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The City of Orlando opened its Hispanic Heritage Month art exhibit this week, inspired by this year’s national theme: “Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together.” With pieces from 19 local visual artists, the Terrace Gallery exhibit amplifies the achievements of Hispanic individuals and highlights their rich cultures.

Known for captivating customers with bold flavor, signature sauces and "im-peck-able" Korean flair, the fan-favorite fried chicken joint Chi-Kin is opening a second location in Windermere next month. The opening date has yet to be announced, but we know the eatery will reside in the former BurgerFi location at 5845 Winter Garden Vineland Road. With the same mouth-watering menu and a few new surprises, this spot will provide an additional location for Chi-Kin lovers to go instead of having to wing it without their beloved bites.

After filing a petition for a union election earlier this month, Starbucks workers in Orlando's tourism district on Tuesday voted 10-7 in support of unionizing. This establishes the first unionized corporate-owned Starbucks in Orlando and the 11th to unionize in Florida. “Winning this election means that we have succeeded in gaining agency as partners to have our jobs protected and to finally have the ability to have our voices heard,” said Yomna Abdellatif, a barista of three and a half years who works at the newly unionized location at 13401 Blue Heron Beach Drive.

Don’t miss the Canadian punk group Sum 41 on the Orlando stop of their farewell “Tour of the Setting Sum.” Hit up the Orlando Amphitheater Tuesday and travel back to a time of catchy pop-punk melodies and chain wallets. The electric performance of the nearly three-decades-old group is sure to feature high-energy stage antics and notable hits like “In Too Deep” and “Still Waiting” from the group’s early years. A guaranteed crowd-pleaser for Tuesday’s show is “Fat Lip,” the biggest early hit (making them an MTV mainstay) from the trio.

Zymarium Meadery’s stylish new RīZōM event space — think gothic Tron — gets sonically adventurous with a modular synth meetup. Dubbed Nectar+Noise — essentially honeyed mead plus analog drones and waves — the afternoon event is a co-presentation with the Circuit Church synth collective.

At a turbulent time in the 1990s when hip-hop was flexing its cultural muscle hard with the lurid street kabuki of gangster rap, Digable Planets managed to break out and rise above by being an alternative to the sturm und drang. With a pitch-perfect blend of progressive consciousness, jazzy steez and infinite downtown cool, they were the low-key juggernaut that rewrote the rules immediately on the 1993 release of their debut album, the masterpiece Reachin’. Digable Planets’ run was neither long nor prolific, but their legacy was enduring.

Few figures are as woven into the fabric of the area’s free-improvisation music scene as Jonas Van den Bossche. As a player who often appears alongside noise artists and one of the owners of performance space The Dining Room, he’s both a practitioner and a champion. However, Van den Bossche’s latest releases have been compositions from the more formal side of his artistic psyche.

A non-profit advocacy group on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s process of verifying voter-registration applications, alleging it violates federal laws. The lawsuit, filed in the federal Middle District of Florida, focuses on the process for verifying voter-registration applicants’ eligibility.

The best pop music of the ’80s was a marriage of craft and the crafty, a wry musical wink to the listener for being clever enough to know history and structural reference but also cool enough to dance along. It was a near-academic alchemy of Brill Building journeyman songwriting and tent revival flash and fervor. The “Squeeze Me Boy George Tour” epitomizes this musical perspective as it brings together two prime examples of these seemingly conflicting ideas.

Orlando Museum of Art is following up on this summer’s impressive Florida Prize in Contemporary Art group exhibition with two very bold retrospectives. First off, OMA gets young, loud and snotty with the Torn Apart punk art collection. Torn Apart is an exhaustive (though you will be totally wired) trawl through the aesthetics of Year Zero, collecting ephemera, visual works, photos of musicians and fans, and Vivienne Westwood garments — a fairly comprehensive look at London ’77 and beyond.