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Ginger Minj brings some Halloween hocus-pocus home

“My grandma used to always say, ‘Throw everything against the wall to see what sticks,’” Ginger Minj says.

And quite a lot has stuck.

Over the last decade, the Orlando drag performer has jumped between drag, television, film, music, books and cabaret, picking up a RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars crown along the way. This year alone has brought Stop! That! Train!, a turn as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray and Licked: For Gay, her Wicked parody with Jujubee.

Minj describes her career as built on being...
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UCF drops in national rankings along with most Florida universities

The University of Central Florida slipped one spot in the latest U.S. News & World Report college rankings, joining most of Florida’s nationally ranked public universities in losing ground from last year.

UCF moved from No. 57 to No. 58 among public universities in the 2027 Best Colleges rankings released Tuesday. The university also placed No. 121 in the broader National Universities category, which includes both public and private institutions.

Five of the eight Florida public universities i...
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Orlando's New Wave Cabaret pays spicy tribute to actor Tim Curry

New Wave Cabaret knew Tim Curry deserved a burlesque show long before they knew it would also become a goodbye. 

The Orlando burlesque and drag production company first conceived of Spicy Curry: A Tim Curry Burlesque Tribute in late 2024, back when its producers were mapping out their first slate of shows. Curry’s body of work seemed tailor-made for their stage, as an actor whose career could jump from camp to horror, fantasy to comedy and still find room to be strange, flamboyant, villainous,...
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Indie rockers Modest Mouse 'teleport' to Orlando's House of Blues this week

Modest Mouse returns to Orlando on Friday, just over a year after their last performance at House of Blues, this time behind latest record, An Eraser and a Maze. 

For vocalist and longtime core member Isaac Brock, part of the reward of still being on the road after three decades leading Modest Mouse is looking out at his audience and seeing more than one generation staring back.

“Once you go out there and see that everyone is the same age as you, you’re done! You know, when I was younger, this...
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Honorary Orlandoans Arrows in Action play two big gigs at the Social

The gamer-to-musician pipeline exploded after games like 2005’s Guitar Hero and its later cousin, Rock Band, turned living rooms into makeshift stages. For Gainesville’s Arrows in Action, two of the trio’s members found their rhythm about five feet from a TV screen, plastic instruments in hand.

“I got to a level where the notes wouldn’t even show up on the screen anymore, so I basically memorized all of ‘Enter Sandman.’ At that point, I didn’t even play the drums, but I remember thinking, ‘I th...
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Brightline files for bankruptcy, secures $490M to keep trains on track in Orlando

Brightline’s parent companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, securing $490 million in new financing. Service between Orlando and South Florida continues.

Brightline Trains Florida LLC, which operates the passenger service, is not part of the bankruptcy filing, and the company says trains will continue running normally throughout the restructuring.

“This is a financial restructuring that is not expected to impact operations,” Nicolas Petrovic, CEO of Brightline Train Deve...
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Central Florida Sounds of Freedom Band and Color Guard Celebrates 15 Years of LGBTQIA+ Community with ‘Resilience’

Within the walls of First United Church of Christ in Orlando, the team that has made “Resilience” beat its tune for years honors the LGBTQIA+ community with perseverance through music. The sounds of tuning instruments and early rehearsal notes filled the room on Thursday, May 21, as members of the Central Florida Sounds of Freedom Band and Color Guard prepared for their upcoming performance, which will celebrate the organization’s 15th anniversary.

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