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NEWS+ VIEWS 7 Your Words
Letters to the editor + Clay Jones’ comic
25 Recently Reviewed
Short takes from the month’s restaurant reviews
Apopka doesn’t want poors littering its city center, Disney backs off its planned Imagineers’ move to Lake Nona and other news you may have missed
FILM+ MUSIC
11 Passing the smell test
27 On (small) Screens
9 ICYMI
A lack of COVID-19 data leaves us in the dark about the current surge. Digital behavior can offer clues, but we’re ‘flying blind’
Streaming premieres this week: Loot, At Home With the Gils, Umbrella Academy and more
13 Informed Dissent
The robots are coming! Kraftwerk’s future-shock world alters time and space, even now
The myth that liberal cities are debauched and violent is a right-wing article of faith, one they’re promoting and exploiting shamelessly
ARTS+ CULTURE 15 Live Active Cultures
Returns to live theater from Disney’s Animal Kingdom and Theater on the Edge
FOOD+DRINK 17 California dreamin’
Cupid’s Hot Dogs provides Lee Road the SoCal vibe it didn’t know it needed
17 Tip Jar
Restaurant openings, closings, moves and events
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Above: Daisy-Chain, photo by Matthew Moyer | Cover: Kraftwerk, photo by Reema Shah
ORLANDO WEEKLY ● JUNE 22-28, 2022 ● orlandoweekly.com
28 Radio-active
33 This Little Underground
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Daisy-Chain’s new album plays like lost gems from the British new-wave underground
BACK PAGES 34 Selections of the Week
Our picks of the best things to do and see this week, plus plenty of event listings
37 Free Will Astrology
Your horoscope for the week of June 22-28
37 Gimme Shelter
Canela may be 70 pounds, but she’s really just a big, loving lap dog who could use a home
41 Savage Love
‘Baddy Dom,’ plus ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not!’
43 Classified advertisements
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