Arts & Entertainment
Duval Street becomes an open-air fair during Key West Pride. This year's street fair is scheduled for June 8.
Key West Pride 2013 ramps up for a 10th anniversary celebration of the "Sea to Sea Rainbow Flag" that put the Southernmost City on the map.
Gilbert Baker, creator of the Rainbow Flag, will be grand marshal at this year's Key West Pride Parade on Sunday, June 9.
And he'll participate in a trip down memory lane on Saturday, June 8, when La Te Da hosts Baker and guests for a "Sea to Sea Rainbow Flag" event.
Posted: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:01 AM EDT
Kinsey Sicks, billed as 'America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet,' perform June 6-8 at The Waterfront Playhouse.
As part of Key West Pride Fest, the Waterfront Playhouse presents The Kinsey Sicks, billed as "America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet," for three performances June 6-8.
The west coast performers got their start in San Francisco and since their 1993 debut have appeared in off-Broadway shows, toured internationally and appeared in Season 3 of "America's Got Talent."
Posted: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:01 AM EDT
Documentary film warns about the impact on global food chain from excess carbon dioxide turning our oceans more acidic.
Imagine a world without fish.
It's the frightening premise of an award-winning documentary, "A Sea Change," which will be shown Saturday, June 8, at the Marathon Power Squadron, 52nd Street, gulf, in Marathon.
Sponsored by Sanctuary Friends Foundation of the Florida Keys, the screening is in honor of World Oceans Day.
Posted: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:01 AM EDT
The Spam Allstars will perform at Moonsplash festival on Higgs Beach, Saturday, May 25.
Saturday, May 25
Moonsplash, Full Moon Festival, 6 p.m., Higgs Beach, 1000 Atlantic Blvd. Live in concert: The Original Wailers, The Spam Allstars, Caffeine Carl & The Buzz. Presented by the Key West Rotary Club. Tickets at keystix.com.
Posted: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:01 AM EDT
Two artists in residence at the Studios of Key West unveil their independent films May 28 and 29 in the Southernmost City.
Posted: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:49 AM EDT
Kelly Richey is hailed as a female Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Richey brings her blues to Key Largo
Still shaking off the chill after being snowed in by a North Dakota blizzard just weeks ago, blues rocker Kelly Richey vows to turn up the heat at her May 23 show in Key Largo.
"They're going to hear some of the most in-your-face, blues-based rock and funk rock ever," Richey promises the crowd for the Kelly Richey Band's 8 p.m. show at DiGiorgio's Cafe Largo.
Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT
Leonardo DiCaprio (center) stars as Jay Gatsby.
MOVIE REVIEW
'Gatsby' delivers on style
'The Great Gatsby.' Rated PG-13. 143 minutes. Playing nationwide.
Australian director Baz Lurhmann (real name: Mark Anthony Luhrmann), known for lush, luxurious, lyrical movies has done it again.
Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013 10:00 AM EDT
Carolyn Cooper and Landon Bradbary take direction from the audience in 'Oklahoma Smith.
THEATER
'Oklahoma Smith' lets you decide
Audiences get into the action at the Red Barn's Theatre's world premiere of "Oklahoma Smith and the Pantheon of Annihilation," a collaboration from Key West creatives Mike Marrero and Chris Shultz.
It's a playful spoof of the "Indiana Jones" films mixed with "The Rocky Horror Show."
Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013 10:20 AM EDT
This is 'Watermelons,' a 1950 work by self-taught Key West artist Mario Sanchez.
Museum celebrates iconic folk artist
Mario Sanchez began his career whittling wooden fish on Rest Beach next to the White Street Pier in Key West.
Charlie Thompson, who owned a marine hardware store, saw the carvings and asked Sanchez if he could sell them in his store. From that humble start, Sanchez became a folk artist of some renown, and in 1991 was recognized for his lifetime of work with the Florida Folk Heritage Award.
Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013 10:40 AM EDT
Tours of the Little White House include the office where President Truman worked while in Key West.
Photo courtesy of Little White House.
Little White House hosts Truman Symposium
History has a way of repeating itself.
Witness the controversy today over the role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in funneling secret funds to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Or, consider the role of the National Security Council in the go, no-go decision to send the Seal Six team to take out Osama Bin Laden.
Posted - Friday, May 10, 2013 11:01 AM EDT
