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  • April 13, 2012
Legislative Update in Lakewood Ranch

Legislative Update in Lakewood Ranch

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  • April 12, 2012
Sarasota Film Festival ALUM SPOTLIGHT: Director Amy Seimetz Interview and More Sizzling SFF Hot List Recommendations!

Sarasota Film Festival ALUM SPOTLIGHT: Director Amy Seimetz Interview and More Sizzling SFF Hot List Recommendations!

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  • By The Insider
  • April 12, 2012
Sarasota Film Festival: VETERANS OF COLOR on Saturday and Five More Recommendations!

Sarasota Film Festival: VETERANS OF COLOR on Saturday and Five More Recommendations!

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  • April 12, 2012
A New, Unassuming, Tasty and Inexpensive Dining Experience

A New, Unassuming, Tasty and Inexpensive Dining Experience

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  • April 12, 2012
Observe This: Today's Top Stories

Observe This: Today's Top Stories

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  • April 12, 2012
Feng Shui and Religion: Can You Have Both?

Feng Shui and Religion: Can You Have Both?

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  • By John Ewing
  • April 11, 2012
Observe This: Today's Top Stories

Observe This: Today's Top Stories

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  • April 11, 2012
Sarasota Film Festival: SFF DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT: Exclusive Interview with NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING Director Devyn Waitt!

Sarasota Film Festival: SFF DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT: Exclusive Interview with NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING Director Devyn Waitt!

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When Wexler purchased her home in Laurel Park two years ago, she spent five months painting the doors, ceilings and walls with murals.
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • April 11, 2012
Anita Wexler: Over the Rainbow

What better way to celebrate the spirit of 'Embracing Our Differences' than to step into the color-crazy world of artist Anita Wexler? The Laurel Park resident shares her fun and freaky influences.

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Piero Rivolta
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  • April 11, 2012
Scene & Heard

Rivolta tackles metaphysics in new novel; Five Points Collective closes its doors; Clothesline re-opens, airs new art downtown

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The front line makes its way away from the group.
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  • April 11, 2012
Highlights: Sarasota Ballet prepares to dance 'its way'

The Sarasota Ballet will be performing three numbers in its upcoming show, "My Way," April 13 and April 14, at the Sarasota Opera House.

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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • April 11, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: The silent treatment

Amanda DiMase was one step ahead of the trend when she shot her silent film on the campus of State College of Florida well before 'The Artist' won its Oscar. The short will screen next week at the Sarasota Film Festival.

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  • April 11, 2012
Film: Sarasota Film Festival selects dazzling picks

With more than 200 films being shown at this year's festival, there are many excellent flicks.

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  • April 11, 2012
Animated film highlights the power of friendship

"Olga," by Kai Pannen, is playing as part of Sarasota Film Festival's Shorts 16: youthFEST Animated Shorts III at 12:15 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at Regal Hollywood 20.

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"Red," by John Logan, is a theatrical biopic of the famed abstract-expressionist, Mark Rothko. Courtesy photo.
  • By Paula Atwell
  • April 11, 2012
Theater Review: 'Red'

"Red," by John Logan, is a dynamically intense, thrillingly intellectual dramatization of the intersection between art and ego.

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