Skills Exchange: a way to build community

What was originally conceived as an idea to raise money as a result of budget cuts to statewide education and financial aid has now morphed into a club. The Skills Exchange, which is “very in the works,” though with only one official meeting under its…

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Lego Man brings whimsy to Siesta Key

On Oct. 25 at dawn, Peter Hindel discovered an eight-foot tall Lego man clad in a shirt that read: “No real than you are,” on one of his early morning walks. “My first thought was that it was a manatee or something because this thing…

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Drive Me Out of My Mind: an interview with author Chad Faries

 photo courtesy of Puneet Sandhu/Catalyst Faries wrote one chapter of his memoir from the point of view of a hamster as a way for him to tell a "pathetic, cute story," while avoiding an over-sentimental tone, he said. He scored pot brownies and brownie points with…

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Derby girls from Bradenton and Sarasota keep on rolling

photo courtesy of Daniel Ducassi/Catalyst “I hope to see some ass kicking,” Jessica Marino said in anticipation of the roller derby bout minutes from starting. Marino got her wish in what was a particularly physical match on Saturday between the Bradentucky Bombers and the Suncoast…

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Howl-o-Scream: nightmares at an affordable price

all photos Eva Gray/Catalyst In addition to chilly weather and pumpkin-flavored everything, Florida’s “fall” season brings the spookiest time of the year when amusement parks extend their hours late into the night to frighten patrons with haunted houses, roller coasters and paid “scare-ers”. This year’s…

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Troops set to withdraw from Iraq by 2012

  photo courtesy of Time.com The last of the Marines to leave Iraq, cross the border into Kuwait. Military Humvees are already shipping out through U.S. military Victory Base Complex, stationed near Baghdad, Iraq. On Friday Oct. 21, President Barack Obama announced to the country…

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Fun times at Four Winds – spooky, scary!

photos courtesy of Lynn Gusman On the night of the Halloween Palm Court Party (PCP), one of the largest and most extravagant parties thrown at New College (NC), its antithesis lurked on the on the other side of the overpass.  This year upon walking through…

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NCSA presidential candidates square off in Midnight Debates

all photos Eva Gray/Catalyst In mid-October, WSLR ,“Sarasota’s Own Community Radio,” made the long-anticipated move from an unsuspecting house on Myrtle Dr. to a full-fledged community space at 525 Kumquat Ct. WSLR’s board of directors seriously considered a location on Central Ave., but Kumquat won…

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