Amanda Whittamore

A Cape Coral restaurant and a synagogue are working together to collect relief supplies for survivors of Venezuela's recent earthquakes.

When Melody Lane Theatre selected “Chicago” for its summer stock show, Sami Doherty knew the theater couldn’t afford the rights to Bob Fosse’s original choreography. So, she and Assistant Choreographer Athena Rose Belis did the next best thing. They created original choreography that would make Bob Fosse proud. The result is a splendiferous show guaranteed to razzle dazzle Southwest Florida audiences.

"America's Test Kitchen" co-hosts and local restaurant supervisor explain what makes the Cuban sandwich a Florida favorite

Lewis Freeman, a Vietnam War veteran, received the home at no cost. It was built through a partnership between Builder's Care and Pulte Homes on a lot donated by the City of Fort Myers.

A pickleball pro who competed in the US Open championships in Naples picked up the game when he was healing from cancer. He loved it so much, he shared it all the way to Papua New Guinea.

It was a show of protest, frustration, disaffection and concern and it was shared by thousands Saturday in various Southwest Florida sites, other parts of the state and across the United States and the world. The No Kings III event was billed as a protest rally and drew people of many different political affiliations who said they had concerns with how the current administration in Washington run by President Donald Trump was handling things.

I know a whoopee spot where the gin is cold and the piano’s hot … and all that jazz. It’s Lehigh Senior High Center for the Arts Auditorium, where they’re performing “Chicago Teen Edition.” It’s a paint-the-town jazz extravaganza perfectly suited to Artistic Director Miguel Cintron’s triple threat theater students. And senior Samantha Jean-Marie's set design enables Cintron's talented actors to strut their stuff.

Muralist Juan Diaz's "The Growth of Our Beloved Neighborhood" in the Heights Foundation Education Building lobby encapsulates Harlem Heights' past, present and future.

The Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers will premiere an extraordinary choral work titled “The Witness: Incidents of the War of the Rebellion.” The work was conceived by the choral group’s artistic director, Matthew Koller, and inspired by the memoir of his great-great, grandfather, James Waxler, about his time serving in the Union army during the American Civil War. The memoir’s message is as cogent today as it was when he wrote it in 1888.

Lee County School system has an abundance of construction projects underway. We cover a few.