Susan Rife
Herald-Tribune
Sarasota, FL, United States
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Urbanite Theatre presents a world premiere with 'A Skeptic and a Bruja'
The supernatural plays a significant role in “The Skeptic and the Bruja,” which receives its world premiere at Sarasota's Urbanite Theatre. → Read More
A musical smorgasbord as Tovey returns to Sarasota Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, Sarasota Orchestra’s music director designate, will conduct this weekend's Masterworks: Breaking Boundaries concerts. → Read More
Maas Brothers was 'big deal' to Sarasota
Before malls, big-box department stores and Amazon.com took over the retail landscape, there were department stores, behemoths that anchored a city's downtown shopping district, selling everything from silk scarves, men's haberdashery and sewing notions to hand mixers, sheets and lamps. → Read More
Marcia Corbino, arts writer, dies
Marcia Corbino knew the Sarasota arts scene inside and out. → Read More
Oh, poop: Fossilized feces at Bradenton museum
Jeff Rodgers has heard every possible joke about fossilized feces, so let's not even go there. → Read More
Stephen King, John Grisham booked for fundraiser
What's bigger than Stephen King speaking at your library foundation fundraiser? → Read More
An e-bike journey around the nation
On April 10, Shawn McCarty, wearing a fluorescent yellow safety vest, shoved off from the driveway of his South Venice home aboard his Yuba Mundo Electric longtail cargo bicycle, named Sherpa, laden with 200 pounds of batteries and gear. His destination: that same address, after he'd spent almost exactly five months and covered 9,870 miles circumnavigating the United States. → Read More
Colson was man of many artistic passions
Frank Colson's wife and friends remember him as one of Sarasota's premiere ceramacists and sculptors, dedicated to exploring new methods of artistic expression and known for his collection of silly hats. → Read More
Selby Gardens celebrates its namesake
A frog croaking inside a potted plant on the patio outside the house that William and Marie Selby built in 1921 seemed a fitting detail at Tuesday's kickoff to the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens' 40th anniversary year. Sky high humidity served as a reminder that when the Selbys came to Florida in 1909, air conditioning was unheard of, and yet the couple fell in love with Sarasota, not much more… → Read More
Exclusive: Sarasota Museum of Art names director
Anne-Marie Russell, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, Arizona, has been hired as executive director for the Sarasota Museum of Art. → Read More
New Ringling pavilion to showcase donated art glass
"Mega World 5.4," 1989. By Josh Simpson. Gift of Philip and Nancy Kotler to the Ringling Museum of Art, 2012. An all-glass pavilion filled with studio art glass donated by two couples who have collected glass for years will be built outside the existing visitors center at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, creating not just a new display space but a more formal entrance to the Historic… → Read More
Tiny libraries spring up in Southwest Florida
Need something to read and can't get to a library? → Read More
Lois Duncan wins Grand Master award from Mystery Writers of America
Young-adult suspense writer Lois Duncan, who grew up on Siesta Key, has been named one of two Grand Masters for 2105 by the Mystery Writers of America. She → Read More
Sarasota's Gloria Musicae offers Kenny Rogers expert backing
Gloria Musicae, Sarasota’s professional choir, typically sings complicated and often sacred music. Singing backup for country music superstar Kenny → Read More
Ringling museum a backdrop for Chinese conceptual artist's work
A diminutive Chinese man in brick-red pants, fluorescent yellow running shoes and a white T-shirt hung parallel to the ground 40 feet in the air in front o → Read More
Sarasota summit focuses on service and support of vets
The annual suicide rate among veterans is reportedly double that of the civilian population. Indeed, as many as a third of the nearly 3 million men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan have contemplated suicide. → Read More
New performing arts center opens in Venice
In a ceremony that combined small-town pride with a Broadway opening, the Venice Performing Arts Center threw open its doors Thursday evening. → Read More
Selby Gardens ' 'Colors of the Tropics' showcases a painter's palette from nature
The primary color of tropical plants is green, but that is not stopping the horticultural team at Selby Gardens from splashing the colors of the rainbow ar → Read More
Ringling International Arts Festival starts now!
Performers from around the world gather for four days of music, dance and theater → Read More
A friendship becomes a study of an artist's life
Monique Seyler became a student of Ursula Sternberg's when both were living in Philadelphia. → Read More