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18 New Restaurants 2022: Cover photo (from Four Flamingos) and above photo (from Immersion at the London House), both by Rob Bartlett.
NEWS+ VIEWS 7 Your Words
Reader reactions, plus Clay Jones’ comic
9 ‘Flaming arrows’
Gov. DeSantis put on a heck of a show at CPAC
11 Session Watch 2022
FILM+TV 29 On (small) Screens
Streaming premieres you won’t want to miss
MUSIC 31 Army of she
What has your Legislature done for you lately?
Fast-rising pop star and vlogger Dodie sells out the Plaza Live
13 Informed Dissent
35 Storage wars
Sen. Rick Scott’s utterly unhinged 11-Point Plan to Save America
ARTS+ CULTURE 15 SEEN
We saw: Lucinda Williams at the Plaza Live
17 Live Active Cultures
Director Michael Grandage’s touring production of Frozen is currently chilling at the Dr. Phillips Center
FOOD+ DRINK 18 New Restaurants 2022
Over 90 new joints to look forward to this year
27 Recently Reviewed
Short takes from the month’s restaurant reviews
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Storage Music Unit is the berserk new sound of Central Floridian free jazz
37 This Little Underground
New local releases + live show picks
BACK PAGES 41 Free Will Astrology
Your horoscope for the week of March 2-8
41 Gimme Shelter
Get yourself a hard-working cat at OCAS
43 Classified advertisements
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