Liz Langley

This weekend What's Hot in Central Florida is all about celebrating home with the Citrus Parade , local comedy at Sak Theatre and the Orlando Solar Bears ! If you missed it yesterday on 90.7 FM at 4:32 pm click here to listen and I'll see you out there!

“ In Leeds, England in 1806 a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" was written. Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The hoaxster had written on the eggs in a corrosive ink so as to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs back into the hen.” “The Prophet Hen of Leeds,” List of Dates Predicted for Apocalyptic Events, Wikipedia Wikipedia’s list of Predicted Apocalyptic Events is a spiffy little read consisting of 235 incidents of Chicken Littling over the world’s end - and that’s only up to the one that’s supposed to come today. The predictions come largely from religious types but there are also a few surprise entries, like Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Manson, Christopher Columbus and Jeanne Dixon (which sounds like a roundly rejected idea for a Bill & Ted sequel). Then there are some runaway winners, like psychic Sheldon Nidlie who thought 16 million spaceships accompanied by angels would put a stop to this party on December 17, 19

Last week I recommended Dickens by Candlelight  on my segment on WMFE 90.7 FM . I just got to see it. Here's the (excuse the pun) glowing review. I wish I had more candles. I’ve written by candlelight before but only once: in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley when the electricity was out for eight days and I had work to do. This evening, though, it would be a whim, a desire to extend the atmosphere of the show I’ve just left - but didn’t want to leave entirely - at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center.  Dickens by Candlelight , , produced by Kenneth Ingraham, is the telling of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol in a style that cleverly captures the feeling of a homey, Victorian Christmas gathering by bringing actors and audience together instead of separating them by seats and stage. One sits (if I may use the ultimate Victorian pronoun) with one’s fellow theatre goers in the cavernous old room of the historic Lake Ivanhoe building, made cozy by candlelight, camar

Listen for me for What's Hot in Central Florida on WMFE 90.7 FM today at 4:32 pm and getting the skinny on TONIGHT's Downton Abbey sneak peek in Winter Park , a celebration of our canine companions at Celebrate Dogs Orlando and one I'm especially looking forward to myself, Dickens by Candelight  at the Dr. Phillips Center on Lake Ivanhoe. It's been foggy and dreary enough the past few days to provide some Victorian London atmosphere....and yet it's Florida it's still only 58 degrees (as of this writing), which is just as chilly as it needs to be for a little drama. See you out there!

It’s chilly, not really cold enough for the bright scarlet, impossibly 80’s sweater I’m wearing (puff sleeves and shoulder pads), but atmosphere is important. This may be Florida but if you can’t wear a red angora sweater to a Christmas concert why own one? Some people hug their jackets around them, some, not yet acclimated, run around in shorts, but they’re here by the hundreds for Christmas in the Park , a concert of  holiday favorites by the Bach Festival Choir Youth Choir and Brass Ensemble and a showcase for the famous windows of world renown glass maker Louis Comfort Tiffany from the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of Fine Art . I’m hosting the event on WMFE, 90.7 FM , Central Florida’s public radio station - the first time Christmas in the Park as been broadcast - with interviews with Dr. John V, Sinclair, director and conductor of the Bach Festival Society and Dr. Laurence Ruggiero , executive director of the Morse Museum (click here tonight at 6pm to listen and here to

This week on What's Hot in Central Florida on WMFE 90.7 FM we have Duane Hanson's stunningly life-like sculptures at the  Museum of Florida Art in Deland ,  The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of a “Christmas Carol,”  at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre and  Broadway Brunch at Hamburger Mary's , featuring Ginger Minj and Theminx Minx, your charming, funny and eminently watchable hosts bringing you a large cast of talented performers: definitely worth getting presentable earlier than you might usually do on a Sunday....except for church. And you can do Hail Marys at home....for Bloody Marys I'd recommend this.       Also this Saturday check out the  John Lennon Tribute Concert  to benefit the Heartstrings Foundation: there will be over 30 performers and what better time of year for consideration and homage to someone who was an icon of love and peace?       Listen at 4:32 pm today or  click this link  if you can't wa