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52 FAREWELL ANU TALI

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

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56 GISELLE AT THE SARASOTA BALLET

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

60 STATELY IN SARASOTA Spring fashion Photography by Jordan Kelly-Laviolette

69 WHEN ONLY THE BEST WILL DO Profiles of Local Professionals

By Sue Cullen

77 JEWELS IN BLOOM Fine jewelry in Springtime colors Photography by Jordan Kelly-Laviolette

84 AQUACULTURE RESEARCH at Mote Marine Laboratory

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88 SCENES FROM AN INTERVIEW David Amram –

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The Maestro of Collaboration

SCF Avenues to the Future

By Gus Mollasis

Bethesda House Mardi Gras Madness Aviva Eight Over 80

103 EDUCATION MATTERS Making Musicals at State College of

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Dinner & Auction

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

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96 Chloe Sweetman and Geoffrey West 99 Meredith Headings and Jorge Canepa

INSIDER 38 THE FIND

Time Pieces that make a statement

INHEALTH 115 Should I Have My Hernia Repaired?

By Dr. Jonathan Yunis

116 Mothers of The Bride– They Want to Look Good Too!

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117 New Effective Minimally Invasive Treatments for Chronic Pain

By Dr. Fabian A. Ramos

121 LAUGHING MATTERS The One About Eavesdropping

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

PHILANTHROPY

119 EAT & DRINK

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ART & CULTURE 106 BEST SEATS Performing Arts Calendar

110 GET INSPIRED

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113 LITERARY SCENE Three Thrillers to Keep You Up All Night

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42 DAVID RUBIN Creating Value for Self & Others

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48 GEORGE SKESTOS A Trustee Who Does His Homework

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CAN YOU BELIEVE IT’S ALREADY APRIL? I have to tell you the one thing I really don’t like about being a magazine publisher is that I am always thinking about and planning for future issues. It’s bad enough 2019 is hurrying along, but now I am working on content for Scene’s June and July issues. Not ideal since I am a live-in-the-moment gal. My everyday work and my psyche definitely don’t work well together!

For a few days last month, I put my planning for Scene on hold and shut down my work for five days. My friend Dina and I went to Indian Wells, CA to the BNP Paribas Open to watch the best tennis pros in the world in a tournament that is considered the “fifth major.” One of the best perks of publishing a magazine is that I qualify for a press pass, which allows me access to practice areas where the public can’t go, as well as post-match press conferences. Sheer nirvana for a tennis fan such as me.

We stayed at the Indian Wells Resort, not my first choice which was already booked. The resort was founded in 1957 by none other than Lucy and Ricky – Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The resort definitely had the classic charm of a bygone era, but also a contemporary flair. The best part was Frank’s Place Lounge, where a crooner named Frank sang favorites from the Great American Songbook.

But I was there for the tennis, not the cocktails and musical flashback.

Dina and I started each morning with a 7:30 a.m. tennis clinic at LaQuinta Resort. I can still smell the orange blossoms! Heavenly! We thought of it as our morning exercise before spending all day and night in Stadium Court box seats. We don’t do this often, so treating ourselves to the best was never in question. Besides, how else were we going to be in a prime position to catch Roger Federer’s sweaty headband?

If you are a tennis fanatic and like to attend pro tournaments, I highly recommend treating yourself and choosing this one. All the Indian Wells hotels are in close proximity to the tennis center and offer complimentary shuttles to and from, no matter how late the last match ends. The grounds are super clean and offer lots of great spots for drinks and food. And if you want to dine in between the morning and night sessions (or any time), there’s even Nobu and Spagos.

After three and a half days of seeing the top tennis stars play, including seeing Roger wallop his second-round

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from the executive editor

opponent (no, we didn’t catch his sweaty headband) and sitting a few feet away from him in his post-match press conference, we headed back to everyday life and I immediately began working and planning Scene’s future issues. But for the days I was in Indian Wells, time went by slowly…life was more fun…I lived in the moment…it was definitely “the good life.”

From its inviting old world charm and sophistication to its timeless, artistic cuisine, let the legendary Cafe L’Europe take you on an unforgettable culinary adventure.

It is therefore apropos that this issue is our “Good Life” issue, and while what constitutes a good life is so subjective, for this issue we’re equating it with a luxury lifestyle. So please, no letters about what a good life means to you.

I get it! If you can afford it, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the finer things in life.

So enjoy our fashion and jewelry editorial spreads, our special section on local professionals offering the best in services and products, and our beautiful weddings.

It’s April in Sarasota. What can be better!

Until next month,

Want to submit some comments or questions? We’d love to hear from you at julie@scenesarasota.com.

P.S. On April 29, Community Video Archives is inducting myself, Dr. Larry Thompson, president of Ringling College, Jon Thaxton, VP at Gulf Coast Community Foundation, and former Herald Tribune social columnist and Style editor Gayle Guynup into its Hall of Fame. If any of my friends and loyal readers would like to attend, tickets can be purchased by calling 941.365.7052. Hope to see you there!

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Sarasota Opera Diamond Celebration Dinner Art Ovation Hotel Celebrates Sarasota Opera’s 60th anniversary season 5:00 p.m. $295 Ringling Inspires Day

The LIST APRIL 2019 EVENTS CALENDAR Take the kids on a scavenger hunt. Don an incredible hat to support children’s charities. Enter an Enchanted Library where the pages turn to see amazing futures.

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Honor the work and achievements of a college president. Cook along with classical musicians and friends. Have brunch among the roses at The Ringling.

These are just a few of the great events happening in April, our end of season. What are you waiting for?

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Ringling Inspires Day The Ringling Museum 10:00 a.m.

Community day and scavenger hunt Free ringling.org

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Designing Daughter Gala Pre-Party The Westin 1:00 p.m. $100 designingdaughterssarasota.com

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PIQUE NIQUE SUR LA BAIE, WINEFEST STYLE Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall 11:00 a.m.

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THE SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL Festival promoting independent filmmaking For event dates and movie times visit sarasotafilmfestival.com

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CHILDREN FIRST FAIRYTALE BALL Michael’s On East 6:00 p.m.

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PRESIDENT’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Ringling College of Art and Design 6:30 p.m.

Celebrates two decades under the leadership of Larry R. Thompson $250 ringling.edu

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STARRY NIGHT DINNER 3: SWEENEY TODD Private Home 6:30 p.m.

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COMMUNITY VIDEO ARCHIVES LUNCHEON Michael’s On East 11:30 a.m.

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A Conversation with Clyde Butcher

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Conservation Foundation's A Conversation with Clyde Butcher Sarasota Opera House 5:30 p.m.

Lecture presented by photographer Clyde Butcher $90 conservationfoundation.com

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Blue Ties and Butterflies Michael’s On East 6:00 p.m.

Benefits the Child Protection Center $200 cpcsarasota.org

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La Musica’s Musical Chefs Interactive Dinner Michael’s Wine Cellar 6:00 p.m. $200 lamusicafestival.org

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Michael’s On East 6:00 p.m.

Supports ASC’s annual student scholarship $175 artistseriesconcerts.org

Michael’s On East 6:00 p.m.

Dinner, dance and auction benefiting Lighthouse of Manasota $200 lighthouseofmanasota.org

Michael’s On East 6:00 p.m.

Dinner, dancing and live auction benefitting NAMI Sarasota County $175 namisarasotacounty.org

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Visible Men Academy 6:00 p.m.

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Artist Series Concerts Friends’ Gala

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Brunch among the roses supporting The Ringling’s Bayfront Gardens $80 Ringling.org

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Art in the Dark

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Sarasota Ballet Showcase Luncheon Michael’s On East 11:00 a.m.

Guest speaker Margaret Barbieri, Assistant Director of The Sarasota Ballet $35 sarasotaballet.org

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Designing Daughters Gala: Studio 54 Universal Flight Training Hanger 8:00 p.m.

Benefits local nonprofits $150 designingdaughterssarasota. com

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Girls Inc. Celebration Luncheon Sarasota Municipal Auditorium 10:30 a.m.

Honoring female leaders in our community $150 girlsincsrq.org

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PARTY pics SCF AVENUES TO THE FUTURE Held on February 23 on SCF’s Bradenton Campus, State College of Florida Foundation’s event welcomed more than 200 guests. The event, supporting SCF programs, scholarships and other needs, raised more than $100,000.

Pamela Swain, Foundation board member, chaired the event. More than 30 items were donated for the silent auction and a live auction featured a private dinner for eight with SCF President Dr. Carol F. Probstfeld.

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BETHESDA HOUSE MARDI GRAS MADNESS The good times were rolling at the Bethesda House Mardi Gras Madness event on March 2 at Michael’s On East. The fundraiser, which benefits the Catholic Charities drop-in community center for people living with HIV, featured a Fat Tuesday Wine Pull, French Quarter Silent Auction, Big Easy Live Auction and a 50/50 Drawing.

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AVIVA EIGHT OVER 80 Aviva – A Campus for Senior Life hosted its annual Eight over 80 fundraising event, which showcased the incredible work of Aviva. Brunch event co-chairs were Meredith Ernst, Lori Solomon, and Shari Paler who were joined by master of ceremony Joey Panek of ABC7’s Suncoast View.

The accomplishments of eight truly awe-inspiring Sarasota seniors were honored. The honorees were: Victoria Brown, Mickey Fine, Carolyn Kaplan, Marion Levine, Barbara Lupoff, Alfred Rose, Nancy Schlossberg, and Ted Simon.

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50 YEAR MILESTONE Succeeding as a family-owned business for 50 years is no small achievement, but the Morton family is quick to give the credit to their staff and customers.

“We are proud to be a community favorite after all these years and have a tremendous sense of gratitude for everyone who helped us and supported the business,” said Todd Morton, who is co-owner of Morton’s Gourmet Market with his father Eddie.

The independent grocery store was opened in 1969 by Ted and Pauline Morton and soon attracted a loyal following for their friendly service, specialty foods and full-service deli. From the beginning, their focus was on customers, and that philosophy continues today.

added a smokehouse and quickly earned a reputation for awesome barbecue.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s they added a coffee shop and bakery and expanded their gourmet-to-go to include a huge selection of hot prepared foods.

There have also been plenty of challenges over the years such as evolving foods trends and new players in the market. “It’s a testament to our employees and the service they provide that we have not just lasted in the face of increased competition, but we have grown and thrived,” said Todd. “Our customers value locally sourced products and they don’t just say they want it, they actually shop and support it, and we’re so grateful they do.”

“One of the great benefits about having our own chef-run kitchen is how responsive we can be to our customers,” explained Todd. “We don’t have to run requests through a corporate headquarters. We have creative minds here and we do our best by empowering them to do their thing.”

Today Morton’s Market is widely considered to be a Sarasota landmark. Their catering service wins accolades on a regular basis, and they are famous for their premium meats and seafood, expansive deli and salad bars, and their amazing inventory of fine wines and craft beers. They added to their original Osprey Avenue store with a second location in 2015—Morton’s Siesta Market— and opened the adjacent Siesta Village Liquors the following year.

Four generations of Mortons have worked in the store. Todd started out making holiday food deliveries during his high school years and now his son does the same. “We never lose sight of the legacy that my grandparents began when they opened this store. It’s a responsibility our family takes seriously.”

“We’re often asked if we would consider opening a store in a new neighborhood and it’s flattering to be wanted,” said Todd. “If and when we do expand, we will be sure it’s the exact right fit and that we never lose focus of how important our flagship store is to our company and our community.”

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By Sylvia Whitman Photo by Nancy Guth When David Rubin and his wife, Adie, reached that “amazing place where you have more than you need,” their Buddhist faith—and their accountant—steered them to the Community Foundation of Sarasota County (CFSC). Every year, they parceled out contributions to organizations dear to their hearts—Amnesty International, Doctors without Borders, International Relief Fund, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Believers in “think globally and act locally,” they were also learning about the culture in Newtown and helping a small after-school center by paying some utility bills, for instance, and donating a fax machine. Their accountant pointed out that by gathering what they might give piecemeal over several years into a lump sum gift to a donor-advised fund at the Community Foundation, they could maximize both their tax deduction and the impact of their giving.

Hence was born the David, Adrianne and Jordan Rubin Fund at the Community Foundation of Sarasota County.

“So responsive, so polite, so accommodating. They jump on things. They (The Community Foundation of Sarasota County) are everywhere. In a good way.”

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The Rubins actively mandate disbursements from their fund, recommending grants to qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations— in Sarasota or anywhere in the United States. CFSC doesn’t passively hold the purse, however.

David Rubin heaps praise on the “amazing team” at CFSC. “So responsive, so polite, so accommodating. They jump on things.”

The Community Foundation practices at key intersections of goodwill in this area, he says. “They are everywhere. In a good way.”

The Community Foundation helped the Rubins deepen their involvement with SOAR (Seeds of Academic Resource), the

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Newtown K-3 program founded by retired Booker Elementary teacher Jacquelyn Paulk. For years, Paulk was an after-school nomad, moving her tutoring and dropout prevention activities from the Boys and Girls Clubs to the Sarasota Housing Authority and finally to a modest house donated by the Greater Hurst Chapel AME Church. There Paulk and her educator team created an “individualized learning program where student efficiencies are identified, analyzed, and remedied,” says Rubin, a onetime teacher. “It wasn’t just tutoring. It wasn’t just homework. It’s really identifying, where is this student behind? Let’s remedy that, get them back up to reading and above.” With room (930 square feet) for only 32 kids from across the county, SOAR always had a waiting list.

Impressed, the Rubins asked Paulk what else she needed. Her answer: “’A little more space.’”

Scott and Christine Key Education Foundation (Scott’s a SOAR board member) to organizations such as the Sarasota Southside Rotary Club. Again, the Community Foundation, which had once underwritten a playground for SOAR, enabled other intersections, according to Rubin. “They helped us set up a field-of-interest account” so that the SOAR Learning Center Building Fund could receive donations from other interested supporters.

This spring, SOAR’s new Jacquelyn Paulk Campus will open.

A $100,000 grant from the Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation will underwrite the first year of expanded operations. Although David Rubin will likely stay on as a SOAR adviser, he says, “We’re looking for the next generation to come and take the baton into the future.”

What’s next for Rubin?

Not just more but better space. And soon. In 2016 the program closed to begin preparing for a new home. By then the Rubins had partnered with Paulk, community members, and longtime SOAR supporters to envision how this Newtown success story could serve as a “model program for students, teachers, and educators,” says Rubin.

During the early meetings, Rubin reports, “you’d hear another knock on the door.” Parents, hoping to keep their kids on track. “‘Mrs. Paulk, are you open?’” And she’d have to say, “‘No, no, not right now.’”

The exploratory team considered funding, land acquisition, and organization to acheive nonprofit status. “Bringing a strong board together is an art and a science,” notes Rubin. SOAR found its chair in Dr. Louis Robison, a longtime teacher, principal, and administrator in the Manatee County public school system who spent his middle and high school years in Newtown. As other local leaders came on board, a plan emerged for a 3,000-square-foot facility: four classrooms with interactive boards, library, kitchen, a multi-purpose homework/media room with computers—all surrounding a courtyard with an outdoor classroom and play areas. Sweet Sparkman Architects did the design; a local builder, Ernie DuBose II, would oversee the construction.

In addition to time, the Rubins contributed money (from their donor-advised fund, of course). So did many others, from the

Hiking, traveling, perhaps taking a long trip with Adie. More giving certainly.

“We never really had a master plan,” says Rubin. He still marvels that Lumina Health Products, the wholesale business he and his brother, Mark, launched at midlife in Sarasota, has enabled him to become a philanthropist.

Looking back, Rubin sees much of his past as “a train wreck”—ending a first marriage, being a teacher (“but not a very good one”), failing in business, facing family physical and mental health challenges. He and Adie lost their only child, Jordan, a son born premature who struggled valiantly for 10 days.

“If you navigate those things in the right way, something happens,” Rubin says. He speaks softly, deliberately.

“Somehow you stop hoping for smooth sailing. You’re just looking for how to become a good captain.”

How to achieve equanimity? Both Jewish, David and Adie have been practicing Japanese-rooted Nichiren Buddhism for 35 years. In addition to daily chanting at their home altar, they join in peace, culture, and education work through U.N.affiliated Soka Gakkai International. Soka, Rubin explains, means “value creation—the idea that everything that happens APRIL 2019 | SARASOTA SCENE

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in this world, everything is an opportunity to create value. Every time you hear about another catastrophe, a shooting, a massacre, it’s always followed by ‘How do we create some value from what took place?’”

You choose, Rubin says. Given iron, you can make a weapon or make a plough. “Everything takes form according to what we do with it.” Supporting wildlife defenders or charities such as Smile Train, which repairs cleft palates in children around the world, has been one way for the Rubins to create value from Jordan’s death.

Morton’s Gourmet Market, circa 1970s.

The causes that draw David relate to “a larger concept of health—wellbeing. Which comes so much into how people are connected,” he says. A few years ago, “kind of like Noah, I was getting a message to build an ark. For me, it was, build a family.”

What? he thought. He already had the most supportive family in the world in Adie and Mark. But Rubin broadened his idea of family beyond wife and brother to include his closest friends (his “adopted family”). “I developed an even deeper respect for the profound value of my life-to-life connections,” he says.

Ted & Pauline Morton, pictured here with son Eddie, opened their independent grocery in 1969.

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“It’s interesting: there are many people who are only into themselves, but there are just as many people who are into everyone else but themselves. And we can be so compassionate to others and dry their tears and tell them, ‘Hey, you did well enough. You tried. I’m proud of you.’ And we can get so hard on ourselves.”

Rubin says that he wakes up every morning deeply grateful for his comfortable bed, hot shower, car that starts—and his human connections. “Everything’s getting faster and quicker, and now you can do this, stream this, and all you’ve got to do is this. It’s getting further and further from the safety net that life throws out to you that is based not on any of those things.

It’s based on sitting comfortably in your own life and enjoying the process, and enjoying the blessing of family and friends.”

“Buddhism,” Rubin says, “has given me what everyone needs: a basic underlying philosophy that guides their life. The good life is contributive and is looking always to create value for self and others.”

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Shortly after his appointment to the Ohio State University board of trustees, lawyerturned-residential-real-estate-developer George Skestos asked the provost to set up a monthly breakfast meeting with 8-10 faculty members. At first, wary professors wondered if he was a spy, Skestos says.

Over coffee and bagels, they discovered he was someone far more interesting: a lifelong learner. “To be a trustee you’ve got to understand what’s going on,” says Skestos. “Otherwise you’re just sitting there at those meetings nodding your head.”

Since 2012, Skestos has brought to the board of New College of Florida (NCF) that same open mind and insatiable curiosity.

Like most of his Longboat Key neighbors, Skestos didn’t know much about the highly selective public liberal arts institution across the bay. So, he did his research—by taking many New College classes.

Skestos didn’t sit in the back row for an afternoon. He signed on for the whole semester, doing assigned readings and joining discussions. “The kids are really

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nice,” he says. “Not way out, really freaky.

I like them all. And they treat me like one of them.”

As NCF president Donal O’Shea notes, New College students tend to lean left and Skestos more to the right. “George is never shy about disagreeing,” says O’Shea, “but never in a way that makes anyone feel diminished. Here’s this very gentle man, old enough to be a greatgrandfather, talking to some student with purple hair and two or three nose rings and God knows what else, and he gets along with them really well. It’s the most charming thing I’ve ever seen.”

He’s also become such good friends with a handful of professors that they show up at his birthday parties. “There’s not the slightest thing stuffy about him,” says O’Shea. “We all love him.”

Skestos embarked on his education by earning three degrees from the University of Michigan—BA, JD, and MBA (the last two simultaneously). One semester he racked

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up 29 credit hours. After he left the library on a Saturday night he allowed himself a treat: the midnight movie.

“I had always dreamed of going out and making my stake and coming back to Ann Arbor and teaching law,” he says. “Never happened.” He served in the Navy JAG Corps, and then a buddy, an engineer, invited Skestos to join a construction venture, which eventually led to his founding Homewood Corporation in 1963. He and his then wife started a family, which has grown to four children and nine grandchildren.

Yet whenever and wherever he could, he took classes—history (his undergrad major), astronomy, political science, art history, religion, physics. At Ohio State, for instance, Skestos and his wife of 30 years, Tina, who has a graduate degree in sports administration, enrolled in more than 50 hours of coursework.

“For credit,” says Tina. “Because then he feels that he really has to get the grade in it. He gets the A, I get the A-. Always.

It’s the smart thing to do.”

Skestos’s seat at the seminar table, combined with his business experience and past board work for Michigan and Ohio State, informs his insights as a New College trustee. “He sees very

well the strengths of an institution and its weaknesses,” says O’Shea.

Skestos is bullish about New College’s small classes and dedicated professors. “You’re not going to coast here. It’s too small. The faculty will see you. The faculty will help you, but you’ve got to show that you care about what you’re studying.

I’ve never seen such caring on the part of the faculty. They want all of the students, all of them, to do well.”

O’Shea calls Skestos “a wise and trusted advisor” as New College aims to grow the student body from 800 to 1200 and add faculty accordingly. Skestos says he’s involved in property acquisition and has brought in builders with innovative lease-construction deals for new dormitories, seeded with his million-dollar donation.

O’Shea appreciates both Skestos’s generosity (“his motto is give until it hurts”) and shrewdness (“another motto of his is never overpay for anything”). With another million-dollar gift, Skestos underwrote the three-year launch of a major gifts program at New College Foundation. He also challenged fellow board members by offering a 5-to-1 match on their contributions. He’s supported the Daughters for Life scholarship APRIL 2019 | SARASOTA SCENE

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“Scholarships are important, wherever you go. Helps bring the better-quality student.”

The Skestos largesse extends to other educational ventures as well, from the 50-year-old Salem Lutheran Foundation and its successor, IHS Foundation, to George and Tina’s latest project, Gigi’s Shelter for Dogs,named for their tawny Akita, who loves to watch dolphins from their yard.

In partnership with Ohio State University’s vet school, Gigi’s gives rescue assistance to overpopulated and underfunded “source shelters” in rural Ohio counties. Gigi’s brings their needy homeless dogs to its 15,000 square foot full service hospital.

Once at Gigi’s, the rescue dogs are healed and prepped for adoption elsewhere in urban homes. The program also provides rural shelters with supplies, vaccines and remodeling. In its first five months, Tina Skestos reports, Gigi’s Shelter has healed 400 dogs, with an annual aim of 1,500 dogs.

Skestos philanthropy has two hallmarks: strategic vision and a deep personal connection. “One of George’s big dreams here is to have more people within the community understand the value of a New College in their midst,” says Tina.

On occasion, Skestos brings a friend to class—and wonders if something like Ohio State’s Program 60, which invites seniors to take courses alongside undergraduates, might work at New College. “I think the students will like it too,” he says. “Not that you want to have 10 adults with 10 students, but you might like to have three or four.”

Nonagenarian Skestos can’t understand why some of his peers gripe about boredom. “I think a person should always be involved in education their whole life,” he says.

“You should never stop learning. What was modern 10 years ago is out the window now.

It’s fun to learn about the world, different people, their thinking.” George Skestos is still involved and still learning and still thinking!

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ANU TALI

By Ryan G. Van Cleave

Like so many people from our community, I’m a fan of the Sarasota Orchestra. And yes, my daughter plays in the Sarasota Youth Orchestra. Plus I’ve written about—and seen—some of the community outreach efforts they’ve made. But it was when Estonian director Anu Talia signed on in 2013 to be the Sarasota Orchestra’s Music Director that I realized the organization was taking a giant leap forward.

So it’s with a mix of pride and sadness that we watch Anu wrap up the 2018-2019 concert season—her last. Rather than try to sum up all that she did for us, I instead will share the full Q&A conducted with her, so you can hear everything in her own words.

Favorite moment or two with the SO? I’ve had so many incredible moments—some have been funny and some just beautiful. The musicians have had my back at all vulnerable moments and the SO management has supported me immensely.

We’ve made some changes that haven’t been easy. We’ve buried some close friends together. We’ve lived through a scary moment of me coming to a rehearsal with a wrong score—this is every conductor’s worst nightmare. Although everything turned out well, you can only imagine the sense of horror at first.

Talk about memories for lifetimes!

What has your relationship with the SO been like?

We’ve become very close and that has enabled us to experience and communicate all these highly emotional musical moments.

It’s nearly overwhelming to be able to make such beautiful music together.

What do you think is the most common misconception about being a conductor?

The common thought is that a conductor just keeps time and rhythm. Playing rhythmically together isn’t such a huge trick.

It’s far more about helping create the musical freedom that you need to show and make everybody express unanimously.

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And to help the musicians to create the sound that would make the music really speak to the audience—to express the sadness and joy and everything in between in all the colors of the spectrum. This is what you want to have when you come to listen to a concert!

The other misconception is that conductors and maestros have to remain distant—they can’t be a friend to the musicians. But I believe that you need to be a partner and actually KNOW your musicians.

What did it mean to you when the Washington Post called you “one of the female conductors to watch” a few years back?

It was nice and I’m grateful for the recognition, but I know there’s so many great musicians who’ve never been mentioned because they haven’t yet created enough public awareness. It’s often a lottery ticket to be noticed by reviewers or agencies.

I’m very realistic about attention and compliments because it’s often a matter of how lucky one has been.

I’m dedicated to recognizing young talent (regardless of their gender) in early stages when they aren’t famous yet. This goes for the soloists, conductors, and players I sign for an orchestra position. It’s then that you’ll need to be brave and trust your hunch in order to support a new and unknown talent. It’s going to make all the difference in their lives and sometimes a new star will be born for the world.

If you could gather together the entire community of music lovers in our area, what would you say to them as you wrap up your final days with the SO? I’d like to thank you all for this incredible time in Sarasota and Florida. I couldn’t have done it or enjoyed it as much if it hadn’t been for your kind, generous support.

I’d also like to say that the Sarasota Orchestra is going to have wonderful times ahead. We’ve succeeded in so many ways and I’m sure that the next music director and the orchestra will form a new and vibrant future.

That said, I will miss you a lot.

What’s next for you?

I’ll be guest conducting throughout the world. You’ll see me in London, Austria, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Belgium, but also in the US. It’ll perhaps be a while before I take up another orchestra to lead as a music director. It’s a responsibility that shouldn’t be rushed into.

We’ll definitely meet again. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

“Dan and Tom were excellent to work with. We had unique requests they listened to and they guided us well along the way. We couldn’t be happier with our kitchen!”

So farewell, Anu Tali. We’re glad you came and shared your talent, energy, and love for music with us for a time. Best wishes on the next steps in your journey. You will be missed.

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Giselle at the SARASOTA BALLET

By Ryan G. Van Cleave | Photo by Frank Atura

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his year’s season of The Sarasota Ballet ends with Giselle, considered by most to be one of the greatest full-length romantic ballets. It was a huge success when it was first performed back in 1841 with Italian dancer Carlotta Grisi in the title role at the Paris Opera. Giselle is one of the longest-surviving Romantic ballets that remains in the repertoire of most of the major ballet companies throughout the world. “The role of Giselle is one that every female dancer wants to perform as it demands both technical expertise as well as a strong acting ability. The ballet is also a great vehicle to showcase the entire Company,” says Margaret Barbieri, Assistant Director of The Sarasota Ballet. “Having Giselle in our repertoire is a testament to the quality of our dancers and The Sarasota Ballet’s standing in the dance world.”

Few can appreciate the role of Giselle as well as Barbieri, who launched her own career as a Romantic ballerina at the age of 21 in the title role of Giselle. About how that came to be, she explains, “In my graduating performances for The Royal Ballet School, I dislocated my knee on stage.

I was very fortunate that they still gave me a contract to join the company. The following year, I participated in an educational program called Ballet For All, which took ballet performances into the schools, as well as taught them the history of dance. Not only was it good for students to

learn about ballet, but it provided young dancers like myself opportunities to be seen dancing leading roles. In my case, I performed in a program about the Romantic period, and I was chosen to dance Giselle. During the course of the tour, John Field, the director of the Royal Ballet Touring Company, came to see a performance, after which he told me that he was very impressed and that, ‘One day soon, you will dance Giselle’ with the Company. I was delighted with what he said but didn’t think anything would come of it, certainly not very soon.

“As it happened, Giselle came into our repertoire the following year. On the cast list, all the principal ladies were listed for the part of Giselle, but to my huge surprise, my name was up there as well, but in brackets. At rehearsals I was intimidated by all the principal dancers in the studio and therefore sat on the floor and watched, trying to learn the role. But one day, John Field came into the studio and told me that I’d ‘never learn sitting down’ and to start marking the role in the back. The opening night of Sir Peter Wright’s new production of Giselle at Covent Garden was approaching, and during a stage call of Giselle in the final week before it opened, Mr. Field came to my dressing room to ask me to get out of my peasant costume and come out front and sit with him.

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“I was very upset because I thought he must think I’m not good enough to even be a peasant. However, when we got into the auditorium, he announced to me that I would be dancing Giselle on the coming Saturday matinee, giving me four days to prepare for this major role. Lucky for me and for my partner, Nicholas Johnson, we had the backing of Dame Ninette de Valois, Founding Director of The Royal Ballet, as well as John Field, who believed in our abilities and wanted us to perform these major roles. We were also fortunate that it was a huge success, and over the twenty five years of my career, I danced close to 150 performances of Giselle. In later years, when working with Dame Alicia Markova, she coached me in the role of Giselle, and I found it inspirational to work with such a great Giselle as she was.”

It’s important to note that The Sarasota Ballet’s version of Giselle is based on Sir Peter Wright’s highly-esteemed production. Barbieri knows better than most how truly special this version is.

“This is a production I have always loved dancing. Sir Peter Wright first staged it, in fact, for Stuttgart Ballet, and on the strength of its success, it came to The Royal Ballet and, consequently, has gone to many of the major companies around the world. His production retains the Romantic period style of when it was first conceived, but brings a realism to the characters, making sense of the story.”

When asked about any insider secrets she might impart to the Company’s dancers, Barbieri says that she simply tries to impart to them her experiences and what she’s learned from the greatest Giselles of all time, such as Dame Margot Fonteyn, Dame Alicia Markova, Carla Fracci, and Natalia Makarova. At the same time, though, her goal is to help new dancers make the role their own.

Come out and witness Giselle for yourself on April 26th and 27th at the Sarasota Opera House. Accompanied by the Sarasota Orchestra and conducted

by The Royal Ballet Principal Guest Conductor Barry Wordsworth, this will be a performance you won’t soon forget.

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says Aimee Cogan, Managing Director-Wealth Management, Financial Advisor and co-founder of the Bellwether Group at Morgan Stanley (941.363.8513).

“Our team retains a small number of clients. We get to know each family, become invested in their lives and provide them with appropriate guidance and a very high level of personalized service.”

Wealth management is a highly specialized field and can be complex, particularly for ultra-high net worth families, so specialized training and credentials are vital. Cogan, who has her CFP® and CIMA® designations, encourages all of her team members to regularly pursue such training in their specific areas. “This profession is built on knowledge and trust,” she says, “and we are willing to go beyond that to help clients with many areas if they choose to involve us.” This includes access to Morgan Stanley’s Lifestyle Advisory Services including property and casualty assessment, private health advisory, experiential bespoke travel, art advisory, private aviation, residential staffing, identity theft monitoring, and many other lifestyle areas that affect clients’ lives.

Placing a lifetime’s worth of hard-earned financial assets under someone else’s care to preserve and grow those funds takes more than a leap of faith. The same diligence and savvy that built those assets are invaluable in sussing out the best of the best when it comes to selecting the right financial advisor to manage wealth for the future.

Professional credentials, experience and the ability to deploy the right investment strategies in an ever-changing world are key attributes of any worthy financial advisor, but integrity, passion and caring are just as important as portfolio management. “A close and trusting relationship with each client is the foundation for providing optimal service. Every client is unique and has different goals that we must understand in order to ensure their portfolios are aligned with their objectives and that they have the other support services they need. Everything we do is custom-tailored to each family,”

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Cogan has earned recognition among Barron’s Top 1200 Financial Advisors in 2009, and every year from 2012 through 2018, as well as Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors from 2011 to the present. Other prestigious recognitions include Financial Times 400 Top Financial Advisers in 2013 and 2016, SHOOK Research Top Wealth Advisor Moms 2018, and in 2019 she was named a Forbes Best in State Top Financial Advisor. “The most important thing is having a team so passionate about what we do,” she says, “That means our clients’ goals are our goals.”

When it comes to the best in Facial Plastic Surgery there is a reason people come to Sarasota from near and far—Dr. Sumeet Bhanot.

Dr. Bhanot, a pioneer in his field, has had the pleasure of serving the Sarasota area for sixteen years. He was born in Chandigarh, India and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of eight for the best in medical care when a severe illness threatened his father’s health. A tumultuous childhood endured at the hands of fate and his father’s ever fragile health fostered his interest in medicine shaping him into the tenacious surgeon he is today. Dr. Bhanot was educated at NYU undergrad followed by ten years at Yale University School of Medicine fulfilling medical school and residency, followed by a coveted fellowship in Facial Plastic surgery and completing two board certifications. Unfortunately, his father was unable to witness his achievement, but no doubt he would be proud.

Dr. Bhanot practices in a solo boutique practice in Sarasota where patients are treated like family by friendly, personable staff in an intimate setting (941.966.3223). Dr. Bhanot personally performs all procedures and takes his time to reassure and answer all questions.

Patients often acknowledge his superb surgical skills complimented by a warm, compassionate bedside manner.

Endlessly striving for perfection, Dr. Bhanot’s unique approach to the aging face starts with educating his patients on the changing

shape of the face caused by a shifting of the upper facial volume to the lower face. He explains that a SMAS (fascia) facelift, which he used to perform and still is performed by the top respected Plastic surgeons, has limitations.

He feels that it inadequately addresses the falling volume in the mid face yet provides a satisfying result in the neck area. The fallen cheeks are often addressed by stuffing volume in the upper cheek and laugh lines. Dr. Bhanot feels that this exaggerates and distorts the natural proportions of the face, without addressing the problem. To circumvent this, he performs a very rare Deep Plane Facelift that addresses aging at the source by re-draping and lifting fallen volume to the upper face.

Restoring youthful harmony to the proportions and shape of the face makes patients look 20 years younger yet so natural that no one can guess they had surgery. Not an fan of the stretched and plumped look that seems to be trending nationwide, Dr. Bhanot believes the true art of plastic surgery is dramatic change yet subtle natural results.

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Home is sanctuary. The ultimate luxury is living in an environment that surprises a “wow” from everyone who walks in the door, including you. At the same time, home should evoke a contented hygge vibe that promises your needs will not only be met, but anticipated. It may seem a little counterintuitive that technology is the key to both.

Andrew Guenther helps homeowners create safe, livable and beautiful homes through advanced technology in lighting, home automation, security and audio/video. “If people get us involved early before they do a remodel or start a new home, we can help them create their dream home,” says Guenther, who owns Advanced ESI with his son Andreas (941.554.5000/advanced-esi.net). The place to start is lighting, which with today’s LED lights, has to meld art and science to get it right and avoid pitfalls such as lights that claim they’re dimmable, but really aren’t. Lighting also includes natural light that can be adjusted with automated window coverings. “The majority of houses I see don’t have sufficient lighting,” he says. “You can have beautiful finishes, architectural details and artwork, but if you can’t see them, you’ve wasted your money. It’s like buying the Mona Lisa and hanging it in a closet.”

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Guenther was a pioneer of the home electronics industry, starting in 1979, at age 17, by installing high-end security systems for wealthy homeowners. He has made a name for himself in his industry through many high profile/high price tag projects, including a $6.2 million installation in Naples.

However, Advanced ESI has options for most budgets. “For instance, Sony has seven 65-inch TV models from $1,300 to $4,500. It’s like going from a Corvette to a Ferrari. They’re all nice, but the higher priced sets have improved performance and features,” he says.

The best way to truly experience what’s possible for today’s home is to stop by the Advanced ESI showroom at 4915 S. Tamiami Trail, Guenther says. Visitors can experience home automation and home theater as well as a strategically lit, fully functioning kitchen, built-in 85-inch TV fireplace, “disappearing” electrical outlets and much more. “When the lighting and home systems are done right, it can greatly improve your lifestyle. If it’s not done right, people never want to do it again because it’s aggravating,” Guenther says. “It all comes down to design, engineering and execution. We design for aesthetics. We either make it pretty or disappear, and engineering ensures everything works together. Having 40 years of experience is what sets us apart.”

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Designing surroundings that evoke emotion and engender unique experiences are a hallmark of the homes and commercial spaces created by Timothy Del Vescovo. His architectural concepts are first inspired by a site’s espiritu loci—the spirit of the place, whether that is a beachfront, woodland or urban setting. Del Vescovo’s designs also are the product of his education in both architecture and interior design, a comprehensive study program in Europe, and an inquisitive mind that incorporates wisdom gained from sources as diverse as the Old Masters and archaeoastronomy.

“Continuity between the building exterior and the interior creates a coherent, beautiful home that works together harmoniously,” says Del Vescovo, founding principal of architecture and interior design firm, Del Vescovo Design Group (941.806.6933/ deldesign.com), which also specializes in multifamily residential, such as Citrus Square and the Courtyard at Citrus as well as hospitality and restaurant design.

“We check our egos at the door and start our communication process with clients to understand their needs and lifestyle,” he says. “Then we apply form, materials, texture and techniques for light, shade and shadow to express their lifestyle through the architectural form

and interior environment. That’s especially important for our restaurant clients because light is the drama of the place, and we design to create an exciting environment that gives patrons the full social dining experience, such as we did in Element Modern Mediterranean Grill on Main Street.”

A Lido Key waterfront home with nearby neighbors was designed to obscure adjacent structures while a ride up in a clear-sided elevator reveals spectacular water views. A circular central staircase allows light from the roof to fill the home. “Part of the fun and drama is the horizontal progression that reveals the essence of the house over time until you reach the climactic spaces like the kitchen, great room and master bedroom,” he says. “The processional to the house on Lido is across flat-topped boulders in a koi pond. We came up with that idea by listening to the client to turn that lifestyle element into architectural form. We then infused the procession to the house with mystery using focused views, lighting, materials and even sound.”

For the Epiphany Cathedral Perpetual Adoration Chapel in Venice, Del Vescovo used both light and sound to create sacred space. A waterfall outside a stained glass window fills the chapel with warm color while obscuring ambient exterior noise. “The more clients tell me about themselves, the better the outcome. That’s why we are so clientcentric,” he says. “Our goal is to evoke emotion and produce unique experiences that exceed our clients’ expectations.”

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unique treasures Entering a truly exceptional antique shop and wandering among finely executed treasures from the past is both a treat for the senses and an adventure. Sarasota Trading Company on Pineapple Avenue in the historic Burns Court Historic District doesn’t disappoint. The store’s owners, Andrew Ford and his wife, Elizabeth, scour the nation and the world–not to mention the local area–for fine art, furniture, jewelry, bronzes, silver and art glass.

“This is an opportunity to see a wide ranging, eclectic collection of pieces from 16th century to mid-century modern,” says Ford. “We have the widest selection of paintings from old masters to modern day masters.”

These include contemporary paintings by Antonio Carreno, important American Impressionist and 17th century Hudson River School artwork as well as paintings with a local flavor from the Petticoat Painters and Sarasota Artist Colony.

Ford has more than 25 years experience in fine art and has previously owned galleries, including one on St. Armands Circle. He grew up in the antiques business and took it on as a career when he came to Sarasota. Ford has built a reputation for understanding antiques and their value whether acquiring pieces for sale or valuing a treasure someone is passing along to its next owner. He travels extensively to important shows across America from New York City and the Hamptons to Napa Valley and just returned from a trip to Hong Kong.

A recent acquisition includes 2,000 Asian artifacts in a $500,000 Treasures of the Far East collection. “Asian pieces are extremely hot. They are the real height of collecting and are right up there in popularity with mid-century modern,” Ford says. “We have a wide selection of figural pieces including about 200 Buddha figures and a variety of white Chinese porcelain. People are opening up to these influences from Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet and the whole Indo-Chinese area.”

Shoppers at Sarasota Trading Company (941.953.7776 / sarasotatrading.com) may come in on a mission for something particular or just to browse and enjoy the surroundings. “A lot of people come here as something to do with nothing specific in mind. Then, they turn a corner and something catches their eye because of its vibrancy or its opulent appearance,” Ford says. “They didn’t know they needed it until they actually bumped into it.”

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The reasons why this is the case, she says, are clear. We simply have limitations on freshwater and resources for land-based agriculture. “As the world’s population continues to grow, it’s clear to me that future increases in protein production will come from the sea.” So it’s not all that strange that this is one of the things they’re focused on at Mote. “For the last 8 years, we’ve

had a strong focus on the development of an integrated aquaculture system where we produce fish and plants in the same aquatic production system.” That type of system makes sense since the fish and plants living together help create a safe, sustainable, and economically viable situation.

“I’ve been doing that [creating integrated fish and plant systems] with marine species,” Dr. Main notes. “We work with red drum, and the plant crop is an edible sea purslane.”

Sea purslane is a relative of spinach, though it doesn’t taste like spinach. It’s got a decidedly plump, fleshy texture to it, and it has a unique flavor that’s a bit salty, so you don’t need to add salt to your food. Dr. Main points out that this leafy vegetable works well with many types of meals. Add it to a salad as part of your lettuce mix. Sauté it and substitute it for spinach in a pasta dish. Or bake it into a quiche. The sea purslane grown by Mote is already sold at farmer’s markets in Sarasota and by direct sales to vendors, so try it for yourself and see what you think.

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But Dr. Main and the other scientists at Mote are working on other things too, including finding ways to restore declining fish populations. Snook, in particular, are a species that’s on the rise thanks to their efforts.

“We’re also working on developing the fish culture technology to support future seafood production in deep-water cages in the Gulf of Mexico. The fish that will be farmed in this cage project is almaco jack, which is an amberjack relative,” she says. Though it’s smaller in size than amberjack, it inhabits the same type of locations. Most know it by the Japanese name—Kampachi. And it’s been made famous from farms in Hawaii that brand it as Kona Kampachi, as well as from farms in Mexico that call it Baja Kampachi. “What’s great about it is that this fish is found in subtropical areas all over the world. Yet we’re the only research group working on almaco jack in the Gulf.”

While almaco jack is clearly part of the fish production future in our area, Dr. Main points out that another great fish for farming in Florida is the Florida pompano—her favorite fish to eat.

“For years, we worked on aquaculture technology for pompano and we are currently working on research to support a farm on the east coast of Florida.” They’re in the final stages of construction of new facilities, and they hope by early 2020, farm-raised pompano will be available throughout Florida.

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“We can’t afford NOT to allow local farmers to meet local demands for seafood.

Sarasota has a strong support base for local foods for local markets. Yet we can do more.” seafood we eat here in Florida—which, as we know, is a state essentially surrounded by water!—is imported.

“We have such a wonderful suite of candidate species that could be grown locally to meet our local demand for seafood. But you go to a restaurant and most of what is on the menu is not farmed or wild-caught from the Gulf of Mexico. For the most part, the salmon, shrimp, tilapia, and other seafood you eat comes from elsewhere.”

For the U.S. in general—and Florida in specific—the idea of producing fish just hasn’t caught on. “People need to understand how important this is,” Dr. Main says. “The seafood trade deficit associated with imports make it second in line right behind oil.”

Several things are delaying progress in moving forward with a more robust plan for aquaculture. The U.S. is environmentally conservative, so it is very challenging to initiate a new kind of agriculture farming, such as aquaculture. Dr. Main adds that “There’s a lot of misinformation out there about the impacts associated with aquaculture.” The entire aquaculture industry has improved thanks to the efforts of organizations like the Mote Marine Laboratory, the World Aquaculture Society, and scientists like Dr. Main. But the technology to handle aquaculture the right way will only come from a serious investment in the continued development of sustainable aquaculture technologies.

“We can produce the highest quality, safest seafood in the U.S.,” Dr. Main believes, “and we really need to start doing that today. We can’t afford NOT to allow local farmers to meet local demands for seafood. Sarasota has a strong support base for local foods for local markets.

Yet we can do more.”

With the help of Mote and Dr. Main, perhaps Florida will soon be doing more. A lot more.

For more information on Mote Marine Laboratory, please visit www.Mote.org or call 941.388.4441.

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HEN ONE ENCOUNTERS DAVID AMRAM, they are forever transformed in every possible way.

David Amram is a force of energy – boundless bits of that magical stuff Einstein postulated about – but even that does not quite capture this man’s true essence.

His essence, if dared to be theorized in a formula, is: onepart inclusion (I); one-part humility (H); one-part openness (O); and one very big part passion (P).

I + H+ O+ P = MC (Maestro Collaborator) who is no square.

Okay, so it’s not E = mc2. And it does sound more like a breakfast joint that he might frequent after a late-night gig, but you get the idea.

Its elements – inclusion, humility, openness, and passion – aptly describe the one and only David W. Amram.

I do know what the W in his name should stand for – WORLD, because his world is music and music is his world.

Now, 88 years young, this pied piper is still hopping all over this big and glorious planet bringing his brand of positivity and eclectic notes in his musician’s bag of instruments. He knows the one thing that all great artists know – that to create, to truly create, you must be open. It’s always a twoway street whenever you’re making art, whether on a film screen, during a jazz jam session, a late-night beat poetry reading or reciting some Shakespeare in the park. It’s all in the collaboration. From musician to musician and from player to listener.

Amram, who’s known affectionately as “Pops” by those who have played and worked with him, knows a lot about collaboration. If they gave out awards for it, he would have enough to fill Carnegie Hall. His treasured collaborations include a who’s who of artists such as: Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Tito Puente, Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Joe Papp, Judy Collins, Patti Smith, Arthur Miller and Jack Kerouac.

Along the way he managed to compose a number of scores for major motion pictures including the iconic classics The Manchurian Candidate for director John Frankenheimer and Splendor in the Grass for Elia Kazan. He has also worked with the likes of Leonard Bernstein, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Sir James Galway and Eugene Ormandy, to name a few.

The list is too long to do it justice here.

Where he has played is as varied and eclectic. He was chosen by Leonard Bernstein to be the first Composer-inResidence for the New York Philharmonic, has performed at Joe Papp’s NY Shakespeare Festival, and was there in the Village on that night in 1957 when the first ever “Jazz Poetry Reading” was performed with his friend Jack Kerouac. Like Jack, he still gladly finds himself on the road more often than not.

He’s been given numerous awards, most recently in 2017 when he received the Folk Alliance International’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

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David Amram with Leaonard Bernstein As a Jazz and Folk pioneer, this cool cat sings and scats, plays 35 instruments including his signature French Horn. He is also an acclaimed classical composer whose compositions incorporate his lifetime participation in the world of Jazz, Global Folk, Latin, Classical, Middle Eastern, and Native American music.

Over a seven-decade career, he’s been described as “a living legend, one of the great raconteurs of our time, and the real Zelig.”

The Boston Globe made this proclamation: “David Amram is the Renaissance Man of American Music.”

The Minneapolis Star and Tribune: “David Amram ... a musical catalyst and leader on a par with Leonard Bernstein, Pete Seeger and Dizzy Gillespie.”

They are all right in their descriptions and interpretations of this man. But even these glowing tributes and compliments only scratch the surface of who he is and what he’s done in his life of music.

An author of numerous books, including his fourth book, David Amram: The Next 80 Years, will be published in 2020. The documentary film of the same name released in 2011 will be screened at the 2019 Sarasota Film Festival as part of a celebration of his life.

At 88, he’s still writing new music, and continuing to perform around the world as a guest conductor, soloist, multi-instrumentalist, band leader and narrator in five languages.

You can well imagine that as I was set to interview David Amram—who I call Pops because he’s my friend—I couldn’t wait to take a look at some poetic, jazzy and classical scenes from an interview of his life.

“Hello, Pops. How are you, my friend?”

Amram sends it back. “Okay, turn on the tape recorder till you can’t stand it anymore.”

The Washington Post: “David Amram is one of the most versatile and skilled musicians America has ever produced.”

Our jam session is underway.

Wynton Marsalis says of Amram, “A Godsend to those who believe in the power of music to change lives and inspire.”

What were the first notes you remember hearing and how was music first introduced to you?

For my 6th birthday my father bought me a bugle. I opened the box and saw the shiny instrument, and as I was about to pick it up, he picked it up and played it for

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on the town 20 minutes himself. So, when I had children, I had to restrain myself from breaking into their presents. But I did enjoy watching him try to get a sound out of the bugle. Then he handed it to me and said, “You try it.” And I did, and I went, “Beep.”

I got this big rush. Suddenly I was actually making a note of music. Since we had an old piano at my grandmother’s house, I started pounding away on that. Then we moved to our farm in Pass-a-Grille, Florida near St. Pete after I had finished the first grade around 1937. The public school there was doing a production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. They did the “Waltz of the Flowers” and I was a flower. I remember hearing his music and really liking it. Then I remember moving to our farm full time in Feasterville, PA, and in the 2nd grade I not only started playing the trumpet in the little bands that they had, but I would also listen to the old radiators on the farm make all kinds of crazy sounds when they were heating up. All those rhythms I could relate to hearing the great drummer Gene Krupa, great trumpet players like Harry James and Louie Armstrong, who you could hear on the radio.

Somehow all these elements have stayed with me. I don’t know how the brain works, sort of like a hard drive, but it becomes part of your DNA. Was there a moment of discovery when you knew that music would be that thing for you?

It was a constant process of evolution that still is going on for me at the age of 88. So instead of saying I’m going to retire on my laurels, I don’t even feel like I have any laurels. I’m interested every day in trying to learn and create new things and understand the old things that I thought I knew about, while being able to revisit them. It’s an endless process. Just like all major religions refer to the deity or deities as the great unknown.

There is something out there that is bigger than all of us. And that’s a wonderful thing to realize, because then you can remain humble in knowing that you are just another tiny presence that’s here for a while and that there’s something bigger that was here before you and will be here after you’re gone. If you can get in touch with that while you’re here and share what you’ve learned with others to help them on their journey, whether its music or anything, then you’ve had a good life.

Today when you pick up and play an instrument, are you still that little boy who picked up that bugle as a child?

I’ve learned to get past my own disappointments with myself.

I keep those private because no one wants to hear someone screaming the blues, who is able to do what they love to do and not have to have a day job. So, I’m blessed, I’m blessed with that. Also, you realize it’s important to encourage other people to do what they love to do. And secondly, you have to be grateful for having the chance to do it.

Was there a moment, a big break or the stars aligning, where you felt like there was divine intervention or inspiration to show you that you were on the right path?

When the great conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, to whom I dedicated my first book, Vibrations, visited with my mother’s childhood friend who was Dimitri’s best friend, I was a teenager.

He heard me practicing the horn, and he saw a piece I was trying to write. I think I was 14 and I heard him say to my mother, “He’s a good boy. He’s practicing on Sunday.”

Pops laughs and continues. I don’t think he knew I was Jewish and merely thought I was playing on a holy day.

He was a devout Greek Orthodox who originally studied to be a priest. Of my piece he said, “You got something. You keep doing it. You have to learn to modulate.” I saw him ten years later when I was in the Seventh Army Symphony.

He came over to help out our orchestra. He remembered and said, “Amram, have you learned to modulate?” I realized that not only was he nice to me when I was a kid, but he also wanted me to do better. That was a big thing for me.

And just as quickly the great collaborator is back with another story. With Pops there is always another story.

In 1951, Dizzy Gillespie came and crashed in my basement apartment with his whole band for the night in Washington D.C. The next morning, he said, “Get out your French Horn. Let’s play together. I want to hear you play.” And that was a big thrill.

The maestro breaks in with another tune.

The next year I met Charlie Parker, and he spent the whole night encouraging me to write symphony music to reflect my interest, way back then in what they called jazz of world music. He told me to find a way to put all those things together and to keep playing jazz on the French Horn which, just like trying to be a symphony composer, was considered to be impossible.

He comes back with more.

Finally, when Leonard Bernstein chose me as the first ever Composer-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic, he explained to me what I should try to do with my life. Not only to please myself, but to add to the repertoire and to be an ambassador of music for young people.

Playing with Floyd Red Crow Westerman, the great Native American singer, for 40 years and at Farm Aid with Willie Nelson for the last 30 years, along with Pete Seeger at various times, showed me the treasures of indigenous American music.

In all forms they have endorsed traditional Folk, Jazz, Blues, Cajun and Native American music and helped teach me not

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Your renowned ability to collaborate in various musical genres and with varied musicians, is that something that everyone can do?

I’ve been to countries from Panama to Cuba and recently Germany where I’ve found that because of the Internet, younger musicians have access to everything. If you’re patient enough, you have the ability to find those needles in a haystack and the treasures of music from all over the world with instruction for free from masters who want to pass that on in various forms. Kids will ask me how I learned to do so many things. I tell them that my YouTube was being a full-time scholarship student in the “University of Hang-out-ology” where we hung around people at three in the morning who asked us to come and play with them. Everyone has their financial responsibilities they have to meet, pay the rent, dental, and eats, but above and beyond that, even in your off hours, if you do other things to pay those bills, you can still be an artist and an inquisitive person and get educated in the U of Hang-out-ology. There’s no tuition for that. All you need is an open mind and heart. And if you share what you’ve learned with others, people can see in your face whether you’re with them in a humble, studious way, or just another big rip-off artist. People can tell the difference.

You’ve been described as having a profound influence on world music. How would you describe yourself as a musician?

I would say that world music has had a profound influence on me. I’m basically a composer, and everything that I’ve done and

still do reflects when I’m sitting in that room with a blank sheet of paper trying to put something down on that paper. Hoping it is something that will speak to the musicians so that they will play it and it can make them feel something in themselves like a sense of wonder that they haven’t be there before. That in turn will speak to those who listen, because if you can stimulate creativity in people who are performing it by accurately notating exactly what it should be, that’s important. There’s no way that you can do that if you haven’t experienced it yourself in some way. I think that all art that lasts is storytelling, picture painting and conversation with others.

Are there some special nights you performed that stand out in your mind after all these years and all the performances?

Some of my highlights were playing in Paris in 1955 the night that we got the news that Charlie Parker had died. When I played The Way You Look Tonight, I suddenly got carried into another level I never dreamed could happen. Many years later in January 2019, I conducted a wonderful symphony orchestra in my Elegy for Violin and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Elmira Darvarova playing. Suddenly I flashed back to when I was conducting from earlier days and thought of some mentors and people I admired.

I could picture Stravinsky there, and Mitropoulos and Leonard Bernstein watching me, and knowing that that’s where Tchaikovsky conducted the very first time when they were opening the hall. I remembered when I was a kid and seeing those movies of New York and Carnegie Hall thinking that I could never have dreamed that this would happen to me. And then two days later, I was playing in a little folk place in Saratoga where I met the mother of my three children 42 years earlier. I thought it’s so amazing what life can

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

Pops, please finish the following sentences: When I’m playing music…

I am in the moment.

Music to me is…

The food of love, just as Shakespeare said. Can’t beat Willie the Shake.

The greatest joy in playing is…

Being able to honor who you are playing with, whose music it is, and being part of the whole.

Is there a quote that you live by?

There are never too many sunsets and never enough beauty.

Of your many compositions, do you have a favorite?

My Triple Concerto for Woodwind, Brass and Jazz Quintets & Orchestra and “This Land is Your Land” (Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie).

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when I mention the following people: • Dizzy Gillespie: Warm and Inclusive • Dimitri Mitropoulos: Spiritual Genius • Elia Kazan: Totally in the Moment • Leonard Bernstein: Total Genius • Willie Nelson: Warm, Embracing and Brilliant • Jack Kerouac: Soulful, True, Storyteller • Charles Mingus: Spontaneous Composer • Pete Seeger: World Ambassador of all Sincere Music • Odetta: Keeper of the Flame • Bob Dylan: Amazing Poet • Patti Smith: Brilliant Storyteller • Charlie Parker: Architect of New Beauty • Joe Papp: One hundred percent committed • Sir James Galway: Greatest Virtuoso Please share your experience working in the movies and on the iconic films The Manchurian Candidate and Splendor in the Grass.

I am a composer who occasionally writes scores for films that I love, where I can have free reign to do the best music I possibly can. My scores for The Manchurian Candidate and Splendor in the Grass I orchestrated and wrote every note myself, conducted it, chose the musicians who played, and I put as much loving care into that as I have done in writing my operas, symphonies, concertos and everything else. I loved every second of it and I’m especially proud of those two films and the music that I wrote, and I’m proud of all the other music I’ve done since then. Recently I’ve worked with Barbara Kopple, a two-time Oscar winner, who I’ve known for 30 years before collaborating with her. When I’m with her, I feel the same way I felt when I was with Kazan and Frankenheimer. She’s a real artist who loves every second of what she does.”

Do you have a favorite place to jam?

My favorite place to jam over the last 14 years has been Cornelia Street Café. And they just closed down after 41 years because the rents were so staggering. I love playing Farm Aid every year. Anyplace that I am, anywhere in the world, I try to bring Greenwich Village and Carnegie Hall, Farm Aid and the New York Philharmonic to wherever I am.

So, I never feel like I’m in a small or unfamiliar place. I realize that each time I’m doing it, it’s the first and the last time, so you better do the very best possible.

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Tell me about that first and last time you did that Beat poetry reading with your friend, the great Jack Kerouac.

The very first time was at a “bring your own bottle party” before On the Road was published and nobody was listening. He handed me a piece of paper then took it back and then I played with him.

I was stunned by the feeling I got of doing that with him. I didn’t even know exactly what we were doing but I felt like it was really something. The last one publically was at Brooklyn College and by that time On the Road had come out and Jazz poetry, we called it music poetry, suddenly became fashionable. Six months later it died a natural death as people would scream into the microphone as loud as possible and the band would play “I Got Rhythm” faster than it had ever been played before. And nobody listened to anybody. It’s nobody’s fault. It happens with all things in fashion. Fortunately, the Doors came along, as did the lost poets, hip hoppers and the freestylers who are phenomenal in a whole different way. And now, when I do my readings of Kerouac, people are shocked. I get actors and people who love his work who don’t have an obligation to be a screaming psychotic. You really don’t even need musical accompaniment during poetry readings – the poetry is the music.

What keeps you going?

I think it’s that when I was a little kid, and I used to hear that train go by the railroad station which was about two or three miles from our farm. I could hear that engine on the express train to New York called The Crusader. Every time it passed, I remember hearing that whistle and thinking boy, maybe someday if I’m lucky, I can go to the fabled place called New York and see a 94

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band or orchestra or play with a band or something like that if I can’t be a farmer. It was such a wonder. I still have that. I live in Beacon, so when I hear a train whistle I’m reminded of that kid. And every time I think maybe it’s time to pack it in, there’s someplace I really like to be. I’m so excited every time I leave the house to go and do anything. And when I’m home composing, my biggest problem is knowing when to stop, which is usually when the sun comes up.

How does it feel to be honored by the Sarasota Film Festival with a Lifetime Achievement Award?

It’s a special honor because I went to the first grade in Pass-aGrille, Florida. Secondly, because Sarasota has been an oasis and beautiful place for as long as I can remember. We would visit when I was child and always remember it so fondly. Finally, the Sarasota Film Festival has always celebrated excellence in film rather than just being about networking. It’s a real honor and I’m grateful. And of course, I get to see you and Mark Reese, who I collaborated with on your film, Jack Kerouac Slept Here.

Many years from after all the concerts have been played and the music has been composed, how do you want to be remembered?

I would say as a composer who tried to share his blessings.

David Amram will be honored at the 2019 Sarasota Film Festival with a Lifetime Achievement Award which takes place April 5 – April 14. For more information, visit SarasotaFilmFestival.com.

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Jon joined Gulf Coast in 2012 as director of community investment while completing his 12th year of service on the Sarasota County Commission, and was promoted to senior vice president in 2015.

Style magazine editor for the past 17 years, Gayle also works as social editor for the HeraldTribune Media Group, covering more than 250 charity fundraisers each year. In her earlier career, she was instrumental in starting Florida Winefest with Michael Klauber, the Comedy Festival, and the Klauber Family’s Connoisseur Club.

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social SCENE SWEETMAN + WEST When your parents are Linda DiGabriele, Managing Director of Asolo Rep, and the talented photographer Gary Sweetman, it’s apparent you’ve grown up surrounded by the arts. So when it came time for Chlöe Sweetman to select a venue for her dream wedding, she naturally wanted an atmosphere that suited hers and her soon-to-be husband’s personalities.

They chose the intimate yet powerful setting of the Orlando Museum of Art. But let’s go back to the beginning…

Chlöe was born in Bradenton while Geoffrey was born about an hour and half away in Lake Wales. She went to Manatee High School, received her BA in Anthropology from the University of South Florida, her MA in Biological Anthropology from USF, and is contemplating pursuing her Ph.D. Geoffrey went to Lake Wales Senior High School, received his BA in Religious Studies and Philosophy from USF, his Master of Public Administration from USF, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Measurement and Research at USF. His parents are Karen and John Holman of Babson Park, Florida.

Of course the common denominator was USF, which is where they met when Chlöe was in her first year as an undergraduate.

They were helping a mutual friend move into her dorm.

Eventually Chlöe and Geoffrey starting hanging out with the same group of friends and became friends as well. At the end of Chlöe’s sophomore year, Geoffrey asked Chlöe out, but given that it was during final exams she told him he would have to wait for her answer. Right before she had to leave the country for three weeks, she told Geoffrey yes. The couple dated for four and a half years. During a trip to Cuba in the summer of 2017, Geoffrey proposed to Chlöe on the evening of July 26 – Cuba’s Revolution Day – at the Bay of Havana with music from the festivities floating across the water.

While Chlöe finished her master's and Geoffrey continued to work on his Ph.D., the couple planned their wedding. During that time, Chlöe got a job as a research assistant over 6,000 miles away in Samoa and faced the challenging task of doing some of her planning from the other side of the world. She returned to Sarasota in October 2018 to be a bridesmaid at her best friend's wedding and finished the planning for her own special day on December 15 at the Orlando Museum of Art where they celebrated their love surrounded by artwork and grandeur.

Chlöe is a research analyst at the Florida College Access Network. Geoffrey is a graduate teaching assistant at USF. The couple honeymooned in our lovely Naples a few hours south.

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MEREDITH HEADINGS & JORGE CANEPA HEADINGS + CANEPA You know her better as Meredith Michaels, making us laugh each day on our morning drive with David Jones and Billy Jack of the Jones and Company show on 107.9 WSRZ. A Manatee High graduate, Meredith has lived in the Sarasota/Bradenton area since 1987. She is the daughter of James and Lilli Powers of Bradenton, Jill Headings of Lake Ariel, PA, and the late Ron Headings, formerly of Bradenton.

Little did she know that when she was ready to search for true love, she would find it by “swiping right” on the wildly popular dating app, Tinder.

Her perfect match also decided to “swipe right” after seeing Meredith, and their romance began.

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He is referred to by many he trains as an “awesome person and great coach.” Born in San Juan and raised in Miami, Jorge attended American Senior High School. His parents are Jorge Canepa and Irma Muratti of San Juan.

While Tinder may have brought them together, the love, passion, respect and compatibility that quickly developed has kept them together. It didn’t take long for Jorge to realize he was ready for a lifetime commitment.

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best friends who were also celebrating birthdays that same week, the setting was perfect for Jorge’s plan since many of their friends and family were there. After everyone sang “Happy Birthday” and candles were blown out, Jorge’s friend asked him if he got everything he wished for on his birthday. Jorge then took Meredith’s engagement ring out of his pocket, got down on one knee and said, “My only other wish is if you would marry me.” She said, yes, and they did.

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By Ryan G. Van Cleave

MAKING MUSICALS AT STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL

For some teachers, teaching is merely a job. For some, it’s a way of life, and that’s clearly what it is for David Nields, who serves as Theater Director of the State College of Florida Collegiate School, a tuition-free public charter school operated by State College of Florida. (He also teaches for SCF and Ringling College of Art and Design). How do I know he’s a teacher in his heart? Because he keeps turning every conversation to students and educational opportunities. Plus he seems energized by his busy schedule, which could easily prove daunting to some. It appears pretty daunting to me, at least!

What Nields is clearly most proud of, though, are the musicals his students are creating at the collegiate school. And by “created,” I mean CREATED. As in for the last few years, the students have written, produced and performed their own original musical. When Nields arrived four years back, he had the idea to have the students put on a musical, but putting on an existing one is shockingly cost-prohibitive. “Out of that challenge arose the idea that we could write our own,” he says. In addition to his theater background, Nields is a professional musician. He firmly believes kids are inherently musical, and that technology can help give young people access to the world of music. iPads allow kids with zero musical experience to write songs and create chord progressions that work. “We’re not talking about sampling or copying and pasting things,” he says.

“They’re actually making music.” All the kids at the collegiate school have iPads, and all have access to Garage Band, so anyone who wants to help out with the musical—a completely optional activity—can learn using that. Nields has an iMac desktop loaded up with Pro Tools—industry standard recording software—where all the final work is done. They create backing tracks that the kids will sing live to. “We even put out an album on Soundcloud every year,” he says with a great big smile.

What’s perhaps most impressive is how many students choose to participate. It’s not attached to a class—it’s just out

Garden, photo by Cristiana Ware of interest and fun. Because they’re actually creating their own versus putting on, say, Cats or Grease, their sense of ownership is profound. And that translates into a lot of students wanting to be part of it. This year they have about 50 helping out, though that number is 60+ if you count stage crew. “Some just want to be on stage. Some want to only play piano and write lyrics. Some only want to make scenery or work backstage,” says Nields. “My goal is always to give as many kids the opportunity to be on stage, if possible. I don’t come in and choose the three most talented kids and let the others fade away. I invite them all to be as involved as they choose to be.”

The reaction to each year’s musical? Overwhelming. Nields says, “98% say some version of ‘I can’t believe it was this good.’ They kind of come in thinking that kids wrote this, so they have lower expectations, but then they’re completely surprised at the quality of the show.”

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While audience members continue to be surprised by the shows, what surprises Nields again and again is how talented the kids are.

“Each year, there’s a kid who comes up with a turn of phrase that on my best day—remember I was a professional musician for 10 years—I couldn’t have come up with. Or they’ll create a chord progression or lyric that’s wonderful but so outside of my wheelhouse.”

based on ancient Rome. Then we did another collaboration entitled Avilasa that was based on Mesopotamia myths,” Nields says. “This year’s production is Monsters. We’ve gotten some guidance and ideas about that from a teacher here, Kristin Goddard, who teaches monster theory—the idea of the Other. So what we do is cross-curricular for sure.”

One of the challenges they face is not having consistent theater space—SFC’s Neel Performing Arts Center is used for a variety of other purposes because it’s a cultural center for Manatee and Sarasota County. It regularly hosts college and community sponsored events because it’s such an impressive venue—witness seating for 830, a 65’ by 4’ stage, and wheelchair accessible seating and restrooms. It’s also not the easiest to get all the kids together because this is a rigorous academic school. There are lots of classroom and study expectations.

“I’m used to rehearsing five days a week, with an extra three hours on Sunday,” Nields admits. “We’re lucky to get two days a week, which is why we start up in January. We make it work, though.”

Want to see for yourself just how great a student-generated musical can be? Come out to the Neel Performing Arts Center on May 10th or 11th, 7 p.m., to see Monsters for yourself. Did I mention it’s free? Do consider making a donation, though, because Nields and these hard-working kids deserve it.

Sometimes they have an overarching theme or idea they want to run with at the start, and sometimes they generate that together. “One year, we had two students write the entire thing themselves—it was

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SHOULD I HAVE MY HERNIA REPAIRED? Jonathan Yunis, MD FACS

WHAT IS A HERNIA? A hernia is a defect or hole in the muscular abdominal wall that allows internal organs or fat to pass through it toward the overlying skin. When a hernia occurs, one may notice a protrusion or bulge under the skin of the abdomen.

The swelling or bulge can be painless, uncomfortable, or very painful. Some hernias present without an obvious bulge, which ultimately will develop slowly over time. The most common hernias occur in the groin (inguinal and femoral hernia) and in the belly button (umbilical hernia). Many hernias occur in areas of previous surgical incisions (ventral incisional hernias) in the abdominal wall.

WHY DO YOU HAVE A HERNIA? Most hernias occur because of a genetic predisposition. Repetitive heavy lifting or other forms of exertion are likely to cause the hernia to present earlier in your life. Ventral hernias from an abdominal surgical incision will occur in 20% of all abdominal operations. The risk for ventral incisional hernia development is increased in smokers, diabetics, obesity, and surgical wound infections.

WHY HAVE YOUR HERNIA REPAIRED? 1. Pain – While most hernias are painless, if your hernia is causing intermittent discomfort or pain, then surgical repair is the solution to eradicate these symptoms.

2. Appearance – Hernias are often disfiguring and an experienced hernia specialist often offers an enhanced cosmetic outcome.

3. Size – The natural history of a hernia left untreated is unpredictable. While many hernias can remain unchanged over time, most hernias tend to get larger. Hernia enlargement over time can lead to a much bigger operation with a more difficult recovery. Smaller hernias are often amenable to outpatient surgery and with recovery that usually will not require prescription pain medicine.

4. Risk of Emergent Incarceration or Strangulation – Incarceration of a hernia is when the intestine is trapped in the hernia defect. This can result in obstruction of the intestine causing abdominal pain and vomiting. After a hernia incarcerates, it can strangulate the intestine contained within the hernia. This strangulation compromises the blood flow to the intestine and if surgery is not performed to relieve this, overwhelming sepsis and even death is a possibility.

WHY NOT HAVE YOUR HERNIA REPAIRED? The risks of your hernia repair should be significantly lower than your risk of leaving it untreated.

While this seems obvious, historically 1 in 4 people that undergo hernia surgery are unhappy due to problems with

chronic pain, infection, or recurrence.

These complications are clearly avoidable.

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO ENSURE THE BEST CHANCE FOR A FAVORABLE RESULT? Seek treatment by an experienced hernia specialist whose practice is solely dedicated to hernia repair.

HOW SHOULD MY HERNIA BE REPAIRED? If you have a hernia, you have options.

Surgical options include conventional open surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and robotic surgery. Most repairs utilize mesh in order to reduce the risk of hernia recurrence. Some repairs can be performed without the use of mesh. There are many different types of mesh and it is generally safe when implanted by an experienced surgeon.

All hernias and the people that develop them are unique. There is no standard approach to hernia repair. Careful analysis of each person’s lifestyle and needs along with the location and size of the hernia are necessary to formulate a proper solution. A hernia specialist will help you make the best decision.

Jonathan Yunis MD FACS Center for Hernia Repair 1435 South Osprey Avenue Suite 201 Sarasota, FL 34239 941.953.5917

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InHEALTH MOTHERS OF THE BRIDE— THEY WANT TO LOOK GOOD TOO!

By Dr. Braun H. Graham

As a board certified plastic surgeon practicing in this area for over three decades, I have seen a dramatic increase in women seeking aesthetic enhancements in preparation for their daughters (and sons) upcoming weddings. With all of the preparation and planning that has become part of a modern wedding, the mothers of the soon to be newlyweds have presented with a desire to improve their appearance for the big event. This can range from some topical skin treatments to improve skin texture and clarity, to more advanced injections of fillers and neuromodulators such as Botox Cosmetic. With ample lead time, many have opted for more dramatic rejuvenation by undergoing facelift, eyelid and laser surgery. These procedures are performed routinely as an outpatient at the Sarasota Plastic Surgery Center.

For these procedures, I usually recommend a minimum interval of four to six months between the surgical procedure and the wedding day. This interval not only allows for complete wound healing (usually three to four weeks) but also for all post-surgical swelling and redness to resolve. This relieves the social pressure of having to be completely healed for events such as wedding showers and family gatherings in advance of the wedding.

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“For these procedures, I usually recommend a minimum interval of four to six months between the surgical procedure and the wedding day.” trending for the mothers is a request for improving the appearance of their hands.

I often hear the complaint, “I’ve taken care of my face, but my hands are giving away my age!” Many women can achieve wonderful results utilizing a combination of fat injections and topical IPL (intense pulsed light) treatments. The fat injections to the top of the hands camouflage the valleys between the visible bones and tendons. The IPL removes the dark sun spots as well as making the skin texture appear younger.

I recently had a grandmother of the groom come into my office requesting a filler injection prior to her grandson’s wedding. I asked her when the wedding was scheduled and she replied, “in two days.” This certainly would not allow adequate

time for recovery if the grandmother had sustained a bruise from a needle injection to place the filler. Just last week I had another mother of the bride reveal that she and her husband had been saving for their daughter’s wedding and the mother wished to have a facelift. With the destination wedding scheduled almost a year away, we have time to schedule her surgery and complete her surgical procedure with ample healing time, while not interfering with travel plans for the wedding site visits.

In some cases I feel the mothers are reliving their own youth vicariously through the festivities surrounding the wedding preparations. Lastly, I remind the mothers that the wedding day is still all about the bride and groom!

Dr. Braun H. Graham is President of the Sarasota Plastic Surgery Center. He is the former President of the Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Past President of the Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. Dr. Graham is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and a member of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.

Braun H. Graham, M.D., FACS Sarasota Plastic Surgery Center 2255 S Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL. 34239 941.203.1303

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InHEALTH NEW EFFECTIVE MINIMALLY INVASIVE TREATMENTS FOR CHRONIC PAIN

By Fabian A. Ramos, MD, FIPP, DABA, DABIPP, DABPM, International Pain Medicine, Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice Board Certified – American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians, American Board of Pain Medicine, American Board of Anesthesiology

Our specialty of Interventional Pain Medicine continues to evolve. We can now offer more advanced and less invasive out-patient modalities to treat chronic pain. Opioids have proven to not be a favorable alternative of treatment for most patients. These new therapies are now offered sooner to patients whose pain has not responded to entry level procedures, such as injections, steroids, joint blocks or radiofrequency of the nerves.

INTERSPINOUS SPACERS: Indicated for patients with moderate lumbar spinal stenosis who have not responded to treatments with steroids.

By inserting a spacer in between the very accessible spinous processes, the narrowing of the spinal canal is improved. In Studies, using the Superion device, 84.3% demonstrated clinical success and provided long-term, durable relief of symptoms of intermittent neurogenic claudication (weakness/numbness in legs when walking) for patients with moderate lumbar spinal stenosis.

M.I.L.D. PROCEDURE: Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression. Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is characterized by narrowing of the spinal canal with impingement of the spinal cord by surrounding tissues of bones. Current management options for LSS include rest, medications, physical therapy, epidural steroid injections, alternative medicine and surgical decompression. MILD is effective, safe and cost-effective and is indicated for treatment of LSS with ligamentum

flavum hypertrophy through percutaneous (not open) decompression of the thick ligamentum flavum. The effect is thinning of this superficial, easily-accessible ligament that is a contributor to the spinal canal narrowing.

PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION: Indicated for non-spine related upper or lower limb nerve pain, nerve entrapment syndromes and neuralgias and peripheral nerve injuries or nerve diseases. This is safe for use in patients suffering from chronic pain of peripheral nerve origin. It is done under ultrasound guidance by inserting a wire-like stimulating lead through a very small incision in the skin.

TARGETED RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION OF METASTATIC TUMORS: Indicated for patients with pain caused by metastatic spinal tumors. It does not affect chemo or radiation therapy treatments and can be done at any time before, during or after these traditional therapies. Treatment is performed under fluoroscopy guided access of the body of the vertebra via a light weight, steerable device, through the skin that navigate the vertebra towards the tumor, allowing for the destruction of the tumor via radiofrequency heat.

HF10: HIGH FREQUENCY SPINAL CORD STIMULATION: This is a paresthesia-free stimulation (the stimulation is imperceptible for the patient), indicated for lower back, leg, neck, arm pain that has not responded to more conventional modalities. The

candidate is initially trialed (non-incision step) and if pain relief is achieved during the trial, then the permanent step is performed. The implant is done through two small incisions in the skin and the spinal leads are placed via a needle.

These high tech stimulatiosn block the pain signal to the spinal cord. The permanent implantation does not require spine surgery. Close to 80% of patients achieve 80% of pain relief.

SACROILIAC TRANSCUTANEOUS FUSION: Indicated for patients with recurrent pain in the sacro-iliac joint that has not responded to sacroiliac injections or sacroiliac radiofrequency, this procedure is performed under fluoroscopy guidance through a small incision in the skin.

INTRACEPT PROCEDURE FOR VERTEBRAL ENDPLATE PAIN: This is an emergent, minimally invasive procedure that targets the basivertebral nerve for the relief of chronic lower back pain, frequently as a result of chronic disc degeneration (discogenic pain).

This procedure is performed under guided fluoroscopy via an instrument inserted through the skin, reaching the body of the vertebra.

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By Rick Dakan As I write this, we’re in full tourist season. But summer is coming, and with the heat comes emptier streets and a chance to get out to enjoy some of Sarasota’s finer things without the out-of-towners (as much as we love them) taking up all the seats and parking spots. One thing that makes this year’s summertime fun time different is the new cohort of fancy fine dining options at all the luxury hotels that have popped up downtown. Modern hotels compete on every level, and deluxe dining options are part of the package.

I’ve had a chance to try out several of the new spots, and have some advice if you’re looking for an overnight staycation or just a night out.

The Sarasota Modern (1290 Boulevard of the Arts, Sarasota, 941.906.1290) or The Modern as it is sometimes called, is one of the newest boutique hotels to open, and to me one of the most interesting. It takes its inspiration from The Sarasota School of Architecture, which is near and dear to my heart since I grew up in a house designed by one of the movement’s premiere architects, Victor Lundy. The Modern’s restaurant takes its inspiration from another luminary of the movement: Paul Rudolph. It’s called simply Rudolph’s.

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Set adjacent to the hotel’s beautiful modern pool area, with a generous outdoor seating area and a striking circular bar and lounge area, Rudolph’s offers high-end cuisine nestled in a cool and inspiring setting. Of course the decor only gets you so far. It’s the food that matters.

“Each of the restaurant’s unique recipes have been designed with Paul Rudolph’s approach in mind, says The Modern’s Paul Romero. “Chef Salhoff was an architect in her own right when she created the menu at Rudolph’s. Her dishes offer a dramatic touch to both traditional and non-traditional dishes.”

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on the town eat alligator at Rudolph’s. “I’d have to say the Gator and Waffles is one of many dishes that set Rudolph’s apart,” Romero says. “It’s an unexpected, creative dish that pushes the boundaries and never disappoints.”

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Laughing MATTERS THE ONE ABOUT EAVESDROPPING

By Ryan G. Van Cleave | Illustrations by Darcy Kelly-Laviolette

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‘m an eavesdropper. At least when there’s something worth listening in on. Otherwise I’m totally ignoring people for all I’m worth because 90% of what anyone says is humdrum everyday material.

But the gloriousness of that 10% sometimes makes all the hard work worth it.

For example, the other day at the Cold Stone Creamery near the UTC mall, I watched a mom offer her kid an ice cream cone.

“What’s the magic word?” she said. He responded with “Abracadabra!” The mom wasn’t pleased, but I thought the kid was a genius.

A week or so back, I was lounging on a bench near Lido Beach, enjoying the unexpected 70º March weather.

A family of five emerged from the one of the wooden paths away from the sand. You know how these folks looked— windblown, sunblasted, and Sarasota-ed out. They rinsed at one of those public showers, but the youngest still had hair issues. So the dad tried to brush out some of the knots and general disaster atop her head.

The kid lurched away and howled, “JEEE-SUS!” The dad shushed her, saying, “We only use Jesus’ name for prayers or if we’re saying nice things.”

And the kid said, “Well, I’m praying to Jesus that you stop hurting my head!”

Another genius!

first couple of years when I could speak, any time my parents said, “I love you!” to me, I always answered, “I love me too!”

And there was a baby shower I got dragged too—I was maybe four or five—and all the moms were speculating on the baby’s gender. Since we were neighbors and theoretically could play together, one assumes, one neighbor asked, “Do you want it to be a boy or a girl?”

I announced, “I want it to be Spiderman!”

Now that you’re onboard with the importance and potential for mayhem in my life related to eavesdropping, we’re ready for this month’s story. Gather round, folks.

So I was with a pal the other day in Tampa at one of those big downtown hotels. I was recounting this over-the-top 3 a.m. escapade with a name-brand author at a Miami book conference that included a pair of missing dress socks, an honest-to-goodness manatee, and a rental SUV that reeked of garlic so bad that one assumed a vampire had been whacked inside the vehicle the night prior.

And then I realized the couple in the chairs behind us in the lobby were totally riveted by all we were saying. Being the eavesdropper appreciater that I am, I switched gears so they’d have a story of their own to tell.

I summoned my inner four-year-old child and whispered to my buddy, “Here’s really why I asked you to meet with me. Someone followed me again last night.”

Let’s be honest—nine times out of ten, the best things worth overhearing come from kids. Why? Three reasons.

Always one to roll with anything, my pal didn’t miss a beat, saying, “Oh, you’re just being paranoid.”

1) They trust their gut.

2) They’re honest to a fault.

3) They eat Kool-Aid powder straight from the packet.

(Clearly, we’d both seen the same episode of Frasier way back when.)

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Me: I swear to you. They’re onto me.

My pal: C’mon. Nobody could recognize you after all the plastic surgery.

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