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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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
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  • 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
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • June 15, 2010
Film Review: 'Harry Brown'

The Observer's resident film critic reviews "Harry Brown," starring Michael Caine.

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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 9, 2010
Strange Depictions

Sabrina Small, the lone female artist of Sarasota's s/ART/q group, invites us into her bayou bungalow to talk about wanderlust, human oddities and shoveling coal.

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 9, 2010
Sarasota 'nomad' publishes essay from the heart

Kim Bass, a technical writer by trade, got personal about her 2005 trip to Uganda in a story published this month in the Random House anthology, 'Female Nomad and Friends.'

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 9, 2010
GALLERY AROUND THE CORNER: Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art

The Sarasota art gallery recently moved out of its home on Fifth Street in downtown Sarasota's Rosemary District to a 3,000-square-foot space on North Palm Avenue.

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Pam Nadon
  • June 9, 2010
Film Review: 'Splice'

The Observer's resident film critic reviews "Splice," starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • June 9, 2010
Music Review: Sarasota Music Festival, part one

The Sarasota Music Festival is back, changed, spiffed up and considerably more exciting than it's been in many a year.

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 8, 2010
Sabrina Small talks about inspiration (VIDEO)

This week's A&E cover girl, artist Sabrina Small, talks about how records play an important role in her creative process.

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 2, 2010
Cultural remix

DJ Pram learned a long time ago that American dance tracks mixed with Bollywood beats keep parties hopping - no matter the crowd.

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 2, 2010
Pattern perfect

Asolo costume draper Casey Costello explains what it was like to make 31 dresses for three women in one 1930s-era musical.

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 2, 2010
Fishing shot lands Key photographer in magazine

Mary Lou Johnson's 'Morning Ritual' continues to make waves four years after it was snapped.

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Pam Nadon
  • June 2, 2010
Film Review: 'The Secret in Their Eyes'

"The Secret in Their Eyes" won the Oscar this year for Best Foreign Language Film.

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