There was no distance between the audience and the art this past Saturday; it was a breathtakingly close-up experience at Riverside's Dance Festival. You felt the physical sweep of air as the dancers flew past, witnessing the exquisite mechanics of moving muscle and shifting ribs right before your eyes. A flawless, up-close revelation of the strength behind the grace. If that wasn't enough, it also happened to be Camilo Rodriguez's 50th birthday, marked by a cameo appearance

Everyone's talking about Wednesday's Let's Talk Vero conversation with the Indian River County Commission candidates. Its a must-watch if you're still deciding who to vote for, or if you just want to hear where these candidates actually stand before you vote on August 18. Barebel O'Haire Baerbel O'Haire spent an hour and a half with the candidates for District 2 and District 4, covering everything from Amendment 3 and its potential hit to the county budget, to smart growth an

The place to be this Sunday at 3pm is the Sanctuary at Community Church of Vero Beach, where the Music and Fine Arts program hosts the Space Coast Symphony for Landscapes & Legends. The sanctuary’s world-class acoustics have long attracted global music royalty. Its stage has welcomed both the Moscow and Royal Philharmonics, alongside legendary soloists Joshua Bell and Marc-André Hamelin. Following suit, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center transferred its entire 2027 s

The buzz around Vero Beach right now is all about Ballet Vero Beach Artistic Director Adam Schnell, who has crafted a lineup so raw and kinetic for the Riverside Dance Festival, its like an athletic masterclass disguised as high art. You will see dancers push the absolute boundaries of physics, testing their limits right in front of your eyes. As Schnell so aptly put it recently while talking to Willi Miller: "One of the things I love about dance, and one of the things I alwa

VBMA pours three themed cocktails this Friday, August 7 at 6:30 p.m. for Flight Pattern, the latest installment of Art of the Cocktail, the museum's recurring series pairing whatever's on view with a drink menu. This round celebrates James Prosek: At Work, drawing inspiration from birds and the natural rhythms of flight. The exhibit itself is a 70-piece survey of an artist who's spent three decades painting trout, ocean fish, birds and prairie grasses, and who has been referr

If you've been meaning to get more literary in Vero, start marking your calendar now. The Laura Riding Jackson Foundation just released a sneak peek at its coming season, one of its most exciting ones yet, complete with a downtown poetry cookout, a full-day publishing bootcamp, and a book festival unveiling a brand new local anthology, plus a growing lineup of programming for kids and teens all year. Nov. 7: Local Author Book Festival at Vero Beach Book Center. Food trucks, a

Topics like this usually live over at our sister publication, Let's Talk Vero, but this one felt too important not to share here, especially if you care about growth, development, and quality of life in Vero Beach and Indian River County. This Wednesday, August 5 at 6:00 PM, Let's Talk Vero is hosting a live Zoom conversation with the candidates running for Indian River County's Board of County Commissioners, moderated by Baerbel O'Haire. It's live, it's free, and you can joi

Rose West and Ken Grudens Look what just got saved! A 1.6-acre stretch along the St. Sebastian River's South Prong, the last privately zoned link standing between a future trailhead off County Route 512 and conservation land the City of Sebastian already protects, is preserved for good instead of paved over. We got lucky here. That's thanks to the Indian River Land Trust, which just made one of its most strategic buys ever to make it happen. The parcel was zoned for houses ri

Vero just landed at #2 on Travel + Leisure's list of the best beach towns in America to buy a home in before prices climb! Right between Santa Cruz, CA at #1 and Myrtle Beach, SC at #3. Two towns with a lot more name recognition and a lot more people, and Vero's holding the line right between them. Michael Merrill of The Exclusive Group at Douglas Elliman told T+L that buyers priced out of Palm Beach are catching on: private beach clubs, championship golf, oceanfront living,