ORLANDO WEEKLY ● JULY 27-AUG. 2, 2022 ● orlandoweekly.com

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Above: Ali Wong and Riley Lai Nelet in Paper Girls (photo by Anjali Pinto/Amazon Prime) Cover: Fitz & the Tantrums (photo by Lindsey Byrnes)

NEWS+ VIEWS

7 Your Words

Letters to the editor, plus Clay Jones’ comic 9 CYMI

DeSantis taunts Disney and the prez at GOP summit, shooting scares at CityWalk and Florida Mall, and other news you may have missed last week 11 Bucking the trend

Starbucks union at Winter Park’s South Park Ave store fails by narrow margin after workers vote 13 Watching the detectives

Black voter organization to monitor Florida polling places after creation of elections police 17 Informed Dissent

President Biden is playing by the rules of a game that no longer exists

ARTS+ CULTURE

21 Live Active Cultures

Little Radical Theatrics brings community theater back to Orlando, providing a much-needed opportunity for young artists to get a start

FOOD+ DRINK

23 Green party

Plantees in Mills 50 goes green with plant-based burgers 23 Tip Jar

Restaurant openings, closings, moves and events

FILM

27 On (small) Screens

Streaming premieres this week: Paper Girls, The Most Hated Man on the Internet, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and more

MUSIC

31 This Little Underground

Orlando rapper Elsha’s album Hope 4 is hip- hop from an expressly indigenous perspective

BACK PAGES

32 Selections of the Week Our picks of the best things to do and see this week, plus plenty of event listings 35 Free Will Astrology Your horoscope for the week of July 27-Aug. 2 37 Savage Love Dan Savage’s relationship advice, plus ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not!’ 38 Classified advertisements