The Studio@620 announced that its Studio Honors for this year will be presented on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 6:20 p.m. — for the first time at the historic Coliseum in St. Petersburg.
The Studio Honors program will recognize five couples/10 individuals in celebration of its 10th anniversary. The event titled “Magic of Community” will offer an evening of arts, culinary tastes and community. Honorees include Dave and Astrid Ellis, Dr. Susan Beers Betzer and Dr. Peter Betzer, Dr. Nancy Bryant, M.D., and Dr. Kenneth Bryant, M.D., Dr. Peter Meinke and Jeanne Meinke, Dr. Richard Rice and Mimi Rice, and Ola Mae Jones and Cassidy Mae Routh.
Also among the honorees are David Warner and husband Larry Biddle. Warner has been Editor in Chief of Creative Loafing since summer of 2004, and recently launched Ask the Locals, a guide to Tampa Bay from the perspective of notable residents. CL and cltampabay.com have won numerous awards for political coverage, cultural criticism, column writing and design. David has a B.A. in English from Harvard and an M.A. in Theater from Villanova, and was a 2001-02 National Arts Journalism Fellow at Columbia University. Biddle is the Director of the LGBT Welcome Center Development for Metro Charities, one of only three in the country. He was previously Executive Director of Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and co-chaired 2014’s Equality Florida Gala.
This article appears in Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2014.