🌴 What's Happening in Naples August 10 - 16

School starts Tuesday, which quietly rearranges everybody's week whether you have a kid in Collier schools or not. The first two days are also the hottest, with heat index values near 106 Monday and Tuesday, so anything outdoors before Wednesday should be scheduled early or after dark. Thursday is the crowded night: Alabama plays Hertz Arena, Evening on Fifth puts musicians up and down the sidewalk downtown, and there are three separate business lunches competing for the same hour. Corkscrew Swamp closes August 17 for two weeks of maintenance, which makes this the last week to do the night tour until September. Then the weekend does what Naples weekends do, two farmers markets before nine, poetry in the garden, a summer race out at Eagle Lakes, and four hundred cars at Mercato on Sunday morning. Here is everything worth leaving the house for.

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🎸 Live Music and Nightlife

🤠 Alabama Live In Concert
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM, doors at 6:00 PM
📍 Location: Hertz Arena, 11000 Everblades Pkwy, Estero, FL 33928
🎫 Details: Tickets start at $39.75 and parking is $30 a car. The biggest music draw anywhere in the region this week, and the only arena show on the calendar. Buy ahead and leave early, because Everblades Parkway backs up.

🎤 Nathan Chester and The Old Souls Motown Revival
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM, two shows
📍 Location: Daniels Pavilion, Artis-Naples, 5833 Pelican Bay Blvd, Naples, FL 34108
🎶 Details: The season 25 alum from The Voice runs a sixties and seventies soul revue, Stevie Wonder and Al Green and Otis Redding territory. First time he has played Daniels Pavilion, and the room is small enough that the early show will feel like a private one.

🎻 Zach Bartholomew: The Art of the Trio
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Moe Auditorium, Arts Bonita, 10150 Bonita Beach Rd SE, Bonita Springs, FL 34135
🎹 Details: Tickets run $15 to $48. Piano trio jazz in a 200 seat room, which is about the right size for it. Cheapest serious music on the calendar if you sit toward the back.

🪕 Jim Lauderdale Solo
📅 Date: Friday, August 14, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Moe Auditorium, Arts Bonita, 10150 Bonita Beach Rd SE, Bonita Springs, FL 34135
🎼 Details: $25 to $35. Two Grammys, a long history with Ralph Stanley and Elvis Costello, and a catalog other people had hits with. Solo and acoustic, so it is mostly him and the songs.

🌴 Evening on Fifth
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
📍 Location: Fifth Avenue South, downtown Naples
🎺 Details: Free. Musicians set up along both sidewalks the length of the avenue, shops and restaurants stay open late, and you just walk it. Runs every Thursday through September 10, so if you miss this one there is another.

🎙️ Live Music with Taylor Tones
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
📍 Location: 5 o'Clock Somewhere Bar and Grill, Compass Hotel by Margaritaville, 4805 Tamiami Trail N, Naples, FL 34103
🍹 Details: A Texas born singer-songwriter now based down here, playing the hotel's outdoor Backyard. Part of a Summer of Music run that goes Thursday through Sunday until September 7. No cover posted. She is back at the same spot on August 20 if Thursday is spoken for.

☕ Open Mic Night at Food and Thought
📅 Date: Friday, August 14, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
📍 Location: 2132 Tamiami Trail N, Naples, FL 34102
🎵 Details: Hosted by Danielle Brittany. Singers, musicians, comedians, spoken word, whoever signs up. An all organic cafe with a juice bar is the least intimidating stage in Collier County, and the crowd is patient with a rough first attempt.

☘️ Andy Maher and the Elliott West Band at Paddy Murphy's
📅 Date: Friday, August 14, 2026
⏰ Time: Evening, call the pub for the exact start
📍 Location: Paddy Murphy's Irish Pub, 1089 N Collier Blvd, Suite 440, Marco Island, FL 34145
🍺 Details: Marco Island's Friday night standby. Saturday brings Paul Duffy, formerly of The Commitments, plus DJ Raindrop at 9:00 PM, so the island has both weekend nights covered.

🕺 Chris MacDonald's Memories of Elvis
📅 Date: Saturday, August 15, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM, doors at 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Seminole Center, Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee, 506 S 1st St, Immokalee, FL 34142
🎸 Details: From $45. Full band, backing singers, the whole production. MacDonald is the only tribute artist Elvis Presley Enterprises ever hired to play Graceland's own hotel, which settles the question of whether he is any good.

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😂 Comedy

🎭 Rene Vaca at Off The Hook
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13 through Saturday, August 15, 2026
⏰ Time: Thursday 7:00 PM, Friday 6:30 and 8:30 PM, Saturday 6:00 and 8:00 PM
📍 Location: Off The Hook Comedy Club, 2500 Vanderbilt Beach Rd, Naples, FL 34109
🍽️ Details: Five shows across the weekend, full dinner menu, two item minimum per person. Same club has Sam Tallent on Wednesday at 7:00 PM and Jessie Johnson on Sunday at 6:00 PM, so the room is busy all week.

🍻 Monday Bar Games

🎵 Twisted Bingo: Music Bingo Naples
📅 Date: Monday, August 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM, though the host company lists 7:30, so get there early
📍 Location: Dylan's Drafthouse, 1258 Airport Pulling Rd N, Naples, FL 34104
🎧 Details: Bingo where the squares are songs, so you cover a title the second you recognize the intro. Dylan's has billiards, darts and shuffleboard if your card goes cold.

🧠 Monday Trivia on Marco Island
📅 Date: Monday, August 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
📍 Location: Paddy Murphy's Irish Pub, 1089 N Collier Blvd, Suite 440, Marco Island, FL 34145
🍀 Details: The island's only Irish pub, Guinness on tap, happy hour from 3:00 to 6:00 if you want a head start. They run it again Wednesdays. Bring the friend who remembers useless things.

🍕 Monday Night Trivia in Estero
📅 Date: Monday, August 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM by the venue's listing, 7:00 PM on the event page
📍 Location: Naples Flatbread Kitchen and Bar, 10801 Corkscrew Rd, Estero, FL 33928, at Miromar Outlets
🍺 Details: Free to play with a $10 food and drink minimum, and there is a guaranteed winner every round. Seating is limited, so call for a table. The north end option if Marco is too long a drive on a Monday.

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🎨 Arts, Museums and Words

🖼️ Summertime Opening Reception
📅 Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Marco Island Center for the Arts, 1010 Winterberry Dr, Marco Island, FL 34145
🎉 Details: Free. Sixty-eight works from 29 local artists across two galleries, acrylics through stone sculpture and fabric art. The show hangs through September 29, but the reception is the night the artists are actually standing next to their work.

🌸 Paper Quilling Workshop with Pesek
📅 Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
📍 Location: Marco Island Center for the Arts, 1010 Winterberry Dr, Marco Island, FL 34145
✂️ Details: $120 for members, $150 otherwise, all materials supplied. A full day rolling thin strips of paper into butterflies, flowers and jewelry. Oddly meditative, and you leave with something finished.

📖 Plant Poetry: Writers Circle
📅 Date: Saturday, August 15, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
📍 Location: Kapnick Hall, Naples Botanical Garden, 4820 Bayshore Dr, Naples, FL 34112
✏️ Details: Included with admission, $27 for adults and free for anyone 17 and under. A short walk through the collection first, then writing indoors in the air conditioning. Capacity is 20 and registration is required. Bring a notebook.

🏛️ Summer Sundays at The Baker Museum
📅 Date: Sunday, August 16, 2026
⏰ Time: 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
📍 Location: The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, 5833 Pelican Bay Blvd, Naples, FL 34108
🖌️ Details: Free, normally $10. Magritte is on the walls right now, plus the Sibrack glass and ceramics collection and the student photography show. Four hours of art and air conditioning for nothing is a hard offer to beat in August.

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🐊 Outdoors and Wild Florida

🔦 Corkscrew Night Tour
📅 Date: Monday, August 10 and Wednesday, August 12, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM to 10:15 PM
📍 Location: Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, 375 Sanctuary Rd W, Naples, FL 34120
🦉 Details: $40 for adults, $15 for ages 12 to 16. A naturalist walks you out on the boardwalk by flashlight, listening for owls and frogs and finding eyeshine in the water. The sanctuary closes August 17 through 30 for maintenance, so this is the last chance until September.

🌲 Ancient Forest Tour
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
📍 Location: Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, 375 Sanctuary Rd W, Naples, FL 34120
🌳 Details: $30, ages 16 and up. Three hours through the largest old growth bald cypress forest left in North America, with trees that were standing before anybody here spoke English. Morning start, which matters this week.

🐍 On the Front Lines of Burmese Python Removal
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Headquarters Regional Library, 2385 Orange Blossom Dr, Naples, FL 34109
🔬 Details: Free, but register. Conservancy of Southwest Florida biologists explaining how they use the snake's own biology against it. One hour, and you will have something to talk about for a month.

🏃 Ninja 5K, 10K and Half Marathon
📅 Date: Saturday, August 15, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM, all three distances start together
📍 Location: Donna Fiala Eagle Lakes Community Park, 11565 Tamiami Trail E, Naples, FL 34113
👟 Details: $30 for the 5K, $45 for the 10K, $65 for the half, $5 for ages 1 to 15. Flat shaded loops inside a county park, with an aquatic complex on site for afterward. Small field, friendly, and a reasonable place to run a first 5K.

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🧺 Weekend Mornings, Markets and Family

🍅 Third Street South Farmers Market
📅 Date: Saturday, August 15, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM
📍 Location: Gordon Dr and 13th Ave S, behind Tommy Bahama, Naples, FL 34102
🥬 Details: Free to walk. Produce, flowers, seafood, baked goods and prepared food, leashed dogs welcome. Runs every Saturday through October. The 7:30 start is not decoration, the good stuff moves early.

🥕 Vanderbilt Farmers Market
📅 Date: Saturday, August 15, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM
📍 Location: Shoppes at Vanderbilt, 2355 Vanderbilt Beach Rd, Naples, FL 34109
🧀 Details: North Naples' longest running year round market, open through September 12 on the summer schedule. The one to pick if driving downtown on a Saturday morning is not happening.

🧘 Family Yoga at CMON
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
⏰ Time: 1:15 PM, check in at 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Golisano Children's Museum of Naples, 15080 Livingston Rd, Naples, FL 34109
👶 Details: $20 per child, $10 off for members. Partner poses, games and a little mindfulness in the Atrium. Worth knowing before you go: the museum does not open for regular play afterward, so this is the whole outing.

🚗 Cars and Coffee 239 at Mercato
📅 Date: Sunday, August 16, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
📍 Location: Mercato, 9118 Strada Place, Naples, FL 34108
☕ Details: Free to look, free to show a car, no registration. Roughly 400 vehicles and a few thousand people wandering between them, with coffee at Narrative and The Pub open on site. The most reliably fun free hour in North Naples.

🥂 Food and Drink

🌊 Sunday Beachside Brunch at HB's
📅 Date: Sunday, August 16, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, last seating at 2:30 PM
📍 Location: HB's at Naples Beach Club, 801 Gulf Shore Blvd N, Naples, FL 34102
🥂 Details: $110 a person, reservations required. Champagne to start, warm Southern biscuits with house jam, a crudo platter for the table, then your pick of crab benedict, lobster roll, steak frites or grilled branzino, with plates passed the whole time. Special occasion money, Gulf right there.

🍳 Cooking Classes at Sweet Revenge
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, Friday, August 14, and Sunday, August 16, 2026
⏰ Time: French Bistro Night Thursday 6:00 PM, Sushi Friday 6:00 PM, Sourdough Sunday 10:00 AM
📍 Location: 9174 Bonita Beach Rd SE, Suite 101, Bonita Springs, FL 34135
🥖 Details: $100 for the bistro night, $110 for sushi, $90 for sourdough. Hands on, small groups, and you eat what you make. Sourdough is the one that changes how you spend your weekends afterward.

💼 Business and Community

🍽️ LCF Leadership Lunch: The Art of the Restaurant Scene in Naples
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
📍 Location: The London Club at Bellasera, 221 9th St S, Suite C, Naples, FL 34102
🎙️ Details: Meg Stepanian of the Fifth Avenue South BID moderates a panel with Mick Moore of The Turtle Club, Peter Falisi of Two Guys Kitchen and Catering, Rebecca Maddox of The Maddox and Rebecca's, and Liz Valdez of Paradise Food Tours. Concepts, menus, staffing and how any of it survives a Naples summer. Registration closes Monday, August 10, and a season pass covers all five lunches for $25 less than buying them one at a time.

🤝 Cultura, Capital and Connections: Leveraging AI and Data
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Hyatt House Naples, 1345 5th Ave S, Naples, FL 34102
📊 Details: Hosted by the Naples chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals. Local market trends, development opportunities and what agents are actually doing with AI right now, followed by the part everybody comes for, which is the room itself. Twelve interested, six going, so it will stay conversational.

🥪 GROW Business Network August Lunch
📅 Date: Thursday, August 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
📍 Location: First Congregational Church of Naples, 6630 Immokalee Rd, Naples, FL 34109
💬 Details: Free and open, guests welcome. Monthly lunch for local owners and operators with no membership pitch attached. Bring cards. If you are choosing between this and the Leadership Lunch, this one is the cheaper way to test whether networking is your thing.

⚠️ Please verify event details and availability with the respective venues or organizers, as schedules may change.

📰 What's Happening in Naples

🔗 Collier Schools Open Tuesday With a Brand New Elementary in Ave Maria
Students return August 11 under Superintendent Leslie Ricciardelli, with Ave Maria Elementary at 4050 Anthem Parkway North opening as the district's 33rd elementary for roughly 400 students under Principal Bev Budzynski, and Royal Palm Academy opening a 22,000 square foot middle school building funded by an $8 million community campaign.

🔗 Grant Cardone's Firm Pays $89.75 Million for a Naples Apartment Complex
Cardone Capital bought the 282 unit Orchid Run at 10991 Lost Lake Drive from The Inland Real Estate Group, a property averaging about 1,040 square feet a unit, pushing the firm past 14,800 units and $5.4 billion in assets.

🔗 Collier Area Transit's Contractor Will Cut 151 Jobs at the End of September
MV Transportation filed a WARN notice on July 30 covering 151 positions at the East Naples facility including 112 drivers, 128 of them union, as its seven year contract ends and WeDriveU takes over with county officials promising uninterrupted service.

🔗 Marco Island Planners Send a 626 Room Hilton Expansion to Council Over Staff Objections
The planning board voted 3 to 2 to recommend rezoning that would take the Hilton Marco Island Beach Resort from 310 to 626 rooms on 10.4 acres at 560 S Collier Blvd with a second tower up to 150 feet, after city staff recommended denial on the grounds that 60 units an acre requires a comprehensive plan amendment.

🔗 Rose Marina Wants a 200 Seat Waterfront Restaurant and 20 More Boat Racks
The Marco Island Planning Board voted 5 to 2 on July 23 to recommend the expansion, which also adds an enlarged parking lot, over neighbor objections about charter buses and traffic on Bald Eagle Drive.

🔗 Collier Voters Have Until Saturday to Cast an Early Ballot
Early voting runs through Saturday, August 15 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 11 sites including Naples, Immokalee, Marco Island and Everglades City ahead of the August 18 primary, with turnout around 5 percent as of August 3 and Florida's closed primary rules limiting partisan contests to voters registered by July 20.

🔗 TJ Maxx, Sierra and Total Wine Are Filling the Big Empty Boxes Around Naples
TJ Maxx takes the 27,000 square foot Saks Off 5th space at Park Shore Plaza for early 2027, Sierra moves into the 18,676 square foot former Party City at the same center this year, Total Wine is planning 16,995 square feet at Tamiami Crossing in the shuttered Michaels, and Just Salad is building at Granada Shoppes for fall.

🔗 Collier Will Take Private Bids for All Three County Airports
Commissioners sitting as the Airport Authority rejected an unsolicited $20 million offer from Four Springs TEN31 Xchange for 13 of Marco Island Executive Airport's 140 acres under a sale leaseback that would have cost the airport $1.4 million a year for 40 years, and will instead solicit competitive proposals across Marco, Immokalee and Everglades Airpark.

🔗 Naples Botanical Garden Hires an Atlanta Conservation Scientist as CEO
Dr. Emily E.D. Coffey, currently vice president of conservation and research at the Atlanta Botanical Garden and a former Oxford postdoctoral researcher, starts as president and chief executive in October after a national search.

🔗 Cars on 5th Is Shopping for a New Home After the City Said No
With the city of Naples denying the charity auto show's permit over crowd and safety concerns, Commissioner Rick LoCastro is working up county venue options while cities from Fort Myers Beach to St. Petersburg offer to take it, and organizers say they would still come back to Fifth Avenue in 2027.

🔗 A Naples Teen Has Been Missing From Golden Gate Estates for More Than a Week
Sophia Cover, 16, was last seen early on July 31 in the 3600 block of 62nd Ave NE carrying a large heavy bag with her phone switched off, and investigators who have narrowed the search to about 28 vehicles consider her at high risk, with tips going to the Collier County Sheriff's Office at 239-252-9300.

🔗 A Community Activities Director Is Charged With Faking Cancer to Take $40,000
Maribeth Jones, 51, turned herself in at the Naples Jail Center on a second degree felony grand theft charge after detectives said she told residents of a 238 home Naples community she had cancer from 2022 to 2024, even having neighbors cut her hair as if for chemotherapy, while a GoFundMe deposited into her personal account.

🔗 Volunteers Handed Out More Than 10,000 Pairs of Shoes Before the First Day
Naples nonprofit Laces of Love distributed more than 10,000 pairs to Collier students in the week before Tuesday's start, including more than a dozen bags at Golden Gate Middle, with school counselors handling distribution based on need.

🔗 Two NCH Emergency Departments Win an Award Only 18 in Florida Hold
The NCH Baker Hospital and Bonita emergency departments both earned the 2026 Lantern Award from the Emergency Nurses Association, a designation held by 126 departments nationally, while NCH North's pediatric ER scored 99 out of 100 on this year's National Pediatric Readiness Project assessment.

🔗 A Natural Wine Bistro Opens on Tamiami Trail North
Nat Nat at 3080 Tamiami Trail North runs weekly and monthly changing farm and sea to table menus from wine director Diego Sanchez and chef Ming Yee, pouring three natural wines nightly, open 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and until midnight Friday and Saturday.

🔗 Tigertail Beach Still Has No Bathrooms Almost Four Years After Ian
The 1978 restroom building needs full demolition because saltwater corroded the rebar inside its concrete, any replacement has to sit four to five feet higher to meet FEMA standards, and the beach has had no concession vendor since 2022 though Commissioner Rick LoCastro calls current talks promising.

🔗 Marco Island Makes Joseph Belardo Police Chief and Holds the Tax Rate Flat
Council gave the interim chief the permanent job and voted 5 to 2 to keep the current property tax rate for fiscal 2027, with Vice Chair Rene Champagne arguing an increase would cost about $100 a year on a $1 million home, while a proposed $23 million transportation bond referendum drew objections over vague project specifics.

🔗 The Collier Community Foundation Opens a $5 Million Headquarters
The foundation moved into the hurricane rated, solar powered Wyss Center at 2340 Vanderbilt Beach Road, built with a $5 million gift from Joanne Wyss and her late husband Karl, adding meeting and AV space for local nonprofits to use.