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    <title>Exhibit: How People Make Things</title>
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        Sunday, June 1...
       
      
        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      Opening at G.WIZ this weekend, the new exhibit How People Make Things gives kids of all ages a chance to mold objects like plastic horses, spoons, crayons and model cars. The science museum&#39;s officials say it will &quot;bring people closer to how things are actually manufactured.&quot; If you don&#39;t already know, they&#39;re built by cheery boys and girls in American towns, earning a living wage and working eight hours a day under safe and healthy conditions. And Santa Claus is
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    <title>Meet Justin Richards</title>
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        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      Justin Richards, the scrappy 22-year-old you see pictured, is not me, but he does share my initials and my state of birth (Massachusetts), and drives the same car I do (a crunchy Volvo, though mine&#39;s decidedly messier). And, starting next week, I&#39;m pleased to report yet another thing we&#39;ll have in common: helm of the cluttered staff writer desk in Creative Loafing&#39;s Sarasota office. That&#39;s right, folks: introducing my replacement, one of the sharpest, sprightliest, most byline-ready UF grads ever
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Ah, the memories</title>
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        A reporter plays catch-up with three subjects. &nbsp;...
       
      
        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      You&#39;ve figured it out: A year and some months into my tenure here, I&#39;m leaving the Loaf. Trust me when I say the choice was a reluctant one -- I&#39;ve honestly loved my time here -- and I&#39;m still not sure I&#39;m ready. (My colleagues know it took me forever to clean out my desk. They don&#39;t know it took forever because I knew moving out would mean taking down the Christina Aguilera poster, and, frankly, I was concerned I
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    <title>Performance: Fuzi&amp;amp;oacute;n Dance Artists</title>
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        Friday, March 7&nbsp;...
       
      
        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      It&#39;s time for another seasonal concert starring the incomparable Fuzi&oacute;n Dance Artists and their high-flying, post modern ways. This go-round features a special bonus: several brand-spankin&#39;-new works, choreographed by artistic director Leymis Bola&ntilde;os Wilmott, as well as a feature piece by guest choreographer Gerri Houlihan. It should be an exciting ride, one boasting a reprise of Wilmott&#39;s always-stunning aerial efforts, as well as a new collaboration with local composer Francis Schwartz -- though what the two have cooked up this
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    <title>Theater: My Fair Lady</title>
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        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      My Fair Lady is one of those classic bits of musical theater whose legacy has left scores of Broadway aspirants thinking &quot;auwl oy wont iz a rume sumwheh&quot; and &quot;oh-ho-ho, &#39;enree &#39;iggunz&quot; count as Cockney. Luckily, Venice Little Theatre now has thespian Kathryn Ohrenstein to show them all how it&#39;s done. Starring as veddy-iconic Eliza Doolittle, Ohernstein joins a talented cast of up-and-comers in the VLT&#39;s production of the Lerner and Loewe epic about a flower girl-turned-toast of the London
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    <title>Blame it on Leo</title>
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        For all it's brilliance, <i>Candide</i> still seems overdone.&nbsp;Performance...
       
      
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      Candide is the kind of show that directors can&#39;t resist running wild with. It&#39;s operatic, intellectual and ambitious -- Bernstein&#39;s episodic score may even be brilliant -- and if anything, it often seems to mandate lots of sequins to make it glitter. Still, the question remains: Why is it that Candide, for all its brilliance, always looks so overdone on stage? In director Jeffery Kin&#39;s capable hands at the Players Theatre, the show finds plenty of exciting new life. But
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Celebrity psychic brings her skills to the Suncoast.&nbsp;...
       
      
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      Fortune-tellers tend to vary by utensil -- some favoring tarot, others opting for runes or an open palm. Deborah Chadwick, who recently relocated to Sarasota from L.A. to be near family, mostly reads at Lotus from a regular deck of playing cards. But she used to read the stars. No stranger to Hollywood, the self-described &quot;intuitive consultant&quot; has forecasted many a celebrity future, providing complimentary readings at awards ceremonies, charity events and even private birthday parties. She was on hand
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      Jason Blitz, 37, may be the consummate job man. A New Orleans native who moved here after Hurricane Katrina interrupted his work for a BMW-Mercedes shop, Blitz has since worked his way into local commercial real estate (Kleiber DeVito), and now balances his days with private graphic design gigs for national clients. On weekends, though, he&#39;s found time to pursue old passions, driving his little red BMW M Coupe up north to help a Canadian racecar team prep its vehicles
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        Bridging the gap between Sarasota and Israel....
       
      
        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      On a Wednesday afternoon in the large chapel of Temple Beth Sholom, a dozen Israeli teenagers line up before a special assembly. &quot;You see this blue spot here?&quot; one asks, pointing to a map as rows and rows of K-12 heads crane their necks to see. &quot;That&#39;s what we call the Dead Sea.&quot; For these young delegates, a first visit to the Suncoast means a chance to teach locals a little about their homeland. Luckily, kids from the Goldie Feldman
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    <title>ARt: Interiors/Exteriors</title>
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        Thursday, February 28&nbsp;...
       
      
        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      Melissa Meyer and Brenda Brown, both dynamic forces in the contemporary American art scene, are now sharing a double bill at Ringling College&#39;s Selby Gallery. The two-part exhibition, Interiors/Exteriors, shows how each artist plays with disparate notions of space. While Meyer&#39;s half pays homage to 30 years of crafting interior landscapes through colorful paintings and prints, Brown&#39;s &quot;listening gardens&quot; recreate a walk in the woods. (And that, ladies and gents, is about the best plain-English translation we can do. Seriously.
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    <title>Randy Adams</title>
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        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      Florida is the number two market in the U.S. for whiskey, and so long as 44-year-old Randy Adams has lived here, Sarasota&#39;s been its scotch capital. Having reached the Suncoast in 1984, the Alabama native&#39;s been introducing men to the classy drink, as an upstairs bartender at the Gator Club (former home to the state&#39;s largest collection of single malts) and a bar manager at the former Silver Cricket. Today, he devotes his time to brand representation, hosting scotch dinners,
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Metro Coffee &amp;amp; Wine says goodbye</title>
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      On its last day, Metro Coffee &amp; Wine offered the same food and drink as always. Only now, customers could get it wholesale. In an effort to unload the rest of its merchandise, the South Osprey Avenue caf&eacute; had set up its south patio like a yard sale. Long folding tables were bedecked with wine glasses, coffee cones and filters. A stack of ice trays was also up for grabs. Inside, Metro owner Betsy Nelson stood behind a display of
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    <title>Music: Vicki Genfan</title>
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        Thursday, February 21...
       
      
        By Joel Rozen
      
      
      Electric Ladyland fans rejoice: This Thursday, Vicki Genfan, the so-called &quot;Jimi Hendrix of acoustic guitar,&quot; drops in on Myakka River State Park. We assume that means she&#39;s funky with the finger picking, not that she&#39;s tappin&#39; the LSD. Though that would be something, wouldn&#39;t it? Whatever the case, Genfan&#39;s legacy as a jazz and classical whiz precedes her -- plus she&#39;s played for both Sheena Easton and Donna Summer! -- and this program, the latest in the state park&#39;s Moon
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        Thursday, February 21...
       
      
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      Charles Fuller&#39;s A Soldier&#39;s Play is a Pulitzer Prize-winner about 1940s segregation in the U.S. Army that eventually became a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Adolph Caesar. It&#39;s also an extraordinary, unflinching look at black identity politics. Taking on several tricky themes -- assimilation, oppression, internalized prejudice -- the play never caves to comfortable answers, and it forces the audience to re-think what success means in a country rife with inequality. Now for a limited run, the Westcoast Black
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        Lust List '08...
       
      
        Edited By Joel Rozen
      
      
      All photos by Camille Pyatte&nbsp;With Valentine&#39;s Day upon us, the time seemed right for resurrecting an old tradition at the Loaf. Yep, the time seemed right for pictures of hot people. For this year&#39;s Lust List, we searched high and low mespun hotties, scouting brewpubs and banks and leaving no corner (or barstool) unturned. &quot;Dirty work&quot; never sounded so apt. Two weeks and several hangovers later, what we came away with was a diverse menagerie of 10 ladies and gents,
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