With meteorologists predicting an active hurricane season and greater impact on the U.S. coastline in 2011, now is not only the time to start stocking up on batteries and water, but also to review your insurance policy.
With the rain clouds having dissipated, the 14 Sarasota County Junior Lifeguard campers assembled on Turtle Beach last Thursday morning weren't dripping wet from the humidity as they had been earlier in the week.
Director Gil Lazier has chosen a true actor's showcase for the Banyan Theatre Company's season kick-off production and the actors he's chosen are truly showing off their stuff. The directing is smooth and smart; the script witty and wise. The play focuses on the romantic mid-life crisis of a working woman who has a successful marriage and a 26-year-old live-in son. What happens when Mr. Impossibly Right is thrown into the lap of an average, relatively content, happily married, upper middle class American woman? (1)
It's hard to believe that the iguanas that were running rampant on the key just two summers ago barely get a mention these days.
Cruise travel's most famous brand name paired with the world's most famous monarch last week.
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One hundred seventy volunteers and staff at Woman's Exchange have worked long and hard for a year to gather the impressive sum of $200,000 for their grant and scholarship program. In spite of the current economic situation, the amount awarded in 2011 surpassed that given in 2010 by an amazing $50,000.
The concise brushwork conveys each painting's story in vastly varying depictions of the natural world we all know, but Joseph Melancon (a French Lousianian whose name is pronounced as an "s" where the "c" is) generally sees elevated modes of emotion and color.(1)
Tropical visionary Steve Barton will showcase his latest colorful canvases at Sarasota's Wyland Gallery, 314 John Ringling Blvd. on St. Armands Circle, Wednesday through Saturday, July 13-16.
A rarely shown triptych by renowned artist Syd Solomon is part of "Far Horizons," the exhibit through Aug. 1 at Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art gallery.
"Buck" is a new documentary by Cindy Meehl about Buck Brannaman, the "horse whisperer" who inspired the Nicholas Sparks' novel that was later made into a film of the same name by Robert Redford in 1998.
Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road, invites the community to a summer installment of its acclaimed musical Shabbat Alive! service on Friday, July 15, at 6 p.m. Preceding the service will be a festive reception of wine, challah and light appetizers at 5:30 p.m.
On June 18 Cancer Support Community-Florida Suncoast performed a flash mob at the Sarasota Farmers' Market. Over 50 staff, board and committee members and CSC supporters danced to promote the upcoming D2L-Dance to Live community-wide dance party initiative. D2L-Dance to Live launches on July 1. The flash mob happened due, in large part, to partnerships with Arthur Murray Dance Studios-Lakewood Ranch and METV. Each dancer told about their connection to cancer by honoring, celebrating or memorializing friends or family members on their T-shirts. For more information on D2L and Cancer Support Community, visit www.cancersupportsuncoast.org or contact Amy Paulishak at 921-5539 or amy@cancersupportsuncoast.org. The link to the video is http://youtu.be/GUQ4DXjhx5o.
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