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SRQ DAILY Jan 28, 2015

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"It's a liberating experience. Now we talk and share our lives. It feels pretty good."

- Ken Shelin, Equality Florida
 

[Film]  'Perfect Wedding' Shifts From Fantasy to Reality
Jacob Ogles, jacob.ogles@srqme.com

When The Perfect Wedding premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival three years ago, a same-sex wedding in Florida remained in the realm of fantasy. Now the film will be screened again in Sarasota, this time in conjunction with an actual, legally recognized marriage ceremony for a gay activist and his long-time partner.

Ken Shelin, a board member for Equality Florida, will marry Steve Stockwell, his partner of 38 years, on Feb. 12 atop the Palm Avenue Garage in Downtown Sarasota. Shelin, a former Sarasota City Commissioner, has spent much of the past two years lobbying local jurisdictions to create domestic partnership registries and human rights ordinances, and said court decisions that made same-sex marriage legal in Florida as of January provided a surprising but welcome development. “It’s a liberating experience,” Shelin said. “Now we talk and share our lives. It feels pretty good.”

The ceremony will be followed by a screening of The Perfect Wedding, hosted by SFF and Equality Florida. The film was written by New York Times bestselling writer Suzanne Brockman, produced by her husband Ed Gaffney and shot entirely in Sarasota County, and many of the filmmakers will be at the screening. “The fact the federal courts have declared that same-sex marriages are constitutional and allowed, to me, is a demonstration in part of the power of film,” said Charlie Ann Syprett, SFF development director. “I wanted to bring the film in celebration of the change, and feel in some way the festival plated a small part in that change.”

Tickets to the event can be purchased at SFF website. General admission costs $45 and VIP admission runs $100 with proceeds going to SFF and Equality Florida. 

[Good Bite]  Licking The Spoon

Kristine Insalaco-Gaioni is one of those people that inspires adjectives like “vivacious.” She’s a nurse by trade and hails from Massachusetts before moving to Sarasota 20 years ago. She 10 years ago met and married Fabio Gaoini, a visitor from Italy who was in town filming a documentary. Kristine had always made jams and sauces and in 2009 she and Fabio decided to open a food distribution business called Sapore della Vita (Taste of Life). Their products range from Italian delicacies to all-natural, organic condiments and are featured at many gourmet food shops and farmer’s markets. Kristine’s small batch caramel sauce “Lick My Spoon” just won San Francisco’s ‘Good Food Award’ for the second consecutive year. According to their website “The Good Food Awards celebrate the kind of food we all want to eat: tasty, authentic and responsibly produced.” How exciting that a small business from Sarasota has been recognized in such a positive manner in a national arena. I intended to try the caramel sauce in various recipes, as suggested by Kristine, such as the glaze for Salmon or stirred into my morning coffee. Instead I went home and ate the entire jar standing at my kitchen counter. I did, indeed, lick my spoon.  

Sapore Della Vita Italian Imports and Specialty Foods, 941-914-4256

[Exec Moves]  Kerkering Barberio Welcomes Blenker

Kerkering, Barberio and Company, a Sarasota accounting firm, announced that Kerri Blenker has joined the firm as a tax supervisor, with a focus in individual and business taxation. Blenker received her master's in Taxation from Golden Gate University. Her prior experience includes senior tax manager at a firm in Santa Rosa, California, as well as sole proprietor of KB Accounting and Tax Services. 

Kerkering, Barberio and Company

[Launch ]  Ballet Announces Pavlova Society

The Sarasota Ballet created a premier donor level titled the Pavlova Society for patrons who have donated $1-million or more and will award its first patron on Jan. 28 in the Bird Room at Bijou Café. Board Chair Emerita Sydney Goldstein and her husband Jerome Goldstein will be the first inducted into the premier society. 

The Sarasota Ballet

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