News

• Orlando Area News

  Orlando won't pursue SoDo homeless shelter, Mayor Buddy Dyer says

  After an assessment — and an outcry from area residents — the site was determined to be 'not feasible'

  By Chloe Greenberg

  Mar 10, 2025

  
• Orlando Area News

  City of Orlando requests $5 million from Orange County for Pulse memorial

  Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings supports the idea, but the request must go to the full board of commissioners for approval.

  By McKenna Schueler

  Mar 13, 2025

  
• Orlando Area News

  United Airlines flight attendants rally at Orlando International Airport as union contract talks continue

  United Airlines posted $3.1 billion in profits last year. Flight attendants are asking for their fair share as the face of the company.

  By McKenna Schueler

  Mar 20, 2025

  
• Orlando Area News

  Orlando Democrats push for Floridians to have the right to repair their wheelchairs

  Currently, restrictive repair rules set by private equity-owned manufacturers prevent wheelchair owners from having access to information needed to expand their repair options.

  By McKenna Schueler

  Mar 21, 2025

  
• Orlando Area News

  Orlando set to approve $3 million deal to shelter homeless people in retrofitted buses

  This comes after city leaders killed plans for a new homeless shelter in SoDo earlier this month.

  By McKenna Schueler

  Mar 21, 2025

  
• Florida News

  Florida Republican believes state minimum wage is too high for young workers

  Sen. Jonathan Martin doesn't think employers should be forced to pay new or unskilled workers the bare minimum.

  By McKenna Schueler

  Mar 12, 2025

  
• Florida News

  Florida med students rally in Tallahassee for single-payer healthcare, $35 cap on insulin

  Neither is likely to pass, but medical professionals hope to move the needle on ways to make healthcare more affordable.

  By McKenna Schueler

  Mar 13, 2025

  
• Florida News

  Bill targeting fluoride in drinking water is approved by Florida House subcommittee

  The bill would also take steps to block labeling of plant-based food as meat, milk, poultry and eggs

  By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Florida News

  Florida house panel advances bill to require schools to show anti-abortion group's video in classrooms

  Critics say the video is misleading and contains medical inaccuracies

  By Christine Sexton, Florida Phoenix

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Florida News

  Florida lawmakers advance measure clarifying what makes school books 'harmful to minors'

  It builds on a 2023 law granting school boards authority to remove books parents challenge as being 'pornographic'

  By Jay Waagmeester, Florida Phoenix

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Florida News

  Wide-ranging Florida hurricane prep and response bill addresses shelter regulations, construction cranes and more

  HB 1535 also seeks to address debris cleanup in rural 'fiscally constrained' counties and look at rules for elections supervisors

  By Jim Turner, the News Service of Florida

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Florida News

  Florida lawmakers want 'transparency' in search for university presidents

  The bill also would make a series of other changes about leadership of the higher-education system

  By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Florida News

  Florida remains 'ground zero' for attacks on LGBTQ+ community, advocates and lawmakers say

  'We’ve been the canary in the coal mine, and that canary is dead,' said Orlando area Democratic Rep. Anna Eskamani

  By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix

  Mar 20, 2025

  

Arts + Culture

• Things to Do

  Get your art on this weekend at Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival

  Over 60 years and still going strong

  By Juno Le

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Things to Do

  Kitty Fest in Sanford promises a weekend afternoon of feline fun, including Meow-a-oke

  Plus adoptable cats and kittens from Liberation Cat House

  By Matthew Moyer

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Things to Do

  Lauren Francis-Sharma brings her book tour to Orlando Public Library

  Author of 'Book of the Little Axe' discusses her timely new novel 'Casualties of Truth'

  By Juno Le

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Arts Stories + Interviews

  Local vocalists Helena Collective revive ‘6/VIII,’ their tale of Henry Tudor's ill-fated wives

  Singing ghostly songs of six unlucky queens

  By Juno Le

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Arts Stories + Interviews

  Cirque du Soleil’s Caroline Bernier-Dionne thinks puppeteering is ‘therapeutic for mankind’

  Give a big hand to the dancers and puppeteers of ‘Drawn to Life’

  By Seth Kubersky

  Mar 19, 2025

  

Food + Drink

• Food News

  Tiger Sugar opens first Orlando outpost in Mills 50; Sushi Saint and Pisco Peruvian Gastrobar open second locations

  Plus more Orlando restaurant openings and food events

  By Faiyaz Kara

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Restaurant Reviews

  Gyukatsu Rose sizzles with sear-it-yourself beef cutlets, but will wagyu lovers sniff it out?

  Stop and smell the rose

  By Faiyaz Kara

  Mar 19, 2025

  

Music

• Live Music Picks + Previews

  Swamp Sistas get 'Unplugged and Unfiltered' in the company of new songwriting voices at Stardust

  Plus Max Wilder and Nina Friend of WPRK radio show ‘Girlmaxxing’

  By Bao Le-Huu

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Live Music Picks + Previews

  Electronic underground sensation Riki headlines Will's Pub on Sunday

  Donzii (!) and Offerings open

  By Bao Le-Huu

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Live Music Picks + Previews

  Busker-turned-pop star Andy Grammer plays Orlando this weekend

  Zach Hood opens the evening

  By Camila Escobar

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Live Music Picks + Previews

  Tyler, the Creator is back in Orlando this week for a sold-out arena concert

  Lil Yachty and Paris Texas open

  By Kurt Ramos

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Live Music Picks + Previews

  The Brandee Younger Trio will change the way you think about the harp this week

  The feature artist on hip-hop albums and Alice Coltrane devotee plays Judson's Live

  By Matthew Moyer

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Live Music Picks + Previews

  New Orleans cult heroes Exhorder to play Conduit in Winter Park

  Restless Spirit and Herakleion open

  By Matthew Moyer

  Mar 20, 2025

  
• Live Music Picks + Previews

  Orlando concert calendar: Explosions in the Sky, Luis Fonsi, 311, John Waite

  Live music around town, March 20-25

  By Orlando Weekly Staff

  Mar 20, 2025

  
• Orlando Music News

  Young Orlando indie-rock band 0 Miles Per Hour releases 'serious and seasoned' mini-album 'Shell'

  '"Shell" is the watershed mark of a new tier for the band'

  By Bao Le-Huu

  Mar 19, 2025

  
• Music Stories + Interviews

  Katy Pinke brings puppets and affecting new songs to Casselberry Arts Center this week for first Florida shows

  Kevin PM and Fast Preacher open

  By Matthew Moyer

  Mar 18, 2025

  

Movies

• Orlando Film News

  Florida Film Festival announces special engagement 'An Evening with Christina Ricci'

  She'll be in Orlando for a special screening of 1995 film 'Now and Then'

  By Matthew Moyer

  Mar 21, 2025

  
• Streaming

  New on Netflix: In ‘The Residence,’ what do you call a murder in the White House with 157 suspects?

  A good start! Plus everything else debuting on Prime Video, Hulu, Apple TV+ and the rest

  By Steve Schneider

  Mar 19, 2025