By mid-April the seaweed, which looks a lot like a watery sweet potato casserole with the brown, crusty topping, had spread across the entire Caribbean Sea, with substantial amounts pushing into the Gulf. Huge amounts washed up along many Caribbean shorelines in what USF researchers call “beaching events” in the bulletins issued at the end of every month.
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From the writer of “Always … Patsy Cline,” Ted Swindley, comes a new country musical, “Honky Tonk Angels.” General Manager Rebecca Hopkins says Florida Studio Theatre has wanted to bring this one to Sarasota for quite some time. “It's about following your dreams,” Hopkins noted. “What's better than that?"
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