by Kristen Coury Producing Artistic Director What was to be a celebrated time of gathering playwrights, actors and directors from across the country for the annual New Works Festival soon became a scrambling hurricane evacuation effort. The aftermath of Hurricane Irma’s landfall forced the cancellation of Gulfshore Playhouse’s first show of the season due to significant damage to The Norris […]
by Kelsey Burr Naples Zoo Marketing Associate At just a few weeks old, Athena the Florida panther kitten, was left behind. Her mother, who was being monitored by National Park Service biologists in Big Cypress National Preserve, had left her den for good and taken her three other kittens with her. Athena was the runt of the litter and also […]
by Ron McGinty Patagonia, with barely two million inhabitants, encompasses more than 402 thousand square miles… by comparison Texas has only 267 thousand. At the southern tip of South America lays Argentina and Chile separated by the Andes mountains comprising Patagonia. Author Bruce Chatwin famously wrote, “Patagonia is the farthest place to which man walked from his place of origin,” […]
You like color, don’t you? Well good, you’re in very good company with a host of jewelry lovers who adore the vivid natural colors that gemstones flaunt. The world of colorful gemstones is as fascinating and diverse as the stones themselves. Precious gemstones are found all over the globe; often in exotic locales that are risky to enter and even more […]
February has only 28 days but in Southwest Florida there are more gala events to attend than days in the month – 31 to be exact (and there is a good chance that this writer missed one or two). Selecting what to attend and which nonprofit you want to support can sometimes be difficult – just remember when you are making your choices […]
On December 15, 2017, Hodges University’s Board of Trustees appointed Dr. John Meyer as the university’s new president. The appointment was made in conjunction with the university’s ongoing strategic directives to ensure academic quality for a diverse student population and drive innovation to meet the needs of the larger Southwest Florida community. “I am very optimistic about our focus on workforce oriented higher education,” says Meyer. “We […]
In a recent television interview, I commented about “purging” the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) of people who have gone well beyond expressing personal political views and have sought to use their office to influence the recent 2016 election. There are deeply disturbing comments in the texts of Peter Strozk and his mistress, and while the actions of Bruce Ohr […]
Welcome to busy, busy February! Traffic seemed to pick up quickly this season and won’t be getting any better until after Easter, so don’t let that stop you from getting to the places you want to go, as there are many worthwhile things to do in Naples. We are so fortunate to have some of the best weather in […]
Today is December 31st, 2017 and it’s a spectacular 75-degree day with lots of sunshine and many happy visitors and residents alike who are glad to be here. Memories of Hurricane Irma are slowly fading away, but the remnants will be a constant reminder to me for years to come. I am constantly asked about everything from my favorite restaurants to what […]
Under Florida’s Constitution, municipalities are corporations vested with broad governmental and proprietary powers. Each city has a charter pointing out its scope of services, detailing its elections and scope of services. The details of this are found in policies, administrative codes and ordinances. Florida since 1968 has recognized the need for cities to have home rule powers. This is included in the constitution (Article […]