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Dec 9, 2024 | 
sarasotamagazine.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea González
As locals tentatively approach the table where she’s seated, India Miller beams. It’s a busy night at CinéBistro, the combination movie theater, restaurant and bar.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
sarasotamagazine.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea González
Mississippi-born contemporary photographer Jess T. Dugan, whose work is currently on view at The Ringling in a show titled I Want You to Know My Story, says that they like to work “very slowly,” building a relationship with their subject over time. “It hinges on me and my subject having an emotional experience together, and it works best in the quiet and private,” says Dugan.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
sarasotamagazine.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea González
Women firefighters are not a new phenomenon by any means, but the number of women in the field remains slim. According to one recent National Fire Protection Association report, out of an estimated 1,041,200 career and volunteer firefighters in the U.S., only 89,600 (8.6 percent) were women.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
sarasotamagazine.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea González
Snuggled in between a yoga studio and a former ballroom dance studio, the new headquarters of Project Pride is a beacon for Sarasota’s LGBTQ+ community. Located on Boulevard of the Arts in the Rosemary District, the cheerful facility, which opened in January, represents the culmination of the work the nonprofit has done so far.
Although formed in 2019, Project Pride didn’t explode in popularity until more recently.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
sarasotamagazine.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea González
Proving it's never too late to live the life you want, Louise Jacquet, 82, has been chipping away at a bucket list she began more than 40 years ago, in the 1980s. "I saw so many of my friends declining mentally, and others who were thinking about retiring and doing nothing," Jacquet says.
By contrast, for her 60th birthday, she decided to go skydiving. It's one of many adrenaline-spiking adventures Jacquet, a retired R.N., has embarked on.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
destructoid.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea Gonzalez
Patch 3 for Baldur’s Gate 3 brought many good changes with it. From the expected bug fixes to methods for altering the protagonist’s appearance, there’s plenty to like. One less popular addition was giving the Sphynx His Majesty a regretful coat of fur. Until the patch, this rude and pompous cat had an illustrious mane of nothing, adding to his charm, and thankfully the latest hotfix restores this.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
networthynews.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea Gonzalez
Cyberpunk 2077 is getting another spot simply a number of weeks after the 2.0 upgrade droppedIn spite of getting a multitude of gameplay overhauls and bug repairs, it can still be a glitchy video game. CD Projekt Red revealed the spot on its site with repairs both platform-specific and throughout all releases. The majority of these aren’t big enhancements, varying from changing radio tunes’ volume to appropriately starting a glitched gig.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
destructoid.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea Gonzalez
The Baldur’s Gate 3 cast can be summed up as an eclectic cast of weirdos forcibly brought together by fate. Despite their constant life-or-death situations, they find time to bicker and form deep friendships. The idea describes many RPG casts, but Baldur’s Gate 3‘s cast also fits as sitcom characters. A fan named Sho seemed to think so also and recreated the Friends intro using the cast. It honestly works even if the concept is absurd.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
destructoid.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea Gonzalez
Stardew Valley remains among the most beloved indie games of the past decade, and its content updates over the years help maintain its popularity. Developer ConcernedApe fuels the farming fanfare with additions both big and small, and it looks like he’s teasing another. The newest of these teases is an image of a parrot on top of a blue perch. It’s a cute picture, but the bird’s demand for money and capital J on the perch implies there’s more to it.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
sarasotamagazine.com | Andrea Gonzalez |Andrea González
In the early 1950s, when Sarasota’s Gerardo Veléz was growing up, his uncle Rafael would often bring his orchestra to the Veléz family apartment in the South Bronx. A Puerto Rican family was still an anomaly in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood, but the area was changing, giving way to waves of Puerto Ricans, other Latinos and African Americans who moved into the area. Dark-haired with big curls, lithe and easily excitable, Veléz would watch as Tío Rafael set up in the living room.
