Issue #27 — Friday, September 13, 2013
Many well-known phrases owe their existence to Mark Twain. “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics” is one of his most ironic and cynical. Twain popularized that truism in the 1906 publication of “Chapters from My Autobiography.” Slightly less than 100 years later, an event occurred which was so catastrophic, that Read More...
GREEN Reactor: Dredging up FACTS
As we get closer to the October 1st referendum on the Channel-Widening Study in Key West, the greedy businessmen pushing for the study are clearly getting more and more desperate to influence the last few undecided voters. Since their opposition is people concerned about the environment, our health and the quality of life in Key Read More...
THE DAY THE BLUE PAPER ALMOST TOOK OVER SOLARES HILL
If you are a longtime reader of Key West The Newspaper, you may know that I retired last November after running the paper for 18 years. But I may have one more adventure in me, so I have applied to join the Peace Corps. While that application is pending, I told new publishers Naja and Read More...
Different Roads Can Lead To The Same Abandoned Doorways
The other day, I pedaled my bicycle by my old condo on Key West’s Fleming Street, a doorway where I slept every night on flattened cardboard boxes during the winter and spring of 2001. (more…)
NEVER STOP RUNNING, NAPALM GIRL!!!
The Sea was mild and soothing as I sailed alone in the western reaches of the Caribbean. It had been four days since my last human contact. Such exile does not disturb me – it comforts me. The wind was light, and the waves were small and melodious – like the cello phrase in a Read More...
Brokering credible relationships with a sovereign state is the mark of a distinguished leader who is taken seriously and trusted by the partnering nations. Eliminating skepticism and disbelief decreases the threatening nature of cultures and ideologies that we’re unfamiliar with. Unable to infiltrate and penetrate the regimes that ‘cross the red line’, we find ourselves Read More...
Brokering credible relationships with a sovereign state is the mark of a distinguished leader who is taken seriously and trusted by the partnering nations. Eliminating skepticism and disbelief decreases the threatening nature of cultures and ideologies that we’re unfamiliar with. Unable to infiltrate and penetrate the regimes that ‘cross the red line’, we find ourselves Read More...
Presenting Featured Artist: C.W. Colt Performing His Original Song "Flying"
“FLYING” by C.W. COLT C.W. Colt wrote “Flying” at 4 am while sitting on a mountainside in Colorado. “I was dreaming about what real love should be like. Finding that one person and soaring through a life of love & happiness.” C.W.’s been dreaming, writing, singing, playing guitar and majorly pleasing the crowds for a Read More...
Presenting Featured Artist: C.W. Colt Performing His Original Song “Flying”
“FLYING” by C.W. COLT C.W. Colt wrote “Flying” at 4 am while sitting on a mountainside in Colorado. “I was dreaming about what real love should be like. Finding that one person and soaring through a life of love & happiness.” C.W.’s been dreaming, writing, singing, playing guitar and majorly pleasing the crowds for a Read More...
DEATH IN PARADISE: A YEAR LATER [CHARLES EIMERS MEMORIAL] NOWHERE TO RUN: NEW VIDEO DEVASTATING TO KWPD CREDIBILITY [CHIEF LEE DEPOSITION VIDEO] EIMERS IN-CUSTODY-DEATH UPDATE: MISSING VIDEO SURFACES KATHY SMITH, LEAD FDLE INVESTIGATOR IN CHARLES EIMERS CASE PUT ON ADMINITRATIVE LEAVE KWPD & FDLE, PARTNERS IN CRIME? CHARLES EIMERS UPDATE: Police, Death, and Missing Videotapes Read More...
NOWHERE TO RUN: NEW VIDEO DEVASTATING TO KWPD CREDIBILITY [CHIEF LEE DEPOSITION VIDEO] EIMERS IN-CUSTODY-DEATH UPDATE: MISSING VIDEO SURFACES KATHY SMITH, LEAD FDLE INVESTIGATOR IN CHARLES EIMERS CASE PUT ON ADMINITRATIVE LEAVE KWPD & FDLE, PARTNERS IN CRIME? CHARLES EIMERS UPDATE: Police, Death, and Missing Videotapes THE BURGLAR, THE VIGILANTE, AND THE AXE OF Read More...
The Support the Study PAC is circulating a plea for donations to cover $ 750,000.00, for what is essentially only half the local responsibility of the three million dollar cost of the channel dredging study. The state, apparently, will come up with the other $ 750,000.00. As to be expected, there are statements in their Read More...
CHECK YOUR ABSENTEE BALLOT STATUS!!
Being conscientious citizens of Key West, my husband and I want to vote in the up-coming elections, even though personal business is keeping us out-of-state at that time. We dutifully used the web site provided for requesting absentee ballots and August 22nd e-mail responses confirmed that our requests were received as we intended. Since the Read More...
Channel Dredging: The Private Takeover Of Public Money
We citizens of Key West are personally experiencing a vivid example of what the country and most of the planet is suffering from; a myopic hell-bent-for-leather private takeover of public money and public institutions with no regard to environmental or cultural history. Utilities, schools, mail service, hospitals and prisons are now seen as money makers Read More...
To DEP: Don't Sell Our Conservation Lands
An Open Letter To DEP Staff Members, The blood, sweat, tears and lives of many Florida Keys’ residents have gone into protecting tracts of land that are critical to the preservation of all life in Monroe County. Any reasonable individual can understand, safeguarding our habitat and fragile aquatic ecosystem is an uphill battle when facing off Read More...
To DEP: Don’t Sell Our Conservation Lands
An Open Letter To DEP Staff Members, The blood, sweat, tears and lives of many Florida Keys’ residents have gone into protecting tracts of land that are critical to the preservation of all life in Monroe County. Any reasonable individual can understand, safeguarding our habitat and fragile aquatic ecosystem is an uphill battle when facing off Read More...
The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden has been chosen to participate in the 2013 Conservation Assessment Program (CAP), joining 2,800 museums that have participated in CAP during its twenty-two year history. CAP is funded through a cooperative agreement between Heritage Preservation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. CAP assists museums by Read More...
The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden has been chosen to participate in the 2013 Conservation Assessment Program (CAP), joining 2,800 museums that have participated in CAP during its twenty-two year history. CAP is funded through a cooperative agreement between Heritage Preservation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. CAP assists museums by Read More...
Free Admission for All Participants Presenting a ‘Museum Day Live!’ Ticket on September 28, 2013 Date coincides with Birdfest 2013 special events. Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden will open its gates free of charge on Saturday September 28, 2013, as part of Smithsonian magazine’s ninth annual Museum Day Live! A nationwide event, Museum Read More...
Free Admission for All Participants Presenting a ‘Museum Day Live!’ Ticket on September 28, 2013 Date coincides with Birdfest 2013 special events. Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden will open its gates free of charge on Saturday September 28, 2013, as part of Smithsonian magazine’s ninth annual Museum Day Live! A nationwide event, Museum Read More...
Musical Storm Expected To Hit the Florida Keys for CW Colt's 60th!
Come Celebrate C W Colt’s 60th Sept 13 14 & 15th at the Hogfish Bar and Grille This musical storm will be celebrating Sixty Musical Years! The surge is expected to make landfall Sept. 13th through Sept. 16th so be prepared by tracking the events at: www.cwcolt.com Songwriters are gathering to take Key West by Read More...
Musical Storm Expected To Hit the Florida Keys for CW Colt’s 60th!
Come Celebrate C W Colt’s 60th Sept 13 14 & 15th at the Hogfish Bar and Grille This musical storm will be celebrating Sixty Musical Years! The surge is expected to make landfall Sept. 13th through Sept. 16th so be prepared by tracking the events at: www.cwcolt.com Songwriters are gathering to take Key West by Read More...
Florida Keys Council of the Arts Cultural Calendar Thursday, November 6 thru Wednesday, November 12
Visit keysarts.com, Cultural Calendar for more listings and events throughout the Keys. Key West Happenings ARTISTS RECEPTIONS / EXHIBITIONS Thursday Polar Opposites Opening Reception, 6 PM Lucky Street Gallery, 540 Greene St. 294-3973. Luckystreetgallery.com James Barr-Nobles, B. Lucy Stevens. (more…)
Pole Performance Celebrity Spectacular to Benefit Florida Keys SPCA
Key West, Florida Keys – For one night only, September 26, 2013, international pole fitness and dance celebrities Sergia Louise Anderson, Crystal Lai, Michula Nunez, Janis White, Estee Zakar and Jezabel Olmos will astound and delight with live performances at La Te Da in Key West. It is the forth year in a row that animal Read More...
The Love Lane Gang plays music that spans generations, as well as embodies them. The emphasis is on swing: classics from the 1930s and 1940s, done in a refreshing new style that incorporates the Hot Club approach with island flourishes. Dust Bowl ballads, old school country from Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, rockabilly and surf Read More...
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