A TRANSFORMATIVE 2024: A PEAK AHEAD FOR EACH SIGN
Another new year is rapidly approaching, and, for many of us, that midnight threshold on January 1 presents a blank slate of possible futures. For those of...
HOLIDAY MAGAZINE: A McCARTHY CHRISTMAS CLASSIC
Old Man Winter settled in as December arrived in western New York. Snow sprinkled the lawns and the roads as Jack Frost nipped at the noses of...
HOLIDAY MAGAZINE: GETTING CHRISTMAS ‘RIGHT’
Something was off. Things were terribly amiss at our friends’ house across the street and I didn’t know what to do.
Everything looked the same — the house...
HOLIDAY MAGAZINE: THE GIFT THAT NEVER CAME
As a kid, most of our Christmases in the Rickert household were pretty epic. In last year’s Holiday Guide, I wrote about the year my sister and...
HOLIDAYS 2023 MAGAZINE: HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD
Santa Claus gets credit each year for circumnavigating the globe and delivering Christmas treats to kids everywhere. But the truth is, the big guy in a deer-drawn...
A HISTORY OF KEY WEST’S LIGHTED HOLIDAY PARADES – ANNUAL HOLIDAY MAGAZINE
The first Key West Christmas Truck Parade began with an insult. Someone pulled up at the bocce courts with a wreath hanging over their truck’s radiator, and...
HOW TO MAKE MONICA’S FAMOUS ‘MOIST MAKER’ FROM ‘FRIENDS’
Our list of leftover ideas would be incomplete without arguably the most famous post-Thanksgiving meal of them all. Made popular by the “Friends” episode “The One With...
SATURN AND JUPITER WILL ALIGN INTO THE “STAR OF BETHLEHEM” ON DEC. 21 AND...
On Monday, Dec. 21, just after sunset, Jupiter and Saturn will align and appear as one bright, beautiful star that could, depending on whether you believe or...
2020 HOLIDAY EVENTS IN THE UPPER KEYS & MIDDLE KEYS
From lighted boats to a golf tournament to a tree festival and an outdoor concert, there’s plenty to put on your calendar this holiday season:
MIDDLE KEYS
• Christmas...
The keys get lit
With an average year-round temperature that hovers near 80, Florida Keys residents have to invent ways to feel festive during the winter holiday season. Merrymakers who find...
