Columns

It’s here! The 37th Annual Original Marathon Seafood Festival is this weekend! As I mentioned in last week’s column, everyone knows that the real star of the...

The “Defibulators” band’s name was misspelled for their first gig and the misspelling has stuck for the country band from Brooklyn. As the band plays on, it...

Which of the following paragraphs is true? 1) The Internet. The world’s largest and most comprehensive store of information. A research library at one’s immediate beck and call,...

first visited the Keys in the mid-’80s and fell in love with the area. I knew right then this would be my home. I spent every moment after that trying to figure how to live here. It took a while but there was no other place on the planet I wanted to be. I just love everything about the Keys.

A meme going around Facebook right now defines a musician as someone who packs $5,000 worth on instruments and equipment into a car worth $500 to play...

A meme going around Facebook right now defines a musician as someone who packs $5,000 worth on instruments and equipment into a car worth $500 to play...

A CNN poll this past week revealed that 40 percent of Americans are willing to trade some of their civil rights for “protection” against terrorism. By contrast,...

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.

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 WFOR, a story...

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 was! On the...