The Cypress

New Year’s Eve Celebration

vicki — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:25:15 +0000

New Year’s Eve Fireworks Show

Located just across the street from The Cypress, there will be a spectacular fireworks display at midnight to ring in the new year. The Cypress’ downtown, bayfront location is the perfect spot to spend New Year’s Eve.

Marina Jacks, 2 Marina Paza, – 941-365-4232 Marina Jack restaurant in downtown Sarasota has organized a midnight fireworks show over Sarasota Bay.

Penguin Island Opens at Mote Marine

vicki — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:59:47 +0000

10:00am, Repeats daily until Wed Feb 29 2012 – Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Pkwy., Surrounding Areas -
Mote Aquarium is excited to welcome some truly cool guests: A group of black-footed penguins will call City Island home during a special new exhibit called Penguin Island! During this limited-time exhibit, visitors will have the chance to meet and learn more about these “black-tie” guests through daily visits and special meet-and-greet opportunities. Penguins might seem like exotic tourists for sunny Florida, but not all penguins live in chilly climates.

Towles Court Art Walk

vicki — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:52:50 +0000

6:00 PM – Towles Court Art District, 1938 Adams Ln., Sarasota – (941) 374-1988
All galleries, restaurants, and businesses are open for the Towles Court Art Walk every third Friday from 6-10p.m. You will find various styles and mediums of art in a unique and beautiful setting.

22nd Annual Cine-World Film Festival

vicki — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:42:28 +0000

7:00 PM, Daily until Sun Nov 20 2011 – Burns Court Cinema’s, 506 Burns Lane, Sarasota – (941) 955-3456 The schedule of films for its 22nd annual Cine-World Film Festival! This year, we’re continuing our tradition of exhibiting the best in world cinema with a wide range of quality films from all over the globe, including movies from the USA, Denmark, South Korea, France, Romania, Italy, Israel, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Venezuela, Guatemala, Russia, and more.

Food Network Star – Crazy Susan visits The Cypress

vicki — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:44:08 +0000

Susan and Barry Adair, owners of Crazy Susan’s Cookie Company in Ocean City, NJ, visited The Cypress in January with friends Patti and Ron Smith. Susan, Vicki, Patti, and Barry grew up together in West Berlin, NJ. The Food Network is now airing a weekly show “Tough Cookies”, featuring Susan and her family at their Jersey shore establishment. While vacationing at The Cypress, Susan treated the other guests by baking a batch of her famous cookies for everyone to enjoy. Picture of Nina and Vicki with the Adairs and Smith’s in The Cypress parking lot. www.crazysusanscookies.com

Check out Tough Cookies: Food Network 6:00 pm, Sunday nights.

This summer, the only things more popular than the beach in Ocean City, N. J., are the cookies at Crazy Susan’s. Run by a loving, squabbling and cacophonous multigenerational family, Crazy Susan’s never knows a dull moment. Sisters Susan and Linda try to keep everything running smoothly — but with lines out the door, phones that never stop ringing and family members who seem to create more problems than solutions, they’ll need to work their tails off to keep those cookies from crumbling.

New College Featured in Princeton Review

vicki — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:08:13 +0000

The Princeton Review named New College of Florida one of the country’s best colleges for the tenth consecutive year in its newly published college guide The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition. New College is one of only 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges profiled in the book and also regularly appears in The Princeton Review’s annual 100 Best Value Colleges. The Best 376 Colleges includes detailed college profiles with rating scores 60 to 99 for all schools in eight categories. New College received a rating of 94 for academics, 98 for interesting professors and 92 for financial aid. The rating scores are based primarily on institutional data collected during the 2010-11 academic year and student surveys.

The Cypress Bed and Breakfast congratulates our neighbors at New College on being named one of the country’s best colleges by The Princeton Review. Over the years, many families and friends of the New College students have been guests at our nearby inn.

Sarasota Public Gardens – Selby Gardens named in top 10 of North America!

vicki — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:51:26 +0000

“Selby Gardens Named One of North American’s Top 10 Public Gardens”
-Coastal Living Magazine View article

Selby Gardens is located on South Palm Ave., just a stroll down the block from The Cypress. What a great opportunity to visit one of America’s finest! For more info visit the website www.selby.org

Art in Sarasota Florida

vicki — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:44:47 +0000

Sarasota ranked 5th in the nation (and 1st in Florida) in the Top 25 Small Cities for Art in the May 2011 issue of American Style magazine. This distinction is the result of a determined effort by community members. Thousands of votes were cast via online and mail-in ballots to determine these top arts destinations.

As an example of art in Sarasota, the innkeepers recommend this great exhibit that just opened at The Ringling Museum.

EXHIBIT: Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip Hop in Art, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, May 21–Aug. 15, 10am–5pm

Over the past 30 years hip hop culture has expanded from an almost exclusively African-American and Latino phenomenon to one that has been appropriated by other social and ethnic groups. In the first decade of the 21st century, hip hop and the street culture from which it sprang have exerted a powerful influence on all aspects of culture. Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip Hop in Art brings together artists who have provocatively incorporated signifiers of hip hop and street culture into their work. It is an exhibition that incites further questions and expands our ideas of what it means to speak with a historically urban voice in this age of advanced globalization.

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Rd., Sarasota, 941-359-5700.