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Waffle wars I’m a regular customer at Sammy’s Gelato & Waffles and have to disagree about skipping the waffles (“The sweet and lowdown,” Aug. 26). They are made fresh daily, and even warmed up they are delicious.

The waffles go very well with all the current and new gelato the owner is always creating. He allow his customers to try multiple flavors until they find the one they like, and he takes suggestions for new flavors.

The owners go out of their way to provide great customer service and make a wonderful-tasting gelato and waffle the whole family will enjoy.

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Nicolas Horvath plays the complete piano works of Philip Glass – all in one sitting

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15 Live Active Cultures

Great live music rattles Orlando every night

D23 brings big news for Walt Disney World, while Universal’s new projects are coming fast and furious

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Whores bring out a strong crowd for an eclectic bill, and Kim Lenz draws the best-coiffed and prêtà-party crowd seen in a long time

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A hand-built Stefano Ferrara oven is Bavaro’s shining star

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Just because Japan can do it doesn’t mean Orlando will make it successful. Just go take your tea to the local shelter and pet the cats there. I can totally see someone trying to jack a cat from this place.

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Short takes on restaurants we’ve visited lately

It’s about time (“Cat Café to open in Clermont at Cagan Crossings,” Aug. 29). Our society in general should be less uptight about animals in business establishments and public places – most pets are much cleaner than most children (or adults for that matter)!

and their runaway dreams is darkly funny

Sixteen years after he was charged with the death of an Osceola County child, Giovanni Vega fights to prove his innocence

UCF’s Bright House Stadium is the newest outlet for 4 Rivers’ brisket, Blaze Pizza gives it away for free, plus more in our weekly food roundup

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Speaking up about Orlando Speaks The Aug. 25 Orlando Speaks

workshop, organized by Orlando Police Chief John Mina and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer with help from the Valencia College Peace and Justice Institute, received mixed reactions from participants and the public.

Held at the premium indoor club in the Citrus Bowl, the event was prefaced by a protest by National Action Network Central Florida Chapter president Lawanna Gelzer, other organizers and members of the community, who were later invited inside. Gelzer said the event, which was advertised as using “innovative communication strategies to foster ongoing citizen engagement and conversation” between city residents and police, did not truly include the community.

Gelzer said she received an email inviting select individuals to the event, but that it should have been open to all. Michelle Guido, public information officer for the Orlando Police, says that participation in the event was initially open to the public for sign up, but it filled up quickly. The event was organized into 40 tables of four participants each, with at least one OPD representative at each table. By this calculation, 160 people would have attended the event, with about 120 of them having no affiliation to the police (three days after the event, the city said that “nearly 200” people were in attendance).

“I question the process,” Gelzer said.

“The city can’t conduct its business like this and not invite the community. I got an invite, but I can’t speak for everybody.”

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person. I saw him as an outcome. Looking back at my actions, if I had seen him as a person, maybe I wouldn’t have stopped him.”

The mood turned somewhat tense when Peace and Justice Institute instructors Rudy Darden and Mollie McLaughlin acknowledged systemic racism and white privilege. “Being colorblind is not a solution for us,” McLaughlin said. “I hope we live in a world one day where that is true, but to move too quickly to that place covers up a festering wound.”

Many participants, like Charlotte Fleming from the First Unitarian Church of Orlando, said the workshop was a positive experience. She called it “the best diversity training” she’s ever been to and learned more about police perspectives.

Others, like T.J. Legacy-Cole, disagreed, calling it a “missed opportunity,” and not what the community needed. LegacyCole stood during the event and outlined what he and other organizers wanted from police, including mandatory body cameras that can’t be shut off, an independently elected citizen police review board, immediate termination of police officers caught lying in a report, a tracking system for police complaints and training for responding officers that focuses on mental

health issues.

“We talked about white privilege, but where were the tangible solutions?” he asked. “They keep talking and we still see instances of excessive force. ... We want a meeting with police, elected officials, the community, the clergy and others to come up with a comprehensive agenda with policy changes.”

Natalie Jackson, the attorney for Noel Carter, a man who was was kicked, struck with a baton and pepper-sprayed by two OPD officers during his arrest in June because they said he was resisting, was also at the event.

“It was a nice race-relations workshop,” she says. “I thought it was valuable, but it wasn’t dealing with people’s concerns, which is the use of a government entity to abuse. It was not a meeting between this community and police.”

Quoting Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson says the workshop’s goals to change sentiments between police and the community would be difficult and near-impossible to do without actual policy changes.

“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated,” the quote says. “Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.” mcordeiro@orlandoweekly.com

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already another Orlando Speaks session scheduled for Oct. 13 at Edgewater High School.

“We’ve seen on the national level when departments aren’t working, the divide that can come out,” he said. “This process is going to get some of you out of your comfort zone ... but it really is a positive experience.”

Chief John Mina says that 30 officers were at the event, but more wanted to participate. He said that he would not put up with excessive-force cases. “[Police officers] are human,” he told participants. “We make mistakes. But what I promise you is that those incidents will be thoroughly investigated, and if appropriate those officers will be held accountable.”

(Just three days after Orlando Speaks, a cell phone video of an Orlando police officer fighting with a homeless man was aired on WESH 2 News. The Orlando Police Department is investigating the incident, but police say the officer’s body camera video, which will be released when the investigation is complete, shows that the homeless man threw the first punch.)

Police officers and residents shared their stories about law enforcement among their small groups of four and then some of them shared with the general group.

One retired officer said he recalled that as a young officer, he stopped a black man riding a bicycle for a small city ordinance infraction, with the intention of searching him. The situation escalated because the man was angry he stopped him and verbally threatened the officer, leading to his arrest. Later in his life, the officer realized the man was probably stopped constantly by police and felt harassed.

“From my perspective, it was a common police practice, and I had a legal basis for the stop,” he says. “I didn’t see him as a

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hree weeks ago, Giovanni Kali Vega turned 36 inside the Lake Correctional Institution in Clermont. His birthday isn’t really a cause for celebration, because it’s another reminder that his youth is fading and the world he left behind when he was charged with murder at just 20 years old is not the same. After 16 years in prisons with minimal amounts of sunshine, his skin has faded from its original dark bronze to a pale brown. It’s another indication to Vega, who’s fighting to prove his innocence, that every day he’s incarcerated is a day he could have spent living a normal life.

In 1999, Vega was indicted for allegedly beating to death his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son, Xavier Collado, at a Kissimmee Econo Lodge on U.S. Highway 192. The state charged him with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse after Collado died at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. A jury found Vega guilty in 2001, sentencing him to life in prison. Since the beginning,

Vega has maintained he didn’t kill Xavier, and after Vega’s conviction, the medical examiner who performed Xavier’s autopsy was forced to resign in lieu of facing further disciplinary action. After years of appealing his case, a state appeals court finally remanded a new hearing last year. But for various reasons, the case has stagnated, leaving Vega and his family frustrated.

“I want to get on with my life,” he says.

“I want to have children, get married, own a home, go on a cruise with my mom. I hate every minute of this place.”

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o matter where Aurora Arroyo goes, she’s always near a big five-pound bag filled with court documents, appeals, letters and information about Vega, her son. She lugs it to and from her work at the Florida Department of Education every day, just in case he wants copies of a document or needs her to research information.

“I’m like his paralegal,” she says. “He

Xavier Collado and a 2-year-old daughter.

Arroyo remembers that her son brought Torres home to see if his mom could find her a home because she was living out of a suitcase. She remembers the young woman as jittery, like she “needed drugs,” and at least once Arroyo babysat the two children. What they didn’t know is that in 1997, Torres had been arrested on child neglect, a charge that was later dropped.

A report from the Department of Children and Families states that the father of the children, Luis Collado, called police on Torres after he alleged that she locked him out of the house and left her baby daughter alone inside with a “wet diaper and a rash.” Torres told police she had gone to get food stamps with Xavier and wanted the baby to sleep.

Vega says he remembers their “on-andoff” relationship as not something serious, but by Nov. 12, 1999, they had been together a week. According to court documents,

writes the court documents on lined paper and then I type them up for him.

He’s his own lawyer.”

Vega was born in 1979 in Massachusetts to Arroyo, who was a single mother. She gave him her maiden name and left with the baby, taking him to her parents’ home in Puerto Rico. While she worked in the United States, her parents raised the boy, and years later, Vega moved with Arroyo to New York. Soon after, they followed many in the Puerto Rican diaspora and moved to Central Florida.

Arroyo says she remembers Vega as a good son who wanted to be a firefighter for the Kissimmee Fire Department and liked to help others, but by the time he was at Poinciana High School, he got mixed in with the wrong crowd. He dropped out early and started dealing drugs as a teenager, she says, often getting in trouble with the law.

It was during this time that he met Tamara Torres, who was three years older than Vega and had two children, 3-year-old orlandoweekly.com

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Xavier had told his mother that Vega was beating him in the days before.

Torres took the 3-year-old to Osceola Regional Medical Center, but he was transported to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. Hospital staff at ORMC believed Xavier was the victim of child abuse and contacted law enforcement. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office arrested Vega.

Deputies got into an “altercation” with him, according to trial transcripts, which Vega remembers as officers beating him into the ground. Detectives later interviewed him while his head was bleeding and ignored his requests for a lawyer because they said he wasn’t being specific enough, trial transcripts say. Arroyo says she saw the news while she was at work and immediately felt like someone had punched her in the stomach.

“It took me a year and a half before I was able to stop crying and talk about it,” she says. “I couldn’t see little kids on the

Torres left the kids at the motel where they were living to go work at Taco Bell in the morning, and then Vega arrived. He told officers he left the room to make a phone call relating to a drug deal using the public phone downstairs. As he returned, he says he saw Xavier lying unresponsive on the landing of the stairwell, with a bruise on his forehead.

Vega grabbed the boy and took him to the bathtub to pour some water on him and get a response. Vega says he left the room to get towels and when he returned, Xavier was still not responding, so he hit him on the face. Vega then called Torres to come take Xavier to the hospital and said later he was scared to call 911 because he was selling drugs.

During his trial, detectives said that Xavier’s sister told them Vega was angry with the boy for soiling his pants, and

street either or read the legal documents, because I would start crying again. I just lost it.”

Torres, who was charged with child neglect and had her daughter taken away, testified against Vega at the trial in 2001, saying that Vega had beaten the child before. Luis Davila, then Vega’s defense attorney, asked Torres if she had made a deal with the state for leniency in the child neglect charge against her, and she denied the accusation. Davila also questioned her about bruises on Xavier’s body that detectives said were more than a week old – from before Vega moved in with them. Torres, who was last reported as living in Largo, did not respond to several messages requesting a comment.

Florida Department of Correction records show Torres was incarcerated from 2008 to 2012 for her 1999 case of neglecting a child with great bodily harm. Records also note that she has several tattoos dedicated

to her son, including one of a Pikachu that says, “In Loving Memory, Xavier.”

But the star witness for the prosecution in the case was Dr. Shashi B. Gore, then District 9 medical examiner for Orange-Osceola County. Gore performed the autopsy on Xavier, ruling the death a homicide by “subdural hemorrhage due to closed head trauma due to blunt force trauma,” according to an autopsy report.

Gore testified during the trial that because he observed the inside of Xavier’s top lip was torn, he knew the child was “manhandled,” saying a single fall could not produce that same injury, only some sort of blunt force.

The state also brought in Christopher Cooper, a nine-time convicted felon, who told the jury Vega confessed to the savage beating within an hour of meeting him in jail. The state maintained Xavier’s death was from a rough manhandling of the child’s facial area.

giovanni vega has filed two appeals himself, in an attempt to get the court to take his case seriously.

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COLLAGE COURTESY OF AURORA ARROYO

A jury took three hours to convict Vega, by then 21, and he was sentenced to life in prison. Arroyo, whom Vega would not allow in the courtroom to spare her the pain, heard the sentencing through the door and fainted. Throughout the trial, Arroyo says she always believed her son was innocent, and nowadays, she often dreams her son comes walking through her front door.

“I just want him home,” she says. “The first thing I want to do when he gets out is go sit at the beach with him. I want him next to me, breathing freedom.”

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hen in 2003, something unexpected happened that had an impact on Vega’s case.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Medical Examiners Commission launched an investigation into Gore’s autopsy of 10-week-old Alan Ream Yurko. Gore attributed the infant’s death to subdural hematoma due to shaken-baby syndrome. The baby’s father, Alan Yurko, was charged and later convicted of the murder in 1999. After a complaint filed by the Yurko family in 2003, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Medical Examiners Commission began investigating Gore’s autopsy findings.

A 2004 panel found Gore had violated Florida statutes and was negligent in the autopsy for several reasons, the major one being that he included a “canned” examination detailing the child’s heart, even though the heart was surgically absent because it had been donated.

On the final page of the autopsy, Gore originally noted the infant was a 2-month-old black baby, when the baby was actually 10 weeks old and white. After realizing this error, Gore altered his report, which is a public record, without notifying the courts, which amounted to altering evidence.

The commission didn’t fire Gore. Instead, it told him to stay out of the morgue and not perform any autopsies until his appointment as district medical examiner ended with his retirement in June 2004. Yurko’s conviction for the death of his son was overturned in court later that year, and he was set free.

Dr. Stephen J. Nelson, district medical examiner for the 10th judicial circuit, was the commission’s chairman back in 2004 and is in the driver’s seat again currently.

He says the case was “troubling” and one of the harshest disciplinary actions taken against a medical examiner in Florida

a collage that vega’s mother made about her son

at the time.

Despite messages sent to an email listed on Florida’s Department of Health website for Dr. Gore, he could not be reached for comment on this story.

“Essentially, we negotiated a surrender,” Nelson says. “The strategy was done to save everybody the time, money and inconvenience of an administrative hearing. It may not have solved the root of the problem, but we wanted him out of the morgue immediately.”

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The Yurko case prompted Vega’s attorneys to reexamine evidence from his trial. In 2009, Dr. William Anderson, who had worked under Dr. Gore, examined Xavier’s autopsy and said he found significant deficiencies in the analysis to Gore’s conclusions.

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“It is my opinion that the findings need to be critically reviewed and the entire case revisited,” he said according to a report made at the request of the defense.

Then in 2012, Dr. Douglas Radford Shanklin, a pathology professor at the University of Tennessee, offered to look at the case for the defense free of charge.

He found several irregularities in Xavier’s autopsy and came to a different conclusion than the one put forth by Gore.

Based on photos of Xavier’s sister and the autopsy, Shanklin believed Xavier had contracted a bacterial infection from his sister, who was photographed with lesions on her face. Vega says he remembers going to the store in those days with the kids and buying Neosporin for the girl’s face. Shanklin says the infection traveled to the boy’s brain, turning into bacterial meningitis, which made him weak enough to collapse as it spread.

Shanklin found a high count of white blood cells in the hospital report for Xavier, which he interpreted to mean the boy was fighting off an infection before he was admitted. Shanklin also pointed out in his report a forensic slide of Xavier’s brain, which showed what he called “a classic, textbook illustration of bacterial meningitis, which has spread deeply.” Shanklin added that meningitis is seriously under-diagnosed in emergency rooms, and that Dr. Gore may have been influenced by the premature call from hospital staff to say it was a child abuse case.

After getting his GED and associate’s degree in psychology, Vega began focusing on his trial transcripts with his attorney. Through their research, they found several glaring issues. During jury selection, two women told the judge there was another juror making comments about shooting Vega. The man was not asked to leave and the two women, who said they could be fair, were selected for the jury, but the act had already tainted the entire jury pool, Vega says. During deliberations, the jury asked the judge for trial transcripts, which he declined to give them because they would be “time consuming,” according to court documents.

Vega filed appeal after appeal without much result, until finally, in 2014, a breakthrough. Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeals reversed and remanded an evidentiary hearing for Vega based on Shanklin’s work.

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conclusions set forth by Dr. Shanklin’s report constitute newly discovered evidence,” court documents said, “to the extent they support an allegation that the testimony of the medical examiner at Vega’s trial was knowingly and patently false (or, at a minimum, given in reckless disregard for the truth).”

Shanklin died in 2013, leaving Vega with no witness and no one to present the evidence he had discovered. Before his death, Shanklin spoke with News 13 about the case, calling it “a gross miscarriage of justice and medical science.”

“There’s so much evidence in this case of a profound internal disease which caused the death of the child,” he told the station. “It boggles my mind how they marched down.”

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n 2015, Vega’s case is still working its way through the system. It has stagnated recently due to fights between him and his attorney, public defender Javier Chavez.

Chavez says his policy is not to comment on open cases. Vega says the disagreements stem from bad communication and Vega’s insistence on bringing Nelson and Dr. Jon Thogmartin as witnesses to the case. Both Thogmartin and Nelson testified for Yurko’s defense during his new trial, Nelson says. Vega says Chavez has told him Thogmartin and Nelson are not relevant to his particular case.

In a letter to Judge Jon B. Morgan dated June 30, Vega writes, “For the past few weeks, I have mailed, attempted to call … the public defender forms to Attorney Javier Chavez. ... I am claiming a constitutional violation because I am being denied access to material evidence favorable to my defense.”

Morgan has scheduled two hearings to determine whether trial counsel has been ineffective, and in both instances, Morgan has denied Vega’s request for a new attorney. Morgan writes in an email that he cannot comment on a pending case. In response, Vega has filed two appeals himself, one in the Fifth District Court of Appeals regarding the Nelson hearing and another in the Florida Supreme Court for ineffective counsel during his original trial. Joanne Simmons and Craig Waters, the respective spokespersons, said neither court has decided as of Thursday whether to take Vega’s cases or not.

“I didn’t come here after 16 years to be a sitting duck,” he says. “I didn’t know anything about the law then, but I do now.” mcordeiro@orlandoweekly.com

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hilip Glass relates a telling anecdote in his 2015 memoir, Words Without Music: When the minimalist master was just 15, his father allowed him to take over buying classical albums for the family music store, and upon learning that the Juilliard String Quartet had recorded the complete Schoenberg string quartets, he ordered four copies. (That’s about three more than might be expected to move in the average record store.) His father roared, “Are you trying to put me out of business?” but rather than returning the albums, he shelved them to teach Glass a lesson about the music business. It was seven years before the last one was bought. What did Glass learn? “I can sell anything if I have enough time.”

“Time” may be the operative word when considering Nicolas Horvath’s approach to Glass’ music. The French pianist and Naxos recording artist will play a marathon concert consisting of Glass’ entire piano oeuvre, plus more than a dozen tributes to

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Glass by American composers. The show is expected to last 10 hours, and Horvath will perform without stopping. (It may be an endurance test for the pianist, but the audience is welcome to come and go.)

Melbourne composer Steve Kornicki is one of those tribute composers (along with Orlando locals Charlie Griffin, host of WPRK modern classical show “Zero Crossings,” and UCF percussion professor Thad Anderson).

“I composed a piano piece for Nicolas, which he performed at one of his marathon concerts in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo in spring of 2014, and I was grateful for his inclusion of my piece,” Kornicki says. “I wanted to return the favor and have him perform here in the States. After connecting with Benoit Glazer [conductor of Cirque du Soleil’s La Nouba and proprietor of Timucua White House], we scheduled a date for Nicolas to perform in Orlando at Benoit’s performing arts center at a time when Nicolas was visiting the States. And voila!”

Glass is now so mainstream that his once-groundbreaking opera Einstein on the Beach has soundtracked commercials for Pepsi and Under Armour sports gear

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Nicolas Horvath plays the complete piano works of Philip Glass – all in one sitting

– baller Steph Curry and ballerina Misty Copeland showing off their superhuman talents to the “One two three four five six seven eight” intonations of “Knee Play No. 1.” (It may not be surprising that the repetitive textures of that operatic intermezzo mesh rather perfectly with the rhythms of athletic training.) So, music by probably the best-known living American composer is unlikely to épater le bourgeoisie – it’s the ultramarathon format that may shock.

(Let’s see Curry dribble perfectly for 10 hours!) Horvath has taken this approach to other composers besides Glass – in 2009, he performed a concert of Erik Satie’s music, including the 20-hour piece Vexations, that lasted 35 hours. “Yes, that was totally mad!”

Horvath writes cheerily in an email interview. “Past 24 hours, when you know you still have 12 hours to go, you really enter the Hell Realm!”

Despite the undeniable athleticism of these undertakings – Horvath says he fasts for at least a day, sometimes two or three, before a marathon – it isn’t record-setting or physicality that’s behind the feat, but love. Love of the music, not love of the game.

“It was in the late ’90s when for the first time I came across Philip Glass’ music,” Horvath says. “I still today remember the effect this music had on me – like floating on a calm lake at night and watching the stars moving.”

Later a pupil of his saw the 2002 film The Hours, the score of which is based on the Metamorphosis suite from Glass’ Solo Piano album. “At the turn of the millennium, minimalism was still a deadly sin in Paris,” Horvath says. “Philip Glass’ music was never taught in French conservatories and few pianists took the risk to perform his music in concert. It was only after I won my first international competitions and was finally free to organize my own recital programs that I dared to test this music on the public …. Public reaction was always amazing, from goose bumps to tears.”

As yet, however, Glass hasn’t attended one of Horvath’s endurance tests.

“Unfortunately, I only shook Philip Glass’ hand [once] almost five years ago,” Horvath says. “Glass himself could not believe what I was going to do, and I must say that as he never expressed the wish to keep in touch with me, that he might not have believed that I would do it!” But he has, and he will, and you owe it to yourself to witness as much of it as you can.

This show is the official release concert for Horvath’s latest recording, Glassworlds: Vol. 2 (Naxos), CDs of which will be available at the show – five days before international release.

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CONCEPT ART COURTESY OF DISNEY/LUCASFILM

D23 brings big news for Walt Disney World, while Universal’s new projects are coming fast and furious I’ve been so busy enjoying Orlando’s vibrant performing arts scene that it’s been two months since I covered the attractions, so let’s catch up on recent updates from Orlando’s theme parks.

First, big news for Walt Disney World came from Disneyland, where long-anticipated projects were finally confirmed during August’s D23 fan convention. A major Star Wars expansion is officially coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, based largely on the upcoming sequels.

Two headliner attractions – an interactive Millennium Falcon simulator inside a fullsize replica of Han Solo’s signature ship, and a First Order versus the Resistance dark ride that could be Disney’s answer to Spider-Man and Gringotts – will be supported by the requisite shops and restaurants, including an alien-filled cantina.

One twist is that the area won’t re-create any existing location from the saga, but instead will be a new Imagineer-invented planet evoking a mashup of Star Wars styles. Big questions remain: Will guests be as gung-ho about going to a generic spaceport (rather than Tatooine or Endor) as they are about Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley?

Where exactly will the land be located?

(Indiana Jones’ stunt show and the parking lot behind Star Tours seem to be goners, but intel conflicts over whether Echo Lake or MuppetVision will survive.) Who wants to drink blue milk in Orlando’s heat? And most importantly, when will it open?

Disney is conspicuously silent on that last point, not even announcing a ground-

breaking date for Florida, while Anaheim’s version (which will evict my beloved goat petting farm) won’t get started until 2017. I wouldn’t count on going to that galaxy far, far away until Episode IX is in theaters, but a “Season of the Force” event starting early next year (aka Star Wars Weekends Strikes Back: The Search for More Money) will try to tide Jedi junkies over until then.

Before Star Wars Land debuts, the other side of DHS will be transformed into Toy Story Land, which (I’m happily surprised to say) looks better than the similarly named areas found in Hong Kong and Paris. With an oversized backyard theme, this partial replacement for the old Studio Backlot Tour will feature a Slinky the Dog family coaster (between Seven Dwarfs and Space Mountain on the thrill meter) and a Little Green Men spinning ride based on California’s marvelous Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree.

The good news is that the project’s first phase – a third track from the popular Toy Story Midway Mania ride – has already been installed. The bad news is that even after its upgrade the attraction will be lucky to serve 1,600 guests per hour, an inadequate capacity for the park’s only all-ages E-ticket.

Most of the D23 buzz was about Hollywood Studios’ future, with good reason; as I wrote in July, the park is currently a shell of its already-slender self, with only Frozen festivities to distract from boarded-up buildings. Pandora, the Avatar expansion inching toward a 2017 opening at Animal Kingdom, was promoted with some vague updates, as was Epcot’s Frozenification of Norway; both were mostly met with yawns from the fan community. It seems like Disney’s best stuff is being saved

for Shanghai Disneyland, whose Tron lightcycle coaster and reimagined Pirates ride look like fanboy fantasies. I’m heading there next year, provided I can save up enough for airfare and oxygen tanks.

Universal, on the other hand, doesn’t hold a huge convention to announce attractions, but their projects are still coming fast and furious – literally: The Vin Diesel car franchise is coming to Universal Studios Florida in 2017, replacing the Disaster ride and Beetlejuice show. The new ride will (hopefully) be an improved version of the 3-D simulation that’s gotten mixed reviews at Universal Hollywood’s tram tour.

While Toretto tears up San Francisco, Twister will also close soon (demolition permits were already filed), with wooden Bill Paxton being replaced by Jimmy Fallon.

And in case you missed it, the Lucille Ball memorabilia museum – one of the park’s last original attractions – was evicted for a Hello Kitty store, while the serene Garden of Allah is now an NBC preview center where you can earn cash by watching TV (beware the Clockwork Orange-esque biometric sensors).

Elsewhere at the Universal Resort, construction on King Kong’s Skull Island (including the massive ape-shaped entry arch), the Sapphire Falls hotel and the Volcano Bay water park are all full steam ahead, and rumors of future projects – additional hotel towers for Cabana Bay and the current Wet ’n Wild land; Nintendo replacing USF’s KidZone; a major revamp of Islands of Adventure’s Marvel Super Hero Island (which will remain themed to the Disney-owned characters) – are heating up. At this rate, by next month Universal will probably have built three more things I haven’t even heard of yet. skubersky@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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Barbecue from 4 Rivers Smokehouse will be served in the premium Carl Black and Gold Cabana section of UCF’s Bright House Stadium; their City Hall smokerie is slated to open later this year; and 4 Rivers gathers still more national accolades with its inclusion at No. 5 in St. Louis native Johnny Fugitt’s new book, The 100 Best Barbecue Restaurants in America.

Orlando-based startup BlurtBox allows diners to file complaints via direct message to restaurant managers in real time, thereby doing away with negative online reviews. Think of it as the Anti-Yelp. Nar Mediterranean Grill, Graffiti Junktion and Domino’s are clients.

Menus for the 6th annual Food & Wine Classic at Disney’s Swan & Dolphin Resort Oct. 30-31 have been released. We’re looking forward to sampling the soft-shell crab roll, mascarpone chestnut ravioli, weiner schnitzel and Southern-fried chicken with polenta and gravy. oPenInGS Look for Juice’d, a smoothie and juice bar, to move into the old Qarma Crepes space in Thornton Park … Vero Beach’s LOVJuice opens soon on the ground floor of the 55 West condo building on Church Street …

Blaze Pizza opens Thursday, Sept. 3, across from the UCF campus, and celebrates the next day by giving away free pizzas from 11 a.m.-11 p.m. on Friday … Rimini, Italy-based Amarena Old Fashioned Gelato opens their first location in the U.S. this November at the Oviedo Mall … Park Station 212, specializing in “urban organic foods” and prime steaks, has opened on Park Avenue in Winter Park.

Brick house A hand-built Stefano Ferrara oven is Bavaro’s shining star

By FAiyAz KARA BaVaro PIzza naPoleTana & PaSTarIa 1468 Tuskawilla Road, Winter Springs | 321-422-3600 | bavarospizza.com | $$$

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izza! Seems that every restaurant I walk into nowadays serves it. Sure, they come in varying forms – pizza, flatbreads, manakeesh, tostadas, uttapam – but, whatever the name, restaurants seem to toss and flaunt this surefire moneymaker in our faces, don’t they? And who are we to resist? Hungry gastronomes we are; selfdenying ascetics we’re not, and who doesn’t like pizza?

At Bavaro in Winter Springs, attempts to resist their pies’ charms will most certainly go wasted, so just know this: The pies here are of the Neapolitan variety, which means a) don’t expect pies the circumference of the moon; b) don’t complain about the pizza being soggy, or that you have to use a knife and fork to eat it; and c) don’t ever ask for a slice. If you do, you run the risk of having egg on your face.

I must admit, my face got a tad eggy even though I observed these gustatory customs. The culprit: carciofi con uovo ($17).

As I forked a giant bite of this 12-inch pie topped with San Marzano tomatoes, fior de latte, prosciutto cutto (cooked ham), artichoke hearts, basil, olive oil and, yes, egg, the yolk squirted onto my yap, cheek and chin, thereby completing this metaphoric preamble.

A few chuckles and swipes later, we marveled at the pie’s simultaneously doughy, crispy and lightly charred crust, fashioned from Tipo “00” – the best pizza flour in the biz. But Bavaro’s trump card over other area pizzerias, and the showpiece of the handsome dining room, is the hand-built Stefano Ferrara domed brick oven. This Ferrari of pizza ovens can go from zero to pizza in 90 seconds, thanks to its ability to maintain temperatures in excess of 900 degrees Fahrenheit with its oak-fired core.

In between bites of olives, prosciutto di parma, mortadella and soppressata, we noted our server keeping a watchful eye on our progress with the antipasto Italiano ($16). When a few morsels of provolone piccante, asiago and Parmigiano-Reggiano were left, our delightful server offered to fire up our pizzas and, in a flash, the pizzas were before us. The margherita ($13),

the pizza that started this whole 126-year craze, was damn near perfect. A vision of the Queen consort of Italy – Margherita of Savoy – slow-clapping Bavaro’s pizzaiolo while voicing “Bravo” came to mind, then it dissipated and I finished off the pizza.

Bavaro also hails itself as a “pastaria,” and the tagliatelle served with a Bolognese sauce ($16) was simply superb. The hand-cut pasta is made in house, as is the threecheese ravioli ($18) and the ravioli Emiliani ($19) stuffed with prosciutto, mortadella and pork sirloin. Same goes for dolci like the tiramisu ($7), which struck the right balance between cakey and creamy, and the generously filled trio of cannoli ($10).

The service was almost as big a star as the pizza – almost. If there’s one area where your everyday New-York-style pizza holds an edge over its counterpart from Naples, it’s in the day-after test. Neapolitan-style pizzas, particularly their crusts, lose their crisp texture and take on the texture of a rubber mat.

Everybody now – USA! USA! USA!

eVenTS Wondermade, the Sanford marshmallow shop, holds a workshop 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4. Cut and decorate your own sweet treats for $15 … The Dinner Party Project celebrates its 100th dinner as well as its one-year anniversary Saturday, Sept. 12, with cocktails, wine and a five-course meal (suggested donation: $75-$100 per person).

More at thedinnerpartyproject.co … The highly cheesy O-Town MacDown event is 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 12 at Osceola Heritage Park … The Waldorf Astoria rides the coattails of Epcot’s Food & Wine Festival with Food & Wine Weekends Sept. 25 to Nov. 15, featuring special menus and wine pairings at its dining venues, including Bull & Bear and La Luce.

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ity-causing glop of pineapple juice, orange juice, grenadine, maraschino cherries and a whopping 4 ounces of rum. Often, it’s made from a powdered mix (sold by Pat O’Brien’s, sadly enough). It’s one of those drinks that’s in a class with the Long Island Iced Tea – the “get fucked up” class.

So to start with, I “unmixed,” rather than remix. The original recipe – dark Jamaican rum, lime juice and passion fruit syrup – was tasty, but it was still awfully sweet. So I set myself the challenge of making a more sophisticated Hurricane.

First things first: You can buy commercially made passion fruit syrup – Trader Vic’s or Monin are acceptable, but they’re no easier to find in stores than frozen passion fruit pulp (look in the supermarket freezer case near the Goya products).

Fresh-made tastes a thousand times better and it’s stupid simple to make. Once I had my syrup and it was cooled to room temp, I mixed rhum agricole – it has a more assertive flavor than plain white rum – with a shot of overproof aged rum (a tip of the hat to tiki culture, the only reason an adult should mess with 151). I swapped out the lime for lemon, which, when mixed with the hot 151, creates an almost peppery spiciness, then added just a titch of Chartreuse, for a shadow of bitterness. And there you have it – a tiki drink for people who don’t like sweet drinks. jyoung@orlandoweekly.com

2 ounces white rum 2 ounces dark rum 1 ounce lime juice 1 ounce orange juice 2 ounces passion fruit juice 1/2 ounce simple syrup 1/2 ounce grenadine sliced orange maraschino cherries

Add all the ingredients to a shaker with ice.

Shake, then strain into a hurricane glass full of ice. Garnish with an orange slice and two or three cherries.

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2 ounces rhum agricole 1 ounce aged 151 rum 1 ounce fresh lemon juice 1 1/2 ounces passion fruit syrup 2 teaspoons Chartreuse

First, make the passion fruit syrup: Mix 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of water and a half-cup of passion fruit pulp (thawed, if frozen, or the innards of about seven fruits, if fresh). Bring to a boil, stirring, then turn down to a simmer and let the mix reduce and thicken (about 10 minutes). Let cool to room temperature.

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice, shake well, then strain into a tall glass filled with crushed ice. Takes well to a garnish, if that’s your thing – a sprig of mint, a chunk of pineapple, a tiny umbrella. Be careful, it’s strong.

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s this issue went to press, meteorologists were 99.9 percent sure that Erika, no longer even a tropical storm, would pass us by entirely, and they’d moved their watchful eyes on to Fred, strengthening in the Atlantic. The lack of an actual hurricane doesn’t undermine my choice of the Hurricane cocktail to remix this month, though – according to historians, the drink was never actually named for the weather event at all.

In the 1920s, Pat O’Brien (whose bar still goes strong on Bourbon Street today) ran a New Orleans speakeasy called Club Tipperary. “Entrance to the club depended on knowing its password: Storm’s A-brewing,” Elizabeth Pearce writes in Edible New Orleans. Rum was in abundant supply, but unfashionable, and liquor suppliers wouldn’t sell bars the hard-to-get whiskey they wanted unless they also purchased several cases of rum. Faced with an oversupply of rum, Pearce writes, O’Brien “challenged his bartenders to create a new rum-based drink, and the Hurricane was born. Its name was inspired by his ‘Storm’s A-brewing’ password and O’Brien served it in an iconic hurricane-lantern-shaped glass.”

So now that we’ve separated the cocktail from the climate, let’s talk about the drink itself. This tiki-bar classic began as a simple mix of passion fruit syrup, rum and lime. As time’s gone by, it’s become a bright-red cav-

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Quickly Boba & Snow Boy Kong’s fabulous Chinese zodiac mural makes Quickly more hangout than quick stop. With dozens of nectarous varieties of boba tea, shaved snow, fruit slushies and milk slushies, in addition to a savory menu (Taiwanese-style popcorn chicken, summer rolls), it’s got plenty to offer, but it’s owner Kimberly Bui’s macarons that stun. The meringue cookies come in a host of flavors, from pistachio to lavender to caramel; the rose-lychee ones are unstoppably addictive. 3214 E. Colonial Drive, 407-270-4570; $

Five f(x) No less an authority than Food Network star Alton Brown named this ice cream specialist a “Top Southern Pick,” and you should listen to the man. Flavors that run the gamut from vanilla to avocado to spiced chai are prepared right in front of you, frozen to order with your choice of cow, almond or soy milk. A specialty of the house is taiyaki, sweet fishshaped waffles that are crispy outside, cream-filled inside. 688 N. Alafaya Trail, 407-930-7181; $

Sammy’s Gelato & Waffles In a simple and tasteful environment, a focused menu of 20-odd gelato flavors is served – “everything but the sugar” is shipped from Italy, then crafted inhouse. Straciatella and caramel cookie gelato are standouts. Skip the waffles, though; they’re of good quality, but not freshly made, so unless you get there right as they griddle a batch, you can end up with a soft, lukewarm, doughy blob. Stick with the milky good stuff.

3050 Alafaya Trail, Oviedo, 407-542-0540; $

Union Burger The better burger movement gets the Canadian treatment at this Lake Nona outpost of this Ontario-based chain, but don’t blame Canada for the subpar poutine served here, or the overdone burgers and dogs. Shakes veer on the sweet side, but locals will appreciate Cigar City brews and Quantum Leap wines. 9680 Narcoossee Road, 407-745-4510; $ n

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OPENING IN orlando The TRanspoRTeR Refueled

By Steve Sch n ei d er Outta Compton a second time. (You can sneak in now, because the cops are gone!) Enter The Transporter Refueled, Hollywood’s official sacrificial lamb for Labor Day 2015. Sure, Transporter 2 set a record for business on the holiday, but: a) that’s not a hard competition to win; and b) it was 10 friggin’ years ago. And unlike previous entries in the series, Refueled is lacking Jason Statham, who is unquestionably the best in the world at whatever it is he does. In his place, we now have Ed Skrein, the British-born actor/rapper/alleged stabbing survivor known to American audiences from a season of Game of Thrones and the advance promo for Deadpool. Still unsold? There’s a quartet of deadly hot chicks in this thing, too.

They always make for good viewing, amirite? No? Well, maybe it’s not too late to splice in a shot or two of MC Ren. (PG-13)

Opening this week Chloe & Theo An Inuit man travels to New York City to let world leaders know about the impact climate change is having on his homeland. There he meets Chloe (Dakota Johnson), who decides to help him save the world. (PG-13) The Transporter Refueled Your calendar insists that summer has three more weeks to go, but your culturally mandated lifestyle begs to differ. By this point, you’ve already slathered Instagram with pics of your kids heading back to school, you’re raiding the shelves of Dollar Tree for Halloween decorations, and you’ve given up on the idea that going to the movies might yield any options more promising than seeing Straight

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FILM LISTINGS artists den presents alt-J Concert movie filmed at the Hollywood American Legion.

Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.; multiple locations; $13.31; fathomevents.com.

Marathon Mondays: star Wars Watch all three of the films from the original trilogy back to back.

Monday, 6 p.m.; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407-332-9636.

Central Florida Film Festival The 10th annual Central Florida Film Festival brings features, documentaries, shorts, guest panels, seminars and workshops to Ocoee. Appearance by Dan Haggerty from Grizzly Adams. Friday-Sunday; West Orange Cinema, 1575 Maguire Road, Ocoee; $25; 407-877-8111; centralfloridafilmfestival.com.

Midnight Movies: They live Rowdy Roddy Piper’s finest film. Saturday, 11:50 p.m.; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $11; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

Cult Classics: se7en David Fincher’s dark exploration of what’s in the box. Starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Tuesday, 9:30 p.m.; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $8; 407-629-0054; enzian.org. date night: Insurgent Enjoy current or classic films in a beautiful outdoor garden. Bring a dinner picnic and seating. Alcohol is permitted. Friday, 8 pm; Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave.; $6; 407-246-2620; leugardens.org.

The end of the Tour The story of a five-day road trip interview between David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel). Through Thursday; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $10; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

Summer Series: The Three amigos Catch the infamous película about the benefits of bilingualism and get a picnic dinner and beer included. Saturday, 8:30 p.m.; Eden Bar at the Enzian, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $20; 407-629-1088; enzian.org.

Tangerine The story of a sex worker investigating allegations of infidelity by her pimp boyfriend.

Opens Friday; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $11; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

Uncomfortable Brunch Presents: The holy Mountain Alejandro Jodorowsky gets super trippy. Sunday, noon; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10-$12; willspub.org. wednesday night Pitcher Show: uhf “Weird” Al Yankovic stars in this story about a man who runs his own TV station. Wednesday, 8 p.m.; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; free; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

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To reiterate, Tangerine is alive.

Essentially a screwball buddy comedy about transgender prostitutes and their runaway dreams, the film follows motormouth Sin-Dee Rella (Kitana “Kiki” Rodriguez) and her best friend Alexandra (Mya Taylor) on Christmas Eve. Both are non-actors whom Baker discovered at an LGBT center. No development required here – these characters existed long before the title card.

We’re introduced to them as they’re sharing a holiday donut and delivering rapid-fire gossip about what’s been going down on the streets while Sin-Dee was doing a short bid for possession. Alexandra drops a bomb, telling Sin-Dee that while she was in jail, her pimp/boyfriend Chester (The Wire’s James Ransone) cheated on her with a real “fish” – derogatory slang for a woman born with a vagina – a true insult in Sin-Dee’s world.

This betrayal sends Sin-Dee into a hurricane-like fury. From this point, Tangerine never stops moving. People are always walking, driving or taking a bus or cab somewhere. Baker’s camera follows Sin-

Dee and Alexandra as they hunt for Chester and the “fish” in the less picturesque parts of Hollywood. And holy hell, Sin-Dee can walk fast. The click-clack of her high heels creates a metronome of sorts that sets the pace of the film, with Alexandra and the audience trying to keep stride. Sin-Dee navigates through a dizzying array of characters, johns, cops and fellow prostitutes as she desperately hunts down Chester.

Also traversing Hollywood is Razmik (Karren Karuglian), an Armenian cabbie who enjoys picking up transgender hookers in between fares. He’s got a thing for Sin-Dee, so when he hears she’s out of jail, he leaves his family on Christmas Eve in search of her. All of these kindred spirits collide in one explosive scene that’s pure madcap comedy gold. Every time Tangerine skirts really dark territory, Baker delivers relieving humor that’s often laugh-out-loud funny.

Behind the humor, there’s a lot of tenderness and compassion for the characters.

Baker doesn’t explore transgender identity with any real depth – Tangerine isn’t a lecture. But Sin-Dee and Alexandra aren’t limited by their identities either. Aside from Chester, all of the characters have an intrinsic sadness to them. Sin-Dee has been betrayed. Alexandra wants to be a singer, not a hooker, and this could-havebeen wish weighs her down. Razmik hides his sexual proclivities from his family. Only when Tangerine puts on the brakes a bit can the sadness be seen, and it’s then that the bittersweet undertone comes through.

When this most hectic Christmas Eve comes to an end, it’s not on a particularly triumphant note. It’s not on a sad one, either. There’s a sense, in that final, poignant shot, that this stable of characters is just happy to have survived another day. It’s a Christmas miracle. feedback@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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Baumbach’s bombast Mistress America talks furiously but conveys little By c a me r o n me i e r

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oah Baumbach doesn’t strike me as a screwball. He’s more of a cross between the French New Wave and Wes Anderson (with whom he’s worked).

Yet in his new film, Mistress America, he mixes his usual dramedy with unhealthy heaps of Howard Hawks to concoct a tasteless cream puff. Unfortunately, he can’t have his cake and screw it, too.

Working again with writer-actor Greta Gerwig (his collaborator on 2013’s Frances Ha), Baumbach has created a story that might lend itself well to a treatment similar to that of The Squid and the Whale, arguably his best directorial effort. It’s the tale of Tracy (Lola Kirke), a college freshman whose life has become a party at which she knows no one. Her loneliness is shattered when she befriends Brooke (Gerwig), a 30-year-old bombastic ball of energy who is about to become her stepsister.

The two start hanging out, and though Tracy suspects Brooke of poor judgment and self-destructive behavior, she soaks up their relationship. “It was too much fun to agree with her,” she tells herself. Tracy even follows Brooke on an illogical adventure from New York City to Connecticut to reconcile with an old friend who apparently stole Brooke’s fiancé, her business idea and even her pets. It’s little wonder Tracy turns Brooke into the main character for her short story, “Mistress America,” a reference to Brooke’s own idea for a TV show about the “essence of America.”

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If this sounds like a tonally challenged mess, it is. The film lurches frenetically from stagey, theatrical farce to quirky tenderness in a failed attempt to charm. Worst of all, the dialogue – which comes fast and furious – is forced and unfunny, never packing the comedic punch of Bringing Up Baby or His Girl Friday. This is more like Monday: a seemingly endless, annoying and unenjoyable – even depressing – reflection of the fragility of friendship, the fleeting nature of motivation and the zeitgeist of the ADD era.

“Your generation [is] so pastiche,” an acquaintance tells Brooke and Tracy. The same could be said for Mistress America, which lacks a cinematic soul of its own and instead relies on bad imitations of various styles of film and theater that should not be combined.

Kirke (Gone Girl, Free the Nipple), in arguably her biggest role to date, is somewhat likable but doesn’t bring enough energy or relatability to the role. She’s also upstaged by the movie’s inconsistencies in pacing, mood and structure, and by Gerwig’s performance, which isn’t so much a performance as a series of line readings, alternating between clever and cloying, and delivered in brief bursts instead of meaningful exchanges. Perhaps she was too busy with her producing and writing jobs to give proper thought to her acting.

“Everyone is an asshole in high school,” Brooke tells a girl who accuses her of bullying when she was younger. Yes, and some people stay assholes. Though that might make good material for drama, it’s not fodder for farce, at least not in the hands of Baumbach and Gerwig. feedback@orlandoweekly.com

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Nature of the beast Earl Sweatshirt’s dark rhymes dig deep to reach the interior corners of the self

By NiCk MCGrEGor earl SweaTSHIrT with remy Banks, nxworries 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3 | Venue 578, 578 N. Orange Ave. | 407-883-9033 | venue578.com | $30

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uch of today’s rap world is obsessed with full-blast visibility: 24/7 Twitter immersion, nonstop Instagram documentation and an all-pressis-good-press PR strategy. But 21-year-old Los Angeles MC Earl Sweatshirt, who came up with the Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All crew and is now a beacon for introspective, self-conscious hip-hop, has relied on a much more mysterious method of ducking and weaving.

Born Thebe Neruda Kgositsile to a South African poet and a Southern California civil rights activist and law professor, Sweatshirt has two universally acclaimed major-label albums, 2013’s Doris and 2015’s I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside, to his name. And although he used to evade interview requests with the deftness of a Hollywood star, he seems more comfortable in 2015 matching the personal nature of his work with an increased desire to

speak on it.

“I can only talk about the truth,” Sweatshirt says. “For the music to have a grip on someone, it’s gotta be outlandishly truthful and super honest. That’s the only thing that sticks out now. It takes a lot of self-awareness to make something that has a visible, palpable start and ending.”

Sweatshirt’s early ascendance was anything but visible, though. In 2010, with fans flocking to download free material from Odd Future’s Tumblr page and critics scrambling to understand the new Internet-driven phenomenon, Sweatshirt remained little known and conspicuously absent. Then crew ringleader Tyler, the Creator started pushing a “Free Earl” social media campaign that reached a fever pitch in 2011, when Complex and The New Yorker finally figured out what had happened to the then-17-year-old rapper.

To condense months of investigative reporting: Before joining Odd Future in 2009, Sweatshirt went by Sly Tendencies, which led to evidence of acquaintances calling him “Thebe,” which led to YouTube videos of a young Thebe Kgositsile – son of South African poet laureate Keorapetse

Kgositsile – performing a Korean martial art called Hwa Rang Do. Once Sweatshirt’s true identity was revealed, hip-hop sleuths noted a cryptic line in an Odd Future song about “free[ing] Earl from the Samoans,” which led to online rumors of his stay at a school for troubled boys in Samoa, where a student confirmed that yes, Earl Sweatshirt was in attendance while his friends in LA were becoming crazy famous.

At the time, no one knew whether he went to Samoa voluntarily or at the behest of his mother, but on Feb. 9, 2012, his dormant Twitter feed unexpectedly sprang to life, and he requested 50,000 new followers before he’d release a new song, appropriately titled “Home.” Three hours later, Sweatshirt was officially back, quickly following “Home” with other lyrically mind-blowing moments like “Chum, ”Whoa” and “Burgundy,” all of which were combined onto his 2013 debut Doris. This year’s follow-up, I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside, is equally brilliant – especially claustrophobic lead single “Grief.”

“When I take a step back and look at it honestly, I’d say I’m doing all right,” Sweatshirt admits. “A lot of the things I say about myself on [I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside] [are] a cleansing of the person and spirit. A lot of it is ‘dark,’ but [criticism of that] is coming from people not trying to hear that shit every day. These are heavy truths, and in this day and age, that’s not what people want. So it is a bit shocking and has a coldwater effect. But when [those dark truths] are ignored, it can envelope the person.”

And Sweatshirt is definitely down for such drama. He avoided it earlier this year when Tyler, the Creator hinted about the demise of Odd Future. He’s avoiding it now on tour, where he says he’s far healthier (eating well, sleeping normally and studying the Buddhist Paths) than in years past. He even avoided blaming his label, Columbia, for botching the release strategy of I Don’t Like Shit earlier this year.

In short, this is one 21-year-old who’s learning at a fast clip — constantly shifting the contours of his public persona (Earl Sweatshirt) while remaining true to the person inside (Thebe) about his limitations, his future potential and his role in rap’s ever-changing landscape. “Odd Future and [Lil B] The BasedGod tore rap music open forever,” Sweatshirt says. “It’s a hellhole right now, both good and bad.

It’s like Mad Max. People’s careers mirror how fast the Internet moves – the lifespan of these young rappers is like that of a mosquito. But I just look at myself in terms of the fact that I’m interested in growing. I don’t ever want to stay in one spot.”

Great live music rattles OrlandO EVErY nIGHT

Fear Factory Industrial metal band Fear Factory released Genexus this year, shocking fans with begrudging evolution toward melody, where before they’d primarily elected to melt faces.

6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, at Venue 578, $25-$60

50 Cent 50 Cent unleashed Animal Ambition last year in lieu of Street King Immortal, pacifying fans with new tracks in the meantime and signaling a new independence that might give them good reason to “Hold On.” 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at Gilt Nightclub, $20-$80

Waka Flocka Flame Head behind UCF Arena for this charity concert that benefits Orange County Public Schools. They’re hoping the rapper can help them raise $50,000.

7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, at the Venue at UCF, $20

Wet Nurse, the Welzeins Hourglass Brewery’s free concerts shake up your routine, and this one features notable garage rockers the Welzeins and rising garage punks Wet Nurse, whose new album is so close to releasing, our bellies hurt waiting.

9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, at Hourglass Brewery, free

Gringo Star Intriguing Atlanta four-piece Gringo Star is a band of multi-instrumentalists whose live show sees them constantly rotating to keep the crowd’s heads spinning.

8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6, at Will’s Pub, $8-$10

James Leg Holy cow, the Reverend James Leg (Black Diamond Heavies) is in town, looking to stun us with innovative, stripped-down blues that bisects your soul with shockingly intense keys and gravel-ground vocals.

9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7, at Will’s Pub, $7

Ed Sheeran Earnest pop singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is consumed by innocent romance on last year’s X, so go if you need to remind yourself the whole world isn’t jaded.

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, at Amway Center, $57.50-$67.50

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So let me get this straight. The

latest show booked by Non-Prophet Organization (Aug. 28, Will’s Pub) was an obviously eclectic bill and you guys weren’t confused, still turned out in significant numbers and were in full embrace of it? What the? Who are you? Nice to meet you. I’ve been looking a long time for people like you.

But if you’re gonna go out on a limb, this was the one to do it for. Atlanta headliner Whores has been beating the sweet shit out of the heavy-music cognoscenti around here for a few years, but it’s feeling like they’ve been building up to a new national cusp lately. With a mean eye on the throne, these noise-rock princes have been sharpening their machetes and getting into primetime shape with things like their big upcoming Revolver magazinesponsored fall tour with Portland butchers Red Fang. And it looks like Orlando’s on pace this time because this was by far the biggest, most physical reception I’ve seen for them.

Local opener the Ludes delivered possibly their drunkest performance yet.

Luckily, singer-guitarist Jeff Nolan, one of the city’s most skilled and venerated axemen, could probably shred under anesthesia, so it was still a decent slab of their unapologetically regressive and hot-licked rock & roll.

After some time off the circuit working on new material, DeLand’s Junior Bruce is now back prowling stages with a little more velocity and some new shades in their gaping fury. What hasn’t changed is that they’re still bosses of tarry, boil-

Whores has been beating the sweet shit out of the heavy-music cognoscenti around here for years. ing swamp-bottom sludge. This was a refresher that it’s overdue for them to start flexing around here again.

Like DeLand first called to me back in the late 2000s and the Space Coast in more recent years, Lakeland is the most recent hotbed in the area that’s buzzed my radar with impressive bands like Omri Loved Celadon and Poster. Add Pilgrimage to that list. They do well-pitched post-hardcore that carries both emotional range and math intelligence with enough compass to not get lost in either. While many mix styles to Frankenstein results, Pilgrimage is a smart gestalt that taps and unifies the power of all their edges without any fusion compromise. They’re heartfelt but still forceful, technical but not nerdy, and much harder live than their recordings reveal.

THE BEAT

L.A. rockabilly icon Kim Lenz (Aug. 23, Will’s Pub) drew the best-coiffed and most prêt-à-party crowd seen in a long time, complete with total drunken revelry and floor-scorching swing dancing. Powered by a good band, Lenz’s brass and charisma had the dresses twirling.

But the act that first got ’em moving en masse was Little Sheba and the Shamans. Like the Detroit Cobras, this Tampa combo lights new flame into obscure early rock & roll and rhythm & blues songs. Unless you’re a specialist aficionado, you wouldn’t even know this was a cover band. Their material may be borrowed, but it’s sourced deeply and played with original fire.

To that end, the unmistakable sun of their galaxy is the seriously tough voice of frontwoman Ari Little, which is a soulforged wrecking ball that she’s only wielding at partial potential. Enough of it manifested to slap me in the face, but it’s evident she’s pulling what is clearly a knockout punch. When you’re lucky enough to own an engine with that much horsepower, the only wrong you can do is to not open it up and let her rip. And this girl is perching on a rocket.

Finally, Denver opener the Drunken Cuddle kickstarted the night with a nice little storm of spirited boxcar country punk. Although they’re but a lean, mean trio, they kick up more dust and raise more dead than bands twice their size. They’re more than just power, however. Besides their core arrangement of guitar, drums and harmonica, they color their palette further with folksy edges like spoons and tin cans without getting too campy. And through frontman Erik Arvoy’s sonorous guitar work, they even ride high on some great, rolling Spaghetti Western lines.

Tally it all up and you’ve got one highperformance stage machine. baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com

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Wednesday, 2

Happy Hour Art Tour ART In the eternal quest to gorge your eyes with beauty while sticking to a diet budget-wise, the monthly free tours of the Alfond Inn’s collection of contemporary art are a vital new activity. You can wander in and look at the art on your own any time, of course – donated by Rollins alums Barbara and Ted Alfond, the Alfond Collection is an ever-growing body of works by significant contemporary artists, most of which are installed at the hotel (though pieces are rotated fairly often, and sometimes they make their way into shows at Rollins’ Cornell Fine Arts Museum). But on the first Wednesday of each month, CFAM staff lead a tour of the art, giving insight and background into the works scattered throughout the five-floor hotel. Conveniently, it’s scheduled right around happy hour, and the hotel just so happens to have a cozy little bar offering happy-hour specials … the perfect place to discuss your new knowledge over a drink or two. – Jessica Bryce Young

5:30 p.m. | Alfond Inn, 300 E. New England Ave., Winter Park | 407-998-8090 | cfam.rollins.edu | free Wednesday, 2

Friday, 4

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Ears have been ringing for weeks in anticipation of Earth’s descent into Orlando. Their distinct heavy pull leveraged expansive drone and psych experimentations in the ’90s to echo the dissonance and doom of the cosmic ether. We were all ethereally floating through life without an ear bent to acknowledge it when Earth disbanded, but guitarist Dylan Carlson set that world on blast by reviving the project in 2003. Last year’s release, Primitive and Deadly, creates otherworldly textures and casts you naked and afraid in its spell, particularly by the time you reach its core, the 11-minute sprawl of the sparse yet dramatic “From the Zodiacal Light” with its alien vocal wails. – Ashley Belanger

People looked to blastmaster KRSOne (short for “poet,” duh) in the ’80s not just as a fiery (and seminal) hardcore hiphop frontman of Boogie Down Productions, but also as “the Teacher” into the ’90s when his socially conscious solo career shoved fans into adopting new perspectives. Last year, an overview of his influence was released, The Essential Boogie Down Productions/KRS-One, and every current rapper should probably bounce back and remind themselves of its crucial lessons in responsible celebrity. (See “I’m Still #1”: “Now it’s my turn, and I am concerned/ about idiots posing as kings/what are we here to rule?/I thought we were here to sing/and if we ought to sing, then let us begin to teach/many of you are educated, open your mouth and speak.”) His truths are still resonating, so don’t be a dummy and miss out while KRS-One’s school is thankfully still in session. – AB

with Holy Sons, Secret Tracers | 8 p.m. | Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. | willspub.org | $15

with SplitSoul, Moody Green, Nosis, Novice | 7 p.m. | Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St. | 407-999-2570 | backbooth.com | $16

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Sunday, 6

50 Cent Effen Vodka Bottle Signing

Life in Color

If you miss his show at Gilt on Thursday, you can still catch 50 Cent in town on Friday when he signs bottles of the new liquor he’s invested in, Effen Vodka. (The name of which makes it really fun to order, by the way.) Don’t be fooled: 50 Cent still has way more than two quarters to his name. The bankruptcy filing that made news recently was an attempt to dissuade a jury from assessing additional punitive damages in a civil suit brought against him by a woman whose sex tape he posted on his website. So the fact that he’s signing bottles of his latest investment at a liquor store out by UCF shouldn’t be seen as a desperate move to pay bills. Rather, Curtis Jackson is displaying the same business acumen that helped him make a fortune when Coca-Cola bought Vitamin Water. So go get some Effen Vodka, but don’t presume that Fiddy needs the Effen money. – Thaddeus McCollum

50 CENT PHOTO BY JEREMY DEPUTAT CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING PHOTO BY JOSH WOOL

EVENTS

8:30 p.m. | Pat’s Liquor Leaf & Wine, 4250 Alafaya Trail, Oviedo | 407-365-0998 | patsliquororlando.com | $28.99 per bottle

Paying an exorbitant amount of money for someone to spray non-toxic paint in your mouth and onto your clothes while you dance to EDM may not sound like a smart idea, but you should at least try it once. Life in Color, advertised as the “World’s Largest Paint Party,” comes to Orlando this weekend at the Central Florida fairgrounds on Colonial Drive.

Featuring Showtek, Henry Fong and TroyBoi, this year’s event has an improved paint formula that’s not going to smell and stick to your skin for a week. Conceived by college kids at Florida State University, Life in Color suggests you ruin your white clothes and bring them to the party to be a canvas for all that paint they’re going to throw at you. Tickets are $48 to $50 per person, and this year, organizers will attempt, in between the bumping and grinding, to teach how color was created. – Monivette Cordeiro

EVENTS

50 CENT EFFEN VODKA BOTTLE SIGNING

Sunday, 6

Tuesday, 8

If you’ve never had the Uncomfortable Brunch experience, this month might be the time to try it. Each month, the UncoBrun crew chooses another fidgetinducingly embarrassing movie to screen while brunch is served, making this Orlando’s most awkward dining event. But unlike such pain-, excrement- and wang-filled treats as Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Wetlands and Shame – the featured entertainment at earlier Uncomfortable Brunches – Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain, a 1970s counterculture classic, is filled with gentle, almost sweet, moments. (Though there are also wangs. And excrement.) – JBY

MUSIC “I think once they heard the finished record, I got a phone call,” Christopher Paul Stelling says. He is the latest Central Florida musician to arrive nationally. Newly on Anti Records, the same boutique label that vaulted venerated Orlando hip-hop group Solillaquists of Sound back in 2009, the rootsy troubadour joins a big-league roster alongside names like Tom Waits, Neko Case and Wilco. But as with most artists that finally break, the road’s been long and underground, tracing back to his native Daytona Beach via the Orlando indie scene. Now, the art he’s been honing all these years is finally seeing full daylight and his itinerary these days includes high-profile stops like the Newport Folk Festival and NPR’s Tiny Desk where his dazzle can catch more listeners. Read our interview with Stelling at orlandoweekly.com. – Bao Le-Huu

noon | Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. | uncomfortablebrunch.com | $10-$12

with Henry Toland, Austin Miller | 7:30 p.m. | Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave. | willspub.org | $7

Uncomfortable Brunch Presents The Holy Mountain FILM

6 p.m. | Central Florida Fairgrounds, 4603 W. Colonial Drive | lifeincolor.com | $48-$50

Christopher Paul Stelling

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Black Pussy, Ape Machine, Bloody Jug Band 7 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $10-$12; 407-999-2570.

Earth, Holy Sons, Secret Tracers 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $15.

Eugene Snowden’s Ten Pints of Truth 10 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

Fear Factory, Once Human, Before the Mourning, the Bloodline, Thicket, (N)Ception 6 pm; Venue 578, 578 N. Orange Ave.; $25; 407-872-0066.

The Imperial’s Acoustic Soundcheck With Lauren Carder 9 pm; The Imperial at Washburn Imports, 1800 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-228-4992.

Liquid Spiral 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Reggae Night with Hor!zen and DJ Red I 10 pm; The Caboose, 1827 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-898-7733.

Sickmark, Constraint, I’m an Intestine, Mindscar 10 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $6 suggested donation; 407-270-9104.

Spiff TV Birthday Bash: French Montana 10 pm; The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave.; $20-$30; 407-648-8363.

Bearaoke 8 pm; Stonewall Bar Orlando, 741 W. Church St.; free; 407-373-0888.

The Geek Easy Open Mic 7:45 pm; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407-332-9636.

Jazz Night 9 pm; Natura Coffee & Tea, 12078 Collegiate Way; free; 407-482-5000.

Mac and Cheese Wednesday 10 pm; Independent Bar, 70 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-839-0457.

One Hit Wonder Wednesdays 10 pm; The Patio, 14 W. Washington St.; free; 407-354-1577.

Torque: Brett Evans & Shipp’oh, Aaron Marana Open Mic 10 pm; Native Social Bar, 27 W. 8 pm; Winter Park Beer Church St.; $5; 407-403-2938. Company, 1809 E. Winter Park Road; free.

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Acoustic Wednesdays 8:30 pm; Rogue Pub, 3076 Curry Ford Road; free; 407-985-3778.

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Trivia Nation 8 pm; Frank and Steins, 150 S. Magnolia Ave.; free; 407-412-9230.

Trivia Night 7 pm; West End Trading Company, 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; free; 407-322-7475.

Dave Sheffield Jazz Trio 9 pm; Winter Park Beer Company, 1809 E. Winter Park Road; free.

Trivia with Doug Bowser 7:30 pm; Hamburger Mary’s, 110 W. Church St.; free; 321-319-0600.

Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples, Remy Banks 7 pm; Venue 578, 578 N. Orange Ave.; $30$60; 407-872-0066.

Untucked Bingo with Ginger Minj 5:30-9 pm; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; free; 407-425-7571.

Wicked 10 pm; Bullitt Bar, 33 E. Pine St.; free; 407-839-0999.

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Leisure Chief 10 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Michael Calfan, Alex Wood, Chris Ayo, Renegade Ralph 10 pm; The Attic, 68 E. Pine St.; $10.

Open Mic Jazz 8 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364.

1st Thursday Songwriting Series With Beth McKee 8 pm; The Smiling Bison, 745 Bennett Road; free; 407-579-0439.

Survay Says, Firestarter, Bad Year 7 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $10; 407-999-2570.

50 Cent 10 pm; Gilt Nightclub, 740 Bennett Road; $20-$80; 407-504-7699.

Under the Influence: Hosted by the Reverend and Mandaddy 10 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

The Vinyl Warhol Zine Release: Adam and the Plastic, Yogurt Smoothness, the Knick Knacks 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $5.

The Vivid, Flashlights, Yogurt Smoothness, Omri Loved Celadon 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $5.

Clubs/lounges Bar Brawl Club 9 pm; The Milk Bar, 2424 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-896-4954.

Bears In The City Presents: Thirsty Thursday Bearaoke 9 pm-1 am; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; free; 407-425-7571.

Board Game Night Noon; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407-332-9636.

Earth Trivia - Simon Time 7 pm; Copper Rocket Pub, 106 Lake Ave., Maitland; free; 407-636-3171.

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Funky Buddha Sweet Potato Casserole Release It’s getting close to the end of summer, so all of the fall beers are getting ready to be released. Instead of the same old pumpkin spice-flavored ale, Funky Buddha offers up a sweet potato casserole in a glass, which promises to taste like gooey marshmallow, fall spices and sweet potatoes. 7 p.m. Thursday; World of Beer Downtown, 431 Central Blvd.; various menu prices; worldofbeer.com

Death Grips Oct. 7 at the Beacham

The Shisha Bowl Grand Opening Downtown gets a new hookah lounge this week on the ground floor of the Aspire building. The Shisha Bowl promises a slate of live music, video games and open mic nights. For their opening night, they’ve tapped TrainQuill and Leya Siri to provide the tunes and are offering a $10 all-you-can-smoke deal on hookahs. 5 p.m. Friday; The Shisha Bowl, 111 E. Washington St.; free; theshishabowl.com

Akiba Crash II The Geek Easy hosts a

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party for the otaku and weeaboo crowd. DJ Quietly, dj-Jo and Hoshikuzu Kid provide the soundtrack, with plenty of J-pop, anime remixes and doujin music to dance to. Akihabarastyle fashion and cosplay is encouraged, so make sure you dress up to let everyone know that you’re kawaii till you die. 8 p.m. Saturday; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; facebook.com/thegeekeasy

ZZ Ward, Sept. 9 at the Beacham

alt-J, Sept. 30 at Hard Rock Live

Best Coast, Sept. 11 at the Social

Orlando Indie Comedy Fest, Oct. 1-4 at multiple venues

My Hotel Year, Sept.

11 at Will’s Pub

Danzig, Oct. 12 at Hard Rock Live

The Growlers, Broncho, Nov. 4 at the Social

Trevor Hall, Oct. 12-13 at the Social

Sufjan Stevens, Nov. 6 at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Bring Me the Horizen, Oct. 1 at Hard Rock Live

New Found Glory, Yellowcard, Oct. 16 at House of Blues

KEN Mode, Oct. 2 at Will’s Pub Adventure Club, Oct. 3 at House of Blues

John Cleese & Eric Idle, Oct. 17 at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Death Grips, Oct. 7 at the Beacham

Halsey, Oct. 17 at House of Blues

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Nov. 7 at Will’s Pub

Eric Hutchinson, Sept. 16 at the Social

Twin Shadow, Oct. 7 at the Social

Cannibal Ox, Oct. 18 at Backbooth

Minus the Bear, Nov. 7 at the Social

Lydia Lunch and Weasel Walter, Sept.

18 at the Gallery at Avalon Island

Kylesa, Oct. 8 at the Social

John Hodgman, Oct. 23 at the Plaza Live

Public Image Ltd., Nov. 7 at the Plaza Live

Gang of Four, Oct. 27 at the Social

Deafheaven, Nov. 11 at the Social

Desaparecidos, Oct. 29 at the Social

Slow Magic, Nov. 12 at the Social

Chvrches, Oct. 30 at House of Blues

Nobunny, Nov. 22 at Will’s Pub

Zappa Plays Zappa, Sept. 12 at the Plaza Live Purity Ring, Sept. 12 at House of Blues Will’s Pub 20th Anniversary, Sept. 13 at Will’s Pub

The Mountain Goats, Oct. 8 at the Beacham

Wet Nurse, Marshawn Jackson and the Welzeins Wet Nurse are getting ready to

Billy Idol, Sept. 23 at Hard Rock Live

go out on tour for most of September and October, so this might be your last chance to see them before they blow up all over the country. Plus, it’s a good excuse to go get your growler filled up with some of Hourglass’ delicious brew. 9 p.m. Saturday; The Hourglass Brewery, 480 S. Ronald Reagan Blvd., Longwood; free; thehourglassbrewery.com

Janet Jackson, Sept.

23 at Amway Center

Here Come the Mummies, Oct. 9 at the Plaza Live

Helmet, Sept. 26 at the Social

Ghost, Oct. 10 at the Beacham

Nick Jonas, Sept. 26 at House of Blues

Autechre, Oct. 10 at the Social

Charli XCX, Bleachers, Sept. 27 at House of Blues

Drive-By Truckers, Oct. 10 at the Plaza Live

Two Cow Garage, Matt Woods, Oct. 30 at Will’s Pub Pepper, Oct. 31 at the Plaza Live

Suicide Girls: Blackheart Burlesque, Nov. 6 at the Beacham

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The Great Irish Hooley Labor Day weekend marks the halfway point to another St. Patrick’s Day, and if you can’t wait for March to go all out with your Plastic Paddy celebrations, make your way down to Raglan Road at Downtown Disney for an Irish celebration that’s surprisingly authentic. The Great Irish Hooley brings in a slew of real Irish musicians for a long weekend of performances, from the traditional seisiún-style songs of the West Coast Trio to the Celtgrass of JigJam to the modern pop of the counterintuitively named Screaming Orphans. Bring the bairns and get their faces painted while you sample four limited-edition beers from Ireland’s Rye River Brewing, including a Raglan Road saison made exclusively for the weekend. Make sure to try chef Kevin Dundon’s new seafoodcentric dishes while you’re there. – Thaddeus McCollum EVENTS

noon | Raglan Road, Downtown Disney, 1640 E. Buena Vista Drive | 407-938-0300 | raglanroad.com | various menu prices

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Geek Trivia 9 pm; Cloak and Blaster, 875 Woodbury Road; free.

Guts and Glory - Pop Punk Night 11:30 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; free; 407-999-2570.

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Indiecent Thursdays Independent Bar, 70 N. Orange Ave.; contact for price; 407-839-04357.

Late Night Swim 9 pm; Spacebar, 2428 E. Robinson St.; $4; 407-228-0804.

Latin Night 9 pm; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; contact for price; 407-425-7571.

Locker Room Thursdays 5 pm; Stonewall Bar Orlando, 741 W. Church St.; free; 407-373-0888.

Think Tank Trivia 8 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

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Open Mic 8 pm; Rogue Pub, 3076 Curry Ford Road; free; 407-985-3778.

Open Mic with Chuck Culbertson 9 pm; Little Fish Huge Pond, 401 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; free; 407-221-1499.

Re-Freshed 10 pm; Cafe Annie, 131 N. Orange Ave.; free-$5; 407-420-4041.

Retuned 10 pm; The Monkey Bar, 26 Wall Street Plaza; free; 407-481-1199.

Roots Rock Reggae Thursdays 10 pm; The Patio, 14 W. Washington St.; free; 407-354-1577.

ConCerts/events Dave Scott’s 50th Birthday: The Attack, the Smash, Awesome and the Ass Kickers, Tommy Frenzy’s Hard Drive, DJ Johnny Garlic 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $6.

Dr. K & Friends Blue Jazz 8 pm; Chef Eddie’s, 595 W. Church St.; free; 407-595-8494.

George Acosta, Jennifer Marley, Fawad Karim 9 pm; Peek Downtown, 50 E. Central Blvd Suite B; $10.

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Gutless, Consent, Cat Hair 7 pm; The Space Station, 2539 Coolidge Ave.; $5 suggested donation; 321-356-2804.

Josh Lamkin and Automatic Heat 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

KRS-One, SplitSoul, Moody Green, Nosis, Novice 7 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $16-$20; 407-999-2570.

Lucidea 9 pm; Red Lion Pub, 3784 Howell Branch Road, Winter Park; $5; 407-677-9669.

Mango Beats 10 pm; Debbie’s Bar, 1422 State Road 436, Casselberry; free; 407-677-5963.

Renderglow 7 pm; Todd English’s Bluezoo, Disney’s Dolphin Resort, Lake Buena Vista; free; 407-934-1111.

Rocket Man - A Tribute to Elton John 7:30 pm; House of Blues, Downtown Disney West Side, Lake Buena Vista; $7.75; 407-934-2583.

Soul Funktion Rhythm and Blues 7 pm; Paradise Cove Restaurant and Bar, 4380 Carraway Place, Sanford; free.

Waka Flocka Flame 7 pm; The Venue at UCF, Building 50, N. Gemini Blvd.; $20; 407-823-3070.

What So Not 10 pm; Venue 578, 578 N. Orange Ave.; $15-$20; 407-872-0066.

Clubs/lounges Curtis Earth Trivia 8 pm; Winter Park Beer Company, 1809 E. Winter Park Road; free.

DJ BMF 10 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

DJ Cliff T 10 pm; Aero, 60 N. Orange Ave.; free; 321-245-7730.

Footloose 80s Night Midnight; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; free; 407-999-2570.

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Nerdy Karaoke 8 pm; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407-332-9636.

Uberbahn 9 pm; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; free; 407-423-3060.

Wall Street Plaza Block Party 11 pm; Wall Street Plaza, Wall and Court streets; free; 407-849-0471. saTurday, sepT. 5

ConCerts/events Akiba Crash II: dj-Jo, DJ Quietly, Hoshikuzu Kid 8 pm; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407-332-9636.

Black Light Cobras, Gears, Demented Truth, In the After, Rubble Road 9 pm; The Haven, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $10; 407-673-2712.

The Company 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Days N Daze, Night Gaunts, Everymen, the Dull Blades, Buffy, Whiskey Faithful 9 pm; Rabbitfoot Records Coffee Lounge, 307 E. Second St., Sanford; $5; 321-926-3417.

The Hip Abduction, Spred the Dub, Brett Staska 8 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $12-$15; 407-246-1419.

Kiel Grove, Leonhardt 10 pm; Lil Indies, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

Lawless Hearts, Felicity, On the Avenue, the Adolescent Theory, Arakara, Dyne Side, With Eyes Alive 6 pm; The Venue, 511 Virginia Drive; $10-$12.

Orlando Is Tight Compilation Fundraiser: Caffiends, Destructonomicon, Every You, the Shakers 6 pm; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; $5; 407-999-2570.

Orlando Rocks!: Soulswitch, Mr. Bella, Blaine the Mono, I Woke Up Early for My Funeral 7 pm; House of Blues,

Downtown Disney West Side, Lake Buena Vista; $5; 407-934-2583.

Party Flag, Tight Genes, Nuka Waves 10 pm; St. Matthew’s Tavern, 1300 N. Mills Ave.; $4.

Shak Nasti, Leisure Chief, Con Leche 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10.

Soul Funktion Rhythm and Blues 7 pm; Paradise Cove Restaurant and Bar, 4380 Carraway Place, Sanford; free.

Tears of a Tyrant 10 pm; Paddy’s of Winter Park, 1566 West Fairbanks Ave, Winter Park; free.

Ummet Ozcan 10 pm; Gilt Nightclub, 740 Bennett Road; $15$40; 407-504-7699.

Wet Nurse, Marshawn Jackson, the Welzeins 9 pm; The Hourglass Brewery, 255 S. Ronald Reagan Blvd., Longwood; free; 407-719-9874.

Clubs/lounges DJ Cliff T 10 pm; Aero, 60 N. Orange Ave.; free; 321-245-7730.

DJ Stranger Jazz/Funk Brunch 11 am-2 pm; Ethos Vegan Kitchen, 601-B S. New York Ave., Winter Park; free; various menu prices; 407-228-3898.

Greetings From Orlando: Spreadsheets, Bleek ‘n Coy 2-9 pm; Barley and Vine Biergarten, 2406 E. Washington St.; free.

Midnight Mass Dance Party Midnight; Backbooth, 37 W. Pine St.; free; 407-999-2570.

Saturday With the Beat 10 pm; The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave.; $10$20; 407-648-8363.

Saturdays Party on the Patio With DJ Parry & DJ Rock Johnson 10 pm; The Patio, 14 W. Washington St.; free; 407-354-1577.

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ConCerts/events Ancient Sun 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Curtis Earth Trivia 6:30 pm; Bikes Beans & Bordeaux, 3022 Corrine Drive; free; 407-427-1440.

White Trash Bingo with Doug Ba’aser 10 pm; Stonewall Bar Orlando, 741 W. Church St.; free; 407-373-0888.

Curtis Earth Trivia 7 pm; Graffiti Junktion - Thornton Park, 900 E. Washington St.; free; 407-426-9503.

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Game Night 9 pm; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; free; 407-425-7571.

Christopher Paul Stelling, Henry Toland, Austin Miller 7:30 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $7.

Gruesome, Deformed, Cave Moth, Ebullition, Rhythm of Fear 7 pm; The Haven, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $12-$15; 407-673-2712.

Noche Latina 9 pm; Pulse, 1912 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-3888.

Ed Sheeran, Christina Perri 7:30 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; $57.50-$67.50; 800-745-3000.

Henry Fong 10 pm; Venue 578, 578 N. Orange Ave.; $15; 407-872-0066.

Rock Band Jam Night 8:30 pm; The Haven, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-673-2712.

Gringo Star, Thee Wilt Chamberlain, Tight Genes 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $8-$10.

The Groove Orient 10:30 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Jazz in the Courtyard with the DaVinci Jazz Experiment 7-9 pm; Cafe DaVinci, 112 W. Georgia Ave., DeLand; free; 386-873-2943.

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Jazz Tuesdays 7:30 pm; The Smiling Bison, 745 Bennett Road; free; 407-898-8580.

Music Remembrance Jazz Trio 8 pm; Paradise Cove Restaurant and Bar, 4380 Carraway Place, Sanford; free.

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Tito El Bambino 9 pm; Gilt Nightclub, 740 Bennett Road; $25-$60; 407-504-7699.

Clubs/lounges Acoustic Open Mic with Chris Dupre 9 pm; Muldoon’s Saloon, 7439 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-657-9980.

An Tobar Trivia 6 pm; An Tobar, 600 N. Lake Destiny Drive, Maitland; $5; 407-267-4044.

The Beacham Top 20 7 pm; The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave.; 407-648-8363.

Bingo After Dark 10 pm; Waitiki Retro Tiki Lounge, 26 Wall Street Plaza; free; 407-481-1199.

Not Your Grandpa’s Bingo 7 pm; Copper Rocket Pub, 106 Lake Ave., Maitland; free; 407-636-3171.

Open Mic at the Falcon 3 pm; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; free; 407-423-3060.

Tropical Sundays with DJ Frankie G 10 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $5-$15; 407-246-1419.

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ConCerts/events James Leg (Black Diamond Heavies) 9 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $7.

Jazz Meets Motown 7 pm; Bohemian Hotel Celebration, 700 Bloom St., Celebration; free.

Reggae Mondae with Kash’d Out 10 pm; Tanqueray’s, 100 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-649-8540.

Whiskey Sharts, Spirit Empire, Schitt 8 pm; Olde 64, 64 N. Orange Ave.; free; 321-2457730.

Clubs/lounges Bears in the City Bearaoke 9 pm-1 am; Bar Codes, 4453 Edgewater Drive; free; 407-412-6917.

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Negura Bunget, Grimegod, Dynfari, Sons of Ragnar, Wrapped in Pale 7 pm; The Haven, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $12-$15; 407-673-2712.

Bears in the City Bear Beats Bearaoke 9 pm-1 am; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; free; 407-425-7571.

Dirty Bingo 9 pm; Stardust Lounge, 431 E. Central Blvd.; free; 407-839-0080.

The Strange Trip 9 pm; The Shisha Bowl, 111 E. Washington St.; free; 407-270-6235.

Drunken Trivia with Mike G. 8 pm; Graffiti Junktion - College Park, 2401 Edgewater Drive; free; 407-377-1961.

Twisted Tuesday With Oddessey 8 pm; Red Lion Pub, 3784 Howell Branch Road, Winter Park; $2 suggested donation; 407-6779669.

Geek Trivia Tuesdays 7 pm; The Geek Easy, 114 S. Semoran Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407-332-9636.

Grits ‘n’ Gravy 10 pm; Independent Bar, 70 N. Orange Ave.; free-$3; 407-839-0457.

Hambingo with Miss Sammy and Carol Lee 6:30 pm; Hamburger Mary’s, 110 W. Church St.; free; 321-319-0600.

Ivanhoe Trivia Knight 6 pm; The Hammered Lamb, 1235 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-704-3200.

Open Mic Tuesday 8 pm; The Haven, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-673-2712.

Soul Shakedown Tuesday With DJ BMF 10 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; free.

Total Request Tuesdays with DJ Deron Martin 7 pm; Stonewall Bar Orlando, 741 W. Church St.; free; 407-373-0888.

Trivia Tuesday with Doug Ba’aser 5-9 pm; Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; free; 407-425-7571.

Tuesday Trivia Night 9 pm; Yellow Dog Eats, 1236 Hempel Ave., Windermere; free; 407-296-0609.

Twisted Tuesday 9 pm; Pulse, 1912 S. Orange Ave.; contact for price; 407-649-3888.

ThEaTEr 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche The Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein’s 1956 annual quiche breakfast is thrown into disarray by the threat of nuclear destruction. Friday-Sunday, 8 pm and Monday, 3 pm; Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park, 419A W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; $20; 407-920-4034; breakthroughtheatre.com.

Autobahn Neil LaBute’s play is a provocative, darkly comic portrait of America set within the confines of the front seat of a car. Part of Fringe Fan Favorites. Friday, 9 pm; Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $14$60; 407-447-1700; orlandofringe.org.

Bubble Gum Party A musical about real American families with real American values.

Part of Fringe Fan Favorites. Sunday, 7 pm; Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $14-$60; 407-447-1700; orlandofringe.org.

Clybourne Park The play begins in 1959 as a white, middle-class neighborhood called Clybourne Park is shaken by new black residents. Fast-forward 50 years and Clybourne Park, which has become predominantly black, is now dealing with potential gentrification.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 pm and Sundays, 2:30 pm; Mad Cow Theatre, 54 W. Church St.; $24.25$36.75; 407-297-8788; madcowtheatre.com.

Gretchen Scoleri & Wade Hair: You’ve Got a Friend Cabaret performance of songs by James Taylor and Carole King.

Tuesday, 8 pm; The Persian Room, 1155 W. State Road 434, Longwood; $10.

Massage A Trois Three vignettes exploring self-esteem, food, beauty and the occasional awkward massage.

Part of Fringe Fan Favorites. Saturday, 9 pm; Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $14-$60; 407-447-1700; orlandofringe.org.

Obsessed Are you obsessed with vampires, being gay, or God? Then don’t miss this hysterical award winning one-man show full of wacky characters and their many unhealthy obsessions. Part of Fringe Fan Favorites.

Friday, 7 pm; Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $14-$60; 407-447-1700.

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Once I Laughed A musical interpretation of some of the highs and lows in the lives of Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne Andrews. Part of Fringe Fan Favorites. Sunday, 4 pm; Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $14-$60; 407447-1700; orlandofringe.org.

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll Awardwinning writer Eric Bogosian creates a brilliantly-conceived cast of characters to comment hilariously on the issues that define modern life. Part of Fringe Fan Favorites. Saturday, 7 pm; Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $14-$60; 407447-1700; orlandofringe.org.

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Tribes The inspiring story of the deaf child of an eccentric English family who finds confidence and love...and a place to be heard. Special ASL performance Sept. 4.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 pm and Sundays, 3 pm; Mad Cow Theatre, 54 W. Church St.; $24.25-$36.75; 407-2978788; madcowtheatre.com.

ComEdy Austin Mann As seen on NBC, with Eric Henley. Friday-Saturday, 8:30 pm; Bonkerz Comedy Club, 10749 E. Colonial Drive; $10; bonkerzcomedy.com.

Comedy Open Mic Comedy open mic hosted

by Shereen Kassam.

Wednesdays, 7:30 pm; Paddy’s of Winter Park, 1566 West Fairbanks Ave, Winter Park; free; 407-951-8706.

Comedy School Showcase Graduates of the Improv’s comedy school perform.

Wednesday, 7 pm; Orlando Improv, 9101 International Drive; $5; 407-480-5233; theimprovorlando.com.

Copper Rocket Comedy Jam Comedy open mic and showcase hosted by Heather Shaw.

Sundays, 8:30 pm; Copper Rocket Pub, 106 Lake Ave., Maitland; free; 407-636-3171; copperrocketpub.com.

Drunken Monkey Open Showcase Comedy open mic.

Fridays, 8 pm; Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar, 444 N. Bumby Ave.; free; 407-893-4994; drunkenmonkeycoffee.com.

Duel of Fools SAK All-Stars making it all up on the spot.

Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 pm; SAK Comedy Lab, 29 S. Orange Ave.; $12-$15; 407-648-0001; sak.com.

Gen S The best of Lab Rats perform in this improv comedy show. Wednesdays, 7:30 pm; SAK Comedy Lab, 29 S. Orange Ave.; $5; 407-648-0001; sak.com.

Guy Torry As seen on HBO and BET. Thursday, 8 pm, Friday, 8 & 10:30 pm, Saturday, 7:30 & 10:15 pm and Sunday, 7:30 pm; Orlando Improv, 9101 International Drive; $15; 407-480-5233; theimprovorlando.com.

Jack’s Open Mic Comedy Night Open mic comedy night hosted

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by Myke Herlihy. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9 pm; Jack’s Pub & Grub, 5494 Central Florida Parkway; free; 407-787-3886.

Kevin White As seen on HBO. With Rauce Padgett.

Wednesday, 8 pm; Bonkerz Comedy Club, 9700 International Drive; $10; bonkerzcomedy.com.

Mama’s Comedy Show A 90-minute improv comedy show. Fridays, Saturdays, 10 pm; Sleuths Mystery Dinner Theater, 8267 International Drive; $10; 407-363-1985; sleuths.com.

Open Mic Comedy With Craig Norbert Comedy open mic for aspiring comedians.

Sundays, 8 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-9753364; austinscoffee.com.

Shit Sandwich Probably the best comedy showcase in town. Show up early to grab a good seat.

Saturday, 9 pm; Bull and Bush, 2408 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-896-7546.

The Tumbleweed Comedy Tour: Ross McCoy, AJ Gil, Nick Pupo, Matt Gersting, Tim Murphy and more Comedy show with a free cruise for the person with the biggest bar tab at the end of the night. Friday, 9 pm; The O Zone Sports Bar, 1648 N. Ronald Reagan Blvd., Longwood; free; 321-422-0806; tomanddan.com.

danCE First Fridays Burlesque With the Black Garter Dolls Black Garter Dolls is a burlesque troupe specializing in variety acts, classic burlesque striptease, cabaret singing, comedy and more. Friday, 10 pm; The Caboose, 1827 N. Orange Ave.; free; 407-3752501; blackgarterdolls.com.

arT oPenIngs/events Animalia Dos Art themed around animals. Opens Wednesday, 7 pm; Dandelion Communitea Cafe, 618 N. Thornton Ave.; free; 407-362-1864; dandelioncommunitea.com.

Christine Peloquin: Drawn to It Charcoal drawings over textured collages. Opens Saturday, through Sept. 26; Arts on Douglas, 123 Douglas St., New Smyrna Beach; free; 386-4281133; srtsondouglas.net.

Happy Hour Tour of the Alfond Inn A guided tour of the Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art. Wednesday, 5:30 pm; The Alfond Inn, 300 E. New England Ave., Winter Park; free; 407998-8090; cfam.rollins.edu.

Orlando Drink & Draw 3 Bring a sketchpad and hang out with local sketching enthusiasts while having a few beers. Monday, 6-10 pm; Redlight Redlight, 2810 Corrine

Drive; free; 407-893-9832; redlightredlightbeerparlour. com.

Richard Heipp: Looking + Seeing: Anatomy Paintings 2005-2015 Photorealistic airbrushed paintings that utilize anatomical diagrams and medical ephemera. Opens Saturday, through Oct. 17; Arts on Douglas, 123 Douglas St., New Smyrna Beach; free; 386428-1133; artsondouglas.net.

Void Vision Through his use of subject matter, style and color, Jack Void allows us to ponder the deeper meaning of life. Friday, 5-9 pm; Faith Arts Village Orlando, 221 E. Colonial Drive; free; 407-2276391.

ContInuIng tHIs week Alumni Focus: Commercial Success in Florida New work by distinguished alumni of the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies.

Through Sept. 20; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach; free; 386506-4475; smponline.org.

Art in Chambers: Thomas Thorspecken Sketches from Analog Artist Digital World artist Thomas Thorspecken. MondaysFridays; Winter Park City Hall, 401 S. Park Ave., Winter Park; free; cityofwinterpark.org.

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Baskets and Boxes Sang Roberson’s organic forms in terracotta. Through Sept. 27,; Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E. Princeton St.; 407-246-4278; mennellomuseum.com.

Beauty A group art show promoting a new vision of beauty. Through Oct. 21; Thai Purple Orchid Café and Grocery, 9318 E. Colonial Drive; free; 407-2033891; thaipurplecafe.com.

Boarded Up 4: The Art of Skateboarding Skateboard art by various artists. Through Sept. 12; CityArts Factory, 29 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-648-7060.

Butch Anthony and Twin Dragons: Forever, a Work in Progress Photos with a new dimension of needle and thread.

Through Sept. 20; Jeanine Taylor Folk Art, 211 E. First St., Sanford; free; 407-323-2774.

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Color Theory A focus on color and perception, featuring metalwork by Dorothy Gillespie. Through Sept. 20; Art & History Museums - Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland; $3; 407-539-2181.

Conceptual Journeys Conceptual art in mixed media from painter Peter Filzmaier and sculptor Jack King. Through Sept. 25; Mount Dora Center for the Arts, 138 E. Fifth Ave., Mount Dora; free; 352-383-0880.

Enchanted Damsels New works

by Miami-based artist Diana “Didi” Contreras. MondaysSundays; Redefine Gallery, 29 S. Orange Ave.; free; 407-6487060; redefinegallery.com.

Enduring Documents: Selected Photographs From the Permanent Collection This collection includes portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Henri Matisse, images of the American West, and photos taken in Russia in the 1930s. Through Jan. 3, 2016; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 1000

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Exploring the Beats A collection of black and white photos depicting some of Jack Kerouac’s contemporaries and various Beat personalities through the years. Through Sept. 18; Downtown Credo Coffee, 706 W. Smith Street; free; 407-2504888; kerouacproject.org.

Fashionable Portraits in Europe Portraits from the 15th-19th centuries that illuminate shifting trends.

Through Jan. 3, 2016; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-6462526; cfam.rollins.edu.

Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Annual invitational of Florida artists. Criteria includes artistic excellence, engagement with significant ideas and achievement. Through Sunday; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; $8; 407-896-4231; omart.org.

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Fred Staloff’s Visual Poetry This intimate collection reveals painterly works that make reference to the spontaneity usually associated with Expressionist painting, but the careful placement of visual elements guides this artist. Through Oct. 4; Museum of Art DeLand, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand; $5; 386-734-4371; moartdeland.org.

Gallery Talks Informational talks hosted by museum curators .Wednesday, 1:30-2 pm; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; price of admission; 321-363-4406; omart.org.

Hidden Artists Exhibition Art from Pamela Williams Gruen, Dawn M. Herrod, Jacqui Johnson, Simona Loh and many more. Through Sept. 30; UCF Library, 4000 Central Florida Blvd.; free; 407.823.2580; facebook.com/hiddenartists.

Jess T. Dugan: Every Breath We Drew Photographic portraits exploring gender, sexuality and identity. Through Jan. 3, 2016; Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407646-2526; cfam.rollins.edu.

Journeys Into the Mind Featuring the work of Chris Robb, Nancy Jay, Audrey Phillips, Jackie Otto-Miller and Cicero Greathouse. Through Sept. 12; The Gallery at Avalon Island, 39 S. Magnolia Ave.; free; avalongallery.org.

Living Photographs: Augmented Reality in Art by Rob McCaffrey Still photography, scanned with a phone, tablet, or wearable tech, triggering a related video overlay. An animated experience. Through Oct. 2, 8:30 am; Valencia College East Campus, 701 N. Econlockhatchee Trail; free; 407-582-2298; valenciacollege.edu.

Mystery Sketch Theater A monthly live figure drawing session with models dressed up as superheroes, burlesque performers, retro housewives or other pop culture outfits.

Thursday, 8 pm; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; $5 suggested donation; 407-423-3060.

Painted Black: The John H. Surovek Collection Depicts African Americans in art, from pre-Civil War to the civil rights era, by well-known American artists. The paintings are historically significant because they reveal attitudes about race over an extended period of time. Through Sept.

20; Museum of Art DeLand – Downtown, 100 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand; $5; 386-7344371; moartdeland.org.

Paper Cuts: André Smith Collages View the founder of A&H’s Maitland Art Center André Smith’s never before seen collage works. Through Sept. 30; Art & History Museums - Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland; 407-539-2181.

Peterson Guerrier: The Exhibition Will Remain Open Semi-abstract paintings. Through Sept. 11; The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; free; 407-423-3060.

Purvis Young: Art of Street Young’s work often blends painting and drawing with collaged elements, utilizing everyday discarded objects. Through Oct. 4; Museum of Art DeLand, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand; $5; 386-734-4371; moartdeland.org.

Standing Strong in the Spirit: A Selection of Folk Art by Southern Women Mixed media, from painting to textile. Through Sept.

27; Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E. Princeton St.; $5; 407-246-4278; mennellomuseum.com.

West African Tribal Art: Sculptures, Textiles & Artifacts An extensive survey of African artifacts, including masks, totems and carved sculptures, from several African cultural groups. Through Oct. 4; Museum of Art DeLand, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand; $5; 386-2797534; moartdeland.org.

EvEnTs 50 Cent Effen Vodka Bottle Signing Get a bottle of vodka signed by hip-hop star 50 Cent.

Friday, 8:30 pm; Pat’s Liquor Leaf & Wine, 4250 Alafaya Trail, Oviedo; $28.99; 407-365-0998; patsliquororlando.com.

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The Art of Beer Beer, music and free treats while supplies last. Tuesday, 5 pm; Artegon Marketplace, 5250 International Drive; free; 407-351-7718; artegonmarketplace.com.

Audubon Park Community Market Weekly local-vendorsonly community market.

Mondays, 6 pm; Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; free; 407-6233393; audubonmarket.com.

Bagpipes, Bangers and How Green Was My Valley Entertainment by Hard to Port and Mike Campbell, authentic Celtic fare and the movie How Green Was My Valley.

Saturday, 3:45 pm; Garden Theatre, 160 W. Plant St., Winter Garden; $6-$30; 407-8774736; gardentheatre.org.

Compassion Community Center Grand Opening Tour the properties, grab a bite to eat and shop at the garage sale, where all proceeds go towards the Center and its programs.

Saturday-Sunday, 9 am-3 pm; Compassion Community Center, 2925 E. South St.; free; compassionorlando.org.

The Daily City Food Truck Bazaar - Kissimmee Sample lots of different food at this gathering of food trucks from all over Central Florida. Friday, 6-9 pm; Kissimmee Civic Center, 201 E. Dakin Ave., Kissimmee; various menu prices; thedailycity.com.

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Downtown Orlando Food Tour Food tour includes Le Gourmet Break, the Golden Knife, Ferg’s, Artisan’s Table and Avenue Gastrobar. Saturdays, 2 pm; Downtown Orlando Information Center, 201 S. Orange Ave.; $35; 407-228-3891; downtownorlandotours.com.

Escape Fetish and Costume Party Monthly fetish and costume party with dungeon equipment and an interactive game show. Monday, 9 pm; Southern Nights, 375 S. Bumby Ave.; $5-$10; 407-228-9900; revolutionorlando.com.

Florida Orange Grove Wine Tasting Florida Orange Grove Winery is currently the only winery allowed to display the Florida Department of Citrus’ official mark of superior quality. Saturday, 5-7 pm; Orange County Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd.; $6; 407-8368500; thehistorycenter.org.

Fresh: An Evening Farmers Market The Thornton Park district’s weekly farmers market.

Wednesdays, 5-9 pm; Lake Eola Park, East Central Boulevard and Osceola Avenue; free; tpdfresh.com.

Funky Buddha Sweet Potato Casserole Release World of Beer features Funky Buddha’s new Sweet Potato Casserole beer. Thursday, 7 pm; World of Beer - Downtown Orlando, 431 E. Central Blvd.; various menu prices; worldofbeer.com.

Give Kids the World Charity Event An evening of raffles and auctions to raise money for Give Kids the World. Wednesday, 6:30-9:30 pm; World of Beer - Downtown Orlando, 431 E. Central Blvd.; free; gktw.org.

Great Irish Hooley Raglan Road throws a party featuring limited-edition craft beer, food, and live Irish bands like Screaming Orphans and the West Coast Trio. FridayMonday; Raglan Road Irish Pub, 1640 E. Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista; free; 407-9380300; greatirishhooley.com.

Life in Color The “world’s largest” paint party, with music from Showtek, Henry Fong and TroyBoi and paint cannons aimed at the crowd. Sunday, 4 pm; Central Florida Fairgrounds, 4603 W. Colonial Drive; $50; 407295-3247; lifeincolor.com.

Market at Mills 50 A weekly community market. Tuesdays, 5-10 pm; Thornton Parking Lot, 728 N. Thornton Ave.; free.

Miami Night Students from Full Sail University bring you live music and dance performances inspired by the streets of Miami in the 1980s.

Saturday, 6 pm; Acme Comics Cards & Collectibles, 905 E. State Road 434, Longwood; $10; 407-331-0433.

Orlando Bike Tours: Botany & Bikes Go on a guided bike tour through Leu Gardens and Mead Garden. Saturday, 9 am; Loch

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Orlando Farmers Market Sundays, 10 am-4 pm; Lake Eola Park, East Central Boulevard and North Eola Drive; free; orlandofarmersmarket.com.

Orlando Miniaturia Artisans from the US and UK display and sell their fine miniature works of art. Friday, 6-9 pm, Saturday-Sunday, 10 am-4 pm; Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort and Campground, Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista; $7; 267-684-6276; orlandominiaturia.com.

Park Lake Highland Community Farmers Market A weekly farmers market in the FAVO lot.

Saturdays, 9 am-2 pm; Faith Arts Village Orlando, 221 E. Colonial Drive; free; 407-222-1231.

Star Trek 49th Birthday Oblivion celebrates the 49th anniversary of the original Star Trek airing with themed food and drinks, vendors selling Trekkie gear and Trek movies on the screens all day. Saturday, 4 pm; Oblivion Taproom, 5101 E. Colonial Drive; various menu prices; 407-802-4800; obliviontaproom.com.

Tasty Tuesdays Food trucks take over the parking lot behind the Milk District every Tuesday evening. Tuesdays, 6:30-10 pm; The Milk District, East Robinson Street and North Bumby Avenue; various menu prices; facebook.com/ tastytuesdaysorlando.

Wags After Work A pooch party with beer, wine, live music, light fare and raffles.

All proceeds benefit Franklin’s Friends, a nonprofit supporting Central Florida animal welfare. Thursday, 5:30-7:30 pm; Mercedes-Benz of Orlando, 810 N. Orlando Ave., Maitland; free; 260-2937387; franklinsfriends.info.

Winter Park Farmers Market Popular weekly farmers market in an old railway station in the heart of Winter Park.

Saturdays, 7 am-1 pm; Winter Park Farmers Market, 200 W. New England Ave., Winter Park; free; cityofwinterpark.org.

Winter Park Walking Food Tour The Park Avenue Walking Food Tour dishes on some of Central Florida’s best-kept secrets. Fridays-Sundays, 11:15 am-2:15 pm; Central Park, Winter Park, North Park Avenue and West Morse Boulevard, Winter Park; $47; 800-6560713; orlandofoodtours.com.

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The Shisha Bowl Grand Opening Grand opening of downtown’s newest hookah bar. Friday, 5 pm; The Shisha Bowl, 111 E. Washington St.; free; theshishabowl.com.

Sparks Fly Labor Day Weekend An all-American BBQ cookout, poolside games, live entertainment and a grand fireworks display each night.

Friday-Monday; Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate, 1500 Masters Boulevard, ChampionsGate; $10; 407390-6664; omnihotels.com.

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LEarning Mummies of the World The largest collection of mummies ever assembled. ongoing; Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St.; $27; 407-514-2000; osc.org.

Orlando Remembered Items highlighting people, places, and events of Orlando’s history. Ongoing; Orange County Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd.; $12; 407-836-8500; thehistorycenter.org.

Zen in the Den Weekly non-religious meditation session. Wednesdays, 7 pm; Red Lion Pub, 3784 Howell Branch Road, Winter Park; 7pm; 407-6779669; redlionpub.org.

LiTErary Diverse Word Spoken word open mic. Tuesdays, 8 pm; Dandelion Communitea Cafe, 618 N. Thornton Ave.; free; 407-362-1864; dandelioncommunitea.com.

Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word Poetry and spoken word open mic. Wednesdays, 9 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364; austinscoffee.com.

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David Bornstein, Tod Caviness and Meg Sefton. Tuesday, 7 pm; The Gallery at Avalon Island, 39 S. Magnolia Ave.; free; therewillbewords.com.

Community Campus, 8 W. Palmetto St., Davenport; free; theatreworksfl.org.

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B3 Runners Group Multiple distances and skill levels with beer after.

Wednesdays, 6:25 pm; Bikes Beans & Bordeaux, 3022 Corrine Drive; free; 407-4271440; bikesbeansand bordeaux.com.

BAM! It’s a Picture Book: The Art Behind Graphic Novels Features today’s leading and best graphic artists of the illustration world. Through Nov. 1; Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; $8; 407-896-4231; omart.org.

Disney on Ice: 100 Years of Magic Ice skating extravaganza with characters from Disney and Pixar films.

Friday-Saturday, 7:30 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; $25; 800-745-3000.

Family and Faith Festival An outdoor family festival featuring Grammy Awardwinning artist Shirley Caesar and the Clark Sisters. Saturday, 3 pm; Hungerford Prep Gym, 100 E. Kennedy Blvd., Eatonville; $15; 321-233-6447; familyandfaithfest.com.

Friday Family Films A short film, and a tour of an art project and gallery at Morse.

Reservation required. Fridays, 10 am; Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; $5; 406-645-5311 ext. 136.

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Central Florida Mah Jongg Experienced American Mah Jongg players meet weekly. Wednesdays, 10:30 am-2:30 pm; Tuscawilla Country Club, 1500 Winter Springs Blvd., Winter Springs; free; 561-704-9302.

Pool Tournament Sign up during happy hour. Mondays; The Haven, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $5; 407-673-2712; thehavenrocks.com.

Yoga in Lake Eola Park This weekly yoga group meets either at the northeast corner of the park or by the amphitheater. Sundays, 11 am; Lake Eola Park, 195 N. Rosalind Ave.; $5 suggested donation.

Yoga in the Pub Firefly Yoga Company takes over Rogue Pub for a morning yoga session followed by a complimentary beer tasting. Saturday, 9:30 am; Rogue Pub, 3076 Curry Ford Road; $15; 407-985-3778; fireflyyogacompany.com. n

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Moreover, you may tap into previously dormant or inaccessible aspects of your soul’s code. Here are some tips to fully activate this magic. 1) Without any ambivalence, banish ghosts that are more trouble than they are worth. 2) Identify the one bad habit you most want to dissolve, and replace it with a good habit. 3) Forgive everyone, including yourself. 4) Play a joke on your fear. 5) Discard material objects that no longer have any meaning or use.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Excess is the common substitute for energy,” said poet Marianne Moore. That’s a problem you should watch out for in the coming weeks. You’re a bit less lively and dynamic than usual, and you may be tempted to compensate by engaging in extreme behavior or resorting to a contrived show of force. Please don’t! A better strategy would be to recharge your power. Lay low and take extra good care of yourself. Get highquality food, sleep, entertainment, art, love and relaxation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A fetus often begins to move for the first time during the fifth month of gestation. The sensation may resemble popcorn popping or a butterfly fluttering. It’s small but dramatic: the distinct evidence that a live creature is growing inside her. Even if you are not literally expecting a baby, and even if you are male, I suspect you will soon feel the metaphorical equivalent of a fetus’ first kicks. You’re not ready to give birth yet, but you are well on your way to generating a new creation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “Since U Been Gone” is a pop song recorded by vocalist Kelly Clarkson. She won a Grammy for it, and made a lot of money from its sales. But two other singers, Pink and Hillary Duff, turned down the chance to make it their own before Clarkson got her shot. Don’t be like those two other singers. Be like Clarkson. Recognize opportunities when they are presented to you, even if they are in disguise or partially cloaked.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) “Going with the flow” sounds easy and relaxing, but here’s another side of the truth: Sometimes it can kick your ass. The rippling current you’re floating on may swell up into a boisterous wave. The surge of the stream might get so hard and fast that your ride becomes more spirited than you anticipated. And yet I still think that going with the flow is your best strategy in the coming weeks. It will eventually deliver you to where you need to go, even if there are bouncy surprises along the way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand.” So sang Jimi Hendrix in his raucous psychedelic tune “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” We could view his statement as an example of delusional grandiosity, and dismiss it as meaningless. Or we could say it’s a funny and brash boast that Hendrix made as he imagined himself to be a mythic hero capable of unlikely feats. For the purposes of this horoscope, let’s go with the latter interpretation. I encourage you to dream up a slew of extravagant brags about the outlandish magic powers you have at your disposal. I bet it will rouse hidden reserves of energy that will enhance your more practical powers.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Right now, you have maximum power to transform yourself. If you work hard to rectify and purify your inner life, you will be able to generate a transcendent release.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) When 16th-century Spanish invaders arrived in the land of the Mayans, they found a civilization that was highly advanced. The native people had a superior medical system and calendar. They built impressive cities with sophisticated architecture and paved roads. They were prolific artists, and had a profound understanding of mathematics and astronomy. And yet they did not make or use wheeled vehicles, which had been common in much of the rest of the world for over 2,000 years. I see a certain similarity between this odd disjunction and your life. Although you’re mostly competent and authoritative, you are neglecting to employ a certain resource that would enhance your competence and authority even further. Fix this oversight!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) If you have ever fantasized about taking a pilgrimage to a wild frontier or sacred sanctuary or your ancestral homeland, the next 10 months will be an excellent time to do it. And the best time to plan such an adventure will be the coming two weeks. Keep the following questions in mind as you brainstorm. 1) What are your life’s greatest mysteries, and what sort of journey might bring an awakening that clarifies them? 2) Where could you go in order to clarify the curious yearnings that you have never fully understood? 3) What power spot on planet Earth might activate the changes you most want to make in your life?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) When he died at the age of 77 in 1905, Aquarian author Jules Verne had published 54 books.

You’ve probably heard of his science fiction novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He was a major influence on numerous writers, including JeanPaul Sartre, J. R. R. Tolkien and Arthur Rimbaud. But one of his manuscripts never made it into book form. When he finished it in 1863, his publisher refused to publish it, so Verne stashed it in a safe.

It remained there until his great-grandson discovered it in 1989. Five years later, Verne’s “lost novel,” Paris in the Twentieth Century, went on sale for the first time. I suspect that in the coming months, you may have a comparable experience. An old dream that was lost or never fulfilled may be available for recovery and resuscitation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation,” says stand-up comic Arnold Brown, “but I’m not very good at it.” Your task in the coming weeks is to undermine your own skills at self-deprecation. You may think they are too strong and entrenched to undo and unlearn, but I don’t – especially now, when the cosmic forces are conspiring to prove to you how beautiful you are. Cooperate with those cosmic forces!

Exploit the advantages they are providing. Inundate yourself with approval, praise and naked flattery.

Meet Brody! He’s a friendly 2-year-old, 58-pound-dog who loves to spend time outside. Brody knows how to sit on command and really enjoys eating treats. He is housebroken and walks well on a leash, too.

Brody was adopted from Orange County Animal Services a year ago, and he was recently surrendered to the shelter because his owner could no longer keep him. Brody would love to find a loving new home.

Dog adoption fees at orange County animal Services (2769 Conroy Road, 407-836-3111, ocnetpets.com) are currently $55, which includes sterilization, microchip and vaccinations.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Money doesn’t make you happy,” said movie star and ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” I’m guessing that extra money would indeed make you at least somewhat happier. And the good news is that the coming months will be prime time for you to boost your economic fortunes.

Your ability to attract good financial luck will be greater than usual, and it will zoom even higher if you focus on getting better educated and organized about how to bring more wealth your way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I hope you’re not getting bored with all of the good news I have been delivering in recent weeks. I’m sorry if I sound like I’m sugarcoating, but I swear I’m simply reporting the truth about the cosmic omens. You do have a few obstacles, but they are weaker than usual. So I’m afraid you will have to tolerate my rosy prophecies for a while longer. Stop reading now if you can’t bear to receive a few more buoyant beams. This is your last warning!

Your web of allies is getting more resilient and interesting. You’re expressing just the right mix of wise selfishness and enlightened helpfulness. As your influence increases, you are becoming even more responsible about wielding it.

B Y D A N S AVA G E I’m confused about my sexuality. For many years, I thought I preferred hetero-romantic asexual relationships. Exposure to select reading material – thanks to my gender-studies classes – has me convinced I’m an asexual t-type (i.e., “top,” but I prefer not to use such connotative terms) female who is attracted to slight and feminine men. I do not want to take off my clothes or engage in oral, anal, digital or vaginal sex. Instead, I want to design sexual situations that comely young gentlemen will consensually enter: restraints, CBT, whippings, play piercings, fisting.

To make matters worse, I’ve never been in a sexual situation or romantic relationship. I am 23 years old. Extremely low self-esteem and a lack of trust in other people – especially men who are attracted to women – prevented me from reaching out to others, let alone informing a potential partner about my unusual interests. Fortunately, extensive therapy sessions have improved my self-image and willingness to take risks. Developing a romantic friendship with a potential partner is essential. I doubt I will have much luck on the Internet or at munches given that so many men doubt the existence of exclusively t-type females.

I also don’t fit or wish to fit the stereotypical Bettie Page–esque image of a t-type female.

Dressing up in PVC and playing Mistress is not my thing. Do you have any recommended how-to guides or communities for t-type females?

Beyond Envisioning Any Solutions T-type P.S. I’m trapped in the closet.

You should go to munches and put yourself out there on the Internet, BEAST, because in both those places/spaces you’ll meet – I promise – other t-type/Dominant women and the men who want to worship them and suffer at their hands.

Your knowledge of the BDSM/kink/fetish community seems pretty distorted – it sounds like your exposure has been limited to reading materials distributed in your gender-studies classes – but I can assure you that there are men out there, some of them slight and feminine, who not only don’t doubt the existence of exclusively t-type/ Dominant females but are actively seeking them.

But you’re not going to find them under the rocks in your garden or at the back of your fridge. You’re going to have to enter kinky places/spaces to meet kinky guys.

There’s another type of person in those kinky places/spaces you need to meet: mentors. It’s particularly important for someone with your interests – CBT, whippings, piercings and fisting are not JV kinks – to meet, speak with and be mentored by knowledgeable players. These are varsity-level kinks – they are skill sets that take time to acquire.

You’re going to need instruction from people with experience before you start torturing a guy’s balls or sticking (clean and sterile) needles through the head of his cock or his nipples, BEAST, as you could do serious and lasting damage to someone if you’re winging it.

Munches are your best bet for meeting the players and educators in your area who take mentorship seriously. Be open about who you are (an asexual t-type female/Dominant woman), your ideal partners (slight and feminine sub guys who are into SM, not sex), and your experience level

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(nonexistent). Ask about classes, don’t do anyone/ anything that makes you uncomfortable, and do the reading. (Check out Greenery Press for titles on female dominance, CBT, flogging and other varsity kinks.)

You know who else you’ll meet in the kink scene? Women who don’t fit stereotypical Bettie Page–esque images, don’t dress up in PVC and don’t play Mistress games – but you’ll also meet women who enjoy doing all of those things, BEAST, as well as women who could take or leave Bettie Page, Mistress games, etc., but who dress up because it turns on their partners and/or attracts the kind of partners they’re interested in restraining and torturing. When someone is indulging your thing (a slight and feminine guy is giving you his cock and balls to torture), it’s simply good manners to indulge his things (letting him call you “Mistress,” if that’s something he enjoys, or pulling on a little PVC).

And give yourself permission to grow – or to continue growing. You used to think you were one thing (a hetero-romantic asexual), and now you realize you may be another thing entirely (an asexual t-type/Dominant female who is attracted to slight and feminine men). Who knows what you’ll learn about yourself once you actually start having IRL experiences? (Also … most guys into hardcore BDSM – particularly hardcore masochists – regard CBT and whippings and piercings as sex. Not foreplay, not a substitute for sex, but sex.

Something to think through before you have a slight and feminine guy’s balls in your hands: Your “victim” may experience your play as sexual even if you’re experiencing it differently, i.e., you may not feel like you’re having sex with them, but they’re going to feel like they’re having sex with you. Is that OK with your particular flavor of/theories about asexuality?)

P.S. You’re not trapped in the closet – that door locks from the inside. You can open it whenever you’re ready.

I had an Ashley Madison account. But I did not create “my” account. Anyone can register an account using anyone’s email address, and deleting fake accounts costs money. Now my email address is on a public database of AM users. People with accounts on AM are victims of the hackers, which you thankfully addressed in your last column. But members – actual and fake – were first victims of Ashley Madison. Shitty security aside, AM is a hub of extortion: no email verification, pay-to-delete (not that your account is actually deleted!) and tons of fake accounts purporting to be women (to balance the real, paying accounts from men).

My happily monogamish wife and I use OkCupid and FetLife, which helped us find our way to local swinger and BDSM clubs. There are websites that aren’t reliant on fake users and extortion to build and then entrap a user base.

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NOW, therefore, you are commanded to appear before the Honorable Judge Alicia L. Latimore, at 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806 on October 15, 2015 at 9:15 a.m. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS TRIAL CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE PERMANENT COMMITMENT OF THE CHILDREN AS DEPENDENT CHILDREN AND MAY ULTIMATELY RESULT IN LOSS OF CUSTODY OF THE CHILDREN. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. WITNESS my hand and seal of this court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 25th day of August, 2015. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT: /S/ Keyanna Fountain, Deputy Clerk. This summons has been issued at the request of: Crystal Mincey, Esquire, FBN: 89158. Senior Attorney for the State of Florida Children’s Legal Services.400 West Robinson Street, Suite S815,Orlando, Florida 32801. (407) 317-7643-Telephone (407)317-7126-Fax Crystal.mincey@myflfamilies.com. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration, at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801, telephone (407) 836-2303, not later than (7) days prior to the proceeding. If you are hearing or voice impaired, call 1-800-955-8771.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION, OFFICE OF FINANCIAL REGULATION, STATE OF FLORIDA – IN RE: EISENBURG, WHITMAN & ASSOCIATES. Administrative Proceeding Number: 56965. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION TO: EISENBURG, WHITMAN & ASSOCIATES. YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an Administrative Complaint has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to Petitioner’s attorney, Scott Tavolieri, Assistant General Counsel, whose address is Office of Financial Regulation, 400 W. Robinson Street, S-225, Orlando, FL 32801 on or before 21 days following final publication of this notice and file the original with the clerk of this agency either before service on Petitioner’s attorney or immediately thereafter, otherwise a final order will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint: Agency Clerk Office of Financial Regulation P.O. Box 8050 Tallahassee, FL 32314-8050.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION: 03 CASE NO.: DP 14-508. IN THE INTEREST OF THE CHILD: R.B. DOB: 11/7/2014. – SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Reginald R. Bethea, 5734 S Orange Blossom Trail Orlando, FL 32839-3916 C/O Walmart. An authorized representative of the Florida Department of Children and Families has filed in this court a petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child, a copy of which is attached. You are hereby commanded to appear before the Honorable Thomas Turner, Judge of the Circuit Court, at the Orange County Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, FL 32806, on October 12, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the specified time.

FAILURE TO APPEAR PERSONALLY AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in a court proceeding or event, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Orange County, ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, fax: 407-836-2204. If you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711 to reach the Telecommunications Relay Service. Witness my hand and seal of this court at Orlando, Orange County Florida on this day of August, 2015. This summons has been issued at the request of: CLERK OF COURT. Nancy A. Robak, Esquire Children’s Legal Services nancy.robak@ myflfamilies.com. BY Deputy Clerk.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION: 03 CASE NO.: DP 14-508. IN THE INTEREST OF THE CHILD: R.B. DOB: 11/7/2014. – SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Asia Marie Bruegger, Address unknown. An authorized representative of the Florida Department of Children and Families has filed in this court a petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child, a copy of which is attached. You are hereby commanded to appear before the Honorable Thomas Turner, Judge of the Circuit Court, at the Orange County Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, FL 32806, on October 12, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the specified time.

FAILURE TO APPEAR PERSONALLY AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in a court proceeding or event, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Orange County, ADA Coordinator, Human Resources, Orange County Courthouse, 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Florida, (407) 836-2303, fax: 407-836-2204. If you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711 to reach the Telecommunications Relay Service. Witness my hand and seal of this court at Orlando, Orange County Florida on this day of August, 2015. This summons has been issued at the request of: CLERK OF COURT Nancy A. Robak, Esquire Children’s Legal Services nancy.robak@ myflfamilies.com. BY: DEPUTY CLERK

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COUNTY OF HORRY – IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 2014-CP26–5924.VILLA VENEZIA CONDOMINIUM OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, vs. VILLA VENEZIA DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC, GRANDE DUNES DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC, BURROUGHS & CHAPIN COMPANY, INC., HARRINGTON CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., PARADIGM ENTERPRIESE, INC, PELLA WINDOW & DOOR, LLC, PELLA WINDOWS AND DOORS, INC., PELLA CORPORATION, SPANN ROOFING & SHEET METAL, INC., STOCK BUILDING SUPPLY, LLC, MILLER, MILLER & MAC-FLORIDA, INC, Defendants.

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and are required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the subscribers, at Segui Law Firm, at 864 Lowcountry Blvd., Ste. A., Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina 29464, within thirty (30) days after the service thereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.* *This Summons was filed in Horry County on November 14, 2013.SEGUI LAW FIRM, PC. Phillip W. Segui, Jr. Amanda Blundy 864 Lowcountry Blvd., Ste. A, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464. (843) 884-1865. psegui@seguilawfirm.com.

THE CHAKERIS LAW FIRM. John T Chakeris.

P. O. Box 397 Charleston, SC. 29402. (843) 853-5678. john@chakerislawfirm.com. ablundy@seguilawfirm.com CRANFORD LAW. Shaun W. Cranford. P.O. Box 50684. Columbia, SC 29250. (803)7796444, shaun@cranfordlawfirm.com.

Attorneys for Plaintiffs. Charleston, South Carolina. Dated: October 30, 2013

Public Notice Self Storage Zone /Powers Drive, 2650 N Powers Dr., Orlando, FL 32818 here by gives PUBLIC notice of the disposal for the default of lease agreement, pursuant to Florida statutes Section 83.801-83.809 on the following individuals: All items are House Hold Goods unless otherwise stated. Unit 72 Joceline Joseph, Unit 68 Joceline Joseph, Unit 406 Jacqueline Ritchie, Unit 142 Glory Reynolds, Unit 48 Samuel Aboagye, Unit 738 Cassetta Hall, Unit 608 Alexander Mckinnie, Unit 621 Alexander Mckinnie, Unit 167 Leanna Redding, Unit 609 Marie Saint Armand, Unit 209 Paysha Sorrell, Unit 114 Janita William/Williams.

The undersigned will be auctioned on line at www.storagebattles.com until, Tuesday September 22, 2015 at 2:00 PM. Said property has been stored and is located at Self Storage Zone, 2650 N. Powers Drive, Orlando, FL 32818.

NOTICE OF AUCTION – 2008 White Horton Hybrid. Will be auctioned on 9/18/2015 between 10:00am - 1:30pm. Jennifer Hachmeister. 8550 Old Winter Garden Rd. Orlando, FL. 32835.

Yellow Office Trailer. Will be auctioned on 9/18/2015 between 10:00am - 1:30pm.

Mario Santiago, 8550 Old Winter Garden Rd. Orlando, FL. 32835. 1995 Bayliner Boat w/ Boat Trailer, Will be auctioned on 9/18/2015 between 10:00am - 1:30pm.

Paulo DaSilva/ Amazon Pavers Inc. 8550 Old Winter Garden Rd. Orlando, FL. 32835.

Food Vendor Portable Container. Will be auctioned on 9/18/2015 between 10:00am- 1:30pm. Vinny Burruto. 8550 Old Winter Garden Rd. Orlando, FL. 32835.

NOTICE OF SALE Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty.

Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid.

Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale. 2008 BMW VIN# WBAVB73538KY63971,1995 Chevy VIN# 1G1BL52P7SR142621, 2001 Ford VIN# 1FAFP34371W127389, 2003 Toyota VIN# JTDBE32K830150114, 2005 Chrysler VIN# 3C4FY58B75T595638, 1999 Ford VIN# 1FTYR10V9XTA80501, 2004 Chrysler VIN# 1C3EL55R64N224727.

To be sold at auction at 8:00 a.m. on September 16 , 2015, at 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale. Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC.

Self Storage Zone/University, 11583 University Blvd, Orlando Fl., 32817 hereby gives notice that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below To enforce a lien imposed on said property under the Florida Self Storage Facility Act Statutes Florida Section 83.80183.809…The under signed will be auctioned online at www.storagebattles.com until Sept 22,2015 @ 2:00pm. Said property has been stored and is located at Self Storage Zone 11583 University Blvd Orlando Fl 32817. Unit A017–Jonathan Bailey (Household Goods), Unit D335 – Robert Wingo (Household), Unit D641 – John Lombardi (Household), Unit D648 -Thomas W Akin (Household items). Purchases must be paid for at the time of purchase in cash only. All purchased items are sold as is, where is, and must be removed at the time of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party.

PUBLIC CASH AUCTION Winter Park iStorage–3400 Forsyth Rd. Winter Park Florida 32792 on Monday September 21, 2015 at 4:00PM, will auction per FL.ST. 83.806. The following units are delinquent in rent and fees: Terri Lyn Bess- Household Items, Raymond Lapenski- Boxes-totes-MISC items, Jamol R. Alexander- Motor cycleFridge-household items, Christopher John Braxton Jr.- Clothes-Bed, Aisha Johnson- Household Items-furniture, Adam West- Newspapers-Car seats, Joseph Morgan- Household items.

Pursuant to F>S> 713.78, September 14, 2015, at 5pm. At 1900,South Orange Blossom Trail - 32805 Orlando/FL. Will sell the vehicle as is,no warranty,no guarantees the title,terms cash. Seller reserves the right to refuse any or all bids. Motorcycle: Kawasaki 2011 Vin #JKAVN2C16BA045586

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. CASE NUMBER 15-DR12922-0 – IN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF:ADRIANA C. SPENGLER, Petitioner/Wife and ANTONIO C. DACRUZ, Respondent/Husband.

NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE (NO CHILD OR FINANCIAL SUPPORT). TO: Antonio C. DaCruz, Address UNKNOWN.. YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for dissolution of marriage has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Christine G. Bauer, Esquire, whose address is 5401 S. Kirkman Road Suite 310, Orlando Florida 32819.

On or before 10/01/2015, and file the original with the clerk of this Court at Domestic Relations 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801. before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request. You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Notice of Current Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed to the address on record at the clerk’s office. WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings. Tiffany M. Russell, Clerk of the Court. Yadira Aguilar, Deputy Clerk BY: 2015.08.1813:31-0400.

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Utility Service Worker I/II City of Orlando 6119021

Director of Library Services Full Sail University 6119199

Housekeeping Manager Loews Hotels at Universal Orlando 6119020

Hospitality / Retail / Restaurant - Customer Service & Sales Positions - Change Careers Marketing Consultants of Orlando 6119185

F & B Attendant - Hideaway Bar & Grille Loews Hotels at Universal Orlando 6119018

COMPUTER-Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor company that designs, develops & supports a wide range of microprocessors, graphic processing units and related products. Resumes are being accepted for the following positions in Orlando, FL: MTS ASIC/Layout Design Engineer – FL0215: Responsible for CP block RTL design & verification for graphics processors. Sr. ASIC/Layout Design Engineer – FL0315: Perform verification on graphics processors. Send resume w/job title & code referenced to: AMD, Mail Stop 101, One AMD Place, P.O. Box 3453, Sunnyvale, CA 94088.

Property Manager needed for Lakehurst Building, LLC in Orlando, FL to plan, mnage, direct, leasg, or governance activities of commercial properties. Using CCMS, mnage, direct & oversee , leasg, operatns, maint, admin, & renovatn of commercial properties. Direct collectn of mthly assessmts, rental, insurance premiums, mortgage & taxes. Mrkt vacant space to prospective tenants. Prep budgets & fin’l rprts using QuickBooks. Reqs 2yrs exp as mgr. F/T, mail resume to 5950 Lakehurst Dr. #165, Orlando, FL 32819.

Senior Analyst Business Systems - HRIS Universal Orlando 6118987

Engineer Network Universal Orlando 6118986

Senior Business Operations Specialist req’d to manage Web/iOS app dvlpmnt & oversee large scale deployments of IT solutions for healthcare industry using knowledge of VSS, SVN. .NET, C/C++, Cruise Control automation, VB, C Scripts, C #, SQL, XML based config. Agile methodologies, SCRUM. Oversee IT team, provide rpts to mgmt & clt. Req’d: MS degree in Business, Info Tech., Info. Sys., Comp. Sci/Apps, Engg; OR ALTERNATIVELY, employer will accept a BS degree in one of the same fields plus 5 yrs progressive IT exp. Mail resumes to Mahathi Software Corp, 4700 Millenia Blvd Suite 250 Orlando, FL 32839

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Sales and Marketing Career Night - Diamond International Resorts - Orlando Diamond Resorts International 6119197

Co-Teachers / Youth Mentors / Child Development - YMCA Before & After Elementary School Programs YMCA of Central Florida 6113365

Education and Training Coordinator Florida Literacy Coalition 6119207

Surgical Tech Cert FT St. Cloud Regional Medical Center 6119212

Bilingual (Spanish & English) Inbound Customer Service Advisor Sears Holding 6119208

CDL-A Owner Operator Truck Drivers Hub Group Trucking 6118260

Patient Care Assistant Orlando Orthopedic Center 6119200

Online Enrollment Guide The Los Angeles Film School 6113609

School Secretary - Registrar Lake Eola Charter School 6113582

Collections and Sales Representative OneMain Financial Orange City FL Citi 6119054

Pediatric Rheumatologist, BC / BE Ped Rheumatology, (ABMS) Nemours Children’s Hospital 6117426

HR Management Consultant Seawright & Associates 6113668

Front Office Supervisor - Brevard (Rockledge, FL) IMPOWER (Intervention Services, Inc) 6113666

Warehouse Manager Pro Image Solutions 6105247

Paramedic (Seasonal, Part-Time Overnight, or Full-Time Overnight positions available) Wet n Wild 6113583

Early Childhood Development Staff | YMCA of Central Florida @ Walt Disney World YMCA of Central Florida 6118981

Sales Coordinator B Resort located in the Walt Disney World Resort 6118982

Maintenance & Repair Technician - Commercial Facilities Landmark Contracting 6118979

Teller - Fort Pierce Harbor Community Bank 6113371

Support Aide IV-Counselor/Social Worker Volunteers of America of Florida 6113660

Community Specialist SSVF Volunteers of America of Florida 6113661

Retail Cashier Delaware North Companies 6113657

Admissions Representative The Los Angeles Film School (Winter Park, FL) 6118795

Guest Service Agent Drury Hotels 6118760

Licensed Health and Life Insurance Agent A&B Insurance and Financial 6099544

System Administrator My Florida Regional MLS 6113163

RN Clinical Education Specialist (Prescott, AZ) Yavapai Regional Medical Center 6113134

Pool Restaurant Supervisor-Sand Bar-The Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center Marriott International 6118752

Classroom Teacher: Grade 2 Trinity Lutheran Church & School 6113364

Pediatric Nurses - Hemodialysis Mobil Dialysis 6118750

HR Generalist Kimley-Horn and Associates 6113046 Human Resources Manager - Part Time Jeremiah’s Italian Ice 6118977

Electrician / Electrician Helper / Journeyman Terry’s Electric Inc. 6113664

Health & Safety Manager LEGOLAND Florida 6111312

Public Relations Manager Give Kids The World 6113166

GED Instructor Paxen 6110027

Housekeeping- Full Time, Walt Disney World Walt Disney World Resort 6118700

Regional Director Human Resources State of FL Orange Lake Resorts, Holiday Inn Club Vacations 6107888

FULL TIME Customer Service Sales and Marketing Professional - Entry Level Movari Marketing, Inc. 6113649

Retail Event Staff Needed - Immediate Hire Movari Marketing, Inc. 6113648

FIBERGLASS LAMINATOR Pro Image Solutions 6115250

RN-Surgical PCU-Orlando Nights Florida Hospital 6118525

Senior Business Operations Specialist req’d to manage Web/iOS app dvlpmnt & oversee large scale deployments of IT solutions for healthcare industry using knowledge of VSS, SVN. .NET, C/C++, Cruise Control automation, VB, C Scripts, C #, SQL, XML based config. Agile methodologies, SCRUM. Oversee IT team, provide rpts to mgmt & clt. Req’d: MS degree in Business, Info Tech., Info. Sys., Comp. Sci/Apps, Engg; OR ALTERNATIVELY, employer will accept a BS degree in one of the same fields plus 5 yrs progressive IT exp. Mail resumes to Mahathi Software Corp, 4700 Millenia Blvd Suite 250 Orlando, FL 32839.

Front Office Agent Embassy Suites Orlando - Lake Buena Vista South 6101093

Cruise Vacation Agent, Disney Cruise Line (Celebration, FL) Walt Disney World Resort 6118701

Clinical Staff Pharmacist - Pharmacy - East Orlando - On Call Florida Hospital 6118527

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Maintenance Project Manager National Airlines 6118538

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