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Archive for March, 2009
Good Deal
Sometimes a good deal is less about how little you spend and more about how much you get for your money. Luckily, Paisano’s Italian Bakery in Sarasota, owned and operated by David and Laurie Moretti since 1998, qualifies on both counts. For starters, anyone I know who has tasted them raves about Paisano’s almond crescent [...]
Read More >>Food & Wine
In mid-December, a superb little restaurant and wine bar debuted quietly on Main Street in downtown Sarasota. Those foodies whose radar was working (count international cooking teacher Giuliano Hazan among them) enjoyed a rare treat: a table at a moment’s notice at one of the best new restaurants to open here in recent memory. It’s [...]
Read More >>Good Medicine
At 76, Rod Hartwick knows all there is to know about horses. For nearly 36 years, he was the best-known equine veterinarian in New Orleans—and he continued that career success in Chesapeake, Va. Hartwick is also a pioneer in the use of the CO2 laser in animal surgery. But his innovative work took a dark [...]
Read More >>One Great Room
When Steve and Lynn Blackledge purchased their 2,900-square-foot Gulf-view condo in the Positano on Longboat Key, they were living in a home designed around the ancient principles of feng shui. “We wanted to bring this new home into that same harmony and balance, but we also wanted the interiors to harmonize with the beach—to bring [...]
Read More >>Designing Mind
Sarasota native Brittany Zachos, 21, won’t receive her interior design degree from Ringling College of Art and Design until May, but she’s already completed a major residential commission—a 3,000-square-foot home for a Norwegian family settling in Heritage Harbour. And working with her mom, she has also launched a line of women’s sleepwear that hit retailers [...]
Read More >>Luxury Homefront
Top of the Market A piece of Casey Key history—one of its original residences built in 1939—sold for $3.4 million after an original list price of $5.1 million, making it the highest-priced sale in Sarasota County in December. The charming Old Florida home at 1002 N. Casey Key Road has four bedrooms, four baths, pecky [...]
Read More >>Mr. Chatterbox
Where is Marjorie now that we need her? Oh, Heather Dunhill is doing a fine job, and I admire the volume and variety of coverage she’s giving us in her Herald-Tribune society column. But I miss the hand-holding Marjorie would have offered us as we go through this crisis. Some of the biggest names in [...]
Read More >>Hot Wheels
Get Smart Driven by Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code and Steve Martin in The Pink Panther, the Smart ForTwo ($11,990 to $19,275) gets 46.3 mpg in the city (70.6 on the highway) with a top speed of 90 mph. There’s a waiting list, so get in line. Wilde Smart Center Sarasota, 4821 Clark [...]
Read More >>Shop Talk
What’s old is new at Sarasota’s original green business, where owner Jesse White is not just on top of design trends—he’s setting them. In the seven years since Sarasota Architectural Salvage opened its doors, White has witnessed profound changes in buying patterns at the 10,000-square-foot haven of history. “People are seeking architectural salvage as statement [...]
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