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Featured Artist
Ben Nettles
Ben Nettles was born in Tallahassee in 1977 and
began his formal education in the arts at age 9
(painting, sculpture and design). The classes ignited a
passion that saw Ben through graduation from the
Ringling College of
Art & Design with a B.A. in Illustration.
In 2006, Ben took his talents in another artistic
direction and achieved an advanced certification in the
creation of concrete countertops from
Fu-tung Cheng.
He now owns
Ben Nettles Concrete Design, along with Kipp Anglin,
where he designs, fabricates and installs custom
concrete surfaces for home and business. An
award-winning illustrator, Ben continues to create his
artwork in his private studio and enjoys living in
Sarasota with his wife and four year old son and baby
daughter. (be sure to click the underlined words and
photos in this, and every story, to see and learn more).
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NOW
[ mixed media exhibit ]
The Women's Resource
Center (340 S. Tuttle Ave.) is currently exhibiting the mixed media art
of Gail Bruder-Werner. Gail's
work blends traditional Asian influences, large flower impressions and
whimsical dancing people. A portion of her sales are donated to S. P. A. R.
C. of Sarasota. Call 941-586-1649.
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Now
[ rudolph and twitchell ]
The designs of Paul Rudolph and the Sarasota School of Architecture are on
display at
Historic Spanish Point throughout the summer. Learn more here.
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[ sarasota videos ]
Make sure you check out this week’s new short video on a local point of interest
at Sarasota History
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through July 26
[ art center sarasota ]
Ongoing exhibits at
Art Center
Sarasota include Humanity in Black & White: the 5th Annual
Florida Photography Juried Exhibition. In the Center Gallery
they have “Etchings” by Elisabeth Stevens and, in the Front
Gallery, “Martin Luther King Boulevard: Photography by
Steven
Katzman.
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Extended through July 20
[ more menopause, great ]
If you thought you missed menopause, guess again! That’s right,
Menopause the Musical has been extended at the
Asolo
Repotory Theatre. Watch the television commercial (because
you don’t get enough commercials) by clicking here. Call
941-351-8000.
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[ radio ]
Talk of the Suncoast on
AM 1220 WSRQ week-daily:
Cliff Roles is
doing double duty on July 11 with guests Kyle Ennis Turoff and
Michael Newton-Brown in the studio from 3:00- 4:00 pm speaking
about "Musical, the Musical" at the
Golden Apple. And then from
4:00 - 5:00 pm Cliff welcomes New York Times Bestselling author
Jeff Shaara. Also, I couldn't possibly write this story and not
mention that Christine Alexander, Chris Friday and Catey Brannan will be on the
show from 3:00 – 4:00 pm July 18 to spread the word on
Lazy
Fairy Improv Troupe. (Christine would have a hissy!)
LISTEN LIVE
HERE ON YOUR COMPUTER.
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Every Saturday
[ improv comedy ]
You can catch the antics of the
FST Improv Troupe
every Saturday in the Goldstein Cabaret. The doors open at 7:45 pm so that
you can grab a seat and lubricate your laughing muscles. The show starts at
8:30 pm. You’ll laugh out loud and be surprised at what this gang of misfits
can come up with without a script (that’s why they do improv, only 2 of the
troupe can read). The cast includes Tim, the white African-American straight
gay man; Andrew, so thin he has only one side; Angel, whose favorite color
is orange; and some other funny people that will be pissed I didn’t mention
their name. Ha ha! Call 941-366-9000 for tickets and information. Watch a
couple of videos
here and here.
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Beginning July 12
[ exhibit at ringling museum ]
At the John & Mable Ringling Museum, enjoy a new exhibition entitled “Modern
Masters of Japanese Print: Tradition and Transformation.” Much happened to
and in Japan during the last century and many artists documented things in
their work. The Ringling exhibits many
shin hanga and
sosaku hanga prints
and woodcuts. Check with the Museum site for details and times.
(Image: “A
Winter in Aizu” c. 1941 by Kiyoshi Saito. Woodcut on paper)
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July 12 & 20
[ glenridge performing arts center ]
The Glenridge Performing Arts Center,
on Palmer Ranch, is welcoming the
Ditchfield Family Singers
on July 12 at 8:00 pm. The Ditchfields entertain with a capella jazz,
gospel, patriotic and their award-winning Barbershop Quartet songs. Then on
July 20, enjoy Sunday Jazz at 2:00 pm with the Greg Nielsen Footnote
Quartet. Call 941-552-5325 for reservations and information. |
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July 12 & 19
[ live music ]
My Friend Scott
(that’s the name of the band) delivers a powerhouse mix of classic and
modern rock, pop and their own originals. Upcoming gigs include July 12 at Big Sugar Rum Bar
and July 19 at the
Five O’Clock Club.
Get out and experience life!
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July 12, 18 & 24
[ enhance your skills ]
AnythingArts.com readers save 10% off of classes at the
Digital Technology
Centre by entering AnythingArts.com as the code. On Saturday July 12 there
is a one-day Lighting Course under the instruction of
Carmen Schettino.
Photogs of all levels will work with studio lights and live models. On July
18 learn Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Beginners and July 24 Adobe Photoshop CS3
for Photographers. There are many other great courses to take.
Check it all
out here.
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July 14 & 21
[ movies at historic asolo ]
I don’t know if there is a theme at work here, but both of these upcoming
movies at the Historic Asolo Theatre prominently feature umbrellas…brellas…rellas.
On July 14 they screen “Singing in the Rain” and on July 21 “Mary Poppins.”
The series is called Monday Night at the Movies. Get more details here.
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July 15 – October 1
[ chill out ]
The State of the Arts Gallery
is displaying work in an exhibit called "Cool
Blues & Red Hots.” To help you chill out during the summer, the gallery is
serving mimosas every afternoon. Tres cool! Call 941-955-2787 for details. |
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July 16
[ opera guild luncheon ]
The Sarasota Opera Guild Salon II begins at 11:00 am at Laurel Oak Golf &
Country Club. The event includes social time, lunch, cash bar and
entertainment by the Suncoast Youth Theatre. Call Carolyn for ticket
information at 941-925-1200. |
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opens July 17
[ brothers battle in true west ]
The Banyan Theater Company presents Sam Shepard's "True West" through August
3. Austin, a tidy screenwriter, is house-sitting for his mother while
working on a screenplay. His brother Lee, a scruffy drunk, arrives. Lee is
not there for house-sitting. No. Lee is there to steal from houses in his
mother's neighborhood. Austin, knowing there is little he can do to stop
Lee, requests that he be out of the house when a movie producer comes to
visit. Seems like a simple request, right? At the
Jane B. Cook Theatre, FSU
Center for Performing Arts. Phone 941-552-1032 for tickets.
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July 17 – 20
[ the devil, you say ]
The winner of the Players Theatre 2007 The Plays the Thing competition, “If
the Devil Could Fall in Love” opens soon. The devil falls in love with a New
York novelist and quickly blurs the line between right and wrong in this
outrageous comedy. The play, written by
Jenny Beres, is directed by
Catherine Randazza and stars Julianne Randolph, Berry Ayers, Tommy Carpenter
and Cliff Roles as God (I couldn’t decide between too many comebacks for
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The better question might be – what am I
not reading? I’m notorious for having my nose stuck in
several books and magazines at any given time.
I just finished the infamous article about Bill Clinton from the July issue
of
Vanity Fair magazine. Even though I’m no fan of Bill’s, I thought this
article devolved from wanna-be steamy to boringly seamy. I say it’s a big
don’t bother.
I’ve been torturing myself for almost two months with Kerouac’s On
the Road -- for the most superficial reason of all – I thought it
was a “should-read.”
But books are too precious for duty-reading.
Books are best friends, advisers, inspirers, conspirers, very nearly lovers
sometimes as well, and they should never be something you have to force-feed
yourself. If a book isn’t right for you at the time, put it down and pick it
up again in a few years … it’s almost always just what you need that second
time around. Guess I should take my own advice and send Jack on down the
road without me.
I’m always reading Thoreau – mostly Walden, but return to
Civil Disobedience at least once a year. Last night, I
found myself re-reading these lines from Walden’s Conclusion, which given
the economic times we’re living in, are more apropos than usual: “However
mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard
names.”
While writing my Reality Chick column for the Pelican Press for two years, I
wouldn’t let myself read other columnists, but now I’m catching up big time.
I just recently finished Art Buchwald’s I’ve Always Got Paris; Anna Quindlen’s Thinking Out Loud; and Nathan McCall’s
Makes Me Wanna Holler and What’s Going On (these
latter two are definite must-reads – not in the
this-looks-good-on-a-bookshelf sense, but in the
so-compelling-they’ll-blow-your-mind sense.)
Other than that, my most recent read was a book-club re-read of Martha
Stout’s The Sociopath Next Door -- should be required
reading for singletons in Sarasota, I think.
(Okay, c’mon … I’m joking … um, sort of.)
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Don’t forget that M.C. Coolidge will be at
Sarasota News & Books on July
11 at 6:30 pm to discuss her book “Sideways in Sarasota.” Coolidge, a native
Floridian and long-time Bostonian, has a unique style that has made her a
favorite Sarasota columnist. Her insight and stories are poignant and often
humorous. Read M.C.’s recent opinion piece that appeared in the Tampa
Tribune on July 4 by
clicking here. For more information call 941-365-6332. |
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July 18
[ friday fest music ]
Friday Fest, on the bay front at the Van Wezel, continues with “Big Night
Out” from 5:00– 9:00 pm. “Big Night Out” is a popular 7 piece tropical band
playing Latin, Caribbean, Reggae, Funk and Mo-Town music. Admission is free
and food and drink is available. Need more information? Call the Van Wezel
box office at 941-953-3368. Listen and watch “Big Night Out” by
clicking here. |
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July 19
[ raku, raku very much ]
The Englewood Art Center has scheduled a Raku Workshop from 9:30 am – 1:30
pm at the Center. Participants will learn the history and technique of
Raku
from Howard Hartke. Each will have the opportunity to create a piece and
fire it. The Art Center also has an upcoming oil painting class on July 23.
For more information call 941-474-5548. |
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July 19
[ musical staged reading ]
Studio 620 (620
1st Ave. S. in St. Pete) presents a musical staged reading of “Manifesto”
at 7:00 pm, for one performance only. Performed by the youth group
TWENTY@620, Manifesto begins 16 years before the Easter Uprising and “tells
of a battle for a country that won’t give up and a love that cannot be
defeated.” Admission is simply a donation and there will be a talk-back
discussion afterwards. Call 727-895-6620 for information.
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July 19
[ theatre for kids ]
The Manatee Players present
playwright Wesley Middleton’s “Tomato
Plant Girl” for one performance at 11:00 am only. The play is designed
for kids 5 - 12 years old and is about how friends can affect your life.
Talk-back with director and actors after the performance. Tickets are just
$8. Call 941-478-5875 for more information. |
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July 19
[ concert in venice ]
“Bandana”
is live and in concert at the
Venice Theatre (formerly
Venice Little Theatre) at 8:00 pm. "Bandana" was formed in 1990 after lead
vocalist Tony 'Butch' Gerace retired from touring to raise his family in
Venice. Formerly with 'Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs,' Gerace sang with
Mitch Miller, played the Johnny Carson Show, the Milton Berle Show and
toured the world with his wonderful blend of classic rock favorites
including his own Golden Record hit 'Lil Red Riding Hood,' and Pharaohs'
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July 23 – August 10
[ florida studio theatre ]
“Southern
Comforts,” by Kathleen Clark, opens soon in the Keating Theatre of
FST. About the
play, “A late-in-life love story about a caustic old widower warmed back to
life by a merry widow with a honeyed accent. Their funny, awkward, and
enchanting romance is filled with sweet surprises and unpredictable
tribulation. Told with warmth and perceptive humor, this Off-Broadway
success is an affecting journey of compromise and rejuvenation, of personal
risk and the rewards of change.” Call 941-366-9000 for tickets and info. |
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July 24 - 27
[ get ready for camp ]
The Studio@620, 620 First Avenue South in St. Pete, presents the
Summer Camp
Exhibit and Classic Film Series, a seriously frivolous exhibition
celebrating the spirit of extravagance and all things Camp. This "event of
semi-epic proportions will very possibly include live musical stylings,
abstract-expressionist shadow puppetry, culinary wonders, mostly unrehearsed
theatrical performances, tiki carving, video oddities, exotic fashionry and
objects d’art." The classic films kick off with "Hairspray" at 9:00 pm on
July 24. Phone 727-895-6620 for more info.
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July 27
[ siesta key concert ]
The Hyatt Siesta Key Beach presents “Soundwaves on Siesta” – a concert
series. Next up is Michael Andrew & Swingerhead. Andrew is a Big Band era
crooner and was once heralded for his great voice by Merv Griffin. He was
also the bandleader and singer at NYC’s renowned Rainbow Room and is
currently working with Jerry Lewis on a Broadway production of “The Nutty
Professor.” Tickets for the concert are free but you have to get them
through the Hyatt Soundwaves website
here.
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July 29
[ stars at museum ]
The South Florida Museum in
downtown Bradenton
is screening a movie at 5:15 pm. Explore space at the Bishop Planetarium
through “Seeing in the Dark,”
a film about amateur astronomers discovering the night skies, followed by
exciting space related activities for everyone to enjoy. $7 per person for
this unique opportunity, members are free. Call 941-746-4131.
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auditions
[ got a minute? ]
Auditions for "Got A Minute! 2008" (GAM) are this weekend, Sunday July 13
from 3:00 pm on. GAM is a production of 60 one-minute plays performed in
just over an hour (filler adds the extra time for all of you
mathematicians). Actors are needed and will be asked to perform in several
different plays. Other volunteers also required for stage work and
production assistance. Every year, this production raises around $2,500 for
cancer research. Three shows scheduled for September 12 and 13. Auditions
are at The Players Theatre and you're asking to come with a one minute
monologue. Call 941-358-7675 to schedule your audition time. |
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[ audition ]
The Powel Crosley Theatre will hold auditions on July 16 from 2:00 - 8:00pm
and July 17 from 10:00am - 3:00pm at the Powel Crosley Estate, One Seagate
Drive, 8374 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Men and women ages 18 and older –
non-Equity professionals and community actors – are needed to portray
historic literary figures for Dickens at the Crosley (December 2008), Poe at
the Crosley (January 2009) and Hemingway at the Crosley (March/April 2009).
Schedule an appointment by calling 941-722-3244 Ext. 238; prepare a
one-minute monologue; prepare a song (to be performed unaccompanied); and
bring a headshot and resume. Actors in all roles are paid for performing.
For more information about the company,
visit their website.
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Creative Kids/2008 Summer Camp at the
Art Center Sarasota has openings for
teens ages 12 to 16 for the weeks July 14 to 18 and July 28 to August 1.
Teens will be challenged to sharpen their creative skills exploring a
variety of techniques and media and throughout the week. Classes run Monday
through Friday 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. Contact Noelle St. Germain at
941-365-2032. |
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Guitar Sarasota
If you like guitar, Guitar Sarasota
is for you. They offer master classes with one-on-one instruction and
perform at various venues throughout the year. Right now you can watch a 7
minute piece about them as show on “A Gulf Coast Journal” with Jack Perkins
by
clicking here.
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audition
[ venice theatre ]
The Venice Theatre
(formerly Venice Little Theatre ] is holding auditions for their Main Stage
production of "Forbidden Broadway" on July 13 & 14 at 7:30 pm. Run dates are
September 5 - 21. "Forbidden Broadway" is the off-Broadway hit musical revue
where Broadway's musical legends meet Broadway's greatest satirist in
tribute to some of the theatre's greatest stars and songwriters. Call Rhonda
at 941-484-4033 X- 230 for information. |
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[ vidographers wanted ]
Looking for a couple of passionate young videographers for an experimental
project. Must have a 3cc DV camera or better and be willing to donate 1 to 4
hours a month. If you're interested in taking part in a groundbreaking new
form of video expression, email Steve at
writetheworld@yahoo.com. |
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Coming Soon
[ eco-art ]
It’s never too soon to make plans, especially when you have to make
something. Right? Well, Efest is November 15 & 16 and will be having a
contest and exhibition of art made from recycled materials – it’s a Trash to
Treasures Eco Art Contest! The deadline is October 15th. So, start thinking
of what you want to make and let us know if your school, studio, civic org
or artists’ group wants to participate. We’d really like to see a lot of
entries and really show the world how one person’s trash can end up an
artful expression. Click here to see last year’s winner and for more
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Auditions
[ pick me, no me ]Be sure to check the audition pages of local
theaters to make sure you don’t miss anything (click the theater name):
Venice Theatre •
Florida Studio Theatre
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The Banyan
Theater •
The Players Theatre of Sarasota
• Manatee Players
• The Golden Apple
• Island
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