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  • April 16, 2015
PHOTO GALLERY: TriForce Pictures Film Festival Soirée

PHOTO GALLERY: TriForce Pictures Film Festival Soirée

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    By
  • June LeBell
  • April 16, 2015
Music Review: Gloria Musicae

Music Review: Gloria Musicae

  • Arts + Entertainment
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Iain Webb has led the Sarasota Ballet into its 25th season with a renewed sense of artistic quality and international respect and prominence
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  • Nick Reichert
  • April 15, 2015
Sarasota Ballet announces 25th anniversary season

The silver anniversary season includes performance at Jacob's Pillow, retrospectives, premieres and plenty of Sir Frederick Ashton.

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  • April 15, 2015
Movie Review: Love & Mercy

Movie Review: Love & Mercy

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  • April 15, 2015
TWIS Asks: KT Curran and Brad Bryan of 'When the Party Ends'

TWIS Asks: KT Curran and Brad Bryan of 'When the Party Ends'

  • Arts + Culture
Tom Baril and Danni Bleil produce personal pizzas packed with fresh ingredients around Sarasota. Photos by Nick Reichert.
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  • Nick Reichert
  • April 15, 2015
Power of Pizza

Polpo Pizza Co. brings a new spin to the art of pizza making in Sarasota County.

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Street artist Richie Brasil hopes his art will help remove the negative stereotype surrounding graffiti. Photo by Nick Friedman.
  • By David L Wyant Jr.
  • April 15, 2015
THE GREAT INDOORS: From street art to wall art

THE GREAT INDOORS: From street art to wall art

  • Arts + Culture
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    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • April 15, 2015
A&E Picks and Highlights 4.16.15

A&E Editor Nick Reichert picks the top events to attend this week in Sarasota, FL.

  • Arts + Culture
Embracing Our Differences is one of the many organizations Debbie Haspel and her husband, Larry, are involved with in Sarasota. “Larry is on the Embracing Our Differences Advisory Committee and we sponsored this panel in the Marina Jack’s exhibit,” says D
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • April 15, 2015
People with Purpose: Debbie Haspel

In 2009, Debbie Haspel moved to Sarasota to retire and play golf. Since then, she’s become involved in a variety of causes and serves on the board of three organizations — but she hasn’t golfed in a year.

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  • Nick Friedman
  • April 14, 2015
TWIS Asks: Adam Collis, director of 'Car Dogs'

TWIS Asks: Adam Collis, director of 'Car Dogs'

  • Arts + Culture
As a testament to her late husband, Allyn Gallup, Sheila Moore continues to make the Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art Gallery a center for the art community. Photo by Nick Reichert.
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • April 14, 2015
The Persistence of Memory

Five months after her husband’s death, Sheila Moore is leading the Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art Gallery to keep her husband’s name and legacy alive in Sarasota’s art community.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • April 14, 2015
PHOTO GALLERY: Pies and Pints: Indigenous

PHOTO GALLERY: Pies and Pints: Indigenous

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  • Nick Friedman
  • April 13, 2015
Week's best bets: Monday, April 13

Week's best bets: Monday, April 13

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    By
  • Marty Fugate
  • April 13, 2015
Theater Review: 'Chicken Shop'

“Chicken Shop”rattles cages at Urbanite Theatre.

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The Sarasota Orchestra, under the direction of Anu Tali, is primed to enter their dynamic 2015-2016 season
    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • April 13, 2015
Sarasota Orchestra announces 2015-2016 season

The season will include a world premiere of composer and Sarasota resident Jerry Bilik’s “Symphony in M-L,” a Mozart Festival, moving and powerful vocals by Broadway’s resident baritone Norm Lewis, and acclaimed Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi.

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