YOUR WEEKEND SLICE

Friday

🍊 Cocktails & Book Signing by Nick Mele and Ala von Auerspberg in the Pop-Up Shop. A cheeky chat of what makes life worth living. Nick Mele and Ala von Auerspberg in conversation with Daisy Prince, Founder and Editor of Digital Party. Limited Seating, RSVP Required. 4:00 - 7:00pm. (Olde Naples)

🍊 The First Friday Art Walk. Live music, jewelry, retrospective, and live painting. No cover. Wine, Charcuterie, and raffles. 4:30pm doors and 5:30pm music starts. (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)

🍊  20th Annual Cars on 5th. The 20th annual Cars on 5th Concours will be held on the 3rd of February, 2024 on beautiful 5th Avenue South and adjacent streets in beautiful downtown Naples and is organized by the Naples Chapter of the Ferrari Club of America. As the largest annual one-day event in Naples, Cars on 5th Concours will feature more than 650 cars including more than 150 Ferraris and other exotic, vintage muscle cars and more this year. The event will once again raise critically important funds for St. Matthew’s House, which does so much for people experiencing homelessness, hunger, addiction and poverty issues in Southwest Florida. All of the proceeds directly benefit the most vulnerable of our community. 10:00 - 4:00pm (Olde Naples) 

🍊 Mayflower Congregational Garage Sale. Kitchen items, collectables, electronics, tools, and more! 8:00 - 1:00pm (East Naples)

🍊 Music Under the Banyan. Sit back and relax every Saturday night! Join us under the Banyan Tree as we welcome local musicians to Mercato every week. This week: Wendell Ray. 6:00 - 8:00 pm (Mercato) 

🍊 Art Fairs at Fleischmann Park. Naples Art Institute proudly connects artists with art shoppers in another exciting season of Art In The Park. Since 1957, Art In The Park has showcased the talents of artists and is believed to be the first outdoor art fair held in Naples. Art In The Park carries on the tradition of providing our community access to the very creative fine art and craftwork of local artists. 10:00 - 5:00pm (Golden Gate)

Sunday

🍊 Pine Ridge Farmers Market has a wide variety of products and services offered by local artisans, farmers, bakers, chefs, artists, and small businesses. Pets are welcome! 9:00 - 1:00pm (Pine Ridge)

🍊 Gulfshore Playhouse presents the world premiere of ‘The Refugees’. Equal parts amusing and thought-provoking, The Refugees is a bold new play exploring patriotism, identity, and belonging. Closing Performance at 3:00pm. (Olde Naples)

FOR HAPPY HOUR 🥃

Warren Whiskey Kitchen has a happy hour from Monday - Friday, 3:00 - 5:00pm featuring $5 select beers, $10 cocktails and select wines by the glass, $9 - $25 shared plates. (Design District)

IN THE NEWS

Naples Winter Wine Festival auction breaks record with more than $33M raised. 🍷

This year’s bids bring the total amount raised for NCEF to nearly $302 million since the wine festival’s inception in 2001.

The 50 luxurious auction lots included rare collections of some of the world’s most sought-after wines, exotic travel adventures, limited-edition cars and unique experiences. Every dollar raised under the auction tent funds NCEF, the festival’s founding organization that  seeks to transform the lives of underprivileged and at-risk children.

The record for a winning bid for a single lot was broken on Lot 29, a seven-night Mediterranean vacation for six couples on the 312-foot superyacht M/Y Whisper. The winning bid was $2.7 million. (NP)

DOWN FOR A DRIVE? 🚘

Tanya Tucker on her Sweet Western Sound Tour is coming to Barbara B Mann performing arts hall on Friday, February 2nd at 8:00pm (Ft Myers)

FUN FACT 🏝️

Florida has the longest continuous coastline in the lower 48. (Source) 

GIF OF THE WEEK 🏎️