This is the third installment of successful series of buddy shows, featuring friends/comedians Larry Fulford, Alex Luchun, Nick Pupo, Luke Swiderski and Clay Robertson deadpanning and grimacing their way through lived-in embarrassments best shared with beer in your beard.
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In the spirit of Mother’s Day (which is this Sunday, deadbeats), the sick-time advocates behind a current petition effort aimed at getting Gov. Rick Scott to veto HB 655 – the anti-local-control, anti-sick-time measure passed by the Florida House and Senate last week – have put together a YouTube video of their own iteration...
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Now that Tallahassee – and, by proxy, the entire state of Florida – has been deprived of the oxygen required to accept more than one million people onto Medicaid insurance rolls via $51 billion in free federal money, everybody’s favorite personification of beige (space beige, but still beige) is joining state Democrats in pressing...
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For two long weekends, the fine folks at Breakthrough Theatre will try to reclaim some of that ’80s pubescent glory by re-enacting three very special episodes of the vaunted series, likely with a slight rouge of camp.
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In a repeat of last year’s down-the-middle reasoning from the Florida Senate, today the smarter side of the legislative coin decided to knock Jeb Bush’s corporate education volley out of consideration just before this year’s session closes on Friday. You may recall that the shoot-em-up state House hadn’t been nearly as thoughtful earlier this...
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On the surface, it’s the story of four lovers cavorting into a faerie forest where mischief ensues, complicated by scene-stealers with names like Puck and Bottom.
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This morning at City Hall, Orlando Magic chief executive officer Alex Martins greased back his hair (again) to reveal just what has been going on in the heads of the Magic brass – and, specifically, its ownership, Amway God Rich DeVos – with regard to the long ballyhooed Amway Arena-adjacent entertainment complex it’s been...
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THE FORGOTTEN KINGDOM ★★★★★ There’s an authenticity growling beneath the picturesque surface and deceptively simple storytelling of this South African-based coming-of-age (and coping-with-mortality) story. The blank stares of protagonist Atang Mokoenya (Zenzo Ngqobe) often grow as meditatively wide as the vistas and canyons the character travels to find some sort of resolution. Emotions blend...
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This morning, Equality Florida published the testimony I had intended to give before the Florida Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs in support of Senate Bill 196 on March 12. That hearing was postponed when Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, fell unexpectedly ill. Today, the bill will have another hearing at 3:15 p.m....
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Wednesday, March 27 – Return to the Nineties 9:30 p.m. Lil’ Indies 1036 N. Mills Ave. willspub.org free If back in our wallet-chained days of coke parties and My So-Called Life squinches of passive aggression, someone said that we’d be facing a glut of “cheesy” ’90s-themed nights in two decades, we’d probably shove them...
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Savage Love COLUMN: Twenty-one-year-old female here. When we were both 14, my first boyfriend took advantage of me. I wanted to explore my sexuality a little, but... By Dan Savage 5/22/2013
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