MAN ON THE STREET: Sweetie sweets
November 1, 2010
Girls from Girls Inc. were asked what their favorite Halloween candy is.
Ghoulish get-ups stroll SYC
October 30, 2010
Never mind the outlandish costumed characters who floated around Sarasota Yacht Club for this year's Halloween party — it was the giant inflatable black cat in the lobby that first caught everyone's attention!
Drifting spirits haunt BKYC
October 30, 2010
Bird Key Yacht Club members laced up in costumes ranging from witches to hippies this Halloween.
St. Armands Circle celebrates Halloween
October 30, 2010
St. Armands Circle was filled with tons of trick-or-treaters, young and young at heart, Saturday evening. All the stores and restaurants stayed open late so that bumble-bees, witches, ninjas and pumpkins could fill their bags full of sweet treats.
3rd Annual Chalk Festival draws a crowd
October 30, 2010
Burns Court was a lot more colorful this weekend with the addition of the 3rd Annual Chalk Festival. The event was free to attend and the theme of this year’s festival and art was “Halloween”.
Girls Inc. trick-or-treat haunted offices
October 29, 2010
Lady Gaga, vampires, southern belles, witches and geishas all paraded through UBS and Merrill Lynch’s haunted hallways as part of their Girls Inc. Halloween on Friday afternoon.
WEEKEND BEST BET: Sarasota Chalk Festival
October 29, 2010
The Sarasota Chalk Festival, featuring 250 street painters from the U.S., Italy, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands and Slovenia, takes place from 8 a.m. to midnight Oct. 30 to Oct. 31, along South Pineapple Avenue in Burns Square.
Edward Jones branch opens on Circle
October 28, 2010
Richard Crawford, financial advisor, held an open house for the new Edward Jones Branch at 443 John Ringling Blvd., on St. Armands Circle.
Books come to life at Southside Elementary (VIDEO)
October 28, 2010
Students at Southside Elementary School paraded the campus today dressed as their favorite book characters. Scroll down for video.
Brookside Middle gets pumped for school project
October 27, 2010
Susan Roberts’ eighth-grade science classes at Brookside Middle School spent Wednesday measuring how the circumference and height of a pumpkin can affect the number of seeds it contains.Once they had completed the lab by creatively carving faces into their pumpkins, students lit a candle inside them and turned off the lights to admire their Jack-o-lanterns.
- May
25 Free Summer Olympics for the kids
10:00 am - 4:00 pm - May
25 New Healing Tarot Two-Day Workshop with Edith Cheitman
10:00 am - 4:00 pm - May
25 Shabbat Shmooze - Dr. William Fogel
12:30 pm - 6:00 am - May
25 Special Sacred WESAK Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Event
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Jolly good fellow
05/23/13
Just as Observer advertising representative Bob Lewis loves to garden, he also cultivates relationships with all of his co-workers and clients. -
Going for the gold
05/23/13
Sisters Francesca and Elizabeth Martel returned victorious Monday, May 20, after a weekend at the Special Olympics of Florida State Summer Games, in Orlando. -
Culinary roots
05/16/13
Trevor Kunk is the chef de cuisine at Blue Hill in New York City’s Greenwich Village, which the James Beard Foundation just named "most outstanding restaurant."
