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¶ Invasive water plants taking over I believe this goes along with the manatee story “Environmentalist groups file lawsuit against EPA over record manatee deaths.” The EPA has no desire to do anything unless it fits their narrative. We live on 30 acres and have gone to great lengths to keep our property environmentally friendly. Our property backs up to a wetlands area full of deer, pigs, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, raccoons, opossums, bald eagles, hawks, cranes and even an occasional panther. We have two ponds and a creek. The creeks runs through our property and into Holloman’s Branch Creek, and into the Hillsborough River. In 45 years, we have never had water hyacinths. They are an invasive, poisonous plant that multiplies astronomically quickly. The county did a project recently where they widened and deepened a small area of Holloman’s Branch Creek. They introduced (I’m assuming by accident) water hyacinths that are being fertilized by the runoff from multiple strawberry fields. They have taken over. … We have contacted DEP, EPC, EPA, SWFMD, commissioners, senators and even the governor. We keep getting put off or passed on to another agency. — Carl Luis

¶ Education against violence This is in response to your Jan. 20 article “Winter Park Police Chief arrested on domestic violence charges, placed on leave.” Maybe we need new ideas to reduce violence. Maybe Florida should become the first state to use its schools to reduce violence, but with at least ‘TUCKING NUT BAR’

two goals in mind. First, that eventually the number of people using Florida’s domestic violence shelters annually will drop. And second, eventually fewer people will be incarcerated each year for committing acts of violence. There are scores of high schools in the U.S. that have police stationed in them because of violence. Yet not in one of those schools before or after the police were called in is it likely the students were taught to be less violent. It’s as though educators don’t believe in their own product — education. — Steve Kokette

¶ MMJ limits only hurt patients The flower limits are back! For four years there was no flower, then one week after our lawsuit and bill for flower they tried THC percentage limits for three-plus years. Now incredibly they’re changing the calendar … This will hurt lower-income, elderly and disabled patients the most (much like telehealth being gone). This isn’t “pay a $5 copay and leave,” voters are paying out of pocket (until insurance covers) when they can afford to, and will now be more limited for not buying on Day 1. Similar to the state’s Board of Medicine Cannabis Review Committee (that doesn’t include even one cannabis physician) they don’t see how these changes can hurt doctors or patients. They need better advisors. — Eric Stevens The writer is a director of pro-MMJ group Florida for Care. BY CLAY JONES

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Florida Senate refuses to consider DeSantis’ extremely gerrymandered map The Senate last week overwhelmingly approved new congressional and Senate maps in the once-a-decade redistricting process. It did not take up a congressional map that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ general counsel, Ryan Newman, proposed, which would be more favorable to Republicans. DeSantis waved off the decision by the state Senate to not consider the controversial redistricting plan his administration proposed. During an appearance in Sarasota, DeSantis noted the House must still offer a congressional map and said the “process will work itself out.” The House and Senate will have to reach agreement on a final version, which then would go to DeSantis for his consideration.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is the latest local official to test positive for COVID-19 Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and his wife, Suzie, tested positive for COVID-19 last Friday. The mayor announced that he had contracted coronavirus on his Twitter, noting that they were prompted to take the test because they had been exposed to a person who was positive, not because they were suffering symptoms. Dyer credited his easy time with the illness so far to the fact that he is vaccinated and boosted. He said that he will isolate from others and work remotely until he’s able to return to work safely.

Orlando to reopen emergency rental assistance portal starting Feb. 1 The city of Orlando will reopen the portal for its emergency rental assistance program on Feb. 1. The U.S. Department of Treasury gave the city $6.8 million in COVID-19 relief funds for households that have been financially impacted during the pandemic. As before, the rental assistance payments will go directly to landlords. The city has its own eligibility requirements in addition to those of the Treasury Department, which include having a household income at or below 80% of the area median income. That works out to $61,050 for a family of four. Priority will be given to households at or below 50% of the area median income. An applicant’s monthly rent may not be more than $4,000.

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New Milk District retail venture the Spot was the site of a late-night car accident this week, causing damage to the storefront. At around 1:30 a.m. Monday, two cars collided on Robinson Street and one veered off the road and slammed into the front window of the Milk District Spot. According to police reports, an Orlando man was arrested following the incident on charges of “leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, leaving the scene of a crash with injuries, and filing a false report.”

In a scathing ruling last Friday, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker blocked the University of Florida from enforcing a controversial conflict-of-interest policy that gave school administrators discretion over allowing professors to serve as expert witnesses in litigation. Walker’s 74-page opinion, calling the policy “pernicious” and a violation of faculty members’ First Amendment rights, vilified UF leaders and admonished their attorneys. Tenured political science professors Sharon Austin, Michael McDonald and Daniel Smith filed the lawsuit after university officials denied their requests to serve as witnesses for groups legally challenging a 2021 state elections law (SB 90) that would, in part, make it harder for Floridians to vote by mail. orlandoweekly.com ● JAN. 26-FEB. 1, 2022 ● ORLANDO WEEKLY

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THERE IS NO NORMAL Biden’s biggest mistake is thinking there’s a pre-Trump, pre-pandemic normal to return to — and it will haunt him throughout the remainder of this term BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

This will be a bad year for Democrats.

It was always going to be a bad year for Democrats. Midterms often are for the president’s party. Midterms always are when the president’s approval ratings are in the toilet, his base is demoralized, and the party is suffering from a series of self-inflicted wounds that prevent it from developing anything approaching a coherent message. It’s not just Sen. Joe Manchin killing Build Back Better just to watch it die, or Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema rolling over so Mitch McConnell can filibuster votingrights legislation. It’s also Nancy Pelosi own-goaling the lowest-hanging fruit imaginable: bipartisan legislation to require members of Congress to put their stock holdings in a blind trust so they can’t trade on insider information, as many — many — of them have done. People hate politics because they think politicians are corrupt and incompetent. Most don’t read the fine print. They don’t care that the child tax credit disappeared because of one West Virginia millionaire. They don’t know that Democrats failed to protect voting rights because that millionaire and an Arizona narcissist decided that fealty to a Jim Crow–era procedural anachronism was more important than making sure the votes of Black and Brown people count. For the most part, they also fail to grasp how radical-

ized the Republican Party is or how big a threat it poses to American democracy; Democrats’ attempts to make Jan. 6 salient haven’t stuck, and there’s no reason to believe this issue will resonate beyond elites anytime soon. (To clarify: If you read The New York Times, The Washington Post, your local newspapers, at least one political newsletter, can name all members of the U.S. Supreme Court, can name the Senate minority whip or know who V.O. Key was, you are an elite.) At the mass level, what matters is that stuff costs more, the stock market is tanking, COVID is out of control, schools might close again and Congress (read: Democrats) can’t get its shit together. In short, Biden promised to return the country to normal. He hasn’t delivered. Again, there are details and context and caveats aplenty. The stock market has taken a dive this month because of fears about inflation, which is mostly happening because of COVID’s effect on international supply chains, labor and product demand. The Omicron variant is ripping through the country because nearly a third of Americans remain unvaccinated — often in a stubborn act of political defiance — and most Republican-led states have removed masking requirements and other precautions. (The Supreme Court’s right-wing majority also blocked

the administration’s efforts to get more people vaccinated.) ICUs are filled with unvaccinated patients, straining the entire health care system. And with Omicron spreading, schools are precarious positions. Educators are understandably concerned about being stuck in rooms all day with corporeal germ factories. Outbreaks lead to widespread student absences or not enough teachers to cover classes. But the reasons things are bad matter less than the feeling that things are bad. And the empirically good things — more jobs created in the last year than in the three previous Republican administrations combined — don’t break through the bad noise. Biden made a lot of mistakes in his first year. Underestimating how quickly Kabul would fall to the Taliban is certainly near the top, along with his errant confidence that he could get Manchin and Sinema on board with sweeping social reforms. But his biggest mistake — the one I suspect will haunt him this November, and throughout the remainder of this term — is thinking there was an ante-Trump, ante-pandemic normal to return to. There is no normal. There won’t be so long as one political party thrives on chaos. In a press conference last week, Biden admitted he’d blown that one: “One thing I haven’t been able to do so far is get my Republican friends to get in the game of making things better in this country. … I did not anticipate that there’d be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that President Biden didn’t get anything done. Think about this: What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they’re for.” It’s a good question for a party that didn’t bother to articulate a platform in the last election, and doesn’t pretend to have one now. McConnell told a reporter he’d let the country know his agenda after Republicans retook the Senate. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s focus is a culture-war grab bag: repaying grievances against “woke” corporations, social media companies, China and Democrats. More than tax rates or any of the complex policy questions that affect people’s lives, culture war issues stick. They are guttural, not intellectual. They speak to how we define ourselves. For the South, Jim Crow was a culture war. For fundamentalists, abortion is a culture war. For the MAGA wing of the Republican Party, everything is a culture war. Populist movements run on emotion. Biden, a relic of a gentler time, thought he could compromise with that. He told the country that with Trump gone, that emotion would give way to calmer normalcy. That was never going to happen. Even if Republican elites had wanted to play ball, the rabble wouldn’t have allowed it. But they don’t. The messier the country feels in November, the better off they’ll be in January. So this will be a bad year for Democrats. The only question is how bad. If the pandemic stabilizes, inflation cools, the stock market improves, Manchin gets religion on some form of Build Back Better, and Democrats can both take credit for what’s working and counter Republican culturewar messaging, they might staunch the bleeding. I wouldn’t hold my breath. As destructive as the Republican’ slash-and-burn strategy is to democracy, it’s damn good politics.

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After years of complaints, Florida improves pollution monitoring near burning sugar cane fields

or the first time in nearly a decade, Florida regulators have upgraded their air-monitoring system in the state’s sugar-growing region, where farmers burn crops to harvest more than half the nation’s cane sugar. The move follows an investigation by The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica that found shortcomings in the way authorities police air pollution in Florida’s heartland, including their use of an air monitor that was unfit to enforce the Clean Air Act, the landmark law aimed at protecting the public from harmful pollutants. For years, residents have complained that cane burning sends smoke and ash into their communities and harms their health. But, as the news organizations reported in July, state environmental and health officials kept running the monitor in Belle Glade, despite flagging problems in 2013. Federal law allowed this, and the U.S. Environmental

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Protection Agency said the state could continue using the equipment to track the Air Quality Index, a public information tool that communicates whether the air is good, unhealthy or hazardous. But the decision to stick with the old monitor meant officials couldn’t use it to measure violations of the more stringent Clean Air Act or hold polluters accountable for potential infractions across 400,000 acres of cane fields. For about nine months, since The Post and ProPublica started asking questions about the monitor, officials had said they would replace it “in the future,” “later in 2021” and, more recently, “later in the near future.” Then, last month, the Palm Beach County Department of Health upgraded the Belle Glade monitor with one that’s fit to enforce federal pollution standards. Alexandra Kuchta, a spokesperson for the state Department of Environmental Protection, said the upgrade was delayed because officials had “to make physical modifications to the shelter so that the new monitoring equipment would fit.”

The department, she said, is also speaking with the EPA about expanding air monitoring in the state. Next year, the EPA plans to award $20 million in competitive grants to local, state and tribal governments to help better monitor “pollutants of greatest concern in communities with environmental and health outcome disparities stemming from pollution and the COVID19 pandemic.” The practice of cane burning disproportionately affects the Glades, a patchwork of mostly Black and Hispanic communities amid the cane fields. The smoke rarely reaches the wealthier, whiter communities to the east, because burning is banned when the wind blows in that direction. Hospitalization data also suggests health disparities. The news organizations found that hospital and emergency room visits for breathing problems among Belle Glade patients spiked during the cane-burning season, though our analysis couldn’t speak to the ultimate cause. [continued on page 15]

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“It’s a health hazard and an environmental justice issue. It doesn’t make sense that we create a different set of rules just because it’s a powerful industry.” — DISTRICT 47 REP. ANNA ESKAMANI

The seasonal difference in Belle Glade was bigger than changes in other similar populations where burning wasn’t present. Of chief concern to public health experts is particulate matter, an inhalable mixture of pollutants and debris tied to heart and lung disease. According to the EPA, Palm Beach County emits more particulate matter from agricultural fires than any other county nationwide. Democrats in the state Legislature are not relying on state regulators, who, for years, have said the air is healthy to breathe. This month, Rep. Anna Eskamani and Sen. Gary Farmer introduced legislation to empower residents by rolling back a new law that protects farmers from lawsuits over air pollution. Under changes passed by the Legislature in April, the state’s Right to Farm Act now includes “particle emissions” in a list of protected farming activities. The term is interchangeable with particulate matter, a known byproduct of sugar cane burning. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law. The new bill would strike that language, though its prospects are uncertain in a Republican-dominated Legislature. “It’s a health hazard, an environmental justice issue and also allows the sugar industry to operate without consequences,” Eskamani said, referring to the previous legislative changes. “That’s not appropriate, no one else can do that. It doesn’t make sense that we create a different set of rules just because it’s a powerful industry.” U.S. Sugar and Florida Crystals, the region’s two largest sugar companies, did not respond to requests for comment. They have said they are committed to operating safely in the Glades and have denied

that cane burning is responsible for residents’ health problems. Meanwhile, the issue is playing out in Florida’s gubernatorial race, where voters will cast ballots next year. Asked about ProPublica’s reporting, U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, a Democrat who served as Florida governor from 2007 to 2011 and who is running for the post again, pledged to improve air monitoring in the Glades while “pushing for a shift away from burning and towards a cleaner harvesting process, one that would create more jobs for local residents.” The U.S. is an outlier among the world’s top sugarproducing countries. Brazil, India and Thailand have all moved to end or sharply limit cane burning, citing environmental and public health problems from the practice. “I recognize the harm done to communities in the Glades, mostly Black and Hispanic Floridians,” Crist said. “We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the air pollution and health hazards this community is experiencing.” He blasted the Legislature for its past efforts to protect industry. “When wealthy communities to the east complain about burning, they get action. But when people in the Glades raise concerns, Tallahassee looks the other way. And when the Florida Legislature acts, it seems to make things worse,” Crist said. As governor in 2008, he negotiated with U.S. Sugar to buy land from the company to help restore the Everglades — a deal that many environmentalists praised at the time, though it was drastically downsized amid a sour economy. Others criticized it as a kind of bailout for the company. DeSantis did not respond to a request for comment.

Neither did state Sen. Annette Taddeo, a Democrat who is also running for governor. Crist said he would support Eskamani’s bill and noted that the agriculture commissioner, who oversees the sugar industry, can “stop allowing permits for burning.” The post is currently held by Nikki Fried, one of his Democratic opponents in the gubernatorial primary. She did not return requests for comment, but she has previously highlighted her efforts to make changes to the state’s sugar cane burning program. In 2019, she placed restrictions on burning, such as denying permits when the air quality is poor, aiming to minimize the impact of smoke. “Keeping Florida’s residents, communities, and environment safe is my top priority,” she said in a previous statement. An analysis by The Post and ProPublica found that the department did deny more permits in the 2020-21 harvest season than it had on average in the last five seasons, but the overall number of burns was roughly the same. Fried has also said she supports developing alternative harvesting methods that don’t involve burning, but her office said none “have yet emerged as an environmentally and economically viable option.” The harvest season started recently, and some Glades residents say the changes to the burn program have done little. Thelma Freeman keeps her grandchildren inside when she sees what locals call “black snow,” the ash that falls from cane burning. In a recent interview, she said the pollution is as bad as ever. “It’s never better,” she said. This story first ran at ProPublica.com. Lulu Ramadan and Maya Miller contributed reporting.

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oung soul sensation Leon Bridges led the U.K.’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra through a rousing set of songs at the new Steinmetz Hall as part of its “Grand Celebration” opening series of events. See Gianna Aceto’s full gallery at photos.orlandoweekly.com.

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Steinmetz Hall, while an aesthetic wonder, struggled through some opening-week wobbles

After 19 years of debates, delays

and disappointments, the long-awaited Steinmetz Hall at downtown Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts finally debuted this month in the grandest fashion imaginable, with a series of world-class concerts befitting the nearly quarter-billion-dollar facility. Featuring a “perfect” N1 acoustical rating and reconfigurable seating with futuristic flipping floors, this successor to the reviled Bob Carr — which namesake donor Chuck Steinmetz jokingly dismissed as “a dump” — has already been repeatedly praised by those standing on its stage as the “most beautiful hall in the world,” and architect Barton Myers and collaborators have certainly created an aesthetic wonder of polished wood that will be coveted by cities around the globe. But while I won’t go so far as to say Orlando’s new arts emperor has no clothes, Steinmetz Hall stepped into the spotlight surprisingly underdressed in the very departments it should have excelled: seeing and hearing the show. The first red flags came early in Rise & Shine, the opening-night celebration on Jan. 14 directed by Cole NeSmith. Although some major companies like Opera Orlando and Orlando Ballet were conspicuously absent, the program successfully brought together over 250 local performers from a diverse range of disciplines, despite COVID roadblocks. Featured acts created exclusively for the evening included architecture-inspired modern dance by Crystal Edwards and Holly Harris; powerful spoken word from City of Orlando poet laureate Shawn Welcome with actor Stephen Lima; and a colorful cultural dance fusion led by CeCe Teneal and Darrius Jamar. Members of the Orlando Philharmonic and other area orchestras delivered rousing renditions of even the most middlebrow musical selections (“Chariots of Fire,” “Imagine”) under the energetic batons of Justin Muchoney and Eric Jacobsen. Unfortunately, the audience’s ability to

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appreciate those artists was undermined by the very venue they were intending to honor. For starters, though the seats are comfortably plush with plenty of leg room, finding yours may be a challenge thanks to confusing door numbers and dead-end aisles. And while those seated in premium floor seats or the front of a balcony should be able to see just fine, insufficient elevation toward the rear offers most upper-tier seats behind the first row obstructed sightlines to the stage’s downstage corners, particularly whenever the person in front of you leans forward. As a result, the folk fiddler and other featured performers were completely obscured from my view. Consider yourself forewarned before purchasing cheap seats for any dance shows. Opening-night audio quality was equally underwhelming, with uneven microphone balance at best and painful amplifier feedback at worst. I wish I could report that those initial bugs were quickly quashed, but as of this writing I’ve attended four events in a variety of seats, and all the acts involving amplified sound have been consistent in their inconsistency. Michael Feinstein’s breezy evening of American songbook standards on Jan. 15 sounded far better than the previous evening — while there were still a handful of mixing-board flubs, his friends Norm Lewis, Davis Gaines and Sofia Deler (all Orlando natives) didn’t need artificial support to soar above a small jazz combo. Sadly, Jennifer Hudson’s first-ever collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic on

Jan. 22 was seriously marred by a miserable sound mix, starting with a maddening static hum that mercifully switched off mid-show, and continuing through the operatic finale with abrasively overamplified instruments that overwhelmed the Oscar-winner when she attempted to tell an emotional story about her Orlando origins. It wasn’t bad enough to ruin Hudson’s spine-tingling tributes to Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston, but her epic gospelflavored orchestration of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” deserved better. Thus far, the only event to showcase Steinmetz Hall in the unamplified configuration it was originally conceived for was the Royal Ballet and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance on Jan. 19. It’s no coincidence that the Tchaikovsky-centric collaboration was by far the most acoustically enjoyable, allowing listeners to identify individual instruments with thrilling transparency. On the other hand, the ability to hear a pin drop also extends into the audience, with every errant cough and iPhone alarm echoing across the elegant elliptical space. Hopefully, Steinmetz Hall’s inaugural festivities will end on a high note tonight, Jan. 26, with the professional world premiere of the final version of Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige as completed by his hand-picked orchestrator, Randall Keith Horton. Ironically, while this concert will take place in the shadow of Walt Disney World, Horton was first hired by Duke Ellington during an outdoor concert orlandoweekly.com

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at Disneyland in 1973. “I was in awe; I couldn’t believe what was happening to me,” Horton recalled to me during a recent phone interview. “There before me was this great American composer … and he was wanting me!” Ellington first performed portions of Black, Brown and Beige, his three-part musical history of Black America, at Carnegie Hall in 1943. He recorded a revised version with Mahalia Jackson in 1958, but never completed it due to critical rejection. “The reviewers were expecting something that was just a big band on the stage, providing Ellington’s popular songs,” says Horton. “It broke his heart, man; that really hurt him, and that’s why he didn’t perform it again.” Horton began reviving Black, Brown & Beige in the late 1980s, with the blessings of Ellington’s sister. “I would not write a note of music without praying” to remain faithful to the “vibes and presence of Maestro Ellington,” says Horton, who believes that the public has finally caught up with Duke after seven decades. “Audiences are now absolutely ready to hear a blend of swinging jazz and the symphonic music,” Horton says. “Now we have an opportunity for this work to travel around the world, for symphony orchestras and big bands to play it together, in America … and then in Europe.” And if that happens someday, we can say we were there when it started at the Steinmetz. skubersky@orlandoweekly.com

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oupa Saiyan makes an animated argument for uninhibited slurping,” I said in 2016 about the Universal Studios-adjacent noodle house plastered in Dragon Ball Z paraphernalia. It’s become a sort of destination shrine to fans of the anime series, which leads me to the following request — a request that’s fallen on deaf ears in the past and will likely fall on deaf ears again. Can someone please open a Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato-themed noodle house? I mean that would be so cool. Really. It would. Be cool. Wouldn’t it? Right. I’ll just move on to Soupa Saiyan 3, the third and latest outpost of the burgeoning franchise by husband-and-wife tandem Marshall Phanthachit and Joy Nguyen (with an assist from Johnny and Jimmy Tung). What sets Soupa Saiyan 3 apart from the original as well as Soupa Saiyan 2 in Jacksonville is that it houses a sub-concept called Soupakase. If you’re thinking that’s a multicourse meal comprising a chef’s selection of soups, you’d be wrong, so wrong. Admittedly, I thought that at first, and thought it a great idea, though not as good an idea as a Star Blazers-themed noodle house. No, Soupakase is a proper omakase utilizing high-grade ingredients, much of it coming from Toyosu Fish Market in Tokyo. It’s overseen by chef David Tsan, a skilled blade who’s honed his knives and his technique at sushi powerhouses Morimoto Asia and Kabooki Sushi. “He’s one of the few I can trust to make sushi in Orlando,” says

Yuhi Fujinaga, executive chef at Morimoto Asia. “I trust him 100 percent.” Tsan’s rotating, seasonal Soupakase comprises 10 courses of nigiri along with a handroll and soup (!) all for the too-good-tobe-true price of $65. But too good and true it is. Tsan may even serve a sakizuke (similar to an amuse-bouche) before the nigiri, as he did on my visit — two raw pieces of sweet shrimp tail, one crowned with uni, the other with basil, along with crispy-fried shrimp head. They were connected by a circular trail of avocado puree on a plate slicked with cucumber water, which I duly slurped when Tsan wasn’t looking. That was followed by a pieceby-piece serving of 10 nigiri, each with their own flavor profile — sweet madai (sea bream) topped with pickled plum, fleur de sel and lime juice; delicate shima-aji (striped jack) with matcha salt and scallion puree; buttery New Zealand king salmon crowned (get it?) with tomato jam and truffle hot sauce; bold horse mackerel with ginger and scallion; cold-smoked chutoro, and on it went. Two favorites were the tiger shrimp sheened in Cajun lemon-beurre, and the sirloin of A4 wagyu served with a cauliflower puree and snort-worthy truffle powder. “I can’t believe this is only $65,” I said to my dining comrade. And unlike other omakases, you’re free to order any item again after your meal — the shrimp was $4; the wagyu $14. Tsan slices, brushes, grates and tweezers

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his ingredients with aplomb, all the while keeping unobtrusive watch over the proceedings so that plating is in concordance with the pace of the guest. We had the right amount of time to gush and discuss (disgush?) the merits of the truffle pâté on the akami zuke (marinated tuna) and how the ikura cut through the richness of sea urchin in the uni roll. When Tsan handed us spicy tuna handrolls, we noted how the pickled daikon radish did the same for the tuna that the ikura did for the uni. I should note that even though we had completed 11 courses, we weren’t about to go Mr. Creosote all over the place. This was a pragmatically portioned meal, so that when we slurped a broth made from — get this — foie gras, wagyu and roasted fish bones, we could thoroughly enjoy it in a bloat-free sort of way. The soup was a bit too hot to enjoy immediately, which gave us cause to devour the accompanying snow crab and uni risotto while the broth cooled. I’d say this is the best value of any omakase in town, but I’m sure you’ve gathered that by now. In fact, I expect Tsan will be a very busy man in the coming weeks and may have to offer his Soupakase beyond just Thursday to Sunday. Reservations? You can make them online, or you can just walk up to the sushi bar at 5 p.m. and request it. It’s all very casual and chill, and you can bet you’ll see me here often. I’ll be the one seated at the sushi bar reading my Star Blazers comic book. fkara@orlandoweekly.com

After undergoing an expansion and revamp in late 2020, Kabooki Sushi on Colonial Drive is undergoing yet another expansion — this time, into the 2,000-square-foot space next door. The expansion will see a lounge and private dining area constructed in the former uBreakiFix repair shop. Chef-owner Henry Moso says the lounge will be open prior to dinner service and possibly stay open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Bar bites will be offered. Moso will also stage monthly dinner events in the private room. No opening date for the lounge has been announced … Korean fried chicken joint Chi-Kin is expanding into the nowshuttered Matcha House Tea & Creamery space in Mills 50. Owner Hoi Nguyen will house his new sub-concept Side Chick in the space … Isan Zaap, specializing in the cuisine of northeastern Thailand, has opened on Gardens Park Boulevard near the Mall at Millenia … Look for Volcano Hot Pot & BBQ to open in the old Sweet Tomatoes building near the intersection of I-Drive and Kirkman Road … Haan Coffee Roasters will open this summer in the old nail salon space between Mamak and Tasty Wok on East Colonial Drive. The space will be divided and shared between the coffee shop and Sampaguita Filipinx Ice Cream + Bakeshop, a sister concept to the Greenery Creamery, slated to open in the fall … Peach Valley Cafe will open in the old First Watch building in Maitland. Construction is underway … Also in Maitland, Foxtail Coffee is the first tenant to sign on to the Maitland Social, an “upscale commercial destination” currently under construction on the site of the old BB&T Bank at 360 E. Horatio Ave. … And Fredster’s, a 6,200-square-foot restaurant and bar with a live music stage, will open inside Maitland Square at the corner of Keller Road and Fennell Street sometime next month … Ford’s Garage, the Tampa-based burger-and-craft-beer franchise, has opened an outpost in a 10,705-square-foot indoor/outdoor space at 5375 Hamlin Groves Trail in Winter Garden.

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Science on Tap, Orlando Science Center’s celebration of brews, food and science, happens Jan. 29 at Loch Haven Park. More than 30 local breweries will be on hand as well as numerous food trucks. Tickets range from $30-$90. Visit osc.org for more. Got restaurant dish? Send tips to dining@orlandoweekly.com

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CLEAN EATZ Clean Eatz focuses on healthy fare — cooked without oil and without added salt or sugar — without sacrificing flavor in dishes like baked boneless wings with Buffalo sauce and bison burgers with turkey bacon and low-fat cheese. Calories, BTW, are listed next to all café menu items as well as the grab-and-go meals stocked in the freezers. Smoothies are worth a slurp. Open daily. (reviewed Jan. 12) 2205 S. Orange Ave., 407-2370493, cleaneatz.com, $$

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THE MILKHOUSE Food hall-ish venue in the heart of the Milk District corrals a lineup of local heavy hitters: the Ravenous Pig Brewing Co., Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream and two concepts by Bruno Zacchini — Bagel Bruno and Cicchetti, his homage to the inviting bacari of Venice, where small bites and quality quaffs lure in the afterwork faithful. Open daily. (reviewed Dec. 22) 201 N. Bumby Ave., 407-237-0575, milkhousesocial.com, $$

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Getting Curious With Jonathan Van Ness and Take Out With Lisa Ling premiere this week PHOTOS COURTESY OF NETFLIX, HBO

ON (small) SCREENS IN ORLANDO Streaming premieres you won’t want to miss by Steve Schneider PREMIERES WEDNESDAY: American Rock Stars — My pet peeve is when the term “rock star” is applied to people who work in fields other than actual rock music. “He’s like a rock star of accounting!” Yeah, get back to me when his first Texas Instruments calculator is framed and hanging on the wall above a family of tourists eating $30 hamburgers. Even worse is using “rock star” to refer to athletes — as is the case with this docuseries about the USA Men’s Olympic Curling Team. The only point of congruence I will accept there is that practically killing yourself pushing a bunch of cumbersome stones around the floor is sort of a description of what Jagger has to do every time every time he goes on stage. Otherwise, pass. (Peacock)

PREMIERES THURSDAY: Bunker — When I saw the title, I was kind of hoping for a gritty prequel to All in the Family. Instead, what we have in store is a Mexican sitcom about a failed husband and father who withdraws to a hidey-hole in his basement. So I guess you could say it’s more like Married With Children crossed with Panic Room. (HBO Max) Gomorrah — The fifth and final season of the Italian crime drama begins with an attempted mob hit at a family funeral. See, all along, I’ve been thinking those BaldwinFairchild ads were just missing something, and now I believe we all know what it was. (HBO Max) I Am Georgina — Spanish model Georgina Rodriguez gets her own reality series to show off the glamorous life she’s living while awaiting the arrival of twins with soc-

cer great Cristiano Ronaldo. Those two kids will join the daughter the couple already has, the other set of twins Ronaldo had via surrogacy, and the son he fathered with a woman he agreed not to name. If nobody gets a spinoff out of all this, show business is dead. (Netflix) Take Out With Lisa Ling — Ling’s first project for HBO Max was supposed to be a travel series titled Birth, Wedding, Funeral, but the pandemic apparently scuttled that. (Either that, or somebody belatedly realized it sounded too much like Fuck, Marry, Kill). In its place is six-episode inquiry into the timeless appeal of Asian-American restaurants. If you’ve ever wondered why a Chinese buffet is a nominally better source of sushi than a gas station, this is the show for you. (HBO Max)

Now there’s a reunion you’re going to want to keep to Zoom. (Netflix)

Dinosaur World. I’m expecting legal action out of Plant City any minute now. (Disney+)

Feria: The Darkest Light — The setting is an Andalusian village and the time frame is three decades ago as two sisters are horrified to learn that their parents were responsible for the deaths of 23 innocent people. Of course, that was when you had to kill strangers the hard way instead of just trusting your own immune system. (Netflix)

In From the Cold — With a ripped-fromthe-headlines relevance Kevin James could only envy, this suspense series follows an American single mother as she realizes she can’t hide from her past as a genetically improved KGB agent. For more on the adventures of the physically augmented and desperate, remember: The Pam & Tommy series is coming next week! (Netflix)

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Getting Curious With Jonathan Van Ness — His profile raised by the Queer Eye reboot, the hairdresser-turned-mediapersonality launches a series adaptation of his long-running podcast. Each episode features expert analysis of a subject Van Ness finds interesting, from gender identity to snacks. The main difference I can see: When you find a snack that feels right for you, it never lets you down. (Netflix)

The Afterparty — For their new series project, the great Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) appear to be trying for a mash-up of Rashomon and National Lampoon: When murder strikes at a highschool reunion, the participants all prove to have very different perceptions of the event. Seems like a bit of a throwback, given that high-school reunions had gone the way of the dodo long before the pandemic. But I guess it’s too hard to kill somebody on Facebook Live. (Wait for Meta!) (Apple TV+)

Home Team — In the minds of most rightthinking people, a movie can either be based on truth or it can star Kevin James. Yet this comedy is shooting for both, casting America’s überschlub as a disgraced NFL coach who takes charge of his son’s Pop Warner team. The story was inspired by the New Orleans Saints’ involvement in Bountygate, in which players were found to have been paid bonuses for injuring their opponents. As opposed to the real point of pro ball, which I guess is to engage everybody in a spirited discussion of Sartre or something. (Netflix)

All of Us Are Dead — South Korea offers us its take on the zombie apocalypse, with a horde of deranged flesh-eaters attacking the students at an ordinary high school.

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The Legend of Vox Machina — A Dungeons & Dragons campaign by gamer geek Matthew Mercer has blossomed into an animated series about a band of adventurers who undertake a magical quest in order to pay off a bar tab. (Amazon Prime) The Orbital Children — Conceived in Japan as a two-part theatrical feature but being shown here as a two-season streaming series, director Mitsuo Iso’s futuristic drama focuses on a bunch of kids who are forced to fend for themselves after a catastrophic accident in deep space. By the time the show debuts, there’s every chance its U.S. version will have been renamed Yeet the Parents. (Netflix) The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window — Kristen Bell may or may not have witnessed a murder in a darkly comedic miniseries that sounds like a gender-reversed Rear Window (or, if you got your degree at Full Sail, Body Double). The show’s title was expanded at the last minute from The Woman in the House, which is the sort of last-minute brand tinkering I can actually get behind. I just wish they had added “… in Bed.” (Netflix)

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LONESOME SOUND

Avant-minded singer-songwriter Ryley Walker plays Timucua Arts this weekend BY MATTHEW MOY E R

yley Walker had a very, very busy magazine cover to cover every month and 2021, releasing no less than four he was a rising star in that scene of weird albums on his own Husky Pants musicians they put the spotlight on. His duo imprint and tourwith Mick Flower ing with Dinosaur changed my life. Jr. (Not to menAlmost as much RYLEY WALKER tion a brief foray as Led Zeppelin 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29 into the wilds or something. We of Vermont, became friendly Timucua Arts Foundation though Walker is over the last 2000 S. Summerlin Ave. now back safely decade. I’d see timucua.com ensconced in him at festivals $20 or $5 livestream New York City.) or New England Calling the young gigs. He’s as cool singer and guitaras they come. A ist “chameleonic” on the basis of his diverse true innovator and genius. I’m so grateful to and dazzling recent catalog is too reductive have him on this trek. a term; Walker isn’t trying on personas as much as exploring the outer limits of sound You’ve played a number of shows and new modes of expression, either on his during the pandemic, on your own or in the heady company of outsider own, opening for Dinosaur Jr., worthies like David Grubbs, Chris Corsano with David Grubbs — a pretty and John McEntire. If you haven’t checked wide range of gig experience. in with Walker in a couple of years, start What’s been your personal with his storming love letter to Chicago’s impressions of playing live dur1990s alt-freak elite, Course in Fable, but just ing the various stages of the know that by this point, he’s probably on a pandemic? whole other trip. I live one day at a time in this business. Today, all looks well and good. We’re healthy, How did the stars align for this having fun and protecting ourselves and clutch of Florida dates to actually others the best we can. I don’t know what’s happen, especially at such a dif- best for everyone. I’m glad to be working and don’t wanna fuck it up. ficult time for touring artists? Florida is a big beautiful state that I never get the chance to go to. I love the You’ve released four albums last fruit that hangs from the trees and the nice year and Husky Pants was humtan everyone has. It’s Valhalla for corn-fed ming along the whole time. How Midwest simple folk like myself. I made did you maintain your creative certain we went down there this route. I discipline during such fucked haven’t been in years. Love it dearly. times? My résumé is pretty bad. It’s jam or starve. Is it true you’re bringing along I’m also excited to play music. I’ve got a good avant-jazz whirlwind Chris life and live within my means. I’m happy and Corsano for these Florida shows can’t ask for a better situation. The joy of to drum? Would you talk about music and having fun takes me a long way.

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Vermont was real nice. Good ponds. Good dogs. Good hikes. I’m a city slicker by heart. So I’m glad to be back in the mix. New York works for me. I love it.

Talk about the making of A Tap on the Shoulder. Your collaborator on that one, David Grubbs, is such a singular force. And more broadly, how do collabs satisfy the creative itch in ways your solo music doesn’t?

your history and connections David is my hero and guru. He’s humble with him? How did Vermont treat you, and and kind and everything I aspire to be. His I’ve been aware of Chris’ music since I was are you happy to be back in New guitar work is so unique and brilliant. We made that record over the course of two a teenager in the mid-2000s. I read Arthur York? orlandoweekly.com

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days. We just hit record and improvised. Very relaxed. Very fun. I came up in Chicago thinking that one makes song records, and in between does noise records. I always want to keep that discipline and pace of recording!

What albums will your set be drawing from? Mostly Course in Fable and Post Wook? You’ve got so much to choose from … The newest record, Course in Fable, takes up most of the setlist. Beyond that, we improvise and jam on lots of old tunes. Each set is unique. Florida gigs have always been a hoot, can’t wait to stretch out more. music@orlandoweekly.com

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Claire Vandiver’s ethereal new mini-album, ‘Even When It Hurts,’ will enchant you BY MATTHEW MOY E R

rlando singer-songwriter Claire them. During the writing of the album, I was Vandiver is poised to release a new really into this artist called Vlad Holiday. mini-album in February that shows He is based in Brooklyn, and it’s kind of off a very different musical side of this lo-fi and kind of cinematic. I was really young talent. Even When It Hurts, a collec- listening to him throughout all of 2019. I tion of songs Vandiver has been working also love Sharon Van Etten. She’s a great on since 2019, eschews bare-bones folk- songwriter. I love her. So having those on pop moves and dives headfirst into ethereal repeat a lot definitely influenced me, for sure. ambience. Vandiver pairs raw, lyrical tales of … Also just relationships I was going through, heartbreak with shimmering, hazy dream- heartbreak and even happy moments. pop atmospherics. Think Mazzy Star: The songs are gorgeously disorienting, making The album has a shimmery, hazy the listener lean into the speaker to take it dream-pop feel … all in. I produced this with a guy named Keller Vandiver debuts her new song suite on McDivitt. He works in sound design for Sunday at Will’s Pub, with a number of movies. So we had this aspect of cinematic like-minded sound, and that’s fellow sonic travwhat his whole elers and a career has been CLAIRE VANDIVER backing band based on: making with Gary Lazer Eyes, Don Ugly, that includes her sounds for movies Heather DeSanctis father, and musiand what draws 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6 cal collaborator, people in to Will’s Pub Chip Vandiver certain scenes. 1042 N. Mills Ave. on guitar. Claire So we came willspub.org Vandiver spoke together on this $8-$10 to Orlando Weekly project initially about her new in Nashville, but album and trying then had to finish out new sounds. it in Florida during COVID. I wanted things to be spacey, I wanted Tell me about writing and record- things to have more of an indie flair. I wanted a vampiric indie kind of sound going on, ing Even When It Hurts. It started right before COVID hit. Late cinematic and a little mysterious. And we 2019 I started working on this project … we went with it, things were clicking. It was also started it in Nashville. And then we had the trial and error and seeing what sounds good shutdown, and then all my gigs stopped. I and what feels right. … I wanted to get away gig on the side with my father and that’s kind from the poppy-pop kind of thing. of what I’ve been doing here acoustically full-time. So all of that just vanished once Do you think you’ve found your everything shut down. So we decided to sound? keep it going and I ended up finishing it at I do. I really feel like I’ve homed in on my home studio. I actually had more time something that I feel confident in and that I to focus on it and think about it because I feel is natural. I feel like I’m able to express wasn’t running around trying to book shows. myself. There’s thousands of ways to produce It ended up being like an every day thing, a song, but I feel like in this time, this moment I woke up and got to work on it and just it was the right way. made it happen. So it kind of worked out in the end. Tell me about making music with

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in my musical journey and has definitely been a big supporter. When I was 12 I told him that I really wanted to do music, I had like tears rolling down my cheeks. I just wanted to do this so badly. He gave me a speech about how it’s hard and it’s not an easy road, but if this is what I want to do, then, you know, he’d support me in that. He believed in me. So from that day on, I just kept working on myself and my vision. I started playing gigs in high school, and then full-time out of high your father, both as an acoustic school. I was going to college and gigging What inspired the songs on this EP? duo and then him being one of throughout the week at any bar or restaurant I could play at. My dad started accompanyIt’s about the complexities of passionate your backing musicians? relationships and the ups and downs of My father definitely has played a big role ing me and playing lead on acoustic. We’ve orlandoweekly.com

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been doing that and playing the Florida scene for a while now. It’s a special thing and it’s something different. I really haven’t met anyone else that’s playing with their father. He’s definitely influenced me in a lot of ways and guided me and taught me a lot. I’m very thankful and appreciative of that because I know not everyone has had that in their journey, but everyone’s journey is different. He’s playing in my band for the show and he actually played a lot of the guitar parts on the record. And so I was like, “Well, he might as well.” It’s going to be fun. He’s a cool guy. music@orlnadoweekly.com

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LOCAL RELEASES

There is definitely something back in the water around here lately. Having sired its own signature sound of global influence in the 1990s, Orlando owns a pretty big chapter in the book of breakbeat. And like the vintage house and rave sounds currently making a revival, breaks are also showing signs of a comeback. Besides the big downtown dance parties that’ve recently been bringing back a hall-offame procession of that era’s star DJs, young artists like local techno acolyte Astro Pup, who wasn’t even around during the 1990s heyday, are bringing back the bass. Now even Moondragon — the solo vessel for local EA audio artist Troy Simpson and one of the city’s leading synthwave forces — is officially in on that classic action. In his first release in nearly two years, the just-dropped single “Skid Pad” shows a new, sleeker profile that gives his 1980s action-movie aesthetic a 1990s turbo charge of big, block-rocking beats. All quicksilver and neon, the track glides like the Crystal Method in a Countach. But Simpson’s latest breakbeat muse isn’t sated with this one single. Expect the new full-length Moondragon album, planned for this year, to keep on the funk. “Skid Pad” is up on Spotify and the like but is also available as a name-your-price download on Bandcamp. Orlando’s CVSTODIA is fresh on the scene but has decided to emerge with a rather comprehensive introduction. Although they were written six months apart, this heavy new act just last week unveiled the simultaneous release of both an EP (When Gods Lose Their Cults, They Become Demons) and an LP (Anti-Hero). CVSTODIA is the solo vehicle of Andre Jaz Fillou, a metalcore veteran whose

Moondragon — the synthwave solo vessel for local EA audio artist Troy Simpson — has just dropped “Skid Pad,” a new single that gives his 1980s action-movie aesthetic a 1990s turbo charge of big, blockrocking beats

work is equally footed in metal (YXVNG) and electronic (Jazze Joestar). This new project is the synthesis of that duality, smelting its sound from a blackened, industrial-grade cauldron of death, doom and harsh noise. It’s a dark and downtempo crush whose heft comes down with a pulverizing rhythmic emphasis. You can get immersed in it on Bandcamp, where both extensive releases are now available as name-your-price downloads.

CONCERT PICKS THIS WEEK

Omicron’s ravaging the calendars like a wrecking ball, so definitely check the absolute latest listings for anything you’ve got planned, and mask hard if you head out. There are even a couple of good remote options below for you: Ben Rosenblum Trio: Young NYC jazz pianist, accordionist and composer Ben Rosenblum returns in his nimble trio iteration, which blends classic and modern sensibilities with melodic verve. Apropos

of the times, this concert — like all Timucua shows — also has the safe bonus of a livestream option. (7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, Timucua Arts Foundation, $25 or $5 livestream) Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, Tinsley Ellis: Sanford blues bastion The Alley faithfully keeps the blues torch lit practically every night of the week. But star power like the T’N’T Tour only comes along once in a, ahem, blue moon. This rocking double feature stacks two big blues names onto a whopping single bill featuring full-length sets by each. Both acts arrive hot on recent Alligator Records releases, with Ellis’ Devil May Care LP dropping only last week. (8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, The Alley, $45) Ryley Walker: Even for selective Orlando art-music presenters the Civic Minded 5, this engagement is of particular note. No straightforward folkie, this critically lauded Chicago-bred artist has blazed an esoteric trail as an indie adventurer with avant-garde inclinations. Underneath his airy mien are ideas and guitar virtuosity that don’t just explore but push frontiers. This one’s also available as a livestream. (7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, Timucua Arts Foundation, $20 or $5 livestream) Brian Smalley: This concert spotlights a homegrown artist who does folk music with a different kind of high concept. While his musical style is down-home, Smalley has a particular penchant for concept albums that unfold like a novel or opera, with story arc and even subtext. It’s Florida folk music with terroir in layers. (8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, $20) baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com ● JAN. 26-FEB. 1, 2022 ● ORLANDO WEEKLY

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“FAST AND FURIOUS”

I’m a straight guy but my whole life I have wanted to be spanked by older men. Does this make any sense? Because I’m confused. I don’t like or want penis. Yet I want to be spanked as a punishment by men. I don’t understand myself sometimes. Sincerely Pondering And Not Knowing The truly important question here isn’t why you want this, SPANK, but how much more time you’re gonna waste sitting on your ass wondering why you want this when you could be out there getting that ass spanked? And even if you came up with a neat and tidy answer, you’re still gonna want older men to spank you. Because getting to the bottom of a kink — identifying some childhood trauma that explains everything — isn’t a cure. Instead of seeing the spankings you want as a riddle you need to solve, you should see them as a reward for all the wondering you’ve had to do. If you need a label, SPANK, just say you’re bisexual for spankings. Not bi for blowjobs, not bi for anal, not bi for JO or mutual masturbation. Just bi for spankings. I like the way you walk the talk because gay guys in women’s clothes get me hard and horny and when I see a gay guy dressed in sexy clothing it just makes me want to jerk off and maybe one day I’ll meet a gay guy like you and suck and blow him. Gooning About Gay Guys In Naughty Gowns

Articles of clothing don’t have genders, GAGGING, because anyone can wear anything, as Billy Porter was sent down to earth to teach us. Also, not all gowns are naughty — think night, hospital, dressing, etc. That said, GAGGING, I don’t wear the kind of clothing the cishet patriarchy would have us believe is for women alone. Well, I don’t wear that stuff anymore. I used to drag, GAGGING, and the pictures are out there, but I haven’t worn so much as a skirt for years. So you can stop thinking about sucking my dick. I’m hoping to get an objective POV on something. I’m a 31-year-old male bottom. I have been in an open relationship with an amazing 31-year-old male top for 12 years. One year ago, I started to suffer some gender dysphoria. At roughly the same time he expressed a desire to be topped. I never had any desire to top someone, I’ve never even felt that male urge to thrust my hips, but I hate that I’ve let my BF down. I can do this, but only with the help of ED meds. How can I get some pleasure out of it? Topping Burden You could penetrate your BF with toys, or you could take one (or give one) for the team once in a while (by taking ED meds and topping him), or your boyfriend could bottom for other men, seeing as your relationship is already open. Or all of the above. And if it’s the thrusting and/or being in control that turns you off (or tweaks your gender dysphoria), take an ED med and let your boyfriend ride your hard dick — then instead of you fucking him, he’ll be fucking himself. Power bottom, sub top! I’m wondering how AJ, the FinDom you quoted at length in your most recent column, wound up on your radar and getting what amounted to free advertising in your column. You said he lives in the Pacific Northwest. Isn’t that where you live, Dan? And you said his bathroom is always spot-

lessly clean. How would you know that? Are you his bathroom? Dan’s Ethics Are Lacking I’ve never met AJ in person, there’s more than one city in the Pacific Northwest (and we don’t live in the same one), and I found AJ looking for gay FinDoms on Twitter who might want to answer CASHFAG’s question. That said, DEAL, while I’m far too cheap to be anyone’s finsub (or their sugar daddy, for that matter), I do enjoy cleaning bathrooms — but not in a pervy way. I enjoy cleaning bathrooms in an eat-an-edible-and-listen-tomusicals-and-zone-out-doing-houseworkwhile-the-husband-and-his-boyfriend-are-atthe-gym sort of way. So, while I wouldn’t necessarily say no to cleaning AJ’s bathroom, I haven’t been asked, DEAL, and consequently haven’t had the pleasure. This is about your recent response to UNCUT, the guy who met men who believed they were uncut when they were very much cut. You suggested that these men were lying about being uncircumcised. But not knowing might be more common than we assume. This is from Epidemiology, the authoritative textbook written by Leon Gordis of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: “They asked a group of men whether or not they had been circumcised. The men were then examined by a physician. Of the 56 men who stated they were circumcised, 19, or 33.9%, were found to be uncircumcised. Of the 136 men who stated they were not circumcised, 47, or 34.6%, were found to be circumcised. These data demonstrate that the findings from studies using interview data may not always be clear-cut.” Some Truly Are Thrown While it’s true that men lie to prospective sex partners all the time — and, yes, #NotAllMen and #SomeWomenToo — it turns out that men may not be lying about this. In addition to the textbook example you shared, STAT, other readers sent along a clip of Patrick Stewart on the Graham Norton Show. In it, Stewart tells Norton he got into an argument with his wife about his dick one day. He insisted he was circumcised, she insisted he was not. Stewart, who thought he knew his own dick, followed up with his doctor and it turned out his wife, who may have had a larger frame of reference, was correct: Contrary to what Stewart believed about his own dick, he was not circumcised as an infant or at any time in his life. The clip, which is easy to find on YouTube (and very funny), is yet more evidence — anecdotal, in orlandoweekly.com

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Stewart’s case — that some men don’t know from their own dicks. In your reply to “SADSON” you are clearly taking sides based on how comfortable you must be about withholding the truth from a partner. You say the father should have “kept his mouth shut” about the affair he had! You know nothing about this couple’s values and decisions! Who are you to push your views on others? Many of us consider lying about cheating reprehensible! And the last sentence of your response (“I hope there were other women”) was astonishingly juvenile, mean-spirited and vindictive — and for what reason? To take sides against a clearly tormented heterosexual woman! Disgusting and shameful! Thoroughly Appalling Take Enrages Reader This is an advice column, TATER. People send in questions; I answer those questions. So, I’m not pushing my views on anyone here. I’m sharing my views. That’s literally my job. And I’m not the first advice columnist to urge a cheater to withhold the truth from a partner: “The adulterer who wants to ‘set everything right’ by telling all would be better advised to keep his mouth shut and work out his guilt by behaving in a more thoughtful, loving, considerate way and stay out of other beds in the future.” That’s from the Ann Landers Encyclopedia, which was published in 1978. (Ann assumes all adulterers are male; I guess she could also be accused of “taking sides.”) In the case of SADSON’s parents, TATER, don’t you think SADSON’s mom would’ve been happier if her husband had taken Ann Landers’ advice and kept his fucking mouth shut? Instead, SADSON’s dad told SADSON’s mom about the affair he’d had a decade after it was over. So, it wasn’t the affair that tormented SADSON’s mom, but knowing about it. As for my snarky postscript (“I hope there were other women”), SADSON’s mom has made her husband’s life a daily living hell for 30 years. Why? Because he fucked somebody else 40 years ago. I don’t know about you, TATER, but I think the punishment should fit the crime. And there’s only one way that’s possible here: more crimes, lots of crimes, so many crimes.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Helen Hunt Jackson said that one component of happiness is “a little less time than you want.” Why? Because you always “have so many things you want to see, to have and to do” and “no day is quite long enough for all you would like to get done before you go to bed.” I propose you experiment with this definition in the coming weeks. According to my astrological analysis, you will have even more interesting assignments and challenges than usual — as well as a brimming vitality that will make it possible for you to accomplish many but not all of them. Your happiness should be abundant! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Born under the sign of Taurus, Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) had considerable skills as a composer of music, an athlete, an author, a passionate lover and an activist working for women’s rights. She was successful in all of them. I propose we make her one of your role models for the coming months. Why? First, because she did more than one thing really well, and you are now primed to enhance your versatility, flexibility and adaptability. Second, because she described a formula for high achievement that would suit you well. She said, “Night after night I went to sleep murmuring, ‘Tomorrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!’” (PS: I suggest you make “supple” your word of power in 2022.) GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to author Olivia Dresher, “Feelings want to be free. Thoughts want to be right.” Well, then, what about intuitions? In a sense, they’re hybrids of feelings and thoughts. They’re a way of knowing that transcends both feelings and thoughts. When intuitions come from the clear-seeing part of your deep psyche rather than the fear-prone part of your conditioning, they are sweet and fun and accurate and humble and brisk and pure. They don’t “want” to be anything. I’m pleased to inform you, Gemini, that in the coming weeks, your intuitions will be working at peak efficiency. It should be relatively easy for you to distinguish between the clear-seeing and fear-prone modes of intuition. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it,” wrote humorist Leo Rosten. I offer his counsel to you right now because I want you to have fun if you wander away from your usual upstanding behavior. But may I make a suggestion? As you depart from normal, boring niceness, please remain honorable and righteous. What I’m envisioning for you are experiments that are disruptive in healthy ways, and dares that stir up interesting problems, and rebellious explorations that inspire beauty and truth. They’ll be “wrong” only in the sense of being mutinies against static, even stagnant, situations that should indeed be prodded and pricked.

Remember Bob Dylan’s idea: “To live outside the law, you must be honest.”

everyone in every situation. But I believe it is vividly apropos for you and your current situations.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo actor Anna Kendrick bragged, “I’m so humble it’s crazy. I’m like the Kanye West of humility.” I’d like to see you adopt that extravagant approach to expressing your magnificence in the coming weeks. I hope you’ll add another perspective to your repertoire, too — this one from Leo actor Mae West. She exulted, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!” Here’s one further attitude I encourage you to incorporate, courtesy of Leo author Rachel Pollack: “To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A well-worn proverb tells us, “All good things come to those who wait.” There’s a variation, whose author is unknown (although it’s often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln): “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left behind by those who hustle.” I think that’s far more useful advice for you in the coming weeks. I’d much rather see you hustle than wait. Here’s a third variant, which may be the best counsel of all. It’s by author Holly Woodward: “All good things come to those who bait.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Sammy Davis Jr. (1925–1990) was multi-talented: an actor, singer, comedian and dancer. One critic described him as “the greatest entertainer ever to grace a stage.” He didn’t think highly of his own physical appearance, however. “I know I’m dreadfully ugly,” Davis said, “one of the ugliest men you could meet. But ugliness, like beauty, is something you must learn how to use.” That’s an interesting lesson to meditate on. I think it’s true that each of us has rough, awkward, irregular aspects — if not in our physical appearance, then in our psyches. And yet, as Davis suggested, we can learn to not just tolerate those qualities, but use them to our advantage. Now is a favorable time for you to do that.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote, “To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.” I agree, which is why I authorize you to add “Saint” to the front of your name in the coming weeks. There’s an excellent chance you will fit the description Stowe articulated. You’ll be at the peak of your power to elevate the daily rhythm into a stream of subtle marvels. You’ll be quietly heroic. If you’re not fond of the designation “Saint,” you could use the Muslim equivalent term, “Wali,” the Jewish “Tzadik,” Buddhist “Arhat” or Hindu “Swami.”

“Feelings want to be free. Thoughts want to be right.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways,” wrote the mystic Saint Teresa of Avila. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re due to discover new and different ways to wield your love magic — in addition to the many you already know and use. For best results, you’ll have to be willing to depart from old reliable methods for expressing care and tenderness and nurturing. You must be willing to experiment with fresh approaches that may require you to stretch yourself. Sounds like fun to me! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If you are drilling for water, it’s better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 six-foot wells,” advised author and religious scholar Huston Smith. He was using well-drilling as a metaphor, of course — as a symbol for solving a problem, for example, or developing a spiritual practice, or formulating an approach to psychological healing. The metaphor might not be perfectly applicable for

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Since the iconoclastic planet Uranus is a chief symbol for the Aquarian tribe, you people are more likely to be dissenters and mavericks and questioners than all the other signs. That doesn’t mean your departures from orthodoxy are always successful or popular. Sometimes you meet resistance from the status quo. Having offered that caveat, I’m happy to announce that in the coming weeks, your unique offerings are more likely than usual to be effective. For inspiration, read these observations by author Kristine Kathryn Rusch: “Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean author Juansen Dizon tells us, “Don’t find yourself in places where people have it all figured out.” That’s always good advice, but it will be especially germane for you in the coming weeks and months. You need the catalytic stimulation that comes from associating with curious, open-minded folks who are committed to the high art of not being know-it-alls. The influences you surround yourself with will be key in your efforts to learn new information and master new skills. And that will be an essential assignment for you throughout 2022. freewillastrology.com

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personal property. Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: February 11, 2022, at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00PM Extra Space Storage 11920 W Colonial Dr Ste 10, Ocoee FL 34761, 407-794-6970. Tyshaun Holiday- kids 4 wheelers, bike. John George- Furniture. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: February 11th, 2022 at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00PM Extra Space Storage 2631 E Semoran Blvd. Apopka, FL 32703 (407) 408-7437 Ervin Gonzalez-Household goods Kaniesha Dixon-Household items. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: February 11th, 2022 at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00 PM Extra Space Storage 831 N. Park Avenue Apopka, FL 32712 (407) 450-0345 Janelle Hartzog-boxes. The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 1001 Lee Road Orlando, FL 32810 (407) 489-3742, February 11th, 2022 @ 12:00 PM: Dornell Mooreluggage: Jessica Brown-household

items: Shery Ghasemi-household items: Meghan Jalbert- household items: Maronda Blackshear-bags: Stacy Johnson-Sporting Goods, household: Haydee Maldanadohousehold items. The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated February 11, 2022 at the time and location listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00PM Extra Space Storage 1451 Rinehart Rd Sanford, FL 32771 (407) 915-4908 Destinee DeJesusWasher and Dryer, Boxes and Bedroom Set- Kaitlin Westerhoff , personal and household goodsJames Postell some personal items and furniture. The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: February 11, 2022 at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00PM Extra Space Storage 11071 University Blvd, Orlando FL 32817, 3213204055 Brandon Smith-home goods The personal goods stored therein by the following: 2:00PM Extra Space Storage 12709 E Colonial Dr, Orlando FL 32826, 4076343990 Maria J Collier: Bed, Mattress, luggage, boxes, jack, shoe boxes, microphone stand, totes, desk, chair; Fabian G Williams: Couch, chair, table, baby bicycle, boxes, toys, lamp, kids’ truck, car seat, luggage; Latricia Nicole Means: VCR luggage, rug, fan, power wheels, games, table, bags, totes. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 2:00PM Extra Space Storage 11971 Lake Underhill Rd, Orlando FL 32825, 4075167913 Esaw Coons- luggage, totes The personal goods stored therein by the following: 1:30PM Extra Space Storage 10959 Lake Underhill Rd, Orlando FL 32825, 4075020120 Caridad Lozada- clothes, bags, furniture, totes, oxygen tanks The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:45PM Extra Space Storage 9847 Curry Ford Rd, Orlando Fl 32825, 4074959612

Andre McKay, the majority of items are teaching supplies and materials (books, school supplies. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: February 11th, 2022 at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 2:00PM Extra Space Storage 5592 L.B. McLeod Rd. Orlando, FL 32811 (407) 720-2832. Kenyana McCone- Household Goods, Boxes; Carlos Cambar- Boxes, Personal Items; Fairfield Inn & Suites- Business Goods; Jacklyn Escobar- Household Goods; Carlos Torres- Household Goods. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/HIGBEE CASE NO: DP 20-036 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILDREN: C.N.D. DOB: 01/01/2020, C.T.D. DOB: 01/01/2020. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: SUSAN DALBEY, ADDRESS UNKNOWN. WHEREAS a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the abovereferenced children. You are hereby commanded to appear before Circuit Judge Heather Higbee on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 2:00 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. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILDREN. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILDREN NAMED IN THE PETITION. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 4th day of January, 2022. This

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summons has been issued at the request of: Paul Karasick, Esquire Florida Bar No.: 69216, paul. karasick@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: DP10-259 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILDREN: G.M. DOB: 09/03/2014, A.M. DOB: 04/17/2012, A.M. DOB: 03/09/2011. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: ANTONIO MARCH, SR., ADDRESS UNKNOWN. WHEREAS 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 Circuit Judge Heather Higbee on Monday, February 21, 2022 at 9:00 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. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILDREN. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILDREN NAMED IN THE PETITION. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 6th day of January, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: Samar Sultan, Esquire Florida Bar No.: 0289847 samar. sultan@myflfamilies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal)

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Legal, Public Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, JUVENILE DIVISION: 03/ TYNAN CASE NO.: DP20-459 IN THE INTEREST OF: G.F.A DOB: 09/29/2020, minor child. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA. To: LATISHA THOMAS, Address Unknown. WHEREAS a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this Court regarding the above-referenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before Judge G. TYNAN, at 9:00 a.m., on March 4th, 2022, 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 VIA MICROSOFT TEAMS. THE LINK WILL BE PROVIDED. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD (THESE CHILDREN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD (OR CHILDREN) NAMED IN THE PETITION ON FILE WITH THE CLERK. “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 13th day of January, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: Nancy A. Robak, Attorney for the State of Florida Department of Children and Families 400 West Robinson Street, Ste. N211, Orlando, FL 32801, (407) 921-7169. 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. January 2022 DESCRIPTION, FOUND PROPERTY: 1. Keys40 Blk of W Washington St 2. Clothing200 Blk of N Ivanhoe Blvd E 3. CellphoneE Colonial Dr/ N Thornton Ave 4. Cellphone4700 Blk of N Pine Hills Rd 5. TagMercy Dr. W Colonial Dr 6. briefcase with electronics1800

Blk of Meeting Pl 7. Keys1200 Blk of W South St 8. TagE Livingston St/ N Rosalind Ave 9. Key5500 Blk of Fun Spot Way 10. Wallet100 Blk of E Central Blvd 11. Cellphone2000 Blk of Aaron Ave 12. Tag3700 Blk of S Kirkman Rd 13. TagE Rollins ST/ N Mills Ave 14. TagN Orange Ave/ Highland Ave 15. Electronics4000 Blk of S Semoran Blvd 16. Cellphone40 Blk of W Washington St 17. BikeN Mills Ave/ E Colonial Dr 18. Bike400 Blk of Ruth Ln 19. Bike2800 Blk of Delaney Ave 20. Bike100 Blk of Lake Ave 21. Currency3100 Blk of S Orange Ave 22. CurrencyW Livingston St/ N Westmoreland Dr 23. Currency30 Blk of W Washington St FOR INFO CALL (407) 246-2445, MONDAY – THRU THURSDAY, 9:00 AM TILL 3:00PM Notice Is Hereby Given that THE BOON INSURANCE AGENCY, INC, 234 Spring Lake Dr., Itasca, IL 60143, desiring to engage in business under the fictitious name of EM INSURANCE SERVICES, with its principal place of business in the State of Florida in the County of Seminole, has filed an Application for Registration of Fictitious Name with the Florida Department of State. Notice of Public Auction for monies due on storage units located at U-Haul company facilities. Storage locations are listed below. All goods are household contents or miscellaneous and recovered goods. All auctions are hold to satisfy owner’s lien for rent and fees in accordance with Florida Statutes, Self-Storage Act, Sections 83.806 and 83.807. The auction will start at 8:00 a.m. on February 3, 2022 and will continue until all locations are doneU-Haul Moving and Storage at Maitland Blvd, 7815 North Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32810; E15 CHARLES MEADOR $760.00, R051 JEAN Louis $922.20, C56 rita senquis $967.50, B35 Dawn Hebbert $450.80, B33 TANEKIA BUTLER $398.75, B28 Justice Bryson $503.75, U79 Paul Selvy $313.00, R033 Shaeron Poole $553.25, C60 Julia Watkins $556.75, B43 juan greene $387.20, R025 Samuel Green $373.75 U-Haul Moving and Storage of Apopka, 1221 E Semoran Blvd, Apopka, Fl 32703; 1115 Alexis Williams $1,176.80, 1203 ALBIS GUZMAN MENDOZA $561.95, 1046 Ty Hillman $1,364.25, 1082 NICOLE ALMEIDA $782.00, R020 Ty Hillman 2/3/2022 $784.55, 1078 Tarvega FORREST $609.80, 1020 ESCABAN FELICIANO $623.50, 1108 ESCABAN FELICIANO $1,359.60. U-Haul Moving and Storage of Altamonte Springs, 598 West Highway 436, Altamone

Springs, FL 32714; E104 Blair Culver $907.88, E116 Diego Rangel $1,514.44, A110 WEINFRID LUNDOR $899.68, B121 Sherral Mapps $1,078.00, C145 HENRY DOGGETT $1,325.90. U-Haul Moving and Storage at Semoran Blvd, 2055 State Rd 436, Winter Park, Fl 32792; 2657 Mystery Room $399.28, 1040 AMBER KIDDER $851.85, 2450 Jonathan Mella $431.08, 1088 DAVID ANDERSON $470.30, 2050 TRACI WASHINGTON $750.62, 2600 Cassidy Cole $431.08, 2655 Justin Foster $399.28, 1603 Adelaida De Jesus $931.42, 1224 Mahmoud Rayan $566.96, 1667 KINAYA TATUM $378.22, 2179 Pedro Reyes $692.45. U-Haul Moving and Storage at Longwood, 650 North Ronald Reagan Blvd, Longwood, FL 32750; B077 Christopher Kidd $622.82, E013 Angela Smith $452.50, C031 katrina queen $750.60, E051-52 Caleb Brown $1,135.82, D002 james stone $782.68, E061 Tyrese Stevenson $505.80, A052 Denroy Samuels $532.35 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Lake Mary Blvd, 3851 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, Fl 32773; 1781 GEORGE WEINBEL$825.25, 1483 RUSSELL GOLDBERG $425.85, 5078 GEORGE WEINBEL$1,071.55, 1478-82 Megan Greenlief $1,134.00, 5026 Robert Hebert $635.07, 1589 Kwame Knight $495.02, 5002 LEAIYNA CINE $702.81, 1326 William Santiago $436.50, 0002 carolyn reid $505.80, 1214 miriam caicedo $702.53, 1310 SHARON WHEELER $356.68, 1524 alton sauls $1,050.65, 1607 robert henry $798.60, 1411 robert henry $745.35, 2574 Gary Benson $527.00, 1236 Elavittal Williams $702.53, 1285 Eva Deloach $883.75, 1722 melisa spady $463.10, 0012 laura Vega $825.15, 2247 laura Vega $1,203.22, 1130 riddick bowe $742.81, 1406 robert henry $745.35, 2322 charissa johns $1,256.40, 5070 MARK HARB $857.18, 5008 Jasper Upshaw $857.18, 5088 Deborah Williams $1,173.00, 1061 Michael Keane $1,383.89, 5046 Alexander Bankert $702.81, 1029 pamela izquierdo $702.81, 2011 ISABEL RIVAS $650.15, 2376 juana smith $1,043.52, 1205 kyesha britton $931.45, 1073 Valerie Zambrana $1,474.66, 1752 Jonathan Jackson $526.95, 1081 Jamesha Mathews $857.18, 1124 Lakesha Wright $1,383.89, 1488 Deborah Williams $564.19, 1162 standley swinton $831.55 U-Haul Moving & Storage of Sanford, 3101 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, FL 32773; 1525 sagely shubert $1,257.92, 1057 Bryan Felter $431.90, 1069 Tyree Knox $309.60, 1601 Austin Cowing $309.60, 0208 Heather Tilbury $554.68, 1946 HUBERT DURHAM $480.02, 1014 linda spivey $490.75, 0228 JOHN CONLEY $554.68, 1652-54 Tori Tucker $854.08, 1692 JALAY’ZIA JONES $831.50, 0002 ALYSHA DAVIS $576.00, 2006 Brittney Reynolds $372.40, 1723 Kurt Vinis $663.60, 1954 Martinique Billings $450.60,

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1361 DORIS FLAGLER $407.80, 1301 Tearia Butler $623.85, 1728 Mildred Lockley $309.60, 0023 CAROLYNN MORGAN $703.75, 1725 Amanda morris $858.04, 1822 jannie holliday $683.60 U-Haul Moving and Storage of Sanford on Rinehart Road, 1811 Rinehart Road, Sanford, Fl 32771; 4072 BRITTANY MITZ $590.66, 4025 Quentin Turner $331.18, 4048 NORMA MAZZALI VARGAS $1,160.10, 4178 Tiama Small $544.27, 2032 Mystery Room $542.96, 1029 STANLEY MCKINNEY $734.66, 4069 Mystery Room $542.96, 2084 stephen johnson $618.50, 1097 Patrick weiland $628.21, 3082 Brandie Wagner $474.11, 2046 luccas sanchez $721.21, 2097 Marline Algarin $750.41, 2057 NORMA MAZZALI VARGAS $721.21, 4139 shiquita alexander $1,197.71, 1044 Collen Garey $670.87. 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 Baldwin Park: 4001 E Colonial Dr, Orlando, FL 32803 02/8/2022C197 Toja Burton, C106 Mystery Unit, C104 Paul McMillan, B196 Omar Cisse, D152 DavinaFielder, F105 Amanda Philipsen, C194 Kirsten Zanoni, D104 Trevor Bertran, C117 Brett Kolmetz, D126 Deborah Roberts, D248 Mystery Unit, C159 Jodi Pfiester, B152Antoinette Johnson, C149 Carlos Borrero, C215 Emma Simpkins, C172 Donald Gibson, C146 Mystery Unit, D142 Sherie Baker, D240 Verrisha Graham, C173 Donald Gibson,B113 Laura Roark, C141 Brackston Helms. U-Haul Ctr Orange Ave: 3500 S OrangeAve, Orlando, FL 32806 02/08/20221633 Matthew James, 1811 ShaquriaDaniels, 1114 Roderick Williams, 1037 Erik Aquino, 2303 Elizabeth Orozco, 1906 Christopher Anderson, 1042 Marie Alvarez, 1435 Veronica Henley, 1831 AndresBautista, 1138 Priscilla Fernandez, 1505 Byran York, 1403 Michael Brown, 2208 rancois, 1125 Charlomonte RubyF Johnson, 1529 Dyanda Lubin, 1065 Thomas Davidson, 1419 Allison Hicks, 1168 Mystery Unit, 1833 Enrique Singaglia de la cru, 1913 RubyF rancois, 1604 Vontressia Howard, 1826 Dena Khoury, 1017 Pamela Medina, 1150Anthony Ramey, 1270 Christina Batista, 1838 Crystal Grace, 1526 Angel Davis. 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 February 11th, 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. A308- Brian Bracero B173Jose Rodriguez NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below on February 11, 2022 at the locations indicated: Store 1333: 13125 S John Young Pkwy,Orlando,FL 32837,407.516.7005 @ 10:00am. Heydee Lacen-Beds dressers t, April Knight-home items, Bryson Leverette-home items. Store 1631: 5753 Hoffner Ave. Orlando FL 32822, 407.212.5890 @10:15 am Cynthia Colon, long dresser, bed, chest, night stand, vanity; Darnell Lloyd Dean, Household items; Nancy Vasquez, boxes of clothes; Jennifer Contreras Alvarez, Furniture and boxes. Store 7057: 13597 S. Orange Ave Orlando FL 32824, 407.910.2087 @ 10:30 Am Nicholas Albright – Furniture and house items. Damone Jones –Households goods, Furniture. Store 7107: 6174 S Goldenrod Rd, Orlando, FL 32822 (407) 955-4137 @10:45 Am. Angelo Ortiz; Bins, boxes. Contona Thomas; furniture. Store 7143: 6035 Sand Lake Vista Dr, Orlando FL 32819, 407.337.6665 @ 11:00 am Arturo Duran Furniture, boxes, John Jean Jacquees Furniture, Emma Smith Boxes and household items, Howard Grunwald Clothes coffee maker and a few other items, Vernon Williams bed dresser tv small couch, Yeshin Maungyoo 1 bedroom apt, Faustino Torres Marcano furniture boxes books, Courtney Turner two mattresses, ottoman, Mariel Garces Appliances, boxes, olivia dancey Furniture and boxes, Mike Sammon 10x20 knew size needed unit today. Store 7306: 408 N Primrose Dr. Orlando FL 32803, 321.285.5021 @ 12:15 pm Grace Dinkins bed, couch, chair, mattress, bags, boxes, mirror Store 7590: 7360 Sand Lake Rd, Orlando FL 32819, 407.634.4449 @ 11:45 am Sharaketa McCray Bedroom set, washer, dryer, TVs, Boxes, Edward Meyer Furniture, home goods, Katrice Houston Futon, Box spring, queen mattress, totes, Michael Bohorquez Furniture Winona Richardson Personal items, bags, totes, Miesha Hardy Clothes. Store 8136: 3501 S. Orange Blossom Trail Orlando FL 32839, 407.488.9093 @ 12:00pm. Latonya Cummings

- five-bedroom sets, Latonya Cummings - house hold furniture. Carlos Rubio - Bar set and Clothes. Store 8460: 4390 Pleasant Hill Rd Kissimmee FL 34746 (407) 4298867 @ 12:15 PM: Nelson Navas 1 queen bed set, 1 king bed set, couch, love seat, boxes and other household goods, Ruth Medina electronics & furniture, Kamal Perry Boxes, TV stand & sofa, Adelaida Faramawi Boxes & miscelaneous, Luis Armando Rodriguez Mori Housegoods, Salliann Walter Household items. Store 8612: 1150 Brand Ln Kissimmee, FL 34744 (407) 414-5303 @12:30 pm. Carlos Magno Malavet Business items, Robert Stearns Household holds, Matthew Soto Boxes, Allison Bryan Household items, Elizabeth Nash household items, Edward McCord Boxes, household goods. Store 8753: 540 Cypress Pkwy Poinciana FL 34759 (863) 2400879 @ 12:45PM Doralyn Roldan household items, Stephanie Torres Household items, David Lopez household items, Boxes Store 8778: 3820 S Orange Ave Orlando FL 32806, 321.270.3440 @ 1:00 PM. Isache Gardner Boxes, and furniture,Irene Garcia house hold items,Anthony Williams Clothing, Household Items,Melleah Hook House hold goods,Nina Gadson clothing, furniture,Irene Garcia 3pcsectional king split set 2dresser w/d sm entertainment table,Eric Hood bins and boxes of clothes. Store 8840: 11261 Narcoossee Rd. Orlando, Fl 32832 407-280-7355 @ 1:15PM. Edward Drescher: Household goods Store 8931: 3280 Vineland Rd Kissimmee FL 34746, 407.720.7424 @ 1:30 PM pm: Jonthomas Lore Household, Emily Lorenzo personal items & clothes, Shannon Lamar Jackson household goods, Elson Berton boxes, Nikolai Lundy clothes. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Notice of Public Sale: Pursuant to F.S. 713.78 on February 11, 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; 5UXKR2C55G0R71604 2016/BMW WDCGG5HB8DF985769 2013/Merz JN1CV6EKXEM111928 2014/Infi WA1C4AFY1K2001843 2019/Audi 1FUBGDDVXELFN7324 2014/FRHT JM3KFABM1K1569568 2019/Mazd

JN8AT2MT7KW251100 2019/Niss 3MYDLBYV2KY527097 2019/Toyt. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: ADAM AYED ENTERPRISES LLC gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on 2/11/2022, 09:00 am at 9712 RECYCLE CENTER RD ORLANDO, FL 328248146, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. ADAM AYED ENTERPRISES LLC reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all bids. JTMZFREV9FD048550 2015 TOYT ZAM57XSA8F1129876 2015 MASE 13N14820XN1550257 2022 FONA. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: 1# DAN’S AUTO RECYCLING AND DAN’S AUTO SALES LLC gives Notice that on 02/24/2022, 09:00 am the following vehicle(s) may be sold by public sale at 18730 EAST COLONIAL DR ORLANDO, FL 32820, to satisfy the lien for the amount owed on each vehicle for any recovery, towing, or storage services charges and administrative fees allowed pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. 1# DAN’S AUTO RECYCLING AND DAN’S AUTO SALES LLC reserves the right to accept or reject any and/ or all bids. 1N4BL11E65C301304 2005 NISS 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. FEBRUARY 10, 2022 3FA6P0HD5KR183577 2019 FORD. 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 February 11, 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. #1245 –Tina Serrano #1316 –Edwin Santana #1346 –John Wills

#1425 –Ben Francis #1811 –Jeremy Sharritt #2106 –Jamie Raynor #2539 –Marie Ayala. 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: 2/14/2022 1GNEC13R5VJ374755 1997 CHEV 1NXBR32E63Z086075 2003 TOYT 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: 2/20/2022 3C63RRGL5MG666299 2021 RAM NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Pritchett’s Towing. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 07:00 am 1240 South Ronald Reagan Blvd, Longwood, FL 32750, 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: 2/14/20222 JN1EV7AP2JM351758 2018 Infi 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: 2014 Chrysler VIN# 2C4RC1BG1ER292396 To be sold at auction at 8:00 am. on February 16, 2022 at 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC

concludes Friday the 11th day of February, 2022 at9 :00 AM with payment following in CASH at the facility. Store Space Millenia, 4912 S. John Young Pkwy,Orlando, FL, 32839. Freeman, Andrew Household Items; McBride, Dana Household Goods; Gardner, Latrese Household Goods; Prudom, Clark Household Goods; Sprauve, Michelle Household GoodsPurchases must be paid for at the time of purchase by cash only.All purchased items are sold as is,where is, and must be removed at the time of thes ale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event ofsettlement between owner and obligated party. Dated this: 26th day of January and 2nd day of February, 2022. Pace Center for Girls, Inc. (“Pace”) recently became aware that participant information for some ofits Florida students was improperly accessed during a data incident whichwas discovered the weekof December 13, 2021. The improper access appears to have arisen from an intrusion into certaininfrastructure systems in January 2021. Atthis time, Pace has identified the following types ofs tudent information that were improperly accessed: full name, address/phone number, date of birth,FloridaD epartment of Juvenile Justice identification numbers, enrollment data, behavioral healthinformation and parent/guardian names.Pace recommends that students andtheir parents take immediate steps to protect the students from any potential harm resulting from the data incident, such as actively monitoring accounts,E xplanation of Benefits (EOBs), and credit bureau reports. Pace also recommends students registera fraud alert with the three major credit bureaus: Equifax (800-525-6285), Experian (888-3973742), or TransUnion (800-680-7289). Parents may also wish to visitIdentityTheft.gov, “or browse recoverysteps” and then select “Children’s personal information.”Pace has and continues to take prompt action to investigate the incidenta nd improve its security,including engaging an outside cybersecurity firm, securingnetwork and physical computer access,and assessing data protection and gateway ace greatly values security systems.P the privacy and security of the information ofstudents, and is diligently workingto ensure this data incident is properly addressed.If you have any questions about the data incident or the personal information thatPace maintains about its students, or would like to sign your student upfor credit monitoring services for the next year free of charge, please contact Pace toll free at( 833)264-0157 or by e-mail at Incident Report@pacecenter.org.

NOTICE OF SALE ADVERTISEMENT OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personalproperty described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property under The Florida Self StorageFacility Act. Bidding takes place on lockerfox.com and

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Employment Business Development Analyst to conduct market research in real estate to obtain info. to expand business in new markets for shortterm rentals; competitive pricing & consumer preferences relating to short-term real estate rentals; using real estate CRM, QuickBooks, provide competitive analysis in real estate, collect & analyze data on customer demographics, preferences, needs to identify potential rental markets; locate & secure real estate properties suitable for such operations; set-up real estate properties for various short term rental platforms; attendance at real estate trade shows, information gathered through internet research & other real estate events; real estate association memberships & industry organization. Bachelor’s degree in BA or its US equivalency required. 2 years of work experience required in real estate industry. Written resumes only mailed to FL First Properties, 1516 S. Highland Ave., Clearwater, FL 33756; Attn: Mr. Linehan. F/T Marketing Manager – Arthur J. Stagg III, PAA Marketing Manager with Arthur J.Stagg, III, PA, will test new marketing mediums and measurethe cost per lead and closing of leads across test marketing.They will manage all social media marketing with regular posts and updates.They will propose and manage marketing programs to generate new customers and existing clientawareness of company‘s unique propositions. They will have the ability to network professionally and proficiently atseveral networking opportunitiese ach week. They will research, analyze and monitorfinancial, technological and demographic factors toc apitalize on market opportunities and minimize effects of competitive activity.They will assist with special projects as requested as well as perform all other requested duties.Requirements: BA in Marketingo r Business Administration or foreign equivalent AND 24 months of experience in m arketing, business management or related field.Resumes to: ajstagg@gmail.com orM ail to: Arthur J. Stagg III, PAAttn: Arthur Stagg 1213 Astorwood Ct. Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 Operations Research Analyst (Orlando, FL) Job duties incl: Formulate advanced mathematical or simulation models of problems & analytical methods relating constants & variables, restrictions, alternatives, conflicting objectives, & their numerical parameters, to help organizations investigate complex issues, identify, & solve problems, & make better decisions. Collaborate w/ sr. managers who run in Port St. Lucie & Lakeland FL. Work closely w/ all mgmt decision makers to identify & solve a variety of problems & to clarify mgmt objectives. Collaborate w/ others in the organization to ensure successful implmtn of chosen problem solutions. Prep mgmt reports defining &

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evaluating problems & recommended solutions. Study & analyze info about alternative courses of action to determine which plan will offer the best outcomes. Utilize expertise in restaurant s/ware. Collect & analyze data & dvlp decision support s/ ware service & products. Dvlp & supply optional time, cost & logistics networks for prgm evaluation, review & implmtn. Communicate w/ other franchises via skype, email or fax. Reqmts: 36 months exp min. in the job offered or 3 yrs as Gen. & ops. Mgr in the same industry. Mail resumes: The Olama Corporation, 8153 Lake Serene Dr, Orlando, FL 32836.

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FLVS Flex Health Opportunities through Physical Education (HOPE) Instructor Florida Certified Florida Virtual School 6503367 Twin Peaks Girl (Server/ Bartender/Host) La Cima Restaurants (Twin Peaks) 6503359

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