Carpe Diem String Quartet at 7:30 p.m., April 3 and April 5 at the Historic Asolo Theatre, 5401 Bay Shore Road. The Artist Series of Sarasota presents Carpe Diem String Quartet performing classics, tangos, gypsy songs and blues. Admission is $35 to $40. For tickets, visit ArtistSeries.net.
The opening night performance of “Victor/Victoria” is at 7:30 p.m., April 14. Additional shows at 7:30 p.m., April 15-16, and at 8 p.m., April 28-30. Matinee show times are at 2 p.m., April 17, 23-24 and May 1. “Victor/Victoria” is based on the 1982 Academy Award-winning film starring Julie Andrews that was then adapted as [...]
This deal never happened, but it should make a squeeze more understandable. After South showed his 18 points, North used Gerber to be sure that the partnership had all the aces and kings. His next step was to go all the way
Mote Marine Laboratory is honoring its president and CEO, Dr. Kumar Mahadevan, this month for his 25th anniversary at Mote’s helm. His guidance has allowed Mote — an independent nonprofit marine research laboratory in Sarasota that turned 56 this year — to break critical new ground in marine science, conservation, education and outreach. Mahadevan joined [...]
The Sarasota Tiger Bay Club will discuss preventing and ending homelessness at its meeting at noon, Wednesday, April 6. The event will take place at Michael’s on East. Cost for members is $21 or $26 for guests. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. For reservations, e-mail sarasotatigerbayclub@verizon.net or call Kim at (941) 925-2970.
President Obama gave another good speech last Tuesday night. Some noted that he did not spell out all the alternative endings to the Libyan adventure. He couldn’t, of course; no one knows how this thing will turn out
Sad news: the politicians and bureaucrats in Tallahassee do not read the Longboat Key News. Sadder news: if they do read it, they did not read this column two weeks ago
The town has a new mayor, Jim Brown, and to no one’s surprise, he is a representative of what I like to think of as the expansionist party
As I watched the commission workshop Thursday afternoon, I was once again made aware that sadly we live in a community where the “Very Important People” are granted unusual access to our political process and looked upon with favor. On the other hand run-of-the-mill residents have three minutes to address a group of commissioners who, many observers lament, look as though they could not care less about what is being presented to them
My father would check for any last-minute changes in scheduling before he dropped me off for work at the Van Aken job. He would then go on to the other job sites the company had, but he would return often to the Van Aken job throughout the day, as this was the largest and most complex job the company had. At the end of the workday, he would be there to pick me up
