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Yaryna Klimchak
April 17, 2013

Prom-A-Palooza: Pine View students ready for Italian affair

What started as a potluck dinner in a chemistry classroom has expanded to a full-on catered event with months of party planning and extravagant dance decorations.

East County
Neighbors

Josh Siegel
April 17, 2013

Prom-A-Palooza: Cardinal Mooney prom-goers go Vegas

Students take a gamble that expensive outfits will do justice to the 'Old School Vegas'-themed prom at Polo Grill.

East County
Neighbors

Adam Hughes
April 17, 2013

Home in Lake Club sells for $1,515,000

A home in Lake Club tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Mark Miller sold his home at 7941 Waterton Lane to Jeffrey Isaac, of Lakewood Ranch, for $1,515,000.

East County
Real Estate

Observer Staff
April 17, 2013

Business Briefs

Ritz-Carlton secures big golf event; John Neal Homes brings biggest model to Ranch; Medallion Home hits record first quarter

East County
News

Observer Staff
April 17, 2013

Weather Photo: RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY

East County resident Sue Tonn submitted this photo of a storm moving over Holmes Beach.

East County
Neighbors

Mallory Gnaegy
April 17, 2013

Miss Best Dressed: Cami Leavitt

Cami Leavitt turns a pretty thought into a couture prom dress, and a stylish ambition into a posh business.

Arts + Culture

Mallory Gnaegy
April 17, 2013

Scene & Heard

Volunteers make Sarasota Opera sing; Three generations open art Gallery; Patron Saints

Arts + Culture

Mallory Gnaegy
April 17, 2013

Students teach students about diversity through art

Colleen Manning is a 16-year-old sophomore in the Co-Existence Club at Riverview High. She doesn't yet have her driver's license, so she was dropped off at Island Park promptly at 8:10 a.m. (school usually starts at 7:30 a.m.)

Arts + Culture

By Paula Atwell
April 17, 2013

Theater Review: 'Candida'

Next to Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw has probably done more to line the pockets of regional thespians and theatrical entrepreneurs than any one man since the Greeks invented drama.

Arts + Culture

June LeBell
April 17, 2013

Music Review: Sarasota Orchestra's Masterworks VII: East Meets West

The Sarasota Orchestra and guest conductor, Peter Bay, offered a program of two blockbusters from a pair of countries that could be called the cornerstone blocs of the East and the West: Russia and America.

Arts + Culture

Rachel S. OHara
April 17, 2013

Home & Garden: DIY HOME

Sarasota's Indian Beach area is known for having many older-style homes that the owners keep well maintained and occasionally revamp to keep them up to code.

Arts + Culture

Molly Schechter
April 17, 2013

Foodie dines north of Fruitville

There is a lively restaurant scene north of Fruitville these days. There are no fewer than five options for dinner, from blue jean-casual, American regional (Blue Rooster) to as haute-as-it-gets in Sarasota (Pomona), with a good dose of Latin American for spice (Savory @ Night, Canta Rana and Darwin's on 4th).