Long before the global financial meltdown, Occupy Wall Street, the 47 percent and the one percent, there were the Sycamores and the Kirbys, who had a lot to say about the role of money in our lives.

The Ringling’s Associate Director of Programming Dwight Currie says it’s ” … very first and foremost, an expression of, just an explosion of a new renaissance in the creative use of language, and gesture, and character and emotion, situation, new music, new media and musicality, in this new work that is being created.”

Sarasota has a colorful history, rich with the stories of pioneers, entrepreneurs, architects, and iconic families. Its landscape has always been in flux. Today, the legacy continues with the transformation of one of the city’s districts into an unexpected hub for urban art.

This month, T.E.O.T.D.T.R.E.C.M.B.B. will turn down the amps as it migrates from the bar to the art gallery for the project’s first retrospective art show, which opens at Clothesline Gallery & Boutique on Jan. 15.

What better way to enjoy some of your new year’s health resolutions than to take up dance classes? We caught the last performance of the year by Wilson’s DanceSport studio in Bradenton, where students of all ages shared the stage with instructors.

The visage of Sarasota Chalk Festival founder Denise Kowal is emblazoned on the black-washed wall of the Sarasota Fight and Fitness Club. Will street artist MTO’s latest work be able to hold its own, or will its detractors knock it down for the count and send it the way of Fast Life?