The Marcophile

[No Paragraph Style]BC BodycopyOne of Marco Island’s best-known hair care artists is making a major career move. Maria Elena Pujol is closing her hair design salon to take her hard work and talent to join the other experts at the ...

Apparently a lot of people around here are dealing with the stresses of this boisterous, harsh, contentious political season by following an old saying in politics: ---- “If you want a friend, get a dog.” Or, we would add, a ...

Some leftist media types have uncovered the real reason the Fox News Channel clobbers CNN and MSNBC in popularity. Is it the quality of Fox News anchors and reporters? Nah. Is it O’Reilly’s bloviating,

[No Paragraph Style]BC BodycopyWe found some old audio cassettes in a closet the other day that turn out to be especially appropriate to hear now, as Republicans are about to gather in Tampa for their nominating convention. On the tape, ...

The digital revolution is coming to the Marco Movies. Owner Nick Campo is thrilled with the changeover from the world of 35- millimeter film, but, as he says with a grin, “I really had no choice. “Last fall, I got ...

We’re still about five months away from Marco’s two winter holiday parades, one boat, one street, but already some Islanders are preparing for all the activities that comprise the popular “Christmas Island Style.” It’s a lan

Maddie Richie, a young Marco woman who’s a rising senior at the University of Florida, has two big things and a little thing to think about this summer. The big things are a field project in the American west for ...

As Marco Island considers allowing a horse drawn carriage business, we decided to get the perspective of a source as close as we could get to being straight from the horse's mouth. We talked with Charlene Casey, whose 13-year-old enterprise, ...

The world of hair – the designing men and women who spend their working lives cutting, coloring, styling and pampering other people’s hair – is a bizarre combination of drama, dreams, pruning and preening, while expectant cl

That phrase, “I came, I saw, I loved it, I stayed,” is how long-time Marco restaurateur Konrad Meyerhofer remembers events when he first got to Marco Island in 1981. He had left a prestigious job as executive chef at the ...

So how do you show off our beautiful island to first-time visitors after you’ve arranged a fine hotel on our great beach, good restaurants and other fun, on and off the water? Now you can show them the history of ...

Remember when the world of passwords was one of fun, childish intrigue and access to special people, places and things? Passwords used to be crucial to being an elite member of the Little Rascals’ He-Man Woman Haters Club. Life didn’t ...

Now that the City of Marco Island will have a team of volunteers to help beachgoers have a good experience there while not intruding on wildlife or other people, we wondered about our knowledge, and yours, on beach dos and ...

The road to a successful radio station in and for Marco Island is strewn with road kill. Now there’s new hope. Several broadcasters and/or other would-be media mavens have spent and lost a lot of money in a clutch of ...

If you attend the Marco Island Seafood Festival here this weekend, the beverages may seem colder and the seafood may taste sweeter if you know or know of some of the people whose lives are changed by this annual event.