Key West

Key West city officials have approved a ban on sunscreen products containing two chemicals that studies have found to negatively impact coral and marine organisms. 

Internationally renowned playwright Tennessee Williams, who lived in Key West for more than 30 years, once said of his chosen home, “I work everywhere, but I work best here.” Aficionados of Williams’ classic plays can recall his writing, life and enduring connection to the island city throughout March 2019 during the Tennessee Williams Birthday celebration. 

The Florida Keys are renowned for having a large population of visual artists, while creative spirits from other places come to experience the ever-changing tropical light and depict a uniquely engaging locale. 

Several dozen people are expected to “blow their own horns” in Key West Saturday, March 2, providing a typically hilarious spectacle for spectators during the 57th annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest.

The Florida Keys & Key West are known for their vibrant culture, including a top-quality performing arts community. During the year audiences can enjoy musicals, comedies and Broadway-style performances at Keys venues. Explore some of the season’s offerings here. 

Live musical performances, concerts and music festivals provide Florida Keys visitors entertainment options that enhance the area’s winter 2019 roster of arts and cultural events.

The Florida Keys are acclaimed for their large population of visual artists, but art lovers generally can’t see works by several hundred of them at one time. Except, that is, when viewing “The Connections Project 2019: A Mosaic of the Keys,” a 24-foot-long mural that’s touring the island chain to celebrate the connection between community members and local cultural initiatives.

Key West Theater, undergoing a dramatic transformation as a cultural hub for the island city’s arts and music community, has put Key West on the radar of top musicians, comedians, artists and entertainers. 

The wildly diverse ecosystems of the Florida Keys can perhaps best be discovered in hidden gardens, tucked off main thoroughfares and the Overseas Highway throughout the 125-mile-long island chain.

Most well-informed Key West visitors are aware that the colorful subtropical island was once home and inspiration to world-renowned writers Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams.