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Actor Dylan McDermott Visits Ringling College
What do you get when a famous actor visits Ringling College of Art and Design? A jam-packed few days that, it turns out, are just as educational for the celebrity as they are for the students.
Read More >>Thanks to Today Show Segment, Pinecraft Takes National Stage
DVR alert! The Today show takes a loving look at Pinecraft for an upcoming segment. A Today crew toured the little Amish-Mennonite community off Bahia Vista Street in Sarasota in late March and taped our friend, Sherry Gore, cooking Amish pot-pie stew with correspondent Sara Haines. (That’s Sara and Sherry hamming it up in the [...]
Read More >>Tom Brokaw Visits Sarasota
The Ringling College Library Association Town Hall concluded its 2013 lecture series with an appearance by veteran TV newsman Tom Brokaw, Monday morning at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. (Brokaw also appears tonight.) Brokaw met first with a group of journalists backstage, feigning surprise at the number gathered there (“Good Lord, there must be [...]
Read More >>Astronaut Mark Kelly Visits Sarasota
By Beau Denton For the fourth date in this year’s Town Hall series, the Ringling College Library Association welcomed Captain Mark Kelly—astronaut, retired U.S. Navy captain, prostate cancer survivor and husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was the victim of an assassination attempt in January 2011. Kelly’s life reads a like a well-written [...]
Read More >>Anne-Marie Slaughter on Women and the Workplace
By Megan McDonald Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s name catapulted to the forefront of dinner-table conversations everywhere last year thanks to her controversial article for The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” The former director of policy planning for the State Department, Slaughter was inspired to write the piece based on the reactions of her peers [...]
Read More >>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 >>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 [...]
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