News Around Siesta Key

I have been reading a good many position papers on the upcoming school board ballot referendum requesting that the 1-mil increase be extended again for an additional four years.

Three of Sarasota County's finest teachers found out on March 4 that they had won top honors when the Teacher Tribute Tour arrived at their schools bearing balloons, awards and gifts.

Nature printing is evidenced in the fossilized remains of plants and animals embedded in rock.

Do you hear the hum of the world, and does it drive you to do unspeakable things? The thrum of the constant din of machinery and motion and background noise that is our world is the constant in "Machinal," the latest performance by the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training at the FSU Center for Performing Arts in Sarasota.

Michael Haneke is one of the few directors left in the world who makes "art" films, and they are unapologetically difficult ''art'' films at that.

Decorative clay pots and "Whimsicats" created by Sarasota clay artist Boots Culbertson will be featured in a one-woman show called "Pause for Pots and Paws" from March 5 to April 2 at Art Uptown on lower Main Street in Sarasota.

A rousing luncheon was held by the Fine Arts Society of Sarasota at the Bird Key Yacht Club.

Call Morocco Restau-rant a taste treat different from most other dining establishments in Sarasota.

ABC 7's Chief Meteorologist Bob Harrigan has been forecasting the weather for ABC 7 since 1985.

For weeks, she thought someone was following her. Hits and misses on trail to Smith Prosecutors have released a 300-page report that sheds new light on the investigation of Delmer Smith III, a home invasion suspect accused of attacking women across the region.

Ancient and not-so-ancient history will combine on March 7 as the Original Herrmann's Royal Lipizzan Stallions put on a benefit performance of their Airs Above the Ground to raise funds to preserve the Old Miakka Schoolhouse.

Anyone who has observed Craig Rubadoux's work throughout his painting career sees a whole body of continuances, as ongoing interests ripen and develop during the artist's life dogs of several kinds, large and strong, smaller and smiling; women present, caring, similar in stature with differing soulful eyes, playful in the water riding bareback in ...

Those looking for insight into the writings or later life philosophy of one of the world's greatest novelists, Russia's Leo Tolstoy , writer of "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace," best find another movie.

I was present, along with more than 60 other speakers, at the recent special session of the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners.

When Victor DeRenzi was hired in 1982 as artistic director of the Sarasota Opera, one of his first steps was to create an apprentice program.

Anna Fortenberry and Madison Rankin, students at St. Boniface Episcopal Church's preschool, "create" hand birds during a recent program that brought Sarasota Waldorf School fifth-graders to St.

That effervescent bundle of energy, Marjorie North, put together an afternoon of adventure at the Asolo Theatre.

How does one write a review on a production of "Shear Madness"? It fits none of the nicely categorized stereotypes of theatre.

Lovers of fine Italian dining have a special treat in store for them this season.

Sarasota Chorus of the Keys, the state champion barbershop group, will pay homage to Broadway's Fabulous Ladies in its 61st annual show, this year on March 6 and 7. The 100-man chorus, under the direction of renowned barbershop coach Don Clause, will send up those feisty femmes in a song-filled spectacular at the brand-new Riverview Performing Arts ...