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The colorful cover of the new Thirty-A Reviewmagazine features Alys Beach residents and restaurateurs, George and Ann Hartley. George and Ann own at least three local restaurants (at last count), including Seagrove Village Market Cafe, George’s at Alys Beach and the new La Cocina Mexican Bar & Grill in Seacrest. The new issue also features an article about Studio B in Alys Beach, and […]

The 2009 Honor & Design Awardwinners have been selected by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and our ownMarieanne Khoury-Vogt & Erik Vogt (full-time residents and Town Architects here at Alys Beach) won an award for Caliza’s stunning design. “The Honor & Design Award Program is the time of year that we can truly celebrate the best in […]

Colleen Duffley’s Studio B was featured on NYDailyNews.com last week. Here’s a quick excerpt: By the soft light of her patio pool and within the pristine, white-washed walls of her gallery and kitchen, (Colleen’s) attracting “creatives” from the fields of design, art, literature, food, wine and photography. Her roster of past and upcoming talent on the “B List:” India Hicks, […]

Island Living guru, writer, designer and supermodel India Hicks recently shared her family’s vacation experience this summer at Alys Beach with readers of Ocean Drive magazine. Ocean Drive is a high-fashion and design magazine based in Miami. “I am blessed with having seen a great deal of the world,” wrote India. “But few places are easily within reach and far from the […]

Fabulous news!!! In a very exciting development for our region, Southwest Airlines announced today that they will offer flights into our new Bay County International Airport — which is under construction just 14 miles from Alys Beach! Starting in May 2010, Southwest will operate eight flights a day to and from four cities with a daily […]

An image captured by photographer Tommy Crow was featured on Womansday.com this week. The image was taken during the Digital Graffiti festival in Alys Beach in June. The photo captured awe-inspiring outdoor projection artwork by Yugoslavian artist Zlatko Cosic. Cosic originally screened his experimental short silent film in 2008 for Light Works, organized by The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis. It […]

Well, Alys Beach’s unique sense of style is frequently a topic on various architecture and interior design blogs, so we can’t possibly share them all. But we thought this particular coveting was pretty well done: http://www.casasugar.com/5496230 Have you seen Alys Beach mentioned somewhere across the Blogosphere? Please let us know! You can just email a link to info@alysbeach.com.

Digital Graffiti hostess INDIA HICKS enjoyed her time at Alys Beach so much in June that she returned here last week to spend a relaxing week-long vacation with her husband, David Flint Wood, and their four children. While here, the family enjoyed everything from wakeboarding lessons to YOLO boarding to parasailing to pottery making to art classes at Studio B to tennis […]

Another custom Alys Beach home has captured a national architectural award, this time from a field of over 1,100 competing entries. Currently in its tenth year, the Residential Architect Design Awards (RADA) is the most prestigious and competitive residential architecture awards program in the country, with only 10 “Grand Awards” being awarded this year. The winning Alys […]

Five gentle whale sharks appeared just offshore from Grayton Beach last week. They remained in our local waters for two days. Many of the people chartering the Grayton Beach fishing boats and one group of divers were able to photograph and swim with the whales during the two-day event. A whale shark is not a […]