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 413 of “Bungalower and The Bus” on Real Radio 104.1 FM, recorded at Ivanhoe Park Brewing Co. with the amazing Ryan Lynch from Orlando Business Journal.

TOP TEN HEADLINES
- Former Orlando Museum of Art director, Aaron De Groft, has passed away.
- Former city commissioner Regina Hill’s trial has been delayed again to give her team more time for deposition, including the deposition of her son who accidentally provided evidence against her to the FBI when he confirmed that he did not sign misspelled signatures in his name on his mother’s paperwork.
- The City of Winter Park is hosting a grand opening for its long-awaited Progress Point-turned-Seven Oaks Park on February 8.
- Tamale Co. is opening a restaurant in College Park in the former Graffiti Junktion/Mid Drive Dive on Edgewater Drive.
- If you like chicken wings (everyone likes chicken wings) Sideward Brewing is hosting a Lord of the Rings-inspired event, Lord of the Wings, on January 29.
- Cool Job Alert: Exhibitions Associate at Orange County Regional History Center.
- Central Florida Public Media is looking for its new Emerging Journalist Fellow for 2025. It’s a great opportunity for recent journalism or media graduates. And it pays.
- “Two more Orlando officers investigated for ‘working’ shifts from home.” – WFTV 9
- “Visit Orlando worker arrested in child porn case, US attorney says.” – Click Orlando
- “The Magic Mile: How changes to Magnolia Avenue may create the next Park Avenue.” – Orlando Business Journal
ICYMI – (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT)
- “Disney’s Cirque show, Blue Man, and ‘Genie’ to headline Immerse 2025 festival in Downtown Orlando.” – Attractions Magazine
- “A “Star Wars”-themed burlesque show is coming to the Fairgrounds.” – Bungalower
- ““Data Errors” lead to holiday drone crash.” – Bungalower
- “Downtown library hosting book sale this weekend.” – Bungalower
- “The Hammered Lamb to close on January 25, with final brunch and Sunset Happy Hour.” – Bungalower
- “Local wrestling hotties Mayhem on Mills return to Thornton Park, February 2.” – Bungalower
- “Mennello Museum hosting annual Indie-Folkfest, February 15.” – Bungalower
- “Central Florida immigration attorneys get more calls for help after Trump actions.” – Central Florida Public Media
- “The science behind why Florida has seen more snow than Alaska this winter.” – Central Florida Public Media
- “$650M: Orlando International Airport to revamp outdated baggage system.” – Click Orlando
- “Legoland Florida guts entertainment department with 234 layoffs.” – Florida Politics
- “How Orlando wants to create the region’s next Park Ave downtown.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “Orlando’s 25 stories to watch in 2025.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “The region’s 20 most economically unstable neighborhoods.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “What Brightline’s record Orlando-to-Miami ridership means.” – Orlando Business Journal
- “Orlando needs a homeless shelter. Residents, hospital push to keep it out.” – Orlando Sentinel
- “What happens if ICE comes to an Orange school? OCPS will follow law as Trump pushes deportations.” – Orlando Sentinel
- “WESH 2’s Christina Watkins writes children’s book in memory of older sister.” – WESH 2
- “Orlando Cat Cafe becomes first cat cafe in the U.S. to offer franchise model.” – West Orlando News

- “Fully restored historic 3/2 Lake Cherokee home with full detached guest suite asking $1,750,000.”
- “3/2 Coytown orange creamsicle home asking $585,000.”
- “New construction townhome at The Brix at the Packing District asking $629,995.”

- “Trump revives ‘Anarchist’ label for cities, ‘beautiful’ building push.” – Bloomberg CityLab
- “Vienna embraces heat pumps to ditch Russian gas.” – Bloomberg CityLab
- “What LA’s fires mean for the city’s housing shortage.” – Bloomberg CityLab
- “Learning from Savannah.” – CNU
- “Tulsa Global District’s a new kind of Main Street.” – CNU
- “How superblocks can create people-centered cities.” – Reasons to be Cheerful

HOT EVENTS THIS WEEK
- Monday 1/27: Orlando City Council Meeting (Downtown)
- Monday 1/27: The Orlando House Music Party Vol. 22 (Milk District)
- Tuesday 1/28: Judson’s Live – Forgotten Broadway (Downtown)
- Tuesday 1/28: Orlando Solar Bears vs. Jacksonville Icemen (Parramore)
- Wednesday 1/29: DOP’s Downtown Business Forum – DTO Action Plan (Downtown)
- Thursday 1/30: The Bikinis at Winter Park Playhouse (Winter Park)
- Thursday 1/30: Diversitastic! Dining – Colombia (Out of Bounds)
- Friday 1/31: Florida Dungeon Fest 2025 – Two Days of Dungeon Synth (Audubon Park)
- Friday 1/31: The Legendary JC‘s and Rod Hamdallah (Mills 50)
- Friday 1/31: Pilobolus at Dr. Phillips Center (Downtown)