With the season winding down, Vero’s "Cultural Trinity": McKee Botanical Garden, Vero Beach Museum of Art, and Riverside Theatre is entering that sweet spot: Fewer crowds, a full slate of events, and a run of weekends that practically plan themselves. Pick a day, pick a place, and go. McKee Botanical Garden: Florigami + Pirate & Fairy Festival Florigami in the Garden, McKee’s centennial exhibition, is in its final stretch and closes May 24. This is the time of year when

Erika Masterson has spent more than two decades making a living from photography, including portraits, commercial work, and the steady grind of a business she built herself in California and Florida. The conceptual work came later, showing a different side of her work entirely. Her solo exhibition, Between Worlds, opens tomorrow, April 18 and runs through May 22. Gallery 14 describes her work as "quiet and soulful." They've turned up on magazine pages, greeting cards, and boo

The tickets are gone, but the race is still very much on....

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

Vero Beach Museum of Art just landed an artist whose work you usually have to leave town to see: Yinka Shonibare

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

The Vero Beach Museum of Art’s Second Saturday program returns this weekend with spectacular day that shows exactly what it means to raise families in a culture-rich town. On Saturday, April 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Museum hosts its annual Children’s Art Festival — a free, all-ages immersion in art-making, performance, and gallery time designed with families at the center. Check out this short trailer of what you can expect: Second Saturday is always free and open to

Brewing Vats set the backdrop at our private dinner experience at Linda Moore's Salvador Deli, located at Walking Tree Brewery, owned by Brooke and Mike Malone ( 3209 Dodger Rd, Vero Beach, FL 32960) Recently, I sat down for a dinner at Salvador Deli at Walking Tree Brewery that I was lucky enough to win at last year's Mural Festival fundraiser . Salvador Deli is the latest venture of Kilted Mermaid owner Linda Moore , who also holds a seat on the Vero Beach City Council a

9 to 5 The Musical, Presented by Lisa and Ron Hunt at Riverside Theatre Few films from 1980 have aged quite like 9 to 5 , the workplace comedy that became a genuine cultural phenomenon, spawned one of Dolly Parton's most recognizable songs, and still makes people laugh out loud more than four decades later. I watched the movie for the first time over the weekend in anticipation of Riverside's upcoming production, and Parton's infectious anthem has been stuck in my head ever

Evan Reinheimer doesn't shoot from a ladder, nor does he rent a drone. In a seemingly old-fashioned twist, he flies a kite. The New York-based photographer's work lands at Gallery 14 this week in ALOFT: Aerial Kite Photography , a show that runs through April 24 at the gallery's home in Vero Beach's Downtown Historic Arts District. This Friday , you get to meet him in conjunction with the monthly First Friday Gallery Stroll, April 3rd, from 5–8 PM. Reinheimer's practice, t

For the 10th anniversary of the Vero Beach Film Festival, your first decision is how you want to do it. From $20 at the door all the way up to the all‑in pass. HOW TO FEST: THURSDAY APRIL 9 - SUNDAY, APRIL 12 The Producer’s Pass ($365) is the whole thing: every film, every party, the Filmmakers’ Lounge, the Grand Wine Tasting, and the “Toast to 10” cocktail party on Saturday night. Four days where you’re basically living at the festival. The Director’s Pass ($165) cove

Almost, Maine — Riverside Theatre | March 24 – April 12 There is a town in northern Maine that doesn't quite exist. It never got around to being officially organized. Never made it onto any map. It sits so far north it's almost in Canada...almost, but not quite. Just Almost. That word "Almost," is doing a lot of work in this production. Because we all live there. Almost told someone we loved them. Almost stayed. Almost left. Almost picked up the phone. That one person you thi

Silvia Curbelo, Michael Hettich and Sean Sexton today (top) and 15 years ago (bottom) The Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation has been holding its annual Poetry and BBQ event every spring for fifteen years, and this Saturday, March 28 , they're returning to where it all began. "In a Southerly Light...Revisited" recreates the very first Poetry & Barbeque, right down to the poets themselves, bringing back Silvia Curbelo, Michael Hettich, and Sean Sexton , who started this whole

Before written language, before maps or money, humans were already crushing a leaf between two fingers, holding it to the light, and deciding it meant something. Temple smoke rising to gods in Egypt and Mesopotamia. Sacred oils anointing the living and the dead. The word perfume itself is born from the Latin " per fumum ," meaning "through smoke," because for most of human history, to release a scent was to send a message to something larger than yourself. This Thursday, Mar

Duo Beaux Arts This Sunday, March 15 at the Vero Beach Museum of Art , two pianists sit down at a single Steinway and take you from Schubert's aching introspection to the full-tilt exuberance of Chabrier's España , finishing with a graceful transcription of Johann Strauss Jr.’s Blue Danube Waltz . That's a lot of ground to cover in one sitting, and Duo Beaux Arts covers it beautifully. The concert, titled Kaleidoscope of Expressions , is part of VBMA's Chamber Music

If you've never heard a fairy tale told through strings, next Saturday morning at the Vero Beach Museum of Art is a good place to start. The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra returns to VBMA on March 14 with The Princess and the Pea , Hans Christian Andersen's classic, reimagined through violin, viola, and cello, and admission is free! Conductor and Artistic Director Aaron T. Collins narrates the 45-minute performance, part of the Symphony's Once Upon an Orchestra series.

Fifty-four years and Jesus Christ Superstar still hasn't lost its nerve.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to Trinity Episcopal Church on March 25 , and if the last two performances are any indication, tickets will not last! Violinist Benjamin Beilman will be joining CMS mainstays David Finckel (cellist) and Wu Han (pianist) for an evening that moves from Brahms to Shostakovich to Schubert and encompasses a profound range of emotional experiences along the way. The program opens with a piece of musical mischief: Brahms wrot