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Arts + Entertainment

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  • June LeBell
  • June 30, 2010
Music Review: Sarasota Music Festival Roundup

Sarasota Music Festival certainly had a major scare last year when it almost went out of business. But, thanks to the good graces of the Jay and Becky Kaiserman Foundation, the festival was rescued. Better still, it's been resuscitated and is moving in directions that could keep it afloat for many decades to come.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • June 30, 2010
Film Review: 'Please Give'

As the witty columnist Erma Bombeck once so aptly observed, 'Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving.' Director Nicole Holofcener taps into that ongoing process in her subtly hilarious new film, 'Please Give.'

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 30, 2010
The hula dancer

Circus Sarasota's Chiara Anastasini has choreographed a Latin-infused hula-hoop act that will leave you winded.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 29, 2010
BACKSTAGE PASS: Hula-hooper Chiara Anastasini rehearses her routine (VIDEO)

This week's Backstage Pass subject, 18-year-old Chiara Anastasini, practices her high-energy hula-hoop routine on stage at the Historic Asolo Theater before making her Circus Sarasota debut June 23.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 28, 2010
Lorenzo Hubbard pitches his dream job (VIDEO)

A&E's man-of-the-week, Lorenzo Hubbard, host of BLAB TV's 'On the Town with Lorenzo,' shares his pitch for Oprah Winfrey's 'Your OWN Show' reality competition.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • June 23, 2010
Music Review: Sarasota Music Festival Finale

If Saturday evening's Sarasota Music Festival concert at the Opera House is any indication of the future, Sarasota now has one of the finest festivals for teaching and performing in the country.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Stephanie Hannum
  • June 23, 2010
Weekly Dish

The weekly dish features restaurant tidbits and our pick for the dish of the week.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 23, 2010
So you think you can act?

How an eight-minute monologue brought A&E Editor Heidi Kurpiela back to her roots.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 23, 2010
Theatrical Release

Just when the rest of Sarasota is winding down, Carole Kleinberg is winding up. The artistic director of Banyan Theater Company talks about the joys of summer.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • June 23, 2010
Tommy Bahama features "I AM HOME" artists

The Tommy Bahama Retail Store, located on St. Armands Circle, showcased the works of homeless artists living in the Sarasota and Bradenton area who are participants of the "I am home" art project.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 22, 2010
Cubbie goes on the prowl backstage (VIDEO)

Heidi Kurpiela and her limelight loving pug, Cubbie, made their stage debut June 5 in Jane Martin's 'Talking With,' at Tampa's Carrollwood Playhouse. Here's a backstage peek at the all-female cast quietly rehearsing their lines on opening night. Not only did the pug steal the show, he almost stole the dressing room brownies.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 21, 2010
Carole Kleinberg talks family ghosts (VIDEO)

Carole Kleinberg, the Artistic Director of the Banyan Theater Company and this week's A&E cover girl, takes us to the top of her widow's walk on the historic Lido Key home that once belonged to her grandparents.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • June 15, 2010
Music Review: Sarasota Music Festival, part two

Sometimes we have to die a little before we can really live. That seems to be what's happened to the Sarasota Music Festival. It almost went under last year, but now it's back.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 15, 2010
Painter takes on 'goodwill' mission

With little space left in her own home to hang art, Dorothy Sherwood began giving away her paintings to Goodwill.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 15, 2010
Almost Famous

Austin Abrams is poised to make the jump from Sarasota thespian to A-list movie star, thanks to his latest project - an action flick starring Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr.

  • Arts + Culture
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