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9 Safe solutions Orange County has seen a decrease in opioid-related overdose deaths for the first time in years. Now county health staff are building harm reduction strategies

13 State of hate Florida allies and advocates denounce DeSantis signing 2023’s anti-LGBTQ ‘slate of hate’ bills into law

17 ‘Flock to Florida’ or stay away? Orlando businesses and events based on LGBTQ tourism push back against Equality Florida’s travel advisory

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BY CHLOE GREENBERG, MATTHEW MOYER, MCKENNA SCHUELER AND THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

Book bans, mad moms, hateful traffic signs, fleeing Imagineers, empty construction sites and other news you may have missed last week.

» Disney cancels $1B Lake Nona campus plans amid power feud with DeSantis

Amid an ongoing feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that started with the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the Walt Disney Co. decided last week to cancel their $1 billion plan to build a new campus at Lake Nona. The plan would have created 2,000 new jobs, luring Disney Imagineers from California to Florida. Disney first announced the project in 2021 as an opportunity for the Californian workers to relocate to the Orlando-area planned community and revel in nearly $570 million worth of tax breaks. However, Disney employees received an email last Thursday from chairman of Disney parks Josh D’Amaro saying the project is no longer happening, citing “new leadership and changing business conditions.” While some employees have already made the cross-country move (can you imagine??), Disney has said it will offer to move workers back to California. Disney also said in a statement that the company currently plans to invest $17 billion in Walt Disney World over the next 10 years, creating 13,000 new jobs and continuing to do “our part as a leading employer in the hospitality and themed entertainment industry.” The news comes amid the raging feud between Disney and DeSantis that’s been going on for over a year. Most recently, Disney sued DeSantis for what it described as a “campaign of government retaliation.”

» Orlando traffic sign flashes violent anti-gay hate speech, sparking investigation

Last week, an anti-gay and homophobic message was flashed on a digital traffic sign in the early hours of the morning near Lake Nona, earning swift pushback and concern from pro-LGBTQ activists and local elected leaders. On the morning of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (May 17), a digital traffic sign at Lake Nona Boulevard and Nemours Parkway flashed the message “KILL ALL GAYS” in the pre-dawn hours. The Orlando Police Department was alerted and reported that the sign “appeared to be tampered with,” according to the OPD incident report. The police have asked anyone with information to contact them at 321-235-5300. In a Twitter post the following day, Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer called the sign “disgusting” and said “hate has no place in Orlando.” The Lake Nona area around Waterford Lakes was also the site of a blatantly neo-Nazi rally back in 2022 that resulted in the arrest of three of the participants. Additionally, on New Year’s Eve, anti-Semitic slogans were projected on buildings around downtown Orlando. Gee, could this have anything to do with why Imagineers don’t want to relocate from California?

» Over three dozen voting rights groups urge DeSantis to veto elections bill

Voting-rights groups are urging Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto a major elections bill that would place additional restrictions on voter-registration groups. The proposal (SB 7050) also would help clear the way for DeSantis to run for president in 2024. Among other things, the bill would require that voter-registration groups provide receipts when they collect applications from people, shorten from 14 to 10 days the length of time groups have to turn in applications to elections supervisors, and impose a $50-per-day fine for each application that is turned in late. In addition, the measure would increase fines if third-party voter registration groups violate state laws and would prevent non-U.S. citizens from “handling” voter-registration applications for the groups. The bill reignited a debate that has divided lawmakers since the 2020 election, with Republicans arguing the state needs to continue ramping up votingsecurity efforts and Democrats contending the changes are designed to make it harder for people to vote. In a letter to DeSantis issued last Friday, more than three dozen groups — including the ACLU of Florida — said the bill “would do widespread harm to Florida’s elections” and to voter-registration organizations. “The provisions in this bill undermine our democracy and are unnecessary,” the groups wrote in a letter.

» Florida Agriculture Commissioner says employers will face ‘challenges’ with new immigration law

Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson, a former Republican state senator, admitted last week he anticipates that farmers, along with the construction and tourism industries, will face “challenges” due to recently signed legislation (SB 1718) that targets undocumented immigrants. But he claims he hasn’t seen any issues surfacing since Gov. Ron DeSantis approved the bill, which steps up requirements on businesses to check the immigration status of workers using the federal E-Verify system. The law, which doesn’t go into effect until July 1, also cracks down on people who bring undocumented immigrants into Florida, and requires data from hospitals on whether patients are in the country legally. Simpson said he’s heard from some groups that believe the changes will pose a “challenge,”

especially for tourism-related businesses. He’s also heard reports of Hispanic truckers protesting the law (calling for a boycott on TikTok, e.g.) and workers failing to show up at construction sites, but clarified that he hasn’t seen such actions.

» Orange County school board reluctantly approves book ban policies

As Florida school districts continue to crack down on books deemed too controversial for public schools, the Orange County school board earlier this month reluctantly agreed to revised policies that are meant to help keep the district in compliance with state law on school library materials. School board member Karen Castor-Dentel, representing District 6, voted against the revisions, arguing they contain gaps that “favor those who wish to ban books.” The policies generally outline how people can file complaints about books in classroom/school libraries, and what the process is for their removal/review. Revising the policies was necessary due to the requirements of a controversial law passed last year, and — because a new bill passed this year only bolsters that one — school district staff told the school board they’ll have to revise the policies again sometime this summer. Most of the school board members were visibly frustrated. Board member Maria Salamanca (who identifies as LGBTQ herself) said book removals are a “Trojan horse,” while member Melissa Byrd said there are other issues in her district she wants the board to be able to address, like gun violence. Alicia Farrant, a member of Moms for Liberty — the special-interest group that’s been pushing for book bans — who also sits on the school board, accused book-ban critics of gaslighting, after multiple high school students spoke up to criticize local book banning during the meeting’s public comment portion. Farrant said the use of the term “book ban” is a way “to gaslight those who are just wanting to make sure that there are boundaries, and that there’s protections for every student that is in our schools.” (Ed. note: One book that hasn’t been banned so far is the dictionary, which Farrant may want to consult before using the word “gaslight” again.) One of the local high school students quipped during public comment, “If we want to learn a book that is factually correct, maybe we should start teaching 1984 by George Orwell, because that’s where our state and nation is going.” The board is also preparing to make changes to their meetings’ public input options.

SAFE SOLUTIONS

BY MCKENNA SCHUELER

Opioid-related overdose deaths in Orange County decreased last year for the first time in years, according to county data, but there’s still a lack of awareness in the community about available resources, support, and what to do in the event of an overdose.

Dr. Thomas Hall, director of Orange County’s Coalition for a Drug-Free Community, shared during a virtual discussion hosted by Orlando’s State Rep. Anna Eskamani that overdose deaths involving opioids — particularly the powerful opioid fentanyl — decreased 14% in 2022.

From January to September 2022, there were 342 fatal drug overdoses in Orange County, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office. Over 70% of those deaths involved fentanyl, a potent painkiller that’s 50 times stronger than heroin.

According to Dr. Hall, who has 30 years of professional experience in the mental health and substance use treatment space, fentanyl-related deaths have increased

dramatically since 2018, while deaths involving heroin have decreased.

A major contributing factor to that trend, which extends nationally, is the proliferation of illicit forms of the drug. Fentanyl is legitimately prescribed to treat chronic pain, but illicitly manufactured fentanyl is commonly laced into non-opioid drugs sold on the street, such as cocaine or meth. It’s also falsely marketed in pill form as something else, or laced into counterfeit versions of drugs like Xanax.

One of the issues with fentanyl, according to Hall, is that it’s easy to make, it’s inexpensive, and it’s easy to transport. “So I don’t think that it’s going to go away anytime soon,” he said.

But he, and other experts in Orange County who are tracking local overdose data, are hopeful in the face of last year’s drop in overdose deaths, disrupting a years-long trend in the opposite direction. In 2020, during the first year of the pandemic, overdose deaths increased 23% in

Orange County — as they rose throughout the rest of the U.S. — and then rose another 20% the following year.

“Hopefully we’ve hit the ceiling,” said Hall, who oversees the Orange County Health Services Department Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Recovery initiatives. Isolation during the pandemic, a disruption to one’s social support system, and other risk factors for substance use and relapse during COVID-19, such as increased stress and anxiety, placed people with a history of drug misuse at a greater risk for overdose, according to experts.

The decline in overdose deaths in Orange County is “promising,” said Hall, but he also understands that for those who have already lost someone, this is of limited comfort.

“I deal with a lot of families who’ve lost loved ones, and so those trends are little solace to someone who’s lost a mother, father, brother, sister, or son or daughter,” he said.

Between 2014 and 2019, opioid-related overdose deaths in Orange County nearly doubled — from 175 to 342.

Nationwide, drug overdose deaths reached a staggering record high of 110,236 from March 2021 to March 2022, galvanizing both a federal response and a local response to the crisis at hand.

Hall shared that the county’s targeted “One Pill Can Kill” messaging, through advertisements on Lynx buses and video ads at gas stations, is one factor his team believes has helped lead to the recent decline in fatal overdoses.

The ads highlight the dangers of illicit fentanyl use, as well as explaining where to find naloxone, a medication that can save lives in the event of an opioid overdose.

According to law enforcement officials and treatment providers, more people are also adopting harm reduction practices on their own to help prevent fatal overdose and increase safety, Hall said.

One example is using drugs only in the presence of another person, and not using alone.

“We’re seeing more and more people use the buddy system when they’re using, particularly opioids,” said Hall. “So one person will have Narcan [brand name for naloxone] and the other person who’s using will rely on their buddy to save them if they have an overdose.”

Common signs of an opioid overdose include slowed or stopped breathing, unconsciousness or unresponsiveness, tiny pupil size, weak pulse, and bluish, pale or ashen skin color.

And when it comes to fentanyl overdose, time is of the essence in seeking medical help or administering naloxone, either in its injectable form or nasal spray.

Nationally, the Biden administration has moved forward with an overdose prevention strategy that involves the expansion of evidence-based treatment for substance misuse, disrupting drug trafficking, prevention programs, and the promotion of harm reduction initiatives, like expanding access to naloxone and fentanyl test strips.

Earlier this month, Florida legislators unanimously approved legislation that will decriminalize fentanyl test strips, which has long been officially classified as illegal “drug paraphernalia” under state statutes. That bill is yet to be signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Some critics of harm reduction initiatives say that harm reduction can promote or condone substance use.

But advocates include federal agencies like the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which now supports a harm reduction approach. Those advocates

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Orange County has seen a decrease in opioid-related overdose deaths for the first time in years. Now county health staff are building harm reduction strategies

say it can help save lives and reduce the harm posed to people who use drugs, regardless of whether they are actively seeking or in treatment at that time.

The long and short of it, Hall shared, is that “dead people never recover.”

Finding local solutions

The county’s current strategies for comprehensive overdose prevention include expanding awareness of treatment options, expanding naloxone access for first responders and the general public, and doing more educational outreach, to increase awareness of the dangers of fentanyl use and how to administer naloxone if someone is overdosing.

“We have to get the word out that, you know, there are people who administer Narcan and kind of normalize it,” said Hall.

Many people, he added, aren’t aware of Florida’s 911 Good Samaritan law, passed by state legislators in 2012.

That law says that “a person acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for an alcohol- or drugrelated overdose may not be arrested, charged, prosecuted, or penalized for simple drug possession,” according to information shared by the county.

Florida’s Good Samaritan law, like similar policies across the country, is meant to reassure people who might otherwise be worried about calling 911, even in a life-anddeath situation, out of concern that they’ll face charges or be made liable for someone’s overdose themselves.

Using funds from federal grants, the county as it is has created public safety announcements, and is boosting efforts to educate community stakeholders — from businesses, to public employers, to faith leaders and community organizations — on signs of overdose and how to administer naloxone in the event of an overdose.

“I spent a morning at one of our churches in Parramore distributing Narcan and information on how to use Narcan as well as other community resources,” said Hall. “So we are happy to do that on Sunday mornings, Wednesday evenings — you name it, we’ll be there.”

But, Hall acknowledges that fully tackling the overdose crisis requires a comprehensive approach that goes beyond prevention: ensuring folks have access to stable, affordable housing with supportive services. Expanding access to effective treatments,

particularly on an outpatient level.

“If all we have is treatment, residential treatment, people cycle in, cycle out,” Hall shared. “They get treatment, they get out, they’ve got nowhere to live, they relapse.”

Relapse rates for substance use disorders are high, especially if someone lacks access to effective treatments and other supports, such as stable housing, reliable transportation, a supportive family and treatment for co-occurring mental health issues.

The most effective treatment for opioid use disorder in particular is medication-assisted treatment, a combination of behavioral therapy and medication that can help with drug cravings and relieve withdrawal symptoms.

Access to medication-assisted treatment, however, has historically been more difficult in rural communities, where treatment providers are few and far between. And if you’re uninsured, or underinsured, it can come at an unaffordable cost.

Even more, some recovery housing and shelters for people who are homeless (a risk factor for substance misuse, and vice versa) prohibit the use of any drug, even medication that’s taken as part of a treatment plan for addiction.

So, there are some barriers that have yet to be overcome. At this time, education is considered a key component of the county’s strategy to reach not just those who have a clinical substance use problem, but anyone who buys drugs through the illicit drug market.

Hall’s team is looking to recruit “influencers” or brand ambassadors of sorts who are willing to share their personal stories and help educate the community on what to do if someone has overdosed.

Where to find help

If you or a loved one is struggling with a drug or alcohol problem, the best way to find treatment is through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. You can access SAMHSA’s treatment locator online at findtreatment.gov, or call their National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).

To find naloxone, visit isavefl.com.

The Orange County government also has a list of treatment resources on its website, ocfl.net, under the heading Families, Health and Social Services.

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The long and short of it, Hall says, is that ‘dead people never recover.’

STATE OF HATE

Florida allies and advocates denounce DeSantis signing 2023’s anti-LGBTQ ‘slate of hate’ bills into law

BY MCKENNA SCHUELER

Advocates for equal rights in Florida last Wednesday blasted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his Republican allies in the state legislature for signing into law four bills that advocates have characterized as a “slate of hate” targeting LGBTQ Floridians.

“Governor Ron DeSantis has just signed into law the largest slate of anti-LGBTQ bills in Florida’s history,” said Joe Saunders, senior political director of Equality Florida, on a press call, describing the new laws as “an attack on freedom.”

“Free states don’t strip parents of the right to make

healthcare decisions for their children,” said Saunders, who recently launched a campaign for the Florida Senate. “Free states don’t ban books. They don’t censor curriculum, and they don’t muzzle free speech.”

DeSantis approved four bills at a signing ceremony last Wednesday morning that are widely perceived as attempts to undercut LGBTQ rights and further alienate transgender Floridians, marketed by Republicans as policies to “protect children.”

One sweeping bill (HB 1069), effective July 1, prohibits teachers from using a student’s preferred pronouns, even

at their parents’ request. It also makes it easier for books to be removed from public schools, and would require that books objected to on the basis of their containing “sexual content” be removed immediately. It also expands Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” law, dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by critics.

That 2022 law prohibited classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through 3rd grade. The new law expands that from pre-K through 8th grade. Separately, a new rule adopted by the Florida Board of Education further extends this prohibition through 12th grade, although that rule is not codified into law.

Another bill (SB 1438), effective immediately, threatens to pull the liquor license of any establishment that hosts “adult live performances” with minors under the age of 18 present.

The term “adult live performances” is widely perceived as targeting drag (similar to other policy proposals across the country), defined within the bill language as “any show, exhibition, or other presentation that is performed in front of a live audience and in whole or in part, depicts or simulates nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, specific sexual activities, … lewd conduct, or the lewd exposure of prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts.”

Bills banning gender-affirming care for Florida minors and prohibiting transgender people from using bathrooms in public facilities that don’t correspond with their gender assigned at birth were also signed into law last week, as part of what DeSantis described as a “Let Kids Be Kids” package.

The gender affirming care bill, effective immediately, is also expected to dramatically curtail access to treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender adults, since it prohibits nurse practitioners from providing this care.

Reports of Planned Parenthood halting care for adults in Florida have already surfaced.

Republican politicians, including DeSantis, have described gender-affirming care as “mutilation,” despite the fact that it’s endorsed by every major medical association as appropriate treatment for gender dysphoria.

The new bill signed into law codifies an existing ban on gender-affirming care for youth that was already adopted by Florida medical boards, outlines penalties for violations of the ban, and restricts access to care for transgender adults.

“Many in the community, I think, are really struggling to comprehend what it will mean,” said Nathan Bruemmer, president of the Florida LGBTQ Democratic Caucus, in response to the GOP’s targeted attacks on LGBTQ rights. “But we know those impacts, those harms will be real, and I think we fear, ultimately tragic.”

Jen Cousins, an Orlando mom of four who’s been at the center of the fight against book bans in Florida, as cofounder of the Florida Freedom to Read Project, shared concerns about how easing the process of removing books from schools, and how that will affect the diversity of learning materials available for school-aged children.

“This bill is now going to allow any person who lives in any district, whether or not they have children, to challenge books that are in the school district,” said Cousins. “We know that the main target of these challenges are books that are either written by LGBTQ+ authors or feature LGBTQ+ themes,” she said. “They also go after books about people of color, about African American history.”

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LGBTQ activists and allies at the ‘We Exist’ rally, Orlando City Hall, April 2023 | photo by McKenna Schueler

Popular Information reported last week that several of the books pulled from the shelves in Florida school districts for being “pornographic” are actually anything but, and more importantly, don’t meet the state’s legal definition of “harmful” content illegal to distribute to minors.

Those titles include Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Forever by Judy Blume.

In Orange County, four books have been removed districtwide: This Book Is Gay, Gender Queer, Let’s Talk About It and Perfectly Normal

Jen Solomon, a mother from South Florida and president of PFLAG South Miami, said these bills are not about “protecting children,” as Republicans say, and are instead about a political agenda.

“This is extremely scary,” said Solomon. “We have families that are leaving the state because they cannot properly parent their child, whether it’s in the school system in the medical community. We are not allowing parents to make choices, simple choices for their children.”

Educators in Orange County and beyond have also struggled with new policies that have rolled out in Florida over the last two years, according to Clinton McCracken, president of the Orange County teachers’ union. Many teachers, including those who identify as LGBTQ themselves, have selfcensored, McCracken told Orlando Weekly, fearful of being targeted by conservative groups like Moms for Liberty or being labeled “indoctrinators.”

Florida Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican who sponsored several of the bills signed into law last week, made it clear at DeSantis’ bill signing ceremony held at a private school in Tampa, that he perceives the LGBTQ community as a threat.

“The important thing for people to know is there is evil in this world and we are fighting it,” Fine declared.

The Wednesday signing ceremony fell on May 17, a day that over 100 countries worldwide observe as International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.

In 2022, President Joe Biden released

a statement commemorating IDAHBA, acknowledging “disturbing setbacks and rising hate and violence targeting LGBTQI+ people in the United States” and adding that legislative policies targeting LGBTQ people “cannot be tolerated.”

The United Nations has also denounced attacks on the LGBTQ community, not just in the United States but globally. “I renew my call to all Member States to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and end the criminalization of consensual same-sex relations and transgender people,” said U.N. SecretaryGeneral António Guterres. “Being yourself should never be a crime.”

PEN America, a nonprofit organization, has filed a lawsuit against book bans that have already occurred in Escambia County, Florida, joined by publisher Penguin Random House, students of Escambia County, and authors as plaintiffs.

A lawsuit against the state for the Florida Board of Medicine’s ban on gender-affirming care for youth and prohibition on Medicaid coverage for all trans healthcare services is ongoing.

Undocumented immigrants, educators and other public employees have also faced targeted attacks by Florida’s GOP this year, while Floridians continue to grapple with unaffordable housing, inflation and skyrocketing home insurance premiums, which apparently haven’t been designated as issues to be addressed in order to “protect the children.”

Locally, a Central Florida Emergency Trans Healthcare Fund has been set up by the LGBT+ Center Orlando and the Contigo Fund to help trans individuals and families access gender-affirming care.

“This is an amazing tapestry of a state, and what has come forward does not represent what is the best of Florida,” said Bruemmer, a transgender man and practicing attorney.

“Ultimately, unified in action, I know our community will come back.”

“What we need to do,” said Carlos Guillermo Smith, a former State House Representative and candidate for Florida Senate, “is carry on.”

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‘Free states don’t strip parents of the right to make healthcare decisions for their children. Free states don’t ban books. They don’t censor curriculum, and they don’t muzzle free speech.’

BY ERIC TEGETHOFF

TO FLORIDA’

When it comes to politics, Orlando is not Florida. But that won’t be enough to shield the city from the recent legislative assault on LGBTQ Floridians. This tension between local and state politics has set off disagreement over how to approach the “slate of hate” passed out of Tallahassee this year.

The list of hateful legislation from this session is unfortunately long. It includes an intentionally vague anti-drag bill that threatens businesses and even individuals that admit children into “adult live performances,” which some fear might even affect events like city pride parades. Lawmakers also expanded last year’s “Don’t Say Gay” law through eighth grade, criminalized gender affirming care for youth, and passed a bill that prohibits transgender-inclusive bathrooms in schools and other government facilities. The list goes on.

These new laws (along with laws that loosen gun control, roll back reproductive health rights, attack voting rights for people of color, target immigrant communities, etc.) are why the organization Equality Florida issued a travel advisory on April 12. It warned that the state “may not be a safe place to visit or take up residence” for members of the LGBTQ community. The Florida Immigrant Coalition has issued its own travel advisory, and the Florida chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has urged the same from the organization’s national board.

“I understand the reasoning behind the travel advisory from their standpoint,” Joseph Clark, CEO of Gay Days Inc., told Orlando Weekly of Equality Florida’s warning. “I disagree with this sense of almost encouraging people to stay away from Florida because of what’s going on. In my opinion, it’s that we should be doing the opposite. We should be flooding Florida with the LGBTQIA guests.”

Clark’s organization, Gay Days Inc., hosts events near Orlando theme parks at the beginning of Pride Month. It’s based on a grass-roots gathering that began in 1991 when gay and lesbian Orlandoans gathered at Walt Disney World. In the following years, despite backlash from predictable corners of the right, the event exploded in popularity, with tens of thousands gathering in matching red shirts at the Magic Kingdom. This year, Gay Days Inc. is hosting events from May 31 through June 5 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando at SeaWorld.

Other organizations have echoed Clark’s call to invite people to the Sunshine State. The KindRed Pride Foundation is calling for people to “flock to Florida” for RED Shirt Pride Days June 1 through 5 at Disney.

Clark says people come not just from out of state but out of the U.S. to attend Gay Days each year — in 2022, that included travelers from Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Brazil and Spain. Unfortunately, he says, the Equality Florida advisory affects LGBTQ-owned businesses like his. “It discourages the traveler from coming because from outside looking in, it doesn’t look like a very welcoming state.”

Tatiana Quiroga, executive director of Come Out With Pride, which has organized Orlando’s annual pride festival at Lake Eola since 2005, agrees with Clark on the travel advisory. She recognizes that the passage of recent laws make many parts of Florida unsafe for the LGBTQ community, especially the trans community. However, Quiroga says the advisory could have been developed collaboratively.

“My hope would have been that we would have been part of that conversation and kind of give a different perspective that an advisory like that will have direct impacts and roll downhill to smaller organizations such as ours,” Quiroga told Orlando Weekly. “We’ve got large national sponsors that are now too scared to participate in Pride and scared to physically have [continued on page 19]

‘FLOCK

OR STAY AWAY?

businesses and events based on LGBT tourism push back against Equality Florida’s travel advisory

PHOTO BY JD CASTO

their team members attend Pride, and they’re pulling out.”

Equality Florida says the advisory was not a call to boycott Florida’s LGBTQ businesses or recommendation on whether to travel to the state. It was simply meant to lay out policy attacks on the community.

“It was with a heavy heart that we had to respond to the litany of inquiries we were receiving about the risks associated with relocating or traveling to Florida with an honest look at the impending policy landscape so that people could make the best decisions for themselves and their families,” Brandon Wolf, press secretary for Equality Florida, said in an email to Orlando Weekly Wolf added the organization is asking people to buy from LGBTQ-owned businesses in the state via Open Doors, a directory put together by Equality Florida.

The repercussions of lawmakers’ anti-LGBTQ agenda could be mitigated, somewhat, in Orlando and Orange County because of the local governments’ support for the community. Clark says he hasn’t had any issues with permitting, for instance.

“There are cities such as Orlando that are welcoming, that are safe, that were not carved out in that statement,” Clark said.

“I hate that there’s this misconception that all of Florida has become this, like, war zone or hunting ground. And, where so much of it is, places like Orlando aren’t,” Quiroga said. “We really do have support from the local government.”

But Wolf with Equality Florida points out the laws passed in Tallahassee affect the whole state.

“The Orlando International Airport will be subject to a ban on transgender visitors using the bathroom they typically use at home, for example. As will the Orange County Convention Center. And the University of Central Florida campus. If the city or county has committed to refuse to enforce unjust, anti-LGBTQ laws or provide resources to the community to offset the impacts of these policies, we look forward to immediately amplifying those efforts and updating our advisory.”

Even before the 2023 session, there was proof Orlando’s welcoming stance could only go so far to protect against the fallout from extreme state politics. Quiroga notes Mayor Buddy Dyer was part of the campaign to bring WorldPride to the city in 2026, the 10-year anniversary of the Pulse tragedy. But she says last year’s legislative session — which included passage of the original “Don’t Say Gay” bill, but pales in comparison to the attacks this year — worked against the city’s bid. Amsterdam was

ultimately selected to host the 2026 event.

Like Clark, Quiroga says for Come Out With Pride on Oct. 21 this year, the process for obtaining permitting and licensing, including permits from the state to serve alcohol, has been easy. “We have not felt any pushback whatsoever from either the permits that have to do with the city or the state so far.”

That doesn’t mean planning for other parts of the festival at Lake Eola will be easy. It’s still unclear how the new laws will change the event. For instance, will the anti-drag bill be enforced, and if so, how?

There’s also the anti-trans bathroom bill. “Here we are planning this huge celebration with over 200,000 people — how is the bathroom ban going to now impact us, being that it’s going to be open to the public?” Quiroga said.

In response to a query from Orlando Weekly about any effects the new statewide law might have on Come Out With Pride 2023, a spokesperson for the Orlando Police Department responded: “We are carefully reviewing the new legislation and how it may impact the city. Specific to your question, at this time we do not believe it will have any impact on the Pride parade hosted by Orlando Come Out With Pride. Additionally, as we get closer to the event, the City of Orlando will work closely with the Orlando Come Out With Pride organizers to ensure a safe, enjoyable and vibrant Pride parade that complies with all applicable laws.”

This, of course, doesn’t answer the question of the drag performances in the bandshell at the daylong Lake Eola Park event.

Pride festivals have become a celebration of gains for the LGBTQ community. But they’re rooted in the 1969 Stonewall riots, a protest against police violence that kicked off the wider pride movement opposing discrimination in the culture at large. After years of progress, many feel the pendulum swinging back toward darker days.

“We’ve had definitely years of privilege for Pride to be a party,” Quiroga said. “But this year, in particular, Pride is more than a party. We’re looking at much more than just that.”

Similarly, the slate of anti-LGBTQ laws are reminiscent of the earliest Gay Days of the 1990s. The Christian right adamantly opposed the tradition, especially as it grew in popularity. With hate rampant not just in Florida but across the country, Clark says this year Gay Days will hark back to the days when people wore red to Disney to be seen, as well as even earlier struggles.

“We can’t fight what’s happening by going back into the closet. We need to stand out there and stand together. The fight is here.”

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BY SETH KUBERSKY

After seeing more than 40 shows and so far publishing reviews of 36, a few clear favorites have emerged. Last week’s print edition ran four of my faves, and below are four more; for the rest, go to orlandoweekly.com. And stay tuned for my festival wrap-up next week.

The Merkin Sisters: Deux

The Merkin Sisters (Stéphanie MorinRobert and Ingrid Hansen), Canada’s self-proclaimed “Hairiest Sweethearts,” return with more gynocentric performance art that’s guaranteed to leave you in stitches, or at least stunned silence.

Their act, which merges verbal nonsense with squirm-inducing physical comedy, exists at the intersection of slapstick clowning and serious modern dance; if Pina Bausch had choreographed the Blue Man Group, it might look like this.

The pair interact with the audience like android explorers from an alien dimension, and their buffoonish ballet recalls Martin Short’s synchronized swimming SNL skit. And we haven’t even talked about their eponymous ginger groin accessories, which are matched by disturbingly manly prosthetic pecs.

If you have a taste for transgressive theater, the Merkin Sisters have a unique style of “art” that includes copulating fabric colons that birth to gelatinous blobs; duck hand-puppets that mother mewling, milk-spewing pacifiers; and a hairy vaping vagina sure to give DeSantis the vapors.

A repeated gag involving audience-submitted suggestions started to feel like filler, and the finale — a puppet routine set to a Shirley Gnome song from their debut album — seems like an oddly tame climax after this orgy of outrageousness.

There’s probably an important point being made about toxic masculinity or gendered beauty standards, but I was too busy chortling to pinpoint exactly what it is. Although some of their bits pushed my admittedly

blurry boundaries, I enjoyed the Merkin Sisters’ latest lunacy even better than their last time around.

Grabbing the Hammer Lane: A Trucker Narrative Writer-performer David M. Proctor spent 30 years as a commercial truck driver. Now he’s channeled some of those experiences into an emotionally engaging solo show brimming with blue-collar poetry and raw humanity that’s one of this Fringe’s best bets.

Proctor’s onstage alter ego is trucker Matt Cooke, an intelligent ex-actor who abandoned his art for a steady paycheck, but can still recite Othello’s monologues at the drop of a hat. Cooke presents as an appealing antiauthoritarian character who enjoys enraging his incompetent superiors, even if he has a tendency to burn bridges behind himself, leaving him estranged from his disappointed adoptive father (also embodied by Proctor, with his own distinct physicality).

There’s humor here, in the form of an entertaining anecdote about a priest-involved traffic accident. But the bulk of this show — sensitively co-directed by Proctor and Marlon Burnley — is a devastatingly personal delving into the pain of parental disapproval, and the promise of second chances at redemption.

Grabbing the Hammer Lane is already my early pick for the Fest’s top solo drama, so buy your tickets and grab some tissues before attending. And if you have an aging parent, don’t be surprised if Proctor inspires you to pick up the phone and call them after the show.

The Dream Express

Grab a cocktail table at the Uncle Remus Motel’s Briar Patch Lounge and get ready for an acid-soaked flashback to the swinging ’70s, because singers Spin and Marlene Milton are back aboard their midnight train of meandering musical monologues and suggestive non-sequiturs.

Joe and Becky Fisher return for the third time in nearly 30 years to writer Len Jenkins’ endearingly off-kilter singing ex-spouses, who can make even the most innocuous pop hit (like “The Pina Colada Song”) sound creepily cracked.

These Fringe vets have perfectly aged into their their roles, and segments involving a near-death experience and alien abduction add an eerie edge. If you have fond memories of Mark & Lorna at the Red Fox Lounge (or SNL’s Culp Family) then you won’t want to miss this sweetly surreal railroad ride into rockin’ retro ridiculousness.

Wit & Wrath: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

Writer-performer Claudia Baumgarten embodies the immortal author Dorothy Parker, bringing the acerbic writer’s bestknown barbs to Fringe in an original one-woman biography that’s equal parts scholarly and scandalous. Baumgarten reenacts key milestones in Parker’s biography, from her privileged Manhattan childhood and convent education to her struggle for respect in the Jazz Age’s male-dominated literary scene while writing for women’s magazines … not to mention her numerous failed romances.

As a theater and book critic, Parker’s negative reviews of household names make me look nicer than Mr. Rogers, and her deathless bon mots about alcohol and sex have lost little of their bite over the century since Prohibition.

Even audience members who don’t know Groucho Marx from Karl Marx will appreciate hearing a taste of the withering wordplay that once viciously circled the Algonquin Round Table.

Baumgarten’s sharp script largely relies on Parker’s own words, and director Diana E.H. Shortes provides Baumgarten with enough onstage books, trinkets and baubles to keep the solo show from becoming a static talking-head lecture or wax museum display.

Baumgarten exudes Parker’s irreverent energy for the first 30 minutes; then the play’s pacing and lighting levels inexplicably dipped at the halfway point, and didn’t fully recover their initial spark until after an interminable waltz sequence. However, hearing Parker’s catty carping about the Golden Age of cinema makes the conclusion well worth sticking around for.

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Four more Orlando Fringe shows you should not miss, including our pick for this year’s top solo drama

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BY FAIYAZ KARA

OPENINGS and CLOSINGS

RUM DINGER

Otto’s High Dive pays homage to Cuba’s heyday with exceptional cocktails and focused fare

BY FAIYAZ KARA

When I heard about a cocktail bar opening in the Milk District, I naturally thought the place would specialize in White Russians and Milk Punches and Brown Cows — you know, cloying and creamy quaffs swished before beddy-bye. But Otto’s High Dive is hardly a sleepy watering hole for nightcappers. It’s a “neighborhood rum bar” alive with the din of tipplers who gather amid an understatedly lush, design-forward space to down daiquiris, mojitos and Cuba libres.

been one of the hottest hangs around so, yeah, reservations are hard to come by. In fact, I felt fortunate to snag a seat at the bar on both my visits, the latter thanks to a kind accommodation from Levaughn himself.

had in Cuba. Not that Handsome Jake’s dishes aren’t handsome — his hearts of palm salad ($15) with grape tomatoes and cucumbers slicked in a lemon-dill vinaigrette is as fetching as it is bracing; the crudo of citrus-cured kingfish ($20) trimmed with dollops of mojo aioli, mango salsa, cilantro and dusted with a chicharron crumble made for some beautiful bites at the bar. Oysters (not from Cuba) were also enjoyed — pristine Raspberry Points from PEI and bright Beausoleils from New Brunswick ($24 for a dozen).

Veranda Café, from the folks who ran Daily Bread Bakers inside the Hall on the Yard, has opened above Deeply Cafe at 111 N. Magnolia Ave. downtown. In addition to gourmet paninis, tartines, salads and sharables (beef carpaccio, garlic knots, charcuterie), Veranda will also have live music … Buildout has begun on the Debonair Supper Club at 183 S. Orange Ave. downtown. Billed as a modern-day take on the supper club tradition, Debonair will offer guests “innovative takes on modern fusion comfort food, a progressive and elevated cocktail/mocktail program, tableside hookah service, a sommelier-curated wine list and world-class live and digital entertainment.” An opening date hasn’t been announced … Chimiking, the Latin American restaurant specializing in Dominican chimichurri burgers, has opened its fourth Orlandoarea location, this one near Waterford Lakes at 422 S. Alafaya Trail … Hash House a Go Go, the ambitious chain that takes great pride in stunning diners with gargantuan plates of food, will open its second Orlando-area location in early summer at Flamingo Crossings Town Center in Winter Garden … Shiki-Sai: Sushi Izakaya will open this summer on the second floor of Epcot’s Japan pavilion. The izakaya will be themed after Japan’s seasonal festivals and serve everything from sashimi to okonomiyaki to karaage chicken.

NEWS and EVENTS

Cuba, in fact, was the ultimate inspiration for Otto’s. Justin Levaughn, a bartender whose impressive résumé includes stints at Suffering Bastard, Courtesy, Sunroom and Ravenous Pig, wanted to open a rum bar somewhere in the city. When he came across this East Robinson Street property — owned by local developers and Hourglass District founders Giovanni Fernandez and Elise Sabatino — he learned that Fernandez’s grandfather owned a rum bar in Manzanillo, Cuba, in the 1940s and ’50s called La Barra Polar. Levaughn joined forces with the couple, as well as industry vet Sean Pagan (Vines, Eddie V’s, Kokino) and Christopher Munro, and a Cuban rum bar was born. And what a birth it’s been. Since opening in December, Otto’s has consistently

OTTO’S

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The owner-bartender — perdóname, owner-cantinero — shook and stirred a bevy of rum-based cocktails for the wideeyed wonks with front-row seats. All the seasoned cantineros here are skillful, consummate and confident; I don’t think I’ve had a so-so swig here. Certainly not the shaken “Chan Chan” ($14) with aged rhum, sherry, ginger and rice pudding, nor the stirred “Ton of Bricks” ($14), a rummy riff on an old fashioned with bourbon, sherry, banana, bay leaf and tonka bean. There are 20 cocktails from which to choose, but don’t overlook the refreshing mezcalbased “Chancleta” ($14) or the “Bustelo Biafra” ($14) for a post-meal kick.

Speaking of, I also got a kick out of Otto’s menu of Cubano-ish fare. It’s overseen by former Ravenous Pig executive sous chef “Handsome” Jake Ettison, whose tight, focused menu plays up flavors that are simple and fuss-free. Braised short-rib ropa vieja served with rice and beans ($22) and mojo chicken topped with a chunky chimichurri ($22) honestly reminded me of the modest, uncomplicated meals I

What drew the biggest reaction, however, was the zingy sauce of the shrimp cocktail. Running the plump Argentinian reds (they’re poached in a court-bouillon) through the thick Bloody Mary and Tajin relish was digital dining at its best. This isn’t cutting-edge food by any means, but classic eats done right. The pastel de carne ($4), or meat pie, isn’t made in house but brought in from iconic L.A. bakery Porto’s. I could’ve eaten 10 of these things.

“One of our owners’ uncle owns Porto’s so we use their products exclusively,” says Levaughn. “Gotta keep it in the family!” Cheese, apple and guava pastries from Porto’s are also offered.

Florida orange tres leches cake ($15) is a choice ending and the ending of choice for me. It’s large enough to feed two people, and pairs well with Holmes Cay Fiji Rum. On one visit, we discreetly inquired about the availability of Havana Club Cuban rum, and we may or may not have received a complimentary pour from a secret stash.

“Salud,” I said to my pal, who proceeded to drop the shot glass and liquid onto the counter. “Cabrón,” he muttered, while trying to sweep the spirit back into the glass.

Sure, it was a somewhat mortifying scene, but clarity soon prevailed. At this Milk District bar, there’s really no use crying over spilled rum.

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Some James Beard Awards drama to report: Timothy Hontzas, a finalist for Best Chef: South, has been disqualified from award consideration following an independent investigation by the foundation’s Ethics Committee. Hontzas, who mans the kitchen at Johnny’s Restaurant in Homewood, Alabama, is accused of yelling at employees and guests and “more likely than not violat[ing] the Code of Ethics.” That leaves Ana Castro (Lengua Madre, New Orleans), Alex Perry and Kumi Omori (Vestige, Ocean Springs, Mississippi), Natalia Vallejo (Cocina al Fondo, San Juan, Puerto Rico) and Orlando’s very own Henry Moso of Kabooki Sushi as sole contenders. The winner will be announced June 5 in Chicago … Ibis Lopez, who honed his skills at the Hyatt Grand Cypress and Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes, has been named executive chef of the Aurora Restaurant at the Celeste Hotel near UCF. Lopez takes over for Mike Trudnak, who’s now the executive chef at the Daytona Grande Oceanfront Resort … After 15 years of serving as general manager and wine director at Norman’s, Yusuf Yildiz is heading back to the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes as a managing partner of Knife & Spoon, the steakhouse by John Tesar that opened in Norman’s former space. Yildiz’s last day will be May 26 … It’s that time of year again! Bite30 kicks off next week with a host of restaurants offering special prixfixe menus for a set price of $35. Visit bite30. com for participating restaurants and menus.

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ON (small) SCREENS IN

by Steve Schneider

CAVEAT VIDENTIUM: All premiere dates remain subject to change as long as the writers’ strike is in effect. And until you finally break down and call your mom!

PREMIERES WEDNESDAY:

American Born Chinese — Newly minted Oscar winners Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are in the cast of this graphic-novel adaptation, which sees a high-schooler conscripted to battle mythical Chinese deities. Yes, we’ve come a long way since you couldn’t get a show like this off the ground because the only AAPI actor casting directors had in their Rolodex was James Hong. (Now you just have to thank him in the credits.)

(Disney+)

Chip ’n’ Dale: Park Life — Everybody’s favorite chipmunk life partners are back for a second season of hoarding acorns and stuff. Guest stars this time include Donald Duck, Goofy and whichever surrogate Moms for Liberty sends in to make sure they don’t spoon. (Disney+)

The Clearing — Aussie stars Teresa Palmer, Miranda Otto and Guy Pearce headline a series based on the real-life cult The Family and its leader, Anne Hamilton-Byrne, who fancied herself the reincarnation of Christ. Kind of seems to be a thing with these people, but I guess you don’t get many followers if you say you’re the second coming of Miss Cleo. (Hulu)

Intertwined — In Season 2 of the timehopping Argentine series, Marco gets hurtled from the ’90s to 2021, and what he finds there amazes him. But let’s be honest: The first time you caught a whiff of Erykah Badu’s vaginascented incense, it changed your life too.

(Disney+)

Platonic — Mending fences with former best friend Rose Byrne has dire consequences for Seth Rogen in a comedy series that’s a cautionary tale for everybody. Particularly

for Rogen, if he ever thinks of pulling James Franco out from under the bus. (Apple TV+)

The Ultimatum: Queer Love — This time, it’s a bunch of women in same-sex relationships who have to decide whether to double down on their commitment or move on. Which, as any lesbian will tell you, is always the hardest part of the first date. (Netflix)

PREMIERES THURSDAY:

100 Years of Warner Bros. — Four documentary specials chronicle the history of the studio that gave us Casablanca, Batman and Harry Potter, plus a few properties David Zaslav hasn’t yet sold off to Amazon. (Max)

Fubar — All manner of complications ensue for a man and his daughter when each realizes the other is an undercover CIA agent.

Star Arnold Schwarzenegger is making his “scripted series debut,” which I guess means we’re all pretending The Apprentice was totally on the level now. (Netflix)

The Kardashians — Khloe struggles with the curse of melanoma in Season 3. Ever supportive, Kim cites her divorce from Ye as proof you can cut out a cancer if you really have to. (Hulu)

VGLY — Mexican pop star Natanael Cano turns actor to co-star in a Spanish-language series about up-and-coming rappers. It’ll be kind of appropriate if the show proves to be his 8 Mile, since that’s about the amount of wall Trump was able to build. (Max)

PREMIERES FRIDAY:

Barbecue Showdown: Season 2 — Eight more barbecue chefs go head to head, smokin’ that meat in the hopes they’ll be crowned champion pitmaster. Anybody else think Netflix dropped the ball by not holding that Waco documentary until now? Seems like a real missed opportunity for crosspromotion. (Netflix)

Blood & Gold — Germany looks back on

those madcap final days of World War II in a dark comedy about a Nazi soldier who tries to grab himself a little treasure while the Reich is collapsing. I hope that lovable scamp gets away with it, because I always root for the unterhünd. (Netflix)

Influencer — A social-media wannabe gets more than she bargained for when a fellow vacationer promises to show her some of Thailand’s lesser-known locales. Given the reputation for safety and security that’s attached to most of the better-known ones, this sounds like it should make for a pleasant 45 minutes. (Shudder)

Kendra Sells Hollywood: Season 2

Former Hefner sex slave Kendra Wilkinson has big numbers to pull in if she wants to be a successful real-estate agent, but first she has to win over clients who aren’t inclined to trust someone they’ve seen nude. Yes, these are the priorities that make Los Angeles the shining beacon of economic pragmatism it is.

(Max)

Turn of the Tide — Opportunity knocks for five Portuguese friends when a boatful of cocaine washes up practically on their doorstep. The only significant obstacle: Can they outrun a bear? (Netflix)

Where the Tracks End — A committed teacher conducts her lessons out of a converted railway car in a Mexican drama that’s Dangerous Minds meets … um, Strangers on a Train? Snowpiercer? The Northbound Sunrail after the next education budget goes through? (Netflix)

PREMIERES TUESDAY:

Siren: Survive the Island — The latest Korean competition show takes a bunch of women from tough, physically demanding walks of life and makes them fight for supremacy on a remote island. You will never convince me this isn’t the way Elon got that new CEO. (Netflix)

Mending fences with a former best friend has dire consequences in comedy series Platonic | photo courtesy Apple TV+

VISIONS OF STEVIE

BY MATTHEW MOYER, STEVE SCHNEIDER AND

Pop music, at its finest, is a province of mythmaking, speculative fiction, reality-reshaping, and trying on and then discarding mask after mask. And few do this as effortlessly, to the point of unintentionally, as Stevie Nicks. Over a five-decade-plus career in music, either with Fleetwood Mac or fearlessly solo, Nicks has inspired fervent sing-alongs, fervent album sales, fervent devotion and fervent mystique. How do you untangle the myth from the reality of the singular art and life of Nicks? Who cares! We don’t have any time for that today. Instead, we’re here to revel in the enigma and lore of Nicks, and maybe do some conjuring of our own. Here are three headlong dives into the grimoire of Stevie Nicks ahead of her Thursday show at the Amway Center.

Gold dust woman

Where to begin with the Stevie Nicks era of Fleetwood Mac and the spells she cast through those early albums? The “beginning”? Sure, (winks) we can give that whole thing a go.

A young and impossibly beautiful duo of wayward elven hippy lovers, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, show up on Mick Fleetwood’s doorstep and immediately turn his band of bluesy belters into mysterious rock megastars, complete with near-Shakespearean levels of band intrigue, doomed romance and Bacchanalian lifestyles.

If you have a vinyl copy of Rumours in your home, congratulations, you have the equivalent of a ouija board. How else to explain the wild, incantatory magick of Nicks’ spotlight numbers like “Dreams,” “Gold Dust Woman” and the wracked “Silver Springs” (magically materializing on reissues, still drawing in unsuspecting listeners like a siren to crash hopelessly against the rocks of unrequited love). And if you mimic her pose on the album cover, stare into the mirror and whisper the name “Rhiannon” three times, well … you’ll have to find out for yourself.

At the height of Mac fame, Nicks was a (possibly) benevolent magus: decked out in capes, top hats, lace, swirling dresses, talismanic jewelry; entrancing whole stadiums in ways that a hack like Jim Jones could only dream about. Then Tusk, and by that point, the gonzo capitalist overload of Fleetwood Mac — double albums, studio overkill, band infighting, commercial suicide — and its deleterious impact on Nicks — blizzards of cocaine, a tortured secret affair with the married Fleetwood — led Nicks to quietly gather up her crystal ball and tambourines, and fly away like a … nightbird? Maybe. Maybe not. — MM

Leather and lace

Queen of the night, sovereign of serenity, goddess of the moon, ruler of the stars. Like a Greek goddess of myth, Nicks

STEVIE NICKS

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is often depicted as covered in the mists of midnight, a shawl of dust reflecting the glimmer and glint of nuclear fusion light years away.

The enchanted Stevie Nicks, clad in myth as often as chiffon, velvet, leather and lace … her armor of the night. The enchanted Nicks, in the sweet and sticky summer of 1981, with the release of her debut solo album, Bella Donna, declared her devotion to darkness, “Like the moon that she loved/ don’t you know that the stars are a part of us?”

Bella Donna, though still rooted in mystic California vibes, has a tougher, more rock sound. Shorn of the Mac’s excess, Bella Donna and The Wild Heart were like disquieted muses drifting along the Sunset Strip, conjuring fishnet-clad hair-metallers and pale death-rockers from thin air, before repairing to a castle deep in the Hollywood Hills just before dawn. Or so a story goes.

A fighter for love and language, Nicks keeps her coven close. She’s known to bestow golden crescent moons to young people she sees herself in, that look up to her, or that she’s worked with: Tavi Gevinson and Taylor Swift are among these acolytes.

These intentional gestures of community gifted by the sorceress of sound and stage, of self-appointed lore, are a testament to her alchemy of the night. — NS

‘She is like a cat in the dark’?

Those of us who came of age in the era of Rumours spent more time than we’d like to admit debating the question “Is Stevie Nicks a witch or isn’t she?”

Nicks certainly seemed happy with the insinuation: “All your life you’ve never seen/ A woman taken by the wind,” she’d purr. Whereupon the more cynical among us would opine that we were instead witnessing a woman being taken by several pounds of Peruvian floor cleanser.

It took decades for us to see our folly. And for that we have to thank the renowned documentarian Ryan Murphy, who in his landmark white paper American Horror Story: Coven, proved that Nicks had been a genuine practitioner of the dark arts all along.

Like a Nick Broomfield of the small screen, Murphy laid out his thesis in a dramatic fashion and with a real flair for storytelling. He planted the seeds early in the season by introducing us to one Misty Day, a humorously addled bayou witch whose obsessive consumption of Fleetwood Mac had convinced her that Nicks was a member of the tribe.

The idea was submitted as patently ridiculous — a nostalgic callback to innumerable crocheted hopheads whose company we had to endure back in the ’70s. But it was just a feint, because several installments later, Nicks herself appeared onscreen, in a cameo that revealed she is indeed in command of mystical powers far beyond the reckoning of us humble mortal types.

She was even shown gifting Day with one of her trademark shawls, to wield as a totem!

Case closed, gentlemen of the jukebox jury. I have no idea how Murphy convinced Nicks to put an end to 37 years’ worth of innuendo and declare her spiritual gifts in such an ironclad, undeniable manner. But I guess nothing is impossible to the guy who was finally able to prove O.J. murdered Versace. (We think that’s how it went.)

Documentary is the gatekeeper of truth, and by capturing Nicks on camera in her full bedknob-and-broomstick glory, Murphy showed he is the master of it. — SS

Stevie Nicks headlines the Amway Center this week | photo by Kristin Burns, digital illustration by Daniel Rodriguez

Stevie Nicks plays Amway Center this week. And we’ve gotten entangled in the myth and legend of this singular pop star

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LOCAL RELEASES

The term “jam band” is so fraught with bad baggage that even calling Orlando quintet Tinnitus Rex a high-concept version of one just doesn’t feel right. OK, so let’s say they’re a freeform rock band. More specifically, they’re an experimental improv group, though not in an is-this-even-music free-jazz kinda way. In fact, their music has remarkable intelligibility and structure for an open-ended band. Most importantly, though, their grooving shares more DNA with heavy music than any traditional jam band.

In the three years that they’ve released music, Tinnitus Rex have quickly amassed a sizable catalog, the vast majority of which are Bandcamp releases of rehearsal recordings. Recently, however, they did a broader, more formal release of new album Heart Meat. Their rather good live recordings have never exactly been fast-and-dirty garage sessions, but Heart Meat is on another sonic level altogether.

While the album was recorded at Winter Park’s Castle Door Studios like their usual rehearsals, Heart Meat is a notably better-produced work, with overdubs and additional mixing. The result is a more finished, resonant and immersive experience. Tinnitus Rex’s live takes are already absorbing, but the extra finishing here makes their sonic journeys even more enveloping.

From weird wandering to heavy riffage, the extended instrumental odysseys cover terrain that spans psych, desert rock, postrock, stoner rock, space rock, krautrock and even borderline noise. Thankfully, though, their hypnotic jamming is much more about voyaging than wanky indulgence.

What the well-crafted Heart Meat especially underscores is the collective unity that Tinnitus Rex bring to the musical

improvisation game. They harness the wild spontaneity of improv, but it plays out atop a solid, sometimes hulking foundation. Whether that’s by instinct or design, it pays dividends in listenability, which means you don’t have to be an experimental-music freak to dig it.

Heart Meat now streams everywhere. But this weekend, you can experience Tinnitus Rex live, which even the bulk of their recordings suggest is their most natural state. (8:30 p.m. Saturday, May 27, Ten10 B-Side, no cover)

CONCERT PICKS THIS WEEK

Thrice, Holy Fawn: Post-hardcore stars

Thrice need no introduction. But you should also know Arizona openers Holy Fawn. They, too, exist between genres with an epic post-metal sound that spans post-rock, black metal and shoegaze. From a motley set of influences, they craft a forward sound that’s beyond convention and unified in its broodingly beautiful intent.

Holy Fawn will be showing off their most recent album, Dimensional Bleed, a sophomore full-length work that comes four years

BY BAO LE-HUU

after their debut LP. (7 p.m. Thursday, May 25, House of Blues, $30-$80)

Jeromes Dream, Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Horsewhip: Like Death or Floor, Connecticut’s Jeromes Dream are one of those legendary underground bands whose cult following only mushroomed after their breakup. They emerged as a bold and experimental force in screamo in the late 1990s until they disbanded in 2001. Seventeen years later, they reunited to much scene buzz. Not content to bask retroactively in their legacy, they’ve since proven to have been renewed creatively, releasing two strong albums. Their brand-new The Gray In Between LP is a stunning post-hardcore opus that could even be their finest hour yet. But this will be a full night of exceptional music, with the expansive and atmospheric heaviness of Boston’s Elizabeth Colour Wheel and the progressive hardcore fury of St. Pete’s Horsewhip. (8 p.m. Friday, May 26, Will’s Pub, $15)

Narrow Head, Graham Hunt, Stripmallravestarrr: Houston’s Narrow Head thread a lot of needles with both skill and taste. With a 1990s palette that draws liberally from shoegaze, grunge and emo, their thick guitar rock manages to be heavy but feeling, crushing yet soaring. It’s a sonic monolith that’s also musically and emotionally nuanced. Narrow Head’s recent album, Moment of Clarity, was produced by Sonny DiPerri (My Bloody Valentine, DIIV, M83) and makes a compelling case for them to be this generation’s Hum. Opening will be the colorful, power-pop-influenced indie rock of Wisconsin’s Graham Hunt and hyperpop act Stripmallravestarrr. (7 p.m. Wednesday, May 31, The Abbey, $18) baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com

The term ‘jam band’ is so fraught with baggage that calling Tinnitus Rex a highconcept one just doesn’t feel right; let’s call them a freeform, experimental rock band

Tinnitus Rex | courtesy photo

FRIDAY, MAY 26

Ashley Taylor: Petty

Picking one’s way through the jumble of anxietyinducing slogans wiggling all over Ashley Taylor’s “Avocado Toast (Side A and Side B),” the message is clear: Our millennials are not OK. YOLO, FOMO and “This is fine!” may register to their elders as just so many hashtags, but when translated with empathy, looking beyond the ironic exclamation points, they are cris de coeur that cannot be ignored. In Petty, Taylor’s candy-colored subjects twist about the paper like specimens pinned to a slide, grimacing and grinning in agony. But dismiss these neon-bright prints as mere comics at your own peril — the subject matter may be of the moment, but the tradition of grotesquerie they fall into is not. These contorted faces and bodies deliver a can’t-look-away message skewering America’s most cherished myths, taking their place in a line that extends from Hogarth to Nast to Oliphant to the Usual Gang of Idiots. The opening of Petty is celebrated at Snap’s latest Le Salon party, along with a handful of new works by other artists. 7 p.m., Snap! Orlando, 420 E. Church St., snaporlando.com, free. — Jessica Bryce Young

SATURDAY, MAY 27 Hurricane Party

It’s never too early for a hurricane party in Central Florida (was that hail last week or was that just us? No, that was hail), and West End Trading Co. is throwing their annual Hurricane Party Music Festival this weekend. For a 16th year, Historic Downtown Sanford around West End will be ground zero for an armada of local (and beyond) musicians playing on six stages. Performing are the Expendables, Ballyhoo!, the Suicide Machines, the Supervillains (doing double duty), Hor!zen, Gargamel!, American Party Machine, Dial Drive, Jen in the Right Light, Wolf-Face, the Sh-Booms and many, many more! The de facto conceit is that it’s a “musical offering for a tranquil hurricane season” and after last year that’s something worth plunking down a few bucks for. Noon, West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford, drinkatwestend.com, $40-$65. — Matthew

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Prison Affair

In a notable development for a long weekend best known for burning sundry meats on a grill beyond all recognition, we’ve got some unhinged international

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instigators landing in the City Beautiful. Barcelona’s Prison Affair keep their music direct but off-kilter with a musical conceit not unlike playing Devo’s Hardcore demos at double speed through a faulty boombox submerged in a fishtank. The angular clatter is kinda like Crime meets Rites of Spring (the Stravinsky one), but also not, so never ask us why we wrote this. Opening up the night: South Florida hardcore upstarts Silo, Coffee Stain — an appropriately named young Jacksonville band whose disorienting HC is not unlike jittery, sleep-deprived hands splattering coffee everywhere — and local Ch.83. Is it their last show ever? One hopes not, but you should come see them throw artfully loud tantrums. Prison Affair coming to Florida is wildly rare and with the visa situation for international artists becoming more stupid by the day (to say nothing of this state getting even stupider by the nanosecond), you should take advantage of, um, culture while you can. 8 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., willspub.org, $415. — MM

SUNDAY, MAY 28

Milk Mart

Celebrating seven years of giving scores of local vendors and artisans the run of the Milk District, Orlando-centric market the Milk Mart sprawls (honestly) all over Robinson and Bumby for a lazy day of Sunday shopping. Clustered around The Nook on Robinson, Etoile Boutique, Sportstown, Sideward and Milkhouse, the market presents (way) over 100 local artists and enterprises offering up a little bit of everything. That means everyone from Plastik Factory to The Black Express Co. to Sunshine Ln. Pottery to the Gnarly Cuban. The holiday edition of Milk Mart was absolutely bonkers, so come prepared to brave the crowds and wait in some lines. Where else do you have to be? Church? Noon, The Milk District, East Robinson Street and North Bumby Avenue, milkmartorlando.com, free. — MM

MONDAY, MAY 29

Bryson Tiller

After a six-year hiatus from performing live, Bryson Tiller is “back and he’s better,” out on a 25-city U.S. tour that is heading through Orlando this week. The Louisville-born singer and rapper’s Back and I’m Better tour is a return to live form after a flirtation with musical retirement — but hey, endless

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Monday: Bryson Tiller at House of Blues

golf games and the Villages aren’t for everyone. As part of his creative recharge, the young R&B boundary-pusher late last year released the prescient single “Gotta Move On” with Diddy, on the heels of 2020 album Anniversary. Twitter was afire a few weeks ago with a lively debate over who originated trap-soul, and near the top of the list, alongside Drake, was Tiller — see and hear for yourself on Monday. 7 p.m., House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista, houseofblues. com, $49.95-$110.95. — MM

MONDAY, MAY 29

Queer and GenderAffirming Clothing Drive

The young activists of Orlando Liberation Initiative are holding a gender-affirming clothing drive over the long weekend. They are offering up femme and masc clothing and binders, as well as giving haircuts and conducting makeup demos — all free to anyone who needs them. With the powers that be failing (and outright going after) the LGBTQ+ and trans communities daily, direct action and mutual aid is going to have to be the way forward. If you’re looking to donate items, hit OLI up directly; they’d be happy to have them. 3 p.m., Joybird Books, 3018 Corrine Drive, joybirdbooks.com, free. — MM

LIVE MUSIC

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24

Acid Mothers Temple, ST37, Timothy Eerie 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $17.

Donnie Lee 6 pm; Fredster’s, 1720 Fennell St., Maitland; free; 321-444-6331.

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

Kenia Os 7 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $44.50-$99.50; 407-934-2583.

Pouya, Fat Nick, Kxllswitch 6 pm; The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave.; $30; 407-648-8363.

United Groove 9 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

THURSDAY, MAY 25

The All-Skates 7 pm; Fredster’s, 1720 Fennell St., Maitland; free; 321-444-6331.

Eladio Carrion, Big Soto 8 pm; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; $65-$85; 407-351-5483.

The Four Horsemen, Castlehill 8 pm; West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; $15-$17; 407-322-7475.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis. 7:30 pm; Steinmetz Hall, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $39.50$99.50; 407-358-6603.

Outlaw Apostles 8 pm; The Tin Roof, 8371 International Drive; free.

Stevie Nicks 6:30 pm; Amway Center, 400 W. Church St.; $105$1000; 800-745-3000.

Thrice, Holy Fawn 7 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $30-$80; 407-934-2583.

Thursday Night Hang 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-636-9951.

We’re All In This Together: A Disney/ Nickelodeon/2000s Dance Party

A night to remember full of guest video appearances, giveaways and more. 9 pm; Henao Contemporary

Center, 5601 Edgewater Drive; $15; 973-580-7865; henaocenter.com.

FRIDAY, MAY 26

The Best of Both Worlds: The Ultimate Tribute to Van Halen 7:30 pm; Athens Theatre, 124 N. Florida Ave., DeLand; $35; 386-736-1500.

Cigano Swing 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $25-$35; 407-636-9951.

Completely Unchained: The Ultimate Van Halen Experience

8 pm; Fredster’s, 1720 Fennell St., Maitland; $20; 321-444-6331.

Culture Fete Weekend The Biggest Soca Artists from around the Caribbean perform live. 8 pm; Culture Fete Village, 9755 Delegates Drive; $50-$100; 352-874-3304.

Jeromes Dream, Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Horsewhip 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $15.

Jim Stafford 7 pm; The Clermont Performing Arts Center, 3700 S. Highway 27, Clermont; $28$60; 352-394-4800.

The Legendary JC’s, The One Four Fives, LoveLady

8 pm; West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; free; 407-322-7475.

Music in the Library: Chinese Guzheng by Ann Yao 11 am; Chickasaw Library, 870 N. Chickasaw Trail; free; 407-835-7323.

Sundown Sessions: Steve Krone 7 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

The Taylor Party: Taylor Swift Night (Eras Version)

8 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $18-$70; 407-934-2583.

Tiny Waves Presents: K-Pop Rave 9 pm; Conduit, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $12-$15; 407-673-2712.

Zalongo, Smoka Rocha, Sticky Steve, Dear Sister Kodos 9 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; $10; 407-270-9104.

SATURDAY, MAY 27

16th Annual Hurricane Party The Expendables, the Suicide Machines, the Supervillains, Horizen, Gargameli, American Party Machine, Jen in The Right Light, Flagman, Dial Drive, Joey Calderaio Band, Control This, the Intracoastals, Ryan Thorne and The Ramblers, Wolf-Face, Tom Solo, the Longest Haul, Fukata, Subherbs, Problemaddicts, Dallas Tyler Band, the Sh-Booms and more. Noon; West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford; $40-$65; 407-322-7475.

Back In Time Lime: A Caribbean Festival A Caribbean festival with food and drinks, panyard, a calypso tent, tassa drumming, African drums, moko jumbies, fire breathers, music by David Rudder and more. 6 pm; Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $20; 407-421-8118.

Classic Albums Live: Tom Petty Damn The Torpedoes 8 pm; Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd.; $21-$36; 407-351-5483.

Culture Fete Weekend The Biggest Soca Artists from around the Caribbean perform live. 8 pm; Culture Fete Village, 9755 Delegates Drive; $50-$100; 352-874-3304.

Sundown Sessions: Dale Bandy 7 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

Dom Dolla, 2AR 9 pm; The Vanguard, 578 N. Orange Ave.; $24.99-$69.99; 570-592-0034.

DoXy 8 pm; Austin’s Coffee,

929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-975-3364.

Mt. Eleanor 7 pm; Claddagh Cottage Irish Pub, 2421 Curry Ford Road; free; 407-895-1555.

OHP Presents: Dance with Friends 7 pm; Grape and the Grain, 1110 Virginia Drive; $10-$25; 407-674-6156.

Orlando Musicians Meetup Inaugural Conference 10 am; Orlando Rental Studio, 643 Lexington Ave.; $15; 407-454-7926.

Prince Tribute 7:30 pm; Athens Theatre, 124 N. Florida Ave., DeLand; $35; 386-736-1500.

Prison Affair, Ch.83, Silo, Coffee Stain 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $15.

Running with Scissors 8 pm; Fredster’s, 1720 Fennell St., Maitland; free; 321-444-6331.

The Steel Woods 6 pm; The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave.; $25; 407-246-1419.

Withering Earth, Somnent, Corrupted Saint, Piss On Christ 7 pm; Conduit, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $10; 407-673-2712.

SUNDAY, MAY 28

Cocodrills 6 pm; Elixir, 9 W. Washington St.; $10-$25; 407-985-3507.

Hijas De La Muerte, Audible Parts, Caustic Bats, Pilot Jonezz 7 pm; Conduit, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $10; 407-673-2712.

Mirror Parts, Sir Echo, The Boas, Eric Jafet 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $12-$15.

Sundown Sessions: Terri Binion, Patrick Hagerman 7 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

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Terry Myers Quartet 3 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; $25-$35; 407-636-9951.

MONDAY, MAY 29

Bryson Tiller 7 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $49.95$110.95; 407-934-2583.

EyeQ, Substantial, O_Super, Shinobi Stalin 6:30 pm; Conduit, 6700 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; $12-$20; 407-673-2712.

Zelda Grey and The Shade 9 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

TUESDAY, MAY 30

Jam Night: Matt Lapham and Guests 9 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

FILM

Peanut Butter Matinee: The Parent Trap Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, discover each other for the first time at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together. Noon Sunday; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $11; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

THEATER

Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. After a six-day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie’s loopy mother. Gateway Center for the Arts, 880 N. Highway 17-92, DeBary; $15; 386-668-5553; gatewaycenterforthearts.org.

BroadGay Spectacular: On Tour Orlando Gay Chorus presents a concert of show tunes, emceed by Anna and Ida V. Eskamani. 7:30 pm Wednesday; Steinmetz Hall, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $15-$40; 407-358-6603; drphillipscenter.org.

The Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival The festival continues through Monday, May 29. Various locations, orlandofringe.org.

COMEDY

Don “DC” Curry Multiple shows Friday-Sunday; Orlando Improv, 9101 International Drive; $27; 407-4805233; theimprovorlando.com.

Shit Sandwich Amplifying Orlando’s top comedic talent and nurturing the city’s comedy scene. 9 pm every other Saturday; Bull and Bush, 2408 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-8967546; bullandbushorlando.com.

DANCE

Universal Ballet Competition Student dance competition. 9 am Monday and 8:30 am Tuesday; Steinmetz Hall, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $20; 407358-6603; drphillipscenter.org.

ART: EVENTS

Le Salon 2023 Features the opening of Petty, an installation of prints by Ashley Taylor, and new works by Chris Robb, Kevin Haran, Kristin Hart, Natalie Goulet, Jada & David, Mike Saijo, and more. 7 pm Friday; Snap Downtown, 420 E. Church St.; snaporlando.com.

ART: EXHIBITIONS

Ashley Taylor: Petty Eye-popping risograph prints by local UCF lecturer Ashley Taylor explore the malaise of the broke millennial, and other “unworthy” emotions. Snap Downtown, 420 E. Church St.; snaporlando.com.

Burglitecture Richard T. Reep premieres a new body of work, a suite of sculptural studies expressing his views of the current state of architectural design. Through June 22; Hollerbach’s Art Haus, 205 E. First St., Sanford; 321788-2805; hollerbachsarthaus.com.

Cheryl Bogdanowitsch: The Shape of Things Raised near woodlands by parents interested in the natural world, wood has always been an important part of Bogdanowitsch’s life and is the foundation for her sculptures. Crealdé School of Art, 600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park; 407-671-1886; crealde.org.

An Elegy to Rosewood The story of the Rosewood Massacre begins in January 1923, a time when Jim Crow laws mandated, encouraged and protected severe racial discrimination, when a white mob descended on the predominantly Black town of Rosewood. Through Aug. 26; Hannibal Square Heritage Center, 642 W. New England Ave., Winter Park; 407-539-2680; hannibalsquareheritagecenter.org.

George Nock: Breaking Barriers The sculptor, a former NFL running back,

celebrated the excellence inherent in natural forms. Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park; $12; 407-647-6294; polasek.org.

Impression and Reality Paintings of American Impressionism and Realism alongside important works from prestigious Florida museums. Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E. Princeton St.; $5; 407-2464278; mennellomuseum.org

In Our Eyes: Women’s, Nonbinary, and Transgender Perspectives from the Collection Highlights the unique experiences of female, transgender and gender-nonconforming artists by addressing issues such as racial and gender identity, sexuality, discrimination and violence. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-646-2526; rollins.edu/rma.

The Outwin: American Portraiture Today Forty-two portraits by contemporary artists as finalists of the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, including first-prize winner Alison Elizabeth Taylor. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; $20; 407-896-4231; omart.org.

Thesis and Departures An annual exhibition of portfolios by the recent graduates of the University of Central Florida B.S. in Photography and the Daytona State College A.S. Degree in Photographic Technology. Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach; free; 386-506-4475; southeastmuseumofphotography.org.

EVENTS

Carnival on the Runway The most fabulous show, a combination of carnival costumes and party fashion mixed with a narrative about Carnival culture. 6 pm Friday; Camping World Stadium, 1 Citrus Bowl Place; $25; 407-421-8118; orlandocarnivaldowntown.com.

Cattoo Day

Adopt a kitten and get a “cattoo.” All funds donated to Orange County animal services. 9:30 am Sunday; Golden Tarot Ink Club, 3744 Howell Branch Road, Winter Park; free; 407725-7072; goldentarotinkclub.com.

Chasten Buttigieg: In Person Talk and Book Signing Chasten will be joined by Pulse survivor Brandon J. Wolf. 6 pm Wednesday; Roth Jewish Community

Center of Greater Orlando, 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland; free-$20; 407645-5933; writersblockbookstore.com.

Milk Mart: 7th Anniversary Birthday Bash

A lazy-Sunday market full of handmade and local goods, food trucks, music and fun, indoors and out. Noon Sunday; The Milk District, East Robinson Street and North Bumby Avenue; milkmartorlando.com.

Orlando Carnival Downtown

Bringing pageantry, parties, art vendors and foods from Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica other Caribbean nations. 1 pm Sunday; Lorna Doone Park, 1519 W. Church St.; $10-$100; 407-810-6435; orlandocarnivaldowntown.com.

Orlando Carnival Jouvert 8 am Saturday; downtown Orlando, Orange Avenue and Church Street; $20-$40; 407-810-6435; facebook.com/orlandojouvert.

Queer and Gender Affirming Clothing Drive Clothing, haircuts, queer theory and makeup demonstrations. 3:30 pm Monday; Joybird Books, 3018 Corrine Drive; 407-951-5436; instagram.com/liberationorlando.

R & B Soul Block Party

Socialize, laugh, smile and let your hair down, and take a mental break with a day of entertainment, fun, food trucks, vendors and wellness areas. 2 pm Saturday; Washington Street Parking Lot, 2100 W. Washington St.; $10-$300; 347-289-1632.

FAMILY

Summer Reading Kickoff

Test your skills with carnival games, make your own person-powered snow cone, enjoy furry friends at the petting zoo, and more. 10 am Saturday; Winter Park Library and Events Center, 1052 W. Morse Blvd., Winter Park; free; 407623-3300; winterparklibrary.org. n

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Friday: Ashley Taylor’s Petty opens at Snap! Orlando

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your meandering trek through the Unpromised Land wasn’t as demoralizing as you feared. The skirmish with the metaphorical dragon was a bit disruptive, but hey, you are still breathing and walking around — and even seem to have been energized by the weird thrill of the adventure. The only other possible downside was the new dent in your sweet dream. But I suspect that in the long run, that imperfection will inspire you to work even harder on behalf of your sweet dream — and this will be a blessing. Here’s another perk: The ordeal you endured effectively cleaned out stale old karma, freeing up space for a slew of fresh help and resources.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Testing time is ahead, but don’t get your nerves in an uproar with fantasy-spawned stress. For the most part, your challenges and trials will be interesting, not unsettling. There will be few if any trick questions. There will be straightforward prods to stretch your capacities and expand your understanding. Bonus! I bet you’ll get the brilliant impulse to shed the ball and chain you’ve been absent-mindedly carrying around with you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Biologist Edward O. Wilson said that the most social animals are ants, termites and honeybees. He used the following criteria to define that description: “altruism, instincts devoted to social life, and the tightness of the bonds that turn colonies into virtual superorganisms.” I’m going to advocate that you regard ants, termites and honeybees as teachers and role models for you. The coming weeks will be a great time to boost your skill at socializing and networking. You will be wise to ruminate about how you could improve your life by enhancing your ability to cooperate with others. And remember to boost your altruism!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Jack Sarfatti is an authentic but maverick physicist born under the sign of Virgo. He suggests that if we make ourselves receptive and alert, we may get help from our future selves. They are trying to communicate good ideas to us back through time. Alas, most of us don’t believe such a thing is feasible, so we aren’t attuned to the potential help. I will encourage you to transcend any natural skepticism you might have about Sarfatti’s theory. As a fun experiment, imagine that the Future You has an important transmission for you — maybe several transmissions. For best results, formulate three specific questions to pose to the Future You.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I have five points for your consideration. No. 1. You are alive

in your mysterious, endlessly interesting life, and you are imbued with the fantastically potent power of awareness. How could you not feel thrilled? No. 2. You’re on a planet that’s always surprising, and you’re in an era when so many things are changing that you can’t help being fascinated. How could you not feel thrilled?

No. 3. You have some intriguing project to look forward to, or some challenging but engaging work you’re doing, or some mind-bending riddle you’re trying to solve. How could you not feel thrilled? No. 4. You’re playing the most enigmatic game in the universe, also known as your destiny on Earth, and you love ruminating on questions about what it all means. How could you not feel thrilled? No. 5. You never know what’s going to happen next. You’re like a hero in an epic movie that is endlessly entertaining. How could you not feel thrilled?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn,” advises Scorpio author Neil Gaiman. Let’s make that one of your mantras for the coming weeks. In my astrological understanding, you are due to cash in on favors you have bestowed on others. The generosity you have expressed should be streaming back your way in abundance. Be bold about welcoming the bounty. In fact, I hope you will nudge and prompt people, if necessary, to reward you for your past support and blessings.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): So many of us are starved to be listened to with full attention. So many of us yearn to be seen and heard and felt by people who are skilled at receptive empathy. How many of us? I’d say the figure is about 99.9 percent. That’s the bad news, Sagittarius. The good news is that in the coming weeks, you will have an exceptional ability to win the attention of good listeners. To boost the potential healing effects of this opportunity, here’s what I recommend: Refine and deepen your own listening skills. Express them with panache.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Because you’re a Capricorn, earthiness is probably one of your strengths. It’s your birthright to be practical and sensible and wellgrounded. Now and then, however, your earthiness devolves into muddiness. You get too sober and earnest. You’re bogged down in excess pragmatism. I suspect you may be susceptible to such a state these days. What to do? It may help if you add elements of air and fire to your constitution, just to balance things out. Give yourself a secret nickname with a fiery feel, like Blaze, or a crispy briskness, like Breezy. What else could you do to rouse fresh, glowing vigor, Breezy Blaze — even a touch of wildness?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I love to use metaphors in my writing, but I hate to mix unrelated metaphors. I thrive on referring to poetry, sometimes even surrealistic poetry, but I try to avoid sounding like a lunatic. However, at this juncture in your hero’s journey, Aquarius, I frankly feel that the most effective way to communicate with you is to offer you mixed metaphors and surrealist poetry that border on sounding lunatic. Why? Because you seem primed to wander around on the edges of reality. I’m guessing you’ll respond best to a message that’s aligned with your unruly mood. So here goes: Get ready to surf the spiritual undertow all the way to the teeming wilderness on the other side of the cracked mirror. Ignore the provocative wasteland on your left and the intriguing chaos on your right. Stay focused on the stars in your eyes and devote yourself to wild joy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The gift of patience opens when our body, heart and mind slow enough to move in unison.” So says Piscean poet Mark Nepo. I feel confident you are about to glide into such a grand harmony, dear Pisces. Through a blend of grace and your relaxed efforts to be true to your deepest desires, your body, heart and mind will synchronize and synergize. Patience will be just one of the gifts you will receive. Others include: a clear vision of your most beautiful future; a lucid understanding of what will be most meaningful to you in the next three years; and a profound sense of feeling at home in the world wherever you go.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): My reading of the astrological omens inspires me to make a series of paradoxical predictions for you. Here are five scenarios I foresee as being quite possible in the coming weeks. No. 1. An epic journey to a sanctuary close to home. No. 2. A boundary that doesn’t keep people apart but brings them closer. No. 3. A rambunctious intervention that calms you down and helps you feel more at peace. No. 4. A complex process that leads to simple clarity. No. 5. A visit to the past that empowers you to redesign the future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you want a seed to fulfill its destiny? You must bury it in the ground. There, if it’s able to draw on water and the proper nutrients, it will break open and sprout. Its life as a seed will be over. The plant it eventually grows into will look nothing like its source. We take this process for granted, but it’s always a miracle. Now let’s invoke this story as a metaphor for what you are hopefully on the verge of, Taurus. I invite you to do all that’s helpful and necessary to ensure your seed germinates!

High Growth: The Economic Impact of Florida’s Blossoming Medical Cannabis Program

The Florida medical cannabis program, legalized in 2016, has swiftly grown into an economic juggernaut, transforming the state’s fiscal landscape while providing an essential service to patients. This burgeoning industry has made significant strides in job creation, local economy stimulation, and community development.

The medical marijuana industry in Florida, valued at an estimated $1.8 billion, is one of the largest in the nation. Last year, Florida continued its double-digit growth, adding an astonishing 324,400 medical marijuana patients — bringing the state’s registered total to 781,000. This rapid growth has led to the establishment of more than 500 dispensaries across the state, each playing a crucial role in bolstering local economies. One of the most notable benefits of this industry’s growth is job creation. A recent Vangst jobs report reveals that the cannabis industry in Florida supplies over 29,000 full-time jobs, marking a remarkable year-over-year growth rate of 12%. The industry, with its robust job creation, has become a mainstay of the state’s employment landscape with Florida ranking fourth nationwide for cannabis jobs by numbers and employing the largest workforce among medical-only states.

Florida’s cannabis industry is characterized by vertical integration, a business model that requires companies to manage all stages of production, from cultivation and processing to distribution

and retail. This approach not only provides job opportunities at the retail level but also creates numerous jobs in cultivation and processing.

TRP, the largest operator of Cookies dispensaries nationwide, is a prime example of this trend. As TRP expands its Florida footprint — including the opening of Cookies Orlando on Saturday, May 27th — it has created hundreds of jobs across various sectors of the industry. Each new TRP dispensary generates between 15 and 20 new roles, while their cultivation sites and processing facilities require a significant workforce. These jobs often come with specialized training and career development opportunities, contributing to the state’s skilled workforce. In addition to job creation, the medical cannabis industry has significantly augmented local economies through tax revenue. The Florida Department of Revenue reported that medical marijuana sales generated over $60 million in sales tax revenue in 2022, a 20% increase from the previous year. In Orlando, this surge in sales translated to approximately $5 million in local sales taxes, funds

that are instrumental in supporting city services and development projects.

The cannabis industr y, represented by organizations like TRP, often plays an instrumental role in enhancing local economies. Dispensaries are regularly established in areas that are underserved or in need of rejuvenation. These facilities generate significant tax revenue, which can be reinvested locally, while also engaging deeply with the community, thereby becoming key contributors to their neighborhoods.

Research validates the positive economic impact of dispensaries. A study by the University of Colorado discovered that the presence of a dispensary led to a 15% increase in foot traffic within a 500-foot radius. This, in turn, can invigorate neighboring businesses. Indeed, a study by the University of California, Berkeley found that the presence of a dispensary led to a 10% increase in sales at neighboring businesses. Additionally, a study by the University of Washington indicated that the presence of a dispensary led to a 5% increase in property values within a 1,000-foot radius. Local dispensaries also play a significant role in community development. In Orlando and Miami, TRP launched a “Good Neighbor” program, giving stores and their employees the opportunity to give back. Their recent efforts included gathering donations for hurricane relief efforts and assisting organizations that help those living under the poverty threshold in their community. TRP remains steadfast in their commitment to ongoing community service endeavors and forging partnerships with local non-profit organizations as the company expands its presence across Florida. Presently, TRP is developing stores in several major markets throughout Florida. The company consistently seeks to enhance patient access to their products via these stores, as well as their continually expanding delivery zones within the state. By the end of 2024, TRP aims to be accessible to 85% of Florida’s population through their retail dispensaries and delivery zones, Florida’s tourism industry, a powerful economic catalyst for the state, attracted an estimated 137.6 million people in 2022, a record figure representing a 12.9% increase from 2021, and a 5% rise from 2019, before the pandemic. According to Visit Florida, this surge in tourism generated an estimated $119 billion in economic activity and supported over 1.4 million jobs in 2022, illustrating the state’s consistent appeal to vacationers worldwide. Parallel to this, the medical marijuana patient population, which constitutes less than 4% of Florida’s 21 million residents, suggests a landscape ripe for growth. The introduction and regulation of a recreational adult-use market could potentially double the state’s cannabis sales and related jobs within one to two years. By way of comparison, Arizona, a state with only one-third of Florida’s population, recorded $1.35 billion in sales in its first adult-use year. Extrapolating from this, a similar progression in Florida could cultivate a $4 billion annual market supporting more than 70,000 jobs.

The economic impact of Florida’s growing medical cannabis program is substantial and clear. As the industry evolves and the patient base broadens, its contributions to Florida’s economy and communities are poised to increase. Coupled with the thriving tourism industry, the state has significant opportunities for further economic stimulation and job creation within the cannabis sector.

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Dear Readers: We’re rerunning some very early columns while I recover from shoulder surgery. This column is from February 1999 — the “Hey, Faggot” days — and doesn’t appear in the online archives.

HEY, FAGGOT: I feel dirty. Not dirt that can be wiped away with a Wet Nap, but two-cans-of-Ajax kind of dirty. Alas, no matter how hard I scrub, I can’t get the memory of this man off of me. The urge to grab an SOS pad and scrub my nether regions is almost irresistible. Long story short: I spent the last year ass-over-teakettle for an older man who never made me feel very good about myself. At the time I thought I loved him, but now the mention of his name makes me wish I were one of those aliens on V who can shimmy out of their fake human skin.

This is a man who refers to a certain male movie star, whom he met 20 years ago in an acting class, as “Robin.” This is a man who — IN ALL SERIOUSNESS — gives that speech about how he’s a loner, so please don’t fall in love with him. This man questioned every positive step I made in my life, in an attempt to keep me in obsessive crazy love with his rickety frame. I’m furious with myself for letting it go on as long as it did, and for ignoring the broken hip, butterscotch pudding and adult diaper jokes my friends threw at me in an attempt to bring me to my senses.

Do not label me “bitter” — that’s too easy. What I need from you is an answer to a simple question. I know that not even Dan Savage can turn back time. I mean, if Cher can’t, you can’t … but I ask you, Dan, is there any way you can un-sleep with someone?

Filthy in New York

Hey, FINY: On our own, neither Cher nor I have the power to turn back time. And are you even sure you would want us to — and I’m not making any promises here — if together Cher and I could turn back time?

Be careful what you wish for, FINY: Because if together we could turn back time, you might be doomed to relive the whole nightmarish experience. “Robin,” adult diaper jokes, questions about every positive step you make — all of it.

But if un-sleeping with this man is your goal, you don’t want time turned back. You want time to pass, and pass quickly. Because it only takes three to four weeks for your skin, your epidermis, to replace itself completely. Like those aliens in V, you’re constantly wiggling out of your human skin — only the process is a bit more subtle and hard to see. But for all intents and purposes, a month after this sorry affair ended, the skin covering your body never

“WASH IT AWAY”

touched the skin covering his. You never even shook hands.

As for the rest of your body — vaginal canal, esophagus, stomach lining, rectum, and any other organs and orifices that came in contact with his organs or ejaculate — it’ll take more time for the cells comprising those tissues and organs to regenerate and replace themselves. But rest assured: You will, in time, have brand-new everythings The life cycles of various cells range from months to years, but soon enough you’re going to be a whole new woman, FINY, a woman who never touched that creep. So there’s no need to take an SOS pad to your nether regions, as soon they won’t be the nether regions he touched. They’ll be new and improved nethers.

Brain cells, unfortunately, are not regenerated, so you’ll be stuck with the memories forever. You could regard them as having been falsely implanted by an unethical therapist, or, if that’s too passive, you could drink them away. Alcohol kills brain cells, and with a lot of Cosmos and a little luck, you may kill the very cells that store the memories of this sorry affair. Be careful, however, that in your efforts to drink away your bad memories you don’t create new, equally regrettable ones.

HEY, FAGGOT: No one should take advice from a homosexual.

I have a gay uncle who always said I was his favorite relative, which was understandable since I loved him while others in our family wanted him to go away. My fiancé and I met him one morning for coffee. When my fiancé left, my uncle advised me

not to marry him: Because in my uncle’s opinion, my fiancé — with whom he’d had one cup of coffee! — was a homosexual, and our marriage would surely fail. I never intend to speak to my uncle again. But I know he will see this because he reads your column. I want him to know that my fiancé told me that he experimented with homosexuality in college, plus a few flings afterward, but he stopped a year before we met. Even more important, while he and I are celibate, and will be until we are married in April, we have spent a night together. I’m probably less sexually experienced than most 23-year-olds, but I do know what a man is supposed to do, and he did it all. Once we’re married, we intend to start a real family.

When my fiancé heard what my uncle said, he said that one of the main reasons he abandoned what he calls “the brown lifestyle” were all the envious old queens bitter at being denied the fulfillment only normal people can have. I used to believe in” live and let live,” but now I understand that straights have to defend decency against the homosexual forces that would sabotage it. And we should never take advice from people like you and my uncle, who are on the wrong side in this war.

About to be Traditionally Wed

Hey, ATW: Here’s your letter, and while I won’t presume to offer advice to you, an engaged breeder, I have some for your uncle, one homosexual to another.

When your niece divorces the sorry-ass fag she’s about to marry — which is inevi-

table — don’t let her back in your life. She may have been nicer to you than other family members, but apparently, she held you in just as much contempt.

So, like most gay men, you can spot ’em, and when you sat down for coffee with your niece’s fiancé, you spotted one. You could have kept your mouth shut and played it safe, letting her marry the big homo. But you didn’t want to see your niece hurt, so you felt compelled to warn her. Telling someone an unpleasant truth takes guts, and I admire you. You did the right thing. Your niece, naive and inexperienced, apparently thinks a man who’s capable of doing everything a man is “supposed to do” to a woman must be straight. Ha. She doesn’t know most gay men “successfully” have sex with women before coming out, and that it isn’t a difficult a thing to do, especially if one fantasizes about “the brown lifestyle” as one plows away. Additionally, it probably hasn’t occurred to her that the reason celibacy comes so easily to her fiancé is that he doesn’t desire her. If he were a straight guy, he wouldn’t want to wait 10 minutes to get at her pussy, much less until April. Again, you were right to point these things out to her.

When your niece dumps this cocksucker or gets dumped by him — which will hopefully happen before they start a “real” family — she’s going to come crawling back to you for sympathy and advice. And when she does, promise me you’ll tell her to suck your dick.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION:

3/TYNAN CASE NO: DP21-44 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: N.J.K. DOB: 01/30/2021. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Anthony King, 415 Cobblestone Pointe Dr., Winter Garden, FL 34787. A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before Honorable Circuit Judge Greg A. Tynan on June 23, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. The Hearing will be conducted in person. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 24th day of April, 2023. This summons has been issued at the request of: Jennifer McCarthy, Esq. Florida Bar No.: 0086793 Senior Attorney for State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, Children’s Legal Services/DCF Jennifer.McCarthy@myflfamilies.com.

By: /s/ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, Deputy Clerk (Court Seal)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA Case No.: 2023-DR-3181 Division: 42 IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: ROBERT CHAMBERLIN, Petitioner, and KAREN CHAMBERLIN, Respondent. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE (NO CHILD OR FINANCIAL SUPPORT) TO: Karen Chamberlin 1162 Priory Circle, Winter Garden, FL 34787. YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for dissolution of marriage has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Danielle White, whose address is 120 East Robinson Street, Orlando, FL 32801 on or before 6/29/2023, and file the original with the clerk of this Court at Orange County Courthouse, 425 N Orange Ave, Orlando, Florida 32801, before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. The action is asking the court to decide how the following real or personal property should be divided: Optum Health Spending Account, Ameritrade, Black Flag Tactical LLC, 2017 Chevy Silverado, 2012 Harley

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WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings. Dated: 5/4/2023. Tiffany Moore Russell, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT. 425 N. Orange Ave, Suite 320, Orlando, FL 32801. By: /s/ Juan Vasquez, Deputy Clerk (Court Seal).

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. Case No.: 48-2023-DR-003676. ANGELICA IDARRAGA, Petitioner, and MILLER GARZON GARCIA Respondent. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE (NO CHILD OR FINANCIAL SUPPORT).

TO: MILLER GARZON GARCIA, 11133 ALDERLY COMMONS CT, ORLANDO, FL 32837. YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for dissolution of marriage has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on ANGELICA IDARRAGA OR ATTORNEY MAHEEN MIZAN-IQBAL ESQ whose address is 11002 YORKSH IRE RIDGE CT. ORLANDO, Fl 32837 OR 600 N THACKER AVE. STE D33, KISSIMMEE, Fl 34741 on or before 6/22/2023 and file the original with the clerk of this Court at 425 N ORANGE AVE, ORLANDO, FL 32801 before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. The action is asking the court to decide how the following real or personal property should be divided: NONE. Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request. You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Designation of Current Mailing and EMail Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed or e-mailed to the address(es) on record at the clerk’s office. WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings. Dated: 04/27/2023. TIIFFANY MOORE RUSSELL, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /S/ JUAN VAZQUEZ, Deputy Clerk. 425 North Orange Ave. Suite 320 Orlando, Florida 32801.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. DIVISION:

7/HIGBEE CASE NO.: DP21-59 In the Interest of: J.W., J.W, minor children. NOTICE OF ACTION (TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS) TO: JASON YATES, ADDRESS UNKNOWN. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, has filed a Petition to terminate your parental rights and permanently commit the following child(ren) for adoption: J.W, born on 11/12/2021. A copy of the Petition is on file with the Clerk of

the Court. You are hereby commanded to appear on July 17, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. before the Honorable HEATHER HIGBEE, Juvenile Division, Courtroom 6, at the Thomas S. Kirk Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 E. Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for an ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THIS CHILD (OR CHILDREN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD OR CHILDREN NAMED IN THIS NOTICE. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in a court proceeding or event, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact Court Administration at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 510, Orlando, Florida, 407-836-2303 within two (2) working days of your receipt of this Summons. If you are hearing or voice impaired, call 800955-8771. WITNESS my hand as Clerk of said Court and the Seal thereof, this 18th day of May 2023. CLERK OF COURT by /s/ Kayanna Gracie.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR OSCEOLA COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 41 CASE NO.: 2022-DP-07. IN THE INTEREST OF: J.L. DOB: 08/27/2021, Minor child. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: JOSEE LEIGH MYERS, Unknown Address. A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child; you are to appear before Judge Laura Shaffer, on June 29th, 2023, at 10:30am at the Osceola County Courthouse at 2 Courthouse Square, Courtroom 4C, Kissimmee, FL 34741, for an ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD WHOSE INITIALS APPEAR ABOVE. “Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4) (d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.” WITNESS my hand as the Clerk of said Court and the Seal, this 4th day of May, 2023. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT (Court Seal) By: /s/ Kevin Soto, Deputy Clerk.

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AA4805H Charline Rodriguez $3,373.40, AA6337F Yazmary Franco $2,560.15,

AA4101E Charline Rodriguez $3,373.40, C133 Patrick Sullivan $2,020.13, B115

COLLEEN KENNON $735.71, AA2528C

Cresta Pillsbury $1,053.05, AA4031K Stephen Allison $1,726.70, AA8880F Yazmary Franco $2,581.85, AA1227T Michael Kachinski $678.80, AA2269G ANDREW

ONJUKKA $1,053.05 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Semoran Blvd, 2055 State Rd 436, Winter Park, Fl 32792; 1026

Rodney Daniels $420.64, 1098 VALLAN

NEAL $486.25, 2075 DA JUAN HAWKINS

$460.51, 2403 Trasel HOLMES $341.42, 2276 OSCAR SMITH $441.99, 1195 Serge

Hilaire $590.21, 1352 Kimberly Bridgeforth

$585.71, 1454 clinton Thompson $473.89, 1309 Amanda Huff $436.59, 1154 Kimberly

Bridgeforth $926.40, 2076 Korey Reed

$319.52, 1555 VERNA STEWART $244.97, 1117 Tami Watson $620.21, 2773 DWAYNE

D KENT $596.52, 2263 Julie Reid $787.25, 2778 Karolyn Morales $389.04 U-Haul

Moving and Storage at Lake Mary Blvd, 3851 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, Fl 32773; 2031 Erin Bozelka $388.48, 2026 OLEANDER CSISKO $338.36, 1298 Michael

Gallon $492.25, 2089 Patricia Forsyth

$311.36, 2316 katherine de la rosa russo

$436.60, 2077 YANITZA COTTO $409.80, 1350 Melissa Maley $654.88, 1561

Melissa Maley $452.50, 1562 Melissa

Maley $761.40, 2719 dana jones $406.60, 1258 latiyah hill $327.35, 1423 matthew

lazin $751.92, 1273 Maya Scott $404.64, 1496 TEMARA BUSH $327.35, 1559 David

Brincko $345.60, 2558 Alaiyna Williams

$348.00, 1611 PATRICIA LINDEMAN

$575.96 U-Haul Moving & Storage of Sanford, 3101 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, FL 32773; AA4635A Latichia Macon

$2310.95, 1974 BENJAMIN BLUITT

$634.24, AA5359N Steven Johnson

$2026.10, AA0770B Steven Johnson

$2026.10, AB4700C Sandra Hudson

$407.20, 1218 monesha flemings $331.09, 1856-60 Ricardo Rodriguez $469.55, 0152-

65 Eileen Schwarz $768.64, AA5250M

Oscar Hayes $492.80, 1467 christina marshall $256.52, 1725 jokiere sykes $424.16, 1064 Lance Mulonas $449.40, AA7935N Sandra Hudson $466.00, AB1247A

Jami Rodriguez $290.60, 1880 YANITZA

COTTO $647.81, AA8897K Sandra Benda $1690.45, 0015 Robin Brown $320.45, 1998 CYNTHIA RIVERA $449.24, AA6622H

Oscar Hayes $492.80, AB0436C Sandra Hudson $407.20, 1847 Ricardo Rodriguez

$469.55, AB5063A Reba Lassiter $341.60, 1284 Tiera Cotton $198.62, AA4037A

Savanna Echevarria $3431.05, 1928

Wendy Allen $353.30 AA8207K Chimere

Bright $385.80, AA2125A Jason Campbell

$2218.75, AA3174D John Williams

$289.55, AA4123G John Williams $289.55, AA5924R Sandra Hudson $466.00, AA1093J Jason Campbell $2218.75, 1606 Godfrey WilliamsJr $331.09, 1844 Ricardo Rodriguez $240.62 U-Haul Moving & Storage of Sanford at Rinehart Road, 1811 Rinehart Road, Sanford, FL 32771; 4138 Robert Hall $485.20, 3134 karmetta chambers $656.08, 3067 Raeleah Leland

$415.31, 3037 Sarah Ammon $525.08.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION FOR

MONIES DUE ON STORAGE LOCKERS LOCATED AT UHAUL COMPANY FACILITIES. STORAGE LOCATIONS AND TIMES ARE LISTED BELOW. ALL GOODS SOLD ARE HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS, MISCELLANEOUS OR RECOVERED GOODS. ALL AUCTIONS ARE HELD TO SATISFY OWNER’S LIEN FOR RENT AND FEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTES, SELF STORAGE ACT, SECTIONS 83.806 AND 83.807, STARTS AT 8:00am and RUNS CONTINOUSLY. Auction will be held online: www.storagetreasures.com U-Haul 4001 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando Fl. 32803 06/14/2023: C104 Mara Burnside, AA3203C Shana Vick, B113 Jeff Joachim, D243 Jeff Joachim, AB9017A Anna Rivera, A101 Elizabeth Branagan, AA7764E Chaitra McCormick, D206 Suelaymie Alexander, D159 David Floyd, D210 Richard Valentin, AA5835R Shana Vick, C189 Shevone Alexander. U-Haul 3500 S. Orange ave. Orlando Fl 32806 06/14/2023: AA5594C Isaac Gross, 1534 Judith Reynoso, AB4006A Ariana Minter, AA6337K Samantha Tutor, AA5129T Cynthia Spicer, AA4201N Lawanda Ashton, AA0294D Cynthia Spicer, AB0339B Ariana Minter, AB3952A Ariana Minter, AB0558A Linda Amanda Banda, AB3607B Myla Ortiz, AA9310M Matthew Pochatko, AA0602M Monique Hubbard, 1138 Zavier Nisbett, AA9049P Leila Roberts, AA1873C Samantha Tutor, 1913 Ariana Bachman, AA8639A David Qualls, AB8665B Myla Ortiz, AA9312M Matthew Pochatko, AA7925R Leila Roberts, 1154 Regina Hawkins, AA2226N Silvia Rivera, AA6200D Teresa Ball, AA5321P Joe Mackintosh, AA569M Lawanda Ashton, AA7535D Matthew Molin, AA5910M Carlos Santiago, AB8226C Kayla Ford, AA4628E Matthew Molina, AA6568N Nivea Perez, AA4676E James Bernens, AA3964P Samantha Tutor, AA6665K Monique Hubbard, 1165 Joseph Mann, AA8683G Teresa Ball, AA5368D Daffine Clavier, 1161 Roynica Brown, 1526 Angel Davis, AA4584Q Leila Roberts, AB5882A Todd Martin, AB1768A Leila Roberts, AA3885E Mya Little, 1070 Dakima WIlliams. U-Haul 508 N. Goldenrod Rd. Orlando Fl. 32807 06/14/2023: Goldentd

339 Kervin Melendez, 1406 Daniel Valdes, 322 Julian Pelaez, 503 Kevin Mills, 731 Nakeisha Brown, 220 Frank Molina, 229 Charles Sunkett, 225 Sydney Sugre, 316 Courtney Moore, 439 Alex Serdaru. U-Haul 11815 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando Fl. 32826 06/14/2023 : 1239 Mathew Manihan, 1436 Riddick Bowe, 1110 Angelique Matthews, 1241 Jaelyn Jordan, 1113 Sacha Comrie, 1101 Ariana Mangual, 1019 Riddick Bowe, 1237 Nancy Rodriguez. U-Haul 13301 S. Orange Blossom Trail Orlando Fl. 32837 06/14/2023: 2313 Alexis Tovar.

Notice of Public Sale

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on www.storagetreasures.com ending on June 9th, 2023 at 11:00 AM for units located at: Compass Self Storage 3498 Canoe Creek Rd St. Cloud, FL 34772. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Compass Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment. The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances, unless otherwise noted. A216- Tracy Copeland B127- Jonathan Davila D105- Brittany Destefano D112Andrew Reyes.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Personal property of the following ten-

ants will be sold for cash to satisfy rental liens in accordance with Florida Statutes, Self Storage Facility Act, Sections 83-806 and 83-807. Contents may include kitchen, household items, bedding, toys, games, boxes, barrels, packed cartons, furniture, trucks, cars, etc. There is no title for vehicles sold at lien sale. Owners reserve the right to bid on units. Lien sale to be held online ending Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at times indicated below. Viewing and bidding will only be available online at www.storagetreasures.com beginning at least 5 days prior to the scheduled sale date and time! Also visit www. personalministorage.com/Orlando-FLstorage-units/ for more info. Michigan

Mini-200 W Michigan St Orlando, FL

32806-at 10:30am: 130 Scott Zubarik 132

Scott Zubarik 191 Brooks Alejandro Cipriano Personal Mini Storage Forsyth-2875

Forsyth Rd Winter Park FL, 32792-at 10:00

am: 111 Maria Luz Dary Ibarra 236 Douglas Bottum 268 Howard Ralph II Rich

336 Reno Burnett 442 Frantzcia FanFan

Personal Mini Storage West-4600 Old Winter Garden Rd Orlando, FL 32811-at

11:30 am: 18 Jovanna Anthony 174

Terrelle Donaldson 206 Oliver Jenkins

207 Detric Williams 212 Quanisha Valerin

231 Earnest Sanders 279 Chandra Cuyler

306 Gloria Walker 412 Anthony Rojas

440 Wesley Calixte 443 Delic Rascoe 450

Asnath Baptiste 486 Byron Shephard 491

Tyqueria Rivers 499 Vanessa Sims 579

Rosie Love 591 Denise Williams 594 Vera

Dozier 633 Joseph Louisme 74 Regina

Stephens Ellis 76 Terrelle Donaldson

554 Renadette Dawson Personal Mini Storage Lake Fairview-4252 N Orange Blossom Trail Orlando, FL 32804-at 11:00

am: 28 Marv Blemly 82 William Watkins

147 Denniston Carson Denniston 293

Kevin Meza 346 Torianna Ricketts 606 Al-

exander Mouso 793 Alexis Marrero 859

Katlyn Hearn 902 Christian Bradley 1003

Orlando Theatre Project Personal Mini

Storage Edgewater-6325 Edgewater Dr

Orlando, FL 32810-at 11:30 am: 339 Jovan

Donovan Henry 427 Jacorey Bush 434

Nancy Bell Lewis 536 Shawn Ferree 751

Victoria Myers 915 James Owens 930

Lincoln Hines 932 Sharon Mckinnie 1025

Elvanise Ponder 1235 Prestina Francis

1316 Velma Rogers 1630 Robin Oelerich

1724 Manouchka Cesaire 2130 Yachira

Pabon Personal Mini Storage Forest City Rd-6550 Forest City Rd Orlando, FL 32810-at 12:00 pm: 1044 Christopher

Howard 2052 Kyle Zabielski 3109 Jakayla

Gines 3245 Barbara Moore 3284 Ranessa

Lane 3302 Marco Pierre 4013 Hantz

Gernier 4062 Marcus Poole 5053 Destiny

Huertas 8011 Delton Cummings, Cummings Outdoors 8031 David Donahue 8038 David Donahue.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Orange Co. Inc. will sell at public lien sale on June 8th, 2023, the personal property in the below -listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 09:30 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified. PUBLIC STORAGE # 08711, 3145 N Alafaya Trail, Orlando, FL 32826, (407) 613-2984 Time: 09:30 AM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. 4042 - Derival, Nadia; 5003 - Fernandez, Victor PUBLIC STORAGE # 08720, 1400 Alafaya Trail, Oviedo, FL 32765, (407) 487-4695 Time: 09:45 AM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. 0122 - Rust, Cheyenne PUBLIC STORAGE # 08726, 4801 S Semoran Blvd, Orlando, FL 32822,

(407) 392-4546 Time: 10:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com

0110 - Jackson, Shalida; 0219 - Jackson, Shalida; 5024 - Rodriguez La Versa, Edsel PUBLIC STORAGE # 08765, 1851

N Alafaya Trail, Orlando, FL 32826, (407)

513-4445 Time: 10:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

0015 - Wooten, Jasmin; 5024 - Sharritt, Jeremy PUBLIC STORAGE # 20179, 903

S Semoran Blvd, Orlando, FL 32807,

(407) 392-1549 Time: 10:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures. com. D067 - Dunson, Markees; D216Rodriguez, Alexander; E040 - Matallana, Camilo PUBLIC STORAGE # 24105, 2275

N Semoran Blvd, Orlando, FL 32807, (407)

545-2541 Time: 11:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 3201 -

Lamons, Charles; F365 - Vazquez, Shenill

PUBLIC STORAGE # 25781, 155 S Goldenrod Rd, Orlando, FL 32807, (321) 247-6790

Time: 11:15 AM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. 1267 - McKnight, Marquise; 1360 - Parrilla, Franciso; 1360

- Jimenez, Marcelinette; 2232 - Dorsey, Nakisha; 2437 - Harlow, George PUBLIC

STORAGE # 25851, 10280 E Colonial Dr, Orlando, FL 32817, (407) 901-2590 Time:

11:30 AM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. 2070 - Johnson, Destiny PUBLIC STORAGE # 25897, 10053 Lake Underhill Rd, Orlando, FL 32825, (407) 901-6126 Time: 11:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com

0495 - Jean, Marie; 4018 - Hernandez, Abigail PUBLIC STORAGE # 25973, 250 N Goldenrod Rd, Orlando, FL 32807, (407)

901-7489 Time: 12:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. A001

- Davis, Chadon; A048 - Reid, Jaquaya; D490 - vazquez, Noemi; E513 - Rhymer, Renee PUBLIC STORAGE # 25974, 1931 W State Rd 426, Oviedo, FL 32765, (407)

901-7497 Time: 12:15 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. D381Williams, Shanece PUBLIC STORAGE # 28084, 2275 S Semoran Blvd, Orlando, FL 32822, (407) 545-2547 Time: 12:30 PM

Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. B111 - Viering, Talisha; C199G - Sheffield, Samantha. Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Orange Co. Inc. will sell at public lien sale on June 9, 2023, the personal property in the below-listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 12:30 PM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified. PUBLIC

STORAGE # 20729, 1080 E Altamonte Dr, Altamonte Springs, FL 32701, (407)

326-6338 Time: 12:30 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com

B046 - Burrell, David; B051 - Burrell, David; B191 - Borges, Kimberlee PUBLIC STORAGE # 23118, 141 W State Road 434, Winter Springs, FL 32708, (407) 512-0425

Time: 12:45 PM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. G202 - Roelossen, Larry; K453 - Rosario, Jonathan PUBLIC STORAGE # 24328, 7190 S US Highway 17/92, Fern Park, FL 32730, (407) 258-3060

Time: 01:15 PM Sale to be held at www.

storagetreasures.com. C323 - Richardson, Archie; G717 – Acosta, Gregory; G736 - Hillery, Grizell; H802 - Penn, roderick; J904 - Hillary, Grizell PUBLIC STORAGE # 25438, 2905 South Orlando Drive, Sanford, FL 32773, (407) 545-6715

Time: 01:30 PM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. C010 - lemon, Shankeena; D065 - Holley, Tomiya; J710

- Crousser, Dustin PUBLIC STORAGE # 25455, 8226 S US Highway 17/92, Fern Park, FL 32730, (407) 258-3062 Time: 01:45

PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. A120 - Camacho, Daniela

PUBLIC STORAGE # 25842, 51 Spring Vista Dr, Debary, FL 32713, (386) 202-2956

Time: 02:00 PM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. 00590 - Leill, Kylie

PUBLIC STORAGE # 25893, 3725 W Lake Mary Blvd, Lake Mary, FL 32746, (407) 495-1274 Time: 02:15 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 1024Alhalees, Tamir; 3076 - suarez, Carlos; 4011 - Lawrence, Nicole; 5124 - Veltman, Christi; 5133 - McKay, Dezere. Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Orange Co. Inc. will sell at public lien sale on June 8, 2023, the personal property in the below-listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 12:45 PM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified. PUBLIC STORAGE # 08714, 8149 Aircenter Court, Orlando, FL 32809, (407) 792-4965 Time:

12:45 PM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. 1221 - Hebner, Rand PUBLIC STORAGE # 08717, 1800 Ten Point Lane, Orlando, FL 32837, (407) 545-4431 Time: 01:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com

5017 - Banzon, John PUBLIC STORAGE # 20477, 5900 Lakehurst Drive, Orlando, FL 32819, (407) 409-7284 Time: 01:15 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. C161 - Cruickshank, Ricky; D159 - Rodriguez-Oquendo, Kevin PUBLIC STORAGE # 24303, 1313 45th Street, Orlando, FL 32839, (407) 278-8737

Time: 01:45 PM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. B235 - Deetjen, Max PUBLIC STORAGE # 25454, 235

E Oak Ridge Road, Orlando, FL 32809, (407) 326-9069 Time: 02:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures. com. C303 - Saint Louis, Rolmy PUBLIC STORAGE # 25782, 2783 N John Young Parkway, Kissimmee, FL 34741, (321) 422-2079 Time: 02:15 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 12113Smith, Cheryl PUBLIC STORAGE # 25846, 1051 Buenaventura Blvd, Kissimmee, FL 34743, (407) 258-3147 Time: 02:45 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 02122 - Lago, Pedro; 02306 - Harris, Margaret PUBLIC STORAGE # 25847, 951 S John Young Pkwy, Kissimmee, FL 34741, (321) 236-6712

Time: 03:00 PM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. 1117 - Rodriguez, Jasmine; 2252 - Thayer, Catherine PUBLIC STORAGE # 25892, 1701 Dyer Blvd , Kissimmee , FL 34741, (407) 392-1169

Time: 03:15 PM Sale to be held at www.

storagetreasures.com. 6016 - Monexant, Camile PUBLIC STORAGE # 28075, 4729 S Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32839, (407) 986-4867 Time: 03:45 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com

0132 - Reno, Meleyah; 0505 - Norman, Rickey; 0530 - Thompson, Delena; 0984 - Taylor, Cierra; 0985 - Wilson, Edward; 1029 - rahman, Mujeeb; 1229 - rushing, Davina; 1390 - Smith, Kimberly. Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Orange Co. Inc. will sell at public lien sale on June 9, 2023, the personal property in the below-listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 09:30 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified. PUBLIC STORAGE # 07029, 3150 N Hiawassee Rd, Hiawassee, FL 32818, (407) 392-0863 Time: 09:30 AM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. 2708 - holmes, Tonja PUBLIC STORAGE # 08326, 310 W Central Parkway, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714, (407) 487-4595 Time: 09:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0056 - richards, Kimberly; 1012 - perez, lora; 2017 - Thames, Stacy Ann PUBLIC STORAGE # 24107, 4100 John Young Parkway, Orlando, FL 32804, (407) 930-4381 Time: 10:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

B202 - Henry, Princess; G731 - Bounds, Moses PUBLIC STORAGE # 25780, 8255 Silver Star Rd, Orlando, FL 32818, (321) 247-6799 Time: 10:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com

1310 - Gadson Jr, Harry; 2103 - Pinnock, Catherine; 2111 - Wright, Taneicia; 2429 - Colquitt, Amber; 3122 - Maurice, Choizilien PUBLIC STORAGE # 25813, 2308 N John Young Pkwy, Orlando, FL 32804, (407) 603-0436 Time: 11:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures. com. D066 - Sylvestre, Deniese; D130Sanders, Sedira; E082 - Christian, Rahim; F074 - rowley, maliaka; O005 - Elisee, Yadelet PUBLIC STORAGE # 25814, 6770 Silver Star Rd, Orlando, FL 32818, (407) 545-2394 Time: 11:15 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com 0180 - Moreno, David; 0181 - Brown, Omar; 0250 - Bowen-Allen, Portia; 0267 - Pena, Alvaro; 0383 - Clarke, Roxanna; 0551 - Coicou, Evnante; 0568 - Guerrier, Garry PUBLIC STORAGE # 25895, 2800 W State Road 434 , Longwood , FL 32779, (407) 392-0854 Time: 11:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com 0884 - Caquias, Angel PUBLIC STORAGE # 28091, 2431 S Orange Blossom Trail, Apopka, FL 32703, (407) 279-3958 Time: 12:00 PM Sale to be held at www. storagetreasures.com. 1021 - Escarment, Remel; W003 - Howard, Makevie. Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By

PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080.

Notice of Public Sale is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on www.storagetreasures.com ending on June 9th, 2023 at 11:00 am for units located at: Compass Self Storage 800 Greenway Professional Ct. Orlando, FL 32824 Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Compass Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment. The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances.1642 Curtis Shovan 2018 Domingo Guzman 2019 Ruby Rodriguez 2035 Cesar Gonzalez 2107 Nidia Rivera 2232 Cara Joy Pizarro 2486 Jason Perez.

Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that Storage King USA at 4601 S Orange Blossom Trail Orlando, FL 32839 will sell the contents of the storage units listed below at a public auction to satisfy a lien placed on the contents (pursuant to Chapter 83 of the Florida Statutes). The sale will take place at the website StorageTreasures.com on June 21st, 2023, at 9:00 am. The sale will be conducted under the direction of Christopher Rosa (AU4167) and StorageTreasures.com on behalf of the facility’s management. Units will be available for viewing prior to the sale on StorageTreasures.com.

Contents will be sold for cash only to the highest bidder. A 15% buyer’s premium will be charged as well as a $100 cleaning deposit per unit. All sales are final.

Seller reserves the right to withdraw the property at any time before the sale or to refuse any bids. The property to be sold is described as “general household items” unless otherwise noted. Michelle Marie Philias - 0C014, Wisly Accius –0F018, Isiah Freeman – 0F026, Tanekia Holloway - 0G022, Steve Reville, A1 Subcontractor LLC, 0J015.

Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on www.storagetreasures.com ending on June 9th, 2023 at 11:00 am for units located at: Compass Self Storage 14120 East Colonial Drive Orlando, Fl 32826 Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase.

Compass Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment. The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances.

#2411 Nakeela Basnight #2112 Barbara Colon #2136 Jodie Monosa #2326 Debbra Alverio #2342 Emanuel Delgado #1517 Barbara McNally #1353 Nancy Rivera #1720 Gladys Maldonado.

Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on www.storagetreasures.com ending on June 9, 2023 at 11:00 am for units located at: Compass Self Storage 203 Neighborhood Market Rd. Orlando, FL 32825 Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase.

Compass Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to

adjournment. The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances. Unless Otherwise noted.

115-Kevin Greenough 2230-Anita Ricco 3125-Kierra Ellis 3132-Genese Santaliz Rivera 3185Sole Roderick 3199-Francis Arguinzoni 3213-Keith Defreitas.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that Mindful Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the following times and locations: June 14th, 2023 9:30am Mindful Storage facility: 900 Cypress Pkwy. Kissimmee, FL 34759 (321) 732-6032 The personal goods stored therein by the following: following: #1143-Households, #B116-Furniture, #1084-Households, #C120-Households, #1003-Furniture, #D205-Households, #D247- Boxes, #F221-Boxes, #H213Households.Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Mindful Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Notice of Public Sale:

Pursuant to F.S. 713.78 on June 9th, 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;

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Legal, Public Notices

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, . 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.

JUNE 9, 2023

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JUNE 16, 2023

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2012 CHEV

JUNE 17, 2023

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2017 ACUR

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2018 INFI

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JUNE 18, 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.

JUNE 9, 2023

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JUNE 16, 2023

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JUNE 17, 2023

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Notice of Public Sale: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on www.storagetreasures.com ending on June 9th, 2023 at 11:00 am for units located at: Compass Self Storage 2435 W SR 426, Oviedo, FL 32765 Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Compass Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. Sale is subject to adjournment.

The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances. 0010 – Morgan Brother, Inc 0041 – Peter Andre Bernard 0551 – Mike Dorsey.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #

5341 – 2310 W Carroll St, Kissimmee, FL 34741 to satisfy a lien on TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 at approx. 11:00 am at www.storagetreasures.com: Leonardo

Noguera / Adonis Oscar Jurdi Yordi /

Matthew Christopher / Digna Acosta /

Rahman Irashad / Ty’zaybrian Rawlas /

Kristal Muniz / Kelly Mclohon / Lisbeth

Fernandez / Asia A Armstrong / Emerson

Eugenio de Lima NOTICE OF PUBLIC

SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 6174 – 1004 North Hoagland Blvd. Kissimmee, Fl. 34741 to satisfy a lien on TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 at approx. 11:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Raymond Arbaje / Maylee

Kyoko Bellamy / Rashano Orlado McRae / Adreanna Shandriel Spear / Danea

Lee Figueroa / Melody Theadora Howell / Natalie Nicole Graham NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 6177 – 1830 E

Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy. Kissimmee, Fl. 34744 to satisfy a lien on TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 at approx. 12:00 pm at www.storagetreasures.com: Linnette

Marie Melendez / Miosoty Ortiz Alicea / Isabella Sade Langone NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 0671 – 100 Mercantile Court, Ocoee, Fl 34761 to satisfy a lien on WEDNESDAY, June 7, 2023 at approx. 10:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Polly Anne Kazmier

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 0693 – 1015 North Apopka Vineland Road, Orlando, FL 32818 to satisfy a lien on WEDNESDAY, June 7, 2023 at approx. 11:00am at www.storagetreasures.com:

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 0420 –5301 N. Pine Hills Road, Orlando Fl 32808 to satisfy a lien on WEDNESDAY, June 7, 2023 at approx. 11:30am at www. storagetreasures.com: Nakita Monique

Geathers/ Andrecka Wells/ Brianna Marie Webb/ Latony Ann Flint / Nancy Bell Lewis/ William Darnell Johnson/ Chantilee Shere Stewart / Tim Cleversey

/ Nichole Taesa King / NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 0430 –7400 West Colonial Dr, Orlando Fl 32818 to satisfy a lien on WEDNESDAY, June 7, 2023 at approx. 12:00 pm at www.storagetreasures.com: Ranesha Doyle/Rose

J Merced Cuba/Javier Carrion Ramos/ Laura Lynn Beauchine/Patkiya Jamila

Tukes/Lawanda Yvette Carmona/Kerline

Joseph/Claire Lydith Pierre NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 5868 –4752 Conroy Storage Lane, Orlando Fl 32835 to satisfy a lien on THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 at approx. 10:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Christine Taylor / Christine Ducille Taylor / Selina Shonte Oliver /

Tee- Nee Sherelle Viola-Tybuszewski / Frednel Cetoute / Ramon Pinero / Vincent Baggott / Amanda Leah Martin/ Daniel Lugo / Frederick Parker NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #351 – 10425 S John Young Parkway Orlando, FL 32837 to satisfy a lien on THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 at approx. 11:00pm at www.storagetreasures.com: Carol Dawn Cambell NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 5961 – 1540 Sullivan Rd., Davenport, FL 33896 to satisfy a lien on THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 at approx. 12:00pm at www. storagetreasures.com: Joseph William Carr /Mitchell Lee McDaniel / James Patrick Leschak / Tammy Mabee Dave Bernard / Jeremy Peloquin / Rex Sukhraj / Tisha D Moody Paul Thomas Rodgers / Nicole Shanara Gaffney / Elizabeth Bryan NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Selfstorage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 5694 – 7720 Osceola Polk Line Rd., Davenport, FL 33896 to satisfy a lien on THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 at approx. 12:00pm at www.storagetreasures. com: Kyle Steven Sandor / Phoebe Anise Lawrence.

NOTICE OF SALE

Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale:

2008 Mazda

VIN: JM1BK34L881858766

2001 Lexus

VIN: JTJGF10U110114089

2008 Kia

VIN: KNDJD73578530241

2014 Ford

VIN: 1FADP3K27EL272022

2007 Kawasawki

VIN: JKBVNKD118A019917

To be sold at auction at 8:00 am. on June 7, 2023 at 7301 Gardner Street, Winter Park, FL. 32792 Constellation Towing & Recovery LLC

ORDER OF PUBLICATION COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA Roanoke City Circuit Court Commonwealth of Virginia, in re: Ki’Yon Terell Casan Smith City of Roanoke DSS v. De’Sandra Yvette Wright

The object of this suit is to: terminate the residual parental rights of De’Sandra Yvette Wright pursuant to Virginia Code Sections 16.1-283(B) and 16.1-283(C) and 16.1-283(C)(1) and approve the goal set at the permanency planning hearing of adoption. “Residual parental rights are defined by Section 16.1-228 of the Code of Virginia (1950) as amended as the rights and responsibilities remaining with a parent after the parent loses custody of a child, including, but not limited to the right to visitation, consent to adoption, the right to determine religious affiliation, and the responsibility for support. The termination of your residual parental rights will permanently end all of your rights and responsibilities to the child named in the petition. The ties between you and your child are severed forever and you become a legal stranger to the child.” It is ordered that the defendant De’Sandra Yvette Wright appear at the above-named Court to protect his or her interest on or before July 14, 2023 at 9:00 am. Case Nos. CJ23-40, CJ23-92 Brenda S. Hamilton, Clerk. Run dates 5/17, 5/24, 5/31 and 6/7.

Employment

Architectural Design Consultant - design, dvlp, modify, & maintain 3D model of construction projects using Autodesk Revit; produce architectural drawings for single fam, multi-fam housing, nec for permitting construction using Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Architecture, Sapphire, Navisworks & Vision-Rez; assist Arch Lead/Project Mgr in coordinating arch drawings w/ all other design drawings & shop drawing review, issuing project rel sketches & answering project RFI’s; prep construction estimates, budgets, & quantity take-offs for approval; collaborate on virtual construction & aid in developing plans using option logic applications for the builders; participate in the Research and Development realm, especially in the design and documentation of modular and prefabricated building systems; assist teams to develop assemblies and details that are applicable to both mfg & construction; create Master Plans & Lot Specific for multi builders. Req: Bach/Master’s deg in Architecture or Building Design + 2 yrs. exp; Pursuing Arch/Int. Design license. Resume: Forefront Architecture and Engineering LLC, Hans Benson, 1230 Oakley Seaver Dr., Ste. 100, Clermont, FL 34711.

HELPRORESTORATIONS CORP 102

Drennen Rd a6 Orlando, FL 32806 seeks a FT/PERM Director of Operations to supervise & monitor staff perf., direct janitorial admin activities, rev. financial statements, mng. Customer complaints, eval. budgets & implmnt mrkting strategies. Ensure compliance w/ health & safety policies, approve equip. Repairs & purchase new equip. Req: BS Deg. in Bus. Admin, Acct., Fin., Law or Econ. & (2) yr. of exp. in Ops. Mgmt or similar position. Email resume to hernandoi@ helprocleaningservices.com.

Logistics Analyst. Coord., pln. & monitor logistics ops. such as storage processes, invt. & transportation of goods; Dvlp. new strats. to optim. processes & supply chain; Manage, determine & alloc. tech’l., labor, capacity, layout & mat’l. handling sys.; Ident. issues w/ op’g. metrics & P&L & make req’d. adjustments; Manage & anlyz. costs & prep. prod. reprts.; Act as liaison betw. clients, carriers, shippers & receivers; Manage monitoring of route, in-transit issues & reqmts. in order to meet proj. deadlines.

Superv. Logistics Analysts pos. Bach. of Bus. Admin. in Logistics Mgmt. or foreign equiv. based on educ. & wk. exp. 48 mos. exp. Prof. in Excel. $88,462/yr. Job loc.: Orlando, FL. Email resume: Holpeca Corp at mmatute@holpeca.com.

Market Research Analyst. Rsrch. conditions in local, reg’l., nat’l., or online mkts. Gather info to deter. pot’l. sales of prod. or svc., or plan mktg. or advt’g. campaign. May gather info on competitors, prices, sales, & mthds. of mktg. & distrib. May employ search mktg. tactics, anlyz. web metrics, & dvlp. recomms. to increase search engine ranking & visibility to target mkts. Req. 2 yrs. exp. in job offered. Salary: $37,003/yr. Send resume to: FG Interiors LLC, 12977 Westside Village Loop, Windermere, FL 34786.

Proj. Eng. needed for Quantum Construction, Sanford, FL, to rev. contt. & fin., montr. proj. acts. plans, schdl., coordnts. &/r montr. flow of Precast prodct. cycle

& evlvts. overall proj. Provd. timely planng. & schdl. of prodct. in ord. to ach. both intn. fin. goals & cust. del. dates. Rev. prop. & tech. specs. Cont. proj. elem. by rev. & anlz. pre‐instal. & post‐instal. Expns. Req. MS in civil eng. or BS in civil eng. + 5 yrs exp. In civil eng., Const. Mngmnt., or rel. fld. FT mail resume @ 3850 E Lake Mary Blvd., Sanford, FL 32773

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