Key West Side Tracks

Liza Jane, a singer-songwriter from Key West, is currently living in Los Angeles where she writes songs, performs and works on a career that has taken off with hits, music videos and live shows -- including playing Hollywood's Viper Room and Troubadour. 

She started singing at age 2 and never looked back, later becoming a classically trained musician who lived in Nashville before moving to L.A. Today, her original songs "Unbreakabl...

Joy Nulisch, of Key West, is a true "Conch," as those born and raised on the island are known. She joined Gwen to talk about the legendary, near-professional level of the Key West High School Conch baseball program, the island's tight-knit, familial community that welcomes tourists and transplants without hesitation, adopting her dog, Tito, and what it's like retiring from the Monroe County School District after 35 years on the job...

Director Noah Salzman and actor Germain Arroyo join Gwen to talk about their film 'Clocked' (2023), the story of Adolfo, an 18-year-old Puerto Rican boxer who fears being accepted as transgender by his conservative Catholic family.

'Clocked,' at its heart a sweet film about family ties and self-acceptance, has made the film festival rounds, including in Key West, Miami and Sedona, to rave reviews. Salzman said they're now looking f...

Florida Keys Film Commissioner Chad Newman joins Gwen to talk about Hollywood's long-term relationship with the Keys.  

The much-anticipated Bad Monkey, based on the Carl Hiaasen novel, was shot in Key West. Starring Vince Vaughn and produced by Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Shrinking), the 10-episode comedy series premieres Aug. 14 on Apple TV.

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Paul Menta is a chef, a rum distiller, a competitive kite-boarder and the guy who put together a second-line parade in memory of Jimmy Buffett within 16 hours of the announcement that the legendary singer-songwriter had died Sept. 1, 2023. 

Now, Paul is among the Key West locals starring in the season premiere of Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, which airs May 27 at 9 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel. Paul joined Gwen to talk about...

Nancy Klingener, the community affairs manager for the Monroe County Public Library, joins Gwen to talk about how she keeps the library's events, history archives and many no-cost services in the spotlight via social media. 

Nancy, a veteran journalist in Key West for 30 years for numerous news organizations, took here talents to the Keys library system to in August 2022. 

Since then, she's posted fantastic Twitter threads on Keys ...

The Undercovers present Rogers, Richie & Robinson: the songs of Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie and Smokey Robinson like you've never heard them before. 

World-class singers Luke McMaster, Kevin Pauls and Joel Parisien are on tour, reimagining songs that have become the soundtrack of our lives in astonishing harmonies. Classics like Smokey Robinson's "Cruising", Kenny Rogers' “The Gambler” and Lionel Ritchie's "Endless Love" are ju...

He's from Key West! Local hip-hop artist Mike Stack stopped by Keys Weekly's office the other day to tell Side Tracks host Gwen Filosa about his upcoming performance at the Key West Songwriters Festival, which starts May1, how he landed the opening act spot for Billy Currington's June 7 show at the Coffee Butler Amphitheater, and what it was like rapping on top of Sloppy Joe's Bar on Duval Street with D-Lew for thousands of people ...

Emily Berg, manager of Books & Books at The Studios of Key West, joins Gwen Filosa for a chat about whether audiobooks count as reading, the store's Banned Books display, the disturbing and endless success of V.C. Andrews and Go Ask Alice, Independent Bookstore Day is April 27, 2024, and the sheer horror of 1999's The Blair Witch Project. 

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Michael Franti and Spearhead are touring in support of their Big Big Love album. Franti spoke with Keys Weekly digital editor Gwen Filosa about 30 years in the music business,  spirituality and why he got off Instagram. 

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