Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 4-5 – Mount Dora Arts Festival
This festival is for the strong of mind as well as wallet. Agoraphobics and hoarders should stay away – the thousands of patrons and the abundance of covetable art make it a danger zone for anyone who can’t deal with a crowd or can’t keep their wallet...
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This time of year marks a valley in the cyclical tourist traffic season. That makes January and February a convenient time for Central Florida’s theme parks to introduce new attraction, getting the bugs out before big Spring Break crowds arrive. It also makes this a great time to check out said new attractions without...
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Friday-Sunday, Feb. 3-5 – #48hYardSale
How could a yard sale be considered a work of performance art? Add Brian Feldman and make it an endurance challenge, of course. Orlando’s favorite performance artist – you may know him as the guy who brought us such ventures as “Brian Feldman Marries Anybody” and “Brian Feldman Eats Everything...
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Thursday, Feb. 2 – Winter With the Writers: Carl Hiaasen
Kicking off Rollins’ well-established Winter With the Writers literary series is an evening with Carl Hiaasen, Florida’s homegrown maestro of outrage. Sometimes he mines a vein of restrained sarcasm, as in his columns for the Miami Herald, which simmer with a slow boil of...
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Between its easily followed romcom plot and a score made universally familiar by Bugs Bunny, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is an ideal introduction to opera. That made it an excellent selection for Florida Opera Theatre’s first full-scale production. Earlier in the fledgling organization’s third season, they presented The Medium in the Orlando Rep’s...
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Monday, Jan. 30 – Orlando Ballet Uncorked
True ballet dancers of the kind that populate big-city companies spend a lifetime training their bodies to be something other than – higher than – human. To see a ballerina just “hang out” or stretch or do whatever it is they do to their toes that keeps them from...
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Sunday, Jan. 29 – The Barber of Seville
Perhaps it seems disrespectful when the overture of The Barber of Seville begins, and all you can think of is Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny into the Hollywood Bowl. Maybe it dismays you that the aria “Largo al factotum della città” always brings to mind Bugs yodeling...
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Friday, Jan. 27 –
Mr. Bing & L’Art Nouveau
Art History 101 might have been more fun if it had taken place outdoors and featured movies instead of droning lecturers with faded slides. Snacking encouraged? A bonus. Now that you’re out of school, you might try a little art history over lunch with the Morse...
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Through Jan. 29 –
The Genghis Khan Guide to Etiquette
British slam poet, comedian and former psychiatric nurse (yes, all of the above) Rob Gee is coming to these shores for a performance of his one-man show The Genghis Khan Guide to Etiquette. Described by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as both “brilliant” and “hilarious,” Gee’s...
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Crank up your radios, NPR news junkies. “Talk of the Nation” broadcasts live from the WMFE studios in Orlando tomorrow (Wed., Jan. 25) at 2 p.m. Listen in as hosts Neal Conan and Ken Rudin tackle America’s true pastime – politics – with insight and good humor live on 90.7 FM.
If you miss them on...
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