Anguished after being left at the altar, Nora Dinsmoor, a wealthy spinster in Alfonso Cuarón’s Great Expectations (1998), hides away in her mansion, Paradiso Perduto, interacting only with her niece, Estella, and a young orphan, Finn. But before she even appears on screen (wearing Cleopatra makeup and a manic expression), her dejection surfaces in Paradiso […]
A little past midnight on a July morning, when exotic constellations light the sky, my wife Jane, our Toller retriever Smarty and I head across A1A and down a series of wooden steps to a lower platform overlooking the ocean in southern Melbourne Beach. Within a few minutes, a loggerhead turtle emerges from the waves, […]
A look at vintage Lilly designs and how the artistic crew behind her famous patterns fatefully linked with the Palm Beach socialite in the 1960s and helped create the blueprint for an iconic fashion brand
THE HENRY B. PLANT MUSEUM Tampa In 1891, railroad, steamship and hotel magnate Henry Plant spent $3 million to build a 511-room Moorish Revival resort known as the Tampa Bay Hotel. It had an 18-hole golf course, a flower conservatory and a heated swimming pool. Crippled by the Great Depression, the hotel closed in 1932 […]
Red pickup truck, white pearls, blue suit. Rediscovering the Miami roots and many accomplishments of the first female U.S. Attorney General
NORTH Florida International Rally & Motorsports Park Known as The Firm, this facility in Starke offers open track days, as well as advanced road racing and mixed-surface rally driver training. Bring your own car (convertibles need roll bars or cages) and helmet, and come ready to learn how to guide your car smoothly through the […]
