Here’s to a happy, artful New Year
Crowds in the thousands are expected to attend the 16th annual Downtown Naples New Year’s Art Fair on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 7-8, along Fifth Avenue South and the monthly Art in the Park festival taking place Saturday only along Park Street. Full Story
History on display
Whether you’re admiring or acquiring, antiques shows can take you back in time
SHOPPING AT AN ANTIQUES SHOW IS LIKE WALKING THROUGH A museum where the artifacts are not just kept locked behind glass, you can take them home.
From art to jewelry, and from decorative glass to sculpture, buying something historic has many benefits. Full Story
Young musicians star in upcoming Erich Kunzel Community Concert
Young artists from the Naples Music Club share the spotlight for the next presentation in the Erich Kunzel Community Concert Series coming up at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 6, at Edison State College-Collier Campus. The series is sponsored by Bayshore Cultural and Performing Arts Center, Fifth Third Bank and Susanne Geier. Full Story
$1.62 million in NEA grants help make art work
“Art works everywhere,” says Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Full Story
Unreal reality: There’s no accounting for taste
THEATER REVIEW
Back when I was in college, I had a friend who’d declare, “There’s no accounting for taste…”
She’d pause for a couple of beats, then finish her sentence: “…or the lack of it.”
I’d laugh every time. Full Story
Classic rocker Steve Luongo to connect with local audiences
Drummer, songwriter, record producer and filmmaker Steve Luongo launches his national tour in downtown Fort Myers, appearing at the Florida Repertory Theater from 7-9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, and at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center from 7:30- 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16. Full Story
HOROSCOPES
¦ CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Set aside your usual reluctance to change, and consider reassessing your financial situation so that you can build on its strengths and minimize its weaknesses. Full Story
Best of 2011
LATEST FILMS
2011 was an overall solid year at the movies. It pushed boundaries, made us laugh, asked questions and, at its best, moved us to tears. I’ll start my list of the Top 10 films of 2011 with the most satisfying conclusion to a saga since the “Lord of the Rings” ended in 2003. Full Story
Cocktail competition will yield the first ‘Naples Original’ libation
Key West has its Margarita, New Orleans its Hurricane. Kentucky has its Mint Julep, the Caribbean its Rum Punch.
New York City has its Manhattan, and Naples is soon to have its Naples Original. Full Story
Start the New Year in good ‘Company’
TheatreZone’s production of “Company,” Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece about New York marriages, opens Thursday, Jan. 5, at the G&L Theatre at the Community School of Naples. Full Story
‘Les Miz,’ 25 years later
A classic returns to the boards with new staging and scenery
Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh’s 25th anniversary production of “Les Misérables’ are on sale now for performances Jan. 24-28 at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts. The production features new staging and scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. See a video sneak peek at 222.lesmis.com/watch. Full Story
COMING UP AT THE PHIL
¦ The Naples Philharmonic Orchestra presents “Prokofiev’s Fifth,” the third program in the orchestra’s Classical Series, at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 5-7. The Concert Prelude begins one hour before each performance. Guest violinist Karen Gomyo and guest cellist Christian Poltéra will join the orchestra. Full Story
‘Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves’
BEACH READING
by Sheldon Garon(Princeton University Press, $29.95)
Americans are spendthrifts when compared with many other parts of the world. We save little, even though the United States has weaker social safety nets and a relatively youthful population. Europeans, on the other hand, save at much higher rates despite generous welfare programs, higher taxes and aging populations. Full Story
The tensions between real and recreated cabinets
KOVELS: ANTIQUES & COLLECTING
Some furniture styles are so popular that they are copied by cabinetmakers for hundreds of years. Some copies are easy to recognize as copies because their construction is modern — new nails, machine-made mortise and-tenon joints holding drawer parts together, telltale marks made by modern saws rather than the marks left by antique hand tools. Full Story
SAVE THE DATE
Tennis fashions for Music for Minors
Music for Minors, a nonprofit organization that provides musical instruments for students in Collier and Lee county schools, holds a luncheon and tennis fashion show on Wednesday, Jan. 18, at The Club at Barefoot Beach. Local tennis players will model fashions provided by Just Tennis. Full Story
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