If you’ve ever visited Fort Myers Beach or Sanibel Island in Lee County you are likely familiar with the name Summerlin. We recently received this Curious Gulf Coast question from a listener named Jesse Sanders: "I drive down Summerlin Road maybe three times a week so I decided to look up who the road was named after. Interesting character for sure. ... People may be interested in history of the area and the cattleman behind Summerlin Road." So, we're bringing in I-Mag Historian Jim Powers to

We’re joined by Richard Keelan , he's a Child Advocate at Lee Health , to learn more about a training course he'll be conducting for people who work with young people. Youth Mental Health First Aid gives people the tools to identify when an adolescent might be struggling with a mental health or substance abuse problem, and to connect them with appropriate support and resources when necessary. This course is aimed at anyone working or volunteering with youth between the ages of 10-18, including

It's been just over two years since Prince died of an overdose caused by taking what turned out to be fake Vicodin laced with fentanyl. We're hearing the word fentanyl show up in more and more news stories as the cause of overdoses during the ongoing opioid crisis, so we thought now would be a good time to dig deeper into the topic. We're joined by Brenda Iliff , Executive Director of the Hazelden Betty Ford facility in Naples, for a bit of a history lesson about the drug, and how it's winding

Southwest Florida musicians and visual artists converge in Sarasota this Saturday for the latest episode of the Art, Rhymes and Beer music and art show series at the Sarasota Event Center .

Improv comedy is coming back to Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre in early May, and it comes with a message about dealing with cancer through humor. “Harry’s Senior Moment” is presented by the improv -troupe led by 84-year-old Harry Lichtcsein , who has been battling colon cancer since 2011.

Earth Day is this coming Sunday. To celebrate, Gulf Coast Live is on the road at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida .

We'll sit down for the hour with Nathan Hill . The Naples-based novelist's first book, "The Nix," took the literary world by storm in 2016. We'll ask him what the onslaught of literary fame has been like, and how it felt to learn that great American novelist John Irving had compared his work to Charles Dickens .

NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite , or TESS, is set to launch this evening at 6:32 p.m. on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral. The TESS mission is to find planets outside of our solar system, known as exoplanets. It finds them by looking at faraway stars, or more specifically by brief dimming periods on other stars caused by planets periodically blocking part of the light as they pass by, or transit, them. We're joined by Dr. Derek Buzasi, he's a Whitaker Eminent Scholar

Southwest Florida singer/songwriter Sheena Brook plays live in studio ahead of her performance at the first, “ Music on the Mound ,” concert at the Mound House on Fort Myers Beach. The Mound House remains the oldest structure on Estero Island, sitting atop a 2,000-year-old shell mound from the Calusa Indians. In addition to a museum exploring the regions history and prehistory, the Mound House provides a variety of cultural and environmental education programs for visitors of all ages. The first

Internationally-acclaimed painter Steve Keene unveils a newly commissioned installation, April 12, at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College in Fort Myers. Ahead of Thursday’s opening reception, we sit down with Keene for a conversation about the exhibition, Keene’s unique and prolific painting style and his broader approach to art. Having created more than 300,000 paintings in the last 35 years, Keene is hailed as the world’s most prolific painter.