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About Last Night ...

I realize it's been 10 days - an extremely BUSY 10 days, might I add - since I've updated you on Black Tie's whereabouts.

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  • February 16, 2012
People Are Talking About Maximo’s South African Fusion Cuisine

People Are Talking About Maximo’s South African Fusion Cuisine

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Join TWIS for Belles at the Shell

Join TWIS for Belles at the Shell

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Get to Know the Sarasota Opera: Kathleen Kim

Get to Know the Sarasota Opera: Kathleen Kim

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  • February 15, 2012
Jpan to Open Second Location in Lakewood Ranch

Jpan to Open Second Location in Lakewood Ranch

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  • February 15, 2012
Maestro Victor DeRenzi: Man of the opera

Maestro Victor DeRenzi wields more than just a baton - he wields power. For 30 years, the uncompromising artistic director has brought Verdi, verve and distinction to the Sarasota Opera House.

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John Shaw and Ann Fletcher in "Love Letters." Courtesy photo.
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  • February 15, 2012
Scene & Heard

Boca Grande actors give WBTT some love; Hollywood choreographer scouts Sarasota for 'East Side Story'; Sarasota Opera Association hatches 'Pot of Gold' fundraiser

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Leif Bjaland follows new recipes closely but likes to vary recipes that he knows well. Photo by Loren Mayo.
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  • June LeBell
  • February 15, 2012
KITCHEN CLASSICS: Leif Bjaland

Artistic director of the Sarasota Orchestra.

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Les McCurdy, Emily Walsh and Ken Sons. Photo by Loren Mayo.
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  • Loren Mayo
  • February 15, 2012
Black Tie & Tales

Will the real Christine please stand up?; Red hot!; A romantic dinner for ... 60!; Multiplier effect for Red Cross; The back story

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Hadass (Gisela Chipe) and Avigdor (Andrew Carter) form a love triangle with Yentl. Courtesy photo.
  • By Paula Atwell
  • February 15, 2012
Theater Review: 'Yentil'

"If God chose us as his children, he should have chosen us all."

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  • By June LeBell
  • February 15, 2012
Music Review: Sarasota Opera: 'Carmen'

The gypsy, Carmen, believes in fate. She sees her own death with every card she deals at the smugglers' rocky hideout and believes, because of an ominous confluence of circumstances, that she is doomed.

  • Arts + Culture
"I have a passion for it like nothing else," Gregg Senko says of Irish dancing. The Ohio native moved last summer to Sarasota to focus on the company he launched two years ago with fellow dancer Justin Boros.
    By
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  • February 15, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Rhythm and moves

Eight years ago, Gregg Senko quit his training with the Secret Service to study Irish dancing. Now he's co-founded an Irish dance company.

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  • By Jessi Smith
  • February 14, 2012
TWIS Behind the Scenes: The End of the Dial Tone Radical Experimental Collaborative Music Band Band Promotional Video Shoot

TWIS Behind the Scenes: The End of the Dial Tone Radical Experimental Collaborative Music Band Band Promotional Video Shoot

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  • By Sara Moone
  • February 14, 2012
Last Weekend In Sarasota: Candy Kisses and the Milkshake

Last Weekend In Sarasota: Candy Kisses and the Milkshake

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  • By Kimberly Braun
  • February 14, 2012
Reflex, Reveal, Restore

Reflex, Reveal, Restore

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