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  • By Brian Gunnell
  • June 20, 2012
Bridge Bites: Three degrees of bacon

This week's hand features an astonishing defense by West - we'll get to the winning play by degrees.

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Barbara Jendrysik submitted this sunset photo, taken on Longboat Key.
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 20, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Barbara Jendrysik submitted this sunset photo, taken on Longboat Key.

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  • Neighbors
This Lakewood Ranch home, which has three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,394 square feet of living area, sold for $652,500. Jen Blanco.
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  • Adam Hughes
  • June 20, 2012
Country Club Village home sells for $652,500

A home in in Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week's real estate. W. Gary and Carole Booher, of Bradenton, sold their home at 13806 Milan Terrace to Peter and Julia Dennis, of Glenview, Ill., for $652,500.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
Karen Yates took this photo June 19, of the sun rising in Lakewood Ranch.
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 20, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Karen Yates took this photo June 19, of the sun rising in Lakewood Ranch.

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  • June 20, 2012
BUSINESS OBSERVER

Coastal Animal Medical Center open for business; Two new businesses open on Ranch Main; Bradenton couple starts public relations firm; Lakewood Ranch adds new neighborhood

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"I'm not a crafty mom," Emily Stroud says. "I'm a busy, organized mom who likes to have things under control."
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 20, 2012
Emily Stroud: Bright new start

With her new line of sailcloth totes, Emily Stroud is hoping to change the way women go to the beach. The up-and-coming designer explains why she bagged her job in the name of fashion.

  • Arts + Culture
Evan Tucker, Jack Berry, Austin Siegel, Ollie Gray and Harrison Paparatto. Courtesy photo.
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 20, 2012
Scene & Heard

The Garbage-Men plan to rock New York City with trash jams; Rocker's memoir is a love letter to automobiles

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Carol Wincenc. Photo by Christian Steiner.
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  • June LeBell
  • June 20, 2012
Music Review: Sarasota's Big League Festival

Just as Nik Wallenda was prepping for his breathtaking tightrope walk across Niagra Falls, the Sarasota Music Festival was wowing the audience in the Opera House with an equally exhilarating program of chamber music.

  • Arts + Culture
Phallen Coyne and Matt Foley with one of several shellfish paintings Coyne created for her family's new Sarasota restaurant.
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  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • June 20, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Raw talent

Husband-and-wife artists Matt Foley and Phallen Coyne have stirred up a groovy seaside vibe at their family's new restaurant in South Sarasota.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy star in "Hysteria." Courtesy photo.
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  • Pam Nadon
  • June 20, 2012
Flim Review: 'Hysteria'

Whimsy and logic collide in the wonderful new film, "Hysteria." In this different kettle-of-fish British romp, based on true events, the vibrator is inadvertently invented in 1880s Victorian England.

  • Arts + Culture
Joshua Carter and Billie Wildrick performed "Das Barbecü" at Seattle's ACT Theatre and are now starring in Florida Studio Theatre’s production. Photo by Chris Bennion.
  • By Paula Atwell
  • June 20, 2012
Theater Review: Das Barbec

Florida Studio Theatre's "Das Barbecü" is a campy, energetic parody of Wagner's epic opera, "Ring Cycle."

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  • By Lisa Nisenson
  • June 19, 2012
Upward Mobility

Upward Mobility

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The McDonald's at 787 S. Washington Blvd. is currently closed for remodeling.
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  • Loren Mayo
  • June 19, 2012
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Demolition day

The McDonald's near downtown Sarasota has been demolished.

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Join Emily Walsh as she reports today's headlines.
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  • Eddie Kirsch
  • June 19, 2012
June 19: Daily Headlines Video

Join us as we observe and report today's stories from Longboat Key, East County, Sarasota and Siesta Key.

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  • June 19, 2012
Obituary: Don Snyder

Don Snyder, of Sarasota, died June 5. He was 87.

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