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Florida State DanceSport Championship Triple Crown Top Studio Empire Ballroom Studios' winning team. Cliff Roles Photography.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • August 8, 2012
Scene & Heard

Dancing to the Stars; Pied piper gone pipe-less; In good company

  • Arts + Culture
The kitchen garden is currently full of butterflies and hummingbirds.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • August 8, 2012
Home & Garden: Butterfly Retreat

In season, this beautiful retreat out at the Sarasota Polo Club has stables full of horses and plenty of people milling about.

  • Arts + Culture
"Seeing the way the stage changed with just one button pressed fascinated me," Pasquini says of his first experience with a light board.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • August 8, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Let there be light

Freelance lighting designer Michael Pasquini creates lasting production memories as he sheds lights on the stages at local theaters such as the Sarasota Opera and Banyan Theater Company.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Paula Atwell
  • August 8, 2012
Theater Review: 'Random Acts Cabaret'

For"Random Acts," the black box Pinkerton Theatre, which lies within the Venice Theatre, has been transformed into a European-style cabaret, complete with tiny, round cloth-covered tables on which to set your cash-bar purchased drinks.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Anthony Paull
  • August 6, 2012
Second annual Fabulous IFF brings coming-of-age films to forefront

Second annual Fabulous IFF brings coming-of-age films to forefront

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  • By April Doner
  • August 6, 2012
Authentic Florida Brilliance: How Ben Prestage rocked my world

Authentic Florida Brilliance: How Ben Prestage rocked my world

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Bonnie Silvestri
  • August 6, 2012
The Folly of Life: A review of FST's "Talley's Folly"

The Folly of Life: A review of FST's "Talley's Folly"

  • Arts + Culture
Read this week's Movie Magic by Popcorn Bob
  • By Popcorn Bob
  • August 3, 2012
Popcorn Bob's Movie Magic

Enjoy this week's movie review's by Popcorn Bob.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jessi Smith
  • August 2, 2012
TWIS Talks RIAF: High Expectations for Mark Morris Dance Group

TWIS Talks RIAF: High Expectations for Mark Morris Dance Group

  • Arts + Entertainment
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Courtesy photo
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  • Observer Staff
  • August 2, 2012
Lobster Olympics

Since buying their home in 2002 in Marathon, Jay and Barb Lancer, of Siesta Key, have enjoyed participating in mini-lobster sport season, which occurs annually on the last Wednesday and Thursday of July.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Amanda Landesberg
  • August 1, 2012
Getting to Know: Art in the Park

Getting to Know: Art in the Park

  • Arts + Culture
The space at the entrance of the old Gompertz will be rented as store fronts, to the right of the old entrance is where the new will be.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • August 1, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: FST's Gompertz construction

This is a look into the renovation of Florida Studio Theatre's 100-year old Gompertz Theatre. It is undergoing construction to transform from 6,000 square feet into the 18,000 square foot addition with two new theatre spaces. It is set to open Nov. 30.

  • Arts + Culture
"I'm a really big bunhead," Sara Sardelli says. Bunhead is a term, coined by ballerinas, that translates to "hardcore ballet fanatic."
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • August 1, 2012
Sara Sardelli: Turning Pointe

Sara Sardelli takes on a larger-than-life role as she dances her way into the upcoming season as the newest principal of Sarasota Ballet.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • August 1, 2012
Scene & Heard

Castaway to Belgium; Students become the masters; A midsummer's news

  • Arts + Culture
Risotto with pesto from "Hazan Family Favorites" by Giuliano Hazan. Photo by Joseph De Leo.
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • August 1, 2012
EDIBLES: The beauty and bounty of basil

Pesto is the mint julep of the garden; there are as many ways to make it as there are cooks who do so.

  • Arts + Culture
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