A&E Picks and Highlights

Her story: June LeBell is the first female radio announcer on a major classical music radio station and spent her career hosting numerous award-winning programs. She’s currently The Observer’s music reviewer, and leader of sold-out SILL series Musical Conversations.

The news: LeBell will be hosting a new program on WSMR where she’ll host, produce and book guests from around the world for Sarasota listeners.

First guest: Marilyn Horne, the famous 80-year-old Mezzo-soprano opera singer.

When: The first program will broadcast in October. Stay tuned for details.

Where: Featured February, at Michael’s On East, 1212 S. East Ave., Sarasota.

What: This lunch entrée is part of the two-course lunch menu for $18.95 a person.

Ingredients: Accompanying the salt-seared hanger steak are pommes de terre sarladaise (potatoes cooked in duck fat), sautéed wild mushrooms and au poivre sauce (pepper steak sauce).

Best Paired with: Cotes du Rhone, Andre Brunel, Rhone Valley, FR, 2011

Medium: Macro Lens

Size: 40 inches by 60 inches

On Display: In “Reimagining Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz” from Feb. 8 through Feb. 16, at the IceHouse, 1314 10th St.

Inspiration: “I like to get up close and personal to the flowers, which is of course, very similar to Georgia O’Keeffe; she wanted to get up close and personal and force you to look at it. I like to get up close because when I did, I was just amazed at the complexities and the uniqueness of each flower… Hopefully, you can feel that it is alive. Sometimes when flowers are on paper or as photographs they are very beautiful, but you can’t feel the twinkle. I hope you can feel the twinkle.”
 

A&E Editor's Picks: 

Thursday, Feb. 6
Chamber Series: ‘East & Middle East’
Sarasota Orchestra
5:30 p.m. at Holley Hall
Tickets $29 to $37. Call 953-3434.

New Stages: Lost Wax
NowHERE
7:30 p.m. at Historic Asolo Theater
Runs through Saturday.
Tickets $30. Call 359-5700.

Ringling Underground
8 p.m. at The Ringling
Museum of Art
Tickets $10. Call 359-5700.

Thursday Nights Live, New Orleans Jazz
8 p.m. at The Longboat Key
Education Center
Tickets $15. Call 383-8811.

Friday, Feb. 7
Circus Sarasota Winter Performance
7 p.m. at the Big Top (12th Street and Tuttle Avenue)
Runs through Feb. 23.
Tickets $12.50 to $25.
Call 355-9335.

‘Radio Gals’
8 p.m. at Venice Theatre
Runs through March 2.
Tickets $10 to $28. Call 488-1115.

Steppin’ Out Live with Ben Vereen
8 p.m. at Venice Theatre
Tickets $59. Call 488-1115.

Saturday, Feb. 8
YO Concert
Sarasota Orchestra Association
10:30 a.m. at Holley Hall
Visit SOAssociation.org.

‘Back by Popular Demand’
Magic of Manatee Sweet
Adeline Chorus
3 p.m. at Neel Performing Arts Center
Tickets $18. Call 794-0218.

‘Il Trovatore’ by Giuseppe Verdi
7 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House
Runs through March 22.
Tickets $19 to $120. Call 328-1300.

Kenny Rogers
8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Tickets $65 to $85. Call 953-3368.

Sarasota Concert Band
8 p.m. at The Glenridge Performing Arts Center
Tickets $15. Call 552-5325.

Sunday, Feb. 9
‘Civil America’
Suncoast Concert Band
3 p.m. at Northminster Presbyterian Church
Tickets $5. Call 907-4123.

‘Just the Two of Us’
Sarasota Pops Orchestra
3 p.m. at Riverview Performing Arts Center
Tickets $20 to $25. Call 926-7677.

Kenny Loggins
7 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Tickets $50 to $70.
Call 953-3368.