Category: Lifestyle
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Orlando’s Falcon’s Creative Group is helping National Geographic design the future of marine attractions
Local themed entertainment design company Falcon’s Creative Group announced details recently of their latest project, the National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey. Located in Times Square, the new 60,000 square-foot interactive marine focused attraction showcases the latest technology in ways never before attempted. Photo real animation, projection mapping, real-time tracking, and “mega” projection screens will all…
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Mount Dora: van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ is ‘graffiti’ and must be covered
MOUNT DORA — Admirers call Richard Barrenechea’s mural of a world-famous painting art, but the city has another word for it: graffiti. The Lake County city ordered the homeowner who commissioned the mural of Vincent van Gogh’s famous “Starry Night” to cover it up. The city says the painting on a 40-foot-long concrete wall violates…
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Tropical Storm Emily to bring rain to Central Florida
Tropical Storm Emily is expected to bring some rain to Central Florida, but the brunt of it will be in the Tampa Bay and Naples area, according to the National Hurricane Center. Forecasters in Orlando are calling for about a half-inch of rain today. There will be about an inch in Osceola and Polk counties,…
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Central Florida Zoo opens bear exhibit without infamous bear
The stars of the “bear house,” the new $500,000 Florida black bear showcase at the Sanford zoo, took turns scampering through a wading pool, chomping on a watermelon and climbing trees. The sibling black bears, named Ella and Guignard (pronounced jin-yard), romped in an enclosure fenced off from a two-story house designed to remind visitors…
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Seminole switching to natural-gas garbage trucks
Seminole County residents soon will notice that garbage trucks cruising through their neighborhoods sound quieter and belch out less exhaust. That’s because county commissioners recently mandated that Seminole’s two waste-hauling companies replace their aging fleet of diesel garbage trucks with those that run on compressed natural gas, more commonly known as CNG, over the next…
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After longtime push and spate of crimes, streetlights installed in UCF neighborhoo
The short walk from Knight’s Pub to Jamal Clayton’s fraternity house always seemed a lot longer. He’d get several yards from the Alafaya Trail bar and everything went dark in the neighborhood across the street from the University of Central Florida. Knowing the history of robberies, shootings and at least one attempted rape didn’t make…
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Orlando hires ‘night manager’ to oversee nightlife scene
City officials and nightclub owners alike call it “the push” — starting around 2 a.m., downtown Orlando’s bars and clubs direct their Friday and Saturday night customers toward the exits, often creating a chaotic scene outside. As a veteran of downtown Orlando nightlife, Dominique Greco Ryan has seen how a night of having fun can…