It’s the feel-good, good-time attitude that makes the Caribbean the perfect inspiration for summer entertaining. The music, the drinks, the food, the clothes are all easy, free-wheeling and most of all fun! fun! fun! The Caribbean flavor comes from a…
Irving Berlin was wrong. Christmas doesn’t need snow or pine trees or, to borrow from another classic lyric, chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
The answer to the tormenting question posed in our headline might be “Something you made all by yourself.”
Denny Gordon has lived in Vero Beach for 25 years and for 20 of them she has arranged and organized the annual meeting of the American Cancer Society.
Porch, patio, veranda, terrace, deck, lanai, balcony - if you put a table on it, every meal eaten there becomes a special occasion.
Chances are, you won’t go hungry, but there are days when you lack either the time or the inclination to cook (sometimes both).
Our section of the Treasure Coast is filled with hidden treasures that can take you by surprise.
Astronaut, test pilot, inventor, poet, one-time Congressional candidate and frequent golfer, Al Worden has literally been to the moon and back.
Sometimes in Vero Beach we get too much of a good thing - even when it's tennis, golf or strolling on the beach.
There was a ’70s rock-and-roll group called the Average White Band, which featured a British singer named Hamish Stewart, but here’s the real thing: An American white reggae band called the Coconutheads that’s anything but average.
“The goofiest one, probably my favorite, is such a furry Santa he looks more like an Old English sheepdog than anything else,” says Sara Shankland.
Images of Meryl Streep in dire straits notwithstanding, kayaking is a gentle sport, providing serene access to the wildlife that teems in our backyard.
The Turtle Creek Dairy farm in Loxahatchee is the love child of Jim Berke, a New Jersey native who learned about goat cheese in Europe and turned his appreciation for the product into a career.
No more than two out of many dozens of celebrities have been discourteous or demanding,” says Pat Bourdic, assistant general manager at Vero Beach’s Doubletree Guest Suites Resort, where she has worked since 1992. “More often than not, they’re nicer than you’d expect a regular guest to be.”
Anglo-Caribbean” barely begins to describe the Orchid Island home of Rody and Ann Sherrill, formerly of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
As we pull into the parking lot, the smell of fresh, warm tortillas drifts indolently from the back room of the small Fellsmere grocery store known as the Garcia Plaza Bakery. It’s just before 9 a.m., and the tortilla makers have already been at work for hours making fresh corn tortillas as well as handmade pastries.
After years of diving into underwater caves, putting a bat through its paces and measuring a Papa bear’s claws, Kristin Gordon Seiz’s claim to be an adventurer is no longer in question.
What’s bigger than a kiwi and smaller than an ostrich, doesn’t fly and probably doesn’t stick its head in the sand? An emu. Nearly six feet tall and weighing up to 120 pounds, this is a mighty big bird. Not surprisingly, its eggs are also enormous.
Lent may be meant to be a season for penitence and meditation, but the day before it starts is anything but.
