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What To Do in Sarasota This Weekend, 2/14/2013
Your Weekend Top 5 1. Rain or shine, get ready to chill tonight at the Hangar at Flight Source with pop star Jon Secada. (It’s moved indoors from the bayfront Powel Crosley Mansion due to inclement weather.) The Chillounge Night folks bring their chic outdoor lounge furniture to Flight Source for a “Return to Romance”: [...]
Read More >>What to Do in Sarasota This Weekend: 2/8/2013
Your Weekend Top 5 1. People are still buzzing about Bill Bowers’ powerful Sarasota debut a couple of years ago. He returns to the Historic Asolo Theater tonight through Saturday with Beyond Words, a poetic mixture of music, monologues and mime that’s part of the Ringling Museum’s intriguing “Art of Our Time” initiative. Photo by David [...]
Read More >>Sarasota Gets Unflattering Mention in Political Series “House of Cards”
By Charlie Huisking The new political drama series House of Cards is attracting enormous attention, in part because it’s being presented by Netflix rather than a traditional broadcast or cable network. But when I downloaded the second episode over the weekend, I nearly fell out of my chair because Sarasota figured in the plot – as [...]
Read More >>What to do in Sarasota This Weekend: 2/1/2013
Your Weekend Top 5 1. A triple treat from the supremely talented Sarasota Ballet this weekend: five performances of works by Sir Frederick Ashton (Birthday Offering), the company’s own Jamie Carter (Between Longing and Yearning, shown here) and Changing Light, a world premiere by Royal Ballet star Will Tuckett. At the FSU Center. 2. “Hot stuff” is how one [...]
Read More >>Photo of the Week: Circus Sarasota
By Taylor Meredith Think jumping rope is easy? How about when your partner is a little four-legged pooch? Mark Bolden, Sarasota Magazine’s web manager, snapped this fun shot of a performer and his dog mid-jump at Circus Sarasota. Photo by Mark Bolden
Read More >>More Photos from Nik Wallenda’s Wire Walk
Photos by Ian Dean Nik Wallenda–in spite of wind and loose wires–completed his untethered “Skywalk” across U.S. 41 yesterday morning. Here are some photos from the event, which drew between 10,000-12,000 spectators, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Read More >>NPR Correspondent Ari Shapiro: A Man of Many Talents
By Charlie Huisking When NPR White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro stepped to the podium in Sarasota last week, he looked out at his audience and smiled. “You all look nothing like I thought YOU would, either,” he said. A funny line from a reporter who is heard but not seen by millions on such National [...]
Read More >>What to Do in Sarasota This Weekend: 11/18/2013
Your Weekend Top 5 1. If you’re nuts for musical theater, Sarasota Orchestra’s pop series opener is right up your (Shubert) Alley. “Bravo Broadway” features Doug LaBreque (Phantom of the Opera, Showboat), Susan Egan (Beauty and the Beast) and Lisa Vroman (Les Miserables) backed by the full orchestra. Friday and Saturday night at the Van [...]
Read More >>Artist Patrick Dougherty’s “Stickwork” Takes Shape at SMOA
Artist Patrick Dougherty is in the midst of creating one of his famous “Stickwork” sculptures on the Sarasota High School campus, the future home of the Sarasota Museum of Art. Dougherty will be working on the sculpture, which has a circus theme, through January 26; photographer Ian Dean snapped these photos of the piece at [...]
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