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Neil Patrick Harris Stuns as a Signing Supervillian in Joss Whedon's Online Musicalnew
Academy Award–nominated writer Joss Whedon (Toy Story) has a way with words. As pointed out in the PBS documentary Do You Speak American?, Whedon’s legendary TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “challenged linguistic taboos and introduced new words and phrases in nearly every show.”
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
07-31-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Live Active Culturenew
Mad Cow Theatre made a strong case for the theater as the last refuge for rational political discourse with last Sunday’s politics-themed entry in their ongoing Salon Series, occasioned by their opening weekend of George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
07-31-2008 |
Theater
Tags: theater
Blisternew
Tonight, everything is in glossy shades of black and white, with only tasteful clots of red and glassy green peppered throughout to give the social illusion of healing or growing or anything, really, that can offset this fashionable, binary severity of being.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-31-2008 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Happytown Writes an Unpublished Response and Gets Ready for Extreme Baseballnew
Two weeks ago, this news paper published a report on the Orlando Police Department’s weak-kneed approach to disciplining its own (“Might makes right,” July 10). We got plenty of responses, but didn’t hear a peep from Orlando Police Chief Val Demings.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman | Billy Manes | Deanna Morey |
07-24-2008 |
Commentary
Live Active Culturesnew
Every day I read about Orlando’s ever-shrinking economy in the equally shrunken Sentinel; I watch my taxes fall by pennies (thanks for nothing, Amendment 1) while my property value plummets. But no matter how desperate things get, there’s one thing that should never be cut because of costs: dating.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
07-24-2008 |
Commentary
An Embed Reports From Orlando's Major League Gaming Stopnew
The gaming world is on the pinnacle of legitimacy, and nowhere is that more true than in Orlando, which has in recent years turned into a sort of gaming Mecca, with EA Tiburon – makers of the super-popular Madden, NCAA Football and Tiger Woods PGA Tour game series – headquartered here. The Orlando region also hosts world-class competitions like this one and last year’s World Cyber Games U.S. National Finals at the Universal Orlando Resort.
Orlando Weekly |
Glenn Judah |
07-24-2008 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Live Active Culturesnew
Sometimes, words are justworthless. That’s a tough truth for a writer to admit: If it weren’t for words, I’d be out of a job, and you’d be picking up this paper just to ogle the massage ads (maybe you already are). But even the most loquacious lexis lover must concede that images can speak louder than a thousand words.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
06-26-2008 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Blisternew
It wasn’t always this way. A hot-ticket night out used to be just that – a whirligig of wide-eyed spontaneity laced with the pixie dust of giggle fits and carefree crescendos – and it usually ended with something said, forgotten and buried facedown in the blackout pillow next to a broken-toothed smile.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-26-2008 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Is That Beef You're Eating Really Safe?new
The Sunshine State sits squarely in the middle of the controversy over the safety of the meat supply. A growing number of people -- many of them doctors and scientists -- question whether American beef is safe from bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as BSE or mad cow disease. Little testing and lenient feed regulations mean no one can answer the question for sure.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Morey |
06-26-2008 |
Food+Drink
Live Active Culturesnew
Stand for Change! It’s about Change! Change!! Change!!! As the presidential primary circus staggered to a close on Saturday, I was struck by how “change” has become the de facto rhetorical rallying point for all sides in this election. Looks like everyone is in love with change.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
06-12-2008 |
Recreation
Blisternew
I’ve often wondered out loud to myself while naked and submerged in the warmth of my bubbly decompression chamber, “Self, how many times does the shampoo mean when it says in somewhat uncertain terms, ‘Lather. Rinse. Repeat’?” Two times borders on half-yawned monotony. Six times starts to burn a little, while psychologically producing a mechanical sense of beauty slavery. But 17 times? That’s enough to make you old, make you lose your hair, quite possibly make you drip down the drain in a self-inflicted goo of bloody foam. Do. Not. Want.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-12-2008 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Live Active Culturesnew
Disney has launched its latest salvo in the theme-park wars, but this time their ammunition doesn’t come in the usual form of a massive roller coaster or an army of mouse-eared attorneys. Instead, the shells they’re shooting resemble pies, darts and plastic rings.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
06-05-2008 |
Recreation
Blisternew
Billy deals with aging, not so gracefully.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-05-2008 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Life at the Top of the Drag Queen Circuit is No Laughing Matter for Christina Leenew
Lee is a perfectionist, a diva and a professional. She’s been competing in beauty pageants for more than 15 years. After taking first runner-up at the national Entertainer of the Year Pageant in St. Louis last year, the 33-year-old thinks this might be her year to win it all, provided she can find that perfect gown.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Morey |
06-05-2008 |
Culture
Live Active Culturesnew
Miss me? Sorry to disappear last week, but the perfect storm that was the 17th Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival blew my regular musings right off the map.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
05-29-2008 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
