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House of the Day: Four-bedroom Park Lake Highland home asking $1,995,000

UPDATE: An open house is scheduled for 1-4 p.m. this Saturday and Sunday. This four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath home is located at 735 Terrace Boulevard [GMap] in the Park Lake Highland neighborhood near downtown Orlando. The New England-style 3,798 SF home was built in 1930 and features four stories on the shores of Lake Highland, blending historic […]

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Ring in the Lunar New Year at the 2024 Dragon Parade, Feb 25

The tenth annual Dragon Parade is scheduled for Sunday, February 25 at 11 a.m. in the Mills 50 District, and the route will start at the intersection of Lake Highland Drive and Mills Avenue before making its way along Thornton Avenue to Colonial Drive. The annual event is a major tradition in the neighborhood and […]

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WPRK hosting annual Giving Day Celebration and Live Broadcast, Feb. 20

WPRK 91.5 FM, the official radio station for Rollins College, will host a special fundraising broadcast on February 20, 2024 as part of its annual Giving Day celebrations. The 24-hour, college-wide fundraising initiative. will feature local bands for nine straight hours, from 10 a.m.-7 p.m., aired live on 91.5 FM with a video livestream on […]

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French chef opening macaron factory in Packing District

Award-winning French chef and pastry expert, Olivier Saintemarie (LinkedIn), is opening a new commercial kitchen in Orlando to supply theme parks, restaurants, and other businesses around the country with his special brand of desserts. Once open, La Maison Du Macaron will produce macarons and other French pastries with locally sourced ingredients, for wholesale clients and […]

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Hungry Pants has closed

Popular local restaurant, Hungry Pants (Facebook | Website), has closed. The owner, Alex Marin, took to Instagram to share the sad news that he would be shutting down his restaurant for the “plant-curious” effective immediately. The award-winning restaurant specialized in plant-centric food with meat add-ons available and was ranked in the Top 100 Restaurants in the US by […]

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History Center issuing call for African-American craft artists

The Orange County Regional History Center has issued a call for both established and emerging Central Florida-based African-American craft artists to participate in a new project in collaboration with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the Craft Emergency Relief Fund. The History Center is one of only four organizations nationally selected to […]