Happy Bastille Day — something for Sarasota Francophiles!
In honor of Bastille Day, I wrote about petanque in today’s Sense and the City column — out today in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune TICKET (next to last page!). Or you can read it online at Playing Petanque a Simple Pleasure for Sarasota Francophiles.
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Pelican Press Stan “the Man” Zimmerman Ousted by Observer Group
As most of you know, the Observer Group (of the Sarasota, Longboat, East County Observers) purchased the much-loved island-and-beyond Pelican Press newspaper a couple of weeks back. Word on the street was that axes would soon be swinging … and at least one has already swung. Highly respected and gazillion-award-winning shoe-leather newspaperman Stan Zimmerman was […]
Transformation Magazine
Have you ever heard of Transformation Magazine? I hadn’t … until a woman who heard me speak this past spring at the Democratic Club of Sarasota Wine & Cheese Lecture Series, sent me a link to an article she’d written. You might want to check out the magazine’s site and this article: Gathering at the […]
Parking meter parody song from 107.9 Sarasota — too funny
Click on the link below to listen to local radio 107.9 WSRZ’s send up on the parking meter situation in Sarasota a la Lady Gaga Parking Meter Send Up — compliments of WSRZ — just click on the unbagged meter on the page when it opens. (photos above courtesy of www.morningcrewshow.com.
Thems fightin’ words! …. MC’s counterpoint to Grimes Chutney review
David Grimes is a funny guy — I read him in the Sarasota Herald Tribune every week, but when he recently gave a less than glowing review of my favorite restaurant haunt — Chutney’s on Hillview … my inner grrrrrrlllllll game out. You can read my counterpoint to the Grimes review in today’s Sarasota Herald […]
Ending homelessness? Adam Tebrugge spells out a plan …
Adam Tebrugge is going to be talking about the Ten Year Plan to Prevent & End Homelessness in Sarasota County this Saturday — July 9th — at the Sarasota Yacht Club during a noon luncheon meeting of the Democratic Club of Sarasota. The folks getting behind this ten-year plan are motivated and passionate about solving […]
Sarasota parking meters suspended!
Yowza — parking meters suspended by Sarasota City Commissioners — read the Herald-Trib story here.
Sarasota libraries hold keys to independence
I’ve been going to the library since I was ankle-high to a grasshopper … here’s my take on the connection between libraries and a democratic, independent America in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Page 11A if you’re a print reader … or you can read it online by clicking here: Libraries and Independence. And if you’re close […]
Falling for fireworks
Read about my love/hate relationship with the Fourth of July — in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune TICKET or online at Falling for Fireworks