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Carter Donovan parallel parks like a pro. She zips into a small space on Hillview Street with absolute confidence for our lunch date at Zoria. Well, actually, to hear her [...]

In your next life, you may want to come back as a young adult in Knick Barger's Sarasota home. Or maybe as one of his fiancee, Pam Humbert's, teens. Between [...]

It isn't just the views of Sarasota Bay and Big Pass that are 'magnifica' in Jean and Ted Weiller's four-year-old Bird Key home, a stucco and barrel-tile roofed manse aptly [...]

Don't let the gruff, 'in-your-face' yelling and confrontation fool you. When Colin Jordan runs a Basic Training fitness class, he may come off as a rough-and-tough military drill instructor who [...]

Sylvia Goldman says if she can't succeed in turning your life around, it's because you don't really want to change. The 5-foot-2 1/2 inch, 114-pound Longboat Key widow calls herself [...]

Sylvia Goldman says if she can't succeed in turning your life around, it's because you don't really want to change. The 5-foot-2 1/2 inch, 114-pound Longboat Key widow calls herself [...]

For 11 years, food and wine enthusiasts from all over the world have gathered in Sarasota during April for a heady tradition: the Florida Winefest & Auction. This multi-event fund-raiser [...]

Stephen May jokes that the next move for him and his wife, Donna, will be a modest one-bedroom cottage where they can live like a pair of beach bums. Maybe [...]

Flori Roberts describes herself as a 'control freak,' and who am I to argue? The Brooklyn native was once an understudy for Carol Channing in the Broadway musical 'Lend an [...]

Bob Roskamp is a 6-foot-4-inch, all-American Jimmy Stewart kind of guy. The lanky multi-millionaire developer and philanthropist loves sliding down banisters, antiquing, retrofitting old furnishings, cooking - and, most of [...]

Men like to share with Susan Kelley. 'I honestly do not know exactly what motivated my subjects to discuss their lives with me on such an intimate level,' writes the [...]

Tippi Hedren believes her modeling and film careers were just stepping stones to the work she now does on behalf of lions, tigers, elephants, servals and other rare and endangered [...]

When Alix Wexler and Paul Romley played their personal version of 'Pin the Tail on the Donkey' in search of a new life in Florida almost six years ago, they [...]

The boldly tinted Bank One structure on the corner of U.S. 301 and Fruitville Road has stirred up a tempest of controversy over the issue of exterior building color in [...]

Simplicity rules with architect Guy W. Peterson. A minimalist in his approach to the buildings he designs, Peterson also seems to embrace the 'less is more' aesthetic in life. He [...]

What happens when Sarasota designer Ed Biggs goes island style? Turns out the hip HOMEresource creator, well known for his youthful, modern interiors, also has a flair for the Boca [...]

'It's not a job, it's an adventure!' This isn't an old Marines ad talking. It's Patt Lamb, Major Domo of an entirely different set of fighting troops: the Michael's on [...]

If you become a friend of Bettina von Walhof, you can expect a lot of very interesting phone calls. One late summer day, long after our lunch at Michael's on [...]

Until recently, Dr. Tom McGuire's storage closet looked like the back room of the Guggenheim Museum. It housed the overflow of a lifetime collecting art- a global melange of paintings, [...]

It shimmers before your eyes like a desert mirage, an ultra-modern white apparition like nothing else on Siesta Beach. Super salesman Jeff Roberti's glass block-and-stucco dream house on Beach Road [...]

Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt's prescription for longevity is Zen in its simplicity: Maintain a proper diet and exercise. 'Americans eat too much, have too much and take too early a retirement,' [...]

Gloria Martel wants your face to look young, beautiful and wrinkle-free without resorting to plastic surgery. An esthetician, herbalist, licensed cosmetician, lecturer, beauty consultant and self-described 'doctor of naturopathy,' Martel [...]

In researching this story, I checked out eight online mortgage Web sites, attempting to compare rates, monthly payments, closing costs and ease of use in securing a $100,000, 30-year, fixed-rate [...]

Banks do it. Brokers do it. Hundreds of dot-coms, Microsoft and even Priceline do it. Who doesn't offer to get you a fast and easy, low-cost home mortgage these days? [...]

Dick Vitale had a blast at the movies recently, watching 'Love & Basketball,' a Spike Lee-produced film in which he had the seventh cameo appearance of his career. Actress Sanaa [...]

Women have been using fruits, vegetables and plants to make their own beauty products since Cleopatra's time. 'I like to formulate things myself because it's fun,' says Sheri Wilson. A [...]

Alexandra Stevenson does not want to be photographed in the outfit she is wearing for practice on a recent morning at the IMG Bollettieri Sports Academy in Bradenton. So her [...]

I was surprised when Meg Lowman (LOW rhymes with WOW) suggested that we meet for lunch at Fred's in Sarasota's Southside Village. After all, this self-effacing, khaki-clad, 46-year-old botanist with [...]

Entertainer Carnie Wilson was fed up with 26 years of being fat. After trying every imaginable weight-loss strategy, including liquid and low-carb/high-protein diets, shots and hypnosis, her weight continued to [...]

OK, class, raise your hand if this one sounds familiar. You sold your home up North and moved to Sarasota, figuring that the reasonable sum (let's say $225,000) that your [...]

American families are eating home more - 'cocooning' around the big-screen TV (perhaps watching 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?). And even though we don't have the excuse of dreary, [...]

Every picture tells a story, and this is a love story revealed in the exquisite hand-painted tiles of John and Elizabeth Allen. It's a tale of pure romance starring two [...]

Remember the famous old TV commercial that pronounced solemnly: 'When E.F. Hutton speaks, people listen'? For anyone interested in wine, the adage is: 'When Robert M. Parker, Jr., sips, spits [...]

Lunching with me at Mediterraneo, where the food is pronounced 'simple and good,' and she can smoke her Marlboro Lights unmolested, Marcella Hazan (pronounced Mar-CHELLA Ha-ZAHN) is a woman with [...]

Barbara Katz of RE/MAX Properties got a call from a man in New Hampshire last week, thanking her for sending him a packet of information on Sarasota. 'We have a [...]

For Delta Burke, dropping 75 pounds reportedly happened when she began a regimen of sensible portions, exercise and lots of Diet Coke and cigarettes. Britain's Duchess of York (Fergie) endorses [...]

Artist Teresa Spinner lives and works in her Bird Key home amid an environment of classical taste and refinement. 'Quiet' and 'graceful' are the words that come to mind to [...]

Miriam Cassell likes to shock. The art and decor of her Lido Shores home/studio are passionate extensions of her larger-than-life spirit and wild sense of humor. Step inside and you're [...]

When 6-foot, 2 1/2-inch Jim Syprett rides into a new town wearing his boots, leather jacket, hat and chaps, dirty and dusty from the range, he's a tall-in-the-saddle cowboy out [...]

Is it just me, or can you actually stand in the middle of Ocean Boulevard on Siesta Key and smell the Gulf of Mexico? Perhaps this part of town is [...]

Tucked into a woodsy corner of the modest Villa Le Grand complex, just off U.S. 41 in Venice, sits an ordinary little two-bedroom, attached villa. This Mediterranean-style stucco home - [...]

One of the things I keep hearing about motorcyclists around town is how giving and charitable they are. The doctors and lawyers I've interviewed all tell stories about fund-raisers, toy [...]

If you don't exactly have the figure of the girl from Ipanema, don't worry about squeezing into a thong at the beach this season. (Memo to women who have no [...]

You might not know that the average measurements of a Playboy Playmate centerfold are 36-23-35, or that the most common cup size is a 'C.' But Gretchen Edgren knows. She [...]

Linda Larsen is the driver you want to be following when you go over the Sunshine Skyway bridge. That's because, says her adoring husband (Channel 40 meteorologist John Scalzi), she [...]

Sharon Kimbler doesn't suffer from depression, but she does have PMS every month. So she decided to take the advice of one of the sales reps who supplies products to [...]

The house that Home Magazine has chosen to feature in its February 2000 issue, themed 'How America Really Lives,' could be Anywhere, U.S.A. On the outside, it's a handsome but [...]

Neighborhood X used to be a real winner. It has a terrific location, just minutes from downtown. Middle-class professionals chose this subdivision over the past 15 to 20 years because [...]

In 1993, on the occasion of her 90th birthday, Kathryn Wiegand of Sarasota received a special 'toaster-sized box.' It contained 10 professionally bound copies of her personal life history, titled [...]

Colonial Oaks is one of those family-oriented, well-established neighborhoods that inspires great loyalty in both residents and the Realtors who sell its properties. Marsha Wolak of Coldwell Banker, for example, [...]