SARAH FELDBERG

A round carnival tent sprouts oddly out of the Miami Beach sand. Hidden behind a tall fence (the kind that doesn’t let you see in, and consequently makes you want to see in really badly), the tent emits a yellow ...

“Just pucker up,” Robin shouts to me from the dock. “Keep your hands by your sides and stay still.” He pops up out of the water a few feet away and cautiously swims forward, his mouth pointed up towards the ...

When Coastalbeat.com launched in August 2006, we didn’t know exactly where we were heading or what we were going to do; we just knew that Southwest Florida was missing something that we could provide. So, we booted up our laptops, ...

For a relatively small area (population, not square milage), Southwest Florida has an abundance of restaurants. Our restaurant guide currently has 704 different eateries listed, and doubtless we’re still missing a few...

Life behind the bar at Charlie Chiang's in North Naples is anything but boring. From wasabi cocktails to red hot martinis, barman Robert Loseto keeps his patrons happy and well-lubricated, slinging signature drinks and fresh sushi.

Photography is our bread and butter. It's everywhere we look - in magazines, on television screens, on our cell phones and computer desktops. Every week photographers around the world capture the news through the camera's lens. Your world is beautiful. ...

Something strange is happening in Southwest Florida. Amid the fried grouper specials and dollar draught happy hours a new breed of nightspot is taking over the darkness faster than those reproductively skilled albino lizards...

Your news through pictures, because nobody ever said a word is worth a thousand photographs...

Happy Hour visits the bartender at Noodles Italian Cafe and Sushi Bar

“Low carb, low fat, low cholesterol” reads the front of my menu as a friend and I take a seat in the busy dining room of Naples’ Miss Saigon Gourmet. I’m skeptical...

Meet Cafe Lurcat bartender Dan Lolli and a refreshing libation off the bar's new cocktail menu...

Wynonna Judd has been through a lot in her 23 years in the music industry. In anticipation for her upcoming tour stop in Naples, Judd gave us 15 minutes to hear about her relationship with fans, her upcoming album and ...

Watch a slide show of some of the best photos taken around the world in the past week...

A few very strange things happened at the 2007 National Buffalo Wing Festival. First, 40 year old Sonja Thomas (100 lbs) became the International Federation of Competitive Eating’s national chicken wing eating champion by consuming a ridiculous 173 chicken wings ...

Just seven or eight years ago a digital camera was a major purchase. If you wanted to make the move from film you were likely shelling out a few hundred dollars for the privilege of lugging around something the size ...

Check out this audio slide show featuring some of the best pictures from all over the world taken in the last week.

At Handsome Harry's the bellinitini is a stronger take on a fruity alternative. We sat down with bartender Leslie DeVito to steal the recipe for this tasty cocktail and learn just what people are ordering these days...

There’s a striking portrait of Madonna by the late photographer Herb Ritts that channels her brazen, bad girl attitude right through the frozen black and white picture. A lit cigarette dangles from her saucy pout, dark, shiny bangs zigzag in ...

In the fraction of a second it takes for the camera's shutter to blink open and close, skilled photographers capture the emotion, beauty and essence of a scene. This slide show brings you those pictures taken in the last seven ...

Few cities need to remind their residents and visitors that public nudity is illegal, and fewer still need to remind them that touching naked people in the street is inappropriate and rude. But few cities are anything like the tiny ...

Photos. Photos. And more photos. This Week in Pictures brings you so of the most compelling, most informative photographs taken around the world in the last week...

If modern Halloween proves anything it’s that the age-old adage “sex sells” is still the golden rule of marketing and consumer holidays. With that mantra firmly implanted in your cerebral cortex, virtually any household object or character can be transformed ...

You've spent all week crafting the perfect costume that's equal parts scary, sexy and hilarious. The only thing left is doing some liquid trick or treating (a.k.a. bar hopping) to celebrate everyone’s favorite secular fiesta. Follow this party “to do” ...

Sometimes bad neighborhoods evolve seemingly overnight – artists move in to rub shoulders with drug pushers and squatters, and before you know it yuppies are buying “New York-style” lofts as if exposed brick was going out of style. But in ...

Photography junkies rejoice: Some of the best pictures taken all over the world in the last week are right here. Enjoy...

Wherever there's news happening, photographer's are there to bring us the images that stick in our heads long after the words have faded. These are some of the best pictures taken in the past week from across the globe...

I have a sudden urge to yell, “Oh my God! There’s a hole in your restaurant,” as I walk into the Oasis Drive Thru. Why am I walking through the drive thru? Because I’ve made a rookie mistake...

I’m not sure who first thought to add “too” to a restaurant’s name for subsequently opened little sister eateries, but it’s no longer cute...

This week in pictures brings you the work of top photo journalists as they tell the world's stories through pictures. This is the past week, as seen through the camera's lens...

For Danno Thompson, the entertainment director at The Buddha Bar in Fort Myers, music is constantly on the brain. In this interview he breaks down the local music scene, remembers a particularly wild concert and predicts which local band has ...

The sky above my apartment building split into a celestial civil war as I walked across the parking lot just before 7 a.m. To the east the sun’s first light had dyed the sky in Easter egg colors. To the ...

This week in pictures brings you the work of top photo journalists as they tell the world's stories through pictures. This is the past week, as seen through the camera's lens...

Chinese take out. Back lit menus, vats of rice, fried dumplings, MSG. It’s so, so bad, and sometimes, when you’re in the right mood, so, so good...

Despite Naples’ coastline and the countless canals and inlets that criss-cross town, there are scant waterfront dining options for Neapolitans on a budget. Enter Buzz's Lighthouse Restaurant...

It’s an addiction," Kathy Asta of Naples says matter of factly. The "it" isn’t drugs, alcohol, gambling or anything you can be arrested for. It’s shoes, and Asta has more than 100 pairs...

When you find a tasty cafe that serves breakfast late on Saturdays and Sundays, you’ve pretty much struck gold. When said joint is a mere two-minute walk from your front door, stumbling distance at 1:30 p.m. on a hung over ...

The castle is closed. It’s been four years since the Dwyer family opened the doors of their giant two-story, 11,000 sq. ft. self-named restaurant and pub on Tamiami Trail in Fort Myers...

The mom and pop business is a dying breed in Naples, Fla. Up and down Tamiami Trail the hulking frames of corporate giants cast their shadows on locally owned cafes and restaurants...

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then eyebrows are the drapes; at least that’s what Alicia Sanchez would tell you...

Only three minutes from the roaring traffic and exhaust-tinged air of Interstate 75, the whining of insects lays a high-pitched track over a 52-acre swath of un-peopled land. A breeze carries the sweetness of plants across the open spaces and ...

Looking at rapper Plies’ Myspace.com profile page, you’d never know that he’s a local boy, born and raised in Fort Myers, Fla. “Pakistan, Florida,” reads his profile, right next to a close cropped shot of the rapper’s face, a sneer ...

According to The French Deli’s owner, Benoit Legris, around ninety percent of French restaurants in the United States serve high end, extremely expensive, haute cuisine. It’s delicious of course...

Once upon a time in Seattle a band named Candlebox burst onto the early ‘90s rock scene with an alt rock sound and a hit heavy debut album. Coastalbeat.com hooked Candlebox lead singer, Kevin Martin, 38, for a pre-concert, post-drinks ...

Six years ago filmmaker Mark Ruppert decided to try an experiment. In the spring of 2001, Ruppert and his partner, Liz Langston, gathered a group of friends in the filmmaking industry in Washington D.C. and proposed a revolutionary idea...

Behind the counter at Sunburst Café a bumper sticker is stuck to the wall amid chalkboard menus listing omelets, lattes and soups of the day...

In 1985 China encountered its first AIDS case when an infected tourist died in the capital city of Beijing. Since then China has had a front row seat for the progression of the HIV/AIDS epidemic as infection rates have skyrocketed ...

“I want you to clap,” shouts Vega Under Fire front man Brian Blount, “but I want you to clap like this.”...

Your mother always told you not to play with your food, but she wasn’t talking about creating objects d’art from a pre-cooked canned meat product...

I confess, I am easily drawn to bargains. I love Costco. I buy things just because they are on sale. I am a huge fan of the free refill. But looking for dining deals in Naples can be as fruitful ...

Sherry Coffey stands facing the mirror. In a slow sweeping movement she pushes her hips to one side, then back to other. They swing seductively to the heavy beat of Middle Eastern music...