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Jewel (Syreeta Banks) and the ladies of the house
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • July 25, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'

Venice has a whorehouse in it! 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas' opened Wednesday, July 25 at Venice Theatre. Directed and choreographed by Brad Wages, this show might lack clothing, but it's never skimping on charm. Make sure to catch Miss Mona Stangley's girls before they get run out of Texas - the show runs through Aug. 5. Tickets are $25 for adults; $13 for students. For more information call 488-1115 or visit venicestage.com.

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"It's so consuming to me that if you took that identity away from me that I don’t know what I would be, what would be left of me," Rick Kerby says of musical theater.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • July 25, 2012
Rick Kerby: Bringing down the house

Producing artistic director for The Manatee Players, Rick Kerby, is in his ninth season playing just about every role at the company. With a new theater opening in March, the sky's the limit for Kerby and his players.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • July 25, 2012
Home: Ode to Versace

Lauren Ann and Bernard Walsh may have a beachside condo on Longboat Key, but there's not an ounce of ocean flair to their Promenade abode.

  • Arts + Culture
Mature ficus, areca palms and coconut palms surround the infinity pool.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • July 25, 2012
Garden: Jungle boogie

In 2000, Jim and Barbara Pappas built their home on Longboat Key. Five years later, Gardening South Inc. turned the property's landscape into a tamed jungle.

  • Arts + Culture
Cliff Roles, third from right, with some of the other finalists. Photo courtesy of Cliff Roles.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • July 25, 2012
Scene & Heard

An earnest, or Ernest, photographer; Death of a local art supporter; Harping on a particular subject; Players seeking players

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • July 25, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Man at work

As Florida Studio Theatre's general manger for two years, James Lemons is a jack-of-all-trades. As the company moves along on its new Gompertz Theatre project, Lemons' job has become even more hands-on.

  • Arts + Culture
Photos courtesy of Andrea Hillebrand
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • July 25, 2012
Occasions: Anne Weintraub and Sal Diaz-Verson Jr.

Meet newlyweds Anne Weintraub and Sal Diaz-Verson Jr.

  • Arts + Culture
Jerry Genova and Hillary Steele
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • July 24, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Summer Intensive Rehearsal

Sarasota Ballet Director Iain Webb and a roomful of friends of the Sarasota Ballet watched the students in the Summer Intensive program rehearse in the studio July 23. Webb led the young dancers from around the nation through routines, corrected them and made them smile for the audience. The young students impressed the Friends of Sarasota Ballet, who couldn't stop talking about the young talent at lunch on the mezzanine following the rehearsal.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By April Doner
  • July 23, 2012
Local songbirds take flight: Passerine kicks off summer tour

Local songbirds take flight: Passerine kicks off summer tour

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Popcorn Bob
  • July 20, 2012
Popcorn Bob's Movie Magic

Enjoy this week's movie reviews by Popcorn Bob.

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  • By Amanda Landesberg
  • July 19, 2012
Getting to Know: the Sarasota Pops Wedding Contest

Getting to Know: the Sarasota Pops Wedding Contest

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
"A lot of people don't listen well," says Tim Beasley. "They are thinking of their next line or where they are going next in the scene, instead of letting a line fall naturally into place."
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • July 18, 2012
Under the Mic: Tim Beasley

By day, FST Improv founding member Tim Beasley is the witty one-line comedian prescribing giggles to his audience. By night, he's providing much needed laughter to patients as an ER nurse.

  • Arts + Culture
"Hotel Transylvania" opens this fall. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • July 18, 2012
Scene & Heard

RCAD grad animates monstrous project; Still talking about it ...; Sarasota Opera seeks volunteers; The write play will be chosen

  • Arts + Culture
This is the cover of the songbook for "Song of the Milky Way," artist unknown, 1931. Courtesy of the Levenson Collection.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • July 18, 2012
Highlights: Cultural Coalescence

Japanese culture and art deco seem like contradictory elements. When discussing '20s and '30s Japan, words such as conservative, traditional and militaristic might spring to mind.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • July 18, 2012
EDIBLES: The beauty and bounty of basil

If there's an herb more strongly associated with summer than basil, I don't know what it is.

  • Arts + Culture
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