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Archive for May, 2011
Healthfront
Dental Laser Fallacies Recently, Dr. Thomas G. Rubino has been asked by many colleagues and patients about lasers and their use in treating periodontal disease. “Understanding that there are a lot of claims made by the manufacturers and dentists about lasers and their practicality,” says Dr. Rubino, a recently published paper in The American Academy [...]
Read More >>Homefront
Home-Tech Worried about the upkeep of your luxury home? Do you know who to call if a major appliance like your air conditioning stops working? Purchase a service agreement with Home-Tech, and these worries can be eliminated. For more than 30 years, employee-owned Home-Tech has been an industry leader and trendsetter in the field of [...]
Read More >>Food & Wine
Belgian Seduction It’s always a pleasure to welcome a new star into the firmament of terrific restaurants that line Sarasota’s food-fabulous Main Street. This time the newcomer is a very fine Belgian restaurant and bar, Brasserie Belge. It shares a courtyard with another of our favorites, Mediterraneo, across the street from the Hollywood 20 cineplex. [...]
Read More >>What I’m Drinking
People celebrated or cried for all sorts of reasons after the fall of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, but wine lovers have special reason to rejoice: Franco’s death in 1975 signaled the rebirth of the centuries-old but by then stagnant Spanish wine industry. Nowhere is that renaissance more evident than in the Rueda denomination of [...]
Read More >>Good Deal
The Place: Whole Foods Market, 1451 First St., Sarasota; (941) 955-8500. The Fare: We’re zeroing in on one item in one location in this dazzling foodie theme park of a market: cheese pizza. The Drill: If you’re doing your weekly shopping, you’ll be good and hungry by the time you reach the prepared foods area [...]
Read More >>Only In Sarasota
Sunshine, a tennis ball and a really, really great hair day—what more can any stylish, sports-loving Sarasotan ask for? When Ted Mase spotted this poodle and her owner playing catch at Bayfront Park, he got out his camera and started shooting. The running poodle was both "funny" and "beautiful and wildly elegant," Mase says. Photo [...]
Read More >>Highlights
Art Selby Gallery. The gallery’s Ringling College Senior Thesis Exhibition ends May 6. It’s followed by Community Exhibitions May 13 through June 13, including works by Women Contemporary Artists and longtime Sarasota watercolorist Herbie Rose. 359-7563. Venice Art Center. The all-media show Abstraction ends here May 6. Up next: the annual South Sarasota County Schools [...]
Read More >>Body Talk
Food for Thought Sarasota’s favorite fish, grouper, contains up to a third more Omega-3 fatty acids than an equal serving of canned tuna. The benefits of those added Omega-3s—including lower triglycerides and blood pressure—can become evident in a matter of weeks. (Just be sure to mind your mercury.) The FDA’s newest dietary guidelines recommend upping [...]
Read More >>Mr. Chatterbox
To an Amish person or a Mennonite, Sarasota must be one of the most exciting places in the world. Every winter thousands of Mennonites journey down from Pennsylvania and Indiana for a month or so in the sun, in a community that caters to their every vacation whim—the beach, family time and lots and lots [...]
Read More >>Comfort Zone
Christine Eisner practices what she preaches. From the watery blue-green color scheme to cozy furniture arrangements, her new penthouse in Longboat Key Towers affirms the theories expounded in her Comfort Living: A Back-to-Basics Guide to a More Balanced Lifestyle. Eisner’s business, Lifestyle Design, focuses on how people experience their living spaces. “It’s not about [...]
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