Arts & Entertainment

Local art dealers and Flagler art students react to gallery closings

By Holly Elliott | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Mary Elizabeth Fair

PHOTO CAPTION: Like many local art galleries, Mullet Beach Gallery now offers larger discounts and is open for more hours each week in hopes of picking up business.

Summer 2009 brings the deaths of Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The deaths of their prominently displayed art movement, that is.

During the summer of 2009, one of the leading modern art venues, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., will permanently close its doors to the public. This means that many of the pieces will be auctioned off to private art collectors.

New restaurant on St. George Street could brighten up local scene

By Katy Bass | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Mary Elizabeth Fair

PHOTO CAPTION The Bubble Room, located at 100 St. George Street, will open in mid-March. The downstairs gift shop is already open.

St. Augustine prides itself in being the oldest city in the United States, but this doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a little “new” in town.

The creative minds behind the successful Bubble Room on the west coast of Florida decided St. Augustine needed a little something different and eclectic in its restaurant scene.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Bonnie Raitt’s performance at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre on March 13 has been rescheduled for Oct. 24.

Tickets from the originally scheduled show will be honored at the Oct. 24 concert. Refunds are available. For more information, visit www.staugamphitheatre.com.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

From April 3 to 5, the Annual Rhythm and Ribs Festival will be held downtown.

Come out and see why it has been voted Best Festival for the last eight years. Lots of food, entertainment and arts and crafts will be provided all weekend. Dogs and other pets are not allowed.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

From their first hit in 1974 through their heyday in the 1980s, Daryl Hall and John Oates’ smooth, catchy take on Philly soul brought them enormous commercial success.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

From April 18 to 19, the Annual Spring Art and Craft Festival will be held at Francis Field on Castillo Drive.

During this two-day festival, more than 125 local artists will set up exhibits to show and sell a variety of media, including oil painting, watercolor, pottery, leather, photography, sculpture, jewelry, wood, textiles and more.

The Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m on Saturday and Sunday. Admission for each day is $1, a donation that goes to the St. Augustine Art Association.

For more information, visit www.staaa.org.

By Emily Hoover | gargoyle@flagler.edu

“Slumdog Millionaire” doesn’t seem like a typical Best Picture winner on the surface. It follows a young, illiterate Indian “slumdog” who luckily wins the grand prize on the world-famous game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” However, the movie is so much more than that. It is a violent, heartbreaking tragedy and a hopeful, captivating love story all at the same time.

Cast tackles controversial material, rises to brilliance in spring play

Photo by Mary Elizabeth Fair

By Emily Hoover | gargoyle@flagler.edu

As denizens of St. Augustine feel colder temperatures, the Flagler College Theatre Department is heating up for Spring. They will present “The Good Person of Sezuan.”

The play, written by world renowned German playwright Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Tony Kushner, and directed by Andrea McCook, promises to evoke a response from its audience. It centers on the duality of good and evil and challenges viewers to explore the relativity behind “being a good person.”

JAX band kLoB is growing ‘like a very healthy and beautiful weed’

Photo contributed

By Taylor Toothman | ttoothman@flagler.edu

Too often a band will start to get lazy once they realize they have a substantial fan base, then it will inevitably smudge slowly into the periphery of music history. Such is definitely not the case for Jacksonville band kLoB, whose relentless enthusiasm for performing tells us that not only do they love their jobs and their fans, but also that they’re not going anywhere. Anywhere but up.

By Gian Louis Thompson | gthompson@flagler.edu

The St. Augustine Sertoma Club is providing for the community yet again, this time by hosting an art exhibit Feb. 18 for Flagler College’s Sculpture I class. Titled “Touch Not the Cat,” the exhibit will be held at Sertoma’s Second Time Around Store.

The display will feature works of art created by students from various items throughout the thrift store.