Month: January 2020

LUNAFEST, a traveling festival featuring a collection of short films that highlight female filmmakers and raise awareness about women’s lives, is returning to the islands for its third year.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. tonight for the 7:00 p.m. showing at the Sanibel Community House. In honor of the 100th anniversary of event host Zonta Club of Sanibel-Captiva, this year’s tickets will be free.  » Read more

“Don’t be pushed around by

the fears in your mind. 

Be led by the dreams in your heart.”  

– Roy T. Bennett

Should you have any photos you’d like to share, please email them to [email protected].  » Read more

Described as “smart, sassy and delightful,” the first licensed production of “Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody” is opening at The Laboratory Theater of Florida in Fort Myers.

A mysterious invitation finds Blanche Dubois on a train to New Orleans. She shares the train with hard-drinking couple George and Martha who are intent on depleting the entire bar car while delivering scathing advice on life and marriage before it arrives at its destination.  » Read more

If you’re into bicycling, this is the time to be in Cape Coral, as our neighboring city stages the 29th annual Tour de Cape this weekend.

The recreational fun event – taken more seriously by some cyclists than others – include 15-, 30-, 60- and 100-mile courses throughout the northwest and southwest region of Cape Coral.

This year’s event kicks off with a 5K run (8:00 a.m.) and 3-mile Kids Ride (10:30 a.m.) on Saturday,  » Read more

Scientifically speaking, the colors of the sunset result from a phenomenon called scattering. Molecules and small particles in the atmosphere change the direction of light rays, causing them to scatter. Scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but the details are determined by the wavelength of the light and the size of the particle.

You can read all about the physics here,  » Read more

After more than 20 years of holding cooking classes at The Timbers, the Jacaranda and now the Sanibel Community House, renowned chef Loretta Paganini is headed back to the island for a week-long series of classes January 27 – 31, 2020.

First step, grab a copy of her book, “My Sanibel Kitchen” featuring some of her favorite recipes, chef tips and island anecdotes from what she calls her “personal journey of 20 years of cooking in the sun with friends.”  » Read more

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum is still putting the finishing touches on its major renovation, but is now open to all visitors!

They tell us that they have more programs, exhibits and activities then ever before, including the new “Coral Reefs: Nurseries of the Sea” exhibit.

The final element of their renovation — the new Living Collection Gallery (aquarium) — will open in March,  » Read more

A 48-pound boy caught a 100-pound sandbar shark last week on Captiva Island.

“When the fight was over, I was screaming, running on the beach,” Steele Floyd, 8, of Sanibel Island told WINK-Channel 11.

Steele made the catch within about 10 minutes last Wednesday with a little help from his father, Captain C.J. Floyd of Catchin’ Jiants Charter of Captiva Island,  » Read more

Named the “No. 1 R&B/Hip Hop Artists of All Time,” The Temptations are truly a national treasure.

Otis Williams, the sole surviving original Temptation, Ron Tyson, a lead vocalist with the group for 37 years, Terry Weeks, a lead vocalist for 23 years, and Willie Greene, Jr., base vocalist with the group for four years, are still serenading fans with their soulful voices, lighting up stages with their famous Temptations’ Walk,  » Read more

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Thanks to our friends at the Island Reporter for this info!

A new choir is being introduced to Southwest Florida this month for those who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and dementia, as well as for their partners.

Jan Ackley Malecha is the Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers Intermezzo Choir coordinator who has worked as a Board Certified Neurologic Music Therapist in Minnesota for Music for Life.  » Read more