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  • June 19, 2014
Hot Flash: Take on rainy days in style

How does one dress appropriately for rainy summer days? BT picks top rainy day essentials.

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  • June 18, 2014
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"I've always said, 'Someday, I'd like to create something that beautiful,'" Parker Converse says of the first time he encountered a sculptural rocking chair.
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  • June 18, 2014
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Some people are content with a $135 birch rocking chair from IKEA, while others prefer a $35,000 sculpted amboyna burl rocking chair. Woodworker Parker Converse pleases the latter.

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"As ringmistress, looking at everyone is more exhilarating than being on a flying trapeze or high wire. Everyone's attention is on you," Bailey Sloan says.
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  • June 18, 2014
Bailey Sloan Steps Right Up

This year, 16-year-old Sailor Circus performer Bailey Sloan will be ringmistress of the Summer Circus Spectacular.

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  • June 18, 2014
Staycation Living on Siesta Key

Within walking distance of both the Siesta Key Public Beach and Siesta Key Village, the beachfront home located at 636 Beach Road on almost two acres of land overlooking the Gulf of Mexico is a great place to live to feel as though you're on vacation.

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  • June 18, 2014
Social Studies: Mel and Jan Goldsmith

Mel and Jan Goldsmith have been real estate agents in Sarasota for 17 years, but, before that, they were globetrotting partners in the fashion industry.

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  • June 17, 2014
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  • June 17, 2014
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  • June 17, 2014
Sarasota Young Voices heading to Paris

Sarasota Young Voices' fifteen members are heading to France June 22.

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  • June 16, 2014
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  • June 16, 2014
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Chef Jam kicks off at Shamrock Pub

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  • June 15, 2014
FILM REVIEW: 'The German Doctor'

'The German Doctor' is a semi-fictionalized story about the elusive Dr. Josef Mengele.

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  • June 15, 2014
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There was an electricity pulsing through the Opera House Saturday evening for the Sarasota Music Festival.

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  • June 14, 2014
A softer side of Father's Day

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