The competition is fierce, and we’re not even talking about what’s happening on the gridiron. As Florida’s three NFL teams—the Dolphins, the Jags and the Bucs—have vacillated up and down the league rankings in recent years, frustrated fans have left the stands and begun to watch the games on their big screens at home. The team […]
As the sun sinks, light refracts all around, covering the palmettos, pines and far-off hammocks in hues of pink and purple. The sky begins to bleed into one warm color after another, slowly dissolving into blue as stars spill into view. Here at Pine Creek, a private sporting club in central Florida, John Reynolds, a founding […]
Southern Blood, the final album by the late Gregg Allman, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band in Jacksonville 48 years ago, takes the Southern rock pioneer’s career full circle.
Showbiz personalities who materialize out of seemingly nowhere to seize a pop-culture moment—or an Academy Award—can occasionally be expected to assume airs of false modesty. No one, however, can accuse Barry Jenkins of putting on an act. The 37-year-old Miami native shocked the world when Moonlight, his piercingly intimate drama about a young black man’s coming […]
Go down the list of country stars and it’s hard to find someone who hasn’t sung something tropical,” Frinzi says. Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson and Zac Brown all have songs about beaches, boats and beers. In fact, these three artists have done more than emulate Buffett’s style; they’ve all recorded a track with him. The […]
Read the chef’s full story here. FLORIDA WATERMELON SALAD WITH GOAT CHEESE, PICKLED BLACKBERRIES, BASIL PURÉE, SERRANO LEMON VINAIGRETTE AND POMEGRANATE MOLASSES SERVES 6-8 FLORIDA WATERMELON SALAD WITH GOAT CHEESE PLATING: Bring the goat cheese to room temperature and smear a few tablespoons on the center of 6 plates. Slice and dice watermelon, portion and […]
Meg Cabot, author of more than 80 books and several New York Times bestsellers, says some of her best editing occurs in a floating deck chair in the pool at her Key West home. Her cat, Allie Cat, often sits on her, making typing “awkward,” but isn’t distracting enough to prevent Cabot from finishing her […]
For decades, a smattering of Star Wars-like igloo-shaped structures off Cape Romano (just south of Marco Island in the Ten Thousand Islands) have attracted throngs of gawkers and inspired numerous rumors. Aliens? Cults? Government secrets? The truth was decidedly less salacious but equally sensational. In 1980, the late Bob Lee, a retired oilman from Gatlinburg, […]
Read the Chef’s full story here. BUTTERMILK PIE WITH NAVEL ORANGE BUTTERSCOTCH, STRAWBERRY RHUBARB COMPOTE AND VANILLA ICE CREAM SERVES 8 BUTTERMILK PIE 1 pie crust 1 1/8 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 sticks of unsalted butter, cold and diced 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 cup ice water egg wash PREPARATION: Combine […]
