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Home of the Month: The Perfect Setting
    By
  • Robert Plunket
  • May 7, 2014
Home of the Month: The Perfect Setting

A stylish St. Armands home showcases a lifetime of collecting fine art and design.

  • Arts + Culture
"My whole life has been involved in art — teaching art, making art, being an artist," Eleanor Merritt says. "It's my life, and that's just the way it's been."
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • May 7, 2014
Girl Power

In her work as an experimental contemporary artist, Eleanor Merritt focuses on the matriarch.

  • Arts + Culture
Molly Cherryholmes
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • May 7, 2014
Backstage Pass: Orchestra's Pops series ends with a bang

The Saturday, May 10 Pops concert is special, because for the first time in Sarasota Orchestra's 65-year history it will perform at Ed Smith Stadium.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • May 7, 2014
Pasta La Vista

We've found some of the guys (and gal) in Sarasota who make pasta by hand in-house.

  • Arts + Culture
The New York Times' Jack Anderson, Dance International, Canada’s Michael Crabb and The New York Times' George Dorris. Photo by Heather Merriman.
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  • Black Tie Staff
  • May 7, 2014
Black Tie & Tales

Sir Frederick Ashton Festival takes over Sarasota ...; Surprising Sunday; and Calendar calls.

  • Arts + Culture
Lou Newman with one of this many photographs featured at Plymouth Harbor’s Mezzanine Art Gallery.
    By
  • Kelsey Grau
  • May 7, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Lou Newman's "Birds & Bears" Exhibit

Lou Newman's wildlife photography exhibit, 'Birds & Bears,' opened with a reception on Tuesday, May 6, at Plymouth Harbor's Mezzanine Art Gallery. The works will be on display until August 31.

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  • Nick Friedman
  • May 6, 2014
TWIS does Big Guava

TWIS does Big Guava

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • May 6, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Big Guava Music Festival

PHOTO GALLERY: Big Guava Music Festival

  • Arts + Culture
Find your mom the perfect gift for Mother's Day, which is Sunday, May 11.
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • May 6, 2014
The perfect 'gift-ables' for Mother's Day

Moms are the most deserving of appreciation and pampering - so what are you doing for her this Mother's Day (May 11)?

  • Arts + Culture
CONTRIBUTED Sam Woolf will appear on the "American Idol" finale May 19 and May 20.
    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • May 5, 2014
Sam Woolf makes talk show appearance, prepares for 'American Idol' finale

After his elimination from "American Idol" May 1, Braden River High student Sam Woolf appeared on "Live! With Kelly and Michael" May 5, and talks life after "Idol."

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  • Pam Nadon
  • May 5, 2014
FILM REVIEW: 'Joe'

Nicolas Cage is back on top of his game in the new film, 'Joe.'

  • Arts + Culture
"Hero: The Musical" runs through June 1, at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts.
    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • May 5, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: 'Hero'

'Hero: The Musical,' the latest Asolo Rep production, centers on the struggles of one mere mortal to let his creativity and love life take flight.

  • Arts + Culture
Going for the Gold: 'The Golden Lotus' Co-Chairs Merrill Bonder and Pat Martin
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • May 5, 2014
Black Tie Untied

Untie the weekend with Black Tie Untied featuring Designing Daughter's A Fashionable Gala: Southern Charm, YMCA's Going for the Gold: 'The Golden Lotus', Asolo Rep's Men Who Cook and more.

  • Arts + Culture
Logan Learned in Ashton's "Les Patineurs." Photo by Frank Atura.
    By
  • Anna Dearing
  • May 4, 2014
DANCE REVIEW: Sir Frederick Ashton Festival - 'Illuminations,' 'Divertissements' and 'Les Patineurs'

The final evening of Sir Frederick Ashton Festival featured 'Illuminations,' 'Divertissements' and 'Les Patineurs.'

  • Arts + Culture
Kate Honea, Victoria Hulland and Danielle Brown in Ashton's "Birthday Offering." Photo by Frank Atura
    By
  • Anna Dearing
  • May 3, 2014
Sir Frederick Ashton Festival - 'Birthday Offering,' 'Valses Nobles et Sentimentales' and 'Sinfonietta'

The third evening of the Sir Frederick Ashton Festival again opened with "Birthday Offering."

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