Ear to Tampa Bay
Things Heard by The Ear
The Ear is wearing drop earrings with
4.80 carat total weight of emeralds and
1.13 carat total weight of round brilliant
white diamonds from International Diamond
Center in Clearwater and Tampa.
84 TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE | MAY/JUNE 2019
which featured a talk by renowned critic
and a University of South Florida curatorat
large Christian Viveros-Fauné, which
was based on his new book Social Forms:
A Short History of Political Art…..Jane
and Walt Wickman and their Olde Bay
Cafe in Dunedin orchestrated their fifth
annual family friendly Dunedin Stone
Crab Festival in the cafe’s adjacent
Edgewater Park to benefit HEP, the
Homeless Empowerment Program
of Clearwater.....Maddy Guenther,
owner of BoTiki Boutique in Gulfport,
presented the spring fashion show for
Pasadena Yacht and Country Club’s
annual luncheon and fashion show, which
also included a presentation by freeFall
Theatre Company of St. Petersburg.....
Brooke Allison of Dunedin was given a
reception at the Dunedin Fine Art Center
in recognition of her being named its
Sterling Society’s 2019 Patron of the Arts
recipient.....Ruth Philipon of St. Pete
Beach was the chair and The Honorable
Mary Maloof of St. Petersburg, former
mayor of Treasure Island, was the co-chair
of “The Art of Ikebana: Bent and Twisted,”
the Ikebana International St. Petersburg
Chapter 65 group’s 57th annual exhibition
in Treasure Island.....Paula Blanda,
Maureen Gabe and Megan Simons
hosted a wine tasting at Megan’s Pippa
Pelure Boutique in St. Petersburg to
thank those who helped make the
St. Petersburg Woman’s Service League’s
annual “Promenade” luncheon and
fashion show so successful…..Patti and
Carlos Thomas hosted “Aloha Luau,”
their annual fundraiser for the National
Pediatric Cancer Foundation in memory
of their son Jonathan at their family
home in Palm Harbor.....Bernice Chu,
Lance Becatti and Jay Coates of
Tampa celebrated Lance’s 60th birthday
with a 1970s Studio 54-themed party with
music, food stations and bars throughout
the Clearwater Yacht Club in Clearwater
Beach.....David Little of Clearwater
celebrated his birthday at Casa Tina in
Dunedin.....Rachael Russell, daughter
of Carol and J.C. Russell, and Lucas
DeVincente, son of Kathy Starkey
DeVincente and Pepe DeVincente,
all of St. Petersburg, are planning their
June wedding at First Baptist Church,
where they became engaged when
both Lucas and his son Grayson, 5,
proposed to Rachael.....Sandee and
Jim Pfister of Belleair celebrated their
Valentine’s Day 50th anniversary before
traveling to Peru…..Stephanie Johnson,
general manager of O’Bistro Restaurant
and Martini Bar in St. Petersburg,
and her husband Thurston, who live in
Clearwater, are the proud new parents
of Stella Rose, their first child.....April
Caputo, her husband Kevin, director
of operations at Bascom’s Chop House
in Clearwater, and their son Kaleb
are excited to welcome their baby girl,
Aryella to their home in Tampa.....
Dr. Bob Simons and his wife Megan of
Pippa Pelure Boutique in St. Petersburg
enjoyed a skiing adventure in Aspen,
Colorado.....Dr. Ron and Sarah Tucker
of Seminole went snowboarding in
Keystone, Colorado.....Veronica Cintron,
Bay News 9 anchor, and her husband,
political consultant and communications
expert Preston Rudie of Tampa spent
a week vacationing on Easter Island
in Polynesia, where they hiked over
60 miles, relaxed and saw the Milky Way.....
Robert Danielson and Ed Cassidy,
formerly of St. Petersburg and now of
Las Vegas, enjoyed a transatlantic cruise
from Southampton to New York City.....
Elizabeth Elmeer and Bob Schmidt, the
mayor of Belleair Shore, hosted a reception
at the Belleair Country Club to showcase
the upcoming Porsche tour of Germany,
Italy, Austria and Bavaria, which will
include speeding on the Autobahn
with a group led by Peter Sontag
of Clearwater.....Allison and Robby
Adams hosted a brunch in Tampa for the
University of South Florida Institute for
Research’s Art Director’s Circle members,