Vero Minute

With Halloween landing on a Saturday this year, the costumes come out Friday night and stay on through Saturday afternoon. Here's where to go. Main Street Vero Beach brings Downtown Friday back for the season on October 30 with Monster Mash on Main, a free Halloween street party on 14th Avenue from 6 to 9 p.m. with live music, food trucks, and local vendors. The street closes for setup at 4 p.m., so plan your parking accordingly. Across town that same evening, Indian River County hosts its...

Long before Hello Kitty became the queen of Japanese pop culture, cats were already making themselves at home in Japanese art, bringing good fortune and hinting at a hidden world of magic. That’s where November begins at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, and it builds from there to a ballet retrospective, the opening of the 45th International Lecture Series, and a blockbuster of Japanese printmaking on loan from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Rhiannon Paget On Nov. 7 at 1 p.m., Rhiannon Paget,...

Sometime around 2 a.m. this Sunday, November 1, the country gets an hour back, and by breakfast half of us will be standing in the kitchen trying to remember how to reset the clock on the microwave. Before you go digging for the manual, you should know who to thank for all this, because it isn’t who you’ve been told. Despite what you may have picked up in grade school, it wasn’t the farmers. When Congress first put the country on clock-shifting in 1918, the agricultural lobby fought it so...