KW SOUL/Caffeine Carl Wagoner: The real thing
PHOTO/Ralph De Palma Caffeine Carl Wagoner with Bill Blue, who claims he taught Wagoner to play the guitar. SOUL OF KEY WEST Caffeine Carl Wagoner: …
Last Stand urges delay in Monroe County Comp Plan height changes
Last Stand urges delay in Monroe County Comp Plan height changes KONK LIFE STAFF Last Stand is urging Monroe County’s Board of County Commissioners at …
City Hall contractor keeps contract
City Hall contractor keeps contract BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Amidst various finger pointing over whose fault it was that construction …
City Attorney gets high marks, 4-year extension
City Attorney gets high marks, 4-year extension BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Following an annual performance evaluation that gave Key West …
KW LOU/Venice, Its Beginnings
Key West Lou COMMENTARY VENICE, ITS BEGINNINGS By Louis Petrone The past few years have been replete with stories of masses of people moving …
City Attorney gets high marks, 4-year extension
City Attorney gets high marks, 4-year extension BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Following an annual performance evaluation that gave Key West …
TROPIC SPROCKETS/The Theory of Everything
Tropic Sprockets The Theory of Everything by Ian Brockway Physicist Stephen Hawking is very much a popular and a pop art figure, deep within …
LOCAL OBSERVATION/Let It Be
LOCAL OBSERVATION Let It Be BY CHRISTINA OXENBERG KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER I don’t mind spiders. I don’t want them crawling on …
Key Westers on music mission to Havana
PHOTO/Teatro Marti, Cuba’s leading concert hall and opera house, is the scene of Saturday’s historic event uniting Havana with Key West. Key Westers on music …
Eimers rebuke draws angry response from two commissioners
Eimers rebuke draws angry response from two commissioners BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Tempers flared at Tuesday’s Key West City Commission …
CV/Eco-Culture and Guilt
CULTURE VULTURE Eco-Culture and Guilt By C.S. GILBERT KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Any of us growing up in a religion buttressed (actually, accidentally or anecdotally) …
THE BIG STORY/Joys and Sorrows
The Big Story Joys and Sorrows: the Charles John Eimers Memorial by Rick Boettger The main joy was in seeing so many people who never …
Senior citizen housing project in final planning stages
Senior citizen housing project in final planning stages BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER As other city agencies struggle to come up …
HOWELINGS/Joanna Leary says goodbye to Peter Anderson
Howelings BY MARK HOWELL KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Joanna Leary says goodbye to Peter Anderson “Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love …
ENVIRONMENT/Wild Things
PHOTO/Images by Johnny White/Mile Zero A floating forrest-island, inside, 2014. Media: found roots from Key West Courtesy of the artist, Don Soker Contemporary Art, and …
THE NAKED GIRL/Headed west, Ch. 10
All Is True: The Naked Girl in the Treehouse Chapter 10 Headed west with a broken window BY MARK HOWELL The morning of …
Emergency ambulance service start up ‘on time and on budget’
Emergency ambulance service start up ‘on time and on budget’ BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Five months after agreeing to take …
Beware: Electric heaters can light the fire
Beware: Electric heaters can light the fire BY JOHN L. GUERRA KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Danny Blanco remembers entering the scene of a fire that …
KW Kitchen/Key West Callaloo
Key West Kitchen Key West Callaloo – A Pot Full of Island Flavors BY KERRY SHELBY KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Countless versions of callaloo, the …
SHORT ANSWERS/Perfect for whom
Short Answers By Jeff Johnson and Paula Forman PERFECT FOR WHOM? Dear Short Answers: What do you do if your boyfriend is perfect in …