Liz Langley

What's Hot in CF on WMFE this weekend - the past! We get to go back to the 1970's with Michael Wanzie's Celebrity Match Game 2012 at the Footlights Theater, then the 40's with Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play at the Breakthrough Theater  and who knows far back a ghost can go? Find out on the Harp & Celt's Last Call: Haunted Pub Crawl through Downtown Orlando!  (I can't wait for Halloween either). Listen live at 4:32 pm or click the link to hear it now ! See yez out there!

Hi Kids! Time for another installment of Ten Mind-Blowing Discoveries on Alternet! Lots of great stuff this week including.... a family who's living on Mars time..... .....married women drink more than single ones..... ....decoding the Elephant Man's DNA..... .....coding a book into  DNA..... ......how your amazing brain cleans itself...... .....a call for political discourse on science...... .......vote for your favorites in the Robot Hall of Fame.... ....public involvement is a huge asset in saving endangered species.... .....10 new species of owl in the Philippines (below....and doesn't he look pissed to have been discovered?).... ....tail-chasing dogs are similar to humans with OCD. Always great stuff....hope you enjoy it and if you do please share it!

For sci fi geeks there's only one thing going on in Central Florida this weekend: Star Wars Celebration VI at the Orange County Convention Center! You can click the link and see the big celebrity guests and all kinds of cool goings-on this weekend and tune into What's Hot in Central Florida on WMFE FM 90.7 at 4:32 pm today or click the link to hear my interview with Ryan Glitch who runs Star Wars Speed Dating, because if you're looking for someone to love, you have to make sure they love Star Wars, right? Had a great time talking to Ryan and can't wait to get to the convention - it started on Thursday but my first opportunity to get there will be tomorrow so I will definitely see all of you out there!

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! Well, it's the best news for me, the TV Queen of America's wang, (that's Florida for the more formal among you). Reruns actually help replenish your self-control! That and.... ....vision restoring glasses.... .....schools with tighter snack restrictions benefit kids' health.... ......can three people be biological parents to one child? Yes they can...... .....the mystery of a cat's purr..... ......gun violence as a social disease.... .....hearing the voices of extinct animals..... .....oral sex as a cure for morning sickness?.... .....a red lake in France that is not  a sign of the Apocalypse.... .....the wet-dog shake is a miracle of evolution! Ten Mind-Blowing Discoveries on Alternet!!!!! Please share this column with your friends and if you like it 'like' it on FB - I want to keep it! :)

Obviously there are too many of those to list, right? But some are going to be celebrated or even show up this weekend in OTown, which is what What's Hot in Central Florida on 90.7 WMFE FM is all about them ....starting with Hunter S. Thompson and "Fear and Loathing in Orlando," an artistic homage to one of my greatest early influences at NV , downtown. Next up Classic Albums Live Presents a homage to the Beatles when they present Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at Hard Rock Live and finally, the brilliant Jim Gaffigan will be at the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona this week. One more thing I didn't get to put on the air but that I'd love to call your attention to is that the Woodshed, Orlando's only dungeon club (at least as far as I know) is presenting Quills , the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright that became a famous film (starring Kate Winslet and Geoffrey Rush) all about the Marquis de Sade. I think it's fabulous that Woodshed

Super cool stuff this week on 10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries this week on Alternet! Including ....birds that are would-be diving champions....AND... ....Shatner and Wheaton tell us about "seven minutes of terror," the landing of Mars Curiosity THIS MONDAY NIGHT at 1:31 AM!.... ......exploding suicide bomber termites.... .....and Indian village that sits atop of a near-century old coal fire.... ....how one pitcher plant tricks its prey.... .....the smell of space..... .....why you have food cravings.... .....dolphins have meet-ups.... ....a climate change denier denies his denial (or at least changes his mind).... .....noisy sex makes flies easier prey for bats.

What's hot in CF this weekend? Tons of nerd music and art at Nerdapalooza (and check them out in the Orlando Weekly ), seven plays by amateur playwrights at the Summer Shorts program of the Red Chair Project and a great way to help out the Orange County Animal Services and have a wonderful night of music and fun at the Orlando Rep with Canines, Cats and Cabaret 2! Check 'em all out on What's Hot in Central Florida, my weekly segment on WMFE, that airs at 4:32 pm today OR you can hear it RIGHT THIS MINUTE on the website . See yez out there!