service providers. orlandoweekly.com
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SOUNDS ABOUT WHITE What the saga of Silent Sam can teach us about institutional white supremacy BY JE FFREY C. BILL M A N
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here’s this story I’ve been obsessing over lately. Equal parts hilarious, pathetic and infuriating, it’s both an example of indefensibly awful governmental decision-making and – more important – emblematic of how institutional white supremacy can be so pervasive. This is happening in my backyard – North Carolina – so let me get you up to speed. There are two things you should know about my state: Like other Southern states, we have an odious legacy on race – slavery, secession, the Wilmington coup of 1898, segregation, “urban renewal,” Jesse Helms, the whole deal. Unlike other Southern states, however, we have a mostly progressive education legacy, centered on the oldest publicly chartered university in the country, the University of North Carolina. Our story begins where these two threads converge. In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy donated a monument to UNC. At its commemoration, Civil War veteran and local businessman Julian Carr – there’s a town named for him a few miles down the road – fondly recalled the time he “horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds.” What became known as Silent Sam stood there for 105 years, until protesters toppled it in August 2018. In January, UNC-Chapel Hill’s outgoing chancellor – she’d given her notice that day – had its base removed. The monument was stashed away, and that was that. Or so everyone thought. But let me back up. Silent Sam had seen protests for decades, but things had heated up a few years ago. After white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine black people in South Carolina and Southern states began reconsidering their Confederate symbolism, North Carolina’s right-wing General Assembly passed a law in 2015 barring
the removal of Confederate monuments. Two years later, after neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, protesters in Durham ripped one down anyway. That fueled the fire around Silent Sam. For a year, the demonstrations became increasingly tense: There were protests and counter-protests, cops and tear gas, white supremacists and neo-Confederates. The statue turned into a PR nightmare for UNC. By the time it came down, almost everyone on campus was glad to see it go. That wasn’t the case with UNC’s Board of Governors, however. The BOG, which manages the 17-campus UNC System, is appointed by the General Assembly. So when the General Assembly took a hard right turn in 2011, so did the BOG. And when UNC-Chapel Hill’s chancellor removed Silent Sam’s base in January, it promptly removed her, months ahead of her scheduled departure. Several members insisted that Sam be returned to his former home, the hell with what students and faculty thought. As it happens, neo-Confederates felt the same way. And here’s where things get weird. Jump ahead to Nov. 27, the day before Thanksgiving, when, out of the blue, UNC announced that it had reached a “settlement” with the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans over the disposition of Silent Sam. This was strange, considering no one could recall the SCV filing a lawsuit over the statue. Stranger still were the terms of the deal: Not only did the neo-Confederate group get custody of the monument, but it would also receive $2.5 million to build a facility to house it. A $2.5 million gift from the state to an organization that romanticizes and mythologizes the slaveholding South, with the money specifically going to further spread those racist myths? That seemed bad.
It soon got worse. By the weekend, we’d learned that the SCV’s lawsuit, UNC’s answer and the consent decree – i.e., the settlement – had all been filed within minutes of each other. By Monday, we’d discovered that UNC’s interim president and the BOG chairman had signed the consent decree days before the lawsuit was filed. And that’s not the best part. An area attorney and former BOG member published a leaked message from the SCV’s “commander” to members detailing the group’s secret negotiations with UNC. I’ll gloss over the details, but here’s the gist: The SCV had been looking for a way to sue over Silent Sam since it was toppled, but the group found that it didn’t have a case. It didn’t even have the legal standing to sue. Nonetheless, when the BOG learned about the possibility of a lawsuit, it pre-emptively approached the neo-Confederates about a settlement. So long as Silent Sam didn’t end up on UNC’s campus – too dangerous – UNC was willing to give the SCV whatever it wanted to avert a lawsuit that UNC knew it had no chance of losing. Here I’ll note that UNC didn’t admit black students until the 1950s, and by 1963 it only had 18 black freshmen. The money it paid the SCV could cover the average student loan debt of about 120 black UNC graduates. Instead, it’s going toward a shrine for a treasonous white-supremacist insurrection. So far, no one at the BOG has tried to defend this shit sandwich, but as best anyone can tell, they simply wanted the Silent Sam migraine to end. If it took paying Confederate fetishists a few million bucks to make that happen, so be it. This is how institutionalized white supremacy works. First, there was the presumption that objects meant to honor – not remember, but honor, which is what monuments do – those who fought to preserve chattel slavery should be protected by the state, and with it an implicit message that the descendants of the chattel are worth less than the descendants of the soldiers who fought to keep them in chains. Second, there was the failure to think about the moral implications of giving neo-Confederates money that could help disadvantaged communities or pay for scholarships or go literally anywhere else, knowing the money will further racist lies about the Lost Cause. These considerations, if they were ever considered at all, were dismissed as unimportant. Because, to the white people making these decisions, they were. feedback@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com
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PLAYING THE VICTIM
Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, is suing nearly everyone involved in his 2012 murder trial BY SOLOMON GUSTAVO
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eorge Zimmerman wants your attention again, along with millions of taxpayer dollars. The violent stalker and former selfappointed neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford on Feb. 26, 2012, announced Dec. 4 he is suing nearly everyone involved in the criminal trial at which Zimmerman was charged with seconddegree murder and manslaughter. He was acquitted after claiming a Stand Your Ground defense. The suit names Martin’s parents; their attorney, Benjamin Crump; the publishers of Crump’s new book, HarperCollins; two young friends of Martin’s, one of them a star witness in his trial; the prosecutors in the case, the state of Florida, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Zimmerman seeking $100 million for what he claims was defamation and conspiracy against him. A release from his attorney, former federal prosecutor Larry Klayman, says Zimmerman is seeking damages for being “wrongly convicted” based on false evidence and false testimony from Rachel Jeantel. (Again, he was acquitted of all charges, so perhaps he’s referring to his conviction as a racist creep in the court of popular opinion?) Jeantel, who was sometimes characterized as Martin’s girlfriend during the trial, was on the phone with Martin, who was 17 years old at the time, in the moments before he was shot to death by Zimmerman, then 28, outside the Retreat at Twin Lakes gated community. She was a key witness for the prosecution. But Jeantel, a 19-year-old high school senior when the shooting took place, was inconsistent on the stand during Zimmerman’s trial, her demeanor oscillating between defiance and subdued exaspera-
tion, and her factual testimony suffered from apparent discrepancies. For instance, she admitted on the stand that she didn’t write a letter to Martin’s mother but dictated it to someone else who wrote it, and there were questions about why the letter was signed “Diamond Eugene.” When Zimmerman walked free after his murder trial, some blamed Jeantel. It was clear her testimony had the potential to convict Zimmerman, which is why her second day on the stand was nationally televised. Now, Zimmerman says that testimony was false, and that Jeantel is an imposter who lied about being on the phone with Martin before he died. Zimmerman’s lawsuit says that Jeantel lied in order to force the case back open after Sanford Police initially closed it on the basis of self-defense, and that, according to “research” detailed in the documentary The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud That Divided America by director Joel Gilbert, Jeantel was never Martin’s girlfriend. More “research” from the movie, in the form of cell phone records, purportedly shows Martin’s real girlfriend was a teenager named Brittany Diamond Eugene, whom they allege had refused to lie on the stand. According to Zimmerman’s suit, Eugene was switched out with Jeantel. The suit alleges that Jeantel lied to law enforcement officers and again on the stand, and that Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, and the Martin family attorney knew about it, as did state prosecutors Angela Corey, Bernie de la Rionda and John Guy. Zimmerman feels he is entitled to one-tenth of a billion dollars to make up for this alleged conspiracy. Zimmerman said he shot and killed the unarmed Martin out of self-defense. In the release, none of the ostensibly further exonerating “research” has to do with the
altercation with Martin. There’s no mention of any newly uncovered evidence making it clear why Zimmerman needed to defend himself by fatally shooting a boy holding a packet of Skittles. The suit boils down this entire chapter in American jurisprudence and racial disharmony to the aggrieved ego of a white man who killed a child – not racism, not gun control. The suit, says Klayman, is for Zimmerman, but also “all people treated unfairly by the system.” “[Zimmerman] was a victim,” says Klayman to Orlando Weekly, adding Zimmerman is one of many victims of “prosecutors who don’t act properly,” witnesses lying, and “a media that creates narratives that destroy people.” “Hopefully this will heal the country,” he says, noting the title of a book by Martin’s attorney, Crump, released in October: Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People as both an example of why Zimmerman deserves substantial damages and why America needs healing. “George has been acquitted, still books by Mr. Crump equates him to genocide against colored people,” Klayman says. He says if a white person used the term ‘colored,’ they would be in trouble, and that such inconsistencies are hurting the country. “That’s the source of hatred and division,” he says. Crump declined to offer verbal comment on the suit, but his law office released the following statement: “I have every confidence that this unfounded and reckless lawsuit will be revealed for what it is – another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others. “This plaintiff continues to display a callous disregard for everyone but himself, revictimizing individuals whose lives were shattered by his own misguided actions. He would have us believe that he is the innocent victim of a deep conspiracy, despite the complete lack of any credible evidence to support his outlandish claims. “This tale defies all logic, and it’s time to close the door on these baseless imaginings.” Zimmerman was scheduled to give a press conference on Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, followed by a screening of the documentary and presentation of the filmmaker’s “research.” But it was canceled by the cinema. Klayman says Zimmerman is considering taking legal action against the city of Coral Gables and/or Mayor Raúl Valdés-Fauli.
Zimmerman’s lawyer, Larry Klayman, calls Zimmerman a victim and says he hopes this lawsuit and movie will “heal the country.” The Martin family’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump, calls this latest attention grab “another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others” and says it defies logic.
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PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BALOGH
Crashing cars runs in the family at Orlando’s Tour of Destruction. We spend a night at the speedway with three families who have a need for speed – and fire suits BY CHRISTOP HER BA LOG H
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teary-eyed, middle-aged father runs up the inclined entrance of Orlando Speed World’s pit area. The cigars in his front shirt pocket bounce as he approaches the circular track to see a crashed school bus lying on its side. His other son stands next to him, rubbing his father’s back. Then the driver of the toppled bus climbs out and stands atop, visible as a silhouette in the stadium lights. He throws his hands in the air to signal to the crowd that he’s alive. The crowd cheers. The father lets out a shaken sigh. The Tour of Destruction is put on a quick pause while construction loaders and lulls pull aside the fallen school bus and other debris. The driver walks off, seemingly 14
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unscathed. The estimated 7,000 viewers in attendance settle down. The buses line up. Engines roar. They begin again.
THE CRASHOLOGIST
“You never know what’s going to happen,” says George “Moe” Knauer, the event operator of the Tour of Destruction. “We try our hardest to keep everyone safe. We take as many precautions as we can. These competitors are terrific people and we want to take care of them.” For Knauer, some of those terrific people are family. His 32-year-old son Kevin runs
the Gauntlet, a Mad Max creation of a vehicle. The main objective of the Gauntlet: Take it down. Up to 10 cars for 10 laps at a time try to stop this Frankenstein with wheels. One of the people trying to take it down is the Gauntlet driver’s 30-year-old brother, John. “My whole family is part of this,” says Knauer. “Whether they are in the races or behind them.” Knauer’s wife works in admissions and their eldest son, Keith, is the announcer and runs the website. “I used to be in these types of races. I ran in the derbies,” Knauer says. “It all started for me when I was 16 years old, and it escalated to where I am now. I don’t consider myself a promoter – that word can sound negative sometimes. My wife says I’m a crashologist.” Knauer, a Long Island native, moved to Orlando over 20 years ago for his wife’s job transfer. Since then, he’s been tied to racing. For the past nine years, he’s been running the Tour of Destruction, formerly known as Crash-a-Rama. It’s bloomed into a touring circuit now, traveling within Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee – but it all started at Orlando Speed World, nestled in the sleepy town of Bithlo. “We have been improving the race every single year. I’m always trying to think of
new races or new ways to keep the event going,” Knauer says. “For next year, maybe a car standoff, one on one. But the big one would be getting a 100-car demolition derby. Back in the day, it used to be done all the time. And not so much anymore. I’d like to bring that back.” He continues, “It has to be smooth and continuous for it to be a good show. This is entertainment. I can’t let there be lulls for the audience to get bored. That’s why we’ve incorporated the rodeo clown. I also placed the fireworks in the middle of the show, just to keep things going. I have to give the audience their money’s worth and then some.”
GROWING UP MONSTER
In the pit area, a VIP admission ticket throws the audience behind the scenes. That’s where you can see the chaotic ballet of junkyard cars, minivans, school buses, and cars towing boats orchestrated like a well-oiled machine. Cars line up for the next race. Behind them, the monster truck team checks temperature gauges. Loaders and lulls CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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“IT’S BASICALLY, WHO GETS OUT ALIVE,” SHE LAUGHS. “IT’S JUST A LOT OF FUN FOR US.” hear them cheer. After I do a stoppy [a nose plant] or a moonwalk [a nose plant in reverse], and I hear the crowd cheer, that’s the best.” Brooke pulls Lil’ Bully out onto the track as the rest of the family watches from the pit entrance. She makes her way to the center of the track to jump a dirt hill as the announcer amps up the crowd. The family notices that Brooke didn’t put her entire hood down for the jump and half-giggle as she jumps the hill perfectly. The crowd cheers. The family laughs and yells in excitement. Then, quickly, it stops. They realize the truck isn’t moving anymore. Michael communicates on the headset with his sister – all is fine with her, but Lil’ Bully needs a lift back to the pit area. None of the family members appear upset; there’s more of a general “it comes with the sport” attitude. The workers on ATVs clean up the track for the next event: a minivan demolition derby.
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pick up recently demolished cars from the track and send them down the entrance/exit hill. Race staff ride around on their ATVs checking up on racers. Paramedics and an Orange County Fire Officer wait on the sidelines. The pit-area crowd walks through it all, holding their hot dogs and beer. Sometimes they take a break and get a selfie with one of the monster trucks. The most popular one of the night: the Kraken, a neon-green monster truck with molded bodywork in the shape of a giant squid. Next to the Kraken sits the Jester and Lil’ Bully. All three are driven by the Pagliarulo family, from Sanford. The Pagliarulo patriarch, Matt, drives the Jester, a blue Escalade with 66-inch tires, a 540 Chevy big block engine, and a smirking court jester painted along the side. Matt’s 20-year-old son, Nick, takes the reins on the Kraken, which has the same specs, but with molded bodywork that makes it appear that the truck is being swallowed by a giant squid. Then there’s Lil’ Bully, a mini monster truck with a graphic of a gangster-dressed kid. But the car sends a message: The name “Lil’ Bully” is crossed out, and painted-on tags read “No more bullying.” Lil’ Bully is driven by Nick Pagliarulo’s 12-year-old sister, Brooke. She shares it with her older brother
Michael, who is behind the scenes at tonight’s event. Time for the 12-year-old to shine. “I’m not worried about her. She’s just going through all checks and gauges,” Nick says as he watches his sister try to strap in her helmet and conduct the pre-drive checklist. “She’s only done it three times. There really is no practice – this is our practice.” Nick runs over to his sister and helps her with the helmet straps, just being a big brother. Michael checks the dashboard. Dad Matt proudly watches his family at work while he waits at the side of the pit entrance for his daughter’s arrival up the ramp to the track. Even though the whole family seems Zen about the entire night, it’s still fairly new to them. “My dad started doing this all about five years ago,” says Nick. “We all love it and grew up watching them. Then one day, we just started building our own. Then I got into it, my brother, and now my sister.” Nick says they consider it a sport. And just like any sport, you want to be on top of your game. However, to most, these stakes are a bit higher. Nick doesn’t waver on that. “The only thing I worry about is making sure I perform,” he says. “I want to make the crowd happy and
A line full of junked-up minivans waits for the fireworks show to end, post-apocalyptic mom vehicles revving their engines. In the first spot sits 18-year-old Hannah Graves. She moves a flap that sits on her front passenger seat. “That’s my battery,” she points. A car battery sits on the seat, with wires running up into a hole in the front windshield, then underneath the hood. “I’ve done this a couple of times,” she says. “My sister, Skylar, is in another car about four cars behind me. My dad got me into it. He runs a salvage yard in Zephyrhills. That’s where we got this car.” Hannah is Buddha-calm, with an ear-to-ear smile. Fireworks light up her face under the helmet. Next to her on an ATV is her father, Jeremy. (He’s one of the event staff members.) He smiles over to his daughter and then rides up to the top of the hill. She isn’t fazed by what she’s about to do: reverse at top ramming speed into other minivans. “It’s basically, who gets out alive,” she laughs. “It’s just a lot of fun for us.” A couple of minivans back sits Taylor Bosak. She grips the steering wheel as the last fireworks hit the dark sky. “This is my 10th year doing this since my dad got me into it,” she says. “In 2013, I was the champion.” Bosak won that very night, and she didn’t take the moment for granted; she jumped atop her destroyed minivan while the crowd cheered. These derbies have the innards of sports, with competition and skill at the forefront. Parents cheer on their kids, remembering their past with the sport and how they passed it down. It’s still a place where destruction is at the core – it’s the main goal. But parents can’t help sharing the love for the shared experience of a family tradition with fire suits.
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BY SETH KUBERSKY On Dec. 2, the Orlando Fringe held their annual application lottery at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center, with District 4 Commissioner Patty Sheehan presiding over the drawing of shows for the 2020 theater festival. Out of the 385 productions that applied – the most entries ever, from as far away as India and Nigeria – 101 received guaranteed slots in the schedule, along with three “Fringers of the Future” high-school troupes. An additional 103 landed on the waitlist, leaving over 180 hopefuls the option of pitching themselves to a “BYOV” off-site venue (apply at orlandofringe.org) or trying their luck again next year. Orlando Fringe also recently announced additions to their staff, including operations manager Melissa Fritzinger, outdoor stage producer Gina Barone, Visual Fringe producer Melanie Leon and Kids Fringe producer Jessica Hoehn; the last two may be familiar to Festival patrons from their work onstage.
Florida Theatrical Association, which presented the Broadway tour of The Play That Goes Wrong at the Dr. Phillips Center last week, has announced a record-setting $128,500 in scholarships and grants for the 2019-2020 season, which are funded in part by season ticketholders’ donations. Three Florida colleges, including UCF, received Bob Pittman Post-secondary Education Scholarships to offset theater students’ tuition; 15 area theaters won Barbara H. Gault Professional Training Program funding; three educators – including Melody Herzfeld from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – received Director’s Chair Awards; and five local graduating thespians took home Mr. & Mrs. Donald K. Yost High School Awards. Applications for next season’s grants are already open at floridatheatrical.org.
Now Playing You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, through Dec. 15 at Winter Park Playhouse … A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story of Christmas, through Dec. 22 at Garden Theatre … Annie, through Dec. 22 at Athens Theatre … A Christmas Carol, through Dec. 15 at Bay Street Players … A Christmas Story, through Dec. 15 at CFCArts … A Christmas Story: The Musical, through Dec. 22 at Theater West End … Miracle in Bedford Falls: The Musical, through Dec. 29 at Orlando Rep … Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, through Dec. 29 at Orlando Shakes … The Spitfire Grill, through Dec. 29 at Mad Cow.
Upcoming Orlando Ballet presents The Nutcracker, Dec. 13-23 at Dr. Phillips Center … Phantasmagoria’s A Christmas Carol, Dec. 13-16 at Lowndes Shakespeare Center, Dec. 21 at Wayne Densch … Phantasmagoria’s Through a Christmas Darkly, Dec. 19 at Maxine’s on Shine, Dec. 20-21 at Penguin Point … The Golden Gals – A Christmas Musical, Dec. 19-21 at Parliament House … Orlando Opera presents All Is Calm, Dec. 20-22 at Dr. Phillips Center … David McElroy’s One Man Christmas Carol, Dec. 22-23 at Penguin Point.
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Does Rise of the Resistance really live up to the hype, and could any theme park ride be worth losing so much sleep over? Frak yes! STAR WARS: GALAXY’S EDGE RISE OF THE RESISTANCE | PHOTOS BY SETH KUBERSKY
Imagine that a long-awaited installment in been lining up daily before dawn to experience the newly to the hype, and could any theme park ride be worth losing your favorite film franchise is finally being released, and a state-of-the-art movie theater is being built to exclusively screen it. Fans arrive from around the world for the big debut, ogling the opulent venue and stocking up on pricey concessions and souvenirs. But after enjoying the trailers and short features, instead of screening the main attraction, the audience is asked to exit and return in a few months when it’s finished. You can imagine the box office riots if something like that happened, but theme park visitors faced a similar situation over the summer when the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge lands opened in Disneyland and Walt Disney World without their marquee attraction, Rise of the Resistance, which Mickey advertises as the most “epic” dark ride ever created. I attended the openings of the expansions on both coasts, and was duly impressed by the immersive detail that went into the Millennium Falcon simulator and surrounding shops. But without the hyped headliner to occupy them, guests quickly began to grumble that anticipated elements – like live characters and interactive activities – were less abundant and in-depth than expected. As a result, initial attendance at the lands was significantly below what industry analysts (including myself ) predicted, although Disney ultimately reported quarterly per-capita spending increases – thanks in part to $200 custom lightsabers and $100 droids – that offset the smaller crowds. However, as of Dec. 5, the Force is definitely with Disney’s Hollywood Studios again, as visitors have
opened Rise of the Resistance. I awoke at 4 a.m. on opening day in order to be among the very first guests through the turnstiles when DHS threw open its gates at 5:22 a.m., over 2 ½ hours ahead of schedule. In a surprise move, rather than allowing a long standby queue to form for the new ride, Disney implemented a smartphone-based “virtual boarding pass” system to distribute crowds throughout the day. I was assigned one of the morning’s first groups, and was called to enter the attraction by 6:30 a.m., 90 minutes before the day was even supposed to start. It was so early, I was able to secure a second boarding pass (an option Disney has since eliminated) before they ran out for the day around 8:30 a.m. Moments after I exited from my first ride, the attraction experienced “technical difficulties” that forced an evacuation of all the guests behind me. However, it was restored to operation within the hour, and continued to run into the evening. And when it finally shut down several hours before the park closed, guests who hadn’t been accommodated were given Fastpasses and free park tickets to return on another day, an unusually generous gesture. While the opening-day hordes were entirely expected, similar scenes have repeated themselves every morning since, with all virtual board slots being snagged before the park’s advertised opening time. And since right now is one of the slowest times of the year for theme park attendance, the madness can only multiply as holiday visitors descend. So, does Rise of the Resistance really live up
so much sleep over? To borrow an expletive from my other favorite sci-fi universe: Frak yes! Without divulging any spoilers, suffice it to say that Rise of the Resistance combines multiple types of attractions – including a simulator, a trackless dark ride and an elevator drop – into an immersive 20-minute adventure set between Episodes VIII and IX, which thrusts guests into the middle of the war between the fascist First Order and the heroic Resistance. As recruits journey from a hidden base on Batuu into the belly of a Star Destroyer and back again, they encounter the sequels’ stars as lifelike projections (performed by Daisy Ridley, Dominic Monaghan and fellow original cast members) and uncannily expressive audio-animatronics. None of ROTR’s major components are entirely novel, but no single attraction has integrated so many advanced elements into one seamless package since Las Vegas’ Star Trek: The Experience closed more than a decade ago. And while Universal has a reputation as the king of screenbased rides, lead Imagineer Scott Trowbridge has finally topped the work he did on Islands of Adventure’s SpiderMan, engineering windows onto a fictional galaxy that are indistinguishable from reality. More important than any technical innovations, the ride’s atmosphere and subtle aesthetic details – from the convincing projection-mapped laser blasts and pulse-pounding John Williams score to the icy arrogance of the employees playing First Order officers – make Rise of the Resistance viscerally feel like Star Wars in a way that was absent from Solo and The Last Jedi. For G-force junkies who could care less about preshows and backstory, Hagrid’s Magical Motorbike Adventure still provides this year’s best new adrenaline rush; although it induces sensory and emotional overload, as far as physical thrills go, Rise rates somewhere Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and Winnie the Pooh. But even without gut-churning jolts, the ride succeeds in finally fulfilling Galaxy’s Edge’s promise of immersing guests in their own Star Wars saga. A successor will someday dethrone it, but for right now I’m comfortable calling Rise of the Resistance the best theme park attraction on this planet … or any other.
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NEWS Tapa Toro is now serving a bottomless
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ho’s to say the effects absentee celebrity chefs have on a city’s collective psyche? Yes, you’re worthy enough for us to grant you our presence, but temper that excitement – it’ll only be for a day. Possibly two. That sort of treatment won’t help our inferiority complex any, so maybe a “glass half-full” approach is the way to go. Maybe we should just be thankful that gastro-astros Masaharu Morimoto, Jose Andres, Rick Bayless, Art Smith and Wolfgang Puck have restaurants here at all. Yeah, that feels a lot better, doesn’t it? Take that, Tampa! You too, Cincinnati! Of course by “here” I refer to the Culinary Circus Maximus of Disney Springs. It’s where Tony Mantuano, the Top Chef Master of Chicago’s Spiaggia, has thrown his James Beard Award into the park’s starry ring with Terralina Crafted Italian. Mantuano previously held a consulting role in Portobello, a “country trattoria” that’s since been transformed into Terralina thanks to his vision – and Levy Restaurants’ financial backing. Mantuano’s inspiration? Italy’s Lake District, with rooms all rustic and fauxfinished. Tranquil? Hardly. The place rollicks in perpetual packed-dom, and feast they do, but not on seafood as one might expect.
Rather, the menu here offers a snapshot of the Boot’s best: antipasti, meatballs, pasta, pizza – though you probably wouldn’t find a spicy capicola pie ($16) like Terralina’s along the shores of Lago Como. The crust – thin, dense, unblistered and char-free – lent it flatbread status in our eyes. “A little skimpy on the meat,” grumbled my dining comrade about the sauce-less, cracker-style pizza. For all this “Lake District” business, I’m not sure how many folks at Terralina are even aware of the region’s culinary nuances. Both hostess and server said the cuisine was “Tuscan” which, honestly, didn’t seem that far off. We ate meatballs – a couple of expensive $14 meatballs – and wondered where the flavor went. The peasanty pair were coated in a tomato-basil sauce, topped with shaved Parmesan, and came served over polenta (there’s the Lake District influence!), but a couple of blander polpette we’ve never sampled. I’m all for simplicity, but not at the expense of flavor. A simply grilled ribeye ($42) fared much better. We inquired as to its provenance and grade, but couldn’t be told either. Our server did, however, sing the praises of the grill cook and, sure enough, the steak was superb. It came with a smear of
brunch Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. All-you-can-eat paella goes for $25; bottomless mimosas and sangria can be had for $16 more … MX Taco has expanded their menu to include more gringofriendly items like nachos, rice bowls and quesadillas. Ground beef, chorizo and pulled chicken tacos using flour tortillas are also offered. Also, MX Taco will launch their own lager called Cerveza Local in early March.
gremolata (more Lake District influence!) along with mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus. I should probably state that while Mantuano is the face of Terralina, Justin Plank (Wolfgang Puck Café, Hue, Park Plaza Gardens) is the executive chef. We quite enjoyed his ravioli gigante ($23), one of two pastas made in-house, we were told (the other being the $26 seafood cannelloni). The spinach and ricotta stuffing, as well as the roasted-garlic and tomato saucing over the large squares, certainly adhered to the kitchen’s “simplicity” ethos. Same goes for the lovely plate of burrata and sweet pickled beets ($13), for us a predessert of sorts that segued into a trio of cannoli sprinkled with toffee crunch ($10) and a lemon panna cotta flecked with candied thyme ($9). Nothing fancy, just solid dishes the likes of which you’d find in an “Italian home,” according to an early press release. But let’s be honest here – Terralina is no Spiaggia. Hell, if Levy spun Terralina off into a chain, they’d surely give the major players a run for their money No, Terralina exists to receive and embrace the throngs who converge onto Disney Springs for their post-park meal and, for now, it appears content to be the big fish in a small manmade lake.
OPENINGS John Tesar, four-time James Beard Award semifinalist for “Best Southwest Chef,” Top Chef Season 10 contestant and “The Most Hated Chef in Dallas” is coming to Orlando. Tesar, the badass chef of the much-lauded modern steakhouse Knife, will open Knife & Spoon in the old Norman’s space inside the RitzCarlton Grande Lakes. Expect a menu of handmade pastas, steak and seafood. Tesar is targeting a March/April opening … Look for MX Taco to open next summer in the Gourmet Market at Magic Place food hall at 5500 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, near Celebration … The Pizza Press, a build-your-ownpizza concept in Celebration, is under new ownership and will celebrate a “grand reopening” Friday-Sunday, Dec. 13-15. Various specials, giveaways and menu samples will be offered in addition to live entertainment … F&D Woodfired Italian Kitchen will open next spring in the old Bayridge Sushi location in Longwood.
CLOSINGS Manny’s Chophouse in Altamonte Springs has closed. Rumor is it’ll be rebranded as Galería, just like the old Manny’s Chophouse in Baldwin Park.
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EVENTS The RomMold Wine & Food Fest takes place this weekend, Dec. 14-15, at the Central Florida Fairgrounds featuring food, wine, beer and music from Romania (“Rom”) and Moldova (“Mold”). The event goes from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday … Local PBS affiliate WUCF will hold a special screening of Season 2 of Marcus Samuelsson’s No Passport Required Sunday, Jan. 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the Orlando Public Library. A panel discussion on immigrant food culture in Orlando will follow with Ricky Ly of Tastychomps, chef Bruno Fonseca of the Foreigner Experience and yours truly. Food tastings will be provided by Cress Restaurant, the Foreigner Experience, Mecatos Bakery, Nile Ethiopian, Paris Banh Mi and Sticky Rice. Register at wucf.org/culture. Got restaurant dish? Send tips to dining@orlandoweekly.com
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DELANEY’S TAVERN SoDo’s newest boutique hotel has a worthy hotel restaurant that doubles as a neighborhood hang for denizens of Delaney Park. The bar is low-key yet inviting, and the lounge area makes an ideal spot to enjoy a menu of the globe’s greatest hits – shrimp and grits, vegan paella, brie en croute, blue crab beignets and more. And the cocktail game is strong. Open daily. 1315 S. Orange Ave., 407-849-0801; $$
TORI TORI Slick Mills 50 cocktail bar is a modern izakaya at heart offering sizzling yakitori and kushiyaki, bar bites of substance and hand rolls stuffed with everything from Hokkaido scallops to uni to otoro. The food here is as impeccably crafted as the drinks. Open daily at 5:30 p.m., stays open until 2 a.m. 720 N. Mills Ave., toritoripub.com; $
MAKANI Prices are steep, but Makani’s fare celebrating Egypt’s contributions to world cuisine are top-notch. In addition to street food staples like carb-heavy koshary, spiced kebda (beef liver) and hawawshi (pita stuffed with minced beef), there are plush kebabs, earthy stews and syrupy sweets. Fresh fruit juices supplant alcoholic beverages. Hookah is offered on the patio. Open daily until 2 a.m. 8255 International Drive, 407-723-1243; $$$
MOROCCAN BREEZE Moroccan food stall inside Apna Bazaar on South OBT offers regal fare in kingly portions, most notably the “Royal Couscous” with snappy merguez sausage, lamb and chicken. Savory pastries like chicken bastilla are an absolute must, as is the lamb tagine. Harira soup with khobz bread and eggplant zaalouk makes for memorable meatless dining. End with mint tea and Moroccan ghriba (cookies). Closed Mondays. 9404 S. Orange Blossom Trail, 407-730-4698; $$ CONTINUED ON PAGE 27
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College Park gets yet another Italian restaurant, and this one is good enough to compete with the rest of the trattorias and pizzerias along Edgewater Drive. Scratch-made pizzas are a highlight, as is the outdoor patio, which has sprung an awning since its days as Kingfish Grill. Open daily. 2124 Edgewater Drive, 407730-7747; $$
WORLD’S MAGIC RESTAURANT
The city’s first (to our knowledge) Saudi restaurant serves Bedouin-influenced rice-and-meat staples as well as Saudistyle Indonesian fare. Both gareesh, a savory chicken porridge topped with ghee-slicked caramelized onions, and remarkably thin and crisp beef den den make superior starters. Saudi rice dish mandi lamb and the Indonesian platter piled with everything from beef rendang to mysterious pasta with red sauce are more substantial offerings. The satay sizzles. Ending with passable kunafa is your choice. Open daily 5–9:45 p.m. No alcohol is served. 7044 International Drive, 407-203-3330; $$
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The pizzas steal the show at this slick new vegan joint in deepest Windermere. The focaccia-like crust stands up to vegetable toppings (sogginess being a classic vegan pizza fail) and those toppings are fantastic: The perversely named “Meat Lovers” has roasted cauliflower, shiitake “bacon” slices, fennel-farro “sausage” crumbles and dollops of macadamia-nut “ricotta.” Also of positive note: perfect fries and thickas-a-concrete milkshakes. 5845 Winter Garden Vineland Road, Windermere, 407-349-8800; $$
KAIZEN IZAKAYA
It’s out with the old and in with the new as the old Amura on Church Street gets a long-overdue rebrand. You’ll find all the trendy pan-Asian trappings of the modern izakaya – ramen, Korean fried chicken, bao, donburi – but quality cuts of Japanese fish as well. The moriawase gets you 14 pieces for $35, but don’t overlook Korean staples like that KFC and a comforting bowl of kimchi yakiudon noodles. Open daily. 54 W. Church St., 407-316-8500; $$
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The city’s only 24-hour Turkish restaurant means kebabophiles can indulge in some of the most luscious, lip-greasing meats any time of day, though raki drinkers will have to take a break from the hours of 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. Much of the action takes place on the restaurant’s sprawling patio and let’s just say it’s a mesmerizing scene, especially after 10 p.m. Things are a lot more quiet inside. 8255 International Drive, 407-6017712; $$ n
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FILM LISTINGS The Beaches of Agnès Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, re-enactments and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story. Wednesday, 2 & 6 pm; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach; free; 386-506-4475; smponline.org. In Fabric Dark comedy-horror film in which a lonely woman finds a red dress that exhibits supernatural powers. Through Thursday; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $12; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. Meet Me in St. Louis Special 75th anniversary screening of the Hollywood musical starring Judy Garland. Wednesday, 4 & 7 pm; multiple locations; $12.50; fathomevents.com. Music Mondays: Downtown 81 Film about New York City’s underground art scene in 1981, featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat. Monday, 9:30 pm; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $12; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.
Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham and Steven Strait in The Expanse PHOTO COURTESY AMAZON STUDIOS
BRAVE NEW WORLD Amazon’s holiday gift to sci-fi fans is a revitalized season of The Expanse
THE EXPANSE Season 4 streaming Friday, Dec. 13, on Amazon Prime amazon.com
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ay what you want about Jeff Bezos – not too loudly, Alexa is listening – but the man has decent taste in science fiction. The Amazon founder and CEO has peppered his career with Star Trek references, hired Snow Crash writer Neal Stephenson to work at his space exploration company, Blue Origin, and last year took it upon himself to personally announce that Amazon was going to rescue the critically acclaimed former SyFy Channel space drama The Expanse from cancellation. Amazon’s Christmas gift to sci-fi fans returns to the airwaves – netwaves? – this week after a year of production and reminds us why The Expanse captured the attention of so many in the first place. Those wondering how the sudden influx of Amazon-level money would affect the show need not worry. The CGI may be sharper and the look of the show may be more cinematic, but the show feels essentially the same at the core. We get some new sets, but the heart of the show – politics in space – remains intact. Of those new locations, the planet of Ilus – the one demanded by the plot of the book upon which the season is based – is intentionally desolate, reflecting the
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hardscrabble survivalism of the Belter refugees who have settled there. Their presence ruffles the feathers of an Earthbased corporation with a mining charter, however, resulting in a political tinderbox that’s primed to blow at any moment. U.N. Secretary-General Chrisjen Avasarala (played with gleefully foul-mouthed zeal by the great Shohreh Aghdashloo) sends James Holden (Steven Strait) and the crew of the Rocinante to keep the peace – and investigate alien superstructures dotting the surface of the planet, no big deal. While Holden – along with drawling Martian pilot Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar), Belter engineer Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper) and weirdly sympathetic psychopath Amos Burton (Wes Chatham) – dips his toes into that hornet’s nest, we get our first extended look under the domes of the Martian Congressional Republic as recon marine Bobbie Draper (Frankie Adams) gets involved with the rise of a criminal element in the shadow of a planetwide economic recession, brought about in part by the cessation of hostilities between Earth and Mars. The Expanse has always had a strong sense of realpolitik, and in this season it acknowledges that “peace” is just a
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different set of problems. While we don’t get much in the way of character-building in the first six episodes of the 10-episode season, season standouts include Wes Chatham’s Amos along with Burn Gorman’s (Game of Thrones, Torchwood) take on the season’s villain, Adolphus Murtry. Amos, the Rocinante crew’s muscle, carries the same sense of cold practicality to his sex life, we discover, as he does to applying violence wherever necessary. The situation with his new sex-interest, Chandra Wei (Jess Salgueiro, Letterkenny), is complicated by the fact that she’s Murtry’s second-in-command. Cibola Burn, the book on which the new season is based, is often cited as a low point in the series by James S.A. Corey (a collaborative pen name of writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). Amazon seems confident that the showrunners can overcome the book’s faults – and the decision to give Avasarala and Bobbie plenty of screen time is a good start. The show has been renewed for a fifth season, already in production. For once, passionate fans get to relax, take a breath and rest easy knowing that their show is in good hands. tmccollum@orlandoweekly.com
Promare (Redux) Screening of Studio Trigger’s first feature-length anime film, using a bold cel-shaded visual style. Wednesday, 7 & 9:30 pm; multiple locations; $20; fathomevents.com. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Grinch Holiday movie double feature. Sunday, 6:30 pm; À La Cart, 609 Irvington Ave.; free; 407-776-4693; alacartorlando.com. Saturday Matinee Classics: It’s a Wonderful Life Screening of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, starring James Stewart as a man who finds out what life would have been like if he had never been born. Saturday, noon; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $9; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Studio Ghibli anime film about a tiny girl found inside a stalk of bamboo. Monday, 7 pm; multiple locations; $12.50; fathomevents.com. They Shall Not Grow Old Peter Jackson’s documentary about World War I, featuring restored and enhanced photographs and film from the period. Tuesday, 7 pm; multiple locations; $15.98; fathomevents.com. The Two Popes Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins star as Popes Francis I and Benedict XVI during a meeting at the Vatican to discuss the future of the Catholic Church. Opens Friday; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $12; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. Waves Traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family – led by a well-intentioned but domineering father – as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. Through Thursday; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $12; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.
ON SCREENS IN ORLANDO
Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan and Jack Black in Jumanji: The Next Level PHOTO COURTESY COLUMBIA PICTURES
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OPENING THIS WEEK: Black Christmas The seminal sorority slasher flick gets its second remake in 13 years. This one’s being positioned as more of an empowerment fable, with brave wouldbe victims turning the tables on their pursuer. Right, and Pearl Harbor was about indestructible battleships that refused to take any guff from the Japanese. (R) Jumanji: The Next Level Four Jumanji-related movies might seem like the most profit Hollywood has ever eked out of an inanimate plaything. But remember, Joey Heatherton worked pretty consistently. With its latest installment, the franchise hasn’t elected to modernize itself the way the previous one did by upgrading the titular activity from a board game to a video game – which is a shame, because I was looking forward to seeing Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan navigate a Jumanji environment injected straight into the human retina. (PG-13) Richard Jewell So we let them make a movie about Tonya Harding, and now we’re apparently going to suffer the attempted rehabilitation of another ’90s footnote every awards season. But really, Richard Jewell? The guy who was “unfairly” persecuted by the feds because he was stupid enough to announce he was going to be a hero at the Olympics? Sorry, I think I left my sympathy in my other pants. Coming next year: a moral reappraisal of Joey Buttafuoco, by Todd Phillips. (R) The Two Popes Stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce re-enact the dramatic transition between the last two pontiffs. (As you’ll recall, Pope Benedict stepped down,
freeing him to accept a position as the lead singer of Ghost.) Visit orlandoweekly.com to find out what our Cameron Meier thought of the film. Will he send up the white smoke, or the black? (PG-13; tentatively scheduled to open Friday at Enzian Theater, Maitland)
ALSO PLAYING: Hold On This faith-based film about a talented church singer includes a supporting performance by Flavor Flav as a cop. Yes, that’s a real sentence describing an objective reality. I didn’t just cut up pieces of paper and put them back together like William Burroughs. (PG-13; playing at Regal Waterford Lakes & IMAX and Regal Oviedo Mall) Honey Boy Shia LaBeouf wrote and stars in the autobiographical tale of a child star’s fractious relationship with his abusive dad. The project began as a therapy exercise for LaBeouf while he was in rehab. Hey, how about making amends for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? (R; playing at Regal Winter Park Village & RPX and Regal Oviedo Mall and AMC Dine-In Disney Springs 24) In Fabric You have until Thursday to check out this horror flick about a red dress that rains down unspeakable evil on the woman who buys it from a department store. After that, it’s back to Wish for ya. (R; playing at Enzian Theater, Maitland) Rising Free Another faith flick, this one a period piece about a Native American woman who finds shelter in the home of some Civil War veterans. Gotta love those white people: They really know how to protect you from white people. (PG-13; playing at Regal Winter Park Village & RPX) orlandoweekly.com
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GREAT LIVE MUSIC RATTLES ORLANDO EVERY NIGHT Nile Ancient Egypt-obsessed metal
Philly punks Mannequin Pussy are racing headlong into the mainstream
overlords Nile are sure to turn Soundbar into a haunted crypt alongside grind legends Terrorizer. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Soundbar, $20
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ur music is for someone who really wants an intense, cathartic experience.” With a full heart and weary body, Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy is barely unpacked from the band’s European tour a day before they kick off their North American tour. Despite the exhaustion, the songwriter tells Orlando Weekly with assured clarity that “as an artist, my only real job is to take things out of the shadows, and put them into the light to be shared with violence, self-hate and devastating heartother people.” Philadelphia punks Mannequin Pussy break. Though often endured in isolation, – consisting of songwriter, guitarist and those experiences are not unique, but rathvocalist Dabice, guitarist Athanasios Paul, er part of a “collective consciousness,” as bassist Colins Rey Regisford and drummer Dabice puts it. “I think it’s really important to remember Kaleen Reading – are riding an incredible wave of momentum, grounded in radical that sometimes people privately suffer with vulnerability and transformational story- things and they might not feel comfortable talking about it,” says telling. Dabice. “So any place you The band with the have an ability to build unforgettable name MANNEQUIN PUSSY compassion, it’s impor(realized during a claswith Kississippi, tant to do that.” sically drunk night of Wet Nurse With Patience, inventing band names) 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13 Mannequin Pussy has has been steadily on the Soundbar, 37 W. Pine St. manifested such a rise. Since 2014 they $13 place. In “Drunk II,” the have released three record’s lead single, the albums, their first two on singer turns to partyTiny Engines and their latest, Patience, out earlier this year via punk ing and alcohol to cope with the end of a powerhouse Epitaph Records. Totalling 10 relationship. Forlornly, Dabice sings, “I’ve tracks at 25 minutes, the record is an evolu- been going out almost every night, I’ve been tion for the band, the result of painstakingly drinking everything I can get my hands hard work and raw honesty in songwriting. on, I pretend I have fun.” Stormy guitar Dabice has always identified as a confes- accompanies increasingly fraught lyrics, sional songwriter, but Patience represents “And everyone says to me, Missy, you’re so a pivotal point in the songwriter’s journey: strong/But what if I don’t want to be?” Set to “It’s been a natural evolution in the way that swirling music, “Fear/+/Desire” addresses we get a little bit more comfortable in shar- domestic violence and sexual assault with ing bits of ourselves. … At this point, every chillingly vivid lyrics: “Does holding me story has come from something that I’ve down make you feel desire?/Leave my body till I can return/I’ll unlearn.” personally experienced.” Profound enough as it would be, Patience Patience digs deep, unearthing trauma,
DRI Crossover thrash icons Dirty Rotten Imbeciles hit Soundbar with rising crustpunks Wartorn. Fun and games! 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at Soundbar, $3-$15
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does not only embrace vulnerability. Track by track, the record careens between fragility and ferocity. At times, Patience is ruthless to an immensely satisfying degree, capturing a sense of reclamation and redemption. During “Cream,” Dabice screams, “I was standing in the gates of my hell!” before catapulting into Spanish lyrics with equal rage and command. The record’s journey ends in triumph and optimism. There’s strength found in struggle, power found in pain, and progress made in the difficult journey of self-love. The final track, “In Love Again,” captures that spirit. Dabice belts with joyful determination, “I want this forever. Let’s start anew. Let’s see it through.” During our conversation, Dabice at one point muses that there’s “an ability to transform anger into something beautiful.” With Patience, Mannequin Pussy demonstrates that masterfully. There’s a reason why the band finds itself at their current juncture. For the first time, they don’t need their day jobs. They are in constant tour mode, playing to fans who know the lyrics to every song. The more revealed, the more audiences can relate. Dabice knows this, and cherishes the responsibility. “Knowing music’s ability to transform and reclaim our power,” she says, “I feel honored to be part of someone’s journey with that.”
strident Washington, D.C., dark synth duo. If you’re looking to dance gloomily, this is your destination for Friday. 9:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, at Stonewall, $7
Visage Reunion Annual “class reunion” of the iconic Orlando alternative club that was an oasis of weirdness for so many locals. 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at Independent Bar, $5
Gillian Carter Celebrate 14 years of heaviness from Gillian Carter with a who’s who of Floridian noisemakers including LJesus, Flying Limbs, Blind Tiger and Flagman. 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, at Uncle Lou’s, $5-$10
Deadbuggs Angular Pensacola art-punks headlines Lou’s with locals the Fatties joining in on the exceedingly strange fun.
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This week, South Florida reps hard.
ZETA ALBUM RELEASE SHOW AT SOUNDBAR, DEC. 6
Although not a new band, Zeta have been making hella waves recently. On the scene, word-of-mouth on them has been hot for a while. More recently, though, they’ve also been making the news. They’re South Americans looking for the American dream, and that automatically makes them poster children of the times, with all the immigration bureaucracy drama that implies. Venezuelan transplants now based in South Florida, Zeta aren’t originally from here, but given our particular cultural gumbo, Florida’s pretty much the perfect setting for their sound. With a dazzlingly prismatic vision that churns and torques like a tropical storm of posthardcore, prog, psych and Latin music, they’re probably one of the most regionally representative bands in Florida. The skill and flair with which they do it, however, is what makes them one of the most distinctive. Riding the recent release of their heady new album Mochima, Zeta arrived in full regalia with an arsenal of instruments and ambition. Live, they’re a turbocharged rhythm machine with principal drummer Eduardo Sandoval at center stage and an array of percussion extending out to other players. Around that thundering foundation, a stunning latticework of guitars and vocals weaves, dances and dives. It amounts to an expansive tapestry that’s blazing and dynamic. Bursting with rock, art and culture, they’re swim-
the pitch dark, singing like a crooner of doom. With imaginative use of stark little spotlights in his palms, he revealed his demon face in dramatic peeks. And in moments of climax, he cut a stunning figure hovering up near the rafters like a bellowing specter. An absolute triumph of powerful minimalism and low-tech stage genius, an Andy the Doorbum show is a model of dark, riveting artistry. In case you weren’t counting along, that makes four headline-worthy acts on one bill. Do the math and it equals one ming deep in some original waters with legendary lineup. bold work that could position them to be the next great successor to the Mars PERIOD BOMB, JÜN AND Volta’s crown. Politics, well, you know LAMBCHOP AT UNCLE how dumb that shit can get. But here in LOU’S, DEC. 1 Florida, at least there’s already artistic When a show is billed as “Femme sanctuary for the incredible Zeta. Top Energy!,” the intent is unequivocal. For the in-state run of their album And, apart from a surprise appearance by release tour, Zeta surrounded themselves Orlando electro-punk artist Channel 83, with greatness and maxed out the mar- this night’s lineup was powered primarquee. The result was a brilliantly eclectic ily by femmes who operate proudly on bill that was heavy on the street cred and the fringe. underscored the powerful independent Minimal but colorful solo performancties between the band, Florida and the es were delivered by local artist Jün national vanguard right now. and St. Pete’s Lambchop. Punk band There was Fake Four flagbearer Period Bomb, however, put the bloody Ceschi, a polymath who pushes hip- exclamation point on the proceedings. hop as far as anyone has. There was One of the bolder broadsides on the also Florida supergroup and fellow patriarchy in recent memory, this Miami genre-busters Hurricane Party, who are group returned looking a little different an unchained riot of style, groove and this time as a more electronic iteration, humor. Both are well-known to Orlando. feeling at times like a feral Le Tigre. But The night’s big surprise was Fake Four their impact remains the same. It’s comlabelmate Andy the Doorbum. Despite bustive and theatrical – art and assault the casual, down-to-earth name, this in equal measure. Searing with as much L.A. act is anything but. It’s a one-man point as provocation, Period Bomb are show that merges gothic folk with pure the embodiment of punk’s original spirit theater, and it’s a marvel of performance. of resistance, but recharged and armed In full cloak and headdress like some for the 21st-century battlefield. ancient pagan nightmare, he lurked in baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com
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Over the course of a non-career career full of twists, turns and musical delights stretching back to the late 1970s, a last-minute show at Will’s Pub by avant-guitar legend Eugene Chadbourne is just par for the course. And yet, what a nice surprise! An underground lifer, guitarist, composer and singer/songwriter, Chadbourne’s long musical life takes in time in noise-rockers Shockabilly, collaborations with jazz titans like Anthony Braxton and John Zorn, and his own “LSD C&W”-style solo albums. We reached out to Obliterati outlier Steven Garnett, a Chadbourne booster for as long as we have known him, and he gave a thumbsup to this show in his own particular way: “Dr. Chadbourne knows the original recipe by heart and gives it away if you have ears to hear. He declares ‘fried chicken or fried egg?’ Eugene be rakish, devilish, with an angel’s heart.” Openers Jonas Van Den Bossche and Bongus are excellent additions to the bill, making the evening even more unpredictable. – Matthew Moyer
Penguin Point Productions – a small theater troupe based out of the Oviedo Mall – made waves this summer with their production of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, a theatrical experiment in which the lone actor isn’t given the script until they step onstage. For the holidays, they’re tackling another one-person show, though one with decidedly less of an experimental bent. Adapted from a supposedly autobiographical essay by David Sedaris, The SantaLand Diaries is a look at the holiday season from the perspective of one of Santa’s helpers in a Macy’s department store. It’s full of Sedaris’ brand of wry humor, and the prospect of watching the exposé of Mall Santa culture in the middle of an actual mall is worth the price of admission alone. – Thaddeus McCollum
Eugene Chadbourne
with Bongus, Jonas Van Den Bossche | 8 p.m. | Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. | willspub.org | $10
The SantaLand Diaries
7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday & Tuesday, 2 & 7 p.m. Sunday-Monday | Penguin Point Productions, 1220 Oviedo Mall Blvd., Oviedo | penguinpointproductions.com | $20
Friday, Dec. 13
Orlando Ballet: The Nutcracker DANCE
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OUR PICKS FOR THE BEST EVENTS THIS WEEK
Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 14-15
Canine Extravaganza EVENTS
For some of us, Christopher Guest’s canine mockumentary Best in Show or SNL’s oddballsupreme recurring sketch “Dog Show” are what comes to mind at the thought of the annual AKC National Championship. But for more than 5,000 very good boys and their handlers, the Canine Extravaganza that takes over 1,000,000 square feet of the Orange County Convention Center, it’s Miss America, the Super Bowl and high-school graduation all rolled into one. In addition to the handling, breed, agility and diving (yes!) competitions, there’s a “meet the breeds” showcase, a visit from the Beagle Brigade, trick dog displays and a doggie boutique. (You’ll have to buy your own pupper a treat and bring it home, because he or she isn’t allowed to attend, sorry.) If you can’t make it to the show, live coverage of the competitions will be streaming on akc.tv each day, so you can get as loud as you wanna cheering on the wire fox terrier. (Go, Asta!) – Jessica Bryce Young 8 a.m.-9 p.m. | Orange County Convention Center, 9899 International Drive | akc.org | $10
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The popular holiday tradition presented by the Orlando Ballet returns this week with dancing snowflakes, waltzing flowers, ethereal lights and all the whimsy of The Nutcracker. What started as a two-part ballet almost 130 years ago, based on the E.T.A Hoffman story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” has gracefully worked its way into the fabric of annual holiday celebrations. There are plenty of options for locals to see a production this year, but for our money, you can’t beat seeing it in the gorgeous Walt Disney Theater at the Dr. Phil. – Wavanie Henry various times through Dec. 23 | Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave. | 844-513-2014 | orlandoballet.org | $24-$490
Sunday, Dec. 15
Grandma Party Bazaar EVENTS
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If you’re an Orlando longtimer, there’s little we can tell you about Grandma Party that you don’t already know – this is the 17th one, after all, and its weird and woolly spirit has stayed alive through the changing hands of at least three different sets of organizers. If you’re new to town, though, this might be the best crash course we could recommend: Here you’ll see the work of many of our best artists and artisans, along with four bands, two DJs and Stardust’s famous chili dogs (and carrot dogs!). You can get your tarot cards read, get your bangs trimmed, or write a letter on a vintage typewriter. You can buy an herbal sleep remedy, handmade porcelain earrings, small-batch bitters or an embroidered hex. Witches, drunks, kids and dogs are all welcome. Listen to Grandma when she reminds you that parking will be an impossible bitch and “carpooling, biking and Uber/Lyft” are better options – “or you can fly in on your unicorn and they can hang out at the bar while you get down with your bad self.” Thanks, Nana. – JBY 10 a.m.-6 p.m. | Stardust Video & Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road | facebook.com/grandmaparty | free
Tuesday, Dec. 17
The Isley Brothers MUSIC
Sixty years ago, on Sept. 21, 1959, the Isley Brothers released “Shout.” “You make me wanna shout” is a lyric that’s been hollered at gatherings for decades hence, from grandma on the wedding reception dancefloor to the teens making mischief in the parking lot. The Grammy award-winning group is celebrating the landmark with a 60th anniversary tour that stops at Orlando’s Bob Carr Theater. The brothers Isley, Ronald and Ernie, play their generation- and genrespanning hits, crisscrossing and blending R&B, blues, rock, soul and funk, like “That Lady,” “Twist and Shout,” “It’s Your Thing” and “This Old Heart of Mine.”– Solomon Gustavo 8 p.m. | Bob Carr Theater, 401 W. Livingston St. | 844-513-2014 | drphillipscenter.org | $39.50-$290
Monday, Dec. 16
Music Mondays: Downtown 81 FILM
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The music and art scene of New York City in the early ’80s is the focus of Downtown 81, a film made by Andy Warhol compatriot Glenn O’Brien. Graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat plays a fictionalized version of himself as he wanders through the city looking for a place to sleep after getting evicted. Along the way, the camera catches up with the likes of Fab Five Freddy, Debbie Harry, Tuxedomoon, Kid Creole & the Coconuts and more, capturing the moment when the punk, hip-hop and art worlds all collided into a distinctly New Yorkian mélange. The film acts as a time machine, transporting viewers to an irreplicable era in the city’s history. – TM 9:30 p.m. | Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland | 407-629-0054 | enzian.org | $12
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11-TUESDAY, DEC. 17 COMPILED BY THADDEUS MCCOLLUM
MUSIC WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11 Eugene Chadbourne, Bongus, Jonas Van Den Bossche 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10. Nile, Terrorizer, Three Knuckles Deep, Kill the Imposter, Augmented 7 pm; Soundbar, 37 W. Pine St.; $20. The Disco Biscuits 7 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $40.50-$83.25; 407-934-2583.
THURSDAY, DEC. 12 ’Tis the Season! A Holiday Extravaganza 7:30 pm; Northland Performing Arts Center, 530 Dog Track Road, Longwood; $10-$50; 407-937-1800. Bad Santa & the Angry Elves 8 pm; Celery City Craft, 114 S. Palmetto Ave., Sanford; contact for price; 407-915-5541.
In Flames Sunday at Hard Rock Live
D.R.I., Wartorn, Intoxicated, Swift Knuckle Solution, Destructonomicon, 1983 7:30 pm; Soundbar, 37 W. Pine St.; $13-$15. Jim Raves 9 pm; The Nook on Robinson, 2432 E. Robinson St.; free.
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Dreamcatcher 7:30 pm; The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave.; $79-$129; 407-228-1220.
A Peter White Christmas 7 pm; The Plaza Live, Electric Chair, Lysol, Deathilepsy, Spur, Android, 425 N. Bumby Ave.; $34-$70; 407-228-1220. F.O.G., Z.A.P. 8 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $10; 407-270-9104. Raising Cadence, Hungover, Adult Life 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10. Friday the 13th: Red Rodeo, Axetone, Big Sad, DieAlps!, Proud Miranda 8 pm; Songs of the Season 7 pm; Seneff Arts Plaza, Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $7. 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; free; 844-513-2014. Infected Mushroom 9 pm; Celine Orlando, 22 S. Magnolia Ave.; $20-$25. FRIDAY, DEC. 13 Aaron Lewis 7:30 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $37.50-$77.75; 407-934-2583. ’Tis the Season! A Holiday Extravaganza 7:30 pm; Northland Performing Arts Center, 530 Dog Track Road, Longwood; $10-$50; 407-937-1800. Bad Santa & the Angry Elves 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540. Dizzlephunk’s Annual Shoe and Sock Drive 9-11 pm; Grape & the Grain, 1110 Virginia Drive; free; 937-307-6654. 36
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Kim King 9 pm; Orlando Brewing, 1301 Atlanta Ave.; free; 407-872-1117. Mannequin Pussy, Kississippi, Wet Nurse 7:30 pm; Soundbar, 37 W. Pine St.; $13-$15. Syzygyx, Jas000n 9:30 pm; Stonewall Bar Orlando, 741 W. Church St.; $7; 407-373-0888. An Unholy Masquerade: Gothic Ball 8 pm; The Nook on Robinson, 2432 E. Robinson St.; free.
SATURDAY, DEC. 14 The Heavy Pets, Roosevelt Collier Band 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $12.
Holiday Showcase: Accordion Craze 11 am; Herndon Library, 4324 E. Colonial Drive; free; 407-835-7323. I Met a Yeti, Gilt, Cool Grandma, Mistress, Y’shua 8 pm; Henao Contemporary Center, 5601 Edgewater Drive; $10. Mulch 9 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free. Music in the Library: Hungrytown 11 am; Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-835-7323. Neil Hilborn, Caracara 7 pm; Soundbar, 37 W. Pine St.; $20-$50. Orlando Gay Chorus: Sleigh Queen! 2 & 7:30 pm; Rosen JCC: Jewish Community Center of Southwest Orlando, 11184 S. ApopkaVineland Road; $25-$30; 407-377-6638. Stucco, Kinky Prawn, Daisy-Chain 8 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $5; 407-270-9104. Sullivan King 10 pm; Gilt Nightclub, 740 Bennett Road; $15-$30; 407-504-7699. Trans-Siberian Orchestra 3 & 8 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; $46.50-$86.50; 800-745-3000.
SantaCon Approximately 12 Pubs of Christmas Pub Crawl Nothing shows the growth of a neighborhood like having to modify a pun for a Christmas pub crawl. The Mills 50 Main Street Program now boasts 17 stops on its annual holiday carousing trip. You can pick up a wristband at Wally’s or Ten10 and receive special pricing and free admission to any bar on the crawl. And if you win the festive costume contest, you get a $50 bar tab to keep you going. 7:30 p.m. Saturday; Mills 50 District, Mills Avenue and Virginia Drive; $10; mills50.org.
SantaCon Some love it, some fear it, but SantaCon’s annual return is inevitable. The easiest way to enjoy SantaCon is to join SantaCon, so get yourself a Santa costume and head downtown to join hundreds of other Santas on a festive pub crawl that pushes the limits of tasteful wassailing. The crawl kicks off at Frosty’s Christmastime Lounge, because of course it does, and hits five other stops along the way. 8 p.m. Saturday; Frosty’s Christmastime Lounge, 50 E. Central Blvd.; free; facebook.com/ santaconorlando. Visage Reunion Even if you weren’t around for the heyday of Visage, an Orlando nightclub that was the de facto home of the punk, new wave and post-punk scene of the ’80s and ’90s, you can still take a trip down memory lane this Saturday at the annual reunion. The dancefloor bounces to the sounds of the underground, as spun by original Visage DJ Paul Vaine. Time to break out the Aquanet. 8 p.m. Saturday; Independent Bar, 70 N. Orange Ave.; $5; independentbar.net.
Mayhem on Mills: Misbehavin’ Just when you thought you got Baby Billy and Amy Lee’s song out of your head after bingeing The Righteous Gemstones this summer, Mayhem on Mills returns and gets you running through the house with a pickle in your mouth. This edition of the local wrestling showcase features the battle for the Mills Avenue championship belt, between Troy Hollywood and Teddy Stigma, along with a Last Man Standing match between Serpentico and Dark Chuckles. 3 p.m. Sunday; The Orange Studio, 1121 N. Mills Ave.; $15; willspub.org.
Black Tiger Sex Machine March 28, 2020, at House of Blues
Anuel AA, Dec. 19 at Amway Center Lindsey Stirling, Dec. 19 at Bob Carr Theater Rockapella, Dec. 20 at the Plaza Live Snoop Dogg, Dec. 21 at House of Blues Jim Gaffigan, Dec. 27 at the Dr. Phillips Center Blackberry Smoke, Dec. 31 at House of Blues The Legendary JC’s, Dec. 31 at Will’s Pub Grace Potter, Jan. 10, 2020, at House of Blues Too Many Zooz, Jan. 13, 2020, at the Social Motion City Soundtrack, Jan. 15, 2020, at House of Blues
Keith Sweat, Jan. 17, 2020, at Hard Rock Live
Black Violin, Feb. 8, 2020, at Bob Carr Theater
The Dead South, Jan. 21, 2020, at House of Blues
We Were Promised Jetpacks, Feb. 14, 2020, at the Social
Black Lips, Jan. 23, 2020, at the Social
Shovels & Rope, Feb. 15, 2020, at the Social
American Authors, Jan. 24, 2020, at the Beacham
The Beach Boys, Feb. 19, 2020, at the Dr. Phillips Center
Iann Dior, Jan. 24, 2020, at the Social Southern Culture on the Skids, Jan. 24, 2020, at Will’s Pub Iliza Shlesinger, Jan. 25, 2020, at Hard Rock Live Raphael Saadiq, Jan. 31, 2020, at the Plaza Live
America, March 22, 2020, at Hard Rock Live Chris Tucker, March 28, 2020, at Hard Rock Live Black Tiger Sex Machine, March 28, 2020, at House of
Noah Gundersen, Feb. 21, 2020, at the Social Lucero, Feb. 27, 2020, at the Social Gladys Knight, March 4, 2020, at the Dr. Phillips Center
Blues Watsky, April 1, 2020, at the Beacham Mandy Moore, April 8, 2020, at Bob Carr Theater Niall Horan, April 25, 2020, at Amway Center Apocalyptica, May
Marc Anthony, March 10, 2020, at Amway Center
Tiffany, Jan. 31, 2020, at House of Blues
Billie Eilish, March 10, 2020, at Amway Center
Aamanaguchi, Feb. 1, 2020, at the Plaza Live
Josh Groban, March 11, 2020, at the Dr. Phillips Center
3, 2020, at the Plaza Live Lake Street Dive, May 5, 2020, at the Plaza Live Lauren Daigle, May 8, 2020, at Amway Center
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SATURDAY, DEC. 14
Orlando Zine Fest L I T E RA RY
It’s the moooost wonderful time of the year! Orlando’s annual Zine Fest returns this Saturday for another evening dedicated to the splendors of independent and DIY publishing – a zine is a self-produced booklet/magazine, for the sake of a quick recap – in all its many forms and themes and subjects. The beautiful democracy of Orlando Zine Fest is that hand-lettered and folded zines hold pride of place next to glossy and bound publications, with no top-down hierarchy; that you made the effort to lovingly create a personal artifact is nearly as important as the final product. This year’s roster of writers, artists and anthologizers includes Bonk!, Female Trouble, 44:16, Letters to Nowhere, Illuminated Paths, Love Your Rebellion and Standard Action Press. Holiday shopping starts in earnest here. – Matthew Moyer 5 p.m. | Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. | willspub.org | free
Visage Reunion 8 pm; Independent Bar, 70 N. Orange Ave.; $5; 407-839-0457.
In Flames, Red, Arrival of Autumn 7:30 pm; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; $30-$35; 407-351-5483.
The Vocalitas 7 pm; The Floridabilt, 78 W. Church St.; free.
Issues, Polyphia, Sleep Token 6:30 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $23-$53.75; 407-934-2583.
Wonder: A Christmas Concert 5:30 & 7:30 pm; St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 4851 S. Apopka-Vineland Road, Windermere; $12; 407-876-4991.
SUNDAY, DEC. 15 Final Festination: Dogleg, Worst Party Ever, Sleepless, Tanner Jones and more 5 pm; Henao Contemporary Center, 5601 Edgewater Drive; $15. Gillian Carter, LJesus, Flying Limbs, Blind Tiger, Flagman 7 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $5-$10; 407-270-9104. 38
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MYFEVER, Brother Moses 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $8-$10. Orlando Big Band: A Swingtime Christmas 3 pm; Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center, 201 S. Magnolia Ave., Sanford; $23-$30; 407-321-8111. Orlando Gay Chorus: Sleigh Queen! 4:30 pm; Rosen JCC: Jewish Community Center of Southwest Orlando, 11184 S. Apopka-Vineland Road; $25-$30; 407-377-6638.
The Spill Canvas, the Juliana Theory, Cory Wells, Northstreet 7:30 pm; Soundbar, 37 W. Pine St.; $18-$20. Wonder: A Christmas Concert 5:30 pm; St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 4851 S. Apopka-Vineland Road, Windermere; $12; 407-876-4991.
THEWEEK joyful Broadway musical. Winter Park Playhouse, 711-C Orange Ave., Winter Park; $20-$45; 407-645-0145; winterparkplayhouse.org. DEC. 12-16
MONDAY, DEC. 16 Theo Moon 6:30 pm; Eden Bar at the Enzian, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; free; 407-629-1088.
TUESDAY, DEC. 17 DeadBuggs, Fatties, Dirty Fingers 9 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $5; 407-270-9104. No Handouts, Sunstrife, Stay at Home Astronauts, Hijas de la Muerte, Boy Muscle 7 pm; Soundbar, 37 W. Pine St.; $10-$15. The Isley Brothers 8 pm; Bob Carr Theater, 401 W. Livingston St.; $39.50-$290; 407-246-4262.
THEATER DEC. 11
Flame & Fortune: Chriskwanzakkah Game show hosted by Miss Sammy and Wanzie, complete with a festively decorated game show set, electronic gaming system, holidayrelated questions and a $100 cash prize. 8 pm; Savoy Orlando, 1913 N. Orange Ave.; $12-$17; holidayflame.eventbrite.com. DEC. 11-15
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas A swirling chorus of ghosts weave through this uplifting holiday story of redemption, magic, and hope as the greedy Scrooge learns the error of his ways. Garden Theatre, 160 W. Plant St., Winter Garden; $25-$37; 407-877-4736. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Middle sister Mary finally takes center stage in this charming and clever sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Orlando Shakes, 812 E. Rollins St.; $30-$55; 407-447-1700; orlandoshakes.org. DEC. 12-15
A Christmas Carol Stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ tale of Christmas ghosts. Historic State Theatre, 109 N. Bay St., Eustis; $11-$21; 352-357-7777; baystreetplayers.org. A Christmas Story This musical follows 9-yearold Ralphie Parker and his quest for the most coveted of Christmas gifts, a Red Ryder BB Gun. Central Florida Community Arts, 250 SW Ivanhoe Blvd.; $18-$25; 407-937-1800; cfcarts.com. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Charles Schulz’s beloved comic strip comes to life in this
A Christmas Story: The Musical An infamous leg lamp, outrageous pink bunny pajamas, a maniacal department store Santa, and a triple-dog-dare to lick a freezing flagpole are just a few of the distractions that stand between Ralphie and his Christmas wish. Theater West End, 115 W. First St., Sanford; $25-$30; 407-548-6285; theaterwestend.com. The Santaland Diaries/Season’s Greetings David Sedaris’ monologue about a slacker working as a Macy’s elf during the holidays. Penguin Point Productions, 1220 Oviedo Mall Blvd., Oviedo; $20; penguinpointproductions.com. The Spitfire Grill Musical about a woman who holds a contest to give away her restaurant. Mad Cow Theatre, 54 W. Church St.; $30-$42; 407-297-8788; madcowtheatre.com. DEC. 13
Opera Orlando: Amahl and the Night Visitors Classic tale of a precocious crippled shepherd boy who happens to be visited by the Three Kings on their mission to behold the Christchild. 5:30 pm; Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1414 Art Center Ave., New Smyrna Beach; $25; 407-512-1900; operaorlando.org. DEC. 13-15
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Add two veteran soldiers, two talented singing sisters, and a Vermont lodge at Christmas together, and you get this beloved holiday musical. Osceola Center for the Arts, 2411 E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Kissimmee; $25; 407-846-6257; osceolaarts.org. It Was a Very Good Yule: Rat Pack Enjoy the live music, sip the hot chocolate, wear your ugliest sweater, and get comfortable as you travel back to the era of the Rat Pack. Mad Cow Theatre, 54 W. Church St.; $25; 407-297-8788; madcowtheatre.com. DEC. 13-16
Phantasmagoria’s A Christmas Carol Phantasmagoria returns with its own unique adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale, performed at various venues throughout Central Florida. Multiple locations; $20-$25; phantasmagoriaorlando.com. orlandoweekly.com
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Miracle in Bedford Falls Stage musical based on the beloved film It’s a Wonderful Life. 1:30 & 6 pm; Orlando Repertory Theatre, 1001 E. Princeton St.; $15-$35; 407-896-7365; orlandorep.com.
COMEDY Bull & Bush Open Mic Weekly stand-up comedy open mic. Wednesday, 8:30-10:30 pm; Bull and Bush, 2408 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-896-7546. Darren Fleet Sunday, 7 pm; Orlando Improv, 9101 International Drive; $25-$35; 407480-5233; theimprovorlando.com.
Bob Kealing The author and journalist gives a lecture on the Beat movement and its connections to Central Florida in conjunction with a display of the shotgun art of William S. Burroughs. Wednesday, 6:30 pm; Mills Gallery, 1650 N. Mills Ave.; free; 855-3363653; thegalleryatmillspark.com. Trading Eyes: The Art of Scott White and Daniel Harris Collaborative works by Scott White and Daniel Harris. Opens Friday, 6 pm, through Jan. 12, 2020; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free; willspub.org.
EVENTS
The Falcon Comedy Showcase Tuesday, 9 pm; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; free; 407-423-3060. Ken Miller Thursday, 8 pm; Orlando Improv, 9101 International Drive; $10-$40; 407480-5233; theimprovorlando.com.
Blanket Orlando Annual blanket collection for the homeless. Friday, 3-11 pm; Gaston Edwards Park, 1236 N. Orange Ave.; free.
Pete Holmes Friday, 8 & 10:30 pm, Saturday, 7 & 9:45 pm; Orlando Improv, 9101 International Drive; $30; 407-480-5233; theimprovorlando.com.
Breakfast With Santa Tell Santa exactly what you want for Christmas and enjoy a breakfast buffet with Old St. Nick himself. Sunday, 9 am-noon; Wekiva Island, 1014 Miami Springs Road, Longwood; $12.95; 407-339-0879; wekivaisland.com.
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Camp Crystal Lake Christmas Cabaret Burlesque cabaret with singing, dancing and tributes to Jason Voorhees for the holidays. Friday, 10 pm; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; $10; 407-423-3060. Central Florida Ballet: The Nutcracker An unparalleled production, complete with uniquely composed sets, aerial acrobatics, pyrotechnics and an exceptional ballet ensemble. Saturday, 2 & 7:30 pm, Sunday, 2 pm; Linda Chapin Auditorium, 9800 International Drive; $29-$64; centralfloridaballet.com. Orlando Ballet: The Nutcracker Orlando Ballet presents the beloved holiday tradition, with live music provided by the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras. Friday-Saturday, 7:30 pm, Sunday, 3 pm; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $24$490; 407-418-9828; orlandoballet.org. Orlando Ballet: The Nutcracker Family Show A one-hour version of the classic holiday show, perfect for all ages. Saturday, 11 am; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $24-$69; 407-418-9828; orlandoballet.org. ORLANDO WEEKLY ● DEC. 11-17, 2019 ● orlandoweekly.com
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Approximately 12 Pubs of Christmas Pub Crawl Wristband gets you discounts at 17 different bars throughout the Mills 50 district. Saturday, 7:30 pm; Mills 50, North Mills Avenue between Weber and Montana streets; $10; mills50.org.
Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker Filmed performance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, direct from Moscow. Sunday, 12:55 pm; multiple locations; $18; fathomevents.com.
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Broadway Christmas A Broadway cabaret drag show benefiting the Trevor Project. Thursday, 8:30 pm; Southern Nights, 375 S. Bumby Ave.; contact for price; 407-412-5039; southernnightsorl.com. Canine Extravaganza Celebration of dogs from AKC, with a meet-the-breeds showcase, breed and agility competitions, dog trick displays, shopping and more. Saturday-Sunday, 10 am-5 pm; Orange County Convention Center, 9800 International Drive; $10; 919-816-9767; akc.org. Christmas Light Ride Group bike ride to look at Christmas lights. Saturday, 7 pm; Retro City Cycles, 1806 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-895-2700. Christmas With Miles Enjoy food from several wonderful caterers, music that will keep you moving and much more. Friday, 8 pm; District Event Center, 1600 33rd St.; $25; facebook.com/districtorlando. Cirque Musica: Holiday Wishes The show blends the spellbinding grace and daredevil athleticism of the greatest circus performers complemented with a symphony orchestra showcasing the world’s all-time favorite holiday classics. Tuesday, 7:30 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; $35-$125; 800-745-3000; amwaycenter.com. Deck the Runway A celebrity-hosted holiday red carpet fashion event showcasing emerging
designers. Saturday, 7 pm; Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate, 1500 Masters Boulevard, ChampionsGate; $45-$125; 954-683-5371. Grandma Party Bazaar Annual holiday market featuring local, handmade goods, live music, raffles, food, drinks and more. Sunday, 10 am; Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; free; 407-6233393; facebook.com/grandmaparty. GT Vibez Sound Crew Annual Christmas Toy Drive All toys will benefit Children’s Orphanages in Guyana. Santa will be taking pics and giving away free toys. Saturday, 7-11:30 pm; Island Mix Bar & Grill, 3330 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Kissimmee; free; 407-803-9992. Haunted Pub Tour Visit several bars downtown while listening to the gory details of the history of the buildings around you. Friday, 7-10 pm; Harry Buffalo, 129 W. Church St.; $100; 407422-6656; americanghostadventures.com. Holiday Matsuri Holiday-themed anime, gaming, cosplay and pop culture convention. Friday-Sunday, 10 am; Marriott Orlando World Center, 8701 World Center Drive; $35-$175; 407-239-4200; holidaymatsuri.com. Holiday on the Drive Free community holiday party with a snow slide, Santa Claus, arts & crafts and more. Thursday, 5-9 pm; downtown College Park, Vanderbilt Street and Formosa Avenue; free. Holiday Record Fair Pick up rare and used vinyl from multiple vendors in the lobby of the Citrus Tower. Sunday, 9 am-2 pm; Florida Citrus Tower, 141 N. Highway 27, Clermont; free; 352-394-4061; citrustower.com. Kelly’s Annual Christmas Party Free photos with Santa, games, Christmas crafts, photos and more. Thursday, 6-8 pm; Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream, 3114 Corrine Drive; free; 321-2268685; kellyshomemadeicecream.com. Pop Swap Holiday Market Shop from more than 30 local artisans and vintage dealers. Sunday, 1-6 pm; The Lovely, 2906 Corrine Drive; free; 407-2707729; thelovelyboutiquemarket.com. RomMold Fest Festival celebrating Romanian and Moldovan food, wine and culture. Saturday-Sunday, 11 am; Central Florida Fairgrounds, 4603 W. Colonial Drive; free; 407-295-3247. SantaCon Annual bar crawl with attendees dressed up as Santa. Saturday, 8 pm; Downtown Orlando, Orange Avenue and Central Boulevard; free-$15. Triple Bottle Release Release of three imperial stouts: Chocolate Churro, Cookies & Cream and German Chocolate Cake. Friday, 1 pm; Broken Strings Brewery, 1012 W. Church St.; various menu prices.
THEWEEK Winter Fest & Snow Mountain Winter carnival with rides, live music, food vendors and more. Saturday, 2 pm; Oviedo Amphitheatre & Cultural Center, 299 Center Lake Lane, Oviedo; $6-$100. Winter Park Holiday Boat Parade See the impressive boat and dock holiday decorations created by residents and local business sponsors. Saturday, 5:30-8 pm; Dinky Dock Park, Ollie Avenue, Winter Park; free; 407599-3334; winterparkboatparade.com. Winter Spark Parade Holiday lighted parade down New Broad Street. Saturday, 4-8 pm; Downtown Baldwin Park, 4915 New Broad St.; free; baldwinparkevents.com. Winter Wonderland at Rosen Shingle Creek Offering holiday activities that include Christmas letter writing and storytelling with Mrs. Claus, holiday karaoke, a holiday photo booth, face painting and balloon art. Saturday, 6:30 pm; Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, 9939 Universal Blvd.; free-$10; 407-996-9939; rosenshinglecreek.com.
LEARNING Let’s Knit Tiny Tree Ornaments Create sweet tiny tree ornaments decorated with stripes, beads and buttons. Practice garter and stockinette stitch while learning to seam and attach buttons and beads. Mondays, 10:30 am; Southwest Library, 7255 Della Drive; free; 407-835-7323; ocls.info. TEDxWinterPark: Being Human Presentations on things that could define us as a species while looking at the most intriguing and interesting aspects about ourselves. Friday 3-7 pm; Mills Gallery, 1650 N. Mills Ave.; $99; 407-393-5757; tedxwinterpark.com.
LITERARY Orlando Zine Fest Browse dozens of independent publications from a variety of writers, artists and anthologizers. Saturday, 5 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; free; willspub.org.
SPORTS Mayhem on Mills: Misbehavin’ Live professional wrestling from local and regional wrestlers. Sunday 3 pm; The Orange Studio, 1121 N. Mills Ave.; $15; willspub.org. Orlando Magic vs. Houston Rockets NBA basketball. Friday 7 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; $47-$2,441.50; 800-745-3000; amwaycenter.com. Orlando Magic vs. Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball. Wednesday 7 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; $72-$2,976.50; 800-745-3000; amwaycenter.com. n orlandoweekly.com
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My husband and I (straight male/bi female couple) have been married 15 years. We are in our early 40s. When we met, he was inexperienced and crippled by shame from having grown up in an extremely sex-negative atmosphere. I have no hang-ups about sex and was happy to get him involved in some more adventurous stuff – but he quickly became obsessed with kink and shows no sign of slowing. I’m happy to play along with fantasies and role-play, bondage, domination, foot play, anal sex/pegging, going to events, having moresomes, etc. But sometimes I’d like to have gentle and slow “unadorned” sex with an attentive partner who calls me by name, compliments me and does things to my body he knows I enjoy. My husband has been seeing a therapist for some years. We also went to this therapist for couples therapy, and he gave us some “exercises” to try to tone down my husband’s desire for perfectly scripted kink “scenes” every time we have sex. But my husband was either not able or not willing to try them, and I gave up. He now basically can’t maintain an erection without either (1) a complicated script with roles and props and costumes and toys or (2) going through the motions of romantic sex as long as I keep up a constant stream of “in-character” dirty talk, which makes it impossible for me to be in the moment. I’ve urged him to go see a dominatrix or to get more involved in the local kink scene without me – but he’s obsessed with this imagined moment where I suddenly “awaken” and fully join him in his obsessions. I find this condescending and stupid. Just because I can enjoy kink play now and then doesn’t mean I’ll ever be someone who gasps with excitement at a woman on a leash being peed on or someone dangling from the ceiling by the clamps on their nipples. It doesn’t shock me or disgust me, it just kind of bores me. It feels like watching someone fill their kitchen with every gaudy, expensive, chrome radish peeler and strawberry diddler when they can’t even boil an egg. Is there a trick to reducing your partner’s dependence on kink? Or a way to make kink more interesting to yourself? Bored By Obsessive Kinkster You must feel like you created a kink monster. But you didn’t! I mean, you did meet this inexperienced, sexually repressed guy, BBOK, and you did encourage him to let go of the shame, and you did give him permission to be a little more sexually adventurous … and 15 years later, you’re stuck with this selfish asshole who’s so obsessed and/or dependent on his kinks that you’ve come to dread having sex with him. But your husband was always the elaborately twisted kinkster he is now; he just needed someone to give him permission to admit to being who he always was – or to get in touch with who he 42
always was – and that person was you. And now here you are, BBOK, writing to me in the hopes that I can magically cause your husband to become less dependent on his kinks or can magically “awaken” in you a similarly obsessive interest in the exact same suite of kinks he has. And we both know neither is going to happen, because you’re not going to get kinkier (which is what he wants) and you’ve already tried to get him to rein in his kinks (and that didn’t work). That’s what the couples counseling was about, right? Him learning to be a little less selfish and a little more GGG and a better partner … and the selfish sack of shit couldn’t be bothered, could he? Both of your proposed fixes are basically pipe dreams, as I suspect you know, BBOK, and I further suspect you’re not really interested in either one. Because what you really want is right here: “Sometimes I’d like to have gentle and slow ‘unadorned’ sex with an attentive partner who calls me by name, compliments me, and does things to my body he knows I enjoy.” (Emphasis mine.) I don’t think it’s an accident that you wrote about wanting “an attentive partner” to call you by your name and do all sorts of vanilla things to your body that he knows you enjoy. I don’t think it’s an accident that you didn’t use “loving husband” in that sentence, BBOK, because deep down you know your husband isn’t interested in doing those things. And he won’t be any good at doing those things. And even if he could fake an interest in doing those things for 20 minutes – which apparently he can’t – you probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy his half-hearted attempts at vanilla sex, because knowing he had to concentrate on some BDSM script in his head the whole time would make it impossible for you to be in (and enjoy) the moment. You want to have loving, tender, connected sex with someone who cares about you. You want to have sex with someone who isn’t asking you to be someone you’re not each and every time you have sex with him (or her). And the obvious fix here, the easiest workaround, the reasonable accommodation … well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? You need to have sex with someone else, BBOK, with someone who cares about you. Basically, you need to take your own advice, the advice you’ve been giving your husband, and go find yourself a play partner or two – for vanilla sex, not kinky sex. If you can find someone who can give you the kind of simple, passionate, connected sex you no longer get in your marriage, perhaps you’ll come to resent your husband less and your desire for kinky sex with him will rebound. I started seeing a man four weeks ago who keeps telling me he can’t sleep with me, or can’t sleep with me yet, because of
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some all-consuming fetish that he can’t (or doesn’t want to) do with me. He also has sexual issues due to having survived testicular cancer and no longer having testicles. As a bisexual woman, I don’t have an issue with that and am happy to have non-penis sex. But even that is not forthcoming, because he always tells me his fixation on this fetish is interfering, while remaining totally incoherent about what the fetish is and why he can’t do it with me. No one is required to sleep with me, but it’s upsetting to go to bed with him and then, after he plays along for a little while, have to listen to him tell me another totally incoherent version of whatever his fucking problem is. I value this person for the other parts of our relationship, but I’m getting fed up. I don’t see how we’ll ever get along in bed if I’m just trying to have fun while he’s being as tormented, confusing and complicated as possible. Should I just walk away? Is this bullshit or not? Drama Is Boring Unless this ball-less mess is climbing up the fire escape and slipping into your bedroom uninvited – which I’m guessing you would’ve mentioned – he keeps turning up in your bedroom because you keep inviting him. Stop that, DIB. Tell him you’re happy to keep seeing him, if you enjoy his company that much, but you’re not “seeing” him anymore, which means he’s not welcome in your bedroom. So there’s no need for him to bring up his fetish or any other sexual issues with you. As a general rule, a person really shouldn’t mention the fact that they have a kink or fetish to a new partner unless they’re ready to share what it is. You don’t have to be ready to act on it – lots of people have fetishes and/or kinks they enjoy as fantasy-only or are ready to share but want to take the doing a little slower. But telling someone you have a kink/fetish that’s so all-consuming you can’t be sexual unless it’s a part of the action and then refusing to name the kink/fetish and then adding that you wouldn’t want to do it with the person … well, that’s not just bullshit, DIB, it’s disqualifying assholery and some truly next-level negging. Don’t walk away, run. On the Lovecast: Lock him up! All about chastity cages: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net ITMFA.org
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DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD (OR CHILDREN) NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. “Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.” WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 18th day of November, 2019. This summons has been issued at the request of: Jennifer Ware, Esquire Florida Bar No.: 109969, Senior Attorney for the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, 400 West Robinson Street, Ste. N211, Orlando, FL 32801, (407) 317-7643. Jennifer.Ware@ myflfamilies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk, (Court Seal) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/DOHERTY CASE NO.: DP15-44 IN THE INTEREST OF: T.L. DOB: 09/11/2006, minor child. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA. To: TERRANCE LEE LAMPKIN, Address Unknown. WHEREAS a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath
has been filed in this Court regarding the above-referenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before General Magistrate Kathryn Durnell, at 10:30 a.m., on the 2nd day of JANUARY 2020, at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TRIAL. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD (THESE CHILDREN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD (OR CHILDREN) NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. “Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.” WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 18th day of November, 2019. This summons has been issued at the request of: Jennifer Ware, Esquire Florida Bar No.: 109969, Senior Attorney for the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, 400 West Robinson Street, Ste. N211, Orlando, FL 32801, (407) 317-7643. Jennifer. Ware@myflfamilies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/
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Deputy Clerk, (Court Seal) Notice of Sale Name – Property – Unit #: Heidi Larned - Laundry, full trash bags, picture frames, crutches, misc household and personal items. – 130 Ernesto Cruz - chairs, mufflers, washer and dryer, tools, plastic bins, bikes, misc household and personal items and tools. – 210 Ali Nickooii – Large amounts of boxes constructions materials, pallets, misc household and personal items – 212 Felipe Nieves - Drum kit things, boxes, plastic bins, pictures, misc household and personal items - 432 Ample Storage, 6493 E Colonial Dr, Orlando FL 32807, has possessory lien on all goods stored in the prospective units above. All these items of personal property are being sold pursuant to the asserting of the lien on 12/30/19 at 11:00AM in order to collect the amount due from you. The sale will take place at 6493 E Colonial Dr, Orlando FL 32807.
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Legal, Public Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/DOHERTY, WESTGATE ADVOCACY CENTER, CASE NO.: DP18-135 IN THE INTEREST OF: K.B. DOB: 03/25/2015 NOTICE OF ACTION, TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA To: Brandy Brock, address unknown. A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child(ren). You are hereby commanded to appear before Judge Patricia A. Doherty on Friday, December 20, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 19th day of November, 2019. This summons has been issued at the request of: Audrea Beth Ashcraft, Esquire Florida Bar No.: 101358 Children’s Legal Services, audrea. ashcraft@myflfamilies.com. (407) 563-2380 By: /s/ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, Deputy Clerk, (Court Seal) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION: 03/CRANER. WESTGATE SERVICE CENTER. CASE NO.: DP18-562. In the Interest of: G.B. DOB: 02/21/2016, C.B. DOB: 06/02/2019. minor children. NOTICE OF ACTION (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS). TO: Clifford Beasley, Address Unknown. Clifford Beasley, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the following child(ren) for adoption: G.B., born on February 21, 2016; C.B., born on June 2, 2019. A copy of the Petition is on file with the Clerk of the Court. You are hereby commanded to appear on January 13, 2020, at 10:45 a.m., before the Honorable A. James Craner, Juvenile Division, Courtroom 5, at the Orange County Courthouse,
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Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, FL 32806 for an ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801, telephone (407) 836-2303 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 20TH day of November, 2019. This summons has been issued at the request of: Layali Salem, Esquire Florida Bar No.: 0111746, Children’s Legal Services, State of Florida, Department of Children and Families 882 S. Kirkman Road, Ste. 200, Orlando, FL 32811, (407) 563-2380 Layali. salem@myflfamilies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION: 03/CRANER. WESTGATE SERVICE CENTER. CASE NO.: DP18-532. In the Interest of:J.A. DOB: 01/03/2018 minor child. NOTICE OF ACTION (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS). TO: Felicia Lavallee, Address Unknown. Felicia Lavallee, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the following child(ren) for adoption: J.A. born January 3, 2018. A copy of the Petition is on file with the Clerk of the Court. You are hereby commanded to appear on January 16, 2020, at 10:15 a.m., before the Honorable A. James Craner, Juvenile Division, Courtroom 5, at the Orange County Courthouse, Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, FL 32806 for an ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE
PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801, telephone (407) 836-2303 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 4th day of December, 2019. This summons has been issued at the request of: Layali Salem, Esquire Florida Bar No.: 0111746, Children’s Legal Services, State of Florida, Department of Children and Families 882 S. Kirkman Road, Ste. 200, Orlando, FL 32811, (407) 563-2380 layali. salem@myflfamilies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal) NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Laurie Lawrence, of 698 Sausalito Blvd., Casselberry, FL 32707, pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, is hereby advertising the following fictitious name: Laurie Lawrence Design It is the intent of the undersigned to register “Laurie Lawrence Design” with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Dated: 12/2/19 NOTICE of Lien Sale Pursuant to the lien granted by the Florida Self-storage Facility Act, Longwood Storage Zone Self Storage and Business Centers will sell at public auction on December 18th 2019, personal property belonging to the following tenants to the highest bidder. The sale shall be held at Longwood Storage Zone, 120 Highline Drive, Longwood FL 32750 407-8318373, commencing at approximately 11:00 AM. All sales are subject to prior cancellation. Sale rules and regulations are available at the time of Auction. Kathryn Brugh Unit 1115 (Unknown, Misc.), Frances Connell Unit 1407 (Unknown, Misc.), Frances Connell Unit 1119 (Furniture household items clothes), Karen Delgado Unit 1002 (Paperwork, Boxes), Carmen Figueroa Vega Unit 2020 (Bed, Dresser, TV, Boxes, Lamps, Household Goods, Totes), Frank Gosse Unit 401 (Dining Table, Totes, Household Goods, Clothing, DVDs, Kids Toys, Tools), Anthony McClure Unit 902 (Unknown, Misc.), Reinaldo Rodriguez Garcia Unit 219 (Tools, Misc.), Barbara Rosenwinkel Unit 1214 (Unknown, Misc.), Barbara Rosenwinkel Unit 1303 (Unknown, Misc.), Barbara
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Rosenwinkel Unit 1311 (Unknown, Misc.), Barbara Rosenwinkel Unit 1312 (Unknown, Misc.), Barbara Rosenwinkel Unit 1315 (Unknown, Misc.), Barbara Rosenwinkel Unit 1316 (Unknown, Misc.), Barbara Rosenwinkel Unit 1513 (Unknown, Misc.), Alfred Schwan Unit 712 (Unknown, Misc.), David Shore Unit 2615 (Household Goods, Furniture, Boxes, Suitcases, Sporting Goods, Tools), Tina Spencer Unit 533 (Unknown, Misc.), David Turner Unit 613 (Unknown, Misc.), Lisle Zulia Unit 1206 (Art, Antiques, Furniture, Boxes, Totes, Tools, Suitcases, Xmas Decor, Crystal and China, TV). Notice of Public Auction for monies due on storage units located at U-Haul company facilities. Storage locations are listed below. All goods are household contents or miscellaneous and recovered goods. All auctions are hold to satisfy owner’s lien for rent and fees in accordance with Florida Statutes, Self-Storage Act, Sections 83.806 and 83.807. The auction will start at 8:00 a.m. on January 2nd, 2020 and will continue until all locations are done. U-Haul Moving and Storage of Maitland, 7803 North Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32810; C24 Tynon Smith $994.39, D07 Edward Hainesworth $835.30, B71 Amanda Garcia $621.36, D08 Sabrina Gopez $533.92, B22 Anson Hamilton $408.96, B58 Adrian Andrade $464.65, L74 Matthew Hicks $796.95 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Apopka, 1221 E Semoran Blvd, Apopka, FL 32703; 1268 Jose Benitez $938.81, 1184 Lorenzo Weathers $1396.78, 1157 Kelly Stephenson $501.24, 1303 Charles Powers Weathington $1102.62, 1376 John Tilelli $297.51, 1231-333 Miguel Verdejo $557.70, 1334 Sharon Buggs $395.62, 1201 Ralph Wilson $334.62 U-Haul Moving and Storage of Altamonte Springs, 598 West Highway 436, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714; A109 Brittany Braxton $1054.03, C105 Jason Koch $1029.37, E114 Charles Hawkins $1029.37 U-Haul Moving and Storage of Semoran, 2055 N Semoran Blvd, Winter Park, FL 32792; 1228 Nicholas Click $821.31, 1674 Jonathan Lewis $501.26, 1051 Chaitra Mccormick $431.84, 1210 Kyranecia Armstrong $666.64, 1078 Luis Barreto $810.53, 1183 Dorothy Brantley $666.64, 1013 Glenn Vause $703.98, 2504 Luciana Mascarenhas $389.22, 1508 Robert Soni $769.58, 2450 Jennifer Fane $503.61, 2779 Jeffrey Saia $538.50, 2291 Sarah Irwin $1252.49, 2470 Luis Galvis $441.37, 1410 Robert Fadeley $548.84, 1668 Caren Martinez $603.28, 1068 Mike Moses $647.66, 2151 Kimberly Jones $737.79, 2160 Arnando Perez $735.99, 2354 Sol Torres $985.74,
1045 Kevin Correia $431.84 U-Haul Moving and Storage of Longwood, 650 N. Ronald Reagan Blvd, Longwood, FL 32750; D009 Richard Sears $823.95, D015 Cheryl Osberg $686.65 U-Haul Moving and Storage of Lake Mary, 3851 S Orlando Ave, Sanford, FL 32773; 2596 Lyric Pittman $372.95, 1505 Terrance Chun $645.08, 1583 Michael Smith $357.20, 1047 Jayna Fox $687.76, 1025 Marcia Lytle $839.70, 2338 Faith Crocker $836.65, 1625 Christina Veltman $645.08, 1744 Rodrakus Warren $449.85, 2213 Michael Penna $903.30, 5056 Felix Lorcy $695.96, 1611 Luis Cruz $645.08, 1269 Kelly Greenaway $653.28, 2558 Mistery Room $527.84, 1237 Mystery Room $613.28, 5082 Katrina Boyd $887.93, 1039 Peter Bernard $718.44, 2209 Michelle Cameron $738.64, 1270 John Doe $495.80, 1653 Donna Bors $746.60, 1218 David McDonald $426.50, 1055 Montez Mack $655.96, 1431 Donna Bors $357.20, 2570 Secoyah Matthews $378.56 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Rinehart, 1811 Rinehart Road, Sanford, FL 32771; 3057 Shamiel Crayton $663.66, 3087 Mohammed Hossain $497.90, 3117 Alnisa Williams $479.70, 2096 Lynette Ratcliff $491.70, 2002 Lourde Lopez $1396.18, 3129 Tammy Marshall $317.09. 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 8am and RUNS CONTINUOUSLY. Uhaul Ctr Kirkman- 600 S Kirkman Rd- Orlando 1/8/2020 1044 Donna Valente 2103 Karen Dunbar 6006 Tanisha Wells 6046 Confiance Homes 4016 Tinesha Character 2098 Pedro Jimenez 4050 John Flowers 3062 Nicola Brown 2034 Katrina Edwards 1117 Marsha Mohabier 6048 Steven Draper 5008 Shyrl Williams 1060Amy Dorf Uhaul Ctr Orange Ave- 3500 S Orange Ave- Orlando 1/8/2020 2303 Charne Green 1019 Gerkeirra Campbell 1913 Shirley Baez 1808 Robert Lachowitzer 1256 Tasha Hankerson Uhaul Ctr Baldwin Park- 4001 E Colonial Drive- Orlando 1/8/20 C141 Brackston Helms D231 Torrance Williams B110 Jerron Strauss Uhaul Ctr Goldenrod- 508 N Goldenrod Rd- Orlando 1/8/2020 515 Esther Ruth 714 Aeris Melendez 709 Jannessa Hammerle 335
Jesus Felix 418 Lynette Rocha 221 Adrain Robinson Uhaul Ctr Lake Nona- 7800 Narcoosse Rd- Orlando 1/8/2020 2434 Luz Ortega 3161 Lorna Creque 2164 Diana Juanrisco 3247 Acosta Sales Marketing 3252 Juan Cepeda. Notice Of Public Sale Personal property of the following tenants will be sold for cash to satisfy rental liens in accordance with Florida Statutes, Self Storage Facility Act, Sections 83-806 and 83-807. Contents may include kitchen, household items, bedding, toys, games, boxes, barrels, packed cartons, furniture, trucks, cars, etc. There is no title for vehicles sold at lien sale. Owners reserve the right to bid on units. Lien sale to be held online ending Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 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! Also visit www.personalministorage.com/Orlando-FL storage-units/ for more info. Michigan Mini- 200 W Michigan St Orlando, FL 32806- at 10:30am: 55 David Tyrone Hill 66 Darlene Mohamud 78 Kenneth Jones Personal Mini Storage Forsyth2875 Forsyth Rd Winter Park FL, 32792- at 10:00 am: 317 Jose Osvaldo Polanco Batista 362 Reynold Xavier King, Jr. 365 Adrian Keith Ellis 232 Angel Luis Alvarez Cotto 442 Kimberly D Sampley Personal Mini Storage West4600 Old Winter Garden Rd Orlando, FL 32811- at 11:30 am: 15 Clayton Lamar Williams 74 Jahnisha Ingram 196 Regina Stephens Ellis 197 Desiree Jonathan 253 Doreen Franklin 265 Herica Joseph St Fleur 411 Chelsea Simone Bohler 415 Cherron Dushane Patterson 432 Desiree Jonathan 458 Kamesha Michelle McCray 462 Marc Arthur Louis 479 Bettie Mae Doss 487 Duane O’neil Avery 490 Cynthia Pender- Roberts 499 Lashell Jonita Moten 536 Samarys Rivera Pagan 619 Alicia Ann Brown Vikings Personal Mini Storage Lake Fairview- 4252 N Orange Blossom Trail Orlando, FL 32804- at 11:30 am: 0055 Jorge Leon Martinez 0083 Marcus Onesimus Reese 0151 David Landon Smith 0165 Bryan Phillip Parker 0171 Ashly Victoria-Ann Harrison 0186 Robert Travis Crawford 0277 Gabriel Crespo 0293 Damaion Demeterus Williams 0334 Belo Dorvilus 0357 Joseph William Kelley 0482 Kirk Logan Parmer 0622 Oliver Augustus Sallett 0902 Kristian Johan Lodes 0968 Emanuel Montrel Glenn Personal Mini Storage Edgewater- 6325 Edgewater Dr Orlando, FL 32810- at 11:30 am: 0102 Joel David Levan III 0352 Alphonse Johnson 0711 Kimberly Ann Hudson 0830 Preston Alexander
Robinson Jr 0837 Tyree Deshawn Baker 0925 Katherine B Owens 1007 Carcine Jeremy Quick 1013 Billy Edward Calahan 1132 Jermaine Demetrius Byrant 2005 HD XL883 Sportster 883 VIN 1HD4CAM155K427816 1220 Edward Lee Pitts 1227 Carl James Johnson 1301 Jorge Jordan 1325 Maribel Mendoza Aviles 1421 Anthony R Brawner 1543 Latrice Monika Britton 1733 Archie Ross III 1758 Chawnte Yvette Williams 2309 Darnell S Pickett 1986 Chevy Camaro VIN 1G1FP87F7GN142947 Personal Mini Storage Forest City Rd- 6550 Forest City Rd Orlando, FL 32810- at 12:00 pm: 1034 Jorge Carrasquillo 1092 Marcus Dewitt Character 2005 Rhonda Lynn Mayland- Briney 3231 Joel David Levan III 4054 Corey Jo Modd Thorne 4063 Vania Fere Henry 4070 Roland Michael Saldana 4078 Jose Javier Lopez Perez 5051 Florey Delois Scott 5063 Taneshia Lynea Koon 6009 Dream Tyberius Hunter 6039 Sylversaint Manes. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Orange Co. Inc. will sell at public lien sale on December 27, 2019, the personal property in the below-listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 09:30 AM and continue until all units are sold. PUBLIC STORAGE # 08327, 5602 Raleigh St, Orlando, FL 32811, (407) 930-4816 Time: 09:30 AM 0029 - Perry, Denise; 0044 - Richardson, Dominick; 0075 - Babington, William; 0090 - Jones, April; 0095 - ELLIS, CYNTHIA; 0113 - Smith, Michael; 0125 - Polite, Kenneth; 0172 - Ayutov, Umarkhon; 0207 - Mompremier, Anntte; 0213 - Calderon, Angel; 0230 - Robinson, Cortrell; 0234 - Lebron Rosa, Diana; 0245 - Kitching, Brittney; 0247 - Byrd, Zereas; 0254 - Marc, Marcgenson; 0262 - harden, carla; 0272 - Neita, Rena; 0286 - Harris, Michael; 0304 - Miller, Moesha; 0316 - Jones, Travis; 0393 - Neal, Dana; 0401 - Carlisle, Kevin; 0409 - Newsome, Audrey; 0456 - Sankey, Luke; 0468 - Barber, Donald; 0477 - O’Rourke, Georgette; 0478 - Graham, Andra; 0479 - Ivery, Curtis; 0480 - Manning, Nevil; 0518 - Singleton, Candace; 0546 Crayton, Hattie PUBLIC STORAGE # 07001, 900 S Kirkman Road, Orlando, FL 32811, (407) 986-7703 Time: 09:40 AM 1208 - Mills, Diann; 1307 - Gulfstream 650 Alvarado, Anned; 1417 - Perry, Christina; 1611 - Montante, Ashley; 1615 jackson, devon; 2101 - Mcneal, Wendy; 2115 - Law, Deidre; 2301 - Ginlack, Tenille; 2408 - Brown, Chauncey; 2412 - Winters, Zachary; 2608 - Klatt, Heather; 3326 - Parker, Jaquel; 3702 - alvarado, Anned; 4202 - Harris, Keara; 4320
- Crenshaw, Bianca; 4601 - Albright, Evelyn; 7105 - JOHNSON, THOMAS; 8108 - Collings, Martin PUBLIC STORAGE # 20136, 3900 W Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32808, (407) 374-5979 Time: 09:50 AM A022 - Henley, Leenisha; A023 - Cedieu, Joseph; A030 - FOSTER, KATHERINE; B007 - Edward, Gisele; B018 - Evans, Calvin; B032 - Simon, Eslee; B035 - Jenkins, Cedric; B042 - Sanders, David; B044 Warren, James; B049 - WATSON, WILLIE; B064 - Carniel, Onyx; B076 - Jenkins, Shawnta; C018 Ahmad, Yasmeen; C024 - Swaby, Nashon; C028 - Carson, Stephanie; C071 - Green, Conswayla; C076 - Hedghill, Robinson; D016 Peterson, Anthony; D025 - Walker, Ebony; D036 - JOHNSON, IVORY; D062 - Ginyard, Elyse; D069 - Bozymowski, John; D099 - Colindres, Erick; D124 - Copeland, Jesse J; D143 - Egan, Lev & Siwica, P.A. Orantes- Aguilar, Mario; E007 Howard, Danielle; P010 - Johnson, Reggie PUBLIC STORAGE # 25813, 2308 N John Young Pkwy, Orlando, FL 32804, (407) 603-0436 Time: 10:00 AM A004 - Donaldson, Keyshon; A006 - fedrick, anthony; A008C - LIBREROS GORDILLO, BRIAN; A009C Scott, Donald; B007B - Abraham, Jennifer; B014B - Okeefe, Lisa Marie; B015 - Carson, Henry; B021A - Mckenzie, Tashaud; B041 - Wilson, Joyce; B060 - ADAMS, SHARON; B063 - Hazard, Annette; B101 - ousley, Jeanne; C070 - Abraham, Jennifer; C074 - Carbin, Juanita; C104 - Russell, Brenda; D011 - Durham, Kendra; D031 - Martin, Demetrius; D034 - Gambles, Justina; D036 - Elliott, Asia; D054 - Mcwhorter, Tyshelle; D056 - Jefferson, William; D060 - Doston, Melinda; D063 - Smith, Deborah; D084 - Richardson, Emmanuel; D133 - Fuller, Minnie; D134 - Basley, Nyesha; D140 Kelsey, Sabrena; E072 - Roberts, Patrick; F002 - Shabazz, Rahmaan; F057 - ADAMS, SHARON; F095 - Yarimel Santiago, MV Transportation; F114 - Boyd, Latasha; O010 - Young, James; O030 - Young, James PUBLIC STORAGE # 24107, 4100 John Young Parkway, Orlando, FL 32804, (407) 930-4381 Time: 10:10 AM A131 - Reyes, Christopher; A152 - Oday, Thomas; A157 - ELY, BRITTANY; B209 - MCCLINTON, EDWARD; B223 Butler, Joshua; C307 - Blair, Justin; C350 - Mercado, Richard; D419 DYSON, CHANNON; E001 - Dunlap, Ericka; E005 - Mathis, Glenn; E054 - AMSTUTZ, CARLETTA; E065 - Rivera, Markier; E110 - Brown, Latanya; F612 - PowellJoseph, Shawn; F646 - Paulino, Kiara D; F647 - Harris, Tangela; G724 - Gabriel, JodyAnne; H813 - Seco World Wide Resources ROJAS, ALEX; J903 - Cashen, Kevin; J928 - Eason, Alicia PUBLIC STORAGE # 08723, 1241 S Orlando Ave, Maitland, FL 32751, (407) 495-1863 Time: 10:20 AM 0067 - Cox, Thomas-
Allen; 0144 - Moore, Lee; 7015 - Redinger, Lelie PUBLIC STORAGE # 08767, 1842 W Fairbanks Ave, Winter Park, FL 32789, (407) 494-2918 Time: 10:30 AM 1008 - Vaughn, Becky; 1098 - Hughes, Blake; 2139 - Jones, Danielle; 3062 Howard, Saivon; 3077 - Cossom, Kevin; 3188 - Kennon, Colleen PUBLIC STORAGE # 08762, 1023 N Mills Ave, Orlando, FL 32803, (407) 505-7981 Time: 10:40 AM 1062 - Williams, Leonard; 1109 - Mcgill, Shawn; 2059 - Carson, Myron; 2067 - Phillips, Marvin; 2102 - Hendy, Jason; 2135 - Slaughter, Sandy; 3005 - Lieberman, Lawrence; 3051 - Ewing, Patricia; 3053 - Hall, Whitney PUBLIC STORAGE # 08769, 653 Maguire Blvd, Orlando, FL 32803, (407) 955-4627 Time: 10:50 AM 0201 - Rath, Mark; 0514 - Kinsey, Heather; 0625 Orwick, Michelle; 2079 - Fernandez, Charles; 2113 - Byrd, Tia; 2156 - Hill, Latiyah; 3063 - Edlin, Raymond; 3120 - Carter- Grimes, Charles. Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: AATR ORLANDO gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on 12/27/2019, 09:00 am at 9712 RECYCLE CENTER RD ORLANDO, FL 32824- 8146, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. AATR ORLANDO reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all bids. 1M1AA08Y4RW004963 1994 MACK NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 08:00 am at 10850 COSMONAUT BLVD ORLANDO, FL 32824, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all bids. DECEMBER 24, 2019 1G8AL54F15Z178195 2005 SATURN DECEMBER 26, 2019 1FBJS31H9SHB46488 1995 FORD 1N4AA51E79C834048 2009 NISSAN 1N4AL2AP4BC160991 2011 NISSAN 3C3AY55E25T504157
2005 CHRYSLER 4A3AA46G0XE151234 1999 MITSUBISHI 4T1BF1FK7GU255538 2016 TOYOTA KMHDH6AE4DU006854 2013 HYUNDAI KMHHN65F33U017078 2003 HYUNDAI KNADN5A37C6092280 2012 KIA WBAUC9C58BVM09709 2011 BMW DECEMBER 27, 2019 1YVHP80C245N14958 2004 MAZDA 5UXFG2C57BLX07296 2011 BMW KNAFE121X45058078 2004 KIA DECEMBER 28, 2019 1HGCP2F61CA087410 2012 HONDA KMHDN46D24U822474 2004 HYUNDAI WVWGD7AJ7BW146267 2011 VOLKSWAGEN DECEMBER 29, 2019 1G1JF52F837275489 2003 CHEVROLET 4T1BG22K1YU620760 2000 TOYOTA JA4LS21H02J029318 2002 MITSUBISHI JN1CA21A3WT302275 1998 NISSAN DECEMBER 31, 2019 1HGEM22582L069049 2002 HONDA 1N4AL3AP0DC111635 2013 NISSAN 3A4FY48826T308308 06 CHRYSLER JANUARY 1, 2020 4T1BE32K94U883360 2004 TOYOTA JHMES966X3S028329 2003 HONDA.
to satisfy a rental lien in accordance with Florida Statute and the Florida Self Storage Facility Act, Sections 83.806 and 83.807. Unit #’s 1237 – Sylvia B. Vanzandt, a.k.a. Sylvia Brekstad Vanzandt, 1343 – Lymarie Hernandez, a.k.a. Lymarie Hernandez-Esteves 1446 – Tabatha Hall, a.k.a. Tabatha R. Hall 1537 – Linda Roberts, a.k.a. Linda Sue Roberts 2331 – Miguel Suarez, a.k.a. Miguel Angel Suarez Perez. Contents may include household items, luggage, toys, furniture, clothing, commercial equipment, etc. Auction to be held at Compass Self Storage, 14120 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando, FL 32826 on January 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm or thereafter. Viewing at time of sale only. The owners or their agents reserve the right to bid on any unit and also to refuse any bid. Compass Self Storage #112, 14120 E. Colonial Dr., Orlando, FL 32826 407-381-2980 Office 407381-2697 Fax css112@compassselfstorage.com, compassselfstorage.com. 12/11, 12/18
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, Monday, December 23, 2019 at 10:00 AM, on lockerfox.com said property has been stored and which are located at: iStorage – Winterpark, 3400 Forsyth Rd, Winter Park FL 32792 Name, Unit #, Contents: Wagner, Jason, 416, queen bed and mattress, queen bedroom set, dining table & chairs, cloth sofa, mini-fridge, boxes, guitar cases. 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 this 4th and 11th day of December, 2019.
NOTICE OF SALE Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale: 2004 BMW VIN# WBAEU33444PM61142 2003 Chevy VIN# 1GNET16S536179382 2008 Chevy VIN# 2G1WT58K881245738 1998 Chevy VIN# 1GNDM19W8WB132799 2004 Volkswagen VIN# WVWRH63B04P198530 2008 GMC VIN# 1GKER23768J191224 2005 Mercury VIN# 1MEFM40185G625533 To be sold at auction at 8:00 a.m. on December 25, 2019 at 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC NOTICE OF SALE Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale. 1999 FORD VIN# 1FAFP4047XF162107 2004 ASPT (MOTORCYCLE) VIN# FLA57951 To be sold at auction at 8:00AM on December 23rd, 2019, at 2809 N FORSYTH RD., WINTER PARK FL 32792 Around The Clock Towing inc.
Notice of Sale Personal Property of the following tenants will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash
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Employment Logistics Analyst (Oviedo, FL) sought by Full Service Commercial and Residential Landscaping co., with exp. in all of the following: (i) coordinating, planning, and scheduling logistic activities to develop optimization strategies within company operations and (ii) using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to maximize company efficiency and optimize resources. Business, Supply Chain Management, or Industrial Engineering BS+6M exp. in the job duties. Please send resumes by postal mail only to: Diego Morales, General Manager, Panorama Landscaping LLC, 1297 Van Arsdale Street, Oviedo, FL 32765. Sales - Account Manager US Health Advisors 6390985 Teachers & Assistant Teachers (ages 0-5) YMCA of Central Florida 6393138
Project Manager Commercial Construction Williams Company Management Group 6395152 Multimedia Account Executive Euclid Media Group, LLC 6402678
Diversity Job Fair - November 22nd at Amway Center OrlandoJobs.com 6404042
Adjunct Faculty Full Sail University 6405245 Applications Developer I/II/III City of Orlando 6405246
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Technician, Industrial Electronics/Electrical (Ride & Robotics) Universal Orlando 6405340 Front-End Web Developer Go Convergence 6405569
Housekeeping Suite Attendant Embassy Suites Orlando - Lake Buena Vista South 6405704
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HVAC Residential Installers Energy Air, Inc. 6406044 Sales Associate City Furniture 6406045
Assistant Manager Cash Receipts Orlando Health 6407073
Afternoon Coordinator Rollins College 6407840
Teacher Assistant (Infant - Toddler) Community Coordinated Care for Children, Inc 6407908 Conference Staff and Security HES Conference Staff Security 6407914
Interpreter - Sign Language Seminole State College of Florida 6407959
Metal Fabrication Quality Inspector Pro Image Solutions 6407960 Facilities Custodian City of Casselberry 6407966
Support Center Technician Stellar MLS 6408105
Latent Print Examiner I Orange County Sheriff’s Office 6408148
Program Specialist Booster 6408182 Payroll Specialist Vision HR 6408187
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