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  <title>Creative Loafing Tampa: Arts</title>
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    <title>Smart new improv show The Dumb Show is a welcome monthly addition to American Stage</title>
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        By Mark E. Leib
      
      
      Good improv requires a lot more than acting talent. It requires intelligence, a wide-ranging imagination, split-second decision-making and an unfailing instinct for what&#39;s comic in the human condition. Where Gavin Hawk and Ricky Wayne of The Dumb Show are concerned, it also means the willingness to appear utterly ridiculous in front of a crowdful of strangers. Whether impersonating Britney Spears trying to make up with Kevin Federline, a sadistic father and his horrified son playing racquetball, or two U.S. Airway
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    <category>Arts/Theater Review</category>
    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Lesley Dill&amp;#39;s breathtaking artwork explores how words shape our world</title>
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        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      For all the blows that have been struck against the once-hallowed ideal of the artist as expressive genius, for many museum-goers a visit to that sacred temple of art is still about encountering the &quot;voice&quot; of a visionary. (For example, while, say, community-based artworks are gaining some traction as the focus of museum exhibitions, the blockbuster showcase devoted to a single, prodigious creative mind remains the gold standard.) From a certain perspective, this makes perfect sense: for many artists, artistic
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    <title>Art is an entertaining play about male friendship and contemporary art</title>
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        By Mark E. Leib
      
      
      Yasmina Reza&#39;s Art has two subjects, one of them serious and worthy of attention, the other slightly embarrassing and perhaps even philistine. The better theme -- and the one that gets most of the stage time -- is male friendship and the unspoken agreements that sustain it. The three men in this case are Marc, Serge and Yvan, whose comradeship is threatened by a disagreement over a painting, and who eventually discover what awkward and never-admitted assumptions have bound them
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>War stories</title>
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        Tolstoy's <i>War and Peace</i> is as gripping and contemporary as ever....
       
      
        By Peter Meinke
      
      
      He wanted to be like Jesus but he was rich and married besides empediments to sainthood or even telling the truth... (from &#39;Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana&#39;) In the summer of 2003, Jeanne and I took a cruise along the Neva and Volga Rivers, between St. Petersburg and Moscow, celebrating the symmetrical birthdays of our St. Pete (100th) and Russia&#39;s (300th). In St. Petersburg, I recited some poems, with translator and poet Ilya Foniakov, on a midnight poetry call-in radio program.
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    <category>Arts/Poet&amp;#39;s Notebook</category>
    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Jobsite&amp;#39;s usually nimble troupe sucks the life out of Night of the Living Dead.</title>
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        By Mark E. Leib
      
      
      There were arguably two ways to go with a stage version of the 1968 cult-film classic Night of the Living Dead: play it straight, for chills and thrills, or play it for laughs, as a sort of inspired Charles Ludlam-like parody. Jobsite tries for both, and succeeds at neither. There are a few good moments &mdash; a couple of graphically gory shockers, some silly combats, and all the much-too-short scenes involving Jason Vaughan Evans &mdash; but in general this is
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    <category>Arts/Theater Review</category>
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review of The New Century at St. Petersburg&amp;#39;s American Stage</title>
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        A brilliant start but a tepid finish to an "After Hours" comedy....
       
      
        By Mark E. Leib
      
      
      Paul Rudnick&#39;s The New Century starts out incandescent, loses a little effulgence in its second scene, becomes decidedly lackluster in its third, and fizzles out completely in its fourth and fifth. The American Stage &quot;After Hours&quot; production offers two outstanding performances &mdash; by Annie Morrison and Matthew McGee &mdash; and even during its least interesting moments, there&#39;s always a chance that witty Rudnick will deliver another zinger. But clever jokes aren&#39;t enough to hold a play together, and The New
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    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Ghost story: A review of The Woman in Black</title>
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        <i>The Woman in Black</i> is a thriller that's actually thrilling at Gorilla....
       
      
        By Mark E. Leib
      
      
      The Woman in Black is an entertaining, unusually literary ghost drama for the Halloween season, though one that lacks much reason for existing outside its capacity to excite a degree of fear. Beautifully acted by Christopher Rutherford and Glenn Gover, the current Gorilla Theatre production is genuinely spooky -- several times spectators shrieked -- and pleasingly original. It won&#39;t remind you of anything else you&#39;ve seen. It features wonderfully discomfiting sound effects, super-serious characters (to raise the level of terror),
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    <category>Arts/Theater Review</category>
    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Gospel truth: Just As I Am: The Life, the Times, The Voice of Mahalia Jackson</title>
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        By Mark E. Leib
      
      
      If you&rsquo;re interested in hearing some superb gospel singing, don&rsquo;t miss Sharon E. Scott in Just As I Am: The Life, the Times, The Voice of Mahalia Jackson. But the title is misleading: in fact, Scott&rsquo;s script leaves out huge chunks of Jackson&rsquo;s life and times, leaving audiences pretty much uninformed about more than a few important events in the great vocalist&rsquo;s biography. Not that it matters too much: the attraction here is Scott&rsquo;s soulful, stirring singing, which would be
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The walls of academia: galley shows at local universities</title>
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        University galleries are prime destinations for art lovers....
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      From cutting-edge international exhibitions to MFA showcases, local universities are ripe for gallery-hopping. University of South Florida The smart, adventurous exhibitions at USF&#39;s Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) hold appeal for visitors from far beyond the university&#39;s Tampa campus. Together with its sister institution, world-renowned print atelier Graphicstudio (both comprise the USF Institute for Research in Art), CAM offers students a first-rate opportunity to engage with established and emerging practitioners through exhibits, symposia, artist talks and tours. Past highlights: Elsewhere (2007),
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Writers&amp;#39; oasis: The St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading</title>
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        Books are alive and well on USF St. Pete's campus during the Festival of Reading....
       
      
        By Peter Meinke
      
      
      My mother loved books, though not necessarily reading them. She thought they were beautiful. So do I. One of my favorite activities is looking at other people&#39;s bookshelves. They&#39;re infinitely more interesting than wallpaper, or even the framed art on the walls. They deepen our relationship with our hosts: like the windows that show us their outside neighborhoods, the books let us look inside for a glimpse at their interior lives. Are the books used, leather, kinky, kooky, murky? One
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Ardi, Baywalk and the race for mayor</title>
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        By Peter Meinke
      
      
      ... Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with wond&#39;ring eyes He stared at the Pacific ... --John Keats (1816) The Romantic poets lived in a scientific Age of Wonder, reacting to voyages of discovery on the oceans, in the skies, and in the laboratories. They reacted with wonder themselves, though not always accurately. (Keats confused Cortez with Balboa, unless he just thought &quot;Cortez&quot; sounded
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Ringling International Arts Festival dances on the cutting edge</title>
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        By Brian Ries
      
      
      Sarasota&#39;s arts scene has been damn exciting of late, from international DJ events to Ringling College of Art and Design alums starting artistic co-ops to promote less traditional works. Ringling Museum, however, has always been the area&#39;s artistic grande dame, its formidable collection and parade of international traveling exhibits a dependable lure for visitors and locals alike -- a serious, if not exactly cutting-edge, institution. But this week the venerable museum is blurring the lines a bit with the Ringling
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    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Draw together, right now, at Big Draw Ruskin</title>
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        A festival and a mural honor the sprit of Ruskin's namesake....
       
      
        By Megan Voeller
      
      
      On a sweltering Sunday afternoon in mid-September, the building that houses the administrative offices of Mary and Martha House -- a Ruskin non-profit dedicated to the care of women and children in crisis -- is a blindingly white beacon on pavement, bordered by irrepressible flora. The two-story structure&#39;s distinctive simplicity and curving walls (a dollop of Florida modern adjacent to a highway lined with strip malls) have earned it at least one colorful nickname: the Flintstones building. With straw hat
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The poet casts his vote for St. Petersburg mayor</title>
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        By Peter Meinke
      
      
      Why are our stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads. --Howard Nemerov, &#39;Power to the People&#39; Picking our leaders is always tricky, and often disappointing. Like actors -- or even poets -- what they say and what they do vary unpleasantly, and attractive personalities may disguise nasty tendencies. But in St. Petersburg&#39;s mayoral race, as Bill Foster has pointed out, the choice seems clearer than usual; and not just because
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Theater review: Fascinating Jails, Hospitals &amp;amp; Hip-Hop</title>
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        By Mark E. Leib
      
      
      Actor/writer/performance artist Danny Hoch has made it his personal mission to bring an unusual type of character to the live stage. This character usually shows up only in the margins of dramatic literature: he may be a criminal or a drug addict or physically or mentally damaged. He may be a white kid who wishes he were black, a crippled man who wants to join the Air Force, or a poor guy who figures that prison is better than the
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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