Tony Falcone is the Godfather of Fantasy Fest
No one is as cool, creative or as interesting to the history of Key West than Tony Falcone. He would be the last to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
