People often ask me for travel recommendations. It’s true, I’m always on the hunt for fabulous hotels and restaurants to highlight for our readers, but I’m more interested in discovering those authentic Florida experiences that aren’t manufactured and created for the masses. As a family, we try to embrace a spirit of adventure in our […]
Meet Gabriel Gray, an adventurer, outdoorsman, rescue worker, entrepreneur and philosopher—and all-around cool Sunshine Statesman.
“Are you ready? Because it’s too late to turn back now,” says Michael Hoover, 45, adjusting his sunglasses and erupting into an enormous grin as we turn onto the runway and the engines of his red and white six-passenger seaplane thrum. I grin back. I live for these kinds of thrills, and he surely senses […]
Lapis water and the treasures within—coral reefs, shipwrecks, sports fish, and crustaceans—lure visitors to The Florida Keys year after year. Above the surface awaits a dynamic cultural scene teeming with museums, theaters, concert halls and art studios. Here are just a few of The Florida Keys’ cultural highlights, from north to south: In Key Largo, […]
If the cleverest thing that you’ve ever done with seashells is spell your name in the sand, this story will put your skills to shame. It begins in the 1930s with a group of women from Riviera Beach in Palm Beach County. Their “fisherfolk” husbands had moved to the area from the Abaco Islands in […]
Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean, lush marshlands and the Intracoastal Waterway, the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort is Florida’s award-winning island destination. The oceanfront retreat, located just north of Jacksonville, offers a luxury resort experience in perfect harmony with nature. Both the beauty and the bounty of this seaside escape culminate each spring in the […]
Friday afternoons in Miami, right as schools let out, were when the city felt most alive to me, the most itself. Suddenly into the sluggishness of the siesta hour spilled public, private and parochial schoolkids and their parents, a swarm that thronged the sidewalks and choked the thoroughfares. Black, white, Cuban, Nicaraguan, Haitian—rich, poor, middle […]
Read our Spring 2017 Icons issue front to back.
Like the great Jerry Jeff Walker, who sings “I love that Sangria wine, when I’m drinking with old friends of mine,” Clay Carnes of West Palm Beach’s Cholo Soy Cocina prefers the fruity beverage to a frosty beer or a salt-rimmed margarita when entertaining at home. “There is nothing manly about sangria. But neither is […]
