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  • By Rod Thomson
  • May 18, 2011
MY VIEW: Turn off the TV. Quick!

TV and the rest of Digital Land that we use to watch videos are making us fat, lazy, dumb and horrible citizens.

  • East County
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 18, 2011
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

L'Ambiance ladies create special ambience for events; Gov. Scott is despised by more than the media.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Camille Johnson gets ready to hit the ball at the Longboat Key Club and Resort's Summer Sports Camp and Junior Tennis Camp last summer.
    By
  • Maria Amodio
  • May 18, 2011
Key camps heat up for summer

Longboat Key organizations are gearing up for an active summer on the Key with a variety of kids camps.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 18, 2011
Cops Corner

Suspicious Circumstance. Police found a repair van in a condominium parking lot and discovered a repairman was on-site to repair a water heater.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
Gail Condrick demonstrates one of the movements from Ageless Grace’s "Zoo-ology" tool.
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • May 18, 2011
Condrick teaches seniors how to 'age gracefully'

"Zoo-ology," is one of 21 exercise tools that make up the Ageless Grace program Denise Medved created.

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  • News
The 5,982-square-foot home at 6477 Gulfside Road has six bedrooms, five-and-a-half bathrooms and a swimming pool. It sold for $4.8 million.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 18, 2011
Sleepy Lagoon home sells for $4.8 million

A Gulf-front home at 6477 Gulfside Road sold Wednesday, May 4, for $4.8 million, the highest amount paid for a Manatee County home on Longboat Key since March 2009.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Longboat Key Club and Resort Adopt-a-Shore volunteers donated their time May 7.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 18, 2011
Business Observer

Longboat Key Club cleans up at Adopt-a-Shore event; Key restaurants offer unique menus for Savor Sarasota; and The Met opens new medical spa on St. Armands.

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  • By Donna Swan
  • May 18, 2011
Deal Us In

Three notrump opening is a gamble.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Janice Rutkowski submitted this sunset photo, taken on Lido Beach.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 18, 2011
WEEKLY WINNER: Engulfing View

Janice Rutkowski submitted this sunset photo, taken on Lido Beach.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
"I've always found it hard to define my work," Brian Haverlock says. "Is it a drawing, a painting or a collage? We could have a philosophical discourse about it, but really, drawing is the meat and bones of it all."
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 18, 2011
The draftsman

Brian Haverlock loves curious collages and small graphite drawings. Meet the artist ruled by a wild imagination and meticulous detail.

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Hershey Felder
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 18, 2011
Scene & Heard

Felder brings his best Bernstein to Sarasota; Julie Rohr's 'Li'l Abner' is a family affair; and Hot Tickets.

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"It's been said before that if Shakespeare were alive today, he’d be rapping," says Matthew McLendon, pictured here in front of "king yo on the queen, yo!" by artist Iona Rozeal Brown.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 18, 2011
The 'bling' king

The Ringling Museum's associate curator of modern and contemporary art takes his love of hip-hop beyond 'bling.'

  • Arts + Culture
Flora Major and Roxie Jerde
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • May 18, 2011
Black Tie & Tales

Nice to meet you and you and you ... ; Cool dinners are a hot item; Heads up, Willard Scott; Asolo to revive 'Ragtime'; Daddies dearest ... ; and Tidbits.

  • Arts + Culture
Nancy Blackburn and Sharon Black Floyd
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • May 17, 2011
Corinthian Gala Kick Off

Corinthian Gala Kick Off

  • Black Tie
Alex Palmer, pushed by Jason Rawley of UCP, shakes hands with Chris Papa of Pi Kappa Phi and Gear Up America.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • May 17, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Jovial journey

After 85 miles of cycling, a group of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity members from Gear Up Florida wheeled into the United Cerebral Palsy of Sarasota-Manatee Center to present a $750 grant. The team enhances the lives of more than 1,300 individuals with disabilities through grant funding and community events.

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