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Sep 25, 2018

Rick Van Warner, CEO of the locally based Tijuana Flats restaurant chain, knows all too well the human toll of the opioid epidemic in the country. He’s experienced it at a very personal level. In his book “On Pills and Needles,” Van Warner describes his fight to save his son Tommy from addiction. Van Warner talks...


Sep 19, 2018

In the 1990s, Bruce and Cathy Brown left corporate America to start a native plant nursery in Lake County, where they soon discovered a rare Scrub-Jay pair nesting among abandoned orange groves. They talk to Orlando Sentinel reporter Kate Santich about devoting their lives to saving this threatening species.

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Sep 12, 2018

Tiara Kelley is a transgender woman who used to be a sex worker but has since left the lifestyle and now ministers to other women who currently work as sex workers. Orlando Sentinel reporter Michael Williams talks with Tiara about her experiences and what she thinks can be done to stop the recent deaths of...


Sep 11, 2018

The final hour of of the six-part “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story” picks up after George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the death of 17-year-old Martin, and is devoted to the development of the Black Lives Matter movement and the rise of the alt-right. Orlando Sentinel television critic Hal Boedeker and...


Sep 6, 2018

This year's Halloween Horror Nights lineup has a bit of a 1980s vibe for the 2018 edition of the event. Orlando Sentinel theme park reporter Dewayne Bevil talks with Universal's Charles Gray, one of two show directors for the houses of HHN28, about the house based on the Netflix series “Stranger Things,” which is...