Last night, Church Street’s Mojo Cajun Bar & Grill hosted Orlando City Soccer Club’s Supporters Summit. A horde of soccer fans, ranging from 20-somethings in red Orlando City T-shirts and scarves to men in tailored sports coats to a family of four carrying an infant, crowded Mojo’s bar and upstairs balcony areas for the...
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See that blurry diorama nightmare up there? That was the centerpiece of today’s State of Downtown chamber-gnosh at the Amway Center – it’s a bit of child’s play issued by the students of the Nap Ford charter school in Parramore, fyi, so … sweet! And, oh, how we wished it coulda-woulda ended with just...
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Secily Wilson and Margot Knight host the United Arts Arts+ Awards On Monday night, October 3rd, United Arts of Central Florida handed out their 2011 Arts+ Awards to honor some of the most significant contributors to Orlando’s arts scene. The ten year old event was hosted at SeaWorld’s “Ports of Call” ballroom, and was...
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The city of Orlando will drop all criminal charges against the 25 activists arrested for violating the city’s Large Group Feeding ordinance, Mayor Buddy Dyer announced today. Given that the group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) has been sharing food in front of City Hall without incident for the past two months, the Mayor...
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After yesterday’s article by Mark Schlueb in the Orlando Sentinel on the “truce” between the city and Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB), as well as our own coverage of the group in this week’s edition of Happytown, some of those affiliated with OFNB have taken umbrage with the media’s verbiage. Both the Sentinel and...
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On the morning of July 11, Mayor Buddy Dyer and the City Commission attended a budget presentation given by the city’s chief financial officer, Rebecca Sutton. One of the handouts, reproduced at the bottom of this post, contained this piece of information in the introduction: “In response to the economic downturn, the City reduced its...
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A grinning Mayor Buddy Dyer and Festival Republic’s Melvin Benn convened at Gibson showroom about 15 minutes ago to announce what they’d already leaked: the first annual Orlando Calling lineup, to be played out Nov. 12-13 at the Citrus Bowl. America the Beautiful was the theme as Benn hammered home his pride in bringing...
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The group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) held its regular Monday food sharing in this morning in an irregular spot—the steps of City Hall. The group is taking Mayor Buddy Dyer up on his invitation to “let Food Not Bombs gather in front of City Hall any time they liked, saying he’d even donate...
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Two more activists affiliated with the group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) were arrested yesterday at Lake Eola Park, bringing the toll of those arrested for holding unpermitted food sharings at the park to 27 since June 1. Though the arrests have occurred with an almost tedious regularity, yesterday marked an important shift in...
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Though Mayor Buddy Dyer has accused the group Orlando Food Not Bombs of orchestrating recent cyberattacks on the websites of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce and Universal Studios, today’s events should serve as evidence that “Commander X” and his/her cohorts are likely not residents of Orlando, or even Florida, for that matter. That’s...
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