As the holidays approach, the Space Coast once again reveals its best qualities — compassion, creativity, and connection. This season, our community shines not just with twinkling lights and festive décor, but with the warmth of people coming together to lift one another, celebrate traditions and create lasting memories.
For a heaping helping of holiday cheer, it’s hard to beat the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts, where everything from cirque to long-lasting, funky Tower of Power
is themed around the jolliest season of the year.
Florida Retina Institute has been at the forefront of specialized retina care, providing expert diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases affecting the retina, macula, and vitreous for more than four decades.
Just around Thanksgiving for the past four decades, a glorious forest of shimmering evergreens pops up overnight at the Wickham Park Community Center.
Whether you are searching for a unique handmade item, a gift for those who seek adventure, something antique or coastal themed, gift certificates for dining out, a one-of-a-kind piece of art or to purchase a gift with the goal of donating to a favorite charity, the options are endless on the Space Coast.
Gifts from the Heart Christmas Shops have a most eclectic business plan. They open one week each year, and merchandise is discounted 70 to 80 percent. It’s definitely not the way to make a profit, but Gifts from the Heart is not out to make money — it’s out to generate joy and dignity for families in the county’s under-resourced communities.
From Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, there is an endless procession of traditional meals, celebrations, and sweet treats. It all happens so fast, we often forget to stop and enjoy it.
Bud and Kim Deffebach’s connection with Mango Manor began long before they purchased the storied Melbourne Beach home in 2004.
When Harry “Bud” Deffebach was growing up just a few blocks away in Indialantic, the two-acre estate was already a local landmark. Kim, whom Bud met at the University of Florida, was soon familiar with the house.
Landscape photography is much more than pretty scenery. Ansel Adams, the titan of that genre, noted that photography is visual storytelling rooted in the photographer’s very soul. A great photograph, he said, “fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
Only a few fortunate souls really knew Ron DiMenna. But to the people along the Space Coast, throughout Florida — and around the world — he was the iconic entrepreneur and king of the surfing lifestyle as founder of Ron Jon Surf Shop.
This striking photograph of a red-bellied woodpecker [Melanerpes carolinus] was captured in Viera. The bird’s bold black and white barring along its back and wings is sharply contrasted by its white chest with light pink spot and the brilliant splash of red across its head and nape.
Voting ended Nov. 25, 2025. Results will be published in the January 2026 issue of Space Coast Living
The kids are back in the classroom. Summer vacations are photos and memories. The thermometer — and the utility bill — are inching down. Say hello to fall along the Space Coast, the perfect time to discover, or rediscover, the many little treasures that make Brevard such a treasure.
A sea of white washed over the Florida Institute of Technology’s Clemente Center July 16. The White Coat Ceremony officially welcomes new medical students, eager to start the next chapter of their lives at the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine in Melbourne.
Meet Dr. Hailey Grubbs, Brevard Skin and Cancer Center’s newest dermatologist. Dr. Grubbs recently moved to the Brevard area and is accepting new patients.