World Cup 2026: 90 Minutes, One Goal, and a Nation Weirdly at Peace
We are a nation of contradictions, buffering at 4K. There is an aspect of cultural schizophrenia to the World Cup. To feel it properly,...
The Great Sarasota Meltdown: One Out of Three of My Tennis Partners Has Disappeared
When the snowbirds came down this season, I conducted what scientists call “an informal census” and what my wife calls “staring at people.” The...
Wimbledon 2026? Everyone Good Is Hurt, Sulking, or Nineteen
My own nervous breakdown is still the more predictable event this month. Because Wimbledon is starting, and forecasting the 2026 men’s champion is currently...
Silent but Deadly: Inside Longboat Key’s Great E-Bike Reckoning
Are they the silent killers — e-bikes and e-scooters whisking quietly over our island, where even the Mennonites race around over the bridge —...
Clay and Present Danger at the 2026 French Open
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Field notes from the most unhinged French Open in living memory, in which the three best men on Earth are removed from the premises...
The St. Regis Arch: A saga in which nobody looks especially smart, including, and I cannot stress this enough, me
A Humble Editorial, In Which We Try, And Fail, To Understand How A Town Of 7,500 People Has Spent Approximately The Gross Domestic Product...
Art in the Roundabouts? No, Sarasota Prefers Keeping Our Sculptures Safe in a Warehouse Next to the Christmas Decorations
In India, they are fascinated by circles—the circle of life and death, the karmic wheel, the mandala, which maps the progression of your soul...
St. Armands Visioning Session Chaos: A Consultant With More Plans, Approximately Zero Answers About Flooding and The Map Will Set You Free
A full account of the second St. Armands Circle visioning session, in which 150 people learned that everything they needed to know is on...
Etch-a-Sketch Empire: The True Cost of an Aimless War, from Hormuz to Longboat Key
—Here on the barrier islands, the illusion of insulation is one of our most cherished local commodities. We watch the Gulf tides shift and...
You Don’t Praise a Rat for Fleeing a Sinking Ship: Sarasota Commission ‘Listens’ After Being Verbally Cajoled into Reality
Welcome to the neon-lit bureaucratic casino of Sarasota, where the house always loses and the dealers want you to thank them for the privilege...