This is our latest rundown of the top ten things you need to know this week, in Orlando’s downtown “bungalow neighborhoods.” Click HERE to listen to Episode 307 of Bungalower and The Bus on Real Radio 104.1, recorded at the always beautiful, Deadwords Brewing, as part of our ongoing radio residency there.
TOP TEN HEADLINES
- Happy New Year, y’all! A lot happened in 2022, so we rounded up our top ten most-read Bungalower stories for the year to help you keep track.
- A touring drag show attracted a protest and a warning from the State of Florida and the HBO series, We’re Here, just aired a two-part episode filmed in Central Florida. Neither of which paint the area as particularly diverse.
- Food carts are disappearing from the Central Business District and one of our readers asked us to look into it.
- There’s a cat circus coming to town and the kitties can do all the tricks, like balancing on balls and playing musical instruments.
- There’s a new taco shop downtown and they have a french fry dish full of hot dogs if that’s your kinda thing.
- Orlando Business Journal just hired a new editor-in-chief.
- “The Wheel at ICON Park loses power, dozens of people rescued from ride, official says.” – FOX 35
- “Year in Review: The most important Orlando stories of 2022.” – Orlando Weekly
- “State agency threatens The Plaza Orlando’s license over drag show.” – Watermark
- “Pictures: FSU wins 2022 Cheez-It Bowl.” – Orlando Sentinel
ICYMI – (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)
- “Airbnb continues to ban New Year’s Eve parties in Orlando.” – 90.7 WMFE
- “Bring to Orlando: Projected crosswalks and bike lanes.” – Bungalower
- “Cool Job Alert: Gift Shop Clerk at Mennello Museum.” – Bungalower
- “Orlando Bike coalition looking for new board members.” – Bungalower
- “EA launches scholarship, names UCF Downtown students as inaugural recipients.” – The Community Paper
- “National Entrepreneur Center names new president.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “Neighborhood Opportunity Index highlights clear path to community action, investments.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “Fewer falling iguanas in Florida’s future? Reptile invaders may be adapting to cold.” – Orlando Sentinel
- “Region’s biggest sewage plant goes dark, spills 1.5m gallons, recovers most.” – Orlando Sentinel
- “Turning Winter Park’s Park Avenue into a main street.” – Orlando Sentinel
- “The Undie Awards: Honoring the biggest Orlando music happenings in 2022.” – Orlando Weekly
- “Community activists try and end turf wars without law enforcement help.” – Spectrum News 13
- “Top 10 of 2022: Our favorite public spaces.” – Azure Magazine
- “17 Books about cities we read this year.” – Bloomberg CityLab
- “How Jersey City got to zero traffic deaths on its streets.” – Bloomberg CityLab
- “Seven inspiring global street transformations.” – Bloomberg CityLab
- “Every large parking lot in France will soon be covered in solar panels.” – Reasons To Be Cheerful
- “Home is where the art is.” – Reasons To Be Cheerful
- “New Zealand’s urban forests welcome a birdlife boom.” – Reasons To Be Cheerful
- “Developer should be challenged on deterioration of The Villages’ lifestyle.” – Village News
HOT EVENTS THIS WEEK
- Tuesday 1/3: Bungalower Drag Bingo and Music Video Dance Party (Baldwin Park)
- Tuesday 1/3: Zine Meetup at Joybird Books (Audubon Park)
- Thursday 1/5: Motorcycle Slow Drag Race (Downtown)
- Thursday 1/5: US Citizenship Test Trivia at Deadwords Brewing (West Orlando)
- Friday 1/6: 6 Guitars Featuring Chase Padgett (Ivanhoe Village)
- Friday 1/6: Danny Attack, Mickey Sharp, Cat Ridgeway, and Charlene Joan (Audubon Park)