The Taste of the Key, Food and Fashion show is set for Thursday, Jan. 26 at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, 6860 Longboat Drive South. The event is the fundraising collaboration for the Longboat Key Garden Club and the Ringling Longboat Key Center for the Arts. This year’s models include Dave Sparks, Bob [...]
Here are a few thoughts and predictions about the coming year on Longboat Key: 1. The trend toward replacing ageing beachfront homes with larger homes will continue in spite of the current economic downturn. Decades ago, farsighted commissions and dedicated residents pointed Longboat Key in the direction of becoming an exclusive seasonal retirement community. For the most part their dreams have been fulfilled.
An Opening Reception in the Durante Gallery will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18 in the Longboat Key Center for the Arts. The opening will include FSWS, a regional association of 200 members representing seven coastal counties, includes many nationally recognized and award-winning artists in Florida. The “Fresh Paints” exhibition [...]
The Longboat Key Center for the Arts hosted Oct. 6 the Festival sARTée’s Kick Off Event and opening reception for “Inspired Journeys,” two exhibitions demonstrating how our cultural past and future are colliding in positive and creative ways. Petticoat Painters, one of only a few longstanding continuously exhibiting women’s art groups in the nation, and [...]
The Longboat Key Center for the Arts will be closed for the month of August. The Center for the Arts will re-open in September.
The question I am most often asked is how I stay in touch with the goings on the key to be able to write a column each week. The answer is that the issues that come up are almost always issues that have been faced in the past. One of the arguments against term limits is that
Longboat Key familiar man about town and sometimes table dancer Andrew Vac is happy with the tip he received from a frenzied attendee, Meike Dooley, at the all male fashion show fundraiser held at the Longboat Center for the Arts Wednesday
The Longboat Key Garden Club will hold its 35th Annual Home Tour March 5. Included in this year’s tour is the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a division of Ringling College of Art and Design, which will offer visitors a tour of its galleries and the sculpture, painting, pottery and jewelry studios.
What did you do for lunch on Thursday? Business owners and community members were “Brown Bagging It” at Longboat Key Center for the Arts in the historic Longbeach Village at the north end of Longboat Key. The lunch served a full entrée of local artists, business owners hob-knobbing and community members working out plans to continually make Longboat Key the place to be.
Barely 11 miles separates the two bridges that attach Longboat Key to the rest of the world. In between, the relatively short strand of Gulf of Mexico Drive linking the two reveals an island filled with recreational opportunities, beginning with the extra-wide sidewalk that parallels the road from bridge to bridge.
