FRIDAY AT THE GARDENS HOTEL….The Gardens Hotel is an award winning Green Hotel…On Fri., there will be a Happy Hour from 4 to 7 PM, and this Event is Open to the Public and is an Eco Week Event!  526 Angela St…Learn what it takes to be a Green Lodge, and why “going Green” makes such a significant difference for the planet!

COLOMBIAN GRACE REOPENS… This super Restaurant on Petronia St. is open for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner every day except Monday!  Hope you will stop in an enjoy this special dining spot!   BOBBY NESBITT AT THE GARDENS HOTEL TONIGHT!!! This is the best of the best Wine Bars…State of the Art….Makes drinking wine even more fun than ever!  Large Selection….Open from 5 to 10 PM from Wednesday through Sunday every week!  and Tonight, Thursday, Nov. 4th, It’s Cabaret Night with the fabulous Bobby Nesbitt tickling the ivories at that gleaming Grand Piano from 5:30 until 9:30 PM!  A classy place for a classy guy!  And Queen Katie Miano presides regally over all the festivities!   PUN OF THE DAY… The psychotic florist created many flower derangements!   KEY WEST CONTEMPORARY DANCE CO….NOV. 4TH…TONIGHT On Thursday, for One Night Only, you will not want to miss the KWCDC, “End of the Rainbow” at The Tropic Cinema on Eaton St.  8:00 PM…Tix are Only $10…Tix available at www.tropiccinema.com.  Call 877-761-3456 for more info.  Find out more about this great Key West Dance Troupe….go to their site at www.keywestdance.com.   VALERIE CARR CABARET SHOW AT TWFAC….TONIGHT!!!! On Nov. 4th and Nov. 11th, sultry songstress, Valerie Carr will present her show, An Evening of Leonard Cohen at 8:00 PM.  Joining Valerie in this show will be Richard Crooks, Gayla Morgan, Melody Cooper, Rob DiStaci, Ray West, Christian Monzon, Tim McAlpine, Amy Ray, George Murphy, and more!  For tix to either of these two performances go to www.keystix.com or call 295-7676.  This evening promises to be a special and intimate evening.   TAVERN ‘N TOWN… From 5 to 9 PM in the Lounge at BeachSide Marriott, that fab duo of Carmen Rodriguez and Gordy Michael, will be performing!  2 for 1 Cocktails and Tapas from 5 to 7:00 PM!   AQUA NIGHTCLUB…. The Aquanettes perform their Reality is a Drag Show at 9:00 PM!   PRAYER CHAIN…. Please keep the following in your choicest thoughts and prayers….Jennifer O’Lear, Margie Randall, Doug & Janis Childs, Sr. Phyllis McMurray, Nancy Lima, Mabel Paul, John Collins, David Bray, Richard Stephens, Carol Schenck, and  Katherine Raney.  Thank you.   JT THOMPSON IS THANKFUL…. ….”for being able to live in such a progressive yet anachronistic community as Key West….we enjoy a relaxed and cosmopolitan attitude, combined with an innocent Mayberry small-town feel.  What a unique and wonderful place to live!”   ANNUAL ZONTA ABC WALK/RUN…11/6… On Sat., 11/6 the 18th annual Zonta Walk/Race will take place…to raise money for uninsured and under insured mammograms for the women in our community.  The race begins at Salute on Higgs beach at 8 AM.  Check the website at www.zontakeywest.com for the registration form…can pay online thru paypal…Advance registration is $20….the day of the race, is $25!   CONCH LIFE SCRAMBLE…11/6….POSTPONED… Because of dicey weather predictions, this event scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 6th,  has been postponed.  Stay tuned!    QUESTION TO PONDER…. If you wanted to look very sexy, how would you dress?   TRAVELING TO MARYLAND OR NEW YORK SOON? If you are, jazz singer, Libby York, will be  performing at three beautiful venues: Nov. 12, An die Musik in Baltimore (www.andiemusiklive.com)…. November 13th, The Mainstay Rock Hall in Md(www.mainstayrockhall.com).. and on Nov. 17th at The Kitano New York (www.kitano.com).  Libby will be performing with renowned coronetist, Warren Vache.  Our best to Libby!   PEOPLE’S THEATER PRODUCTION TO BENEFIT DOUG CHILDS… The production of “Apocalyptic Butterflies” by Wendy Maleod, will be presented at Downstage Theater, at 3340 N. Roosevelt Blvd. on Nov. 11 at 8 PM (preview show tix are $15.)…Opening Night is Friday, Nov. 12 at 8 PM and all proceeds for opening night will benefit The Doug Childs Medical Fund.  This show will run until Dec. 19.  Go to newtheater@rocketmail.com or call 294-6813 for more information or to reserve tickets.  To find out more details about the People’s Theater KW, go to www.peoplestheaterofkeywest.com.   DID YOU KNOW? Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.  He always wrote backward, so that one could only read his writing with a mirror.   A PHOTO ESSAY OF REMARC-ABLE PEOPLE AT THE MARC HOUSE…11/5… Opening Night Reception at The Studios of KW on Nov. 5th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.  This is a series of 25 exquisite portraits of MARC House clients taken by photographer, Michael Marrero.  This exhibit will be on view until Nov. 30th.  The public is invited to the community celebration at 600 White St.   MARK NOVEMBER 10TH ON YOUR CALENDARS!!! Come to Aqua Nightclub, 711 Duval St., to celebrate Bobby Nesbitt and Richie Spada’s dual birthdays!  Bobby will be at the piano and gifting YOU with song from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.  Everyone in town is invited to join in the festivities!  Tell one and all…Wednesday, November 10th!!!!!   BROADWAY—LET’S TWIST AGAIN!…2010/11 WATERFRONT PLAYHOUSE OPENING CONCERT!!!! This will be the Waterfront Playhouse’s 2 evening Kick off of their 71st Season…starring over 30 of Key West’s top performers…Tix are now on sale for this show which will be held on Nov. 19th & 20th at 8:00 PM.  Cost for the 19th is $75 and will include a gala party afterward, catered by the famous Iron Chefs, and sponsored by Royal Furniture!  Tix on the 20th will be $50 with no after party.  Director is Danny Weathers….musical director is Robert Strickland, with Skipper Kripitz and Joe Dallas too!  Singers will be David Black, Laurie Breakwell, Eric Cole, Carolyn Cooper, Melody Cooper, Robin Deck, Joy Hawkins, Maj Johnson, Michael McCabe, Erin McKenna, Joe McMurray, Gayla Morgan, Mike Mulligan, Ruben Navarro, Marjorie Paul-Shook, Amy Ray, Traci Reynolds, Carmen Rodriguez, Gordon Ross, Vicki Roush, Rich Simone, Randy Thompson, Dean Walters, Danny Weathers, John Wells and some surprises, too!  The guys will be singing Broadway tunes normally sung by gals, and the gals will be singing tunes that are sung by guys!….hence the name…Broadway…Let’s TWIST Again!  For tix call the Waterfront Playhouse at 294-5015 or go the website at www.waterfrontplayhouse.org.  You can also go to the website to buy season tix and for a myriad of information on this Platinum Season!   FOLLIES IN WASHINGTON DC…. This brilliant Sondheim Production will be held at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC in the Eisenhower Theater.  Tix will go on sale Jan. 30, 2011.  The show runs May 7 thru June 19th.  May 21st will be the Grand Opening with a fabulous Cast Party (and we are hoping to be there on that evening!).  I am so excited that our own, TERRI WHITE is starring in Follies as Stella Deems. We are so thrilled for her and for Donna Barnett, her talented life-partner!  We all first met Terri when she worked and sang at The KEYS Piano Bar….(and don’t we all miss The KEYS???)….She wowed us night after night as we fell under her spell.  Then she landed a wonderful role in the revival of Finian’s Rainbow in NYC, and we all went there to see this amazing musical.  After Finian’s, Terri appeared as Matron Mama Morton in the musical Chicago, in NYC!  She and Donna will soon be returning to Key West for a month or so.   Terri will be performing a Thanksgiving Show onstage in Lateda’s Crystal Room on Nov. 25th.  That show is called “Broadway in Paradise.”  And Donna a jewelry designer, will be busy at work at the Stone Soup Gallery on White St.  They return to NYC in January as Terri will be appearing at Feinstein’s on Jan. 9, 16, and 30th.  Terri will be performing in The POPS concert on January 23rd and then,  she returns to Key West to star at the San Carlos for the Waterfront Playhouse on April 16th.  You will not want to miss ANY of her shows!!!  By the way, other amazing stars appearing with Terri in Follies are, Bernadette Peters, Elaine Paige, Linda Lavin, Susan Watson, Terrence Currier, Florence Lacey, Jan Maxwell, Rosalind Elias, David Sabin, Regine, and, I hear, Ron Raines has also been cast.  He and Terri recently performed in their dynamite production and fundraiser for AIDS Help for Queen Anne O’Shea!  How cool is that?  Sorry to be so long winded…but this is all such great news I had to share!!!!   TIX ON SALE FOR “PLACES, PLEASE” AT TWFA CABARET THEATRE… This new show will be on Friday, Nov. 26th at 8 PM, and it will star Michael McCabe, Traci Reynolds, Laurie Breakwelll, Gayla Morgan and Amy Ray.  It will be a joyful celebration of song and the human spirit!  Go to www.keystix.com or call 295-7676 for tickets.    FANTASY FEST 2010 PHOTOS… Key West resident, Bill Klipp has a Fantasy Fest Gallery he would like to share with you…he has already had over 63,000 hits…To view them, go to www.fantasyfest.me.  He also has a gallery of the Power Boat Races….at www.keywestpowerboats.me.   HAPPY NOVEMBER 4TH BIRTHDAY TO….. ….handsome trainer, ADARE FRITZ….to special THERESA HOOVER…and to sweet, MARTY MANESA.     Love to you….and Remember…. The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune!  Use your experience.  In a world obsessed with youth, experience is often undervalued.  But your unique experiences are priceless.  They give you many advantages.  Cherish them….use them wisely…at work…with your family…in relationships…in planning ahead. Lynda