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    <title>Festival: Chalk walk</title>
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        By Tim Sukits
      
      
      Imagine looking down and finding some fine art on the sidewalk. Score! You can do it this weekend at the 2nd Annual Burns Square &quot;Avenida de Colores&quot; Chalk Festival. The theme for the festival is Flora, the goddess of spring, who&#39;s known for her sensual seduction. Over 30 professional street painters will travel from all over the country to chalk it up on South Pineapple Avenue alongside 20 Sarasota artists. The Children Chalk Area let&#39;s the kiddie&#39;s paint their own
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Variety: The spice of life</title>
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        By Tim Sukits
      
      
      To add a bit of variety to your life you may want to keep your eye on the Players this week. ContempoFest 09 is the newest production in the theater&#39;s SNAP (Something New at Players) series, and will include several dance numbers by Fuzi&oacute;n Dance, a presentation by Made for Two, Jeffery Kin&#39;s original play Things Worth Remembering, a Players Dance Company original piece called The Forge, and a performance by storyteller and singer/songwriter John Howard. Original paintings by David
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    <title>Theater: I got a golden ticket!</title>
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      The snozberries really do taste like snozberries at the Venice Theatre&#39;s production of Roald Dahl&#39;s Willy Wonka. This musical adaptation of Dahl&#39;s 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory features popular songs from the 1971 film, such as &quot;The Candy Man&quot; and &quot;Pure Imagination.&quot; A multi-generational cast from age 9 and up will perform under the direction of Brad Wages. Scenic designer Donna Buckalter has revamped the set she created for the Manatee Players&#39; Willy Wonka, so prepare for that
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    <title>Music: Eclectic mix</title>
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        MUSIC...
       
      
        By Tim Sukits
      
      
      The Sybarite Chamber Players, a unique New York-based string quintet, will bring its eclectic and dynamic performance to the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center for a gala concert this Saturday. Louis Levitt, the group&#39;s founder and double bassist, is a Sarasota native who attended Pine View School and studied with the Sarasota Youth Orchestra Program. The ensemble has a reputation for juxtaposing classical music with modern day bands: Stravinsky with Radiohead, or Dvorak with Led Zeppelin. Last year, the group became
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        ART...
       
      
        By Tim Sukits
      
      
      Six area artists each bring their unique expressions to life through oil on canvas and the use of some serious color in Expressions in Color, opening this week at Dabbert Gallery. Craig Rubadoux endeavors to show exuberance, life-joy and spontaneous celebration, while James Griffin uses small anomalies of geometric shapes filled with color. William Suys strives to deliver work that possesses its own artistic heart and soul, while Tom Swimm seeks to merge impressionistic qualities with color and light. Brian
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    <title>Lecture: Behind the music</title>
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      Chinese composer Fang Man (or Mandy Fang as we call her here in America) will be discussing her latest work at the final installment of New College&#39;s Meet the Composer series. Fang lives as a freelance composer in New York City and her original concert music has been performed by a number of top-notch orchestras. She was the winner of the Underwood New Music Readings by the American Composers Orchestra in 2006 and won the 3rd prize of the Toru
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Music: From A to Z</title>
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        MUSIC...
       
      
        By Tim Sukits
      
      
      New Music New College concludes its 10th anniversary season with San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist Pamela Z. She combines operatic bel canto and experimental vocal techniques with found percussion objects, spoken word, electronic processing, sample sounds and a MIDI controller called The BodySynth&trade;, which allows her to manipulate sound with her physical gestures. Z has composed and recorded scores for dance, theater, film and new music ensembles and her signature work, Voci, showcases almost every aspect of how the
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      Whether you&#39;re in need of a brain, a heart, courage or just a place like home, you should follow the yellow brick road down to Oz (aka the Van Wezel) for three weekend performances of The Wizard of Oz. Twelve local children from Julie Rohr Academy will perform as &quot;munchkins&quot; after being selected from auditions held by Networks Presentations choreographer Leigh Constantine. This production is modeled after the Royal Shakespeare Company&#39;s rendition of the 1939 movie, which means the special
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      World class mixed martial arts is jabbing, clawing and round-housing its way to Robarts Arena for Rumble at Robarts 2. And guess what -- the sequel is bloodier than the original! This time they&#39;re bringing out the Heavyweight Division, which will feature ruthless bad-asses like Tommy &quot;Trauma&quot; Sauer, Dave &quot;Pay Me&quot; Yost, and Fort Myers&#39; undefeated slayer Matt &quot;No Nickname Needed&quot; Spasato. In the co-main event, Sarasota&#39;s own brawler, undefeated lightweight Troy Gerhart, will do some beatin&#39; down on Tapout
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        By Tim Sukits
      
      
      The Sarasota Ballet and the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater will collaborate in the world premiere of The Trilogy: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sarasota Ballet director Iain Webb and choreographer Dominic Walsh have worked together before, but this is the first program featuring dancers from both troupes, and will be the premiere of the third movement in Walsh&#39;s Mozart-inspired trilogy and the first time the trilogy has been performed in its entirety. The first movement, Wolfgang for Webb, was created for the
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    <title>Art: Playing the symbols</title>
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      An exhibition of wall sculptures and works on paper by Leslie Fry will be displayed at Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art starting this week. The main theme of the exhibition is demolition that makes way for new construction. Fry combines symbols of movement like trucks and tools with images of human and plant life to show constructive change. Her bas-reliefs are meant to resemble archeological artifacts with aged surfaces and crate-like framing. Her cast-paper reliefs feature rope and twine to symbolize
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Music: Rock me Amadeus</title>
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      Gloria Musicae will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a gala performance at the Sarasota Opera House. The concert will feature a performance of Mozart&#39;s &quot;Great Mass in C minor.&quot; This piece was a celebration of Mozart&#39;s wedding, but due to his early death was left unfinished. Robin Levin, a Mozart scholar, pianist, Harvard professor and the artistic director of the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival, reconstructed the final movements based on notes and sketches left by the composer, adding 20 extra
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    <title>Science: Starriest night</title>
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        SCIENCE...
       
      
        By Tim Sukits
      
      
      A sneak preview of the brand new documentary 400 Years of the Telescope: A Journey of Science, Technology and Thought will be screened at The Bishop Planetarium on Saturday. The movie is scheduled to debut on WEDU April 14, but you can view it early as part of a larger astronomy presentation featuring a view of Saturn and other celestial wonders through huge telescopes with local experts on hand to answer questions. The documentary is narrated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse
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    <title>Performance: Stomp in the name of love</title>
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        PERFORMANCE...
       
      
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      Get ready for the beats to drop bigger than the A-Bomb with the percussive hit show Stomp. The now-famous show creates music using recognizable objects such as paint cans, stiff-bristle brooms and trash bins which performers beat the crap out of while dancing in sync. This weekend&#39;s three Van Wezel performances will feature an updated and restructured show including two new full-scale routines. The show started as a street performance in the United Kingdom and is now one of the
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    <title>Theater: Big, bad Woolf</title>
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      Venice Theatre isn&#39;t afraid to push the envelope with their upcoming production of Edward Albee&#39;s Who&#39;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The play tells the story of a professor and his wife who return home drunk from a Saturday night party and invite another couple over for a nightcap. The drama begins as drinks flow and the profanity-riddled conversation between the couples turns dark. Albee is known for his explicit and often disturbing plays and this is one of his most
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