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Partnership between Bogart Estate and Esophageal Cancer Action Network (ECAN) raises awareness about link between Heartburn and Cancer at Film Festival in Key Largo, May 2 - 5 (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Maybe someone should look at you, kid. That’s the message of the new movie trailer premiering at the First Annual Humphrey Bogart Film Festival this weekend in Key Largo, Florida. In the trailer shown before every film that is screened at the festival, Stephen Bogart, the only son of...

KEY LARGO, Fla., Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Humphrey Bogart Estate and the Key Largo Chamber of Commerce have created an annual Humphrey Bogart Film Festival in Key Largo, Florida. The inaugural edition will be held on May 2-5, 2013. The festival will be hosted by Stephen Humphrey Bogart, the son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and will feature preeminent film historian and critic Leonard Maltin as a special guest. The festival opens with a cocktail reception and an...

KEY LARGO, Fla., Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Humphrey Bogart Estate and the Key Largo Chamber of Commerce have created an annual Humphrey Bogart Film Festival. "We have long been looking for a natural home for a family-backed Bogie film fest, and we believe there is no better place than Key Largo," said Stephen Humphrey Bogart, son of the iconic performer. "My father and mother starred in 'Key Largo,' and the actual boat from 'The African Queen' is here in Key Largo. It...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Male and female threatened pillar coral have been documented for the first time spawning together in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, said researchers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The researchers were exhilarated by the displays of male and female pillar coral releasing their reproductive cells during a spawning session in the Upper Keys on Saturday, just after the full moon. At precisely...

The Spiegel Grove, a 510-foot former US Navy Landing Ship, 10 years ago became the third largest ship in the world ever scuttled to become an artificial reef and the results have been more positive than originally planned. The Spiegel Grove has welcomed trained divers off Key Largo since 2002, when the local community rallied to scuttle the retired ship and become the backbone of a new reef ecosystem six miles offshore. Its journey to the bottom at a depth of 130 feet is as intriguing as...

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Almost 3,000 riders turned out to the Homestead-Miami Speedway for the start of the 2010 Zimmerman MS Bike Ride. The event, which runs from Miami to Key Largo, raised nearly $2 million in the fight against Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Title sponsor Zimmerman Advertising's team, zMotion, led the fundraising efforts with more than $300,000 raised. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100503/FL97975 ) (Logo:...

KEY LARGO, Fla., Dec 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ocean Reef Club hosts Vintage Weekend from December 3-6 this year. The four-day event features antique and classic planes, yachts and automobiles (four class winners from Pebble Beach and many more) from around the world, including: 1929 Duesenberg Convertible1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cab A1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C-SS1938 Rolls Royce Phantom II Cabriolet 1926 104' Mathis Trumpy 'Freedom'1966 80' Berger1940 Dehavilland Tiger Moth1930 Stearman Model...

By Anonymous Underwater voyeurs vied for spots to dive reefs in the Florida Keys for the annual coral spawning, sparked by the August full moon. "It's pretty amazing to see how it works," said Dan Dawson, owner of Horizon Divers (Key Largo, Florida). "My wife sat there in the sand for an hour and all of a sudden saw the coral secretion and then saw it floating away." While corals use multiple reproductive strategies, nearly all large reefbuilding species release millions of gametes once a...

By Kevin Wadlow, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon Jun. 14--Latest mission: Determine why some transplanted corals succeed, other don't In the dark of the pre-dawn ocean, Ken Nedimyer saw the soft glow of coral fluorescence. When he looks out the window during meals, a Goliath grouper often looks back. "These aren't the things we're down here to look at, but it's still a very cool thing," Nedimyer said from the Aquarius underwater laboratory oceanside off Key Largo. Lauri MacLaughlin...

By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald Nov. 24--Work to widen the 18-Mile Stretch, already under a multiagency microscope because of a massive algae bloom tainting surrounding waters, has a new problem: Tons of excavated muck and mulched mangrove are fast piling up along the main road into the Keys. Contractors, backed by the Florida Department of Transportation, want to truck part of it to a nearby state park in North Key Largo, where it would be used to help fill illegally dug rock pits. The...