While we've been all over Epic Universe and its attractions this year, it's actually a big 30th anniversary year for Mardi Gras at Universal Orlando, believe it or not, and in recent years heaping food helpings, parades with beads and some excellent performances have really put the event on the map. This year, there’s a reason I’m even more pumped for the foodie-oriented event than I was for the Grinchmas holidays, but it actually has nothing to do with food.
This week, Universal released its first look at the concert lineup for 2025, and I’m feeling it still. Like literally, I have “Feel It Still” on full blast, as I’m writing this, because Portugal. The Man is among the bands lining up to help us get our groove. Most of you probably know the Alaskan band's one-off 2017 song of the summer, but I’ve been a huge fan for more than a decade before that, seeing them on college campuses across the US, and once even traipsing to Pomona to see them at the Glass House. I’ve seen them six or seven times, and tragically once missed them play the famous LA venue The Greek as their stock was rising because I got sick.
