Posts in category Feature Stories

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 …

Encountering Alexander McCall Smith By Mark Howell   Alexander McCall Smith, the amazingly accomplished and wonderfully witty writer featured at this year’s Key West Literary …

Christmas is a time for reflection By Guy deBoer / Publisher For me Christmas childhood memories with my family are as real as if they …

By Mark Howell   Our decorative season is off to a blazing start with two Key West houses in particular.   At 600 Elizabeth and …

By Mark Howell   Reviewed by Mark Howell   Who would have thought – or for that matter, who wouldn’t have thought? – that a …

By Trinadad Joe November, 2013 – 50 years later. The real story or just a short story and an excerpt from my novel, Ponytail Gangsters …

By Mark Howell and C. S. Gilbert   President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Key West There are a number of Florida Keys connections to President John F. …

By John Guerra Last Sunday afternoon, as Key West rolled slowly toward a spectacular fall sunset, I stood on a high knoll over the west …