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  • By Emarie and Petr Marcan
  • February 22, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Exotic Car Fest Roarin' '20s Party

PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Exotic Car Fest Roarin' '20s Party

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  • Nick Friedman
  • February 21, 2014
Weekend's best bets: Friday, Feb. 21

Weekend's best bets: Friday, Feb. 21

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  • Nick Friedman
  • February 21, 2014
TWIS Asks: SRQ Cigars

TWIS Asks: SRQ Cigars

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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • February 21, 2014
Arts and Cultural Alliance brings back smART talk luncheon

The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County brings resurgence to a formerly defunct series, smART Talk Luncheon, which the Arts and Cultural Alliance hopes to bring back.

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  • Nick Friedman
  • February 21, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Architectural Salvage Soiree

PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Architectural Salvage Soiree

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  • Nick Friedman
  • February 21, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: A Toast to Moms and Babies

PHOTO GALLERY: A Toast to Moms and Babies

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    By
  • Jack Littman-Quinn
  • February 20, 2014
Roast Restaurant: The one to break the streak?

Roast Restaurant: The one to break the streak?

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  • Marty Fugate
  • February 20, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: 'How I Learned to Drive'

Paula Vogel takes a different approach in 'How I Learned to Drive,' and you can see the results in the FSU/Asolo Conservatory's current production of her Pulitzer Prize-winning play from 1997.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Mike Cavaliere
  • February 19, 2014
Common Nonsense: And throw in something called a 'bean sprout'

Common Nonsense: And throw in something called a 'bean sprout'

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  • By Zara Barrie
  • February 19, 2014
Factory Girl: Burlesque lusting and Valentine vixens

Factory Girl: Burlesque lusting and Valentine vixens

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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • February 19, 2014
Steve Phelps named Best Chef semifinalist in James Beard: South

The 2014 James Beard Foundation South semifinalists were announced the morning of Feb. 19 in Orlando - the only Sarasotan to make the cut is Steve Phelps of Indigenous.

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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • February 19, 2014
VIDEO: Sarasota Ballet's world premiere

Go inside the studio of Sarasota Ballet for an early rehearsal of the world premiere of Ricardo Graziano's 'Before Night Falls.'

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • February 19, 2014
Ricardo Graziano: Choreographing with Love

Ricardo Graziano prepares to debut a world premiere, his fourth piece for Sarasota Ballet.

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'Madrid Metropolis' by Christina Seely
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • February 19, 2014
A&E Picks and Highlights

A&E Editor Mallory Gnaegy keeps you in the know about events, local performers and art gallery happenings.

  • Arts + Culture
Co-owner Mark Wolfking plays Collins and Artistic Director Alex Beach plays Angel.
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • February 19, 2014
Backstage Pass: Low-budget theater performs big-name production

The Comic Shack's theater group is composed of 18- to 43-year-olds (or Avant Guard, as they call themselves), and is presenting "Rent," for which they are proud of obtaining rights. This popular show is their first big-name production. The rest have been cabaret shows, improv by in-house troupe Shack of Fools and original works, such as "Dusk of the Dead," a zombie parody musical.

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