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Arts + Culture

Nan-Cheng Chen
    By
  • June LeBell
  • June 15, 2011
Music Review: Overview of the Sarasota Music Festival

It's not easy. Putting together a music festival must be one of the hardest jobs there is, because you're not only trying to please an audience, you're also trying to teach students.

  • Arts + Culture
"One thing about arts that drives me crazy is that we always take ourselves too seriously," Rebecca Hopkins says. "We're not walking on water — we are storytelling. We need art, that's what makes us human."
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • June 8, 2011
Improv master

Florida Studio Theatre's managing director zips off to work to take care of the daily grind, but at the end of the day, it's all about making plays.

  • Arts + Culture
Heather De Haven and Felicity Liemont
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • June 8, 2011
Scene & Heard

Drag Queen Bingo makes debut in Venice; All hail the king; Booker grad gets 'cadaver' claim to fame

  • Arts + Culture
Markus Rygaard and William Johnk Nielsen star in "In a Better World."
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • June 8, 2011
Film Review: 'In a Better World'

The brilliantly disturbing new film, "In a Better World," is an examination concerned with revenge vs. forgiveness. In it, two young boys' worlds are mirrored by their parents as they struggle with addressing brutality.

  • Arts + Culture
Pianist Robert Levin was one of the performers of Schubert's "Trout" quintet.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • June 8, 2011
Music Review: The Sarasota Music Festival

Driving home Friday, June 3, from the country's No. 1 beach, top down on my convertible, Sirius satellite radio was playing Schubert's "Trout" quintet in a knockout performance by the Takacs Quartet with pianist Andreas Haefliger and bassist Joseph Carver.

  • Arts + Culture
Marlee Weinberg and Angela Rauter perform on top of a table.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • June 3, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Dancing Through the Eyes of Women

Fuzion Dance Artists captivated the audience with their performance of "Dancing Through the Eyes of Women" Friday, at Art Center Sarasota.

  • Arts + Culture
Euphemia Haye is one of five Longboat Key restaurants participating in this year's event.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • June 2, 2011
Savor Sarasota Restaurant Week continues

More than 30 restaurants are participating in this year's two-week dining event.

  • Arts + Culture
"There are actually more people living outside of the country who know about this train than people living in Sarasota," Bob Horne says. "It's designed for small weddings, business meetings and fashion shows. It's still a work in progress."
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • June 1, 2011
Off the beaten track

Once upon a time, Bob Horne owned a diner chock-full of circus paraphernalia. Now, he's running a circus train that serves lunch and Sunday brunch, hoping it will one day haul passengers from its home base to various cities and offer everything from circus acts to jazz music.

  • Arts + Culture
Michael Hollinger
  • By Heidi Kurpiela and Loren Mayo
  • June 1, 2011
Scene & Heard

'Ghost-Writer' scribe makes a case for hyphens; WBTT goes digital with donation; Booker Middle spends a night at the Met; and Hot Tickets.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • June 1, 2011
First-time filmmaker

One Sarasota resident is having a sidesplitting time producing a comedy, 'The Lon Chaney Thing.'

  • Arts + Culture
Lee Roy Selmon's Matt Thomas
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • June 1, 2011
Edibles: Lee Roy Selmon's: 'more than barbecue'

While its signature dishes include the likes of pulled pork, Mama's meatloaf and wings, the menu at Lee Roy Selmon's is unusually broad.

  • Arts + Culture
Sarasota Orchestra's Leif Bjaland
    By
  • June LeBell
  • June 1, 2011
Life Without Leif

Leif Bjaland is leaving. The announcement that the Sarasota Orchestra's artistic director and conductor was departing sent shockwaves around the city, but when you think about it for a bit, it really doesn't come as that much of a surprise.

  • Arts + Culture
KC and the Sunshine Band at the Firefly Gala
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • May 25, 2011
Black Tie & Tales

"At the end of all our wanderings, we return to the place of our very beginning, and see it, as if for the first time," T.S. Eliot. Once again, a season has flown by. Here is what many of you remember ...

  • Arts + Culture
"We're not exactly Palm Avenue,” says Stephanie Broche, pictured with Rocky Bentley, right, and Midgeann Schotsch, left. "You don't have to have a large pocketbook to walk into our gallery."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 25, 2011
Friends with vision

The Five Points Collective is redefining what it means to be artists and gallery owners in downtown Sarasota.

  • Arts + Culture
Jackie Evancho
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 25, 2011
Scene & Heard

Evancho tapes solo concert at Ringling Museum; Frary closes Rosemary District gallery; and Oh baby, the places you've been!

  • Arts + Culture
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