You can find mix-and-match bikinis in bright hues and on-trend styles at the Lion's Lair.

CONCH STYLE

For most women, the start of swimsuit season elicits all sorts of anxiety and dread about how we feel about ourselves in our swimsuits.

If you ask a woman whether she's ready for swimsuit season, her responses will likely sound something like: I don't like how my (fill in the blank) looks in a swimsuit; I'm really pale right now; I haven't gotten a pedicure or wax in awhile.

Posted - Friday, May 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT

Only in the Keys by Jana Vandelaar

Around our house, we go overboard on all celebrations.

Posted - Thursday, May 16, 2013 05:23 PM EDT

School is slowly winding down in the Keys, and that means summer camps for our kids. While many more programs are bound to be offered, here are some of the organizations signing up kids now:

Posted - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:00 AM EDT

Kelly Richey is hailed as a female Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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

'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

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

Florida Fish and Wildlife turtle program scientist Sara Schaf and Mike Shipley, owner of Island Bay Resort in Tavernier, prepare an injured sea turtle for a journey to the Turtle Hospital in Marathon. (Photo by David Goodhue)

ENVIRONMENT

While out fishing in Florida Bay off Key Largo Monday, friends Kerry Wingo and Mike Shipley saw something odd bobbing in the water.

Posted - Thursday, May 16, 2013 06:37 PM EDT

Captain Steve Thomas and his client John Avallone from Philadelphia hold on to another big tarpon caught on live bait in Islamorada. This tarpon was quickly released unharmed to fight another day. (Photo by Capt. Mike Makowski)

Fish Tales with Capt. Mike Makowski

Every where I go around town people are talking about the great fishing all over the Upper Keys this past week. It’s all about the dolphin, grouper and tarpon oh my!

Posted - Thursday, May 16, 2013 06:03 PM EDT

ON THE WATER

An injured loggerhead turtle was saved by a group of good Samaritans, state wildlife police, U.S. Coast Guardsmen and Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers Sunday.

Posted - Thursday, May 09, 2013 07:00 PM EDT

This carbonara pasta salad in a serving dish is great for a summer picnic.

Pasta carbonara -- richly cheesy, creamy and studded with crisped pancetta -- is easily one of the most comforting of pasta dishes.

Posted - Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:00 AM EDT

You wouldn't think French toast and chocolate go together, but looking at this, it seems a natural.

Time for a confession: As a child, I never once celebrated Mother's Day, which is on May 10. My parents thought the holiday was nothing more than a cheesy excuse to sell greeting cards, and who was I to argue? But after I became a mother myself? Oh. My. God.

Posted - Wednesday, May 01, 2013 09:00 AM EDT

These tasty-looking drinks are (from left) a Golden Mojito with mint garnish, a Rum Sizzle with mango wedge garnish and a Rum Revival with orange peel garnish.

Just as we wouldn't lump together all red wines, we also shouldn't treat all rums alike.

A growing awareness of the differences in regional rums -- not to mention variances in how they are produced -- opens new opportunities for appreciating each in its own way. And when it comes to cocktails, that opens fun and delicious possibilities for highlighting the nuances of each.

Posted - Thursday, April 25, 2013 02:52 PM EDT

Senior forester Mark Torok (right) of the Florida Forest Service and Joy Klein with the Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources Division measures trees in South Florida for national and state records, including this wild tamarind tree in Homestead. It's the largest of its kind in the country.

If someone told you that Florida has more official big trees than any other U.S. state, you might be dubious. Does Florida have any trees that could compare to the biggest big tree of them all, the General Sherman sequoia in California, which stands 275 feet tall with a girth of 998 inches?

In fact, Florida does have some of the tallest, fattest and broadest trees -- of their species -- in the nation, and many of them are in South Florida.

Posted - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 01:49 PM EDT

It may surprise you to know that your yard is the first line of defense for the Florida’s Keys’ fragile environment.

Posted - Monday, October 13, 2008 11:28 AM EDT

Behind a small house in Key West lies an incredible display of almost 1,000 orchids lovingly collected and nurtured by Gary Gethen, whose house was a highlight of the March House and Garden Tour sponsored by the Old Island Restoration Foundation. The collection of brilliantly colored blooms, some large and splashy, others very small and delicate, includes some very rare species acquired by Gethen in his travels around the world, including Hawaii and Peru.

Posted - Monday, October 13, 2008 11:28 AM EDT