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KEY WEST PREPS FOR PRIDE

June ushers in the kaleidoscopic Key West Pride, one of the most popular Pride events in the country. With the 2026 theme “Color the...

KEY WEST HOSTS BIKE RODEO

May is National Bike Month, and the city of Key West is celebrating.  In preparation for the May 15 Bike to Work Day, the city...

LOCAL STUDENT’S ESSAY CHOSEN FOR NYC SYMPOSIUM

A local high school senior spent a recent weekend in New York City, after having an essay she wrote selected from more than a...

MILES TO GO – KEY WEST SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL IS SOMETHING SPECIAL

I was something of an anomaly at the end of my high school career. Country music wasn’t exactly taking New Jersey high schools by...

MONTESSORI CHILDREN’S SCHOOL GROWS UP

The Montessori Children's School is all grown up. What started more than 30 years ago as a private preschool offering early-childhood, Montessori-style education, now offers...

MEET JULE McENROE: ON HER VOYAGE THROUGH LIFE

For decades, Julie McEnroe was “head sea wench” for the 74-foot topsail schooner Wolf, built and skippered by her husband, Key West’s legendary captain,...

KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY: MIKEY DARE & THE MYTHICAL GOATS

For many years, an outline of my posterior adorned the upstairs bar top at Bagatelle, the lower Duval Street restaurant that was a high-rollers’...

CUBAN SANDWICH THROWDOWN GETS BIGGER & BETTER

Seasoned pork, sliced ham and tart pickles surrounded by Cuban bread and pressed to a perfect crisp produces a Key West classic — the...

KEY WEST’S GALLERY ON GREENE PRESENTS A SOLO EXHIBIT BY RUBEN ALPIZAR

Gallery on Greene, 606 Greene St., will open its latest exhibit, “Alice: Inhabiting the Absurd,” a new solo show by acclaimed Cuban artist Ruben...

TIME WILL TELL: 50-YEAR-OLD TIME CAPSULE TO BE OPENED APRIL 6

This is a cool story. School board member Sue Woltanski called me about it Monday evening. “For years, an envelope has hung on the bulletin...