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  • July 2, 2015
Pies and Pints participants share proceeds with All Faiths Food Bank

Pies and Pints participants share proceeds with All Faiths Food Bank

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Fiction author Chinelo Okparanta will be one of the featured speakers at Florida Studio Theatre on July 9
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  • Nick Reichert
  • July 2, 2015
Hermitage to present female writers summit at Florida Studio Theatre

Jackie Sibblies Drury, Camille Dungy and Chinelo Okparanta to speak at FST on July 9

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  • July 2, 2015
TWIS Asks: TapMap

TWIS Asks: TapMap

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Curator of exhibitions at Ringling College of Art and Design Mark Ormond hangs pieces for "Defining Abstraction," which opens July 10
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • July 1, 2015
A Blank Space

For Mark Ormond, curating an exhibition is about more than art. It's about creating an experience.

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Sparklers are among the items not allowed under Manatee County's burn-ban rules.
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • June 30, 2015
Do This: Fourth of July in Sarasota

Do This: Fourth of July in Sarasota

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Nancie Woods brings an extensive background in professional dance and teaching to lead the Margaret Barbieri Conservatory
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • June 30, 2015
Nancie Woods named principal for the Sarasota Ballet's Margaret Barbieri Conservatory

Woods, former artistic director of the BalletNova Center for Dance in Arlington, VA, will be the first full-time principal of the pre-professional dance program.

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  • Nick Friedman
  • June 30, 2015
'Thrillist' names Darwin's on 4th among Florida's best brewpubs

'Thrillist' names Darwin's on 4th among Florida's best brewpubs

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wbb
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  • Nick Friedman
  • June 29, 2015
This week in Sarasota: Monday, June 29

This week in Sarasota: Monday, June 29

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  • Nick Reichert
  • June 29, 2015
New summer offerings at Table Creekside and Phillippi Creek Village Restaurant & Oyster Bar

New cocktails, appetizers and Brazilian meats are added to the two sister restaurants' menus

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • June 28, 2015
Film Review: 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl'

Film Review: 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl'

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Don Walker and Gary Marachek in "ART."Photo by Gary Sweetman Photography.
    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • June 28, 2015
Theater Review: 'Art'

Theater Review: 'Art'

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  • Nick Reichert
  • June 28, 2015
Art Center Sarasota celebrates Mashterpiece

To celebrate the closing of the Mashterpiece exhibit collaboration between Art Center Sarasota and Manasota Goodwill

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    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • June 26, 2015
LISTEN: Wild Root

LISTEN: Wild Root

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summertime
  • By Matthew Serrano
  • June 25, 2015
Creekside Drinks: Summertime Cocktails

Creekside Drinks: Summertime Cocktails

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Dolly Jacobs and Bailey Sloan have worked together at the Circus Arts Conservatory for the last eight years. Backstage the two swap stories and help each other get ready.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • June 24, 2015
A New Circus Chapter

Bailey Sloan and Dolly Jacobs, a ringmistress and aerialist in the Sailor Circus’ Summer Circus Spectacular, help each other face two different challenges in their varied careers: going to college and grant from the National Endowment for the Arts grant

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