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 Documentary Feature Competition: Fake It So Real

As a teenager in love for the first time, I surprised myself and everyone around me by thoroughly enjoying a date to a professional wrestling match…you know, the kind with gross characters, elaborate costumes and much fake ado. To those…

A deal is a deal, is a deal.  But when a deal is laced with a fabulous intimate setting, refined delicate flavor profiles, and spot-on drink pairings, it’s a win-win without a shadow of a doubt!  Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar offers a great new alternative to start…

Photo by Kim Conner Wqmag.com

At Wednesday’s Kick-off Party for the Sarasota Film Festival, Tom Hall predicted that Christopher Plummer will receive a best supporting actor nomination for his performance in this year’s closing night film “Beginners.”  If last year’s films are any indication of the quality of this…

Make your next salon service count as a donation to the American Cancer Society. This year’s Relay for Life kicks off with a Style-a-Thon at Inspirations Salon on Sunday, March 27^th and Monday, March 28^th. Payments for any hair service during the Style-a-Thon will be donated to the American Cancer Society’s signature fundraising event, Relay for Life on April 9^th and 10^th. You can receive a hair cut, color or even the frizz-relieving Keratin…

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Especially in the beginning of relationship, fantasy plays a big part. We meet someone, there’s chemistry, and within our head, we often imagine the person to be all we hope him or her to be. We begin to act as if he or she is that person. When that happens, we are engaging in fantasy. Before we know it, we can become embroiled in a relationship with someone we don’t truly know in spite of the long, heartfelt conversations and spark-firing chemistry experienced in the beginning. It is…

Low Levels of Vitamin D and…

Chillounge Night’s One-of-a-Kind, One Night Only, Outdoor Luxury Lounge Event Returns To Sarasota’s Palm Avenue on Saturday March 5th

Photos from last year's Chillounge Photography by Cliff Roles 

Sarasota, FL … Chillounge Night, an upscale outdoor event that transforms a public area into a posh nightclub and lounge for one night only, returns to downtown…

The application of acrylic nails typically contains many potential hazards to women’s health. For years, the price of beauty has potentially cost women their health. Now women finally have an alternative. They can have acrylic nails without the formaldehyde, toluene, MMA and toxic odors. Yet buyers beware, these health-protecting acrylic nails are not the ones…

As I watched the Rose Bowl Parade it was interesting to see the top resolutions for 2011 as they scrolled across the screen:…

The holidays are almost here. This year has gone by in a whirlwind. As I journal each day, I have been amazed at how quickly the numbers I write at the top of the page have changed. How could it be the end of November so quickly?

The truth is, with two teenage daughters, a reorganized…

Each day we awake to a world in which health, good fortune, justice, well-being and community exist side-by-side with illness, suffering, injustice, despair and isolation. While most of us will experience to

greater or lesser degree the whole panorama of life’s up’s and down’s, I

know that there are far too many people who know only illness,

suffering, injustice, despair and isolation. From my desk in Florida, I

need look no…

Whenever someone shouts “I should kill you....This is so #$*! good, I should kill you!” and then kisses and hugs the chef, it makes you want to eat the food, right? Thankfully, that’s the mindset of my fellow food-loving friends. After watching Stanley Tucci’s 1996 film Big Night, one of my gourmand friends was unable to shake the thought. A mission was set in motion to find a chef to create the…

The stars were aligned for Opening Night of the Ringling International Arts Festival, and event organizers aligned them perfectly. Pre-performance champagne toasts in theater lobbies began the evening with sparkle that carried throughout the evening. As The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Baryshnikov Arts Center partnered for the festival, the Night of Premieres included four world premiere performances: solos by Mikhail Baryshnikov and…