Sarasota’s Sports Page Celebrating Sweet Sixteen
A gazillion businesses, restaurants, and bars have come and gone on Sarasota’s Main Street over the years, but the Sports Page — 1319 Main Street — is celebrating 16 years, sixteen years, folks! in the same location, under the same ownership. Maybe you know the owner? Bob Richards and Kenny Barr? Either way, stop in […]
Sarasota Magazine and sister pub BIZ 941 Nab Awards
Local publications Sarasota Magazine and BIZ 941 won several 2011 Sunshine State Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists South Florida chapter, which I think announced the awards earlier this week. Two big must-reads (if you haven’t … you can click on the hyperlinked text and read them online) won — one by Biz(941) editor […]
Reasons to avoid downtown Sarasota!
So, I was asked to go out the other night for dinner — to celebrate some good news I received earlier this week and my date asked me where I wanted to go. It was a toss-up for both of us between Caraguilo’s Restaurant on Palm Avenue (a favorite of mine for years) or another […]
Ferocious and sweet … Saturday’s Music Festival Concert is NOT to be missed!
I give you at least a gazillion reasons as to why you CAN. NOT. miss Saturday night’s Sarasota Orchestra Music Festival concert at the Sarasota Opera House — they’re all in my Sarasota Herald Tribune Sense and the City column (page 37E if you’re reading the print paper — or click on the hyperlink below). […]
Adrienne Stein Says So Long to SNN6
Okay, I know I’m slow on the uptake sometimes … but how in the heck did I miss the fact that Adrienne Stein had said so long to SNN6 and Sarasota. The girl’s gone off and left us for a cooler clime — as in Portland, Maine, where she’ll be anchoring the nightly news at […]
The meters are running on Main Street
Several readers have asked me to write about what I think about the paid parking situation and the new meters in and around Main Street. I did write about it a while back in my Sarasota Herald Tribune Sense and the City column … if you missed it, read it here: Making Paid Parking Palatable. […]
Jeremy Wallace Looks into the Political Crystal Ball … this Saturday
Saturday — June 11 — local political insight provider/writer Jeremy Wallace (of the Sarasota Herald Tribune) will be speaking at the Laurel Oak Country Club talking about “What lies Ahead for 2012.” I like Wallace’s demeanor: serious but not too serious. And seriously informed about the rumblings and machinations of Florida politics. If you haven’t […]
Summer’s the Season on Siesta
We should all be thanking our lucky stars for Siesta Beach … and my Sense and the City column in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune TICKET tells why. Summer’s the Season on Siesta.
Eric Ernst’s Excellent Essay … His follow up on the homeless / park bench situation
If you’ve missed Eric Ernst’s excellent follow up to the homeless / park bench situation in Sarasota — it’s in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune, page 1B. Or, check it out online at A Better Homeless Plan Than Removing Benches
Sarasota Sky Pilots Do It In the Air!
Love to golf? How about taking your game to a whole new level … ? Read my story in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune TICKET — which is FREE in newstands across the city (just look for the row of newspaper boxes and find the one that says TICKET on it — it’s that simple!). I […]