Ashley Spencer and friends are living it up this week in a premier Alys Beach home. She's the winner of the South Walton TDC's "Find Your Perfect Beach" Contest. She chose Alys Beach as the place to spend the week. The prize included a courtyard shrimp boil by Grayton Beach Catering with music from Geoff McBride and Joey Shaling.
It's been a beautiful and exciting spring here in SoWal and the YOLO Board crew kicked it up a notch last Thursday at the WaterColor BoatHouse on Western Lake! Our hats are off to another exciting event from our partner. As a race sponsor, we're thrilled to be a part of such a fun South Walton tradition.
Entrepreneur, local restaurateur and “chef to the stars” Tim Creehan says he didn’t set out to become famous.
“I didn’t go looking for success. I was looking for a career in culinary arts. I wanted to be a chef from the time I was 14 years old.
“When I wanted to become a chef, being a chef wasn’t cool. We were no different than plumbers or mechanics. When I left work to go to the store to buy something for the restaurant, I’d bring a T-shirt and take off my chef jacket because I didn’t want anyone to think I was a cook or butcher or whatever.”
South Walton locals and visitors have learned over the past few years that some of the best music available anywhere plays right in the heart of SoWal during the Seaside Summer Concert Series.
This year's series returns to the Seaside Amphitheater on Wednesdays beginning June 6th through August 15th. The concerts are free and open to all, and a great way to experience some of today’s up-and-coming artists in a beautiful setting.
You have to see it to believe it. That means you need to visit Alys Beach on June 8th and 9th, 2012 for a feast for your senses in a beautiful setting. Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach is one of our favorite events, and If you haven't been to this SoWal.com-sponsored event you've got to go. It's very unique. It's the world's first projection art festival, with artists from all over the globe projecting their original works onto the town's white walls. Every year there are new surprises.
Summer comes alive in South Walton around the time school lets out, or the annual YOLO Race Series starts, whichever comes first. This year the start of the race series coincides with the end of school on Thursday May 24.
Alice Cooper was visiting SoWal a couple of weeks ago. Somebody needs to tell the YOLO crew to kickoff the first race this year with his iconic anthem from 1972, "School's Out" (for Summer!).
It's an amazing venue right on the gulf in Seaside and one of our favorite places to see music. The second show in the Bud & Alley's Music Series features Larkin Poe with a full band and local favorite Kelsey Anna.
Lace up your shoes and run for the arts in Sinfonia Gulf Coast’s second annual bravo! beat 5K run/walk on Saturday, June 2 at 8am starting and ending at The Village of Baytowne Wharf in Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort.
If you want to know what's going on in SoWal, all you have to do is sit on the porch at Grayt Coffee House with owner Cheri Peebles for a half hour. And If she doesn't know what you want to know, then one of the many locals walking in and out likely will.
May 21, 2012 by SoWal Staff
He puts his excellent photos skills to work when traveling the world, and David Kosmos Smith spends quite a bit of time in South Walton so he had time to create one of our favorite videos of the area we've seen of Destin, the lucky little (fishing) village on the Gulf of Mexico.
