JOIN SARASOTA BALLET FOR 2020 SEASON OPENING..................
The Sarasota Ballet launches the 2020 Winter-Spring season on January 31st-February 3 at the FSU Center for Performing Arts. This 7:30 3 act performance still has tickets available in all price ranges $35-$115. Call 941-359-0099 to reserve yours today. Evening and matinee performances are available, but opening night is sold out!!If you're reading this Saturday evening or early Sunday, you still have time to attend the Temple Sinai 12th Annual Jewish Food Festival.
Bring an appetite as food is plentiful, homemade, and ranges from potato pancakes to blintzes to strudel to deli corned beef and more. Bring your credit card as health, craft and jewelry vendors will be displaying and selling wares throughout.
Running 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Located at 4631 S. Lockwood Ridge. (enter from Proctor Road between Swift and Beneva; use road next to Arvilla.) Admission is free, but the food will cost you. Several thousand attend this event yearly, and it has grown to one of the biggest in Sarasota. For more information SINAISRQ.org.
This time of year, St. Armands Circle is teeming with tourists, snowbirds and locals. Add a street promotion on most weekends, and it's a wonder those of us who live here venture there, but last weekend we did. Met friends at old favorite Columbia Restaurant, where reservations are accepted and honored.
Who can go wrong with their Cuban Black Bean Soup topped with diced raw Spanish onions? Or Columbia's Original 1905 Salad, made to perfection by our server. There was a Cuban Sandwich and fish as well at our table, and along with their freshly made hot bread it was quite a meal. Maybe a little noisy, but enjoyable nevertheless. Open for lunch and dinner daily, call 941-388-3987 and make a reservation.
We're a week away from Super Bowl and two weeks away from the Academy Awards. No predictions this week, though I did predict one picture and actor to be in final consideration. With 11 nominations, JOKER was singled out in several categories. If you have not seen this one, it's available now On Demand.
In three weeks we'll be passing out Valentines...Get a head start on that holiday by purchasing tickets for the next Great Escapes concerts Heart and Soul. The musical selections have love in mind and range from Deubes to Gershwin to Williams.
The music magic begins Wednesday February 12 at 5:30 pm and runs at various times through
Celebrating male harmony groups of the '50s and '60s with easily remembered songs as Blue Moon, 16 Candles and Save The Last Dance, Unchained Melodies promises once again to sell out at FST.
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Sarasota restaurants keep closing their doors. This past week, Barnacle Bill's closed the doors on their Tamiami Trail location. No notice, other than a sign thanking patrons for their support over the years. Sounds like the property will be re-developed without a restaurant. Bill's Main St. location remains open.
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And on Friday, Bravo Coastal Bar and Kitchen, shut down its Westfield-Siesta location, citing weak business. This is a big blow to struggling Westfield, which continues to lose retail, and is left with Too Jay's and Connors as sit down restaurant possibilities.
Thanks to Mark Freed for bringing this breaking news to my attention. So goes it.
JIM'S RANT......The announcement this week of Lucky's and Bravo closing is another nail in the coffin of Westfield Siesta Key. I remember when Sarasota shopping began and ended at this location, which at its peak was home to Saks Fifth Avenue, Williams-Sonoma, Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, and Dillards. Today, Sarasota shopping begins and ends at UTC or on-line from Amazon. You can still go to a movie, work-out, have a corned beef on rye at Westfield Siesta Key, but not much more...JIM...Thanks for reading. See you next week......
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