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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • May 2, 2012
Athlete of the Week: Alex Lancaster

St. Armands Key resident Alex Lancaster is a workers compensation and personal-injury lawyer.

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  • May 2, 2012
JUST THE STATS

1 - Place Jim and Ann Johnson took in couples bridge Tuesday, April 24, at Sarasota Yacht Club.

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  • By Brian Gunnell
  • May 2, 2012
Bridge Bites: The power of deduction

This is not the most swashbuckling auction ever to appear in Bridge Bites, but the deal does provide a test for Declarer's powers of deduction. Cover up the E-W hands if you would like to test your own powers.

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Tim Smalley submitted this sunset photo, taken near Longboat Harbour on Longboat Key.
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  • May 2, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Tim Smalley submitted this sunset photo, taken near Longboat Harbour on Longboat Key.

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"Clyde Burnett has that alluring quality that many outsider artists have," says artist Virginia Hoffman of Burnett, above. "His work has a very masterful painterly quality. And he's got quite a vocabulary with his images."
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 2, 2012
Clyde Burnett: American gothic

Clyde Burnett would rather toy with your imagination than brighten up your living room. The 83-year-old painter explains why after all these years he's still suffering for his art.

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Yara Shoemaker's sister-in-law and mother, Brittany Duve al Mehrz and Radia Daoud, Shoemaker and hostess Kim Githler. Photo by Molly Schechter.
  • By Loren Mayo and Molly Schechter
  • May 2, 2012
Black Tie & Tales

Roxie steals the show at bachelorette party; Year of the woman; 'He wore his power lightly'; Field notes from the party of the decade

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Soprano Hope Koehler. Courtesy photo.
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  • June LeBell
  • May 2, 2012
Music Review: The Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota: Hope Koehler, soprano

Every once in a while, we hear a singer (violinist, pianist, you name it) who is so good, so magnetic, so talented, we wonder why the performer hasn't had a major career and become a household name. Take Hope Koehler.

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Ricardo Graziano and Christine Peixoto. Photos by Frank Atura
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  • Anna Dearing
  • May 2, 2012
Dance Review: 'Theatre of Dreams' by the Sarasota Ballet

Wow. What a season. The 2011-2012 season for the Sarasota Ballet seems to be its best yet. And it's quite fitting for Director Iain Webb's fifth anniversary at the helm.

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Olsen. File photo.
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  • May 2, 2012
Scene & Heard

Sigrid Olsen mugs for Oprah Magazine; Wallenda continues his media hot streak; Does this produce look familiar?

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"I'm young for a literary manager," Amanda Cayo says. "I haven't read everything in the canon. I think that gives me an advantage, in a way. It puts me in the same position as most of the audience."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 2, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Literary Device

And you thought you had a lot of paperwork to sort through. Try sitting at Amanda Cayo's desk. The Florida Studio Theatre literary manager reads hundreds of scripts a year.

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  • By John Ewing
  • May 2, 2012
Observe This: Today’s Top Stories

Observe This: Today’s Top Stories

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Jack and Jody Allen with Bill Lewis
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  • May 1, 2012
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Chairman's Circle

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Chairman's Circle

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  • By Bonnie Silvestri
  • May 1, 2012
'Arise' and Shine with SFF

'Arise' and Shine with SFF

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  • May 1, 2012
Ringling Museum of Art: Art of Food

Ringling Museum of Art: Art of Food

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  • By Kaye Warr
  • May 1, 2012
Cutting Loose

Cutting Loose

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