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“The Big Sexy” Fats Waller WCBTT

FeaturedApril 7, 2023

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe will conclude its 2022-2023 “American Dreams” theatre season with the world-premiere musical revue, “Big Sexy: The Fats Waller Revue.” The show runs from April 19 through May 28, 2023. Thomas Wright…

2023 Hurricane Predictions

FeaturedMarch 31, 2023

WGCU | By AccuWeather and other sources The 2023 hurricane season could be almost a carbon copy of 2022 with a similar number of storms, the long-range forecasters at AccuWeather said. The company's current projections indicate…

Xanadu at Venice Theatre 

Sarasota EventsMarch 25, 2023

Xanadu  playing now at Venice Theatre  Based on a book by Douglas  Carter Beane. Music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. An ageless Greek muse known dually as Clio and Kira, wonderfully played…

100 Sq. Miles of Red Tide

FeaturedMarch 19, 2023

  Manatee County rakes 7,000 pounds of dead fish in two weeks Currently, there is roughly 100 square miles of Florida’s Gulf Coast waters are painted with red tide. The harmful algal bloom, , is…

Ringling Art Show – Native American art

FeaturedMarch 18, 2023

WUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7 | By Cathy Carter Published March 16, 2023 at 5:00 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email LISTEN • 4:24 Artist And The John & Mable Ringling Museum Of Art / Courtesy Jessica Osceola…

Tax Collections Soar

Our Town SarasotaMarch 12, 2023

Tax Collections Beat Forecast in January News Service of Florida | 3/10/2023 Recovery efforts from Hurricane Ian helped Florida tax collections as 2023 got underway. But state economists continue to express concerns about inflation and Floridians…

Sarasota Film Festival 2023- 25 Years

FeaturedMarch 7, 2023

Sarasota Film Festival Announces Initial Programming for 25th Anniversary Event, Running March 24th through April 2, 2023 Festival to Close with Sean McNamara’s ON A WING AND A PRAYER Grammy Award-Winning Folk-Rock Duo Indigo Girls…

Sarasota Tops Green Start-Ups

FeaturedMarch 6, 2023

Report: Sarasota ranked among top cities for green start-ups WGCU | By Sandra Viktorova Published February 22, 2023 at 4:03 PM EST Veransa / Special To WGCU Sarasota ranked number one among U.S. cities for Startups in…

Florida Tourism Flourishes

FeaturedMarch 6, 2023

Florida's tourism industry will continue post-COVID recovery The Center Square | 3/3/2023- FloridaTrend.com (The Center Square) — With the exception of a dip during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Florida’s tourism industry has continued to grow…

Sarrasota red tide whale

Our Town Sarasota brings it home…..

UncategorizedMarch 2, 2023

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