ORLANDO WEEKLY ● MAY 18-24, 2022 ● orlandoweekly.com

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Summer Guide: Get outside! | photo above by Rhonda Hoffman, courtesy FDEP. Cover design, Daniel Rodriguez.

NEWS+ VIEWS

7 Your Words

Letters to the editor + Clay Jones’ comic 11 ICYMI

Airbnb users love Orlando (what housing crisis?), Matt Gaetz exposes his racist ass, and other news you may have missed last week 15 SEEN

We saw: Orlandoans turning out for repro rights

ARTS+ CULTURE

19 Summer guide

Our top 5 beaches, a don’t-miss road trip, all the summer music fests and Orlando Fringe Fest

FOOD+ DRINK

29 Pulling strings

Grilled Cheezus brings the ooey-gooey goods to Mills 50 29 Tip Jar

Orlando food news: opening, closings, moves and events 37 Recently Reviewed

Short takes from the month’s restaurant reviews

FILM+ MUSIC

39 On (small) Screens

Streaming premieres this week: Angelyne, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars and more 41 This Little Underground

Florida Music Festival (sort of) returns and Call in Dead punch the daylights out of toxic masculinity

BACK PAGES

44 Selections of the Week Our picks of the best things to do and see this week, plus plenty of event listings 49 Free Will Astrology Your horoscope for the week of May 18-24 49 Gimme Shelter Shelter staff love kitty Griffin, and so will you when you give him his forever home 53 Savage Love Real worries, plus “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” 55 Classified advertisements

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