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At Sandi and Tom Moran's North Naples home, the theme was "Where the Magic Begins" and guests were treated to magical plates of food from Executive Chef Rick Tramonto and Partner John Folse of Restaurant R'evolution in New Orleans.

Now in its third year, the festival has attracted films with bigger names — including Michael C. Hall of TV’s “Dexter,” who stars in the opening night film “East Fifth Bliss.” It has also drawn the interest

What’s a little friendly competition between two chefs? That seems to be the concept behind the Summer Chef Series, which is being held one Monday each month through October at M Waterfront Grille. To show the community that there are ...

Sequels are taking over summer movies, but don't worry, there are other options. There are some films that are bucking the summer trend and have original story lines. For you, dear Daily News readers, I have pulled some of the ...

Usually, when someone mentions having breakfast with a prince in Florida, Mickey and Minnie Mouse are involved. But when you have breakfast with a prince in Naples, you get the real deal.

The Education Foundation of Collier County will make six teachers' day today as they name them the Golden Apple Teachers.

When winter weather prevented his sous chef from coming to Naples from New Jersey, Le Pigeon executive chef Gabriel Rucker looked to the kitchen of Grace and Ken Evenstad’s Port Royal home for some help.

Terry Hitchcock was a 57-year-old widower with three kids in 1996. He wanted to bring attention to the plight of families like his — single-parent families. “I wanted to give back and make a difference for single parents and their ...

Bonnie Searles insists she is not a crazy cat lady. “I am just passionate about this,” said Searles, a retired nurse and Oriental shorthair cat breeder. “I tried golf and I hated it.” Local residents will have the opportunity to ...

School leaders say social networking sites like Facebook have positive attributes, but also have a dark side, too. The Community Forum on Social Media will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...

Naples High School will host a Concert for a Cause from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday April 19, at the school, 1100 Golden Eagle Circle. The concert will raise money to benefit Partners in Health and Oxfam America, organizations working ...

When Marco Castello’s designs hit the runways of Paris, Milan and New York some day, those back home in Golden Gate Estates will remember his first show. It took place on the catwalk at Palmetto Ridge High School.

The Naples International Film Festival wanted to kick off the 2010 season in a big way. So, it rolled out its own red carpet and, appropriately, held an Oscar party and fundraiser Sunday evening at Absinthe in North Naples.

If you ask Adam Zhang how to get to Carnegie Hall, he certainly knows the answer. Practice, practice, practice.

Fourth-grader Nicholas Spinelli, his fellow Royal Palm Academy students and Bentley Village residents joined together in North Naples on Friday to tag ducks for the 2010 Great Venetian Duck Race, a fundraiser for the Children’s Museum of Naples, or C’mon ...

The Boys & Girls Club of Collier County has received a total of $7.87 million from the Naples Children and Education Foundation since the first wine festival in 2001. The Club has been able to offer more programs to its ...

Immokalee Middle School students didn’t just run into holiday break. They salsaed, waltzed and cha-chaed into it. “It’s a whole lot of fun,” eighth-grader Jevon Alberique said of dancing. “At first I didn’t want to do it, but it has ...

Those who came to the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts Tuesday evening hoping to hear light-hearted banter from Woody Allen, the famous film director and comic actor, may have left a little disappointed.

Three is definitely a lucky number for Naples couple Lisa and Justin Stepzinski. The 33-year-olds became parents on the third day of December. And they became parents to three identical girls, all born over the span of three minutes.

“It’s like art. Some people paint or do sculpture; I sculpt my body,” Angela Beyer said. “It is amazing what people can do.”

When you are teaching students a new language, pictures are very important. Maria Cabrera’s classroom is full of them. “It’s about teaching them survival. We do pictures, we use a lot of dialog like, ‘My name is...’ or ‘I am ...

This summer, Michael Cates bungee jumped off a bridge in Zambia. Emily Payne climbed Table Mountain and slept near lions. Melissa Ellenman worked at a school in Zambia. What did you do with your summer? For 16 Community School of ...

“I listened to him tell his stories. He cried, I cried. Not very many people in the world would do what he did.”

As I shake the hand of the man in the white suit standing before me, all I can think is, “Oh my God, I am shaking Tom Wolfe’s hand and my hand is wet.” My hand is wet because Wolfe ...