Mattison’s™ and Circus Sarasota’s Street Party Friday, June 15, 2012 Celebrating The Wallenda Walk Chef Paul Mattison, executive chef and proprietor of Mattison’s™, and Pedro Reis, CEO of Circus Sarasota announce an exciting, once-in-a-lifetime street party – “Above the Falls & Beyond Belief”… Celebrating the Wallenda Walk over Niagara Falls with Mattison’s™ and Circus Sarasota – on Friday, June 15, 2012 from 6pm to midnight. The event is at Mattison’s City Grille and on Lemon Avenue between Main Street and First Street. This fund-raising event for Circus Sarasota is a [...]

We attended the red carpet event at the Sarasota Opera House for Todd Solondz’s new film, ‘Dark Horse,’ which was the Centerpiece Film for the Sarasota Film Festival, and then hit Cinema Tropicale for a few hours at the Sarasota Yacht Club.  Both had me thinking about the role of our families in shaping our lives.  ‘Dark Horse’ was indeed dark, too much so for my mood.  I was looking for light fare before the Cinema Tropicale event; but as Solondz himself said, as he was introduced before the film, “you [...]