In our recent reader survey, classical music came up as one of the top things Vero Minute readers want more of. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has just the thing. CMS recently launched The Art of Listening, an essay series bringing some of the world's best writers on music, including Paul Griffiths, longtime chief classical critic of The New York Times, and Jan Swafford, Beethoven's biographer, to tell the stories behind the pieces we hear in concert. A few to st

The Vero Beach Museum of Art is getting ready to move into its new space on A1A, and if you have a soft spot for the building you know and love in Riverside Park, this winter is your last chance to see it as it is. In mid-February, the museum hands everything but its Collections Wing over to construction, and the galleries you've wandered for years won't look the same again. Meet The Hub, the 6,000-square-foot building located at 1716 Highway A1A, the former location of Hazel

The wild have officially come out to play at McKee. A baby hippo, a giraffe, a cheetah, an elephant, a zebra, a bear, an arctic fox and a giant tortoise staked their positions along the Garden's paths this past Saturday, and you should go have a look. This weekend its only $5, but if you can't make it, relax, because they plan on sticking around through December 2027. If you read our previous article, you know Gillie & Marc Schattner, the internationally acclaimed British-Aus

If you want your kids to trade screen time for stage presence this season, Riverside Theatre is rolling out the ultimate roadmap. From toddlers taking their first creative steps right on up to pre-teens building original characters, the theatre's education programs give young performers the tools to grow and have fun doing it. Led by Jenni Norton, the upcoming six-week classes kick off this Wednesday, October 14, offering age-specific sessions designed to build confidence, sp

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 int

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

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

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

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

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