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• Amanda Lyn was one of the four artists featured at WMFE’s live recording of Intersection at the Abbey. She took the stage alone with her guitar, which featured the name “ELVIS” on the body.
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• If you’re not bound for the theme parks this weekend, there’s still plenty to do in the city beautiful. You can step off the beaten path and visit a jam factory, feed alligators, or even try skiing indoors. We chat to Jon Busdeker, co-author of the new edition of 100 Things To Do In Orlando Before You Die.
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• Florida Man is popular meme that’s grown out of news headlines about Floridians in bizarre situations. Intersection’s Matthew Peddie sits down with three guests to talk about the myth and the reality behind Florida Man
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• Florida space advocates were hit with a setback last week: the state is out of the running as a potential location for the new space command headquarters. Space Florida’s Dale Ketcham and 90.7 space reporter Brendan Byrne join Intersection to talk about why Florida could still have a chance to land the command.
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• While caring for her husband, Grady, after his diagnosis with brain cancer, the Orlando Sentinel’s Beth Kassab faced a health crisis of her own: doctors discovered she also had a brain tumor. Kassab joins Intersection, along with Advent Health’s surgical director for neuro-oncology, Dr. Melvin Field to discuss the physical and emotional challenge of confronting a brain tumor diagnosis.
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• Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez talks to Intersection about education funding, cleaning up Florida’s waterways, and why she’s not waving the white flag of surrender over the bid to headquarter space command in the sunshine state.
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• From avant garde hip hop to a concert celebrating the life of a DJ from Orlando’s heyday as an electronic music destination, there’s much to look forward to in the gig calendar this summer. We chat to Orlando Weekly music critic Bao Le Hu about the summer music offerings.
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• This Saturday the Orlando Public Library celebrates books and authors with the Orlando Book festival. The festival has something to entice both readers and writers, with signings and writing workshops.
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• Jim Fitzgerald became a firefighter when he was 18, following in the footsteps of his grandfather. He’s been in the fire service for some 42 years, and in what he calls one of the proudest moments of his career, he’s been named Orange County fire chief. Fitzgerald sat down to talk with Intersection about the challenges of fire rescue in a growing county, and what the success of the recent firefighter cancer bill means for the health of firefighters.
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• The 28th Orlando fringe festival is underway. It’s the longest running fringe theatre festival in the United States. Over the next fourteen days, you’ll hear music, laughter, applause… and the clatter of typewriters. Nick Georgoudiou, Host of To a Certain Degree on WPRK-FM 91.5, tells Intersection he’s sponsoring a table at the festival where people can type out a note “showing gratitude to the people who work there.”
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