A group of colorful graffiti - Painting

The Grand Dream Mural

The Grand Mural is 8x8 feet large, with 64, 12x12 inch squares, many of them painted by children and local keys community members. The...
A young girl sitting on a bench posing for the camera - Florida Keys

Independent filmmaker, Chihiro Amemiya, visits Keys

Independent filmmaker Chihiro Amemiya makes her home in Brooklyn these days, but after spending a month as an Artist in Residence at The Studios...
A person standing in front of a fireplace - Dance

The 7th Annual Midsummer’s Night Dream & Spectacle

Celebrate the most magical night of summer under a full moon at the 7th Annual Midsummer’s Night Dream & Spectacle—in the Florida Keys most...
A man sitting at a table in a restaurant - Beer

Former native returns for book signing – Wayne Gales authors fictional tale about a...

To look at Wayne Gales’ experiences, you would think he has a great imagination, or has really packed a lot into his life.  Wayne’s...

ART@830

Tony Gregory and Christine Scarsella always wanted to own their own art gallery and studio. When they saw the property at 830 Caroline St.,...
A person standing in front of a building - Florida Keys

Artist finishes lighthouse replicas for city signage

Larry “Lighthouse Larry” Herlth is seriously into lighthouses. But not in the tiny-wooden-replica-that-sits-on-the-shelf kind of way. He’s into macho-thousand-pound-weld-it-out-of-steel kind of way. The Islamorada...
A man wearing a red hat - Capt Reef Perkins Marine Surveyor

Reef Perkins is a man of mystery, adventure

I do have a half-finished, fictionalized work that shrinks with each honest edit. It is so difficult for me to write that I will call my next book a work of “friction.” The first story involves a protagonist named Blu Yunger, a dead buzzard and a Pogo stick modified for military use. The title is Screwed, Blu’ed and Tattooed. Then there’s the one about the worm farm . . .
A group of people posing for the camera - Wynwood Walls

In Their Own Words with Bachaco

Some songs are bilingual, some are straight English, some are straight Spanish. It really depends on when the song was written, how it was written, and what it talks about. It doesn’t seem to matter anymore nowadays, our best performance so far was in Canada where nobody spoke Spanish and everybody was singing our songs.
A flock of seagulls flying over a body of water - cj groth photography

Shooter takes a shot on Key West.

Photographer C.J. Groth said she “threw caution to the wind” when she left Illinois to experience Key West for a year. That was 1990...