Liz Langley

Listen for me on WMFE  90.7 FM for What's Hot in Central Florida this weekend including  Star Wars weekends  at Disney Hollywood Studios, this weekend featuring Warwick Davis and next weekend Billy Dee Williams, the Florida Anime Experience and Lifelines: Forms and Themes of Art Nouveau at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum in Winter Park . Tune in at 4:32 pm every Friday or click the link if you can't stand to wait! :) Photo from WDW News

Yes, I got the warm fuzzies today upon reading that Pope Francis called for a sort of detante with atheists/non-believers. It’s the good things we all do that matter, he said, and that that is the common ground on which we should meet.  That’s pretty spiffy - but does it strike anyone else as kind of sad that it’s such a huge deal for a spiritual leader to have said something that was simply mature? That many of us expect religious leaders to be either so crazy or so backward  that when one says something that’s wise, empathetic and good for everyone, that it’s big news?  But I don’t want to detract from the warmth of the statement.  From what I can see what Francis is advocating here is pretty much what Bill & Ted said in 1989: all that matters is that we be excellent to each other. Who can argue with that?  Photo of Atheist Cat from Tumblr

Edgar: I think I know what you know I know. Victor: Look I don’t know what you think I know but I don’t know it. Frankenweenie You know about sex.....of course you do! You're something of an expert if you say so yourself. But do you know what you think you know? Can sex before an athletic event weaken your performance? Does the pill make you gain weight? Does sex actually make you happy? Check out my 10 Common Ideas About Sex That Are Wrong story on Alternet - because you want to know what you think you know.

What’s Hot in Central Florida  on WMFE 90.7 FM this weekend is one thing comprised of well over 100 things - it’s the Orlando Fringe Festival , the longest running Fringe Fest in the US. There are so many shows about which I’ve heard great things by trusted sources  that I couldn’t fit nearly all of them into the broadcast but some of the ones I’m vying for - click the links for descriptions - The 39 Steps, , Blue and Tod: in the Black, The Boy Who Stole the Sun , Celebrity Match Game: The Musical (and a Game Show) , A Field Guide to the Gays, God is a Scottish Drag Queen, Key of  E , Little Miss Fringe Festival, Loon, Michael Winslow: Noizeyman Featuring Jose Sarduy, Misa Flamenca, Pechakucha Orlando , Pretending Thigns Are a Cock, Serving Bait to Rich People , Stayin Alive III , and Underneath the Lintel by Glen Berger . Got to see a little preview of Key of  E ,, that made me look forward to seeing the rest of it. Also having seen God is a Scottish Drag Queen, and previou

I was fascinated to read Stylist magazine's list of the 1 0 Weirdest Beauty Treatments in the world, all of which included the use of some kind of animal or animal product, including snail secretion skin cream, bull semen hair conditioner (tried it years ago for a story, it was okay but one has to wonder about the poor person whose job it is to collect the ingredients) and leeches as a blood detoxifier. And yes I'll agree that these are a little unusual but it's still kind of funny that " Have a surgeon slit your face open and pull your skin around until you look either five years younger or like a melted candle " was not considered weird enough to be on the list. That  is weird. I know - never say never. If my mom was any indicator of my future  I'll soon have more wrinkles than an Agatha Christie plot and might  longing for the knife one day. For now, though, bring on the snail squeezin's. (Facial surgery pic swiped from The Guardian UK sto

This week What’s Hot in Central Florida on WMFE 90.7 FM includes “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch,” a one-woman show by Alison Arngrim - aka Little House on the Prairie ’s ultimate brat Nellie Olsen at the Parliament House, the Central Florida Chapter of Neuroscience’s “Music and the Brain,” this afternoon and the Cabaret Festival at Mad Cow Theatre . Listen to my broadcast for more details - and like it if you love it cuz I wanna do more of it. ;)

I’ve been luxuriating in the Addams Family weather we’ve been having though hopefully it will clear up just enough fr you to want to go out because there’s lots to do. Listen for me at 4:32 PM today on WMFE for What’s Hot in Central Florida including Buddha’s Birthday Party at the Guant Ming Temple , Mrs. Garrett and the girls in The Facts of Life at the Breakthrough Theatre in Winter Park and Gothic Folk, an art exhibit, book signing and CD release by Elizabeth Levensohn at Stardust Video . This last one is of special significance to me . I have watched Elizabeth’s art evolve over decades, have learened a lot about meaningful work from her and am tremendously impressed by how she integrates art and music in this show. These paintings are all based on murder ballads from the 1920’s on up (when I think murder ballad I think Delia’s Gone by Johnny Cash though that's not one on the list). They're amazing: dark and archetypal but gentle and personal, too. Some of thi

Life is entirely too busy when I don't get to see a Tim Burton movie until it's at the RedBox, but that's what happened with Frankenweenie.  It was worth the wait  and I can't help wanting to share this line from the beleaguered science teacher who is trying to explain to upset parents why their kids are doing extreme and peculiar experiments in hopes of winning the science fair: "You don't understand science so you are afraid of it! Like a dog is afraid of thunder or balloons!' Brilliant. Here's a video clip from YouTube . If I could see inside anyone's house it would be Tim Burton's.