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Arts events in Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 10-16 A Dickens of a performance Jim Floyd has a rare treat for himself and audiences this holiday season. He not only gets to return to performing after a long pandemic-forced break, but he’s playing all the characters in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” including the author himself. Floyd stars in the Players Centre for Performing Arts production of Greg Oliver Bodine’s one-man version of the classic story outdoors at the Bazaar at Apricot ...

T. Michele Walker, Correspondent It’s the time of year when we yearn for warmth, crave a peppermint mocha hot toddy for the soul and celebrate our traditions, like taking the family to see the “Nutcracker” dressed in our holiday finest or attending a special holiday concert. 2020 has made it difficult to navigate this terrain, but The Manatee Players is working overtime to present a safe, socially distanced, fully masked opportunity to experience that spirit of the season with a product...

City -- wait a minute, if the city is struggling, you dont believe your city that you want to be mayor of deserves more federal money, more federal help? >> i didnt say that. i said we need to be good stewards of what we have and then be able to ask for more to meet those needs. but until we are good stewards, we cannot say that we have not been able to meet the need based on what we have if were not being a good steward of what we have. and that has not happened in baltimore. >> please keep up ...

showers from lets say east of rockville. and portions of p.g. county. thats heading to the east toward you folks in a.a. county. a little more stuff until far western maryland. but for the time being, city north, not a whole lot of activity at this time. we have severe thunderstorm warnings in some counties. until about 4:45. temperature-wise, at last report, these are going to change because you see the rain there in washington. just dropped them down to 75. 92 in baltimore. 70 in oak...

river. with a heat index of 106. our heat index has dropped to 90. it was up to 100 about an hour or two ago. we will continue to track these storms and talk about some relief coming our way. >> sounds good, bob. thank you. remember, wjz is always on. for a full list of cooling centers, live doppler radar, log onto wjz.com. a scare in the howard street train tunnel. more than a dozen detrail. wjz has been live in mount royal at the scene all day. weijia jiang is following the impac...