Opera Orlando's Gabriel and Grant Preisser chat with Orlando Sentinel arts writer Matt Palm about working together, mentoring and competitive Christmas caroling. Their latest production – a family-friendly 'Hansel and Gretel' – plays Dec. 8-9 at the Dr. Phillips Center.

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Joe Saul-Sehy, host of the finance-oriented podcast Stacking Benjamins, talks about Orlando’s financial picture, cool fintech apps that “trick” users into saving money and lessons learned from his money mistakes.

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Bad ballot design. Votes by email. Under votes. Over votes. Orlando Sentinel politics editor Steven Lemongello, columnist Scott Maxwell and senior reporter Beth Kassab break down the 2018 election failings and offer some hope on what can be done to avoid these debacles in the future.

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Greenwood Cemetery sexton Don Price is retiring on Halloween. He shares some tales about Orlando’s past and tells Orlando Sentinel reporter Ryan Gillespie whether his plans for the future include his popular graveyard tours.

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A recent study found that 80 percent of Florida physicians have experienced burnout at some point in their career. Dr. Amaryllis Sanchez is one of those physicians. She sat down with Orlando Sentinel health reporter Naseem Miller to discuss how her experience with burnout motivated her to speak up about the realities of her profession.

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Avid cyclist Mary Shanklin shares her experience biking 115 miles a day over more mountains than a Florida girl should climb. She talks with Orlando Sentinel reporter Kate Santich about the highs and lows of the trip and how she stayed motivated to finish – saddle sores and all.

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How fast does one have to fly over a helicopter to not get sucked into its spinning blades? Daredevil Bello Nock knows. The stunt performer and his death-defying daughter, Anneliese, talk to Orlando Sentinel reporter Trevor Fraser about how close people will come to danger to put on a good show. The two perform at Super American Circus in Kissimmee on Oct. 13-14.

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Venom is all teeth and tongue in his return to the big screen. Tom Hardy takes over as the symbiote in “Venom” opening Oct. 5. Two superhero comic book fans discuss the complicated relationship between Sony and Marvel and question how Venom, a villain introduced in Spider-Man comic books, may have no ties to Spidey in this movie.

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Rick Van Warner, CEO of the locally based Tijuana Flats restaurant chain, knows all too well the human toll of the opioid epidemic. He talks to Orlando Sentinel health reporter Naseem Miller about the rounds of rehabilitation and overdose scares his family has dealt with in their fight to save Tommy from prescription painkillers.

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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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