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 363 of “Bungalower and The Bus” on Real Radio 104.1 FM, which was recorded at The Acre Orlando ahead of YogaHigh, the new event series Bungalower Media has launched in partnership with Cookies Cannabis. Also, thank you to everyone who came out to the Faded Kingdom beer festival in Baldwin Park. We were proud sponsors of this year’s event and loved seeing so many bungalower readers having a great time.
TOP TEN HEADLINES
- Our first-ever YogaHigh event at The Acre was a big success thanks to our partners at The Acre Orlando, MCO Resources, our sponsor Cookies Cannabis, and all of our attendees. Read all about this medical marijuana-fueled yoga series and our crackerjack instructors ahead of our next to events in February. Oh, and check out the digital version of this month’s newspaper while you’re at it, better yet, email our Partnerships Director, Mike Donohue, about sponsoring an ad in the February issue an support our hyper-local news efforts by getting in front of our amazing readers.
- Only one Orlando restaurant managed to place in Yelp’s Top 100 US Restaurants this year.
- Terry Olson is retiring from his position at Orange County, which means we’ve got a really hot Cool Job Alert for you to check out this week. And one of his former office mates got a fancy gig in the new Cultural Tourism Department that opened this week.
- Miami’s celebrity-fueled House of Mac closed its Orlando location just short of a year after opening just south of downtown.
- Orange County Library System is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Dorothy Lumley Melrose Center for Technology, Innovation, and Creativity, and we’re celebrating a decade of having to type it all out.
- If you’re a Winter Park resident or a contractor who cares for a lawn or property there, you’ve only got a few more months to swap out your gas-guzzling leaf blower for a new electric one. Because that’s the law in these here parts.
- There’s a local opera about the friendship between Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Which seems like a very specific demographic.
- “Orlando’s Kabooki Sushi, Kadence, and Kaya earn 2024 James Beard Award nominations.” – Orlando Weekly
- “What’s next after Orange County OKs TDT funds for 2 projects and cuts Visit Orlando budget.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “Commissioners move to reduce money to Visit Orlando.” – 90.7 WMFE
ICYMI – (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)
- “Postcard exhibit offers nostalgic snapshot of statewide tourism.” – The 32789
- “City drops charges against homeless man caught sitting on sidewalk downtown.” – Bungalower
- “Shows I Go To hosting one last Backyard Comedy Show this weekend.” – Bungalower
- “Orlando Hooters sued by parent after child slips on mold outside.” – FOX 35
- “Tavistock Group owner Joe Lewis pleads guilty to securities fraud, insider trading charges.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “Winter Park to vote on Rollins College construction project in Hannibal Square.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “The 27 most romantic restaurants and bars in Orlando.” – Orlando Weekly
- “Danilo’s Pasta Bar mastermind DJ Tangalin to kick off ‘Chef Night’ series at Edible Education Experience.” – Orlando Weekly
- “Hockey team restarted at Rollins.” – The Sandspur
- “Britain’s pavement hell: How messy, broken streets ruin people’s lives.” – The Guardian
- “Put a rink on it.” – The New York Times
- “Paris is great, but here’s where the green mobility revolution is happening.” – Planetizen
- “Placemaking by shredding.” – Planning.org
HOT EVENTS THIS WEEK
- Monday 1/29: Audubon Park Community Market (Audubon Park)
- Monday 1/29: Orlando Solar Bears vs. Atlanta Gladiators (Parramore)
- Tuesday 1/30: NO BINGO THIS WEEK (Baldwin Park)
- Wednesday 1/31: 23rd Annual Mayor’s Job Fair (West Orlando)
- Wednesday 1/31: The Pollenettes at Lil Indies (Mills 50)
- Friday 2/1: International Orlando Record Convention (West Orlando)
- Friday 2/1: Movie Night at Leu Gardens – “Groundhog Day” (Audubon Park)