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July 5-11, 2018

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COVER: Snorkelers ply the gin-clear waters off Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas. Located some 70 miles west of Key West, a lucky few visit the Civil War-era fort either by high-speed ferry or seaplane daily.

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THIS JUST IN: Exhibit celebrates electric power

Street fair sponsors, vendors sought

The Key West Art & Historical Society will celebrate 75 years of electric power in the Lower Florida Keys with “Powering Paradise: 75th Anniversary of Keys Energy,” a new exhibit that opens on Friday, July 27, with a reception held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Custom House Museum, 281 Front St. Headquartered in Key West, Keys Energy Service provides electricity from Key West to the Seven-Mile Bridge and serves more than 28,000 customers. The exhibition explores the history and continuing operations of this nationally-recognized Public Power Provider utility for the lower Florida Keys, from its initial Key West-only services in 1943 to its 1987 transmission line connection with the mainland power grid. The exhibit runs through Nov. 26. For information, call Cori Convertito at 305-2956616, Ext. 112, or visit http://www.kwahs.org. The Custom House is located at 281 Front St.

The Literacy Volunteers of America seeks vendors and sponsors for the Hemingway Days Caribbean Street Fair on Duval Street from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, July 21. Local and regional vendors show and sell items including jewelry, clothing, gifts and art. Island and ethnic dishes are prepared onsite, with beverages also available. For information call or text Mary at 305-304-0578.

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Couple to discuss Africa mission Paul and Marie Brishke recently returned from Lilongwe, Malawi, after a distribution trip for Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse. The couple will discuss the highlights from the trip to southeastern Africa and share plans for this year’s Operation Christmas Child’s National Collection Week, which takes place Nov. 12-19.

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The presentation is planned for Sunday, July 15, at 10 a.m. during the service at Marathon Church of God, 800 74th St., oceanside. An additional presentation is being discussed for South Dade. For information, call 305-451-2566 or visit http:// www.samaritanspurse.org/occ.

Lighted bike rides upcoming The Holiday Helpers will hold two Lighted Bike Rides, on Wednesday, Dec. 5 in Key West, and Friday, Dec. 14, in Marathon, sponsored by Wesley House Family Service. The Key West ride will begin at Bayview Park, while the Marathon ride starts at the Marathon Airport. Both events take to the road at 7 p.m. Registration for the rides is one unwrapped gift for the Holiday Helpers toy drive to be used at the Holiday Helper’s Holiday Store in Key West. For information, call Claire Hiller at 305-809-5000 or email [email protected].

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Dive instructor Kama Cannon, right, of Ramrod Key, blows a giant conch shell as she and student Madeline Schoepf, left, of Key West surface during last year’s Underwater Music Festival at Looe Key Reef. Dive into this year’s event on July 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Dive into Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival July 7 Divers and snorkelers can explore part of the continental United States’ only living coral barrier reef Saturday, July 7, while rocking to a sub-sea concert that promotes reef protection. The Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival takes place each year at Looe Key Reef, an area of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary about six miles south of Big Pine Key. The sanctuary protects the waters surrounding the entire Keys island chain. Staged by Keys radio station US1 104.1 FM, the sea-focused songfest is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “The Underwater Music Festival is a way to celebrate the coral reef, and we celebrate it by looking for a balance between protection of the reef and public enjoyment,” festival

co-founder Bill Becker said. “The more people realize what’s down there and enjoy it, the more they’re likely to protect it.” Music broadcast by the radio station is piped underwater through Lubell Labs speakers suspended beneath boats above the reef. The oceanic playlist typically includes melodies like the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” and the themes from “The Little Mermaid” and “Gilligan’s Island.” Some divers wear costumes, portraying everything from mermaids to rock stars, and pretend to play underwater musical instruments such as a “baratuba” sculpted by Florida Keys artist August Powers. The primary purpose of the annual festival is to encourage preservation

of the Keys’ rich coral reef ecosystem. The broadcast incorporates diver-awareness announcements emphasizing ways to enjoy the reef while minimizing environmental impacts. A pre-event party is set for 6 p.m. Friday, July 6, in the tiki bar at Looe Key Reef Resort, 27340 Overseas Highway. Attractions include appetizers, libations and a chance to learn about the Keys’ reef. For costs and reservations, call 305-872-2411. Divers and snorkelers who want to participate in the festival can reserve space on boats run by Lower Keys dive operators or launch their own boats from public ramps and marinas in the area. For information, visit http://www.lower-keyschamber.com/festival. php.


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Keys Music Scene A&B LOBSTER HOUSE BERLIN’S

CONCH REPUBLIC SEAFOOD COMPANY

Bria Ansara

Rick Fusco

7 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Mike Naughton

6 to 10 p.m. Thursday 1 to 5 p.m. Friday

AQUA Dueling Bartenders featuring Tom Luna and Rick Dery 5:30 to 8 p.m. Monday

Aqua Idol for SPCA 6:30 p.m. Tuesday

BLUE MACAW Chris Case Noon to 3 p.m. Thursday

Nick Norman 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Monday; Noon to 3 p.m. Wednesday

Shastina Chiles 7:30 p.m. Friday; 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday

Larry Baeder Photo provided

Zack Seemiller performs from noon to 4 p.m. on Monday at Hog’s Breath Saloon.

7:30 p.m. Thursday; 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Allen Holland

WORLD FAMOUS T-SHIRTS RESTAURANT AND RAW BAR HAPPY HOUR DAILY 5-7 PM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT 1PM-2AM

THURSDAY July 5

FRIDAY July 6

SATURDAY July 7

SUNDAY July 8

MONDAY July 9

TUESDAY July 10

WEDNESDAY July 11

Joel Nelson

Kenny Fradley & Barry Cuda

Kenny Fradley & Barry Cuda

Gabe Wright

Zack Seemiller

Joel Nelson

Joel Nelson

Oren Polak Tim Williams Band




Miles Mancuso Andy Westcott



Noon to 3 p.m. Friday through Sunday

Rick Fusco

6 to 10 p.m. Friday

Joal Rush Noon to 4 p.m. Saturday

Tony Baltimore 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday

Nick Norman 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday

The Shanty Hounds 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday

Bahama Boys 6 to 10 p.m. Monday

Black and Skabuddah 6 to 10 p.m. Tuesday

Din Allen 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday

GALLEON SUNSET TIKI BAR Clint Bullard 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sunday and Wednesday

GARDENS HOTEL Jimmy Olson 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday

4 to 7 p.m. Sunday; Noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday

Michael Robinson

Karri Daley

James King III

7:30 p.m. Sunday; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday

Megan Constantine

James Whitehead Noon to 3 p.m. Monday

5 to 7 p.m. Friday 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday

Tony Roberts 7:30 p.m. Monday; 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday

Marjory Lee 7:30 p.m. Tuesday

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Tom Taylor

Kimberly Patrick 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday through Sunday

John Andrews

GREEN PARROT Soul Bush 5:30, 9 and 11 p.m. Thursday

Eric Lindell 5:30, 9 and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 5:30 p.m. Sunday

Ukulele Night 8 p.m. Wednesday

6 to 10 p.m. Tuesday

Shanty Hounds 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday

GRUNTS The Shanty Hounds 8 to 11:30 p.m. Thursday

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Zack Seemiller

8 to 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday

7 to 11 p.m. Friday

Salty Session Jam Sunday

Tory Mata 8 to 11 p.m. Monday

1 to 4 p.m. Sunday

Peter Diamond Jazz Trio

Dani Hoy

featuring Tim McAlpine,

Keith Franx Jam

SCHOONER WHARF BAR Michael McCloud Noon to 5 p.m. Thursday solo, noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday with friends

Noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday

Oren Polak

Cool Duo

4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; noon to 4 p.m. Sunday

featuring Sam Ramos and guest 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday

Tim Williams Band

Soul Bush Band

9 p.m. to 1 a.m Thursday through Saturday; 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday

Zack Seemiller Noon to 4 p.m. Monday

Miles Mancuso 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday

Andy Westcott 9 p.m. to 1 a.m Monday through Wednesday

Joel Nelson Noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday

LA TE DA 3 Sum 8:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday

Ronnie Lovely 8:30 p.m. Monday

The Fabulous Spectrelles 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday

Christopher Peterson 9 p.m. Thursday

Randy Roberts 9 p.m. Saturday and Tuesday


Stalwart Key West troubadour Michael McCloud provides humorous repartée and original songs solo from noon to 5 p.m. Thursday, and from noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday with friends at Schooner Wharf Bar.

LA TRATTORIA BEACHSIDE

Phil Sampson 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday through Sunday

OLD STONE COFFEEHOUSE B-Man and MeShell 9 to 11 a.m. Sunday

Alphonse Subarsky Noon to 3 p.m. Saturday

Brian Roberts Noon to 3 p.m. Thursday

Karri Daley 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday and Saturday; noon to 3 p.m. Friday and Sunday

Joel Nelson 4 to 7 p.m. Friday

Ross Brown Duo 7 to 11 p.m. Sunday

Raven Cooper Noon to 5 p.m. Monday; 7 to 11 p.m. Wednesday

Black and Skabuddah 7 to 11 p.m. Monday

Rob DiStaci

Gary Hempsey

Noon to 3 p.m. Monday and Wednesday; 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday

Allen Holland

Rusty Lemon

Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday Noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday

Noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday

SLOPPY JOE’S

Michael Naughton 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday

RICK’S BAR The Shanty Hounds

PIER HOUSE BEACH BAR

7 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday

Noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday

SALTY ANGLER Roger Jokela 1 to 4 p.m., Thursday

The Happy Dog 8 to 11 p.m. Thursday

Tim Scott Noon to 3 p.m. Friday; 8 to 11 p.m.Sunday

Barry Cuda Noon to 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Monday

Pete and Wayne Show 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday

3HG 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday through Tuesday

Tim Hollohan Noon to 4:45 p.m. Friday

For Pete’s Sake Noon to 4:45 p.m. Saturday

VIRGILIO’S The Savage Beats 9 p.m. Tuesday

Mojito

VIVA SALOON

5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday

John LeMere

7:30 to 11:30 p.m.

Joel Nelson

Noon to 4:45 p.m. Sunday

7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Monday

8 to 11 p.m.

HOG’S BREATH SALOON

Ross Brown

Preacher Pete and the Preference

Keith Franx Jam

7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesday

5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday

Wavy Dave

Noon to 4 p.m. Monday

Mark Rose and Peter Diamond

Wayne’s Addiction

5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday

Brian Roberts Noon to 4:45 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday

Shastina Chiles 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday

Marjory Lee 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday

James Whitehead 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday and Tuesday

Ross Brown and Mustafa Akba 6 to 10 p.m. Friday

Lance Taylor 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Robert Douglas 7 to 10 p.m. Monday

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Mateo

10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Wednesday

Joe Enich

7 to 10 p.m. Tuesday 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesday

SMOKIN’ TUNA Joal Rush 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday

Caffeine Carl and the Buzz 9 p.m. Thursday and Monday

Caffeine Carl and friends 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Marshall Morlock Band 9 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday

John Frinzi 5 p.m. Monday through July 14

TAVERN N TOWN Carmen Rodriguez and Michael Thomas 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Tuesday

Mike Emerson 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and Wednesday

Bobby Nesbitt 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Michael Thomas 5 to 9 p.m. Monday

WILLIE T’S Tim Hollahan 11 a.m. Thursday, Saturday, Monday and Wednesday

Zack Seemiller 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Tuesday and Wednesday

John LaMere 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday

Jack Wolf 9:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday

The Shanty Hounds 11 a.m. Friday and Sunday

Tony Baltimore 2:30 p.m. Friday; 6 p.m. Monday

Chris Toler 9:30 p.m. Saturday; Monday through Wednesday

Brad Shadduck 2:30 p.m. Sunday

Drew Gunning 9:30 p.m. Sunday

Jason Lamson 2:30 p.m. Monday; 11 a.m. Tuesday

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PETER ARNOW/Special to Paradise

Members of the Key West Area Centennial Bank gather around retiring Vice President Esther Tupino, wearing a red apron, at her farewell dinner at Michaels Restaurant.

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Retiring Centennial Bank Vice President Esther Tupino, right, is presented with an Atocha bracelet by bank employees as Jackie Grasely from Human Resources looks on at Michaels Restaurant.


Former Broadway star Terri White joins popular Key West bartender Tom Luna at their joint birthday at Aqua.

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Rodger Levering, left, of Key West, tosses 9-year-old Zachary Levering’s entry off the approximately 86-foot-high observation deck of the 100 foot-tall Key West Lighthouse on Saturday during the second annual Key Lime Pie Drop. Zachary won the Best Decorated award for his entry, which utilized pool noodles, an Easter basket, cotton and netting to deliver his pie in proximity of a targeted area on ground level. The Key Lime Pie Drop was the kickoff event for the annual Key Lime Festival in Key West.

‘Paparazzi in Paradise’ is a photo-driven entertainment feature compiled by Citizen staffers from in-house and contributed photos. Snaps of social events, arts and entertainment, related activities and other ‘wild art’ is welcomed for submissions to these pages. Send invitations to cover events keywestphotos.com, and we will do our best to get a photographer there. If we can’t make it, send your photographs of and information from the event and we will try to get them into publication.


Gardens Hotel owner Kate Miano, center, presented the Key West Police Mounted Unit with a check for $3,100 from funds raised in the recent Derby Daze fundraiser at the hotel. In the photo are, from left, the Gardens’ David Mueller, Alicia Metzler, proprietor Miano and Jim Marquardt. Mounted Unit Officer Mike Wolf is astride Lou and Officer Matt Johnson rides Savannah.

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Emma and Kristen Fehlin with their mother, Celeste, seated, listen to the many great stories at Bob Leiby’s Celebration of Life held at the Gardens Hotel.


Man-about-town Geno Zaharakis, right, bids a summertime farewell to Key West storyteller Dink Bruce on Friday at Salute on the Beach. Bruce heads to Livingston, Montana, each summer, where the buffalo literally roam.

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‘Charlotte’s Web’ offers Saturday show for family

A superhero double feature of sorts, ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’ will open Friday at the Tropic Cinema.

Photo provided by Marvel Studios

‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’ search for super niche Reviewed by

SHIRREL RHOADES You’re familiar with “Ant-Man,” the Marvel superhero who has the ability to shrink down to the size of, well, an ant. Mark Rudd finally got his turn at a comic-book blockbuster in that title role. The 2015 movie did well at the box office, with a worldwide gross of over a half-billion dollars. Needless to say, you could expect a sequel. And here it is, a superhero double feature of sorts, “Ant-Man and The Wasp.” You got to see a cameo of The Wasp in that first “Ant-Man” film. Yes, they were setting you up for this one, in that co-star Evangeline Lilly had already signed a multifilm contract with Marvel. You may remember her from the popular TV series, “Lost.” In her tight black costume and buzzing wings, she makes a great Wasp. Given her parentage (i.e. the original Ant-Man and Wasp), Hope van Dyne (Lilly) is more suited to be a superhero than the klutzy AntMan (Rudd). The original Ant-Man and Wasp were created by Stan Lee and Jack

promotes Wilbur the Spring Pig (Dominic Scott Kay) with mesSHIRREL RHOADES sages woven into her web — Last week we looked at Tropic “Some Pig,” “Terrific,” “Radiant” and “Humble” — a campaign to Cinema’s summer program, save Wilbur from the farmer’s Attack of the B’s – a Mystery dinner table. Science Theater 3000-style Wilbur is indeed a special extravaganza of bad movies pig … and “Charlotte’s Web” is presented every Saturday indeed a special movie. morning. This story deals with death, As one fan described it to me: “Chris Malcosky and his fiancée both real and threatened, but in a way that helps children come Lora Grott are the hosts each to terms with the concept (as week. Chris is a lifelong movie much as anyone can). fan, and researches all the “Charlotte’s Web” is like a movies so he can give the backmodern-day fairy tale, designed ground of each movie to the audience before each movie. He to “help children solve certain and Lora also dress in costume existential problems such separation anxiety, oedipal conflict, of the cast of the movie being shown. Fortunately for the men and sibling rivalries” – as my old friend Dr. Bruno Bettelheim in the audience Lora has the posited in his classic study, kind of body that can pull off “The Uses of Enchantment.” any costume, especially the But this movie offers a ones most of the women in B movies seem to wear. Then the spoonful of sugar to make the audience proceeds to talk back medicine go down in the form of such popular faces as Dakota to the screen while watching Fanning, Kevin Anderson that week’s selection.” and Beau Bridges, along with So this week we offer counterpoint by looking at the week- the familiar voices of Oprah Winfrey, Steve Buscemi, John ly Kids Saturday Movie Club. Cleese, Robert Redford, Cedric Yes, you can drop your kids the Entertainer, Reba McEntire, off for this 10:30 a.m. Movie Kathy Bates and Thomas Club showing, then walk Hadden Church. Sam Shepard straight into the Attack of the B’s for your own wacky amuse- serves as the narrator. Rotten Tomatoes rates ment. It’s a good plan. “Charlotte’s Web” as 79 percent That said, this week’s Kids movie is well worth watching by Fresh, saying, “Kids will be entertained by the straightforgrownups, too. “Charlotte’s Web” is the won- ward plot and cute animals, and adults will be charmed by derful 2006 live action feature film based on E.B. White’s clas- how quiet and humble the production is, a fine translation of sic children’s book. This is the story of a barnyard E.B. White’s genteel prose.” All true. But I think it’s more. spider (Charlotte A. Cavatica, voiced by Julia Roberts) who [email protected] Reviewed by

Kirby, with a little help from Stan’s brother, Larry Lieber, and Ernie Hart back in 1962-63. The Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne we get in these movies are second generation, created in 1979 and 1999. This time around, we find Scott Lang (this new Ant-Man without his secret identity) serving out his house arrest following the mayhem of “Avengers: Civil War.” An adorable doofus, he spends his time playing around on his drum machine, practicing card tricks, and amusing his daughter by building Rube Goldberg-like contraptions. However, Scott gets sucked into another misadventure by inventor Hank Pym (Michael Douglas as the original Ant-Man) and Pym’s daughter, a mission to rescue Hope’s long-lost mother (Michelle Pfeiffer as the original Wasp). She’s been trapped for 30 years in the quantum realm, but Scott’s AntMan might be able to help her return.

Add several car chases, miniaturization mishaps, plus a few epic battles and you have the plot. “Ant-Man and the Wasp” is set to begin buzzing about the Tropic Cinema on Friday. As a former publisher of Marvel Comics, I was fond of Ant-Man as edited by the late Mark Gruenwald. My problem with the “Ant-Man” movies is that they seem to be searching to find a proper niche within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “Ant-Man and the Wasp” is going for laughs. “Guardians of the Galaxy” already did that, injecting humor into “a genre that had all but succumbed to self-seriousness and bellicosity.” Then came snarky “Deadpool.” But “Ant-Man and the Wasp” seems to be going for what I’ll call superhero-lite. Along with the jokes, we see an office building reduced to a carry-on bag, a flatbed truck used as a foot-scooter, and car chases where vehicles shift from fullsize to Matchbook cars and back again. This cutesy humor turns the superhero movie into a pastiche of “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.” [email protected]

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Top 10 prison break movies Donald Pleasance, to name a few. Wow! 2) “Escape From The recent French prison Alcatraz” (1979) – Frank break (using a helicopter to Morris (Clint Eastwood) was escape, no less) got us makthe ringleader of the leging up a list of our favorite endary trio that successfully prison break movies. Here’s escaped from the supposour Top 10 escape films: edly inescapable Alcatraz 10) “Escape From New Island prison in 1962. Based York” (1981) – A futurist on the true story. tale in which New York’s Manhattan Island has 1) “The Shawshank become a prison run by Redemption” (1994) – the deplorable inmates. It Perhaps the best thing takes a tough guy like Snake Stephen King’s ever written, Plissken (Kurt Russell chanwe get to know the prisoners neling Clint Eastwood) to (Tim Robbins and Morgan break out the President of Freeman, along with William the United States. Sadler, Gil Bellows, and 9) “Stalag 17” (1953) — James Whitmore) as they Produced and directed by patiently plot an escape. Photo provided Billy Wilder, this is the story In the Deep South during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues Considered one of the best of a group of American air- them. The wordy and cerebral Ulysses Everett McGill, played by George Clooney, center, claims to have buried stolen treasure films ever made, it serves as men held in a German pris- before being incarcerated. His fellow escapees are the tightly wound Pete Hogwallop, played by John Turturro, right, and the a metaphor for keeping faith oner-of-war camp during in yourself when the chips rather dim Delmar O’Donnell, played by Tim Blake Nelson, left. World War II. Now a classic, are down. relations. befriend one another inside says, “What we have here is it starred William Holden, Art Thou?” (2000) – The Others that could have a cruel French island prison. a failure to communicate.” Don Taylor, Robert Strauss, Coen Brothers translate made the list: “Stir Crazy,” 7) “Raising Arizona” The title of the film means Neville Brand, Harvey Homer’s “Odyssey” into a “Out of Sight,” “Midnight (1987) – We love watching 3) “The Great Escape” Lembeck, Peter Graves and H.I. McDunnough (Nicholas Depression-era allegory that “butterfly,” an elusive sym(1963) — Allied POWs hatch Express,” “The Green Mile,” bol of freedom. Otto Preminger. “Con Air,” “The Fugitive,” Cage) crawl out of that hole centers on a hapless trio’s an escape plan from a 4) “Cool Hand Luke” 8) “The Defiant Ones” escape from a Mississippi as he escapes prison so he German camp during World “Shutter Island” and “The (1958) – Two escaped chain gang. George Clooney (1967) — Luke (Paul Grand Illusion.” Take your can kidnap a baby for his War II. The all-star cast Newman) is a cool-as-a-cu- consists of Steve McQueen, pick. What would you have convicts (Tony Curtis and is on the run in this one. girlfriend. Yes, it’s a laughSidney Poitier) are on the 5) “Papillon” (1973) – Two cumber rebel who keeps try- James Garner, Richard added to this escapist list? out-loud Coen Brothers ing to escape this Southern Attenborough, Charles run, shackled together in a prisoners (Steve McQueen comedy. [email protected] chain gang. As the warden not-so-subtle lesson on race and Dustin Hoffman) 6) “O Brother, Where Bronson, James Coburn and

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Florida Keys Council of the Arts Cultural Calendar for Thursday, July 5 - Wednesday, July 11. Visit http:// www.keysarts.com, Cultural Calendar for more listings and events throughout the Keys.

KEY WEST ARTIST RECEPTIONS/ EXHIBITIONS Thursday First Thursdays Art Walk, galleries and unique boutiques and design studios, spanning from Studios of Key West at Eaton and Simonton streets, to Guild Hall Gallery on Duval and all the galleries and boutiques in the 500 block of Fleming. Friday Upper Duval Art Stroll, 6 p.m. Galleries and shops from Truman Avenue to United Street will feature special art exhibitions and refreshments. “Islands, Imagination and Instance” exhibit opening, 6 p.m.,Custom House Museum, Front St., Key West,305- 295-6616, http://www.kwahs.org Reception, Kreg Kelley at SALT Gallery, 830 Fleming St., Key West, 305- 5176088, http://www. saltislandprovisionscom Ongoing Mango Madness annual Members’ Summer Show, through July 19, The Studios of Key West, 533 Eaton St., 305296-0458, http:// www.tskw.org

FESTIVALS AND FUNDRAISERS Tuesday SPCA Aqua Idol, 6:30 p.m., Aqua, 711 Duval St., Key West, http://www.fkspca.org MUSIC Thursday Rebirth Brass Band, 8 p.m., Key West Theater, 512 Eaton St., Key West, 305-985-0433, http:// www.thekeywesttheater. com Sunday Mike Emerson Quartet, 1 p.m., featuring Mark Rose, saxophones and flutes; Mike Emerson, guitar; Tim McAlpine, bass; and Hal Howland, drums. Green Parrot, 601 Whitehead St., Key West THEATER Monday “Sideways,” reading, 7 p.m., Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval St., Key West, 305-2969911, http://www. keywestsummerstage. com, http://www.redbarntheatre.com Tuesday through Sunday (Through July 22) “Under the Hunter’s Moon,” 8 p.m., Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval St., Key West, 305-2969911, http://www. keywestsummerstage. com, http://www.redbarntheatre.com FILM Saturday Kids Summer Movie Club, 10:30 a.m., Tropic Cinema, 416 Eaton St., Key West, 877-7613456 http://www. tropiccinema.com LITERARY Friday, 6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. Literary Walking Tour, meet at the Key West Library, 700


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Fleming St., Key West, 305-293-9291, http:// www.kwls.org/tour

‘Under the Hunter’s Moon’ premieres at Summer Stage

LECTURE Tuesday “Sanchez’s World” with Nance Frank, 2 p.m., Gallery on Greene, 606 Greene St., Key West, 305304-2323, http:// www.galleryongreene. com

TheatreXP’s Summer Stage 2018 continues with the main stage production of the premiere of “Under the Hunter’s Moon,” a new play by Key West playwright Bob Bowersox, opening Thursday, July 5. The play centers on the fictional Robert Grey, who we learn is arguably the biggest Hollywood star of the last 30 years. But he’s grown jaded with the business, his passion for it having waned. So much so, in fact, that he’s lately tended toward using 80 proof fortification to get through his scenes. He’s in Maine to shoot his newest film, “The Hunter’s Moon”, and has been tied romantically to his co-star, Blake Hawthorne, a talented journeyman actress

MIDDLE KEYS MUSIC Saturday Underwater Music Festival, 10 a.m., Looe Key Reef, Big Pine Key CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS Monday Christmas in July - Paint a Santa Candlestick, 6 p.m., Artists in Paradise, Winn-Dixie Plaza, Big Pine Key, 305-395-0835, http:// www.ourplaceinparadise.lcom

UPPER KEYS MUSEUMS AND MORE Monday Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys meeting, 7 p.m., Key Largo Library, Mile Marker 101.4, 305-8521620, http://www. keyshistory.org CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS Tuesday Ceramic handbuilding, with Susan Vinson Myers, 10 a.m. Our Place in Paradise, Mile Marker 88.7, Tavernier, 305-916, 5828, http://www.ourplaceinparadise.com Art Fun Open Studio, 1 p.m, Key Largo Library Community Room, 305-509-2360, http:// www.agpi.u

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Aging Hollywood star Robert Grey (Bob Bowersox) runs into Nancy Benham (Paula Cabot), his long-lost first love, as current co-star Blake Hawthorne (Melody G. Moore) and production assistant John Hunt (Arthur Crocker) look on in ‘Under the Hunter’s Moon’ which opens Thursday, July 5, at the Red Barn Theatre. looking for her big breakthrough, which she hopes will be this film.

But Robert finds more than a half-pint of fortitude when he and Blake

stop by the Gilead General Store in Gilead, Maine, near the movie shoot. He unexpectedly runs into Nancy Benham, his first love, who he hasn’t seen in 35 years. The rustic surroundings that remind him of his college days, and seeing Nancy again all combine to lead Robert down a rabbit hole of questioning his life’s path and what he’s going to do from here. And who he’s going to do it with. The show will run Tuesdays through Sundays through July 22 at the Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval St. All curtains are at 8 pm. For tickets, visit http:// www.redbarntheatre. com/tickets or call 305296-9911.

One-night-only reading of ‘Sideways’ set for July 9 As Summer Stage 2018 continues this week with performances of the new hit play “Under the Hunter’s Moon” by Key West playwright Bob Bowersox, TheatreXP will slip in a One Night Only staged reading of “Sideways,” the hilarious Broadway version of the 2004 hit movie that starred Paul Giamatti and Thomas Hayden Church. The reading will take place Monday, July 9, at 7 p.m., at the Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval Street, behind the Woman’s Club. Admission is free, no reservations required. The event is part of the South Florida Theater League’s

Summer Play Reading Festival, and will be the only reading in Monroe County in that event. The story is a modern classic. The misadventures begin when Miles, an unrecovered divorcé and would-be novelist with a wine fixation, decides to gift old college buddy and washed-up actor Jack with a celebratory trip to the vineyards of the Santa Ynez Valley the week before Jack’s wedding. The two couldn’t be an odder couple. Indeed, the only thing they seem to share in common is the same heady mix of failed ambitions and fading youth.

And yet, as they make their way up the coast, Miles and Jack soon find themselves drowning in wine and women. Both men careen dangerously and comically toward mid-life crises. This Broadway version of the story was written by Rex Pickett, who has combined elements of his original novel of the same name with the award-winning screenplay by film director Alexander Payne and screenwriter Jim Taylor. The Key West reading will star Mathias Maloff, Ross Pipkin, Melody G. Moore, Tammy Shanley, Rebecca Gleason and

John Reynolds. “Sideways” won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as garnering several other nominations. It also took several Golden Globes, Film Critic’s awards, Independent Spirit, and Screen Actors Guild awards. The stage version was produced in San Diego and London, in anticipation of a future Broadway run. The Red Barn Theatre is located at 319 Duval St. For information on this and other Summer Stage events, visit http://wwww. keywestsummerstage. com or call TheatreXP at 302-540-6102.

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‘Remember the Maine,’ and never forget those lost BY ROB O’NEAL Paradise

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f you’ve ever Googled “USS Maine explodes,” (and who hasn’t, right?), you’d know that the phrase “Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain,” is just about as prevalent as the varying casualty numbers and names. What is known is that the 318-foot USS Maine was the country’s first battleship and set off for Havana, Cuba, from Key West in January of 1898 with Capt. Charles Sigsbee at the helm. Moored just offshore Cuba’s capital as a show of possible force against the invading Spanish, the Maine mysteriously exploded after dark on Feb. 15, 1898. Levelheaded scholars agree the probable cause was simultaneous combustion in the gunpowder holds, not an attack by Spain, but that’s literally history. The result was our involvement and rather quick victory of the Spanish-American war. This is where we “freed” Cuba from the European invaders, then proceeded to gobble up the country for ourselves. Nice. Anyway, due to the absolute gruesome nature of the tragedy, an accurate body count proved impossible. The confusion begins with a simple head count of those on board. The number is widely agreed to be “around 350,” of which about 250 were killed. I’ll spare you the details, you know, the parts about dismemberment, loose limbs and vultures, and just say that the majority of the dead were originally buried in the Colon (Columbus) Cemetery in central Havana. Nearly two years later, the remains were

exhumed, with the majority going to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, and roughly two dozen ending up in Key West. No one in cyberspace, that I could find, seems to know the rhyme or reason as to who ended up where and why, but in March of 1900, the USS Maine Memorial was dedicated at the Key West City Cemetery, where it continues to be the focal point. About 11 years later, Congress enacted a bill authorizing the final recovery attempts of missing sailors and the raising of the Maine from the floor of Havana Harbor. Costing nearly $900,000, the project took about two years and the remains of more than 60 additional sailors were found. Cofferdams were built around the wreck, which was laying in about 25 feet of water, and 75,000 cubic feet of water was removed, ultimately exposing the entire ship. By doing so, the Maine was more accessible and more grizzly accounts about intact skeletons, random body parts, etc. are explained in unnecessary detail. With a public audience of some 80,000 Cubans, the wreckage of the ship was finally towed about a mile out to sea and sunk in 600 fathoms of water (whatever the hell that is). The cannon at the Morro Castle fired every 30 minutes for four hours with more ceremonial gunfire to follow. Many of the sailors lost that night in 1898 have never been positively identified, but thanks to memorials in Arlington, Key West and Havana, it’s possible we’ll always “Remember the Maine,” though I hear Spain is quite nice this time of year. [email protected]

ROB O’NEAL/The Citizen

A monument in memory of the victims of the USS Maine was dedicated in March of 1900 at the Key West City Cemetery.