Columns

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was a young musician who happened to be enrolled in the marine...

The votes are in, the tabulation commences, and we’ll all find out who the winners are in the Best of Marathon next Saturday night!...

In case you haven’t noticed the prevailing weather conditions, we are smack dab in the high heat of the summer season. As bad as...

Last weekend, while doing some routine yard work, I was witness to a life-and-death tableau that played out in front of my eyes not...

Brooke Babineau’s book, “Below Mile Zero,” is about the Key West he lived in during the 1980s. He has written screenplays and poems, too,...

I don’t know how we ever got through hurricane season without the Internet. Back in the old days, before every computer in the world was...

Millions of rock fans saw a longtime dream come true when Rush was finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. While...

So there I was, browsing casually throughout the Internet, looking for a topic for this week’s column, when all of a sudden, there it...

I used to have a great deal of respect for Jim DeFede. For those who missed the “investigative” report he filed on Miami CBS affiliate...

I have been told that my portrayal of island life is darned accurate, so Keys residents enjoy seeing themselves through my characters. A lot of people from “up north” say that my descriptions warm them in winter and make them long for return visits to the Keys. Aside from that, I think my avoidance of clichés and my examples of island humor make folks want to keep reading the novels.