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Nonprofits in Bloom: Save Our Seabirds
Birds are everywhere, so its easy to take them for granted. But scientists tell us that North America has lost 30% of our bird population in just the last 50 years. Nearly every species is in decline, due primarily to human impact: loss of habitat, car and boat strikes, fishing line and lures, rodenticide poisoning, domestic cat attacks, and more.
Nonprofits in Bloom: Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida
Through our comprehensive program, the Girl Scout Leadership Experience, girls develop a strong sense of self and positive values, seek challenges and cultivate healthy relationships, build essential skills, and solve community problems. They learn how to raise their voices to become advocates for issues important to them, connecting with their communities and taking action to change the world.
Nonprofits in Bloom: Gulf Coast Builders Exchange
The Sarasota County School Board understands the importance of workforce training, and so do we at Gulf Coast Builders Exchange. Now in its third year, the Construction Technology Program at Riverview High School has been hugely successful. The School Board of Sarasota County reached out to GCBX members for support to help fund and create a new program, the Construction Trades Academy, to help meet workforce needs in the community. Our members stepped up with financial support to start the program. At GCBX we believe in building the future.
Nonprofits in Bloom: Forty Carrots Family Center
Our mission is to nurture healthy child and family development through research-based, relationship-centered parenting education and mental health services. Early years of life are crucially important to the overall development of children and therefore offer unprecedented opportunities to provide experiences that have a lifelong positive impact. We envision a future...
Nonprofits in Bloom: Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties
For more than 50 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties has been a national leader in youth development, providing enriching out-of-school and summer programs to thousands of youth, ages 6 to 18. The organization is dedicated to enabling all youth, especially those who need it most,...
The St. Regis Longboat Key Resort marks 9000th property for Marriott
LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. —Marriott International announced its 9000th property with the opening of The St. Regis Longboat Key Resort in Longboat Key, Fla. Situated on an expansive 18 acres, the luxury beachfront property features 168 exquisite guest rooms, including 26 suites. It offers breathtaking ocean views, outstanding culinary experiences, and world-class amenities, all reflecting the St. Regis brand signature design and exceptional service.
Sarasota Opera Announces Lineup and Casts for 2025 Winter Festival
The Sarasota Opera has announced its 2025 Winter Opera Festival. The season opens Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, and will feature Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Giuseppe Verdi's Stiffelio. The casts include some company favorites, along with singers making their Sarasota Opera debuts. All of the shows will be sung in Italian with English supertitles.
USF extends dementia prevention research recruitment
August 26, 2024 - The University of South Florida is extending its recruitment of healthy, elderly volunteers from St. Petersburg and Tampa to participate in the groundbreaking Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training study through December. The National Institute on Aging is funding the study to determine if computerized brain training exercises can reduce the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia. For more information, visit the website here.
Civil discourse takes center stage at Tiger Bay event
The Suncoast Tiger Bay Club picked an opportune time to host a discussion on “Getting Along: Politics, Religion and Race.”. The national political divide continues creeping into local nonpartisan elections. A firestorm of often vitriolic public opinion recently erupted when St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch offered $250,000 in now-rescinded bonuses to high-ranking officials who helped bring the Historic Gas Plant redevelopment deal to fruition.
St. Pete Civil Rights history trolley tour is Saturday
August 26, 2024 - The St. Petersburg Museum of History explores the city's Civil Rights history Saturday (Aug. 21) with a two-hour narrated trolley tour, including the South Mole Beach and Spa Pool,lunch counter sit-ins and a legendary act of civil disobedience at City Hall. All details are available here.
New Anthropologie resale store opens in St. Pete
Katie + Hubbell, a specialty boutique dedicated to selling new and pre-owned Anthropologie items, became a part of St. Petersburg’s retail landscape over the weekend. The store, at 5320 4th St. N., carries women’s clothing, swimwear, shoes, jewelry, accessories and home decor made and sold by Anthropologie, a well-known a lifestyle brand. Anthropologie opened its first retail store in 1992 in Wayne, Pennsylvania and today operates more than 200 stores worldwide.
An Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy is popping up in St. Pete
Lovers of the Macabre, an Edgar Allan Poe-themed speakeasy, is coming to St. Pete. Hosted at Coastal Collective (2201 1st Ave S.) from September 12-15, this immersive theater and cocktail experience will feature four vignettes inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. For each vignette, mixologists will craft a cocktail based on the story. It’s the perfect prelude to all the spooky season events in St. Pete.
At ‘Women for Harris’ rally in Tampa, Democrats dare to dream big
Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands speaking in Tampa on Aug. 24, 2024. (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix) Still on a cosmic high following the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a group of Florida state lawmakers came to Tampa on Saturday afternoon to imagine the seemingly impossible during a rally for the Kamala Harris campaign.
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