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Orlando's Amway Center changes name to Kia Center
Orlando's main city venue will no longer be named after a protein powder pyramid scheme
By Jessica Bryce Young
Tags: Orlando Area News, Orlando Sports, Orlando Magic, Amway Center, Kia Center, Orlando concerts, Orlando venues, downtown Orlando, Slideshow
Florida women’s shitty behavior at Orlando-area restaurant leads to arrests
It all started with a clogged toilet
Tags: Orlando Area News, Florida, toilets, wings
Orlando Weekly is now part of Chava Communications
Leaving the Euclid Media Group fold, four publications and experienced leadership create a new thing
By Jessica Bryce Young and Sanford Nowlin
Tags: Orlando Area News, Chava Communications, Orlando Weekly, independent media
DeSantis ‘reloads’ presidential run by replacing his campaign manager
Don’t call it a reboot, please — definitely do not think about boots, white boots, boots of any kind
By Jessica Bryce Young and News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Elections, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, presidential election, 2024, campaign, election, Generra Peck, James Uthmeier
Young Florida man charged with animal cruelty for using baby gator to shotgun a Twisted Tea
This isn't even the first time we've written about this
Tags: Orlando Area News, Environment, Florida Man, Florida wildlife, alligators, baby gator, Arizona Twisted Tea, stupid teen tricks
Gov. Ron DeSantis dubbed 'current Grand Wizard' of Florida on Tony Awards broadcast
Denee Benton said what she said.
Tags: Orlando Area News, Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, racism in Florida, Florida's racist past, theater, theatre, Tony Awards, Plantation Florida, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Grand Wizard
Pat Robertson, known for LGBT hate speech and a certain disgusting statement about the Orlando Pulse shootings, is dead
Too soon? Nah, long overdue.
Tags: Views + Opinions, Pulse, Pat Robertson, Pulse, Orlando Pulse shootings, fake Christians, hate speech
Black bear spotted in downtown Orlando, hanging out in a tree at Lake Eola
OPD and FWC worked together to capture the bear
Tags: Orlando Area News, Environment, Orlando bear sighting, bear in Orlando, Lake Eola bear, Lake Eola, Orlando wildlife
Florida furries convention forced to add age restriction by DeSantis' drag law
The MegaPlex meetup for furries and fans is using an abundance of caution regarding DeSantis' pet anti-drag law
Tags: Orlando Area News, furries, megaplex, Orlando cons, Florida slate of hate, fandoms, cosplay, drag, SB 1438, DeSantis, Christian nationalism, Gilead
Florida school bans Amanda Gorman's inauguration poem after parent complains of ‘hate messages’
The parent attributed ‘The Hill We Climb’ to Oprah Winfrey
Tags: Florida News, Education, Florida book bans, parents rights in education, Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
East of Orlando, a small plane landed in the middle of Colonial Drive
No injuries are reported, but it has caused yet another traffic snarl on a morning already full of them.
Tags: Orlando Area News, Orlando traffic, Colonial Drive, unscheduled plane landing, private plane emergency, Christmas, Bithlo, Orange County Florida, accidents, roadways
One smashed armadillo shut down Orlando International Airport for an hour
There was only one working runway for about 20 minutes
Tags: Orlando Area News, Environment, MCO, Orlando airport, Florida wildlife, travel delays, Orlando International Airport
Florida loves turtles so much these drivers risked death to protect one
The multi-vehicle highway pileup was caused by one truck stopping dead for a turtle crossing the road
Tags: Florida News, Environment, Florida wildlife, traffic safety, multi-car crash, turtles, Walton County, Florida SR 331
Viral TikTok seems to show tiny girl being crushed by scooter at Disney
Incoming squish!
Tags: Orlando Area News, Orlando Theme Parks, Disney World, Disneyland, mobility scooters, safety at theme parks, Walt Disney World Resort
‘Too wiggly’: Orange County Animal Shelter volunteer arrested for dragging dog to its death
Roman, a 15-week-old puppy, died after going into shock from being strangled
Tags: Orlando Area News, animal rights, animal protective services, animal cruelty, adopt don't shop, pit bulls, adoptable dogs, pet shelters, Orange County Animal Services Pet Rescue and Adoption Center
This letter from State Attorney Monique Worrell to Gov. Ron DeSantis is the spiciest thing you’ll see on the internet today
Words were NOT minced
Tags: Orlando Area News, Ron DeSantis, state attorney office, SAO9, Monique Worrell, Ron DeSantis, prancing, DeSantis campaign, Andrew Warren, Aramis Ayala, shot fired, Ron DeSantis is having a bad month
Orlando flight interrupted because man has beef with crying baby
The only sure things in life: death, taxes, and any plane in or out of MCO is full of kids.
Tags: Orlando Area News, Orlando International Airport, MCO, flights to Orlando, Orlando airport, kids in Orlando, Orlando Tik Tok
Florida moves swiftly to sever contract with emergency alert system provider
Everbridge fucked around and found out
Tags: Florida News, Florida emergency alert, Division of Emergency Management, FLSERT, phone alerts, scary notifications, sleep cycles
Mass hysteria, grumpiness ensues as Florida Division of Emergency Management ruins everyone’s morning
They later apologized for the test alert, saying it was meant to be on TV, not phones
By Jessica Bryce Young and Chloe Greenberg
Tags: Orlando Area News, Florida emergency alert, Florida Division of Emergency Management, phone alert test, Slideshow
Vote now in the first round of the Best of Orlando® 2023
Shoot your shot! You have until May 15 to write in your favorites
Tags: Orlando Area News
It's hard to keep up with the cultivated chaos Gov. Ron DeSantis is wreaking on Florida schools
But here are some of the recent lowlights
By McKenna Schueler and Jessica Bryce Young
Tags: Florida News, Education
The best decisions you can make in Orlando this year
New Year, new all of us
By J.D. Casto, Ida V. Eskamani, Bao Le-Huu, Matthew Moyer, Nicolette Shurba and Jessica Bryce Young
Tags: Orlando Area News, resolutions, reset, New Year, Cover Story
By the numbers: The most-read Orlando Weekly stories of the year
2022 in review
Year in Review: The most important Orlando stories of 2022
From rent control to redistricting, this was the news that meant the most
By Alex Galbraith, Matthew Moyer, McKenna Schueler and Jessica Bryce Young
Orlando Weekly's endorsements for the 2022 midterm elections
It's go time
By Matthew Moyer and Jessica Bryce Young
Tags: Orlando Area News, Elections + Politics, voting guide, Orange County, midterms elections, Cover Story
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Orange County taxpayers will have to cover OnePulse’s unpaid property tax bill
By McKenna Schueler
Icon Park’s Wheel renamed Orlando Eye in Merlin Entertainments purchase
By Sarah Harwell
Orlando restaurant openings and closings: Boxer and Clover in East End Market, The Fry Shoppe, Paletas Morelia and more
By Faiyaz Kara
The waterfront mansion formerly home to DJ Khaled is now on the market, and it comes with some wild amenities. The Grammy-winning…
By Chloe Greenberg
The home of "The Suntan King" has finally found a new owner. Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion founder Ron Rice passed away at…
By Colin Wolf
Orlando Amphitheater on Saturday hosted Music Fest ORL, an outdoor concert set to feature a number of big names in the hip-hop…
By Matt Keller Lehman
Orlando musician and folk-music star Aoife O'Donovan threw an album-release party for her new LP All My Friends at Park Ave CDs on…
By Jim Leatherman
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