Reading and Roaming
CONFLUENCE OF RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS This weekend, for the first time in 30 years, three different religious holidays overlap. Jews celebrated the first day of Passover on April 15, that same day was Good Friday for Christians, and it’s in the middle of Ramadan for Muslims. Today is Easter Sunday! Whatever you celebrate or don’t, may you enjoy the annual …
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DOCUDRAMA OF FALSE IDENTITY INVENTING ANNA (Netflix) Anna Delvey, Russian by birth, presented herself in New York as a German heiress with a large trust fund. Only 25, she grandly aspired to create a club cum art gallery called ADF, the Anna Delvey Foundation. Poised, confident, and brazen, she led the high life, courted the A-list of society, …
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SARASOTA ORCHESTRA MASTERWORKS CONCERT The Sarasota Orchestra was in fine form last evening under the baton of new music director Bramwell Tovey. Maestro Tovey is a Grammy award-winning conductor and principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra. The program included lesser-known works by Richard Strauss and Samuel Coleridge -Taylor plus a lovely violin concerto by Mendelssohn played by …
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BEST PICTURE NOMINEES—Heartwarming and Otherworldly CODA (Apple TV+) I hadn’t seen or read much about CODA until it won several awards from the Screen Actors Guild. I then noted it was also a Best Picture Oscar nominee which really brought it to my attention. It’s a wonderful story, poignant and compelling. Ruby, a high school senior, is the only hearing …
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