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Oct 20-26, 2021
Vol. 37, No. 23

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News & Features

Columns
Gun school: A true story of fear, fatherhood and the collapse of the empire
By Samuel Ligon
Tags: Columns

Columns
Simply avoiding wedge issues isn't going to be enough for Dems to win swing voters in the upcoming elections
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Tags: Columns

Savage Love
Savage Love: ‘His reaction to your sudden onset of warts will tell you everything you need to know about him’
By Dan Savage
Tags: Savage Love

Arts & Culture

Live Active Cultures
Spooky Empire brings Alex Vincent, aka Andy Barclay from the ‘Child‘s Play’ films, back to Orlando
By Seth Kubersky
Tags: Live Active Cultures

Food & Drink

Restaurant Review
Gatlin Hall Brewing brings top-notch beer and bites to a rejuvenated SoDo plaza
By Holly V. Kapherr
Tags: Restaurant Review

Tip Jar
Wild Fork is now open in Orlando, Bad As's moves back to the Milk District, and more local food news
By Holly V. Kapherr
Tags: Tip Jar

Music

Music Stories & Interviews
Sheer Mag comes back to Orlando to kick ass and confiscate whistles
By Ida V. Eskamani
Tags: Music Stories & Interviews

This Little Underground
New music from Orlando natives Tonstartssbandht out this week
By Bao Le-Huu
Tags: This Little Underground, Tonstartssbandht, Orlando Music

This Little Underground
Orlando concert picks, Oct. 21-26: Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Tinnitus Rex and more
By Bao Le-Huu
Tags: This Little Underground, Orlando Music

Movies

Couchsurfing
Find out Thursday if Denis Villeneuve loused up ‘Dune’ like David Lynch did or found new ways to suck
By Steve Schneider
Tags: Couchsurfing

Blogs

Oceanfront mansion in Ormond Beach is most-expensive home ever sold in Volusia County
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: Bloggytown

No immediate solution to healthcare staffing shortages in Florida, say industry leaders
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, healthcare workers, staffing shortage

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida continue to drop
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, COVID-19, coronavirus, hospitals

Pour Choice Taphouse on Mills Avenue is in soft opening mode
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: Tip Jar, Pour Choice Taproom, Orlando, Soft Opening, Central Florida, Beer, Spirits, Bar

Orange County Fire & Rescue chief fired over refusal to discipline employees who bucked COVID-19 vaccine mandate
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: Bloggytown, Orange County, Orange County Fire and Rescue, OCFR, vaccines, COVID-19, coronavirus, Florida, Jerry Demings, Ron DeSantis

A Florida man applied for 60 entry-level jobs in a month to prove the so-called 'labor shortage' is a myth
By Alex Galbraith

Alt-right troll, congressional hopeful Laura Loomer has raised over $100k this quarter (but none of it came from her Central Florida district)
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: Bloggytown, Laura Loomer, Florida, Congress, fundraising, alt-right

Thornton Park's big Halloween Block Party returning this month
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: The Gist, Thornton Park, Hallo9ween, Block Party, Orlando, Neighborhood, Event, Halloween, Weekend, Party

All Them Witches to cast musical spells at the Abbey on Halloween week
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: The Heard, All Them Witches, Messenger Birds, Tour, Orlando, Concert, Show, Performance, Will's Pub

School districts' challenge of Florida's school mask mandate ban will be heard in court
By Jim Saunders, NSF
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, COVID-19, coronavirus, Orange County Public Schools, OCPS, Orange County, lawsuits, ron desantis

Florida approves changes to civics education, seeking 'upright and desirable' citizens
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, civics, Ron DeSantis, indoctrination, school

Judge orders conservative thinktank to turn over communications with lawmakers around Florida's voter suppression bill
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown

Florida Cannabis Festival returns to Mount Dora in November
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: The Gist, Renninger's, Floirda Cannabis Festival, Mount Dora, Central Floirda, Weed, Cannabis, Wares, Vendors, Food, Marijuana

Italian chain Spoleto returning to Orlando as a ghost kitchen
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: Tip Jar, Spoleto, Italian Kitchen, Casual, Restaurant, Local, Orlando, Spoleto, Ghost Kitchen, Opening, Reopening, Italian

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to call special session of legislature to ban vaccine mandates
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: Bloggytown, Ron DeSantis, COVID-19, vaccine mandate, vaccines, coronavirus, Florida, Clearwater, mandates, legislature

Orlando artist Meka Nism releases lush new solo single "The Day Fell"
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: The Heard, Meka, Meka Nism, Orlando, Metal, Solo, Single, New Music, Singer

Florida's new surgeon general questions COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, Ron DeSantis, Joseph Ladapo, COVID-19, coronavirus

Lawsuit accusing Florida of withholding COVID-19 data at height of pandemic moves forward
By News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, COVID-19, Carlos Guillermo Smith, coronavirus, Florida, data, lawsuits

Florida election supervisors plead with GOP candidates to move away from 'stolen election' rhetoric
By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, elections, Donald Trump, GOP, Republicans

Florida Gov. threatens Orange County over vaccine mandates. Mayor Jerry Demings says 'bring it on'
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, Ron DeSantis, Jerry Demings, Orange County, Orlando, vaccine, vaccines, vaccine mandate, COVID-19, coronaviurs

AAHZ Reunion returns to the Beacham for an evening of Orlando Breaks luminaries in November
By Matthew Moyer
Tags: The Heard, Orlando Breaks, AAHZ, AAHZ Reunion, Orlando Breaks, Orlando Music, Dance Music, Electronic, DJ Icey, Beacham, Kimball Collins

Florida Jerk Festival brings Caribbean music, food to Lake Lorna Doone Park on Sunday
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: The Gist, Florida Jerk Festival, jerk, food, food festival, Caribbean food, soca, reggae, dancehall, Third World, concerts, Lake Lorne Doone Park, downtown, Orlando

Umphrey's McGee replaces Joe Russo's Almost Dead as Hulaween headliner
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: The Heard, Hulaween, Umphrey's McGee, Florida, festivals, jam bands

Orlando area’s 25 best restaurants, according to Yelp
By Melissa Perez-Carrillo

The most expensive home for sale in Osceola County comes with ‘Star Wars’ sleeping bays
By Alex Galbraith

Shaquille O’Neal’s Orlando mansion has (finally, actually) been purchased
By Alex Galbraith

Historic Orlando home of Dubsdread Golf Course founder is on the market for the first time ever
By Alex Galbraith

This massive Orlando home comes with its own casino
By Alex Galbraith

Judge to rule on future of Florida's school mask mandate ban
By Alex Galbraith

Florida's surgeon general refused request to wear mask from state senator suffering from breast cancer
By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, Joseph Ladapo, Tina Polsky, Senate, COVID-19, coronavirus, masks

Florida could spend nearly $4 million to address manatee deaths
By Elise Elder, Fresh Take Florida
Tags: Bloggytown, manatees, Florida, conservation, ZooTampa

Brevard County School Board weighs changes to public comment rules following months of mask debates
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: Bloggytown, Brevard County, school, Florida, masks, COVID-19, coronavirus, protest

Orange County school board leave mask mandate off agenda as expiration date looms
By Alex Galbraith
Tags: Bloggytown, Florida, Orange County, COVID-19, coronavirus, OCPS, Orange County Public Schools, masks, mask mandate

Everything we saw when AEW Dynamite took over Orlando
By J.D. Casto

Joe Biden admin warns Florida against blocking federal aid to school districts punished over mask mandates
By Ryan Dailey, NSF
Tags: Bloggytown, Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, Florida, school, public schools, mask mandates, COVID-19, Orange County, OCPS, coronavirus

Ron DeSantis pushes $5,000 signing bonus in Florida for nation's anti-vax cops
By Colin Wolf
Tags: Bloggytown, Ron DeSantis, cops, Florida, COVID-19, coronavirus

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