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No. 1 Vol. 31 

s e p t e m b e r 1 - 7 , 2011 

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S P O T L I G H T 

Eric Haley, Michael D. Robinson 

(at the grand piano, below) and Christine Gorham 

In a concert dedicating a new Baby Grand to the Tropic 

Cinema, for the first time together on stage, Michael D. 

Robinson, Eric Haley and Christine Gorham took us from 

1935’s “Lullaby of Broadway” to beloved screen songs of recent 

years. Whether this trio’s movie tunes won Oscars or not, they 

won the hearts of filmgoers the world over. This musical treat 

filled the theater, and their closing number, “Somewhere Over 

the Rainbow,” was my all-time favorite. Looking forward to 

hearing more from this awesome threesome. lKENNE” TUCKER

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LIVE AT WOMENFEST 

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A N I N T E R V I E W W I T H 

Deblois Milledge 

Singer/songwriter 

Guy deBoer | GD You are currently 

traveling around the country and, fortunately 

for us, Key West is one of your 

stops. One of the events taking place 

while you are in town is Womenfest. 

Are you looking forward to this? 

Deblois Milledge | DM Yeah. I’ll be 

doing a special cruise on the Fury boats 

and the week of September 5-10 we’ll be 

over at the Smokin’ Tuna. 

GD What attracts you to Charlie 

Bauer’s new place? 

DM Charlie is a good friend, and I know 

that all the music that he gets involved 

with is of the highest quality. 

I’m very happy to be a part of 

that. I can’t say enough nice 

things about the place. I 

invited my family in Miami 

to see it, because it’s one of 

those spaces that just have 

an amazing energy to it. 

GD You’ve been coming back 

to Key West for several years, 

and you have developed quite 

a strong following here. What 

is it about your music that you 

think keeps people coming back 

to hear you? 

DM We play some of our original music 

and manage to sneak in some cover 

materials. I think that people like the 

songs we play. 

GUY deBOER 


BROADCASTING 

NEWS DIRECTOR 


GD Tell us about your music style. 

DM I think it’s basically American roots 

music. I play acoustic guitar and sing. I 

find that people are also drawn to that 

minimal quality about the music. I 

usually have a band with me, so there 

are drums and bass involved. But at its 

core, it’s acoustic music. 

GD Do you feel that it sort of goes under 

the term of folk music? 

DM Yes. I love folk music and definitely 

what I play has huge influences drawn 

from that genre of music. 

GD When we talk about the range 

of the music you’re writing, are there 

any flavors that you normally think 

about to give people an idea what they 

can expect? 

DM Folk is a good place to start. and 

then from there, may be moving into 

blues and a little bit of jazz influences. 

People compare me sometimes to Nora 

Jones or Sheryl Crow, both of whom use 

really high-caliber musicians to help 

elevate their simple folk rock tunes 

to something that is really musically 

expressive. 

GD You did come with a group 

of musicians this time around. Who 

all is in the Deblois Milledge Band? 

DM I have a great group in town. Dave 

Curtis is playing bass, Billy ompson 

guitar and Danny Campbell on drums. 

ese guys are just fantastic musicians 

based out of California who 

have been to Key West many 

times backing me up in the 

past. In their own right, they 

have resumes pages long. 

GD When a group gets 

together, what attracts the 

individuals to play? 

DM For me, I just mostly like 

the drums. I want the beat 

to be there every time, so that 

I know where I am. And it can 

help the whole thing to sort 

of have a groove. And then once you 

have the groove, you can pick your 

players from there. 

GD Is it difficult being on the road with 

a bunch of people and trying to get 

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CENTER REACHS OUT 

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A.B. Malory, JD, MPH 

Guidance/Care Center area director 

Guy deBoer | GD e Guidance Care 

Center is still a little confusing to many 

people because it’s come through a 

history where some things have changed. 

Can you tell us about that? 

AB Maloy | ABM Indeed it has. e 

Guidance Care Center actually has a 

very long history in the Florida Keys, 

about 38 years at this point. Originally 

we had three founding fathers at three 

different site locations. Doctor Richard 

Matthews in the Upper Keys, Dr. David 

Rice in the Middle Keys, and Marsh 

Wolf in the Lower Keys and Key West 

— three separate entities providing 

mental health services in the Keys. 

About a decade ago the Upper and 

Lower Keys merged to become the care 

centers for mental health. e guidance 

clinic of the Middle Keys, 

under Dr. Rice’s tenure, 

stayed an independent facility 

and continued to grow and 

develop. At some point, both 

of those organizations became 

affiliated with an umbrella 

foundation, a notforprofit 

called West Care. West Care 

provides us with administrative 

and managerial support 

services. Essentially what happened 

during that period of 

time is West Care saw these 

two entities competing for the same dollars 

and in some instances duplicating 

services, so the three strong leaders of 

those organizations along with West 

Care decided to merge all three entities 

into one nonprofit corporation. at is 

the Guidance Care Center. 

(Ed. Note: More information at 

www.gcmk.org/gcmk_history.html) 

GD You work on many different projects 

GUY deBOER 


BROADCASTING 

NEWS DIRECTOR 


and one of the projects that you are 

getting behind is Mayor Craig Cates 

idea for a mobile outreach unit. Tell us 

about that and what services will those 

mobile units supply? 

ABM Originally what happened was 

Mayor Cates came together with the 

Key West Police Department, representatives 

from Lower Keys Medical Center 

and a number of nonprofit agencies here 

in the Keys including AIDS Help, Guidance 

Care Center and Womankind to 

address a still unmet need in the community. 

ere is a kind of intractable 

population of folks living in the mangroves, 

beaches, and the population is 

estimated at about 200 people who are 

unreachable even by the excellent and 

good efforts of organizations like the 

Florida Keys Outreach Coalition. ese 

are just folks who, 

because in most instances have serious 

substance abuse issues or co-occurring 

mental health issues, are just unable to 

access help. e idea under Mayor Cates 

tenure is to do some effective outreach 

advocacy to get these people off the 

street, to get them the services they 

need and get them out from in front 

of businesses downtown and also to 

toughen vagrancy laws associated with 

this population. Our role in that is to 

provide case management services in the 

mobile unit. We are also managing the 

mobile unit. is entire effort 

has been coordinated by 

Southernmost Homeless Assistance 

League. 

GD Where are you getting the 

funding for this mobile unit? 

ABM It’s coming from varying 

sources. e mobile unit 

is going to be purchased, 

retrofitted and maintained by 

a very generous contribution 

through the Klaus/Murphy 

Foundation. e Sheriff’s Office has just 

agreed to toss in $10,000 for start-up, 

and we are also seeking money from the 

City of Key West for additional start-up 

funding. 

Initially this is an 18-month pilot 

project. e idea is that the funding 

we’re seeking right now will be one-time 

funding and will not be recurrent, 

at least in the amounts that we have 

requested. 


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MOSQUITOS FORCE SALE 

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L E G A L I T I E S W I T H 

Louis Petrone 

Historically mosquitos have impacted 

man and his decisions. 

We who live in Key West are 

familiar with the mosquito problem. 

Were it not for local laws creating a 

Mosquito Control Board a number 

of years ago, Key West would not have 

developed as it did. Discomfort and 

disease would have run rampant. 

e local Mosquito Control Board is 

funded with tax dollars. It sprays by air 

and land. Planes and trucks are utilized. 

Property inspections are also made of all 

properties on a periodic basis. e purpose 

is to determine whether pools of 

water exist where mosquito eggs might 

breed. 

e local Mosquito Control Board 

runs from Key West to just short of 

Sugarloaf. Several months ago a newspaper 

article appeared claiming there were 

1,000 cases of dengue fever in the Lower 

Keys. A reporting error. e writer had 

not properly researched the article before 

writing it. ere were only five cases. 

Dengue fever and yellow fever are the 

worst of the illnesses that mosquitos can 

spread. Which brings us back to the time 

of Napoleon Bonaparte. 

It was 1802. France had huge land 

holdings in North America. Bonaparte 

sent an army to New Orleans to open the 

port for additional shipping and French 

colonization. New Orleans and 

Louisiana were part of Fance’s holdings 

at the time. e army was under the 

command of Napoleon’s brother-in-law, 

General Leclerc. 


Napoleon told his brother-in-law 

to stop first in Haiti, which France also 

owned. A slave rebellion was proving 

bothersome to Napoleon. He instructed 

General Leclerc to put down the Haitian 

rebellion and then go on to New 

Orleans. 

e French Army was powerful. 

Too powerful for the Haitians. e 

rebellion was put down in quick order. 

However, the French lost 70,000 troops. 

ey died. Including his brother-in-law, 

General Leclerc. 

e cause was yellow fever. Brought 

on by the mosquitos in Haiti. 

Napoleon’s orders were swift. Get out 

of Haiti! Forget about New Orleans! 

Return home immediately! 

Napoleon decided he wanted nothing 

to do with the New World. He entered 

into negotiations with the United States 

to sell the new country, the Louisiana 

Territory. e price was a clear indication 

of how desperate Napoleon was 

to remove France from the new World. 

ree cents an acre! 828,000 acres for 

$15 million! A bargain! All because 

of those pesky mosquitos! 

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LOU PETRONE 

TALK SHOW HOST

K E Y R E A L E S T A T E I N T H E F L O R I D A K E Y S

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DONATIONS n HURRICANE RELIEF 

BAHAMA EFFORT 

Local businesses owners First State Bank of the 

Florida Keys and Peter Pike & Associates have launched 

a Keyswide effort to provide humanitarian help for 

Hurricane Irene victims in the Bahamas. Working with 

the American and Bahamas Red Cross organizations, 

First State Bank opened a Bahamas Hurricane Relief 

Fund bank account for cash donations to help the hurricane 

victims with water, food and shelter. Cash donations 

and supplies of dry packaged food items and water 

are being accepted at any of First State Bank’s 11 Keyswide 

/keynews/ 

Deblois 

| Continued from page 5 

things coordinated 

as far as 

traveling, the sets, 

and the music? 

DM I think I’m 

really lucky, because 

our band 

works together really, really well. We 

just have it dialed. We know each 

other’s personalities, and we divide 

up the division of labor, so it’s fair 

and feels right to everybody. ey 

call me little boss, but it’s a big joke 

because really we’re a democratic 

team, and it works out really well. 

GD Let’s talk a little bit about you. 

Where were you born and raised? 

DM Miami. I grew up in South 

Miami where Coral Gables, South 

Miami and Coconut Grove meet. 

ere’s this corner of unincorporated 

land that never got absorbed 

by those cities, and it’s a great little 

spot right off Old Cutler Road near 

the waterways there. 

GD Did you have to go far to get 

musical inspiration or people locally 

out of the Miami area influenced 

you? 

DM ere certainly were people in 

my hometown that influenced me. 

ere are great musicians there, and 

I was able to connect with some of 

them. I also was lucky enough to 

travel with my parents where I was 

exposed to all kinds of music, especially 

church and classical music. My 

mother is from Mississippi, so we 

would travel to the South, and I got 

exposed to all kinds of rock and roll 

and also Delta Blues. 

GD Were your parents musicians? 

DM My mother could play the flute 

and piano very well and could read 

music and sing. My dad, not so 

much! 

GD When did you actually start 

picking up the guitar to learn how 

to play music? 

DM I was about seven years old and 

asked my parents for a guitar, and 

they got me one. I was pretty surprised 

about that, because we had 

five kids in the family, so that was a 

pretty extravagant gift for a seven 

year old. I started taking lessons and 

got really serious about it and continue 

to be serious about it. 

GD After checking out your website, 

it seems you are playing in pretty 

successful venues. You’ve been out to 

the Maui Music Festival, and you’re 

going to be playing at the House of 

Blues in San Diego. Are you pleased 

with the way things are going? 

DM Yes. I’m happy with the way 

things are going. We were just in 

Philadelphia and New York City, 

and I have recently seen some success 

licensing my songs. In the 

music business, I think if you have 

talent and you’re a graceful person, 

you just have to stay with it and 

things will start building. 

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Don Lanman, Peter Pike and Brian Barroso 

branches or at Peter Pike & Associates, 471 U.S. Highway 1, Suite 101, Big Coppitt Key (Mile Marker 10). First State Bank 

and Peter Pike are the first cash contributors with a $500 donation. All cash donations will be given to International Red 

Cross which works closely with the U.S. government and other international agencies on such disasters. e 

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AB MALORY 


GD When do you expect 

these mobile units to be 

ready to hit the streets? 

ABM We’re hoping it’s 

going to be ready to hit 

the streets in mid-October 

or the first of November, 

at the very latest. 

at mobile unit will travel about two to 

fours hours a day to areas that have been 

identified as “turf.” ere will obviously be 

a driver along with the case manager, and 

we are hoping at this point to coordinate a 

volunteer nursing corp to do some primary 

ambulatory type care. We want to keep 

these people out of the emergency room, 

because the unreimbursed money that is 

lost, particularly Lower Keys Medical Center, 

is really quite substantial. So with the 

mobile unit, we want to address the issues, 

and we’re hoping to draw in some funding 

as well to the county by seeing if we can get 

these people the benefits that they are due. 

We’ll try and see if we can get them Medicaid 

coverage so the bills that the county or 

city incurs as a result of caring for them are 

paid for. 

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INFO 

GCC Key West 1205 Fourth St., (305) 292- 

6843 

Hours of Operation: M-F (8am-5pm) 

GCC Marathon 3000 41st St. Ocean, (305) 

434-9000 

Hours of Operation: M-F (8am-5pm) 

GCC Key Largo 99198 Overseas Hwy., 

Suite 5, (305) 451-8018 

Hours of Operation: M-F (8am–5pm) 

www.gcmk.org/

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SONG TOUR KICKS OFF OLD TOWN FOLK 

Above, Natalia Zukerman and 

Adrianne Gonzalez, right 

The Old Town New Folk series 

returns to e Studios of Key 

West on Wednesday, September 

7, with a performance by Natalia Zukerman 

and Adrianne Gonzalez, two of the 

hottest young singer/songwriters on the 

scene today. 

e 8 p.m. concert is part of the Art 

is Song tour, a music and art collaboration 

making its way to festivals all over 

the country. 

A professional guitar player and collaborator, 

Natalia regularly records and 

tours with well known and respected 

musicians including Catie Curtis, Janis 

Ian, Willy Porter and Susan Werner. Her 

music touches soulful folk, adult pop, 

rootsy blues, ballads and a more urban 

Americana — all delivered with jazzy 

rhythmic overtones and Zukerman’s distinctive 

vocals. 

Adrianne grew up in Miami, lives in 

Los Angeles and has shared the stage 

with Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne. 

e two met four years ago at a music 

festival and had an immediate musical 

connection. 

Over the years, Natalia and Adrianne 

have played numerous shows together, 

adding harmonies and guitar parts to 

each other’s songs. is project takes 

their collaboration, blurring the boundaries 

and intersections of two disciplines 

and opening up the many possibilities in 

the integration of visual art and music. 

Art is Song was born when the two 

decided to illustrate their songs through 


paintings. eir method is to start with 

a lyric or an image from one of their 

songs. Once the image is discussed, 

Adrianne or Natalia will start the piece. 

At some point, they switch and the other 

will finish the painting. e results are 

powerful visual representations of songsthe 

colorful emotion of song captured 

on canvas, wood and paper. 

At each stop on the tour, Natalia and 

Adrianne set an exhibition of paintings 

they have created together. e two 

artistsl then do a full performance of the 

songs the paintings are based on as well 

as other songs from their catalogs. 

Doors open at 7 p.m. to view the 

exhibition. Tickets ($20 advance/$25 

day of show) available at the Armory, 

600 White St., 296-0458, or online at 

keystix.com, 295-7676 e

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Jason Wolf Mote Marine Laboratories scientist 

Guy deBoer | GD 

Tell us about the recent coral spawning season. 

SPAWNING CORALS 

Jason Wolf Coral spawn is a cycle of the moon that 

follows the full moon. It is a few days after it, and 

it’s usually when the tides and the currents are the lightest 

and the corals are sensitive to this time 

of year to be able to get the most 

effective way to multiply. 

GD Could you describe the scene when this happens? 

JW It’s an amazing scene. ey all sort of go at once 

in a wave across the coral. We’re not sure exactly the 

mechanism that induces them to spawn at any 

particular moment. It happens when the conditions 

are right, and you just kind of have to be 

there waiting. It’s like trying to take a 

picture of lightning. You’re not sure when it’s 

going to happen, but when it does, it’s really 

beautiful to see. e boulder star coral spawned 

this past week, and we were able to collect some 

of the spawn and take it into the laboratory. 

GD What are you doing with the samples you collect? 

JW We take them into the lab in an attempt to get 

them to settle, and when they do settle, we grow new 

coral out of them. en we begin to put them in our 

wild nurseries located off Summerland Key. 


Jason Wolf 

Staghorn coral 

| NOAA SEFSC 

GD Tell us about your latest coral restoration 

project. 

JW In our coral restoration project, we are 

using staghorn coral right now. We have over 

2,000 pieces in our nursery off Summerland 

Key and hopefully with the proper permitting 

and storms not effecting our particular schedule 

this coming October, we’ll be able to start 

repopulating some of the natural indigenous 

species that have been here in the Keys previously. 

GD Are you placing staghorn coral at major dive spots 

so that divers can start seeing how beautiful these 

corals are?

JW Right now we are just doing it up near Summerland 

Key and Looe Key and some other sites a 

little bit north of Key West in some of the more 

popular dive sites. We want to make sure they are 

propagating properly and starting to build coral 

gardens that allows them to create the environment 

where they can start to populate themselves and see 

their own spawn and see their own replication. 

GD I understand that a new research study has 

definitively linked the demise of coral to a specific 

cause. What is that? 

JW Human waste. ey were able to link human waste 

as a factor that inhabits coral reproduction and also 

stresses existing corals when they are here in the wild 

and in the Florida Keys. As you know there have been a 

lot of movements to increase the amount of pump-out 

facilities that we have here for liveaboards and also for 

visiting vessels. We hope that we are going to see the 

same with some of the larger transient vessels such as 


Coral spawning 

| Mote Marine 

/on the waterfront/ 

Elkhorn coral 

| NOAA SEFSC 

cruise ships that apparently release some of their 

waste far offshore. 

GD How was it determined that human waste is so 

detrimental to the life of coral? 

JW It effects the natural antibiotic covering of corals 

and makes them more susceptible to disease such as 

blackband disease, bleaching and white pox. And when 

you affect the natural defense of the animals and start 

to diminish their ability to fend off things that occur 

in the water, then you’re obviously not doing a good 

thing for future of the species. 

GD One of the other areas that came under a big, heavy 

impact back in the 1980s was the loss of sea urchins. 

MOTE Marine Laboratories has been working 

on bringing back the sea urchin population. 

How is that coming along? 


AJ Hill 

Adam Zimmon 

Mercedes Abai 

DJ Le Spam 

Chad Bernstein 

Tomas Diaz 

/funtimes/ 

At The Green Parrot 

n Spam Allstars 

5:30pm Friday Soundcheck 

10pm Friday and Saturday, 

September 2-3 

LATIN GONE WILDER 

DJ Le Spam and Spam Allstars blend 

improvisational electronic elements 

and turntables with latin, funk, hip 

hop and dub to create what they call an electronic 

descarga. It’s not a known genre. It’s 

hard to describe. It attracts many types of people. 

But as they look out and see people dancing 

salsa next to break-dancers. Spam Allstars 

were formed by Andrew Yeomanson, a/k/a DJ 

Le Spam, who was raised in Toronto, Bogota 

and London, and has called Miami home 

since 1993. He got his start by playing guitar 

in the Haitian band Lavalas,and recording and 

touring with Miami-based artist Nil Lara. 

Along the way he added to his vinyl collection, 

and when off the road he would DJ locally. 

ese DJ gigs evolved into 

collaborations with live musicians, performing 

on an Internet radio show and recording in 

his home studio. In 2002 Spam Allstars began 

a weekly residency at Hoy Como Ayer in Little 

Havana, which continues today. In 2003 

they started monthly residencies in New York 

City, Gainesville, Tampa, Atlanta, and New 

Orleans. Today they perform 200 shows and 

average 56,000 miles each year. ey still do 

the weekly in Little Havana and have monthlies 

in Miami and Miami Beach. 

SUNDAY 

SOUNDCHECK 

n Bill Blue 

5:30pm September 4 

The Old Man of Blues returns to the 

Parrot stage 5:30 p.m. Sunday, September 

4. When Bill Blue came to 

Key West in 1983 with a pretty girl, a Cadillac 

and very little money, he was coming off 18 

years of road dog touring and recording. In 20 

years he made this island his home, he opened 

a music store and recording studio,but most 

of all left his mark as a performer. 

When Bill Blue left North Carolina to go 

to Virginia to neet blues legend Arthur(Big 

Boy)Crudup, writer of Elvis’s first record 

"ata Alright Mama" little did he know that 

within two weeks he would go from a out of 

work musician to being on the road with Big 

Boy and Bonnie Raitt on her first US 

tour.at started a career that has lasted more 

then thirty years and taken him to stages 

around the world. 

Bill signed with the prestigious Adelphi 

Records, one of the best blues labels at the 

time releasing two LPs with worldwide distribution. 

is gave the exposure to play venues 

in Europe and the United States. He released 

a compilation CD, “Closing Time,” in 2005 

with songs from the last 30 years. 

Now, Bill Blue celebrates 30-plus years of 

writing, recording, performing music. e 

Green Parrot soundcheck seems the fitting 

place. 

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september 1-7 

Deblois Milledge 

4September 5-11 

(except Saturday, Sept. 10) 

6-10pm 

MILLEDGE 

RETURNS 

Te Smokin’ Tuna Saloon is 

prepping for the club’s first 

Womenfest and features 

versatile singer-songwriter DeBlois 

Milledge, September 5–11, 6-10pm. 

“We’re excited to have DeBlois 

Milledge back to help us kick off our 

first Womenfest celebration at the 

Smokin’ Tuna,” said Charlie Bauer, 

the club’s owner and general manager. 

“DeBlois has a great groove 

going with her music that, in my 

mind, comes from her natural surfing 

talent, too. You can feel it coming 

through in her music, and the 

women will love it.” 

DeBlois is flying in from her new 

home in San Diego to play during 

Womenfest. “I’m looking forward to 

playing the gig at the Smokin’ Tuna,” 

she said. “It’s a fun place. I think it’s a 

great concept for Womenfest week.” 

Drummer Danny Campbell will 

accompany DeBlois. “Danny is the 

best,” she said. “You want to bob 

your head to the beat. We’ve worked 

together since 2008 and make a great 

duo.” DeBlois and Campbell are not 

strangers to the Key West music 

scene, veterans of Duval Street. 

“I love coming back to Key West. 

I’ve finally got most of the streets 

memorized. I like to rent a bike and 

cruise the streets and to swim and 

free dive off the beaches.” DeBlois, a 

Miami native, recently moved to San 

Diego and appreciates the differences 

between the two cities. “It’s always 

nice to come through Key West and 

really get tropical,” she said. “Even 

though San Diego is warm, Key West 

gives a whole new meaning to the 

word. And to have the opportunity to 

play for seven nights so near my family 

is a blessing,” she said. “My brothers, 

sisters and even my parents are 

able to make it to the Tuna to rock 

with me, and that’s just an added 

pleasure for me.” 

DeBlois and Campbell play a mix 

of originals and covers, and the 

sound lifts you up between Jack 

Johnson and Fleetwood Mac or Joan 

Armatrading and John Mayer. 

DeBlois is coming off an August 

gig at the San Diego House of Blues. 

Her music is featured on the PBS 

history of the Tamiami Trail, “Escape 

to Dreamland.” Some other gigs that 

DeBlois has played include Maui 

Film Festival, Monterey Music Summit, 

Viper Room in L.A., Lake Worth 

Folk Festival and Gizzi’s in the West 

Village, New York City. 


SMOKIN” TUNA SALOON 

4 Charles St. off the 200 block 

of Duval Street 

NEWEST CLUB IN TOWN! 

lBar 10am-2am 

lRestaurant 11am-10pm 

lRetail Store 10am-9pm 

lHappy Hour 5-7 daily 

lLive entertainment daily 

Starting at 5pm 

Howard Livingston Sept. 10 

n Jeff Clark 

10pm-1am, through September 2 

n Chris Hennessee 

6-10pm, through September 4 

n Deb Hudson 

10pm-1am, September 4-5 

n Barry Cuda and the Sharks 

10pm-1am September 9 

n Grove Scrivenor | Special Concert 

10pm September 11 

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SCHOONER WHARF BAR 

202 William St., 292-3302 

www.Schoonerwharf.com 

n Thursday, September 1 

Noon-5pm: Michael McCloud 

7-11pm: Cool Duo 

(Sam Ramos and Carl Peachey) 

n Friday-Saturday, 



7pm-Midnight: 

The Raven Cooper Band (below) 

takes center stage this weekend. 

Guitar player and singer Raven 

Cooper has a range of vocal styles. 

Her diverse singing ability rivals earthy 

Janis Joplin, orchestral Julie Andrews 

and Bluesy Billy Holliday. With Bubba 

“Lownotes,” Skipper Krippits and 

Michael Gillis, they churn out eclectic 

mix of jazz, country, blues, and more. 

Schooner Wharf Bar 

The Raven Cooper Band 


n 

Sunday, September 4 


6:30-11pm: Latin Calypso Party 

Marty Stonely and Tony Roberts 

n Monday, September 5 

Noon-5pm: Raven Cooper and 


Raven Cooper 



7-11pm Monday, September 5 

n The Real Malloys 

Bubba Lownotes 

7-11pm: The Real Malloys 

n Tuesday, September 6 


7-11pm: Raven Cooper 

n Wednesday, September 7 

Noon-5pm:Michael McCloud 

7-11pm: Gary Hempsey 

Local entertainer Hempsey 

performs his renditions true 

to the original, but interjects 

his unique energy and style 

so you never forget you are 

listening to live. Hempsey is 

an accomplished songwriter, 

having produced Charter 

Boat Chum Wars and the 

song used as a musical 

piece in a segment of “Fishing 

in the Keys.” 


Gary Hempsey 

l 

FRANK EVERHART MAGIC 

9 p.m.-1 a.m. nightly 

COMING NEXT WEEK . . . 

n Thursday, September 8 


7-11pm: Cool Duo 

(Sam Ramos and Robert Douglas) 

n Friday-Saturday, 



7pm-Midnight: The Solid Vibes 

(Marty Stonley and Friends) 


l Rebecca Schilling, 

above, for King-ette 

in memory of deceased 

friend, former Fantasy 

Fest king Captain 

Timothy. l At right, 

former FF queen Ginger 

King with former Miss 

Key West Pride Wendy 

Carlisle. l Far right, 

J. Watson, Darryl 

Sharp, “Chickie” Nancy 

and Troy Feldkamp 

shop the wares 

of the candidates. 


A ROYAL AFFAIR 

Fantasy Fest royal candidates raise funds for AIDS Help 

in hopes of raising the most cash and the title of royalty. 

Big-hearted Surrey Westrupp, left, 

steps up to the plate once again 

to run for queen. She can be found 

any day at Franco’s Deli. 

lKENNE” TUCKER 

Left, Elizabeth Ketcham from the Middle Keys is jumping into the Royal soup for queen. “Sunshine” Stephen Sunday, center, king candidate 

kicks off his first party at La Te Da with current FF Queen Anne O'Shea. Right, David Taylor for king with the men of Cypress House.

lKENNE’ TUCKER 

AROUND TOWN AROUND TOWN AROUND TOWN 

Left to right, Linda Fazio, Surrey Westrupp, Charlie Fritz, Cherylann Logsdon and Mary Ward. 

Surrey believes the third time is a charm as she vies for Fantasy Fest queen with a lil’ help from her friends. 

King-ette candidate Rebecca Schilling enjoys 

the company of tea dance hostess, Sassy Black In Key West gender-bending is not as unusual as you would think. 

Ri “Gina Massarati” celebrates his first year anniversary with wife Sandy. 

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A WOMENFEST 

WELCOME 

For 25 years, lesbians and their friends 

have made their way to Key West to 

enjoy our accepting lifestyle and a 

wide range of island themed activities. is 

year will be no exception when Womenfest 

Key West kicks off on Tuesday, September 

6, and continues through Sunday, September 

11. Women find they can have it all 

every September in Key West. 

Comedy has always been important to 

Womenfest. Comedian Christine O’Leary 

returns to Pearl’s to emcee several parties 

throughout the week, and three comedians 

headline “Curiously Strong Comedy” show 

on Friday, September 9, at the San Carlos 

Institute. Julie Goldman, Gloria Bigelow 

and Jackie Monahan offer a variety of style 

and perspective with their social, political 

and personal observations about life. 

Womenfest features a new film with the 

U.S. premiere of award-winning “Jan’s 

Coming Out,” an independent film about 

one woman’s journey “out” and the myriad 

of women who help her to understand what 


“outs” all about. Follow the premiere at the 

Tropic Cinema on ursday, September 8. 

Music sets this year’s Womenfest apart 

with music all week performed by all-girl 

bands like Jennifer Corday and the Cougars, 

Shelly Bush and the Broad Band, Sister 

Funk, Mia Borders, Raven Cooper, Sister 

Speak, and the Deblois Milledge Band. 

e Studios of Key West presents a special 

evening of art and music on Wednesday, 

September 7, when guitarists Natalia Zuckerman 

and Adrianne Gonzalez embark on 

an inter-disciplinary tour that explores the 

relationship between the visual arts and performing 

arts. 

e week includes women-only water excursions, 

clothing-optional pool parties, a 

flag football exhibition game, and the Second 

Annual Leslie Leonelli Memorial 

Women’s Golf Classic to benefit Womankind. 

A full schedule can be found at Womenfest.com. 

Womenfest Event Guides are available 

at the Gay Key West Visitor Center at 

513 Truman Ave. or at the Womenfest Hospitality 

Suite located at Southernmost Hotel 

Conference Room during Womenfest. 

INFO 

www.kwbgonline.org 

www.gaykeywestfl.com

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PIER HOUSE 

The Wine Gallery Piano Bar 

One Duval, 296-4600 

n 

7 pm Friday through Monday 

LARRY SMITH jazz, pop, originals. 

Guest instrumentalists and guest 

singers/instrumentalists at 9 pm. 

n 

Sunday 

Showcase, 

September 4 

9pm 

Pier House 

Larry Smith 

showcases the 

talents of multitalented 

“Island 

Alex” Ockinczyc. 

Island Alex, a to 

Larry Smith songwriting veteran 

of mostly 

Pier House Island Alex 

island-style music, showcases new 

material from his recent venture into 

jazz. Results of his compositions 

the country music genre. This new contain unique twists and quirks. In 

exploration into country music is an addition, Island Alex has invited some 

unusual journey for Island Alex, rhythm section musician friends to ac- 

who plays trumpet and listens mostly company his trumpet playing on a few 

jazz standards. 


NEXT WEEK Sunday Showcase 

Guest: singer/songwriter Laura Wood 

n 

Jazz Jams Monday, 

9pm September 5 

Featuring bassist Tim McAlpine and 

drummer Roger Van Zant. 

SUNSET PIER 

Ocean Key Resort & Spa, 

Zero Duval St., 296-7701 

n 

Thursday 4pm Rolando Rojas; 

7pm Robert Albury 

n 

Friday-Sunday 4pm Tony Durante 


n 

Monday 4pm Rolando Rojas; 


n 

Tuesday 4pm George Victory; 

7pm Rolando Rojas 

n 

Wednesday 4pm George Victory; 


Thursday 4pm Rolando Rojas; 


VIRGILIO’S 

524 Duval St. 296-8118 

KEY WEST DINING FAVS in KONK Life 

Virgilio’s Injade 

n 10pm September 2-3 

Injade, fronted by singer-songwriter 

Boston music awards nominee Adrienne, 

covers a wide spectrum of 

music from classic songs by Heart, 

Jefferson Airplane and Fleetwood 

Mac, to contemporary writers like 

Jason Mraz, Eagle Eye Cherry and 

Ingrid Michaelson. Adrienne’s original 

music with both Injade and Aye, a Key 

West popular duo in the early 1990s, 

is currently on full rotation on Joey 

Naple’s radio show, “Night Train,” on 

Sun FM in the Keys. Joining her on 

stage is Chris Burchard on electric 

guitar, James Wist on bass, Paulie 

Walterson on drums. Injade’s music is 

high energy and danceable with original 

songs thrown in the mix.

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SHIPWRECK SYMPOSIUM 

n SEPTEMBER 10 and 17 

Tales of outlaw slave ships, 

sunken galleons, treacherous 

reefs and hurricanes are the stuff 

of adventure tales. ey’re also real-life 

elements of Florida Keys history to be 

presented during the first-ever Florida 

Keys Shipwreck Symposium, 9 a.m. September 

10 at Key Largo Library and 9 

a.m. September 17 at Westin Key West 

Resort in Key West. 

e Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, 

the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 

and Florida Keys Community College 

have joined forces to bring those 

sunken stories to the surface. Scientists 

and researchers will offer an insider’s 

look at the doomed ships, their cargo 

and the lighthouses that would become 

their guardians. 

Corey Malcom, director of archaeology 


KONKLife”s BIG SAVINGS are here! 

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SPECIAL! 

for the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum 

and chair for cultural resources on the 

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 

Advisory Council, opens the symposium 

with a presentation about the search for 

the Guerrero, an outlaw slave trader that 

wrecked on an Upper Keys reef with 561 

Africans chained in its hold. 

Other highlights: Brenda Altmeier of 

the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 

leads an above-ground tour of the 

sanctuary’s Shipwreck Trail, a string of 

12 diverse wrecks. Bill Chalfont discusses 

little known Atocha at the bottom 

of the dive lagoon at Florida Keys Community 

College. Altmeier and Larry 

Herlth review the role of lighthouses in 

the Keys. And the wreck of the Marie J. 

ompson at the bottom of Key West is 

taken on by Malcom and Chalfant. 

e symposium is part of a free series 

of events presented throughout the year. 

For more information, call Corey Malcom, 

(305) 294-2633, Ext. 22. e 

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SAVINGS 

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CONCH FOOTBALL PRIDE 

STREAMS WORLDWIDE 

Back by popular demand, First 

State Bank of the Florida Keys is 

live streaming Key West High 

School Conch Football Games on Friday 

nights at the KeysBank.com “Keys Community” 

page. Watch and listen to the 

local team from a personal computer or 

Smart Phone anywhere in the world as 

Keys Sports Commentator Rick Lopez 

brings the games play-by-play action, 

including pre-game and halftime events. 

“First State Bank is proud to join 

WKWF, FKAA and Key West High 

School to make it possible for Conch 

fans around the world to enjoy local 

football,” said Don Lanman, First State 

Bank SVP marketing director. “is is 

another example of locally owned businesses 

working together for the good of 

our community.” 

Visit KeysBank.com to see the 

Conchs take on Pompano Beach in their 

first home game of the season, Friday 

KEY WEST ENTERTAINMENT FAVS in KONK Life 


Key West High School Principal 

Amber Bosco, Athletic Director 

Ralphie Henriquez, WKWF’s Rick 

Lopez and First State Bank’s Don 

Lanman pictured with Key West 

High School Football players 

Detravis Adams, Devin Barber, 

Naquan McNeill and St. Pierre 

Andus. 

August 26, and view the entire 2011- 

2012 schedule. 

Conch Football streaming video is 

presented as a community service by 

First State Bank of the Florida Keys, 

WKWF Sports Radio, Florida Keys 

Aqueduct Authority and Key West High 

School. e

SPAWNING CORAL 

JASON WOLF 


JW It’s going well. e sea urchin 

population back in the early 1980s was 

almost completely obliterated. We lost 

98 percent and that was through a 

pathogen that we think came through 

the Panama Canal. Since then the 

population has been rebounding, but 

not quickly enough. Sea urchins are 

responsible for grazing the reef and 

keeping it free of algae and other 

sedimentary animals. We are in the 

process of breeding sea urchins in our 

lab in Summerland Key, and we have 

had some great success with that. 

GD With the hurricane season now 

upon us, do you fear for the safety 

of these corals that you have been 

putting in the water? 

JW Anytime you get a storm that is 

enough to stir the water up and create 

unusual currents and movements, you do 

worry. Corals are susceptible and get 

beat up in a storm just like anything else. 

ey are resilient, and when they break 


Coral spawning 

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off and fall, if it’s the right condition, a 

lot of times the coral will replicate and 

you’ll find new coral gardens that come 

after a storm. Anytime you have a storm 

like that, corals are susceptible to 

mortality. 

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