Last October, Harvey Vengroff was the keynote speaker at a Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Committee of Economic Development breakfast. The event, packed with men and women in business suits, was held at Michael’s on East. Vengroff ambled in wearing his trademark corporate uniform-a T-shirt and shorts. "I saw him walking in the back door wearing [...]

Once upon a time kitchens were purely utilitarian spaces, designed for the hot, steamy work of preparing a meal. Most of the time the woman of the house did that work. And she’d be mortified if guests joined her in the kitchen. Today’s home chef is just as likely to be a man, and the [...]

To spot a tiny seahorse, its delicate fins fluttering like wings in the ebbing tide, is to see a creature from a fairy tale-improbable, ethereal and mysterious. Although their numbers have diminished in local waters in the last decade, you can still find live seahorses in Sarasota Bay, or their dessicated shapes intermingled with grasses [...]