Go out and support your favorite venues and musicians this weekend. With summer coming on, they’ll appreciate your patronage. Check schedules after the jump.
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Posted inActivism
United Way Exceeds Goal, Honors Volunteers
Area donors contributed $9,081,997 to United Way of Central Florida in 2015, the largest amount ever raised in a year, campaign chair Kimberly Elmhorst announced at this morning’s annual meeting.
Posted inBusiness
Plans for Catapult 2.0 Come Into Clearer Focus
The agency trying to make Lakeland cool for young entrepreneurs has unveiled its vision for turning the Lakeland Cash Feed building into a three-story business incubator. We look at the plans, public reaction, new staff and next steps.
Posted inTransportation
Reimagining South Florida Avenue: Progress Report
The team of planners, architects and economists hired by the state DOT to reimagine South Florida Avenue presented renderings Friday night illustrating some of their ideas for redevelopment in Dixieland and downtown. See a few of the images below and videos covering almost all of the nearly-two-hour presentation.
Posted inDowntown
Debating New Paint at Lake Mirror: A Matter of Black or White
Photos of a new paint job at Lake Mirror generated both admiration and condemnation on social media in the first few hours after they were posted tonight. The point of contention: Should the gates on the loggia along the Frances Langford Promenade have remained off-white or is the new black preferable?
Posted inFood & Dining
Downtown Restaurants Consider Joint Valet Service
The vision of downtown Lakeland as an evening restaurant and nightlife destination is coming into focus as new venues announce big plans. But the vision brings a complication: With most of the eateries concentrated within a block of each other, how do you get customers quickly from their cars to their tables?
Posted inArts & Culture
Live Music in Lakeland This Weekend
Highlights this week include the powerhouse vocals of The Sarah Mac Band at Lakeland Brewing on Friday and the roots rock of the audacious Reverend Billy C. Wirtz at The Pink Piano on Saturday. (Billy joins Tampa treasure Ronny Elliott for a weekly musicology dip into the sounds that birthed 20th Century pop on WMNF-FM’s Rhythm […]
Posted inArts & Culture
More Main Street Art: Colorful Swan, Subdued T-Rex
The painted giraffe and its animal friends in Munn Park are getting some neighbors across the street: a colorful mural dominated by a swan and a muted tyrannosaurus rex.
Posted inTransportation
Reimagining South Florida Avenue
In the future, South Florida Avenue through Dixieland and much of downtown Lakeland will have fewer (but wider) traffic lanes, less truck traffic, shadier sidewalks with more room for walkers, and there may even be some on-street parking. That seemed to be the common vision of area residents, business owners and planners who came together today to reimagine the […]
Posted inActivism, City Hall / Local Gov't
Request to Move Confederate Memorial Gets No Action
A resident’s request to move a 1910 monument to Confederate soldiers from the center of Munn Park to a historic museum received no support from the City Commission. Here is a recording of today’s 17-minute discussion, some key quotes and social media commentary: