FYI-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...
READ MOREPort Royal Jewelers celebrates five decades in Naples
March 1, 2018
Who says advertisements don’t age well? Port Royal Jewelers owner William Boyajian was in a downtown barbershop a few weeks ago when he started perusing a 1972 copy of Naples Today. As he sifted through the brittle pages, he came across an ad for Landmark...
READ MOREAnchors aweigh: Sails Restaurant launches in Naples
February 28, 2018
Upon entering Sails Restaurant, one immediately notices the meticulous attention to detail. It’s especially notable knowing that the lavish space on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue South and Third Street South in downtown Naples formerly was a bank branch. LEARN MORE
READ MORENaples looking to spend $6M to make intersections safer
February 27, 2018
The City of Naples is looking to take on a $6 million project that will take several years to complete. The city wants to make major improvements along 8th Street from 7th Avenue North to 5th Avenue South. One of them is to improve intersections to...
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