ORLANDO WEEKLY ● NOV. 16-22, 2022 ● orlandoweekly.com

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NEWS+ VIEWS

7 ICYMI News you might have missed last week 9 Tuesday bloody Tuesday While the rest of the country escaped the projected “red wave,” the Sunshine State got caught in the rip current 11 Tangled up in blue Florida’s Democratic Party needs to learn that there are no more moderate voters

ARTS+ CULTURE

13 Holiday events guide

All the hollies and jollies you can handle in and around Orlando 33 Live Active Cultures

The welcome revival of Fantasmic! at Disney’s Hollywood Studios reveals two things: The show is vastly improved, but operational issues have taken a big step backward

FILM+MUSIC

35 Away in a manager

Locally made comedy A Christmas Karen would like a word with Orlando 43 On (small) Screens

Streaming premieres this week: The People We Hate at the Wedding, Dead to Me, 1899 and more 47 HR’s Department

Human Rights comes to Florida, and just in time 49 This Little Underground

Orlando hardcore band 430 Steps’ new Lights Out album is their most prismatic work to date

BACK PAGES

52 Selections of the Week Our picks of the best things to do and see this week, plus plenty of event listings 67 Free Will Astrology Your horoscope for the week of Nov. 16-22 69 Savage Love Dan Savage’s relationship advice, plus ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not!’ 71 Classified advertisements

Cover illustration, “A Christmas Karen,” by Clay Jones.