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• "American Idiot" energizes Straz Center in Tampa

    No matter how much you love musical theater, you have to be wary when Broadway takes on punk music. The kind of polished appeal of a Broadway show and the rough intensity of punk simply seem...

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• Fuzion Dance, Jazz Juvenocracy perform in Sarasota

     S arasota - based Fuzion D ance Artists are teaming up once again with Jazz Juve n ocracy , a group of accomplished high school-aged jazz musicians, for two shows this weekend...

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• Tampa's amphitheatre has yet another new name

    The Tampa concert venue formerly known as the 1-800-GARY Amphitheatre has a new name.   It's now the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre . Officials show off the new...

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• Free admission Saturday to Sarasota's Ringling Museum

     Saturday (May 18) is International Museum Day. The theme for this year, I'm told, is "Museums (memory + creativity) = social change."    I have no idea...

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• Dine at Bradenton-area restaurants, support Manatee Players

     On Monday, May 20, you can support the Manatee Players by dining at any (or all) of 11 Bradenton-area restaurants. All you have to do is go to any of the eateries below and let your server...

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• Rodriguez thrills Tampa crowd with his presence.

     On Thursday, Tampa audiences got their first chance to see Rodriguez, who shot to stardom last year when the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" detailed his...

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• Sarasota theater looking for new short plays

    If you can write a play in the next couple of months about some people who are middle-aged or older, it might get presented by The Players Theatre.     The Sarasota theater...

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• GWAR and Tampa brewer introduce Impaled Ale

     So, a few weeks back Cigar City Brewing in Tampa rolled out its first band-themed craft beer. It was called High Road Ale and it was inspired by the music of Bradenton's Have...

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• Josh Groban announces November concert in Tampa

     Pop star and former wunderkind Josh Groban is coming to Tampa.    Tickets go on sale May 10 for the Nov. 9 concert at the Tampa Bay Times Forum . He has a small band traveling...

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• Diana Ross comes to Sarasota Sept. 11

     Diana Ross, an American musical icon for a half-century, is coming to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Sept. 11. Diana Ross    Ross has won a Tony Awards and...

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