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
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
Maestro Raffaele Ponti conducts the Punta Gorda Symphony. COURTESY PHOTOS Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 1” joins renowned pieces by Richard Wagner, Anton Dvorák, and Manuel de Falla when Maestro Raffaele Livio Ponti’s takes the stage to conduct the Punta Gorda Symphony on Sunday, Feb. 5. The evening begins with Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger, Act 1 Prelude,” which