Nicole Darden Creston
All Things Considered Host & ReporterNicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined Central Florida Public Media in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy. When local issues have received international attention, Nicole has reported worldwide for TV news outlets such as CNN, HLN, ABC, Fox News Channel, and BBC News 24.
When she’s off duty, Nicole can often be found performing with one of Central Florida’s many theatre companies, or taking in local arts, culture and music.
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Sometimes you find art in unexpected places. Orlando's Hourglass Brewing is one. You could say it’s growing from an Artistic Acorn, the nom de guerre of curator Alex Ramirez. -
Yezdan Givci's physical-slash-digital – or phygital – book is called “Journey,” a narrative coloring book for kids and adults with original music accompanying every page. -
Orlando Story Club is holding a live storytelling competition the evening of August 5. What storytellers say and how they say it is up to each participant. -
This year, Palm Bay will see its first celebration of Emancipation Day, when Caribbean nations were freed from British imperial slavery in 1833. Guyanese chef Hollis Barclay tells the story through food. -
Winter Park Playhouse has been rebuilt from the ground up, with a public Grand Opening slated for July 17th after Tuesday's official ribbon-cutting. -
The Morse Museum is celebrating July 4th and America 250 with events that highlight arts accessibility, music and a special exhibition of some quintessentially American items. -
Caleb Wiles creates magic tricks from the ground up and performs them for audiences, as he's done on TV shows like “Penn & Teller’s Fool Us." He'll be at Magic Studio on I-Drive this weekend. -
A locally written musical set in New York during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance and centered on Langston Hughes' poetry is coming to Judson's Live, opening on Juneteenth. -
A new play from a Central Florida playwright examines trauma, grief and recovery through the eyes of a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting. -
Make Music Orange County is a Central Florida project that aims, for one day, to blanket the whole county in music performed by the community that’s free to the community.
