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BY RALPH MORROW NEWS EDITOR   Ralphie Henriquez, one of the top baseball players to come out of Key West High School, has signed a …

Dear Editors:  By Pat Cummimgs Dear Editors:   {The Citizen quoted me out of context in a way that could be interpreted to mean the …

By Mark Howell   The principal languages on our planet today are nine giants shared among one hundred million speakers: Mandarin, Spanish, English, Arabic, Hindi, …

By Rick Beottger The treasure: the Everglades, Florida Bay, and our living Coral Reef. They are a treasure not only to our state, but the …

AUSTRALIA SOUTH By Steve Caulderwood For the last couple of weeks we’ve been taking a look at Australia and its wine regions.  To once again …

BY JENESSA BERGER Well, here we are again.  It’s Thanksgiving and Hanukkah wrapped in one followed very closely by Christmas this year. Plenty of holiday …

BY STEVE CALDERWOOD Today we’re going to continue our discussion on Australian wine country which I started two weeks ago, but got side tracked when …

By Kimberley Denney and Scott McCarthy Dear Bitch :& Gad: My neighbors have the most obnoxiously loud dogs that are left out all day. Instead of …

BY RICHARD BOETTGER My wife and I are not alone in being burglarized while we slept in our bed. As previously reported, last month someone …

BY MARK HOWELL We came a cropper among the literary cognoscenti in town a while ago when we transcribed an opinion by the controversial Michiko …

The Big Story: SCHOOL SECRETS By Rick Boettger It is not easy to get the Monroe County School District to comply with Florida’s Sunshine Law. …

By Mark Howell John Waters, 67, the cult film director of transgressive hits such as “Hairspray” (not to mention “Hag in a Black Leather Jacket” …

Joanna Brady Schmida arrived in Key West in 1995 after a long career as a Creative Director at Ogilvy & Mather advertising in Toronto. She …

  Harry Schroeder began writing music reviews for the old Island Life paper and moved from there to nearly two decades at Solares Hill under David …

  KONK Life is proud to run stories and other features from a wide range of Keys (and other) contributors. Listed here are some of …

Constance (C.S.) Gilbert sort-of retired to Key West in 1994 after a life as a textbook writer, traveler, college teacher, actor, mom, activist, PR consultant …

By JT Thompson I have been hearing locals talk about LUPITA’S Mexican Restaurant for a while, saying they get lunch there and how the food …

By Kimberley Denney Thank you, everyone, for giving me such inspiration that Part Two of my ongoing series came together in about ten minutes: I’ve …