This year, Key West celebrates 30 years of Fantasy Fest with even more fantastical fun shared as usual by more than 70,000 costumed partygoers from all over the world. This year's theme, "Pirates, Pundits and Political Party Animals" is right in synch with the nation's political fervor and is expected to be every bit as zany! Remember, it was Key West that seceded from the Union in response to a United States Border Patrol Blockade on Hwy. U.S.1! The Conch Republic was firmly established in 1982, but Fantasy Fest goes all the way back to 1979. Since its inception, Fantasy Fest has dazzled us with images of Hollywood, Broadway and TV...transported us through time and back again... fabricated artful visions of both beasts and beauties...explained myths and mysteries while providing a stage for unrealized dreams and fantasies of the tropical kind!
From the very beginning, Fantasy Fest was a hit and a great excuse for Key West's craziest characters to dress up and act just a little more...well, CRAZY, even weird by some accounts...but that's your call (political correctness hard at work)! But what was clear from the onset...if you throw a party big enough...THEY (the tourists) will...continue reading...
