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It’s an odd location, I’ll grant you that. Two Chefs Seafood & Oyster Bar, the very good new restaurant, occupies a space in a small office building in Orlando’s North Quarter district. Actually, it occupies several spaces. There is the main dining area next to the open kitchen, a bar located across the way from the main room and an upstairs dining room for private dining and spillover that overlooks the bar area, accessible through the waiting room of a doctor’s practice.

The Orlando area lead the state in the number of new jobs created in the last year. The area gained a little more than 47,000 jobs.

Ever since a Florida surgeon cut off the wrong leg by accident 20 years ago, the health-care industry has been scrambling to prevent such errors in the operating room. Surgical teams now stop for a ‘Time Out’… They double check the patient’s ID, the procedure and the side of the body. Yet tragic mistakes still happen.

The Polasek Museum is stuffing its shelves with a smattering of… gourds? Yes, gourds. Gourds from all over the world for their tactile art show called Shapely Vessels: Gourds from Around the World. Raymond Konan is a self-titled “Gourd Guru” and he is putting together all the programming surrounding this exhibit which runs until August 9th. Go to polasek.org

NPR's go-to books guru has sent Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep a stack of books — titles she thinks deserve more attention. Here are her fiction picks, to kick off your summer reading.

Boaters in Brevard – beware. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service along with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission will be cracking down on boat speeds in Manatee zones.

The St. Johns River Water Management District has a new executive director.She arrives on the heels of a shake-up of its leadership that left five senior positions open.

First Presbyterian Church in downtown Orlando has unveiled a sculpture of a homeless Jesus. The church's purpose for the artwork is to engage the community in thoughtful conversation.

Opt out. That’s what a group of parents in Orlando have chosen to have their kids do rather than take the Florida State Assessments test. This year, the state replaced the controversial FCAT standardized exams that had been used to determine how well kids were doing in school with the even more controversial FSA. The tests, which were imported from Utah where they were rife with problems, were rolled out this year, and parents and education advocates say that teachers and students weren’t given enough time to prepare for them. To make matters worse, the stakes for failure on the tests is high – students can be held back a grade for failing to pass them, something many parents say is just not right.

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