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Friday, May 20, 2016

Swamp Sistas La La festival invades Loch Haven Park

With a newly earned college diploma, Beth McKee ventured into the real world.

Cosplayers to get into character for MegaCon

David Voderberg raises one of his prized assault rifles in the Orlando Public Library, but no one in the small crowd is worried.

What to do (besides shop) at Disney's new Town Center

I was mentally prepared for the sights and sounds of Town Center, the just-opened shopping district within Disney Springs.

Restaurants

Soupa Saiyan attracts anime fans, especially 'Dragon Ball Z'

At first glance, Soupa Saiyan looks like your typical casual Asian noodle bar.

Expanding chains show fast food is still king in Central Florida

Plans for about 75 new fast food restaurants are lining up from International Drive to Oviedo, showing that the oft-maligned style is still popular.

Music

Vince Neil in Orlando

More than Randy Newman's love song to his hometown, "I Love L.A.," Vince Neil was the major musical force behind romanticizing the seedy yet glamorous world of Los Angeles in the '80s.

Concerts this weekend

Check our complete list of concert events around Central Florida.

Movies

'Neighbors 2' review: Sorority girls gone wild vs. Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne

Two years ago, "Neighbors" writers Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien, along with director Nicholas Stoller, reinvented the classic college party movie by pitting the frat guys against the young parents next door.

'The Nice Guys' review: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe buddy up for action comedy

At one point in "The Nice Guys," the disheveled, half-drunk private eye played by Ryan Gosling falls off a Hollywood Hills balcony, rolls down the hill and comes to rest inches away from one of the film's many corpses.

Arts & Culture

Orlando Fringe Festival reviews, alphabetically A-L

Note that show titles that begin with numbers appear as if the number was spelled out (ie. a show called "11 Birds" would be found in the list with shows beginning with E.)

Orlando Fringe Festival reviews, alphabetically M-Z

More Orlando Fringe Festival reviews.

Spring Holistic Fair in Winter Park

Summertime in Florida is not the relaxing period it is up North.

American Painting & The Florida School of Art

Florida's environment posed a severe dichotomy to early American settlers during the journey from territory to statehood to today.

'Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood' visits Orlando

The legacy of Rollins College graduate Fred Rogers lives on with the current PBS television series "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood."

Kate DiCamillo: New Florida book from heart

When Kate DiCamillo wrote "Raymie Nightingale," her poignant new novel of unexpected childhood friendship in Central Florida, she didn't have to travel here for research.