Entertainment
Preview: Who’s playing in upcoming ‘The Glass Menagerie’
January 9, 2025
BY BOOTS TOLSDORF
In September we all suffered from two horrific hurricanes. Our realities were shattered. We had to face the hard truths of our present devastation and get on with repairing our…
Crews Bank hosts art show
January 9, 2025
This season the Boca Grande Art Center is pleased and grateful to offer rotating displays of their exhibiting artists’ works at the island’s recently re-opened Crews Bank & Trust on Park Avenue…
Film Festival will use Community Center Auditorium site
January 9, 2025
The Boca Grande Film Festival 2025 is set for Feb. 19-21 and the auditorium in the Community Center will be ready to use for the festival. “The auditorium will be our theater for the year,” said Deb…
New Florida fiction
January 2, 2025
Some new Florida books:
“State of Paradise” by Laura van den Berg
In a small Florida town, a ghostwriter navigates a surreal summer filled with missing people, a mysterious virtual…
‘Ten Restaurants That Changed America’ at Friends lecture
January 2, 2025
BY FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE
Join the Friends on Friday, January 10, at 4:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s for a lecture by Yale Professor Paul Freedman on his book, “Ten Restaurants That Changed America.”…
Master of mid-century silk screen
January 2, 2025
The late illustrator Charley Harper created famous images of nature, for not only magazines, but biology textbooks. Curator and collector Terry Wright will explore the early days of his career on Ja…
Johann Fust Library Foundation teeming with January book events
December 19, 2024
The Johann Fust Library Foundation team is working hard to restore the library so it can reopen soon. In the meantime, the foundation invites you back to its courtyard and loggia on Friday, Jan. 17…
Mount Vernon president here to talk Washington
December 12, 2024
On January 8 at 5 p.m., Douglas Bradburn, the president and CEO of George Washington’s Mount Vernon and well-known author will present the reasons you should follow George Washington by speaking on…
New Visitor’s Guide welcomes back guests for 2025 season
December 12, 2024
As the island celebrates the opening of so many businesses and The Gasparilla Inn, there will be one more herald of the upcoming season, one that does not get as much attention. It is the yearly pub…
What’s Open and What’s Closed for now
December 6, 2024
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