The 2018 Giving Challenge kicks off May 1. Here's everything you need to know—plus all the numbers from the last Giving Challenge, which took place in 2016.

04/27/2018 By Ashley Cooper

Best of Sarasota 2018

Best of Sarasota 2018: The Readers' Poll

Presenting the winners of our Best of 2018 readers’ poll.

04/26/2018

Clocking In

The Pros and Cons of Daylight Savings Time

Could more daylight make us happier?

04/26/2018 By David Hackett

Otter Tales

A Myakka Couple Rehabilitate Orphaned Otters

When a river otter attacked kayakers on the Braden River in early March, the news made national headlines. But are adorable otters that vicious?

04/26/2018 By Megan McDonald

Do The Math

How Much Has the Opioid Epidemic Cost Sarasota?

Sarasota is joining more than 400 cities, counties, states and Native American tribes that are pursuing legal action against companies like Purdue Pharma, the creator of OxyContin, and Endo Pharmaceuticals, the maker of Percocet.

04/26/2018 By Cooper Levey-Baker

Made in Manatee

Bradenton Makes Big Red Fire Trucks

Pierce Manufacturing, Inc., which has facilities in both Bradenton and Appleton, Wisconsin, builds one out of every three fire trucks on the road.

04/26/2018 By Cooper Levey-Baker

Why I Care

Gail Clifton Teaches Therapeutic Horseback Riding to People with Special Needs

Clifton was the executive director of the Sarasota Manatee Association for Riding Therapy (SMART) for 17 years.

04/26/2018 By Ilene Denton

Gulfwatch

Manatee County's Lifeguards Rank No. 1 in Florida

The 16-lifeguard patrol includes EMTs, paramedics, rescue divers, Coast Guard captains and one certified dive master.

04/26/2018 By Susan Burns

The Dredge Report

Recycling Vast Expanses of Sand Has Become the Price of Paradise

Dredging New Pass this year will replenish Lido and Longboat's eroded beaches.

04/26/2018 By Tom Bayles

What I've Learned

What Rodney Linford Has Learned

A physicist’s equation for thriving in retirement.

04/26/2018 By David Hackett

Mr. Chatterbox

"My Weekend as a Tourist in Pinecraft"

What's a Sarasota vacation like for the Amish and Mennonite?

04/26/2018 By Robert Plunket

From the Editor

From the Editor: The Importance of Funding the Arts

Susan Burns on the impact of lost arts funding.

04/26/2018 By Susan Burns

Best of Sarasota 2018

The Best of Sarasota 2018

Top Stories

Sarasota Memorial's Nurse Residency Program Aims to Halt a Nursing Crisis

Home Tour: A Hollywood Casting Director Replicates Her Family's 100-Year-Old Cottage

Table of Contents

Arts & Entertainment

Best New Arts and Entertainment

Propmaster Annette Breazeale Brings WBTT Theater Sets to Life

Race and Immigration Issues of Yesterday and Today Come to the Stage in Asolo Rep's Ragtime

Best of Sarasota

The Best of Sarasota 2018

Eat & Drink

Best New Food and Drink

A Day in the Life of Sarasota Farmers Market's Phil Pagano

Main Bar Sandwich Shop Turns 60 This Year

The Hyppo Specializes in Unorthodox Popsicles

How Do You Make a Great Dish Even Better? Put an Egg On It.

Restaurant Review: Michael John's

Fashion & Shopping

Buy These Ultra-Motivating, Confidence-Boosting Finds for the Women in Your Life

Only in Sarasota: Canned Ham Vintage, Rosemary District

Health & Fitness

We Tried It: Whole-Body Cryotherapy