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¶ Don’t fix it if it ain’t woke Last week, Gov. “Mo” Ron DeSantis tossed another few gobbets of red meat to his base, when he teased a law to be discussed in the January 2022 legislative session that would allow parents to sue schools that teach critical race theory. It would also prohibit colleges and universities from hiring diversity, equity and inclusion consultants, who he says promulgate “corporate-sanctioned racism.” The name of this delightful bagatelle? The “Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act,” or Stop W.O.K.E. Act. OK, crazy.
stealing of Native lands? Are they saying none of that happened and no one knows about it? I don’t get it. It happened, and part of our history is learning about that … coming to grips with past sins so we can learn from them and not repeat them. What are they afraid of? That our true history isn’t kind to white people? Um … well … no, it’s not. Doesn’t make it something we should sweep under the rug and ignore. Shoving kids’ heads with revisionist history of brave Columbus and the misunderstood “kind” slave owners. You can’t believe any of that is accurate, right? Right? @David Westgate Great, another lawsuit defended with our tax dollars that will fail.
@Jason Darrough He’s creating a false narrative to fundraise and create more division. When instead, he should bring people together.
@Minna Alstein What happened to keeping government out of people’s lives? Teach true history and educate our kids. It can be done the right way.
@Liz Miller Let me get this straight. Ron DeSantis wants to “protect America’s history,” by preventing schools from teaching American history.
@Patrick Scott Barnes A racist trying to please the racists who voted for him. He better watch out. Just like with his buddy Trump, some white dudes might turn on his ass.
@Dave Hardison For someone who claims to be against “cancel culture,” he sure is trying to cancel some of his culture.
@Levi Hoffman I have only recently learned of CRT because of these people trying to ban it. So in effect the people who are against CRT are actually the only ones currently teaching CRT.
@Annette Marionneaux Stevenson Ron DeSantis spends too much time dividing people. He is following Trump’s playbook. This is tiresome. @Amanda Lowrey Reseburg None of this is actually being taught in schools … but can I ask what the hell Republicans are afraid of? Are they just walking around thinking that the discovery and establishment of our country, and the past generations, have been hunkydory? Free from slavery, abuse, rape and the ‘MEET THE PARENTS’
@Jamie Meagher Another “solution” to a nonexistent problem. Opposition to CRT means one of three things: either you’re racist, you don’t understand CRT, or in Ron’s case, you totally understand it and will use it to pander as long as it works. Send bouquets and brickbats to feedback@orlandoweekly.com
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Smith urges state of emergency declaration over affordable housing crisis Florida Democrats are pushing Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody to declare a state of emergency over the state’s affordable housing crisis. In a letter to DeSantis, Orlando Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith urged the state’s top executive to take action, as much of the state has seen rapid rent increases and housing price booms. A declaration of a state of emergency would bring such sudden increases under greater scrutiny. Smith tweeted, “This is price gouging. We have state laws that are meant to protect consumers from price gouging and it’s time that we use and enforce those laws.” DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw responded: “Democrats like Rep. Smith support economy-killing lockdowns and believe that woke corporations should have the power to fire people over vaccine mandates.” The statement takes whataboutism to such heights it will give you a nosebleed if you think about it for too long.
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Demings tries out some positive thinking as Omicron variant is confirmed in country wastewater Following reports of the Omicron variant of coronavirus appearing in Orange County’s wastewater, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings noted in a news conference last week that the county is still in good shape compared to the bleakest days of the pandemic. “The 14-day rolling positivity rate continues to go in the right direction. As of today, the rate remains below 5%,” Demings said. While Orlando Utilities Commission confirmed the presence of the Omicron variant, and said it’s by far the most prevalent strain found in their testing, it appears that it is not the culprit behind recent COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to area hospitals.
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Jacksonville Jaguars fire coach Urban Meyer Following news that he kicked ex-kicker Josh Lambo during warmups, Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer was fired late last week. The former Florida Gators head coach had been off to a troubled start even by the remarkably low standards of the hapless Jaguars. Lambo said that Meyer walked up to him while he was stretching to berate him over his early preseason performance. “I’m in a lunge position. Left leg forward, right leg back,” Lambo said. “Urban Meyer, while I’m in that stretch position, comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, dipshit, make your fucking kicks!’ And kicks me in the leg.” After that interview spread, Jaguars owner Shad Khan announced that Meyer’s contract would be terminated.
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Orlando International Airport Terminal C announced open for business by summer 2022 Orlando International Airport last week confirmed that Terminal C should be open to passengers by July 2022. The south terminal, which is estimated to cost more than $2 billion, is 87 percent completed. As many as 10 million more passengers will be able to pass through the terminal’s 15 new gates, capable of accommodating up to 20 aircraft. Other promised improvements include fully automated TSA security screening checkpoints and RFID luggage tracking.
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The Dr. Phillips Center’s Frontyard Festival winds down As the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts gears up for its Steinmetz Hall kickoff, it closed the book on the Frontyard Festival series of outdoor events. “For now, we’re saying goodbye to our Frontyard Festival,” read a post on the Dr. Phil’s Facebook page. “What an incredible experience — and it was all possible thanks to the most amazing colleagues, partners, donors and community.” Though reactions online were of saddened surprise, this wasn’t an abrupt decision. In June, the Dr. Phil was granted funds by Orange County for an extension of Frontyard Festival programming through mid-December — which is right where we are now. The “for now” seems to indicate the door is open for future Frontyard Festival-style programming, and with Omicron ... well, maybe it would be best to hold on to all those outdoor seating pods for a little while yet. orlandoweekly.com
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2021 SETS A RECORD FOR SEA COW DEATHS ‘The manatee mortality event is a symptom. We’ve got to also focus on the cure: water-quality improvement’ BY JIM TURNER, NSF
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ildlife officials say an infusion of projects to improve water quality is a good start, as they seek to avoid a recurrence of large numbers of manatee deaths due to a lack of seagrass and degraded water in the Indian River Lagoon. With state and federal wildlife officials planning to feed starving manatees in the coming months, members of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission pointed to a need for more long-term solutions, such as the $53 million that Gov. Ron DeSantis directed toward the lagoon in September. “While we’re dealing with the manatee mortality event, which is a symptom, we’ve got to also focus on the cure of water-quality improvement, especially in the Indian River Lagoon,” Fish and Wildlife Commission member Michael Sole, a former secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, said during a commission meeting in Destin. Sole said DeSantis’ funding, which is expected to address 13 water issues involving the lagoon, “is essential to really solving some of this issue. But I think it’s
going to take more. I think it’s going to take a continued focus on addressing that.” Commission Chairman Rodney Barreto said the agency needs to put all resources, including the unconventional plan to feed manatees, into the effort, as “the eyes of the world are on us.” The commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have set up a Joint Incident Management Team to respond to the “unusual mortality event,” mostly along the state’s Atlantic coast. Through Dec. 3, Florida had 1,038 manatee deaths this year. The record number of deaths, along with a single-year high in manatee rescues, have slowed in recent months as waters remained warm and the sea cows were able to expand their searches for food. However, Gil McRae, director of the commission’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, said officials expect manatees to again congregate in the lagoon as water temperatures drop from the current 72 degrees to 68 degrees or lower in the coming months. “Our concern is the combination of available forage
not being there in some areas, especially in the central and northern Indian River Lagoon, and manatees aggregating in large numbers at warm water sites. That’s where we run into trouble,” McRae said. “So, the longer it stays warmer, the more distributed the manatees will be. And that’s likely to keep down rescues and mortalities for the short term. But we’re preparing for January and February potentially being much colder.” In 2017, manatees were upgraded from an “endangered” designation to “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pointing to an increase in the manatee population and habitat improvements because of conservation efforts by Florida, Puerto Rico, Caribbean nations and public and private organizations. The number of deaths this year is estimated to be about one-sixth of the population of manatees in the waters of the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico. Travis Thompson, a conservationist and podcaster, asked the commission if the state was “near a carrying capacity in this state with manatees.” “When we look back, historically, are there more manatees in the current incarnation, in the last five years or so? Did we reach a peak in manatee population?” Thompson said. “We talked about water quality. Feeding manatees feels kind of funny to many folks in the conservation space,” Thompson continued. “Because it feels like we’re putting a Band-Aid on something. And we’re not treating the symptom. And I realize you guys are not in control of the symptom.” The water quality funding from DeSantis in September is expected to eliminate more than 3,000 septic tanks and upgrade water-treatment facilities, while reducing the release of nitrogen and phosphorus into waterways. As part of his proposed $99.7 billion budget for next fiscal year, DeSantis has asked for $125 million for a wastewater grant program, $50 million to meet nutrient-reduction goals and $3.8 million for the care and management of manatees. The proposed manatee funding includes $2.9 million to treat injured and distressed manatees. In October, the commission said it would seek nearly $7 million from lawmakers as part of long-term goals to rebuild seagrass beds and wean manatees from artificial warm-water sites, including areas near power plants, that attract the sea cows in the winter. The 2022 legislative session starts Jan. 11 and will include passing a budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. Commissioner Gary Nicklaus said Wednesday that “we need to make sure that we focus on the cause, the upstream cause, because everything downstream happens from what happens upstream.” The current year’s budget includes $8 million to improve manatee habitat and access to Florida’s natural springs. The commission has five years to use the money.
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Do Something “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” —Quote often attributed to Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, although many sources question the attribution
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he lies. The scandals. The narcissism. The continual conflict about anything from the size of a crowd to what to do about a pandemic. It was all just too much for a few veteran Republican campaign strategists who witnessed their beloved fiscally conservative party spin out of control to a pied piper who didn’t take democracy seriously. They had to do something. So they fought back with the tools they had — political messaging to get inside the head of President Donald Trump so voters would see him rage out of control. “Our belief is you have to fight this in the culture,” said Stuart Stevens, a key player for the Lincoln Project and top strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 GOP presidential campaign. The Lincoln Project spent tens of millions of dollars in 2020 on pithy short videos and persuasive campaign ads in targeted battleground states. It was a campaign against one person to keep him from remaining in the White House. “I quickly realized how liberating it was to not have a client,” Stevens recalled in an August interview. “We were in this kind of unique position of having freedom. We don’t have any clients. We Stevens don’t have any special interests.” In Pennsylvania, they completed 8.3 million often snarky digital ad messages targeting seniors and suburban women. In Arizona, 8.1 million messages targeted seniors and collegeeducated whites. Biden barely won both states. But the intricate list goes on, targeted and microtargeted, to move disaffected GOP voters away from Trump. “Of all of the work we did in 2020, we never had one ad about an issue,” said Stevens. “It was all about Trump. If you remember back in 2019, there was an opinion by a lot of Democrats that the way to successfully prosecute the campaign against Trump was to not talk about Trump. We took a very different approach. We thought the first 10 issues in the race were Trump.” The Lincoln Project rewrote the political playbook by going on the guerrilla attack instead of what they’d done traditionally for years — research an issue, strip it down to a core message, cut a campaign ad, test it with focus groups, re-edit and finally run it — weeks or months after the idea. At the Lincoln Project, an ad might be an idea one day and online the next. “We had more than 300 pieces of video content last year,” said Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson. “We didn’t have time to sit in focus groups.” All totaled, they completed 60 million views of their television ads and delivered 242 million digital impressions, Wilson according to a 2020 stewardship report. In the first few months of the Lincoln Project, the group raised about $5 million, a number that would grow 20-fold by the end of 2020. “The idea that you had to do something was something that really motivated us all,” Wilson recalled. “We couldn’t sit on the sidelines as the Trump movement became increasingly obvious what it was. We couldn’t say we were OK with authoritarianism, with cruelty. We couldn’t be OK with that because we saw what the alternative was — a country that looked so different from an American republic.” And today, pariahs in their old party, they’re still at it. “Our business is democracy and American liberty and the preservation of a republic that is challenged every day by people who would destroy it in order to gain political power. We live in a very dangerous moment. We’ll work with anybody who wants to preserve democracy.”
‘Just Win, Baby’
Preserving Democracy “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. … If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.”
“Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.”
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bout 100 years after former S.C. Confederates sabotaged Reconstruction in 1876, Palmetto State political consultant Lee Atwater started practicing “win at all costs” politics. It eventually propelled Carroll Campbell into Congress and later as a Republican in the governor’s mansion who masterminded the GOP’s takeover of the S.C. House of Representatives. Atwater then led the 1988 presidential campaign of George H.W. Bush, fueled by acolytes like Wilson and Stevens. “All of us were raised on this (kind of politics),” Wilson said. “It was the Lee Atwater line — ‘Just win, baby.’ That was Machiavelli with a Southern accent. You go out there and win. That’s something that informed our work.” But after Trump seized control of the GOP in 2016 and his party congressional leaders fawned despite pettiness, scandal and lies, it became too much for Wilson, Stevens and Lincoln Project co-founders Reed Galen and Steve Schmidt, both key players in Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. Since then, they’ve weathered their own scandals, notably Podesta the resignations of Schmidt and others after reports of sexual misconduct by another co-founder and questionable campaign tactics in a 2021 Virginia race for governor. They’ve also been criticized for double-dealing by steering millions of dollars raised to media companies with which they are connected. Wilson bristled at the suggestion he and his colleagues left comfortable consulting jobs with the GOP to get rich and famous. “I used to make a lot more money. I didn’t get death threats. My kids didn’t get death threats. All of us had very comfortable lives. We worked hard, but it was not a hard life.” Meanwhile, John Podesta, chairman of the center-left Center for American Progress, said the creative work by the Lincoln Project “is terrific, but they didn’t put enough behind it.” By Cooper that, he meant it needed to get broader attention beyond digital impressions and targeted television ads. The messaging reached Democrats, who needed to feel good that somebody was punching at Trump, he said, but it wasn’t clear how much of a difference it made to mainstream GOP voters. “But when it was as close as it was, you could plausibly say that everything mattered,” observed Chris Cooper, a Charleston native who has a digital Democratic consulting firm in Washington. Another Democratic strategist, Pennsylvanian Eric Schnurer, said he believes the most important issue for the future of American politics is to bring the GOP back from “the insanity into Schnurer which it is sinking further every day,” but it may be too late. As for the Lincoln Project, Schnurer agreed it makes good ads that entertain Democrats. “I don’t know if they’re effectively reaching the swing or loosely Republican-attached voters needed to win elections,” he said, adding that he worried about Democrats losing big ground in 2022, which would lead the GOP to retake control of Congress. “They (Lincoln Project) don’t seem to be establishing a beachhead for other establishment Republicans to join them, or creating a movement for the new centrist-conservative party that might splinter the vote or even encouraging or shaming one Republican out of their willingness to play the role of a modern Richie Rich, selling their souls for bootlicking political sinecures. “So yes, the Lincoln Project may indeed be the most important political organization in the country right now, which is largely a sign of how hopeless things have become.”
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oe Trippi, often remembered as the campaign manager for former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in the 2008 Democratic primaries, joined the Lincoln Project earlier this year to defeat authoritarianism, plain and simple. “I am a Democrat. The Lincoln Project was a group of former Republicans. I joined the Lincoln Project because all of us have to put past fights and differences aside and come together on the only thing that matters right now — saving our union, our republic and our democracy.” He fought for Democrats against people like Wilson and Stevens. “Those differences no longer matter,” Trippi said. “The threat to our democracy is real and all of us as Americans have to put our differences aside to stop it.” Wilson and Trippi said the Lincoln Project is going into 2022 strong and will hit back in early January to remind Americans of the threat that the Jan. 6 rioters made to the nation’s freedoms. “No American who cares about preserving our democracy for future generations can afford to be exhausted now,” Trippi said. Trippi “Authoritarians like Trump count on their ability to exhaust their opponents. That is how they win. The Lincoln Project has hundreds of thousands of energized supporters. Far from being exhausted, we are waking up more and more Americans every day to what this fight is really about.” Wilson said Lincoln Project leaders have been re-engaging major donors in recent months who he said “are recognizing we have a fairly unique proposition in the American political space and we bring a perspective that few other groups can replicate. A large corps of voters are still in play.” John L.S. Simpkins, who runs the North Carolina-based MDC think tank, says it’s important for groups like the Lincoln Project, as well as legal aid centers, media and community organizers, to push Simpkins for a vibrant civil society to protect American democracy. He learned that lesson almost 30 years ago when he worked in South Africa as a new Harvard graduate as the country moved from apartheid to democracy. “An anti-fascist, fiscally conservative alternative to the modern GOP would be one new church for the Lincoln Project to plant, but that is the work of generations, not election cycles,” said Simpkins. Heidi Beirich, an expert on extremism who is a co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism based in Montgomery, Alabama, said more pro-democracy work needs to be done, especially as conservative organizations are attacking voting Beirich infrastructure. “Stacey Abrams and her organization [in Georgia], as well as other organizers for the Latino and Black communities, are doing important, on-the-ground work,” she said. “We need more public education on what is happening to our voting system and more investment in get-out-thevote efforts. The media also needs to be more aggressively covering what is happening so that people will believe in our electoral system.” Wilson vows the Lincoln Project will be active in 2022 and 2024, hustling, pushing, messaging, strategizing and trying to sway voters to protect democracy. “There are a lot of groups saying they are in the fight to preserve democracy. They’re earnest and well-meaning, but the minute somebody swings a fist, they run. The minute somebody swings feedback@orlandoweekly.com a fist at us, we get out a tire iron.”
Andy Brack is a South Carolina columnist and publisher of the Charleston City Paper. orlandoweekly.com
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rlando indie-electronic royalty the Pauses marked a decade since the release of their debut album, A Cautionary Tale, with an anniversary blowout at Will’s Pub last weekend. Featuring a life-sized re-creation of the album cover on stage, guest stars aplenty, opening sets from Virginity and Pohgoh and those unforgettable early anthems, it was a night Jim Leatherman was happy to immortalize for the Weekly. You can see the full gallery at orlandoweekly.com.
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What do you most want for Christmas this year?
I just want my friends and family to be healthy and be in a positive mind, because it’s just been a struggle the past few years. I don’t really need anything monetarily for Christmas.
Who’s on your naughty list this year?
This year I am giving a pass to people that should be on my naughty list. Things are just starting to get normal again and I am feeling in a great holiday mood!
Who’s on your nice list?
The girls on the tour have been amazing, so definitely all of them. Also, my dogsitter who has put up with my dogs while I’ve been gone for a couple of months really deserves to be on the nice list! PHOTO COURTESY MURRAY & PETER PRESENT
‘WE’RE ALL FEELING VERY HOE HOE HOE’ Orlando’s Trinity the Tuck comes home for the holidays to host a ‘Drag Queen Christmas’ BY MATTHEW MOYER
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aybe because John Waters’ 1974 film Female Trouble — holiday and not — sly and raunchy humor, pop smarts and — with its iconic scene of Divine pushing over a unbelievable outfits up to and including a sexy Grinch. While Christmas tree on her mother because Santa didn’t the whole evening is very self-aware and over-the-top, there’s make with the cha-cha heels she demanded — is one of our still something really wholesome about a bunch of drag stars favorite Christmas films of all time, drag and the holidays are teaming up and hitting the road for a modern spin on the holiday revues of days gone by. inextricably linked in our minds. By the time Orlando Weekly That’s why touring showcase A catches up with Trinity the Tuck Drag Queen Christmas ticks all for a rapid-fire holiday-themed of the boxes of essential holiday A DRAG QUEEN CHRISTMAS inquisition, she’s been on the entertainment for us. 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 26 road since early November, but Hosted by Monét X Change The Plaza Live seems fully in the holiday spirit and Orlando’s own Trinity the 425 N. Bumby Ave. still — as befits someone who Tuck, the annual roadshow plazaliveorlando.org has their own entry into the brings together a who’s who of $50-$150 Christmas song canon, “Trinity RuPaul’s Drag Race luminarRuins Christmas.” Somewhere, ies into a sort of supercharged Divine is smiling right now. glam Rockettes: Jaida Essence Hall, Sasha Velour, Kylie Sonique Love, Shea Couleé, Miz Cracker, Brook Lynn Heights, Alyssa Is it surreal touring in 2021 … and, for that Edwards, Heidi N Closet, Crystal Methyd, Willam, Jan Sport matter, touring during the holidays? and Denali. Honestly I’ve done this tour several times and so it’s With this much diva energy being gifted to one stage, local almost like riding a bike. I do feel like we are all more excited devotees of drag excellence have either been very naughty, about touring this year because we haven’t been touring the very nice, or both at the exact same time. past two years, because of COVID. So we are just blessed and The festive evening promises plenty of musical numbers thankful to be working again!
Who’s most in the Christmas spirit out of your touring group?
Definitely not Brook Lynn, she hates Christmas music. Other than that, we’re all feeling very “hoe hoe hoe”!
What’s your favorite Christmas song? Favorite Christmas movie?
My favorite Christmas song is obviously my very own Christmas song called “Trinity Ruins Christmas” featuring Shea Couleé, and you can stream it now on Spotify! My favorite holiday movie would be A Christmas Story.
Do you have any particular favorite memory of spending the holidays when you were young?
Christmas has always been my favorite holiday because of the nostalgia as a kid when my grandparents would make a huge deal out of Christmas! Now that they are not around anymore, it really holds a special place.
What can your fans in Orlando expect when y’all come to town this week?
The fans can expect what all of our fans have gotten this entire tour, which is an amazing show! We have live singers, we have burlesque, we have backup dancers, we have comedy! It’s a great show!
You’re performing in Orlando the day after Christmas — do you ever get a little bit sad after the holidays or are you usually just relieved that it’s all over?
I put my Christmas tree up on Nov. 2 and it won’t go down until the beginning of the year, so I get a pretty extended holiday experience. By the time I take down my tree, I am ready to move on!
What do you have planned for 2022?
There’s so much happening next year with special projects to be announced as well as a U.K. tour in the fall, among a ton of other stuff. Just keep up with me on all of my social media to find out where I will be. (Instagram: @trinitythetuck)
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Some upcoming gifts I’m looking forward to opening at Walt Disney World throughout 2022
As 2021 comes to a close, it’s
clear that a year that should have marked the beginning of a banner 50th anniversary celebration for the Walt Disney World Resort turned out to be a bit of a bust. While its competitor up I-4 fast-tracked the debut of a new roller coaster to much acclaim, the best new ride Disney’s parks could muster in 2021 was Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure, a clone of a decade-old dark ride that requires guests to navigate a byzantine Virtual Queue just to experience it. Mickey’s makeover of the popular free FastPass service into a pay-per-use Lightning Lane option angered many longtime visitors, and even well-intended efforts (like the addition of “Inclusion” to the company’s key values and the removal of culturally outdated attraction elements) provoked outrage among some self-proclaimed Disney fans. If there’s any consolation for us in Orlando, it’s that folks had it even rougher out in Anaheim, where Disneyland’s long-awaited reopening was marred by the extinction of their old annual pass system and the lackluster reception to the Avengers Campus superhero expansion. It would be easy to fill this space by detailing why Disney CEO Bob Chapek deserves lumps of coal in his Christmas stocking. But in the spirit of the holiday season, I’m instead going to stay focused on the future and share some upcoming gifts I’m eagerly anticipating opening at Walt Disney World throughout 2022. By the time you read this, Disney should have answered my No. 1 holiday wish and finally resumed parking lot tram service at the Transportation and Ticket Center, making the long slog into the Magic Kingdom marginally less miserable. I’m looking forward to the rest of the parks restoring their
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trams soon, because every step counts at the end of a long day. But I’m even more excited to board a different form of transportation when the Walt Disney World Railroad returns to service ahead of the still-unannounced opening of Tomorrowland’s Tron coaster. The opening-day attraction hasn’t operated since December 2018, and it doesn’t seem right allowing the park’s 50th anniversary to pass without hearing the steam locomotive making its “grand circle tour.” A train sitting idle for years is a shame, but hundreds of talented performers doing the same has been a tragedy, so I was thrilled when Disney announced the return of more live entertainment to Orlando’s theme parks. The long-running Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular was scheduled to reopen right in time for the holiday crowds at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, where an updated version of Fantasmic! featuring new segments from Aladdin, Moana and Frozen II will premiere later in 2022. At Disney’s Animal Kingdom, the Finding Nemo musical is being reimagined as The Big Blue … and Beyond!, which will incorporate some of the old show’s songs and puppets with a new Finding Dory–inspired framing story. And the Festival of Fantasy parade will return to the Magic Kingdom, hopefully with its steampunk dragon float in full fire-breathing form. Beyond the regularly scheduled performances, I’m also looking forward to a resurgence of seasonal live entertainment. After a year and a half of pared-down “Taste of” festivals, Epcot’s events are again offering a full slate of offerings, starting with the revival of the Candlelight Processional and cultural storytellers during the current International Festival of the Holidays. Look for Broadway singing stars to grace the American Gardens stage during January and February’s Festival of the Arts. And the Garden Rocks concert series is set to bloom again at the Flower & Garden Festival from early March until July. Of course, although live entertainment
and sample-sized libations are lovely, some of us visit theme parks for the rides. Luckily, Disney has a long-awaited E-Ticket lined up for some time next summer, when Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind launches at Epcot’s former Universe of Energy pavilion. I was a bit let down to learn that, while the film franchise’s stars recorded new footage for the attraction, we won’t get to see an animatronic Groot or Rocket Raccoon. Even so, the innovative spinning vehicles — which were surprisingly comfy when I tested one out at the Destination D23 convention — combined with one of the world’s longest indoor coaster tracks should make for an out-of-this-world adventure. Speaking of out-of-this-world, the social media backlash against Disney’s marketing campaign for Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser has generated G-forces strong enough to launch the upcoming ultra-exclusive hotel into actual orbit. While a cringeworthy promotional video featuring Goldbergs actor Sean Giambrone was rightly laughed off the internet, I have faith in the folks I know who are working on this ambitious endeavor’s entertainment, and I’ll be cheering them on from afar when it takes off on March 1. Even though I’m usually averse to enforced audience participation, the eternal 10-year-old Star Wars superfan inside me would jump at the chance to LARP as a Jedi for 48 hours, if only I could afford the hefty $5K-plus bounty to board. Last, but certainly not least in terms of lasting impact, I’m excited to see how much of Disney’s California operations — including the legendary Imagineering department — handles their relocating to Lake Nona in east Orlando. This radical move will cause major disruption for cast members with roots on the West Coast, but could also open up big new opportunities for a new generation of theme park designers. If nothing else, if the ride developers are living in tropical Central Florida instead of temperate SoCal, perhaps they’ll finally learn to install some shade. skubersky@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com
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here’s a small but mighty caliber of His cicchetti are a departure from typical homegrown heavy hitters inside the bar bites and, in the case of warm, wildMilkhouse, a food hall-ish venue by caught sardines ($10), transportive. We Foxtail Coffee’s Alex Tchekmeian and Iain snacked on this canned dish, also served Yeakle. Those deans of beans corralled with pickled cipollinis, full-fat butter and the Ravenous Pig Brewing Co., Kelly’s toast, in the City of Canals a decade ago. Homemade Ice Cream and two concepts Zacchini adds fiery sambal to the mix, by Bruno Zacchini — Bagel Bruno and which I didn’t mind at all. He also gets Cicchetti — to join Foxtail Coffee at this a bit playful with another bacaro staple, very linger-friendly space in the heart of mozzarella en carozza ($10) or “mozzathe Milk District’s burgeoning food hub. rella in a carriage,” by stuffing the cheese Oh, sure it adds a bit of corporate pol- between two slices of Wonder Bread, ish to the neighborhood’s indie streak, deep-frying the sandwich, then serving the hot blobs over but that doesn’t make tomato sauce. (The it a bad fit. In fact, its stringy core is said to presence only adds to THE MILKHOUSE resemble the reins of the area’s diverse food 201 N. Bumby Ave. a horse and carriage, and beverage options, 407-237-0575 thus the name.) and diversity is a good milkhousesocial.com Two other faves: thing. $$ a dip ($9) made from Inside the confit shallots and Milkhouse, it’s all low ceilings, industrial farmhouse and la served with cacio e pepe chips; and beef dolce vita. And like a cold glass of latte, tartare ($12) blended with confit garlic, the Milkhouse hits the spot. Sì, there’s fried shallots, anchovies, Dijon mustard a decidedly Italiano flavor to the offer- and lemon. (The menu says it’s done in ings here — negronis sipped at the bar; traditional Piedmontese style but, c’mon cappuccinos frothed behind the counter; man, for real? I mean there aren’t any affogatos served over at Kelly’s — though, Alba white truffles shaved onto the meat, so check yourself, Zacchini.) really, the room belongs to Cicchetti. Kidding aside, Cicchetti is not the sort Zacchini’s homage to the inviting bacari of Venice, simple wine bars where small of place to serve a $50 snack, though you bites and quality quaffs lure in the after- will find an $18 steak spiedini that has work faithful, is an after-work lure itself. plush, charred morsels of ribeye folded
Chef John Tesar, the four-time James Beard Award semifinalist behind Knife & Spoon at the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes, is bringing his highly lauded concept Knife Burger next door to the JW Marriott. Look for Tesar to start flipping Ozerskys in February or March … Anejo Cocina Mexicana, an upscale Mexican chain from Ponte Vedra, will open in the old Dexter’s New Standard space at the Ravaudage complex in Winter Park early next year … Kyoto Sushi and Grill has, at last, opened its Winter Park location in the old Spoleto space at 349 N. Orlando Ave. … Look for Puerto Rico-based Cafe Don Juan to open inside City Place at 1100 Orlando Ave. in Winter Park across the street from Krispy Kreme. In addition to coffee, they’ll serve food and pastries. Cafe Don Juan will join Bitebound, an eatery offering healthy meals, early next year … Over in College Park, Thai Farm Kitchen will open in the old RusTeak space over the next few weeks. The restaurant is the third by Elizabeth Kanyawee Calvo and her husband, Jess, who operate a TFK in Brooklyn and another in Bangkok. Many of the recipes Calvo uses have been inherited from her grandmother … Del Taco has opened its “Fresh Flex” prototype taqueria at 5260 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway in Kissimmee. Some of the features of the new design: a contemporary look, third-party pick-up stations, and double drive-thru lanes with a dedicated lane for mobile orders. The tacos are the same.
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onto skewers with cipollinis and shishito peppers. The meat is garnished with a lemon gremolata, yet something was lacking — salt, seasoning, some sort of marinade. Without it, the ribeye was a bit bland. Frito misto ($12) comprised a nice assortment of seafood — squid tentacles, octopus rings, rock shrimp and cod bits — served with peppered Kewpie mayo. With our drinks — a Baltic boulevardier ($12) and a seasonal coquito ($14) — we munched on a couple of different crostini: one with roasted cremini mushrooms and the other, a Sqirl-ish topping of handdipped ricotta, Florida honey and cracked black pepper. Our server suggested we order the fritoles ($6), sugar-rolled apple fritters spiced with rum, cardamom and cloves, then dip them in Kelly’s eggnog affogato ($5.25). Done! Only I had to get up and order the affogato separately. Should you want an espresso from Foxtail, that too would need to be ordered separately. It’s a bit of a pain, but it’s not like you have to walk very far (this is not an overly large space like, say, the Hall at the Yard). Oh, and Cicchetti opens at 5 p.m. and offers table service. Show up before then and you’ll have to order drinks, coffee, ice cream and bagels (sold until 11 a.m.) yourself. That said, lunch at Cicchetti is in the works, so monitor their socials for updates. BTW: There’s a sizable patio area complete with a walk-up window for Kelly’s, which is a nice touch. Who’s to say how much longer food halls will continue to proliferate, but as far as this Bumby Avenue social house is concerned, I’m going to milk it for all it’s worth.
NEWS+EVENTS If you like foie gras, then you’ll want to partake in Foie Fridays at Capa Steakhouse at the Four Seasons Resort. For $24, you’ll get some of the seared goose liver as part of a four-course meal. And while you’re there, be sure to check out James Beard Award nominee Rabii Saber’s gingerbread house in the hotel lobby. It’s incredible. Happy holidays! Got restaurant dish? Send tips to dining@orlandoweekly.com
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JALAPEÑO’S MEXICAN EATS The barbacoa stars at this Maitland taqueria, though the chicken tinga and al pastor shouldn’t be overlooked. You won’t find tamales done any better than they are here. Flan is homemade and the horchata, light and not overly cloying, impresses. Closed Sundays. (reviewed Dec. 15) 681 N. Orlando Ave., Maitland, 321-972-4086, facebook.com/jalapenosmexicaneats, $$
HEART OF JERUSALEM CAFE Heart-shaped falafel are the draw, but za’atar-laden manakeesh is a doughy round of comfort. The kebab platter gratifies with grilled cubes of lamb and chicken, but the ground kufta upstages them all. Sage tea with lemonade is the drink of choice. Closed Mondays. (reviewed Dec. 8) 5683 Red Bug Lake Road, Winter Springs, 407-960-2755, heartofjerusalemcafe.com, $$
RUSTEAK THORNTON PARK The move from College Park to livelier South Eola has proven to be a good one for RusTeak. A steady crowd flows in for creations like kung pao cauliflower and ahi tuna garnished with Peruvian sweet-drop peppers. The tomato jam jar is a favorite, as is pearl couscous tossed in creamy lobster thermidor sauce. The apple tart is a pastry tour de force. Closed Monday and Tuesday. (reviewed Nov. 24) 101 S. Eola Drive, 407-601-5219, rusteakthorntonpark. com, $$$
DIM DIM SUM With its focused 40-item menu, Dim Dim Sum brings (what else?) dim sum’s greatest hits to tony Windermere. While the siu mai and xiao long bao could be better, the beef chow fun and roast duck rule. Don’t pass on sweeter fare like the sesame balls, black gold custard lava buns and Mexican custard buns. (reviewed Nov. 17) 4750 The Grove Drive, Windermere, 407-217-6789, dimdimsumorlando.com, $$
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Streaming premieres you won’t want to miss by Steve Schneider PREMIERES WEDNESDAY: Emily in Paris — Darren Star passed up the opportunity to work on the Sex and the City reboot to concentrate on Season 2 of his hit about a Midwestern naïf abroad. And it’s already looking like the wisest move he’s made since having Tiffani-Amber Thiessen whip out that joint in her first episode of 90210. The new episodes of EIP find Lily Collins’ Emily enticed by the prospect of a fresh romance while she continues to learn the joys of Fronch bread, Fronch dressing and Peru. I wonder if there’s time to squeeze in a shot of her walking past a Peloton machine, giving it the side-eye and muttering “I’m not going near that goddamn thing.” (Netflix) The Matrix Resurrections — Believe it or not, the first Matrix flick received a critical drubbing. But then our nation’s college freshmen decided it wasn’t worth attending class when you could just toss a tape in the VCR and let Keanu Reeves walk you through first-semester philosophy while you did bong swats with Tiffani-Amber Thiessen. That’s how we got to the point where the Wachowski sibs could show Neo, Trinity and the gang kicking back with a good old-fashioned celebratory orgy in Episode II and nobody on Earth dared to interject “This is … odd.” Anyway, there’s yet another installment dropping today, and it finds our heroes once again drawn into a violent battle to show the rest of us what really lies beneath our comfortable surface reality. A world of utter gobbledygook made by brain-dead degenerates? No, that’s the green pill. (Available on the adfree HBO Max plan)
PREMIERES THURSDAY: 40 Means Nothing (aka 40 No Es Nada) — Remember Age of Love, the 2007 reality
competition that had a bunch of cougars vying for the attention of a 30-year-old hunk? Remember what a dirty trick it was when the show marched out a phalanx of 20-something “kittens” as competition without alerting the cougars in advance? I’m hoping there’s a similar twist to this Spanish-language series that has middleaged mamacitas trying to make a love connection with guys half their age — and that the result this time is some good, cathartic hair-pulling and maybe even a shanking with a rat-tail comb. Which I say not to reinforce any sort of cultural stereotypes whatsoever, but simply because I’ve been living with that rank injustice for 14 years now and I’d like to be able to move the hell on. (HBO Max) Babble Bop! — Preschoolers are the target audience for a series that uses original songs and computer animation to reframe classic nursery rhymes. So now you know: Your punishment for bringing a kid into this cold, cruel world is your brand-new earworm, “K-pop Goes the Weasel.” (Peacock) Dragons: The Nine Realms — In an all-new series based on the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, a bunch of modern-day kids discover that the title creatures are real and not the made-up nonsense they’ve always been led to believe. As long as they don’t find out from Laurence Fishburne, we’re all going to be fine. (Hulu and Peacock) Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon — I try to be careful about how I use the term “genius.” Too many people forget that it’s supposed to denote work that upends and revolutionizes its genre, and instead treat it as a mere synonym for “highly astute.” With that in mind, let me address the idea of reuniting the entire Reno 911!
crew and having them hunt the elusive Q on a Nassau-bound cruise ship full of MAGA maniacs: That’s, um, quite astute. Like, majorly astute. Significantly, extremely, even earth-shatteringly astute. The kind of astute that opens your eyes to just what’s achievable within a chosen field and how little effort its alleged competitors are making to even try. There, now nobody can accuse me of giving them false expectations. (TL;DR: Madame Curie was a piker compared to this shit!) (Paramount+) Vigil — Americans are getting their first look at this summer 2021 BBC hit about a Scottish policewoman who tries to solve a mystery aboard a nuclear submarine. And how did the critics back home in the U.K. find it? “The uniforms are wrong; the ceilings are too high and the sub generally far too spacious,” snorted The Spectator. Well, you know what they say: Those who can’t do, spectate. (Peacock)
PREMIERES SUNDAY: Letterkenny — Season 10 takes the Hicks to a sausage party and pits Daryl against Squirelly Dan in an argument about Katy’s big tarts. I wonder if these guys also had a guidance counselor who told them they were wasting their fine mind on juvenile smut. (Hulu)
PREMIERES TUESDAY: Azcárate: No Holds Barred — Colombian media personality Alejandra Azcárate hosts a freewheeling talk/stand-up series in which no topic is off-limits. Life, love, sex … maybe even that time the authorities intercepted a plane full of blow that was headed for the United States and discovered it was registered to a company Azcárate’s husband represents. Or, you know, there’s always recipes! (Netflix) orlandoweekly.com
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Yes, yes, y’all. Next week will be TLU’s annual Undie Awards, recognizing the year’s superlatives in the Orlando music scene. Countdown on!
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Few are more steadfast champions of classic country music around here than the Oak Hill Drifters, but new single “Carpe Dame” shows a fresh angle on their neo-traditionalism. On this first release since the 2018 album Lied to Me, the Drifters step beyond the usual stomp and swing of their honky-tonk sound to hit the trail. Heavily inspired by spaghetti Western master Ennio Morricone, “Carpe Dame” — with its long, sonorous lines and horns — is a high-riding gallop through rolling hills. It’s some of the Drifters’ best, most atmospheric work to date, and it’s streaming on major platforms. After working together for years, the members of Orlando hip-hop collective Beer Money UNLTD have just now unveiled new group Scumbag Beer Club to spread their “scumbag jazz” gospel, beginning with just-released debut album Pregame. Their sound is a proud return to some of hip-hop’s most classic and articulate styles. Between Tek the Intern’s organic, jazz-thick production and the on-rails rap interplay between MCs Shinobi Stalin and WordChemist, Pregame shines with golden East Coast rays. Scumbag Beer Club is new, but it’s a congress of O-zone veterans. This debut — on major streaming services now — is a very realized introduction. Rave revivalism is rising right now, and some of the best coming out of Orlando is by Astro Pup. Typically, this young techno disciple’s sound maintains a harsh Euro stomp. However, on their latest release — the
On their first release since 2018, the Oak Hill Drifters step beyond their honkytonk sound to hit the wide-open trail with atmospheric songs inspired by spaghetti Western master Ennio Morricone two-track DIISORD3R — Astro Pup takes a dope swerve and taps not just the zeitgeist of the original rave generation but also a specifically Floridian vein. Opener “Stress” starts out in usual Astro Pup mode with its hard four-on-the-floor beat. Then, three and a half minutes in, the track suddenly goes from hulking locomotive to sleek bullet train, dropping into a funk-pumped, head-blowing breakdown of bass and electro that carries not just the outro but the entirety of next song “Action.” It’s all fried extra crispy per AP’s signature overdriven temperature, but those booming, liquid beats are a new look at an old-school sound. It may be 2021, but “Action” is five hot minutes of bass perfection that would’ve blown up dance floors all over this city in 1993. DIISORD3R is up on Bandcamp.
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Due to our upcoming year-end coverage, this extended outlook goes past the holidays. So buy yourself a new calendar and mark these dates.
New Year’s Eve Punk Rock Blowout: Love both punk rock and Uncle Lou’s? This is your bash. The crazy-long lineup includes Free Fall, the Palmerians, Pizza Nightmare, Grab Bag, Gamma Waves, Black Clash, Human Error and Hobo Houston — which, in punk terms, could amount to either four hours or 30 minutes of music. After the ball drops, Free Fall will perform their tribute anthem to the beloved establishment. Look up “Uncle Lou’s” on Violent Breed Records’ Bandcamp if you wanna sing along and be in the video. (7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 31, Uncle Lou’s, $5 from 7-11 p.m./free after 11 p.m.) .gif from god, Infant Island, Gillian Carter, C0MPUTER: These days, a good, hard shriek is just what the doctor ordered. And from heavy Virginia bands .gif from god and Infant Island to intelligent Orlando ragers Gillian Carter and C0MPUTER, this bill packs a parade of professional-grade screamers powerful enough to peel the paint. (8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 4, Stardust Video & Coffee, $8) Machine Girl: At their 2019 show here at Stonewall, this New York electro-punk act showed the rare goods to ignite a room in the way that only legends like Lightning Bolt and Monotonix do. Expect total insanity. (7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 10, The Abbey, $16 advance/$20 DOS) Puddles Pity Party: A giant clown crooning torch songs seems like an obvious gag. Yet the poignancy Puddles can muster will give you a Chip Baskets level of reverence for clown artistry. Astonishingly gripping, this pop-music Pagliacci act is worth every devoted ounce of its deep cult. (7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, The Plaza Live, $34.50-$59.50) baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com
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NYEEVENTS 8TH ANNUAL NE W YE AR’ S E VE GAL A AT THE ALFOND INN
Live music, chef-served food stations, premium open bar, champagne toast, live stream of the Times Square ball drop. 8 pm, Alfond Inn, 300 E. New England Ave., Winter Park, 407-998-8090, tickets: eventbrite.com, $219 ANNUAL NE W YE AR’ S E VE GAL A AT BULL & BE AR
Prix fixe five-course menu, one bottle of champagne per table, live entertainment, photo booth, viewing of the Times Square ball drop, outdoor dancing all night. Reservations required, formal wear suggested. 6 pm, Waldorf Astoria Orlando, 14200 Bonnet Creek Resort Lane, 407-597-5413, waldorfastoriaorlando.com, $295 AT TIC + TRE E HOUSE NE W YE AR’ S E VE 2022
Sounds by Krybtonite & WID, call or text for VIP bottle service. 9 pm, The Attic, 68 E. Pine St., 407403-1161, tickets: eventbrite. com, $30-$60 BL AC K HAMMOC K 2022 GATOR BALL
Live music by the Black Hammock Band; half off beer, wine and house liquor; drink specials. 8 pm, Lazy Gator Bar at Black Hammock, 2356 Black Hammock Fish Camp Road, Oviedo, 407-8051824, theblackhammock.com, $12-$15 C L ASSIC ALBUMS LIVE : THE BE ATLE S
A note-for-note re-creation of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. 9:30 pm, Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd., 407351-5483, hardrock.com/live, $33-$58 THE COURTE SY NYE 2022 OPE N BAR PART Y
Full open bar, hors d’oeuvres, DJ, ball drop on TV, bubbly toast at midnight. 8:30 pm, The Courtesy, 114 N. Orange Ave., tickets: exploretock.com, $100
DOMU DYNAST Y PRE SE NTS NYE 2022 AT TORI TORI
Open bar, light bites, photobooth, DJ, live stream of countdown from Times Square, champagne toast for all at midnight, no ticket sales at door. 8:30 pm, 720 N. Mills Ave., tickets: eventbrite.com, $100-$135
E NZ IAN THE ATE R’ S JAME S BOND NE W YE AR’ S E VE PART Y
MANGO ’ S ORL ANDO 2022 NE W YE AR’ S E VE BASH
James Bond costume contest, light hors d’oeuvres, bubbly, special NYE cocktails, dancing. 8 pm, Enzian Theater, 1300 Orlando Ave., Maitland, 407-629-0054, enzian.org, $99-$660
Early dining packages, Mango’s Live show experience, VIP bottle service. 7 pm, Mango’s Tropical Cafe Orlando, 8126 International Drive, 321-710-4195, mangos. com, $50-$700
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Bottle specials all night, ball drop on the big screen, board games, video games, free popcorn. Wear PJs for 22% off all corked bottles all night. 8 pm, 480 S. Ronald Reagan Blvd., Longwood, 407-262-0056, and 2500 Curry Ford Road, 407-730-5249; facebook.com/ hourglassbrewing, free IC E BAR ORL ANDO 2022 HOLLY WOOD NE W YE AR’ S E VE BASH
Hollywood-themed evening with casino games, DJ, ice sculptures, free digital souvenir photos, raffle giveaways, “celebrity guest” Britney Spears impersonator. 8 pm, Icebar Orlando, 8967 International Drive, 407-426-7555, icebarorlando.com, $50-$125 JE WE L ORL ANDO BOOTLEGGE RS’ NYE BALL
Live music all night, reserved seating, 50 Jewel chips, champagne toast at midnight, party favors, free parking. 8 pm, Jewel Orlando Speakeasy, 6400 Carrier Drive, 321444-5306, jewelorlando.com, $49-$99 LE C IRQUE : NE W YE AR’ S E VE AT GR AND BOHE MIAN ORL ANDO
1940s Paris theme with five-piece band, surprise performers, open bar, rooftop pool access, dessert reception, add-on four-course chef’s tasting menu available. 7 pm, Grand Bohemian Hotel Orlando, 325 S. Orange Ave., facebook.com/ grandbohemianhotelorlando, tickets: opentable.com, $175$300 MA BAKE R’ S BLUE YE AR’ S E VE
All Tom Waits, all night long, with Someday Honey, Big Jef Special, Niko Is, Cabana Macabre, Frank Csomos. 8 pm, Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave, willspub.org, $15$20
Champagne toast at midnight, party favors, VIP includes premium open bar until midnight. 9 pm, Howl at the Moon Orlando, 8815 International Drive, 407-3545999, howlatthemoon.com, $20-$65 NE W YE AR’ S E VE AT THE ABBE Y
Live ’80s music from Rockit Fly all night. 8 pm, The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive, tickets: eventbrite.com, $25-$500 NE W YE AR’ S E VE AT DRIVE SHAC K ORL ANDO
Reserved bay for up to six people, party favors, unlimited play all night. 9 pm, Drive Shack, 7285 Corner Drive, 407-553-8820, tickets: eventbrite.com, $199$299 per bay NE W YE AR’ S E VE AT THE E DISON
Live performances from The Sound Society Radio Show, The Pearls burlesque trio, stilt walkers, aerialist, DJ and more; passed appetizers and buffet; cash bars; champagne toast at midnight. Disney Springs, 1570 E. Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista, theedisonfla. com, 8 pm entry/guaranteed seating $150, 10:30 pm entry/ standing room $25 NE W YE AR’ S E VE 2022 AT NOVE LT Y
DJ Dane Dollar, open select premium bar, appetizers, champagne toast, limited capacity. 8 pm, Novelty at 101, 101 S. Eola Drive, tickets: eventbrite.com, $40 – $150 NE W YE AR’ S E VE AT SHOTS ORL ANDO
Throw down with the craziest crew in town. Signature shots and bucket specials. 7 pm, Shots Orlando, 69 E. Pine St., tickets: eventbrite.com, strictly 21+ (in other words, don’t bring your older sister’s ID that kinda looks like you)
NE W YE AR’ S E VE GAL A : A NIGHT IN HOLLY WOOD
German folk-pop-rock from Europa Band, party favors, traditional balloon drop and toast at midnight, open bar for beer/wine/wells, food: 6 pm appetizers, 7:30 pm dinner (Cornish hen or prime rib), 10 pm nosh, midnight breakfast. Formal or cocktail attire required; no jeans. 5:30 pm, German American Society of Central Florida, 381 Orange Lane, Casselberry, tickets: eventbrite.com, $10-$75 NE W YE AR’ S E VE IMPROV SHOW & AFTE R PART Y
PART Y LIKE GATSBY: SPECTAC LE E XTR AORDINAIRE
Electro-swing, glow performers, burlesque dancers, silk acrobats, Gatsby-inspired cocktails, staff and dancers in full Gatsby-themed attire, champagne, ice sculptures, step & repeat with red carpet-style photography, cigar and hookah station, NYE party favors, celebratory champagne toast. 9 pm, Eve Orlando, 110 S. Orange Ave., 407-602-7462, eveorlando. com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $40-$120 PUNK ROC K BLOWOUT
SAK All-Stars 90-minute improv show, complimentary midnight champagne toast with free refills. 10 pm, SAK Comedy Lab, 29 S. Orange Ave., 407-648-0001, sakcomedylab.com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $25 NE W YE AR’ S E VE PART Y
Featuring Andy Frasco & The U.N. 7 pm, Tuffy’s Music Box, 200 Myrtle Ave., Sanford, tuffyscider.com, $40 NYE ALL BL AC K PART Y: RIC HE R THAN I E VE R BE E N !
Inspired by the Rick Ross album Richer Than I Ever Been, we celebrating life, success, excellence, opulence. We toasting to the past, present and celebrating the future. 9 pm, Rosé Restaurant and Lounge, 6400 International Drive, tickets: eventbrite.com, $30-$100 OLD TOWN NE W YE AR’ S E VE C E LE BR ATION
Family-friendly festivity with live music, car show, concert at 7 pm, fireworks finale at midnight. 1 pm, Old Town, 5770 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Kissimmee, 407-396 4888, myoldtownusa.com, free ORL ANDO NE W YE AR’ S E VE 2021: THE MASQUE R ADE
Celebrate with 1,000 of your closest friends at the three-level Cheyenne Saloon: DJ FiveVenoms, DJ Lyvwyr and DJ Dalastmo, 25+ VIP sections, party favors, champagne toast, ball drop brunch after midnight, easy parking, dress for front row at the Oscars, mask preferred but not mandatory. 9 pm, Cheyenne Saloon, 128 W. Church St., orlandonye. com, free-$600
NYE with Free Fall, the Palmerians, Pizza Nightmare, Grab Bag, Gamma Waves, Black Clash, Human Error and Hobo Houston. After the ball drops, Free Fall will perform their tribute anthem to the beloved establishment. Look up “Uncle Lou’s” on Violent Breed Records’ Bandcamp if you wanna sing along. 7 pm, Uncle Lou’s, 1016 N. Mills Ave., 910442-1234 $5 from 7-11 pm, free after 11 pm RE SOLUTION NYE AT E MBE R
With everything going on the past year and a half, the safest place to be is outside on the biggest patio in the city. Celebrate stress-free with champagne bottle specials, $10 food menu available, hookahs available. 9 pm, Ember, 42 W. Central Blvd., 407-849-5200, emberorlando.com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $20-$350 ROC K-IN 2022 ! NE W YE AR’ S E VE LOBBY PART Y
Special desserts, DJ, face painter, Magic Men, balloonist, countdown live from Times Square via satellite, midnight balloon drop with champagne toast. Does not include separately ticketed New Year’s Eve Buffet in The Kitchen ($55-$125). 6 pm, Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando, 5800 Universal Blvd., 407-5033463, tickets: eventbrite.com, $50-$80 SK Y LOUNGE ’ S NYE GAL A
Live music, DJ, hors d’oeuvres, formal attire encouraged, photographer, table packages available with champagne, bottle service, Red Bull. 9 pm, Sky Lounge at Amway Center, 400 W. Church St., 888-9130180, tickets: eventbrite.com, $50-$75
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Street party with DJ, live musicians, vocalists, dancers, street performers, complimentary party favors, confetti storm, midnight fireworks spectacular. 8 pm, Promenade at Sunset Walk 3251 Margaritaville Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-3384811, sunsetwalk.com, $25 SWIRLE RY SOIRE E
Light bites, champagne, and a DJ to ring in the New Year. 8 pm, Swirlery Wine Bar, 1508 E. Michigan St., 407-2706300, swirlery.com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $25 THORNTON PARK NE W YE AR’ S E VE STRE ET PART Y 2022
Party at Graffiti Junktion, The Veranda, Burton’s, Island Time, The Falcon, Cavo’s, The 808; three DJs, open bar, street party covering 2.5 city blocks, VIP private open bar at The Veranda. 8:30 pm, Thornton Park District, 700 E. Washington St., thorntonparkstreetparty. com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $20-$105 TIN ROOF ORL ANDO VEGAS NIGHT NYE
Vegas-style casino games, music on two stages, confetti cannons, balloon drop. 8 pm, Tin Roof Orlando, Icon Park, 8371 International Drive, 407-270-7926, tinrooforlando.com, $25-$150 TKS NE W YE AR’ S E VE PART Y
Axe-throwing, live DJ, professional dancers, aerial acrobatics, midnight toast. 9 pm, The Keg Social, 12850 Waterford Lakes Parkway, 407-286-3000, thekegsocial.com, $20-$100 WALL STRE ET PL A Z A BLOC K PART Y
Wall Street’s notorious Friday-night street party, only more so. VIP bar in Sideshow. 9 pm, Wall Street Plaza, 25 Wall St., and Sideshow, 15 N. Orange Ave., 407-849-0471, facebook.com/ wallstplaza, price TBA WJRR’ S ACOUSTIC NE W YE AR
With Smith & Myers of Shinedown. 8:30 pm, House of Blues, Disney Springs, 1490 E. Buena Vista Drive, 407-934-2583, houseofblues.com/orlando, $42.50-$93
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Drag Race luminaries that is sure to make this the most wickedly elegant Boxing Day in the City Beautiful to date. 8 p.m., Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave., plazaliveorlando.org, $50-$150.
Drums of Umoja
Day 1 of Kwanzaa seems like a great day to soak in the heavy rhythms of Eugene Snowden’s Afrobeat side project. A perfect way to dance away any and all post-Xmas blues. 8 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., willspub. org, $10. MONDAY, DEC . 27
Christmas with the Countess LuAnn
Real Housewives of New York alum Countess LuAnn de Lesseps is fashionably late to her own Christmas revue at the Hard Rock. All the better to make an entrance. This is part of a seasonal “holiday cabaret” tour from the Countess. 8 p.m., Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd., hardrock.com/live, $35.50-$73.
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Bad Santa & The Angry Elves
It’s the 100th performance for this group of decidedly naughty yet tuneful Christmas cosplayers. Soon after this one, the costumes and blasphemous cover versions go into mothballs until next year. 7:30 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., willspub.org, $10. WEDNESDAYTHURSDAY, DEC . 22-23
Phantasmagoria’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
Victorian performance troupe Phantasmagoria presents their
original adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic with … let’s just say a heavy emphasis on the haunted and supernatural side of the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Athens Theatre, 124 N. Florida Ave., DeLand, athensdeland.com, $26-$31. FRIDAY, DEC . 2 4
Christmas Eve Celebration
Enjoy free admission to the Morse Museum galleries between 9:30 a.m. and 8 p.m., with live violin music from 1-4 p.m. Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park, morsemuseum.org, free.
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Central Florida’s Kwanzaa Celebration Day 1: Umoja/Unity
Head over to the Winter Park Community Center for the daylong celebration of Umoja and the principle of unity. Enjoy a drum circle, dancing, performances, food provided by Flava Tribe, plus ancestor veneration to honor those loved ones that are no longer with us. 5 p.m., Winter Park Community Center, 721 New England Ave., Winter Park, $5.
Drag Queen Christmas Trinity the Tuck and Monét X Change host a glamorous Christmas musical revue with a choir’s worth of other RuPaul’s
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Nightly synchronized light and music show while the Lake Eola fountain displays red, green and gold lights. Lake Eola Park, Rosalind Avenue and Washington Street, free.
Old masters on loan from the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., omart.org, $20.
Eola Wonderland Christmas Tree Show
MUSEUMS + GALLERIES THROUGH DEC . 31
Ally Is a Verb
Examines the deeply personal work of artists belonging to marginalized communities. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins.edu/rma, free. THROUGH DEC . 31
American Modernisms at the Rollins Museum of Art
American art from the museum’s permanent collection. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins.edu/rma, free.
World Wrestling Entertainment returns to the City Beautiful as part of a holiday house show swing through friendly markets. Who’s been nice? Big E. Who’s been naughty? Roman Reigns. Card has not been announced as of this writing. 7:30 p.m., Amway Center, 400 W. Church St., amwaycenter. com, $20-$550.
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A Christmas Carol
C’mon ghosts, it’s time to torment some rich people. We need that student-loan forgiveness by Xmas. Margeson Theater, Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St., $32-$56. THROUGH JAN . 9, 2022
Dazzling Nights
Immersive holiday light spectacular is back and bigger than ever. Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave., dazzlingorlando.com, $25.
As I Am
Group show of current Central and North Floridian artists working “through” disabilities across genres. Alice and William Jenkins Gallery, Crealdé School of Art, 600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park, crealde.org, free.
Cathedrals of Florida: Masterworks by Clyde Butcher
Butcher’s photos capture the (disappearing) natural beauty of Florida’s wetlands. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., omart.org, $20. THROUGH DEC . 31
Common Ground
A sampling of treasures from Rollins’ Book Arts Collection, mostly around the themes of social and environmental issues. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins.edu/rma, free.
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Eyewitness
Retrospective of work by longtime Orlando Sentinel photographer Red Huber. Snap! Downtown, 420 E. Church St., snaporlando.com, free. THROUGH DEC . 31
Gallardo/Budoff: Growth, Breadth, and Terrain
Fantastical renderings and paper cutouts by Frances Gallardo and Nathan Budoff. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins.edu/rma, free. THROUGH JAN . 2 , 2022
Luces y Sombras
More than 100 historical photographs spanning Mexico’s modern history — people, architecture, indigenous artifacts and myriad aspects of the country’s perpetual reinvention. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., omart.org, $20. THROUGH DEC . 31
Rafael Trelles: The Imagined Word
Fifteen unique portraits, each referencing a work of world literature, from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to Gabriel GarcÍa Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins.edu/rma, free. THROUGH JAN . 23, 2022
Victor Bokas: A Bold & Colorful Journey
Central Florida artist Bokas’ paintings evoke the quirks and beauty of the Sunshine State. Art & History Museums of Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland, artandhistory.org, $6. n
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“QUICKIES” My wife and I are in a great ENM marriage. We have two couples that we are friends with and get together regularly for sex, and we each pursue solo FWB relationships. During COVID, we started posting pictures on Reddit, which were well received. This morphed into my wife starting an OnlyFans account because why not? So, at what point do we spill the beans to our FWBs? We don’t show our faces on OnlyFans, we use fake names, and we only post content made with people that know it’s going up on OnlyFans. Is this just “our secret” and doesn’t hurt anyone, so, who cares? Or do our FWBs have a right to know? Posting Intimate Content You’re under no obligation to tell your casual sex partners that you have an OnlyFans account where you share photos and videos you make with your other casual sex partners. OnlyFans seems like something you should be able to share with your FWBs, but “you should be able to” ≠ “you are obliged to.” Cis-het black woman. I have been working on myself for a while and a side effect of that is now I have standards and I am unwilling to settle for mediocre partners. For me a quality partner is a cis or trans man (a penis haver) who is an ally to equality movements (sex, gender, race, etc.), emotionally healthy, kink-positive and can afford their own life. Where does one find a person who meets these criteria? I’ve tried Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, FetLife, etc., with no luck. Never Gonna Settle There is no settling down without some settling for. If you’re lucky, you’ll meet someone who comes close enough to what you want — an employed penis-having person, for instance, who’s an ally to equality movements everywhere but isn’t exactly kinkpositive but has an open mind and could get there. Or an emotionally healthy, kink-positive penis-having student who isn’t rolling in dough right now but has a realistic career plan. And where do you find that guy? Well, you might get lucky and find him on one of the sites you’re already on — keep those profiles up and updated — or you might get lucky and meet him through friends, at work, in a bar, etc. Keep at it, because you never know when your bad luck is going to run out. I’m a 34-year-old woman and my husband (of only two years!) blindsided me by asking for a separation on my birthday in June and a divorce via text message a month later. We owned a home and ran a business together. Needless to say … this all sucks. I’ve had to start my entire life over again. I’ve settled into
a new home with a new job and I’m trying to be a badass about the whole situation. But it’s been a lot. I’ve gone back and forth on when to start dating again. I feel mounting pressure to “get back out there” and I’m on the apps again but I bail about a week into every new flirtation. Why am I hesitating? Balking At Love, Knowing I’m Nervous, Gah! Hmm … my guess is you might be hesitating, BALKING, because your soon-to-beex-husband stomped on your heart and turned your life upside down LESS THAN SIX MONTHS AGO. And you’re doing great: You got a new place to live, you got a new job and you recently got back on the apps. Maybe you’re not ready to start dating again right this minute, but getting back on the apps is a sign you will be soon. Lowering the temperature with the guys you’re connecting with online might help (be chatty, not flirty), as will keeping the stakes low on those first dates when you are ready (a quick coffee, not a dinner). You can do this! I recently read this in your column: “PIV or PIT or PIB.” OK, I know PIV (“penis in vagina”). But the other two? I’ve been reading you for years and I’m stumped on this! Creative Acronyms Totally Confound Him Hmm … you probably could’ve worked this one out on your own, CATCH, if you’d given it a moment’s thought. Besides vaginas (PIV) … where else do penises go? PIT stands for “penis in throat” and PIB stands for “penis in butt.” I could’ve gone with PIM (“penis in mouth”) and PIA (“penis in ass”), I guess, but why not go for the rhyme? (Oh, and ENM means “ethical non-monogamy.”) I am a 24-year-old woman in a mostly happy marriage. My husband is not interested in oral sex. At all. Not giving it, not receiving it. In previous relationships this was the way I most consistently achieved orgasm. I miss this type of intimacy so much I’m now curious about the legality of putting peanut butter on myself in hopes that my dog would come up to me on his own — unforced — and lick it off. I imagine this to be no different legally than a dog eating something out of your hand. I haven’t done it. But I am curious about your opinion. If you have other recommendations on how to get the specific sensation of oral sex when you don’t have a willing partner, I welcome your advice. Disgusting Obsession Grosses Girl Out You’re 24 years old and your sex life with your husband is so miserably unsatisfying that you’re seriously thinking about tricking your dog into eating you out, which is illegal
in lots of places. (Since I don’t know where you live, DOGGO, you’ll have to Google it yourself.) My advice: Put down the peanut butter and back away from it. Then get a divorce, get a lover (a human one) or get yourself one of those new clit-sucking sex toys that — according to the reviews I’ve read by clit-having people — do a pretty amazing job of simulating the specific sensations of oral sex. Hell, get all three! I have a question about urethral sounding. My husband wanted me to do this to him for two years and I finally did. It was interesting! But I’m wondering what kind of harmful effects this could have if we were to do it long-term. Making Enquiries About Taking Urethral Sounds Urethral sounding — sliding a well-lubed stainless-steel rod into someone’s urethra — is an actual medical procedure with legit medical purposes (also easily Googled!), but some people enjoy recreational sounding, both for how it feels (good, I’m told) and what it symbolizes (penetrating a penetrator’s penetrator). So long as you’re using sterilized sounds and sterile lube, you and your husband should be able to safely enjoy sounding on the regular. Besides upping his risk for the occasional UTIs, there’s not much risk of harm — so long as you don’t force it, you stop if there’s pain or blood, and you have access to an autoclave. Someone assigned male at birth, with male genitalia, but on estrogen to feminize their appearance and identifies as transagender. Curious how to identify their sexuality. They are only attracted to people who identify as women or femme-nonbinary. So how does someone without gender define their sexuality if they are only attracted to one gender identity? Narrow Attractions Complicate Multifaceted Identity “It’s complicated.” Also, I’m pretty sure lumping all “women or femme-nonbinary” people into a single “gender identity” is incorrect. (And would lead to a Title 9 complaint at Oberlin.) I mean, I’ve personally and biblically known gay men who identify as femmes and there are lots of femmenonbinary people out there — AMAB, AFAB, ACAB — who would object to being lumped into a single category with mere women. It’s all so very, very complicated. Which is great, of course, because we can’t talk about climate change and the growing threat of authoritarianism all the time, right? questions@savagelove.net orlandoweekly.com
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Meet Macy! Macy (A477090) is 4 years old and she has had a hard time with adoption. She’s been returned to our shelter three times after adoption for a multitude of reasons: not getting along with small children, being “too laid-back,” and becoming scared and destructive during storms. Unfortunately, each of the times she was returned after less than one week, which is just not enough time for a dog to truly acclimate to her new surroundings. Macy is housebroken, leash-trained, knows basic obedience commands and has a very relaxed temperament. This sweet girl also has heartworm disease, but her treatment is sponsored and much of the cost of her treatment will be covered. Macy is spayed, microchipped, vaccinated and is ready to go home the same day she is adopted. Please help us find Macy her fur-ever home! During the month of December, we are offering our Mutt Cracker promotion! Adoption fees will be $20 for both dogs and cats, and every adopter will receive festive Christmas stockings filled with all sorts of pet goodies. All pets are spayed/ neutered, vaccinated and microchipped prior to leaving with their new families. Orange County Animal Services is located at 2769 Conroy Road in Orlando, near the Mall at Millenia. The shelter is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, please call 407-836-3111 or visit ocnetpets.com. DEC. 22-28, 2021 ● ORLANDO WEEKLY
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You may become a more audacious storyteller in 2022. You could ripen your ability to express the core truths about your life with entertaining narratives. Bonus: The experiences that come your way will provide raw material for you to become even more interesting than you already are. Now study these words by storyteller Ruth Sawyer: “To be a good storyteller, one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. The best of the traditional storytellers are those who live close to the heart of things — to the earth, sea, wind and weather. They have known solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus author May Sarton wrote a poem celebrating her maturation into the person she had always dreamed she would be. “Now I become myself,” she exulted. “It’s taken time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, have worn other people’s faces.” But at last, she said, “All fuses together now, falls into place from wish to action, word to silence. My work, my love, my time, my face: gathered into one intense gesture of growing like a plant.” I invite you to adopt Sarton’s poem as a primary source of inspiration in 2022. Make it your guide as you, too, become fully and richly yourself. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 2012, the writer Gore Vidal died the day after Gemini writer Maeve Binchy passed away. They were both famous, though Binchy sold more books than Vidal. Vidal was interesting but problematic for me. He was fond of saying that it wasn’t enough for him to succeed; he wanted others to fail. The misery of his fellow humans intensified his satisfaction about his own accomplishments. On the other hand, Binchy had a generous wish that everyone would be a success. She felt her magnificence was magnified by others’ magnificence. In 2022, it will be vital for your physical and mental health to cultivate Binchy’s perspective, not Vidal’s. To the degree that you celebrate and enhance the fortunes of others, your own fortunes will thrive. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian political leader Nelson Mandela was wrongly incarcerated for 27 years. After his release, he became president of South Africa and won the Nobel Peace Prize. About leaving jail in 1990, he wrote, “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” Although you haven’t suffered deprivation anything like what Mandela did, 2022 will bring you liberation from limiting situations. Please adopt Mandela’s approach as you make creative use of your new freedom.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): French poet André Breton wrote, “Je vous souhaite d’être follement aimée.” In English, those words can be rendered as “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness” or “I wish you to be loved madly.” That’s got a romantic ring to it, but it’s actually a curse. Why would we want to be loved to the point of madness? A person who “loved” you like that might be fun for a while, but would ultimately become a terrible inconvenience and ongoing disruption. So, dear Leo, I won’t wish that you will be loved to the point of madness in 2022 — even though I think the coming months will be an interesting and educational time for amour. Instead, I will wish you something more manageable and enjoyable: that you will be loved with respect, sensitivity, care and intelligence.
Your horoscope for the week of Dec. 22-28 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many people in our culture are smart intellectually, but not very smart emotionally. The wisdom of feelings is undervalued. I protest! One of my great crusades is to champion this neglected source of insight. I am counting on you to be my ally in 2022. Why? Because according to my reading of the astrological omens, you have the potential to ripen your emotional intelligence in the coming months. Do you have ideas about how to take full advantage of this lucky opportunity? Here’s a tip: Whenever you have a decision to make, tune in to what your body and heart tell you as well as to what your mind advises. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl said that a sense of meaning is crucial. It’s the key gratification that sustains people through the years: the feeling that their life has a meaning and that particular experiences have meaning. I suggest you make this your theme for 2022. The question “Are you happy?” will be a subset of the more inclusive question, “Are you pursuing a destiny that feels meaningful to you?” Here’s the other big question: “If what you’re doing doesn’t feel meaningful, what are you going to do about it?” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio guitarist Rowland S. Howard spoke of “the grand occasions when love really does turn into something far greater than you had ever dreamed of, something auto-luminescent.” Judging from the astrological configurations in 2022, I have strong hopes and expectations that you will experience prolonged periods when love will fit that description. For
best results, resolve to become more generous and ingenious in expressing love than you have ever been. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I’ve been trying to go home my whole life,” writes poet Chelsea Dingman. I know some of you Sagittarians resist the urge to do that. It’s possible you avoid seeking a true and complete home. You may think of the whole world as your home, or you may regard a lot of different places as your homes. And you’d prefer not to narrow down the feeling and concept of “home” to one location or building or community. Whether or not you are one of those kinds of Centaurs, I suspect that 2022 will bring you unexpected new understandings of home — and maybe even give you the sense that you have finally arrived in your ultimate sanctuary. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): To ensure that 2022 will bring you the most interesting and useful kind of progress, take good care of your key friendships and alliances, even as you seek out excellent new friendships and alliances. For best results, heed these thoughts from author Hanya Yanagihara: “Find people who are better than you are — not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving — and then appreciate them for what they can teach you, and listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad — or good — it might be.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sometime during the Northern Song Dynasty that ruled China from 960 to 1127, an artisan made a white ceramic bowl five inches in diameter. About 1,000 years later, a family in New York bought it at a garage sale for $3. It sat on a mantel in their home for a few years until they got a hunch to have it evaluated by an art collector. A short time later, the bowl was sold at an auction for $2.2 million. I’m not saying that 2022 will bring a financial event as dramatic as that one. But I do expect that your luck with money will be at a peak. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the Quechuan language spoken in parts of Peru, the word takanakuy means “when the blood is boiling.” Every year at this time, the community of Chumbivilcas stages a holiday called Takanakuy. People gather at the town center to fight each other, settling their differences so they can forget about them and start over fresh. If my friend and I have had a personal conflict during the previous year, we would punch and kick each other — but not too hard — until we had purged our spite and resentment. The slate between us would be clean. Is there some humorous version of this ritual you could enact that wouldn’t involve even mild punching and kicking? I recommend you dream one up! freewillastrology.com
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Legal, Public Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY STATE OF FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION: 03/ CRANER CASE NO: DP12-331, IN THE INTEREST OF Minor Children A. W. DOB: 12/10/2006, S. W. DOB: 05/12/2012, S. W. DOB: 05/12/2012. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: Michael Smulick Address Unknown: A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above referenced children. You are hereby commanded to appear before Judge A. James Craner on January 26, 2022 at 11:00 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. This is a telephonic hearing please dial 407-836-5646 (or toll-free 1-800-346-8020) and enter code number 517180#. The # key must be entered after the code numbers. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES A CONSTRUCTIVE CONSENT TO THE TPR PETITION OF THE CHILD(REN) AND COULD RESULT IN THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD(REN). “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 23rd day of November, 2021. This summons has been issued at the request of: Rachel Stawski Dlugokienski, Esq., Florida Bar No.: 1010876, Senior Attorney, Rachel. Stawski@myflfamilies.com. CLERK OF COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk. (Court Seal) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY STATE OF FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION: 03/ CRANER CASE NO: DP12-331, IN THE INTEREST OF Minor Children A. W. DOB: 12/10/2006, S. W. DOB: 05/12/2012, S. W. DOB: 05/12/2012. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: Monique Calderin Address Unknown: A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above referenced children. You are hereby commanded to appear before Judge A. James Craner on January 26, 2022 at 11:00 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. This is a telephonic hearing please dial 407-836-5646 (or toll-free 1-800-346-8020) and enter code number 517180#. The # key must be entered after the code numbers. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES A CONSTRUCTIVE CONSENT TO THE TPR PETITION OF THE CHILD(REN) AND COULD RESULT IN THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD(REN). “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 23rd day of November, 2021. This summons has been issued at the request of: Rachel Stawski Dlugokienski, Esq., Florida Bar No.: 1010876, Senior Attorney, Rachel. Stawski@myflfamilies.com. CLERK OF COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk. (Court Seal) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION: 5/LATIMORE. WESTGATE SERVICE CENTER CASE NO.: DP20376 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: I.B. DOB: 04/13/2019. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Juliana Bishop (Address Unknown) A
Where ALL GUYS come together Visit www.squirt.org today to join the action Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the abovereferenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before Honorable Judge Alicia L. Latimore on January 5, 2022 at 10:00 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. The Hearing shall be conducted virtually by Microsoft TEAMS, as follows: All parties should access the TEAMS hearing through the following link on a computer or smart phone; Or by entering the Conference ID and Password on the TEAMS App or Website. 1. You may connect via TEAMS hearing with the following URL and Conference ID: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting 2. If you do not have video capability you may use the following information to call in: Call: +1 321-430- 3303 and enter Conference ID: 562 667 77, followed by the # sign. 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. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange
County, Florida this 22nd day of November, 2021. This summons has been issued at the request of: Stacy McDuffie, Esq., Florida Bar No.: 0056020, Senior Attorney for State of Florida, Department of Children and Families Children’s Legal Services, Stacy.mcduffie@ myflfamilies.com, 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/ TYNAN. WESTGATE SERVICE CENTER CASE NO.: DP20294 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: F.P. DOB: 11/01/2011. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Caleb Paul (Address Unknown) A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the abovereferenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before Honorable Judge Greg A. Tynan on February 8, 2022 at 2:15 p.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. This hearing will be held telephonically on the above date and time by calling 407- 836-5646 and entering conference code 517180# FAIL-
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Legal, Public Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 7/HIGBEE WESTGATE SERVICE CENTER CASE NO.: DP20-192. In the Interest of Minor Child: H. R. R.-M. DOB: 04/22/2020. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO: Gibino Perez ADDRESS UNKNOWN YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the following child for adoption: H. R. R.-M. born on 04/22/2020. You are hereby commanded to appear on January 20, 2022, at 9:00 a.m., before the Honorable Judge Heather Higbee, Juvenile Justice Center, ORANGE COUNTY, 2000 East Michigan Street, Courtroom 6, Orlando, FL 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE NAMED IN THIS NOTICE. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. 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 2ND day of December 2021. This summons has been issued at the request of: Cynthia J. Rodriguez, Esquire Florida Bar No. 1026123 Children’s Legal Services 882 S. Kirkman Road, Suite 300 Orlando, FL 32811 Cell 407-3532480, Office 407-563-2307 cynthia. rodriguez4@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/ HIGBEE. CASE NO.: DP20-326. IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: L.M. DOB: 06/28/2020. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING STATE OF FLORIDA. To: ELIZABETH MATTEI, Address Unknown. WHEREAS a Petition for Termination of Parental
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Rights under oath has been filed in this Court regarding the abovereferenced child, a copy of which is on file with the clerk; you are hereby commanded to appear before Judge Heather Higbee, on January 24, 2022 at 9:15am. 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. DUE TO COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS THE HEARING WILL BE CONDUCTED VIA Zoom: 1. You may connect via ZOOM hearing with the following URL and Meeting ID: Zoom Hearing Direct URL: https://zoom.us/my/judgeheatherhigbee FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES A CONSTRUCTIVE CONSENT TO THE TPR PETITON OF THE CHILD(REN) AND COULD RESULT IN THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD(REN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT “Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 6.082(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 6th day of December, 2021. This summons has been issued at the request of: Jemma A. Takx, Esquire FB#1028760 Jemma. Takx@myflfamilies.com. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal). LOST OR ABANDONED PROPERTY FOUND OR RECOVERED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA. PROPERTY NOT CLAIMED WILL EITHER BE SURRENDERED TO THE FINDERS OR RETAINED FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT. PICTURE IDENTIFICATION IS REQUIRED. December 2021 DESCRIPTION, FOUND PROPERTY: 1. Cellphone 450 Blk of Buckminster Circle 2. Electronics and Keys 1500 Blk of W Colonial Dr 3. Tag 5200 Blk of Commander Dr 4. Tag 800 Blk of S Kirkman Rd 5. Tag 50 Blk of W Church St 6. Keys 40 Blk of W Washington St 7. Tag 5600 Blk of Curry Ford Rd 8. Keys N Orange Ave/ E Washington St 9. Cellphone 1200 Blk of W South St 10. Key 400 Blk of N Orange Ave 11. Tag S Orange Trl/ W Central Blvd 12. Cellphone3100 Blk of Edgewater Dr 13. Cellphone 100 Blk of E Central Blvd 14. Electronics9400 Blk of Jeff Fuqua Blvd 15. Cellphone1600 Blk of W Church st 16. Cellphone300 Blk of W Michigan St 17. Cellphone40 Blk of W Washington St 18. Keys3000 Blk of W Colonial Dr 19. Keys2100 Blk of W Washing-
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Springs, FL 32714; E116 Diego Rangel $1309.52, B121 Sherral Mapps $878.40, C101 Annetta Kittel $1444.44, C145 Henry Doggett $1118.25 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Semoran Blvd, 2055 State Rd 436, Winter Park, Fl 32792; 1040 Amber Kidder $697.48, 2655 Justin Foster $399.28, 1208-10 Casey Power $1640.65, 2518 Amina Stevenson $806.16, 2277 Venus Lipsey $1457.97, 1402 Rebecca Puhr $557.10, 2318 Brigget Rhodes $527.08, 1088 David Anderson $713.85, 2050 Traci Washington $638.85, 1204 Casey Power $1384.32 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Longwood, 650 North Ronald Reagan Blvd, Longwood, FL 32750; B077 Christopher Kidd $532.35, E013 Angela Smith $378.00, A052 Denroy Samuels $441.88, E051-52 Caleb Brown $959.85. U-Haul Moving and Storage at Lake Mary Blvd, 3851 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, Fl 32773; 5088 Deborah Williams $1013.30, 1488 Deborah Williams $495.02, 2247 Laura Vega $1038.20, 2591 Quonelle Jones $619.84, 1655 Betsy Hall $942.32, 0012 Laura Vega $718.70, 5008 Jasper Upshaw $697.48, 1069 Melinda Rodriguez $953.20, 1752 Jonathan Jackson $463.10, 1411 Robert Henry $745.35, 5070 Mark Haub $697.48, 1510 Carolyn Maraugha $802.00, 2011 Isabel Rivas $568.70, 1406 Robert Henry $745.35, 1081 Jamesha Matthews $697.48, 1285 Eva Deloach $745.35, 2574 Gary Benson $452.50, 1162 Standley Swinton $671.85, 1124 Lakesha Wright $1216.24, 1478-82 Megan Greenlief $974.30, 5078 George Weinbel $901.85, 1781 George Weinbel $676.20, 1236 Elavittal Williams $633.36, 1761 Mikeshia Pettus $831.49, 2376 Juana Smith $878.50, 1524 Alton Sauls $880.00, 1722 Melisa Spady $399.25, 1326 William Santiago $367.33, 1464 Theresa Burke $564.19, 1589 Kwame Knight $425.85, 2413 Thomas Holstein $1197.90, 2322 Charissa Johns $1256.40, 1607 Robert Henry $798.60, 1483 Russell Goldberg $356.68, 1205 Kyesha Britton $785.10, 1477 Theresa Burke $495.02. U-Haul Moving & Storage of Sanford, 3101 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, FL 32773; 1301 Tearia Butler $512.08, 0202 Charles Usery $814.52, 0023 Carolynn Morgan $576.00, 0152 Carlos Perez Silva $579.52, 1822 Jannie Holliday $580.50, 1946 Hubert Durham $410.85, 1692 Jala’zia Jones $703.75, 1014 Linda Spivey $405.60, 1525 Sagely Shubert $1061.60, 1725 Amanda Morris $746.27, 1954 Martinique Billings $373.48, 1057 Bryan Felter $370.75, 1723 Hurt Vinis $543.88. U-Haul Moving and Storage of Sanford on Rinehart Road, 1811 Rinehart Road, Sanford, Fl 32771; 4048 Norma Mazzali Vargas $971.15, 4106 Dana Jones $603.34, 4069 Mystery Room $463.14, 3082 Brandie Wagner $383.34, 2032 Mystery Room $463.14, 4053 Dana Jones $858.94, 2046 Luccas
Sanchez $590.84, 4161 Bernice Groomes $757.92, 1097 Patrick Weiland $516.44, 4049 Letisha Bird $1376.00, 4139 Shiquita Alexander $1008.76, 1029 Stanley McKinney $622.89, 4047 Eric Rawlins $1772.55, 3134 Karmetta Chambers $578.82, 2084 Stephen Johnson $733.50, 4072 Brittany Mitz $502.89, 2097 Marline Algarin $636.01, 4077 Mystery Room $697.38, 2057 Norma Mazzali Vargas $590.84. 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 9:30am and RUNS CONTINUOUSLY. U-Haul Ctr Goldenrod- 508 N. Goldenrod Rd, Orlando Fl 32807 -01/11/2022 : 308 Brittany Newsome, 305 Ashley Suarez Vera, 622 Dolores Vickers, 301 Yashira Rosario, 522 Troy Hollender, 322 Julian Pelaez, 721 John Owens, 331 Jay Pastorino, 1011 Kyile Compiteloo, 1210 Quandrala Warner, 307 Noemi Ortiz, 218 Efrain Salgado, 237 Destin Williams, 621 Dolores Vickers, 623 Dolores Vickers, 543 Jasmine Rivera, 335 Borrome Walkiria, 440 Craig Appel, 235 Mystery Unit, 1413 Vashishta Mewada, 211 Giovanni Rivera, 639 Glorimar Vargas. U-Haul Ctr Alafaya- 11815 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando Fl 32826- 1/11/2022: 1608 Maria Pagan, 1406 Mohammed Alrashed, 1124 Mauricio Ramirez, 1700 Jennifer Ducharme, 1254 Ann Bridge, 1277 Valery Nicolas, 1522 Loretta Kennedy, 1137 Juan Vega, 1509 Maria Pagan, 1129 Tabre Collins, 1280 Vanaya McNair, 1511 Dam Williams, 1107 Kerry Lubin, 1262 Malache Phillips, 1019 Riddick Bowe, 1253 Brittany Huff, 1111 Jose Sanchez, 1436 Riddick Bowe, 1605 Samantha Berry. Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on www. storagetreasures.com ending on January 7th, 2022 at 11:00 am for units located at: Compass Self Storage 3498 Canoe Creek Rd St. Cloud, FL 34772. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Compass Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment. The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances, unless
otherwise noted. A212 -Coy Dotson A270 - Holly Hefler C105 - Alverta Duda E135 - Alex Vargas. 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 4, 2022 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. Personal Mini Storage Forsyth-2875 Forsyth Rd Winter Park FL, 32792-at 10:00 am: 215 Jacqueline Sodjian 317 Francis Manning 418 Jose Barrios 473 Laura Elizabeth Villaquiran Alarcon 478 Miguel Rappa 498 Nikita Hill 592 Frederick John Foltz IV Personal Mini Storage West-4600 Old Winter Garden Rd Orlando, FL 32811-at 11:30 am: 22 Mattie Turner Adams 32 Terryl Crawford 113 Destinee Breanna Green 116 Latravous Powell 174 Terrelle Donaldson 203 Simone Guerrier 360 Iran Eugene Price 457 Niasjah Mitchell 477 Wilfred Cherenfant 487 Brinson Annette 491 Jaboris Levon Evans 539 Nathalie Thread 554 Latasha Ransom 574 Paul Bender 615 Annie Suluki 629 Angelica Garcia Hooban Personal Mini Storage Lake Fairview-4252 N Orange Blossom Trail Orlando, FL 32804-at 11:00 am: 0047 Allono Scott 0068 Antonio Peoples 0245 Kateria Lashay Jenkins 0270 Larry Lamar Bridges 0432 Doreatha Howell 636 Robert Donaldson 702 Maurice Prince 813 James Nelson 863 Christian Hill 928 Phillip Rahming 991 Brandon Mills 1000 Jimmy Ortiz Personal Mini Storage Edgewater-6325 Edgewater Dr Orlando, FL 32810-at 11:30 am: 536 Shawn Ferree 637 Walter Visner 803 Yanaysi Roberta Lewis 851 Maribel Baldwin 942 Walter Visner 1009 Sheila Gilroy 1015 Sheila Gilroy 1026 Maribel Baldwin 1108 Jennifer Sexton 1434 Karen Reid 2337 Jared Branton, 1997 Maxum USJB14MAD797 2407 Sonia Kumar Personal Mini Storage Forest City Rd-6550 Forest City Rd Orlando, FL 32810-at 12:00 pm: 1096 Raheem Powell 2050 Tequilla Letingham 3178 Curtis Hamilton 3251 Shalonda Demonia 4001 Gorgeous Coons 5052 Rodney Thorpe, Geema’s Daycare 6025 Ivette Colon Rivera 6046 Christopher Curry.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Mindful Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the following times and locations: January 12th, 2022 9:30am Mindful Storage facility: 900 Cypress Pkwy. Kissimmee, FL 34759 (321) 732-6032 The personal goods stored therein by the following: #2106-Households, #2201- Furniture, #2131-Households, #H227-Households, #I214Households, #B120- Households, #C115-Households, #2007-Boxes, #C136-Boxes #B112-Boxes, #1064- Households, #B105-Households, #1054-Medical Equipment. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Mindful Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Notice of Public Sale: Pursuant to F.S. 713.78 on January 7, 2022 at 9:00 am, Riker’s Roadside Of Central Florida, INC, 630 E Landstreet Rd, Orlando, FL 32824, will sell the following vehicles and/or vessels. Seller reserves the right to bid. Sold as is, no warranty. Seller guarantees no title, terms cash. Seller reserves the right to refuse any or all bids; JF1GH6D61AH807600 2010/SUBA 3KPFK4A75HE133492 2017/KIA 1FAHP2FW3BG181231 2011/FORD 1G6KD54Y8WU803749 1998/CADI DE VILLE 1G1YY22G845108417 2004/CHEV WAUAUGFFXJ1085967 2018/AUDI 3KPF34AD2ME269043 2021/KIA 1C4HJXDN3LW223620 2020/JEEP 1FDYR5ZM7KKA40686 2019/FORD. 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 2603 OLD DIXIE HIGHWAY KISSIMMEE, FL 34744, 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. JANUARY 10, 2022 A7247B 2019 UHAUL AA7554R 2019 UHAUL 3N1BC13E48L416776 2008 NISS JANUARY 14, 2022 1G1AL15F777147084 2007 CHEVROLET
WDBGA51E1NA032992 1992 MERZ 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. JANUARY 7, 2022 4T1BF18B3XU333083 1999 TOYT KNDUP131056651334 2005 KIA JANUARY 10, 2022 1C3LC46K88N284839 2008 CHRY 1G1JC524927218580 2002 CHEV 5UXZV4C52D0E14248 2013 BMW JANUARY 13, 2022 1D7HA16K93J506722 2003 DODGE 1G1PF5SC4C7368543 2012 CHEV 1HGCF86601A134414 2001 HOND Notice of Public Sale: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on www.storagetreasures. com ending on January 7, 2022 at 11:00 am for units located at: Compass Self Storage, 14120 East Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32826. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Compass Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment. The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances. #1325 –Monica Arroyo #1730 –Kimberlee Discher #2513 –Jeannette Alvarad. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Preston’s Towing. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 07:00 am 605 E Donegan Ave, Kissimmee, FL 34744, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. 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: 1/15/2022 1FTEW1EG3FFB30330 2015 Ford JYARN33E3EA001898 2014 YAMAHA 2C3CDYAG9EH146576 2014 DODG WBS4Z9C50JEA24155 2018 BMW
1G6KC5RX0GU157501 2016 CADI 1/23/2022 3C6UR5GJ4LG248570 2020 RAM NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Preston’s Towing. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 07:00 am 605 E Donegan Ave, Kissimmee, FL 34744, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. 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: 1/16/2022 4T1BF3EK8AU525414 2010 TOYT KNADM4A37D6306196 2013 KIA MOTORS CORP 5J6RM4H99GL021647 2016 HOND. 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: 2000 Chevy VIN# 1GCEC19T9YZ168470 To be sold at auction at 8:00 am. on January 12, 2022 at 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC FLORIDA DISCOUNT SELF STORAGE Personal property of the following tenants will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy a rental lien in accordance with Florida Statutes, Sections 83.801 - 83.809. Auctions will be held on the premises at locations and times indicated below. Wednesday January 12, 2022, Thursday January 13, 2022. Contents: Misc. & household goods and vehicles. Viewing is at time of sale only. The owners’ or their agents reserve the right to bid on any unit, and to refuse any bid. 2580 Michigan Ave. Kissimmee,FL 34744 (Wed, January 12 @ 11:30am) 1026-Camilla Mccullough, 1529- David Morales 5622 Old Winter Garden Rd. Orlando,FL 32811 (Wed, January 12 @ 1:00pm) 0160-Mohammed Al-Hamed, 0164-Mark Halter, 0345-Denzil Kidd, 0627-Demetrius Hayes, 0722-Mohammed Al-Hamed 6401 Pinecastle Blvd Orlando,FL 32809 (Wed, January 12 @ 2:30pm) 042-Desiree Oneal , 252-Felix Gordian 3625 Aloma Ave. Oviedo,FL 32765 (Thurs, January 13 @ 11:00am) 0666- Ryan Salomon, 1313- James Albright 17420 SR 50 Clermont,FL 34711 (Thurs, January 13 @ 1:00pm) 0139-Jacquelyn Harron, 0145-Mark Demello, 0329-Jacquelyn Harron 2300 Hartwood Marsh Clermont,FL 34711 (Thurs, January 13 @ 2:00pm) 240-Michael Prowell, 412-Natalie Pitts, 1048-Amy Baker. To run in Orlando Weekly on 12/22/21 and 12/29/21.
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Employment F/T Public Relations Specialist in Orlando, Florida- The Edward E. Haddock, Jr. FamilyFoundationA Public Relations Specialist at The Edward E. Haddock, Jr.Family Foundation will planor conduct market research to determine potential for success, communicating results to client or management; Update and maintain content posted on the Web; Plan or direct development orcommunication of programs to maintain favorable public perceptions of the organization‘s a ccomplishments, agenda, or environmental responsibility; Respond to requests forinformationfrom the media; Arrange public appearances, lectures, contests, or exhibits to increase serviceawareness and promote goodwill; Confer with productionor support personnel to produce orcoordinate production of advertisements orp romotions; Confer with production or support personnel to produce or coordinate production of advertisements or promotions. Requirements: BA in Business or Marketing or related field.Resumes to: amy@eehff. org orMail to: The Edward E. Haddock, Jr. Family FoundationA ttn: Amy Woelbern15 N. Eola Drive, Orlando, Florida 32801 Purchasing Specialist for GC/builder & cabinet/countertop distributor. Procure & purchase mat’l., equip, parts, & supplies. Coord, negotiate, place & review orders. Reqs. Bach Supply Chain Mangmt, Bus Mangmt or Ind Eng & 24 mo. exp purchasing &/ or purchasing specialist or buyer. Will accept combo edu, train, or exp – 40 Hrs. - Pay $40,500.00/yr. – Orlando, FL – Mail resume to K & B Art Craft Cabinets LLC Attn. HR, 5394 Hoffner Ave, Ste. E, Orlando, FL 32812 Web Marketing Specialist needed for Garcia Realty Group, Kissimmee, FL 2 identify Key Perf Indicators & rpt dig campaign mtrcs. Use nltx tools 2 track online bxs. Adj mktg mix, rpt tfc, click-thru, & det acq cost. Req Assoc in Mktg & 1 yr exp in Web Marketing. F/T mail res: E. Garcia, 3000 Loopdale Lane, Kissimmee, FL 34741
Referee/Official Youth Sports - Golden Triangle YMCA Family Center YMCA of Central Florida 6499370 Customer Service Representative TTEC 6499312
FLVS Flex Procedural Programming Instructor Florida Certified Florida Virtual School 6499270
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Payroll Clerk Isleworth Golf & Country Club 6493338
GO TO ORLANDOJOBS.COM & ENTER THE JOB NUMBER IN KEYWORD FIELD TO LOCATE THIS POSTION Senior Web Analyst, Tagging and Implementation Universal Orlando 6499265
Finance Project Manager GreatInsuranceJobs.com 6499258
Team Assistant - Downtown Orlando Orlando Health 6499257 Deputy Sheriff - Patrol Orange County Sheriff’s Office 6499228
PROGRAM ASSISTANT ASSIGNED TO PROBATION Seminole County Sheriff’s Office 6499227
Procurement.Secretary II.2762 Polk County Board of County Commissioners 6499226 Student Tour Guide Full Sail University 6499223
Assistant Director of Housekeeping Caribe Royale Hotel Caribe Royale Orlando 6499207
Business Development Representative Applied Concepts 6499200 Traffic Maintenance I/II City of Orlando 6499090
Housekeepers / Suite Attendants Embassy Suites Orlando Lake Buena Vista South Embassy Suites Orlando - Lake Buena Vista South 6499056
Animal Care Technician Rollins College 6499042 Operations Manager Christian HELP Employment and Resource Center 6499041
Sr HVAC Mechanic – Facilities Management Orange County Government 6498913
Orthopedic Orthotic Fitter Orlando Orthopaedic Center 6497938
Hotel Concierge / Attraction Ticket Sales All Guest Services 6497830 Human Resource Manager Nursery Supplies, Inc 6497829
Sr. Representative, Email Campaign and BSA Universal Orlando 6499264
NOW HIRING Line Cooks at CANTINA CATRINA - Florida Mall Fine Spices Brands 6496275
Program Controls Analyst I JSM Airport Services 6496273
Irrigation Technician I City of Casselberry 6495990
Customer Service Representative LUAU 6497536
Healthcare Enrollment Specialist Dedicated Senior Medical Center 6495957
Business Development Manager Career Xchange 6498536
Real Estate Project Manager Accountability Business Consulting 6497273
Claims Adjuster - General Liability - Auto InsuranceStaffing.com 6495082
Account Manager - Inside Sales OrlandoJobs.com 6498534
Sales - In-Home Closer Pure Water Changes 6497204
Quick Service/Food and Beverage Mitsukoshi 6498821
Receptionist Finfrock Design-ManufactureConstruct, LLC 6498533 Volunteer Services Coordinator Give Kids The World 6498232
Donor Relations Support Specialist Early Learning Coalition of Orange County 6498230
Line Cooks Reunion Resort & Club 6498228 Executive Administrative Assistant American Fundraising Foundation 6498142
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Lead Teacher $250.00 Sign On Bonus Ladybird Academy 6495077
Assistant, Executive Universal Orlando 6499263
Surgical Tech - South Lake Hospital SOLK Surgery - Full Time - Varies Orlando Health 6499253 Supv, Non-Invasive Cardiology Orlando Health 6499252
Information Technology.Records Analyst.2453 Polk County Board of County Commissioners 6499225
Communications.Television Producer II.63 Polk County Board of County Commissioners 6499224 English Faculty Full Sail University 6499221
Commercial HVAC Service and Controls Technicians Energy Air Inc. 6496993
Service Manager HomeTeam Pest Defense 6495073
Adjunct Faculty - English Full Sail University 6499220
Human Resources Generalist Avant Healthcare Professionals 6496462
Local Drivers Wanted Johnson’s Wrecker Service, Inc. 6494541
Housekeeping Supervisor - Caribe Royale Hotel Caribe Royale Orlando 6499206
Client Support Specialist Bilingual (English / Spanish) 401k Generation 6493912
Mixologist - Caribe Royale Hotel Caribe Royale Orlando 6499205
Enterprise Accounts Sales Development Rep TFB T-Mobile 6493533
Membership Engagement Specialist YMCA of Central Florida YMCA of Central Florida 6499092
Receptionist S.I. Goldman Company Inc. 6493339
Group Exercise Instructor - Downtown Orlando YMCA Family Center YMCA of Central Florida 6499091
Driver - Delivery Driver - Ocoee Papa John’s Pizza 6496416
MCAT Teacher at UCF Kaplan North America 6496358
Family Support Specialist (School Social Worker) Accelerated Learning Solutions 6496356