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BOOK CLUB: Everglades — America’s Wetland

Photographer takes readers on unforgettable journey through Florida’s River of Grass. The Bookworm Book Club was honored to host award-winning conservation photographer and naturalist Mac Stone as the debut speaker for The Distinguished Florida Author Series. His just-released book “Everglades:…

OUT+ABOUT: Child-Friendly Key West

PHOTOS: Tony and Mary Ann DeSantis Key West has often been described as a party-hard city with an anything goes attitude. While that may be the case at certain times of the year, most of the time it’s a family…

LOCAL TALENT PROFILE: From Russia (and Cuba) with love

STORY: Jane Fuentes PHOTO: Provided Janet Harris’ musical tastes have always been a tad more sophisticated than mainstream America’s. In 1986, while her classmates were walking like Egyptians and singing along with Whitney Houston, Janet was in Russia experiencing…

LOCAL TALENT PROFILE: Hard rockin’ band definitely a ‘Keeper’

STORY: Jane Fuentes The rock ‘n’ roll landscape is filled with tough-as-nails characters who have endured fickle fans, band breakups and shattered dreams, but few have survived as much adversity as Sick Ross, 52-year-old drummer for local hard rock band…

Ono (that means “Good”) island

PHOTOS: Gary Corsair Forget Waikiki, Kauai is unspoiled Hawaii. Ma and Pa Kettle, the Brady Bunch and Elvis had wonderful vacations in Waikiki, but they missed the real Hawaii. Waikiki is dirty, crowded and full of hotels desperately needing renovation.…

OUT+ABOUT: Family-Friendly Mardi Gras

PHOTOS: Mary Ann DeSantis and the Mobile Carnival Museum. Parade photo by Tad Denson of MyShotz.com Most people assume Mardi Gras in the U.S. began in New Orleans, but history says otherwise. While the “Big Easy” may have the largest…

Long Miles

Performer hopes ‘American Idol’ will send him to Nashville. Singer/songwriter Garrett Miles has reloaded and taken his second shot at fame. “I made it onto ‘American Idol,’ but I can’t divulge any information,” says the soft-spoken country crooner, who came…