St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Naples draws green-clad crowd of 40,000, organizers say
March 17, 2018
The luck of the Irish appeared to give Naples a cloudless Saturday. And more than 40,000 green-clad spectators came out for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Naples, organizers said. Hours before the parade started at 11 a.m., a sea of green shirts, hats, beads...
READ MOREEaster Dining: Here’s where to eat on Easter Sunday in Southwest Florida
March 16, 2018
Here are some dining specials for Easter Sunday on April 1: Applebee’s: Sunday, April 1, at Applebee’s locations in Fort Myers. Applebee’s will offer up to two free kids’ meals with the purchase of each adult entrée. Bice: 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 1, at Bice,...
READ MORENaples Plans to Make Highway 41 More Bicycle and Pedestrian Friendly
March 15, 2018
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. -A plan to lose two lanes of traffic in parts of U.S. Highway 41 in Naples is moving forward. The proposal would reduce lanes from Seventh Ave. North to Fifth Ave. South, and then slightly east to Goodlette Frank Road. The whole...
READ MOREFYI-Food: New vegan menu, Ravioli Day, free chips and queso
March 13, 2018
Cru Night Osteria Tulia, serving rustic Italian cuisine at 466 Fifth Ave S., Naples, will be celebrating Cru Night on Wednesday, March 14. Cru Night spotlights an iconic single-vineyard Italian wine in 50 restaurants across the country twice a year, and Osteria Tulia is only...
READ MOREThings to Do with the Kids this Weekend
March 13, 2018
Two St. Patrick’s Day parades, the Collier County Fair, Estero’s anniversary party and more. LEARN MORE
READ MORESt. Patrick’s Day events in Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Bonita Springs, Naples and elsewhere
March 12, 2018
Bar crawls. Parades. Live Irish music. An all-you-can-drink beer sampling. There are all sorts of ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Southwest Florida. Here are some of our top picks for being Irish this Saturday — if only for the night. NOTE: This isn’t...
READ MORESt. Patrick’s Day Parade in Naples: What you need to know
March 12, 2018
Naples will be decked out in all its green glory Saturday for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The parade will begin at 11 a.m. on 10th Avenue South. It then will go north onto Third Street South, then to Fifth Avenue South, before ending...
READ MOREThree more chances for free outdoor Shakespeare
March 8, 2018
How do you make Shakespeare’s funniest, most riotous and openly sexist comedies palatable for a 21st-century audience? It’s a challenge Bryce Alexander, artistic director at The Naples Players, took on with relish in “The Taming of the Shrew.” First, he started with an all-female cast....
READ MOREAACA Depot Show in Naples boasts automobiles from 1903 to the early 1990s
March 5, 2018
The world of vintage vehicles has its own, sometimes vexing vocabulary. To a casual observer, it might seem strange that American cars are labeled “antiques” only 25 years after they’re produced. That means American cars that rolled off the assembly line in 1993 became antiques...
READ MORENo social security in sight: Naples Players nipping at 65
March 4, 2018
In the mid-1950s Pine Ridge Road was only two lanes wide; Boston-Provincetown Airlines was flying DC-3s into the original pocket-size airport here, But Naples Players already were staging fare like “The Night of Jan. 16” and “Our Town.” The curtains come up on its 65th season...
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