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You could pop up to the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach to check out C-prints by Alfred Stieglitz, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Robert Rauschenberg. But if laid-back, alfresco art-gazing is more your thing, you can't beat the Space Coast Art Festival (spacecoastartfestival.com), which took over downtown Cocoa Beach this past weekend. Now in its 46th year, the two-day event turned North Brevard Avenue into a labyrinth of white tents (the cold tall cans of Kirin Ichiban make you forget how far you've walked).

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The Seagate Hotel & Spa (theseagatehotel.com) in Delray Beach is slated to open in late October and the buzz is definitely on. To fuel my curiosities, I took a sneak peek. Local architect Randall Stofft sets the tone with Old Florida-revival style and Bahamian influences. Very vacation-y. The interior is beach chic to the max with a wave motif behind the reception desk along with sea anemone-like lighting fixtures and fossilized limestone walls. Natural reef aquariums with moray eels and wild lionfish dot the public spaces.

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