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Arts + Culture

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  • Pam Nadon
  • June 17, 2009
Film Review: 'The Merry Gentleman'

Film Review: 'The Merry Gentleman'

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 17, 2009
Profiles of Summer | Swan Song

Longtime Sarasota Ballet dancers Adrian Ciobanu and Lauren Strongin are packing up their pointe shoes and heading to Houston. Says Ciobanu: 'We love the company and we love the city, but it's time to move on.'

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • June 15, 2009
Music Review: Sarasota Music Festival

June Lebell reviews Saturday's performance of the Sarasota Music Festival.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • June 11, 2009
Music Review: Sarasota Music Festival

June Lebell reviews the first Saturday Night Symphony performance of this year's Sarasota Music Festival.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Stephanie Hannum
  • June 10, 2009
A diamond in the rough

Portofino's chef de cuisine, Rebecca Costanzo, demonstrates her cooking chops.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 10, 2009
The wheel watcher

Sarasota potter Carla O'Brien shows us how to throw a pot.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • June 10, 2009
Music Review: 'Souvenir'

Yes, Virginia, there really was a Florence Foster Jenkins.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 10, 2009
The cultural camper

Sarasota's summer art programs favor creativity over dodge ball. Here's a look at some of the artistic options available to Sarasota campers.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 10, 2009
Profiles of summer: A Mighty Wind

Melanie Heggs was the only clarinetist to receive a fellowship this year to Penn State School of Music.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Pam McTeer
  • June 4, 2009
Ranch author retraces ancestor's steps

Lakewood Ranch author Russ Wilkins pays tribute his uncle and other World War II veterans in his new book, "Missing in Belgium."

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  • Stephanie Hannum
  • June 3, 2009
Hillview neighborhood: Progressive dinner

Where are we going to eat tonight? Well, with this new monthly series of progressive dinners around local neighborhoods, The Observer takes the answer one step further.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 3, 2009
Wigged out

And you thought you had bad hair days? The Asolo's resident hairstylist takes us through the tedious task of wigmaking.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 3, 2009
Architecture map pulls out all stops

A new driving tour of renowned Sarasota architecture will have drivers rubbernecking from North Trail to Siesta Key.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 3, 2009
Profiles of summer: Drum major steps up

With retired Navy man Greg Gregory at the helm, Sarasota's rousing Jacobites are making pipedreams come true.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • June 2, 2009
'The Brothers Bloom'

Oscar winner Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel Weisz star in this film about two brothers, who have been con men since childhood.

  • Arts + Culture
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