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Cliff Roles interviews Lucinda Streiker-Schmidt

From our boy Cliff Roles:

“A Separate God Journal of an Amish Girl” Book Signings:

Starbucks
Saturday, November 7th from 10AM-2PM Starbucks Bee Ridge and Beneva
Sarasota, FL

Circle Books
Sunday, November 8th from 1-3PM @ Circle Books, 478 John Ringling Blvd.
Sarasota, FL

Starbucks
Wednesday, November 11th from 10AM-12N @ University & Tuttle
Sarasota, FL

Starbucks
Thursday, November 12th from 5:30PM-7:30PM @ US 41 & Worrington Avenue
Sarasota, FL

Lucinda Streiker-Schmidt left the close-knit Amish community of rural Indiana to start a new life. Streiker-Schmidt, who married and had two children while in the Amish faith, grew up with questions about the outside world, and after a tumultuous, abusive marriage, divorced her Amish husband and began a new life with her children. After putting herself through nursing school and establishing her career, she began working on her novel, which is based on the journals she kept as a young girl.

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Laura Gale of Everything But the Girl is Atomic alumni… She is a FOUR TIMER, folks! Laura produced the fashion shows for AHB II & III with Monica Eshkoli (of Freaky Tiki) and EBTG will be at both Atomic shows this year, Saturday Night, 12/12/09 and Sunday, 12/13/09.

I remember the first Atomic show in 2006, Laura made a point of stopping me a little before the doors were getting ready to open and she told me to stop and take it all in. What can I say? It was a moment, a very, very good moment! Everything But the Girl is kind of like Atomic Holiday Bazaar year round, we are very lucky to have such a fun and colorful place to shop in Sarasota! It wouldn’t be Atomic without Laura. Ms. Gale’s interview can be read below!

Name of Business/Website Address? everything but the girl, boutique & gallery / shopebtg.com/

What City/State do you reside in? Sarasota FL

Is this your first time attending Atomic or have you done the show before? I am in my senior year, Year #4!

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I had the pleasure of meeting the wonderful Lorna Galloway of Lorna Ruth at the Delray Stitch Rock indie craft show this past October. As I’m sure some of you may have noticed (all seven of my readers) I like the dark stuff. I like the things that make the hair on my skin stand up and take notice. Lorna must too because her photography and perfectly edited images make me wake up and calm me at the same time. Is there a word for that? Damn, it eludes. Lorna will be at the Saturday night Atomic Holiday Show on 12/12/09. Her images are the perfect compliment to the upcoming dark-hearted evening craft show. Get to know her by reading her interview below:

Name of Business/Website Address? Lorna Ruth / lornaruth.etsy.com

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Hello, fellow Sarasotans. It is my pleasure to introduce you to my new blog, which I have oh-so-fittingly dubbed “The Starving Artist.” My goal for these posts is to give you an insider’s view into the trials and tribulations of a musician trying to start a music career on the Suncoast. I plan to provide you with some valuable tips on how best to market your music and get shows booked, and also what it’s like to play at our local establishments from an artist’s perspective. I’ll let you know who draws the best crowds and how receptive they are to the music, what venues have the best sound, what it’s like dealing with the booking agents and what you can expect to earn for a night’s work. I hope I can entertain and enlighten you on what it really means to be a starving artist on the Suncoast.

First thing’s first. Any musician that wants to break into any music scene has to start by getting their name out there. And before you can do that you have to have a name. I will be writing this blog from a solo artist’s viewpoint, but most of the information should translate to full bands as well. A stage name or band name can be the most important decision a musician will ever make. Once you put all the legwork into marketing your name — website, MySpace page, press kit, promotional materials and, most importantly, public name recognition — you’re pretty much stuck with it. Unless you’re Jack White and you can come out with a new band every few months, you will probably be tied to that name for the entirety of your musical career.

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The latest in a never-ending string of theme months for Little Movie Review is Comic Book Month. We here at LMR are actually more into comics than we are movies, and are always disheartened at the defeatist attitude most folks take to the medium. “They’re not for me” or the even more baffling “I don’t know how to read them” are frequent but insufficient excuses for dismissing an entire art form as varied as movies or novels and intrinsically more accessible than both. (The answer, by the way, is “from left to right, and read the words and look at the pictures in any order you want.”)

One of the point-of-entry problems for comics is that the “classics” are greatly admired by experienced comics readers, but not necessarily great starting points. Watchmen? Too dense and too dependent on a knowledge of comics history to be enjoyable as a first read. The Dark Knight? Juvenile and violent. Not necessarily a bad thing, but not everyone’s cup of tea. Maus? Would you give someone War and Peace as their first book? Probably not. Comics Month here at Little Movie Review will be about providing some more accessible points of entry into comics for those unsure of where to start with them.

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Cliff Roles interviews Susan Estes

From our boy Cliff Roles:

Tinycandy’s Gift is a new Christmas story tracing the origins of the popular holiday treat, the candy cane. Tinycandy is an elf growing up in the North Pole who always felt left out because he walks with a limp. With Christmas approaching, Tinycandy is desperate to find his special “gift” in order to contribute to Christmas in Santa’s workshop and become accepted by the other elves. When Tinycandy does discover his gift, it creates a special sweet treat that changes Christmas forever.

In Tinycandy’s Gift, Susan creates a unique history of how the candy cane got its name and weaves in a classic tale that conveys to children one of the pivotal rules of life. Susan has spent her life working with and raising children and believes that teaching them to appreciate their own and others’ differences is the most important lesson of all.

About Susan Estes

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Creative Loafing Half-Hour Variety Hour: Episode #34 (Part 1)

Creative Loafing Half-Hour Variety Hour: Episode #34 (Part 2)

It’s that time again, folks! Time again for more of the best banter on the Suncoast!

I take a break from the proceedings this week, and leave things in the hands of the mildly capable and trustworthy hands of Brian Ries and Tim Sukits. What are they chatting about? Well, for one, how we turned over this week’s Food & Drink section to hotshot food blogger and new cookbook author Jaden Hair, and for another, how excited we are about this weekend’s big film festival fiesta, Cine-World.

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Holy. Shit. I finally got to see Viva Le Vox last night at Pastimes, who are my head liner band for the Saturday night Atomic Holiday Bazaar show 6-11:30 p.m. Sat., Dec. 12, and yes, I will continue to state the date over and over to pound it into your sweet little fleshy heads until you all become my Atomic minions and rub my body in holiday honey, oh wait, that’s another story.

Back to Viva Le Vox! Jesus, what a bunch of sweet boys. OK, men. Sweet, talented men. They have a new CD out, Desperation Alley, and you really should have gotten your ass to the Paddywagon over in Gulf Gate, here in Sorryscrotum (Sarasota) last week to get a preview of this band, because they will knock your fuckin’ socks off unless you’re wearing flip flops and if you’re wearing flip flops your toes will curl openly in public from the sheer glee of what this band delivers.

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Michael Jackson is loving and suffering in the documentary This Is It. Loving because he’s adoring his fans and giving us 100 percent of himself onstage. And suffering because the many hours of singing and dancing are grueling for a 50-year-old man who has suffered more than many of us.

During one duet he sings and dances with a female performer who continues riffing at the end of the song, pleasing the director Kenny Ortega, the large group of musicians and the admiring dancers who watch from the floor below the stage and encourage her and Michael to keep singing. He protests meekly, telling them he needs to save his voice, but he continues singing too. They love it, but he’s tiring from the effort. I sat and hoped for more, too, but sensed Jackson’s vulnerability and loneliness even when amid sympathetic fellow artists. I observed his very thin, agile body moving effortlessly in his characteristic syncopated dance moves across the floor. His body was clothed head-to-toe, making his pale hands grotesquely exaggerated. He sang sexy lyrics to the lovely woman with him onstage, yet he appeared androgynous and child-like, the ageless King of Pop.

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COVER STORY

— The Sarasota Film Society’s 20th Cine-World kicks off this Friday. Tim Sukits profiles three films you need to see.

NEWS & VIEWS

— Best of the Suncoast 2009 fallout: We compile all the best comments you posted on our website (and a couple corrections, too).

— As the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Federation celebrates its 50th birthday, some of the organization’s most influential figures reflect on Sarasota’s Jewish history.

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