Nicholas Sparks, the best-selling author of more than 20 romantic novels including “The Notebook,” will speak in Bradenton on Feb. 3. “An Evening With Nicholas Sparks” will benefit the Manatee Library Foundation.
Regan Dunnock, a nationally known illustrator who’s on the faculty of the Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, designed the official artwork for this year’s Bradenton Blues Festival. It’s an image of three blues musicians from a bygone era.
‘Gypsy,’ the Stephen-Sondheim-Jule Styne musical loosely based on the biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, opens the 2016-17 mainstage season at the Players Centre for Performing Arts in Sarasota.
The Paranormal Society of Bradenton will offer tours of Bradenton Beach, with chilling fact-based tales about shipwrecks and mysterious sightings. The tours will start at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe stages ‘Life in the Cancer Lane,’ with stories from breast cancer patients. The play is followed each night by community forums about cancer.
With a scant introduction, director Peter Berg airlifts the audience into the chaotic micro-culture of offshore oil drilling in “Deepwater Horizon.” Our hero, Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg), barely has time to kiss his wife (Kate Hudson) and kid (Stella Allen) before we’re awash in the jargon and joshing of roughnecks, engineers and BP company men jostling for the bottom line.
Despite all his accomplishments, Jose Fernandez never pitched a complete game, and on Thursday he was carried out of church in a casket with too much unfinished business.
Donald Trump says he took the moral high ground at the first presidential debate by not mentioning the infidelities of former President Bill Clinton. But he hinted at them, talked about them immediately afterward and then sent his campaign's top backers out to do the same.
