YOUR WEEKEND SLICE

Friday

🍊 Nate Bargatze - The Be Funny Tour. Featuring all new material. 7:00pm at Hertz Arena. (Estero)

🍊 Naples Orchid Society Annual Show & Sale - Orchids abound at this annual show celebrating the allure of these blooming beauties. Celebrating its 50th year, "An Orchid Jubilee" will feature prize-winning orchids of many species and hybrids, artistic displays of orchids in full bloom, and container and cut arrangements. Renowned vendors offer a large selection of blooming plants and orchid care supplies. Presented in partnership with the Naples Orchid Society. 9:00am - 5:00pm. (Bayshore)

Saturday

🍊 Third Street Farmers Market has fresh produce, flowers, pastas, seafood, pastries & baked goods, prepared foods, jams, relishes, fresh roasted coffee and much more. 7:30 - 11:30am. (Olde Naples)

🍊 Vanderbilt Farmers Market is North Naples largest, longest running, year round, pet & family friendly Farmers Market! 8:00 - 1:00pm. (Vanderbilt)

🍊 Out of This World Family Day - Collier Museum at Government Center - Take a trip "out of this world" and learn about the moon, stars, and galaxies that surround us! Did you know you can understand the moon phases using an Oreo cookie?! What do you eat in outer space?? Explore infinity and beyond! 10:00 - 1:00pm (East Naples)

🍊 Bonita Brew Fest - The most comprehensive beer festival in Southwest Florida includes: Unlimited sampling of 200+ unique beers and ciders. 4:00 - 7:30pm . (Bonita) 

🍊The Naples Art Institute 7th Annual Scene To Be Seen gala, dinner, and runway show featuring unique wearable art creations. Eye-popping and imaginative, these designs are carefully selected each year for originality, artistry, and workmanship. Launched in 2017 as a way to engage and showcase area artists and designers, Scene to be Seen provides vital support for Naples Art Institute’s mission to enlighten, engage, educate, and enrich the community. 6:00pm. (Seagate)

Sunday

🍊 ‘Into the Breeches’ at Gulfshore Playhouse: In 1942, a passionate, albeit inexperienced, band of actresses move from the sidelines to centerstage to mount an ambitious Shakespearean production. Will their performance be a victory on the home front or a disaster of epic proportions? February 17th - March 10th. Times vary. (Olde Naples) 

🍊 Cars and Coffee 239 - Check out the traffic circle for our featured Hot Rods and enjoy live music from Patchouli at this month’s Cars and Coffee 239 event. All makes are welcome. Parking is first come first serve. No advance registration is required. (Spectators, please park in the parking garages.) Event bar on the lawn sponsored by Sláinte Irish Whiskey features adult beverages, coffee, scones & more. Don’t forget to grab some delicious coffee from Narrative’s cart on the event lawn. 9:00 - 11:00am. (Mercato)

FOR HAPPY HOUR 🥃

Syren Oyster Bar has a daily happy hour from 2:00 - 5:00pm featuring $5 draft beer, wine, and craft cocktails; $10 off draft wine liters; $10-15 small plates. (Olde Naples)

IN THE NEWS

Pavarotti Foundation chooses Naples for performing arts center home. 🎶

Collier County is the proposed home for a new $25 to $30 million performing arts center dedicated to the memory of superstar tenor Luciano Pavarotti.   

Calling Naples “the perfect reflected image” of the blended arts environment her husband advocated, Nicoletta Montovani Pavarotti, his wife, announced plans to build the center in Naples. It would be paired with, she hopes, an academy for young singers,  a restaurant and a museum that would house memorabilia from the famed opera singer’s life.   

It would be the American home of the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation, which is based in the late singer’s home of Modena, Italy. (GB)

DOWN FOR A DRIVE? 🚘

Cody Johnson is coming to Sunrise on Friday the 17th at 7:30pm (Tickets)

FUN FACT 🇮🇹

The name Naples caught on when promoters described the bay as "surpassing the bay in Naples, Italy." (Source)

GIF OF THE WEEK 🎤