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Bungalower.com — Our community-focused local news website covers and champions the Downtown Orlando area and surrounding bungalow neighborhoods. We cover business openings and closings, growth, and development, and quality-of-life issue
s including road construction, transit issues, and new city ordinances. Our coverage area includes most of the neighborhoods within five miles of Orlando (e.g. College Park to Baldwin Park and south to Delaney Park and Downtown South). All of our content is currently free but we do encourage readers to support the site with a Bungalower Membership. Have something you’d like to see on Bungalower.com, let us know. We also have many advertising opportunities to help you reach our over, 60,000 monthly unique visitors. Bungalower Bundle for Members — Bungalower Buddy Members receive a monthly email of local discounts and access to amazing events as well as a special keychain that can unlock discounts at participating businesses around Central Florida. Bungalower Events Calendar — The Bungalower Event Calendar contains over 5,000 events happening in the Downtown Orlando area. Our event calendar provides a one-stop-shop to find out what’s happening the in the Downtown Orlando area.
10/10/2025
After nearly 18 years, Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar in The Milk District has new owners—longtime baristas Leslie and Erica. They’re keeping the mojos, treehuggers, and chill vibe exactly the same, but hinted there might soon be a little more “drunken” in Drunken Monkey. 🍺☕️
After almost 18 years, Orlando’s longtime favorite Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar has officially changed hands, but fans can relax. The longtime baristas, Leslie and Erica, are the new owners. The announcement came in a post that read: “After almost 18 years the original owners, Larry and Maureen, ha...
10/10/2025
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts just unveiled a new bronze sculpture honoring James H. Pugh, Jr., the visionary who helped bring the arts center to life. Created by world-renowned artist Paul Day (The Meeting Place, A Beautiful Day for a Neighbor), the piece celebrates Pugh’s decades of leadership and generosity.
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts has revealed a new bronze relief sculpture by renowned artist Paul Day, honoring Chairman Emeritus James H. Pugh, Jr., whose leadership turned the vision of a world-class arts center in Orlando into reality. From 2003 to 2022, Pugh guided the center’s cr...
10/09/2025
Winter Park’s beloved and quirky Austin’s Coffee has been saved thanks to its regulars and one employee who just wouldn’t give up. ☕️ A true local comeback story. Read how it all happened at link below.
Winter Park’s beloved and quirky Austin’s Coffee isn’t closing. It’s moving, rebuilding, and rising again about a mile down the road. The change comes after the City of Winter Park announced plans last year to purchase the land where the long-running coffeehouse currently sits. For most plac...
10/09/2025
Yaya + Lou is back, baby.
After closing their College Park shop in June, the beloved children’s resale boutique has reopened in a cozy new space in Ivanhoe Village. You’ll find them at 1817 N. Orange Avenue, right next to Authentic Books.
Same heart. New home.
Thursday–Saturday: 11–6
Sunday: 11–4
If you love it, shop it. 💛 Full story at link below.
After closing up shop in College Park in June, Yaya + Lou is back. This time they’ve landed just on the other side on I4 in Ivanhoe Village. The beloved children’s resale boutique has reopened at 1817 N. Orange Avenue, next to Authentic Books, in a smaller space that fits owner Chelsea Santos’...
10/09/2025
Even as rainbow crosswalks are painted over and Pride events across Florida are canceled, Orlando is standing tall. 🌈 Come Out With Pride returns to Lake Eola Park on Saturday, October 18, with the theme “We the People.” Expect parades, performances, fireworks, and a full day of community, visibility, and Orlando Strong energy.
Full story at link below.
While Pride celebrations across Florida are being canceled or scaled back, Orlando is showing what “Orlando Strong” really means. Come Out With Pride Orlando returns to Lake Eola Park on Saturday, October 18, from noon to 10 p.m., with the theme “We the People.” The annual event, organized b...
10/08/2025
Four cocktails. Flickering candles. A little blood. 🩸 The Vampire Cocktail Club takes over The MEZZ Oct. 23–25. Full details at link below.
The Vampire Cocktail Club is taking over The MEZZ from Thursday, October 23 through Saturday, October 25, turning the downtown venue into a candlelit hideaway of blood and bourbon. Guests follow a Vampire Historian and team of Killer Mixologists through a four-course cocktail experience, each dr...
10/08/2025
City of Orlando just named Camara Gaither its new Poet Laureate — right after a state official called the program “wasteful spending.”
She’s a spoken word poet and therapist using words to heal, connect, and inspire.
$6,000 a year for a little more poetry in Orlando seems worth it.
Full article at link below.
The City of Orlando has named Camara Gaither as its new Poet Laureate, just weeks after Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia called the city’s arts spending “wasteful.” His complaint centers on the $6,000 annual stipend paid to the Poet Laureate for writing and performing original w...
10/07/2025
⚡🏈 The UFL just announced the Orlando Storm, bringing pro football back downtown at Inter&Co Stadium starting March 2026. Full story at link below.
The United Football League is officially bringing pro football back to Orlando next spring with the debut of the Orlando Storm. The Storm will play at Inter&Co Stadium, joining the Columbus Aviators and Louisville Kings as new expansion teams for the league’s 2026 season, which kicks off Ma...
10/07/2025
We've been talking about a “calmer Corrine” since before avocado toast was trendy — and it’s (finally) inching closer. 👀
The City of Orlando will unveil the 60% design plan for the Virginia–Forest–Corrine Corridor Project on Tuesday, Oct. 14 from 5–8 p.m. at Leu Gardens, covering the stretch that runs through Ivanhoe Village, Mills 50 Main Street, Colonialtown North, and Audubon Park Garden District.
Construction is still a few years out, but this is your chance to see what’s next (and give feedback before the bulldozers roll in).
👉 Read the full story at link below.
It feels like we’ve been talking about this one forever — and honestly, we have. We first wished for a safer, more walkable Corrine Drive way back in 2015 in an article called “Calmer Corrine”, and revisited it in 2017 when the city launched its first official corridor study. Now, nearly a d...
10/07/2025
🎷 College Park Main Streets JazzFest returns Oct. 25 from 5–11 p.m.! Three stages, 12 bands, food trucks, and nonstop vibes. $15 advance / $20 day of. Kids 12 & under free. Details at link below.
College Park’s biggest block party is back. On Saturday, October 25 from 5–11 p.m., the streets will fill with music for the annual College Park JazzFest, the flagship event of College Park Main Street. Now in its 23rd year, this neighborhood favorite transforms Edgewater Drive into one giant ou...
10/07/2025
Science meets spirits 🍸 The Orlando Science Center’s annual Adult Halloween Party is back Oct. 25—open bar, karaoke, trivia, dancing with dinosaurs, and cosmic views from the observatory. 21+ only.
The kids are staying home for this one. The Orlando Science Center is transforming into a full-on haunted playground for grown-ups on Saturday, October 25, at its annual Adult Halloween Party, hosted by the Young Professionals for OSC. This 21+ night of thrills, chills, and science-fueled fun includ...
10/06/2025
🎨 The 52nd Annual Winter Park Autumn Art Festival takes over Central Park this weekend, Oct. 11–12! Enjoy all-Florida artists, live music, local food, and Park Avenue District charm. Admission is free, and who knows—maybe we’ll even get a little fall breeze.
The Winter Park Autumn Art Festival is back for its 52nd year, taking over Central Park this weekend with two full days of local art, live music, and Park Avenue charm. Happening Saturday and Sunday, October 11 and 12, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., it’s the only juried fine art festival in Florida exclus...
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