Twinkle’s Star Lights Up the Night at Van Wezel

If you missed last Saturday night’s concert at the Van Wezel … you missed a fantastic event! You can read about it in today’s Sense and the City column inside the TICKET section of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

If you’d like to read it online, just click here: Twinkle’s Star Lights Up the Night at Van Wezel

Local Sarasota NY Times Bestselling Author Films Movie in Sarasota

My Sense and the City column this week is about NY Times bestselling book author Suz Brockmann who, over the summer, shot a film in Sarasota called, “The Perfect Wedding.”

The column appeared in print in yesterday’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune … or you can read it online here! Sarasota’s “Perfect Wedding” depicts a “new normal.”

Community Radio is Alive and Kickin’ in Sarasota with WSLR 96.5 LPFM

Who says radio is dead!?

Read my Sense and the City column in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune to learn more about Sarasota’s local community radio station — WSLR — the cool music, the cool talk shows and a couple of cool events to sink your ears into.

Sarasota Community Radio is Alive and Kickin’ Here’s a shot of me a couple years back at a WSLR fundraising event.

Another 9/11 come and gone.

Can’t believe I forgot to post my Sense and the City column from last week. It was all about 9/11 … click here to read online.

Home sweet Sarasota

This week’s Sense and City deals with some of the things I miss about Boston … and some of the things I love about Sarasota … like the beautiful “Butterfly Lady.”

Read the full story in tomorrow’s TICKET — waaayyyyyyy in the back and no, sorry, they won’t give me props on the Table of Contents so you’ll just have to dig around ’til you find it (usually next to last page or so, next to the Advice Goddess for which I receive no end of ribbing).

Or read it online by clicking here: Home Sweet Sarasota

Two Sarasota Bartenders Make MC’s Saturday Night

Interested in knowing what I was doing last Saturday night? Read today’s Sense and the City column (Sarasota Herald-Tribune TICKET section, always way in the back pages!) or click here to read it online.

Equality Among the Sexes?

No, I’m not channeling that long-ago tennis match between Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs … just announcing today’s Sense and the City topic: Women’s Equity Day, which is next Thursday. You can read it in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune TICKET or just click here: Do Women Really Need an Equity Day?.

Feel free to come back here to MC Reality Online and debate the topic!

Coffee with a conscience

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you might recall me writing about my new coffee-maker last year … . I wrote a different version for this week’s Sense and the City column. If you’re still buying coffee … maybe this will inspire you!

Coffee with a conscience in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune TICKET (next to last page) or online here:
MC’s Sense and the City column online

Bitten by the blues

Monday night I dragged myself out of the house at 9 p.m., and went to the opening of Ocean Blues (well, it was a soft opening for media-types and friends I think; the actual opening was on Tuesday night if I’ve got my facts straight). Ocean Blues is a restaurant/bar/music venue on Hillview; I think it’s the same location as the former New York New York joint that bit the dust last year or so; and there’s actually some space for dancing … .

Anyway, at the bar, I ran into Laura Daniel Gale — the visionary behind Black Diamond Burlesque. She and I both were wearing necklaces with lots of keys on necklaces around our necks. Mine happened to be handcuff keys, but um, wait, that’s a whole other story.

Anyway, I wrote about the blues — hearing them … not having them … for this week’s Sense and the City column out today on page 33E TICKET section, Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Or you can read it online by clicking Sarasota’s new house of blues.

Betting on firefighters the safest bet you’ll make tomorrow night in Osprey!

Want to know what your local firefighters are up to tomorrow night? Think Rat Pack, Vegas, and rolling the dice … it’s Casino Night for the Benevolent Fund! Read my piece in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune TICKET (page 30, I think) or click here to read it online: Gambling on firefighters a very safe bet.