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Sandy Loevner heads up the Florida Winefest — this year's festival will include hot-air balloons, making it the only festival of its kind in the state. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
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  • Nick Friedman
  • March 6, 2013
View from the Top: Sandy Loevner

In her 15th year as board president, Sandy Loevner is helping one of the country's largest non-profit charity events continue to soar.

  • Arts + Culture
Wojtek Sawa stands in front of four of the large-scale photographs he will use in "The Wall Speaks" installation.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
Breaking Barriers: Wojtek Sawa

Sarasota-based visual artist Wojtek Sawa shares the full spectrum of real-life human experience through historical stories of Polish eradication.

  • Arts + Culture
Matt Allison's photo is titled "SMOA Sticks." Courtesy
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
Scene & Heard

Matt Allison photos ARE featured all over; A fashionable music series begins; Student's portrait is highly acclaimed; Honoring navy seal Chris Kyle

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Matt Allison's photo is titled "SMOA Sticks." Courtesy
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
Scene & Heard

Matt Allison photos ARE featured all over; A fashionable music series begins; Student's portrait is highly acclaimed; Honoring navy seal Chris Kyle

  • Arts + Culture
Marvin Waldman, co-chairman of the Book Festival, Delia Ephron and Pam Gordon. Cliff Roles.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
Highlights: Delia Ephron's lecture is one for the books

Novelist, screenwriter, playwright and essayist Delia Ephron speaks about her career as part of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota's Jewish Book Festival.

  • Arts + Culture
Briana Carlson-Goodman and Ruth Goodman, at Carlson-Goodman's wedding. Courtesy.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 6, 2013
BACKSTAGE PASS: Nana Goodman is Eponine's biggest fan

Sarasotan Ruth Goodman once took her granddaughter to see 'Cats' on Broadway when her granddaughter was a young girl. Now, she watches her family member perform on Broadway.

  • Arts + Culture
Alessandro Siciliani. Courtesy.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • March 6, 2013
Music Review: Sarasota Orchestra - Masterworks: Beethoven Symphony No. 9

In the 11 years I've lived here, I've come to regard the Sarasota Orchestra as one of the finest instrumental ensembles I've heard.

  • Arts + Culture
The Sarasota Ballet presented "I Naploetani" Courtesy.
    By
  • Anna Dearing
  • March 6, 2013
Dance Review: 'Les Rendezvous,' 'Lilac Garden' and 'I Napoletani'

Director Iain Webb has proven multiple times he is the master of orchestrating triple-bill programs, and this past weekend's was just another example.

  • Arts + Culture
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" runs through March 17, at Manatee Players. Courtesy.
  • By Paula Atwell
  • March 6, 2013
Theater Review: 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'

First produced on Broadway in 1962, the multiple Tony Award-winning musical comedy, 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,' written by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart and influenced by the plays of Plautus, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim is playing at the Manatee Players.

  • Arts + Culture
Corey Crider as Belfiore, Stefano de Peppo as the Baron, and Jennifer Feinstein as the Marchesa in Verdi's "A King for a Day." Photo courtesy of Rod Millington and Sarasota Opera.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • March 6, 2013
Music Review: 'Un giorno di regno' ('A King for a Day')

What a difference a year makes. In 1840, Giuseppe Verdi's wife and, two children died and then, 'Un giorno di regno' ('A King for a Day') came along and everyone hated it.

  • Arts + Culture
The front of the Burns' home in Indian Beach still has some of its original 1954 modern flair.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • March 6, 2013
Home & Garden: Modern Chic

Doug and Carol Burns moved into their renovated home in March 2011, in Indian Beach.

  • Arts + Culture
Kale'd Caesar garnished with panzanella cubes and apple slices, as served at Eat Here restaurants. Courtesy.
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • March 6, 2013
The Foodie: Learning to love kale

Kale has to be on of the most highly praised foods of our time.

  • Arts + Culture
"The Royal Chef" Darren McGrady. Photo by Stephanie Hannum.
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • March 6, 2013
Black Tie & Tales

'Eating Royally'; Big-band fun; Tidbits; and Black Tie Affair

  • Arts + Culture
Joanna Davis Photography
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • March 6, 2013
OCCASIONS: Just Married - Phil Brooks & Lisa Intagliata

Lisa Intagliata and Phil Brooks were married Saturday, Feb. 16, in Fort Lauderdale after an eight-month engagement.

  • Arts + Culture
Kimberly Holowiak and Monica Slater Van Buskirk
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • March 5, 2013
Opening Night Party for Les Miserables

Opening Night Party for Les Miserables

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Cindy Ritchell, Ann Quackenbush, Brenda Korthauer, Beverly Sutton and Kit Torchia all lend a helping hand in packing seeds to send internationally to farmers who need them. Quackenbush is a driving force behind Hope Seeds, a charitable ministry through Christ Church of Longboat Key.
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