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Date	Author	Headline
11/18/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	’Tis the season again already? I confess I’m one of those schmucks standing astride the calendar shouting, “Stop!”
11/11/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Any city can slap together a silent auction and hors d’oeuvres and call it a gala
11/4/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	As much as I enjoy the Halloween season (and its endless supply of column material), by the time Oct. 31
10/28/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	On Oct. 18, the Orlando arts community bade a sad farewell to a beloved member who passed away
10/21/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Halloween, just a kid-focused holiday a generation ago, has grown up into a $5 billion industry
10/14/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	The horses were my first clue that something was wrong.
10/7/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Each year, just after I’ve recovered from Universal’s Halloween effort to liquor me up and “boo” me till I barf
9/30/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Writing this column has its perks, but none better than the treatment afforded the media at the annual opening of Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights
9/24/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Orlando’s artistic seasons run in reverse to the usual ecology: hibernating in the summer, flowering in the fall
9/10/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Months of rumor-mongering. Weeks of watching and waiting. Eons of anxious anticipation.
9/3/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Since Disney shuttered Pleasure Island last fall (see Live Active Cultures, Sept. 25, 2008), I’ve repeatedly lamented the lack of grown-up evening entertainment on Mouse property
8/27/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	As much as I hate to leave our humid little home, a family function up North forced me to put down my pen for the past fortnight
8/6/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Advance warning: I’m sure some regular readers are pleading “Enough with the puppets
7/30/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	It’s 2 p.m. Saturday, July 25, and Brian Feldman doesn’t look well. He’s been here at the Loving Hut ingesting vegan cuisine since 11 a.m.
7/23/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	My eardrums, liver and other assorted organs are still recovering from the Best of Orlando party
7/16/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	The popular perception that summertime is slow season for Orlando theater has become a self-fulfilling prophecy
7/9/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	No preview available.
7/2/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	I’ve never been public in my patriotism. In high school, during my rebel-without-a-clue phase
6/25/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	I’m writing you this open letter for two reasons. First, I’m one of the few people left on earth without a Facebook account
6/18/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	It’s the end of the broadcast world as we know it, and if you feel fine then you haven’t been paying attention
6/11/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Since Carmen’s career started on the street corner, she was visibly aghast when I told her of Orlando’s
6/4/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Last Thursday (May 28), the glitterati of Orlando gathered to welcome downtown’s eternally delayed Plaza Cinema Café with all the ersatz glitz and glamour that Hollywood East could muster – that is, not very much
5/28/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Plenty of perfectly normal people enjoy riding roller coasters
5/14/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	My favorite annual event on Orlando’s cultural calendar begins Thursday, May 14: the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival.
5/7/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Culture	If you want a front-row seat to the Great Recession’s impact on the arts industry
4/30/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	It isn’t every week that I take a drive west of I-4 into the land of Parramore
4/23/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Auto manufacturers. Newspaper publishers. Opera companies. Across our economic ecosystem, once-untouchable giants are gasping their last
4/9/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	The only thing not in short supply these days is the buckets of blood-red ink saturating our state and local finances, turning legislative chambers into economic abattoirs
4/2/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	After a half-dozen columns focusing on downtown, I thought it was time for another trip down I-4 to see the new American Idol Experience at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
3/26/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	I want to stop for a moment this week and talk not about my latest cultural find, but rather someone we’ve lost
3/19/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Each week in this column I try to ladle out something from our cultural crockpot.
3/12/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	I’m not certain the first time I heard it. Perhaps it was when Mayor Buddy began touting the land where the arena currently sits as the future home for a “creative village” dedicated to “digital media.”
3/5/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	I’m a seasoned sci-fi geek, practically from birth, and since my first weekly column (Feb. 7, 2008), I’ve been bringing you dispatches from my annual visits to various fanboy conventions.
2/26/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	I should have known I was in trouble when he asked for the Jäger
2/19/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	One year ago, in one of my first columns (Feb. 21, 2008), I reviewed 2008’s Nude Nite art event and came to the conclusion that “this emperor’s got no clothes...
2/12/2009	Bao Le-Huu	This Little Underground	No preview available.
2/12/2009	Seth Kubersky	Live Active Cultures	Raise your hand if, like me, you once dreamed of becoming a secret agent...
2/5/2009	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURE	Jim Henson’s Fantastic World arrives this week at the Orange County Regional History Center, and members of the puppet pioneer’s family will be on hand to help celebrate the exhibit...
1/29/2009	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	“Whole world’s comin’ to an end,” said Mickey Knox to Mallory in Natural Born Killers, and judging by the economic news he might have been right...
1/22/2009	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	No preview available.
1/15/2009	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	If you visited Orlando’s theme parks this past holiday season, you might have thought the recession had been postponed...
1/8/2009	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURE	In today’s tough times, the only pastime I – and many of my friends – can afford is our favorite: complaining about Orlando’s arts scene...
1/1/2009	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	The week between Christmas and the new year is when snow-weary Northerners seek refuge in our theme parks, and sensible Orlando folks get the hell out of town...
12/25/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	By the time you read this, the wrapping will have been ripped off your gifts, and you’ll probably be deep into yet another post-turkey coma. But here are a few last-minute arts stocking stuffers that I couldn’t cram in last week’s column..
12/18/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURE	I didn’t wanna go to Godspell, and that’s the god’s honest truth. To be frank(incense), I’d had my fill of that Jesus fella, and his birthday was still a couple of weeks away ...
12/11/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	The Lowndes Shakespeare Center in Loch Haven Park plays host to a number of prestigious theater performances every year ...
12/4/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	In his own time, Charles Dickens wasn’t the universally acknowledged master of English literature we think of today ...
11/27/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	IAAPA. Say it with me, please: “eye-AP-pah.” It’s the sweetest sound in the theme-park business ...
11/20/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Last week the New York Times reported on one of the few products to see a recent upswing in sales: Spam
11/13/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	When Disney shut down its Pleasure Island nightclub complex, I privately planned a personal protest ...
10/30/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Received intelligence indicating an incipient undead infestation in the vicinity of Kissimmee ...
10/23/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Culturally speaking, October is often among the busiest months in Orlando ...
10/16/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	The stereotype of critics is that we salivate over the opportunity to skewer struggling productions, deriving pleasure from other artists’ pain (see Christopher Lee’s character in Ratatouille) ...
10/9/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	The value of your 401(k) is hovering in the single digits, the tax appraiser says your home is worth less than a tank of gas, and pundits proclaimed Sarah Palin the victor of last week’s vice presidential debate ...
10/2/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	While I was away on vacation in August, a press release from Universal Orlando arrived via e-mail, proudly predicting this year’s “in-your-face” Halloween Horror Nights billboards would push the “outdoor advertising … art form to new levels”
9/25/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	After 19 years of entertainment, late-night Saturday will be the last call for Disney’s Pleasure Island nightclub complex ...
9/11/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Looking for a relaxing way to while away a weekend?
9/4/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Greetings from the North. I’m back from a seven-city suicide sprint through the Mid-Atlantic disguised as a vacation ...
8/14/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	In honor of the quadrennial competitions commencing in China, I spent last Thursday night surrounded by imagery of the Olympics ...
7/31/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	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 ...
7/24/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Why ... so ... serious???
7/17/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	I am prejudiced. Biased. I have subjective opinions, and my arts coverage lacks objectivity.
7/10/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Happy Belated Independence Day! I hope you managed to make it through the Fourth of July with your fingers and liver intact.
7/3/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Dear Orlando Sentinel, Listen, we have to talk...
6/26/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Sometimes, words are just worthless. That's a tough truth for a writer to admit: If it weren't for words, I'd be out of a job...
6/19/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	In last week's column, I railed about the railroading given to Rebecca Morgan and bemoaned the loss of WMFE's Arts Connection radio show.
6/12/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	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.
6/5/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	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.
5/29/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	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.
5/15/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Last year I spilled several thousand words' worth of ink (and a not-inconsiderable volume of my own plasma) on coverage of the 2007 Fringe festival.
5/8/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Regular readers might have noticed I exhausted last week's column on the earth-shaking observation that Wicked was overhyped.
5/1/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Every half-decade or so, a piece of musical theater comes along that achieves popularity far out of proportion to its actual merits ...
4/24/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	This week’s edition of Live Active Cultures calls for a different kind of introduction, because it’s a different kind of column...
4/17/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Twelve weeks ago, when I began writing this column, my biggest fear was running out of material. As it turns out, the bigger issue is that there’s not enough me to write about the arts...
4/10/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Just yesterday, it seems, he was sweet and loving – waking me in the morning with a whiskery nuzzle, greeting me joyfully when I came home from work...
4/3/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	It was supposed to be so easy: Just head over to the Dead Bob, pick up the tickets at will call, grab a nearby bite for dinner and settle in for some Spamalot.
3/20/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	A mysterious package recently arrived for me at the Weekly bearing an “ORLANDOWORLD, FLORIDUH” return address. It wasn’t a letter bomb (those usually come to my home), but a beautifully brain-bending book...
3/13/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A geriatric vaudevillian and a performance artist walk into a fundraiser …
3/6/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	To anyone who insists that the Orlando area’s arts have no breadth, I’m officially calling bullshit again, because last Friday I experienced the full spectrum, from the avant garde to the old guard, and all barely 15 miles apart...
2/28/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	After years of saying “No, no, no” to anything but the most basic maintenance, the Mouse powers have opened the purse strings for significant renovations of signature rides...
2/21/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	This issue marks four weeks since I started churning out my column of cultural commentary, and I’ve gotta say I’ve been overwhelmed with the volume of arts experiences Orlando has to offer...
2/14/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Did someone order an early spring and forget to tell me? It’s not just the sunny skies that are making me do a double take at the calendar; a number of new arts opportunities are popping up like crocuses after an April shower ...
2/7/2008	Seth Kubersky	GEEK-BOY GRAB BAG	Allow me to kick off my first regular installment of Live Active Cultures with a confession: I’m a geek ...
1/31/2008	Seth Kubersky	LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES	Welcome to the first installment of your weekly dose of arts-acidophilus and culture-l. casei ...