We’re a little behind here (putting out a beer issue turns out to be a lot harder than you’d think), but here’s a quick update on the fatal attack on a Lake Eola swan by a dachshund. The Orlando Police Department says that detectives were able to determine through an investigation that “this was...
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This horrible incident happened at Lake Eola this week. Those poor swans get no respect. From the OPD’s event sheet about the incident: On 03-05-2013 at approximately 1130 hours I Officer Castro 13707 responded to 101 N. Rosalind Ave. at the city park office in reference to a swan that had been attacked by...
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Lining the shores of Lake Eola Park, this two-day culinary adventure has guests tasting the likes of Fogo de Chao’s sliced picanha (top sirloin), Dexter’s street tacos and New England lobster rolls from Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.
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We made it. It’s not all about the Mouse ears that puts us on the map – we now have a “true” Orlando Edition of Monopoly. Not that crummy, fanny pack version made in the late 1990′s, this one is created for the local. This unauthorized game calls out joints like Stardust Coffee and...
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Get ready for two days of extreme watersports – wakeboarding, waterskiing and cable kneeboarding – as well as more than 20 live bands playing along the shore-side stages.
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It's a two-day eats-and-alky jumble with the tagline “A treat for all the senses.”
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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 people affiliated with the group Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested yesterday at Lake Eola Park for holding an unpermitted food sharing with over 25 people. Those arrested were Samantha Simpson and Eric Montanez, who are both 25 years old. The arrests were notable given that Montanez was the first and only...
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According to several reports, four members of the group Food not Bombs were arrested this morning at Lake Eola Park for violating the city’s “Large Group Feeding” ordinance by doling out free food to more than 25 people. (For more information on the ordinance and the group, click here and/or here.) The Orlando Police...
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Orlando police finally chose to exercise the city’s recently reinstated authority to enforce its controversial public feeding ordinance yesterday evening, arresting three Food not Bombs members at Lake Eola Park. The activists include Jessica Cross, 24, Ben Markeson, 50, and Keith McHenry, 54 and still visiting from New Mexico and considered the founder of...
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