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Nov 19, 2024 | 
eurohockey.com | Michael McLeod |Christopher Gibson |Nikita Sirotkin |Leon Okonkwo Prada
A New Era for KHL HockeyThe 3x3 championship will feature eight teams: Ak Bars Kazan, Avangard Omsk, Barys Astana, Dynamo Minsk, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Salavat Yulaev, Sibir Novosibirsk, and Traktor Chelyabinsk. These teams, representing three different countries, will compete in a format designed to maximize speed, excitement, and accessibility. Matches will take place on a specialized 34 x 18-meter rink with minimal markings, emphasizing fluid gameplay.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
orlandomagazine.com | Michael McLeod |Catherine M Walters |Jennifer McKee |Ronny Maye
1. Jeff Vahle | President, Walt Disney World ResortJeff Vahle made has been with Disney since 1990: a journey that has taken him to every Disney destination in the world. “Every job I’ve had with Disney has been my best job yet,” he says. The record shows, though, that 2024 has been exceptional. Two significant milestones passed last May, when Disney and Florida dropped litigation against one another, and relationships normalized with the oversight district containing Walt Disney World.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
orlandomagazine.com | Catherine M Walters |Michael McLeod
1. Kathy Ramsberger | President & CEO, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Earlier this year when the sprawling, $500-plus million Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts formally christened yet another new venue that had been tucked into downtown Orlando’s crown jewel, there was no question as to who would lead the first few tours of art supporters, journalists and local dignitaries.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
orlandomagazine.com | Catherine M Walters |Ronny Maye |Jennifer McKee |Michael McLeod
The 2024 List Is Out! Meet the leaders who truly make Orlando The City Beautiful—an attractive place to live, work, play and visit. They come from all fields: Politics + Government, Education, Entertainment, Sports & The Arts, Tourism + Transportation, Philanthropy & Community Voices and Business. The Hall of Power is the newest addition to Orlando magazine’s 50 Most Powerful list.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
orlandomagazine.com | Jennifer McKee |Michael McLeod
Whether you’re heading to the ballet, a touring Broadway show, a museum or an intimate concert hall, Central Floridians are passionate about the arts. Jennifer McKee introduces you what the big halls have on their schedules this season, while Michael McLeod lets you in on the smaller performance spaces that are hidden gems in our community.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
orlandomagazine.com | Michael McLeod
Blue Bamboo Center for the ArtsIt looks like there’s a happy ending in store for this popular music venue. The year surely didn’t start off that way—not when Blue Bamboo’s husband-and-wife owners, Chris and Melody Cortez, found out that their shrewdly converted, hundred-seat performance space on an industrial stretch of Kentucky Avenue had been sold to new owners—owners who had plans to renovate it and bump the rent up threefold.
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May 18, 2024 | 
medium.com | Michael McLeod
In 2005 at 21 or 22 years of age after dropping out of university with four weeks to go in my music degree and a subsequent twelve months of working my first ever 9-5 in a music retail store, I had my first manic entrepreneurial episode (I often think the moments when you decide to take the plunge on an entrepreneurial idea and actually go ahead and sign a lease on a building or buy a business are a kind of bi-polar moment, where everything is viewed through rose-tinted glasses, and...
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May 15, 2024 | 
medium.com | Michael McLeod
In a dystopian cityscape, a diverse group of people stand in line at an identity checkpoint, surrounded by towering structures and surveillance cameras. The mix of emotions on their faces, from resignation to defiance, underscores the struggle for identity and acceptance in an oppressive society driven by conformity and control. Imagine waking up every day knowing that your very identity is under constant scrutiny and denial.
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May 13, 2024 | 
medium.com | Michael McLeod
In an unreality where Kafka meets Orwell, we explore a dystopian world where using the bathroom has become an oppressive, dehumanising ordeal. This excerpt from a larger piece delves into the surreal and absurd reality of a society obsessed with control and surveillance.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
orlandomagazine.com | Michael McLeod |Cheri Henderson |Catherine M Walters
Principal Photography by Roberto GonzalezJEREMIAH’S ITALIAN ICE | MULTIPLE LOCATIONSFounder Jeremy Litwack has come a long way since the days of selling his homemade Italian ice from a pushcart in front of Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell. Since opening his first storefront on Aloma Avenue in Winter Park in 1996, the franchise has exploded into 126 locations across the United States. “We’re opening about 40 stores a year right now,” Litwack says.
