Our beloved Amway Arena will soon be replaced by the… Amway Events Center, down near the intersection of I-4 and 408. This means the current Arena and that huge parking lot will become mostly useless. The Bob Carr will remain in operation – possibly indefinitely – until the new Performing Arts Center is built. As for the rest of the land, well, let’s just say that Mayor Buddy has big dreams!
There are lots of watercolor drawings and slideshows with maps available on the City of Orlando’s website. They have a page with a few downloadable documents created that outline the gentrification of Parramore, creating lots of “party curb” streets (so drunk people don’t trip?), and making greater use of parks and public spaces. They also want to make sure the venues and other city buildings are “good neighbors”, whatever that means.
If you want to hear this BS in person, they’re having an event on Monday at City Hall. It seems to be open invite, so if you care about the future of downtown, make some time in your schedule for this.
Creative Village event March 22nd
If I’m allowed to videotape, the meeting will show up on our Watch Live page.
As I get older, I tend to have more and more visitors come down looking for a break from the rest of the world. Orlando can be a pretty good place to do that. It’s one of the top vacation spots, after all!
As we have people visit, we’ve started to compile a list of activities (some are mega-touristy) and restaurants that we can recommend to everyone. Here they are, in no particular order:
Orlando, FL – Mark Baratelli of the Daily City shows us the art show in a U-Haul Truck.
Every month, downtown Orlando galleries open their doors for a new art exhibition called Third Thursdays. Mark parks the Mobile Art Show in front of CityArts Factory on the corner of Pine Street and Orange Avenue.
Bring cash, check out some local music, artists, and food. Holly Riggs shows us her Tarot booth and talks about her music. Ryan also shows off some of the food vendors.
Tomorrow morning at 8AM, people in 60 cities all over the world will get together for coffee and conversation, continuing a 3-year tradition that started with 2 trendsetters in New York who decided to have good coffee and conversation in real life instead of online. In Orlando, we hold Likemind at the Drunken Monkey, one of the best coffee shops in town, every third Friday of the month. Watch the twitters about likemind scroll by today and tomorrow to see all the other people and places that get involved in this international affair.
May 7th, 2009 6-9PM $10 for non-members, members are FREE. Curator Anna McCambridge (OMA, Visual Fringe) gives us some details about First Thursdays at OMA, and the upcoming show where inanimate objects take on human or animal characteristics. http://omart.org
I was walking downtown last week and captured this on my phone. Meets last Friday of every month at Loch Haven Park / Science Center, then rides through downtown. I love the pedestrian who was pissed at them for “blocking traffic” and the hipsters who grumbled back at him.
A young cat is stressed out by her peers and superiors before laying down to an empowering dream. Part of Puppets from the Edge at the 2008 Orlando Puppet Festival http://orlandoscene.tv
hope to see you all my friends.. come kick off this incredible evening and be able to say you were there the first night…..
bring a friend and they get in half price.
then they can help you donate to the cause..
that cause being local ART and MUSIC and LOVING the two..
thank you for all the support, and I can’t wait to meet you all………..and give you all a big o’le country hug..,Frankie
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