From the elegant Fountain Room at the El Vernona Hotel to an eight-course dinner for 75 cents, there was something for every ...

Built in 1926, the Mediterranean Revival-style building was the county’s first integrated elementary school in 1962. Now ...

Even before the land boom hit Sarasota, world-renowned orthopedic surgeon Fred Albee saw the potential for development in ...

Ringling planned to turn the tiny, isolated archipelago into a grandiose European-style residential and shopping destination.

But the very inequities meant to contain the Black community spurred a parallel world—self-sustaining, rooted and determined ...

The results left Sarasota with a built environment that was theatrical and forever marked by the speculative optimism that ...

A Mediterranean Revival-style building that was the home of the city’s first newspaper and is now Sage Restaurant. 1216 First St. 61 N. Pineapple Ave. Now the Sarasota Opera House, this Mediterranean ...

Promises of paradise, get-rich-quick promotions, buying, developing and reselling are the threads that weave throughout the entirety of the Sunshine State’s history, including Sarasota’s.

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Urbanite Theatre’s season-opening production, a regional premiere of Monsters of the American Cinema by Christian St. Croix, may at first blush seem to draw its title from the old horror movies ...

The rental project breaks ground as Sarasota-Bradenton leads the nation in new apartment construction, even as vacancies climb and rents ease.

Media personality Dalia Colón got her start in public media almost 20 years ago after writing about a female beatboxer—a hip-hop musician who uses her voice to mimic a drum beat. At the time, she was ...