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Berry Boss berries grown in Dover, can be found at Publix ($2.50 per pound for the week of Jan. 2).
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • January 11, 2012
EDIBLES: Ten berry easy ways to use strawberries

Every visit to the produce department should begin by asking the most senior manager you can find: 'What's good?' Last week, Dale Rodgers, produce manager at the Publix on Longboat Key, answered emphatically: 'Strawberries! They are coming from only 70 miles away. They are tasty, and they are cheap!'

  • Arts + Culture
A monarch feeds off of a red penta in the Hayneses’ butterfly garden.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • January 11, 2012
Home & Garden: Butterfly beauties

When Bob and Olivia Haynes moved 14 years ago from Reston, Va., to Sarasota, the couple missed seeing the many song birds that they had grown accustomed to spotting in their yard. Soon, the Hayneses realized the beauty of butterflies and wanted to attract as many as possible to their own butterfly garden.

  • Arts + Culture
The home has a contemporary feel with the use of horizontal cyprus siding.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • January 11, 2012
Home: Lido Luxury

After two years, the 'Strandhus' on Lido Shores embodies beachside modernity.

  • Arts + Culture
Event Co-Chairs Paul and Carina Bowman
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • January 11, 2012
Black Tie & Tales

First week on the job; So in love

  • Arts + Culture
Jeffery Kin and Bob Trisolini performed their own version of Annie Get Your Gun’s “Anything you can do, I can do better”
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • January 9, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Players Theatre announces 83rd Season

The Players Theatre announced their 2012-2013 season to 40 of their most loyal sponsors, Saturday, Jan. 7, at the home of Betty and David Frostad on Siesta Key.

  • Arts + Culture
"Really, when I look back, I'm shocked by my energy," Pat Kaufman says of her vast body of work. "I seem to have had a lot of nervous energy."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • January 4, 2012
Pat Kaufman: Creative Empowerment

Pat Kaufman is as influenced by feminism as she is red high heels and babies. The prolific artist makes sense of her quirky influences and rich portfolio.

  • Arts + Culture
Rebecca Allan and Laura Kaminsky. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • January 4, 2012
Scene & Heard

Hermitage couple brings work to LBKCA; Boyhood band nerds star in FST show

  • Arts + Culture
"People don't realize what goes into finding the right costumes," Susan Angermann says. "We don't do a lot of big period stuff. Sometimes the simpler something is, the harder it is to do."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • January 4, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Clothes force

Susan Angermann learned to make clothes on her mother's push-pedal sewing machine. Now the manager of Florida Studio Theatre's costume shop, she has little time to sew for herself.

  • Arts + Culture
Chung-Yon Hong and Daniel Jordan share a plate of cottage cheese pancakes. Photo by Loren Mayo.
    By
  • June LeBell
  • January 4, 2012
KITCHEN CLASSICS: Daniel Jordan & Chung-Yon Hong

Daniel Jordan and Chung-Yon Hong may be newlyweds, but they're hardly new faces to Sarasota Orchestra audiences.

  • Arts + Culture
Jim Lampl, Claudia Johnson and Gino Calleja
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • January 4, 2012
EDIBLES: Sarasota savors new supper option

Savory Street International Cafe and Bakery opened in the Rosemary District less than two years ago and quickly established itself as a top choice of locals for breakfast, brunch and lunch. It introduced Savory @ Night just last month.

  • Arts + Culture
Co-Chairwoman Kitty Cranor, special guest Cherie Blair and Co-Chairwoman Kathleen Weiner at last year’s Town Hall Platinum Dinner.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • January 4, 2012
12 events in 2012

Because Sarasota's social and charitable scene is jam-packed every week with fun parties and soirees benefiting notable causes, BT has compiled an abbreviated 2012 Black Tie social calendar featuring 12 don't-miss events that we're looking forward to this year.

  • Arts + Culture
Molly Schechter
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • January 4, 2012
Black Tie & Tales

Turning the page; Looking back

  • Arts + Culture
Janice Behling with Carol and Kevin Sontheimer and Leigh Ellen Sontheimer
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • January 4, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS: Entranced by evening glow

Warning: If you've got ADD, this exhibit is probably not for you. But, if stretching out on a bench and staring up at the sky for 20 minutes while LED lights dance across the ceiling of an enchanting column-filled room sounds like your idea of a good time, get yourself to the new Skyspace exhibit.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • June LeBell
  • January 4, 2012
Music Review: The Perlman Music Program: Works in Progress

So, what makes a major career in music? Talent, charisma, energy, ambition, luck, drive, temperament and tenacity, guidance, contacts and connections, advocates, mentors and not just a little bit of luck.

  • Arts + Culture
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Alexander Fehling) falls in love with Lotte (Miriam Stein) in "Young Goethe in Love." Courtesy Photo.
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • January 4, 2012
Film Review: 'Young Goethe in Love'

Was it unrequited love that launched Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's career as a celebrated poet and playwright? That is the implication in director Phillip Stolzl's new literary period piece, 'Young Goethe in Love.'

  • Arts + Culture
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