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Arts + Culture

  • By Emarie and Petr Marcan
  • December 24, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: End of the World Party at the Cock & Bull Pub

PHOTO GALLERY: End of the World Party at the Cock & Bull Pub

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jessi Smith
  • December 20, 2012
Get a ringside seat: MTO is not pulling any punches in his latest mural

Get a ringside seat: MTO is not pulling any punches in his latest mural

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jessi Smith
  • December 20, 2012
Palm Avenue Fine Art features local and international artistic talent in 2013 season

Palm Avenue Fine Art features local and international artistic talent in 2013 season

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • December 19, 2012
TIDBITES

Sarasota restaurants receive Golden Spoons; 'Haute' Cocktails for cold days; Home for the Holidays

  • Arts + Culture
"It's been woven into my person now," Eric Watters says of playing Scrooge, "I like thinking of myself as the reformed Scrooge — and occasionally, as the unreformed Scrooge."
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • December 19, 2012
Real-Life Scrooge: Eric Watters

Cancer survivor Eric Watters knows what it's like to hate (and eventually love) Christmas as much as his character, Scrooge.

  • Arts + Culture
Asolo's costume shop tree.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • December 19, 2012
Scene & Heard

Asolo costume shop dresses its tree; From deadlines to show time; Van Wezel draws a new curtain

  • Arts + Culture
David Brunetti listens to the students’ performances.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • December 19, 2012
Asolo Conservatory students receive special coaching from David Brunetti

Broadway vocal coach and song stylist David Brunetti has been working with Asolo Conservatory students for more than 20 years. The New York City-based coach has helped the likes of Art Garfunkel, Judy Collins, Eartha Kitt, Christopher Durang and Gregory Hines, to name a few.

  • Arts + Culture
Courtesy "All these kids work hard. The (majority of the time) their problem is that they work too hard," Toby Perlman says. "And when those kids don't get something it’s almost always the fault of the teacher."
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • December 19, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Nothing to fear

Founder of Perlman Music Program and its Sarasota Winter Residency, Toby Perlman, talks about her fearful inspiration for creating her ideal program.

  • Arts + Culture
'ZERO DARK THIRTY'
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • December 19, 2012
Film Season Standouts

'Tis the season when the best films of the year hit theaters. So, take a break from the holiday mayhem and catch a great movie. After having checked it twice, the following made my wish list ...

  • Arts + Culture
For the serious rancher ... Photos courtesy of Hembree and Associates
    By
  • Robert Plunket
  • December 19, 2012
3 Things: Back at the Ranch

Sarasota started out as a cattle town and there are many small ranches out east that carry on this tradition.

  • Arts + Culture
Sandra Chororos, Elisabeth Waters, Heather Dunhill, Felice Schulaner and Marina Bourantonis
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • December 19, 2012
Black Tie & Tales

Back in the saddle; Baker Babes; Nutcracker - the next generation; Set for dinner

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Paula Atwell
  • December 19, 2012
Theater Review: 'Smokey Joe's Café'

Sarasotans can rejoice and groove with the moves downtown at Florida Studio Theatre, because the smokin' sounds of "Smokey Joe's Cafe" have been extended.

  • Arts + Culture
Kate Honea and Ricardo Graziano as "Sugar" and "Prince” in the Sarasota Ballet's "John Ringling's Circus Nutcracker" Photo by Frank Atura.
    By
  • Anna Dearing
  • December 19, 2012
Dance Review: 'John Ringling's Circus Nutcracker - The World's Greatest Ballet'

Not only did the Sarasota Ballet revive a holiday tradition with its world premiere of Matthew Hart's "John Ringling's Circus Nutcraker," but it has created a new Sarasota celebration surely to be enjoyed by ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and children of all ages for many years to come.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Popcorn Bob
  • December 17, 2012
Popcorn Bob's Movie Magic

Enjoy this week's movie reviews by Popcorn Bob.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By TWIS Street
  • December 14, 2012
Stop the world: (the) Umbrella Cult's got a new CD

Stop the world: (the) Umbrella Cult's got a new CD

  • Arts + Culture
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