magical Eartha
Eartha Kitt is living proof you don't have to be in your twenties to be sexy. At 80 years old, Eartha Kitt is emphatically and undeniably sexy. And yes, still fiercely independent. Kitt performs at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts Monday, April 30 in what's being called the sleeper hit show of the season. Full Story
"Woman's Work" headlines downtown gallery
Fort Myers' artist Jeffrey Scott Lewis lost his wife to a heart attack six years ago and has since become both mother and father to his three children. Having had to take on that role, Lewis was driven to share his new understanding through art. His pieces reflect the elements of a woman's work. Full Story
PET TALES
Childhood pet dog ate like goat
I should be a regular on every oddball talk show. As impossible as this might sound I spent my entire childhood living with a dog that was a bit off to say the least. Ok, he was nuts. It's not every lucky girl who can hold her head up high and tell folks she grew up with a dog who ate inedible things such as blankets and laundry lint for joy. Full Story
Pets of the week
Ray Ray Ray Ray (ID#354281) is a young Catahoula/ Australian shepherd mix with special needs and a loving heart. Blind in one eye and with limited vision in the other, he was found running loose and disoriented. He has a treatable case of heartworms. Ray Ray would not do well as an outside dog because his fair skin burns easily and he needs familiar surroundings because of his limited vision. Full Story
THEATRE REVIEW
"Scapino" takes us in
You'd have to grow an eyebrow under your eye to get as lowbrow as the new comedy at the Florida Repertory Theater. However, as this play is billed as the Repertory's return to its "farcical roots", don't walk out asking whether the tragic flaw was the pepperoni. Full Story
MUSIC REVIEW
Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
When a movie or television star makes a record, it's generally ego driven, and we all get a good laugh at their expense. Leonard Nimoy's "If I Had A Hammer" springs to mind. Well, thespian Charlotte Gainsbourg has made a record, the dear girl. Full Story
MUSIC REVIEW
The Bad Plus - Prog
Jazz musicians have always recorded arrangements of popular music of the day, and The Bad Plus have not lived in a vacuum. From the get-go, they have infuriated jazz purists with their cover of pop tunes like Blondie's "Heart Of Glass" and Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." It was like when Bob Dylan went electric and made old Pete Seeger so angry that he went at the power cables with an ax. Full Story
RECOMMENDED READING
"MAMA… Root, Hog, or Die" by Barbara Oehlbeck (Florida Classics Library, $24.95)
Mama is like one of those characters who dances off the pages of a book and lodges herself in your heart and mind. Like a leading player in a theatrical production, she is larger than life. In other words, Mama has a star quality. But there's nothing put on about Mama. She's real to the core, as stern and yet as sweet as the Appalachian mountains she came from. Full Story
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