Local boys, hot babes, and fast boats — it’s Super Boat Grand Prix Time on the Suncoast!
The Sarasota Herald Tribune is running a piece I wrote on three father and son teams who are battling it out in the wave breaks off the beaches of Lido Key this weekend. You can read it in today’s paper — in the TICKET, page 4E — or online at Boys and Their Boats. I […]
Pelican Press — where Reality Chick started — Picks Up Press Awards
The Pelican Press — — the weekly Sarasota newspaper that gave me my local start in column writing when the editors there began running my Reality Chick column back in 2006 — picked up four press association awards recently in statewide writing and editorial contests. County reporter and all-round news hound Stan Zimmerman nabbed first […]
Talk to me, baby, tell me all about it
Got some burning issue about Sarasota that you’d like to talk about? Want to give the radio waves an earful with your (no naughty words) opinion on anything from the BP oil debacle to the restaurants going dark all over town to what you think will happen in local and statewide elections in a matter […]
MC is SO not a Scenestress (not that there’s anything wrong with being one)
Okay, folks, I’ve had enough of the inquiries about whether or not I am the woman behind the anonymous “Scenestress” column that runs weekly in the Creative Loafing newspaper. She’s not even that anonymous, for crying out loud; the clever author-girl’s ID is well-known among the scenester circles of SRQ society. But still — for […]
“Stand-In” Dads helped me make my life
The Sarasota Herald Tribune published one of my columns today — “Stand-In Fathers Show What Makes a “Real” Dad” It’s on Page A18 of today’s paper, or you can read it online by clicking the hyperlinked text above. Happy Father’s Day to all fathers — the biological ones as well as the ones who nurture […]
MC’s Guide to Showing Your Dad Some Love
Hey, I’m happy to report that the Sarasota Herald Tribune is running a piece I wrote on things to do for this coming Father’s Day. The story appeared in today’s paper in the TICKET section; page 6E if you’re an old-fashioned get-the-ink-on-your-hands kind of person. Click here Celebrating Dear Old Dad to read the story […]
Girls’ Night Out — Coolidge talks Camaraderie in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune
When the working day is done, oh, girls, they wanna have fun … girls just wanna have fun.” — Cyndi Lauper I couldn’t agree more. Hell, I want to have fun even before the working day begins … . The Sarasota Herald Tribune TICKET is running a piece I wrote about how girls can have […]
Sarasota Sky Pilots Do It in the Air
When someone says they’re going to play golf, it conjures up images of lugging expensive clubs around, riding in a cart, and hitting a little white ball toward a hole in the ground on a neatly manicured green, doesn’t it? But for many Sarasotans – men and women of all ages – “playing golf” means […]
Sarasota Police Chief Resigns UPDATED
Seriously. Sarasota Police Chief Peter Abbott has resigned.
“It’s not a spill” says Crawfish Monica!
I heard on the Louisiana Gumbo radio show tonight that Monica Spain — one-half of the mural-magicians that will be featured on Treme tonight — say “It’s not a spill!” She was referring to the travesty in the Gulf with BP’s oil disaster. She’s right — it’s not a spill. And as she astutely pointed […]