A sand-sculpting festival, Veteran's Day and winter holiday parades, and other November events in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties.

Holiday parades — both on land or by boat — light shows, chances to meet Santa and more winter season fun in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties.

As we near the end of August, with the start of fall not far away, we have one more month before the Sarasota area's snowbird and tourist season begins to gear up again. Yet even then, September will ...

Fun things to do including family-friendly and grown-up Halloween events and a medieval fair this weekend in Sarasota and ...

It should be another exciting weekend across our corner of Southwest Florida with a couple of events in Sarasota, one in Palmetto and then a pair in Punta Gorda including a free music festival at ...

The region's top reggae band, Jah Movement, will honor co-lead singer Damie Caines' father, reggae legend Oswald "Ham" Caines, with their fifth annual Osfest Reggae Block Party. The event at the Gator ...

October might've been when the local events calendar started heating up, as the Sarasota area's off-season comes to a close and snowbirds begin to flock back, yet November looks to be even busier.

After what felt like a particularly quiet off-season this summer in the Sarasota area, we appear to be back in full force in October, with this month's local events guide featuring roughly twice as ...