JONATHAN FOERSTER

Although the battles and skirmishes play out almost every weekend around the country, the sesquicentennial of the Civil War will launch the biggest wave of re-enactments ever. Although re-enacting has been around as long as Renaissance fairs, the push to ...

Wine Tasters of Naples isn't just about exclusivity, but also about charity. The local club meets regularly to enjoy company and drink a little wine.

A late Easter means an extension of the traditional winter tourist season in Naples. And that means both season residents and year-rounders alike are in for a lot of great music this month. April brings six big shows featuring national ...

Finally, a statistic where Florida ranks highly. After years of hearing how the state is in the bottom half of this and scores poorly at that, someone has deemed Florida as having a high value. Unfortunately, our high ranking — ...

Of all the award shows in all the land (and, wow if there aren’t a lot of them), the Academy Awards capture our attention the most. Perhaps, it’s the fashion. For certain, we love seeing the biggest celebrities in the ...

The trick is to keep breathing. At least that’s how Bob Newhart sees the continuation of his career 50-plus year career. “That’s all I want to accomplish,” he said. “I don’t dwell on it really.”

Despite her advancing age, Shirley MacLaine doesn’t see putting on a career retrospective as a way to deal with impending mortality. In fact, if you bring it up, the 76-year-old actress will get at least mock offended.

Don't care about the Packers and Steelers? That doesn't mean you have to have a boring Sunday. We've got three events guaranteed to make your pigskin-free weekend a blast.

The Thomas Riley Artisans' Guild builds a cabinet worthy of story 100 bottles of 100-point wines.

Myra Janco Daniels founder and long-time chief executive of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts has decided to step down from her position at the end of the year. Daniels gave the news to the Phil’s board of directors on ...

If you want to catch the Boston Red Sox or Minnesota Twins in spring training action in Fort Myers, you need to be ready with your wallet at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan.8. Although the games don’t start for another month ...

American Idol's Paige Miles, a Community School of Naples graduate, has finished recording her debut album. And she’s asking her fans to help decide the lead single. On Sunday, fans can go to www.soundcloud.com/paigemiles to listen to four of the ...

As the economy has soured over the past few years, restaurants have taken a disproportionate share of the pains. With only so many places to reduce costs before abandoning any hope at profits, local restaurateurs have started looking to extras ...

For Vince Gill and Amy Grant, Christmas is sort of the family business. The husband and wife have certainly made their names doing solo music for year-round enjoyment. He’s got somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 Grammys, thanks to hits ...

You might not find great Mexican food in Naples proper. But venture to the south of the Naples border, specifically on U.S. 41 East and its network of tributaries, and an abundance of hard-core Mexican food begins to appear.

At first glance, they might seem like polar opposites. What on earth could bluegrass legend Del McCoury and New Orleans icons the Preservation Hall Jazz Band have in common, besides respectability? But dig a little deeper into their sounds and ...

If forecasters are to be believed, we can throw superlatives around about this weekend’s weather. Some folks will call it “Chamber of Commerce” weather. The less verbose will simply say “gorgeous.” We say it’s a great excuse to get out ...

With about 900 in attendance the second Naples International Film Festival seems to have carried over last year’s buzz. As a few hundred VIPs nibbled on sushi and oysters in Daniels Pavilion, at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts, friends ...

The beauty of film festivals like the Naples International Film Festival is that they offer cinephiles bludgeoned to a pulp by blockbusters and a lack of experimentation a chance to see movies they would have never heard of otherwise. The ...

If the growth of a film festival is any anyway analogous to human development, year two should be a sort of awkward phase. Running is possible, but you are just as likely to fall flat as stay upright. The organizers ...

Fall is a hopeful time at the movies. After the summer season, during which box office numbers are often considered more important than a film’s quality, good filmmaking becomes en vogue again. This year is no exception. Plenty of smaller ...

If you are a huge fan of the Beatles, then you will likely love “Rain -- A Tribute to the Beatles” which played Wednesday night and repeats at 8 tonight at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts. If you aren’t ...

It might not be filled with household names, but the roster of films selected for the 2010 Naples International Film Festival includes some recognizable faces.

Take a trip into a land of goblin kings and fabulous 80’s hair with Calusa Nature Center's costume ball on Oct. 9 or enjoy some ’90s mainstream rock at Germain Arena on Oct. 13, the choice is yours.

Not only is "RAIN -- A Tribute to the Beatles" the most successful tribute band ever, it's also one of the top touring acts in the country this year.

Opening night for the second Naples International Film Festival is going to look a lot like the first, close enough that you might consider it a remake.

While fall’s crisp air is closing down the summer concert binge up north, Florida is about to see a deluge of top-notch touring acts. With just about every taste included, live music fans will have plenty to choose from.

In modern pop culture, the big “a-ha” ideas are often built off the backs of others. Without Madonna, there’s no Lady Gaga. “The Sopranos” needed “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas” as springboards. Casey Pugh was looking for inspiration for an academic ...

When I mentioned to a friend that I was reviewing Yabba Island Grill, he asked, “Why would you want to do that?” Yabba has gotten a bit of an undeserved bad rap amongst the younger local set. But upon closer ...

September is the doldrums of dining in Southwest Florida. Business is so slow that some chefs simply hang up their knives for a month and close down shop. But the sweltering days of summer do give us a chance to ...

Making it through the first year of owning a restaurant has less to do with product and skills than it does a deep pocketbook and a willingness to lose money in the short term. Lasting for the long term takes ...

Few among us don’t dream wistfully of winter during these often unbearable summer days. Our minds drift to open windows and the lower electricity bills that come with cooler temps. We think about longer days on the beach, a tee ...

There’s a reason Naples boasts an endless supply of Italian restaurants — we love la cucina Italiana. Still, it’s baffling how few truly excellent Italian eateries exist within the avalanche of choices, butAnthony’s Trattoria resides among the elite. Owner Luigi ...

From special prix fixe menus to two entrees for the price of one, the restaurants are doing anything and everything to get you to spend your evening with them. But are these deals worth it? We decided to find out. ...

Florida film leaders come to Naples to get the lay of the land and promote new incentives for productions to set up shop in the Sunshine State.

With still a month and half left in summer, the doldrums of the off season have started to kick in. Heck, even if you wanted to be out and about, you almost need some sort of personal refrigeration system to ...

Hand it to the folks who designed and developed the Mercato. They’ve created out of thin air a whole microcosm of urban living in what used to be pastures and woods. The trick has been to systematically provide something to ...

Alcohol content of wines is quietly rising and so, possibly, is involuntary intoxication.

Whether he knows it or not Cory Wells has become sort of an old coot. Talk to the Three Dog Night singer for any length of time and you are going to hear him complain about how things aren’t the ...

Three local chefs share tasty recipes for Florida spiny lobster.

I’m picky about barbecue. It has to do something with growing up half way between Memphis and St. Louis, going to college a couple of hours from Kansas City and being born into a family that takes meat pretty seriously.

As head of the Southwest Florida Hispanic Chamber of commerce, Veronica Culbertson spends her days planning events to help bridge the gap between Hispanics and the business community.

Eric Raddatz is out to prove the first time wasn’t a fluke. Less than a year after putting together the successful debut of the Naples International Film Festival, and only seven months after being booted from his job as executive ...

Looking for something to do in the summer can often seem like searching for a four-leafed clover, you never see anything until it’s already upon you. But there’s always the movies to keep us blissfully occupied. What? You don’t want ...

If you are a purist, Jim Witter is a sellout. If you are a realist, Jim Witter is just feeding his family. If you are Jim Witter, well, you are just having a lot of fun. “All I ever wanted ...

After we bought a house there this spring, my wife and I quickly realized how little of Golden Gate City we actually knew. The only time we ever ventured up Golden Gate Parkway east of Santa Barbara was the occasional ...

The Naples Art Association is planting the seeds for a blockbuster exhibit in March of Cuban art. The hope is the show will provide a lift similar to that of the Princess Diana gowns exhibit, which has pushed record numbers ...

In a town where transplants outnumber locals by huge margins, being around 25 years pretty much makes you a local. For an event, 25 years definitely qualifies as a tradition. That’s really the only way to describe the Naples Beach ...

Sushi in particular can be terrifying to a novice. Looking at a long list of foreign sounding rolls can get overwhelming. Sushi One seems to understand this better than most restaurants. Its menu conveniently breaks things down by basic roll ...