Sarasota FL

Color splashes across cottage walls, music drifts from porches, and studio doors swing open like invitations. At the Village of the Arts in Bradenton, Florida, creativity is not just displayed, it is lived and shared. You stroll streets lined with 1920s and 1930s homes reborn as galleries, bakeries, and workshops....

An only child, Blair Sellers always has been independent and driven. When it came to a career, he didn’t want to climb a corporate ladder. Instead, he dreamed of becoming a business owner. The idea of a coffee shop always was in the back of his mind. Now 26,...

Viva La Vida Cuban American Cuisine recently expanded to lunch and dinner service at Beneva Village Shoppes in Sarasota, about a month after owners Alejandro and Traci Lazo opened the upscale Latin restaurant for lunch service at 3440 Clark Road in mid-December. “We wanted everybody to come in little by little and...

Award-winning documentary filmmaker, director and producer Ken Burns spoke in Sarasota Monday about how funding cuts affect filmmakers like him, and how history lends context to current events. The government's recent cuts to public broadcasting, by rescinding money in 2025 that had been allocated by Congress,...

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Sarasota and Manatee Counties will offer its nationally acclaimed Family-to-Family Education Class, a free, eight-session program designed to support family members, significant others, and friends of individuals living with mental health conditions. The class will be...

At a recent Development Review Committee meeting, the Mira Mar redevelopment project in downtown Sarasota received approval for its site plans. It was the Mira Mar’s second site plan submittal to the DRC. After the first submittal, the project’s team still needed to address comments related to zoning; utilities,...

Chophouse285 is now open, bringing a fresh take on the classic steakhouse right to Dearborn Street. Owners Keith and Laurie Farlow, who you probably know from Farlow’s on the Water, have poured their hearts into this place. They wanted every detail to feel just right: the food, the drinks, the vibe, even the wood on...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A preliminary autopsy report shows hypothermia as the probable cause of death for 4-year-old Jonathan Bolley, the Manatee County boy who went missing from his father’s home on New Year’s Eve. Bolley’s body was found partially submerged in a creek Fridayn January 2, about...

Atlanta-based real estate firm Quinn Residences has delivered its first residential community in the greater Tampa Bay area, adding new rental housing in one of Manatee County’s fastest-growing corridors. The company completed Quinn Residences at Moccasin Wallow in Parrish, a purpose-built rental community with 284...

Come November, voters could be faced with another decision regarding how much they want to spend to conserve land in Manatee County. In 2020, residents overwhelmingly passed the Conservation and Parks Referendum with 71% of voters in favor of being taxed an additional .15 mills and allowing Manatee County to bond up...