ORLANDO WEEKLY ● JUNE 22-28, 2022 ● orlandoweekly.com

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NEWS+ VIEWS

7 Your Words

Letters to the editor + Clay Jones’ comic 9 ICYMI

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 11 Passing the smell test

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’ 13 Informed Dissent

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

Above: Daisy-Chain, photo by Matthew Moyer | Cover: Kraftwerk, photo by Reema Shah

25 Recently Reviewed

Short takes from the month’s restaurant reviews

FILM+ MUSIC

27 On (small) Screens

Streaming premieres this week: Loot, At Home With the Gils, Umbrella Academy and more 28 Radio-active

The robots are coming! Kraftwerk’s future-shock world alters time and space, even now 33 This Little Underground

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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