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 […]
Shame, shame on Sarasota City Commissioners
Read my column in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune Op/Ed Section (page 9A) or read it online by clicking this link: Shame, shame on Sarasota City Commissioners Here’s an excerpt: Even if our commissioners didn’t have the intellectual breadth to deal with this problem in a less knee-jerk fashion, I’m surprised they didn’t have the necessary […]
It’s the economy, smartypants — can’t miss Economic Forum on Monday night
Monday night (May 23), there’s going to be a great forum on the economy … right here in Sarasota! With folks from the Poynter Institute, Rob Lorei of Florida This Week, and and our own backyard … including Kelly Kirschner and Raul Elizalde. Read my column in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune TICKET (next to last […]
Eye-candy for the sophisticated voyeur
A few weeks back, I wrote a column about how “sex sells” and questioned whether women as a group are empowered or disempowered by our culture’s commercialization of female sex appeal. I mentioned, among other examples, pole-dancing at Sarasota fundraisers and the Black Diamond Burlesque troupe that has been sizzling up Sarasota’s sexy factor.