Orlando Weekly - October 26, 2022

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BY ALEX GALBRAITH, JIM SAUNDERS AND JIM TURNER, NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

» Orlando judge refuses to block ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law

A federal judge has refused to block school districts from carrying out a new state law that restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms, rejecting arguments by parents, students and a nonprofit organization. The ruling last Thursday by Orlando-based U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger denied a request for a preliminary injunction against the law. Berger also dismissed the case, but said the plaintiffs could file a revised version. The law, which has drawn nationwide attention, has been labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Lawyers for the parents, students and nonprofit group argue the law “was enacted with the purpose to discriminate and has the effect of discriminating against LGBTQ+ students and those with LGBTQ+ family members.” But Berger found they had not shown standing. “While the court is sympathetic to [the plaintiffs’] fear that their child may be bullied, it is simply a fact of life that many middle school students will face the criticism and harsh judgment of their peers.”

The plaintiffs are represented in the case by attorneys from Lambda Legal, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Southern Legal Counsel and the law firm of Baker McKenzie LLP, who criticized Berger’s ruling and vowed to continue fighting. “The court’s decision is wrong on the law and disrespectful to LGBTQ+ families and students,” Kell Olson, a staff attorney at Lambda Legal, said in a statement. “It sends a message of shame and stigma that has no place in schools and puts LGBTQ+ students and families at risk.”

» Public schools must revise LGBTQ support guides

Eleven school districts that submitted LGBTQ-support guides to state education officials this fall will have to update policies, according to a senior chancellor with the Florida Department of Education. Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. in August directed staff members to “pull” district support guides to review their content. Senior Chancellor Jacob Oliva told members of the State Board of Education on Wednesday that 31 districts submitted support guides and policies, with 11 required to update the documents to comply with state laws. Oliva said he expects the districts to update the policies by the next state board meeting in January.

Scrutiny of support guides came after State Board of Education member Ryan Petty expressed “grave concerns” during an August board meeting. Petty questioned, for example, part of a guide published by the Hillsborough County district. “With the limited exception involving the imminent fear of physical harm, it is never appropriate to divulge the sexual orientation of a student to a parent,” the Hillsborough County guide said. Florida lawmakers in 2021 and 2022 passed measures that supporters say are aimed at strengthening parents’ rights. But the laws have sparked heated debates, in part about whether they could potentially “out” LGBTQ students. The measures included a 2021 law known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights, which is designed to give families access to information about their students’ education and health care.

» Fringe ArtSpace takes over Former Mad Cow Theatre

Orlando Fringe will open its arts incubator space in the former home of troubled company Mad Cow Theatre this January. The space at 54 W. Church St. is owned by the city of Orlando, which leased it out to the long-running arts festival on the promise that they would use the space to develop burgeoning local talent. The new space will open on Jan. 11 with a party, then will immediately be christened by Fringe’s Winter Mini-Fest, a bite-sized take on the larger festival that will run Jan. 12-15. Tickets for that fest go on sale in mid-November.

Ultimately, Fringe hopes to use the space’s two theaters for a mix of community rehearsal space, their own productions and exciting work from touring companies. “I’m looking forward to Orlando Fringe in their new theatrical performance space on Church Street,” Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer shared in a statement. “Fringe has a long history of supporting artists across Orlando and will add to our burgeoning arts scene.”

» Mail-in ballots top 1.16 million as early voting starts

As early voting sites opened Monday in 37 counties — including Orange, Seminole and Osceola — more than 1.16 million Floridians had cast vote-by-mail ballots in the Nov. 8 election. The Florida Division of Elections posted data Monday morning showing that 1,164,753 mail-in ballots had been cast, up from 1,041,384 on Friday. Another 3.08 million ballots had been sent to voters but not returned. As of Monday morning, registered Democrats had cast 491,708 ballots, while registered Republicans had cast 444,954. Unaffiliated voters had cast 211,301 ballots, while

third-party voters had cast 16,790. Early voting sites are required to be open statewide from Oct. 29 through Nov. 5, but counties were allowed to open them as early as Monday, Oct. 24.

» Hurricane Ian deaths reach 114, insured losses near $7 billion

Medical examiners have confirmed 114 deaths from Hurricane Ian, with nearly half of them in Lee County, according to information released last Friday by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The 114 death total was up from 112 on Thursday. Lee County, where the Category 4 storm made initial landfall Sept. 28, has 55 confirmed deaths, Charlotte and Collier counties each have eight confirmed deaths, and Sarasota and Monroe counties each have seven. In all, 17 counties had deaths from the storm, which crossed through Central Florida. Deaths have been confirmed as far north as Putnam County, which had three, according to the FDLE.

With claims continuing to climb each day, estimated insured losses from the storm are nearing $7 billion. Data posted online last Friday by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation showed estimated insured losses at $6,886,280,085. That number is expected to increase as damage continues to be assessed. The data also showed that 569,209 claims had been reported as of Friday, up from 564,399 claims on Thursday and 553,242 on Wednesday. Of Friday’s total, 397,823 claims involved residential property, while other claims involved such things as commercial property and auto damage.

» Florida tops 82,000 COVID-19 deaths

More than 82,000 Florida residents have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic started in early 2020, according to a report released Friday by the state Department of Health. As of Thursday, the state had a reported 82,176 COVID-19 resident deaths. That was up from 81,661 in numbers released Oct. 7 and up from 81,139 in numbers released Sept. 26. Because of lags in reporting, it is unclear when the additional deaths occurred. The Department of Health report also showed that numbers of new COVID-19 cases have remained relatively low this month. The state had a reported 9,934 new cases from Oct. 7 through Oct. 13 and 10,111 new cases from Oct. 14 through last Thursday.

Early voting launches in Orange County, Orlando judge squashes plaintiffs’ arguments in ‘Don’t Say Gay’ case, school LGBTQ-support guides will be revised to allow teachers and staff to out students, and other news you may have missed.

YOU GET THE GOVERNMENT YOU DESERVE

Swing voters seem dismally unable to connect the present to the causal events that happened months ago

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

On Oct. 13, a 15-year-old boy allegedly shot and killed five people, including his brother and an off-duty cop, in a neighborhood east of Raleigh. The suspect suffered a single gunshot wound — it’s not clear whether it was self-inflicted or whether he was shot by police — and is in “grave” condition. If and when he leaves the hospital, he’ll be charged as an adult, which in North Carolina means he’ll face up to 40 years behind bars.

Raleigh’s mayor, like so many mayors before her, went before the cameras to offer her condolences and urge that this time should be different, knowing that it won’t be, knowing that while we might be momentarily horrified by the violence,

should be immune from regulation.

And Republican politicians, on the precipice of reclaiming congressional majorities, have declared their intention to take hostage and potentially default on the country’s debt, which would invite economic catastrophe. As best I can tell, their proposed remedy for inflation appears to be some combination of starving the poor, deporting immigrants and rooting for the Federal Reserve to overcorrect the economy into a recession — which seems almost certain to happen.

And, of course, tax cuts, the cure for every possible ailment.

And yet.

This weekend, ABC News released a poll showing that voters preferred

gogued by race-baiting propagandists, the party in power is punished.

It doesn’t matter that the Saudis cut oil production to damage an administration that tepidly called out human rights abuses. It doesn’t matter that inflation isn’t just an American story but rather a global aftershock of pent-up demand and supply-chain issues as well as governmental intervention. It doesn’t matter that the Trump administration ran record-set ting deficits during an expansion while demanding that the Fed keep money cheap. It doesn’t matter that Biden has already added more jobs to the economy than the last three Republican administrations combined. It doesn’t matter that states that voted for Donald Trump are much more violent than states that voted for Biden.

And it doesn’t seem to matter that one of the two major parties is openly disdainful of democratic norms.

This is the aspect of American politics that I’ve found most infuriating — and depressing — over the last six years.

we’ve become so inured to senseless killing that this senseless killing would be swept off the front pages just in time for the next one to arrive.

But calls for gun reform were met with the usual rejoinders about how inappropriate it is to talk politics at a time like this. So we won’t mention that North Carolina lets any hormonal teenager own a rifle or shotgun; there are no age limits. And we won’t talk about how the state’s Republican-led General Assembly has rejected bills to remove guns from dangerous individuals and fund ad campaigns imploring parents to practice gun safety around their kids.

America is awash in guns. And yet we cannot fathom that being uniquely awash in guns is somehow related to being uniquely awash in gun violence.

Meanwhile, last week, Republicanappointed federal judges blocked President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program from taking effect and effec tively declared the entire Consumer Financial Protection Board uncon stitutional, siding with Republican lawyers who believe predatory lenders

Republicans by double digits on crime and the economy.

To be clear, my eye-rolling here is not at voters who lack faith in Democrats, or even voters who don’t share Democrats’ policy goals. It’s at voters who have any faith whatsoever in the Republican Party to do, well, anything productive.

Such an expectation grossly misunderstands what the GOP is.

It is a post-policy party, a party in which advancing ideas matters less than picking fights. And so every policy is a blast from the past: tax cuts and deregulation, appeals to the false nostalgia of segregated suburban safety, and revanchist sexual and gender norms. Every “idea” is inherently atavistic, an own-thelibs manifestation of whatever grievance Fox News is stoking: attacks on woke corporations or Marxist professors or transgender athletes or drag queens or immigrants or librarians or social media companies.

But I fear none of that will matter. American politics are reactive. If the economy is struggling, if gas prices are up, if violent crime can be successfully demo-

A major party has committed itself not just to doing nothing about guns or climate change, but also to sabotaging the global economy, to gutting institutions designed to protect consumers, to attacking reproductive rights that women have relied on for generations, to undermining the very fundaments of American democracy, to abandoning any pretense of pursuing compromise or working toward the common good in favor of feverish extremism. If polls are right, voters are about to reward them for it.

By double digits, Americans say they trust Republicans on the economy, inflation and crime. Again, not because Republicans have produced a plan to deal with these things; they haven’t. Not because they’ll offer any fresh insights into these conversations; they won’t. But because — like in 2010 — swing voters seem dismally unable to connect present events to causal events that happened more than six months ago.

It’s been said that you get the government you deserve. Maybe a country that has accepted that it can do nothing to stop a deranged teenager from slaughtering passers-by deserves to be governed by a nihilistic party that takes Marjorie Taylor Greene seriously and sees Ron DeSantis’ authoritarianism as freedom.

I hope we don’t find out.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26

Halloween Freakshow

Animal Mother, Awaystead, Hellcat Tendencies, Monty Chicago, Heatback

With vendors Evildeadbroomstick, Bree’s Essentials, Matti Joseph, Frankie, Artstrr, Juulix. 8 p.m., Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road, 407-623-3393.

Halloween Horror Nights

Ten haunted houses, five scare zones and two live shows. 6:30 p.m., Universal Studios Florida, 6000 Universal Blvd., $73.99-$279.99, 407-363-8000, universalorlando.com/hhn/en/us.

The Open Words

Halloween Slam!

Watch poets compete for cash prizes and dubious glory, or step behind the mic yourself and share your truth. Bonus points for costumes. 9 p.m., Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park, free, 407-340-5004, austinscoffee. com.

A Petrified Forest

Long scare trails, uniquely themed rooms and mega scares around every turn. 7:30 p.m., A Petrified Forest, 1360 State Road 436, Altamonte Springs, $32-$48, 407468-6600, apetrifiedforest.com.

THURSDAY, OCT. 27

Halloween Horror Nights

Ten haunted houses, five scare zones and two live shows. 6:30 p.m.

Universal Studios Florida, 6000 Universal Blvd., $73.99-$279.99, 407-363-8000, universalorlando.com/hhn/en/us.

Haunted Shrine Annual Scare House

7 p.m., Bahia Shriners, 3101 E. Semoran Blvd., Apopka, $10, 407-660-8811, hauntedshrine.com.

Howl-O-Scream

Featuring all-new houses, scare zones, shows and bars that will make guests scream in fright. 7 p.m. SeaWorld, 7007 SeaWorld Drive, $34.99-$169.99, 407363-2613, seaworld.com/orlando.

A Petrified Forest

Long scare trails, uniquely themed rooms and mega scares around every turn. 7:30 p.m., A Petrified Forest, 1360 State Road 436, Altamonte Springs, $32-$48, 407468-6600, apetrifiedforest.com.

Suwannee Hulaween

2022 Four days of music: The String Cheese Incident, Black Pumas, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, CloZee, Fearless Flyers, Fisher, J.I.D, Liquid Stranger, Louis the Child, Portugal the Man, STS9, Sylvan Esso, The Disco Biscuits and more.

Friday-Monday, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, 3076 95th Drive, Live Oak, $324-$7,899, 386-364-1683.

FRIDAY, OCT. 28

The Dark Type: Typewriters and Spooky Stories Create

creepy notes on typewriters provided by Joybird Books, several of which carry no curses whatsoever. Followed by a spooky story open mic. 7 p.m., The Nook on Robinson, 2432 E. Robinson St., facebook. com/thenookonrobinson.

Halloween Horror Nights

Ten haunted houses, five scare zones and two live shows. 6:30 p.m. Universal Studios Florida, 6000 Universal Blvd., $73.99-$279.99, 407-363-8000, universalorlando.com/hhn/en/us.

Haunted Shrine Annual Scare House

7 p.m., Bahia Shriners, 3101 E. Semoran Blvd., Apopka, $10, 407-660-8811, hauntedshrine.com.

The Haunting of River Ranch Haunted hayride, corn maze, pumpkin patch and more. 7:30, 8:30 & 9:30 p.m., Westgate River Ranch Resort, 3600 River Ranch Blvd., River Ranch, $30, 863-692-1321.

Haunting Tales A spinechilling event with the wickedest of storytellers coming forth, one by one, to spin frightening tales. 7:30 p.m., Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave., $17, 407-246-2620, leugardens.org.

Howl-O-Scream Featuring all-new houses, scare zones, shows and bars that will make guests scream in fright. 7 p.m., SeaWorld, 7007 SeaWorld Drive, $35-$170, 407-363-2613, seaworld. com/orlando.

Longwood Haunted History Tour Storyteller

Michael Matson leads brave souls on a theatrical walking tour of the BradleeMcIntyre House featuring the best of both worlds: the living and the dead. 9 p.m., Bradlee McIntyre House, 130 W. Warren

Ave., Longwood, $30, facebook.com/ longwoodhauntedhistorytour.

Night Creepers 5th Annual Haunted House: The Village Inn No-scare tours are available from 6-7 p.m.; after 7 p.m. not recommended for 13 and younger. Donations accepted, benefiting Southern Poverty Law Center. 7 p.m., 5366 Shea St., Unit 104, free, instagram.com/ nightcreepershaunt.

A Petrified Forest Long scare trails, uniquely themed rooms and mega scares around every turn. 7:30 p.m., A Petrified Forest, 1360 State Road 436, Altamonte Springs, $32-$48, 407-4686600, apetrifiedforest.com.

Scream n’ Stream Shriek and shiver while driving seven terrifying roads, plus a haunted house. 7:30 p.m., Florida Mall, 8001 S. Orange Blossom Trail, $15-$22, 407-552-4129, screamnstream. com.

Suwannee Hulaween

2022 Four days of music: The String Cheese Incident, Black Pumas, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, CloZee, Fearless Flyers, Fisher, J.I.D, Liquid Stranger, Louis the Child, Portugal the Man, STS9, Sylvan Esso, The Disco Biscuits and more. Friday-Monday, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, 3076 95th Drive, Live Oak, $324-$7,899, 386-364-1683.

Tales of Terror Haunted Trail and Spooky Market

Get immersed in horror at the Wasteland, created by Tales of Terror. While waiting, enjoy the spooky market. Enter at Barnett Park sign on BMX Lane; attraction is on the left. 8 p.m., Warriors Sports Park, 4603 W. Colonial Drive, $15, 321-2874805, talesofterrorhaunt.com.

Till Death Do Us

pARTy: A Day of the Dead Cocktail Evening

Celebrate Día de los Muertos with art, music, specialty tequila and mezcal cocktails, live performances of traditional Mexican dance, and more. 6 p.m., Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., $80, 407-896-4231, omart.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 29

Once Upon a Halloween Third annual safe night of trick-or-treating, plus a spooky

play reading. 4 p.m., Theatre South Playhouse, 7601 Della Drive, free, 407-6014380, theatresouthplayhouse.org.

16th Annual Creepy Crawl Walk Presented by the Hemophilia Foundation of Greater Florida. Don’t forget a Halloween costume! 4 p.m., Baldwin Park, New Broad Street and Jake Street, free, 407-629-0000.

All Hallow’s Eve Party

Costumes encouraged. Music by DJ Ary. 10 p.m., Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave., free, willspub.org.

The Billy Mick and Friends Halloween Variety Show and Brunch Live singing, burlesque, drag, and more, starring Risa Risque and Just Jewel with special guest Kc Starrz. 11 a.m., The 808 Orlando, 808 E. Washington St., $10, 407-440-4079, billymick.com.

Hourglass District Costume Contest

Family-friendly costume contest for all our favorite hellhounds (all pets welcome), Halloween party with @itsthepizzaslut and live music. 2 p.m., Hourglass District, 2401 Curry Ford Road, facebook.com/ hourglassbrewingdistrict.

Eden Bar Halloween

Dress to impress in costume and enjoy a night of music, food and drinks, before ending the celebration with midnight feature Evil Dead 2. 9 p.m., Eden Bar at the Enzian, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland, $30-$42.50, 407-629-1088, enzian.org/ film/halloween-party.

Gators, Ghosts and Goblins

Discover the origins of the world’s most infamous monsters and learn what it takes to hunt creatures of the night like Nessie, the Jersey Devil, Chupacabra, Moth Man and more at Skunk Ape’s Cryptid Kingdom, and find out if Bubba can save the world from an alien invasion in new haunt zone: Invasion of the Bubba Snatchers. 10 a.m., Gatorland, 14501 S. Orange Blossom Trail, $20-$40, 800-393-5297, gatorland.com.

Good Ghoul Gala

Hayrides, arts and crafts, trick-or-treating and special Halloween games for the kids, while adults enjoy a fashion show and live entertainment. 11 a.m., Rosen JCC Jewish Community Center of Southwest Orlando, 11184 S. Apopka-Vineland Road, $10-$15, 407-387-5330, goodghoulgala.com.

Halloween Horror Nights

Ten haunted houses, five scare zones and two live shows. 6:30 p.m. Universal Studios Florida, 6000 Universal Blvd., $73.99-$279.99, 407-363-8000, universalorlando.com/hhn/en/us.

Halloween Party and Costume Contest

Dress to impress for a chance to win prizes. Must be 21+ to enter the costume contest. 7 p.m., Wekiva Island, 1014 Miami Springs Road, Longwood, free, 407-862-1500, wekivaisland.com.

Halloween Pre-Party

Music by DJ Sheriff Watkins, live music, shopping, food and drinks. 6 p.m., The Veranda at Thornton Park, 707 E. Washington St., free, 336-491-8489.

Halloween Trunk-orTreat

Cars decked out with decorations, full of tasty treats and lined up for kids’ trickor-treating pleasure, plus a bowling pin painting party. 1 p.m., Airport Lanes, 190 E. Airport Blvd., Sanford, free, 407-324-2129, bit.ly/3fZ3zr7.

Haunted Shrine Annual Scare House

7 p.m., Bahia Shriners, 3101 E. Semoran Blvd., Apopka, $10, 407-660-8811, hauntedshrine.com.

Haunted Shrine Trunk or Treat

Come in costume. 4:30 p.m., Bahia Shriners, 3101 E. Semoran Blvd., Apopka, free, 407-660-8811, hauntedshrine.com.

The Haunting of River Ranch Haunted hayride, corn maze, pumpkin patch and more. 7:30, 8:30 & 9:30 p.m. Westgate River Ranch Resort, 3600 River Ranch Blvd., River Ranch, $30, 863-692-1321.

Homemade Halloween

A two-hour showcase of artists who specialize in one or more forms of costuming, cosplay design or special effects makeup. 1 p.m., Coliseum of Comics Millenia, 4672 Millenia Plaza Way, free, 407-363-7676.

Howl-O-Scream

Featuring all-new houses, scare zones, shows and bars that will make guests scream in fright. 7 p.m. SeaWorld, 7007 SeaWorld Drive, $35-$170, 407-363-2613, seaworld.com/orlando.

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Kids Halloween Costume Party Dress up the whole family for haunted bowling with Brunswick Sync’s Creature Feature. 1 p.m., Boardwalk Bowl Entertainment Center, 10749 E. Colonial Drive, free, 407-3840003, bit.ly/3RO7fcq.

Kinda Punk But Not Really Halloween Bash! The Tremolords, Special Guest, Gleep Glorp, Future Buzzcockz, Thee Influencers 8 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., $15.

Longwood Haunted History Tour Storyteller

Michael Matson leads brave souls on a theatrical walking tour of the BradleeMcIntyre House featuring the best of both worlds: the living and the dead. 9 p.m., Bradlee McIntyre House, 130 W. Warren Ave., Longwood, $30, facebook.com/ longwoodhauntedhistorytour.

Midnight Movies: Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

The second of three films in the Evil Dead series is part horror, part comedy, with Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) once again battling horrifying demons at a secluded cabin in the woods. 11:59 p.m., Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland, $10-$12.50, 407-629-1088, enzian.org.

The Nook Does

Halloween Spooky photo booth, seasonal beers, apple cider mimosas, Fright Flights (candy & beer pairing), plus costume contest. 5 p.m., The Nook on Robinson, 2432 E. Robinson St., facebook. com/thenookonrobinson.

The Official Halloween Bar Crawl Orlando Cover-free, full-access ticket to 5-plus venues, discounted themed drinks and food specials, and easy-to-navigate digital bar list. 4 p.m., Howl at the Moon Orlando, 8815 International Drive, $20-$40, 407354-5999.

OHP Presents: The Rocky Horror Disco

Inspired by the Rocky Horror Picture Show. 9:30 p.m., St. Matthew’s Tavern, 1300 N. Mills Ave., $10-$25, 747-286-2729, orlandohouseparty.com.

Orlando Local Makers

Halloween Pop Up Market More than 35 local vendors, face-painting, trick-or-treating, fresh-squeezed lemonade, Karelyn’s

Vegan Food, dog-friendly! Noon, Makers Market on Mills Ave., 610 N. Mills Ave., free, 614-806-0076, instagram.com/ orlandolocalmakers.

A Petrified Forest

Long scare trails, uniquely themed rooms and mega scares around every turn. 7:30 p.m., A Petrified Forest, 1360 State Road 436, Altamonte Springs, $32-$48, 407468-6600, apetrifiedforest.com.

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Halloween Grave Rave

9 p.m., West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford, free, 407-322-7475.

Scream n’ Stream

Shriek and shiver while driving seven terrifying roads, plus a haunted house. 7:30 p.m., Florida Mall, 8001 S. Orange Blossom Trail, $15-$22, 407-552-4129, screamnstream.com.

SpookNona Graveyard

Smash Tricks, treats and festive beats! Monsters and mummies of all ages are welcome to trick-or-treat around Lake Nona Town Center. 5 p.m. Lake Nona Town Center, 6900 Tavistock Lakes Blvd., free, 407-313-6127.

Suwannee Hulaween

2022 Four days of music: The String Cheese Incident, Black Pumas, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, CloZee, Fearless Flyers, Fisher, J.I.D, Liquid Stranger, Louis the Child, Portugal the Man, STS9, Sylvan Esso, The Disco Biscuits and more. Friday-Monday, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, 3076 95th Drive, Live Oak, $324-$7,899, 386-364-1683.

Tales of Terror Haunted Trail and Spooky Market

Get immersed in horror at the Wasteland, created by Tales of Terror. While waiting, enjoy the spooky market. Enter at Barnett Park sign on BMX Lane; attraction is on the left. 8 p.m., Warriors Sports Park, 4603 W. Colonial Drive, $15, 321-2874805, talesofterrorhaunt.com.

Trick or Treat Safe Zone

Enjoy trick or treating throughout the History Center and the Orlando Public Library along with creepy crafts, candy, and a scavenger hunt! Free for families with children ages 12 and under, children must be accompanied by an adult. 10 am Orange County Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd., free, 407-836-8500, thehistorycenter.org/ event/trick-or-treat-safe-zone.

Zoo Boo Bash

A fun, safe Halloween experience. Guests are invited to wear costumes. 9 am Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens, 3755 W. Seminole Blvd., Sanford, free, 407-353-4450, centralfloridazoo.org.

SUNDAY, OCT. 30

Gators, Ghosts and Goblins

Discover the origins of the world’s most infamous monsters and learn what it takes to hunt creatures of the night like Nessie, the Jersey Devil, Chupacabra, Moth Man and more at Skunk Ape’s Cryptid Kingdom, and find out if Bubba can save the world from an alien invasion in new haunt zone: Invasion of the Bubba Snatchers. 10 a.m., Gatorland, 14501 S. Orange Blossom Trail, $20-$40, 800-393-5297, gatorland.com.

A Halloween Carol

A tragicomedy surrounding one Carol Cratchit. After a visit by her BFF Marley Jacobs, Carol is helped by a host of other reimagined characters to embrace the true spirit of the holiday like never before. 2 p.m. Renaissance Theatre Company, 415 E Princeton St., $20, instagram.com/ ahalloweencarol.

Halloween Horror Nights Ten haunted houses, five scare zones and two live shows. 6:30 p.m. Universal Studios Florida, 6000 Universal Blvd., $73.99-$279.99, 407-363-8000, universalorlando.com/hhn/en/us.

Haunted Shrine Annual Scare House

7 p.m. Bahia Shriners, 3101 E. Semoran Blvd., Apopka, $10, 407-660-8811, hauntedshrine.com.

Howl-O-Scream

Featuring all-new houses, scare zones, shows and bars that will make guests scream in fright. 7 p.m. SeaWorld, 7007 SeaWorld Drive, $34.99-$169.99, 407363-2613, seaworld.com/orlando.

Night Creepers 5th Annual Haunted House: The Village Inn

No-scare tours are available from 6-7 p.m.; after 7 p.m. not recommended for 13 and younger. Donations accepted, benefiting Southern Poverty Law Center. 7 p.m., 5366 Shea St., Unit 104, free, instagram.com/nightcreepershaunt.

Scream n’ Stream

Shriek and shiver while driving seven terrifying roads, plus a haunted house. 7:30 p.m., Florida Mall, 8001 S. Orange Blossom Trail, $15-$22, 407-552-4129, screamnstream.com.

Suwannee Hulaween

2022 Four days of music: The String Cheese Incident, Black Pumas, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, CloZee, Fearless Flyers, Fisher, J.I.D, Liquid Stranger, Louis the Child, Portugal the Man, STS9, Sylvan Esso, The Disco Biscuits and more. Friday-Monday, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, 3076 95th Drive, Live Oak, $324-$7,899, 386-364-1683.

Tales of Terror Haunted Trail and Spooky Market

Get immersed in horror at the Wasteland, created by Tales of Terror. While waiting, enjoy the spooky market. Enter at Barnett Park sign on BMX Lane; attraction is on the left. 8 p.m., Warriors Sports Park, 4603 W. Colonial Drive, $15, 321-2874805, talesofterrorhaunt.com.

Zoo Boo Bash A fun, safe

Halloween experience; costumes welcome. 9 a.m., Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens, 3755 W. Seminole Blvd., Sanford, free, 407-353-4450, centralfloridazoo.org.

MONDAY, OCT. 31 Halloween at Cranes Roost Park

The Altamonte Springs Police Department invites you to a trick-or-treat alternative event for the whole family: costume contests, live entertainment, activities and, of course, candy (guaranteed fentanyl-free!). 5 p.m., Cranes Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs, free, 407571-8180, uptownaltamonte.com.

Halloween Horror Nights

Ten haunted houses, five scare zones and two live shows. 6:30 p.m. Universal Studios Florida, 6000 Universal Blvd., $73.99-$279.99, 407-363-8000, universalorlando.com/hhn/en/us.

Hocus Pocus

Halloween Bash The

Sanderson sisters are back! Join Ginger Minj, Gidget Galore and Mr. Ms. Adrien as Winifred, Mary and Sarah. Best costume can win $500. 8 p.m., The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive, $30-$40, 407-704-6261, abbeyorlando.com/event/hocus-pocushalloween-bash.

Night Creepers 5th Annual Haunted House: The Village Inn

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HOME FOR THE HORROR DAYS

Audio drama is a creepy conclave of Orlando alumni

BY STEVE SCHNEIDER

The one-two punch of social media and the coronavirus has pretty much put the kibosh on the concept of the class reunion. If you want to know what the honors grads of the Orlando arts scene are up to this Halloween season, Audible is the punch bowl you need to be hanging around.

Keep your ears peeled for Thursday’s drop of “Catchers,” an eight-episode audio drama from the minds of Central Florida expats Ben Rock and Bob DeRosa. These proverbial local boys made good have worked up a monster movie with out pictures, in which two mismatched animal-control workers (Billy Gardell and Herizen Guardiola) respond ing to a call come face-to-snout with creatures that are significantly more dangerous than Old Yeller.

“The story of ‘Catchers’ is very much about people versus nature,” Rock says. “And like a lot of horror stories, it’s about people getting over their personal differences to solve an inexplicable problem.” It’s also an immensely fun listen — and a natural development in the creative collaboration Rock and DeRosa have enjoyed for over a quarter-century.

“Everything we do is rooted in our friendship,” DeRosa says, “which is totally rooted in our shared history of being aspiring filmmakers in Orlando.”

They met in the mid-’90s, when they both had films in the Brouhaha indie-flick showcase at Maitland’s Enzian Theater. Rock was about to make the transition from studying film at UCF to house-managing at Enzian, while DeRosa in those days was an improviser and budding screenwriter whose ubiquity on the local scene would get him mentioned in prac tically every issue of this publication between 1997 and 2001.

As their friendship progressed, they experienced profes sional windfalls that ultimately took them to Los Angeles. Rock parlayed a gig as production designer on his col lege pals’ watershed The Blair Witch Project into a directing career of his own (including 2008’s smooth and assured feature Alien Raiders). DeRosa, meanwhile, capitalized on connections he had made working for the Florida Film Festival to write the ensemble indie drama The Air I Breathe, and later penned the Ashton Kutcher–Katherine Heigl vehicle

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Throughout it all, the two have continued to work together regularly — on late-night plays for L.A.’s Sacred Fools theater company, the horror/comedy web series 20 Seconds to Live and the horror fiction podcast “Video Palace.” A request for a pitch from Audible made Rock think of an experience he had had a few years earlier with an extremely laissez-faire dog catcher.

“I just had the thought of how dark or how funny it would be if someone with that attitude had to deal with something,” Rock says. So the action of “Catchers” takes place on the last day of work for an apathetic cynic (Gardell) who’s handing the baton to his less beaten-down successor (Guardiola, the perfect Gen-Z foil). Together, they have to try to save a besieged family from beasts whose origin is as mysterious as their assaults are vicious.

The overall effect is as if John Carpenter had written for Arch Oboler’s old “Lights Out” radio program — not surpris ingly, as Rock and DeRosa both cite Carpenter as a major influence, and Rock listened to Oboler’s work and other classics of horror radio as a kid. (Additional touchstones mentioned by the pair include the films Tremors and even Repo Man). [Editor’s note: Oboler’s “Lights Out, Everybody” is also available on Audible.]

“It’s funny, audio narrative has been around as long as radio and never really stopped in places like the U.K.,” Rock says. “[B]ut with the rise of podcasting and services like Audible, it’s going through a very exciting reinvention in America right now.

“For us, it was fun as hell to explore a big monster story like we might have seen growing up in the 1980s, but to use modern audio technology to tell the story in a fun, visceral way that audio does better than anything else.”

Their writing process, they say, was old-school, with story beats written down on note cards and pinned up on cork board for review. Then each guy would script the episodes to which he felt best suited. Finally, they would rewrite each other’s work into a cohesive whole.

“The goal is to get to a point where we can’t remember who originally wrote what,” DeRosa says. “I generally lead with my heart, so there’s a lot of me in Blair, our young dog catcher trainee, while Ben is an expert at writing filthy, can tankerous dialogue, so he was uniquely suited to writing for our about-to-retire dog catcher, Collins.”

When it came time to record, the old-home-week vibes got even stronger. Keith Hudson, an old friend of Rock’s who had acted in his first short films, flew out from College Park to snag a part as one of the innocents Blair and Collins have to rescue. (Hudson’s extensive screen credits include Rock’s Alien Raiders, Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight and Logan Lucky, and copious amounts of TV.) The biggest name in the cast, though, is Gardell, who met Hudson and Rock when they were all members of Winter Park High School’s Thespian Troupe 850. Since then, Gardell has become a bona fide sitcom star: He was the “Mike” in Mike and Molly and is currently the “Bob” in Bob Hearts Abishola.

“Working on ‘Catchers’ with my high-school buddy and friend of 30 years, Ben Rock, was like we hadn’t missed a day,” Gardell says. “It’s a gift to work with people you started your dream with, and I think that magic came into play on this project and people are gonna love it.”

Even though the scourge of COVID forced the produc tion to be a little less intimate than everybody would have preferred — with parts recorded via Zoom rather than in the same studio — the end result still sounds natural and con vincing. And behind the scenes, the participants all say, the homecoming atmosphere truly prevailed.

“It’s fair to say that Orlando — or at least Maitland and Winter Park — are in the DNA of ‘Catchers,’” Rock says. DeRosa concurs:

“I talk about it all the time out here, and people are just mystified that we had such a vibrant community back home, and now so many of us are out here making amazing movies and shows and we’re still friends. It’s really a testament to a special time in a special place.”

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The cast and crew of ‘Catchers’ — many of them Orlando natives — made the audio drama mostly via Zoom

THE SPIRIT IS WEAK

Retail giant’s tie-in movie is just yanking our chain

BY STEVE SCHNEIDER

Iwas hoping I’d be able to champion Spirit Halloween: The Movie. As somebody who has worked in a Spirit store — later in life than I’d like to admit — I have a natural interest in any story that shows tweens hiding out in one of the ubiquitous pop-up shops on Halloween night, only to be hunted there by a vengeful ghost that wants to consume their souls. Seasonal retail, amirite?

Upping the ante, the store in the movie is clearly located in a former Toys R Us, just like ours was. On the day of our load-in, we even found some graffiti scrawled on the back wall warning us that the place was — wait for it — haunted. Honestly, the title of this flick might just as well have been my employee ID number.

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menacingly at kids who know they aren’t going to snuff it, because they’re in a PG-13 picture. I’ve seen more genuine pandemonium when a display fell on somebody. And speak ing on behalf of the company, I think the filmmakers missed an opportunity by not super imposing the SKU number and suggested retail price of each item on the screen as it went flying by. You know, like in Fight Club.

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Sadly, our team never ended up witnessing any actual paranormal activity, and the film doesn’t deliver very many more thrills either. All we get are some very perfunctory scenes of possessed animatronics shaking themselves semi-

Not only is the action tepid, it only takes up the last act of the movie. The rest of the running time is occupied by whiny dithering over juve nile social dilemmas that are hoary in the extreme. When is a kid too old to trick-or-treat? Can a youngster who’s still missing his deceased dad make peace with his mom’s new husband? How does a guy on the brink of puberty make a an older girl notice him? It’s ripped-

from-the-headlines stuff — if the headlines you’re talking about appeared in a 1974 issue of GRIT, America’s Family Newspaper.

As you may have surmised, when they aren’t dodging rub ber scythes, our heroes all get to learn valuable lessons about life. Somebody should tell them that, as learning experiences go, nothing beats reaching your 50s and realizing you can get away with murder on the job because your 20-some thing boss has assumed anyone your age who’s working in a Spirit Halloween store must be learning-impaired. Suddenly, you’re Kevin from The Office, and Holly is moving that carton of “Evil Midweek Cutie” costumes across the floor her own dead self. BUT I DIGRESS.

In the film’s favor, it looks fine, suckering you early with its surface professionalism. That illusion evaporates, how ever, once you’ve met the youthful cast, whose talents can charitably be described as “varying.” (One poor dear’s dic tion is so persistently incomprehensible that he seems to be auditioning for a prequel to Pootie Tang.) The adults, mean while, don’t get much to do. In the almost peripheral role of the evil specter in question, Christopher Lloyd tries his best to have fun, resigned to the knowledge that his career has become the artistic equivalent of a Cameo video sent as a gag gift.

The only bits of SH:TM that resonated with me fully were some fleeting shots of the store’s long-haired slacker of an assistant manager, whom we see lazily unplugging the dis plays at the end of one business day and opening up the shop the next morning. That depiction brought back pleasant memories of one of our own assistant managers, who liked to tell the story of the time he had been thrown out of Spooky Empire for making goo-goo eyes at Christina Ricci while he was on ’shrooms. Now there’s a movie I’d like to see.

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MOONLIGHTING

Orlando horror author Owl Goingback takes on one of Marvel’s wildest and weirdest heroes

BY MATTHEW MOYER

Earlier this month, Marvel and Disney+ pre miered a new film showcasing one of the comics company’s more unlikely antiheroes, Werewolf by Night. The pulpy black-and-white film, starring Gael García Bernal, was both an hom age to the classic Universal Monster films from decades back and an update of the 1970s character first brought to vivid life on the comics page by Gerry Conway and Mike Ploog.

In a surprise move to coincide with the film’s release, Marvel out of nowhere dropped a new, free Werewolf by Night story as part of their Infinity line of “scrollable” webtoon-style comics, available through the Marvel Unlimited app and intended expressly for viewing on a smartphone.

Even better, the creative minds behind this story were a dream team. The artwork came courtesy of British artist Alison Sampson, well-known from titles like Kick-Ass and Hellboy, and the story came from the fevered brain of Orlando-based horror maestro Owl Goingback.

The stand-alone story, with Sampson’s fluid, expressive art interpreting Goingback’s plot, fits this new format well. Instead of the usual pagepanel structure of physical comics, Goingback’s and Sampson’s Werewolf story is a continuous, flow ing vertical scroll unfurling in front of your eyes. Panels and action sequences melt effortlessly into one another, bursting out of the confines of a typical comics panel. “It really is a beautiful concept and I think it’s going to be a huge shift,” says Goingback. “When I first brought it up on my phone. I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is beautiful.’ It just flows on a phone screen.”

Goingback’s Werewolf by Night tale features not Russell, but newer lycanthrope Jake Gomez — a Hopi youth who inherited the werewolf curse, created by Taboo of the Black-Eyed Peas (!) for Marvel a few years back. “I want to do my own story, but I wanted to acknowledge and honor everything [Taboo] had done with the character,” says Goingback, who is himself a Native American.

And since you can’t have a proper Marvel comic without a hero facing off against a supervillain, Goingback’s Werewolf goes toe-to-toe with a rei magining of longtime Marvel villain the Wendigo. Goingback’s take on the Wendigo is based on the true tale of the Cree Native American Swift Runner, who killed and ate his family in the late 1800s, claiming to be under the spell of the Wendigo.

When Marvel, well aware of Goingback’s stature in the horror lit realm, first approached him about working together, there was only one character on his mind.

“The first thing I wanted to do was Werewolf by Night. That’s what got me into reading comics. I fell in love with Issue One of Werewolf by Night back in 1972. It was the first comic I ever bought,” remem bers Goingback. “And they were excited because they had relaunched the Werewolf by Night as a Native American character, so that worked out perfectly.”

The surprise, seasonally appropriate drop of his Werewolf by Night story received roundly positive responses and Goingback hopes this will be the beginning of more work on the feral hero.

“I’m hoping they’ll let us run with the character and do some more stories. I’ve already got ideas for a continuing story, and I could bring in a lot of Native American folklore,” says Goingback.

Pressing Goingback for his memories of first see ing the Werewolf comic on the shelves reveals a deep affection for the cult-fave character, who debuted during a strange time in Marvel Comics when mon sters like Dracula and Simon Garth’s Zombie were running rampant on the comics page. Werewolf by Night fought Moon Knight early on and would even tually even team up with the likes of Spider-Man and Ghost Rider. “Mike Ploog’s artwork was fantastic on Werewolf by Night,” he says. “It just jumped out at me and that was it. I was a big horror fan already. I was reading Famous Monsters of Filmland since the age of 9 and my favorite monster of all time was the WolfMan, as played by Lon Chaney, Jr.”

Sadly, this same Werewolf by Night series would also be the end of Goingback’s childhood love for comics, when the second part of a two-part story was snatched up from the local Rexall before he could get his hands on it. “I was furious. I was so mad that I just stopped reading comics,” recalls Goingback with a chuckle.

There is, then, a delicious irony in Goingback’s Werewolf launching as a smartphone-friendly webcomic, removing the very barrier to access that derailed his youthful comic book addiction — and exposing him to a completely new audience at the same time. “I didn’t expect any of this. The praise was really surprising,” marvels Goingback. “Here I am with a popular comic book!”

But for now, Goingback is content to let his take on Werewolf by Night sit on virtual shelves for a bit. After all, he’s got to get ready for Halloween. (He loves to hand out candy to local trick-or-treaters.) Speaking of, we couldn’t resist asking Goingback for his recommendations for spooky seasonal reads. He’s happy to oblige.

“You’ve got to read Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree, that’s a must this time of year. A lot of horror writers will reread that book every year; it’s a perfect Halloween story. Cemetery Dance did an anthology called October Dreams. It’s an amazing collection of Halloween stories. And not only are the authors presenting stories, but they are talking about their favorite Halloween memories. So it is a perfect book for the season.”

“And anything I’ve written,” laughs Goingback. “I’ll be vain! … My first novel, Crota, was just a good old-fashioned monster romp. There’s a book that just came out, an anthology called Classic Monsters Unleashed … I did a story that features Dracula in the Old West going up against Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody. Perfect for the season.” arts@orlandoweekly.com

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Director Jeremy Seghers brings an eerie new take on Misery to Osceola Arts

BY MATTHEW MOYER

Calling all dirty birds. Cue up your Liberace records after your 45 of “The Monster Mash” is over, because if you play your cards right you’ll be spending Halloween weekend with Annie Wilkes and Paul Sheldon.

Orlando director Jeremy Seghers, well-known locally for his unconventional staging of the dark stuff — Dracula in a taxidermy shop, The Bacchae as drive-in theater — is bringing the characters of Misery, Stephen King’s chilling meditation on the relationship between audience and artist, to life this Halloween weekend. And he’ll be doing it in — gasp — a proper theatrical setting. Is this a trick or a treat?

Well, let’s start at the begin ning. King’s novel Misery came out in 1987 and made a big enough splash to be brought to life on the silver screen by Rob Reiner in 1990, with James Caan as writer Sheldon and Kathy Bates as obsessed fan Wilkes.

Wilkes rescues Sheldon, her favorite author, after a car accident and starts nursing him back to health. But things go increasingly haywire when she finds out that Wilkes has just killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain, in his

newest manuscript. And then things get really dark.

The movie was a tense, slow-burning masterstroke, netting Bates an Oscar. Misery would later be adapted for the stage by William Goldman, who had written the original screenplay, in 2015. Seghers, a committed fan ever since he “saw the film way too young,” duly made the pilgrimage to the Big Apple to witness this production.

“I saw the Broadway produc tion with Laurie Metcalf and Bruce Willis,” says Seghers. “‘I thought, ‘Wow, it is possible to do this wrong.’ I didn’t love the performances, necessarily, but I did love the writing. And I loved how it kept the pace, even actu ally more so than the movie; it is very quickly paced.

“It’s basically a two-hander with the sheriff who comes in for a few scenes. I loved how quickly it moves. The transitions were really smooth and quick and very cinematic. I thought that I’d love to do this, but stay true to what I loved about Kathy Bates’ and James Caan’s interpretation, without trying to replicate it.”

Even though rights to staging Goldman’s reimagining were sewn up tight due to the use of Liberace’s music (an essential

element), Seghers began idly musing on what he could do with this material.

“I wanted to cast actors that would bring something to it. That felt as authentic and empathetic and vulnerable as Kathy Bates and James Caan. I started writing a wishlist in my head: ‘I could do it like this.’ I started daydreaming and imagining, and I went to apply for the rights. This was maybe three or so years ago, and the rights were restricted.”

Finally the email came that the play was at last available, Seghers pitched it to his current homebase of Osceola Arts, and here we are today, with Seghers and the cast in the last rounds of rehearsals before opening this Friday.

Though the story is best known in its feature film form, Seghers’ Misery is staged emphatically as a play: minimal, bare-bones sets (all in the same house); a small cast of three major players (some incidental characters in the film got the ax); an emphasis on the claustrophobic and increasingly wracked interactions between the main characters. Not to mention the occasional bursts of wicked humor that break the almost unbearable tension as Wilkes unravels. “If you have an audience that’s laughing one minute and then something hap pens that’s truly terrifying, it catches them off-guard,” says Seghers. “And I love horror with a little bit of camp.”

With his prize in hand, Seghers just had to find the right actors locally. It didn’t take long to find dual leads in Sarah Lockard and Stephen Lima, also a couple in real life.

“Sarah Lockard and Stephen Lima are Orlando theater mainstays,” says Seghers. “They’re a couple and they’ve never worked together. When I started thinking about who I would like to cast, Sarah was the first person to come to mind. Not just because we’ve worked together several times, but because she is so genuinely caring and unthreatening. But also very direct. … She’s physically small, and Steve is a little bit bigger. And I wanted this idea, this underlying feeling that Paul could maybe take Annie down if he could just get out of that fucking bed.”

The dynamic of an actual couple playing this fractured and nightmarish vision of a couple, where one party is held hos tage and tormented, makes for an intriguing dynamic.

“In Annie’s mind, they are a couple. She is very much in love with him. Although that love is misplaced,” explains Seghers. “Having an actual couple where that trust is already there is another thing to play off. … We have a wonderful fight director, Bill Warriner, who’s worked with them, but I think we’d already jumped that hurdle by them being so familiar with each other.”

Seghers paints a picture of Lima and Lockard memorizing lines together and the small cast even doing initial rehearsals at their home, a wholesome mirror image to Sheldon’s and Wilkes’ cabin fever. Rounding out the cast is Jeremy Wood as Sheriff Buster.

Because it is Seghers, there’s always a bit of a twist with the staging; this time it’s a turntable-style stage where sets rotate in and out to keep the flow of the action onstage continuous. For Seghers it was important to stage this play in a theater space.

“I thought about doing it in a site-specific setting, an actual house. But I think it just is so much more fluid and it just has so much more energy on a stage that can rotate,” says Seghers. He also promises a few more new tricks up his sleeve. “We use some special effects and some things that I’ve never used before. There’s fire, there’s pyrotechnics and there’s lots of blood.”

And if you happen to feel a shadowy presence in your periphery during the play, don’t fear, it’s just Seghers.

“I love watching other people be scared. I will definitely be standing in the back of the house watching the reactions,” promises Seghers, “because that delights me more than any thing.”

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Sarah Lockard and Stephen Lima star in Misery at Osceola Arts | Photo by Jake Teixeia

Grammy Award Winner F.I.R.S.T.HelpingInstitute Students Sore to New Heights

Tony Mardini is the Director of Career Development at F.I.R.S.T. Institute. Before Tony took on this role at F.I.R.S.T., he spent years developing his craft as an audio professional. Over the course of his career, Tony has held the titles of In-house Engineer at Darkchild Entertainment and Engineer/Producer/ Songwriter at Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s production company, Estefan Enterprises. Tony has also worked for both the NBC Sports and Golf Channels as an audio mixer for live and pre-recorded broadcasts. Mardini’s success has continued throughout the years, gaining him Multi-Platinum awards, BMI Songwriter awards, a Suncoast Emmy Award, Promax Award, nine Latin Grammy Nominations, and two Latin Grammy wins.

Tony has focused the last decade of his career on helping graduates in higher education land entertainment industry jobs in their field of study and developed partnerships with key employers seeking to hire the next cutting-edge creative minds. “I believe success is achievable for all

our students; my commitment to them is just as strong as my commitment to myself. Their success is our success. At F.I.R.S.T., we focus on connecting our students with opportunities for advancement and help them reach their desired goals,” said Mardini.

Tony has always found himself giving career advice to anyone he’s working alongside; it’s only natural for the second leg of his career to support up-and-coming creative industry professionals. “For me, this step in my career felt right. Being able to share my experiences and relate to our students on this level is something that I truly pride myself on, and for any student looking for a school that offers hands-on mentorship, I’d absolutely recommend F.I.R.S.T.,” said Tony.

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This week, we take a turn away from theater and theme parks to concentrate on my third-favorite T — THC — as Live Active Cultures takes a look at Live Resin, a medical marijuana product that’s recently added yet another new acronym to my vocab ulary: BHO. If you read last July’s “Oil Day” installment of this column, you already know that I’ve been dipping my toe into the waters of cannabis extracts like distillates and dab tabs. Now, thanks to an invite from Cresco Labs’ Sunnyside dispensary in Fern Park, my dabbling with dabs has led me into the flavor ful world of butane hash oil.

My exploration of the world beyond etha nol and CO2-based extractions actually began back in August with, of all things, an Eventbrite alert. The Trulieve store near the Mall at Millenia was offering a free “Elevate Your Knowledge” seminar, and a few nights later I found myself sitting through a class-cum-sales pitch with a half-dozen fellow MMJ patients, learning about the vast array of concentrate options available at Florida’s largest dispensary chain. The good news for the dab-curious (like myself) who are intimidated by the cost and complexity of traditional propane-driven dab rigs: Extracts can be consumed with a variety of electronic devices, starting with nearly dis posable pens for around $25 and going up to digitally controlled tabletop contraptions cost ing several hundred dollars.

I went home that night with my first dedi cated concentrates vaporizer — an iridescent rainbow Puffco Plus Pen for under $100 — and a discounted gram of Mandarin Orange TruCRMBL, which has the consistency of broken chalk. A rice grain-sized crumb in the Puffco (scooped using the mouthpiece’s con venient built-in dab tool) quickly produced pleasant mental effects and a mild citrus fla vor. But after extensive testing (cough, cough) I decided that despite being branded as “full spectrum,” Trulieve’s ethanol-extracted oil with reintroduced terpenes simply didn’t deliver the authentic flower flavor and fullbody impact I prefer. I actually ended up using most of the crumble as a kief-style topper on

bowls of old-fashioned flower, which remains my preferred medication method.

Enter Sunnyside, which was known as One Plant when I first interviewed its former CEO, Brady Cobb, in 2011. Back then, Cobb’s com pany was focused on producing high-quality “live rosin” using a solvent-free process involv ing only fresh-frozen marijuana, ice water and pressure. I still consider One Plant Live Rosin vape cartridges (which Sunnyside continues to sell) to be the best available in the Orlando area, delivering both the taste and the entou rage effects of the original herb. However, live rosin is expensive, costing more than double what competitors charge for their inferior (but still effective) extracts.

When we last spoke in late August about his new venture, Green Sentry, Cobb remained relatively uninterested in hydrocarbon extrac tion methods using butane, which were finally greenlighted by state regulators in 2021 after initially being excluded from the program. On the other hand, his previous outfit’s new own ers are going all-in on butane hash oil (aka the BHO that wasn’t president) and its derivatives, in the form of Cresco’s new line of Live Resin (with an E) concentrates and Liquid Live Resin vape carts. Full disclosure: The following prod ucts were provided at a discount for review purposes.

I’ll admit that I’ve been apprehensive about trying butane-based products, since I’d prefer not to be inhaling something made with the fluid used to fill Zippo lighters. Fortunately, while improper extraction methods were a haz ard to producers and consumers alike during prohibition, this brave new world of legal BHO means I can download a Certificate of Analysis from an accreditation laboratory testifying that the trace amounts of toxins remaining in the

concentrates are well below the threshold that the FDA says is likely to harm me.

With that comforting assurance, I broke into my first gram of Cresco’s Live Resin, which is available in several different textures, including peanut butter-like Budder and syr upy Sauce. For ease of handling, I selected Sugar, which looks like the organic raw honey you’d find at a fancy farmers market. It needs to be kept cool to maintain its consistency, and cleaning remnants of the crystalline goo from my Puffco’s chamber was challenging. But after my first mouthful of vapor from a pea-sized glob of Dirty Lemons, I knew from the earthy flavor and head-to-toe effects that Cresco’s Live Resin represented a marked upgrade over my earlier extract experiences.

If you want the intense taste and impact of Live Resin in a less messy form-factor, the Cresco Liquid Live Resin vape cartridges I also sampled rivaled — and perhaps even exceeded — One Plant’s Live Rosin in tasting like the plant it was pulled from, while costing $10 less per half-gram cart. The Guava Pie in particular has sweet, fruity notes under the grass and gas, without any of the candy-like aftertaste you get from botanical terpenes. And even though the THC percentage on the label may only read in the 60s or 70s (versus 80 percent or more for some distillates) you’ll be getting additional health benefits from the minor cannabinoids that go along for the Live Resin ride. Just do yourself a favor and pick up a quality vaporizer battery with precise voltage control down to 2.4V, which will deliver more flavor at lower temperatures while also making your cart last longer. And whether you’re trying BHO for the first time as a liquid or solid, be sure to start slow, because “a little dab will do you.” skubersky@orlandoweekly.com

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Cresco’s Live Resin is a marked upgrade over earlier butane hash oil extracts, with flavor and effects comparable to good old-fashioned flower

Cresco’s BHO is available in several different textures | photo by Seth Kubersky

SUSHIGO-ROUND

Tech-forward Kura Revolving Sushi Bar offers a brave new world of Japanese dining

BY BAO LE-HUU

If there’s a merge less sexy than food and technology, I cannot imagine it. But, apparently, I am a man on a lonely, lonely island because I was slapped with a two-and-ahalf hour wait on my first attempt at visiting Kura Revolving Sushi Bar.

While Kura is an international chain with restaurants across Japan, Taiwan and the U.S., the new Orlando loca tion in the heart of Touristan is only the second in Florida. Set on being a future-now kind of eatery, Kura Revolving Sushi Bar is a model of automation. And that begins before you even get inside the door.

Outside the entrance is an elec tronic check-in pad where you sign yourself onto the waitlist. You then wait out on the sidewalk, or wher ever, until summoned via text. Once seated, you’ll quickly realize there’s enough industrial systemization here to war rant a tutorial on your first visit.

Essentially, Kura is a conveyor-belt sushi concept where the various plates — all dome-covered for freshness and

safety — are proffered in a dish parade that snakes throughout the entire dining room. Though that selection is robust, there’s even more to the menu. The full version can be browsed on the personal touch screen above the table. Everything on the menu — both the items you don’t see on display and the ones you let slip past — can be ordered on-demand through the touch screen. Those spe cial orders zip straight out to you via a second belt above the main pro cession.

Those already agog at what I’ve described so far will be giddy to hear that your drink order is delivered by a rolling, talking robot (Kur-B the KuraBot). In fact, apart from the hosting and an occasional check-in, the only other in-person assistance you’ll receive is when you beckon it. The appeal of that depends on your ideas about hospitality and humanity.

The fresh food at Kura is fairly authentic Japanese fare, with the promise of ingredients that are “free of artifi cial sweeteners, seasonings, preservatives and colorings.”

Although sushi is central, the menu runs a decent range covering appetizers, sides, noodle soups (ramen and udon) and desserts (mochi ice creams, Japanese-style soy milk donuts, warabimochi and more).

All plates on the main conveyor belt are $3.30 each. The colorful sushi options include an array of nigiri, sashimi and seaweed-forward items like gunkan, norimaki and hand rolls. Don’t worry, gaijin; there’s also enough of a selection of busy stateside rolls like the California and the Philadelphia.

The traditional seafood nigiri here includes Hokkaido scallop, conch, octopus, squid and a nice variety of fish. Besides strictly orthodox preparations, there are also some good, but still delicate, riffs like tuna topped with a fine yuzu-jalapeño relish. The selection extends to some land items like sweet tamago (Japanese omelette) and beef bites like umami oil-seared beef.

One of the sushi standouts was the decidedly nontradi tional crispy rice with spicy tuna, which stars a crunch-fried rice patty that’s like a perfect little rice hash brown. It’s one racy bite of texture and spice.

Some premium ingredients are also featured here. There’s toro, though the regular tuna was the better of its class. Kura’s preparation of sea urchin was a decent exam ple of that intensely oceanic uni experience. One special limited offering I was lucky enough to seize was the wagyu beef, which had all the buttery fat layers and beautifully beefy flavor the name implies. It was served perfectly rare over sushi rice and topped with fried garlic slivers.

Good items beyond sushi include the tonkotsu ramen bowl ($9.20) and beef ojyu box ($9.35), a rice bowl topped with thinly sliced, sweetly marinated fatty beef, sesame seeds and scallions.

While the novelty here is inescapable, Kura Revolving Sushi Bar isn’t just a gimmick. It’s a well-oiled one-stop for quality, selection and value — one that happens to have all the frills for the tech generation.

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PREMIERES WEDNESDAY:

The Good Nurse — Eddie Redmayne steps into the role of Charles Cullen, the notorious killer who used his position as a nurse to dispatch more than 40 patients. Jessica Chastain plays the fellow medical professional who helped authorities take him down. Rumor has it Netflix was instead planning a docudrama set in the purchasing department at Aldi, but they ultimately opted for a story with a lower body count. (Netflix)

The Mysterious Benedict Society — In their second season, our four intrepid orphans have to rescue their benefactor (Tony Hale) from his evil twin brother (also Hale). Fun fact: The dual role almost went to Gary Busey, who made a compelling argument that he’s been playing his own worst enemy for years. (Disney+)

Robbing Mussolini — The time frame is the late days of World War II as a band of rebels tries to steal a cache of treasures that belonged to Italy’s infamous fascist despot. This one must have seemed like a quaint period piece when they greenlighted it, huh? Now Giorgia Miloni’s probably hoarding Norman Rockwells or some shit. (Netflix)

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi — In their quest to mine every aspect of the Star Wars canon for “original content,” Disney boldly ventures into the reviled prequel era to bring us the animated adventures of Ahsoka Tani and Count Dooku.

Well, it sure wasn’t going to be that winged Semitic merchant from The Phantom Menace Especially since Ye wasn’t available to direct. (Disney+)

Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t — A 1992 Japanese film was the inspiration for this series about a college senior whose graduation hinges on reviving his school’s moribund sumo club. In other words, it’s like Cobra Kai, but with actual Japanese people. (Disney+)

PREMIERES THURSDAY:

Beyond the Universe — The “bedside manner” jokes are inevitable in a Brazilian romcom about the deep relationship that unfolds between a doctor and one of his patients, a concert pianist whose kidneys have been ravaged by lupus. I didn’t realize that particular disease was communicable, but apparently if you get close enough to it, it can really do a number on your pianist. (Netflix)

Cici — A Turkish-made drama, with a family that’s been living in the city for three decades returning to their hometown for an overdue reckoning. That’s what happens when you think you can turn your back on Uzungöl, Mister Big Shot! (Netflix)

Dubai Bling — We’re clearly running out of our own idle rich to lionize, because here’s another reality series that snoops on the glamorous upper classes of other lands. Can’t wait for

the version set in Riyadh; I hear those jewelencrusted bone saws are a sight to behold. (Netflix)

Earthstorm — Do we really need an entire series of interviews with weather professionals and civilian bystanders who survived tornadoes, earthquakes and — yes — hurricanes? And when I say “we,” I mean “Your neighbor from four houses down who can’t watch because his TV got washed into the middle of Robinson Street.” (Netflix)

Star Trek: Prodigy — The last 10 episodes of Season 1 follow the crew of the Protostar as they head toward Federation space, with Kate Mulgrew’s Vice-Admiral Janeway in hot pursuit. In a surprise development, they zip right past a traumatized William Shatner, who’s still bab bling about palpable blackness and Jeff Bezos. (Paramount+)

PREMIERES FRIDAY:

All Quiet on the Western Front — Writerdirector Edward Berger becomes the first German filmmaker to take on the classic tale of World War I zealotry turned to existential hor ror. Can’t wait for Berger’s inevitable remake of The Longest Day, tentatively titled Oops! We Did It Again. (Netflix)

Big Mouth — Season 6 of the animated hit about puberty run amok includes guest ap pearances by Jeff Goldblum, Peter Capaldi

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and Adam Levine. Seen Levine’s DMs lately? He couldn’t be more suited to the topic of adolescent urges if this show had 3-D printed him. (Netflix)

The Devil’s Hour — Speaking of Peter Capaldi, he co-stars with Jessica Raine in this series about a troubled young woman who wakes up every morning at 3:33 a.m. No wonder she’s troubled: By that point, the pig from The Amityville Horror has already been kicking ass and taking names for 18 minutes. (Amazon Prime)

Drink Masters — It’s go time for mixologists, as some of the best in the field compete to win a cool 100 grand. I like contests where it’s actually encouraged to get the judges drunk. (Netflix) Garcia! — A six-episode series from HBO España introduces the world to a kind of Spanish Captain America who was created in the Franco years and brought out of cryosleep to protect his country from modern-day fascists. Working for Franco doesn’t seem like the best experience for that kind of gig. But if Michael Cohen is entitled to a redemption nar rative, who isn’t? (HBO Max)

I Am a Stalker — The shocking confessions of admitted stalkers alternate with the harrowing stories of victims who endured unfathomable levels of harassment. Here’s hoping we finally learn who’s been sending all those emails about Camp Lejeune. (Netflix)

If Only — Transported 10 years into her past, a Spanish woman has to figure out if she wants to make another stab at a marriage that proved unsatisfying the first time. I think they should have stuck with the working title, Peggy Sue Got a Restraining Order. (Netflix)

Run Sweetheart Run — Writer-director Shana Feste drew on her own dating history in crafting this horror thriller about a blind date that turns into a terrorizing pursuit. For a story about one of those things that actually turned out well, search the genre “Fantasy.” (Amazon Prime)

Wild Is the Wind — South Africa is the set ting of an issue-oriented drama featuring two dirty cops — one Black, one white — whose segregated community is rocked by the killing of a young girl. Just whom are we supposed to root for here: the corrupt police? The bigots who have kept the town divided? The killer? You’d have an easier time finding someone who deserved your sympathy at a Proud Boys trunkor-treat. (Netflix)

PREMIERES TUESDAY:

God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty — Documentarian Billy Corben’s newest work explores how a weird liaison with a Miami pool boy upended the lives of Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife, Becki. But really, can a scandal “bring you down” when you were going down already? (Hulu)

The Takeover — A Dutch “ethical hacker” lands in a world of hurt when her efforts to expose a privacy breach cause trouble for a global network of gangsters. Either that, or Elon Musk is just trying to get her number. (Netflix)

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Peter Capaldi stars in U.K. horror series The Devil’s Hour, premiering Friday on Amazon Prime

BLUE BAMBOO HURRICANE RELIEF

The local toll of Hurricane Ian has been a tale of two cities. For those who were lucky, life’s gone back to normal. For those who weren’t, “normal” remains a mirage on the distant horizon while they navigate ongoing strife and recovery. Thankfully, the Orlando music community is still rallying.

Of the benefit concerts happening in town, one of the most notable is this weekend’s Blue Bamboo Fest for Hurricane Relief.

A partnership between two nonprof its (Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts and the Beth McKee-led Swamp Sistas La La Foundation) to aid another (the essen tial Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida), this two-day festival at the Blue Bamboo is a musician-led event featuring star-spangled performances to raise money to help provide meals to our disaster-stricken neighbors.

Beth McKee and the Swamp Sistas will launch things with a rootsy kickoff on Saturday (Oct. 29, 8 p.m.) in a pop-up version of their famous La La parties. McKee’s on-stage roster for this affair will include the talents of Renee Arozqueta, Ka Malinalli, Rachel Decker, George Dimitrov, Kayonne Riley, Juan Perez and Grant Peyton.

The next day is a Sunday matinee (Oct. 30, 3 p.m.) helmed by Blue Bamboo boss Chris Cortez. His Blue Bamboo All Stars extravaganza will feature a huge cast of Orlando luminaries in jazz and cabaret. The grand orchestrated jam sesh will be a telethonworthy cavalcade that includes Michael Andrew, Michelle Mailhot, Michelle Amato, Suzy Park Hosmer, Jeff Rupert Quartet, Cigano Swing, Greg Parnell, Paul Parker, Chuck Archard, Walt Hubbard, Marco Bojorquez,

Doug Mathews, John Redfield, Dave MacKenzie, Eddie Marshall, Marty Morell, Richard Drexler and Ben Kramer.

This one is very much for the community, by the community. Join the effort and enjoy some good music at the same time for a well-spent $25 per show.

CONCERT PICKS THIS WEEK

Melt-Banana, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Bacon Grease, Storage Music Unit: This loaded bill is for all you beautiful freaks out there. First, there’s never been one instance in all of Melt-Banana’s many Orlando appearances where the legendary Japanese noise rockers have been anything less than pure explosion on stage. The nervy art punk of Baltimore’s Ed Schrader’s Music Beat is also a live thrill. Just as notably, though, these touring acts will be paired with young, homegrown blazers from the most exciting depths of Central Florida’s experimental scene. Bacon Grease makes

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improvised dark dance music for weirdos and Storage Music Unit are an extreme free-jazz supergroup featuring members of credentialed acts like Bongus, Clang! and Aaron’s Home. This show will be both insane and insanely good. (7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, The Abbey, $22)

The Chats, Gymshorts: It’s been a little while since there’s been a punk show this exciting. And while this is the kind of bill you’d expect to be burning in the grittiest bowels of Mills 50, it’s happening out in the charming heart of DeLand at one of the area’s most picturesque venues. Well, good for them. The Chats may’ve gone viral with 2017 smash “Smoko” but they’re no one-hit wonder. Their catalog overflows with golden nuggets of Aussie-as-fuck pub-punk that sneers like the snotty little sons of Cosmic Psychos. And Rhode Island’s Gymshorts are noteworthy as Burger Records alums who deal in a big-rocking garage punk sound. Definitely worth the drive. (7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, Cafe DaVinci, $18)

Glove: When I reviewed one of Glove’s early performances in 2019 at Soundbar, I knew and noted that this arty Tampa band was special. Now they’re coming back to town to prove my ass right, thank you very much. Since that revelatory night, these seductive new wavers have ridden their high style on up to lots of high-profile national appearances at primetime festivals and supporting names like Jack White, A Place to Bury Strangers, Broncho and the Nude Party. The last time they were here, they opened for Wavves. Now, only a year later, they’re returning to top the big marquee themselves. Go see why Glove are one of the hottest rising Florida bands right now. (6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, The Social, $15) baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26

Pre-Pre-Fest

For those who like it young, loud and snotty, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: Fest, Gainesville’s annual punk pilgrimage, is upon us. That also means that SmartPunk Records’ Orlando PrePre-Fest show is back for its eighth year. The show features all bands on their way to the promised land, including Georgia’s Michael Cera Palin, Oklahoma’s Cliffdiver and New York’s Carpool, alongside Central Florida favorites Debt Neglector, Virginity and Suck Brick Kid. Jordan Shroyer of SmartPunk Records noted the show’s record of hosting bands before they go big: “In the past we’ve had relatively unknown bands at the time such as Pup and Little Big League — whose vocalist now goes by Japanese Breakfast. So it’s a great chance to catch some up-and-coming bands who might end up being the next big thing.”

With more than 350 bands headed to Fest, Pre-Pre-Fest offers an opportunity to get a sneak peek at what awaits us on the horizon, in so many ways. Sounds smart, punks. 5 p.m., Henao Contemporary Center, 5601 Edgewater Drive, facebook.com/henaocenter, $18-$20. — Ida V. Eskamani

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Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton turned the world upside-down when it opened on Broadway in 2015. Incorporating a blend of rap, R&B and jazz to create a set of invigorating show tunes, the musical presented a unique look at founding father Alexander Hamilton. Even those less keen on musical theater will find themselves cheering during the rap-battle-style cabinet meetings or humming along to King George III’s catchy Beatles-esque solos. The Tony, Grammy and Olivier award-winning production describes itself as “the story of America then, told by America now,” diving into the life and death of Hamilton through a new set of eyes. When Hamilton last toured to Orlando for an engagement in 2019, almost every performance was sold out. Now is the chance to see for yourself if the story of America’s “founding father without a father” still lives up to the hype. Do not

throw away your shot to see this revolutionary production. Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., drphillipscenter.org, $49-$249. — Gabby Macogay

FRIDAY, OCT. 28

She Past Away

Halloween season just got a little more tunefully spooky. Turkish band She Past Away are returning to Central Florida after a sold-out show at Tampa’s Crowbar last December, but this time it’s Orlando’s turn to get gothy. The duo have a surprisingly sizable fan base in the Sunshine State, enough to comfortably fill the big room at the Abbey. (We suspect by the time you read this that the show will be nearly sold out.) Don’t let the makeup and Byronic deportment fool you; the twosome of Volkan Caner and Doruk Öztürkcan are seasoned road dogs, putting in the work on lengthy tours and selling out big cities all over the country. And why wouldn’t they? She Past Away’s music is post-punk with an almost supernatural focus on propulsive basslines and catchy choruses, brimming over with ripped-from-a-diary lyrics. Every day is Halloween, as a wise man once said. 7 p.m., The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive, abbeyorlando. com, $25. — Matthew Moyer

SATURDAY, OCT. 29

Kinda Punk But Not Really 2 Year Anniversary Halloween Bash

Weekly DJ night Kinda Punk But Not Really celebrates two years of spinning all the gravest hits in the garage rock (and way beyond) milieu this weekend with a good ol’ Halloween covers show. The night features seasonal and covers sets from Tremolords, Problem Pack, Danny Feedback and more worthies. The evening will also see absurdist Orlando solo project Future Bartenderz cover the entirety of the Buzzcocks’ Singles Going Steady album in rapid-fire fashion. “Buzzcocks were the first accessible punk band for me,” head Bartender Brian Costello told Orlando Weekly. “Of those first wave of punk bands, there was so much about NYC street life and the English class system and the Queen and the dole and it was great

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music, of course, but mostly alien to my experience. Buzzcocks, on the other hand, sang about boredom, and as a teenager growing up in Altamonte Springs, I could certainly relate.” This’ll be a graveyard smash. 8 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., willspub.org, $15. — MM

Monster Jam

Monster Jam returns to Orlando to top off your many frightening Halloween festivities. Grave Digger, El Toro Loco, Zombie, Son UVA-Digger, Bakugan Dragonoid, Monster Mutt Dalmation, Kraken, Bad Company, Jester, Over Bored, Wasted Nites and Wild Side are some of the competitors roaring into Camping World Saturday. Take advantage of the Monster Jam Pit party where you can strike a petrifying pose in front of the trucks, and participate in family-friendly Halloween activities including face-painting, a Halloween fashion show, games and sundry treats. The Pit Party will also feature a world-breaking 10K Stunt courtesy Monster Jam and toy brand Spin Master, wherein ghouls and goblins can witness a wicked 10,000 toy trucks launching down a ramp. 7 p.m., Camping World Stadium, 1 Citrus Bowl Place, campingworldstadium.com, $15-$100. — Nicolette Shurba

SUNDAY, OCT. 30

The Smoker’s Club Fest

Hip-hop, weed and Halloween: three great tastes that taste great together. The Smoker’s Club fest sets up shop at the Central Florida Fairgrounds the day before Halloween with a blazing lineup including Lil Uzi Vert, Don Toliver, Denzel Curry, Ken Carson, Young Nudy, GloRilla, Smoke DZA, Ice Spice, Kenny Mason, Big Yavo, Skaiwater, Rot Ken and loads more. Hosting on the main stage is Shiest Bubz, and hosting the VIP Halloween afterparty is infamous internet personality Druski. This is the festival’s first incursion

into the East Coast after a successful run of events out west. Smoker’s Club “celebrates hip-hop as one of the leading forces in paving the way for cannabis culture becoming mainstream.” We can only imagine what’s going to go down at 4:20 p.m. that day. 11:30 a.m., Orlando Amphitheater, 4603 W. Colonial Drive, orlandoamphitheater.com, $125-$175. — Valerie Galarza

MUSIC

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26

Halloween Freakshow 8 p.m., Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road, 407-6233393.

Hippo Campus, CHAI 6:30 p.m., House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista, $26-$75, 407-934-2583.

Jeffrey Martin, Jordan Foley and The Wheelhouse 8 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., $15-$18.

Nightly, Vaultboy 8 p.m., The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive, $18, 407-704-6261.

Through the Roots 7 p.m., The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave., $20, 407-648-8363.

THURSDAY, OCT. 27

Casting Crowns, Caine, Anne Wilson 7 p.m., Amway Center, 400 W. Church St., $24-$125, 800-7453000.

The Chats, Gymshorts 7 p.m., Cafe DaVinci, 112 W. Georgia Ave., DeLand, $18, 386873-2943.

Dead Sara, Felicity 8 p.m., The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave., $19.50, 407-648-8363.

Halloween Velvet Sessions: O-Town, Ryan Cabrera, LFO 8 p.m., Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando, 5800 Universal Blvd., $55-$120.

Melt Banana, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Bacon Grease, Storage Unit Music 7 p.m., The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive, $22, 407-7046261.

On the Cinder, Our Escape, Guano, Original Issue 8 p.m., Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave., $3-$5, 407-270-9104.

Still Shaking, Shitty Neighbors, Petty Thefts 8 p.m., West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford, $5, 407322-7475.

Toadies, Reverend Horton Heat, The Sh-Booms 8 p.m., House of Blues, Lake Buena Vista, $25-$57.75, 407-934-2583.

TV Dinner, Latewaves, The Blumes, Wind Words 8 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., $10.

UCF Homecoming Concert: T-Pain 8 p.m., Addition Financial Arena, 12777 N. Gemini Blvd., free-$25, 407-8236006.

The Wallflowers 8 p.m., The Plaza Live, 425 N. Bumby Ave., $42$68, 407-228-1220.

FRIDAY, OCT. 28

Caustic Rebirth, Off the Rails, The Rottens, Constant Throw 9 p.m., West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford, free, 407-322-7475.

Crimson Apple 8 p.m., The Henao Center, 5601 Edgewater Drive, $15-$20.

Erica Dawn Lyle (Bikini Kill), Blacksunblackmoon, Sarah Morrison, Malverde 8 p.m., Stardust Video and Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road, $10, 407-623-3393.

Glove 6 p.m., The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave., $15, 407-648-8363.

John Redfield Trio 8 p.m., Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park, $20, 407-636-9951.

Myriam Hernandez 8 p.m., Silver Spurs Arena at Osceola Heritage Park, 1875 Silver Spur Lane, Kissimmee, $79-$154, 321-697-3333.

Narrow Head, Temple of Angels, Bleed Friday 8 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., $15.

Singer-Songwriter Open Mic 7:30 p.m., Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park, free, 407-975-3364.

Swift and Sour: A Taylor and Olivia Dance Party 8 p.m., Tuffy’s Music Box, 200 Myrtle Ave., Sanford, $20.

SATURDAY, OCT. 29 Alexander 23, Alaina Castillo 6 p.m., The Beacham, 46 N. Orange Ave.,$23, 407-648-8363.

Banda MS 8 p.m., Amway Center, 400 W. Church St., $61-$161, 800-745-3000.

Bay Street, Counterattack, Bozo, Anteiku 8 p.m., Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave., $5, 407-2709104.

Country Rock and Rides: Pure Prairie League, Bailey Callahan 4 p.m., Lake Concord Park, 95 Triplet Lake Drive, Casselberry, free, 407-262-7700.

Festival for Hurricane Relief 8 p.m., Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park, $25, 407-6369951.

Hippie Hideout Local vendors, food, drinks, and a great time for any Orlando local looking to kick back and be introduced to a plethora of local talent. Community Center 729, 729 N. Thornton Ave., $10, 321-350-5177.

Indoor Acoustic Music Concert: Ruth Wyand, Emmett Carlisle 2 p.m., Winter Park Public Library, 1052 W. Morse Blvd., Winter Park, $10-$15, 407-679-6426.

Lorna Shore, Aborted, Ingested, Angelmaker, Ov Sulfur 6:30 p.m., The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive, $22.50, 407-704-6261.

Martin Ikin 9 p.m., Elixir, 9 W. Washington St., $15, 407-985-3507.

PunkNite.com: Halloween Grave Rave 9 p.m., West End Trading Co., 202 S. Sanford Ave., Sanford, free, 407-322-7475.

Silvestre Dangond 8 p.m., Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd., $88-$248, 407-351-5483.

Sundown Sessions: Anna Milk 7 p.m., Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave., free.

SUNDAY, OCT. 30 Festival for Hurricane Relief 3 p.m., Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park, $25, 407-636-9951.

Visiting Artists Series: Jiji 3 p.m., Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, $30, 407-646-2000.

Nathan Gray and The Iron Roses, The Darling Fire,

Church Girls 8 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., $15.

Russian Circles, Rezn 6 p.m., The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave., ages 12+, $22, 407-648-8363.

SanLuis 7 p.m., Hard Rock Live, 6050 Universal Blvd., $51-$141, 407-351-5483.

Sundown Sessions: Austin Miller

7 p.m., Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave., free.

MONDAY, OCT. 31

Emo Halloween 3 The Return: Young Tapes

Live performances of your favorite emo and pop-punk classic. 9 p.m., Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave., $12-$16.

Hugel 9 p.m., Elixir, 9 W. Washington St., $10, 407-985-3507.

iParty presents “Calling All the Monsters” 8 p.m., House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista, $20-$60, 407-9342583.

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

Short Fictions 8 p.m., LMGA Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave., all ages, $12-$15, 407-270-9104.

TUESDAY, NOV. 1

The Early November, I Can Make a Mess, Vinnie Caruana 7:30 p.m., The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive, $25-$30, 407704-6261.

Singer-Songwriter Open Mic 7:30 p.m., Austin’s Coffee, 929 W. Fairbanks Ave., Winter Park, free, 407-975-3364. n

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I guess it would be difficult to create a practi cal snake costume for Halloween. How would you move around? You’d have to slither across the floor and the ground everywhere you go. So maybe instead you could be a snake priest or snake priestess — a magic conjurer wearing snake-themed jewelry and clothes and crown. Maybe your wand could be a caduceus. I’m nudging you in this direc tion is because I think you will benefit from embodying the mythic attributes of a snake. As you know, the creature sheds its old skin to let new skin emerge. That’s a perfect symbol for rebirth, fertility, transformation and healing. I’d love those themes to be your specialties in the com ing weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I need my sleep,” proclaimed Sagittarian come dian Bill Hicks. “I need about eight hours a day and about 10 at night.” I don’t think you will need as much slumber as Hicks in the coming nights, Sagittarius. On the other hand, I hope you won’t scrimp on your travels in the land of dreams. Your decisions in the waking world will improve as you give yourself maximum rest. The teachings you will be given while dream ing will make you extra smart and respon sive to the transformations unfolding in your waking life. Halloween costume suggestion: dancing sleepwalker; snooz ing genius; angel banishing a nightmare; fantastic dream creature.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Recently, my mom told me my dad only spoke the Slovakian language, never English, until he started first grade in a school near Detroit, Michigan. Both of his parents had grown up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but immigrated to the United States in their youth. When I related this story to my Slovakian cousin Robert Brežny, he assured me it’s not true. He met my dad’s mother several times, and he says she could not speak Slovakian. He thinks she was Hungarian, in fact. So it’s unlikely my dad spoke Slovakian as a child. I guess all families have odd secrets and mysteries and illusions, and this is one of mine. How about you, Capricorn? I’m happy to say that the coming months will be a favorable time to dig down to the roots of your family’s secrets and mysteries and illusions. Get started! Halloween costume suggestion: your most fascinating ancestor.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My Aquarian friend Allie told me, “If a demon turned me into a monster who had to devour human beings to get my necessary protein, I would only eat evil billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.” What about you, Aquarius? If you woke up one morning and found

you had transformed into a giant wolfdragon that ate people, who would you put on your menu? I think it’s a good time to meditate on this hypothetical question. You’re primed to activate more ferocity as you decide how you want to fight the world’s evil in the months and years to come. Halloween costume sug gestion: a giant wolf-dragon that eats bad people.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you value the feeling of wildness? Is that an experi ence you seek and cultivate? If so, what conditions rouse it? How does it feel? When it visits you, does it have a healthy impact? Are you motivated by your plea surable brushes with wildness to reconfig ure the unsatisfying and unwild parts of your life? These are questions I hope you will contemplate in the coming weeks.

The astrological omens suggest you have more power than usual to access wild ness. Halloween costume suggestion: whatever makes you feel wild.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Of all the rich philanthropists in the world, Aries author MacKenzie Scott is the most generous. During a recent 12-month period, she gave away $8.5 billion. Her focus is on crucial issues: racial equality, LGBTQ+ rights, pandemic relief, upholding and promoting democracy, and addressing the climate emergency. She disburses her donations quickly and without strings attached, and prefers to avoid hoopla and ego aggrandizement. I suggest we make her your inspirational role model in the coming weeks. May she motivate you to gleefully share your unique gifts and blessings. I think you will reap selfish ben efits by exploring the perks of generosity.

Halloween costume suggestion: philan thropist; Santa Claus; compassion freak.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What animal best represents your soul? Which spe cies do you love the most? Now would be a good time to try this imaginative exercise. You’re in a phase when you’ll thrive by nurturing your inner wild thing.

You will give yourself blessings by stok ing your creature intelligence. All of us are part-beast, and this is your special time to foster the beauty of your beast.

Halloween costume suggestion: your favorite animal or the animal that sym bolizes your soul.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): During the tyrannical reign of Spain’s fascist govern ment in the 1930s, Gemini poet Federico García Lorca creatively resisted and revolted with great courage. One critic said Lorca “was all freedom inside, aban don and wildness. A tulip, growing at the foot of a concrete bulwark.” I invite you to be inspired by Lorca’s untamed, heartfelt beauty in the coming weeks, Gemini. It’s

a favorable time to rebel with exuberance against the thing that bothers you most, whether that’s bigotry, injustice, misogy ny, creeping authoritarianism or anything else. Halloween costume suggestion: a high-spirited protester.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If the trick ster god Mercury gave you permission to do one mischievous thing today and a naughty thing tomorrow and a rascally thing two days from now, what would you choose? Now is the perfect time for you Cancerians to engage in roguish, playful, puckish actions. You are especially likely to get away with them, karma-free — and probably even benefit from them — espe cially if they are motivated by love. Are you interested in taking advantage of this weird grace period? Halloween costume suggestion: prankster; joker; fairy; elf.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Everyone’s mind constantly chatters with agitated fer vor — what I call the ever-flickering flux. We might as well accept this as a fun damental element of being human. It’s a main feature, not a bug. Yet there are ways to tone down the inner commotion. Meditation can help. Communing with nature often works. Doing housework sometimes quells the clamor for me. The good news for you, Leo, is that you’re in a phase when it should be easier than usual to cultivate mental calm. Halloween cos tume suggestion: meditation champion; tranquility superstar; gold medalist in the relaxation tournament.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Education is an admirable thing,” said author Oscar Wilde. “But it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.” What?! That’s an exasperating theory. I don’t like it. In fact, I protest it. I reject it. I am especially opposed to it right now as I contemplate your enhanced power to learn amazing lessons and useful knowl edge and life-changing wisdom. So here’s my message for you, Virgo: What Oscar Wilde said DOES NOT APPLY to you these days. Now get out there and soak up all the inspiring teachings that are available to you. Halloween costume sug gestion: top student.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): To celebrate Halloween, I suggest you costume your self as a character you were in a past life. A jeweler in first-century Rome? A mid wife in 11th-century China? A salt trader in 14th-century Timbuktu? If you don’t have any intuitions about your past lives, be playful and invent one. Who knows? You might make an accurate guess. Why am I inviting you to try this fun exercise? Because now is an excellent time to reaccess resources and powers and poten tials you possessed long ago — even as far back as your previous incarnations.

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I’m a 71-year-old gay man married to a much younger man. That’s all fine, not relevant so much as just info. Fifteen years ago, I briefly took Prozac. While it dulled my sex drive, the orgasms I did manage to have while taking Prozac were off the charts. I even talked to my doctor about it at the time and he just sort of shrugged and said enjoy it. OK, fine. But a little more than 15 years later — off Prozac for most of that time (I didn’t stay on it long) — my orgasms are still off the charts. My husband’s last a kind of normal-ish fiveto-eight seconds, but mine continue for a good 30 seconds and leave me unable to function after. Possibly related, from time to time I get a short but slamming headache. I also, very rarely, experience unpleasant orgasm-related disorientation, like a sense of “déjà vu” that lasts for hours. I have been to a neurologist about this but was offered no explanation. I worry these orgasms might be permanently debilitat ing to me. Do you think I could be harming myself with these massive mind-blowing events? I am having sex about twice a week and they are always like that.

Massive Orgasms And Neurological Symptoms

Some people get intense headaches immediately before or after climaxing, and while “sex headaches,” as their doctors call them, can be extremely annoying, they’re not life-threatening. If you’re using Viagra or poppers (which should never be used together), that could be causing or wors ening your sex headaches.

As for your other symptoms, a recent study written up in the Times of London could offer some guidance. The study, pub lished in a peer-reviewed medical journal,

focused on post-orgasmic illness syndrome, a rare sexual dysfunction that afflicts a tiny percentage of men. Basically, men can become allergic to their own sperm cells, and their own immune systems mount a response to those “left behind” sperm cells that exit the balls but not the body.

“Many health providers do not know about it, let alone the public,” the study’s lead author, Andrew Shanholtzer, a medi cal student at Oakland University, told the Times of London. “It is more than likely that it is underdiagnosed, with many sufferers out there.”

Seeing as the symptoms include feelings of fatigue, disorientation and headaches, along with an assortment of flu-like symp toms, MOANS, it’s possible that you’re one of those undiagnosed sufferers.

The study details how Shanholtzer treated a younger POIS sufferer whose symptoms sounded a lot worse (and a lot less fun) than yours: a cough, swollen lymph nodes, hives. The use of an antihis tamine reduced the severity of this man’s symptoms by more than 90 percent. The study will be published in the November 2022 issue of Urology Case Reports (“Post orgasmic illness syndrome successfully treated with antihistamine: A case report,” Shanholtzer, et al), if you want to print it out, show it to your doctor and give the recommended antihistamine — fexof enadine — a try. Or, hey, maybe it was the Prozac you briefly took 15 years ago and an antihistamine won’t help.

All that said, MOANS, we all gotta go sometime … and I can think of much worse ways than being taken out by a massive orgasm in my eighth decade of life.

I’m a 41-year-old dude who has been monogamously married for 22 years. I

know you’re doing the math and, no, it wasn’t a shotgun wedding. We were highschool lovers who went to college, got our degrees, got married and established our careers before having two kids. Both our kids, who are still young, have been diag nosed autistic.

Needless to say, our lives have become more challenging.

About two years ago, my partner fell in love with another woman (X) and asked if we could try polyamory. She asserts that her love for X does not diminish her feel ings for me, and that, in part, X represents an escape from life’s challenges. I believe her, but that hasn’t made it easier for me. I’ve tried to be as supportive as possible, which has included developing a meaning ful, loving and sexually active relationship with X myself. However, the process of settling into polyamory has created more distance between us (me and my wife) than I would like.

Further complicating matters, I’ve devel oped a strong connection with another woman (Y), and even though Y has strong ly suggested the feelings are mutual, she’s in a long-term relationship that appears happy and monogamous. I want to tell Y I love her, but I haven’t out of respect for Y, her partner and their young kids. I am also nervous about losing Y as a friend. Can telling someone you love them ever go wrong?

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You’ve got a wife, you and your wife cur rently share a girlfriend, and …

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Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 5603 Metrowest Blvd Orlando, FL 32811 on 11/8/22 at 12:00 PM:Amelia Johnson: appliances; Brian Libreros: 2 bikes; Carlos Durate: 6 boxes, 2 bikes, tools; Carolyn Rozier: household goods; Curtis Coffey: boxes; Florence Jett: business inventory; Miguel Valverde: 3 bedroom; Monica Webb: boxes, furniture; Polonne St Louis: household goods. The auction will be listed and ad vertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

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Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below on November 4, 2022 at the location indicated: Store 8840: 11261 Narcoossee Rd. Orlando Fl 32832 @ 1:15 P.M: Dieusy Junior Cenecharles, 1 bedroom apt: Bryant Gonzalez, Furniture/Personal items. The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid

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Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below on November 04,2022 at the location indicated: Store 1631: 5753 Hoffner Ave. Orlando, FL 32822 @ 10:15 AM: Debra Morales, Household goods; Kaitlyn Smith, couch, boxes, Christmas decorations, entertainment center; Adriana Garcia, boxes, house hold items. Store 7107: 6174 S Goldenrod Rd. Orlando, FL 32822 @ 10:45 AM; Alex andra Valderrama Figueroa; Boxes The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 1001 Lee Road Orlando, FL 32810 (407) 489-3742, November 1st, 2022 @ 12:00 PM: Cory Haines: clothing/ boxes, Franklin Waymon: household items, Wanda Peters: household furni ture, Ramoud Butler: household items, Robert Williams: household items, Sean Kirkland: shelving/household, Kamara Frasier: clothing/household, Mauldine Powers: household items.The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: November 8, 2022 at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00 PM Extra Space Storage 831 N. Park Avenue Apopka, FL 32712 (407) 450-0345 Gwynn Rolph-household goods, bags, boxes.- Jeremy Williamshousehold items, full bed, dresser, boxes.-Douglas Arnett-studio.The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to comlete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: November 8, 2022 at the times and locations listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00PM Extra Space Storage 11920 W Colonial Dr. Ste 10 Ocoee, FL 34761 (407) 794-6970. Toni Doroban- Household items. Rasha Eugene Thomas- washer/ dryer, generator. Charles Joseph Dolan-

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Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below on November 8, 2022 at the locations indicated: Store 1317: 5592 L B McLeod Rd Orlando, FL 32811, 407.720.2832 @ 2:00 PM- Imari Lyons- Computer Monitors, Lamp, Boxes, Shelving; Guyanne Alexis-Bicycle, Fan, Boxes, TV, Toys; Tonya Baldwin- Boxes, Vacuum, Bicycle, Chairs, Kitchen Items, Rug; Nestapha Scott- Heat Press, Bags, Clothes, Speaker, Cleaning items; Store 8753: 540 Cypress Pkwy, Poinciana, FL 34759, 863.240.0879 @ 12:45 PM WePack UShip- Boxes, moving blankets, dolly’s, Zuriel Castillo- boxes, household items, Temekia Wrighton- Household items, tv’s, boxes, Herbert Kelsey- Household items, Raquel Forbes- Furniture, Nimshai Luther Corriette- Bags, tires, tv, Michelle Lassends- Speaker, mattress, tools, Stephanie Torres- Mattress, furniture, Julian Sanders- Office furniture, Karen Ventura- Bags, fan, boxes. Store 1333: 13125 S John Young Pkwy, Orlando, FL 32837,407.516.7005@ 10:00AM- Tray Bailey- home items, Kevin Guevara-work material. Store 7057: 13597 S. Orange Ave Orlando FL 32824, 407.910.2087 @ 10:30 AM- Francisco Vega Lopez: boxes- Ed gardo Lopez: furniture, household itemsErika Lopez: couches, dinning table, 2bdr,

coffee table, clothes. Store 7143: 6035 Sand Lake Vista Dr, Orlando FL 32819, 407.337.6665 @ 11:00 AM: Miranda Ma cLennan; boxes, bike. Brian J Mahoney; few plastic boxes, small furniture items, night stands, couple of chairs. Meghan Brown; Furniture, boxes, clothes, kitchen items, electronics. Daniela Bayona; 2bd belongings dining table and boxes. Store 7306: 408 N Primrose Dr. Orlando FL 32803, 321.285.5021 @ 12:15 PM – Tarra Harris: Chair, Bags, books, clothes, shoes, suitcase, bins. Charles Williams: Dresser, mattress, Mini Fridge, Childrens bikes, boxes, toys, bins. Store 8460: 4390 Pleasant Hill Rd Kissimmee FL 34746 (407) 429-8867 @12:15 PM: Omar Pizarro Clothes and 4 Mattress, 1 queen 10-15 bags, Walter Jefferson Furniture, Joseph Darrigo 2 full mattress and chairs, Sa mantha Calderon Household objects and personal goods, Tony Polanco sectional & 2 beds, Mauricio Maurer household goods & personal items, Omar Cabrera Household Goods. Store 7590: 7360 Sand Lake Rd Orlando, FL 32819, 407.634.4449@ 11:45AM Lavail Lanier- Clothes, boxes; Ana Senac- household; Ian Merchanthousehold items. Store 8136: 3501 S. Orange Blossom Trail Orlando FL 32839 407.488.9093 @ 12:00PM. - 1079A William Armstrong Personnel items, Gloria Holland 3059 House hold items, Lachelle Annette Bridges 3091 House hold items, Tania Blain 4005 House hold items, Ian Parham 4080 House hold items, Krystal Flores 4090 House hold items, Store 8612: 1150 Brand Ln Kissimmee, FL 34744 (407) 414-5303 @12:30 PM – Willie Woodsboxes; Iglesia Familiar Inc.or Marcrilet Rodriguez-church equipment, furniture; Destiny Alcantara-boxes of clothes; Rocio Sandoval-2 bedroom; NICHOLE WOON-Furniture, holiday decorations. Store 8778: 3820 S Orange Ave Orlando FL 32806, 321.270.3440 @ 1:00 PM Richard

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Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated:12915 Narcoossee Rd. Or lando, Fl 32832 407-501-5799 on 11/04/22 @ 12:00PM Ramon Gomez Household Goods-Sasha Tavares Household GoodsSamir Zelaya-Household Goods-Ramon Gomez Household GoodsThe auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated November 8th, 2022 at the time and location listed below. The personal goods stored therein by the following: 12:00PM Extra Space Storage 1451 Rinehart Rd Sanford, FL 32771 (407) 915-4908 LaShalonda Robinson -Boxes, Furniture, Devonte Williams - mattress, headboard, totes, fake plant, Christine Hohf - Household items, Antique & More Inc/Shahrokh Shaltouki - Furniture, Latia Williams - Furniture and Boxes, Liem Duong -Miscellaneous, The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA PROBATE DIVISION IN RE: JEFFREY THOMAS WEINLAND Deceased File No. 2022 CP 002620 O.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS The administra tion of the estate of JEFFREY THOMAS WEINLAND, deceased, whose date of death was July 6, 2022, is pending in the Circuit Court for Orange County, Florida, Probate Division, the address of which is 425 North Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801. The names and addresses of the personal representative and the personal representative’s attorney are set forth below. All creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate on whom a copy of this notice is required to be served must file their claims with this court ON OR BEFORE THE LATER OF 3 MONTHS AFTER THE TIME OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE OR 30 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF SERVICE OF A COPY OF THIS NOTICE ON THEM. All other creditors of the decedent and other persons having claims or demands against decedent’s estate must file their claims with this court WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. ALL CLAIMS NOT FILED WITHIN THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH IN FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 733.702 WILL BE FOREVER BARRED. NOTWITH STANDING THE TIME PERIODS SET FORTH ABOVE, ANY CLAIM FILED TWO (2) YEARS OR MORE AFTER THE DECE DENT’S DATE OF DEATH IS BARRED. The date of first publication of this notice is 10/26/2022. Attorney for Personal Representative: /s/ Jennifer R. Bondy, Attorney, Florida Bar Number: 105461, Overstreet Law, 100 Church Street, Kissimmee, FL 34741, Telephone: (407) 847-5151. E-Mail: jbondy@kisslawyer. com, Secondary E-Mail: grodriguez@kis slawyer.com. Personal Representative: /s/ Donna E. Watts, 371 Sapphire Drive, Jackson, New Jersey 08527

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION: 7/HIGBEE. CASE NO.: DP20-

494 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: C.V. DOB: 01/16/2010. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Derek Moser (Address Unknown) 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 Heather L. Higbee on November 7, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PAREN TAL 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 TER MINATION 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 23rd day of September, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: Cynthia Rodriguez, Esq., Florida Bar No.: 1026123, Attorney for State of Florida, Department of Children and Families Children’s Legal Services, Cynthia.Rodriguez4@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 JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/HIGBEE CASE NO: DP21-049 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: D. B. DOB: 05/06/2020. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: TARAN THOMAS, ADDRESS UNKNOWN.

WHEREAS a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the abovereferenced child. You are hereby com manded to appear before Circuit Judge Heather Higbee on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Or lando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEAR ING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSON ALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEAR ING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE 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. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 23rd day of September, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: Khairiya C. Bryant,, Esquire, Florida Bar No.: 23221 khairiya.bryant@ myflfamilies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/HIGBEE CASE NO: DP 20-424 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: G.D. DOB: 08/28/2020. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: JON NAH HARDEN, ADDRESS UNKNOWN.

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 Circuit Judge Heather Higbee on Monday, November 14, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.at the Juvenile Justice Cen

ter, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEAR ING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSON ALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEAR ING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE 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. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 6th day of October, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: Khairiya C. Bryant,, Esquire, Florida Bar No.: 23221 khairiya.bryant@myflfami lies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/HIGBEE CASE NO: DP 20-424 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: G.D. DOB: 08/28/2020. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: STACIE DOMINEY, ADDRESS UNKNOWN. A Pe tition 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 Circuit Judge Heather Higbee on Monday, November 14, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PAREN TAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE 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. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 6th day of October, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: Khairiya C. Bryant,, Esquire, Florida Bar No.: 23221 khairiya.bryant@myflfami lies.com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/HIGBEE CASE NO: DP 20-514 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILDREN: E. N. DOB: 03/06/2018, R. N. DOB: 07/31/2019, J. L. DOB: 02/07/2021.

NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: ANGELINA MYRIAM LESENE, ADDRESS UNKNOWN. A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regard ing the above-referenced children. You are hereby commanded to appear before Circuit Judge Heather Higbee on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PAREN TAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE 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. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 10th day of October, 2022. This summons has been issued at the re quest of: Paul Karasick, Esq., Florida Bar No. 69216, paul.karasick@myflfamilies.

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

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR OSCEOLA COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 41 CASE NO. 20-DP-111 IN THE INTEREST OF A.C.B., DOB: 10/29/2020, MINOR CHILD. NOTICE OF ACTION AND OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Damon Charles Lyng (unknown address) A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child(ren); you are to appear before Judge Laura Shaffer, on November 28th, 2022, at 4:30p.m. at the Osceola County Courthouse at 2 Courthouse Square, Courtroom 4C, Kissimmee, FL 34741, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THESE CHILDREN. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILDREN 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.” DISABILITIES NOTICE: If you are a person with a disabil ity who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the ADA Coordinator, Court Administration, Osceola County Courthouse, 2 Courthouse Square, Suite 6300, Kissimmee, Florida, (407) 742-2417, at least 7 days before your scheduled court appearance, or immediately upon receiving this notification if the time before the scheduled appearance is less than 7 days; if you are hearing or voice impaired, call 711. WITNESS my hand as the Clerk of said Court and the Seal, this 18th day of October, 2022. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT (Court Seal) By: /s/ Deputy Clerk.

LOST OR ABANDONED PROPERTY FOUND OR RECOVERED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA. PROPERTY NOT CLAIMED WILL EITHER BE SURRENDERED TO THE FINDERS OR RETAINED FOR USE BY THE DEPART MENT. PICTURE IDENTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

October 2022

DESCRIPTION, FOUND PROPERTY:

Jewelry 3100 Blk of W. Colonial Dr.

Backpack with misc. Items 4800 Blk of N. Orange Blossom Trl

Jewelry 2800 Blk of E. Central Blvd

Cellphone North Lane/N. Pine Hills Rd

Cellphones with misc. Item 2000 Blk of Monte Carlo Tr

Cellphone 3700 Blk of S. Semoran Blvd

Key fob 8300 Blk of Hangar Blvd

Backpack with cellphone, jewelry Lake Center/Central Ave

Cellphones 1000 Blk of Legion Pl

Cellphone 200 Blk of Sifford Ln

Cellphone with misc. Items 5900 Blk

of International Dr

Cellphone 40 Blk of W. Washington St

Keys with misc. Items W. Jefferson St

Bags with clothing, electronics 9400 Blk of Jeff Fuqua Blvd

Bags with clothing, cellphones 2300 Blk of S. Kirkman Rd

Eyewear 800 Blk of Ellwood Ave

Cellphone N. Orange Ave

Cellphones 3100 Blk of S. Orange Ave

Eyewear and key 12000 Blk of Narcoosee Rd

Key 100 Blk of George Desalvia Way

Key fob 40 Blk of W. Washington St

22. Keys 500 Blk of E. Washington St

23. Cellphones, keys 40 Blk of W. Washington St

24. Electronics 1400 Blk of Mercy Dr

25. Cellphone 200 Blk of S. Rosalind Ave

FOR INFO CALL (407) 246-2445, MONDAY – THRU THURSDAY, 9:00 AM TILL 3:00PM

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION FOR MONIES DUE ON STORAGE LOCK ERS 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. Uhaul of Moving & Storage of Clermont: 13650 Granville Ave, Clermont, FL 34711 11/08/2022 2063 Jessica Lynch, 2157 Jessica Lynch, 2070 Natalia Perez, 2187 Maickel Bedir, 2212 michael butera, 1043 Roxanne Eadie, 2159 Kaden Becerril, 1004 Love Banatty, 3067 Mason Moton, 3059 Jordan Hilgenberg, 1211 jonathan thomas, 2051 Toneicia Chisholm, 3141 Angel Rodriguez, 1047 CHEVAIZ JACKSON. U-Haul Moving & Storage of Ocoee: 11410 W Colonial Dr, Ocoee, FL 34761 11/08/2022 3319 Myron Green, 2371 DAVID MACINTYRE, 2456 Yaramashi Brinson, 1729 trampas RIGGS, 1312 rapid mold removal llc, 3312 kyle blazier, 2114 MICHAEL ELLIOTT, 3394 Wandra Reneishia, 1303 Teale Marie, 2436 mirtho pierre, 2006 Chanel Smith, 1548 mikael walker, 1708 CHARLES WILLIAMSON. Uhaul Moving & Storage of Kirkman: 2042 Niesha Davis, 2087 KEMARIE JOHNSON, 5038 sanderson gandert, 4049 cain patterson, 2039 JOANNIE CONFIDENT, 1056 Breezae Rainey, 2060 Joevany Kersaint, 2015 WANDA JONES, 1060 Amy dorf, 1032 TANEISHA BLOOM FIELD, 2084 Kenneth Middleton, 1055 courtney gray, 3104 HOPE BRYANT, 2099

ANASTACHA CONSTANT, 6039 Mystery unit, 6064 Andrea Uriostegui, 6040 Brendan Paul, 2112 Altonya Brown, 3095 lafayette bryant, 2009 luis abreu, 4022 luis abreu, 6012 hassan alhammadi.

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 November 11th, 2022 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 re moved 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. A155- Cynthia Adams A189- Athena Adams A205- Austin Chap man A254- Ruth Ann Meredith B177- Lisa

Notice of Public Sale

Notice is hereby given that Value Store It 27, 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 sales will take place on Tuesday, November 15th, 2022. The sale will be conducted under the direction of Christopher Rosa (AU4167) on behalf of the facilities management. Units will be available for viewing prior to the sale on www.storagetreasures. com. Contents will be sold for cash only to the highest bidder. A 10% buyer’s premium will be charged as well as a $50 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. No one under 16 years old is permitted to bid. The property to be sold is described as “General Household Items” “Personal Property” unless otherwise noted. Unit # – Name – Description. Value Store It 27 at 1700 Celebration Blvd, Celebration, FL. 34747 will list storage units on www. storagetreasures.com at 9:00 AM: 3105-Jose Granai/Jose Osmar Granai Junior;3112-Chris McElwain;4022-Chris McElwain;5008-Marcus Richardson/ Marcus John Richardson;5035-Christo pher Lamont Willbright Cook;5086-Jeffie Roberts/Jeffie Deeanna Roberts.

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.storag etreasures.com ending on November 11, 2022 at 11:00 am for units located at: Compass Self Storage 203 Neighbor hood 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 gen eral household, furniture, boxes, clothes and appliances. Unless Otherwise noted. #211 - Annie Senac #1050 – Ray Lee Montalvo #1166 - Scarlett Padron #2068 - Si Henderson #3016 – Monica Saurez #3086 – Fafane St. Hilaire

Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that Value Store It 29 – Ocoee 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 sales will take place on Tuesday, November 15th, 2022. The sale will be conducted under the direction of Christopher Rosa (AU4167) on behalf of the facilities management. Units will be available for viewing prior to the sale on www.storagetreasures.com. Contents will be sold for cash only to the highest bidder. A 10% buyer’s premium will be charged as well as a $50 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. No one under 16 years old is permitted to bid. The property to be sold is described as “General Household Items” “Personal Property” unless otherwise noted. Unit # – Name – Description. Value Store It 29 at 1251 Fountains West Blvd, Ocoee, FL 34761 will list storage units on www.storaget reasures.com at 11:00 AM A002 – Donel

Richemond; A010 - Glenda Ferdinand; A011 - Glenda Ferdinand; B094B Lillian Kimble/ Lillian Joyce Kimble.

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: November 16th, 2022 9:30am Mindful Storage facility: 900 Cypress Pkwy. Kissimmee, FL 34759 (321) 732-6032 The personal goods stored therein by the follow ing: #M312-Furniture, #K224-Boxes, #K210-Households, #K217-Households, #2236-Furniture, #D255-Households, #2021-Households, #2217-Households. 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 November 11th, 2022 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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2006 / TOYOT

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2013 / HYUN

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1993 / ACUR

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2005 / FORD

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2003 / CHEV

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2019 / FORD

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1998 / MAZD

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2019 / SUBA

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2013 / VOLK.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE:

ADAM AYED ENTERPRISES LLC gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on 11/11/2022, 09:00 am at 9712 RECYCLE CENTER RD ORLANDO, FL 32824- 8146, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes.

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

4A3AB36F19E028348

2009 MITS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE:

CORTES TOWING SERVICE gives notice that on 11/11/2022 at 10:00 AM the fol lowing vehicles(s) may be sold by public sale at 245 ORANGE AVE., LONGWOOD, FL 32750 to satisfy the lien for the amount owed on each vehicle for any recovery, towing, or storage services charges and administrative fees allowed pursuant to Florida statute 713.78.

KMHTC6AD1GU258244

2016 HYUN

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GEN ERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the fol lowing dates, 08:00 am at 2603 OLD DIXIE HIGHWAY KISSIMMEE, FL 34744, pursu

ant 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.

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

2T1BU4EE0CC784618

2012 TOYT

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2008 HOND

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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2004 YAMA

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 08:00 am at 10850

COSMONAUT BLVD ORLANDO, FL 32824, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. reserves the right to accept or reject any and/ or all bids.

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

3TMCZ5AN4LM336018

2020 TOYT

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1999 LEXS NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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2000 GMC

2B6HB11X9YK106816

2000 DODG

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

1FDXE45S14HB09605

2005 COAM

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2011 MAZD

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.storag etreasures.com ending on November 11th, 2022 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 . 0192 – Richard Jones 0460 – Richard Jones.

Notice of Public Sale: Personal Property of the following tenants will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash to. Contents may include household items, luggage, toys, furniture, clothing, commercial equipment, etc. Auction to be held at Compass Self Storage, 14120 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando, FL 32826 on November 11th, 2022 at 11:00 am or thereafter. Viewing at time of sale only. The owners or their agents reserve the right to bid on any unit and also to refuse any bid. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Sale is subject to adjournment. #1811-Jer emy Sharritt #2512-Melanie Gomez #1245-Tina Serrano #1704-Tracy Taylor #2311-Camille Gayles #1723-Donald Ohler #1018-Jasmine McCauley #1119-Danette Ford #1016-Angela Frey #1327-Marcos Simonelli #1346- John Wills #1223- Daph ne Hepburn #2323- Sjon Sims.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Preston’s Towing. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 07:00 am 605 E Donegan Ave, Kissimmee, FL 34744, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. Vehicles will be sold as

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

11/15/2022

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2004 CADILLAC

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2003 CHEV

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2002 FORD 11/17/2022

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2006 ACUR 2B3LA43H98H227621

2008 DODG

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2015 CHRY

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2006 CHRY

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2018 HOND KMHDH6AE8DU012799

2013 HYUN

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2006 JEP

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2012 CHEV

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2005 CHEV

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2002 FORD

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2014 NISS 11/19/2022 4S4BREJC4A2377405

2010 SUBA.

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, November 16, 2022 at approx. 10:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Ashely Jason Richards/ Meagan Orengo/ Jacob Robert Badenna/ Maleek Linder/ Malikah Howell/ Kristine Marsden/ Gary Uzcategui/ Sunita Fiona Maraj Abraham/ Steven Paul Modjeska/ Aaron Flores/ Susan Addison Stewart / Susan Stewart/ Orlando Menu Covers / AnaMaria Lopez / Miguel A. Lopez/ Lindsey Savino/

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, November 16, 2022 at approx. 11:00am at www. storagetreasures.com: John Joseph Miceli / John / Beth Gardner / Beth / Beth Elaine Gardner/ Jarquavia Ward / Vazquez Isidoro / VS / Nacarra Chee / Katrina Hunter / Sam Jackson / AJ / Tatiana Aurora / TV/ Vanessa Lamar / Ashaunteyana Nelson / A Nelson / Khorian Augustus Moore / Khorian A. Moore / Latoya Johnson / Terrance Dewayne Walton / Terrance/ Jeanine McIntyre / JM / Frisnel Mauvais / EN /

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, November 16, 2022 at approx. 11:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Daniel Nathaniel Levy/ Paige Simmons/ Paris Iman George/ Latony Ann Flint/ Jenice Deloris Gibson/ Swayne Flowers Jr/ CHARLES SMITH/ Roland E Sone/ Lisa Dyke/ Renald Victor/ Caprice Floyd/

NOTICE OF PUBLIC 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, November 16, 2022 at approx. 12:00 pm at www.storagetreasures.com: Doniel Richmond/ Theodore Washington/ Janay I Tonge/ Marquse Reshard Holiday/ Jason George Williams Jeanty/ Dalton Powell/ Dalton L Powell/ Dalton Powell Jr./ Dalton L Powell Jr./ DaltonlL Powell/ Angelica Mariann Hunter-Washington/ Gwendolyn Patrice Brown/ Paul McIn nis/ Bayo Rasul/ Nya Krigger/ Sheldon Tramaine Williams/ 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, November 17, 2022 at approx. 10:30am at www. storagetreasures.com: Labrina J SMITH/ Malik Baerga/ Battleshipp LLC /Jeremy Mesho Shipp/ Deanna Lashay Lee/ Fitta Jeanniton/ Heaven Woodard/ Shanethia Crumpton/ Alaina Sims.

Rowan de Castro Vs Simonette Carey de Castro In the court, for the County of Orange and the State of Florida. The defendant Simonette Carey De Castro, whose place of residence is unknown, is hereby notified that Rowan de Castro, plaintiff, has filed his petition in said court for dissolution of marriage.

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Inventory Coordinator needed for Baterbys Art, Framing & Furniture, Winter Park, FL to place sup. Ord. Make invt. udates, org. & det. artwork. lists. Requis. fram. sup. to maint. invt stock; Rec. artwork pri. Maint. invt. art col., meas. eval. desc. & photo. col. cont. doc. cond.& rec loc.; Devlp. budg. col. mangmt. prog. & act. Prep. & share invt. Rep. Req. Bachelor in Arts or rel. fld. FT mail resume @ 2054 SR 436, # 108-112, Winter Park, FL 32792.

Reliability Engineer for SOS Diesel Mechanical Services Inc: Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect our workshop or business operations. Jobsite: 9112 Boyce Ave, Orlando, FL 32824 Reqs: BS in Mechanical Eng. or rel +2+ years exp as Maintenance Eng, Reliability Eng. AutoCAD 2021. Send resume to Hernan Bedoya 9112 Boyce Ave, Orlando, FL 32824

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ServiceNow Inc is accepting resumes for the following position in Orlando, FL: Business Insights Analyst (ref# 6463-3249079): Automate data collection, develop & maintain analytical models. Telecommuting permitted. Email resume

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to servicenowresumesUS @servicenow.com. Or mail resume to ServiceNow Inc, Attn: Global Mobility, 2225 Lawson Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054. Resume must include job title, job ref. # 6463-3249079, full name, email & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

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ServiceNow Inc is accepting resumes for the following positions in Orlando, FL: Senior Technical Support Engineer (ref# 5823-3507156): Responsible for managing & resolving challenging issues for our partners & customers. Telecommuting permitted. Email resume to servicenow resumesUS@ servicenow.com. Or mail resume to ServiceNow Inc, Attn: Global Mobility, 2225 Lawson Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054. Resume must include job title, job ref. # 5823-3507156, full name, email & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

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