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Keep Your Tile and Grout Looking Like New For the ultimate in tile and grout care, Sir Grout of the Suncoast stands out. Do you know why your tile and grout get dirty? Most often, the way you clean is actually the No. 1 culprit in dirtying your tile and grout. Sir Grout of the [...]
Read More >>Good Deal
The Place: The Breakfast House; 1817 Fruitville Road, Sarasota; (941) 366-6860. The Fare: Breakfast and lunch are served seven days a week in a nicely renovated, sunny yellow bungalow with hardwood floors and tables and chairs done in a palette of tropical colors. One hopes the resurrection of this pretty little house is the start [...]
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Art Ringling Museum of Art. Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval Treasures in the Gavet, Vanderbilt and Ringling Collections, comes to an end April 4. Continuing through April 25: In Search of Norman Rockwell’s America, pairing images by that American master with those of photojournalist Kevin Rivoli. And opening April 24, to run through [...]
Read More >>Good Medicine
The Best of Both Worlds Steve Johns and Miriam Lacher are active 60-somethings who look at least a decade younger. The trim, attractive Miriam is a psychotherapist and manager at Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s Bayside Center for Behavioral Health. Tall, muscular Steve is a machinist at Sun Hydraulics. Married for 13 years, they’ve always been proactive [...]
Read More >>Food & Wine
Tour de Force Lan’s smoked trout caviar on panna cotta and chive pancake. At Lan, every forkful is a delight, and the price makes it one of the best deals on food-fabulous Main Street. One of the pleasures of being a regional judge for the annual James Beard Foundation Awards is the opportunity to nominate [...]
Read More >>One Great Room
Every table is a power table at Sean Murphy’s new dining establish-ment, The Bistro at The Concession, the result of a creative collaboration between powerhouse designers Adrienne Vittadini of AV Casa and Pamela Hughes of Hughes Design Associates. Murphy’s award-winning cuisine will be served in the elegant new restaurant, an extension of his Zagat-rated Beach [...]
Read More >>Designing Mind
Michael Gilkey is a second-generation Floridian who took over his father’s landscape architecture company in 2005. His work on a Cherokee Park residence in collaboration with Jonathan Parks Architect won an Award of Honor in 2009 from the Florida chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a Design Excellence Award from Residential Design [...]
Read More >>Best Neighborhoods
Luxury Homefront MARKET WATCH If you’ve coveted those grand old Spanish Mediterranean estates that line Bay Shore Road, now’s your chance: The historic Thoms Estate at 5030 Bay Shore Road, built at the height of the last real estate boom in 1926, is on the market for $1,399,000 by its owner, Michael Saunders real estate [...]
Read More >>Fashion Statement!
What are you wearing? A vintage dress from the ’80s that my mother [Monica Slater Van Buskirk, gala co-chair] bought at Bergdorf Goodman back when she was an executive with Godiva Chocolates in New York City. It used to be full-length, but people don’t really wear full-length dresses to events like this, so I had [...]
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