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Abe Uccello is a Siesta Key resident.
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • March 8, 2013
Paddlers stir up funds for Wounded Warriors

More than 60 athletes donned wetsuits and braved the cold water last month to paddle 27 miles from Fort Desoto Park in St. Petersburg to Lido Key Beach to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Project.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 8, 2013
Weekend Best Bet: Annual Creators & Collectors Art Tour

Fine Arts Society of Sarasota hosts its annual tour to artist's studios around Sarasota County.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Punsalan
  • March 7, 2013
What's In Robin's Queue: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

What's In Robin's Queue: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

  • Arts + Culture
Paul Duffy. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 7, 2013
Irishman Paul Duffy hosts Irish tribute to St. Partick's Day March 10

Paul Duffy sat down with the Observer and spoke about his upcoming concert in honor of his homeland.

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Observer Staff
  • March 7, 2013
Popcorn Bob's Movie Magic

Enjoy this week's movie reviews by Popcorn Bob.

  • Arts + Culture
Jeff Schwartz with Ringling College of Art and Design; The Oaks committee members Yvette Cusack, Roger Pennycook and Bob Hamilton; with Chris Osbourne of Ringling College of Art and Design
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
Ringling illustration student receives The Oaks Club Scholarship

Israeli international student Gal Or was awarded with $1,000 to create a commissioned portrait of The Oaks founder Bertha Honore Palmer

  • Arts + Culture
Sandy Loevner heads up the Florida Winefest — this year's festival will include hot-air balloons, making it the only festival of its kind in the state. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • March 6, 2013
View from the Top: Sandy Loevner

In her 15th year as board president, Sandy Loevner is helping one of the country's largest non-profit charity events continue to soar.

  • Arts + Culture
Wojtek Sawa stands in front of four of the large-scale photographs he will use in "The Wall Speaks" installation.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
Breaking Barriers: Wojtek Sawa

Sarasota-based visual artist Wojtek Sawa shares the full spectrum of real-life human experience through historical stories of Polish eradication.

  • Arts + Culture
Matt Allison's photo is titled "SMOA Sticks." Courtesy
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
Scene & Heard

Matt Allison photos ARE featured all over; A fashionable music series begins; Student's portrait is highly acclaimed; Honoring navy seal Chris Kyle

  • Arts + Culture
Marvin Waldman, co-chairman of the Book Festival, Delia Ephron and Pam Gordon. Cliff Roles.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
Highlights: Delia Ephron's lecture is one for the books

Novelist, screenwriter, playwright and essayist Delia Ephron speaks about her career as part of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota's Jewish Book Festival.

  • Arts + Culture
Briana Carlson-Goodman and Ruth Goodman, at Carlson-Goodman's wedding. Courtesy.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
BACKSTAGE PASS: Nana Goodman is Eponine's biggest fan

Sarasotan Ruth Goodman once took her granddaughter to see 'Cats' on Broadway when her granddaughter was a young girl. Now, she watches her family member perform on Broadway.

  • Arts + Culture
Alessandro Siciliani. Courtesy.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • March 6, 2013
Music Review: Sarasota Orchestra - Masterworks: Beethoven Symphony No. 9

In the 11 years I've lived here, I've come to regard the Sarasota Orchestra as one of the finest instrumental ensembles I've heard.

  • Arts + Culture
The Sarasota Ballet presented "I Naploetani" Courtesy.
    By
  • Anna Dearing
  • March 6, 2013
Dance Review: 'Les Rendezvous,' 'Lilac Garden' and 'I Napoletani'

Director Iain Webb has proven multiple times he is the master of orchestrating triple-bill programs, and this past weekend's was just another example.

  • Arts + Culture
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" runs through March 17, at Manatee Players. Courtesy.
  • By Paula Atwell
  • March 6, 2013
Theater Review: 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'

First produced on Broadway in 1962, the multiple Tony Award-winning musical comedy, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,' written by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart and influenced by the plays of Plautus, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim is playing at the Manatee Players.

  • Arts + Culture
Corey Crider as Belfiore, Stefano de Peppo as the Baron, and Jennifer Feinstein as the Marchesa in Verdi's "A King for a Day." Photo courtesy of Rod Millington and Sarasota Opera.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • March 6, 2013
Music Review: 'Un giorno di regno' ('A King for a Day')

What a difference a year makes. In 1840, Giuseppe Verdi's wife and, two children died and then, 'Un giorno di regno' ('A King for a Day') came along and everyone hated it.

  • Arts + Culture
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