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Local Firms Win Big at the 2025 AIA Florida Awards

1 week ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

In Sarasota, architecture doesn’t just shelter—it seduces. With a legacy rooted in the clean lines and coastal logic of the Sarasota School, the region continues to produce work that’s both technically sharp and visually restrained. At the 2025 AIA Florida Design & Honor Awards, a dozen projects from Sarasota, Longboat Key, Venice and Manatee County earned statewide recognition.
A Historic Sarasota School Home on Siesta Key Hits the Market

1 week ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

Tucked deep inside Siesta Key's Sanderling Club, behind a wall of tropical foliage and the discreet gates of one of the barrier island's last true architectural enclaves, stands a home that appears less constructed than conjured. Known as the Ness House, the 4,006-square-foot home on Sanderling Road was built in 1961 by John Lambie Sr. and renovated in 1971 by Sarasota School architect Tim Seibert. Today, it’s on the market for $5.3 million.
Photos: 'No Kings Day' Protest in Downtown Sarasota

1 week ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

Protestors in all 50 states turned out in droves on Saturday, June 14, for "No Kings Day" rallies—protests planned for the same day as a military parade in Washington, D.C., that happened to fall on President Donald Trump's 79th birthday. In Sarasota, where political red often runs deep, the "No Kings" protest on Saturday offered a sense of unity that's become increasingly hard to find.
Dr. Tanya Schreibman on the Current State of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

1 week ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Megan McDonald |Megan Mcdonald

Forty-four years ago, in June 1981, the first cases of HIV/AIDS were reported in the United States. So began an epidemic that’s killed more than 39 million people around the world and 500,000 people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today, about 1.1 million Americans live with HIV/AIDs, and 38,000 new cases are diagnosed in this country each year.
Tap into Nostalgia with FST's Dance Musical Comedy "Dames at Sea"

1 week ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kay Kipling

The weather is scorching, the news is bad, and there’s nothing “must-see” to watch on TV. Sounds like it’s time to slip into the theater for a light, winsome musical comedy—something like Florida Studio Theatre’s production of Dames at Sea.
A New Mural of Irene and Lewis Colson Is Part of Sarasota's New 'Call for Walls' Initiative

2 weeks ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

Towering across the wall of the Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences, a new mural depicts Irene and Lewis Colson, Black pioneers who helped shape the city’s early identity. Created by local muralist Kaitlyn Ramirez, known professionally as “Swirly Painter,” the piece is both homage and provocation: a visual restoration of two lives mostly left out of Sarasota’s public memory until recently. “I wanted to do a historical piece,” Ramirez says. “My kids are mixed, and they deal with racism.
Behold the Area's Most Expensive Listing Ever

2 weeks ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kim Doleatto

At the southern tip of Longboat Key, just past the banyan-shaded driveways and behind the private gates of the Longboat Key Club, sits a house so opulent it has a title. La Serenissima, Italian for “super serene,” sounds less like a place you live and more like a title bestowed by papal decree. But its owners just call it home. They, at least for now, are Jim and Laura Rogers. Jim, 74, is a retired Fortune 500 CEO, a former Navy pilot-turned-financier-turned grandfather-in-chief.
Urbanite Theatre's 'From 145th to 98th Street' Measures the Cost of a Family's Journey

2 weeks ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Kay Kipling

Sarasota’s Urbanite Theatre always likes to take chances onstage, presenting new works, often edgy, with regularity. Latest up is the world premiere of a piece the theater commissioned, Nia Akilah Robinson’s From 145th to 98th Street, centered on a Black family that has moved from Harlem to a better neighborhood in hopes of improving their children’s lives. Robinson’s story, and her approach to it, might sound a bit of a mix of The Jeffersons and A Raisin in the Sun.
Our Food Editor Conquers Her Fears and Helps Bake for 700 Guests at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota

2 weeks ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Lauren Jackson

I'm bad at baking. Really bad. The only B grade I received in culinary school (many years ago) was for my baking and pastry class. I worked hard for that B, and while I was otherwise a straight A student, I celebrated. Cooking is forgiving. Most mistakes are fixable. Add a bit of sugar or more liquid if a dish is too salty, call a dish “rustic” if it’s ugly and laugh if things go horribly wrong.
Home Baker Francesca Fago Discovered Florida’s Cottage Food Law, and Life Has Never Been Sweeter

2 weeks ago | sarasotamagazine.com | Lauren Jackson

Francesca Fago had always baked for joy, sharing her sweet treats with family and friends. When Covid-19 hit in 2020 and the stores shut down, her friends begged her to sell her baked goods to them. With a little research, she discovered that Florida had a law that enabled home-based foodmakers to sell their products to customers. Permission granted, she opened Simply Sweets SRQ in 2021.