Posted By Matthew Moyer on Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:05 AM click image Photo courtesy Creative City Project/Facebook Immerse The Creative City Project in 2021 are bringing back the event they are best known for the Immerse performing-arts takeover of downtown Orlando. From Oct. 15-17, Creative City Project will turn 10 city blocks of downtown Orlando into a staging area for a dazzling array of performing arts, visual arts, installation and music, which can be experienced up close and personal, fore free. Though Creative City Project tabled Immerse in 2020, they were by no means idle over the last year, putting on smaller-scale immersive and themed events such as the holiday event Dazzling Nights, the
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The bougie have come for every little corner of impoverished life. They took the dive bar away, dimming the lights on cocktail joints and setting out a bowl of peanuts to cover the scent of money. They turned street food and deli counter sandwiches into pop-up events and food truck rallies. Now they are coming for the very adjective beer-soaked, albeit in a hoity-toity, sideways sort of way. A beer spa is being planned for Orlando. The concept allows guests to soak and bloat, drinking beer or wine while floating in a bath of beer. Afterwards, guests can relax in something called a hay lounge, presumably like sitting on the ground in a barn, hopefully with more pleasing smells.
Posted By Matthew Moyer on Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 2:09 PM click to enlarge The cast of Disarm Hate Pulse-inspired documentary
Disarm Hate will be available for a free virtual screening in May courtesy the OnePulse Foundation. Disarm Hate is a doc and travelogue that follows a group of LGBTQ+ activists on an RV journey from Lost Angeles to a massive gun-control rally in Washington D.C. in the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016. Harvey Fierstein lends his unmistakable voice to the film as narrator and trans activist Ashlee0Marie Preston is both a cast member
and Executive Producer. The documentary premiered exclusively at the Orlando Film Fest last October, and now the director s cut of the film will be up for free viewing on Wednesday, May 19 from 7-8:30 p.m.
Posted By Ken Storey on Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 3:05 PM click to enlarge Photo via SeaWorld Many know Jack Hanna from his television appearances, but his connections run deeper in Central Florida. After a long career that saw him exploring some of the most remote parts of the planet and helping revolutionize modern zoological facilities, Hanna’s family confirmed he was retiring from public life due to struggles with dementia. In a letter shared by the family, they explained that his condition, believed to be Alzheimer’s disease, has progressed faster than anticipated over the past few months. Hanna made a name for himself while leading the Columbus Zoo, where he served as the Executive Director for fourteen years and remained active until his retirement last ye
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Florida s Republican politicians continue to push for the resumption of cruises. Following repeated calls from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to repeal a CDC order keeping ships from sailing without passing rigorous tests, US senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio have launched a bill that would do just that. The Careful Resumption Under Improved Safety Enhancements (CRUISE) Act would end the CDC s conditional order, which requires that cruises demonstrate the ability to test employees rapidly, sail test case cruises to demonstrate that they are implementing COVID-19 mitigation and go through a certification process overseen by the CDC before they can return to passenger cruises.