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Archive for November, 2006
At Last
Something wonderful has appeared on the north side of our town: the North Sarasota Public Library. Surging up from its site on Newtown Boulevard, opposite the Newtown Estates Community Center and near Emma Booker Elementary School, facing the eastern section of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way, the new library is a hopeful statement about [...]
Read More >>Exploring Main Street at Lakewood Ranch
American Main Street” evokes images of mom-and-pop stores where everybody knows your name. That’s the shopping experience you realize you’ve been yearning for and had almost forgotten—recaptured by an exuberant group of 21st- century Main Street retailers. The trendy food, fashion and entertainment in this nostalgic Mediterranean setting are appealing to more than Lakewood Ranch [...]
Read More >>Street Talk
NOISEMAKER SAVE THE DATE Author and dating guru Lisa Daily dishes out advice to single women. Lisa Daily, 38, wrote her internationally acclaimed book, Stop Getting Dumped, four years ago. But her career as a dating expert began “on the schoolyard,” she says. “I was always the one giving dating advice to my girlfriends.” Married [...]
Read More >>From the Editor
Why do I write? What sin to me unknown/ Dipped me in ink—my parents’ or my own? As Alexander Pope lamented in those famous lines, writing—or any other creative activity, for that matter, be it painting, composing, or strategizing corporate takeovers—can be hard, lonely and infinitely frustrating work. And that’s especially true when creative people, [...]
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