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CONTENTS

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Volume 15

Issue 5

DEPARTMENTS 8 JAY BOYAR’S LIMELIGHT

Jay talks to Davis Gaines, a Broadway star returning to his hometown for a month-long run at the Shakes, then looks ahead to the Global Peace Film Festival; the hit movie Frozen works out perfectly as a Disney on Ice show at the Amway; the Science Center goes batty; and Cirque du Soleil visits the Amway while a different group of circus artists teams up with the Orlando Phil at Bob Carr.

50 WELLNESS

Getting in shape can be a challenge for busy women. Check out these three hot fitness trends. by Katy Widrick

58 FLAVOR

Artisan’s Table is bringing modern American cuisine to downtown Orlando. by Rona Gindin • photographs by Rafael Tongol

64 RESTLESS NATIVE

Sometimes getting the most out of life comes down to a simple choice, such as: a truck, or a trip?

by Mike Thomas

18 ARTS PREVIEW

Central Florida’s arts-and-entertainment season gears up. We’ve sifted through the choices to compile our annual “Can’t Miss” list. by Michael McLeod and Harry Wessel

36 WELCOME, DR. PHILLIPS

The soon-to-open Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts means a new era for the performing arts in Orlando, among other things. by Michael McLeod • photographs by Rafael Tongol

42 FALL FASHION

A look at the latest in fall fashion trends in a seaside setting: the Atlantic Center for the Arts. by Marianne Ilunga • photographs by Rafael Tongol 2

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ON THE COVER: The Understudy, a painting by Winter Park-based artist Stacy Barter, mirrors the emergence of a new arts scene in Orlando with the opening of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

Photos: (top left and bottom left and right) rafael tongol; (top right) courtesy chase padgett

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CAPTURING A SENSE OF ANTICIPATION ISN’T EASY, AT LEAST IN WORDS.

hen people ask me why I don’t write fiction, I tell them that I like writing about the real world because God makes up better stories than I ever could.

Actually, that’s not quite it.

What happens to you if you write nonfiction long enough is that you get addicted to uncertainty.

You know it’s a crapshoot every time out, but by the time you realize it, you’re hooked.

I don’t think I’ve ever written a story that was worth a damn without being utterly surprised by it somewhere along the way. But mainly, I’m surprised when I figure out how to say what needs to be said.

All those work-ethic lectures are fine and dandy in theory, but in practice you can’t just say: If I really, really, really, buckle down this very moment, it will come to me.

That’s actually, in my experience, a surefire way of keeping inspiration away. It doesn’t wear a tie, keep appointments or answer the phone. It only likes you when you’re looking the other way. Once you’re not even trying any more, it turns up with a party hat on.

The whole thing reminds me of when I was a kid, sitting with my three sisters in the back seat of the family’s ’61 Impala, trying to make a traffic light change from red to green by chanting: “Not now but NOW. Not now but NOW.” We knew it didn’t work, but we kept on doing it just the same.

Which pretty much describes the weird equilibrium of my life as a writer and the state I was in the other day, plodding along, writing a story about our new, nearly finished performingarts center, secretly hoping for the balloons and party hats to magically appear.

As, sometimes, they do.

My plodding was interrupted when my boss sent me a photo of a painting and suggested we use it on our cover. We never do that. We always use photos. But the story I was writing was about something that doesn’t even fully exist.

And so, as it turns out, was the painting.

It’s called The Understudy. It’s a portrait of a dancer by Stacy Barter, a senior faculty member at the Crealdé School of Art who teaches painting workshops around the country.

Here’s what she had in mind when she painted it: “I wanted to capture a ballerina peeking through curtains, watching the performance from off stage, captured by the beauty and story being told, and envisioning herself in the lead role performing for a huge audience someday.”

I think she captured a great deal more than that, which is why we chose it for our cover.

I think she captured a sense of anticipation, of mystery, of youthful ambition and wonder, caught in the glow of something beautiful but just out of reach.

And she wasn’t even trying. See what I mean?

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LIMELIGHT

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A Friendly Phantom BROADWAY’S DAVIS GAINES IS STILL A LOCAL KID AT HEART. Gaines, who’s starring in Les Misérables at the Orlando Shakes, made his name in Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera.

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hen I think about Broadway stars, I think flamboyant. Nathan Lane.

Neil Patrick Harris. Liza Minnelli. People with big — almost too big — personalities.

Davis Gaines isn’t like that. Not offstage, anyway. The Orlando native may have famously delivered more than 2,000 performances in the iconic title role of The Phantom of the Opera, but when he’s not working he’s well within normal human range.

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Onstage he seems to get larger, pumped up by his big, rich voice and an oversized imagination. But in private moments he comes off as notably unpretentious.

Maybe part of that modesty comes from having grown up in the sleepy little town that Orlando was when he was attending Fern Creek, Glenridge and both Winter Park and Edgewater high schools, graduating from the latter in 1972.

He still comes home pretty often, sometimes just to visit family.

Other times, he’s also here to work, as he was a couple of months back when he performed a cabaret show at The Abbey in downtown Orlando.

Gaines will be back again, Sept. 10 through Oct. 12, to play Inspector Javert in Les Misérables at Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Loch Haven Park. (That’s the role that Russell Crowe took so much flak for, perhaps unfairly, in the 2012 movie version.) Set in 19th century France, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is a tale of struggle and survival, loss and redemption.

“I’ve been lucky to be able to work in Orlando a lot over the years,” said Gaines — who lives in Los Angeles — when I caught up with him early one Sunday afternoon, just before his performance at The Abbey of several of his favorite Broadway melodies.

Dressed in severely distressed jeans and a black pullover with its sleeves pushed up almost to his elbows, he seemed more like an appliance repairman than a Broadway luminary.

Nothing in particular drew him to Les Miz, he explained, or to the character of Javert. The main attraction for him was the chance “to do it in my hometown and live with my parents. They live right on a lake, across from the Shakespeare Theater, so I can literally walk to work every day.”

As he thought about the Loch Haven area, which meant so much to him when he was a boy, Gaines grew quiet and his eyes narrowed to pinpoints.

“There’s a building, right across the street on Princeton, where I auditioned to be a character [the foxy J. Worthington Foulfellow] at Walt Disney World, back when I was in high school,” he said at last, tracing the streets with a finger. “We were the Pinocchio unit and we lived in Fantasyland.”

And, really, doesn’t he still?

“Yes, I do,” he admitted, almost whispering. “Life is like that.”

It is, at least, for Davis Gaines.

Visit orlandoshakes.org for more information. n Jay Boyar, arts editor of Orlando Life, has written about film and travel for the Orlando Sentinel and numerous other newspapers. He’s the author of Films to Go: 100 Memorable Movies for Travelers & Others and a contributor to Reel Romance: The Lovers’ Guide to the 100 Best Date Movies.

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Global Peace Film Festival Seeks to Inspire Engagement One big difference between the Global Peace Film Festival and other film festivals is what happens after you watch a movie there.

At most film festivals, you see a movie and maybe participate in a Q&A session in which a filmmaker describes the film’s themes and how it was made. That’s about it. At Global Peace, however, the films are meant to inspire you to take action. And the Q&As held after the films emphasize the issues that the films explore and show how you can directly confront them.

“We really do look for films that will motivate,” says Nina Streich, the festival’s executive director. “Our goal is to have ideas and information present ... so that we can say, ‘If you’re inspired by this, here are some tools. Here is something you can do.’”

This year’s 12th edition of the festival will be presented Sept.

16 though 21, mainly at Rollins College, the Winter Park Public Library and downtown Orlando’s Plaza Cinema Café 12. In addition, four panel discussions about filmmaking and related subjects will take place at the Alfond Inn, the festival’s host hotel.

Streich estimates that the event will present some 50 films, mainly short features of between 41 and 69 minutes. That’s an odd running time for a movie — too short for a regular theatrical feature and too long to be considered a typical short film. But it’s perfect for Global Peace, partly because it allows ample time for those Q&A sessions — which can sometimes be as important as the films themselves.

Streich is especially excited about the festival’s openingnight selection, CinemAbility, which will be presented free of charge. Directed by UCF grad Jenni Gold, it’s a documentary about disability in film and television.

Also on the schedule is Every Three Seconds, about eliminating poverty worldwide, and Pretty Old, which looks at the Ms. Senior Sweetheart Pageant, a beauty contest for women over 58. That last film may sound a bit frivolous, but Streich sees a deeper theme.

“It just shows,” she says, “that we never stop striving and learning and growing.” And, presumably, wearing sashes.

Visit peacefilmfest.org for more information.

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LIMELIGHT

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Garden Theatre (Winter Garden) Sept. 12-Oct. 5

After four decades on stage, you still don’t want to know what’s in Mrs. Lovett’s meat pies. This year’s Garden Theatre production features stunning new costuming by award-winning designer Nicholas Hartman.

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19th Epcot International Food & Wine Festival

Walt Disney World Resort Sept. 19-Nov. 10

While sampling delectables from around the globe, be sure to check out the rich wines and sizzling cuisine from Argentina and Chile at Epcot’s new Patagonia Marketplace.

disneyworld.disney.go.com The Who’s Tommy

Mad Cow Oct. 3-Nov. 2

In this rendition of the original rock opera, audiences are reintroduced to Pete Townshend’s iconic tunes. Follow the musical journey of a disabled pinball wizard to fame and self-realization.

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Marc Anthony Cambio De Piel Tour

Amway Center Oct. 5.

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Orlando Ballet Presents Vampire’s Ball

Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Oct. 17-19.

It’s dark, graceful and a little bloody. In this Halloween-inspired ballet, two innocent souls encounter evil with a mad scientist and dueling vampires.

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The Footsteps of Mozart

Plaza Live Oct. 20

The Orlando Philharmonic, led by guest conductor Andrew Lane, focuses on music composed by Mozart during his travels around Europe. Flutist Colleen Blagov and clarinetist Nikolay Blagov are the featured soloists.

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Last year, two lovable sisters named Anna and Elsa melted hearts in Fro-

zen. A lot of hearts: Frozen generated $1.2 billion at the box office, making it the highest grossing animated film of all time.

So it was inevitable that the sisters would move from movie theaters to skating rinks: The national tour of Disney on Ice Presents Frozen! glides through the Amway Center Sept. 4-7.

In the film, heroine Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) sets off on a journey to find her magical sister, Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel), whose icy powers have accidentally trapped a magical kingdom in an eternal winter.

That storyline plays out on the rink via video-projection screens, more than a dozen fog and snow

machines, and 35 performers decked out in ornate costumes.

The sonic backdrop is provided by the film’s upbeat musical numbers. Characters from Pixar’s Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Disney’s The Lion King skate with Frozen’s mystical trolls and the sisters’ hilarious snowman, Olaf. Even Mickey and Minnie Mouse take to the ice.

With Frozen’s soundtrack having sold 2.7 million copies in the U.S. alone, Disney — which was caught off guard by the film’s success — is now plotting a Broadway musical version and scrambling to come up with some related theme park rides.

Visit amwaycenter.com for more information.

— Ailin Le Bellot

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LIMELIGHT

You know the story. You probably absorbed the moral, too: Don’t get too big for your britches. If you fly too high, your wax-and-feather wings will melt, and you’ll crash and burn, just like Icarus did.

But that’s not at all how the story plays out in Cirque du Soleil’s touring production, Varekai, which tumbles into the Amway Center Sept. 17–21.

In the Cirque version of the ancient Greek myth, Icarus doesn’t fall to his death. Instead, he lands in a magical forest populated by fantastical creatures. There, he falls — this time, figuratively — for one of them.

Varekai means “wherever” in the traditional dialect of Romanian gypsies, and this touring production is meant to pay tribute to “the nomadic soul” and “the spirit of the circus tradition.”

Acrobatic bodies become catapults and juggling instruments. Vibrant forest denizens glide above the stage in hoops or clinging to straps. Some aerial acts even fly over the audience.

A different sort of circus-arts show visits the Bob Carr on Oct. 11.

Cirque de la Symphonie combines cirque artistry — featuring athletic performers with Olympic medals and gymnastics championships on their résumés — with classical music courtesy of the Orlando Philharmonic.

With musicians sharing the stage, cirque artists will perform to the accompaniment of selections by Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov, Kabalevsky, Leonard Bernstein and John Williams.

Visit amwaycenter.com/events for more information on Varekai, and orlandophil.org/events for more information on Cirque de la Symphonie.

—Samantha Henry

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(As Bela Lugosi famously intoned: “Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make!”)

Mies, executive director of the Organization for Bat Conservation, is partnering with the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Michigan to bring four species to the exhibit: African fruit bats, Asian fruit bats and two types of leaf-nosed bats. They’ll join a Sunshine State resident known, simply, as “the big brown bat.”

“One of the neat things about this is that it helps introduce people to how bats are useful in nature and even for humans,” Mies says.

Useful? You bet. In the U.S., bats eat more insects — like crop-damaging moths and

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fanged and furry critters. He writes books about bats, discusses them on talk shows and lobbies for their conservation.

Now he’s curating an exhibit about them: Bats: Myths and Mysteries runs from Sept. 20 to Jan. 4, 2015 at the Orlando Science Center.

The exhibit will give visitors a chance to see 30 of the furry flying creatures — don’t worry, they’ll be enclosed so they can’t land in your hair or devour your blood — and learn about them through interactive bat models.

You can even don giant bat ears — actually headphones — to hear the sounds bats make when using echolocation to navigate.

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Best Guess At Your Can’t Miss THE TOP 20 EVENTS OF A LANDMARK ARTS SEASON.

PhotoS: (LEFT) courtesy orlando museum of art; (RIGHT) Broadway across america

by Michael McLeod and Harry Wessel

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very year, Orlando Life previews the

coming arts and entertainment season and assembles a list of the most intriguing events.

We usually detect a theme among the shows — this season, it’s nostalgia — and we always mention important newcomers on the arts-community scene. That call wasn’t hard to make this year. The new kid on the block is the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, which opens for business in early November and will host seven of the 20 events on our slate.

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Orlando Ballet Uncorked!

The Abbey, Orlando Ballet at a nightclub? Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. Three times yearly the Orlando Ballet invades this intimate downtown venue for an evening that gives viewers a peek inside the artistry and athleticism of dance. A choreographer will take the stage to briefly discuss an idea, perhaps for an upcoming show. A few bars of a musical theme will be played. And then a small group of dancers will take direction and try out a few combinations.

Gradually, a rough sketch emerges. The choreographer is the painter; the dancers are the palette. It’s fun to watch them communicate in the language they share.

(Not only do they speak French, they remember it.) The other dates for the series are Jan. 13 and March 24.

Oct. 11-Nov. 2, 2015

Acquisition Trust: Celebrating Thirty Years of Building a Collection

Orlando Museum of Art Orlando’s flagship art museum, established in 1924, celebrates not only its 90th Opposite page: Mel Kendrick’s jack # 3 will be part of the Orlando Museum of Art’s Acquisition Trust exhibit. Left: The Phantom of the Opera will be the first Broadway Across America production at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

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birthday but the 30th anniversary of its Acquisition Trust this year. Local benefactors have been assisting the museum in collecting great contemporary art since 1984. With more than $1.2 million raised, the Trust — which currently boasts 110 members — has purchased 45 paintings, sculptures and works on paper. All will be displayed during the yearlong exhibit. The artists include such heavy hitters as Robert Rauschenberg, Jules Olitski, Sean Scully, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Nick Cave and Mel Kendrick, who accounts for two of the Trust’s biggest purchases: two 10-feettall cast concrete sculptures called jack #3 and jack #4.

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Top: The Jazz Roots series at the Dr. Phillips Center will include trumpeter Chris Botti, who performs on Feb. 13. Bottom: The Parker Quartet, with a Grammy Award on their résumé, will play at Rollins College.

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Each musician is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and each is a full-time resident artist at Harvard University. They’ve slated a stop at the intimate, 400-seat Tiedtke Concert Hall on the Rollins College campus, where they’ll present works by Haydn, Prokofiev and Mendelssohn.

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Among aficionados of classical music, globetrotting violin virtuoso Midori Goto has earned that stature. In Orlando, she’ll perform Robert Schumann’s rarely heard Violin Concerto. Steven Jarvi, resident conductor of the St. Louis Symphony and one of five finalists vying to become the Orlando Philharmonic’s next music director, will lead the orchestra in a program that will include Wagner’s famous “Here Comes the Bride” operatic prelude and the Berlioz modern masterpiece, Symphonie Fantastique. The Phil will be performing at the Bob Carr until a state-of-the-art concert hall is completed at the Dr. Phillips Center.

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Garden Theatre, Winter Garden It’s one night, two shows as the versatile star of last spring’s Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival returns to Central Florida. Padgett — a UCF theater grad and former theme-park entertainer who now lives in Portland, Ore. — won the festival’s Best Original Work award in May for Nashville Hurricane. He plays both a mean guitar and all four colorful characters in that oneman show about a naïve but talented young musician. At the Garden Theatre, he’ll perform two separate shows: Hurricane and Six Guitars, another Fringe one-act in which he portrays six guitar players, each representing a different genre. Padgett’s ability to segue in and out of the various characters he creates is eerily brilliant, and the Garden Theatre — a small, restored movie house — is the perfect venue. We can’t recommend this one highly enough.

Top: I Love Lucy Live will bring a nostalgic production about the Golden Age of television to the Dr. Phillips Center. Bottom: The surprise hit Newsies, a raucous musical about a paperboy revolt, will headline at the same venue.

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Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Pioneering gospel, jazz, and rhythm and blues fusionist Ray Charles will be celebrated in Jazz Roots, the first of a series of four educational concerts at the Dr. Phillips Center. The series is the brainchild of jazz preservationist Larry Rosen, producer of the PBS series Legends of Jazz.

Rosen, who also produces jazz DVDs, iPad apps and Blu-rays, was the drummer for crooner Andy Williams and a studio musician for such stars as Henry Mancini, Steve Lawrence and Maynard Ferguson.

The performances will be complemented by educational outreach programs, which are one of the key missions of the new center.

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts The music of the night will sound even sweeter as the Broadway Across America series christens its new home with a mega-musical masterpiece. How apt that the first Broadway show in the center’s 2,700-seat Walt Disney Theater is set in an imaginary theater that’s grander still: the 19th century opera house that doubles as a madman’s lair. This reprise of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 tribute to obsessive but oh-so-grandly-romantic love features imaginative new staging, but the showstopper effect is the same as ever. Never mind popping a champagne cork to mark the occasion: The exploding-chandelier scene will do just fine.

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Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College Here’s the title from one of Kara Walker’s works: “The moral arc of history ideally bends toward justice, but just as soon as not curves back around toward barbarism, sadism and unrestrained chaos.” Walker has devoted her professional career to graphically retracing the results of that arc gone awry, often with controversial results.

At 27, she became the second-youngest recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” Now a faculty member in the MFA program at Columbia University, the African-American artist is best known for using old-fashioned, tra-

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This spring, we awarded the second annual Art of Philanthropy award at The Winter Park Sidewalk Arts Festival. Sculptor Steven Olszewski’s clay “Meditation”, shown here, was chosen as the piece that expresses “the love of mankind” and represents philanthropy at its very best.

Art is interpreted many different ways, but the beauty in giving back can be appreciated by all.

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ditionally charming silhouettes to depict the history of racism in this country. Her contradictory creations are raw enough to offend some viewers — often blacks who believe she’s reviving stereotypes. In one case, an antebellum plantation scene depicting the horrors of slavery was removed from a gallery as a result of such protests.

Undeterred, earlier this year she created a sculpture of a giant white female sphinx wearing a plantation mammy’s kerchief.

The modern dance troupe Pilobolus, which has been exploring the fluidity of the human form for 45 years, will appear at the Dr. Phillips Center.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Orlando Shakespeare Theater Race relations will be the subject of another January offering. Harper Lee’s endearing, resonant novel contrasts the innocence of childhood with the brutality of bigotry.

Christopher Sergel’s play, written in 1970 and currently touring the United Kingdom, is an adaptation that wisely honors Lee’s bittersweet narrative, often using it word-for-word. And the courtroom scene translates just as well to the stage as it did to film in the memorable 1962 movie, starring the incomparable Gregory Peck.

It will be interesting to see what sort of directorial adjustments the Shakes’ Thomas Ouellette makes to update the appeal of this compelling tale about a black man unjustly accused of rape, set in the Deep South of the 1930s.

Jan. 27-Feb. 1 Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Based loosely on the New York City newsboys strike of 1899, Newsies was first released by Walt Disney Pictures as a movie musical in 1992. No Newsies was good Newsies, sniped the critics, and the film bombed. But then it earned a youngish cult following after being released on home video, which persuaded Disney to retool it as a stage production with music

by Alan Menken and book by Harvey Fierstein. The new Newsies, a hit on Broadway, features acrobatic choreography, a stirring, never-say-die score, a plucky cast

Top to bottom: Celebrity chef Alton Brown brings his culinary zest to the Dr. Phillips Center; the works of controversial artist Kara Walker come to the Cornell Fine Arts Museum; and jazz legend Arturo Sandoval will perform with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra at the Bob Carr.

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of defiant ’tweeners, and a moral about the value of youthful solidarity versus greedy grownups. Think boy band meets Oliver.

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Paula Poundstone

Chase Padgett, winner of the Best Original Work award at the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, returns to Central Florida to perform two of his one-act creations at the Garden Theatre in Winter Garden.

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February. Freak me out.” She wrote that one just after tweeting: “A jury awarded a smoker’s widow $26.3 billion in punitive damages from R.J. Reynolds. This could make smokers more attractive as spouses.”

That’s a typical example of the darkly laconic, situational humor that plays out in Poundstone’s stand-up routines. Even more often, her performances take a selfmocking turn, drawing on her own quirky, androgynous persona.

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Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Jazz legend Arturo Sandoval — winner of 10 Grammys, one Emmy and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, to name just a few of his honors — brings his trumpet, flugelhorn and a top-notch crew of backup musicians to the Bob Carr to perform with the Orlando Phil and guest conductor Albert-George Schram. While jazz is Sandoval’s main genre, the Cuban-born protégé of Dizzy Gillespie also crosses over to classical as a pianist and composer.

He’ll be on stage for both a matinee and evening performance.

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Once, upon meeting culinary bad boy Anthony Bourdain, Brown was so intimidated that he lost his nerve, leaving without the autograph he’d been hoping for. But he’s certainly not shy in front of the camera. He won a James Beard Award for Good Eats, his long-running Food Network show, and has been host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen. His live appearances are billed as being “full of witty anecdotes about culinary expeditions, food history, and the science behind kitchen concoctions.”

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Photograph 51

Mad Cow Theater One of four productions Mad Cow staged last winter as part of a science play festival, Photograph 51 tells the story of Dr. Rosalind Franklin, who found a way to take the first-ever picture of the DNA double helix. Given that DNA is the biological blueprint that dictates what we look like and who we are, you might call the British biophysicist’s X-ray diffraction image the ultimate selfie. But you’ve probably never heard of her. That’s partly because Franklin was more interested in science than celebrity, and died at 37 from ovarian cancer. But she was also underestimated and sometimes treated dismissively by her male colleagues — even though she was smarter than most of them. That’s the way her story is told, at least, in this new drama from Manhattan playwright Anna Ziegler.

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Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival

Central Park and Park Avenue Yes, it’s a beautiful setting — you can’t do much better than the picture-postcard tableau that is downtown Winter Park.

But in the end it’s the art itself that makes this festival an annual inspiration. The sheer number of participants is impressive: Nearly 300 painters, printmakers, photographers, potters, sculptors, jewelry makers and clothing designers make the pilgrimage to Central Florida every year for one of the largest art festivals in the Southeast. More than once, guaranteed, you’ll turn a corner and stand stock-still, staring in wonderment at something that’s gorgeous in a way you never thought gorgeous could be.

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films, filmmakers and actors — both obscure and iconic — give it a certain show-biz panache. But the glitz quickly dissipates in the shade of the giant oaks, the caress of spring breezes and, let’s be honest about this, the mixed drinks served up at Enzian’s lovely outdoor bar. Roughly 170 independent and foreign feature films and documentaries are shown over the course of the festival, and the parties give patrons and pros a chance to share the love. You can enjoy the event at any level of your choosing — just dipping in for a movie or two or going in whole hog with packages that include all the shoulder-rubbing events.

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Pilobolus

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts While modern dance companies often prove ephemeral, Pilobolus has survived and thrived thanks to its consistent inventiveness, athleticism and accessibility. Drolly named for a fast-growing fungus, the Pilobolus Dance Theater is now four and a half decades into its mission of spreading (funguslike?) the art, wonder and sheer joy of human movement to a worldwide audience. Founded in 1971 by a creative group of Dartmouth College students, the Connecticut-based dance company has performed at venues ranging from the Academy Awards to the Oprah Winfrey Show — and overseas in more than 60 countries.

April 6-16

UCF Pegasus Arts Festival

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts The link between the Dr. Phillips Center and UCF is going to be an important one over the years. For that reason alone, this inaugural showcase of music, theater, film, dance, animation, studio art, digital media and video games created by UCF students and faculty members is important. The event will include performances by the UCF Orchestra and UCF Big Band, visual/digital media installations, theatrical performances, ensemble and dance performances, displays from the School of Visual Arts & Design, video-game jams and appearances by community arts partners.

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Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival

Loch Haven Park and Ivanhoe Village Despite changes over the past two years — new leadership, more venues, an emphasis on plays for children, an increased presence in a nearby neighborhood — the game’s the same at the longest-running theater festival in the country. It’s still a treasure hunt: The festival brings more than 100 shows to town, and the trick is to find out which ones you absolutely have to see. You accomplish that by mingling, eavesdropping, cruising the Internet, checking out reviews, chatting with the playwrights and generally making a pest of yourself. Shows run under 90 minutes and can include comedy, drama, dance, music, clowning, magic, storytelling or all of the above.

June 13-26

I Love Lucy Live On Stage

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts It’s pure nostalgia. But it’s good pure nostalgia, saluting one of the most brilliant comediennes of any era, Lucille Ball, and the pioneering sitcom that made the raucous redhead one of the reigning stars of television’s Golden Age. The conceit of this production is that attendees are audience members at a 1952 taping of two I Love Lucy episodes and are thereby front and center for the program itself, the frantic, between-takes hubbub between Lucy and her three co-stars, and the commercials. (Nothing says the ’50s like a dancing woman dressed up as an Alka Seltzer tablet.) n

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The three key leaders who have orchestrated the campaign to plan and build the new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: Kathy Ramberger, Dr. Phillips Center president; Mayor Buddy Dyer, who made the new center one of the planks in his campaign platform; and developer/ philanthropist Jim Pugh.

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Bill Frederick secured the site for a performing-arts center in downtown Orlando during his three-term stint as mayor. Two decades later, he returned as a volunteer to assist with both the high-end financing and other, humbler details.

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Center for the Performing Arts that bugs Bill Frederick no end.

“Everybody thinks this is just going to be a bigger Bob Carr,” he says.

It’s true that the $514 million complex will be considerably larger than the homely, cramped, acoustically challenged auditorium it’s tasked to replace.

But as the former mayor well knows, that isn’t the half of it.

“Bigger” goes without saying. It’s the “better” people have yet to grasp. When the Dr. Phillips Center opens Nov. 4 with a month-long celebration of open houses and community performances, it will represent one of the most significant upgrades to hit this town since the invention of air conditioning.

Because its unprecedented mission is both civic and aesthetic, tangible and intangible, grasping the scope of this world-class addition to Orlando’s cityscape isn’t easy.

So here’s a primer, partly for your own enlightenment and partly so we can all avoid upsetting Mayor Bill any further.

Or think of it as a user’s guide. Because the most important thing to understand about the new center is this: Come November, Central Florida, it’s all yours.

eras, ballets and theater companies, and they were see-and-be-seen showplaces for the well-heeled audiences that patronized them.

But beginning in the 1970s, as performing-arts centers began cropping up all over the country, many of them shifted in the opposite direction, becoming places that offered something for everyone.

The new generation of centers proved themselves capable of regenerating blighted urban cores, attracting new people and businesses and radically boosting community pride. And they were no longer perceived as exclusive enclaves; they were regional resources with outreach and educational programs.

During his three consecutive terms as mayor in the 1980s and early ’90s, Frederick didn’t have the resources to build a performing-arts center, but he had something nearly as valuable: foresight. With the future in mind, he acquired the prime, mid-city properties where the new complex is located.

Successive mayors, both county and city, took up the cause. Orlando Mayor Glenda Hood, Frederick’s successor, made believers out of some by commissioning a study by the Urban Land Institute that strongly recommended building a performing-arts center as an economic growth engine.

Orange County mayors, first Rich Crotty and then Teresa Jacobs, both sparred with the city over funding, sometimes bitterly. But Ja-

One of the most important features of the new center, a sophisticated, shape-shifting acoustical theater that can be “fine-tuned like a musical instrument,” won’t be built until money is raised to fund a second phase of construction.

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The architecture of the new center is both classic and approachable, with a dramatic, cantilevered canopy overlooking the CNL Arts Plaza. Planners consider the plaza to be the center’s fourth theater, a place where events for up to 3,000 people can be held.

Magnolia Avenue bisects the complex, crossing past the entrance. cobs, in particular, became a key ally of current Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, when civic leaders, philanthropists, community awareness and an improving economic situation finally aligned.

The city invested $202 million in the project. The University of Central Florida channeled $15 million via a state grant. Dr. Philips Charities, whose long-deceased namesake loved to arrange serenades for guests in his mansion, ponied up $35 million. And if you like your new center, thank a tourist: The $163.6 million Orange County kicked in came from its tourist development tax, a 6 percent surcharge on short-term rentals, mostly hotel and motel rooms.

Dyer sees the center as a crucial component in his urban-upgrade blitzkrieg that includes building a downtown stadium for the MLS Orlando City Soccer Club and rebuilding the aged Citrus Bowl.

“I just figured: Why not do all three at once? We’re competing with other cities all over the country to attract the best entrepreneurs, the smartest people, the brightest young professionals to Orlando. In this day and age, you don’t do that unless you have the kind of amenities they’re looking for,” he says.

But as Dyer confided to developer/philanthropist Jim Pugh on the night before his election in 2003, the performing-arts center “has to be for everyone — not just the black-tie crowd.”

With those marching orders in mind, planners began touring arts centers across the country to gather information and advice. One venue that served as kind of a role model was The New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

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Mayor Buddy Dyer, who vowed that the performing-arts center had to serve everyone and “not just the black-tie crowd,” had a taste of theater and a dose of diversity while a student at Osceola High School. “We had rednecks, African-Americans, beach boys, the works,” he says. “We also had a drama teacher who could take somebody who didn’t know a thing about the theater and make you love it.” would do the trick. But even the optimists were surprised by how the project unified a divided city and triggered an economic resurgence in a neighborhood where businesses had been encircled with concertina wire.

“When we were up there visiting, the moment that struck me was seeing people from all walks of life standing in line to buy tickets,” says Kathy Ramsberger, the Dr. Phillips Center’s president.

“We saw how well their business model worked. It gave us a lot of hope,” adds board member Craig Ustler, a veteran of downtown redevelopment who’s spearheading a $1.1 billion Creative Village project downtown, where the old Amway Arena once stood.

The Orlando planners also drew inspiration from the New Jersey facility’s CEO, Lawrence Goldman. Goldman is now Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration, and a passionate crusader on behalf of performingarts centers as agents of change. He recently led a seminar he entitled: “Should the Arts Have a Social Mission? Hell, Yes!” Goldman says the secret of the Newark experience lies not in the performing-arts center itself, but the idea behind it. “This was more ORLANDO LIFE

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Developer Jim Pugh has been both a steadying influence and a key contributor in the campaign to develop the new center, donating $7.5 million to the cause. Pugh, who likes to say building the center “is just a big real-estate deal,” is not only a close friend of Dyer’s but a boyhood friend of Frederick’s.

than just building a theater,” he said in a telephone interview. “This was creating a heart for the city.”

Orlando is not Newark. But the same principles that guided Goldman were adopted by the high-powered locals who have made Orlando’s center a reality after decades of discussion and debate. They came to understand that the operative word in “performing-arts center” wasn’t “arts.” It was “center.”

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The front of the new center is framed by a dramatic, curving, steelframed, cantilevered canopy, jutting out 85 feet over the sheer glass façade, creating a majestic vista that Barton Myers calls “the front porch.”

That juxtaposition — a grandiose structure described in a homey phrase — is a pretty good clue to both the design of the facility and the disposition of its creator.

Los Angeles-based Myers, an 80-year-old once described as “the greatest architect to come out of Virginia since Thomas Jefferson,” has a reputation for keeping his ego in check when he designs a building, opting to create structures that reflect their purpose rather than their creator.

He’s certainly succeeded here. The center is situated on a nine-acre tract between South and Anderson streets, facing City Hall across Orange Avenue, where a new public square that is roughly the size of a football field will serve as an outdoor theater space for concerts and other events.

One of the most distinctive elements of the building is a common lobby, just inside that glass façade. Ordinarily, in centers that feature more than one performance space, each space has its own lobby.

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Given the emphasis that Dyer and company placed on inclusiveness, Myers didn’t want that. “I wanted to pull the lobby area away from the theaters and toward the front of the building. That way it becomes part of the city.”

A second-story banquet hall above the center’s entranceway is similarly situated.

The effect will be magnified at night thanks to another unusual architectural element: a thick, curving, 80-foot-tall concrete barrier at the back of the lobby, separating it from the performance spaces.

The “wave wall,” as it’s been dubbed, has a function that’s both utilitarian and decorative. It’s a sound insulator, helping to keep the noise of the city from interfering with performances. And at night it will be illuminated in various colors.

The view from outside will be both spectacular and inviting. The building will glow from within. The glass façade will appear to disappear.

Since construction of the center had to be divided into two phases because of budgetary issues, only two of the three theaters planned for the complex will be completed in time for the November opening.

With horseshoe-shaped seating around a thrust stage, the first of those two theaters, the 300-seat Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, will ac-

The Alexis and Jim Pugh Theater will provide a multipurpose room for theater, dance, music and education for smaller performances, in an intimate setting with multiple seating and stage configurations.

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Kathy Ramsberger, the uncompromisingly persistent president of the Dr. Phillips Center, steered the project through its initial, conceptual phases and was asked to stay on now that it’s become a bricks-and-mortar reality. “No one tells the story of the center the way Kathy does,” says Rita Bornstein, past president of Rollins College and a key fundraiser. commodate more intimate community performances.

The 2,700-seat Walt Disney Theater has roughly the same number of seats as the Bob Carr, but that’s where the similarity ends, thanks to its classic, vertical design. There really are no bad seats in the house.

The theater will be used mainly for major concerts and Broadway musicals.

THE FUTURE

Not to rain on anybody’s parade, but things don’t get any easier for the Dr. Phillips Center once it’s up and running.

The Broadway shows and other performances will generate an income stream. So will three city-owned parcels that are part of the center’s nine acres. Tentative plans call for a hotel, an office tower and a residential facility to be built on the three sites. And because everything about the center is state-of-the-art, it should be able to attract a more varied array of performers than the Bob Carr ever did.

The caliber of names on the marquee will, presumably, attract more patrons and more income.

But the center still won’t be self-sufficient for some time to come — not for years, according to Goldman.

More donations will be needed to help fund the educational programs and to create a $25 million endowment. But the immediate need will be raising $36 million to build that third, 1,700-seat acoustic theater.

It will be worth every penny, say boosters. The cutting-edge engineering for the venue, which is slated to accommodate the Orlando Ballet and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, enables it to change shape to serve either a full orchestra or a smaller ensemble.

“You can fine-tune that place the way a musician tunes an instrument,” says Myers. “That’s the theater that will put Orlando on the map.”

The longer it takes to raise money for that theater, the more expensive it will become. Even if funds are raised quickly and construction begins soon, it likely won’t be finished until 2018 at the earliest.

Or as Bill Frederick keeps saying: “If we don’t get this thing going soon, I’m afraid I won’t see it happen in my lifetime.”

Perhaps that’s one reason the man who started the ball rolling for the center can’t seem to stay away from it.

When a $16 million shortfall in funding threatened to delay the project, Frederick was one of several backers who signed credit guarantees to bridge the gap — then held their collective breath until the remainder of the money eventually came through.

“I had some explaining to do about that when I got home,” he says.

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When concerns arose among some that the seats planned for the center would be too small, Frederick joined a committee that went around town sitting in various venues and sending away for sample seats to test. As a result, even plus-sized patrons will have ample room.

You can’t ask much more from a public servant — a retired, 80year-old one at that — than to put his own derriere on the line one moment, then turn around and worry about yours the next. n

IN BRIEF

Facility: The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Cost: $514 million Size: 333,000 gross square feet Theaters: Walt Disney Theater, 2,700 seats; Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, 300 seats; Multiform Theater (pending), 1,700 seats Other Features: Rooftop garden, community room, rehearsal rooms, offices, sky-lit hallway connecting backstage areas Major Donors: Dr. Phillips Charities, $25 million; Walt Disney World, $12.5 million; Orlando Magic, $10 million; CNL Financial Group, $10 million; Darden Foundation, $5 million; Jim and Alexis Pugh, $7.5 million Number of Performances Per Year: 300 (estimated)

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Step Up to the Season HIGH-FLYING FASHIONS FOR FALL styling by Marianne Ilunga photographs by Rafael Tongol hair and makeup by Elsie Knab The Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach (atlanticcenterforthearts.org) is an airy enclave where writers, performers and all manner of artists seek inspiration.

With models Christina and Aaron in tow, we found it there, too. Aaron wears a brown, “big bear” graphic tee, $32, by Ames Brothers; a herringbone wool vest, $125, by Wallin & Bros; and burgundy cotton joggers, $99, by Zanerobe. All are from nordstrom. com. The watch, by Q&Q SmileSolar, is $40 and available at smile-qq.com. The brown searcher boots, $149, are from toms.com.

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Christina wears a strapless floral shift dress, $2,445; and a floral print coat, $4,445; both

by Dolce & Gabbana. The turquoise flap clutch, $850, is by Fendi. All are from Neiman Marcus at The Mall at Millenia.

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Christina wears a long-sleeve, light-gray pinstripe dress, $1,860, by Alexander McQueen.

The two gold-plated necklaces (combined into one), $385 each; a gold-plated, oversized cross pendant, $745; and a gold-plated ring, $185; are by Stephanie Kantis. The gray quilted satchel, $2,550, is by Saint Laurent. Aaron wears a Skull graphic tee, $68; and a lambskin bomber jacket, $598; both by John Varvatos. The gray knit joggers, $185, are

by Vince. All are from Neiman Marcus at The Mall at Millenia.

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Christina wears an ice-blue neoprene coat, $525, by 1

by O’2nd, available at select Bloomingdale’s (1-800-232-1854).

The jungle-green statement ring, $275; and multicolor tribal bracelet, $495; are by Miriam Salat and available at miriamsalat.com.

The olive-green, open-toe booties, $268, are by Donald J Pliner and available at Donald J Pliner at The Mall at Millenia. Aaron wears brown canvas wingtips, $98; and peach retro sunglasses, $98; both

by Toms, available at toms.com.

The multicolor watch, by Q&Q SmileSolar, is $40 and available at smile-qq.com. The blue floral shortsleeve shirt, by 7 Diamonds, $89; the khaki-color cotton blazer, by Wallin & Bros., $295; the dark wash jeans, by The Matchbox, $185; and the multicolor camouflage backpack, by Herschel, $100, are all from nordstrom.com.

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Christina wears a light-blue and black floral print blouse, $695, by St. John. The black and white tweed coat, $1,590; and black leather pants, $995; are both by Akris Punto. The black calf-hair slip-ons, $295, are by Vince; the studded sunglasses, $345, are by Gucci; and the dark-blue, double-flap satchel, $3,700, is by Prada. All are from Neiman Marcus at The Mall at Millenia.

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Aaron wears a blue-denim distressed shirt, $695, by DSquared. The camouflage pants, $172, are by True Religion; and the brown leather boots, $350, are by Wolverine. All are from Neiman Marcus at The Mall at Millenia.

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Christina wears a military-green quilted moto jacket by Burberry Brit, $695.

The black pants with gold brocade details, $895, are by Rena Lange; the dark-brown metal sunglasses, $395, are by Fendi; and the bronze metallic pumps with zipper details, $925, are by Giuseppe Zanotti. All are from Neiman Marcus at The Mall at Millenia.

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Christina’s black lace jumpsuit, $598, is by DVF, exclusive to Bloomingdale’s at The Mall at Millenia. The black felt fedora hat with side bow detail, $395, is by Eric Javits and available at ericjavits.com. The black peep-toe suede booties, $328, are by Carmen Steffens and available at Carmen Steffens at The Mall at Millenia. Aaron’s white fitted shirt, $195; charcoal-gray suit jacket, $545; and charcoalgray pants, $245; are by Theory. The flannel tassel loafers, $415, are by Magnanni. All are from Neiman Marcus at The Mall at Millenia.

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YOGA (WITH A TWIST) Do a Kick-Through Push Up. Start in high-plank position, with hands shoulderwidth distance apart and legs extended.

With elbows brushing your body, do one triceps push-up. Pull the right knee in to touch the right elbow, then return to plank position. Bring your right foot to the outside of the right wrist and hold it.

Take a deep breath, bring your right hand up by your right ear, then kick your left foot through so it’s raised up toward the ceiling. Return to a plank position, then repeat the entire move on the left side.

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that makes me incredibly happy.

So here’s my guide to three fitness trends that are not only taking over America, they’re popping up all over Central Florida as well.

Plus, I’ll share some at-home workouts inspired by these trends.

1. YOGA (WITH A TWIST)

TRY THIS AT HOME:

DANCE FITNESS Start in a wide standing straddle, with toes pointed toward the front corners of the room. With hands at your hips, gently press your weight into your left hip, then bend both knees while dropping your glutes down and circling your hip to the right side, ending with weight gently pressed into your right hip. Repeat on the left side, then gently rock left to right with a sassy smile on your face and dance like nobody’s watching.

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I love and practice yoga nearly every day.

I’ve found that even a few minutes of running through some basic postures and poses, coupled with centering breaths, really help me shake off the stress of a busy day.

But if traditional yoga practices and classes don’t float your boat (pun alert!) — there are alternatives that can help you develop strength and flexibility while embracing your inner yogi or yogini.

Stand Up Paddleboarding, or SUP, is practiced on a specially designed board similar to a surfboard. The paddling alone is a great way to build up core and arm strength.

But once you’re out in open water, you’ll find that seemingly simple yoga postures become very challenging when you’re trying to balance yourself on a board.

I’m humbled — in a wonderful way — when I try to hold myself in a dancer’s pose or downward dog. And I find that SUP yoga wakes up muscles that aren’t always used in other workouts.

Prefer to stay dry? Workouts using aerial silks aren’t actually yoga classes, but they combine some of the stretching, flexibility and body contortion that I love most about yoga, with a special twist — literally.

You’ll actually wind hanging silk curtains around your ankles, legs, wrists and arms so they support you as you flip and spin into various postures and poses. It’s acrobatic; it will push you past your preconceived limits, and it’s one of the hardest — and most enjoyable — workouts I’ve ever tried.

And of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention a fitness craze that’s near and dear to my heart: PiYo Strength. PiYo is a program that combines pilates (Pi), yoga (Yo) and bodyweight exercises (Strength) in a fast-moving 60-minute class.

It’s all set to Top 40 music and can be modified to fit your fitness level and goals.

WHAT TO EXPECT Traditional yoga postures, taken out of a traditional studio; fewer chants, faster flows, and equipment that will challenge your balance and flexibility.

WHAT TO BRING A yoga mat, an open mind — especially if you’re used to a more gentle yoga practice — lots of water and a towel to wipe away the rivers of sweat.

WHERE TO GO n PiYo Strength: Dance Trance Orlando, 1828 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, facebook. com/dtorl; 24 Hour Fitness, 15 W. Crystal Lake St., Orlando, 24hourfitness.com (look for local clubs); Downtown YMCA, 433 N. Mills Ave., Orlando, ymcacentralflorida.com (look for local clubs); Breakin’ Sweat, 3464 Avalon Park East Blvd., Orlando, breakinsweat.com. n Aerial Silks: Orlando Aerial Arts, 6700 Kingspointe Parkway, Orlando, orlandoaerialarts.com; Vixen Fitness, 5907 Turkey Lake Road, Suite 101, Orlando, vixenfitnessonline.com; Northwest Dance Studio, 5495 Clarcona-Ocoee Road, Orlando, danceorlando.com; Orlando Circus School, 6809 Visitors Circle, Orlando, orlandocircusschool.com. n Paddleboard Yoga: Paddleboard Orlando, paddleboardorlando.com; H2YO, h2yojulieroach.com; Maui B’s Stand Up Paddleboarding, mauib.com; Wave of Wellness, waveofwellness.net.

2. DANCE FITNESS

I love to dance. Give me a beat and my toes start tapping. So I can’t get enough of the new dance fitness-inspired workouts that combine traditional choreography with sweat-inducing strength moves.

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CROSSFIT This basic movement, performed in four steps, is called a “four-count burpee.” With feet hip-width distance apart and core engaged, lift your arms toward the ceiling, with palms facing each other and elbows near your ears. Take a deep breath and roll your shoulders down and back for good alignment. Lower your hands, placing your palms on the ground near your feet. Step or jump back into a high-plank position, then do one push-up (modification: lower to your knees before beginning the push-up).

Step your feet back up toward the top of the mat, then lift your body up to a standing position, bringing your hands back up to their starting position. Do as many of these burpees as you can, maintaining good form and alignment, in 60 seconds. ly choreographed and lots of fun.

By the way, I heard you moan when I mentioned Jazzercise. But this isn’t your mother’s Jazzercise. Today, the workouts are set to hipper music — what you’d hear on Top 40 stations or in clubs — and employ simpler choreography inspired by dance and full-body conditioning.

Here’s the good news: None of this requires that you be a great dancer. But you’ll definitely gain respect for today’s most popular performers when you see how difficult it can be to keep a beat and not lose your breath.

WHAT TO EXPECT Music and play lists featuring chart-topping songs with dimmed lights and booming speakers. Expect to feel a little lost at first — it’s normal — but keep an open mind and you’ll pick up the choreography quickly.

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flexible shoes.

WHERE TO GO Dance Trance Orlando, 1828 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, facebook.com/dtorl; Allure Dance, 1313 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, alluredanceorlando.com; Zumba, zumba.com (look for local classes); Jazzercise Orlando, 927 N. Mills Ave., Orlando, jazzercise.com (look for local classes).

3. CROSSFIT

You’ve seen it in magazines, in your social media news feeds — heck, even on ESPN. CrossFit combines high-intensity interval

training, weightlifting and plyometrics in group workouts at studios called “boxes.”

Equipment includes barbells, kettle bells, jump ropes and plyo boxes.

Because the workouts engage all of your muscles, using both functional fitness (think everyday activities like climbing stairs and lifting heavy objects) and sport-specific skills (think handstand push-ups, rope climbs), you can get a great workout in a short amount of time, moving quickly through several rounds of instructor-led routines.

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If you can, wear minimalist shoes for increased stability and body-fitting clothes so you don’t get snagged in the equipment.

(Box jumps are hard enough without getting your knee stuck in the leg openings of loose shorts.) Also, bring water, a towel and a notebook to log your workout progress.

HIIT: High Intensity Interval Training.

WHERE TO GO

performance.com; CrossFit Fire Base, 5103 Forsyth Commerce Road, Suite 3, Orlando, crossfitfirebase.com; CrossFit Kings Point, 7075 Kingspointe Parkway, Suite 16 Orlando, crossfitkingspoint.com; CrossFit 407, 6457 Hazeltine National Drive, Orlando, crossfit407.com; CrossFit Country, 571 S. Econ Circle, Oviedo, crossfitcountry. com; CrossFit Exalted, 118 Central Park Place, Sanford, crossfitexalted.com. n

n Acro Yoga: a form of partner yoga,

CrossFit Orlando, 511 Brookhaven Drive, Orlando, crossfitorlando.com; Subu CrossFit, 114 W. Robinson St., Orlando, subucrossfit.com; CrossFit Milk District, 2401 E. South St., Orlando, crossfitmilkdistrict. com; South Orlando Crossfit, 44 W. Illiana St., Orlando, southorlandocrossfit.com; CrossFit High Performance, 2842 S. Alafaya Trail, Suite 100, Orlando, crossfithigh-

Katy Widrick is an AFAA-certified, PiYo Strength group fitness instructor and healthy living blogger. She also works as an executive producer for Bolder Media Group, which produces the television programs Growing Bolder and Surviving and Thriving. Learn more at katywidrick.com, where you’ll find weekly fitness tips and workout inspiration.

listed on a whiteboard, with participants each working at their own levels; a full-body workout with coaches nearby to make sure that you’re safe but also challenged.

WHAT TO BRING

n WOD: Workout Of the Day.

with one person acting as the base and the other acting as the flyer. n Silks: Fabrics (ribbons or tissue) used in aerial arts. n PiYo Strength: A workout that combines pilates, Yoga and strength training. n AMRAP: As Many Rounds As Possible.

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ARTISAN’S TABLE TRANSCENDS ITS TRENDINESS.

ity the restaurateur who tries to be timely. Choose a name, a

décor style, a food genre or even a currently fashionable ingredient, and in the time it takes to fry an egg, that establishment will plummet from fashion-forward to please, not that again!

So it was with wariness that I approached Artisan’s Table, which opened recently in the heart of downtown Orlando. The name evokes the handcrafted meals serious diners want. Yet it sounds awfully similar to other local eateries like Scratch, Fresh and The Table. Plus, the term “artisan” has been co-opted by chains. Domino’s has a line of Artisan™ pizzas.

Scott Copeland, Artisan’s chef/partner, worked hard with his two co-owners to come up with the restaurant’s name. He feels it’s apt, yet is shy about categorizing the cuisine. “It’s a cliché, but I’d call it Modern American.”

America is, of course, increasingly diverse, as are the offerings at Artisan’s Table, which draw inspiration from a figurative melting pot of cuisines. “We take from a lot of different influences, and we present traditional foods in a way that’s a little different, that’s modern,” Copeland adds.

So for breakfast, a Southern bowl of grits with eggs also includes gravy using house-made chorizo (a Spanish sausage) plus dehydrated Moody Blue cheese.

The restaurant’s dining room features subdued lighting and rustic touches such as rough-hewn wood elements in the chairs, brown-paper toppings for guest tables, cloth napkins that resemble dish towels and old tractor parts as decorative elements.

Sure, we’ve seen it all before. But you know what? The elements work, the prices are reasonable (dinner entrées run from $12 to $24), and the restaurant is walking distance from such venues as the new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, the Amway Center and Mad Cow Theatre.

Copeland is a veteran of California Grill, K Restaurant and Antonio’s. One partner, Lee Kaleel, has had front-of-the-house gigs at headliners California Grill, Seasons 52, The Ravenous Pig and Emeril’s Tchoup Chop. Long-time Kaleel associate Monica McNown, the third partner, manages the dining room.

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explains, “We wanted the name to portray that we’ll make as much in-house as we can.”

McNown’s mother, a designer, helped create a “very minimal” dining room that the team hopes will become a regular stop for downtown residents. And the menu, while creative, has words we’ve seen around a lot lately — ­­ poutine, pimento, chorizo.

This is a solid restaurant, although I agree with Copeland that it’s “a work in progress.” Give the place a few months to bolt down what works best, and it may grow into downtown Orlando’s all-day, go-to staple.

(Entering for dinner, I saw a sign hawking Mexican mocha latte. That sounds go-o-o-od. Maybe the breakfast shtick will take off quickly.)

The owners have been preparing for this moment for years. Copeland has been in Orlando for most of the past two decades. At K Restaurant, he fondly recalls being encouraged to use its kitchen as a laboratory.

“We played with food,” he says. “That helped build my confidence as a chef in terms of flavor combinations and ingredients.” At Antonio’s, he was mentored about the business of operating a successful eatery.

Kaleel has a reputation for running tough dining rooms smoothly.

Last year, he said to Copeland, “It’s time for us to make our mark.”

Artisan’s Table is their effort.

Although a few kinks tainted an otherwise lovely experience, our dinner was good enough that I can heartily recommend this restaurant.

All seven appetizers were fried, which turned me off. Yet if they’re all as interesting as the zucchini-manchego fritters, I’ll concede defeat in the waist-watching arena.

The fritters looked like oversized potato latkes, but had an intriguingly different texture and flavor. The base was julienned zucchini — long, somewhat thick strips. They were mixed with manchego cheese — which added a creaminess, even a tang — plus parsley, dill and mint.

“It doesn’t sound like that combination of herbs would work,” says Copeland, “but it does.” Complementing that distinct flavor was a tomato marmalade that had depth from cooked-down tomatoes, zing from vinegar, bite from mustard seed and zest from curry powder.

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Entrées at downtown Orlando’s Artisan’s Table, such as the pan-roasted salmon with lentil, garbanzo and tomato cauliflower, exemplify the new restaurant’s “Modern American” cuisine.

Greek, has a way with his own comfort food. The salad begins with dimes of ultra-tender octopus, which are cooked slowly for a few hours using sous vide equipment. White wine, schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) and a spice he prefers to keep secret are also involved.

The octopus is then grilled to add a smoky flavor and tossed with arugula, feta cheese, tomato and fried capers. It’s topped with a feta cheese vinaigrette loaded with garlic, oregano, dill and mint. A strong ORLANDO-LIFE.COM

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olive flavor emboldens the salad. If it’s on the lunch menu, I’d show up just for that.

Taking notes during the meal, I scribbled “like a street pretzel in needthe newseared pork loin entrée. Bingo! It’s just New York” while tasting what Copeland, a Long Island native, was going for.

“At Yankees games, I used to have pretzels with mustard,” he recalls. “What a combination.” He built on that, creating a plate with ORLANDO LIFE

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The ramen bowl (above), features duck confit, pickled shitake mushrooms and a soft cooked egg, while the mustard BBQ pork loin (above right) is reminiscent of ballpark pretzels. The minimalist dining room (below) uses subdued lighting and rustic touches such as brown-paper toppings for the tables.

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pork and a mustard-based barbecue sauce, a pretzel gremolata, a pretzel bread pudding and a sauerkraut made from collard greens.

Think gussied up hot dog, New Yorkstyle. The pork alone was mild, but it provided a fitting canvas for the sharp and salty sides, and in total wowed as a dish. Next time, I might get an extra portion of that collard green sauerkraut. I can’t stop thinking about it.

We didn’t go as gaga over the rabbit potpie, though it was nice. The dish was a generously portioned rabbit stew cooked with sherry and mustard, then topped with a square of herbed puff pastry. A side dish of pimento-whipped potatoes ordered a la carte was creamy but unexciting.

Dessert may be on that work-in-progress list, but showed promise. The krounut — a donut made with buttery croissant dough — was slightly sweet with a luscious crispness.

A coffee-caramel sauce elevated it to superb.

But the chocolate cheesecake with a pretzel crust wasn’t especially moist or flavorful. It’s a bestseller, but I’m not sure why.

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house mixologist showered us with enthused explanations such as: “The Chilean pisco tends to be a bit more flowery than the Peruvian.” I giggled but applauded the passion.

Our server, as it happened, was nice but just a little impatient. He asked if we wanted drinks before we’d even looked at the cocktail list.

He practically tapped his foot while we were reviewing the options.

He asked about dessert while my companion was in the men’s room.

The restaurant was hopping, but no one was waiting for our table.

But that was just one rough edge among a staff of polished peoplepleasers, just as the forgettable pimento-whipped potatoes was one “meh” food among many satisfying ones.

Maybe it’s because two of the owners are pros with such golden résumés. Maybe it’s because, after talking with Copeland, I can taste the dedication in this restaurant. And maybe it’s because I had a pretty good meal.

Whatever the reason, I’ll say that Artisan’s Table is a worthwhile restaurant that will almost definitely evolve into a great one.

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THERE’S SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR INVESTING IN MEMORIES. his was the $10,000 decision confronting me: I could use it for a

down payment on a 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel pickup truck. Or I could spend it on family memories in the Pacific Northwest.

The truck has an Italian 3-liter turbodiesel V6 engine and a German 8-speed automatic transmission. It burns fuel from the Middle East and melts glaciers in Greenland. It was made by a company owned by Fiat but bailed out by America. It truly is a global vehicle.

The concept is ingenious. Minivans are losing favor despite being the greatest utilitarian vehicle ever invented. Automakers have been filling the void by sissifying SUVs and turning them into station wagons.

The logical solution was turning pickups into minivans by stretching out the cabs, giving them plush interiors and turning the beds into uncovered trunks.

The only glitch was miles per gallon. Hence you have the 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, a converted minivan that can tow a barge, traverse bogs, get a big thumbs-up from the guys and get the same mpg as a Sienna. It costs a bucket of money but I’m turning 60, which in my mind should trump cost and spousal objections.

Now, let’s see how the truck holds up to a family vacation in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle has outdoor markets where men throw large fish back and forth, not to mention the original Starbucks. The region boasts killer whales, rain forests, mountains, ferries and, right across the border, Canada and single-payer health care.

I could fly my family to the Pacific Northwest for about a quarter of the cost of a Ram 1500 EcoDiesel. The trip would be over in three weeks, whereas the truck would last longer than half my remaining lifespan. But when the truck finally died, I would discard it from my life. Whereas the memory of the trip would be with me forever.

Decisions.

I decided to consult the scientific literature. Psychology experts at Cornell examined this question in a groundbreaking research paper entitled “To do or to have: That is the question.’’

Researchers bribed college students with chocolate bars to fill out surveys indicating which type of purchases made them happier — material goods or experiences.

Here is the conclusion: “Participants indicated that, compared with material purchases, experiential purchases made them happier, t(95) =

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2.91, p = .005, contributed more to their happiness in life, t(95) = 2.44, p = .017, and represented money better spent, t(95) = 2.26, p = .026.”

If you read this magazine, I assume you can understand that. I thought about the conclusion and it made sense. The memory of my daughter almost swimming into a bull shark in the Florida Keys was the best $1,500 I ever spent. It brings me more happiness than the memory of a $20,000 Toyota pickup I once owned.

And so with this knowledge, I acted accordingly.

For decades, my vacations have been a compilation of discounted fares, value hotels, fast-food stops, snacks in the car and miserly spending on extracurricular activities. But as I planned this trip, I bought tickets to lodges at Mount Rainer and Lake Quinault. Along the route I reserved rooms at hotels and B&Bs with multiple-star ratings.

Thousands of dollars exited my bank account. This violated every economic principle that I had used to guide my life. But again and again, I typed in my Amex number and clicked on “Accept.’’

And then came the trip.

We ate fresh salmon in outdoor cafés in Victoria. We ordered appetizers. I drank craft ales by the pint. Triple-digit checks materialized in front of me and I did not visibly cringe. The hotel in Victoria was on the water, next to the Parliament building. It had bath robes and a spa.

If it could create a memory, we bought it. We went zip lining at Whistler Mountain, walked on suspension bridges through the tops of old forests, watched whales in the San Juan Islands, went horseback riding on Orcas Island. We fed Chompers, the one sheep out of dozens at a farm who had figured out that people will feed you if you don’t run away from them.

I have pictures of my teenage daughter investigating a tidal pool and my 10-year-old dangling upside-down on the zip line. I have memories of stepping off a mountain and plunging 30 stories across a ravine.

I calculate that the experiential purchases increased our happiness at t(95) = 2.91, p.

And so next year we will buy more.

Only this time, we will get to the Pacific Northwest in a 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel. n Native Floridian and longtime Orlando columnist Mike Thomas is a freelance writer. You can reach him at miket@orlando-life.com.

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