Vero Minute

Oct 5, 2026

Reservations Now Open for The Blu Fin. Sebastian is Expecting You!

Ask Sebastian La Rocca why anyone should come to The Blu Fin, and he does not answer the question. He throws one back. Why, he asks, would you drive 30 or 45 minutes past a hundred restaurants to get here? Then the Argentine-born chef, Italian by blood, global by résumé, and visibly incapable of doing anything at half volume, answers himself. “We don’t sell food,” he says. “We offer you an experience.” Sebastian La Rocca That is Sebastian La Rocca: a chef with 27 years in international...

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The Week Ahead

James Prosek: At Work -- July 11 to Oct 25

Vero Beach Museum of Art

Jul 11, 2026

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First Friday Gallery Stroll

Downtown Vero Beach -- 14th Avenue

Oct 2, 2026

5:00 PM

8:00 PM

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Movie Night on the Lawn: Practical Magic

Hogan Yards

Oct 2, 2026

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Veterans Council Reenlists as Mission United

Forty-plus years is a long tour of duty, and the Veterans Council of Indian River County just signed up for another one. The Council has joined forces with United Way of Indian River County and has a new name to go with it: Mission United. It took more than a year to put together, and the programs, staff and services are all coming along for this next chapter. If you've never seen the Veterans Council at work, picture an army of passionate volunteers who get up in the morning

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The Mayor, A Mural, and a First Look

This Thursday, Oct. 8 at 4PM, Meet Me on Main takes you inside the $14 million downtown campus Shannon McGuire Bowman spent years willing into existence, just about five weeks before the first child walks in. The mayor will be there. You should be too! Main Street Vero Beach's monthly social features Mayor John Cotugno, and the host is Childcare Resources, whose new home opens Nov. 12. Shannon McGuire Bowman Bowman took over Childcare Resources in 2012, when it reached about

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Dancing on the Edge of Memory

Jack Donahue's ghost is tap-dancing across the Riverside Theatre stage starting next week and you have until Nov. 22 to catch him. The two-person musical draws on the true story of Jack's letters home as he climbed the brutal early 20th-century vaudeville circuit. You know vaudeville better than you think. It gave us terms like "big time" and "a tough act to follow," plus the mix of monologue, sketch and musical guests that late-night TV shows like Saturday Night Live still r

Arts and Culture

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Gallery 14 Kicks Off Season 19 With a Double Header

Forget the great snowbird migration. Downtown Vero's season really starts with the First Friday Gallery Stroll in October. This year that's October 2, when Gallery 14 opens its 19th season with a two-artist show you won't want to miss. John H.C. Davis is a Tulane-trained printmaker who carves Florida wildlife into linoleum, in reverse, one gouge at a time. He prints each piece by hand, paints it in acrylic, and then, if that wasn't labor-intensive enough, builds the wooden fr

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Hurricane Season Ghosted Us...But Something's Stirring Near Bermuda

Five tropical storms. Zero hurricanes. As of mid-September, the traditional peak of hurricane season, that's where the Atlantic stood this year, the slowest start since satellites began watching the tropics in 1966. The ocean hasn't cooled and the tropics haven't gone dormant. A strong El Niño has stacked up wind shear across the Atlantic, and that shear keeps tearing storms apart before they can organize. It's a pattern with precedent. El Niño years have produced some of the

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VBMA's A-List Lecture Lineup Goes on Sale

Tickets for the Vero Beach Museum of Art's 45th International Lecture Series go on sale Thursday, and the lineup would make even a Manhattan cultural calendar jealous. The best-known name on the bill is Pico Iyer, the best-selling author and travel writer whose byline has run in The New York Times, Harper's and The New York Review of Books. He has spent decades explaining Japan to the rest of the world, and on February 1 he'll explain it to Vero. He's joined by two leading sc

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Coastal Cleanup by the Numbers (and a Baked Potato)

Somebody left a baked potato at South Beach Park. Wrapped in foil, just sitting there, until the Dyer Subaru crew found it on September 19. It won them a trophy. It's no brick of drugs, which is what turned up last year, but we'll take a slower year on the contraband front. The potato was also the least worrying thing pulled off of our coastline that morning. Coastal Connections, Inc. just released the final numbers from this year's International Coastal Cleanup, and almost a

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Watch Riverside Build a Show. Classes Start Oct. 8.

Backstage Access offers an exclusive, first-rate passport into the inner workings of Riverside Theatre. Designed for established and budding connoisseurs of the craft, these classes take you beyond the curtain of every mainstage production this season, with most courses including rare access to a tech rehearsal. Seating is limited, so only a small group gets into each class. Each production in the lineup has its own dedicated class, spanning two or three sessions, most on Thu

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Meet the World Famous Artists Coming to McKee

The artists arriving at McKee next month have been called the most prolific and successful creators of public art in New York's history by the Times. Marc and Gillie Schattner in front of The Last Three Gillie & Marc Schattner have installed bronze animals in over 250 cities, from Singapore to Shanghai to London. Best known for their recurring characters Rabbitwoman and Dogman, the British-Australian duo work as self-described eco-warriors, using sculpture as a platform for w

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