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"I think a lot of artists ask themselves if what they're doing is substantial," Cheryl Losey says. "Sometimes, you just have to put on your blinders and trust that your work is valuable." Heidi Kurpiela.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • November 2, 2011
Cheryl Losey: Harp's delight

Last year Cheryl Losey appeared in a PBS documentary. This year she cut an album. Meet the Sarasota Orchestra harpist landing major grants and making a beautiful racket.

  • Arts + Culture
Principal dancer Danielle Brown wears a costume designed by Bill Fenner for the premiere of Ricardo Graziano's "Shostakovich Suite." Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Anna Dearing
  • November 2, 2011
Dance Review: 'Shostakovich Suite,' 'Othello' and 'Tchaikovsky's Ballet Fantasy,' performed by the Sarasota Ballet

Sarasota Ballet's "Season Opener" certainly started off the season in the right direction. The choreography, costumes, dancing and lights evoked a smile that remained plastered on this critic's face throughout the entire evening.

  • Arts + Culture
Bo Gilmour and Olivia Thorning Little
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • November 2, 2011
Scene & Heard

Olivia Thorning Little's star continues to rise; Asolo Rep's 'My Fair Lady' serenades the press

  • Arts + Culture
Stacey Harris, Stephen Hope, Eric Collins and Arthur W. Marks star in "That's Life, Again." Courtesy photo.
  • By Paula Atwell
  • November 2, 2011
Theater Review: Florida Studio Theatre: 'That's Life, Again'

A sophisticated strut through the 1950s and '60s, 'That's Life, Again,' Florida Studio Theatre's opening cabaret season production, is a crowd-pleasing croon-fest.

  • Arts + Culture
Kevin Spacey shines in the impeccably cast "Margin Call."Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • November 2, 2011
Film Review: 'Margin Call'

Just in time for Halloween, "Margin Call" hits the theaters. It's all about monsters - not the ghoulish type but, rather, the Wall Street bankers who perpetrated the greatest heist on the American people in recent history.

  • Arts + Culture
Front: Marie Noelle Cerene, Karen Wilkinson, Sally Schule, Susan Kody. Middle: Kavi Cook, Monica Johnson, April Norrie-Paine, Michelle Hanenian and Dagmar Gorman. Back: LeeAnn Zaffina and Darleen Lambert
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • November 2, 2011
Black Tie & Tales

The 11/11/11 phenomenon; Over the moon; And there's more; Lest we forget - it's also Veterans Day; Tidbits; It's a wrap

  • Arts + Culture
"We knew nothing about (organzing) museum exhibits when we got involved in this project," says Dan Boxser with his wife, Litten. "There's no question, this whole thing has enriched our lives."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • November 2, 2011
BACKSTAGE PASS: The museum underwriters

Longboat Key couple Dan and Litten Boxser had no idea that underwriting an exhibit at the Florida Holocaust Museum could generate so much buzz in the African-American community.

  • Arts + Culture
Tenor Rafael Dávila, as B.F. Pinkerton, and soprano Asako Tamura, as Cio-Cio-San, in Sarasota Opera’s 2011 production of Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly." Photo by Rod Millington/Sarasota Opera.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • November 2, 2011
Music Review: Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' performed by the Sarasota Opera

I have wept through many a moving 'Madama Butterfly,' from the Met and New York City Opera to companies abroad and cinematic versions that broke my heart, but the fall production mounted by Sarasota Opera is the most convincing, honest, moving and beautiful I've seen yet.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • November 2, 2011
EDIBLES: the restaurants you'd miss the most

Here's the question put to our respondents: 'What Sarasota restaurant would you be heartbroken without ... the place without which your lives wouldn't be quite the same, the place you count on to always be there for you?'

  • Arts + Culture
Black Tie Stand-Out of the week is Barbara Zdravecky … as seen by Tim Burton? Photo by Peter Acker
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • November 1, 2011
Black Tie Standout of the Week

Black Tie Stand-Out of the week is Barbara Zdravecky ... as seen by Tim Burton? The CEO of Planned Parenthood of Central and Southwest Florida showed up at her organization's Safe Sex Halloween Bash party as she might have appeared in the Nightmare Before Christmas ... or perhaps The Corpse Bride.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 1, 2011
POLL TEST

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Enjoy the top Cops Corner stories featured in all Observers.
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  • Observer Staff
  • October 28, 2011
Top Cops of the Week

Read the top Cops Corner stories for all Observers.

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"Sometimes we need to let go of things for things to happen," Michelle Phillips says of her rock-bottom days. "I'm prepared for anything now. I'm grateful for those days, even if I didn't know at the time that everything would work out."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • October 26, 2011
Michelle Phillips: A thing of beauty

Makeup artist Michelle Phillips is using her love of cosmetics to empower women. The publication of her first book proves the mission is much more than a vanity project.

  • Arts + Culture
Ryan Shaw. Courtesy Photos.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • October 26, 2011
Scene & Heard

Blues Fest rolls on, Strauss still rocking out; Wannabe TV scribes put on your thinking caps; Circus Sarasota expands its big top

  • Arts + Culture
Top fundraiser Scott Anderson receives well deserved applause. Peter Acker.
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • October 26, 2011
Black Tie & Tales

They could have danced all night; Police tape and life jackets; Tidbits; Pink, pinker, pinkest; Black Tie Affair

  • Arts + Culture
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