‘PAPARAZZI ROW’ ADDED TO THIS YEAR’S MASQUERADE MARCH
The Captain Morgan Masquerade March, called “The Locals’ Parade” on account of being one of Key West Fantasy Fest’s most loved events among locals, will take place...
WANT TO BE A FANTASY FEST AMBASSADOR?
Do you revel in being in the thick of things and making things happen? Are you up for an out-of-this-world time? If yes, then Fantasy Fest invites...
KEYS WEEKLY CHECKS IN WITH ONE OF FANTASY FEST’S CREATIVE COSTUMERS
Fantasy Fest 2024, with its theme, “It’s a 90s NEON Cosmic Carnival” doesn’t kick off until Oct. 18, but costume fabricators like Guy Hermelin have been immersed...
PET MASQUERADE BENEFITS SHERIFF’S ANIMAL FARM
The Fantasy Fest Pet Masquerade is a tradition that will continue despite the retirement last year of longtime producer and emcee Nancy D’Amato.
Each year, people and their...
FANTASY FEST FLASHBACK: THEME THIS YEAR IS ’90s NEON COSMIC CARNIVAL
Costumed revelers will celebrate the 1990s and carnivalesque pageantry during Key West’s Fantasy Fest Oct. 18-27. The renowned costuming and masking festival features masquerade parties, costume competitions,...
DAVID SLOAN & ROBERT THE DOLL TO LEAD FANTASY FEST PARADE
David L. Sloan and Robert, the island’s most famous “haunted” doll, will be grand marshals of the 2024 Bud Light Fantasy Fest Parade. The 10-day festival’s centerpiece...
DUVAL STREET WINDOW ART CELEBRATES ESSENCE OF KEY WEST
Next time you’re downtown, check out the old Kress building at Duval and Fleming. Not because it now houses a CVS, and not because you need sunscreen...
PARTY IN THE BACK: KEYS TEEN A FINALIST IN NATIONAL MULLET CONTEST
Kane Grissinger wasn’t even born when his “business in the front, party in the back” hairstyle was in its heyday. The incoming freshman, who starts Key West...
HIP TO THE SCENE: GETTING OFF THE ROCK
This is the time of year that many musicians tend to get off the rock for a bit and play music as far away as they dare...
FANTASY FEST PARADE WINNERS & 2023 THEME ANNOUNCED
Keys creativity and resilience were displayed in a pageantry of glitter, feathers, flowers and incandescent imagination on Saturday, Oct. 29, as Key West’s Fantasy Fest parade made...
