Key Largo

Connie Wald dies at 96; Hollywood wife known for low-key parties

2012-11-23 00:00:00

Connie Wald, an elegant matriarch of old Hollywood known for the low-key dinner parties she held for friends like Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, died of natural causes Nov. 10 at her Beverly Hills home. She was 96. Her...

Hugh Hefner helps present a Humphrey Bogart retrospective

2010-03-03 00:00:00

Hugh Hefner has a confession. "I think I opened the first Playboy Club because of 'Casablanca.' I wanted to have a place where people came to hang out as they did at Rick's," admits the pajama-clad founder of the Playboy empire. The Oscar-winning 1942...

Bogart, then and now

2011-02-16 16:34:52

'Hope for Animals in Their World' by Jane Goodall; 'Dawn Light' by Diane Ackerman

2009-10-11 00:00:00

Hope for Animals and Their World How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued From the Brink Jane Goodall Grand Central: 378 pp., $27.99 Dawn Light Dancing With Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day Diane Ackerman W.W. Norton: 240 pp., $23.95...

Florida Keys Beachin' Fest

2007-10-21 00:00:00

As the rest of the country transitions to fall, the Florida Keys, southernmost part of the continental United States, are still celebrating the sun. Key Largo's Beachin' Fest includes a contest pitting drink makers to see who can mix the best margarita,...

A Primeval Tide of Toxins

2006-07-30 00:00:00

The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour. When fishermen touched it, their skin broke out in searing welts. Their lips blistered and peeled. Their eyes...

Unlocking the charm of Gulf's Cedar Key

2002-10-20 00:00:00

"We came to Cedar Key from Tampa with an Audubon tour," said Connie Crane, an artist staffing the counter at the Cedar Keyhole gallery cooperative. "I saw a cat lying in the middle of the street nursing her kittens, and I said, 'Oh, that's the kind of...

Florida, skipped by storms and tourists

2004-10-31 00:00:00

WE all saw the televised images and news photos of the Florida Keys during the recent hurricanes: residents boarding up their homes, cars lined up bumper to bumper in a mandatory evacuation. Devastating storms hit the state, and many people assumed the...

East Haven's Beachhead Restaurant won't let storms keep them down

2013-05-19 04:24:03

Barbara Bucci, co-owner of the Beachhead Restaurant on Cosey Beach Avenue, remembers opening the door to her establishment once the floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy's surge had tumbled back into Long Island Sound. "I walked in and saw the bar and the...

Despite concerns, BP panel to prioritize projects

2013-05-18 12:04:02

No one knows how much it will be or when it will come, but a new Monroe County committee has been tasked with ranking projects for local money from Deepwater Horizon settlements. "This literally could go on for next couple years or it could crack open...

EDITORIAL: Finally, an end to the No Name electricity fight

2013-05-18 12:04:02

Tuesday in Tallahassee and Wednesday in Key Largo, the state Public Service Commission and the Monroe County Commission, respectively, appeared to put the final nail in the coffin of the No Name Key electricity issue. In a series of rulings, the PSC...

Edward H. "Ham" Welbourn Jr., insurance executive

2013-05-17 13:16:00

Edward H. "Ham" Welbourn Jr., a retired insurance executive and World War II veteran, died April 29 of complications from dementia at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 98. The son of Edward H. Welbourn, who owned Rennous Kleinle...

Where to stay in the Florida Keys: Key Largo Bay Marriott Beach Resort.

2013-05-18 00:00:00

"Key Largo, FL, where @Cmdr_Hadfield & I did our 1st mission together - as aquanauts living in the Aquarius habitat." Posted to @AstroMarshburn on Twitter on April 1, 2013..

2013-04-09 12:20:23

Soft and hard corals at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in Key Largo.

2013-01-31 10:47:24