The Alliance for the Arts Exhibition at FGCU

Text from postcard invitation:

“A True Southern Treasure”

Buell Whitehead

An Exhibition: January 8 – January 30

American artist Buell Whitehead, one of the 1950’s top five historical printmakers, is remembered for his liithographs that window his southern upbringing and passion for the arts.

Join us at the Opening Reception

January 8th, 5–8PM

Book signing with author & collector Ron Newsom.

“Buell Whitehead: A True Southern Treasure” will be available for purchase.

Printmaking Walk & Talk — January 25 at 10AM

Andy Owen, Assistant Professor of Art — FGCU, leads a gallery tour and speaks about traditional and contemporary printmaking, RSVP to (239) 939-2787

Member Gallery: Alliance Teacher & Student Exhibit

Reception catered by:

Andy’s Island Seafood

Featured Cover Image:

Fireflies by Buell Whitehead

www.BuellWhitehead.com

The Alliance for the Arts is sponsored by the City of Ft. Myers, Lee County Tourist Development Council and Southwest Florida Community Foundation.

Flying Pigs with Wings

The first time I ate at Scuttlebutts, I had their garlic chicken wings.  The wings were large and juicy.  The savory sauce was chock-full of freshly minced garlic.  Delicious!

This time around I decided to go with their pulled pork sandwich.  Prior to, I had heard about this fabled treat being the best of its kind in Southwest Florida.  Now, I know why.

Unlike other pulled pork sandwiches I have had, the Texas toast style bread was manageable even to the last bite.  The Scuttlebutts version of this traditional Southern mainstay was not drowned in sauce like the others.  I could actually taste the flavor and feel the tenderness of the meat without being awash in sauce.  Amazing!

I had a choice of chips or Coleslaw and baked beans.  The slaw and beans were just right.  The slaw: crisp and subtle.  The beans: flavorful and complementary.

The cozy, friendly atmosphere of this hole-in-the-wall, treasure of a restaurant lends itself as one of the best kept secrets in Cape Coral.  However, the tale of the Best Pulled Pork Sandwich is a remarkable one and must be told.

[Source: My review of Scuttlebutt's pulled pork sandwich on Yelp]

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The Best Lasagna in Southwest Florida

REF: Pressure Drop – Barometer Media Video Blog – Episode 3

Eric Taubert unequivocally states that Yabo Restaurant in Fort Myers has the best lasagna in Southwest Florida. [See: 2:36 of Episode 3 of The Cape Coral Barometer's Pressure Drop video blog.] He hails them as “undefeated champions”.

Back in February 2008, BusinessWire.com described the best lasagna (outside of Italy) to be had at Naples Tomato. Not having tried either, I like to think that Mr. Taubert is shedding light on “one of those places you either hear about or into which you stumble serendipitously” (as Karen Feldman eloquently puts things in her review of Yabo for Florida-Weekly.com)

In the last segment of the video, the Nirvana Restaurant of Fort Myers grand opening celebration is given a brief mention. I have had the good fortune of trying Nirvana’s delicious, spring rolls. I look forward to a Taubert review of the newly opened Indian restaurant in Fort Myers.

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Taking a Bite Out of a Delicious Problem

Delicious.com, that (personally) ubiquitous bookmarking site, was down for just under an hour this evening. It had been acting up earlier this week so it came as no real big suprise that something might give. And of course, my local backup from the Delicious export feature was over a month old.

Using the service around a handful of times a day, and having experienced a similar outage in the not to memorable past, had prepared me for the moment. It has even motivated me to update my business networking page which suffered an unfortunate, yet neatly div-contained 500 Internal Server Error in addition to the disappearance of its associated tag cloud.

Speaking of clouds (and computing), chalk another one up for a more than welcome slap-in-the-face wake up call for me to backup more often. To boot, the following have now been moved forward on my to-do list:

• Update ‘companies’ page with more robust static code vs. heavy reliance on feeds.
• Document the HTML document parsing experience and share code on personal blog.
• Link this mini-project to the related entry in the web tools section of the main page.

To the credit of Delicious.com: they had things up and running again before I could screencap the aforementioned error notice (not-so-much to my chagrin).

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Nirvana in Fort Myers

NirvanaFusion.com ·  Indian Fusion Cusine

The update to the Nirvana Restaurant website coincides with their recent grand opening celebration (October 2009).

The new site is themed to resemble the print menus at the restaurant.

Here are some features that make the site stand out:

• Indian elephant in ornamental headgear background image is a watermark that stays fixed as menus and content scroll.
• Text headings in cursive font are selectable and searchable.  Compare this technique to replacing text with images.

See also: Nirvana Restaurant review

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