Orlando Arts Blog:
UPDATE: The next MOOM is December 11, 2009, 8am-9am at Blank Spaces in downtown Orlando)The Daily City's most recent live event was the fifth incarnation of our monthly creative meetup called TheDailyCity.com MOOM on Friday, November 20, 2009, 8am-9am at Urban Think! Bookstore (625 East Central Boulevard, Orlando). United A (Read More)
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Florida's Blood Centers will limit board members' terms, shake up staff, examine executive pay With a state Senate investigation of its practices heating up, Metro Orlando's largest blood center said Friday that it will no longer do busin (Read More)
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Teocca Thompson-Thomas was ready to bury the ashes of her father, a World War II veteran, in Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell when the funeral director called with bad news.
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Photo credit: Liberatr.netFlorida Creatives' monthly meetup was Monday November 16, 2009 in downtown Orlando. Its a three- year old tradition for geeks, artists, writers and a smattering of theatre folk. Its a great opportunity to meet people in a relaxed atmosphere and just chat. Highly recommended. And speaking of creativ (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
A family of three was bound, blindfolded and held captive for three days before the mother was able to jump from a second story window and escape, MyFoxOrlando reported. (Read More)
Orlando Arts Blog:
Light Up UCF offers "the area's biggest free holiday light show, free outdoor Holiday Film Festival and Orlando's largest outdoor skating rink. For 2009, Light Up UCF is Bigger and Brighter offering all-new rides and attractions including Santa’s Village, the Arctic Glide Ice Slide, Kris Kringle’s Carousel and McDonald’s Fe (Read More)
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Rick Desrochers is leaving. He and his wife are moving in with her parents in Michigan after the couple lost their jobs, their home to foreclosure, and everything else to bankruptcy. The trauma of going broke in the Sunshine State has convinced them that when t (Read More)
Orlando Arts Blog:
On on November 11, we put out a call for volunteers to pour wine at the Orlando Food & Wine Festival, which benefits the Childrens Home Society of Florida. Well, good news. We found from a reliable source involved in putting on the event that THREE readers of this blog signed up to volunteer because they saw that November (Read More)
Orlando Arts Blog:
These are out picks for the best events to attend and the best places to "shop local" for the 2009 holiday season. Send us your picks. EventsFestival of Trees | November 14-22Holiday at Heritage Square | December 2Singing Christmas Trees | December 4-6 & 11-13Avalon Aglow Parade| December 5Holiday Dinner For the Animals | D (Read More)
Orlando Arts Blog:
Truth or Dare (produced by Heidi Dog Productions) at The Peacock Room (1321 N. Mills Ave., Orlando, FL) has quickly (in 5 months) become a popular monthly boozy theatre-loving-crowd Orlando event. Its like Cabaret Party, minus the UCF undergrads actually singing. Its a talk show with two hosts, both of whom can hold their o (Read More)
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Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman University will meet in the 30th annual Florida Classic next Saturday. But will the game remain here in the future?
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The panel that oversees the SunRail commuter train that would run in Central Florida met for the first time in nearly a year Friday, with chairman Buddy Dyer exuding confidence that the $1.2 billion project may finally become a reality.
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Orlando Arts Blog:
The Avalon Aglow Christmas Parade will take place in downtown Avalon Park (off Alafaya Trail south of S.R. 50 in East Orlando) Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009, 4-9pm, and will include a Santa Claus float, snow, fireworks, caroling and entertainment. The parade kicks off “Avalon Aglow,”(that link leads to a blank page on the Avalon P (Read More)
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An Orlando motorist died early Thursday in a two-car collision on Osceola Parkway, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
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