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Welcome to Key West, now don't get voted off the island Learn the methods to our madness. Mandy Miles' "Key West Dos and Don'ts" offers a quick and hilarious crash course on local life in a tourist town. Longtime Key West author and newspaper columnist Mandy Miles offers tropical tips and island etiquette on everything from parking and partying; to scooter horns and Hemingway. "In my nearly 20 years here, no one has ever asked me, 'Where do the tourists go?' But they all want to know how the locals live," said Miles. So here it is: 100 ways to conquer Key West and look like you live here -...

The End of the Road is Just the Beginning... Key West dangles temptingly from the edge of the "real" world; stunning, captivating and intriguing in its anything-goes attitude. The simple promise of an endless summer attracts throngs of winter's temporary refugees. But it's not just the weather that draws some of us always back to the end of a long, hot road, where anything goes, nobody cares and everyone applauds a sunset that tie-dyes the twilight. Our offhanded and unaffected attitude evolved through humid centuries of close coexistence on a remote outpost. Seafarers, cigar makers,...

Key West has a colorful history. It was the beachhead that protected the United States from the Soviet Union and Cuba in the 1960s, its literary and music scenes attracted and developed writers, artists, and musicians in the 1970s, and it seceded from the Union and created a new nation, the Conch Republic, in the 1980s. Through the rest of the decades to the present, festivals, celebrations, and revelries have drawn tourists here year-round and supported the Conchs, the key's residents. The vibrant community, people and places, military presence, and significant historic sites make Key West...