MARC SALEM: PURVEYOR OF MIND GAMES
Marc Salem can read your mind. Or so many believe. Alone on stage, he'll tell audience members what the serial numbers are on their dollar bills, tell them what words they've just read randomly in a book and where they went for their last vacation. Full Story
The theatrical experience "Rent" at Mann Hall
National touring company here for one night only
The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical "Rent," featuring Heinz Winckler as Roger Davis and Anwar Robinson as Tom Collins, will be on stage at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Thursday, April 10 for one performance only. Full Story
Six Mornings on Sanibel
By Charles Sobczak (Indigo Press, $13.95)
Only two rules govern the books reviewed by this columnist. First, they must either be written by Florida authors or be about Florida. Second, they cannot be self published or published by a vanity press. Today, it is more difficult for a beginning or midlist author to be published than at any other time in our history. Full Story
The English American: A Novel
By Alison Larkin (Simon and Schuster, $24)
Pippa's fanciful, imaginative nature has often put her at odds with her staid, stolid English family, but since Pippa is adopted, this seems to her to be par for the course. Full Story
Shelby Lynn
Just a Little Lovin'
Traditional country music and classic R&B music have always been cousins embracing themes of loneliness, love and heartache. Just a Little Lovin' is country music vocalists Shelby Lynn's tribute to the British blue eyed soul singer Dusty Springfield. It could very well be her best record to date. Full Story
WHAT TO DO, WHERE TO GO
This week's theatre Breaking Legs - The worlds of the Mafia and the Theatre collide in an Italian restaurant with this expertly crafted comic masterpiece. "Breaking Legs" is on stage at the Florida Repertory Theatre through April 20. The meatballs hit the fan when a college professor turned playwright has his play produced by a Mafia don. Full Story
Breaking legs but not new ground
THEATRE REVIEW
It's been said desperation can make strange bedfellows. In "Breaking Legs" a desperate college professor, looking for funding for his off-off-Broadway play, finds that his new bedfellows are actually goodfellas. What follows is a series of misunderstandings as cultures collide and clash and Mafia hitmen suddenly have strong opinions on how he should rewrite his play. Full Story
What the arts bring to a community
GIVING
As a community institution, the Southwest Florida Community Foundation takes its role of supporting the "whole" community seriously by acting as a community leader, convener, and supporter of all areas of need in the community. Full Story
Superhero Movie
GRADE: D
Running Time: 85 minutes MPAA rating: PG-13 Don't be fooled by the running time listed above. "Superhero Movie" is actually a little over an hour long, with about 10 minutes of outtakes and then a couple minutes of credits. So, you're getting essentially half a movie, but paying full price. Full Story
Arts and culture grants available
City of Fort Myers has $119,000 to give ....
The City of Fort Myers will once again this year grant opportunities to artists and arts and culture organizations within the city. The city recognizes the importance of arts in the community and encourages artistic quality and program innovation by providing grants up to $10,000 for organizations and up to $3,000 for individual artists. Full Story
Sanibel Taste of the Islands Sunday
The 28th Annual Taste of the Islands to benefit CROW, the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife will be held Sunday, April 13 at the Sanibel Community Park. This food competition and family fun day helps the wildlife hospital raise funds to aid sick and injured animals throughout the Sanibel-Captiva Islands and Lee County. Full Story
Calusa Musicale celebrates milestone
Calusa Musicale is celebrating it's 30th anniversary this month with its Annual Scholarship Benefit Concert. The event will feature violin virtuoso Reiko Niiya, concert mistress of the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, who is celebrating her 25th anniversary with the orchestra this season. Full Story
Florida Rep sets exciting summer camp schedule
Florida Repertory Theatre's Education Department announced that Enrollment is now open for Camp Florida Rep 2008, Florida Rep's popular summer camp for students in grades K-12. This summer, Camp Florida Rep will be four two-week sessions in which campers will put on a full length musical, and an all new one-week Intensive Theatre Training Program for ages 8 and up. Full Story
Student concerts on tap at Edison College
The 2008 Spring Student concert series will be the last which Dr. Dennis Hill will conduct as a full-time faculty member at Edison College. Under Hill's direction, the Concert Band, Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble have performed over 200 free public concerts over the past 32 years. Full Story
'Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks' on stage in Naples
The delightful comedy, "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks," opens at the Sugden Community Theatre in downtown Naples on April 23 for a four week run. Written by Richard Alfieri, the show tells the story of a lady of a certain age who has retired to the West Coast of Florida, and signs up for a course of dance lessons in her own home. Full Story
Painting in the Moonlight Garden
Edison's Caretaker's House and the adjacent Edison Moonlight Garden will be the site for an upcoming full-day acrylic painting workshop, April 12, 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates. The workshop welcomes all levels of expertise. Full Story
von Liebig Spring and Summer schedule set
The Naples Art Association at The von Liebig Art Center announced its on-site and off-site exhibition schedule for the spring and summer. The art center galleries, at 585 Park St., are open with free admission from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Most of the works are for sale. For more information, visit naplesart. Full Story
FGCU shines light on fine art and theater students
An evening of art, music, food, a pottery sale and a theatre production will kick off Florida Gulf Coast University's 2008 Celebration of the Arts on Wednesday, April 9 at 4 p.m. The festivities, which will take place at The Art Gallery located inside the Arts Complex on FGCU's main campus, will continue until 8 p.m. Full Story
Sim Gallery of Fine Art reunites two local artists
Leroy Nichols, a celebrated oil painter from Sarasota and William Turner, an award-winning watercolorist from Bradenton, will present their landscape masterpieces at the Sim Gallery of Fine Art in Cape Coral. An Artist Reception will be held on April 18, 6 to 9 p.m. Full Story
The Naples Art Association looking for artists
The Naples Art Association at The von Liebig Art Center has issued a Call for Artists to participate in "10 Illustrated: An NAA Members' Photography Exhibition." It will be installed in the Art Center from July 12 through Aug. 3, and selected images from those works will also be published in Naples Illustrated magazine. Full Story
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