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It Worked For Them: Three Body-Changing Local Workouts
Edy Wollheim Attanasio What: Crossfit Suncoast Where: 6300 Tower Lane, #9, Sarasota The skinny: Constantly varied movements performed at high intensities. I like that it’s every aspect of fitness—cardio, flexibility, agility, gymnastics, weight training. The endorphins are like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. Because you want to do better, you eat better, so the Paleo diet—lean [...]
Read More >>What to Do in Sarasota This Weekend: 11/18/2013
Your Weekend Top 5 1. If you’re nuts for musical theater, Sarasota Orchestra’s pop series opener is right up your (Shubert) Alley. “Bravo Broadway” features Doug LaBreque (Phantom of the Opera, Showboat), Susan Egan (Beauty and the Beast) and Lisa Vroman (Les Miserables) backed by the full orchestra. Friday and Saturday night at the Van [...]
Read More >>Photo of the Week: Downtown Sarasota Puppeteer
We love people-watching in downtown Sarasota because you never know who you’ll see. Case in point: This puppeteer, performing for his sidewalk audience one day on Main Street. Photo by Tim Gilbreath
Read More >>Artist Patrick Dougherty’s “Stickwork” Takes Shape at SMOA
Artist Patrick Dougherty is in the midst of creating one of his famous “Stickwork” sculptures on the Sarasota High School campus, the future home of the Sarasota Museum of Art. Dougherty will be working on the sculpture, which has a circus theme, through January 26; photographer Ian Dean snapped these photos of the piece at [...]
Read More >>What To Do in Sarasota This Weekend, 1/11/2013
Your Weekend Top 5 Achingly beautiful botanicals like you’ve never seen beforeby Philadelphia artist MF Cardamone are on exhibit through March 23 at Selby Gardens. Cardamone worked with Selby staff to incorporate plants found in the Gardens collection for her “Florida Fantastica” works. Lots of special events around the exhibit, including a luncheon Jan. 21 [...]
Read More >>Photo of the Week: Longboat Key Sunset
By Taylor Meredith Sometimes a photo appears to have been taken right out of a dream. Lewis Golbourn’s snapshot of a Longboat Key sunset is exactly one of those, with romantic colors and feather-soft textures that blur the lines between shore and ocean, reality and fantasy. Photo by Lewis Golbourn
Read More >>Walter Isaacson on Writing, Sarasota and Steve Jobs.
By Megan McDonald You’ve probably heard Walter Isaacson’s name before: He’s a former TIME magazine editor, the former chairman and CEO of CNN, a member of the board of directors of Teach for America and the current president and CEO of The Aspen Institute, a think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. He’s also a prolific [...]
Read More >>Win a Copy of “Hazan Family Favorites”
Still looking for the perfect gift for the foodie in your life? Enter to win one of three (3) signed copies of famed chef Giuliano Hazan’s new cookbook, Hazan Family Favorites, featured in our December issue. Entries must be received by midnight on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012; winner will be selected and notified on Wednesday, Dec. 19, [...]
Read More >>Holiday Gift Guide: Spirits of the Season
Create good cheer with these holiday cocktails. A holiday cocktail can add festive spirit to any event. Nobody knows that better than Maeve Persquera, the national food and beverage director of Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, whose enviable job includes testing and selecting signature cocktails for the restaurants every Christmas season. We persuaded Persquera [...]
Read More >>What To Do in Sarasota This Weekend: 12/6/2012
Your Weekend Top 5 1. The Van Wezel opens its Broadway season tonight and tomorrow with the national touring production of Catch Me If You Can. The Tony Award-nominated musical relates the wild adventures of con man Frank Abagnale, who, in pursuit of the good life, poses as an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer. [...]
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