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  • By John Ewing
  • February 12, 2012
Fourteen Restaurants for Valentine's Day Dining

Fourteen Restaurants for Valentine's Day Dining

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Sydney Deal, Matt Robertson and Treyvon Thomas
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  • Nick Friedman
  • February 12, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Booker High School's All in the Timing

Booker High School students had audiences in stitches during their performance of one-act comedies written by David Ives. The students explored the boundaries of time in a series of eight vignettes, including a sketch in which three captive primates tested the theory that monkeys with typewriters could eventually produce Shakespearean works.

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  • February 10, 2012
A Love Letter to Sarasota and to Brendan Carroll

A Love Letter to Sarasota and to Brendan Carroll

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  • By John Ewing
  • February 10, 2012
This Weekend With Kirsten + Last Weekend's Video Recap

This Weekend With Kirsten + Last Weekend's Video Recap

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  • By Kristen Pace
  • February 10, 2012
Man Up Sarasota: a Confession Turns Girls' Night Out

Man Up Sarasota: a Confession Turns Girls' Night Out

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Kathie Hayes, chair of the event, also displays her art each year.
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  • Nick Friedman
  • February 10, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: FAB Arts Boutique

Eighty artists from area craft guilds gathered Thursday, Feb. 9 to display their jewelry, pottery, baskets and other crafts at the 10th annual Fabulous Arts Boutique Exhibit's opening reception at Art Center Sarasota. 'I think this might be our best year in terms of creativity,' said Kathie Hayes, chair and founding member of the event. The Manasota Weavers Guild, The Florida West Coast Bead Society, Surface Design Guild Sarasota and the Venetian Society of Basket Weavers were all represented at the reception.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By John Ewing
  • February 9, 2012
Harness the Power of Feng Shui to Find Love

Harness the Power of Feng Shui to Find Love

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  • By Kaye Warr
  • February 9, 2012
Savory Never Tasted So Sweet

Savory Never Tasted So Sweet

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  • By Candice McElyea
  • February 9, 2012
New Gibraltar Model Opens in Lakewood Ranch

New Gibraltar Model Opens in Lakewood Ranch

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  • By Keely Carney
  • February 9, 2012
TWIS Interview: Elijah Wood

TWIS Interview: Elijah Wood

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"I never felt typecast," Audrey Landers says of her image. "I've played a pretty good variety of characters. I was a CIA agent once. I shot an uzi!"
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • February 8, 2012
Audrey Landers: A chorus girl

Actress Audrey Landers dishes about her famous roles, her hot European career, why she left Hollywood and why she didn't think she was cut out for 'A Chorus Line.'

  • Arts + Culture
Leif Bjaland was artistic director/conductor of the Sarasota Orchestra from 1997 to 2012.
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • February 8, 2012
Scene & Heard

Orchestra's Leif Bjaland takes a bow; Chorus of the Keys concert will have a certain 'Twain'; Sayer brings her finger pickin' back to Sarasota Banjo buffs rejoice! Cynthia Sayer is back!

  • Arts + Culture
Steve Carroll and Helen Holliday star in "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" at the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre. Photo courtesy of Cliff Roles
  • By Paula Atwell
  • February 8, 2012
Theater Review: 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do'

"Jiminy Cricket," a '50s exclamation second only to "gee whiz" in the age of innocence nomenclature, blurts forth from the lips of nebbishy nice guy Gabe Green, winningly played by Robby May.

  • Arts + Culture
Thomas Hampson. Courtesy photo.
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  • June LeBell
  • February 8, 2012
Music Review: 'A Panorama of American Song': Thomas Hampson and Warren Jones

Thomas Hampson, one of the world's greatest interpreters of opera and art songs, came to the Van Wezel, one of the world's worst concert halls, last week with Warren Jones, the Rubinstein of collaborative pianists, for an illuminating and inspiring program of American art songs, under the auspices of the Sarasota Concert Association.

  • Arts + Culture
Daniel Radcliffe plays a widowed father whose presence seems unwelcome, while conducting business in a remote English village
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  • Pam Nadon
  • February 8, 2012
Film Review: 'The Woman in Black'

Sometimes you get sucked into seeing a film because of the actors involved. So, when the enormously successful Harry Potter chap tackles a new genre, I'm game. In his new film, "The Woman in Black," Daniel Radcliffe may have been best served passing on it.

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