And if you don't care about that, the beer bar is simultaneously hosting their second annual PirateFest:
"All pirate crewes and scallywags welcome - we'll be featuring specially selected craft beers with a nautical theme, including some tasty selections from the Harpoon Leviathan series and delicious libations from Heavy Seas! Anyone that comes dressed as a pirate gets 10% off their tab, and there will be plenty of surprises and specials."
KISS tribute band Sonic Boom will perform.

More information is at World of Beer's Facebook event page.

INGREDIENTS

1½ ounces Republic Tequila Organic Anejo

6 ounces Taste of Florida margarita mix

2 ounces triple sec

Lime wedge

Salt

MIXOLOGY

Pour tequila, margarita mix and triple sec into martini shaker with ice. Pour the mixture, with the ice, into a wide-rimmed margarita glass. Rim with salt and garnish with a lime wedge.

Tequila Cantina is at 1454 Main St., Sarasota. 554-8586; tequilacantinamain.com.

Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as “Last Dance,” “Love to Love You Baby” and “Bad Girls” became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, has died. She was 63.

Her family released a statement Thursday saying Summer died and that they “are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continue legacy.”
Video tribute to Donna Summer
Summer gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s, and released a number of albums that have reach gold or platinum status, including the multiplatinum “Bad Girls” and “On the Radio, Volume I & II.” Her No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits include “Hot Stuff” and “MacArthur Park.”

Her sound was a mix of genres, and helped her earn Grammy Awards in the dance, rock, R&B and inspirational categories.

She released her last album, “Crayons,” in 2008. She also performed on “American Idol” that year with its top female
contestants.

The Associated Press reported that Donna Summer has died of cancer at age 63. Her family issued a statement Thursday saying that they “are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continue legacy.”

In the late 1970s, there wasn't a bigger female name in music. From 1978 to 1980, she had eight straight Top 10 hits -- including four No. 1s: "MacArthur Park," "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls" and "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," the latter of which was a duet with Barbra Streisand.

After disco waned in the early 1980s and Summer's hits dried up, she found new life in the MTV era, scoring one of her most memorable songs: 1983's "She Works Hard for the Money," an anthem for women the world over. Her last big hit was 1989's "This Time I Know It's For Real."

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Under the direction of Derek Edward Weston, the chorus will be tuning up to represent Sarasota at the GALA Chorus Festival in Denver in July. GALA Choruses, the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses, holds its festival every four years.

Tickets for Saturday night's performance are $22 in advance, $25 at the door. (888) 550-6279; diversitysarasota.org.

His world changed overnight.

“I had done some talk shows and stuff like that,” Nealon says, “but then Dana helped me get my foot in the door at ‘SNL.’ They needed one more cast member — this was back in 1986 — and there were like 100 other people up for it.

“They ended up making me one of the featured writers and I became a full-time cast member the next year.”

Nealon stayed on for nine seasons, the longest stint of any “SNL” player to date. He was Mr. Subliminal, Franz of Hans and Franz (along with Carvey), Mr. No Depth Perception and Dennis Miller’s replacement as the anchor of Weekend Update. He would sign off with the tagline “I’m Kevin Nealon, and that’s news to me.”

His time on the live sketch-comedy show proved to be the perfect training ground for Nealon’s post-“SNL” career: films and more TV. He has been a cast member of Showtime’s dark comedy “Weeds” since 2005, voiced the title character in the stop-motion-animated series “Glenn Martin, DDS” for two seasons and is a steady contributor to "The Ellen Show."

“ ‘Saturday Night Live’ is a real boot camp,” he says. “You write, produce and act in your sketches, and there’s this added pressure of getting it done quickly for live television. After all that, I felt I could do anything.”

That includes going back to his stand-up roots. He’ll be at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre Saturday night for two shows.

“My act revolves around my whole life,” he says. “It’s very conversational, nonthreatening — not in your face.”

And he has plenty to talk about: He and his wife, actress Susan Yeagley, have a 5-year-old son. Nealon chronicled their early experiences in his 2008 book “Yes, You’re Pregnant, But What About Me?”

“Having a son late in my life — I’m now 58 — is fodder enough for my show,” he says, with a laugh. “While my friends are sending their kids off to rehab, I’m sending mine to preschool. I like to joke that I’m probably the only person I know who gets the AARP newsletter and Parenting Magazine.”

“Weeds” returns with its eighth-season premiere on July 1. If the show isn’t picked up for a ninth year, Nealon has a backup plan: He has been cast opposite Marcia Gay Harden in the pilot for “Isabel,” a comedy about a dysfunctional suburban family dealing with a daughter who has magical abilities. He hopes NBC will order up more episodes.

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Heatstroke Hot Rod Hoedown ... say that five times fast. Better yet, save your energy 'cause you'll need it for all the hot food, cold drinks and especially the hard-hitting line-up of bands---including two faves of mine, The Strangeways and The Gladezmen. The time? High noon until 10 p.m. The place? P-Man's Classic Cycle Paint in Bradenton, where you'll be able to ogle all kinds of vintage chrome. The price? A cool $10, for all this, appearances from the Suncoast Quad Squad Roller Derby Girls and indubitably lots more tuff stuff.

If you're reticent to leave the Sarasota city limits, then Burns Court Cinema is preparing a wonderful homecoming: Roofless Records is coming back to town for the 10th installment of Cinema Sounds, the production company's ultra-sensory-overload of a brainchild. Sonic art meets visual art in the darkened arena of the movie hall, featuring Floridian pioneers of brash musical experimentalism such as Skunk Ape and Miami's Slashpine. It will be loud. It will be intense. For some it will be utterly confusing; for the rest, oddly yet deeply satisfying. Don't say I didn't warn ya. It all begins at 10 p.m., with $3 draft beers to slake your thrill-induced thirst. Entry costs $10.

SUNDAY

As if I needed any more excuses to hang out at The Blue Owl, now they're cooking up a cozy Sunday brunch! I can't wait to meet up with some of the sweetest kids in town to enjoy 2-4-1 mimosas, movies, board games and a little acoustic jamming. Show off your culinary mojo by bringing a dish to share, or bring a few bucks to sweeten the pot. But most importantly, bring your smiles, come ready to chillax and make some great new friends from 2 to 7 p.m.

The Brewers Association, as part of its American Craft Beer Week, has put up a fun craft beer quiz, Are you an American Craft Beer Champion?

If you get 80 percent or better you can proudly call yourself a champ, the association says.

I'm not so sure if I should be proud that I got all the questions right ...

What score did you get?

By A.O. SCOTT / The New York Times

If you found “Benji the Hunted” unbearably intense or “Marley & Me” a bit too hard-edged, then “Darling Companion” may be the dog movie for you. On the other hand, if you like to watch cute pooches doing cute stuff on screen, you may be a little disappointed. Not that Freeway, the rescued mutt in the middle of Lawrence Kasdan’s mild, creaky new film, isn’t adorable. It’s just that he’s not around all that much. Fairly early on, he bounds off into the woods, and for the next hour or so impressive noncanine cast members search for him, acting out various minor relationship dramas as they go.

Why did Freeway split? The ostensible reason is that he spotted a deer, but more plausible explanations might be tact or embarrassment. Let the members of the human pack settle their issues on their own. Dogs have no problem with clichés — why else would mine bark at the mailman every day? — but I suspect that even a patient and loyal hound would tire pretty quickly of the type of shopworn playwriting conventions that litter the “Darling Companion” screenplay, by Mr. Kasdan and his wife, Meg.

Or maybe I’m just projecting my own impatience onto a more forthright and simple species. How much more fulfilling it would have been to spend those hundred-odd minutes chasing a squirrel, taking a nap or disemboweling a stuffed animal on the living room rug.

But perhaps this is too harsh. Though it is not very good, “Darling Companion” is not actually unpleasant. Set mostly in and around a lovely Rocky Mountain resort town in the warmer months of the year, it is as resplendent with mountain vistas and golden sunlight as a tourist board Web site. This gorgeousness is augmented by the presence of exquisitely selected actors, who make reasonably congenial company.

The senior generation is represented by Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest, Richard Jenkins and — in a couple of scenes as a crusty old sheriff — Sam Shepard. How can these people fail to be interesting? The answer is that they can’t, but their collective artistry has the unfortunate effect of exposing the wobbly, threadbare platform that Kasdan has built for them.

Keaton and Kline are Beth and Joseph, a long-married Denver couple who have just married off the second of their two daughters. (These young women are played by Elisabeth Moss and a briefly seen Lindsay Sloane).

After the wedding — Freeway, having served as matchmaker, has a prominent role in the ceremony — the empty nesters linger at their vacation house with Joseph’s sister, Penny (Wiest); her son, Bryan (Mark Duplass); and her new beau, Russell (Jenkins). Bryan and Joseph are doctors, and they look down on Russell, an entrepreneur whose rough manners and improbable business schemes set off their snobbish, protective instincts. He can’t possibly be good enough for Penny.

Meanwhile, cracks are starting to show in Beth and Joseph’s marriage. He is work-obsessed and arrogant, and she needs more time and attention than he is accustomed to providing. Hovering around them all is the stunning caretaker Carmen (Ayelet Zurer), who is gifted with clairvoyance and saddled with lines like “I am of the Romany people,” “my father was a yogi” and “my people have a saying.”

So do mine, but I can’t print it here. Carmen, who has never married because “no man can keep up with me sexually,” flirts hard with Bryan, who has a never-seen, stereotypically careerist girlfriend back in Denver. Carmen also plays Greek chorus and hand of fate, dispatching the others on ambulatory therapy sessions and sending bubbles of New Age wisdom into the mountain air.

Structurally, “Darling Companion” resembles “The Big Chill,” which Kasdan also wrote and directed. Once again he gathers a group of nice, self-absorbed folks (with Kline as the flawed, sensitive alpha) for a weekend getaway where they will contemplate the passage of time and grapple with their own aging. The stakes seem lower now, which is not entirely a bad thing. This film shows no inclination to pose as the portrait of a generation in transition — it wants, instead, to be an insightful group sketch — and this modesty is its most becoming feature.

But at the same time, the proportions don’t feel quite right. A crucial element of subtlety — a willingness to let the characters breathe and wander within the small compass of the story — is missing, and the revelations and reversals that fill out the plot feel glib and obvious rather than incisive. The movie is soft when it wants to be gentle, smug when it aims for wisdom, and funniest when it is trying hardest not to be. It’s friendly, sweet, harmless and dumb, which is to say that if “Darling Companion” were a dog, I would love it without reservation.

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‘Island Loop’
I’ve been a big cheerleader for Cyclovia Venice, which is a series of recreational festivals on downtown streets closed to traffic. This is part of an international trend in big and not-so-big cities.
Instead of being downtown, though, this weekend’s event will be at the Venice Train Depot next to the Legacy Trail.
“It’ll change the flavor a little bit,” says Jennifer Tucker-Mogensen, who founded Venice Cyclovia. “This is going to be focused on trail activities such as running, walking and cycling. We really want to show people how to link these trails.”
Mayor John Holic will lead an 11-mile ride at 9 a.m. It will feature an island loop of trails and city streets in Venice.

Over and under
The Dirty Duo requires two-person teams to race around the Celery Fields on a single bicycle. That means taking turns on the bike, pedaling ahead of your partner and then jumping off to run while he catches up.
“That’s where you have to work together,” says Don Bickel, the Sarasota track coach and trainer who founded the annual event. “You have to stay close so you can feed off each other’s energy.”
The 6-mile race, which usually takes about an hour, follows trails atop the 80-foot-tall hill at the park. There will be different obstacle courses and the famous mud pit. Mystery events this year will include a low hurdle made of PVC pipe.
“The bikers will have to step over it,” Bickel says, “and the runners will have to crawl under it.”
In the end, everyone gets dirty. Lots of people become exhausted, or exhilarated, or both.