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Janice Behling with Carol and Kevin Sontheimer and Leigh Ellen Sontheimer
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • January 4, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS: Entranced by evening glow

Warning: If you've got ADD, this exhibit is probably not for you. But, if stretching out on a bench and staring up at the sky for 20 minutes while LED lights dance across the ceiling of an enchanting column-filled room sounds like your idea of a good time, get yourself to the new Skyspace exhibit.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • January 4, 2012
Music Review: The Perlman Music Program: Works in Progress

So, what makes a major career in music? Talent, charisma, energy, ambition, luck, drive, temperament and tenacity, guidance, contacts and connections, advocates, mentors and not just a little bit of luck.

  • Arts + Culture
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Alexander Fehling) falls in love with Lotte (Miriam Stein) in "Young Goethe in Love." Courtesy Photo.
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • January 4, 2012
Film Review: 'Young Goethe in Love'

Was it unrequited love that launched Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's career as a celebrated poet and playwright? That is the implication in director Phillip Stolzl's new literary period piece, 'Young Goethe in Love.'

  • Arts + Culture
Alex Rybeck is is a whiz at the piano and a major force as a music director.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • December 29, 2011
Music Review: The Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota: 'Together This Christmas'

The Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota, which seems to be doing everything right, from programming and performers to outreach and volunteers, hit another home run last week when it brought back the talented Alex Rybeck for a special cabaret-style Christmas program at the Historic Asolo.

  • Arts + Culture
"She's not lovable in any sense of the word," Danielle White says of her character in "Blind Pass." "I think she's going to leave a lot of people at a loss for words."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • December 28, 2011
Danielle White: Blind faith

Booker High grad Danielle White pulls double duty as star and producer of the new Sarasota film, 'Blind Pass.' The bubbly actress/singer comes home to play a dark role.

  • Arts + Culture
Jean Weidner
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • December 28, 2011
Scene & Heard: Best quotes of 2011

If great minds think alike, creative minds think delightfully different. I'm a sucker for quotes, especially when they end up scribbled in my reporter's pad. In the spirit of looking back, here's a look at some of the best lines plucked from Diversions stories in the past year.

  • Arts + Culture
Dayle Hoffmann
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • December 28, 2011
HIGHLIGHTS: Creative minds collide

Entertainment industry insiders gather to network and toast a productive year for film and television production.

  • Arts + Culture
Stuart and Lois Scheyer. Photo by Molly Schechter.
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • December 28, 2011
EDIBLES: New Year's Food Memories

This installment of the holiday food memories mini-series features stories from two more Guest Food Editors. They come with thanks to our authors and our readers for your input and attention in 2011 and with good wishes for health and happiness, love and laughter in 2012.

  • Arts + Culture
Marcel Marx (Andre Wilms) helps Little Bob, a young African fugitive refugee (Rondin Miguel), escape Le Havre, France, in "Le Havre."
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • December 23, 2011
FILM REVIEW: Le Havre'

'Le Havre' is one of those rare films we can't help falling in love with because of its simplicity.

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Photo by Bruce Lehman
    By
  • June LeBell
  • December 23, 2011
Music Review: The 20th annual Christmas Concert and Community Carol Sing

There were multiple stars shining in the east last week when the choir of Sarasota's First United Methodist Church, under the direction of Elizabeth Goldstein, joined forces with other notable groups.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • December 21, 2011
Season Standout films

Holiday mayhem getting you down? Cheer up and chill out at your local movie theater. 'Tis the season for the best that Hollywood has to offer.

  • Arts + Culture
Spotlight Theatre Productions’ Atlanta-bound troupe. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • December 21, 2011
Scene & Heard

Sarasota students head to Atlanta theater fest; Two local artists land prestigious residency; Toby Perlman shares her secret to unwinding

  • Arts + Culture
"To me, it's how all music programs should be," Elizabeth Power says of the Perlman Music Program. "It might sound idealistic and altruistic, but why not support a model that’s developing human beings?"
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • December 21, 2011
BACKSTAGE PASS: Perlman 'power' house

Elizabeth Power is so passionate about her job that she rarely gets distracted by the fact that she gets to rub elbows every winter with Itzhak Perlman.

  • Arts + Culture
Enjoy a sugarplum recipe.
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • December 21, 2011
EDIBLES: Sweet, sweeter, sweetest

Everyone has food memories associated with the holidays. My own include sugarplums that my maternal grandmother used to send from Stop & Shop in Chicago when I was a child.

  • Arts + Culture
Grant's Gardens worked with the owners to incorporate plants that work well and with the natural seagrass and palm trees already on the beach.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • December 21, 2011
Home & Garden: Mediterranean Vibe

This home on Casey Key Road embodies a Mediterranean oasis. Over the last year the home and the grounds were drastically changed by the owners.

  • Arts + Culture
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