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Dramatic texture and striking contrasts feature heavily in this rug from Sarasota’s award-winning Rugs As Art. Combining both transitional and contemporary patterns in a rich color palette along with exquisite detail carved deeply into the dense, cut-and-loop pile, this rug will endure both in beauty and quality. Rugs As Art, Inc. offers excellent selection, unbeatable [...]
Read More >>Sarasota’s Best: Ice Cream
With nominations from our 4,800 Facebook fans and judging help from food blogger (“Sticky Gooey Creamy Chewy”) Susan Filson, we set aside our better judgment and headed to five of Sarasota’s ice cream shops to find the best scoop in town. Best Overall Anna Maria’s Joe’s Eats and Sweets’ vanilla ice cream was luxuriously smooth, [...]
Read More >>Health Report July 2012
Think About It Mental conditioning coach Trevor Moawad counts among his clients the national champion University of Alabama football team. Here, Moawad, the director of IMG Academies’ Performance Institute, explains how mental conditioning relates to different aspects of physical (and even professional) performance. Motivation: “At Alabama football, the morning of this year’s national championship game, [...]
Read More >>Best In Shows
Boldest Interpretation of Shakespeare That would be the Asolo Rep’s and director Michael Donald Edwards’ Hamlet, Prince of Cuba. For me, not everything in this updated and relocated production worked, but it certainly took chances, and the performances that were done in Spanish (with English surtitles) were a new and welcome reach-out to our Hispanic [...]
Read More >>Arts Capital: July 2012
Risk-taking and collaboration were the hallmarks of an exciting 2011-12 Sarasota arts season. Here’s a look back at some of the highlights—and a few lowlights, too. SER O NO SER Could the Asolo Rep pull off its audacious plan to present English and Spanish performances of its Hamlet: Prince of Cuba? That was indeed the question, [...]
Read More >>Good Deal: Rotten Ralphs
The place: Rotten Ralph’s, on the Bridge Street Pier, Bradenton Beach, (941) 778-1604. The fare: Does it really matter what’s on the menu for breakfast, lunch or dinner when you’re comfortably seated in the shade on a pier over the Intracoastal Waterway enjoying the sea breeze on a fine Florida day? The bottom line: For [...]
Read More >>Food & Wine: Hyde Park Steakhouse & JPAN Restaurant
Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse in downtown Sarasota is a practitioner of the art of team service. Our team of waiters on a recent visit constituted a comedy duo, but that detracted not one iota from their thorough knowledge of the menu and wine list, nor did the entertainment undermine alert and attentive service. We were [...]
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Why Men Should Pay More Attention to their Gums Research shows that periodontal disease is more prevalent in men than women, and men lose more teeth on average than women. This may be caused by a lack of action when it comes to oral hygiene. Research published in the Journal of Periodontology found that women [...]
Read More >>SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION: 2012 Top Doctor Profiles
Click here to meet some of the outstanding physicians in Castle Connolly’s 2012 Registry of the best doctors in Sarasota/Manatee.
Read More >>Top Doctors 2012
Healthcare is a hot topic everywhere you turn these days. And while we can’t resolve the national debate, there’s no question that our little corner of paradise includes some of the finest physicians the country has to offer. Sarasota’s medical community includes award-winning hospitals, internationally significant medical research and two forward-thinking medical schools producing the [...]
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