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Archive for November, 2007
A Joint Effort
Every year more than 30 million Americans limp into doctors’ offices complaining of pain, stiffness and swelling in their joints. In most cases, they’re suffering from osteoarthritis, a degenerative process affecting such weight-bearing joints as the knee, hip and spine. Despite the preconceived notion that arthritis is reserved for brittle old ladies, it affects people [...]
Read More >>November Events
On Exhibit Island Watching José Bedia’s large painting from 2002, La isla espera una señal (The Island Waits for a Signal), is one of the highlights of the current exhibition at the Ringling Museum, Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, organized by the Harn Museum in Gainesville, Fla. Bedia escaped Castro’s control many years ago, [...]
Read More >>Homefront
Changes in Attitudes For the first time in Robb & Stucky’s 92-year existence, the renowned home furnishings retailer and interior design hub presents its own line of classically inspired modern furniture. “New Attitudes,” which launched earlier this fall, is the first collection from Robb & Stucky Originals. Based on traditional designs that have been updated [...]
Read More >>Real Estate Gossip
Neighborhood Watch Going in Circles on St. Armands Platted in the 1920s by circus impresario John Ringling, St. Armands Key is an upscale surrounds just minutes from downtown Sarasota and beautiful Lido Beach, combining Sarasota’s historic resort lifestyle with modern urban luxury. Famous St. Armands Circle is synonymous with fine dining and world-class shops and [...]
Read More >>Nouveau Riches
In her richly diverse creative career, Hally Abbott has been a painter, weaver, creator of soft sculptures, composer, desktop publisher and editor of a women’s humor magazine. Ceramics have been her focus since moving to Sarasota in 2001, and now her one-of-a-kind vases, boxes, tiles, dinnerware and children’s tea sets are on display in her [...]
Read More >>One Great Room
Kem Lindsay and Roger Knapp had loved their 5,000-square-foot dream house in Prestancia from afar for years. The avid golfers were struck by its unusual three-pod roof and 4,000 feet of terraced decking every time they reached the third tee. Three years ago, at that very tee, a golfing buddy mentioned the house was for [...]
Read More >>Now & Then
Zeb Portanova wanted a new house, turnkey, move-in-ready, no fuss. His wife, Barbara, wanted a classic, traditional home, a nod to her Florida roots. The young newlyweds compromised by remodeling a historically designated Mediterranean Revival icon of the late 1920s—and adding on a new 2,200-square-foot east wing that afforded them every modern amenity. Architect William [...]
Read More >>12 Best
Of course you’ll attend our annual film and music festivals, Circus Sarasota and the blockbuster Tale of Two Cities, which opened at the Asolo Repertory Theatre last month. But here are 12 other top tickets that show the breadth and range of Sarasota’s 2007-2008 cultural season. 1. When you talk about big stuff in the [...]
Read More >>It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
The Asolo Repertory Theatre’s artistic director, Michael Edwards, is having his own personal “best of times, worst of times” moment. Tomorrow he begins rehearsals for his first Broadway production, the musical version of A Tale of Two Cities. It’s that career milestone that most directors only dream of, particularly one born in a little Australian [...]
Read More >>Over the Limit
It’s 11 p.m. on a Friday night on South Tamiami Trail. The blue and yellow glow of the Best Buy sign pales behind the flash of police lights, headlights and flashlights held by a rainbow of uniformed law enforcement: sheriff’s officers, Florida Highway Patrol, and Sarasota and North Port police. You’re driving up to a [...]
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