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Ruthie Stephens, actress and aerialist, flies herself into the new musical theater collaboration "Descent." (Photo courtesy of Hermitage Artist Retreat)
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'Songs of Wars I Have Seen' is a thought-provoking piece filled with unearthly, enigmatic sounds that, somehow, tie together the vignettes of wartime Gertrude Stein wrote about.

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The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens celebrated the opening of Clyde Butcher's landscape photographs of the Florida wilderness, "Preserving Eden," with an outside garden path, drinks and snacks.

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