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Gideon’s Bakehouse opening flagship shop in Disney Springs

“Gideon’s original location opened in late 2016 at Orlando’s East End Market with one employee and an $800 budget … To go from a 286-SF bakery to the international stage that Disney draws is a remarkable experience.” – Steve Lewis Gideon’s Bakehouse (Facebook | Website) has just announced that it will be opening a second […]

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Ask Bungalower: What’s up with the walls that block College Park from Parramore

“Hey Bungalower, what’s up with the BLACK FENCES that block College Park from Parramore?” – Bungalower Reader In 1994, cut-through traffic in south College Park, just north of Colonial Drive, was seen as a major contributing factor to crime in the area – according to AreaVibes.com, College Park has a D+ for Crime Rates based […]

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Council votes to expand Downtown Food Truck Program

A request to expand the Downtown Food Truck Program as part of the Mobile Food Vending Pilot Program was expanded through September 1, 2020, at this week’s City Council Meeting. The expanded program was authorized to continue the operation of food trucks on city rights-of-way at the current hubs designated at Heritage Square and Sperry […]

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Hop on a scavenger hunt of local black-owned businesses for Juneteenth

Juneteenth falls on Friday, June 19 this year and you can celebrate the emancipation of the last remaining enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy by going on a scavenger hunt of local Black-owned businesses. Black Friday Juneteenth 2020 is a free event that is encouraging Orlandoans to shop local and to shop Black this week. […]

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Petition to rename Division Avenue making the rounds

A petition on Change.org has been launched to rename Division Avenue west I-4. A number of Orlando residents see the street name as a testament to a racially-segregated past where the road functioned to separate black and white neighborhoods in The City Beautiful. Something which is fairly evident in this map we shared in earlier […]

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Historic Art and History Museums – Maitland gate struck by car

UPDATE: The driver of the truck has been revealed to be a 16-year-old male. His father contacted Bungalower to say that they are working with the museum and their insurance to cover the damage and that his son will be required to volunteer at the museum as well. The historic Main Garden gate and archway […]

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Milk District business wins grant from American Express

Vintage clothing shop Etoile Boutique (Facebook | Website) in the Milk District has just been selected as one of ten nationwide recipients of the American Express Future of Shopping Small Grant Program. The program was designed to support small business retail stores that work with new approaches to traditional business strategies and those that are […]

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New “Celestial Apes” mural installed in Mills 50

Over a year ago, Bungalower teamed up with our friends at Ivanhoe Park Brewing Company (Facebook | Website) in Ivanhoe Village to launch a limited edition Arnold Palmer-inspired beer called a “Bungalower Lemonade.” The local brewery donated $1 of every beer to our newsroom to fund a public art piece. We used those funds to […]

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Bungalower and The Bus – Episode 175 (Eden Bar)

The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the hosts alone and do not reflect the official policy or position of Bungalower Media, our readers, or our advertisers. For our 175th episode, we saddled up at the newly-opened Eden Bar ant Enzian Theater which has finally been allowed to screen movies again […]

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Orlando Sentinel ends mugshot gallery series

The Orlando Sentinel has announced that it will end its contentious mugshot gallery series, effective end-of-day Friday, June 12. “We’ve come to realize that without context, the galleries have little journalistic value and may have reinforced negative stereotypes.” – ORLANDO SENTINEL “ The announcement follows a trend of policy updates from newspaper companies across the […]

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House of the Day: 2/2 industrial loft in Thornton Park asking $315,000

SPONSORED: This two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo is located in Thornton Park Central at 10 N. Summerlin Avenue [GMap] in the middle of everything, with easy access to Lake Eola, the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Amway, popular restaurants, and more. The 1,465 SF loft features high ceilings and exposed columns and ductwork, warmed by […]