For more details on all upcoming events and to register for these, see " The Week Ahead " section here . April 20, 6 p.m. -- Distinguished Lecture Series 2026 at Riverside Theatre April 21, 9:30 a.m. -- Indian River Land Trust Guided Conservation Tours April 23, 1 p.m. -- The Jungle Experience: A Path to Stillness at McKee Botanical Garden April 25, 9:30 a.m. -- Dolphin Drift SUP Yoga at the Environmental Learning Center April 25, 10 a.m. -- Cook & Connect: A Family Cooking S

Tomorrow is Opening Night! Riverside Theatre closes out the season with Dolly Parton's 9 to 5: The Musical . Limited seats remain -- only by calling the box office at (772) 231-6990. Cocktail and hors d'oeuvres at 6:30, show begins at 7:30 followed by after-party with the cast. Based on the cult classic 1980 film, the show follows Violet, Judy, and Doralee as they reach their breaking point with their insufferable boss and concoct a brilliantly half-baked scheme to free

Brooke Brindle, Jennifer Schirard, Lauren Schirard, Cathy Curley Impact 100 Indian River awarded five $100,000 grants to local nonprofits last week, continuing a model launched in 2009 under the influence of the late Ellie McCabe : one woman, one thousand dollars, one vote. The group has since awarded more than $7 million in grants to Indian River County organizations.   This year, grants were awarded to support the following projects:   Hibiscus Children’s Center : family c

On April 22, 1970 , now known as Earth Day , 20 million Americans took to the streets in the largest single-day civic demonstration in U.S. history, which led to the creation of the EPA as well as the passage of the Clean Air and the Clean Water Acts. Florida, caught at the crossroads between breakneck growth and the natural beauty that made it worth moving to in the first place, was ahead of its time. The state rode this early Earth Day momentum to pass the Environmental Lan

Will Tripson and Bobbie Secor, Vice President of Vero Heritage Inc. | Photo credit: Chris Cronin Will Schlitt once set out to be a standup comic. It didn't stick. “I found out I wasn’t funny,” he said. “So I became an accountant, which is the next best thing.” The room, judging by the laughter, did not agree.   That was the tone of Deeply Rooted , the new annual spring event at the Heritage Center , where history felt loose and alive, but this time, squarely in the hands of

This Saturday, The Moorings Yacht and Country Club opens its gates to the 16th Annual Wheels and Keels Antique & Exotic Car & Boat Show where collector cars are fanned across the golf course, with yachts at the docks, food trucks, and an awards ceremony. No ticket required to walk in from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. If you'd like to attend the dinner and live auction the night before, tickets are $275 and can be purchased here. Gavin Rutuolo, George O'Malley, and Vincent DeTurris

Tom Servinsky Lisa Macalaster Between the Roaring Twenties and the Swinging Sixties, America was coming of age and finding its rhythm. In the smoke of jazz clubs and the tinny buzz of Tin Pan Alley, and out of Broadway’s orchestra pits and Hollywood’s soundstages, composers like Cole Porter , George Gershwin , Irving Berlin , and Harold Arlen spun out melodies that captured the country’s swagger and longing. “Over the Rainbow.” “New York, New York.” “Fly Me to the Moon.”

Vero Beach Opera’s Rising Stars Festival Begins Wednesday Opera has been the proving ground for the world's greatest voices for four centuries, from the courts of Renaissance Italy to the grand houses of Vienna, Milan, and New York. The Metropolitan Opera alone has launched more careers than any institution in American music. But the MET doesn't discover talent in a vacuum. It relies on a network of smaller companies, competitions, and festivals: scrappy, passionate organiza

This one's nearly sold out -- get your tickets befoe they're gone! In the 1840s, Victorian England had descended into what botanists grimly called "orchidelirium," a full-blown mania in which aristocrats spent fortunes, hired mercenaries, and stripped entire jungles bare to possess a flower that, once obtained, tended to die within weeks. Plant hunters were sworn to secrecy about the collecting locations. Rivals spread false coordinates to throw each other off the scent. Men