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Matt Drews, sitting, and Chuck Vollmer run the Sarasota-based franchise for Esio Beverage System. The company offers what it calls the first hot-and-cold, ready-to-drink beverage dispenser on the market. Photo by Lori Sax.
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • January 9, 2013
Former wealth manager tries his hand at new business

A Ponzi scheme wiped out a once-prominent wealth manager's career. The comeback is going slow. 'This is still us digging our way out,' says Chuck Vollmer.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The Wicker Inn overlooks the Gulf of Mexico. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 9, 2013
Real Estate Reports

Lido Key home sells for $6.35 million; Wagner Realty to manage Wicker Inn

  • Longboat Key
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Pluto
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 9, 2013
BUSINESS OBSERVER

Tommy Bahama hires Peg McKay Pluto

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Unit 1002 at The Beach Residences, 1300 Benjamin Franklin Drive, has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,964 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.9 million. File Photo.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 9, 2013
Four-bedroom Lido Key home sells for $4 million

A home on Lido Key tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Billy and Vivian Baird, of Sturgis, Ky., sold their home at 1355 Westway Drive to Donn Winokur and Eileen O'Donnell-Winokur, of Sarasota, for $4 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
The Longboat Key Club's new Mind & Motion studio for fitness classes. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • January 9, 2013
Aerobic Grandma: Menu of fitness classes for the upcoming year

Whether you are in great physical condition and raring to go or one of those snowbirds who returns each winter saying, "I haven't done a thing since I left here last spring," you have quite a smorgasbord of classes to choose from on the Key this season.

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David Rosenthal submitted this sunset photo, taken on the north end of Longboat Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 9, 2013
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

David Rosenthal submitted this sunset photo, taken on the north end of Longboat Key.

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"The Blue Persian," by Dale Chihuly, was the first piece Richard and Barbara Basch bought in 1993. Within one year, they collected 10 works by Chihuly.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 9, 2013
House of Glass: The Basch's glass collection

Dr. Richard and Barbara Basch's glass collection spans two decades and features more than 250 works of contemporary artists from the 20th-and-21st centuries.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 9, 2013
Scene & Heard

Explore The Players' 84th season; You can take it with you (to San Francisco); Volunteers branch out; Judge Barbieri gives her marks

  • Arts + Culture
Tom Holland as Lucas and Naomi Watts as Maria Belon in "The Impossible." Courtesy.
    By
  • Pam Nadon
  • January 9, 2013
Film Review: 'The Impossible'

"The Impossible" is a cinematic masterpiece and a gripping true story of survival. Without warning and while on vacation, a family is swept away and separated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. As their nightmare unfolds, we're left breathless for almost two hours.

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  • By Paula Atwell
  • January 9, 2013
Theater: 'You Can't Take it with You'

Asolo Rep continues its 2012/13 theme of "The American Character Project," which began with "1776," with yet, another spectacularly relevant production of a great American classic, "You Can't Take it with You."

  • Arts + Culture
"I find life funny. Sometimes I laugh at the silliest things … people's foibles, maybe a look or something. I think that comes out in 'Viagra Falls.'"
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 9, 2013
Spotlight: From 'Viagra Falls' to Betty White, Lou Cut-ells it to the chase

Most people recognize Lou Cutell because of his many memorable cameos in television and movies: from "Mary Tyler Moore" and "The Golden Girls," to "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

  • Arts + Culture
Rachel Silverman, 12, Allison Forsyth, 16, and Caitlin Gish, 14, look in the mirror while pinning their hair up before their final rehearsal.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • January 9, 2013
Highlights: Sarasota Ballet conservatory students compete

The Sarasota Ballet School's Margaret Barbieri Conservatory of Dance had 12 students compete starting at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 4 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, in the Youth America Grand Prix, at the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts.

  • Arts + Culture
The finished piece inside the studio before it was taken down and transported to Selby Gallery. Courtesy photo
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 9, 2013
Backstage Pass: Light is shed on the inner workings of an installation

People have come to see hundreds of exhibits since Kevin Dean, director of Selby Gallery, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design, started running it in 1994.

  • Arts + Culture
Lillian Sands' backyard includes a pool, a waterfall, a wide variety of plants in Mexican bean pots, a pavilion and a private beach access.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • January 9, 2013
Home & Garden: Historic Homestead

Lillian Sands has lived in her home on Longboat Key for 23 years. Last year, she enlisted the help of Christine's Landscape to transform her yard and is delighted with the work the company has done.

  • Arts + Culture
Photos by Rachel S. O'Hara
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • January 9, 2013
Zip up your salad bowl with citrus

At this time of year, most of us are thinking about shedding a few of the pounds that came with holiday cookies and candies.

  • Arts + Culture
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