Maestro Carlo Ponti received the "Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy" honor, presented to him by Consul General Raffaella Valentini. At the end of the…
When a mother heckled comedian Steve Hofstetter during a show, deriding him for his jokes about poor parenting when he, himself, has no children, he replied: “Here’s the thing … I’ve never flown a helicopter. But if I saw one in a tree, I could still be, like: Dude screwed up. It’s not supposed
The concert on Sunday evening, April 2, was supposed to be the final one of the Punta Gorda Symphony’sy’s season. Now some are wondering if it’s the finale for the symphony itself. In fact, it might be. The symphony’s board of directors finally admitted that the symphony is teetering on the edge of insolvency late
PONTI The concert on Sunday evening, April 2, was supposed to be the final one of the Punta Gorda Symphony’s season. Now some are wondering if it’s the finale for the symphony itself. In fact, it might be. The symphony’s board of directors finally admitted that the symphony is teetering on the edge of insolvency
Maestro Raffaele Ponti conducts the Punta Gorda Symphony. COURTESY PHOTO It’s a weekly newspaper editor’s worst nightmare: a major breaking news story just as the deadline for layout, proofreading and uploading to the printer is crashing around the corner. So it is with the debacle that was supposed to be the Punta Gorda Symphony’s final