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  • May 7, 2012
The 3rd Annual Harvey Milk Festival Offers Emerging Film, Music and Art

The 3rd Annual Harvey Milk Festival Offers Emerging Film, Music and Art

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  • By John Ewing
  • May 7, 2012
Vinyasa & Vino: A Yoga and Wine Benefit for Girls, Inc.

Vinyasa & Vino: A Yoga and Wine Benefit for Girls, Inc.

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  • By John Ewing
  • May 7, 2012
Evan Lovejoy’s Paintings Are Not To Be Missed: Closing Reception at Clothesline Gallery this Weekend

Evan Lovejoy’s Paintings Are Not To Be Missed: Closing Reception at Clothesline Gallery this Weekend

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  • By [email protected]
  • May 7, 2012
Observe This: Today's Top Stories

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Attendees enjoyed perusing the art display, which featured work from pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade students.
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  • Michael Eng
  • May 7, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: ODA Arts Day

The Out-of-Door Academy showcased its student artists of all ages during the school's Arts Day May 5, at its Lakewood Ranch campus. The day featured performances from the school's orchestra, band, chorus and jazz ensemble, as well as an art display in the theater lobby.

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  • By [email protected]
  • May 4, 2012
This Weekend in Sarasota with Kirsten!

This Weekend in Sarasota with Kirsten!

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  • By Jessi Smith
  • May 3, 2012
Will a Spoonful of Spray Paint Help the Medicine Go Down? New MTO Mural Sparks (More) Controversy

Will a Spoonful of Spray Paint Help the Medicine Go Down? New MTO Mural Sparks (More) Controversy

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  • By Keely Carney
  • May 3, 2012
Cookie Months are Over - Get Ready for Mighty May

Cookie Months are Over - Get Ready for Mighty May

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"Clyde Burnett has that alluring quality that many outsider artists have," says artist Virginia Hoffman of Burnett, above. "His work has a very masterful painterly quality. And he's got quite a vocabulary with his images."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 2, 2012
Clyde Burnett: American gothic

Clyde Burnett would rather toy with your imagination than brighten up your living room. The 83-year-old painter explains why after all these years he's still suffering for his art.

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Yara Shoemaker's sister-in-law and mother, Brittany Duve al Mehrz and Radia Daoud, Shoemaker and hostess Kim Githler. Photo by Molly Schechter.
  • By Loren Mayo and Molly Schechter
  • May 2, 2012
Black Tie & Tales

Roxie steals the show at bachelorette party; Year of the woman; 'He wore his power lightly'; Field notes from the party of the decade

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Soprano Hope Koehler. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • May 2, 2012
Music Review: The Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota: Hope Koehler, soprano

Every once in a while, we hear a singer (violinist, pianist, you name it) who is so good, so magnetic, so talented, we wonder why the performer hasn't had a major career and become a household name. Take Hope Koehler.

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Ricardo Graziano and Christine Peixoto. Photos by Frank Atura
    By
  • Anna Dearing
  • May 2, 2012
Dance Review: 'Theatre of Dreams' by the Sarasota Ballet

Wow. What a season. The 2011-2012 season for the Sarasota Ballet seems to be its best yet. And it's quite fitting for Director Iain Webb's fifth anniversary at the helm.

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Olsen. File photo.
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 2, 2012
Scene & Heard

Sigrid Olsen mugs for Oprah Magazine; Wallenda continues his media hot streak; Does this produce look familiar?

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"I'm young for a literary manager," Amanda Cayo says. "I haven't read everything in the canon. I think that gives me an advantage, in a way. It puts me in the same position as most of the audience."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 2, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Literary Device

And you thought you had a lot of paperwork to sort through. Try sitting at Amanda Cayo's desk. The Florida Studio Theatre literary manager reads hundreds of scripts a year.

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  • By John Ewing
  • May 2, 2012
Observe This: Today’s Top Stories

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