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YEAR IN REVIEW

15 The eyes have it

Seven snapshots of 2021 from the lenses of our photographers

7 That was the year that was

24 Top Tables

9 Our most read news stories of the year

29 Top Tastes

11 The most important political stories of the year

33 Live Active Cultures

The most important, mostly great things that happened this year The things you paid attention to

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THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS

A grab bag of notable Orlandoans look back in the key of 3: Here are the most important, mostly great things that happened in 2021 Jerry Demings

Mayor, Orange County 1. In 2021 I refocused on my personal health and decided to engage in more exercise. So I bought a Cannondale bicycle and learned to enjoy my 12- to 20-mile bike rides. It allowed me to de-stress and lose a few pounds before the holidays. It was one of the best investments that I made during the year. 2. I had the opportunity to celebrate my father’s 99th birthday and spend quite a bit of time sitting and listening to his life’s stories, albeit I heard a few of them dozens of times. I cherished each of the moments. 3. It was personally and professionally rewarding to be recognized by Onyx Magazine as “Man of the Year” and … as a poor kid from Orlando, it was also pretty cool to have the Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board recognize my leadership during the public health crisis. I am reminded that my mother would always say, “Be humble when others praise you,” and I am.

Buddy Dyer

Mayor, Orlando 1. Getting married. 2. All those who have helped us continue to make headway beating this pandemic — from those who have gotten vaccinated to our small businesses and local arts and community groups who have continued to be creative and innovative. 3. Hosting the State of Downtown this past month and gathering together again with our community.

Anna V. Eskamani

State Representative, District 47 1. The massive number of Floridians who came out in October to stand against abortion bans and fight for reproductive freedom during a national call to action against politicians taking away our rights. 2. The generosity of Central Floridians who have donated their labor and treasure to local nonprofit organizations to support those community members in need, and the growth of local small businesses and arts groups that have not only survived COVID-19 but have become stronger from it all. 3. Despite COVID-19 disinformation and politicians dismissing science, the CDC is reporting that at least 80% of Orange County’s population is vaccinated with one dose and at least 68% of people are fully vaccinated. Vaccines work, and we’re pushing through to help people understand that.

Ha’ani Hogan

Development+Marketing Manager, Downtown Arts District 1. We launched the Art ’N Soul Music Series, in partnership with creative entrepreneur Tyla, founder/owner of ViewHouse Productions.

2. Our favorite In-Between Series event of the year featured LEYA, a musical duo from New York City. It was a sold-out crowd! 3. We executed two new murals in the CityArts Courtyard: “Land of Merchants” by Stemberger and “Life Is Sweet” by Moldazor.

Nadeem Khan

Bingo master, musician 1. The past: That historical artifact recently found on the cobblestone streets of Eola Heights is anything but. The brick with the letters KKK on it is nothing more than a prank played by ME! I installed that thing back in the mid-aughts and the letters KKK actually stand for “KHAN KHAN KHAN!” It was meant to be found, but not in my lifetime. 2. The present: At the mo’, the most hellish place in CenFlo has to be the I-4 and Sand Lake intersection, and barring rapid development of 3D-printed flyovers, it will remain this way until we all go extinct. 3. The future: I understand we’re walking in worn-out flip-flops here, but I predict that “The God Center” in Altamonte Springs will, on Dec. 31, remain unopened as it was on Jan. 1, 2021. However, it is my hope that when it does open it will be with an explosion akin to Sting’s orgasm, if and when that happens.

Ricky Ly

Writer, Tasty Chomps 1. Thanks and gratitude to our frontline health workers, local leadership and the massive national COVID vaccination campaign — all helped prevent countless deaths and got us closer to getting out of this two-year-long COVID hellscape. 2. The retirement of Dave Krepcho, CEO/President of Second Harvest Food Bank, leaves some huge shoes to fill. Dave has led the local food bank through decades of growth and modernization with an excellent team through countless hurricanes, economic recessions, and most recently, the ongoing pandemic. He will be missed dearly! 3. The Metaverse is coming: Microsoft, Facebook and all the tech giants, for better or for worse, are in a race to claim ownership of the next digital frontier — the metaverse. … As the lines of reality, artificial intelligence and simulation continue to approach convergence (indeed it may have already for some), 2021 will be seen as a critical point for the future of humankind.

Desmond Meade

Executive Director, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition 1. Oct. 9, 2021, changed my life forever! It was the day that I found out that my civil rights had been restored. It will

allow me to do things like buy a house, run for office, serve on a jury or take the bar exam to become a lawyer. 2. It was an honor to receive the 2021 MacArthur “Genius Grant” by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This recognition highlights the work FRRC is doing to fight for a better world. 3. The pandemic has taken a toll on our community and impacted organizations throughout the world. Much of the work that we do is face-to-face, so FRRC had to shift the way that we fight to empower returning citizens and create safer communities. The safety of our staff, volunteers, partners and community continues to remain our top priority.

Brendan O’Connor

Man about town, bungalower.com 1. Parliament House finally gave up the ghost and shuffled off its aged, battle-worn, mortal coil on Orange Blossom Trail. … While we’ve been assured that Parliament will be reopening in the heart of the Central Business District, I can’t help but wonder if the LGBTQ+ alphabet soup will feel quite as at home in the middle of the downtown scene as they did on the periphery of OBT. 2. Just up the street from the new P-House, Lake Eola Park will slowly be getting a much deserved facelift as the city of Orlando has launched itself into a Master Plan process for its most-trafficked public space. 3. Our Main Streets worked extra hard this past year to support their local businesses, which had the added side effect of attracting even more attention from outside developers (see Ivanhoe’s “Ivanbrofication”). … Old-school residents in our downtown districts should know that if you thought your neighborhood was busy this year, just you wait to see what the next one holds.

Pete Olen

Concert promoter, Endoxa Booking 1. Soundbar going out of business: This was a huge blow. It sounds like they’re coming back in 2022, but losing a concert venue that supported so many for years (including when it was Backbooth) and causing so many concerts to suddenly shift rooms was jarring. 2. Venues making it through COVID (thus far): While Soundbar suffered at the end, it was great to see local stalwarts Will’s Pub, the Abbey and the Haven make it through the last year. 3. A number of notable local concerts: Despite all these issues, we still had a bunch of great shows. Watching Deicide, Weedeater, Gruesome and others come back midyear was a boost heading into the fall.

Melissa Schumann

Owner, The Falcon Bar 1. Best: 1/8/21, the first day of social media peace. Trump banned from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. 2. Best: Orange County Medical Examiner acquired an Anatomage dissection table. It’s a futuristic touchscreen, virtual dissection table to conduct forensic investigations and autopsies. Orange County is the first in the nation to own one, and as a true crime fan, I think that is pretty cool. 3. Worst: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If abortion is murder, then blowjobs are cannibalism.

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NEWS NEW OUR 10 MOST READ STORIES OF 2021

abor struggles and the scourge of COVID-19 were the two issues that sparked Orlando Weekly news junkies’ interest the most in 2021. While the rest of the nation was fretting about the same, nowhere did these subjects intertwine more knottily than in Orlando, where labor usually means face-to-face customer service and the coronavirus meant workers had to choose, quite literally, between their money and their life. (Our most popular slideshow featured a whole private island for sale in Key West, which could probably be filed under “pandemic anxiety” as well.) Here, then, were our most-read news stories of 2021.

No. 1:

“‘Overworked and underpaid’: Orlando International Airport workers walk out on the cusp of MCO’s busiest travel season,” Nov. 24. Reporter McKenna Schueler spoke to local members of the SEIU about their symbolic one-day walkout, meant to remind airport and airline bigwigs how crucial they are to the bottom line, despite being paid bottom-of-the-barrel wages. The awareness action brought to light the fact that as tipped employees, MCO wheelchair assistants are paid less than $8 per hour — despite the fact that tips from passengers are unreliable and the people who utilize wheelchair services often have disabilities and live on a fixed income. This reliance on tips places the responsibility for workers receiving a living wage on the passengers, rather than the employers.

No. 2:

“Surprising absolutely no one, police are already selectively enforcing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pet anti-protest law,” July 21. Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off the year by signing into law a number of problematic bills, but none so dystopian and despotic as his so-called “anti-riot” law, which is in fact an anti-protest law. HB 1 created new criminal categories and punishments for “violent protests,” “property damage” and “injury,” with laughably broad definitions of all those things. Critics who predicted highly selective enforcement of the law were proven correct in July during a rash of protests that blocked roads in major Florida cities to show solidarity with Cuba. In Orlando, hundreds of protesters blocked part of Semoran Boulevard near Curry Ford Road for about an hour. Only one person was arrested for unlawful assembly, according to the Orlando police. Any guesses how many arrests there would have been at the Black Lives Matter protests of the previous summer, had the law been in effect?

No. 3:

“Buying bud above board: How to get your medical marijuana card in Florida,” April 14. In our annual 420 issue, arts columnist Seth Kubersky broke down the how-to’s for a question many were asking in 2021, a year that surely drove more people than ever into the comforting arms of cannabis.

No. 4:

“The latest revelations about Meadows’ and Trump’s coup-plotting aren’t a scandal — they’re a five-alarm fire,” Dec. 15. Despite having been published for only a week before we compiled this list, Jeffrey Billman’s Informed Dissent column on the significance of the materials Mark Meadows turned over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was one of our 10 most-read stories of the year. Whether it’s despite or because of what some of our most strident Facebook commenters had to say, clearly readers were concerned by part of the White House planning to overthrow the American government.

No. 5:

“John Morgan’s marketing department argued over a nationwide dick joke. Half of them were later fired,” May 27. The marketing team of Orlando-born law firm Morgan & Morgan experienced its own version of a Thanos-style “Snap” this summer in a one-day staff purge. Staff was told it was due to “restructuring,” although the firings followed months of external and internal grumbling over a billboard advertising campaign dubbed “Size Matters.” (The campaign was intended to emphasize the enormous scale of the nationwide firm.) The team skews overwhelmingly male, but both male and female staffers questioned the wisdom of basing a campaign on a (rather limp) dick joke. PURELY COINCIDENTALLY, many/most of those who openly pushed back fell victim to the “restructuring.”

No. 6:

“A Florida 12-year-old waited for hours in a COVID-swamped ER. Then his appendix burst,” Oct. 13. Yet another illustration of the disastrous effect of the pandemic on front-line workers, this article told the story of Nathaniel Osborn, who waited more than 12 hours with acute appendicitis as ER nurses struggled with an influx of COVID patients. It was a reminder that while COVID sickened or killed millions of Americans directly in 2021, the indirect effects have also been lethal for who knows how many others.

No. 7:

“Trump tweeted ‘Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!’ and thousands of insurrectionists heeded the call,” Jan. 13. While this was more of a national story than a local one, many Floridians were among the Capitol rioters. Some of them are your friends and neighbors. This is one story that’s most definitely far from over.

No. 8:

“Lake-Sumter State College faculty on edge after the sudden dismissal of a tenured professor and key union member,” July 28.

Another story of unfair termination and labor union wrangling, this article by Alex Galbraith covered the firing of Dr. David Walton, a tenured anthropology professor who had worked at LSSC for six years and was terminated over email in early June. The letter from college president Dr. Stanley Sidor telling him his contract would not be renewed did not specify a reason, but a letter between Sidor and Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Michael Vitale gave some indication: They objected to the number of courses Walton was teaching. LSSC staff we spoke to pointed out that course loads are assigned and approved by deans at LSSC, with little control given to the staff. They ventured a guess at a different reason for Walton’s firing: Walton was a senior member of the faculty union, who are in the midst of bargaining their first contract with the school. It’s had a chilling effect on morale, said union chapter president Dr. Debra Hicks: “If they can dismiss someone with Dr. Walton’s credentials without a reason, then nobody is comfortable about their jobs going forward.”

No. 9:

“Orlando’s restaurants have faced unthinkable setbacks: An epic labor shortage may be the one that reforges the industry,” Sept. 8. After an unbelievably difficult year for restaurants, our dining critic Faiyaz Kara spoke to chefs, managers and kitchen workers around town about the struggle bringing the industry to its knees. The pandemic gave low-wage workers time for a reset that had many asking why they were working so hard for such low compensation, and those who’ve been accustomed to a (albeit barely) profitable balance sheet that depended on low-cost labor are in for an unwanted reset of their own.

No. 10:

“Is Florida COVID data activist Rebekah Jones grifter or hero, villain or role model, liar or whistleblower? Maybe all of the above,” June 16. Reporter Ava Loomar spent months talking to polarizing data scientist Rebekah Jones for this story. Jones captured the national stage when she went public with accusations that Florida’s health department, at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, fired her for refusing to fudge the numbers on its official COVID case dashboard. Not one to be silenced, Jones created her own dashboard to offer the data she felt the state was withholding. She appeared on television to rail against the state’s health leaders, progressive groups showered her with accolades, and she gained over 400,000 supporters on Twitter, who regularly expressed their gratitude. The state reacted by releasing details of Jones’ “unsavory past” in an attempt to milkshake-duck her, then raided her home, carrying guns and a sledgehammer, to seize her computers. As is so often the case with whistleblowers, the human who spoke out against what she saw as wrong is not a perfect angel. But that doesn’t mean the tune she whistled was off-key.

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THE 20 MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL STORIES OF 2021 … AND WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT 2022 BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

he dystopian nightmare of 2020 concluded with a glimmer of hope. Donald Trump had been defeated. COVID vaccines were on the way. The economy was showing signs of life. That fantasy didn’t last a week. If anything, 2021 was a long, grueling extension of 2020. And by the looks of things, our democracy will likely be in even more precarious shape 52 weeks from now. (Sorry to harsh your mellow.) So for my final column of 2021–slash– first column of 2022, I’ve compiled the 20 most important political stories of this godforsaken year, all of whose repercussions will be felt well into the future.

1. Jan. 6

This actually happened: The president lost his re-election bid by more than 7 million votes but declared that the election was rigged. His demonstrably false claims were trumpeted by media propagandists who spun increasingly fantastic yarns about voting machine companies and hackers and something to do with Venezuela. He pressured state officials to “find” votes for him, while his campaign lawyers and administration officials drummed up plans for the vice president to unilaterally overturn the election results. When the vice president refused, the president riled up an angry mob. “If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election,” he told them. When they marched to the Capitol, breached security and rampaged the halls of Congress, the president refused to call them off. Five people died. In Congress, more than half of the president’s party still voted to block Joe Biden’s victory.

2. The second impeachment

No Trump official has been held accountable for the attempted coup, and the only Republicans who’ve paid a political price were those who condemned Trump. GOP leaders who tepidly criticized Trump in the insurrection’s aftermath backpedaled the second they realized the base was on his side. The overwhelming majority of Republicans found a pretense for voting against his impeachment. Only 10 representatives and seven senators went against the party’s leader. They’ve been viciously attacked ever since.

3. The voting rights crackdown

The Big Lie offered Republican legislatures a pretext to “protect” the “integrity” of elections — in other words, to make it harder for people of color and urbanites to vote. More than once this year, the House of Representatives has passed legislation to protect voting rights: The For the People Act would ban gerrymandering, automatically register voters and expand early voting. The John R.

Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would restore key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Both have stalled in the Senate, victims of a procedural anachronism that allows the minority party to effectively veto the majority’s agenda.

4. The filibuster

The absurdity of the filibuster came into sharp relief this year, exacerbating as it did the antidemocratic nature of the U.S. Senate itself. By allowing it to remain in place, Democrats have placed themselves in a straitjacket. The results: no voting rights legislation. No immigration reform. No assault weapons ban. No law to codify abortion rights. A watered-down infrastructure bill. And because of the filibuster, Dems had to stuff most of their priorities into a massive, complicated reconciliation package that is — charitably speaking — now on life support.

5. The American Rescue Plan

Democrats circumvented the filibuster to pass the American Rescue Plan Act, a pandemic relief bill that pumped $1.9 trillion into the economy while teasing the White House’s ambitious domestic agenda, including expanded subsidies for health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act and new child tax credits. Studies say the child tax credits will lift as many as 4 million kids out of poverty, and the expanded Obamacare subsidies ensured that almost everyone could get a quality, low-cost health plan. Both were pitched as “emergency” measures with the wink-wink expectation that they would continue into perpetuity. Maybe not. The child tax credits expire this month, and the health care provisions end next year. Legislation to keep them going has faltered in the Senate.

6. Build Back Better

The hang-up isn’t the filibuster — not directly — but rather Democrats’ Manchinema problem: Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. One or both of them have publicly objected to the Build Back Better package’s overall price tag, raising taxes on the wealthy, letting Medicare negotiate drug prices, addressing climate change and most recently, the bill’s “temporary” extension of child tax credits. (In private, Manchin — who drives a Maserati, is deeply invested in coal and whose daughter made a fortune by gouging allergy sufferers on lifesaving EpiPens — reportedly told colleagues he thought poor people would use child tax credits to buy drugs and workers would abuse paid sick leave.) For months, Democrats accommodated their demands, but Manchin and Sinema kept moving the goalposts. Then, days after presenting the White House with a compromise orlandoweekly.com

he said he’d support, Manchin announced on Fox News that he wouldn’t vote for Build Back Better. The next morning, Goldman Sachs slashed its economic growth forecasts for the first half of 2022.

7. The infrastructure deal

So Build Back Better is dead, at least for now — a crushing blow to progressive ambitions. But Biden did accomplish something in his first year that Trump failed to do in four: pass a bipartisan infrastructure deal. It was a big deal — if not everything the White House wanted. To win enough Republicans to overcome a filibuster, Democrats cut their original proposal in half, which meant excising most of the climate provisions. To get House progressives on board, however, Biden promised to address the climate crisis with Build Back Better. You see how that’s worked out.

8. The heat dome

In late June and early July, an extreme heatwave baked the Pacific Northwest, setting record temperatures in Portland (116° F), Salem (117°), Seattle (108°), Spokane (109°) and Canada (121°). More than 1,000 people died. This wasn’t the only extraordinary weather event this year. There were wildfires in California and an ice storm in Texas. In mid-December, tornadoes ravaged the Midwest, killing at least 88. The heat dome wouldn’t have been possible without climate change, scientists say. While it’s harder to link other specific disasters to carbon pollution, we know that the hotter the planet gets, the more often they’ll occur. Since climate policy is now dictated by a coal millionaire, we should probably prepare for a Mad Max future.

9. The Afghanistan debacle

The collapse of Kabul had many fathers. But in the first draft of history, the blame fell squarely on Joe Biden, whose White House grossly overestimated the Afghan army’s strength. For more than a week in August, scenes of chaos filled TV screens as the U.S. troops scrambled to withdraw troops and rescue allies and desperate Afghans tried to find a way out. An Islamic State suicide bomber killed 13 American soldiers and dozens of civilians outside the Kabul airport. The U.S. retaliated by drone-striking civilians. Republicans who’d backed Donald Trump’s agreement to release thousands of Taliban prisoners and withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan accused Biden of “abandon[ing] the global stage,” suggested he be removed via the 25th Amendment and, in Trump’s case, said he should “resign in disgrace.” Biden’s popularity took a hit. Before Kabul collapsed in mid-August, Biden polled above 50%. He’s been underwater ever since.

10. The Delta variant

The Delta variant was perhaps the main reason Biden failed to regain his political footing. The deadly wave of COVID-19 cases plowed through largely unvaccinated communities this summer, devastating red states — and counties — that rejected vaccines and abandoned or fought basic precautions. Republicans slammed Biden for failing to bring the pandemic to heel as promised — never mind that they were the ones fighting mask and vaccine mandates — and economic growth slowed to a trickle. ●

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The short version of the very complicated inflation story: During the pandemic, consumers began buying a lot of stuff online. Retailers couldn’t find enough delivery drivers, so they paid more generous salaries and passed those costs along to consumers. They also stored more containers before delivery and passed along those costs, too. Meanwhile, increasing sales volume combined with worker shortages to create logjams at ports and transportation hubs, slowing deliveries and forcing retailers to carry excess inventory, which, again, raised prices. So inflation is linked to a global supply chain crisis, which is linked to labor shortages. Labor shortages are likewise a multifaceted issue, but in the United States, there seem to be three primary culprits: a declining birth rate, immigration restrictions and, most importantly, millions of Americans who voluntarily left the workforce or took early retirement during the pandemic. None of this has a quick fix, which means no matter how well the Dow performs or how much GDP grows, inflation will be a thorn in Biden’s side for at least another year.

12. Critical race theory

In the same way “cancel culture” became a universal response for any right-wing goober who faced consequences for saying or doing something gross or racist, “critical race theory” leaped from legal academia into a catch-all term for anything certain white people found discomforting. In several states, Republican politicians raced to ban the teaching of “concepts” associated with critical race theory in classrooms. Parents’ groups tried to prohibit such apparently problematic books as Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story. Wisconsin lawmakers sought to prohibit schools from using the words “colonization,” “multiculturalism” and “patriarchy.” Because grievance never rests, the culture warriors have set their sights on school libraries that dare to carry books on race and gender. After that, there will be something else. Outrage is useful, and there will always be some new threat to rile up the base.

13. Ron DeSantis and authoritarianism as freedom

Few politicians have ginned up and exploited rage with as much aplomb as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an enthusiastic would-be authoritarian who not only refused to impose COVID restrictions during the height of the Delta wave this summer but blocked local governments from doing so, banned private companies from requiring vaccines and threatened to cut off school funding if districts mandated masks. At least 63,000 Floridians have died so DeSantis can boast about his state’s “freedom.” He also barred transgender athletes from school sports, restricted absentee voting, cracked down on public protests, and required universities to collect databases of students’ and faculty members’ political views. Most recently, he proposed creating his own paramilitary force and announced legislation to allow people to sue schools or businesses whose diversity policies create a “hostile” environment — a payday for racists, if you will. DeSantis is, of course, considered a top-tier candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination should he win re-election in November.

14. Alden buys Tribune

Vulture capital firm Alden Global acquired Tribune Publishing in May, bringing its slash-and-burn profiteering to the Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and other journalistic institutions across the country. Whatever bare minimum those papers have scraped by on, it’s going to look like the glory days soon. Gutting newspapers to their core has real-life effects on the communities they serve. The public is less informed and participates less in local government. Wrongs go undiscovered. Corruption flourishes. Democracy suffers.

15. The end of Roe

We knew this was coming the moment Mitch McConnell rushed Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court: During oral arguments in December, in a case that originated in Mississippi, the Court’s far-right majority signaled their intent to eviscerate the right to abortion. The only question is whether the Court will abandon its longstanding fetal viability threshold or junk Roe v. Wade altogether — death by a thousand paper cuts or death by an ax to the skull. Either way, Roe is dead. If there’s any doubt, consider the mental gymnastics the Court’s conservatives went through to allow Texas’ antiabortion law — another affront to Roe — to stand. (Raise your hand if you think they’ll allow California to ban assault weapons using the legal trickery. Yeah, didn’t think so.) And if there’s any doubt that the Court’s conservatives are ideologically driven radicals, they’ll vanish this spring when the abortion ruling comes down. That leaves a question for Democrats: Will they get over their tepidity about “politicizing” the judiciary and realize that it’s already happened, or will they keep getting steamrolled?

16. The homicide spike

George Floyd’s murder last year provoked a long-overdue reckoning, with cities questioning the way their police departments were funded and held accountable. About half of the country’s largest cities reduced their police budgets — often by relatively small amounts, and usually in the context of broader pandemic-related budget cuts. Cities and states also imposed measures to scrutinize law enforcement behavior and moderate use-of-force policies. And then, as suddenly as police reform movement gathered momentum, that momentum collapsed. Some Democrats blamed Defund the Police activists for their unexpectedly poor showing in the 2020 elections. But the more immediate problem was the surge in homicides: a 30% increase in 2020, another 10% increase in 2021. It didn’t matter that the surge happened in cities that increased police funding the same as those that cut it, or that, other than homicides, violent crime rates have continued a decades-long downward trend. Police reform had to wait.

17. The killing of Andrew Brown Jr.

The morning after former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, murdered Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black man, shooting him five times from behind as he drove away. Except the district attorney in Pasquotank County tripped over himself to say orlandoweekly.com

Brown — who was unarmed — was using his car as a weapon and the deputies shot Brown in self-defense, so he wouldn’t prosecute them. He then presented body-cam footage that, well, showed the exact opposite. Brown’s family has filed a $30 million lawsuit, and the FBI is reportedly investigating whether the sheriff’s office violated Brown’s rights by gunning him down from behind. Whatever comes of those things, the fact remains that the justice George Floyd received is the exception, not the rule.

18. Gerrymandering

A key component of the stalled For the People Act was an attempt to ban political gerrymandering, which could be the means by which Republicans seize control of the U.S. House in November even if the expected red wave fails to materialize. Or maybe not, if court fights over Republican-drawn districts in Ohio and North Carolina go the Democrats’ way and New York Dems pull off a hard-core gerrymander of their own. The issue isn’t — or shouldn’t be — which party gerrymandering helps. It’s that thanks to technological advances, lawmakers can now select their voters with mathematical precision, rather than the other way around, and the results of most elections are foregone conclusions before the first ballot is cast. That’s no way to run a healthy democracy.

19. Student loan debt

On Feb. 1, Joe Biden — who promised to forgive at least $10,000 per person in student loan debt — will allow federal student loan payments to resume nearly two years after they paused under Donald Trump. That’s a hell of a message to campaign on. By resuming the payments, the White House hopes to signal that the economy is back on solid ground. For borrowers, who collectively owe $1.6 trillion, that perception isn’t likely to be their No. 1 concern. Biden says he’d sign a bill to forgive student loan debt if Congress passed one, which it won’t. His Department of Education is still reviewing whether he has the authority to forgive debt unilaterally, which might be one way to mitigate the political damage with young voters.

20. The Trump investigations

A House committee is investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection — including White House officials’ role in coordinating and fomenting the attack — and Trump is suing to block the release of potentially damning records. New York is investigating Donald Trump’s business practices, and he’s suing to shut down that probe, too. A Georgia prosecutor is investigating whether Trump’s phone call to the secretary of state demanding that he “find” additional votes crossed a legal line. Trump is also facing lawsuits from Capitol Police officers and lawmakers over the Jan. 6 violence, and a defamation lawsuit stemming from sexual assault allegations. Who knows what any of these will amount to, but they’ll keep Trump in the news. On the one hand, claims of martyrdom will only further endear him to his devotees. On the other, it’s hard to run a presidential campaign while fighting a felony rap. feedback@orlandoweekly.com ●

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Come Out With Pride Parade, Oct. 9 (J.D. Casto) Orlando’s Come Out With Pride roared back this year bigger and better than ever, and we feel this shot captured the celebratory vibe perfectly. “These gentlemen were doing flips and splits and all of these acrobatic moves. I just walked with them for about 50 or 60 yards trying to capture them in mid-air. I got lucky. This was the only frame that was in focus,” remembers Casto. PHOTO BY J.D. CASTO

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2021 year in review Y 2021 year in review Y 2021 year in review Y [ seen ] Bans Off My Body March, Oct. 2 (Matt Keller Lehman) Following Texas’ controversial abortion ban, Orlando came out strong making it clear that lawmakers need to keep their “Bans Off” our bodies. ”One of the many things I love about Orlando are the fervent voices. Step away from the noise of theme park entertainment and you’ll find a whole new city, confidently maxing out their megaphones for both peace and war, when needed,” recalls Lehman.

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The Hives at the House of Blues, Oct. 20 (Jim Leatherman) When Swedish garage-rockers the Hives came to town, we almost forgot all our pandemic woes in a flash of stomping garage rock. “Howlin’ Pelle spent a lot of time in the crowd. This pic was him all the way towards the back of the floor, near the sound booth with the mic cord stretched to the max … up close and personal with the back row of people. An odd sight in these COVID times,” reflects Leatherman.

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Donzii at Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, Sept. 9 (Matthew Moyer) Miami post-punk firebrands Donzii held a packed Uncle Lou’s rapt with their Siouxsie-esque fury back in September. “My non-technique is based on using cheap disposable cameras, taking a deep breath and hoping for the best. Donzii are one of the best live bands in Florida and I was obsessed with capturing their eerie aesthetic that night,” remembers Moyer.

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Big Jef Special at Henry’s Depot, Oct. 30 (Jim Leatherman) Though lacking the celeb bombast of Shaq, we adore this picture featuring three notorious OG Orlando musicians — Nadeem Khan, Jef Shumard and Jeff Nolan — going hard. “Humid Florida day on a hot black asphalt parking lot, looking through the viewfinder during the final seconds of one of their songs, Big Jef makes the big leap,” says Leatherman.

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modern comfort fare. Sure, his fried chicken is a tour de force, but pastrami-spiced corn dogs and jerk-spiced chicken hearts served on skewers with grilled pineapple are both approachably modern and feel-good finger food. The cocktail program, led by Shawn Newman (Bitters & Brass, The Guesthouse, Robinson Cocktail Room) is top-notch. That this Parramore restaurant is named for Dr. William “Monroe” Wells, the man who opened the historic Wells’ Built Hotel in the neighborhood back in 1926 for African American travelers, only adds poignancy to The Monroe’s selection as the Top Table of 2021.

No. 2: Deli Desires

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his not-so-post pandemic year was a wake-up call for an industry in desperate need of an image makeover. Cooks and servers didn’t return to restaurants after shutdowns the way restaurateurs had hoped, leading to a shift in compensation structures, working conditions and, perhaps most importantly, culture to lure workers back. Supply chain shortages continued to plague the industry, yet amid all the upheaval and uncertainty, gains were made. Food halls and social houses established themselves in every corner of the city, and small chef’s tasting concepts wowed gastronomes. Two beloved institutions — Hunger Street Tacos and Black Rooster Taqueria — opened second locations, and both Shin Jung and Wa Sushi managed to resurrect themselves. On the fast-food front, White Castle, Portillo’s and Chicken Guy were the more notable openings, while over at Disney, Space 220 took diners on an out-of-this-world culinary journey. It’s hard to say what 2022 will bring

(apart from Edoboy, the Mongolorian, Susuru Juju, Kaya, the Foreigner, Norman’s, Jollibee, Knife Burger and Pigzza by Pig Floyd) so, for now, let’s celebrate another year of good eats gone by. Here, then, are the very best restaurants that opened in 2021.

No. 1: The Monroe

448 N. Terry Ave., themonroeorlando.com opened May Jason and Sue Chin, the power couple behind some of the most well-received eating houses in the city, opened their most accessible and, arguably, most fetching restaurant this year in the heart of Creative Village. The Monroe isn’t just a stunning sanctuary of midcentury modernity, it’s also the ideal platform for beloved chef Josh Oakley (Smiling Bison) to showcase his equally accessible and fetching

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715 N. Fern Creek Ave., delidesires.com opened February The buzzy Colonialtown deli by husband-and-wife tandem Hannah Jaffe and Nathan Sloan gave this city something it didn’t know it needed — bialys. They serve these non-boiled, malt-free cousins of the bagel in caramelized onion or smoked jalapeño and muenster varieties, with fillings ranging from gravlax to labneh to scrapple, the latter playing up the deli’s “unkosher” status. I developed a bit of an addiction to their “Big Mac” — a corned beef sandwich layered with lettuce, American cheese, pickles, onions and special sauce on a Martin’s sesame bun. Pair it with one of their house-made sodas and it’s easy to see why Deli Desires draws long lines.

No. 3: Bombay Street Kitchen

6215 S. Orange Blossom Trail, bombaykitchenorlando.com opened March Leave it to Amit Kumar, the boss man behind Aashirwad on Kirkman Road and Tamarind in Winter Park, to bring the bounty of Indian street food to the city. And, hey, why not? Millions on the Indian subcontinent rely on street eats for daily sustenance, and the mind-blasting array of options at BSK is downright dazzling. Of note: pani puri served on a miniature street cart; patthar ke gosht (marinated lamb grilled over a hot stone); and crunchy, tangy, spicy kale chaat. Larger plates, like tandoori pompano stuffed with basil, mint and lemon, will leave you ravaging the local catch with your fingers. Masala mules and Bombay old-fashioneds are crafted behind the slick bar, while shaved ice offered in a host of flavors makes an ideal Florida dessert.

No. 4: Four Flamingos, A Richard Blais Florida Kitchen

1 Grand Cypress Blvd., fourflamingosorlando.com opened December The winner of the No Loss for Words Award for Restaurant Names was a latecomer to our dining scene,

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but made an impact for its deft and playful creations envisioned by Top Chef: All-Stars champeen Richard Blais (in case the name of the restaurant didn’t make that clear). Blais follows in the footsteps of Norman Van Aken, Allen Susser and other Mango Gang alumni in presenting a very Floribbean menu that isn’t afraid to get playful — tuna tostones with a “yolk” fashioned from passion fruit; ice cold oysters with hibiscus-datil pepper “pearls”; and, hold up, foie and oxtail empanadas. The design piggybacks on the Hemingways reno of 2019, so the light, airy, window-filled interior remains (though a live lobster tank adds a bit of eye candy). There’s no real dress code, though if you wear pink, you’ll fit right in.

No. 5: Soseki

955 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park, sosekifl.com opened March It’s been a busy year for Michael Collantes. Since opening his Filipino-American eatery Taglish in 2019, Collantes formed his own restaurant group (Taglish Collective); helped open Perla’s Pizza in Ivanhoe Village (before dissolving his partnership with co-founder Christian Ziegler); and expanded Taglish to the UCF corridor (it opens at the end of January). But Soseki, his 10-seat omakase concept in Winter Park, is where he and chef cohorts Tadateru Tokudaiji and Kevin Abanilla geek out with their instruments and exquisite ingredients to showcase their skills as gifted culinarians. The menu is seasonal, the dishes are creative, and the pairings courtesy of beverage director Benjamin Coutts only serve to enhance the whole experience. Coming in 2022: an expansion of the space (think sake lounge with elegant bar bites).

Honorable Mention: Camille

3201 Corrine Drive, exploretock.com/camille opened October Domu Lab’s rotating chef incubator program at the Neighbors inside East End Market is here to stay, but its first chef’s tasting concept, Camille, isn’t. This time next year, chef Tung Phan’s seven-course, seasonal menu of modern French-Vietnamese cuisine will be gone (possibly to a brick and mortar), so don’t waste any time — give Camille a try. I promise it’ll be one of the finest dining experiences you’ll have in this city. His duck and tapioca congee is almost worth the $120 price tag. Almost.

Other notable 2020 openings:

The Pinery, Hampton Social, Hall on the Yard, Milkhouse, Jalapeño’s Mexican Eats, Gatlin Hall, Shin Jung, Maguro Sushi, Shanghai Lane, Ten Ten Seafood Grill, Tajine Express, Ziggie’s Pizza ( formerly Perla’s), Wa Sushi, Soupa Saiyan 3, Hunger Street Tacos at Plant St. Market, Black Rooster Taqueria in Curry Ford, Pop’s Pizzeria, Space 220, Golden Hour, Modest Wine, White Castle, Portillo’s, Chicken Guy.

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Citrus-glazed croissant doughnut: Edward’s Gourmet Confections

This is pastry perfection, courtesy of gifted baker Edward Hawk Neal-Paci. He crafts them of croissant dough made with rich European butter, in 81 separate layers, and adds five kinds of fresh citrus juices: orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit and tangerine. This may be the finest dessert I’ve ever eaten, and it deserves to take its rightful place as the official dish of Orlando. (edwardsgourmet.com)

Dosa: Bombay Street Kitchen

TOP TASTES 2021 The 12 best things we ate this year BY LOUIS ROSEN

don’t know about you, but I had to rely on a lot of comfort food to get through 2021. As a result, I couldn’t narrow my favorite Orlando dishes of the year down to a top five, or even a top 10. So here’s a list of my Top 12 Tastes of 2021 — one for each month of the year, if you will. I hope you try these for yourself, support our local restaurants, and love them all as much as I did!

Not So Native fry bread taco: Uncle Dendog’s

While this list is in no specific order, this was absolutely my No. 1 favorite thing I ate all year, so props to chef Denni Cha for drawing from his Native American heritage to create it. The fry bread base is light and fluffy, with a delicately crispy, golden-brown shell, almost like a savory doughnut. It’s topped with braised beef, beer cheese, cilantro-garlic aioli, salsa, corn, black beans and potato sticks, for an astonishing amalgam of fantastic flavors and tantalizing textures. (instagram.com/ uncle.dendogs)

Cheesesteak: Cavo’s Bar & Kitchen

As much as I love sandwiches, I’ve never eaten a Philly cheesesteak that blew me away, even in Philly … until now. Cavo’s is a friendly, welcoming casual restaurant in Thornton Park where I would be comfortable spending hours, especially with this cheesesteak. The freshly baked soft roll, adorned with sesame seeds, holds up to the heavy load inside — tasty thin-sliced ribeye (the king of steaks as far as

I’m concerned), melty white American cheese, and plenty of sautéed onions, although if you ask me, you can never put enough sautéed onions on anything. It lived up to the hype and made me realize I do like cheesesteaks; I just hadn’t found a worthy one until Cavo’s. (cavosbar.com)

Spaghetti alla chitarra: The Osprey

This was the best pasta dish I ate in 2021, from one of my favorite restaurants in Orlando. I usually go to Jason and Sue Chin’s seafoodcentric spot in Baldwin Park to indulge in oysters, but these squared-off strands topped with shelled clams from Cedar Key, blistered tomatoes, herbs and salty, fishy, cured bottarga for a real umami bomb, is worth adding onto whatever you went there planning to order. The flavors packed an intense punch, and the house-made pasta had an ideal chewy texture. (theospreyorlando.com)

Charbroiled oysters: High Tide Harry’s

South Orlando seafood mainstay High Tide Harry’s happy hour might be the best deal in Orlando, with raw or steamed oysters and clams for 99 cents each, or charbroiled oysters for $1.50 each, plus $6 apps. My server recommended these, and I’m so glad I listened. Glistening with butter, topped with garlic, herbs and breadcrumbs, and served with a wedge of garlic bread, these decadent delicacies were warm, soft and slightly crunchy. Plus, High Tide Harry’s is just a

If you’ve never had a dosa before, it’s a gigantic Indian rice crepe that is large enough to turn heads, unbelievably thin and crispy, and usually stuffed with some combination of potatoes, vegetables or curry, with chutneys for dipping. The street special dosa at Bombay Street Kitchen, my new favorite Indian restaurant, comes filled with vegetables and served with a lentil-based curry called sambar, along with coconut chutney. I also recommend the stupendous masala dosa, stuffed with yellow curry-spiced potatoes and curry leaves, if you want more than one dose of dosa. They are filling and satisfying, whether you’re a vegetarian or not. (bombaykitchenorlando.com)

Italian hoagie: Pizza Bruno

When Pizza Bruno announced hoagies as a new lunch special in October, I dropped whatever I was doing at work and raced over there. Italian subs are my weakness, and this one has everything: soppresata, pepperoni, prosciutto, caciocavallo cheese, Calabrian chiles, mixed greens, heirloom tomatoes, red onions and Italian vinaigrette on a crusty Italian semolina baguette from Olde Hearth Bakery. (pizzabrunofl.com)

Meng’s Kitchen braised pork hunglay curry

Chef Asawin “AJ Knight” Jockkeaw’s restaurant-within-a-restaurant (inside U-Roll Sushi on East Colonial Drive) specializes in the delicious Hainanese chicken and rice, but I immediately fell in love with this dish of marinated pork belly and shoulder with toasted garam masala, braised with hunglay curry paste, shallots, pickled garlic, fresh mango and ginger and tamarind paste. Every piece of pork was tender enough to cut with a plastic fork and melted in my mouth. It comes with steamed jasmine rice, but the spiced yellow rice served with some other dishes is even better. Chef AJ offers Thai, Chinese and Indian dishes; no matter what you try, you will be astonished. (mengskitchensorlando.com) orlandoweekly.com

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Sicilian pizza: Stasio’s Italian Deli and Market

First I listed an Italian sub from a pizzeria, and now pizza from an Italian deli. But Sicilian pizza has been my favorite kind of pizza since I was a kid, and so few pizzerias even bother making it. Stasio’s serves gigantic rectangular slices of Sicilian pizza cut into four smaller squares, but only on weekday afternoons, and they sell out quickly. It is the perfect balance of soft and pillowy with a nice crunchy crust, covered with robust red sauce and highquality melted mozzarella. (instagram.com/ stasiositaliandeli)

Roast duck and dried grape fried rice: Yummy House

My wife and I both fell in love with this fried rice dish this year, which includes eggs, green onions and fresh cilantro, in addition to tender and juicy minced boneless roast duck. But dried grapes? Those are raisins — specifically sultanas, or golden raisins, and they add a chewy texture and a pleasant sweetness that you’re going to love. There are a lot of jokes about bad cooks ruining dishes with raisins, like sneaking them into potato salad to ruin cookouts for unsuspecting family and friends, but you’ll never believe how tasty this is until you try it. (yummyhouseflorida.com)

Gyro: Mediterranean Deli

When you walk into the tiny hole in the wall Mediterranean Deli, you are going to be greeted with a smile and “My friend!” by Walid, who will then make you the best gyro in the city. You’ll watch him slice a handful of fresh, seasoned gyro meat (lamb and beef ) off a rotating spit and stuff it into a soft pita after warming it on the grill. Then he’ll fill it to bulging with tzatziki sauce, lettuce, tomato and red onions. Get the combo. You deserve a little treat … or in this case, a huge one. (981 W. Fairbanks Ave.; no website)

Chicken Fire Hot Box

I championed Chef Kwame Boakye’s hot chicken business when he first opened his food truck in 2019, but he has since moved into a brick-and-mortar location on East Colonial Drive, just east of Bumby Avenue, and recently celebrated his second anniversary. (He is also the nicest, friendliest guy.) My regular order there is the Hot Box, with two huge chicken tenders, “secret-seasoned” crinkle-cut fries (probably my favorite fries anywhere in Orlando), Signature Soul Sauce and some necessary side items to cut the intense heat of the chicken: creamy-crunchy buttermilk coleslaw, crisp sliced pickles and the most important slice of white bread ever. This is the only comfort food on my list that causes discomfort, but it’s so worth it! (facebook.com/eatchickenfire)

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Stay Close (left) premieres Friday, Dec. 31; Four to Dinner (right) debuts Wednesday, Jan. 5 PHOTOS COURTESY NETFLIX

ON (small) SCREENS IN ORLANDO New streaming shows premiering this week that you won’t want to miss by Steve Schneider PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29: Anxious People — The best-selling book by Fredrik Blackman becomes a Swedish comedy/mystery series about eight survivors of a hostage incident, all of whom have differing recollections of the event. That’s right, just like what happened when you and your friends settled in to watch Annie Live! (Netflix) Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer — Season 2 of Joe Berlinger’s locationspecific true-crime docuseries shifts its focus from California all the way to the other side of the country, exploring a spate of killings that exposed the vulnerability of New York’s sex workers in the late 1970s. This, of course, was before Rudy Giuliani took office and came up with the novel solution of just having them all shot preemptively. (Netflix) Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett — The Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian positioned good old Boba as heir apparent to Jabba the Hutt’s criminal empire. (Kind of the way Gov. DeSantis sees himself, only in space.) This spinoff series will both explore that possibility and delve into the title character’s past — which should give canon junkies plenty of opportunities to look for continuity errors, which if we’re being honest is all they live for. Me, I’m too busy trying to figure out what the name of Boba’s sidekick, Fennec Shand, is an anagram for. Because you know it’s gotta be something. (Disney+)

PREMIERES THURSDAY, DEC. 30: Kitz — The location: a ski slope where the affluent party kids of Europe come to live it up. The protagonist: a humble townie searching for her sister’s killer. The language: German. Hmmm, something tells me The Sex Lives of College Girls won’t be getting any

competition in the laughs-per-minute department. (Netflix)

PREMIERES FRIDAY, DEC. 31: ’80s Top 10 — Rob Lowe hosts a sixepisode retrospective that seems to be targeted at people who fondly recall the Top Gun Decade yet are somehow too young to remember VH1’s I Love the ’80s. In other words, Schrödinger’s Stray Cats. (Disney+) Cobra Kai — Speaking of ’80s nostalgia, Season 4 of the Karate Kid spinoff series shows what happens when the cooperative efforts of Daniel and Johnny inspire the return of old nemesis Terry Silver. There are also big changes afoot that may alter the nature of the All Valley Under-18 Karate Championships forever. My instinct is to expect the arrival of a trans competitor nobody knows what to do with, but I guess that’s because my roots are in The Bad News Bears instead. (Netflix) The Lost Daughter — For her acclaimed directorial debut, Maggie Gyllenhaal has chosen to adapt Elena Ferrante’s novel about a college professor (Olivia Colman) who channels her personal frustrations into an obsession with a mother-daughter duo she meets on vacation. Careful about idealizing motherhood, Livy! On the outside, it looks like the greatest experience of your life, but from what I’ve heard, on the inside it’s just endless screaming and Peppa Pig. (Netflix) Queer Eye — Season 6 takes the boys to Texas, where they’ll help the locals look their very best while fulfilling what I call the Full Metal Jacket Prophecy. Because as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman told us, there are only two things to be found in the Lone Star State: One is steers, and the other is right there in the title. Don’t

you just love it when a military insult becomes empowerment programming? (Netflix) Seal Team — Patrick Warburton, J.K. Simmons and Kristen Schaal lend their voices to an animated tale of valiant seals who have to protect their underwater turf from a gang of sharks. Scoff if you want, but until Omicron dies down, this is the closest I’m getting to West Side Story. (Netflix) Stay Close — Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A photojournalist, a mother of three and a detective walk into a bar. OK, it isn’t a bar; it’s another adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel. But all three characters are hiding dark secrets, which has to make for a laff riot, right? All right, maybe not. What we do know is that the action has been switched from the Atlantic City, New Jersey of the novel to Manchester, England. Strangely, I’ve never thought of them as sister cities. But now I’m preoccupied with the image of Morrissey getting rubbed out on Boardwalk Empire. (Netflix)

PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5: Four to Dinner — Now here’s one to get your new year off on the proper note of wistful resignation. It’s a romcom that follows four Italians through alternate narratives in which they pair up in every possible combination. Somebody who aced their math SAT would be able to tell you right off the top of their head how many storylines that makes for, but I’m not damn Dr. Strange here, you know? Multiversal calculus aside, expect a mash-up of Sliding Doors and Friends that won’t consume 10 whole years of your life just to find out what it would be like if your favorite characters slapped privates. (Netflix) Rebelde — An entirely new cast of orlandoweekly.com

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fresh-faced Mexican kids enters the halls of the Elite Way boarding school in a reboot of the 2004 telenovela that spawned the popular singing group RBD. Honestly, this was bound to happen after streaming brought back Saved by the Bell, which itself had spawned … um, Franklin & Bash and Elizabeth Berkley’s two Razzies. Reach for the stars, amigos! (Netflix)

PREMIERES THURSDAY, JAN. 6: For the Sake of Vicious — Gotta love that title, which sounds like a cross between a Disney+ weeper about a beloved family pet and that Sex Pistols miniseries Johnny Rotten didn’t want anybody to see. Instead, what we’ve got here is home-invasion torture porn in which a nurse, a maniac and his victim all have to team up to fight off a band of intruders. Forget what I said earlier: This is what I’m watching instead of West Side Story. (Shudder)

PREMIERES FRIDAY, JAN. 7: The Tender Bar — George Clooney’s eighth directorial outing is an adaptation of J.R. Moehringer’s memoir of his search for a father figure on Long Island. Despite receiving top billing, Ben Affleck was only nominated as Best Supporting Actor in the Golden Globes. Gosh, what a lousy thing to happen to someone. Being nominated for a Golden Globe, that is. (Amazon Prime)

PREMIERES SATURDAY, JAN. 8: A Discovery of Witches — Matthew and Diana are on the hunt for the Book of Life as the series enters its third and final season, which we’re told will lead to a massive supernatural climax. Yeah, and that’s what you got promised on New Year’s Eve, but did it happen? (Shudder, AMC Plus and Sundance Now)

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BY SETH KUBERSKY

A look back at the past year’s peaks (plus a few valleys) in Orlando’s cultural landscape After the terrifying drop-tower

descent into a dumpster fire that was 2020, I was hopeful that 2021 would see Orlando’s arts and attractions bounce back briskly with the help of COVID vaccines. But as this year comes to a close, it turned out to be an even more disorienting roller coaster in the dark, with brief bursts of optimism undermined by Deltaand Omicron-shaped dips. Although the impact of the coronavirus is certain to continue into 2022, the good news this holiday season is that Orlando International Airport’s passenger volume is on track to nearly reach 2019’s pre-pandemic peak, which portends well for the region’s tourist economy, as well as the arts organizations that depend on it. With that hopeful recovery on the horizon, let’s look back at the past year’s peaks (plus a few valleys) in Orlando’s cultural landscape.

ATTRACTIONS

Looking back over the past 12 months at Orlando’s themed attractions, it’s clear that 2021 was the year Universal Orlando captured the hearts and minds (or at least wallets) of many park partisans. While Mickey’s new offerings were late and/or lackluster, Universal launched the year with a food-centric, socially distanced Mardi Gras celebration, then accelerated into spring with a surprisingly smooth and swift debut for Islands of Adventure’s Jurassic World Velocicoaster, which easily landed atop of my list of favorite local thrill rides. Nothing new has been officially announced for 2021 yet, but Revenge of the Mummy is receiving a much-needed refurbishment and Shrek 4-D and Fear Factor Live are finally facing the wrecking ball, with rumors of a new Minions Villain-Con walkthrough and Harry Potter virtual reality experience waiting in the wings. Best of all, after being put on pause last year, progress on the Epic Universe

‘DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE’ | PHOTO COURTESY CREATIVE CITY PROJECT

expansion has resumed, and every leak from Alicia Stella (orlandoparkstop.com) about the upcoming theme park’s attractions — like a Kuka robot arm dark ride featuring Frankenstein and Dracula — only makes me more eager for 2025 to arrive. Behind the scenes, Universal top executives Tom Williams and Bill Davis announced their retirements, and turnover among Universal’s creative departments has resulted in new opportunities throughout the entire industry. This was best observed during Orlando’s reinvigorated Halloween season; as Halloween Horror Nights celebrated its 30th anniversary, Patrick Braillard — who designed many of HHN’s best mazes — moved on to helm haunted events at the Oviedo Mall and SeaWorld, giving Universal its stiffest seasonal competition in decades. Ironically, perhaps my favorite attraction experience of 2021 wasn’t a multimilliondollar permanent addition to any theme park, but a shameless cash-grab pop-up restaurant on International Drive. As a longtime fan of cult film director Kevin Smith, I didn’t think anything could ever top eating an outrageously overpriced burger from his fictional Mooby’s fast-food chain, which temporarily took over Tin Roof at Icon Park back in March. That was, until I got to interview the man himself (who is way more loquacious than his Silent Bob alter ego) ahead of his hilarious May Q&A appearance at the Dr. Phillips Center’s Frontyard Festival.

PERFORMING ARTS

Speaking of the Frontyard, that standardsetting socially distanced outdoor venue — which was being dismantled as I wrote this column — was just one example of local

arts organizations thinking outside their usual box in order to bring live performance back to life during 2021. Orlando Shakes built a stage in their rear courtyard and shifted shows back to the Lake Eola amphitheater where they originally got their start. Creative City Projects dazzled with immersive outdoor experiences (like “Down the Rabbit Hole” at Mead Botanical Garden) that I enjoyed even more than their expanded Immerse street festival, which is rumored to be leaving downtown Orlando next year. Look for CCP’s “Dragons & Fairies” follow-up at Leu Gardens in January. And although not every effort was successful — RIP, The Office murder mystery walking tour — it was encouraging to see so much continued innovation in the face of COVID. Of course, during the second half of 2021 we saw an increasing number of productions returning to indoor stages, with varying degrees of safety precautions as venues attempted to navigate Florida’s restrictions regarding vaccination requirement. With immunization cards or negative test results in hand, and masks over faces and mouths (except while sipping drinks), live audiences returned to the Winter Park Playhouse, Timucua Arts Foundation and I-Drive dinner theaters. We even got to welcome a brand-new theater in the form of Donald Rupe’s Renaissance Theatre Company, which has made a big splash inside Orlando Ballet’s former rehearsal hall with original interactive shows. Orlando’s return to “normality” culminated in November’s resumption of the Broadway touring series at Dr. Phillips. It’s a shame that momentous occasion wasn’t marked with a more entertaining musical orlandoweekly.com

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than Tootsie, but the star-studded lineup — including Audra McDonald and London’s Royal Philharmonic — that is set to inaugurate the Steinmetz acoustic hall in January should more than make up for it. Finally, although 2021 saw several significant shakeups among the leadership of local arts organizations — including the departures of Central Florida Community Arts founder Joshua Vickery and Orlando Ballet artistic director Robert Hill — nothing quite compared to the way Mad Cow Theatre’s backstage drama spilled out into the public once again. Following many years of complaints from employees about abusive practices and absent paychecks, Central Florida Entertainment Advocacy organized artists speaking out against the prominent downtown theater, leading to the denial or restriction of Mad Cow’s requested grant funding. The company responded by attacking their critics on social media and hiring Bethune-Cookman professor Julius John as their new artistic director, but city of Orlando representatives publicly discussed plans to turn Mad Cow’s space over to the Orlando Fringe Festival, which would use it to host underrepresented artists on a year-round basis. Even after an eviction notice was posted in early November demanding that Mad Cow immediately vacate their city-owned venue, the herd refused to depart and continued holding performances through the holidays. Save some of the popcorn you popped to decorate your Christmas tree and stay tuned to this soap opera, because this show is sure to be extended into the New Year whether we like it or not. skubersky@orlandoweekly.com

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BY B AO L E - H U U

TIERNEY TOUGH | PHOTO BY JIM LEATHERMAN

If you’re here with me, that

means we’re the lucky ones still standing. Appreciate that for a good, long moment. And now let’s appreciate some others in the Orlando music scene who not only persevered but shined brightly this year.

THE 2021 UNDIES Best new look: Tierney Tough It’s difficult to imagine that someone of Tough’s wide-ranging experience and creativity in music wouldn’t eventually need to make their own personal artistic statement. And so the longtime Pauses frontwoman finally did this year with solo debut A Farce to Reckon With. It’s a softer, more intimate indie-pop setting that spotlights the full nuance and character of Tough’s famously lovely voice. Familiar diamond, new shine. Best tribute act: The Jonesy Collective When gun violence took the young life of local electronic scene figure Alex Hwang Jones in the summer of 2020, his mother — local artist Mimi Hwang — and friends formed the nonprofit Jonesy Collective to keep his memory alive through art and activism. This year, they officially emerged with two music compilations that raised money for groups like the Zebra Coalition, Arbor Day Foundation and One Tree Planted.

Longtime Pauses frontwoman Tierney Tough’s anticipated solo debut, ‘A Farce to Reckon With,’ spotlights the full nuance and character of Tough’s lovely voice … and nets her an Undie Award Most Orlando music video: Tonstartssbandht’s “What Has Happened” Mexican Summer recording act Tonstartssbandht are one of Orlando’s most notable breakout bands, with a career that’s allowed them to practically live on the road. But the pandemic beached them back home here where they found unprecedented time to bask in their native milieu and singlemindedly craft this year’s Petunia, their most focused album to date. And the video for lead single “What Has Happened” — a dreamy montage of unmistakably local scenes and images — is an enchanting visual manifestation of this album’s essence and vibe. Most TLU appearances: Alien Witch Because of the sheer volume, range and quality they demonstrated this year, Alien

Witch made this column a record number of times. Over the course of 12 releases in 2021 — nearly all of them full LPs — their sound spanned rock, electronic, piano, acoustic and ambient, all while maintaining their bleak no-wave allure. I eventually had to resist writing about them for the sake of some balance, but AW definitely deserves applause for a year of staggering output. Best plagiarist: Alien Witch Oh, I didn’t say I was done writing about Alien Witch. In May, they released an album titled Suicide Lullabies. Thing is, I had just written those exact words the month prior to describe their previous album, In High Command. When I asked AW about the brow-raising coincidence, they copped to ripping me off. Well, that’s a first for me, and I am so OK with it. Best return: Barbarella To us old scenesters — er, original gangsters — the name Independent Bar always sounded simultaneously generic and obvious. But cosmic balance was at long last restored this year when the legendary downtown nightclub suddenly returned to its former iconic name. Best reincarnation: The downtown dance music scene Speaking of returning to the golden days, downtown has conspicuously conjured orlandoweekly.com

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the ghost of dance music past this year. Barbarella dance night Discothèque now celebrates classic house music on the reg, even booking greats like Todd Terry and DJ Three. Meanwhile, blockbuster DJ events at the Vanguard and Ace Cafe have further blurred the space-time continuum and rekindled the hallowed original grounds of illustrious 1990s nightclubs Firestone and the Edge with an A-list cavalcade that’s included names like DJ Icey, Carl Cox, Josh Wink, Frankie Bones, DJ Dan, Kelly Reverb, DJ Voodoo et al. Biggest scene loss: Soundbar When Soundbar opened in 2018, it was a new lease on life for Backbooth’s venerable downtown stage. The new club quickly invested in major upgrades that positioned it to be a contender once again, earning a 2019 Undie for “Best stage makeover.” But the lethal combination of pandemic and landlord problems forced the aspiring venue to close just this month, dealing the scene a big loss. Biggest community loss: Jim O’Rourke Sadly, the Orlando music community lost one of its most veteran figures with the summer passing of Jim O’Rourke, a longtime musician and universally beloved scene presence. Rest in rock, Jim. baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, 2021–TUESDAY, JAN. 4, 2022 Submit your events to listings@orlandoweekly.com

dad and consuming Hot Pockets. Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., drphillipscenter. org, $50-$190. SATURDAY, JAN . 1

Vrbo Citrus Bowl

The Iowa Hawkeyes and Kentucky Wildcats collide. 1 p.m., Camping World Stadium, 1 Citrus Bowl Place, $60-$300.

Cinderella

State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine presents their signature two-act performance of Cinderella. 6:30 p.m., Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., drphillipscenter.org, $45-$65.

Severed+Said

Start the new year right with a night of forward-facing electronic music. Jacksonville solo project headlines, opening local Mother Juno never fail to energize and impress. 9 p.m., Stardust Video & Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road, facebook.com/stardustie, $10. SUNDAY, JAN . 2

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SELECTIONS WEDNESDAY, DEC . 29

Annual Cheez-It Bowl Parade of Bands

“Bandtastic Game Day Preview” of area school marching bands as a tuneful prelude to … that’s right, that afternoon’s Cheez-It Bowl. 11 a.m., Central Park, North Park Avenue and West Morse Boulevard, Winter Park, free.

Cheez-It Bowl

The Clemson Tigers face off against the Iowa State Cyclones. 5:30 p.m., Camping World Stadium, 1 Citrus Bowl Place, $25-$190.

Glenn Jammin

A freestyle jam segues into a

Rage Against the Machines covers set. Featuring Dam_ez, Roland Simmons, Derek Engstrom, Austin Kelly. 9 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., willspub.org, $10.

Scrooged

A somewhat belated “holiday matinee” showing of the prescient Bill Murray classic. 3:30 p.m., Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland, enzian.org, $10.

Sevendust

Nü-metal-adjacent stars headline local radio station WJRR’s “Mistletoe Jam.” 8 p.m., Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd., hardrock.com/live, $27.50$37.50.

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THURSDAY, DEC . 30

Emo New Year’s: New Year, Same Songs

Young Tapes headline a night of all the emo songs you love to brood to. 9 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., willspub.org, $10.

The Purple Madness: Tribute to Prince

Party like it’s (insert year here) with this crack Prince covers brigade. 7 p.m., House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista, houseofblues.com, $15-$70. THURSDAY-FRIDAY, DEC . 30 -31

Jim Gaffigan

Take comfort-food-esque solace in jokes about the foibles of being a

A tribute to the music of the immortal Anita Baker, courtesy of vocalist Simmons. 6 p.m., Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave, Winter Park, bluebambooartcenter.com, $40.

Jenny Parrott, Rachel Decker

Queer balladeer and Americana rule-breaker (praised by Kinky Friedman!) Parrot sweeps through town. 7 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., willspub.org, $10. TUESDAY, JAN . 4

Hi Viz

Stellar, kinetic post-punk trio from Philly with the unwitting Bard of Mills 50. 9 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., willspub.org, free.

NEW YEAR’S EVE 8th Annual New Year’s Eve Gala at the Alfond Inn Live music, chef-served food

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stations, premium open bar, champagne toast, live stream of the Times Square ball drop. 8 p.m., Alfond Inn, 300 E. New England Ave., Winter Park, 407-998-8090, tickets: eventbrite.com, $219.

Annual New Year’s Eve Gala at Bull & Bear

Prix fixe five-course menu, one bottle of champagne per table, live entertainment, photo booth, viewing of the Times Square ball drop, outdoor dancing all night. Reservations required, formal wear suggested. 6 p.m., Waldorf Astoria Orlando, 14200 Bonnet Creek Resort Lane, 407-597-5413, waldorfastoriaorlando.com, $295.

Attic + Treehouse New Year’s Eve 2022

Sounds by Krybtonite & WID, call or text for VIP bottle service. 9 p.m., The Attic, 68 E. Pine St., 407403-1161, tickets: eventbrite.com, $30-$60.

Black Hammock 2022 Gator Ball

Live music by the Black Hammock Band; half off beer, wine and house liquor; drink specials. 8 p.m., Lazy Gator Bar at Black Hammock, 2356 Black Hammock Fish Camp Road, Oviedo, 407-805-1824, theblackhammock.com, $12-$15.

door. 8:30 p.m., 720 N. Mills Ave., tickets: eventbrite.com, $100-$135.

Enzian Theater’s James Bond New Year’s Eve Party

James Bond costume contest, light hors d’oeuvres, bubbly, special NYE cocktails, dancing. 8 p.m., Enzian Theater, 1300 Orlando Ave., Maitland, 407-629-0054, enzian. org, $99-$660.

Hourglass Brewing New Year Pajama Jam

Bottle specials all night, ball drop on the big screen, board games, video games, free popcorn. Wear PJs for 22% off all corked bottles all night. 8 p.m., 480 S. Ronald Reagan Blvd., Longwood, 407-2620056, and 2500 Curry Ford Road, 407-730-5249; facebook.com/ hourglassbrewing, free.

Icebar Orlando 2022 Hollywood New Year’s Eve Bash

Hollywood-themed evening with casino games, DJ, ice sculptures, free digital souvenir photos, raffle giveaways, “celebrity guest” Britney Spears impersonator. 8 p.m., Icebar Orlando, 8967 International Drive, 407-426-7555, icebarorlando.com, $50-$125.

Jewel Orlando Bootleggers’ NYE Ball

Classic Albums Live: The Beatles

Live music all night, reserved seating, 50 Jewel chips, champagne toast at midnight, party favors, free parking. 8 p.m., Jewel Orlando Speakeasy, 6400 Carrier Drive, 321-444-5306, jewelorlando.com, $49-$99.

The Courtesy NYE 2022 Open Bar Party

Le Cirque: New Year’s Eve at Grand Bohemian Orlando

A note-for-note re-creation of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. 9:30 p.m., Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd., 407-3515483, hardrock.com/live, $33-$58.

Full open bar, hors d’oeuvres, DJ, ball drop on TV, bubbly toast at midnight. 8:30 p.m., The Courtesy, 114 N. Orange Ave., tickets: exploretock.com, $100.

Domu Dynasty presents NYE 2022 at Tori Tori

Open bar, light bites, photobooth, DJ, live stream of countdown from Times Square, champagne toast for all at midnight, no ticket sales at

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1940s Paris theme with fivepiece band, surprise performers, open bar, rooftop pool access, dessert reception, add-on four-course chef’s tasting menu available. 7 p.m., Grand Bohemian Hotel Orlando, 325 S. Orange Ave., facebook.com/ grandbohemianhotelorlando, tickets: opentable.com, $175$300.

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Ma Baker’s Blue Year’s Eve

All Tom Waits, all night long, with Someday Honey, Big Jef Special, Niko Is, Cabana Macabre and more. 8 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave, willspub.org, $15-$20.

in town. Signature shots and bucket specials. 7 p.m., Shots Orlando, 69 E. Pine St., tickets: eventbrite.com, strictly 21+ (in other words, don’t bring your older sister’s ID that kinda looks like you).

Mango’s Orlando 2022 New Year’s Eve Bash

New Year’s Eve Gala: A Night in Hollywood

Early dining packages, Mango’s Live show experience, VIP bottle service. 7 p.m., Mango’s Tropical Cafe Orlando, 8126 International Drive, 321-710-4195, mangos.com, $50-$700.

New Year’s Eve 2022 at Howl at the Moon Orlando

Champagne toast at midnight, party favors, VIP includes premium open bar until midnight. 9 p.m., Howl at the Moon Orlando, 8815 International Drive, 407-354-5999, howlatthemoon.com, $20-$65.

New Year’s Eve at the Abbey

Live ’80s music from Rockit Fly all night. 8 p.m., The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive, tickets: eventbrite.com, $25-$500.

New Year’s Eve at Drive Shack Orlando

Reserved bay for up to six people, party favors, unlimited play all night. 9 p.m., Drive Shack, 7285 Corner Drive, 407-553-8820, tickets: eventbrite.com, $199-$299 per bay.

New Year’s Eve at The Edison

Live performances from The Sound Society Radio Show, The Pearls burlesque trio, stilt walkers, aerialist, DJ and more; passed appetizers and buffet; cash bars; champagne toast at midnight. Disney Springs, 1570 E. Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista, theedisonfla.com, 8 p.m. entry/ guaranteed seating $150, 10:30 p.m. entry/standing room $25.

New Year’s Eve 2022 at Novelty

DJ Dane Dollar, open select premium bar, appetizers, champagne toast, limited capacity. 8 p.m., Novelty at 101, 101 S. Eola Drive, tickets: eventbrite.com, $40–$150.

New Year’s Eve at Shots Orlando

Throw down with the craziest crew

German folk-pop-rock from Europa Band, party favors, traditional balloon drop and toast at midnight, open bar for beer/wine/wells. Hungry? 6 p.m. appetizers, 7:30 p.m. dinner (Cornish hen or prime rib), 10 p.m. nosh, midnight breakfast. Formal or cocktail attire required; no jeans. 5:30 p.m., German American Society of Central Florida, 381 Orange Lane, Casselberry, tickets: eventbrite.com, $10-$75.

New Year’s Eve Improv Show & After Party

SAK All-Stars 90-minute improv show, complimentary midnight champagne toast with free refills. 10 p.m., SAK Comedy Lab, 29 S. Orange Ave., 407-648-0001, sakcomedylab.com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $25.

New Year’s Eve Party

Featuring Andy Frasco & The U.N. 7 p.m., Tuffy’s Music Box, 200 Myrtle Ave., Sanford, tuffyscider. com, $40.

NYE All Black Party: Richer Than I Ever Been!

Inspired by the Rick Ross album Richer Than I Ever Been, we celebrating life, success, excellence, opulence. We toasting to the past, present and celebrating the future. 9 p.m., Rosé Restaurant and Lounge, 6400 International Drive, tickets: eventbrite.com, $30-$100.

Old Town New Year’s Eve Celebration

Family-friendly festivity with live music, car show, concert, fireworks finale at midnight. 1 p.m., Old Town, 5770 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, Kissimmee, 407-396 4888, myoldtownusa.com, free .

Orlando New Year’s Eve 2021: The Masquerade

Celebrate with 1,000 of your closest friends at the three-level Cheyenne Saloon: DJ FiveVenoms, DJ Lyvwyr and DJ Dalastmo, 25+ VIP sections, party favors, champagne toast, ball drop brunch after midnight, easy parking, dress for front row

at the Oscars, mask preferred but not mandatory. 9 p.m., Cheyenne Saloon, 128 W. Church St., orlandonye.com, free-$600.

Church St., 888-913-0180, tickets: eventbrite.com, $50-$75.

407-934-2583, houseofblues.com/ orlando, $42.50-$93.

ONGOING

Party Like Gatsby: Spectacle Extraordinaire

Sunset Walk Rocking New Year Street Party

Street party with DJ, live musicians, vocalists, dancers, street performers, complimentary party favors, confetti storm and a midnight fireworks spectacular. 8 p.m., Promenade at Sunset Walk 3251 Margaritaville Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-338-4811, sunsetwalk.com, $25.

THROUGH JAN . 9, 2022

Swirlery Soiree

Eola Wonderland Christmas Tree Show

Electro-swing, glow performers, burlesque dancers, silk acrobats, Gatsby-inspired cocktails, staff and dancers in full Gatsby-themed attire, champagne, ice sculptures, step & repeat with red carpetstyle photography, cigar and hookah station, NYE party favors, celebratory champagne toast. 9 p.m., Eve Orlando, 110 S. Orange Ave., 407-602-7462, eveorlando. com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $40$120.

Punk Rock Blowout

NYE with Free Fall, the Palmerians, Pizza Nightmare, Grab Bag, Gamma Waves, Black Clash, Human Error and Hobo Houston. After the ball drops, Free Fall will perform their tribute anthem to the beloved establishment. Look up “Uncle Lou’s” on Violent Breed Records’ Bandcamp if you wanna sing along. 7 p.m., Uncle Lou’s, 1016 N. Mills Ave., 910-442-1234 $5 from 7-11 p.m., free after 11 p.m.

Resolution NYE at Ember With everything going on the past year and a half, the safest place to be is outside on the biggest patio in the city. Celebrate stress-free with champagne bottle specials, $10 food menu available, hookahs available. 9 p.m., Ember, 42 W. Central Blvd., 407-849-5200, emberorlando.com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $20-$350.

Rock-in 2022! New Year’s Eve Lobby Party

Special desserts, DJ, face painter, Magic Men, balloonist, countdown live from Times Square via satellite, midnight balloon drop with champagne toast. Does not include separately ticketed New Year’s Eve Buffet in The Kitchen ($55-$125). 6 p.m., Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando, 5800 Universal Blvd., 407503-3463, tickets: eventbrite.com, $50-$80.

Sky Lounge’s NYE Gala

Live music, DJ, hors d’oeuvres, formal attire encouraged, photographer, table packages available with champagne, bottle service, Red Bull. 9 p.m., Sky Lounge at Amway Center, 400 W.

Light bites, champagne, and a DJ to ring in the New Year. 8 p.m., Swirlery Wine Bar, 1508 E. Michigan St., 407-270-6300, swirlery.com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $25.

Thornton Park New Year’s Eve Street Party 2022

Party at Graffiti Junktion, The Veranda, Burton’s, Island Time, The Falcon, Cavo’s, The 808; three DJs, open bar, street party covering 2.5 city blocks, VIP private open bar at The Veranda. 8:30 p.m., Thornton Park District, 700 E. Washington St., thorntonparkstreetparty.com, tickets: eventbrite.com, $20-$105.

Tin Roof Orlando Vegas Night NYE

Vegas-style casino games, music on two stages, confetti cannons, balloon drop. 8 p.m., Tin Roof Orlando, Icon Park, 8371 International Drive, 407-270-7926, tinrooforlando.com, $25-$150.

TKS New Year’s Eve Party

Axe-throwing, live DJ, professional dancers, aerial acrobatics, midnight toast. 9 p.m., The Keg Social, 12850 Waterford Lakes Parkway, 407-2863000, thekegsocial.com, $20-$100.

Wall Street Plaza Block Party

Wall Street’s notorious Friday-night street party, only more so. VIP bar in Sideshow. 9 p.m., Wall Street Plaza, 25 Wall St., and Sideshow, 15 N. Orange Ave., 407-849-0471, facebook.com/wallstplaza, price TBA.

WJRR’s Acoustic New Year

With Smith & Myers of Shinedown as the featured performer. 8:30 p.m., House of Blues, Disney Springs, 1490 E. Buena Vista Drive, orlandoweekly.com

Dazzling Nights

Immersive holiday light spectacular is back and bigger than ever. Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave., dazzlingorlando.com, $25. THROUGH JAN . 6 , 2022

Nightly synchronized light and music show while the Lake Eola fountain displays red, green and gold lights. Lake Eola Park, Rosalind Avenue and Washington Street, free.

MUSEUMS + GALLERIES THROUGH DEC . 31

American Modernisms at the Rollins Museum of Art

American art from the museum’s permanent collection. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins.edu/rma, free. THROUGH JAN . 9, 2022

As I Am: Exhibition Showcasing FloridaBased Artists With Disabilities

Group show of Floridian artists working “through” disabilities across genres. Alice and William Jenkins Gallery, Crealdé School of Art, 600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park, crealde.org, free. THROUGH JUNE 2022

Cathedrals of Florida: Masterworks by Clyde Butcher

Butcher’s photos capture the (disappearing) natural beauty of Florida’s wetlands. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., omart.org, $20. THROUGH DEC . 31

Common Ground: Selected Works from the Rollins Book Arts Collection

Treasures from Rollins’ Book Arts Collection, mostly around the themes of social and environmental ●

issues. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins.edu/ rma, free. THROUGH MAY 1, 2022

Connoisseurship & Collecting: Masterworks of European Painting

Old masters on loan from the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., omart.org, $20. THROUGH JAN . 22 , 2022

Eyewitness: 46 Years of Photojournalism by Red Huber

Retrospective of work by longtime Orlando Sentinel photographer Huber. Snap! Downtown, 420 E. Church St., snaporlando.com, free. THROUGH DEC . 31

Gallardo/Budoff: Growth, Breadth, and Terrain

Fantastical renderings and paper cutouts by Frances Gallardo and Nathan Budoff. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins.edu/rma, free. THROUGH JAN . 2 , 2022

Luces y Sombras

More than 100 historical photographs spanning Mexico’s modern history — people, architecture, indigenous artifacts and myriad aspects of the country’s perpetual reinvention. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., omart.org, $20.

THROUGH DEC . 31

Rafael Trelles: The Imagined Word

Fifteen unique portraits, each referencing a work of world literature, from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to Gabriel García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins. edu/rma, free. THROUGH JAN . 23, 2022

Victor Bokas: A Bold & Colorful Journey

Central Florida artist Bokas’ paintings evoke the quirks and beauty of the Sunshine State. Art & History Museums of Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland, artandhistory.org, $6. n

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“OUTWARD BOUND” I’m extremely kinky, with an emphasis on extreme. To give an example, I love longterm and extremely restrictive bondage. (Think full-body casts or getting locked up for an entire weekend.) I’m a 32-year-old straight man who has been married for five years. In the last year we opened up our marriage because my sexual desires were putting too much of a strain on the marriage. My wife is incredible, and we do many wonderful kinky things together, but I needed more. More frequency, more intensity. Since then I’ve seen some other women, but looking around, I came to the realization that gay men have all the fun! I often see these incredibly intense sexual experiences that I so desire in amateur gay porn or on various gay men’s fetish profiles. I think men have a higher propensity to pursue these kinds of things. I’ve been talking to a guy who shares a very similar set of kinks, and it’s been great. He showed me Recon, which has opened a whole new world up to me. I’m struggling right now. It’s like a battle between my identity as a kinkster/fetishist and my identity as straight. I think the former is going to win, but certain things concern me. I don’t know if I’ll feel repulsed to have, say, a dick in my mouth. And I don’t want the poor guy that I play with to have to deal with my own internal psychological drama. I grew up in a very rural area that was extremely homophobic. I was bullied and called a faggot constantly. I’ve just recently been feeling less shame about being kinky and now there’s this whole other level of shame that I am scared to contend with. Am I silly for considering doing stuff with men even though I’m a lot more attracted to women, just in order to fulfill these kinks? Brooding Over Unmet Needs Daily “I felt very much in this person’s shoes at one point in my life,” says bondage porn star James “Heavy” Woelfel. Just like you, BOUND, Heavy was always turned on by extremely heavy bondage scenarios. That was the reason he chose “Heavy Bondage For Life” as his porn name. And just like you, BOUND, Heavy once felt conflicted about getting tied by other men because he didn’t identify as gay or bisexual at the time. “I was really worried that if I played with men that meant my identity had to change too,” says Heavy, looking back at that time in his life. “But seeking out other genders to play with doesn’t necessarily have to change your identity.” Heavy’s identity ultimately did change —

he now identifies as queer — but he wants you to know that your identity doesn’t have to change. “I view bondage the same as getting together with friends for a round of golf, or shooting hoops, watching a movie or game together,” says Heavy. “I’ve had many bondage encounters that involved sex, but I’ve had even more that were simply about the bondage itself.” What Heavy is suggesting here, BOUND, is that you can meet up with another guy for a heavy bondage scene and enjoy the bondage — and even get off on the bondage — without having “sex.” You can consent to being a guy’s bondage sub for an evening or a weekend without having to consent to sucking his dick or letting him fuck your ass. “BOUND just needs to be direct about what he’s looking for when he reaches out to the guys he might like to play with,” says Heavy. “He needs to have the same conversations he had with his wife about limits, comfortability levels and intentions. And if someone’s pushy about certain things that he’s unsure about, then they’re likely not the right person for him.” Bondage tops on Recon with the kind of gear required to put you in truly restrictive bondage will most likely have heard from other straight and/or straight-identified guys who were in it for the bondage, not the sex. If simply getting to tie you up isn’t enough — if a gay bondage top isn’t interested in a bondage-only scene with you — he’ll decline to play with you. “The most important thing is to find good

and genuine people to share these kinds of experiences with,” says Heavy. “Bondage is inherently dangerous, especially when you’re the one being put in bondage, and it requires a lot of trust. BOUND needs to make sure he’s putting his trust in the right people.” So, how do you know if you’re interacting and negotiating with and possibly playing with the right kind of guys? In addition to trusting your gut — always trust your gut — check their references. If you’re meeting bondage tops on Recon, you can send messages directly to the guys listed as friends on their profiles. Someone with a lot of friends (and a lot of original play pics) is a much safer bet than someone with no friends or pics, BOUND, but if you’re tempted to play with someone without friends listed on his profile, ask to be put in touch

ible experiences with men, I’ve met just as many women that wanted to lock me up in the most serious forms of restraint you could ever imagine.” Follow Heavy on Twitter @for_heavy, on Instagram @_heavybondage4life_ and OnlyFans at Heavybondage4life. As we come into the holidays, I am dreading having to spend time with my siblingin-law. They are fake, self-absorbed and delusional. At family dinners, they always serve themselves first. They don’t wait until everyone is served before starting, and they are often finished before everyone else is served. They chew with their mouth open and talk with their mouth full. They talk about themselves constantly. They are rapidly approaching middle age and have never held a full-time or permanent job. As far as anyone knows, they have never been kissed or even on a date. At first, I tried to cut them some slack. They are sheltered and don’t really have any friends. Recently, I have taken to muting them on social media so that I don’t have to see their insipid posts. I have also started skipping events with my partner’s family, but I feel guilty when I do this. Also, I feel like it would be inappropriate to tell my partner how I feel. So, what do I do? Continue to suck it up, or further distance myself and risk hurt feelings for being absent? Or do I come clean with my partner and risk hurting them? I don’t know what I would expect them to do other than offer me absolution for missing events. In-Law Lacking Substance

with other men he’s played with. If he refuses, BOUND, don’t play with him. “The gay men I played with when I was still identifying as straight were generally very respectful,” adds Heavy. “I did have a few experiences where my limits weren’t respected. But thankfully I’m OK and I learned from those experiences.” And Heavy wants you to know that there are women out there who are into intense bondage. “It’s a myth that only men play to the level BOUND is interested in playing at,” says Heavy. “Though I’ve had many incredorlandoweekly.com

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If someone has terrible table manners — if someone chews with their mouth open — don’t you want them to serve themselves first and finish before you sit down to eat? As for the rest of it … it’s hard not to feel sorry for your sibling-in-law, ILLS, but it’s easy for me to feel sorry for them because I don’t have to watch them chew or listen to them talk about themselves. And while avoiding your sibling-in-law this Christmas would be pretty simple (just plead Omicron), I don’t see how you can avoid seeing your partner’s sibling in the future — seeing and tolerating and, perhaps, finding some pity in your heart for them. Ask: questions@savagelove.net Dan on Twitter: @FakeDanSavage Columns, podcasts, books, merch and more: savage.love

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Historians disagree about the legacy of Jimmy Carter, who was President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Was he effective or not? Opinions differ. But there’s no ambiguity about a project he pursued after his presidency. He led a global effort to eliminate a pernicious disease caused by the guinea worm parasite. When Carter began his work, 3.5 million people per year suffered from the parasite’s debilitating effects. Today, there are close to zero victims. Will 2022 bring an equivalent boon to your life, Aries? The banishment of an old bugaboo? A monumental healing? I suspect so. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 2022, I hope you will express more praise than ever before. I hope you’ll be a beacon of support and inspiration for the people you care for. The astrological omens suggest this could be a record-breaking year for the blessings you bestow. Don’t underestimate your power to heal and instigate beneficial transformations. Yes, of course, it’s a kind and generous strategy for you to carry out. But it will also lead to unforeseen rewards that will support and inspire and heal you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you search Google, you’ll be told that the longest biography ever written is the 24-volume set about British political leader Winston Churchill. But my research shows there’s an even more extensive biography: about Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, who lived from 1901 to 1989. His story consists of 61 volumes. In the spirit of these expansive tales, and in accordance with 2022’s astrological aspects, I encourage you to create an abundance of noteworthy events that will deserve inclusion in your biography. Make this the year that warrants the longest and most interesting chapter in that masterpiece. CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of the 20th century’s most famous works of art was Fountain. It was scandalous when it appeared in 1917, since it consisted entirely of a white porcelain urinal. Marcel Duchamp, the artist who presented it, was a critic of the art market and loved mocking conventional thought. Years later, however, evidence has emerged suggesting that Fountain may not have been Duchamp’s idea — that in fact he “borrowed” it from Cancerian artist and poet Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. There’s still disagreement among art scholars about what the facts are. But if definitive proof ever arrives that von Freytag-Loringhoven was the originator, it will be in 2022. This will be the year many Cancerians finally get the credit they deserve. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Carson McCullers wrote the novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Early in the story, the character named Mick Kelly has a crisis of yearn-

ing. McCullers describes it: “The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want — I want — I want — was all that she could think about — but just what this real want was she did not know.” If you have ever had experiences resembling Mick’s, Leo, 2022 will be your year to fix that glitch in your passion. You will receive substantial assistance from life when you work on the intention to clarify and define the specific longings that are most essential to you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): After careful research, I have concluded that one of your important missions in 2022 will be to embody a perspective articulated by poet Rand Howells: “If I could have but one wish granted, it would be to live in a universe like this one at a time like the present with friends like the ones I have now and be myself.” In other words, Virgo, I’m encouraging you to do whatever’s necessary to love your life exactly as it is — without comparing it unfavorably to anyone else’s life or to some imaginary life you don’t actually have.

Your horoscope for the week of Dec. 29 through Jan. 4.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If your quest for spiritual enlightenment doesn’t enhance your ability to witness and heal the suffering of others, then it’s fake enlightenment. If your quest for enlightenment encourages you to imagine that expressing personal freedom exempts you from caring for the wellbeing of your fellow humans, it’s fake. If your quest for enlightenment allows you to ignore racism, bigotry, plutocracy, misogyny and LGBTQIAphobia, it’s fake. Everything I just said about enlightenment is equally true about your quest for personal success. If it doesn’t involve serving others, it’s meaningless. In this spirit, Libra, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to make 2022 the year you take your compassion and empathy to the highest level ever. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Two mating rabbits could theoretically engender 11 million relatives within a year’s time. Although I suspect that in 2022 you will be as metaphorically fertile as those two hypothetical rabbits, I’m hoping you’ll aim more for quality than quantity. To get started, identify two projects you could pursue in the coming months that will elicit your most liberated creativity. Write a vow in which you state your intention to be intensely focused as you express your fecundity. orlandoweekly.com

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A blogger named Soracities writes, “The more I read, the more I feel that a good mark of an intelligent book is simply that the author is having fun with it.” Sagittarian author George Saunders adds that at its best, “Literature is a form of fondness-forlife. It is love for life taking a verbal form.” I will expand these analyses to evaluate everything that humans make and do. In my opinion, the supreme sign of intelligence and value is whether the creators had fun and felt love in doing it. My proposal to you, Sagittarius, is to evaluate your experiences in that spirit. If you are doing things with meager amounts of fun and love, what can you do in 2022 to raise the fun and love quotient? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Microbiologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. It was later described as “the single greatest victory ever achieved over disease” — an antidote to dangerous infections caused by bacteria. But there’s more to the story. Fleming’s strain of penicillin could only be produced in tiny amounts — not nearly enough to become a widespread medicine. It wasn’t until 1943 that a different strain of penicillin was found — one that could be massproduced. The genius who made this possible was Mary Hunt, a humble researcher without a college degree. By 1944, the new drug was saving thousands of lives. I mention Hunt because she’s a good role model for you in 2022. I believe you’ll have chances to improve on the work of others, generating excellent results. You may also improve on work you’ve done in the past. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Catherine Pugh wrote a series of children’s books collectively known as Healthy Holly. Later, when she became mayor of the city of Baltimore, she carried out a scheme to sell 100,000 copies to hospitals and schools that did business with the city. Uh-oh. Corruption! She was forced to resign from her office and was arrested. I’d love for you to be aggressive and imaginative in promoting yourself in 2022, but only if you can find ethical ways to do so. I’d love for you to make money from doing what you do best, but always with high integrity and impeccability. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean Vaslav Nijinsky is regarded by many as the 20th century’s most brilliant dancer. He had a robust relationship with beauty, and I want you to know about it. Hopefully, this will inspire you to enjoy prolonged periods of Beauty Worship in 2022. To do so will be good for your health. Memorize this passage from Nijinsky: “Beauty is God. God is beauty with feeling. Beauty is in feeling. I love beauty because I feel it and therefore understand it. I flaunt my beauty. I feel love for beauty.” freewillastrology.com ●

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Legal, Public Notices FLORIDA DISCOUNT SELF STORAGE Personal property of the following tenants will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy a rental lien in accordance with Florida Statutes, Sections 83.801 - 83.809. Auctions will be held on the premises at locations and times indicated below. Wednesday January 12, 2022, Thursday January 13, 2022. Contents: Misc. & household goods and vehicles. Viewing is at time of sale only. The owners’ or their agents reserve the right to bid on any unit, and to refuse any bid. 2580 Michigan Ave. Kissimmee,FL 34744 (Wed, January 12 @ 11:30am) 1026-Camilla Mccullough, 1529- David Morales 5622 Old Winter Garden Rd. Orlando,FL 32811 (Wed, January 12 @ 1:00pm) 0160-Mohammed Al-Hamed, 0164-Mark Halter, 0345-Denzil Kidd, 0627-Demetrius Hayes, 0722-Mohammed Al-Hamed 6401 Pinecastle Blvd Orlando,FL 32809 (Wed, January 12 @ 2:30pm) 042-Desiree Oneal , 252-Felix Gordian 3625 Aloma Ave. Oviedo,FL 32765 (Thurs, January 13 @ 11:00am) 0666- Ryan Salomon, 1313- James Albright 17420 SR 50 Clermont,FL 34711 (Thurs, January 13 @ 1:00pm) 0139-Jacquelyn Harron, 0145-Mark Demello, 0329-Jacquelyn Harron 2300 Hartwood Marsh Clermont,FL 34711 (Thurs, January 13 @ 2:00pm) 240-Michael Prowell, 412-Natalie Pitts, 1048-Amy Baker. To run in Orlando Weekly on 12/22/21 & 12/29/21. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDAPROBATE DIVISIONIN RE: THE ESTATE OFFLORA ANN DULIN, Deceased. File No.:

2021 CP 3899Division: 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS T he administration of the estate of FLORA ANN DULIN, deceased, is pending inthe Circuit Court for Orange County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is C ircuit Court for Orange County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 425N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative‘s attorney are set forth below.All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demandsagainst decedent‘s estate, on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served, mustfi le their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTERTHE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM.All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demandsagainst decedent‘s estate must file their claims with this courtW ITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH INF LORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED.NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIOD SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIMFILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT‘S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED.The date of first publication of this notice is: 12/29/2021 .Signed 12/22/2021. Attorney for Person Giving Notice: /s/ Gregory P. Fayard, EsquireFlorida Bar No.: 60981130 South Spring Street Pensacola, FL 32502Pensacola, FL 32502Telephone: 850-433-6581 Facsimile: 850-434-7163E-mail: gpf@esclaw.comadk@esclaw.com Attorneys for Personal Representative. Person Giving Notice:Helen Ashcraft Dulin RowePersonal R epresentative3315 NW 29th TerraceGainesville, FL 32605. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. PROBATE DIVISION CASE NO.: 2021-CP-001677-O IN RE: ESTATE OF: ROSEMARY PEREZ, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. The administration of the Estate of ROSEMARY PEREZ, deceased, whose date of death was October 26, 2020, is pending in the Circuit Court for Orange County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 425 N Orange Avenue, Orlando Florida, 32801. The names and addresses of the Personal Representative and the Personal Representative’s Attorney are set forth below. All creditors of Decedent and other persons having claims or demands against Decedent’s Estate on whom a copy of this Notice is required to be served must file their claims with the Court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF

3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the Decedent and other persons having claims or demands against Decedent’s Estate must file their claims with this Court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECEDENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is December 29, 2021. MARY BETH KELLY, ESQUIRE, Fla. Bar No.: 84487, The Law Office of Mary Beth Kelly, LLC 1515 International Parkway, Suite 1013, Lake Mary, Florida 32746 (407) 536-5358 (800) 839-1513 facsimile P: mb@trustmbkelly.com S: tsizemore@trustmbkelly.com S: rpackard@trustmbkelly.com Attorney for Personal Representative. REGINA C. McDOWELL, Personal Representative. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 3/TYNAN WESTGATE SERVICE CENTER CASE NO.: DP20-323. In the Interest of Minor Children: J.A.G DOB: 12/20/2006, C.R.G DOB: 01/28/2009, L.E.G DOB: 06/23/2020. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO: Rommel Gray ADDRESS UNKNOWN YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the following children for adoption: J.A.G. born on 12/20/2006, C.R.G. born on 01/28/2009 and L.E.G. born on 06/23/2020.. You are hereby commanded to appear on February 9, 2022, at 10:45 a.m., before the Honorable Judge Greg A. Tynan, Juvenile Justice Center, ORANGE COUNTY, 2000 East Michigan Street, Courtroom 5, Orlando, FL 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE NAMED IN THIS NOTICE. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801,

telephone (407) 836-2303 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS my hand and seal of this court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 21st day of December 2021. This summons has been issued at the request of: Layali Salem, Esquire, Florida Bar No.: 111746, Children’s Legal Services 882 S. Kirkman Road, Suite 300 Orlando, FL 32811 layali.salem@ myflfamilies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT by: /s/ Deputy Clerk, (Court Seal) IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 3/TYNAN WESTGATE SERVICE CENTER CASE NO.: DP20-323. In the Interest of Minor Children: J.A.G DOB: 12/20/2006, C.R.G DOB: 01/28/2009, L.E.G DOB: 06/23/2020. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO: Traci Beverly ADDRESS UNKNOWN YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the following children for adoption: J.A.G. born on 12/20/2006, C.R.G. born on 01/28/2009 and L.E.G. born on 06/23/2020.. You are hereby commanded to appear on February 9, 2022, at 10:45 a.m., before the Honorable Judge Greg A. Tynan, Juvenile Justice Center, ORANGE COUNTY, 2000 East Michigan Street, Courtroom 5, Orlando, FL 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE NAMED IN THIS NOTICE. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801, telephone (407) 836-2303 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS my hand and seal of this court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 21st day of December 2021. This summons has been issued at the request of: Layali Salem, Esquire, Florida Bar No.: 111746, Children’s Legal Services 882 S. Kirkman Road, Suite 300 Orlando, FL 32811 layali.salem@

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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 DIVISION: 7/HIGBEE WESTGATE SERVICE CENTER CASE NO.: DP20-192. In the Interest of Minor Child: H. R. R.-M. DOB: 04/22/2020. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO: Gibino Perez ADDRESS UNKNOWN YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the following child for adoption: H. R. R.-M. born on 04/22/2020. You are hereby commanded to appear on January 20, 2022, at 9:00 a.m., before the Honorable Judge Heather Higbee, Juvenile Justice Center, ORANGE COUNTY, 2000 East Michigan Street, Courtroom 6, Orlando, FL 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE NAMED IN THIS NOTICE. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801, telephone (407) 836-2303 at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS my hand and seal of this court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 2ND day of December 2021. This summons has been issued at the request of: Cynthia J. Rodriguez, Esquire Florida Bar No. 1026123 Children’s Legal Services 882 S. Kirkman Road, Suite 300 Orlando, FL 32811 Cell 407-3532480, Office 407-563-2307 cynthia. rodriguez4@myflfamilies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT by: /s/ Deputy Clerk, (Court Seal)

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Legal, Public Notices IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/ HIGBEE. CASE NO.: DP20-326. IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: L.M. DOB: 06/28/2020. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING STATE OF FLORIDA. To: ELIZABETH MATTEI, Address Unknown. WHEREAS a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this Court regarding the abovereferenced child, a copy of which is on file with the clerk; you are hereby commanded to appear before Judge Heather Higbee, on January 24, 2022 at 9:15am. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. DUE TO COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS THE HEARING WILL BE CONDUCTED VIA Zoom: 1. You may connect via ZOOM hearing with the following URL and Meeting ID: Zoom Hearing Direct URL: https://zoom.us/my/judgeheatherhigbee FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES A CONSTRUCTIVE CONSENT TO THE TPR PETITON OF THE CHILD(REN) AND COULD RESULT IN THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD(REN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT “Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 6.082(6) (g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.” WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 6th day of December, 2021. This summons has been issued at the request of: Jemma A. Takx, Esquire FB#1028760 Jemma. Takx@myflfamilies.com. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal). LOST OR ABANDONED PROPERTY FOUND OR RECOVERED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA. PROPERTY NOT CLAIMED WILL EITHER BE SURRENDERED TO THE FINDERS OR RETAINED FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT. PICTURE IDENTIFICATION IS REQUIRED. December 2021 DESCRIPTION, FOUND PROPERTY: 1. Cellphone 450 Blk of Buckminster Circle 2. Electronics and Keys 1500 Blk of W Colonial Dr 3. Tag 5200 Blk of Commander Dr 4. Tag 800 Blk of S Kirkman Rd 5. Tag 50 Blk of W Church St 6. Keys 40 Blk of W Washington St 7. Tag 5600 Blk of Curry Ford Rd 8. Keys N Orange Ave/ E Washington St 9. Cellphone 1200 Blk of W South

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Springs, FL 32714; E116 Diego Rangel $1309.52, B121 Sherral Mapps $878.40, C101 Annetta Kittel $1444.44, C145 Henry Doggett $1118.25 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Semoran Blvd, 2055 State Rd 436, Winter Park, Fl 32792; 1040 Amber Kidder $697.48, 2655 Justin Foster $399.28, 1208-10 Casey Power $1640.65, 2518 Amina Stevenson $806.16, 2277 Venus Lipsey $1457.97, 1402 Rebecca Puhr $557.10, 2318 Brigget Rhodes $527.08, 1088 David Anderson $713.85, 2050 Traci Washington $638.85, 1204 Casey Power $1384.32 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Longwood, 650 North Ronald Reagan Blvd, Longwood, FL 32750; B077 Christopher Kidd $532.35, E013 Angela Smith $378.00, A052 Denroy Samuels $441.88, E051-52 Caleb Brown $959.85. U-Haul Moving and Storage at Lake Mary Blvd, 3851 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, Fl 32773; 5088 Deborah Williams $1013.30, 1488 Deborah Williams $495.02, 2247 Laura Vega $1038.20, 2591 Quonelle Jones $619.84, 1655 Betsy Hall $942.32, 0012 Laura Vega $718.70, 5008 Jasper Upshaw $697.48, 1069 Melinda Rodriguez $953.20, 1752 Jonathan Jackson $463.10, 1411 Robert Henry $745.35, 5070 Mark Haub $697.48, 1510 Carolyn Maraugha $802.00, 2011 Isabel Rivas $568.70, 1406 Robert Henry $745.35, 1081 Jamesha Matthews $697.48, 1285 Eva Deloach $745.35, 2574 Gary Benson $452.50, 1162 Standley Swinton $671.85, 1124 Lakesha Wright $1216.24, 1478-82 Megan Greenlief $974.30, 5078 George Weinbel $901.85, 1781 George Weinbel $676.20, 1236 Elavittal Williams $633.36, 1761 Mikeshia Pettus $831.49, 2376 Juana Smith $878.50, 1524 Alton Sauls $880.00, 1722 Melisa Spady $399.25, 1326 William Santiago $367.33, 1464 Theresa Burke $564.19, 1589 Kwame Knight $425.85, 2413 Thomas Holstein $1197.90, 2322 Charissa Johns $1256.40, 1607 Robert Henry $798.60, 1483 Russell Goldberg $356.68, 1205 Kyesha Britton $785.10, 1477 Theresa Burke $495.02. U-Haul Moving & Storage of Sanford, 3101 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, FL 32773; 1301 Tearia Butler $512.08, 0202 Charles Usery $814.52, 0023 Carolynn Morgan $576.00, 0152 Carlos Perez Silva $579.52, 1822 Jannie Holliday $580.50, 1946 Hubert Durham $410.85, 1692 Jala’zia Jones $703.75, 1014 Linda Spivey $405.60, 1525 Sagely Shubert $1061.60, 1725 Amanda Morris $746.27, 1954 Martinique Billings $373.48, 1057 Bryan Felter $370.75, 1723 Hurt Vinis $543.88. U-Haul Moving and Storage of Sanford on Rinehart Road, 1811 Rinehart Road, Sanford, Fl 32771; 4048 Norma Mazzali Vargas $971.15, 4106 Dana Jones $603.34, 4069 Mystery Room $463.14, 3082 Brandie Wagner $383.34, 2032 Mystery Room $463.14, 4053 Dana Jones $858.94, 2046 Luccas

Sanchez $590.84, 4161 Bernice Groomes $757.92, 1097 Patrick Weiland $516.44, 4049 Letisha Bird $1376.00, 4139 Shiquita Alexander $1008.76, 1029 Stanley McKinney $622.89, 4047 Eric Rawlins $1772.55, 3134 Karmetta Chambers $578.82, 2084 Stephen Johnson $733.50, 4072 Brittany Mitz $502.89, 2097 Marline Algarin $636.01, 4077 Mystery Room $697.38, 2057 Norma Mazzali Vargas $590.84. NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION FOR MONIES DUE ON STORAGE LOCKERS LOCATED AT UHAUL COMPANY FACILITIES. STORAGE LOCATIONS AND TIMES ARE LISTED BELOW. ALL GOODS SOLD ARE HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS, MISCELLANEOUS OR RECOVERED GOODS. ALL AUCTIONS ARE HELD TO SATISFY OWNER’S LIEN FOR RENT AND FEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTES, SELF STORAGE ACT, SECTIONS 83.806 AND 83.807, STARTS AT 9:30am and RUNS CONTINUOUSLY. U-Haul Ctr Goldenrod- 508 N. Goldenrod Rd, Orlando Fl 32807 -01/11/2022 : 308 Brittany Newsome, 305 Ashley Suarez Vera, 622 Dolores Vickers, 301 Yashira Rosario, 522 Troy Hollender, 322 Julian Pelaez, 721 John Owens, 331 Jay Pastorino, 1011 Kyile Compiteloo, 1210 Quandrala Warner, 307 Noemi Ortiz, 218 Efrain Salgado, 237 Destin Williams, 621 Dolores Vickers, 623 Dolores Vickers, 543 Jasmine Rivera, 335 Borrome Walkiria, 440 Craig Appel, 235 Mystery Unit, 1413 Vashishta Mewada, 211 Giovanni Rivera, 639 Glorimar Vargas. U-Haul Ctr Alafaya- 11815 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando Fl 32826- 1/11/2022: 1608 Maria Pagan, 1406 Mohammed Alrashed, 1124 Mauricio Ramirez, 1700 Jennifer Ducharme, 1254 Ann Bridge, 1277 Valery Nicolas, 1522 Loretta Kennedy, 1137 Juan Vega, 1509 Maria Pagan, 1129 Tabre Collins, 1280 Vanaya McNair, 1511 Dam Williams, 1107 Kerry Lubin, 1262 Malache Phillips, 1019 Riddick Bowe, 1253 Brittany Huff, 1111 Jose Sanchez, 1436 Riddick Bowe, 1605 Samantha Berry. Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that Value Store It 27, will sell the contents of the storage units listed below at a public auction to satisfy a lien placed on the contents (pursuant to Chapter 83 of the Florida Statutes). The sales will take place on Tuesday January 18th, 2022. The sale will be conducted under the direction of Christopher Rosa (AU4167) on behalf of the facilities management. Units will be available for viewing prior to the sale on www.storagetreasures.com. Contents will be sold for cash only to the highest bidder. A 10% buyer’s premium will be charged as well as a $50 cleaning deposit per unit. All sales are final. Seller reserves the right to withdraw the property at any

time before the sale or to refuse any bids. No one under 16 years old is permitted to bid. The property to be sold is described as “General Household Items” “Personal Property” unless otherwise noted. Unit # – Name – Description. Value Store It 27 at 1700 Celebration Blvd, Celebration, FL. 34747 will list storage units on www.storagetreasures.com at 1:00 PM. 1002-Daniel Young/Daniel Ceasar Young/Daniel Ceasar Young Jr.; 2051-Katrina Krueger. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that Mindful Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the following times and locations: January 12th, 2022 9:30am Mindful Storage facility: 900 Cypress Pkwy. Kissimmee, FL 34759 (321) 732-6032 The personal goods stored therein by the following: #2106-Households, #2201- Furniture, #2131-Households, #H227-Households, #I214Households, #B120- Households, #C115-Households, #2007-Boxes, #C136-Boxes #B112-Boxes, #1064- Households, #B105-Households, #1054-Medical Equipment. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Mindful Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property. Notice of Public Sale: Pursuant to F.S. 713.78 on January 14, 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; 19XFC2F53HE072345 2017/Hond 4T1BE32K54U327515 2004/Toyt JTKKU104X8J020745 2008/Toyt 1GCEC14W4YE237591 2000/Chev WBSFV9C59DC774137 2013/BMW 2HNYD18224H560858 2004/Acur 3N1AB7AP8FY333650 2015/Niss 19XFC2F72GE098080 2016/Hond JTHBH96S265038600 2006/Lexus 1N4AL11D06C176322 2006/Niss JM1GJ1W55G1403335 2016/Mazd 4T1BF1FK1HU705377 2017/Toyt 2T3W1RFV9MC139870 2021/Toyt 2G1WF55K159302094

2005/Chev 3C4NJCBB7MT553014 2021/Jeep. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: ADAM AYED ENTERPRISES LLC gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on 1/14/2022, 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. JHMCD5634VC015363 1997 HOND WBABW53465PL49498 2005 BMW 1JJV532W97L007443 2007 WABA 2FAHP71W47X118709 2007 FORD 1ZVHT84N485118045 2008 FORD 1GRAA06259W700641 2009 GDAN 1FUJGLDRXBSAS0849 2011 FRHT KMHGN4JE6FU019196 2015 HYUN 1N4AL3AP9HC298931 2017 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. JANUARY 21, 2022 1HGCM72294A010732 2004 HOND 2C3CCAEG3FH755443 2015 CHRY 2T1CG22P9YC344605 2000 TOYT 3N1AB61E18L760564 2009 NISS WDDGF5EB4BR149536 2011 MERZ. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 08:00 am at 2603 OLD DIXIE HIGHWAY KISSIMMEE, FL 34744, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. reserves the right to accept or reject any and/ or all bids. JANUARY 17, 2022 JHMCN36597C320475 2007 HOND JANUARY 20, 2022 5NPEB4AC8BH184576 2011 HYUN KL4CJASB4EB533408 2014 BUIC JANUARY 21, 2022 4S2CK58W614356934 2001 ISU

1G1ZS52F25F230457 2005 CHEV. 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 2017 Ford VIN# 1FA6P8TH5H5295302 2013 Honda VIN# 19XFB2F82DE073624 2004 Suzuki VIN# 4NUDS13S042104081 To be sold at auction at 8:00 am. on January 19, 2022 at 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC The following items are lost or abandoned property found in Orange County. Item, Location Found US CURRENCYSANDLAKE RD IPHONE WITH CASE BLANCHARD PARK CHAINSAW 2ND AVE US CURRENCY VINELAND AVE US CURRENCY VINELAND AVE US CURRENCYATLANTIC AVE US CURRENCYBENNETT RD US CURRENCY WESTWOOD BLVD 2 IPHONES/IPOD WESTWOOD BLVD US CURRENCYNARCOOSSEE RD IPHONE WITH CASE SR 535 IPHONE BLACK BENDELIER DR US CURRENCYCRESTING OAK IPHONE VILLAGE SERVICE TR LAWN EQUIPMENT VAGABOND LN IPHONE WITH CASE OBT IPHONE WHITE RIVA CT UNKNOWN CELL PHONEC ONWAY PLACE CIR INTER GARDEN IPHONE BLUE W US CURRENCYE COLONIAL DR LG PHONEB ONNEVILLE DR US CURRENCYPEARLWOOD ST US CURRENCYORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL LG FORTUNE 3 PHONEORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL JEWELRY D OWNEY CT SAMSUNG GALAXY S7INTERNATIONAL DR US CURRENCYE COLONIAL DR US CURRENCYCRESTING OAK CI US CURRENCY WESTVIEW DR GOOGLE PHONENEWTONHALL DR CANOE/PADDLE DARLENE DR IPHONE GRAYH OLLARD DR IPHONE REDBLANCHARD PARK IPHONE BLACKBLANCHARD PARK US CURRENCYSAND LAKE RD US CURRENCYROCK SPRINGS RD GOLF CART V ERANDA CI LAWN EQUIPMENT PAINE LN. Property not claimed will be disposed of per Florida State Statutes Chapter 705. For more information call 407 317-7570 M-F 8am to 5pm

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Line Cooks Reunion Resort & Club 6498228

Operations Manager Christian HELP Employment and Resource Center 6499041

Executive Administrative Assistant American Fundraising Foundation 6498142

Sr HVAC Mechanic – Facilities Management Orange County Government 6498913

Orthopedic Orthotic Fitter Orlando Orthopaedic Center 6497938

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Sales - In-Home Closer Pure Water Changes 6497204 Commercial HVAC Service and Controls Technicians Energy Air Inc. 6496993

Human Resources Generalist Avant Healthcare Professionals 6496462

Payroll Clerk Isleworth Golf & Country Club 6493338

NOW HIRING Line Cooks at CANTINA CATRINA - Florida Mall Fine Spices Brands 6496275

Program Controls Analyst I JSM Airport Services 6496273

Assistant, Executive Universal Orlando 6499263

Irrigation Technician I City of Casselberry 6495990

Surgical Tech - South Lake Hospital - SOLK Surgery - Full Time - Varies Orlando Health 6499253

Healthcare Enrollment Specialist Dedicated Senior Medical Center 6495957

Supv, Non-Invasive Cardiology Orlando Health 6499252

Claims Adjuster - General Liability - Auto InsuranceStaffing.com 6495082

Lead Teacher $250.00 Sign On Bonus Ladybird Academy 6495077 Service Manager HomeTeam Pest Defense 6495073

Driver - Delivery Driver - Ocoee Papa John’s Pizza 6496416

Local Drivers Wanted Johnson’s Wrecker Service, Inc. 6494541

MCAT Teacher at UCF Kaplan North America 6496358

Client Support Specialist Bilingual (English / Spanish) 401k Generation 6493912

Family Support Specialist (School Social Worker) Accelerated Learning Solutions 6496356

Sr. Representative, Email Campaign and BSA Universal Orlando 6499264

Enterprise Accounts Sales Development Rep TFB T-Mobile 6493533

Information Technology.Records Analyst.2453 Polk County Board of County Commissioners 6499225

Communications.Television Producer II.63 Polk County Board of County Commissioners 6499224 English Faculty Full Sail University 6499221

Adjunct Faculty - English Full Sail University 6499220

Housekeeping Supervisor Caribe Royale Hotel Caribe Royale Orlando 6499206

Orlando Weekly - December 29, 2021

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