SRQ DAILY Mar 18, 2021
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" I remember the Dalai Lama saying every journey, even a long one, starts with a step."
The lines aren’t even drawn yet on where U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, will be running in 2022. But he’s already drawing competition. And this cycle, the eight-term congressman’s most notable early competition comes from the right. Martin Hyde, a former Sarasota City Commission candidate and frequent gadfly, said this week he was filing to challenge the incumbent in the Republican primary.
“There’s no pulling back from here,” he said. “I said my goodbyes at City Hall.” Instead, he feels Washington calling, and senses voters in House District 16 crave a change.
What gives him certainty. Most recent was the reaction among gun rights advocates when Buchanan cast one of just eight Republican votes in favor of a universal background check passed this month in the U.S. House. That wasn’t a surprise and Buchanan voted for similar legislation two years ago as well. But that’s when there was a Republican president and Senate in place to stop legislation from going anywhere.
“It’s a step in the wrong direction and I remember the Dalai Lama saying every journey, even a long one, starts with a step,” Hyde said. “This isn’t really about arming psychopaths and criminals. They will always get their weapon of choice when they need it.”
Hyde suggests Buchanan’s past vote was one of utility, when he faced no GOP competition but was challenged by pro-gun control Democrat Margaret Good for his seat. Now, the incumbent will have to answer for the vote in a GOP primary.
But Hyde also questions a vote overruling former President Donald Trump’s budget veto last year, when the president wanted concerns about legal protections for social media addressed. Notably, U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, sided with Trump on that issue. Hyde also questioned why Buchanan voted to certify President Joe Biden’s electoral college victory despite allegations by Trump of election irregularities.
Hyde notably participated in protests of the electoral college certification on Jan. 6. Those protests devolved into riots in which five people, including a Capitol Police officer, were killed. Hyde did not participate in the violence.
Buchanan’s campaign suggests it’s still early to get worked up over a primary. “There will be plenty of time for campaigning next year after the new congressional districts are drawn, but right now Vern is focused on helping our veterans and seniors get their COVID vaccine and restoring jobs in our region,” said campaign spokeswoman Sally Dionne.
Two Democrats have taken steps to run. Jan Schneider, who has run for the seat multiple times, has filed as a candidate with the state and newcomer Benjamin Miranda-Padilla has opened a federal campaign account. 
When looking at this aspirational photo of a bathroom remodel, what you probably see is color, texture, and pattern. What our designers at Design Works see is function, durability, and style. It’s this collaboration of creativity and purpose that makes our hearts go pitter patter and keeps us excited to come to work at our Sarasota showroom and fabrication shop day in and day out. We asked three product experts to tell us what makes the bathroom featured here, special:
Kim Kelly, Tile Designer: This bathroom features three products from MiR Mosiac. The first is a patterned, glass tile that runs the entire expanse of the wall behind the vanity. The remaining walls of the bathroom feature field stone, running vertically to give the room height and dimension. And the floor is Bianco Carrara tile with a nod to 50’s glamour. When put all together, it’s sophisticated and statement-making.
Maribel Martin, Cabinet Designer: The bathroom vanity is a floating cabinet, with custom designed doors and rounded sides to give the furniture style and complexity. The color is important to balance the room and compliment the exquisite tile. Mirrored accents add a pop of interest and are very different from the usual “expected” bathroom vanity.
Mark Murphy, Countertop Designer: Quartz countertops from Cambria offer superior performance for bathrooms and kitchens. The strength and durability, ease of cleaning and resistance to moisture make it the perfect choice for this lavish spa-like bathroom. There are many options to choose from that offer one color or interesting veining.
Putting this look together is a collaborative effort among our design staff – each with a specialty and focus in their areas. To learn more about the bath remodeling process, visit https://floridadesignworks.com/bathroom-design/
Opening Reception on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 from 5:30 - 6:30pm. Please RSVP to madeby@c.ringling.edu to receive the Zoom link. You are invited to see this outstanding show and the opportunity of purchasing original art, digital art prints, and fine crafts by the Ringling College of Art and Design Students. Prizes and ribbons will be awarded to the students.
Thanks to a partnership of Goodwill Manasota and the Children’s Guardian Fund, items such as clothing, furniture, bedding, housewares and other necessities will be made available for children who are entering the state care system. Additionally, Goodwill will provide career services through its Job Connection program for teens in the care system looking for part-time employment, a biological parent who will need to have a job in order to have the child returned to their custody, or even the new caregiver who may need to return to work in order to deal with the added expenses related to housing, feeding and clothing one or more children.
The Junkluggers of Sarasota are happy to announce they have expanded to their fleet of eco-friendly furniture and junk removal trucks. They just acquired a new box truck and had it wrapped recently with their can't miss bright green Junkluggers color and logos.
Dennis McGillicuddy, co-founder and board chair of Embracing Our Differences, recently welcomed Kaitlin Yelle to the organization’s board of directors. According to McGillicuddy, she made a profound impact in that short amount of time. “Kaitlin raised our corporate sponsorship to a new level,” says McGillicuddy. “She’s also filled tables at our annual luncheon and led private tours of our Bayfront exhibit year after year. Kaitlin’s passion for EOD’s mission is absolutely inspiring and energizes us all.”
London Bay Homes has sold its 5,000-square-foot West Indies-inspired Somerset model in Spice Bay, leaving one remaining waterfront homesite in the exclusive gated community on Sarasota Bay. “Sarasota ranks among the top Florida cities for health, wellness and weather,” said London Bay Homes President and CEO Mark Wilson. “Spice Bay adds waterfront access to that equation, blending proximity to dining options, a lively shopping scene, and a walkable island lifestyle to create the ideal island paradise.”
Larry Gardner has joined RE/MAX Alliance Group as a Realtor in the Bradenton office. A self-described “RE/MAX lifer,” Gardner was formerly with RE/MAX Capitol Properties in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Local solar installation company Brilliant Harvest recently completed the installation and flipped the switch on the 132.84 kW solar energy system at the new Sheriff Tom Knight Support Services Facility in Nokomis. The system includes 328 Florida-made Jinko panels, installed on the main 42,650-square-foot building. The system will produce close to 200,000 kWh - 200 MWh - of energy annually. This is the largest solar energy system ever installed by Sarasota County, part of the County's overall sustainability efforts. The county recently earned two Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative for this facility, which showcases Sarasota County's commitment to sustainability practices and reducing environmental impacts.
RE/MAX Alliance Group is proud to recognize top-producing associates and teams on the Florida Gulf Coast for their stellar performance in 2020. Broker and Co-Owner Peter Crowley said, "We congratulate them on their success and thank them for their dedication to their profession and community."
After thirteen years of dedicated leadership, Step Up Suncoast’s board of directors has accepted the retirement announcement from President & CEO Barbara Patten. She will be stepping away on August 31, 2021. The Board has begun a regional search and looks to have a new President & CEO in place by the end of June. “Barbara is one of those leaders we all admire and strive to be. She runs the organization with incredible passion for our mission, the residents we serve, and our employees,” said Charlie Kennedy, Step Up Suncoast Board Chair. “She is a quick problem solver and long-term strategic thinker. We will miss her presence and leadership, however, we wish her happiness in the time she’ll now have for her family and grandchildren.”
Tracy Jones publishes a series of books aimed at helping homeowners navigate selling their home in today's economy. Topics range from how to sell your home for more money, advice on selling by owner, selling a vacant home, when you have tried to sell but failed, staging and more.
Lakewood Ranch has a seemingly endless list of venues to lace up and hit the field.
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Join us in celebrating the lasting impact of Marie Selby and Bertha Palmer as well as those who have made a legacy commitment to support the future of Selby Gardens on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 from noon to 1pm. If you have any questions, please contact the Institutional Advancement team at development@selby.org.
April Fools Fete: Nate Jacobs' Jukebox Livestream benefits WBTT's education programs, tickets are 100% tax-deductible. The livestream of this performance will occur on Monday, April 5, 2021 from 7pm to 9pm. Because of the need to social distance, we've sold out the limited number of in-person seats for this event. But you can still experience the event live as it happens, from the comfort of your home! Enjoy your favorite WBTT performers singing jukebox hits of the 1960s, our smokin' hot live band and amazing young talent from our Stage of Discovery students and alumni. As it does every year, the event benefits WBTT's education programs – Stage of Discovery, our summer musical theatre intensive program for ages 13-18; Jazzlinks, our high school education program; Rhythm & Tales, our elementary education program; and our Young Artist Program. Despite the challenges of COVID-19, we have pivoted to virtual versions of these programs to continue our mission.
The Players Studio, the education department of The Players Centre presents a revue performed by The Players Follies performance group on April 16 at 7pm. A group of friends return to their old stomping grounds for their high school reunion to learn that their favorite diner is closing its doors. Friendship, drama, and nostalgia explode in this rock n' roll jukebox musical that makes memories to last a lifetime. Watch from wherever you like, this show is virtual. Tickets are $15.
The music of Dutch composer Louis Andriessen is visceral, intense, challenging, and kinetic. This concert, at 8pm on March 18, 2021, features two of Andriessen’s most important and influential works, performed by New College of Florida students and professional musicians from the Sarasota Community. These pieces, composed one year apart, are raucous breakthroughs that remain startling over four decades later. Worker’s Union, from 1975, calls for “any loud-sounding group of instruments” to perform a continuous and propulsive single line of music. In 1990, Andriessen wrote, “Worker’s Union was originally written for the orchestra De Volharding (Perseverance), in which I myself figured as a pianist at that time. This piece is a combination of individual freedom and severe discipline: its rhythm is exactly fixed; the pitch, on the other hand, is indicated only approximately, on a single-lined stave. It is difficult to play in an ensemble and to remain in step, sort of thing like organising and carrying on political action.”
The ability to speak, organize, and create was revolutionized by the internet, but technology has also been an engine for both public and privacy surveillance, opening up opportunities for civil liberties abuses and discrimination. To mitigate those abuses, individuals have been demanding improved cybersecurity measures, and so the political playing field has shifted to a battle over encryption. In this talk on March 18, 2021, Granick will explore the current debate and legislative proposals and offer tips on how people can protect themselves and get involved.
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Monsters of the American Cinema by Christian St. Croix and directed by Harry Bryce will be read March 18, 19 and 20 at 6pm at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Spanish Point Campus. When his husband dies, Remy Washington finds himself both the owner of a drive-in movie theater and a caregiver to his late husband's teenaged son, Pup. In a humorous and haunting tale about fatherhood, masculinity and grief, the duo battles the ghosts from the past in order to connect in the present.
Join Dr. Sarah Cartwright, Ulla R. Searing Curator of Collections, as she provides an overview of the focus exhibition Frans Hals: Detecting a Decade virtually on March 18 at 10:30am. This event is free for members and $5 for non-members.
Join us for lunch in the Museum of Art Courtyard on March 18 from 11:30am to 1:30pm. Metz Catering will offer light lunch options for purchase including sandwiches, salads, veggie plates, as well as beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages. Enjoy a solo musician performing as you relax and lunch with your friends. Tables and chairs will be socially distanced throughout the Courtyard. Purchase of Museum Admission is required.
The DSA presents a Vernal Equinox Celebration, aka Happy Hour Series, on Thursday, March 18 from 4pm to 7pm at Tamiami Tap, 711 South Osprey Avenue. Join The DSA For Our Happy Hour Series. Attendees must present the ticket below for Buy 1, Get 1. You can download the pictures below to your phone or click the Download Ticket. See you at Tamiami Tap.
SARTQ, an area-based artist collective was founded in 2008 by Tim Jaeger and Joseph Arnegger, begun informally, the group quickly grew, exhibiting around the region and state, including at Art Basel Miami. After a hiatus of two years, SARTQ has now resumed creating artistic experiences throughout the community. This exhibit features work from the personal collections of eight members. This exhibition will take place from March 18 through April 16.
The Great Monthly Pottery Trading Club was started in 2020 based on the popularity of “pot of the month clubs” in the 80s. Each month, 12 member potters and collectors connect via Instagram and exchange a small work in clay based on a theme. The theme can be one-word suggestions (swipe, bone, pipe dream etc.) to longer ideas that explore social justice, history, cuisine, etc. This exhibit will take place from March 18 through April 16 and is a unique opportunity to see the whole club’s work side by side in a physical space.
Yoga Instructor Ashley Stewart will lead a yoga session on the Ca' d'Zan Terrace. Each session will last one hour, and participants may begin entering 30 minutes prior to the event. Participants should bring a yoga mat and water or drink as desired. Tickets are limited to 50 in order to maintain proper social distancing. Please note: Tickets will be available 30 days prior to each event and must be purchased online, in advance of the event. Upcoming dates include Thursday, March 18 and April 15 at 6:30pm and Thursday, May 20 and June 17 at 7pm.
As we enter the festival’s 12th year, we are especially proud to present a premier line-up of 21 remarkable and diverse films that will impact, provoke, and move you. They are documentaries, narratives, tragedies and comedies, mysteries and love stories. Most have won awards and will have special meaning to our community of viewers. All films are being held virtually. During this time of COVID we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of our Sponsors for their continued support of the Jewish Film Festival. In doing so, you are fulfilling our Federation’s mission and the tenet of Tikkun Olam – repairing the world, ultimately, helping to provide our community much needed enjoyment. The Jewish Film Festival is one of many programs also sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. The yearly Film Festival that attracts so many movie-goers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, is all about strengthening Jewish life in Sarasota-Manatee. We hope you will leave energized, inspired and moved by the rich traditions and culture of Judaism found in movies celebrated around the world. See you at the movies.
Members’ Show: Contemporary Craft at its Finest is a juried exhibition of original art showcasing the best of handcrafted work by Florida CraftArt members. Forty-six artists created 79 pieces from intricate jewelry to glass sculptures. Visitors will have the opportunity to virtually meet the artists and the show’s judge Susana Weymouth at the virtual opening reception on Friday, January 29 at 6 p.m. The Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82206474125. The show runs through March 20 when the People’s Choice Award will be presented at the closing reception. People can vote for their favorite work of art in the Florida CraftArt Exhibition Gallery.
If you or someone you know has decided to live at home alone (called “aging in place”) rather than moving to a senior living arrangement, you may want to brush up on some safety and wellness measures for being independent, healthy and comfortable in your own home. Consider an upcoming series of seminars sponsored by Youthful Aging Home Care at The Paradise Center on Longboat Key. Wednesday, January 20, 1pm to 2pm Falls Prevention, Staying Safe at Home. Wednesday, February 17, 1pm to 2pm Neuro-Nutrition, Eating Well for Brain Health. Wednesday, March 24, 1pm to 2pm Overcoming Isolation, Maintaining Connections at Any Age. Seminars are presented by Nicci Kobritz, President of Youthful Aging Home Care. Nicci is a nurse practitioner and geriatric specialist with more than three decades of experience in developing and managing health care services. Nicci has received awards and recognition for her home care services and her volunteer work. Read more about Nicci at www.youthfulaginghomecare.com. The Aging in Place seminars are being held via webinar OR in person (with social distancing and face masks) at The Paradise Center. Register in advance: 941-383-6493 or email SuzyBrenner@TheParadiseCenter.org to receive your weblink. Free for Members or $10/person.
Between the Sky and the Water is a mid-career retrospective of Janaina Tschäpe (b. Munich, Germany 1973) that will run from December 14 through May 2. Tschäpe’s wide-ranging oeuvre is visually connected by a lexicon of forms that array across a variety of media—painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, photography, video, and performance. These varied articulations of her core concepts comprise a holistic cosmology, a gesamtkunstwerk (a total work of art), a grand evolutionary opera where each piece plays a supporting role, subsumed by the totality of the body. Recurring themes persist—Kafkaesque metamorphosis and transformation, a feminist resistance to the perpetual policing of the female body, a collapsing of scale undifferentiating the grand cosmos from the infinitesimal cellular, an excavation of the nature of landscape—but always, most importantly, is an exploration of painting as a way of understanding the world. Travelling from deep sea to land to space, the terrain is constantly shifting and yet the same, like a creature tropically and symbiotically adapting to whatever environment they find themselves inhabiting. Atmospherically sliding between the figurative and the abstract, the work invites your eye to travel, free of regard for chronology, or need of narrative.
Join New College creative writing professor Dr. Emily Carr for this four-part Zoom workshop series is offered from 5pm to 7pm on the second Wednesday of the month: January 13, February 10, March 10, and April 14. A fee of $95 is required for participation. This includes a copy of the required text, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life by Jessa Crispin, and all four Zoom sessions. This mixed-genre, all-levels workshop includes a basic introduction to the Tarot, generative writing exercises, storytelling tips and tricks, unique Tarot-inspired provocations for creativity in times of crisis, and a discussion of the various ways writers might use the Tarot in their work. This workshop is open to writers at all levels, working in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Together, we'll explore a series of Tarot-inspired writing activities designed to offer you strategies for using the cards to 1) start a new poem/story/essay 2) inject new life and surprising stakes into a poem/story/essay you're already working on and/or 3) breakthrough imaginative blocks - in this particular historical moment.
In collaboration with the Sarasota Architectural Foundation, the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation and the AIA Gulf Coast Chapter, this exhibit will examine the unique history of architecture in Sarasota from the time of Native Americans to the present and will run from January 12 until April 17, 2021. Timed reservation information will be available soon.
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