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        Local jam sessions each night of the week...
       
      
        By Jennifer Almond
      
      
      FRIDAY BC&#39;s Recovery Room Javamoon MONDAY Old Packinghouse Caf&eacute; TUESDAY Hoosier Bar and Grill Saints and Sinners Siesta Key Oyster Bar WEDNESDAY The Bungalow...
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    <title>Our massive list of all the best events from Bradenton to Sarasota and down to Venice</title>
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        By Tim Sukits
      
      
      VISUAL ARTS: OPENING ART CENTER SARASOTA 707 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota (365-2032). North County Schools Exhibition featuring art by more than 2,000 students from 23 schools runs through May 6 with opening receptions at 5 p.m. April 22 and 23. Call for regular hours. Free. PALMETTO ART CENTER 907 5th St. W., Palmetto (palmettoartcenter.com). Spring Jazz Show will be displayed through May 9 with an opening reception from 6-9 p.m. April 24. Normal hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tues.-Fri., 10:30
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    <title>A bittersweet baseball tale</title>
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        <i>Sugar</i> tracks the odyssey of a Dominican ballplayer....
       
      
        By Eric Snider
      
      
      Call it the Dominican Dream. The small Caribbean country produces more good baseball players per square mile than any place else on earth. Every Big League franchise has a an academy there, where prospects live and learn the game under strict supervision, and with the hope of getting signed, invited to spring training, landing on a minor league club in the States and then fulfilling the biggest dream of all: making a Major League roster. Miguel &quot;Sugar&quot; Santos is one
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        Ray LaMontagne: portrait of a private artist....
       
      
        By Eric Snider
      
      
      He&#39;s been called introverted, intensely private, interview-shy, even reclusive, yet here is singer/songwriter Ray LaMontagne talking to me by phone from a Cleveland hotel room. I&#39;m asking questions, he&#39;s answering. With pauses. He speaks just above a whisper, a sort of gentle murmur that belies the raspy bite in his singing voice. LaMontagne attributes much of his social awkwardness to a childhood that was transient and impoverished. His mother, he says, &quot;had a really, really, really, really difficult childhood --
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        How do you reconcile a Times Square look with Tribeca taste?...
       
      
        By Brian Ries
      
      
      The first time I took my wife to the New York New York, she was bitter and unimpressed. It&#39;s not the restaurant&#39;s fault. She was just a big fan of The Table &mdash; the restaurant that used to hold NY&#39;s Hillview location &mdash; and felt that nothing short of similar greatness should occupy that hallowed ground. &quot;It&#39;s like the they took a museum and put in a roller rink,&quot; she grumbled, as soon as we sat down at the bar
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        Thanks to the slumping economy, the Sarasota Green Marketplace almost went under. But owner Mary Anne Bowie found two new investors thanks to an intiguing argument: Natural capitalism is the way out of our mess....
       
      
        By Cooper Levey-Baker
      
      
      By March 29, Mary Anne Bowie felt desperate. Sales at her environmentally friendly home improvement and construction store, the Sarasota Green Marketplace, had taken a nose-dive after a successful January, and Bowie didn&#39;t know if it would survive. She sent out an email blast. &quot;Dear Friends,&quot; it began. &quot;Today is our Second Anniversary of opening the doors of Sarasota Green Marketplace at our current location and I so wish I could continue my undying optimism and tell you that Sarasota
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        By Brian Ries
      
      
      If there is one place in town that locals should visit to feel like a tourist, it is the unrelentingly resort-focused St. Armands Circle. Be prepared to pay a premium for the experience (even at the more moderate places) but a few hours of faux vacation may be worth it. 15 SOUTH RISTORANTE ENOTECA 15 S. Boulevard of Presidents, St. Armands Circle, Sarasota, 388-1555 or 15southristorante.com Hgh-end Italian cuisine along with some kick-ass pizzas out of a blazing brick oven.
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        By Brian Ries
      
      
      Have you gotten stuck in a rut when it comes to your Thai palate? Still ordering the same pad thai and spring rolls every time you head out to the unexciting but familiar Thai restaurant down the street? Here&#39;s your chance to branch out and taste how other places do their basil chicken and pad soo wen. Try one &mdash; or many &mdash; of the bountiful Thai harvest Sara-Mana has to offer. BANGKOK 4791 Swift Road, Sarasota, 922-0703 or bangkoksarasota.com
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        By Taylor Eason
      
      
      The older I get, the more I realize the details of life matter most. Not the car I drive &mdash; although my Mini Cooper is so freakin&#39; cute it&#39;s sinful &mdash; or the life- and time-saving gadgets that organize my scattered brain. What matters is appreciating the gushing sweetness of the season&#39;s first strawberry, the soft touch of my cat&#39;s fur or the first sip of a perfect white wine on a warm spring afternoon. &#39;Tis the season to start
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        By Bethany Sherwin
      
      
      It&#39;s true. I am perpetually harping on the awesomeness of Left Hand Brewing. I&#39;m totally, shamelessly on their jock, and I&#39;m OK with that. When most thought it couldn&#39;t get any worse, Left Hand went and did a limited release collaboration beer with Terrapin Brewing out of Athens, Ga. If that wasn&#39;t enough to send me into rare beer frenzy, this collaborative concoction just happened to be the synthesis of two beer styles that make my pulse race with joy:
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        By Andisheh Nouraee
      
      
      How can America stop Somalia&#39;s sea pirates? Sea piracy off the coast of East Africa is a growing problem. It has been for a while, actually. There were 111 pirate attacks off Somalia&#39;s coast in 2008 -- double the number of attacks there were in 2007. So far in 2009, there have already been 68 pirate attacks near Somalia. At the moment, Somali sea pirates are holding approximately 20 vessels and 300 people captive. But despite the sharp increase in
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    <title>What&amp;#39;s more likely to cause cancer, smoking or tanning?</title>
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        By Cecil Adams
      
      
      My girlfriend and I were fighting over which led to a greater chance of getting cancer, smoking or tanning. I probably average a cigarette a day, and my girlfriend usually goes tanning two or three times a week. Who gets cancer first? --Dave, Columbus, Ohio A slo-mo suicide pact -- quel romantique! The competitive aspect bugs me, though. Why not jump out the window hand in hand and have this end in a tie? Research on light smokers is fairly
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        By Theresa Rose
      
      
      I am an almost-40 suburban housewife. Sounds sexy, doesn&#39;t it? Allow me to add even more pizzazz to the picture: I live in Lakewood Ranch, the antithesis of the trendy, urban vibe of downtown Sarasota. I admit it; I am decidedly unhip. I have no idea what the current hot spots are, I haven&#39;t been out past midnight since the Clinton administration, my family and I don&#39;t watch TV, and one of my favorite pastimes is reading Harry Potter with
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        Front Door Organics celebrates a milestone....
       
      
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      Over the past couple of years, several local businesses have started to promise to bring organic, or local, or healthy foods straight to your home or business, but none of them have the reach of Front Door Organics (frontdoororganics.net). Just about to celebrate its first anniversary, Front Door started as an organic and local produce delivery service, with about 125 items on its online shopping list. Now, there are over 700 products available, ranging from prepared foods to beer and
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    <title>The Sarasota Observer declares war</title>
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        No. Really....
       
      
        By Cooper Levey-Baker
      
      
      Given how much we love reading The Sarasota Observer around here, I can&#39;t believe it took me till now to get around to writing about the latest ludicrous editorial in the newsweekly&#39;s pages. If you picked up the April 9 issue, you probably already know which editorial I&#39;m talking about: the one in which the editorial board of the newspaper calls on its readers to begin fighting our federal government and to sacrifice their very lives if need be. Think
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