It’s my birthday! And I’ll cry if I want to! That’s right, this weekend marks another arbitrary milestone based on the return of our speck of a planet to the geometrically meaningless position it was in relative to our closest star when my body (already several weeks fully formed) plopped out of my mama’s...
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Hey, everybody! Remember Brassy’s in Cocoa Beach? It was the “the hottest nightclub in Florida. Live acts, huge dance floor, awesome bar, and people lined up in lines that wrapped around the block to get in the door! The party never stopped until sunrise at Brassy’s.” That’s according to the experts at In the...
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As promised, here are more of Mr. Miyagi’s Fringe show descriptions, continued from Seth Kubersky’s May 14 Live Active Cultures column. Find show times and details at www.orlandofringe.org.Burlesque Unzipped: From Shakespeare to the Shimmy (Prairie Fire Presents, Regina, Saskatchewan)This show feeloh so rightlook for Miyagi in back rowwearing trench coat Burning Man and the...
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After weeks of anticipation, the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival opens tonight with a 6 p.m. ribbon-cutting followed by a 7 p.m. free concert by Fringe veteran and traveling songstress Amy Steinberg who’ll sing it loud from the outdoor stage, set up on the Green Lawn of Fabulousness at Loch Haven Park. Also after...
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Ever wanted to sing for something that “internationally renowned“? Well … Join the internationally renowned Bach Festival Choir The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park is holding auditions for potential new adult Choir members on Monday, May 18 and Monday, August 10. Candidates will be asked to sing scales, match pitch, and do a sight-reading...
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And missing the calendar by inches it’s … King Kong vs. Godzilla It’s tonight at 8 p.m. at Central Park in Winter Park. And it’s free.
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And with Florida’s governor now running for the Senate, what a fine time it is for the media to once again help him cover his ass (so to speak). According to indieWIRE, NPR has trimmed critic Nathan Lee’s review of the Kirby Dick documentary Outrage, excising mentions that the film ascribes closeted Mary-hood to...
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Last night’s episode of 30 Rock included an exchange that was not only illuminating, but something of a watershed: Tracy Jordan: Jack, every man should know his father. Jack Donaghy: That’s easy for you to say. Tracy Jordan: No, it wasn’t! I struggled through that sentence! For me as a viewer, that confession couldn’t...
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Here’s a call for people who make real art, not actors who just pretend to be something: Hello wonderful artists!It’s that time of year again…time to bring your wonderful, conceptual, funky, beautiful fringy art to be seen by thousands of people during the 18th Annual Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival! It’s important to note...
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Since it’s part of my personal mission to turn this blog into a cheap-ass simulacrum of actress Michele Feren’s Twitter account, it behooves me to report that the Doodie Humor diva and co-star of the 2008 film Sex Drive will be seen Wednesday night on stage at Hard Rock Live, gyrating enthusiastically (read: like...
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