Posts in category Feature Stories

Call to poets, painters for TWKWE Challenge SPECIAL TO KONK LIFE In the continuing celebration of the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Tennessee Williams, organizers …

Conchette Capers, a 40-year tradition lives again By C S GILBERT After an absence of 15 years, the Key West High School Conchettes dance team …

An All-Star Cast Sings for Woman’s Hope – and Habitat for Humanity SPECIAL TO KONK LIFE The eighth annual Woman’s Hope Concert on Friday, March …

‘I Am My Own Wife’ at Red Barn SPECIAL TO KONK LIFE Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval St., is presenting the Pulitzer Prize Winning “I …

Sound debate climaxes tonight (maybe) BY PRU SOWERS NEWS WRITER Officially, Tuesday’s Key West City Commission meeting should be the finale in creating a new …

Equality Florida’s Season of Support Begins By C.S. GILBERT   An elegant party hosted by Jack and Terri Spottswood last Thursday honored Equality Florida’s major …

Presidential Progeny meet at Truman Little White House By Mark Howell Margaret Hoover, great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover, brought along her new baby boy, Jack, …

Coming Home By ANDY LEVIN   As a photographer of some 35 years, I have the philosophy that the photograph is more important than the …

Feature Stories/ Folsom Bonita Paintings At Gingerbread Square   By C.S Gillbert   Pam Folsom and Todd Bonita’s exhibition of paintings opens on Monday, Feb. …

Old Island Restoration Foundation House Tour Feb. 14, 15 By KONK Life News Staff     Despite its reputation as an historic district, Key West …

Key West to host groundbreaking Cuban-American art exchange By KONK News Staff Some of Cuba’s leading contemporary artists are to debut their work in Key …

MLK Breakfast Preacher urges, ‘Keep moving!’ By C.S. Gilbert Dr. Teresa L. Fry Brown, keynote speaker at Monday’s fourth annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr …

Moving To The Future Dr. Bruce Boros Looks At Cardiology And Sees Genetic Testing   By Ralph Morrow   The walls at Dr. Bruce Boros’s …

Something’s Wrong at City Hall   By Mark Howell   No blame, no names, O.K? But Wednesday night’s City Commission meeting at Old City Hall …

They Couldn’t Steal Her Spirit By Bill Wagner Months of planning and preparation were close to culminating with a great week of sailing as Catharine …

Quantum Key West 2014 Begins Under Sunny Skies and Light Breezes By Bill Wagner A warm and sunny Monday morning greeted the sailors at Quantum …

Sanchez artwork featured at Havana’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes By KONK Life News Staff For the first time in over five decades, cultural institutions …

A Dream Fulfilled for Judge Jones By Mark Howell   Some happy stories have a way of writing themselves. Like as this one. Nineteen days …

Wounded Warrior Project Solder Rider   By Morgan Kidwell   On Sunday, January 12, 2014 the Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride took place in Key …

OPINION Douglass descendant moves crowd in Sunday address By C.S. Gilbert   A large crowd gathered in the historic Douglass Gym in Bahama Village Sunday …