Orlando Weekly - January 11, 2023

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letter from our new staff writer, McKenna Schueler

Hi, all. This month, I’m excited to join Orlando Weekly as their new staff reporter. Previously a freelance journalist and radio news anchor in Tampa, I’ve reported in the past on a variety of issues, ranging from criminal justice, to labor, housing, local government, and other social and economic justice issues I’ll be keeping an eye on in Central Florida as well.

I’m also not new to Orlando Weekly. If you’ve read about union activity among Starbucks workers in Oviedo and Winter Park; Disney workers fighting for an $18 minimum wage; Orlando International Airport workers organizing for better wages and working conditions, faculty organizing at Valencia College, CPAC 2021, or the successful campaign to win a $15 minimum wage in Florida in 2020 — you’ve read my work!

For nearly two years, I contributed to Orlando Weekly as a freelancer, and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to join the weekly on staff.

Prior to this, I worked multiple jobs to make ends meet — like Orlando, Tampa has also seen a staggering rise in rent prices and cost of living. I’ve worked as a freelance reporter, a copywriter, a news anchor for the beloved community radio station WMNF in Tampa, and as a captioning assistant for a call center — where I captioned phone calls in real time for hardof-hearing folks across the country.

But my career as a reporter kicked off in 2020, when I began reporting for Orlando Weekly’s sister publication Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, covering demonstrations associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, and police accountability.

From there, I moved on to coverage for both local and national publications on politics, organized labor, government accountability, and other intersecting issues that directly and indirectly affect the lives of everyday people — like you, reader, and me.

From the start, I’ve always been interested in helping to fill the gaps of where media coverage is lacking, while doing what I can to uplift the work of other journalists producing meaningful, valuable work for their respective communities.

But I wasn’t born a reporter. (Honestly, that sounds like a nightmare of a delivery — you’re welcome, Mom.) I’m a former military brat who has spent time overseas, a singer, a former musical theatre geek (any mention of a musical produced post2012, unless it’s Hadestown, will get a blank stare in response), a voracious reader, a mediocre ukulele player, someone who’s always eager to learn and who is highly susceptible to getting sucked into a rabbit hole concerning some highly niche/fascinating topic at least once a month. I appreciate good craft beer, a stellar Old Fashioned, an occasional cigar, and live music.

With that, I’m looking forward to exploring what the Orlando area has in store for me, and likely bumping into one, two, or more of you out in the wild.

Now, what about you? Are you organizing for change in your community? A shop steward for your union, or thinking of organizing your workplace? Someone who lives and/or works in the Orlando area and just wants to say hi?

If you have information/news tips/stories/insight into the Orlando area (or its power players), feel free to get in touch by email at mschueler@orlandoweekly.com or find me on Twitter at @SheCarriesOn.

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» Orlando Gen Z progressive Rep. Maxwell Frost snags Teen Vogue cover

New Congressman Maxwell Frost snagged the cover of this month’s edition of Teen Vogue, after becoming the first Gen Z and first Afro-Cuban elected to U.S. Congress in November. Frost, a progressive from the Orlando area, handily defeated his Republican opponent to win a district formerly represented by former Rep. Val Demings, who unsuccessfully ran for Republican Marco Rubio’s Senate seat. On election night, the 25-year-old, who campaigned on policies such as Medicare for All and universal background checks for gun ownership, told a crowd of supporters at the Abbey in South Eola that their fight “isn’t about Democrat versus Republican, left versus right. This is about the people versus the problem,” per Teen Vogue

» Anti-Semitic slogan projected on busy street in downtown Orlando on New Year’s Eve Hate doesn’t have a home here, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t show up to sour the mood. On New Year’s Eve, an anti-Semitic slogan — “Vax the Jews” — was projected on the side of an office building in downtown Orlando, according to cellphone footage first obtained by Click Orlando. The grotesque slogan has been used as a verbal cudgel by neo-Nazis before in Orlando, and similar incidents have occurred across the state and the country. And anti-Semitic incidents have been on the rise in Florida, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said on social media about the incident, “To the members of Orlando’s Jewish community: We stand with you, united against anti-Semitism and hatred.” As of last week, an investigation into the incident by the Orlando Police Department is still ongoing.

» Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro hunkers down in Orlando as leftist successor takes office

After losing his bid for re-election last year, the far-right, Trumpian former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is now hunkering down in Orlando. He arrived in Orlando around the same time his successor — leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — took office. While Bolsonaro toured Publix and KFC, his extremist supporters organized and staged a riot. Over the weekend, thousands of rioters stormed Brazil’s Congress and government buildings over false claims of a rigged election. Sounds familiar, no? Bolsonaro was rumored to have planned to stay in Florida for one to three months, but after this weekend’s chaos, several politicians — including New York’s AOC and Texas’ Joaquin Castro — have called for the former president to be extradited. Local State Rep. Anna Eskamani called out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an ally of Bolsonaro, on Twitter. “@GovRonDeSantis why are you giving refuge to Jair Bolsonaro in Florida? Is it because you support far right fascist regimes storming capitols?!” As of Monday morning, DeSantis had not responded.

» Florida lawmakers move to take more control of Disney’s Reedy Creek district

Florida lawmakers are moving forward with plans that would give the state more control over Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, which Gov. DeSantis targeted last year after Disney criticized a controversial education law since dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.” A notice posted Friday by the Legislature on Osceola County’s website outlined potential changes that might keep the framework of the special district but make a series of changes, such as the state dictating who would run the district. The sprawling district, which covers portions of Orange and Osceola counties, was created for Disney in 1967 and essentially gave the entertainment giant control over issues such as land use, fire protection and wastewater services. Amid DeSantis’ performative feud with Disney, GOP lawmakers last year passed a measure to dissolve Reedy Creek and five other special districts across the state, but those dissolutions don’t go into effect until June 1, 2023. Critics are concerned the change could result in tax burdens being shifted to residents and businesses in Orange and Osceola counties, as well as just essentially give DeSantis control over a private company.

» The United Faculty of Florida union is pushing back on DeSantis’ latest battle against diversity initiatives

As Gov. Ron DeSantis targets “trendy ideology” in higher education, his administration is asking state colleges and universities for information about resources they’re putting into activities related to diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory. DeSantis has repeatedly clashed with Democratic lawmakers and unions representing professors and teachers over his anti-woke education initiatives, which have become a linchpin of his political agenda. United Faculty of Florida President Andrew Gothard said his union is “deeply concerned” about a memo issued in late December by DeSantis’ Office of Policy and Budget director to Florida’s Education Commissioner (a Republican) and the state university system chancellor. Among other things, the memo included a request for “a comprehensive list of all staff, programs and campus activities related to diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory.” Gothard, the UFF president, called it a “horrible directive.”

» DeSantis appoints conservative activist to board of the liberal New College

Speaking of chilling higher education news, one of the conservatives who praised the “horrible directive” to state universities and colleges is Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist appointed to the board of trustees for the liberal New College of Florida on Friday by Gov. DeSantis. Rufo, a senior fellow of a conservative think tank, was described in a news release as having “led the fight against critical race theory in American institutions.” He was appointed to the New College Board of Trustees along with five others in a move aimed at “recapturing higher education” and turning the socially progressive liberal arts college into a conservative one similar to Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian college in Michigan. A dean and professor of that school was also appointed to the New College’s board of trustees Friday.

Anti-Semites continue to strike Orlando with hateful messages, ‘Tropical Trump’ Jair Bolsonaro hides out in Orlando, your dreamy new U.S. rep and other news you may have missed in the past few weeks.

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FEDERAL JUDGE REOPENS TRANS ATHLETE CASE

A Broward County student filed suit in June 2021 after the GOP-controlled Legislature and DeSantis banned their continued participation on sports teams

BY JIM SAUNDERS, NSF

After an appeals court upheld a school-board policy that prevented a transgender male student from using boys’ bathrooms, a federal judge has reopened a legal battle about a 2021 Florida law that bars transgender female students from playing on women’s and girls’ sports teams.

U.S. District Judge Roy Altman on Friday issued an order reopening the transgender-athlete lawsuit, which had been on hold for nearly a year as the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered a challenge to the St. Johns County School Board bathroom policy.

A sharply divided appeals court on Dec. 30 upheld the bathroom policy and indicated that similar legal reasoning could apply to disputes about transgender female athletes. Attorneys for the state and a Broward County middle-school student challenging the transgender-athlete law filed a joint motion Friday to reopen the case, prompting Altman’s order.

Altman also approved a partial schedule that the parties had suggested, with the state given a Feb. 10 deadline to file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

“The parties submit that this proposed schedule will afford them the necessary time to fully consider the [bathroom policy] decision and other legal developments and to place this matter before the court [Altman] in a manner that best assists the court,” the joint motion said.

Attorneys for the transgender female Broward County student, identified by the initials D.N., filed the lawsuit in June 2021, after the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis approved the transgender-athlete ban. The lawsuit contends that the ban is unconstitutional and violates a federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs.

In a 2021 court document, attorneys for the state argued that the law was aimed at helping ensure athletic opportunities for girls and women who want to play interscholastic or college sports.

“Men’s and women’s athletic teams, separated by sex, are more than a long-standing social custom; they protect and foster the equal opportunity of girls and women to participate in athletics,” the document said. “Courts have long accepted that boys and men are physiologically different from girls and women, and that male athletes, if permitted to compete with, would displace and exclude female athletes.”

But the lawsuit said the law (SB 1028) is “part of a wave of anti-transgender bills” across the country and

would “stigmatize this teenager and separate her from her peers and teammates.” It said D.N. plays soccer and volleyball.

“SB 1028, ironically titled the ‘Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,’ has nothing to do with fairness or equality for girls or women in sports,” the lawsuit said. “By excluding transgender girls and women from girls’ sports teams and forcing them, if they want to play sports at all, to join a team that matches neither their gender identity nor their current physical status, the bill discriminates on the basis of sex and transgender status in violation of the United States Constitution and Title IX.”

Altman placed a stay on the lawsuit early last year, citing the long-running St. Johns County bathroom case, which was pending at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In that case, transgender male student Drew Adams challenged the policy after being prevented from using boys’ bathrooms at Nease High School.

“We share the parties’ (apparent) conclusion that the Eleventh Circuit’s … decision in Adams may materially affect the result in our case,” Altman wrote in issuing the stay.

The Atlanta-based appeals court, in a 7-4 ruling on Dec. 30, rejected a district judge’s ruling that supported Adams. The majority opinion also said that “affirming the district court’s order [in the Adams case] would have broad implications for sex-separated sports teams at institutions subject to Title IX, including public schools and public and private universities.”

The decision, written by Judge Barbara Lagoa, added that “equating ‘sex’ to ‘gender identity’ or ‘transgender status’ would also call into question the validity of sexseparated sports teams.”

Lagoa, a former Florida Supreme Court justice, also wrote a concurring opinion that focused on the issue of transgender females playing sports and the definition of “sex.” She wrote that “had the majority opinion adopted Adams’ argument that ‘sex,’ as used in Title IX, includes the concept of ‘gender identity’ or ‘transgender status,’ then it would have become the law of this [11th] Circuit for all aspects of the statute.”

But Judge Jill Pryor wrote a lengthy dissent, saying that “the majority opinion misuses the term ‘biological sex,’ contradicting unchallenged findings of fact that reflect medical science and oversimplifying — indeed, excising — the role of gender identity in determining a person’s biological sex.”

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Florida, ‘a promised land of sanity’

DeSantis, inaugurated for a second term as governor, gives a doozy of a speech

BY RYAN DAILEY, NSF

It was Florida against the world — or at least against other states that imposed “woke ideology” and “philosophical lunacy” — as Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off his second term this week.

DeSantis delivered an inaugural address last Tuesday on the steps of the Old Capitol, giving the crowd that spilled over into downtown Tallahassee’s Monroe Street a smattering of campaign rhetoric.

“These last few years have witnessed a great test of governing philosophies as many jurisdictions pursued a much different path than we have pursued here in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said during the roughly 16-minute address.

“The policies pursued by these states have sparked a mass exodus of productive Americans from these jurisdictions — with Florida serving as the most desired destination, a promised land of sanity,” DeSantis added. “Many of these cities and states have embraced faddish ideology at the expense of enduring principles.”

DeSantis, who in November defeated Democratic challenger Charlie Crist by nearly 20 percentage points, is widely viewed as a potential 2024 presidential contender. And while DeSantis didn’t mention President Joe Biden directly Tuesday, he accused the federal government of leaving the nation weaker through pandemic restrictions, inflationary spending and energy and immigration policies he opposes.

The governor didn’t go into many specifics on policy initiatives, drawing criticism from Democrats who took issue with what wasn’t said.

House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, told The News Service of Florida that “everyday issues” such as property insurance, health-care affordability and housing affordability were missing from the governor’s speech.

“It was incredible to me just to listen to this governor not actually address the people of Florida but rather project his remarks, in my opinion, to donors. Billionaire donors and Republican primary voters,” Driskell said. “It wasn’t a speech for Florida or really about Florida.”

Susan MacManus, a retired political-science professor at the University of South Florida, called the DeSantis address a “generic” message that balanced themes of economic and cultural issues.

“I think there was some concern he would just focus on the cultural,” MacManus said. “The economic message was first and foremost. And I think if you’re looking ahead, with what people expect to happen in the national economy in the next few years, was probably a good thing to do.”

DeSantis was joined by Attorney General Ashley Moody, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez in being sworn in for second fouryear terms.

The only office that changed hands Tuesday involved former Senate President Wilton Simpson, a Republican who was sworn in to replace Democrat Nikki Fried as agriculture commissioner.

NINE QUESTIONS FOR 2023

for a vote, Democrats will ensure that it passes. But doing that might cost McCarthy his Speaker’s gavel.

6. Will the economy have a soft landing?

countdown of the issues that will define American politics over the next 12 months

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BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

Now that we’ve spent the last two weeks hitting the highs and lows of 2022, let’s take a look at the year to come. I’ve learned through experience that predictions are a fool’s errand. But we have a sense of the questions that will define American politics over the next 12 months.

1. Which path will the GOP take?

The election should offer Republicans a clarifying moment. Donald Trump cost them the Senate and a sizable House majority. But he still commands the loyalty of a large chunk of the GOP base. Meanwhile, the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene will hold considerable sway in the Republican House caucus, as Kevin McCarthy capitulates to extremists in his bid for the speaker’s gavel.

culture-warred his way to a landslide reelection, looks like a winner. But it’s an open question whether DeSantis wears well on the national stage, or whether other Republican upstarts — Gov. Brian Kemp or Sen. Tim Scott, for example — steal his spotlight.

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Will Joe Biden seek re-election?

If Biden runs, he’ll get the nomination, probably without a serious challenge. But the president is 80 years old. If he wins a second term, he’ll be 86 before it’s over. It’s not ageist to wonder if that’s a good idea.

If he doesn’t run, the field is wide open: Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsome, maybe Raphael Warnock, too. And Gretchen Witmer has to merit consideration after her dominance in Michigan.

The risk inherent to the Federal Reserve’s counter-inflation effort is that it would freeze economic growth into a deep recession rather than cool it into a soft landing. The good news: The Fed has indicated that it will slow rate hikes in 2023, an indication that inflation is tapering. Still, there’s no guarantee that we won’t hit a recession this year.

Getting through this without one — or even with a mild, brief one — will bolster Democrats’ 2024 prospects. But if Congress defaults on the country’s debt, any hopes of avoiding a deep recession will vanish.

7. Will the Supreme Court eviscerate democracy?

In December, the court heard oral arguments in Harper v. Moore, in which North Carolina Republicans asked the right-wing justices to endorse a fringe legal theory that says that state courts can’t stop legislatures from gerrymandering congressional districts to partisan ends even if doing so violates the state constitution.

Further-reaching versions of this theory would allow legislatures to overrule voters and appoint the presidential electors of their choosing, ignore independent redistricting commissions, and disregard state court rulings on things like voter ID.

At least a few conservative justices seemed skeptical, but we won’t know for sure until they rule this spring.

8. How desperate will Russia get?

To say the invasion of Ukraine has not gone to plan is an understatement. The bully got punched in the nose in front of the whole world.

2. Will Trump be charged?

The Department of Justice has appointed a special counsel to investigate Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and his theft of classified documents after leaving the White House. Prosecutors in Georgia are probing his attempt to overturn the state’s 2020 election result. Prosecutors in New York are investigating potential fraud. The walls appear to be closing in.

But the DOJ has never prosecuted a former president or presidential candidate, and Trump is both.

3. Does the GOP’s DeSantis crush last?

The GOP is down on Trump for the same reason they’re up on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: They want to win. DeSantis, who

But Biden’s probably going to run. And if the economy’s growing, he’ll probably win. But six years is a long time for even a healthy octogenarian.

5. Will Congress blow up the debt ceiling?

Next year, the House has to raise the debt ceiling. Failing to do so risks global financial calamity. Republican hardliners have already said they’ll hold the faith and credit of the United States hostage, using it as ransom to extract spending cuts and other concessions from the White House.

But without the Senate, Republicans lack leverage, and Biden appears to have learned that negotiating with hostage-takers encourages them to take more hostages. If McCarthy puts the debt ceiling on the floor

But the bully still has nuclear weapons. In December, Putin mused about adding a nuclear first strike to his military strategy. The likelihood that Putin follows through on this threat seems low; he would be signing his own death warrant. But the risk isn’t zero, and the consequences are potentially world-changing.

9. What will happen to Elon Musk’s Twitter?

Before its acquisition last year, Twitter had grown into a hub for journalists, policymakers, academics, activists and politicians to disseminate information. It was also a vile shithole of racist trolls and ad hominem attacks. But it was our vile shithole.

Billionare edgelord Elon Musk made all of the bad stuff worse, and the useful stuff worse, too.

With the site becoming a higher-rent Gab, I wonder what gap it will leave in our national conversation — and what will emerge as the next information hub.

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Slow your streaming

Pause Netflix for a trip to Enzian Theater, central Florida’s independent single-screen cinema and home to the Florida Film Festival. Visit Eden Bar for a cocktail before enjoying independent and foreign films on the big screen, or show your support by becoming a member. Don’t forget Freaky Fridays for late-night underground and experimental film screenings.

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Expand your wine palate

Learn more about what you’re drinking and broadyour horizons. Wine sellers at Golden Hour, Eola General, Digress Wine are among the best in town at demystifying and de-snobbing the experience of choosing a wine based on more than its price.

Break your Starbucks habit

And speaking of coffee … put your bucks in some local stars’ pockets instead of a multinational corporation. Whatever your caffeinated preference, there’s a local coffee joint that can fulfill it. Need a drive-thru? Foxtail and Drunken Monkey have you covered. Single-origin bean snob? Shop the shelves at Easy Luck. Want those beans locally roasted? Coterie Coffee and Lineage Coffee Roasting can set you up. Need a new twist? Try the always-creative seasonal menus at Deeply Coffee or Craft & Common, or savor the surprisingly tasty Vietnamese egg coffee at Gà Ta. And we haven’t even scratched the surface of Orlando’s teahouses …

Stock up on new music

Get physical and buy some new tunes on vinyl, CD or cassette. Up there with Park Ave CDs, East West Records and Rock n Roll Heaven as venerable local record stores that are still around (and even thriving) during the digital-music tsunami, Re-Runz recently relocated to a new spot at 6325 N. Orange Blossom Trail. Give them a housewarming gift of your dollars after you scour overflowing racks of the best hip-hop, soul, R&B and more in all formats, stretching from the 1960s to the present.

Register to vote and vote, vote, vote

BY JD CASTO, IDA V. ESKAMANI, BAO LE-HUU, MATTHEW MOYER, NICOLETTE SHURBA AND JESSICA BRYCE YOUNG ILLUSTRATION BY DANIEL RODRIGUEZ

If your vote didn’t matter, do you think out-of-touch politicians would be working this hard to take your freedom to vote away? Registering to vote and updating your voter registration address is a first and critical step to making our civic life better.

25 really good decisions you can make in 2023

Know your elected officials and attend government meetings

Don’t you want to know how your elected officials are spending your tax dollars? Learn who they are, what they stand for, and how you can be part of the process. Follow them on social media, reach out to their offices, and attend a meeting. They are here to serve you.

Find a local cause you care about and volunteer!

If you’re not sure where, check out Florida Rising (@flrising), Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida (@feedhopenow), People Power (@peoplepowerfla) or the Bros in Convo Initiative (@brosinconvo) on Instagram for suggestions.

Make your voice heard

Protest is not only our fundamental right; it’s a critical tool to securing the American dream for all. Orlando knows how to take to the streets demanding change and demonstrating solidarity. From marching alongside workers on the picket line to standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Iranian women to protecting LGBTQ+ kids and demands for racial justice, you’ll find opportunities to attend throughout the year.

Support a local abortion fund

Abortion is a decision that should be made between a patient and their family and doctors, not politicians. Unfortunately, Gov. Ron DeSantis and conservative state lawmakers want to pass even more extreme abortion bans than Florida’s current 15-week limit. Abortion bans disproportionately impact working-class people and people of color, and funds like Florida Access Network help close the financial and logistical gap.

Bonus points: Combine the above two resolutions!

Marking 50 years since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, join Florida Rep. Anna V. Eskamani and reproductive rights storytellers at the March for Reproductive Rights, an expert-led rally followed by a march in Orlando, while thousands of others hit the streets in their cities, unified in the demand to make abortion legal and accessible. It’s happening at City Hall on Sunday, Jan. 22, at noon.

Get a library card

We hope you’re sensing a theme here. Knowledge is power, and for centuries libraries have served as a hub of information and the exchange of ideas. Our Orange County library system offers not only books (of the physical, e- and audio- varieties), but movies, magazines, comics, classes, events and meeting spaces — often for free, sometimes for a nominal fee.

Defend the freedom to read

So you’ve got your library card. Are you ready to fight for it? Parents across the state are organizing and rising up against the far-right assault on public education and information. One of the most active groups on the frontlines is right here in Central Florida: The Florida Freedom to Read Project connects parent organizations across the state of Florida and defends students’ right to access information while at school.

Support your local journalists

We ain’t gonna sugarcoat this. There is a concentrated assault on the free press happening, and the victims of dis-and misinformation are all around you. Support local papers with your readership and, if you can afford it, your money.

Go outside already

Touch some grass and kick some balls during OUT Sports League’s (outsportsleague.com) winter season. Or if you want to go a little farther off the beaten path, coat your body in sunscreen and explore our local natural wonders, like manatee-friendly Blue Springs, Budweiser-friendly Wekiva Springs or hiker-happy Orlando Wetlands. Or enjoy the simple pleasure of a bike ride: Cruise around town on the Orlando Urban Trail or join a Critical Mass ride on the First Friday of every month. Make sure to wear your helmet.

But here’s a tip:

Don’t swim in Lake Eola

You’ll get ringworm or worse, an amoebic infection. (Naegleria fowleri is no joke, and it has been found in some local lakes.) Besides, you’ll annoy the swans.

Go to a live NXT taping

Though spots are coveted — follow NXT on social media to find out the details on snagging your seat; it might take a few tries — you can’t beat the price: free. Every week, a crowd of a

few hundred cheers on the stars of tomorrow at a television taping of WWE’s NXT developmental league at the WWE Performance Center. We’re particularly fond of glammy heel tag-team Pretty Deadly, as of this writing. Yes boy!

Check out some new nightlife destinations Venture outside the downtown core to support Orlando artists and touring acts at freshly christened independent venues like Conduit (@ conduit_fl) and Soundbar at Level 13 (@soundbar.orl). Variety is the spice of life!

Honor them with action

Never forget Pulse nightclub and the 49 precious lives lost to a man armed with an assault weapon on June 12, 2016. As the LGBTQ+ community faces attacks from far right politicians, commit (or recommit) to creating a community that welcomes all. Honor the victims by investing in and supporting LGBTQ+ initiatives and businesses.

Here’s an opportunity:

For over 10 years, the Pride Chamber has held its January Business Connect networking event highlighting the work of LGBTQ+ nonprofits in the community. It’s a great event with wonderful food, a cash bar and a fun environment. Learn about volunteering opportunities and other ways to get involved with Central Florida’s incredible nonprofits. It’s happening TODAY, Jan. 11. (thepridechamber.org)

Try a new-to-you cultural experience

The Renaissance Theatre Co. is a great place to start. Try Musical Mondays (like a piano bar, but with better sheet music), Black Haus Creature Feature drag shows or one of their original, sometimes interactive shows (Nosferatu, Lennox Ave.). The open-air and indoor Candlelight Orchestra Tributes are affordable and entertaining classical pops concerts covering artists ranging from Hans Zimmer to Beyoncé (candlelightexperience.com). Check out some bleeding-edge theater at the new Fringe ArtSpace — like this week’s Fringe Winter Mini-Fest (see page 15) — or if you want to veer wayyyyy off the beaten sonic path, house venue the Dining Room regularly presents challenging jazz and experimental performers in an informal and wayintimate setting (@atthediningroom).

Savor our community markets

There are great one-stops for local food and local vendors all over the city, but they’ve gotten notably better curated in recent years. At local brickand-mortar mainstays like Clemons Produce, Freshfields Farm, Lake Meadow Naturals and Fancy Fruit and Produce, you’ll find choices and community connections way beyond big-box boredom.

Get tested for STDs

Visit the LGBTQ Center (946 N. Mills Ave., 407-228-8272, thecenterorlando.org), AHF Healthcare Center (1701 N. Mills Ave., 407-204-7000), Miracle of Love (1301 W. Colonial Drive, 407-246-1946, cancommunityhealth.org/orlando) or Out of the Closet Thrift Store (1349 N. Mills Ave., 407-583-4916, outofthecloset. org) for free, confidential testing.

Support housing for all

Housing is essential. Orange County voters made history last year as the first county in the state’s history to get rent control on the ballot, and pass it. (Unfortunately, the state stepped in and squashed it.) Locally, grass-roots groups like the Orlando Tenants Power and Florida Rising are leading the fight, and you can take part.

Forward this article to five friends

Every friend group needs that friend. You know the one: the friend who organizes the election day carpool, gets everyone making signs for the protest, volunteers regularly and believes in the power of community. If you’ve read this far along, that’s you, babe. Forward this article to five of your friends and ask them to do the same. Keep building together toward something that serves us all.

For the love of all that is holy, don’t try to turn left going north on Mills at Colonial

Though, admittedly, honking at the fools who attempt this is the one thing that unites all Orlandoans.

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BY SETH KUBERSKY

This time last year, the sixth annual Orlando Fringe Winter Mini-Fest was forced to cancel its in-person performances with only a week’s notice, thanks to the then-surging Omicron variant. Just a few months later, the Fringe-friendly management of HÄOS on Church Street (which was planned to be a key festival venue) moved on, further dashing hopes for the Festival’s triumphant expansion back into downtown where it began.

But following that devastating double blow, Fringe’s fortunes took a turn for the better in the back half of 2022. After evicting Mad Cow Theatre from their rent-free home over years of unpaid fees, the city of Orlando handed Fringe the keys to the theater complex at 54 W. Church St., finally giving the 30 year-old organization a permanent year-round presence. Now, an exciting new era for Orlando Fringe kicks off this week with the revival of Winter Mini-Fest in the newly christened Fringe ArtSpace, which promises to be the affordable, accessible downtown venue that performers have long been pleading for.

The city of Orlando, with support from the Downtown Development Board, installed Orlando Fringe in the 9,100-square-foot Fringe ArtSpace with the mission of activating its two theaters (a 166-seat mainstage and a 60-seat black box), as well as the plaza it overlooks, with “artist-focused programming” focused on “building a dynamic, inspiring community of artists and arts lovers with the purpose of providing artists a safe environment to create, experiment, collaborate and showcase their creations.”

“Fringe exists to create a platform for artists,” says Fringe executive director Alauna Friskics, who has been working with her team for months to prepare ArtSpace for its grand opening bash on Wednesday, Jan. 11, which will feature a ribbon cutting with Mayor Dyer and a free street party. “We’ve been successful in this for two weeks each year for over 30 years

with the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival. And now, with Fringe ArtSpace, we are able to lift up voices of independent artists year-round.”

Fringe ArtSpace’s opening event also doubles as a preview for the seventh Orlando Fringe Winter Mini-Fest, which runs Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 12-15. This year’s lineup of 20 shows, curated by outgoing festival producer Lindsay Taylor, combines a mix of acclaimed encores from previous Fringe fests (including Rosegold, The Sack, Coffee and Cedar, Always Now, experiMENTAL and Cross Country), with previously unseen works from favorite Fringe artists. Some of those — like Paris Crayton III’s family drama Bloodline, Sean Keohane’s puppet musical The Everglads and Erika Kate MacDonald’s The Barn Identity — were originally supposed to premiere last at last year’s Mini-Fest; MacDonald actually ended up debuting her charmingly unhinged musical rant about decrepit farm buildings on my back patio, before officially opening it at the 2022 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.

Other Mini-Fest offerings are a mix of old and new, such as The Awkward Ballerina, starring Montreal-based storyteller Kristen Govers in her area debut, originally directed by Fringe legend T.J. Dawe. Producer-director Beth Marshall, a longtime Orlando Fringe fixture and the Festival’s former producing artistic director, predicts that “Orlando audiences will immediately be taken with her awkward charm, and her story of having to reimagine her dreams of being a ballerina when she learned she had cerebral palsy. It’s a story of hope, inspiration and empowerment, perfect to start off 2023.”

Best of all, Winter Mini-Fest offers an opportunity to be introduced to artists who are entirely new to Orlando, like Los Angeles’s Bonnie He and Atlanta’s Mark Kendall. He’s award-winning A Terrible Show for Terrible People, is a one-person physical comedy with only two spoken words, and she says that she’s “excited to bring my PG-13 filth to Orlando audiences. You’re not just watching a show, you’re participating in the destruction of human decency.”

Kendall will be previewing his button-pushing semi-improvised sketch comedy Critical Race Theory for Kindergartners here ahead of its official premiere at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre (as the first winning commission of the theater’s James Anderson Prize), which he says will be “a fun opportunity for patrons to see a show early on in its development process.”

Whether they’re first-timers or multidecade veterans, everyone involved expressed extreme excitement at being among the first to perform under the Fringe ArtSpace banner. “It’s a huge honor to not only be personally selected to be a part of the 2023 Orlando Fringe Winter Mini-Fest curated lineup, but to be one of the first shows christening the brand new Fringe ArtSpace Mainstage,” said He. Marshall says she’s “always thrilled to be involved with any and all things Fringe. … Basically, I just go where Fringe goes!” And Kendall says he’s “heard so many great things about Orlando and their Fringe community for years and I am looking forward to finally getting the chance to experience it.”

Once the four-day Mini-Fest ends, Fringe ArtSpace will swiftly roll out its inaugural season of mainstage shows, starting with the premiere of Genesis, running Jan. 26-29, the latest dance epic from BlueLaLa’s VarieTease. February brings Carrie the Musical, in collaboration with William Daniel Mills Theatre Company; followed by Will Eno’s Middletown, with an all-star cast directed by David Lee for Kangagirl Productions & Ant Farm. In March, Beth Marshall presents Arius, a Black queer artist, in A Quarter of a Century … and then some!, and Descolonizarte Teatro stages the Spanglish comedy Nuestra Señora de la Tortilla, before ArtSpace becomes the Fringe Festival’s new Purple and Teal venues in May. This initial spring season was programmed by Joshian and Kayla Kelsay Morales of Kelsay + Morales Company, who say “the programming will be a living, breathing model that continues to evolve and adapt based on the needs of our community.” I attended one of the public brainstorming sessions used to develop future programming and am optimistic about its diversity, ranging from traditional shows to pop-up artistic events and educational seminars, featuring both local and touring performers in the spirit of New York’s 92nd Street Y.

I’m especially eager to hear details about Fringe’s plans to offer affordable rehearsal and performance rental space to Orlando’s many nomadic producers, and to mentor emerging companies with showcase productions. Friskics promises, “This curated season is just the beginning. We have so much more in store and are looking for many more ways to bring artists together and let their voices and stories be heard. Stay tuned for much, much more.” skubersky@orlandoweekly.com

An exciting new era for Orlando Fringe kicks off this week in the newly christened Fringe ArtSpace, which promises to be the affordable, accessible downtown venue that performers have long desired

A Terrible Show for Terrible People features in the Fringe’s Winter Mini-Fest | courtesy photo

BEAUTIFUL BITES

The prettiest plates our critic cleaned in 2022

BY FAIYAZ KARA

It bears repeating that 2022 was a year when third-culture cooking really made an impression in restaurants around this city. A new generation of chefs, influenced by the culture of their ancestry and the culture in which they were raised, blended diasporic nuances into their dishes to create a new food language. Many of those dishes happened to be the very best bites I had in 2022 — bites as gorgeous as they were gorge-worthy. Here are 12 of the most memorable.

Geoduck belly, Norigami

Chef David Tsan seared slices of the long-necked Alaskan clam in sesame oil, then presented the dish with a fermented black-bean sauce reduced with garlic and soy sauce. It’s no wonder a seat at this eightperson sushi bar is one of the hardest to come by in Orlando.

Tuna pizza, Salt & The Cellar by Akira Back

The light, crackly tortilla laid with gossamer folds of raw tuna, white truffle oil and micro shiso was made semi-famous at Akira Back’s Yellowtail restaurant in the Bellagio Hotel. And it’ll likely be semifamous here, too.

Binchotan-seared saba, Juju

For Lewis Lin, a Taiwanese chef who spent his formative years in Japan, Juju is a dream realized. The Colonialtown izakaya sizzles to the sounds of meats being grilled over binchotan coals, but when Lin picked up a charcoal brick with tongs and kissed the flesh of Japanese mackerel in front of us during an omakase tasting, the result was mwah

Potato mille-feuille, Ava Mediterraegean

Layering buttery sheets of potato with chopped chives and kefalograviera cheese before browning them to a fall-to-yourknees crisp is undoubtedly a laborious task, but so well worth it. Honestly, it’s hard going back to eating regular ol’ fries after biting into these beauties.

Tomato and salted egg salad, Kaya

Believe the hype — the seafood- and veg-forward Filipino restaurant by firstand second-generation Americans Lordfer Lalicon and Jamilyn Bailey is the real deal. So was this “salad” fashioned from grape and cherry tomatoes marinated in mango vinegar and kalamansi gastrique nestled amid — deep breath — salted egg, fried anchovies, sliced radish, melon, micro

greens, Surinam spinach, herbs, basil, hibiscus leaves and marinated salmon roe.

Kunefe, Istanbul Grill

The cheese-filled, phyllo-threaded, pistachio-topped pastry is an absolute favorite of mine, and the version served here is unexpectedly devoid of the syrup that typically pools around the base, making for a significantly lighter, and less cloying, capper to a meal.

Paya, Kabab King

What’s not to like about goat trotters cooked for eight hours in a thin, fragrant gravy? It’s a glorious dish rooted in comfort — I relished every grunt elicited by marrow-sucking and dunking shreds of a sizable, sesame-specked Afghani naan into that redolent liquid.

Chicken gizzards and young eggs, Gà Ta

The restaurant’s name may have changed (it opened as Gà 2 To) but this fiery offal salad hasn’t changed a bit, nor should it. The fetching mélange of stir-fried chicken gizzards, chicken hearts and “young eggs” (they’re ovaries) is reinforced with whole garlic that only further charges this proteincharger of a dish.

Grilled prawns with chili butter, The Wellborn

There’s so much to appreciate at the revamped Wellborn — the revamped food offerings especially. Of note are the grilled prawns slicked in chili-lime butter and garnished with pickled gypsy and jalapeño peppers. The head-on buggers are worth the trip alone.

Seafood tower, YH Seafood Clubhouse

It’s truly hard not to salivate over the soaring salvers of seafood proffered at YH, and it’s damn near impossible to not genuinely enjoy indulging in a platter of fried lobster piled high with french fries, fried scallions, chilies and garlic.

Chicken meatballs, Doshi

There’s a lot to like at this contemporary Korean restaurant, but these tender and buoyant wonders had us wanting more. The minced leg meat is poached, then grilled over binchotan coals to create texturally perfect orbs.

Key West spiny lobster, Luke’s Kitchen and Bar

When chef Jason Campbell announced on Instagram the arrival of these spiky buggers, I made a beeline to Luke’s in Maitland. The lobster, jerk-rubbed with Florida datil peppers then fire-grilled over Florida white oak before being glossed in a citrus beurre monté, comprised a hidden additive: that secret ingredient that allows you to block out the world.

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BY FAIYAZ KARA

OPENINGS & CLOSINGS:

Hand-pulled noodles are here, Orlando. Mr. J Hand-Pulled Noodle, located in the Silver Crossings Shopping Center on East Silver Star Road in Ocoee, specializes in Lanzhou beef noodle soup … It’s been closed for nearly 20 months, but the Winter Park Fish Co. has finally reopened at 761 N. Orange Ave. After a major remodel that added additional indoor seating, the seafood house got into permitting trouble with the City of Winter Park. All is good now and, oh, the restaurant now goes by “The Fish Company at Winter Park” Speaking of dumb name changes, the Food Factory in Oviedo has now been renamed “The Food Factory Foodie Collective.” I can almost hear Adam Sandler asking *Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one!?* Regardless, the diverse lineup of micro restaurants at the food hall-ish venue looks promising — Kai Asian Street Fare, The 1 Cantina, Kurried, The Shawarma Kompany, Suki-Nori, The Local Hen and Buttercrust Pizza. In addition, the Factory Bar will serve craft cocktails, wine and beer, and there will also be an outdoor walk-up bar on site called Bartu. A beer garden is also planned. Look for FFFC to open “later this year” at 888 City Walk Lane … Two hot new restaurants are in soft opening — breakfast and lunch joint Farm & Haus at 526 S. Park Ave. in Winter Park, and The Moderne, a boite specializing in Asian-inspired tapas and craft cocktails at 1241 E. Colonial Drive … Wave Asian Bistro & Sushi, the popular joint in Mount Dora, will open a location inside the Maitland Social at 360 E. Horatio Ave. Wave will occupy a 1,373-square-foot space with a 500-square-foot outdoor patio. Foxtail Coffee and Vitality Bowls Superfood Cafe are the other food/bev vendors who have signed on … Token Ramen and Kung Fu Tea have opened in the space previously occupied by Too Much Sauce in Mills Park … Look for Mango Fresh, a Latin American-inspired juice and fruit bar, to open next to Ding Tea (and a few doors down from the soon-to-open Drake Kitchen + Bar) in the Radius Apartments sometime this year … Four months after opening on South Park Avenue, FrappeStar Coffee has closed.

NEWS & EVENTS:

Ten 10 Brewing Company’s 6th Annualish Amateur Rib Contest kicks off at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, in the brewery’s parking lot. The event is free, but proceeds from the sale of beverages and raffle tickets will go to support the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida … Fusion Fest’s first Diversitastic!

Dining Experience of 2023 will spotlight Laotian cuisine with the chefs from Sticky Rice presenting a slew of native dishes. The event is Wednesday, Jan. 25, with seatings at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Cost is $49.95. Visit fusionfest.org for more.

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Chicken meatball yakitori from Doshi | photo by Faiyaz Kara

ON (small) SCREENS IN ORLANDO

Streaming premieres you won’t want to miss this week.

by Steve Schneider

PREMIERES WEDNESDAY:

Chasing Waves — What it once did for Jamaican bobsledding, Disney now tries to do for a Japanese surfing, with a docuseries that profiles some of that nation’s top practitioners of the sport. The hardest part was telling Doug E. Doug that board shorts don’t work with a kimono. (Disney+)

Gina Yei — The dreams of the young are the theme of an original series about a Puerto Rican girl who wins a songwriting scholarship to the prestigious Caribbean Music Institute. The lyrical challenge she sets for herself: no coming around at 12, no dying to meet you. (Disney+)

Noise — A mother searching for her lost daughter takes up the struggles of Mexican women who are fighting a culture of brutal repression. Or as Jordan Peterson calls them, “big fibbers.” (Netflix)

Sexify — In Season 1, our Polish heroines created an app to unlock the mysteries of female sexuality. In Season 2, they’re struggling to satisfy their investors. Fellas, I hope I’m not giving anything away when I say THAT SOUNDS FAMILIAR. (Netflix)

PREMIERES THURSDAY:

The Climb — Jason Momoa co-presents a competition series that follows amateur rock climbers up some of the world’s steepest ascents. His motivational pep

talk: “You wanna talk about uphill climbs? Try keeping a job at Warner Bros. after James Gunn comes in.” (HBO Max)

How I Caught My Killer — A nine-episode docuseries looks into homicide cases that were solved because the victim left behind some sort of incriminating evidence. See, ladies? When you tell the police “My husband is going to kill me,” they really will listen eventually. (Hulu)

Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight — In Season 2, Po and the gang leave China for the first time, exploring exotic locales like India and Central America. What’s weird is that the Chinese food is suddenly much better. (Netflix)

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House — Director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters) adapts the manga adventures of two girls who move into a home for apprentice geishas, only for one of them to learn that she prefers cooking instead. Gee, the last time I went to Kobé, all they brought me was a hot towel. (Netflix)

The Makery — Twenty-five 15-minute episodes teach preschoolers to express themselves creatively, in areas ranging from visual art to baking. Then when they hit elementary school, we’ll teach them to go on YouTube and savage what everybody else has done. (Peacock)

The Traitors — Alan Cumming hosts a show in which past cast members from

programs like Big Brother and The Real Housewives compete with normies to win a quarter of a million dollars — if the quislings in their midst don’t steal the money instead. Gosh, where would a Real Housewife go for lessons in grand larceny? (Peacock)

Velma — Mindy Kaling voices the title character in her already-controversial Scooby-Doo prequel series, which shows what Scoob’s future pals were up to before they became Mystery Incorporated. Apparently, they had a lot of adolescent crushes on one another, because Kaling is all about challenging herself artistically. (HBO Max)

Vikings: Valhalla — Season 2 finds Leif, Freydis and Harald on the run in Scandinavia, being forced to adapt to living as fugitives outside their familiar haunts. Creator Jeb Stuart says he wanted to take the characters out of their comfort zones, but think what he meant to say is it was time to Sweden the pot. (Netflix)

PREMIERES FRIDAY:

Break Point — The team behind Formula 1: Drive to Survive presents a group portrait of the most promising young players in tennis, with commentary from the likes of John McEnroe contextualizing their significance to the sport. Meanwhile, Maria Sharapova wants to know where they get their crank. (Netflix)

Dog Gone — True events inspired this

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story of a father and son who renew their relationship while searching for a lost pet along the Appalachian Trail. Which reminds me of the time my father and I learned a lot about each other while looking for something on Orange Blossom Trail. But that’s more of a story for family. (Netflix)

The Drop — Director/co-writer Sarah Adina Smith apparently thought she was being super-edgy by fashioning a dark comedy around the idea of a married woman accidentally dropping someone else’s baby. You really want to get our attention, Sarah? Have her yeet that fucker! (Hulu)

Hunters — Udo Kier and Jennifer Jason Leigh join the cast of the Nazi-tracking thriller series for its second season, which also happens to be its last. I guess looking for Nazis just isn’t very exciting anymore, now that Elon’s made it so easy. (Prime Video)

I Don’t Like Driving (No Me Gusta Conducir) — Comedy ensues when a 40-something college professor has to learn to drive. And if you think it’s weird the Spaniards found that setup worthy of an entire series, just wait until he inevitably hooks up with Uber. (HBO Max)

Servant — The fourth and final season promises to reconcile the thorny relationships between nanny Leanne, spouses Sean and Dorothy, and fought-over “miracle baby” Jericho. Fortunately, since the show is an M. Night Shyamalan joint, you know the payoff isn’t going to disappoint anybody whatsoever. (Apple TV+)

Sky Rojo: Season 3 — Also coming to an end is this Spanish-language heist series, which promises a final showdown between pimp Romeo and the three hookers who ripped him off for 4 million euros. FUN FACT: The denouement of this show is one of those things we couldn’t know until Joel Greenberg got sentenced.

(Netflix)

The Test — Who knew you could get a second season out of a docuseries about something as outwardly dull as Australian cricket? That’s something I’m definitely going to discuss with my buddies while we pretend to be interested in the next Orlando City match. (Prime Video)

PREMIERES SUNDAY:

Mayor of Kingstown — Season 2 finds Jeremy Renner’s prison go-between, Mike McClusky, dealing with the fallout of that nasty riot that exploded at the end of Season 1. Sample dialogue that shows the program’s originality and verisimilitude will continue unabated: “Let’s not quibble and argue about who shanked who.” (Get well soon, Jeremy. If you ever want to move somewhere with no snow, we’ll pick you up at the airport.) (Paramount+)

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MS. MEKA, IF YOU’RE …

Orlando musician Ms. Meka Nism is going to try on a multiplicity of new roles this year

BY MATTHEW MOYER

Even die-hard fans and followers of Orlando musician and artist Ms. Meka Nism are going to see bold new sides of her creative life in 2023.

As the year begins, the iron-lunged singer has her metal project Meka Nism on pause, giving her time to devote to solo music, theatrical projects, reissuing music from her vast archive, mentoring other Orlando musicians and her recent appointment as president of the Florida chapter of the Recording Academy.

For Meka, the initial catalyst for this crowded slate of eclectic endeavors dates back to the early days of the pandemic. “We all have been faced with reinvention because of quarantine and the COVID years,” explains Meka. “The past couple years I’ve been able to look, back but with fresh eyes, and realize that people are ready for different approaches. There’s less boundaries between genres now.”

This realization led to Meka going full-bore with her solo projects — though she stresses that Meka Nism the band still very much exists — releasing the lush single “The Day Fell” in collaboration with Violectric’s Michelle Jones in late 2021.

It was, in many ways, the beginning of a fresh chapter for her. Finding this new avenue for her voice soon led to working with Apex Arts Studios on releasing unreleased and overlooked works far outside the metal realm. But to Meka it’s all part of her same love for telling stories through music.

“I can be very loud. I also can be very dynamic, I can be gentle. I can tell a gentle side of a story,” says Meka. “I love being a storyteller and … there’s a different story that comes through vocally. I’m the same vocalist, whether I’m doing J-pop or metal or folklore or musical theater.”

This weekend, in fact, marks the digital re-release of a lost solo acoustic album of “heartbreak songs” called Mad to Love through Apex Arts. She’ll be marking the occasion Friday in Sanford as part of her continuing performance residency at the Alley. She promises a load of special guests for this show, including Josh Gluck, Florizel Dennis and Brian “The Vegan Black Metal Chef” Manowitz (drumming, though, not cooking).

The increasingly rare phenomenon of a performing residency is something that Meka warmed immediately to,

8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13

The Alley

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using each one of this series of acoustic shows to showcase both her own vast body of work and the songs and sounds that shaped her as an artist.

“This series is for showing a range of genres, not just for myself but really celebrating all the people I get to work with,” says Meka. “It’s more of a celebration of Central Florida culture.”

Mad to Love is one of many reissues Meka has in the works, which will eventually include an album of unreleased Origami Girls songs — Meka’s Shonen Knife-esque project from when she lived in Japan over a decade ago.

Looking forward, Meka’s musical partnership with Jones continues apace with the two hard at work on a rock opera spinning off from their initial collab. With two virtuosic performers who each have a serious flair for the visually dramatic in their musical “day jobs,” it’s hard not to have high expectations.

“The rock opera is going to mix the rock and metal world but be as true to opera as possible,” says Meka. “But it will be a bite-sized one that’s digestible for our current generation’s attention span. What’s most exciting for me is that the opera is where we came from for all these deep stories. The goth kids, you know, 150 years ago, were listening to opera!”

When discussing what else 2023 has in store for Ms. Meka Nism, one has to pivot from the creative side of music to the business side, because — at the risk of sounding glib — she’s got a lot on her plate. But Meka is gratifyingly willing to share this hard-won knowledge with her creative community, particularly as founder of the Orlando Songwriters Society. She’ll be hosting a roundtable discussion on Friday, Jan. 20 at the Melrose Center with Steve Lane of Florida Songwriters Association to talk the business of music: royalties, recording and all the non-glamorous nuts and bolts of the rock life.

“If we’re going to get the next generation, no matter how old they are, but just the next round of soundtracks for our generation. We need to educate each other. My willingness is to ask the questions,” says Meka. “What I’m trying to do with Orlando Songwriters Society is get people to support each other.”

And on top of all that, Meka is gearing up to head out to L.A. for Grammy week to rep Florida as the first Orlandoan to head up the state’s chapter of the Recording Academy in over two decades.

“Serving as president I get to represent both Florida and Puerto Rico,” says Meka. “It’s such a cool opportunity to have a president from Orlando at this moment in time because the personality of Central Florida is just exploding. There’s so much diversity and excitement.”

That commitment to repping Central Florida even comes down to wearing clothes and jewelry from Central Florida artisans and designers only for glitzy Grammy events. Details matter. “I’m just trying to wear as many artists as possible from Orlando because then I feel like I’m taking Orlando with me to the red carpet,” says Meka.

Beyond the obvious glamor of the Grammys, Meka takes her position in the music business seriously as a means to foster new talent and new voices. “I’m here to help be a bridge to take people on to the next level whenever we can, because that’s what we’re here for. Right? To help each other,” she concludes. “None of us are in this alone.”

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MS. MEKA NISM WITH JOSH GLUCK

Ms. Meka Nism has a lot lined up for 2023 | photo by Dean Kerr

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LOCAL RELEASES

In the past several years, Jordan Foley has built a reputation on stage as one of the leading young lights in Orlando’s Americana scene. His biggest strides came with the solidification of his full band, Jordan Foley & the Wheelhouse. Now, all that impressive stage mileage will finally coalesce on their first album as a unit.

This Friday (Jan. 13), Jordan Foley & the Wheelhouse will launch the release campaign for their self-titled debut album with the drop of opening single “Loners.”

The six-song, Thomas Wynn-produced collection will be rolled out on streaming services as a steady series of singles that’ll run through the summer, culminating in an Aug. 19 release concert at Will’s Pub. However, the full album will see a consolidated release on Bandcamp as early as April 21.

While “Loners” kicks things off with a strapping Southern-rock stomp, Foley’s rich and tender heart will take the wheel in follow-up single “Our Last Dance” (releasing Feb. 17), probably the album’s most moving song. From there on, it’ll be a drive that shifts back and forth between passion and muscle, the two poles that define Foley’s signature. All told, Jordan Foley & the Wheelhouse is a lushly crafted country-rock batch that documents their crystallization as a band. As a work of both wide appeal and substance that could play for the modern country mainstream without selling its soul, this album will be worth the ride.

CONCERT PICKS THIS WEEK

Little Lazy, Liquid Pennies, The Bums, Sad Halen: This bill’s a nice sampler of under-the-radar indie talent from the I-4 corridor. Orlando will be repped by

the excellent shoegaze rock of Sad Halen, the jaunty indie pop of the Bums and the celebratory blues rock of Little Lazy. St. Pete’s Liquid Pennies will bring some welcome freak and fuzz with their cloud-riding psych rock. (7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, Stardust Video & Coffee, $8-$10)

John Lee Wyatt, Patrick Hagerman, Beartoe, Derek Engstrom: Foremost, this will be a single release for John Lee Wyatt of indie-folk act the Lamplight Shivers. But top to bottom, it’s a notable bill loaded with credentialed locals, from the deep Americana heart of Patrick Hagerman to the rootsy soul of Beartoe to the urbane pop sounds of former Leisure Chief leader Derek Engstrom. (8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, Will’s Pub, $10)

Sanford Punk Fest 5: Havoc Underground return with the fifth edition of their all-day punk-rock takeover. Involving two stages and 18 acts, this one will be a 12-hour mosh pit that brings punk bands from all over to mix it up with some of

Florida’s best. Lineup includes the Bastard Suns, Antagonizers ATL, Dial Drive, WolfFace, Doc Rotten, Debt Neglector, Tired Radio, Pangolin, Flag on Fire, the Problem Addicts, Nothing Lost, Forsaken Profits, Noxious Profit, Secondself, Friendly Fire, Our Escape, Dearly Beloved and the Palmeranians. (Noon Saturday, Jan. 14, West End Trading Co., $20)

Southern Culture on the Skids, The Tremolords: For all the academic praise heaped on artistic evolution, there’s something to be said for not fucking with a golden formula. So thank god for acts like Southern Culture on the Skids, who, through four decades of existence, are smart enough to know that their campy and rollicking take on American roots rock has been spot-on this whole damn time. Orlando garage-rock legends the Tremolords, too, know something about staying true. (7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, Will’s Pub, $20-$25)

Disco Iskandar Belly Dance: There is just so far that some dudes and guitars can take you. Belly dancers, however, are an entirely different matter. In fact, belly dancing is a grand and ancient form that melds body and music into an intoxicating singularity thaaat … sorry, just got mesmerized there with the mere thought of it. Anyway, Disco Iskandar is a nationally touring belly dance company based in L.A. and Austin. This, however, will be a special homecoming show for director and erstwhile Floridian Veronica Lynn. Go be entranced by a full-company production filled with costumes and, yes, them moves. (7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, Stardust Video & Coffee, $15) baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com

Local Americana leading lights Jordan Foley & the Wheelhouse are set to roll out their debut album as a series of singles, culminating in a big August album release and show

BY BAO LE-HUU

Jordan Foley & the Wheelhouse | photo by Matthew Fowler

FRIDAY, JAN. 13

6 Guitars

Florida native Chase Padgett debuted his signature one-man show, 6 Guitars, in 2010 and has since toured it through multiple cities and countries and received countless awards. In the show Padgett alternates between six characters — a 20-year-old lead guitarist for the heavy-metal band Dragon Toads of Fury, a nauseatingly sweet folk singer, a Mexican classical guitarist, the leader of the “Beer Barrel” country band, a pretentious but ferociously intellectual modern-jazz virtuoso and an 87-year-old Black blues player from Mississippi — embodying each one with astonishing precision and intermingling their reflections on life with songs (both standards and originals) appropriate to each personality. This revival at the Ren adds a full band to what has previously been just one man on the stage, and while the show was never missing anything before, we can’t wait to see how much richer it can be. 8 p.m., Renaissance Theatre, 415 E. Princeton St., rentheatre.com, $30. — Jessica Bryce Young

SATURDAY, JAN. 14

Michael Feinberg & Tal Cohen

Orlando is currently in the very lucky position of being home to young jazz up-andcomers like Thomas Milovac, Syoma Klochko, Ryan Devlin and Keegan Matthews, which gives us an up-close seat to see possible futures of jazz. And this weekend, we can

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get an up-close seat at more far-flung possible futures, when the Timucua Arts Foundation house hosts a unique collaborative evening between jazz upstarts Tal Cohen and Michael Feinberg. Miami-based pianist Cohen is a Grammy-winning firebrand who is gaining rave reviews by the bucketful for his sonic hybridization of jazz licks with traditional Jewish music and swing to spare. New Yorker Feinberg is a bassist who is similarly sculpting his own bold jazz sounds that combine elements of jazz and hip-hop. Together, this should be a heady stew. 7:30 p.m., Timucua Arts Foundation, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave., timucua.com, $25. — Matthew Moyer

Rollins Museum of Art Exhibit Openings

Rollins Museum of Art starts 2023 off with an aesthetic bang in four new exhibitions on Saturday. In Our Eyes: Women’s, Nonbinary, and Transgender Perspectives From the Collection looks at issues of representation in art across time and medium. The exhibit is guest-curated by Rollins’ Dr. Kimberly Dennis and students in the Museum Studies program. What’s New? highlights some of the most compelling recent additions to the Museum’s permanent collection. Visual Field is an arrangement of staff picks from the museum’s collection, based on each individual’s personal response to the chosen piece of art. Finally, and intriguingly, there’s Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States, a perfect field trip for area zinesters to discover the

distant roots of their chosen outlet of expression. These are all, as per usual, free for both Rollins students and the public at large. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, rollins.edu, free. — MM

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 14-15

Central Florida Scottish Highland Games

Get ready to bust out those kilts and pretend that you actually enjoy bagpipe music — it’s time for the Central Florida Scottish Highland Games! For 45 years now, the event has been celebrating Scottish tradition and culture in Winter Springs. Complete with athletic competitions, dancing, music, art, food and sundry explorations of centuries-old Gaelic heritage, this is shaping up to be a fun weekend for attendees. Vendors will be on hand selling a variety of Scottish goods, including hand-crafted jewelry, carved wood art, kilt accessories (naturally) and even info regarding personal tours of the Scottish highlands. Whether you want to connect with your own Scottish roots or just hang around for some fun activities and get some sun on your lower legs, this should be your destination. Continued shouts of “They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom” are optional. Central Winds Park, 1000 E. State Road 434, Winter Springs, flascot.com, $20-$1,200.

— Gabby Macogay

“CUSTOM MADE,” RIVA HELFOND (NEW YORK, NY, USA, 1910-2002, PLAINFIELD, NJ, USA), 1938 LITHOGRAPH

Pressing Issues opens Saturday at Rollins Museum of Art

Nomadic Photo Ark Portrait of US, a living story archive, is coming to Central Florida this weekend with a traveling photo darkroom in

tow. Photographers Monica Jane Frisell and Adam Scher have converted a cargo trailer into their Nomadic Photo Ark, which they’ve been motoring across the country in since July 2021, collecting audio stories and photos across the United States. In collaboration with Snap! Orlando, Frisell will capture narratives and portraits in the Parramore neighborhood. Participating residents will get their own black-and-white print to keep. The event was organized in partnership with local activist Jennifer Desire. 814 W. Church St., snaporlando.com, free.

— Melissa Perez-Carrillo

MUSIC

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11

Hard Swingin’ Country Soiree with Decker and Dimitrov 7 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free; 407-748-8256.

JazzPro Series Presents: LaRue Nickelson Quartet 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $20; 407-636-9951.

Life on Mars 7 pm; Fredster’s, 1720 Fennell St., Maitland; free; 321-444-6331.

THURSDAY, JAN. 12

Eric Rachmany, Kyle Ahern, Cydeways 7 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $29.50; 407-648-8363.

K-Pop Bop Nite: DJ ParallelZ 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10-$15.

Thursday Night Hang The band

plays a concert set, which is then followed by a jazz jam session. 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-636-9951.

FRIDAY, JAN. 13

Dan Taylor 7 pm; Dees Brothers Brewery, 210 S. Magnolia Ave., Sanford; free; 407-732-4008.

Daniela Soledade and Nate Najar 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $25$35; 407-636-9951.

Dennis Cruz 9 pm; Elixir, 9 W. Washington St.; $15; 407-985-3507.

Freak Show A one-day, two-stage festival experience, featuring Chief Kaya, Keota, BoyNotHome, Rest in Pierce and more. 2 pm; Ace Cafe, 100 W. Livingston St.; $30-$35; 407-996-6686.

Little Lazy, Liquid Pennies, The Bums, Sad Halen 7 pm; Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; $8-$10; 407-623-3393.

Ms. Meka Nism, Josh Gluck 8:30 pm; The Alley, 114 S. Park Ave., Sanford; free; 407-328-4848.

Soul Funktion 8 pm; Fredster’s, 1720 Fennell St., Maitland; free; 321-444-6331.

Ulysses Quartet Part of Timucua Arts Foundation International Chamber Music Festival. 7:30 pm; Timucua Arts Foundation, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave.; $35; 321-234-3985.

When We Were Punk 7:30 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $15-$60; 407-934-2583.

SATURDAY, JAN. 14

100 Years of Broadway Part of the Milk District Salon Concert Series. 8 pm; First Unitarian Church of Orlando, 1901 E. Robinson St.; $20$27; 407-898-3621.

Air Supply 8 pm; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; $52-$75; 407-351-5483.

The Boomers 8 pm; Fredster’s, 1720 Fennell St., Maitland; free; 321-444-6331.

Hollowbrook, Original Issue, If I’m Lucky, Geraburial 8 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $5; 407-270-9104.

John Lee Wyatt, Patrick Hagerman, Beartoe, Derek Engstrom 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10.

Public Speaking, Haize, KT Kink 8 pm; Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; $10; 407-623-3393.

Rocketman: A Tribute to Elton John 8 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $16-$70; 407-934-2583.

Sanford Punk Fest 5 Noon; West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; $15-$20; 407-322-7475.

Yuja Wang Plays Rachmaninoff 7:30 pm; Steinmetz Hall, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave;

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SUNDAY, JAN. 15

Maitland Stage Band 3 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $25; 407-636-9951.

Palmer’s Birthday Day With Ripped Pitts, Baptized in Piss, Off the Rails, The Rottens, Penny Fountain, TV Generation, Krendon. 3 pm; West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; $5; 407-322-7475.

Southern Culture on the Skids, The Tremolords 7 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $20-$25.

Yuja Wang Plays Rachmaninoff 3:30 pm; Steinmetz Hall, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $10-$155.48; 407-358-6603.

MONDAY, JAN. 16

Open Mic Hip-Hop Cypherstyle open mic with featured MCs. 9:30 pm; Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364.

TUESDAY, JAN. 17

Barry Manilow 7 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; 800-745-3000.

Blind Tiger, The Sound That Ends Creation, Steps of Odessa, No Business 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $10-$12.

Dizzy Bats, Oceans in the Sky, The Dancing Bones, Whiskey Faithful 8 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $5; 407-270-9104.

FILM

Villain-tines Day A double feature film (Scream, The Shining), with a cosplay contest, artists, and vendors. 6 pm Friday; Central Florida Fairgrounds, 4603 W. Colonial Drive; $10; 407-704-0584; facebook.com/lunattix.

Wednesday Movie Night: Tombstone A successful lawman’s plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating. 7:30 pm Wednesday; Dees Brothers Brewery, 210 S. Magnolia Ave., Sanford; free; 407-7324008; deesbrosbrew.com.

THEATER

The Barn Identity Erika MacDonald (13 Dead Dreams of Eugene) went to the ER because of a movie she saw. Now she’s obsessed with Falling-Down Barns. Fringe button required. Friday-Sunday; Fringe ArtSpace, 54 W. Church St.; $15; 407-6480077; orlandofringe.org.

Coffee and Cedar A grandfather shares stories of his life’s challenges with his grandson to teach him courage and confidence. 6 pm ThursdaySaturday; Fringe ArtSpace, 54 W. Church St.; $15; 407-6480077; orlandofringe.org.

Gladys in Wonderland Eightyseven-year-old Gladys’ days of munching donuts and scouring the obituaries seem numbered when Death herself comes knocking on her door one morning. Through Jan. 23; Breakthrough Theatre Co., 6900 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $20; breakthroughtheatre.com.

Gothic Manor Spend a lavish evening in the ballroom of a Victorian-era manor in this immersive experience. Through Jan. 15; The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive; $20-$40; 407-7046261; abbeyorlando.com.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical Come see the residents of Armadillo Acres come to life in this hilarious musical. Through Feb. 5; Theater West End, 115 W. First St., Sanford; $25; 407-5486285; theaterwestend.com.

How I Met My Mother

An irresponsible bachelor answers the call to care for his ailing mother, while reckoning with his troubled past. But will his newfound skills be enough? ThursdaySaturday; Fringe ArtSpace, 54 W. Church St.; $15; 780-5047372; orlandofringe.org.

The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school. Again. And that is the least of his troubles. 2 & 5:30 pm Saturday-Sunday; Orlando Repertory Theatre, 1001 E. Princeton St.; $15-$25; 407-896-7365; orlandorep.com.

Moon Over Buffalo Set in the 1950s, George and Charlotte Hay, once theatrical stars, now find themselves playing in a rundown theater in Buffalo. Through Feb. 5; IceHouse Theatre, 1100 N. Unser St., Mount Dora; $24; 352383-4616; icehousetheatre.com.

7th Annual Orlando Fringe Winter Mini-Fest A four-day curated theater festival uniting local, national, and international artists with the Central Florida community, creating a uniquely diverse arts experience. Thursday-Sunday; Fringe ArtSpace, 54 W.

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second-generation immigrant artists who explore the dynamics of living between different cultures and the hybrid identities they lead. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; $20; 407-896-4231; omart.org.

Eugene Ofori Agyei The Sculpture House, 120 Quail Pond Circle, Casselberry; free; 407-262-7700; casselberry.org.

Figurehead: Music and Mayhem in Orlando’s Underground This special exhibition tells the story of the local music scene with a focus on underground rock music and the club circuit. Orange County Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd.; free-$10; 407836-8500; thehistorycenter.org.

American identity. Through Jan. 22; Art and History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland; $6; 407-5392182; artandhistory.org.

In Conversation: Will Wilson Exploration of self-representation through the science of photography and digital media in response to the continuing impact of early 20th-century photographer Edward S. Curtis’s images from his The North American Indian (1907-1930). Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E. Princeton St.; $5; 407246-4278; mennellomuseum.org.

Salgado, among others. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407646-2526; rollins.edu/rma.

EVENTS

The ElleVet Project

Veterinary care, food, and supplies for the pets of the unhoused and street pets. 9 am Friday; Christian Service Center for Central Florida, Inc., 300 W. Franklin St., Ocoee; free; 844947-4871; ellevetproject.org.

Church St.; $15; 407-6480077; orlandofringe.org.

Sing Out Proud Features the musical and comedic talents of Fringe veterans Sarah-Lee Dobbs, Natalie Doliner and Ned Wilkinson to tell what is, on its surface, a sweet, funny little story about finding the strength to be who you were created to be. Friday-Sunday; Fringe ArtSpace, 54 W. Church St.; $15; 407-6480077; orlandofringe.org.

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical What’s love got to do with it?

Through Jan. 15; Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; 844-5132014; drphillipscenter.org.

VarieTease Genesis Embodies growth, healing and a start anew, with the nostalgic, avant-garde storytelling that is VarieTease. 10:30 pm Saturday; Fringe ArtSpace, 54 W. Church St.; $15; 780-5047372; orlandofringe.org.

COMEDY

Larry the Cable Guy 8pm Sunday; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; $50-$75; 407351-5483; hardrock.com.

The Mills 50 Comedy Show Myke Herlihy, Morgan Gallo, Helmut

Wyzisk, Eugene Singleton, Kye Saunders, Adam Snair; 8pm Thursday; Pour Choice Taphouse, 1225 N. Mills Ave.; $10-$13; facebook.com/helmutcomedy.

Miranda Sings 7:30pm Friday; Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave.; $35-$45; 407-228-1220; plazaliveorlando.org.

Royal Comedy Tour: Sommore, Bruce Bruce, Lavell Crawford, Don DC Curry 8pm Friday; Addition Financial Arena, 12777 N. Gemini Blvd.; $59-$250; 407823-6006; additionfiarena.com.

Silly Geese Comedy Showcase Ash Cash, DeAnn Alaine, Chris Trovador. Hosted by Roo Nafasat. 7:30 pm Sunday; Breakthrough Theatre Co., 6900 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $12; breakthroughtheatre.com.

ART

2022 Florida Showcase

A selection of contemporary Florida photographers and artists. Through Jan. 14; Snap Downtown, 420 E. Church St.; free; snaporlando.com.

All that Glitters: The Society of Gilders An installation in partnership with The Society of Gilders, an international and professional association devoted to the art and craft of gilding. Albin Polasek

Museum and Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park; $12; 407-647-6294; polasek.org.

Art Encounters: One Act of Kindness, A World of Difference Works by Guillermo Galindo, Patrick Martinez, Monte Olinger, and Joe Wardwell. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407646-2526; rollins.edu/rma.

The Art of Anna Zucker and Allyson Bode Anna’s beautiful realistic and rich oil paintings will accompany the multi-faceted work of special effects artist Allyson. The Hammered Lamb, 1235 N. Orange Ave.; 407-704-3200; facebook.com/heidi.kneisl.

The Art of Cas and Birthday Bash 6 pm Friday; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; chillartistry.com.

Blacklight Sellout Group Art Show The Falcon, 819 E. Washington St.; 407-423-3060; facebook.com/thefalconbar.

Capturing the Cosmos Astrophotography by Derek Demeter. Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St.; $24; 407-514-2000; osc.org.

Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From This groundbreaking traveling exhibition of works features

The Florida Painters Reunite Artists include Kim Ashby, Laura Bates, Gary Cisco, Kay Hanna, Mike Jakubowski, Mary Martin, Orit-Artist Reuben, Seemi Usmani, Claudia Thomas, and Diane Walters. 6 pm Friday; Casselberry Art House, 127 Quail Pond Circle, Casselberry; free; 407-262-7700; casselberry.org.

From Ella to Coltrane: The Jazz Photography of Roger Kallins Commemorates Kallins’ passion for both jazz and photography, highlighting some of his best images taken over a period of 50 years, from Ray Charles in Miami in 1958 to Sandip Burman at Daytona State College in 2007. Crealdé School of Art, 600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park; 407-671-1886; crealde.org.

Fumicheliga: A History of the First Peoples of Florida Florida has been home to thriving indigenous populations well before it received statehood in 1845. A&H will examine these important histories in this exhibition. Art and History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland; $6; 407-539-2182; artandhistory.org.

In Between: Painting the Post Immigrant Experience Visual narratives of the postimmigration experience unite to form a picture of modern

Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States Brings together work by artists in the United States during the 1930s who, through their art, produced radical critical commentaries on the social injustices plaguing the country in their time. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-646-2526; rollins.edu/rma.

Reflection of Time

This collective body of work preserves a small portion of the continuous African American struggle that needs to be told so that the importance can be felt yearround. Winter Garden City Hall, 300 W. Plant St., Winter Garden; free; 407-656-4111; cwgdn.com.

Visual Field: RMA Staff Picks

An opportunity for each RMA staffer to share with viewers a work from the collection that resonates in a personal way. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-646-2526; rollins.edu/rma.

Weapon of Choice

A graphic visual representation of the invisible pain caused by verbal abuse. Photographs by Richard Johnson. Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center, 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland; 407-628-0555.

What’s New? Recent Acquisitions

Includes works by artists Myrna Báez, Mark Bradford, Norman Daly, Troy Makaza, and Sebastiao

Fringe ArtSpace Grand Opening Bash Opening party for the new Fringe ArtSpace. 5:30 pm Wednesday; Plaza Courtyard, Orange Avenue between Pine Avenue and Church Street; free; orlandofringe.org.

Jurassic World Live Tour Friday-Monday; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; 800-7453000; amwaycenter.com.

Neverland: The Lost Adventure Follow the second star to the right and straight on ’til morning and learn to fly in an all-new immersive experience for imaginations both young and old. Through March 1; Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave.; 407-246-2620; leugardens.org.

CIVICS

State Legislative Delegation Meeting Arts supporters will be in attendance to express the importance of arts and culture in our community.

2:30 pm Thursday; Orange County Administration Building, 201 S. Rosalind Ave.

LITERARY

Poetry and Open Mic: Simba X Hosted by Lauren White and Nadia Garzon. Featured reader for January is Simba X, the founder of Exodus United Inc. Shayna “Simba” Castano is an internationally established poet, performer and philanthropist. 7:30 pm Sunday; Timucua Arts Foundation, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave.; free; 321-234-3985; timucua.com. n

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Michael Feinberg plays the Timucua Arts Foundation with Tal Cohen on Saturday

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When he was 74 years old, Capricorn author Norman Maclean published his first novel, A River Runs Through It. It became a best-seller. Capricorn film director Takeshi Kitano directed his first film at age 42. Now 75, he has since won many awards for his work in his native Japan. Capricorn activist Melchora Aquino, who was a leader in the Philippines’ fight for independence from Spain, launched her career as a revolutionary when she was in her 80s. She’s known as the “Mother of the Revolution.” I hope these heroes inspire you, dear Capricorn. I believe that 2023 is the year you will get an upgrade in any area of your life where you have seemed to be a late bloomer.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will soon be called upon to summon grace under pressure; to express magnanimity while being challenged; to prove that your devotion to your high standards is more important than the transitory agendas of your ego. The good news is that you are primed and ready to succeed at these exact assignments. I have confidence in your power to activate the necessary courage and integrity with maximum poise and composure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “By dying daily, I have come to be,” wrote poet Theodore Roethke. He didn’t mean he suffered literal deaths. He was referring to the discipline of letting go of the past; shedding worn-out habits; leaving behind theories and attitudes that once served him well but no longer did; killing off parts of himself that were interfering with the arrival of the fresh future. I recommend his strategy to you, Pisces. To the degree that you agree to die daily, you will earn the right to be reborn big-time in a few weeks.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Nigerian author Wole Soyinka reworked an ancient Greek play, The Bacchae. In one passage, the god Dionysus criticizes King Pentheus, who is supposedly all-powerful. “You are a man of chains,” Dionysus tells him. “You love chains. You breathe chains, talk chains, eat chains, dream chains, think chains. Your world is bound in manacles.” The bad news, Aries, is that many of us have some resemblances to Pentheus. The good news is that the coming months will be a favorable time to shed at least some of your chains. Have fun liberating yourself! Try to help a few others wriggle free from their chains, too. Doing so will aid your own emancipation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The coming weeks will be a great time to fill your journal with more intense ruminations than you have for many moons. If you don’t

have a journal, think about starting one. Reveal yourself to yourself, Taurus! Make conscious that which has been vague, unnamed or hiding. Here are assignments to help launch your flood of intimate selftalk. No. 1: Write passionately about an experience you’ve always wanted to try but have never done. No. 2: Conduct imaginary interviews with people who rouse strong feelings in you. No. 3: Describe what deity, superhero or animal you are and how your special intelligence works. No. 4: Visualize a dream in which you appear as a bolder, more confident version of yourself. No. 5: Talk about a time you felt rousingly alive and how you plan to feel that way again.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A stranger approached me at Wild Birds Unlimited, a store that sells bird food and accessories. “You write the horoscopes, right?” she asked. “I’m a Gemini, and I want to thank you for helping me tone down my relentless fidgeting. You made me realize I have been secretly proud of tapping my fingers on the table while talking with people, and constantly darting my eyes around the room to check out the ever-changing views. I’d unconsciously believed that stuff was a sign of my incredible vitality. But you’ve been a steadying influence. You’ve shown me ways to settle down and focus my energy better. I can see how restlessness sometimes saps my energy.” I told the woman, “You’re welcome!” and let her know that 2023 will be a favorable time to do much more of this good work.

Homework: Meditate on channeling your incredible vitality into being grounded and centered.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to Cancerian author Ronald Sukenick, the writer’s work is “to destroy restrictive viewpoints, notice the unnoticed, speak the unspeakable, shake stale habits, ward off evil, give vent to sorrow, pulverize doctrine, attack and uphold tradition as needed, and make life worth living.” I believe 2023 will be an excellent time for you to carry out those actions, even if you’re not a writer. You will have abundant power to bless and heal through creative rebellion and disruption. You will thrive as you seek out interesting novelty.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Psychotherapist Ryan Howes has wisdom you’ll benefit from heeding in the coming weeks. “We need to accept our age,” he writes. “We need to accept illnesses and addictions. We need to accept the past. We need to accept others as they are.” He goes on to say that this doesn’t mean we must like all these situations. And we can certainly try to make the best of them. But when we don’t struggle in vain to change what’s beyond our control to change, we have

more energy for things that we can actually affect.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s testimony from musician Pharrell Williams: “If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, ‘That which is missing.’” Yes! This is an apt message for you, Virgo. The best way for you to generate motivation and excitement in the coming weeks will be to explore what is lacking, what is invisible, what’s lost or incomplete. Check in with your deep intuition right now. Do you feel a stirring in your gut? It may tell you where to find important and intriguing things that are missing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Every animal knows far more than you do,” declares a proverb of the Nimíipuu people, also known as the Nez Perce. Author Russell Banks provides further testimony to convince us we should be humble about our powers of awareness. “There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious,” he says. “It’s always smarter than we are.” These are good pointers for you to heed in the coming weeks, Libra. You will have a special power to enhance your understanding of the world by calling on the savvy of animals and your unconscious mind. They will be rich sources of wisdom. Seek out their educational input!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Psychologist Carl Jung said that the whole point of Jesus Christ’s story was not that we should become exactly like him. Rather, we should aspire to be our best and highest selves in the same way that he fulfilled his unique mission. So Jesus was not the great exception, but rather the great example. I bring these meditations to your attention, Scorpio, because I believe life in 2023 will conspire to make you, more than ever before, the hero of your own destiny. You will be inspired to honor only your own standards of success and reject all others’. You will clearly see that you are progressing at your own natural and righteous pace, which is why it makes no sense to compare your evolution to anyone else’s.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A reader named Mary Roseberry describes her experience of being a Sagittarius: “I hate to be bored. I hate imperfections. I hate to wait. I hate sadness. I hate conflict. I hate to be wrong. I hate tension.” Wow! I admire Mary’s succinct understanding of who she doesn’t want to be and what she doesn’t like to do. I invite you to compose a similar testimony. You would benefit from getting clear about the experiences you intend to avoid in 2023. Once you have done that, write a list of the interesting feelings and situations you will seek out with intense devotion during the coming months.

Very long story short, I’m a woman in the process of getting out of a long and abusive marriage. I’m getting therapy. One factor of that abuse: I’m still a virgin, at least as far as penetration is concerned. (That’s another long story.) If I can even find anybody interested in me, how do I tell them the only stuff I know about consensual sex is what I’ve read about it? The few people I’ve told the full story didn’t believe me at first. All I can imagine is a new person running away.

Various Insecurities Rock Genuinely Inexperienced Newbie

You shouldn’t hesitate to tell someone — particularly a new person you want to have sex with — that you’ve never had penetrative sex before. And while you don’t owe that new person the full story, VIRGIN, you might wanna tell them what you told me. Give them the outline: You want to fuck but you recently got out of an abusive marriage and you’re getting professional help to deal with the emotional fallout — so you’re not asking them to be your therapist — but you are understandably nervous and more than a little scared about the fucking you’d like to do. When we tell someone, “I’ve never done this before,” whatever the “this” we’re talking about might be, we’re letting that person know they’ll need to take things a little slower with us than they might with someone who’s had more experience — with penetrative sex or threesomes or being fisted or, again, whatever the “this” we’re talking about might be. And if we’re in a delicate place emotionally, letting the other person know we might be overwhelmed by big feelings — and big feelings aren’t always bad feelings — shows them we’re taking their comfort into consideration too, VIRGIN, because what we’re saying is, “I don’t want you to feel blindsided if I’m suddenly overwhelmed.”

And if the new person you share these things with responds by running away — if your worst fears are realized — tell yourself that person did you a favor. Because if they run away, they weren’t the right person, they weren’t the person you hoped they were, and you’re far better off finding all that out before you have sex, VIRGIN, not during or after. It may be a favor in a shitty disguise, VIRGIN, but it’s still a favor.

Because the first time you have penetrative sex you want it to be with someone who feels honored that you chose them, not burdened, and who understands they have a special responsibility to make sure you feel safe before, during and after. You are a gift. It’s a privilege to get to have sex with you — it’s a privilege to get to have sex with anyone — and being someone’s first, whatever first we’re talking about, carries a special responsibility. If someone doesn’t want that responsibility, VIRGIN, or if they can’t handle that responsibility, they don’t deserve you. The wrong ones will run away. The right one will stick around.

Polyamory seems like a beautiful concept to me. People have such an amazing capacity for love. However, where I used to see the word “polyamory,” I now frequently see the term “ethical non-monogamy” used instead. What is the difference between the two, if

any at all? Is the latter just another symptom of American culture’s emotion-phobia or am I missing something? I don’t just want to fuck; I want to love the people I fuck. Am I alone in this poly ideal?

Pondering Over Linguistical Yens And Meanings

You’re definitely missing something.

Ethical non-monogamy (ENM) and polyamory don’t mean the same thing — indeed, a few years ago polyamorous folks were complaining about people who just wanted to fuck describing themselves as polyamorous, which is probably why someone came up with the term ENM. To clarify, not confuse.

Think of it like this: Bob and Carol decide to open their relationship on the condition that sex with other people be kept strictly casual — no repeats, no regulars, no feelings. So long as Bob and Carol honor the agreement they made with each other when they opened the relationship, POLYAM, and so long as Bob and Carol don’t mislead their casual sex partners — so long as they don’t encourage outside sex partners to think a relationship is possible when all they wanna do is fuck — Bob and Carol are practicing non-monogamy in an ethical fashion. So, Bob and Carol are ENM, but they’re not poly. (Bob and Carol, please note: It’s just as important you don’t allow your outside sex partners to assume a relationship is possible; if someone might reasonably assume you’re single and open to dating, you two, you have to proactively inform them you are not.)

Ted and Alice, on the other hand, have a different agreement. They’re in love and committed to each other, but they’re dating other people and open to forming committed and concurrent romantic relationships with their other partners. So long as Ted and Alice are honoring the rules and conditions they set for themselves, they’re practicing non-monogamy in an ethical fashion. So, Ted and Alice, like Bob and Carol, are ENM, but they’re also poly.

And just to make things a little more complicated, POLYAM, while all healthy and functional polyamorous relationships are ENM, not all poly relationships are open relationships. Some triads, some quads, some quints, etc., are very much closed — they’re polyamorous and ENM, but no one else is going to be invited to the join the shared Google calendar. With my 53-year-old pop culture reference out of the way (Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, which was released in 1969, is streaming now on Apple TV+), POLYAM, you are not alone in wanting to love the people you fuck and fuck the people you love — the people you love romantically, of course, not your parents or siblings and other family members. But you shouldn’t assume that people who are ENM without being poly aren’t interested in love or fear intimacy. Two people can be very much in love, POLYAM, while having strict rules about keeping things casual with outside partners.

I’m married and it’s ... OK. We’re more like friends raising our son together than anything else. There’s no sex, but I’m whatever about that. But I’ve had on and off feelings for a coworker and friend for a few years now. I don’t know if it’s love or lust or whatever. I thought if I admitted my feelings to my crush, it would help me figure things out. It didn’t. I thought it would go one of two ways. Either he would say he didn’t feel the same, avoid me, and I would move on and get over it, or he would lean into it — he would let me know he was interested — and I would talk things over with my husband and we would go from there. But nothing changed. When I told him he basically replied, “Oh, no worries,” and acted the same. We’re still friends, but that’s it. My husband would be down to open things up, I think, as we’ve talked about having a threesome before. But I don’t have any interest in doing that if my crush isn’t into me, because I’m really not interested in anyone else. And to add to the complications, my crush has a

girlfriend. What the hell do I do? Just sit here and yearn forever? Cause I’ve been doing that for about three years now and it’s getting old.

What Happens After This?

You’ve already done what a lot of people around here — around here in the comments thread, around here at this particular cultural moment — would’ve strongly urged you not to do: You hit on a co-worker! A co-worker in a relationship that probably isn’t open! Most opposite-sex relationships aren’t.

If you hit on your co-worker and he responded with “no worries” and he hasn’t treated you any differently since … what the hell is happening? One of two things happened. You either hit on him so subtly he didn’t realize you were hitting on him, WHAT, or he decided to pretend you didn’t hit on him because he isn’t interested in cheating on his girlfriend with a married co-worker and/or you aren’t the co-worker he would cheat with and he doesn’t want you to feel bad about the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad thing you did that day, WHAT, so he’s pretending you didn’t do that thing.

If you want absolute clarity from him, WHAT, you’ll have to risk the dreaded direct question: “I hit on you the other day — because I have crush on you — and ever since I’ve been wondering if that registered and, if it did, what you think.” (Good luck with HR if he got it the first time, wasn’t interested, and “no worries” was his way of saying “no thanks.”) Whatever you decide to do, whatever does or doesn’t happen with your co-worker, don’t wait any longer to talk things over with your husband. It’s better to have that conversation about opening up your marriage without the added pressure of a DTF crush waiting for you back at the office.

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Notice of Public Sale:

Pursuant to F.S. 713.78 on January 27th, 2023 at 9:00 am, Riker’s Roadside Of Central Florida, INC, 630 E Landstreet Rd, Orlando, FL 32824, will sell the following vehicles and/or vessels. Seller reserves the right to bid. Sold as is, no warranty. Seller guarantees no title, terms cash. Seller reserves the right to refuse any or all bids; 3N1CP5DV3LL542652 2020 NISSAN.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE:

ADAM AYED ENTERPRISES LLC gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on 1/27/2023, 09:00 am at 9712 RECYCLE CENTER RD ORLANDO, FL 32824- 8146, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes.

ADAM AYED ENTERPRISES LLC reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all bids.

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2014 TOYT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: CORTES TOWING SERVICE gives notice that on 1/27/2023 at 10:00 AM the following vehicles(s) may be sold by public sale at 245 ORANGE AVE., LONGWOOD, FL 32750 to satisfy the lien for the amount owed on each vehicle for any recovery, towing, or storage services charges and administrative fees allowed pursuant to Florida statute 713.78.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 08:00 am at 10850 COSMONAUT BLVD ORLANDO, FL 32824, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. reserves the right to accept or reject any and/ or all bids.

JANUARY 29, 2023

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 08:00 am at 2603 OLD DIXIE HIGHWAY KISSIMMEE, FL 34744, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. reserves the right to accept or reject any and/ or all bids.

JANUARY 21, 2023

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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:

2007 Toyota

VIN: 4T1BE46K87U617672

2006 Ford VIN: 1ZVFT80N365139222 1998 Ford VIN: 1FDWE37F7WHB05101

2004 Nissan VIN: 5N1AA08A84N727146

1999 Toyota VIN: 4T1BG22K1XU611247

2011 Nissan VIN: 1N4AL2AP6BN455529

2014 Dodge VIN: 2C3CDYBT1EH293485

2004 Hyundai VIN: KM8SC13D34U784463

To be sold at auction at 8:00 am. on January 25, 2023 at 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC

Legal, Public Notices

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Preston’s

Towing. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 07:00 am 605 E Donegan Ave, Kissimmee, FL 34744 pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. 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:

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