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THIS JUST IN:
Magazine Seeks Submissions
The Florida Keys Council of the Arts invites
visual artists and writers to submit artwork
and articles for Culture 2016 Magazine, a
publication of the Monroe County Tourist
Development Council, Tinsley Advertising and
the Cultural Umbrella of the Florida Keys and
Key West.
The Culture Magazine is a freestanding
publication distributed throughout the Keys
and is inserted into the in-room concierge in
over 3,900 guestrooms reaching over 500,000
visitors annually. The magazine includes information on the Keys’ performing, literary and
visual arts and a calendar of events.
Artwork selected for the cover will receive
$1,000 for one-time usage in Culture 2016. All
artwork chosen will receive a byline with artists’ name.
Two writers will be selected and paid a freelance fee of $1,000 each. The fee will cover
research, writing, related photography and
any necessary revising (based on recommen-
dations from the committee) of an article of
approximately 1,200 words.
801 Cabaret Offers Shows
Applebottom Burlesque titillates locals
and tourists alike every last Monday of the
month at 801 Cabaret (801 Duval St., upstairs.)
The show on March 30, “Spies, Thighs and
Private Eyes,” promises an extra-sexy lineup
as the troupe’s regular performers, including
Frenchie, Cheeky Derriere and Buffy L’Orange,
appear alongside some exciting new acts.
Expect a muscle show by the gender-flexible
FlutterBi; DarkNStormy performing with her
younger sister; and Velvet Garcia’s protégé — a
Magic Mike Mike wannabe.
A Spy Verses Spy routine is sure to bring
down the house. Rapper Mook J joins the performers, and Top Jimmy hosts.
The bar opens at 8 p.m. with shows at 9 and
11 p.m. Admission of $20 lets you watch one
show or stay for both. Tickets are available at
the door or online at www.Keystix.com.
Forum to discuss Williams’ life
As part of the Tennessee Williams March
Birthday Celebration offered by the Tennessee
Williams Exhibit, Shirrel Roades, local film critic, writer and founder of Absolutely Amazing
eBooks, will introduce and lead a forum discussion about Williams’ life and plays at 2 p.m.
March 29 at the Tropic Cinema.
Further discussion will include the influence
of Williams’ life experiences upon the content
of the five films being shown at the Tropic during March as part of the Monday night classic
film series at 6 p.m.
A 1:30 p.m. champagne reception will precede the forum.
Tickets for the reception and forum are $15
and may be purchased at tropiccinema.com.
For information go to www.twkw.org.
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Croquet tournament this weekend
omankind’s 10th
annual Croquet
Tournament on Ed
Knight’s oceanfront estate
is taking place this weekend.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturday, for only $15 the
public can gain entry to
this private island off of
South Roosevelt Avenue
to watch the croquet
games and eat bagels from
Goldman’s Deli, and then
a boxed lunch including a croissant sandwich
provided by Cole’z Peace.
Everyone is asked to dress
in white — but “Key West
Casual White” is fine.
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Key West casual white is acceptable at Womankind’s 10th annual Croquet Tournament this weekend.
Then from 5 to 9 p.m.
Sunday, the croquet finalists battle it out for the coveted trophy and everyone
celebrates with a dinner
(including carving stations)
catered by the New York
Pasta Garden, an open bar,
silent auction, raffle prizes
and dancing under the
stars. The $100 ticket will
help Womankind provide
affordable health care to
locals.
If you’d like to compete
in the games, the cost for
players is $200 each and
$400 for a team.
For information, call
Womankind assistant
director Cali Roberts at
305-320-0608.
Tickets are available at
www.keystix.com, as well as
at the door.
SPCA hosts annual
spring social
or the eighth year running, the Florida Keys
SPCA will host a spring
social from 6:30 to 9:30
p.m. Friday at the Key West
Golf Club on Stock Island.
The social is one of the
season’s most anticipated
events that benefits the
Florida Keys SPCA’s building fund for a new shelter.
Howard Livingston is the
evening’s emcee. Christopher Rounds, co-owner of
La Te Da, has arranged for
food and wine from local
eateries, and Key West’s
First Lady of Song, Carmen
Rodriguez, and Michael
Thomas will entertain.
The largest silent auction
in town has something for
everyone, including a 3 x 5
foot painting by renowned
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artist Jonas Gerard, who
painted the nation’s bicentennial portrait, “We the
People” that is now in the
permanent collection of
the Smithsonian. Works by
local artists are also represented — a signed Mario
Sanchez print and a Debra
Yates painting. Other items
include autographed movie
memorabilia (Forrest Gump
and Willy Wonka); a six-foot
mounted sailfish; an 18bottle wine cooler; and gift
certificates galore for over
100 restaurants and bars,
for hotel stays, gym memberships, spa massages, and
on and on.
A live auction features a
wonderful gabbeh rug from
Archeo Gallery; an Amish
quilt; a pet portrait by
“The Las Olas Life,” by Jonas Gerard, is one of the paintings
that will be auctioned off at the SPCA spring social.
watercolorist Sean Callahan
of Dog Tired Studio and
Gallery; a private dinner
for 10 catered by the Iron
Chefs; and a unique bookcase crafted in Africa from
recycled oil drums.
Long-time supporters
the Dogwood Foundation
is offering a gift of $100,000
that must be matched by
donations from the public.
Here’s a chance for every-
one to be part of making
the new shelter a reality.
During the Live Auction
part of the evening, a “Paws
Up” portion will invite
every paddle holder to
donate any dollar amount,
large or small, at any of the
sponsor levels provided by
our auctioneer. Every dollar raised will be matched
by Dogwood, making each
dollar worth twice as much.
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trombone, bass and guiSkraeling
tar. They’ve jammed with
the likes of James Taylor,
Grateful Dead alum Bob
Toronto’s Skraeling is
Weir, legend Bo Diddley,
back at Schooner Wharf
tonight. The band has been Chuck Berry, Blood, Sweat
and Tears, and saxophonist
entertaining audiences
Bill Clinton.
every March in Key West
for the past 12 years with
an energetic and melodic
The Doerfels
mix of traditional Celtic
songs and fiddle tunes
The family band Doerfels
with catchy rock-infused
will perform at 7 and 11
original material. Its live
p.m. Sunday. Originally
performances feature tight from New York State, these
harmonies and driving
young musicians first
rhythm.
wowed audiences and critics with their bluegrass.
Now, they’ve branched out
Entrain
into other music genres,
blending contemporary
Returning favorite
and classic rock, country,
Entrain will perform at
and pop, while still featur7 p.m. and midnight on
ing the bluegrass they grew
Friday and Saturday.
up on. Their one-of-a-kind
Hailing from Martha’ s
Vineyard, the band’s world dynamic energy is something you won’t want to
beat concept is based on
driving drum rhythms lay- miss.
SCHOONER’S WHARF
Thu • March 19 • 9pm
The Greens
Francisco Vida
Island Time Duo
The Island Time Duo
peforms at 7 and 11 p.m.
March 26.
Long time Keys resident and one of the area’s
favorite steel drummers,
Dave Herzog, is joined by
his friend Chuck Fox on
guitars and steel drums.
This entertaining duo adds
their sparkling vocals and
tight harmonies to perform
a vast repertoire of island
hits, beach music, and oldies that will have you sing-
Entrain
ing along and dancing the
night away.
For information, call
305-292-3302, or go to
Schoonerwharf.com or
Facebook.
HOG’S BREATH SALON
Francisco Vida
Francisco Vida plays
the Hog’s Breath Salon’s
outdoor stage at 5:30 p.m.
World Famous T-Shirts • Raw Bar • Restaurant
Happy Hour Daily • 5-7 pm
Entertainment from 1pm til 2am
“Authentic Bluegrass, Civil War Jazz,
Gypsy Favorites”
Fri, Sat • March 20, 21 • 10pm
Spiritual Rez
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March 19
FRIDAY
March 20
SATURDAY
March 21
SUNDAY
March 22
MONDAY
March 23
TUESDAY
March 24
WEDNESDAY
March 25
“Reggae Funk Horn Party”
Fri, Sat, Sun Soundchecks 5:30pm
1pm Sunday Jazz Showcase
7pm Monday Night BINGO
Wed • Mar 25 • 9pm
Sol Driven Train
Joel Nelson Kenny & Cuda Kenny & Cuda Joel Nelson Zack Seemiller Joel Nelson
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For more than 20 years,
Vida has been a pillar in
the music scene in Atlanta.
He has opened for Lynrd
Skynrd, Edwin McCain,
Sister Hazel, Kenny
Loggins, Hall and Oates,
John Mayer and numerous
other nationally known
acts. He has travelled with
the Rock Boat Cruise to
perform for an international audience as a band
and a solo performer. He
has also produced, written
and recorded four CD’s, as
well as been credited for
studio work on multiple
recordings.
Carter Brothers
Danny and Tim Carter
return to outdoor stage of
the Hog’s Breath Salon, 400
Front St., from 10 p.m. to 2
a.m. March 23-29.
The Carter Brothers bring
an eclectic sound including
rock, folk, blues, country,
and bluegrass. The brothers
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are looking forward to playThe band plays from 6
ing selections from their
to 9 p.m. Thursday at B.O.’s
new CDs. For information, Fish Wagon, Caroline and
call 305-296-4222.
Williams streets.
THE LOVE LANE GANG
GREEN PARROT
The Love Lane Gang is
a homegrown band that
charms and thrills both
locals and visitors with
its rollicking emphasis
on ragtime, swing, and
jug band music from the
1930s and 1940s, done in
a refreshing new style that
melds Hot Club gypsy jazz
with contemporary modes.
Its music also includes
Dust Bowl ballads, old
school country from Hank
Williams and Dolly Parton,
rockabilly and surf music
classics, Mersey Beat tunes
from 1960s stars like The
Beatles, The Kinks and The
Rolling Stones.
The band will be playing
at McConnell’s Irish Pub at
11:30 p.m. Friday, from 5 to
8 p.m. Sunday at Saluté On
The Beach, and from 5 to 8
p.m. Wednesday at Sunset
Pier.
B.O.’S FISH WAGON
Southernmost Magnolia,
the Key West version of the
renowned New England
band Magnolia, plays a
unique blend of Cajun,
country and bluegrass
music. Led by singer and
guitarist Maggie Moniz,
with local fixtures Steve
Gibson on mandolin and
Cindy Jefferson on bass,
and world-famous Chuck
Sherman on pedal steel,
the band plays good-time
music sure to get your head
bopping, your toes tapping,
and your feet moving.
Spiritual Rez
Spiritual Rez explodes
onto the Parrot stage with
shows at 5:30 and 10 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, and at
5:30 p.m. Sunday.
Spiritual Rez is a Bostonbased six-piece reggae/
funk horn party. Winners
of Boston Music Award for
Best World Music Act and
alumni of the prestigious
Berklee College of Music,
the band provides a unique
blend of reggae, funk,
Afrobeat and rock to give
Love Lane Gang
one of the most energetic
live shows around.
changes and professionally
choreographed dance rouThe Greens
tines to go along with their
The newly formed blue- music, the Charlestonbased, five-piece band
grass and old-time jazz
band The Greens will make promises to be a show you
their Green Parrot debut at don’t want to miss.
Sol Driven Train is a band
9 p.m. today.
in motion, touring the U.S.
Stand-up bass player,
full-time since 2005. The
Steve LaPierre recently
joined forces with beloved band averages 150 shows
Key West banjo player Jason per year.
Shore to craft this new
sound in town.
GARDEN HOTEL
Sol Driven Train
The reggae/funk horn
party Sol Driven Train
brings its hard-driving,
seamless mix of Southern
rock, swampy funk and
languid world beat to
the Parrot with shows
beginning at at 9 p.m.
Wednesday, and 5:30 and 9
p.m. March 26.
With multiple costume
Cabaret
ANTONIA’S
A dinner concert with
classical guitarist Mateo
will be held at 7 p.m. every
Thursday at Antonia’s restaurant, 615 Duval St.
Mateo will perform virtuoso Spanish guitar highlights with his original work.
For reservations call 305771-0280.
VIRGILIO’S
The Ray Sigismondi
Rock Review, a stalwart,
• Today — John Benson, 5- standing-room only, deliriously fun and rocking show,
7 p.m.
returns to Virgilio’s stage
• Friday — Michael
at 9 p.m. Tuesday to headRobinson, 5-7 p.m.
• Saturday — Will Johnson, line the weekly “Tuesday
League of Craft Musicians.”
5-7 p.m.
Jazz In The Gardens on March 24, at 9p.m.
Skipper Kripitz and Larry
Smith
have rounded up the
• Sunday — Peter
old band, featuring female
Diamond and Friends
vocalists Kathleen Peace
5:30-8 p.m.
and Christine Cordone and classic rock guitar.
Ray Sigismondi and his guiCall 305-296-1075 for
tar — pure, unadulterated, information.
Key West’s
Only Beach Bar with
LIVE MUSIC DAILY
*DAILY DRINK SPECIALS*
ALL DAY FOOD MENU
Thurs 3/19 12- 3 pm Brian Roberts
4-7 pm Amandah Jantzen
Fri 3/20
Sat 3/21
12-3 pm Chris Toler
4-7pm Joel Nelson
April 11-18
12-3 pm Chris Toler
the Pier House will give the
FKSPCA 10%
of all facials purchased.
4-7pm Amandah Jantzen
Sun 3/22
The Pier House is the kick
off Spa for the Beauty and
the Beast fundraiser.
For the week of
12- 3 pm Amandah Jantzen
Mon 3/23
12-3 pm Rob DiStaci
Tues 3/24
12-3 pm Rusty Lemmon
Wed 3/25
12-3 pm Rob DiStaci
4-7pm Rob DiStaci
4-7 pm Chris Toler
1 Duval Street | Key West
305-296-4600
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DECODA
to wrap up
concert
season
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Decoda continues its commitment to offer the most talented
and accomplished of the new generation of virtuosic chamber
music ensembles.
tion,” said Alicia Lee, clarinet player and the group’s
project leader. “We will be
presenting a mix of repertoire starting from as recent
as 1993 and stretching back
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he board of Impromptu
Classical Concerts
presents New York’s
DECODA in concert at 4
p.m. Sunday at St. Paul’s
Church.
The first affiliate
ensemble of Carnegie Hall,
DECODA, in its first Key
West performance, will
present “a less traditional
program that features our
rather unique instrumenta-
Wailers headline festival
to the Classical era.”
The varied program includes work
by Beethoven, Strauss,
Poulenc, Carter and
Milhaud.
Concert tickets are $20 at
the door one hour before
the performance, or can
be purchased by calling
305-745-2283, or online
at Keystix.com or classicalconcertskw.com.
Subscription passes can
be used for all concerts or
for multiple guests at one
or more concerts.
Free admission for all
students.
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eyes on
our online
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galleries:
Local news,
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events and
weekly top
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The Original Wailers
he Key West Rotary Club will bring
two Grammy-winning acts to Key
West for the civic club’s annual
“Reggae Moonsplash” on March 28.
The outdoor festival at Higgs Beach,
which runs from 2 to 11 p.m., will feature the Original Wailers and the Spam
Allstars.
The Original Wailers are just back
from Europe, and fresh off a Grammy
nomination for Best Reggae Album,
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are led by Bob Marley’s guitarist, Al
Anderson.
The Spam All-Starsare quite well
known in Key West now after years of
playing festivals and clubs, but few locals
may realize what a gifted group they
really are. Spam Allstars’ first live album
won a Grammy. Spam has also toured
extensively, even to Russian two times.
For information, call 305-296-6253.
Informal dance at CoffeeMill
rt enthusiasts can add dance to
their “Walk on White” repertoire as
CoffeeMill Dance Studio opens its
doors to “hIPSo facto,” a live informal
dance performance at the 916 Pohalski
St. studio (just a stone’s throw from White
Street).
A broad array of dance styles will be
offered this month. You’re invited to
watch new works in progress featuring a ballet solo with Jeordan Gasche, a
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contemporary modern piece with Leigh
Pujado and Cricket Desmarais, and class
demos of Zumba with Shay Wright and
Tai Chi/Qi Gong with Joe Furey.
Enjoy the free performances and the
free wine! All donations go to CoffeeMill
Dance Outreach and Scholarship fund.
Doors open at 7:45 p.m. and the show
starts 8 p.m. sharp.
For information, call 305-296-9982, or
go to coffeemilldance.com.
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Red Barn takes a trip with new musical
he Oxford dictionary defines
“jaunt” as “... a short excursion
for pleasure.”
Make that jaunt a musical one and
you have “Let’s Get Lost,” an intriguing and engaging evening of song,
humor, good friends and fun that’s
now playing for a five-week run at
the Red Barn Theatre in Key West.
Conceived by Red Barn artistic
director Joy Hawkins and brought to
life in collaboration with her companions on this excursion — Denis
Hyland, Marjorie Paul-Shook, and
John Wells, experienced troubadours
all — the evening will feature an
eclectic mix of songs that evoke the
pleasures of food, travel, love and
life.
“We all know each other really
well,” Hawkins said, “and have
worked together a lot. We loved the
idea of getting lost in something we
all care about, immersing ourselves
in our passions and singing about
it. And it’s been a lot of fun already.
We laugh an awful lot during the
rehearsals. The show’s going to be a
great deal of fun.”
There will be a real jazzy feel to
the night, Hawkins said, with songs
that range from Manhattan Transfer
to Michael Buble, Johnny Mercer to
Willie Nelson and James Taylor.
“Putting a brand new show togeth-
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Photo by Larry Blackburn
From left, Jim Poole as Orson, Matt Hollis-Hulsey as Sean
and Nicole Nurenberg as Vivien Leigh.
Final week for
‘Orson’s Shadow’
John Wells, Joy Hawkins, Marjorie Paul-Shook and Denis Hyland star in the world
premiere show, ‘Let’s Get Lost,” at the Red Barn Theatre.
er is a daunting task,” Hawkins
said. “What guided us were those
four things we’re passionate about
— food, travel, love and life. We’ve
all spent most of our lives in music.
Denis has an impeccable reputation
in jazz and dance; Margie’s a great
jazz club singer with a terrific sense
of theatricality; and John has great
arrangement skills and has always
been about tight harmonies — he
knows them really well. It’s a perfect
mix.”
Joining this quartet of consummate musical performers will be
Mark Rose on saxophone and clari-
net, and Gary McDonald on drums,
all under the watchful eye of musical
director Roberta Jacyshyn, who will
add piano to the musical fabric. John
Wells will also contribute guitar in
addition to his vocals.
“Let’s Get Lost” will share its
run at Red Barn in repertory with
John Patrick Shanley’s “Outside
Mullingar” through March and April.
“Let’s Get Lost” will run Wednesdays
through Saturdays with “Mullingar”
running Sundays through Tuesdays.
Tickets are available by calling
305-296-9911, or by going to redbarntheatre.com.
Laugh a lot at ‘Spamalot’
he Waterfront Playhouse is rocking with laughter as “Monty
Python’s Spamalot” plays to
cheering, sold-out houses.
This Tony Award-winning musical
is the outrageous retelling of King
Arthur and his Knights of the Round
Table, “lovingly ripped off” from the
Python’s cult classic film, “Monty
Python and the Holy Grail.” The book
is by original Python member Eric
Idle and music by John du Prez and
Eric Idle.
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“Spamalot” is directed by Danny
Weathers, with musical direction
by Michael Fauss and choreography by Penny Leto and Carolyn
Cooper. It features a spamtastic
cast — Tom Luna as King Arthur,
along with Laurie Breakwell, David
Black, Brian Hall, Jeffrey Harwell, J.
B. McLendon, Rock Solomon, Karl
Stahl and Kim Bergman, Carolyn
Cooper, Tony Gil, Lauren Sander,
Stephanie Sander and Christopher
Tanner.
“Spamalot” runs through April 11
with all performances starting at 8
p.m. The production is sponsored by
Preferred Properties, Coastal Realty,
Inc. and Conch Color.
Tickets are $45. There are discounts
for students, military and seniors, as
well as a Friday night date special of
two tickets for $70. All tickets are subject to ticketing fees.
Call 305-294-5015, or go to
WaterfrontPlayhouse.org for our
online ticketing service.
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penned by noted actor/
director Austin Pendleton,
who is best recognized for
his role in the movie “My
Cousin Vinny” as the stuttering attorney. The play
premiered at Steppenwolf
Theater in Chicago in 2000
and has been a critical
success ever since.
Tickets are available at
keystix.com, by calling
305-295-7676, or at www.
tskw.org or www.fringetheater.org.
You’re in Key West to be on the Water
Think Zero Duval Street
Live Entertainment DAILY
Thurs. March 19
C.W. Colt • 1-4pm | Rolando Rojas • 6-8pm
Fri. March 20
Rolando Rojas • 1-4pm | Rolando Rojas • 6-8pm
Sat. March 21
The Doerfels •1- 4pm | Happy Dog • 5:30-8:30pm
Sun. March 22
Nina Newton Band • 1-4pm | Robert Albury • 6-8pm
Mon. March 23
C.W. Colt • 1-4pm | Robert Albury • 6-8pm
Tues. March 24
Tony Baltimore • 1-4pm | Robert Albury • 6-8pm
Wed. March 25
Love Lane Gang • 5:30-8:30pm
Serving Waterfront Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Hot Tin Roof Dinner & Brunch Reservations Recommended
305-296-7701
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By Roberta Depiero
his is the final week
for Fringe Theater’s
production of “Orson’s
Shadow” with performances set for 8 p.m.
Friday through Tuesday at
Key West Theater (formerly
Eaton Street Theater) at
512 Eaton St.
This fact-based comedy
exposes the inflamed nerves
and rampaging egos in a
funny play based on events
that occurred in 1960.
“Orson’s Shadow” was
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FILM IN PARADISE
‘Cinderella’ returns In new Disney film
’mon, enough already.
Read me another story,
mom. I’m getting tired
of hearing “Cinderella” over
and over, night after night.
But here it comes again,
this time as a new liveaction fantasy movie starring newcomer Lily James
as the girl who loses her
glass slipper.
This latest retelling of
“Cinderella” by Walt Disney
Pictures is currently playing
at the Regal Cinema 6.
My old friend Bruno
Bettelheim (author of “The
Uses of Enchantment”)
claimed “Cinderella” was
the most popular of all fairy
tales.
The oldest known version
dates back to 7 BC, a tale
about a Greek slave girl and
the king of Egypt.
Italian fairy tale collector Giambattista Basile
published the story in 1634.
French author Charles
Perrault retold the story
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in 1697. And the Brothers
Grimm collected the
Germanic version in 1812.
Cinema pioneer Georges
Méliès first brought
“Cendrillon” to the screen
in 1899. Other silent screen
versions of “Cinderella”
were produced in 1911,
1914, 1922.
Walt Disney first did
“Cinderella” as an animated Laugh-O-Gram in
1922. More Hollywood
versions–ranging from a
Merrie Melodies cartoon
to a Deanna Durbin musical–followed.
Then in 1950 Disney
gave us its animated
“Cinderella,” considered the
best-known film version of
Top 10 Disney
movie princesses
all time. It was based on the
Perrault telling.
Despite two dozen other
derivative films by other
studios, Disney followed up
its animated classic with
two direct-to-video sequels,
“Cinderella II: Dreams Do
Come True” (2002) and
“Cinderella III: A Twist in
Time” (2007).
And just recently, we saw
Disney’s live-action adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s
“Into the Woods,” featuring
Cinderella as one of the
main characters.
So why would the folks
at Disney do yet another
Cinderella movie? Because
they can.
In this latest version,
gives rise to another movie list:
The Top 10 Disney Princesses.
10. Tiana – Here’s the “The
Princess and the Frog,” the
49th film in Disney’s Animated
Classics series. It’s based on a
atching the latest
book that’s based on a Brothers
“Cinderella” movie from
Grimm fairy tale. But in need of
Walt Disney Pictures
a princess of color for its lineup,
brings to mind all those other
movies from Disney that feature the animators set the story in
New Orleans, with voodoo at
young women.
The marketers at Disney like to the root of a handsome princess
call them princesses, and there’s a being turned into a frog. And to
growing number of them, which fit modern sensibilities, the prin-
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directed by Kenneth
Branagh, we get a liveaction production about
the put-upon scrub girl
(this time played by Lily
James of TV’s “Downton
Abbey”) who snares the
handsome prince (Richard
Madden from TV’s “Game
of Thrones”).
To spice up the production, Branagh delivers an
over-the-top stepmother
(two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett) and a
cute-as-a-button fairy godmother (Branagh’s former
girlfriend, Helena Bonham
Carter).
The spotlight, of course,
is on Lily James–with
her toothy smile, flowing
blonde hair, blue ball gown,
and glass slippers. But
Cate Blanchett is the real
draw–eyes flaring, mouth
twitching, playing it for all
it’s worth in full-on Cruella
DeVille mode.
Again, Disney sticks close
Lily James in “Cinderella”
to the Charles Perrault
story, with a few nods to
Grimm version. It’s still
the familiar story your
mother read to you — the
one folklorists classify as
“the Persecuted Heroine,”
number 501A on the AarneThompson tale type index
(a system for categorizing
fairy tales).
However, Cinderella has
ceased to be just a fairy
tale passed from generation to generation. Disney
has appropriated her as its
own princess. According to
several polls, Cinderella has
attained the status as the
most popular princess in
the Disney franchise.
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this is the one about a goldenhaired princess imprisoned in
a tower (“Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
let down your hair”). This 50th
9. Merida – This orange-haired
animated film from Disney’s
vixen was the young archer in
drawing boards was given a more
7. Pocahontas – This Native
“Brave,” an animated film based
American princess is portrayed as marketable title, “Tangled.”
on a Scottish story about a girl
who defies male-dominated cus- wise and close to nature. Based
5. Jasmine – This Arabian
toms. This was the first fairy tale on the real-life daughter of Chief
Powhatan, she supposedly saved princess appears in “Aladdin,” a
movie from Disney’s Pixar.
John Smith’s life during the colo- story from “One Thousand and
One Nights.” A bit of a political
nization of Jamestown, Va.
8. Mulan — Yes, this one is
statement, Jasmine is “unhappy
Disney’s Asian princess. Hua
6. Rapunzel – Based on a fairy with having no choice in life, and
Mulan’s story was first told in an
ancient Chinese poem. This feisty tale originally published in 1698, being ruled over by her father,”
cess saves the prince rather than
the usual vice versa.
young woman took her father’s
place in the army. This was the
36th feature among the Animated
Classics.
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FILM IN PARADISE
‘What We Do In the Shadows” goes completely batty
ampires in New
Zealand, why not? If
you live forever, you
run out of places to visit.
As it turns out, there
are four vampires currently residing in a suburb
of Wellington – so if you
wanted to interview them
for a documentary that’s
where you’d take your nervous film crew, brandishing
crucifixes and hoping for
the best.
That’s the premise
of “What We Do In the
Shadows,” a funny film
that’s still playing at the
Tropic Cinema.
Yes, it’s a mockumentary
(in the Christopher Guest
mode), this one whipped
up by Jemaine Clement and
Taika Waititi, a couple of
New Zealander comics of
Mori descent.
You’d recognize Clement
as the voice of the cockatoo
in those “Rio” films or as
Boris the Animal in “Men
In Black 3.” Waititi wrote
And Nick has a computer geek pal (Stu
Rutherford), who offers
a possible lifeline to the
modern world.
A highlight of the story is
a masquerade ball attended by our four old-timers,
along with a dance floor
filled with zombies, witches, and assorted succubi.
Fans are still chucking
over the funny parts.
“Loved it when two of
the characters got into a
physical confrontation
and transformed into
bats. Everyone else shouts
in unison: ‘Oooooh, bat
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“What We Do In The Shadows” is playing at the Tropic Cinema.
and directed “Boy,” the
top grossing film in New
Zealand in 2010.
In addition to writing
and directing “What We
Do In the Shadows,” they
play two of the vampires
– Vladislav, aged 862, and
Viago, aged 317. The other
bloodsuckers are handled
by Jonathan Brugh and Ben
Fransham – Deacon, aged
the Sultan of Agrabah.
4. Ariel – Hans Christian Andersen
gets credit for “The Little Mermaid,”
now a popular film about an undersea girl sporting a green fish tail and
purple bikini top. Time Magazine
criticized her as being “too devoted to
her man” in this 28th animated film
from Disney.
183, and Petyr, aged 8,000.
At those ages, you can
imagine a certain amount
of tedium setting into their
daily lives. After all, they
have to sit in their dark
apartment during the day,
only coming out at night
to stalk victims. With such
limited access to the outside world, technology has
passed them by. (Think:
meet a beautiful girl who falls for an
ugly beast (yes, he’s actually a handsome prince who’s been enchanted).
2. Snow White – Introducing
Disney’s first princess, “Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs” hit screens in
1937, retelling the story of an exiled
princess rescued by seven short
people (Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy,
Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey). Oh yes,
3. Belle – Based on the French fairy there’s a handsome prince in the
story, too.
tale from Jeanne-Marie Leprince de
Beaumont, “Beauty and the Beast” is
Disney’s 30th animated film. Here we
fight!”
“Loved the running
gags they did with mirrors
throughout the movie,”
chuckles another. “The
fact that they couldn’t get
a sense of how they looked
when dressing up to go
clubbing…”
“Deacon’s ‘erotic’ dance,”
laughs a third.
One moviegoer summed
it up best: “When you very
nearly spray a mouthful of
drink over the person in
front of you, it’s generally a
good indicator the movie is
pretty funny.”
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Mel Brooks doing his 2,000Year-Old Man routine).
Deacon has a human
servant named Jackie
(played by Jackie Van Beek)
who does his bidding in
hopes he will turn her
into a live-forever vampire. She even offers up
her boyfriend Nick (Cori
Gonzalez-Macuer) as a
tasty snack.
1. Cinderella – Here we have that
famous kitchen worker (a beautiful
blonde, it turns out) who wins the
heart of a handsome prince with the
help of a little magic from her fairy
godmother. Disney’s 1950 film iconized her, and her castle is the symbol
of Disneyland.
No, Minnie Mouse does not qualify
as a princess … except maybe in
Mickey’s eyes.
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Williams exhibit makes way to New Orleans
n exhibit on Tennessee
Williams that was
previously showcased
in 2014 at the Key West
Custom House Museum
is now being showcased
at the Ogden Museum in
New Orleans.
Museum Curator Cori
Convertito ushered Key
West’s presence there last
week — along with philanthropist David Wolkowsky
— to help launch the
opening of the exhibition entitled “Tennessee
Williams: The Playwright
and the Painter.”
The 17 exhibited paintings are on permanent
loan to the Key West Art
and Historical Society
by Wolkowsky, one of
Williams’ closest personal
friends who provided the
artist with inspiration by
hosting him at his private
island on Ballast Key.
While most known as
one of the 20th century’s
most significant playwrights for works that
include “A Streetcar
Named Desire,” “The Glass
Menagerie,” and “Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof,” Williams
also took up oil painting as
a form of relaxation while
living in Key West, often
sketching friends, acquaintances and characters from
his plays.
The curator will also participate in the Tennessee
Williams Literary Festival,
March 25-29, an annual
event that draws a large
audience of Tennessee
Williams aficionados as
well as writers, film producers, students and the
like. She will also speak at
the 20th annual Tennessee
Williams Scholar
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“Calico Key Lime Cat,” a collage by Elizabeth
St. Hilaire Nelson.
Childhood mementos
spur love of collage
tone Soup Gallery,
802 White St., will be
showing the works
of Elizabeth St. Hilaire
Nelson and Deane Kellogg
from 6 to 8 p.m. today.
St. Hilaire Nelson does
collage while Kellogg
works in mixed media.
The two play well together
because of there use vivid
use of color as well as a
sense whimsy and frivolity.
“My love of collage
started with a scrap box
of mementos from my
childhood,” St. Hilaire
Nelson said. “These small
sentimental pieces of my
past came from my father,
who rescued them from
the attic about seven years
ago. Stuffing these tidbits
into a box beneath my
bed seemed anticlimactic. I remember standing
there, after my father left,
looking at the hospital bill
from my birth, my Mom’s
nursing school graduation cards from 1967, and
thinking what should I do
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with this?
“I decided to find a way
to incorporate these memorable papers, notes and
snippets of my family’s
past into something both
memorable and beautiful.
Thus was born a representational collage ‘painting.’”
One piece, “Looking in
on Jane” (a portrait of St.
Hilaire Nelson’s mother),
won Best of Show for the
first time at Orlando Visual
Artists League in 2005, and
for a second time at the
Women’s Caucus for Arts’
Matriarchs and Madonnas
exhibit in 2007.
Kellogg studied at the
school of visual arts. She
is the founder and part
owner of Amiro Art and
Design in St. Augustine.
Her constructions are
made of hardwoods
embellished with copper
and antique objects. These
rustic pieces are user
friendly and can be placed
inside or out in a garden
area.
“Lament for the Moths” by Tennessee Williams.
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A view of Tennessee Williams: The Playwright and the Painter, as the exhibit appeared at the
Custom House Museum in 2014.
Conference, examining
Williams’ artwork and his
connection to Key West.
The visits by the curator
mark a significant coup for by promoting Key West’s
The Society in its ability to arts and cultural history in
reach beyond its own local another major city.
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Gallery on Greene celebrates life at sea level
hen you live — and
paint — at sea level,
the view is always
changing. From hazy skies,
heavy with afternoon
humidity, to soothing seascapes surrounding the
islands, Gallery on Greene
will celebrate that “Tropical
Elevation” and the views it
produces, with an exhibit of
four artists who celebrate
life in these lower latitudes.
“Tropical Elevation,”
featuring works by Mike
Rooney, Michael Harrell,
Jimmy Wray and Joe
Jackson, opens with an artists’ reception from 5 to 8
p.m. Saturday at Gallery on
Greene, 606 Greene St.
As a full-time, plein air
painter, Rooney paints in
coastal towns along the
Eastern seaboard from
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Cape Cod to Key West.
In paintings that could be
mistaken for photographs,
Harrell depicts favorite
island haunts, neighbors on
Wray will showcase his
bike and working shrimp
wood-framed beveled mirboats at rest in their slips,
rors made from weathered
leaving no detail ignored.
wood recovered from old Key
Salt Island Provisions Gallery hosts ‘Underglimmer’
rtist Eric Anfinson is more
comfortable painting on large
canvases, as demonstrated by
more than 12 years of exhibiting
his work locally and nationally. But
from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, he reveals
a series of small oil paintings on
linen-primed panels at Salt Island
Provisions Gallery — –paintings that
have challenged the artist to a new
level of growth and understanding in
his work as a painter.
“It has been a practice of being
uncomfortable and patient,” said
Anfinson, whose distinct figurative style tends towards vibrantly
saturated oil paintings on very large
stretched canvases.
“Underglimmer” veers from
this in its exhibit featuring 17 new
paintings — the largest 20x16
inches in size and the smallest 12x9
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looks different, it’s because it is.
In the creation of his works for
“Underglimmer,” Anfinson consciously focused his efforts in being
loose despite the smaller space,
allowing for light to come through
on the linen canvases and for the
work to retain some rawness.
The effect is less saturated and
remarkably fluid despite the tighter
“The Moment She Knew”
space limitations, a technique not
by Eric Anfinson
especially easy for smaller works.
Anfinson continues to paint subjects of people, but explains that
inches. And yet, the world they
they “are less about the individual
present create a “much larger intithan about a moment in space,” he
macy,” said the artist.
“All the moments are very quiet,” says.
The exhibit runs through April 9
he offers. “They do more with less.”
Canvas size is not the only direc- at the rustic pop-up shop and gallery on 830 Fleming St.
tional shift the artist has taken.
For information, call 305-896While the artist’s signature style is
certainly recognizable, if his process 2980, or go to EricAnfinson.com.
is “to record nature while
leaving it to its own magic.”
For information, go to
www.galleryongreene.com,
or call 305-294-1669.
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“Heroe De Las Calles” by Mike Rooney
West houses, found objects
and intriguing jewels.
Florida native Jackson
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See ‘The
Other Side of
Sweet’ exhibit
top by and experience
the eclectic Artists at
the Armory: Second
Floor Gallery during “Walk
on White” tonight. There
will be new and exciting
artwork on display.
Don’t miss the chance to
see Sherry Sweet Tewell’s
show “The Other Side of
Sweet”, which has been
extended for the month.
Her artistic exploration of
themes found in the bestselling book and movie
“Fifty Shades of Grey” is at
turns shocking and thought
provoking. For adults only.
Artists at the Armory
Second Floor Gallery is
open weekday afternoons
and by appointment. Every
Residency cottages open during
‘Walk on White’
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“Tulips” by Michael J. Phillips
third Thursday is Walk on
White with open studios
for artists Judi Bradford,
Christie Sauer Fifer, Mark
Hedden, Pam Hobbs,
Michael Marrero, Lauren P.
McAloon, Claire Perrault,
Michael J. Phillips, Marky
Pierson, Danette Baso
Silvers, Sherry Sweet Tewell,
Andy Thurber and Maureen
Tracy Venti.
Facebook page: “Artists
at the Armory” https://
www.facebook.com/
KeyWestArmoryArtists.
Fran Forman, Artist-in-Residence for March, will be featured during this month’s Walk on White
at the Ashe Street Cottages. The public is invited to stop in at 607 Ashe St. on Thursday, from
6 to 8pm to enjoy a glass of wine and meet Forman, filmmaker Maya Gallus and artist
Phoebe Porteous.
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featured during this
month’s “Walk on White”
at the Ashe Street Cottages.
The public is invited to
stop in from 6 to 8 p.m.
on Thursday at 607 Ashe
St. to enjoy a glass of
wine and meet artist Fran
Forman, filmmaker Maya
Gallus and artist Phoebe
Porteous.
Forman’s award-winning book, “Escape Artist:
The Art of Fran Forman,”
will be on sale with a portion of sales donated to
The Studios of Key West.
In this rich and dream-like
collection of photo-paintings, Forman explores the
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multiple meanings of the
word escape, focusing on
the central idea of breaking
through the normal barriers of everyday life.
Gallus is an award-winning Toronto filmmaker
whose work has screened
at film festivals around the
world. Most recently, she
co-directed “Derby Crazy
Love,” about the emerging
roller derby phenomenon,
with Justine Pimlott, with
whom she formed Red
Queen Productions in
2003.
During Walk on White,
Gallus will screen clips of
her film “Dish-Women,
Waitressing and the Art
of Service.” The film visits
classic North American
diners, the “sexy rests of
Montreal, Paris’ haute eateries, and Tokyo’s fantasy
“maid bars” in an insider’s
look at gender, power and
the art of service.
Porteous is primarily self
taught Maine painter who
started her career 13 years
ago. Her work has been
featured in Coastal Living
magazine and on the cover
of the L.L. Bean catalog.
Entry to the Residency
Cottages is through the
gate at 607 Ashe St. Studio
Artists at the Armory and
610 White St. will also have
their doors open with a
wide variety of work on
display.
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Florida Keys Council of the Arts
Cultural Calendar
Thursday, March 19 through
Wednesday, March 25
Key West Happenings
ARTISTS RECEPTIONS /
EXHIBITIONS
THURSDAY
Walk on White Gallery Walk, 6 PM
Exhibitions & receptions at galleries & shops along White St,
including Artists @ the Armory:
Group Exhibition, 2nd Floor
Gallery Redux, Harrison Gallery,
Stone Soup Gallery & hIPSO facto
at the Coffee Mill Dance Studio.
Artists @ the Armory Second Floor
Gallery, 6 PM
Participating artists: Judi Bradford,
Christie Sauer Fifer, Mark
Hedden, Pam Hobbs, Michael
Marrero, Lauren P. McAloon,
Claire Perrault, Michael J. Phillips,
Marky Pierson, Danette Baso
Silvers, Sherry Sweet Tewell, Andy
Thurber and Maureen Tracy Venti.
Historic Armory. facebook.com/
KeyWestArmoryArtists
TUESDAY
Henry Peter Opening Reception,
5:30 PM
Cocco & Salem Gallery. 305-2920072. coccoandsalem.com
WEDNESDAY
Andrew Printer, Digital Paintings
Exhibit and Artist Talk, 7 PM
Lemonade Stand Gallery, 305731-9333. lettynowak.com
CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS (thru
April 4)
Docent Training Class Offered, 9
AM
The Key West Tropical Forest and
Botanical Garden. 296-1504. keywestbotanicalgarden.org Featuring
botanist and native plant expert,
Steve Woodmansee.
The Studios of Key West - Classes
and workshops: Painting and
drawing, writing and reading,
Music, Performance, Sculpture,
Photo, Culinary Arts, Kids and
Teens and more. 296-0458. tskw.
org
Life Drawing Workshops with
Annamarie Giordano, 11 AM
TUESDAYS: San Carlos Institute;
THURSDAYS: Florida Keys Comm.
College. 609-884-3474.
MONDAY
Tennessee Williams Classic Film
Series: Baby Doll, 6 PM
TWKW / The Tropic Cinema. 305294-3121. twkw.org / tropiccinema.com
LECTURES
THURSDAY
Key West Botanical Garden
Speaker Series: Butterflying in the
Keys, 12:30 PM
305-296-1504. kwbgs.org
Salute on the Beach Restaurant!
305-292-1117.
FRIDAY
Libby York & Bobby Nesbitt, 6 PM
Shrimp Road Grill, Stock Island
Marina, 7009 Shrimp Rd. libbyyork.com
Love Lane Gang, 8:30 PM
McConnell’s Irish Pub and Grill,
900 Duval St.
SATURDAY and SUNDAY
Haley, Mulligan, Robinson: The
Men Our Mothers Loved, Part II,
8 PM
Tennessee William’s Cabaret
Theatre. 295-7676. keystix.com
MONDAY
Friends of the Key West Library
Lecture Series: Lou Harris and
Richard Grus, 6 PM
St. Paul’s Church. 305-292-3595.
SUNDAY
friendsofthekeywestlibrary.org
DANCE
Impromptu Classical Concerts of
FRIDAYS and WEDNESDAYS
Key West - De Coda, Piano & 4
Salsa (maybe a little Rueda too) KIDS CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Woodwinds, 4 PM
SATURDAY
Dance Class, 7 PM and 8 PM
St. Paul’s Church. 305-295Kids Discovery Saturday - Flags
Paradise Health and Fitness
7676. keystix.com
Ahoy! (ages 5-10), 10 AM
Dance Studio. 305-296-6348.
Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center.
[email protected]
809-4750. floridakeys.noaa.gov/ THEATER
THURSDAYS-SATURDAYS (thru
eco_discovery.html
SUNDAY
March 28)
Ballroom and Latin Dance
Fringe Theater Key West - Orson’s
LITERARY
Evening, 7 PM
Shadow, 8 PM
TUESDAY
Dance Factory. 305-304-8184.
The Studios of Key West. 305Cafe con Libros, 10 AM
dancefactorykeywest.com
Key West Library. 305-292-3595. 296-0458. keywestfringe.org
keyslibraries.org
TUESDAY
SUNDAYS, MONDAYS and
Key West Country Western
TUESDAYS
MUSEUMS, HISTORY and
Dancers, 6:30 PM
Outside Mullingar, 8 PM
NATURE
Bourbon Street Pub. 724-333Red Barn Theatre. 296-9911. redSATURDAY
4137.
barntheatre.com
Plant Sale at the Key West
Botanical Garden, 10 AM
FESTIVALS and FUNDRAISERS
TUESDAYS-SATURDAYS (thru
305-296-1504. kwbgs.org
SATURDAY
April 11)
Tennessee Williams Birthday
Waterfront Playhouse - Monty
SUNDAY
Celebration: Plein Air Painting
Python’s Spamalot, 8 PM
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum
Challenge, 9 AM
305-294-5015. waterfrontplay- Key West African Cemetery
294-3121. twkw.org
house.org
Memorial Service, 4 PM
Higgs Beach. 305-294-2633.
SATURDAY and SUNDAY
WEDNESDAYS-SATURDAYS (thru
melfishermuseum.org
Key West Lawn Party and
April 18)
Croquet Tournament WomanKind
Let’s Get Lost, 8 PM
Tennessee Williams Month Long
Fundraiser
Red Barn Theatre. 305-296-9911.
Birthday Celebration
Edward B. Knight’s Thompson
Island Estate. 295-7676. keystix. 305-294-3121. twkw.org Various redbarntheatre.com
venues and times.
com
Middle Keys Happenings
ARTIST RECEPTIONS /
MUSIC
FILM
EXHIBITIONS
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Daily
Bobby Nesbitt & Skippo:
Key West Outdoor Movies, 7 PM
The Connections Project III:
Bayview Park, Corner of Jose Marti Showtunes on the Beach, 4:30
Mosaic Exhibition, 10 AM
and Truman Ave. keywestoutdoor- PM
WEDNESDAYS
Ukelele Workshop Free, 7:30 PM
The Grateful Guitar. 304-4536413. thegratefulguitar.com
Artists in Paradise Gallery, Big
Pine Key. 872-1828. artistsinparadise.com
The Producers, 8 PM
305-743-0994. marathontheater.
org
FRIDAYS-SUNDAYS (thru April 4)
Florida Keys Watercolor Society’s
33rd Annual Exhibition, 11 AM
to 3 PM
Marathon Community Theater.
609-231-7045. fkwcs.com
Upper Keys Happenings
ARTISTS RECEPTIONS and
EXHIBITS
THURSDAY
Morada Way Arts & Cultural
District: Walkabout, 6 PM
MM 81.5, Islamorada. 664-9100.
moradaway.org
CLASSES and WORKSHOPS
THURSDAYS
Plein Air Painting Classes in
Sugarloaf, 9:30 AM
Jim Salem. 744-9880.
TUESDAYs at Crane Point Paint
Outs, 10 AM
Florida Keys Watercolor Society at
Crane Point, Marathon. 609-2317045. fkwcs.com
The Art Studio in Marathon Classes and workshops: Pottery,
Clay, Glass, Painting, Sculpture
and more
305-289-9013. keysartstudio.
com
DANCE
Theo and Ganine’s Dance Center
Ballroom and Latin Dance
Instruction. Marathon. 305-7663428. keysdancecenter.com
American and International styles,
wedding dance, swing, salsa.
Beginner’s welcome, no partner
required.
FESTIVALS and FUNDRAISERS
SATURDAY
Out of the Blue Art and Craft
Show, 9 AM
Big Pine Key. artistsinparadise.
com
FESTIVALS AND FUNDRAISERS
SATURDAY
Puppet Festival - Pearl Church
Puppet Day, 2 PM
Tavernier, MM 90.4. 305-7120123. pearlhow.org
LECTURES
FRIDAY
Ocean Life Lecture Series: Law
of the Sea: Energy, Overfishing &
Pollution, 7 PM
Friends of the Key Largo Cultural
Center, Murray Nelson Gov’t &
Cultural Ctr, MM 102. 305-3967000. fklcc.org
TUESDAY
Our Flukeprint: History of Dolphin
Research Center with Courtney
Coburn, 5 PM
Florida Keys History & Discovery
Foundation, MM 82, 305-9222237. keysdiscovery.com
LITERARY
WEDNESDAY
Latitude 25 Writers Meeting, 7 PM
Key Largo Library, Tradewinds
Shopping Center, MM101.4. 305451-4164.
SATURDAY
Pops in the Park - Viva Florida,
4 PM
Founders Park, Islamorada, MM
87, bayside. keyscommunityconcertband.org
MUSEUMS, HISTORY and
NATURE
FRIDAY
Marathon Garden Club - Monthly
Meeting with Lynne Bentley-Kemp,
Visit keysarts.com, Cultural
1 PM
305-743-4971. marathongarden- Calendar for more listings and
events throughout the Keys.
club.org
THEATER
THURSDAYS-SUNDAYS (thru
April 4)
Marathon Community Theater -
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PARADISE
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015
Explore the World of ‘Rebecca’s Perception’
xplore the world of
Rebecca Bennett in
an exhibit entitled
“Rebecca’s Perception”
on display at Lucky Street
Gallery through March 28.
A reception for the artist will be held from 6 to 8
p.m. Friday at the gallery,
located at 540 Greene St.
A voyager down the
Intercoastal in the 1980s,
Bennett docked at Key
West and spent over a
decade living and working
on a sailing charter in the
National Marine Sanctuary.
Drawn to the tropical
light and colors in the Keys,
she started with watercolor
landscapes. She then took
the plein aire studies back
to her studio and finished
the works in her studio. But
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the initial work from life
gives her the layers, colors
and visual information that
hallmark her works.
Today, Bennett produces
glowing and fascinating oils
that are a slice of everyday.
Her subject matter is universal in the Keys — the
seas, the mangroves, the
Everglades.
She will debut a new
series of small still lifes.
ROB O’NEAL/Paradise
n aerial view of the Vedado section of Havana shows the orange spires of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba at left,
and the U.S. Interests Section complex at far right. Diplomats from the U.S. and Cuba began a third round of
talks this week in hopes of opening proper embassies in Havana and Washington D.C. before the summit of
the Organization of American States to be held in Panama in April. Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro are
both expected to attend.
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Peter displays nature-inspired paintings
he latest collection of natureinspired paintings by Henry
Peter will open Tuesday at Cocco
and Salem Gallery with a reception
from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. His works will
remain on display through April 7.
Peter is probably one of the best
realistic painters that Key West has
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ever seen. Not only can he paint with
incredible detail and honest color,
he can communicate his emotional
response to the subject through color
and sensitivity. He paints to understand and remember the places and
things that inspire him.
Born in Southern Bavaria amidst
an inspiring natural world, Peter has
painted his way into private and corporate collections around the world.
He has exhibited and won numerous
regional and national art awards for
many years.
For information, call (305) 292-0072,
or go to www.coccoandsalem.com.