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The Boca Interview From the Beatles to the Trumps, renegade photographer Harry Benson has been capturing history for more than half a century. With a new documentary and book celebrating his legacy, he continues to point and shoot from the hip. By JOHN THOMASON

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Who feuded with whom in city politics? Who swooned us the most at Festival of the Arts? More importantly, who made the best cheesecake? We round up a year’s worth of notable people, memorable events, killer apps and more.

Green goo isn’t just a Nickelodeon relic. The 2016 algae bloom turned South Florida’s waterways an unsavory color last summer. We catch up with the toxic avengers hoping to prevent a sequel.

Experience the food, architecture, recreation and essence of Catalonia’s greatest treasure by listening to its locals—not the online algorithms.

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Barcelona Up Close

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By ALLISON LEWIS, MARIE SPEED, SHAYNA TANEN and JOHN THOMASON

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Departments Readers comment on recent articles in Boca magazine and blogs on bocamag.com.

20 Editor’s Note

Facebook envy of her globetrotting friends leaves the author pining for her next summer vacation. By MARIE SPEED

23 The Local

Dive into summer with a guide to area shipwrecks and a delicious primer on soft-shell crab. Plus a spirited bartender creates a comfort drink exclusively for Boca readers. 34: Dress Code: From billowy sleeves to whimsical shoes to sparkly denim, make a statement with colorful summer couture. 52: City Watch: From Boca Regional to FAU, progress and its blowback continue to energize both sides of the development debate. By ALLISON LEWIS, RANDY SCHULTZ, MARIE SPEED, SHAYNA TANEN and JOHN THOMASON

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55 #LoveBoca

Boca magazine highlights its partners with a series of fun events that showcase their brands and businesses.

59 The Biz

A local entrepreneur sounds an alarm, a country-club innovator gets down to earth, and a Delray attorney fights for the underprivileged. By GARY GREENBERG

67 Feel Good

Discover a hard-hitting gym that trains its trainers, a skin care line that vaporizes its competition, and a chilly new way to eliminate excess fat. By ALLISON LEWIS

109 Backstage Pass

Roger Ward cultivates art and nature as the new executive director of the county’s one-of-a-kind Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens. By JOHN THOMASON

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117 Dining Guide

Our review-driven guide to the finest dining in South Florida spotlights Bluefin Sushi, Brulé Bistro and Novello. We rate Boca’s best gelato stops, and iPic’s mixologist is ready for his close-up. Reviews by LYNN KALBER

151 The Scene

This past spring, Festival of the Arts dazzled us as usual, while two luncheons raised much-needed bucks for exceptional causes. By SHAYNA TANEN

160 My Turn

After 54 years of marriage, the author takes time to appreciate his better half—and the hard work and dedication that come along with “for better or worse.” By JOHN SHUFF

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Few figures are more central to Boca Raton’s legacy than ADDISON MIZNER, the trailblazing architect whose MediterraneanRevival style still defines the city. As legend has it, Mizner was also quite a partier, hosting epic shindigs with entertainment by Irving Berlin and George Gershwin. In that spirit of celebration, we invite you to break out a noisemaker and cheer the best and the wildest from another year in paradise, in our annual Best of Boca feature (p. 80).

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Check out these bonus items unique to bocamag. com, stories in our July/August issue of Boca and events in our area this summer:

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Don’t miss Boca on everything from FACEBOOK (facebook.com/bocamag) to INSTAGRAM (@bocamag) and TWITTER (@bocamag) for community news, retail trends, foodie updates and much more.

CITY WATCH: Want to know what’s happening in your community? Randy Schultz provides the raw truth about what’s going on in Boca. His columns run on the website Tuesdays and Thursdays under the “Community/City Watch” tab.

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summer to a homemade seafood specialty: smoked fish dip. Chef Anthony Hoff of City Fish Market deconstructs the perfect salty, smoky cracker topper.

YOUR WEEK AHEAD: Each Monday, veteran A&E writer John Thomason publishes a list of the best events throughout the week and weekend to ensure you never have a dull moment. Find his weekly picks at bocamag.com/ arts-entertainment.

can’t get enough of Boca. Visit the July/August issue under the “In the Magazine” tab to see more things we love about Boca in “Best of Boca: Continued.”

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Boca mag’s social media platforms are the place to be when it comes to special giveaways this season. Check our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for alerts and instructions, and you could be #WinningWithBoca.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: President of BocaBeautiful.org, John C. Gore, had a lot to say about Mizner 200’s developer, Elad, in his letter to the editor. Visit the July/August issue under the “In the Magazine” tab to read the letter in its entirety.

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LETTERS

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“It is a lesson that Elad may eventually learn, as it spends the next three years in a futile effort to build something in Boca's downtown that almost nobody wants.” — John C. Gore, on the 200 Mizner project

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The 70-unit condominium called Ocean Palm on the southwest corner of Palmetto Park Road and A1A stands as a model for future development in Boca… The revised project is compatible in style and scale to the other buildings in the neighborhood. As a result of the developer’s willingness to talk to affected residents first, the rancor and controversy surrounding his project has evaporated, resulting in a

win-win for all involved. Contrast this with the behavior of developer Elad and its proposed 10-story, three-block-long condominium project on southeast Mizner Boulevard in the heart of Boca’s “downtown,”where the low-rise Mizner on the Green is now located. [City Watch blog, March 31.] Dubbed “the Monster on Mizner”by local residents, the 384-unit condo building, called 200 Mizner, is the largest ever attempted in the area governed by Boca’s basic development law: Ordinance 4035... Why has the Elad Mizner Boulevard project been mired in controversy and been stalled for over three years and counting? First, because the developer is politically tone deaf. ... City

officials are now wary of resident backlash, should they bend Boca’s development laws to suit an individual developer or project. ... But Elad’s biggest mistake has been its refusal to meet with and win approval of its neighbors... As the Ocean Palm project shows, there is clearly a better way to fix things. Sit down with all of the affected parties and work out a compromise. It is a lesson that Elad may eventually learn, as it spends the next three years in a futile effort to build something in Boca’s downtown that almost nobody wants. — John C. Gore President, BocaBeautiful.org To read Mr. Gore’s letter in its entirety, please visit bocamag.com–Ed.

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I read with interest in the City Watch blog [February 3], by Randy Schultz, that attorney Al Zucaro is intending to run for the position of mayor of the City of Boca Raton. It may be of interest to you that in my position as the executrix of the estate of Thomas G. Imperato, the Surrogate’s Court of the State of New York, County of Rockland, in a decision dated November 24, 2014, granted judgment for the estate against Alfred Zucaro in an action based on fraud. The decision of the Court may be found in file 61/2005B of the records of the Surrogate’s Court of the State of New York, County of Rockland, in New York.

This is not the first instance of Mr. Zucaro’s wrongdoings. All one has to do is google his name to determine other judgments in court cases which have been decided against him. — Angela Amengual Garnerville, New York

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19 Your Turn on My Turn

I loved the whole April issue, especially John Shuff’s column [My Turn] on Jamie and Steve Snyder. She is an unsung hero! — Annie Green Boca Raton Just wanted to tell you how pleased I am every month to read John Shuff’s My Turn column on the last page of Boca magazine. I too find nostalgia in old Boca and those who shaped the lives of my parents, friends and I. It is so cool that many of the folks you focus on are the same people—like John and Margaret Shuff—that I remember fondly from my youth. I certainly hope this

finds you well, and I very much appreciate your magazine and what you and your family have contributed to the community. — John R. Hackett Boca Raton

Irish Ayes

Thank you so much for considering me to be in the magazine [March 2017]. You have no idea how much this means to me. I absolutely love how the story came out, and it was so cool to actually see myself in a magazine! I’m so glad I got to spread a little Irish culture in the Boca area. — Sarah Shapiro Jupiter

Thanks

I wanted to especially thank you for such a beautiful spread on the 50th Hospital Ball [March 2017]. We are so grateful! — Karissa Thomann Boca Raton Loved the piece in the [April 2017] issue [by Marie Speed] about her dog. I am such an animal lover, and I so appreciated it. Thank you so much for the great coverage of the Hospital Ball in the issue as well. Keep doing all the great things you do. — Sarah Pollack Boca Raton The Boating and Beach Bash was such an amazing event this year. I think

that terrific story you did [March 2017] on our balloon couple helped reach a lot of our attendees, alerting them to the fact that we offered this day to them for free. Lunch included. The magazine continues to shine under your leadership. — Jay Van Vechten Boca Raton

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You have been running an extremely offensive advertisement that targets women as objects. This one is particularly heinous. I am sure that you take pride in the quality of your magazine, but this ad degrades that quality… The ad by Excell Auto shows a woman leaning over with her behind in the air and her crotch just

showing, with the words, “You may not be the first, but do you really care?” This is inviting men to not care about the woman, the person, but to just think of how he can screw her. As long as he can have sex, it doesn’t even matter if she is a virgin; all that matters is the sex. There is enough violence against women in the world, enough rape. Do you have to encourage it? It is an ad that DOES NOT BELONG in your otherwise tasteful magazine. It is OFFENSIVE TO ALL WOMEN. I hope that you will no longer accept this ad or any like it. — Rosette Rubins Delray Beach

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FROM THE EDITOR

Wanderlust

It’s summertime, and that passport is talking to me By MARIE SPEED

hen I was reading Katie Wilson’s story about Barcelona this month (page 100), I found myself politely sidestepping my envy at her life (she lives in a village at the foot of the Pyrenees mountains and does things like make olive oil) in favor of drifting off into other times, other adventures. It is summertime, after all, and it feels like the whole world (at least the world on my Facebook) is off to Europe or Alaska or Indonesia. At the very least, people are spending months wearing cardigans either out west in the Rockies or up in Maine, shooing five-pound lobsters away. Once you’ve been a traveler and have really glommed onto the weird magic of immersing yourself in another culture, another place on the globe, another whole new experience, it’s almost impossible to live without that. Staying put in a place as wonderful as Boca Raton can’t compete with the urge to get out in the world. The smell of warm bread wafting from a Parisian bakery as the sun rises, the rocking of a train from Florence to Rome, the tinkling bells of a goatherd crossing a beach in Greece. Art museums, town squares, café after café, pink Saharan dunes, the blackened saints and gargoyles on ancient cathedrals, the dark blue Aegean Sea, the eyes of a thousand wildebeest on a moonless African night. There are so many places to see, and so little time. Sometimes the 22-year-old person living inside all of us just wants to throw off the apron, lock up the briefcase and say,“To hell with it. Time to get going.” Then the moment passes. And there we are again at work, at home or maybe sitting for the grandkids, and the world settles down all around us again like a big soft blanket. We tell ourselves maybe next year, and we get back to our lives and our to-do lists, our doctors’ appointments and our dinners with good friends. Maybe we have a date or there’s another wedding, the mile markers of a life that is moving on. That’s when it’s time to think of all the Katie Wilsons walking us through Barcelona, stopping at cafes for vermouth and tapas, sucking the soft centers out of grilled spring onions at a Calçotada. That’s when you make the story real and pick up a phone. Book a flight. Get moving. The time is now. And summer isn’t going to last forever.

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120

The minimum number of credits needed to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology at FAU

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Projected number of local elementary schoolers who will get backpacks from Boca Helping Hands. Each backpack has six meals, two snacks and two juice boxes, and is sent home with kids on Fridays for 35 weeks of the school year.

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The number of students of all grades district-wide eligible for free and reduced lunches and breakfasts in 2016. That’s 59.82 percent of all students.

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Total students enrolled at Spanish River High School in October 2016.

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Milk cartons sold in Palm Beach County public schools during the 2015-2016 school year. Sources: PBCSD Gold Report; PBCSD School Food Service

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Percentage of Americans who take a summer vacation

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5 THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT SUMMER ✤ Afternoon downpours

It’s prep time. If you can’t get a reservation in Manhattan or somewhere in Aspen, this is the bare minimum we suggest having on hand this season.

✓ WATER: One gallon per person, per day (3-day supply for evacuation, 2-week supply for home). ✓ FOOD: Nonperishable items, and this means more than Oreos and stuffed martini olives. Have a 3-day supply for evacuation and a 2-week supply for home. We like tuna, peanut butter, pasta with Rao’s prepared tomato sauce, beef jerky and about 25 things from Trader Joe’s that will keep forever. ✓ FLASHLIGHT ✓ BATTERY-OPERATED RADIO: When the power goes out and you’re in the middle of a nasty feeder band, you can crawl into the closet and let Channel 5’s Steve Weagle walk you through all the noise. ✓ EXTRA BATTERIES: No one knows what the big “D” batteries are for, but we know you should have them. Keep several of every size, just in case. ✓ ALL YOUR MEDS: Vodka may be considered a med.

✓ FIRST AID KIT: Most of these are never even opened, but it always makes you feel like a Boy Scout to have one. ✓ COPIES OF PERSONAL DOCUMENTS (BIRTH CERTIFICATES, PASSPORTS) AND SOME PHOTOS THAT YOU CANNOT REPLACE: Pretend you have eight minutes to leave the house, and make a list of what you would take. (Yes, you have to pack the spouse.) ✓ CELLPHONE WITH CHARGER (as if we need to remind you). ✓ CAN OPENER ✓ MATCHES OR BUTANE LIGHTER ✓ DUCT TAPE, PLASTIC SHEETING AND A “MULTIPURPOSE TOOL”: We have no idea what these items are for, or what “multipurpose tool” actually means, but this is probably sound advice. ✓ MOSQUITO SPRAY, A GOOD BOOK AND YOUR FAVORITE PILLOW Now you are all set. Hopefully buying all this stuff means you will never have to use it.

Locals sound off on issues affecting our community.

What is Boca’s best-kept summertime secret? “Chill out with the stars and planets at FAU’s observatory. (Yes, FAU has an observatory—with public viewing the first Friday and third Tuesday each month.) Certainly helps keep things in perspective.”

—ANDREA KNIBBS, PRINCIPAL, SMITH & KNIBBS, INC.

“Driving! Unlike the winter months when our streets are congested, it’s possible in summers to enjoy the quality of our roads, the luxurious architecture and the lovely tropical foliage while driving around our beautiful city.”

“The Boca Public Library—it’s a personal time-out. Or going to the beach in the late, late afternoon with a picnic in tow.”

—LISA M. LA PATO LONGTIME BOCA RESIDENT

—ROBERT WATSON, PH.D PROFESSOR AMERICAN STUDIES, LYNN UNIVERSITY

✤ Netflix bingeing ✤ A turtle walk before bed ✤ The Boca Ballroom Battle ✤ Snorkeling on clear days at Red Reef Park

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1. Adult milkshakes: You’re all grown up, so you can spike that milkshake now and then. We like the Guinness and Nutella version at Boca’s M.E.A.T. Eatery & Tap Room. 2. iPic premium seating: It’s 105 degrees in the shade, so splurge on a premium seat at the iPic theater in Mizner Park. Have a handcrafted adult beverage at Tanzy (and order another from your comfy reclining seat), snuggle up with that pillow, and while away a hot Saturday afternoon. 3. Really big expensive hat: We like the Barbados wide-brim hat by Helen Kaminski for a little summer glam. Available at hats.com. 4. Lobster: Mini lobster season is July 26-27, but the regular season starts August 6. We like ours grilled or broiled. See Pop’s, Old Dixie or Captain Frank’s for your fresh summer tail. 5. Pool toys: Kids will love the SwimWays Aqua Rider pool noodle with animal heads and tails (bestproducts.com). Adults will appreciate the hands-free Lazy Bunz water float and its handy floating drinks caddy (lazybunz.com).

TOP 10 SOUNDS OF SUMMER Summertime in the City Lovin’ Spoonful, 1965 Summer Breeze Seals & Croft, 1972 Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran, 1958 Summertime Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, 1957 Hot Fun in the Summertime Sly and the Family Stone, 1969 Wipe Out The Surfaris, 1963 Under the Boardwalk The Drifters, 1964 Surfin’ Safari The Beach Boys, 1962 Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer Nat King Cole, 1963

“I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid. —Jimmy Buffett

In the Summertime Mungo Jerry, 1970

Summer Style Jasmine Otero (above), owner of Jasmin Boutique in Royal Palm Place (101 Plaza Real S.) and partner and buyer at Swatches & Rags (900 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach), gave us her take on the looks you’ll be seeing this summer. “When you hear summer fashion in Boca, the first thought you have is probably comfort. This summer’s trends will make you feel fresh and feminine with every look. The best part of these trends is that they are fun and flirty—and add confidence in every look.”

BOLD STRIPES: Mix and match striped tops with different colored bottoms, and if you want to elongate your figure, opt for vertical stripes

FLOWER POWER: Floral dresses with eye-popping bold blooms energize a summer look. If head-to-toe floral prints are overwhelming to you, opt for a floral print short or skirt. It’s also important to match the right print with your body type. Smaller printed florals look best on a petite woman, while bigger prints look best on a full-figured woman. Remember that fabrics with dark backgrounds will make you look thinner. Conversely, fabrics with lighter backgrounds and dark prints will increase body size.

DAZZLING BRIGHTS: Think Fuscia, Scuba Blue, Primrose Yellow. And get out of the traditional mindset of wearing color on color. Dare to be bold with fuscia bottoms and primrose tops. You can incorporate this trend with accessories such as bright sunglasses and jewelry to complete your look.

OPEN SHOULDER: Everyone has great shoulders. Open shoulder, cold-shoulder and one-shoulder tops and dresses are truly having their day in the fashion industry—and they look great on women of every age. (The cold-shoulder is most functional, as you can still wear a bra for support.)

POOL SLIDES: Ditch the thong sandals! Designers from Gucci to Chanel rocked the runways with their multi-functional slides. DianeMay/june von Furstenberg 2017 • • • • bocamag.com one-shoulder dress

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“Sweeney Todd” WHERE: Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St., West Palm Beach WHEN: July 14Aug. 6 COST: $67 CONTACT: 561/514-4042 Beauty and brutality commingle in Stephen Sondheim’s singular 1979 musical about a demon barber and his culinary accomplice, who terrorize London by developing a new meaning for the term “mystery meat.” It’s funnier than it sounds.

WHERE: The Fillmore, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach WHEN: 8:30 p.m., Aug. 6 COST: $59-$95 CONTACT: 305/673-7300, livenation.com It seems like yesterday that Bill Maher was being threatened by a lawsuit from one Donald J. Trump, after alleging in a comedy bit that Trump may, perhaps, be the child of an orangutan, and that only the release of the billionaire’s full birth certificate could disprove the assertion. Nothing came from this litigious confrontation between two of the most inflated egos in popular culture, but it proved a harbinger of humor to come. Trump has a different job title now, one that has been keeping Maher’s weekly talk show,“Real Time,”stocked with his best material since the George W. Bush administration. Expect Palm Beach’s most famous semi-resident to consume much of the oxygen in Maher’s new standup tour, which will likely address his favorite themes—from religion to political correctness to the media.

“Deep Line Drawings” by Carlos Luna WHERE: Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton WHEN: Aug. 7-Feb. 11 COST: $10-$12, free for students CONTACT: 561/392-2500, bocamuseum.org

Blondie and Garbage

WHERE: Hard Rock Live, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood WHEN: Aug. 8 COST: $50-$90 CONTACT: 954/797-5531, myhrl.com Female-fronted power-pop from two generations headlines this nostalgic jaunt, aka the “Rapture and Rage” tour. Former punk sensations Blondie support their star-studded new album “Pollinator,” while ‘90s hitmakers Garbage continue their tour of 2016’s epic “Strange Little Birds.”

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WHERE: AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd.,

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WHEN: 8 p.m. July 13 COST: $51 and up CONTACT: 786/777-1000, aaarena.com When Roger Waters tours, this man tours. Most recently, the Pink Floyd frontman and theatrical impresario spent four years performing his band’s“The Wall”in its entirety, a stint that included two South Florida appearances years apart: That’s two motorized warthogs, two gargantuan mother inflatables, two walls comprising 424 bricks apiece. How can Waters top this production, which holds the record for the highest-grossing tour ever for a solo musician? Find out at his latest concert spectacular,“Us and Them,”taken from the “Dark Side of the Moon”hit of the same name. The song’s prescient references to income inequality inspired this tour, conceived amid the populism and divisiveness of the 2016 presidential election. Waters has promised 75 percent of classic Pink Floyd and 25 percent new material, all of it woven into a narrative through-line about those nasty haves and the pitchfork-wielding have-nots.

Artist Carlos Luna is the embodiment of South Florida’s melting pot. A Cuban exile, he emigrated to Mexico in 1991 and then to Miami nearly a decade later, absorbing the customs, rituals and rich artistic heritage of each country. Cuban jargon, Mexican Day of the Dead-style imagery and even European cubism inform his dynamic oeuvre, which stretches from paintings and drawings to sculpture, tapestry and installations. Rootless, restless and forever innovating, Luna continues to integrate new styles and formats by, in the case of this exhibit, gazing into the distant past: The exhibition will feature new works on amate, a type of paper formed from natural tree bark whose practice dates to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

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arissa Govic knows what she wants: “I want to be a pop star,” she says. On Feb. 1, Marissa, a seventh-grader, released her first album on iTunes. The four-song EP is called“Trending Now,”which is also her first single. The official video was published on YouTube on Feb. 9, and it has more than 250,000 views and nearly 1,000 likes. Marissa was reared in Florida and New York City, but Boca Raton is home now. The 13-year-old sings, dances, acts and plays both piano and violin. She has experience on the stage, television and in the recording studio, and has even done live-on-the-redcarpet TV interviews for the Teen Choice Awards. When she’s not busy chasing her pop-star dream, Marissa is busy with academics and extracurricular activities at Saint Andrew’s School. In February, she competed in an ac-

ademic challenge in Chinese language and culture, with two days of reading, writing and speaking the language, and learning about its social aspects. She also hosted a“hunger project” for the charity Feeding Children Everywhere.“People are unaware of how many children are hungry,” she says. Marissa had to raise the money for the event (about $5,000), and recruited student volunteers to participate in the hands-on challenge. She supervised more than 150 students who formed an assembly line and packaged 20,000 single-serving meals to feed the hungry in Miami-Dade County. It’s an exciting life and Marissa is thriving, but time management is an issue.“My mom tells me where I have to be, and with before-school and afterschool stuff, there’s always something that has to be done. Weekends are so busy. It’s hard to find time to spend with my friends.” And then there’s family time. The Govics are a tight-knit group. Marissa’s mom, Ann Marie, is a local Realtor, and her father, Mario, is a wealth manager in Palm Beach; she also has a little brother, Jack, age 9. They love to travel and spend time together, but the family sometimes has to plan around Marissa’s hectic schedule. Marissa names Demi Lovato and“Glee” veteran Lea Michele as role models.“I love Demi’s music. Lea Michele is someone I admire. She’s gone from the stage to TV to releasing her own album and singing on her own tour to writing a book. She’s been through a lot and handled it well,”Marissa says. Most of her peers support her, and most of the feedback she’s gotten has been positive, but Marissa has endured some haters and trolls.“It’s really hard,”she says.“You just have to find a way to get past it.”

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Two Broads from Boca This female duo is heating up the Boca airwaves Written by MARY THURMAN YUHAS

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t first, “2 Broads from Boca” sounds, well, very un-Boca. And that’s fine with Dawn Graubert and Amy Schreibman, co-hosts of the Boca Raton-based, weekly internet/ radio/television show. As the show’s name implies, the hosts don’t tiptoe around the tough subjects they tackle. Health, relationships and life as a woman, mother, employee, wife and friend have been discussed openly on the program since its launch in July 2016. By design, an occasional softball airs, such as finding the best camp for your child. Graubert says, “Our mission is to openly discuss topics that are usually talked about behind closed doors with candor and compassion while keeping it light.” Schreibman adds,“Life is hard. We sometimes feel alone when going through things. Our show makes people know they’re not alone, and there are always resources out there.”

It started when the two Boca Raton residents met in June 2016. They had an immediate connection and were surprised to learn how much they have in common. Both are married to physicians, have children and are passionate about wellness and helping others. Not to mention the wicked sense of humor they share. Between them, they have enough letters behind their names to form nearly half of the alphabet. Graubert, 50, holds a masters in education and is a certified health coach. She cohosts The Brooklyn Café Monday through Friday from noon to 1 p.m. on iHeartRadio 1230 AM WBZT. Fifty-four-year-old Schreibman has a doctorate in nursing, is a nurse practitioner and is an adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, where she teaches Medical Surgical Nursing I and II and Critical Care Nursing. Concern for others prompted them to take a

shot at starting a show. With more than a year’s worth of experience behind her, Graubert knew what to do. She contacted Freddy Santory—of Amp2TV Productions and co-host and producer of The Brooklyn Café—to produce it. Next they found a venue. The two broads were on their way. In the past nine months—as they continue sharing their message of love and hope one story at a time—they’ve learned a lot. Schreibman says,“I have learned patience, and I have learned to listen much better.” Graubert agrees.“I have learned that everyone has a story and a journey that has brought them to where they are.” “2 Broads from Boca” airs every Monday from 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on 95.3 FM, 1470 AM and the “2 Broads from Boca” Facebook page. It streams live on Periscope and is on Manhattan Cable, a public access channel.

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SUMMER TREND WATCH:

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This season’s whimsical shoes are feminine, flirty and fun.

• Floral summer boho • “Jorts” (jean shorts) • Bold ruffled sleeves • Denim everything • Statement earrings —harpersbazaar.com

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RUFFLED SNAKESKIN SANDAL by Saint Laurent, $995

MONTEZUMINA SPIKED SANDAL by Christian Louboutin, $1,295

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STRIPED BLOUSE by Petersyn, $220, from Saks Fifth Avenue Boca Raton

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Try the cocktail crafted especially for Boca magazine—and our readers. Written by ALLISON LEWIS

S Michael Ginsberg and Ryan Mishkin

DEL BOCA VISTA 2 ounces Florida Kush 3/4 ounce South Beach Syrup Co. Organic Agave Nectar

ummers in Boca can be off-the-charts hot, so a cool, revitalizing beverage is just what the doctor ordered. I challenged Michael Ginsberg, a mixologist and co-founder of Florida Kush, to make a refreshing summer cocktail exclusively for Boca readers to enjoy at home (or on the boat, or at the beach). Meet the Del Boca Vista, a mildly sweet drink cold enough to escape the heat, if only for a few moments. The slightly foamy, slightly pink concoction uses fresh watermelon, cucumber and lime juice, plus Florida Kush and South Beach Syrup Co.’s

3 slices cucumber 3 watermelon chunks (or substitute watermelon puree)

organic agave nectar, all shaken up and served over ice. Florida Kush is a 100 percent blue agave spirit that comes from fermenting and distilling agave nectar. Unlike traditional tequila, Florida Kush uses blue agave from Jalisco, Mexico, which is distilled in Fort Lauderdale by South Florida

Distillers. Ginsberg launched Florida Kush and South Florida Spirit Co. in 2016, with co-founders Jake Bereson, Nicholas Kiraly and Ryan Mishkin. Both companies are extensions of South Florida Syrup Co., which Ginsberg and Kiraly started five years ago in Miami Beach. Ginsberg says the Del Boca Vista is a great daytime drink, and he recommends pairing it with salmon for a light lunch. “It brings out a great flavor profile of the fish,” he says. The Del Boca Vista is summer simplicity at its best. Serve up a pitcher’s worth at the next afternoon luncheon.

1/2 ounce fresh lime juice Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake well and strain over ice. Garnish with cucumber skin, lime wedge and watermelon chunks.

WEB EXTRA: Watch Michael make the Del Boca Vista in a step-by-step video at BOCAMAG.COM/VIDEO.

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Soft-shell crabs These seasonal crustaceans have taken the summer by storm GENERAL TIPS FROM EPICURIOUS. COM:

• Prep your toppings first so you can sprinkle them on the crabs while they are hot off the pan. • Flour is key; an extremely dry, coated exterior will turn out a crunchier crab. • Keep the oil really hot; you almost need to flash-fry a crab to get that crispy texture. • Flip the crabs once only.

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e can’t keep them on the shelf,” says Arturo Gismondi, executive chef/owner of Trattoria Romana and La Nouvelle Maison, when he talks about soft-shell crabs. “It’s one of the biggest phenomenons I’ve ever seen, after all my decades in the food business. “When I first saw soft-shell crabs, I said, ‘Really? People eat that? The whole thing?’ And then I tried it and understood. I’d call it an acquired taste. We get them delivered two times a week, and they’re gone quickly. “We had a customer who ordered it as an appetizer, then after he ate that, he canceled his dinner order and had them for dinner, too. I’ve never seen anything like it.” The soft-shell (blue) crab season only runs from April through September, when the crabs are molting. They are caught and cooked before the larger hard shells can form. Follow these cooking tips after hauling in your catch from the seafood market.

Owner Arturo Gismondi and Executive Chef Gregory Howell

• Clean crabs before cooking them. This is fairly easy, as Julia Child remarked, and the technique is included in the La Nouvelle Maison recipe. Or you can ask the fish market to do it for you. • Bigger may be better. Trattoria Romana and La Nouvelle Maison use the largest, or “whale,”crabs, which are at least five and a half inches across, point to point.

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• Cook crabs the same day you buy them, Gismondi says. “The Trattoria Romana recipe is an oreganata style, and I pan sauté them first, then crisp them up in the oven.” Executive Chef Gregory Howell’s recipe for La Nouvelle Maison calls for deep-frying crabs with a traditional tempura batter, then adding a pickled ginger and chive butter sauce for a French dish. — Lynn Kalber

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A Whole New World

Discover a universe below the sea, one shipwreck at a time Written by ALLISON LEWIS

The invasive lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific, is hurting the ecosystems of South Florida. It populates easily and has 18 venomous spines used to catch prey, namely native fish species. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission encourages divers and anglers to capture and remove lionfish from the ocean. Visit force-e.com for more information, or contact the FWC at myfwc.com.

Blue Heron Bridge at Phil Foster Park Voted“Best Shore Dive in the USA,” this snorkel spot on the Intracoastal Waterway in Lake Worth is prime snorkeling real estate to see batfish, frogfish, octopus, pipefish, seahorses and sea turtles, to name a few. It’s ideal for new divers, snorkelers and photographers because of its shallow depth between 5 and 20 feet. Grab a pair of goggles, a set of fins and a snorkel, and take in the sights. Breakers Reef Named after the Breakers Hotel, this West Palm Beach site is great for Open Water-certified divers, with depths of 50 to 65 feet. The east side of the dive is deeper, and divers who want to lobster or spearfish are allowed to do so. In the spring and summer, keep an eye out for green, hawksbill and loggerhead turtles.

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Lady Luck Wreck This casino-themed shipwreck in Pompano Beach gives divers the chance to explore 16 rooms, the captain’s deck, engine room, galley and surroundings. Look for the statue of the mermaid cocktail waitress, the faux casino in the main deck and other details, which were designed by Pompano artist Dennis MacDonald. Nikole Heath of Force-E in Boca Raton says this is one of the most popular dives in the area and is between 80 and 130 feet deep. San Remo Reef For a change of pace, try night diving or drift diving at San Remo Reef. The caves and overhangs make for great scenery and are home to octopus, squid and tropical fish. This reef is only 3 miles north of the Boca Inlet, and the depth ranges from 45 to 65 feet.

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Sea Emperor Wreck, Boca Raton

Sea Emperor Wreck Also known as the“Aqua Zoo,”the Sea Emperor in Boca Raton is the perfect place to spot moray eels, stingrays and nurse sharks. The barge is upside down and contains 1,600 tons of drainage culverts at a depth of 70 feet. A second dive site, the United Caribbean wreck, is only 300 feet south of the“Aqua Zoo” and is easily accessible—just follow the coral trail.

San Remo Reef, Boca Inlet

Blue Heron Bridge: Phil Foster Park

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Core Medical Group Supports Local Business Owners Who Help Clients Stay Fit

“IN ORDER TO STAY FIT AND HEALTHY YOU NEED THREE ELEMENTS… FOCUS ON FITNESS, EATING A HEALTHY DIET AND MAINTAINING A HORMONAL BALANCE. ” -Sidney Gordon, founder of the Core Medical Group

“When you’re traveling, it’s impossible to find a healthy meal,” he said. Then, while working in the Houston area, Pagni discovered a small shop that provided healthy and tasty takeout meals at an affordable price. Soon he was buying a week’s worth of meals at a time. Pagni was so impressed with the idea that a few years later he decided to bring the concept back to South Florida. Six years ago he created Fit Food Express, a business that provides portion-controlled take out meals that use only organic products or those using

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Dean Pagni was a man on the go. The former director of international finance for Office Depot, Pagni later worked as the chief financial officer for a turnaround company and frequently found himself on the road. What he couldn’t find was food that was good for him.

locally grown vegetables free of herbicides and pesticides. ‘The key was to provide great tasting portion-controlled meals made fresh at an affordable price,” Pagni says. Pagni is one of a handful of local business owners being recognized by Core Medical Group for their role in helping people throughout South Florida live a healthier lifestyle. “In order to stay fit and healthy you need three elements,” says Sidney Gordon, founder and CEO of Core Medical Group, which specializes in hormone replacement therapy. “You need to focus on fitness, eating a healthy diet and maintaining a hormonal balance. By providing food tailor-made for a healthy lifestyle, Dean is helping to keep people healthy and fit.” Pagni also helps people stay fit through his volunteer work in the community. When he’s

not hosting an occasional class on healthy eating in his Delray Beach store, Pagni visits local recovery centers in the area, to talk about nutrition and its role in recovery. He also supports a handful of non-profit organizations that encourage healthy lifestyles by occasionally providing healthy meals for events. A client of Core Medical Group, Pagni believes that he and Gordon share a common goal. “Core Medical is all about getting people to live as healthy a lifestyle as they can,” he says. “We’re both helping people feel better and live better.” Now 60 years old, Pagni says he is benefiting from the hormone replacement therapy he’s receiving at Core Medical. “It’s helped me gain my mental focus back and my energy level is as good as it was when I was 30,” he said. “When your energy level is at an optimal point, you just feel great all the time.” Pagni is pleased with the success of Fit Food Express and glad to be living well and feeling good. “I’m having the time of my life,” he said.

To help share what he’s discovered, Pagni is inviting customers to come into the store and receive 15 percent off the price of a total purchase by mentioning the code COREFOOD throughout the months of July and August. www.fitfoodexpress.com 302 NE 4th St, Delray Beach, FL 33444 Phone: (561) 330-4525 www.coremedicalgrp.com We have offices conveniently located in Delray Beach and Boca Raton. BOCA: 101 Plaza Real, Suite A Boca Raton, FL 33432 • 561.571.3321

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Progress or ruination? In Boca, dreaming big has always paid off big; maybe that’s how we need to look at the city today.

W M O R E C I TY WAT C H

Randy Schultz, former editorial page editor at the Palm Beach Post and a Boca resident, reports on city, county and statewide issues twice a week at bocamag.com. Catch his popular “City Watch” blog every Tuesday and Thursday for the latest buzz about Boca and beyond.

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e were talking about Boca Raton Regional Hospital, but in a way we were also talking about growth and development in Boca Raton. Around the table that April morning were CEO Jerry Fedele, Vice President for Strategic Affairs Dan Sacco and Marketing Director Tom Chakurda. The subject was Boca Regional’s quarter-billion-dollar upgrade. It’s not an expansion, because the number of beds won’t increase, but the move reflects how much the hospital has changed since it opened 50 years ago. The story of“The Miracle on Meadows Road” is familiar to many in the city. In 1962, Gloria and Robert Drummond’s two children died after being poisoned. They couldn’t get treated in time. Boca Raton had about 10,000 residents and no hospital. So Gloria Drummond resolved to start one. It opened in 1967 as Boca Raton Community Hospital. The name fit—at the time. Today, however, Boca Raton Regional Hospital resembles its former self the way a floppy disk resembles an iPhone. The new name also fits the time. The hospital touts its reputation not just to residents of Palm

Beach and Broward counties but also to seasonal residents in Palm Beach who don’t want to fly home for top-quality care. In roughly the last decade, Boca Regional has started an openheart surgery program and opened the Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute, the Marcus Neuroscience Institute, the Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute and the Irving and Barbara C. Gutin Center for Robotic Surgery. Fedele said the

robots cost $2 million. Boca Regional’s comprehensive stroke center is one of just 20 in the state. One of those accomplishments in such a short time would be impressive. To realize all of them outside of a large urban area with a national health care/academic cluster is astonishing. It is a transformation to serve what Fedele calls“an increasingly sophisticated patient population.” And who would criticize Boca Regional? Perhaps the hospital’s

neighbors, who are unhappy with plans for a large parking garage. (At deadline for this article, the project had received a favorable vote from the planning and zoning board but had not gone before the city council.) What Boca Regional has become and will become, however, only enhances the city. Yet in the March election we heard that Boca Raton is growing too fast, moving too fast, losing the city’s soul and ignoring the past. BocaWatch Publisher Al Zucaro, who unsuccessfully challenged Mayor Susan Haynie, called Boca Raton“a city under siege.” Demagoguery aside, the complaint isn’t new. We’ve heard it for more than three decades. We heard it during the debate over Mizner Park, which most residents now accept as much as they accept the transformed Boca Regional. More recently, though, many Boca Raton residents—like the hospital’s neighbors—actually are seeing what happens when a plan takes shape. The city council and the voters crafted the downtown plan in the early 1990s, just after Mizner Park opened. All those projects of the last CONTINUED ON PAGE 158

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ere at Boca magazine, we love Boca. We love being active in our community, and we love making positive contributions to it. Our events department gives us the opportunity to offer our partners innovative parties and celebrations designed to showcase their businesses and benefit our readers. Take a look at a few recent events below.

Savor the Avenue What: Delray magazine celebrated the ninth-annual Savor the Avenue event, which showcases fine downtown Delray restaurants and serves exquisite dinners at a “table” stretching for five blocks down the center of Atlantic Avenue. Delray magazine partnered with Delray’s Downtown Development Authority to host the event, and all proceeds benefited the Delray Beach Public Library. Salt7 took first place in the table decor contest for its outrageous tablescape, which featured a mirrored table, specially made chairs and flowery overhangs that dangled sparkling glass orbs.

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5 1 Steve Weagle, Laura Simon 2 K yle Gonzales of Salt7 won the table decor contest. 3 Amber Clark, Shaina Wizov 4 Kae Jonsons, Senada Adzem 5 J im Chard, Roy Simon, Jestena Boughton

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What: BMW showcased its vehicles at an elegant evening where guests had the opportunity to get behind the wheel and enjoy the BMW experience firsthand. After the rubber met the road, patrons had a chance to view fine jewelry at Diamonds by Raymond Lee. Potions in Motions provided food and cocktails.

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Mixology What: Tequila, mezcal, vodka and spirits were flowing at the second-annual Mixology event, which treated patrons to cuisine from the hottest restaurants in Boca and drink samples from more than 20 premium spirits brands. E&M Culinary, Events & Creative, Potions in Motions, Café Med Ristorante, Tanzy, Villagio, The Little Chalet, M.E.A.T. Eatery and Taproom, Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar, Bolay, Roots Italian Kitchen and 32 Bubbles provided the food, while Republic National Distributing Company provided the libations. Where: Mizner Park Amphitheater 1

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Everyday Heroes A local disrupter produces a high-tech hit Written by GARY GREENBERG

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e someone’s hero every day.” That’s the motto of MobileHelp, a Boca-based company that produces high-tech medical alarm systems. A job well done earns employees a superhero cape to display in their workplace. “Morale is pretty high around here,”says company CEO Rob Flippo as

he strolls around MobileHelp’s expansive office in the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University.“Saving thousands of lives a month makes you feel good.” The company saves lives with its revolutionary medical alarm systems. For about $40 a month, seniors and others with health issues can wear the devices and be just a push-button away

surprisingly, seniors were interested in getting out of their homes. Although most people think of mobility as being anywhere in the country, some of our customers were happy to just walk around the block or go to their mailbox without feeling vulnerable.” MobileHelp enjoyed a near five-year run as the only mobile alarm on the market before other

thing that also collects vital signs and monitors daily activities to report to a caregiver,”Flippo explains.“Our tablet-based version of the home unit is really going to open the door to providing a variety of health care applications to the user.” All this has translated into impressive growth, as MobileHelp has exploded from a couple dozen employees to more than

The industry has been around for more than 40 years, and up until we launched a mobile solution it really hadn't changed. We disrupted it in a significant way."

from getting help. Unlike its predecessors in the field, MobileHelp was the first to use GPS technology to work anywhere, rather than just in and about someone’s home. “The industry has been around for more than 40 years, and up until we launched a mobile solution, it really hadn’t changed,”Flippo says.“We disrupted it in a significant way.” Flippo, now 50, helped start the company with entrepreneur Scott Adams in 2008. At one point, they were raising seed money with a balsa wood model of the mobile unit. “We went from a rough prototype to shipping a product in 18 months,”he says.“Not

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companies began putting out similar products. “Of course, ours are better than everybody else’s,”says Flippo. The company continues to evolve to stay ahead of the field. One innovation is a system that monitors vital signs such as blood pressure and glucose levels to help medical professionals care for patients with chronic conditions. They’ve also developed a tablet-style device to replace the standard home base unit. And they’re working with technology to monitor a person’s gait to predict falls and prevent emergencies before they happen. “Our device is evolving from a personal medical alarm system to some-

170, including salespeople, customer service reps, logistics experts and engineers. They enjoy 23,000 square feet of office space that includes a ping-pong table and cornhole boards. “The team we have here is hands-down the best I’ve worked with in my business career,” says Flippo, who previously worked for Motorola and the health care alert software company Emergin.“The culture of being someone’s hero—whether it’s someone saving a life or [an accountant] getting a report to the CFO in time—is really shining through, and the employees embrace that.” When he’s not helping to save lives, Flippo enjoys spending time ››

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Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County (HFHSPBC) celebrates the power of over 100 empowered women leaders who joined together to raise funds and actually build safe, decent and affordable homes for two hard-working, low income families in our own backyard. Collectively creating the “Houses that Women Built” in South Palm Beach County – for its 2017 Annual “Women Can Do It” Women Build fundraising event - both harnessed and celebrated the unstoppable power of mission-driven women to come together to help transform their community with an inspiring “hand up, not a hand out”. “This was a wonderful opportunity for women to take action and help build, fundraise and advocate for good, affordable housing for everyone. Women Builders donned pink hard hats and learned how to wield a buzz saw or hammer like a pro, meeting other fantastic women who want to make a difference in their community and, most importantly, helping two families realize their dreams of not just building a house, but creating a home and changing their lives forever.” Women Build 2017 Honorary Chairwoman Mayor Susan Haynie, City of Boca Raton and President, Florida League of Cities

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Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County Chief Development Officer Kari Oeltjen: “This program has been purposely timed for the days leading up to Mother’s Day because Habitat for Humanity recognizes that women are uniquely positioned to nurture families and build communities. As impassioned women-empowerment drivers, the local and national Women Builders deliver significant impact that enriches lives and communities, one home at a time.”

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bear framed jerseys from a couple of the Ironman triathlons in which the 6-foot-4 former football and basketball player has competed over the past decade. The grueling race consists of a

2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26-mile marathon run. “When I turned 40 I started feeling old, so that was my answer to midlife crisis,”he says.“Running a business is like running

an Ironman. They both take a lot of time, and you have to keep going.You need to have the mindset that it’s a marathon versus a sprint, because if you don’t pace yourself, you’re going to burn out.”

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rish-born John Crean is a bundle of green energy. The general manager of Boca Raton’s Broken Sound Country Club is a one-man environmental movement, transforming the gated community into a model of sustainability. Crean now irrigates Broken Sound’s two golf courses with reclaimed water from the city’s sewage treatment plant and helps fertilize them with compost generated by organic waste from the club. To attract wildlife, he’s built bird and bat houses, put in butterfly gardens and planted 8 acres of wildflowers. “You would be surprised what you can do with $15 worth of wildflower seed,” Crean says. “Our bees love them.” The bees are another one of his novel ideas. The courses house 22 beehives that produce more than 2,000 pounds of honey a year, which is given away to club members.

Those are just a sampling of Crean’s sustainability efforts, which have led to numerous accolades from environmental groups. Perhaps even more rewarding, they are catching on with other golfing communities. “By us reclaiming this water from the city, it opened up a corridor for Woodfield Country Club to take water, and then Boca West,” says Crean in his distinctive Irish brogue.“We’re getting more and more requests from our peers on how to be sustainable.” His latest brainstorm is to build blocks of carports with solar-paneled roofs and car lifts. They’ll ease both the parking crunch at the club and its electric bill. “Sustainability is not only good for the world, it pays off economically,”says Crean.“We’re investing money now to make money over the long term.”

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Charlotte’s Family Web

This attorney is helping families grow— and saving unwanted children Written by GARY GREENBERG

My father [late former Boca mayor Emil Danciu] inspired me to be an advocate for saving the planet and protecting the underprivileged." —Charlotte Danciu

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harlotte Danciu works out of a historic clapboard house on Delray Beach’s Swinton Avenue, a structure that looks better suited for a daycare center than a law firm office. “It’s very homey,” says the activist attorney, who specializes in adoption and surrogacy.“That’s very fitting, considering what we do.” What Danciu and her small team do is create families by matching up adoptive parents with mothers who can’t raise their babies, and find surrogates for people who want their own biological child but need help. “I love it,” she says about her work.“It’s very rewarding to make a difference in so many lives.” Danciu was born in Boca. Her late dad, Emil, was mayor a couple of times, and he instilled in her the conviction to fight for what she feels is right. “My father inspired me to be an advocate for saving the planet and protecting the underprivileged,” she says. And she does just

that, going anywhere to rescue unwanted newborns. “I’ve been in unimaginable situations,” she says.“I’ve gone to hotels to pick up babies born in bathtubs, and I’ve gone out to farms to pick up babies born in fields, and probably would have been left there if not for me.” She’s also fought battles on bigger stages, including some landmark legal cases. Perhaps the most celebrated case involved torpedoing Florida’s so-called Scarlet Letter Law, which required unwed mothers who wanted to put their babies up for adoption to publish their sexual histories in newspaper ads in an effort to notify the fathers. She’s even captured Hollywood’s attention, as producers have expressed interest in doing a TV drama based on her practice. But Danciu seems much more focused on helping her clients. “I feel very blessed to specialize in something that gives so very much to the world.”

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rainerspace is the elitist of elite workout spaces. It boasts every piece of equipment imaginable: weight machines, workout ropes, resistance bands, free weights, a boxing bag, a set of stairs, a jungle gym with monkey bars. It’s quiet, softly lit and free from distractions—the ideal fitness space. But the gym would just be a pretty place, if not for the trainers. “We firmly believe … that the most effective and safe way to transform your body and reach your physical goals is through the careful guidance of a fitness professional,”says Logan Skees, who opened Trainerspace late last year with Chris Brown and Cary Reichbach. Potential trainers withstand rigorous qualifications: emotional intelligence skills, certifications and

academic experience, repertoire building techniques and even weeklong internships. “We’ve completely reimagined what an exercise experience should be,”Skees says.“What matters most in fitness is the human connection … It’s you being inspired to develop a ... routine that allows you to reach higher degrees of your full potential.” Vivian Junger Silveira, a native Brazilian, is known as one of the toughest trainers.“She can deliver hard instructions through [an] energy of kindness and positivity,” Skees says. My first training session with Silveira started at the leg press. Seated, I pushed 100 pounds of weight away from me, then back for 12 reps. I dragged a heavy weighted bag across the room as fast as I could, put it down

and then completed pushups. I completed this circuit three times, then moved on to two more. They included (three times each): pulling a rubber band toward my chest while squatting; holding an 18-pound ball above my head, then alternating backward lunges; pulling myself up to a hanging disk and squeezing my shoulder blades; and running up and down the stairs as quickly as possible. I was dripping sweat, my face was flushed, and I was exhausted. Silveira asked how I felt, on a scale of one to 10. She gauges how a client feels post-training and adjusts as necessary. “She truly cares about her clients,”Reichbach says.“Her joy is not in receiving a paycheck, it’s the reward of elevating someone mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.”

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Mineral oils get a bad rap when it comes to skin care because they clog pores and cause breakouts. “Plant oils, like camellia oil or sunflower oil, are super-compatible with skin and can calm overactive sebum production in skin and heal oily skin over time,” Boinis says.

rysia Boinis believes in natural beauty, sans chemicals. This philosophy drives her organic makeup and skin care company, Vapour Organic Beauty, which she co-founded with Kristine Keheley in 2008. Before beauty, Boinis sold real estate in Palm Beach County. Then, she and Keheley designed and manufactured organic and natural skin care products for other commercial brands. The more Boinis learned about organic skin care, the more she realized its importance. But the organic makeup options weren’t spectacular.“The depth of color and performance of the products wasn’t what I was used to. Me and Kristine kind of looked at each other and said, ‘We can make some stuff that we want to use that has rich depth of color and beautiful texture but with none of the toxins.’” Vapour products are 70 percent organic ingredients and 30 percent natural mineral pigments and essential oils.“We’re taking these beautiful, natural raw ingredients like

beeswax, myrrh and camellia oil and mineral pigments and combining them to create luxurious, beautiful textures,”she says. “Nobody else in the industry does that.” Ironically, neither Boinis nor Keheley have a chemistry background.“I’m a self-taught herbalist, and Kristine is a painter. We approach our formulation in different ways. I like to think of it as plant alchemy,”Boinis says. Since the brand’s launch, its products have blossomed from about 32 options to more than 150. There are two foundations, 26 lipsticks, two primers and 13 eye shadow options in recyclable aluminum sticks. “The whole concept ... is that you can apply them directly from the packaging and pat to blend with your fingertips. We come from a philosophy that your hands are cleaner than any tool you’ve got in your makeup bag,”Boinis says. Vapour is based on sustainable manufacturing, is cruelty-free, and does not test on animals. The factory uses solar and wind power, too. “Every choice we make, we think about how it’s going to affect the health and beauty of the wearer and of the planet,” Boinis says.

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“Vapour” hints at super-light products that enhance natural beauty. It also refers to the process of extracting essential oil. “The essence of the plant rising, that steam is called a vapour. It really speaks to the power of the whole entire plant,” Boinis says.

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CoolSculpting freezes unwanted fat without surgery Written by ALLISON LEWIS

E ICE COLD FACTS CoolSculpting is the only FDA-approved treatment to eliminate fat without surgery. CoolSculpting reduces fat cells in a treated area between 20 to 25 percent. CoolSculpting treatments cost between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on the number of areas treated. Data from: coolsculpting.com

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ver had an ornery fat bulge that wouldn’t go away, despite a healthy diet and exercise? It’s a common issue for many people, and thankfully, there’s a solution. CoolSculpting is a noninvasive procedure that removes excess fat without the need for recovery or downtime. The process is simple, says Dr. Jacob Steiger, a board-certified facial plastic surgeon who practices in Boca and Delray. The procedure originates from the term cryolipolysis.“Cryo means ‘cold,’ and lipolysis means ‘destruction of fat cells,’” Dr. Steiger says. CoolSculpting literally kills fat cells by cooling them. However, no damage is done to skin, tissues or nerves. “Basically, we have these paddles. They go on the area of the body where [the patient has] excess fat, and we cool down to that temperature for a period of time,” Dr. Steiger says.“That sets off a chain of events where it causes irreversible damage to the fat cells, and over a period of the next two to three months, your body slowly clears out those dead fat cells from it, and you see the reduction.” The entire process usually takes about three months. Patients typically receive four applications per area, which takes about 35 minutes each. During the first week or

two, patients may experience numbness in the treated area(s). However, there are no restrictions immediately after a CoolSculpting treatment. “By the third to fourth week you start to notice a difference visually,” Dr. Steiger says.“[After] two months, 90 percent of the results [are visible], and then the last month is for the final 10 percent. But most people, at a month, really start noticing a difference.” Interested patients are evaluated at one of Dr. Steiger’s offices.“We see the areas that concern you and measure it out and tell you how many applications you need,”he says. Most individuals schedule CoolSculpting treatments on multiple areas of the body. Common treatment spots include love handles, muffin tops, bra straps and bellies. Although CoolSculpting has been around for less than a decade, it is gaining popularity. Dr. Steiger says it’s a procedure he performs every day. “It’s pretty amazing. I’ve been doing it for seven years now. People are super-happy,”Dr. Steiger says.“People like the idea of having a nonsurgical way, [with] no down time, to improve the areas that, before, you could only have surgery with a longer recovery to treat. It’s been a tremendous response.”

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THE BOCA INTERVIEW

Harry Benson at his home in Wellington, circa 2008

From rock icons to presidents to war zones, this Wellington snowbird has been photographing history and culture for more than five decades. Written by JOHN THOMASON

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From 1960 onward, when history happened, Harry Benson was there to document it. Born in Scotland in 1929, Benson beat other photographers for jobs—sometimes literally—on London’s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street. He was a staff photographer for the London Daily Express when he received an assignment to photograph the Beatles’ first tour of Paris in 1964. His archive of the band’s nearly threeweek residency in the City of Light encompasses some of the most iconic and uninhibited images of the Beatles in rock history, from the Fab Four pillow-fighting in their hotel room to perusing their trove of fan mail to enjoying Pepsis and cigarettes in the hotel bar. The shoot catapulted Benson to the international stage, where he’s remained for more than 50 years. His catalog of celebrity portraits, contracted by the top magazines in the country, is endless. He received exclusive access to Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, Joe Namath’s bachelor pad, and Truman Capote’s masked balls. He shot the Bouvier Beale mother-daughter team, the troubled recluses of Grey Gardens, three years before the Maysles brothers’ documentary brought national attention to their story. Benson has photographed every U.S. president since Eisenhower; the erection and destruction of the Berlin

Wall; and the Mississippi riots of 1966. He was the first photographer to capture the newly slain body of Robert F. Kennedy, a man he considered a friend, and multiple times he has feared for his life on the job, most notably when documenting the Troubles in Northern Ireland. “In the second half of the 20th century, Harry has taken some of the most extraordinary images of our society, of our culture, of living history,” says Holden Luntz, the gallerist on Worth Avenue who represents Benson.“I think he’s gotten his camera in front of more great people and more great events than anyone else, and once it’s there, he’s always known what to do with it. He has an uncanny instinct for what makes for a great picture.” Six books have been compiled of Benson’s work, with a seventh on the way, and this year saw the national release of “Harry Benson: Shoot First,” a documentary about his legacy featuring effusive praise from talking heads ranging from Dan Rather to Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin to Donald Trump. Benson, now 87, is a Wellington snowbird with a house in the Palm Beach Polo Club. Inside the Holden Luntz Gallery, and over dinner at Pizza Al Fresco across the street, Benson discussed his career in an extensive conversation with Boca Raton.

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77 Harry always says he likes to take pictures that can’t be repeated. They exist for the moment. And when you look at them, they do stop time. He takes the pictures with enough bite and edge that they come alive again.” –Holden Luntz, Benson’s Palm Beach gallerist

When you were taking those Beatles shots in 1964, did you have the feeling of, ‘Wow, I have something really special here?’ No. In fact, I turned the job down when I was told about it, late at night. The phone rang, and my editor said,“We’d like you to go to Paris in the morning with the Beatles.” I told them I couldn’t go, because I was going to Africa to do a story on a year after the independence—Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania. I was a serious journalist. I didn’t want to do a rock group. My editor said,“That’s fine, go to Africa.”And the phone goes off five minutes later:“Harry, the editor says you’re going to Paris.”And I wasn’t too happy, but you do what you’re told. So I went to Paris. Before they opened at the [Olympia Theatre], they went and did a gig out in Fontainebleau, outside of Paris. Before the Beatles came on, I went back to my car for another piece of equipment. I’m walking back in, the Beatles came on, and I knew I was on the right story. It was in Paris when they broke through, meaning they were hitting No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 on the charts. When I went on it, I went on a music story. Within three days, it had become a news story. It was sensational. The pillow fight was the night they were told they were No. 1 in America, with“I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

Benson's images of Martin Luther King Jr., the destruction of the Berlin Wall, and Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball

We put these celebrities on pedestals, and the great thing about that shot is they’re just acting like people. That’s right. They were young guys, and they were in a fancy hotel. They could drink what they wanted.

Did you have the sense that this is music people would be listening to 60 years from now? No, because the Beatles themselves were talking about no more than 15 months. Lennon and McCartney were talking about doing Broadway and West End shows. George wanted to be a classical guitarist. Ringo wanted to own a ladies’ hairdresser. That’s the way it was—a hit song, and then you’re out of it.

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After that shoot, did you take a liking to shooting figures from pop culture? No, I just did what I was told. I would do any piece of shit that came up. I did all kinds of jobs. I was definitely not a rock and roll photographer. Because after you do the Beatles, who wants to do Hall & Oates? I did a bit on the Stones. I did the Who. I did quite a bit on Michael Jackson.

You have shots of his Neverland Ranch that nobody had shot before. How did you gain his trust? I’m Scottish, and I would wear a Scottish tweed jacket. And he loved it. So in my career with Michael Jackson, he had taken three of my tweed jackets off my back.

So in a sense, you bribed him with clothes? [Laughing] Yeah. He was comfortable. I liked him, and he was a tremendous talent.

Have you photographed anyone who was too stubborn to accommodate your vision? Michael Jackson at his Neverland Ranch, and Ethel Kennedy in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination

BENSON’S TALENTED FAMILY

Benson and his wife, Gigi, have two children who inherited their father’s creativity. Wendy Benson is an actress with television credits such as “Mad Men,” “Desperate Housewives” and “The X-Files.” Tessa Benson is a writer whose outlets have included Los Angeles magazine and the influential website Daily Candy. Both are married to husbands in the entertainment industry.

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You get some that are nasty. Somebody stupid like Sylvester Stallone—“I don’t like that angle.” Oh, shut the f*** up, you piece of shit. You go into every situation not taking it for granted. When I hear I’ve got a very nice, wonderful person, or I hear that someone’s a real problem, it’s the nice ones I know are manipulators. But when you’ve got a difficult one, it’s worth looking into. Someone like a Bobby Fischer, or a Nixon, they were difficult.

Your famous photograph of Greta Garbo swimming at a public beach has some detractors, particularly her family. Has there been any time in your career when you feel you’ve crossed the line into an invasion of privacy? The only time I’d feel bad about it is if I didn’t take the picture. Because that’s my business.You must never see the other person’s point of view. There’s only one point of view. That’s mine. It’s your call—if you choose not to do it, fine. But I know that if I hadn’t photographed Bobby Kennedy when he was dying … people have asked me,“Did you have nightmares afterward?”I said, “Yes, I do wake up in the night, and I do think about it, but I don’t have nightmares.”I said,“Do you know what would give me nightmares? If I hadn’t have taken the pictures.”Because that’s my business.

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Is there anyone on your bucket list you haven’t photographed yet? Yes, I’d like to photograph Putin. Because he’s sinister, and someone that can swing an election. He’s worth looking at. But surprisingly, we haven’t got many characters like we used to have in America.

What do you mean by characters? Like Andy Warhol. Truman Capote. They made the world go ‘round, and we haven’t got them anymore.

Do you feel like some of your best images are the kind that you just happen upon? I think all of my best work is spontaneous. It’s why I don’t like studios. Because you can go in a studio for five minutes and then better it. But a good photograph is a glimpse and gone forever. It can never happen again.

So you prefer the hardcore photojournalistic assignments over portraits? I’ve always wanted to do the hard stuff, but I never wanted to be a peddler of gloom. Life goes up and down, and that’s how I wanted my photographs to be. I could do something happy in the morning, then the riot starts at 5 o’clock. It’s like changing a channel. And I’m following a camera.

Meaning it has its own life? That’s right. The last thing I want to think about is the camera.

You could go to Syria right now and be a peddler of gloom, and make money off those shots.

From top left, Harry Benson and John Lennon, with Ronald Reagan, with Paul McCartney and photographing John F. Kennedy Jr.

Yes, but money has never been what motivated me at all—or I would have done advertising.

What was your No. 1 motivation? To take good photographs. And be the best I could be. And that comes from working on Fleet Street, where it was very competitive. But I also enjoyed beating the shit out of other photographers. It was fun!

Did you always see what you were doing as art? No. When I hear the word art, I go for my revolver. It sounds so pretentious—I would never say it’s art. It’s an embarrassing word. It makes me shiver.

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Few figures are more central to Boca Raton’s legacy than ADDISON MIZNER, the trailblazing architect whose pink palette and smorgasbord of influences combined to form the MediterraneanRevival style that still defines the city. As legend has it, this bon vivant of tropical leisure was also quite a partier, hosting epic shindigs with entertainment by Irving Berlin and George Gershwin. In that spirit of celebration, we—along with Addison—invite you to break out a noisemaker and cheer the best and the wildest from another year in paradise.

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BEST NEW RESTAURANT

Like we needed another Italian restaurant in Boca. Or did we? We know we’re the sixth borough, but New York transplants have just about reconstituted Little Italy here. The latest entry is Roots Italian Kitchen, and it may be the last word when it comes to real homemade Italian food. Try the grilled octopus salad, the homemade gnocchi or one of everything.

BEST EMERGING CULINARY WARS FOR FOOD BOWLS: Bolay at the Polo Shoppes vs. Fresh Kitchen at Park Place

Yuri Kouzenkov and Chef Mike Latimore; below, linguini with clam sauce

FOR CHEESECAKE: Rappy’s (now known as Park Place Deli) at Park Place challenges Junior’s at Mizner Park and the granddaddy of them all, The Cheesecake Factory on Glades Road FOR JUICERS: Java Juice vs. Raw Juce RESTAURANT VS. RESTAURANT Any place that serves brunch, especially those with build-your-own-Bloody-Mary bars

BEST DELI

Ben’s kosher deli wins (again) for authentic Jewish specialties and one of the longest menus in Boca. But we’re partial to the Ronnie’s Tastemaster sandwich, described as“Where the meats meet. Something for everybody piled high on rye. With Russian dressing and coleslaw.”A well-deserved nod goes to Park Place Deli for its matzo ball soup. In the Italian deli category, we salute V&S Deli for every lovingly made sandwich, especially the Italian sub.

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We love Chops Lobster Bar (now celebrating 10 years in Boca) for its Happy Hour menu from 5 to 7 p.m., especially the grown-up martinis, the sirloin bacon cheeseburger and the lobster roll.

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BEST DATE NIGHT RESTAURANT We like to reserve the corner seats at the bar at La Nouvelle Maison (bars are always more fun) and sip the first Beaujolais Nouveau of the season in November. But this little cozy spot works all year long with sumptuous French food, from the pâté to the Duck a l’Orange to the steak tartare and the rack of lamb. This is a fitting homage to La Vieille Maison, its namesake, and a good reason to add an Edith Piaf station to Pandora for the ride over.

DESSERTS THAT ARE WORTH EVERY CALORIE Junior’s cheesecake The Italian ricotta torte at Bedner’s Eggnog cheesecake with gingersnap crust and Italian cream cake at Josie’s in Boynton Beach (Ashley Roehrig is a pastry chef genius).

Junior’s Cheesecake

CHEESECAKE: AARON BRISTOL • LA NOUVELLE MAISON: EDUARDO SCHNEIDER

SPLURGE-WORTHY

Trattoria Romana is loud, robust and flatout delicious. However, its fans will swear it’s worth every lira with each Romanesque bite, from its famous homemade gnocchi to what some swear is the best Bolognese sauce in town. A mega hit since 1993, Trattoria Romana has all the favorites plus an antipasti bar with imported meats and cheeses that is unrivaled in Boca. So what if dinner here is a tad more than three coins in a fountain? Loosen the belt a few notches and just mangia. Jennifer Putnam

BEST DO-OVER Ouzo Bay at Mizner Park is dazzling. The space is fresh and bright, with a luxurious vibe. An icy raw bar displays massive lobster tails and prawns, and the menu ranges from Greek Isles to fresh seafood and steaks. There’s a vast outdoor patio and a clubby cigar room. It’s in the middle of everything and also has Special Events and Private Dining Sales Director Jennifer Putnam.

SPORTS BAR

The Boca Ale House is a solid favorite, but the Bru’s Rooms in Deerfield and Delray are standing-room-only during college football season.

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FOOD & DRINK

REBEL HOUSE: LIBBY VOLGYES • FOOD: CRISTINA MORGADO

Rebel House

REFRESHINGLY DIFFERENT Rebel House is still the kooky kid on the block, the place with the quirky good menu that makes ordering bites oh so difficult. Offerings have included a pickle jar, Bimini bread, wingettes, roasted veggie panzanella, New Orleans shrimp, Charm City burgers. And that’s before you get to the more conventional entrées. In a town full of steakhouses and Italian, white linen and seared tuna, Rebel House is a fun alternative, the kind of restaurant where you know someone is wide awake, dreaming up what’s next in the culinary incubator.

FOOD CRAZE(S) WE WANT TO BE OVER

Roger Brock

GOURMET CLUB FOOD

Nick Morfogen

Boca West, led by executive chef Roger Brock, and Pine Tree Country Club in Delray, which snagged the legendary Nick Morfogen from 32 East, offer far more now than club food. It’s seriously fine dining. Membership does indeed have its privileges.

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ü Avocado toast ü Brussels sprouts ü Short ribs ü Lobster mac ‘n cheese, especially if it’s been “truffled.” Ditto for anything that’s been “truffled.” ü Craft cocktails ü Phony “farm-totable” labels ü Coconut water

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NEIGHBORHOOD BAR

The Sail Inn in Delray is in a class by itself (of course they don’t serve food—this is a bar after all). In Boca the genre is still hanging in there with The Wishing Well at Royal Palm Place and, out west, the Brickyard Restaurant and Brewery.

SPECIAL OCCASION DINING

Latitudes at the Delray Sands with chef James King at the helm and a beachside view is pretty much all she wrote. The distant clink of martini glasses in the bar, a full summer moon emerging from that dark blue sea, and a menu with an actual section called“Seafood—Simply Prepared”is the stuff of dreams.

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MIXOLOGIST WORTHY OF THE TITLE

Adam Seger at Tanzy is a liquid magician. He demonstrates his latest creations in person at the bar and on screen before the movies (think iPic next door)—kind of a buzz preview.

FINE DINING THAT WON’T BREAK THE BANK

Josephine’s, Dorsia and Sapphire spring to mind. But there are more. In fact, the gold standard—good ol’ Max’s Grille—never disappoints. And the Sunset Menu at Uncle Tai’s has been a longtime favorite.

CRAZE(S) WE LOVE

Nitrogen-infused ice cream at Phenomenom

The Bowl is bowling us over. Acaí bowls, poke bowls, grain bowls. Mermaid toast is around the corner (beet juice-colored cream cheese on toast, a spin on today’s avocado toast); ditto ice cream rolls with different toppings and nitrogen ice cream bars (try Phenomenom at Park Place). Everyone is careening toward super-healthy vegan menus, and there’s even a trend toward “organic nostalgia foods,” which may be an oxymoron but is likely something like farm-raised bison meatloaf. And cake pops. Fancy ones. (See Sweet Guilt by Angelica in Sunrise.) Did we mention pastry and wine bars, a.k.a. this year’s version of the book club?

BEST TAKEOUT FOR WHEN YOU’RE TOO TIRED TO COOK DINNER

How much do we love the Delivery Dudes? Let us count the ways. Or write a love letter.

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APPETIZERS WE ALWAYS ORDER Mario’s eggplant stack Seared tuna at Max’s Grille Wood-fired artichoke at Houston’s Smoked fish dip at Seafood World The Torta Primavera at Arturo’s Fried oysters or calamari at Rack’s; we also love the $1 oysters at Happy Hour

Joyce DeVita

George Petrocelli

HOSPITALITY KING AND QUEEN

MONDAY Rack’s ($1 oysters in season) TUESDAY El Camino (Taco Tuesdays)

KING EMERITUS: Jay DiPietro, a.k.a. the Godfather of

WEDNESDAY Rocco’s Tacos or Brio in the Shops at Boca Center

Country Clubs, who retired this year from Boca West.“Mr. D” is now officially a legend in Boca and in his industry. Other people who get gold stars for customer service and allaround congeniality awards: Peter Stampone at Delray’s Max’s Harvest, Gabriella Gismondi at Trattoria Romana, Shaheer Hosh at Cristino’s Jewelry in Mizner Park.

THURSDAY “Cocktail hour” in the Stone Crab Lounge at Truluck’s FRIDAY The Kapow/Dubliner courtyard is a great TGIF kickoff spot.

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George Petrocelli, director of catering at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, is the go-to guy for parties, services and ideas that anyone remembers. He’s got a smile on his face and a can-do attitude. He is to people as Cheers is to bars: He always remembers your name.

MENU ITEMS WE DREAM ABOUT Crème brulée pie from Max’s Grille Inside-Out Juicy Lucy burger from M.E.A.T. Matteo’s spaghetti and meatballs Meatloaf and ricotta pizza from Anthony’s The lamb burger at Tap 42 Caviar pie at Park Place Deli The s’mores dessert at Chanson

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AFTERWORK CIRCUIT:

Local foodie and cooking teacher Joyce DeVita always opens her house to guests and colleagues in the course of her community work; she also hosts legendary Boca Bacchanal vintner dinners.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BEST IN ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS CONCERT: People are still raving about American idol finalist and“Dreamgirls”star Jennifer Hudson’s headline performance at Boca West Foundation’s Concert for the Children. NEW PLAY: Michael McKeever’s “The Camp” premiered at Lynn University this past March as a one-night-only reading and left the Wold Center constructively rattled. The post-WWII play centers on an alleged “good German” whose village community did nothing while fascism ascended around it. McKeever’s cautionary tale about the thin line between complacency and collusion felt timely and hard-hitting. Somebody should stage a full production, like, now. MUSICAL: “West Side Story” at The Wick was brilliantly delivered, and staged with New York panache. MOMENT: Monica Mancini singing “Moon River” at the Festival of the Arts Boca had everybody sighing. LECTURE: Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham’s talk at this year’s Festival of the Arts was astute and humorous but, most importantly, hopeful.

Clockwise from left: Jennifer Hudson, “West Side Story,” Monica Mancini, Jon Meacham

PLACE THAT WILL BLAST OUT YOUR EARDRUMS BUT YOU DON’T CARE

Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale

EVENT PEOPLE ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT

Every year, people love the Boca Bacchanal vintner dinners and Delray’s five-block-long dining table at Savor the Avenue. Both are always sellouts and always beautiful.

MOST FUN GALA OF THE YEAR

The 50th Boca Raton Regional Hospital Ball marked a milestone and honored Debbie Rand co-founder and legendary volunteer Joan Wargo. It was a sellout—and then some—with Earth, Wind & Fire as the live entertainment. The music was great but there was, sadly, little room for dancing. Still, it was a long way from the old Hospital Ball model, which used to be one of the stuffiest black ties in Boca.

A LITTLE CIVILIZED DINNER MUSIC

Vino Wine bar has different entertainment most

nights, Arturo’s always has a dreamy piano player, and even Farmer’s Table has live music on the patio.

BEST REIMAGINED FUNDRAISER

This year the Cowboy Ball moved out of Red Reef Park and into the Mizner Amphitheater, added a whiskey tasting, square dancing, a mechanical bull, lariat throwing and numerous food stations. There was lots to do and taste. We loved every bit, from the toes of our boots to the tips of our 10-gallon hats.

Cowboy Ball

PLAYS WITH BYOB PERK

The Arts Garage radio reenactments.

FAST BECOMING THE NEXT BIG FESTIVAL

Only two years old, The Okeechobee Music Festival is a thoughtful merger of art and music held on an expansive site conceived expressly for the festival. The event is distinguished by a well-organized format, top-name acts and plenty of venues for social interaction. It is getting a name for itself across the country. South Florida’s time for festivals is here.

Okeechobee Music Festival

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CITY & POLITICS

EMERGING POLITICAL FORCE

RUSS TUDOR

The vocal “nogrowth” East Boca group, galvanized by the BocaWatch website, manages to overturn the plan to place a Houston’s on the city-owned waterfront parcel once occupied by the Wildflower, and rallies to elect one of its leaders—Andrea O’Rourke— to the city council. (See page 90)

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY AWARD

Clay Conley

Mar-a-Lago

TOP HEADLINES

For the third time, Clay Conley, executive chef/co-owner of Palm Beach’s Buccan, is named a semifinalist for the 2017 James Beard Awards in the Best Chef: South category. Palm Beach’s Mar-A-Lago suddenly becomes the Weekend White House.

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Joan and Michael Wargo

Lynn University launches an MBA program with a specialization in marketing or entrepreneurial management in downtown Delray Beach. Allianz departs as sponsor for Boca’s senior tour golf tournament; Boca Raton Regional Hospital steps in as interim sponsor.

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DOWNTOWN PHOTO

The City’s March election devolves into nasty as Al Zucaro accuses Mayor Susan Haynie of illegally profiting from a Batmasian business connection. Haynie’s side sends out disturbing flyers accusing Zucaro of representing Nazi war criminals.

Lane Kiffin

Boca Raton Regional Hospital marks its 50th anniversary and honors longtime Boca resident and volunteer Joan Wargo. John Tolbert and the Boca Raton Resort & Club win top awards from Hilton International. (See page 91) Controversial Alabama Offensive Coordinator Lane Kiffin is hired as FAU’s football coach.

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BOCA’S BIG MISTAKE

BEST AD CAMPAIGN

The City of Boca Raton, which needs walkability and local transportation, decided to let the Downtowner go rather than subsidize it.

Boca Hospital’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications Tom Chakurda quietly knocks it out of the park with his heartfelt television ads for Boca Raton Regional Hospital—and is rapidly copied by the competition.

BATTLES WE ARE SO OVER

SHOPPING CENTER THAT DOES IT RIGHT

• Ongoing disputes between the City of Boca Raton and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District • The Waterway ordinance

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEGLECT BOCA RATON

BOCAWATCH: Home of the conspiracy to ruin Boca and make developers rich FOR BOCA: Home of

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The new Park Place has great walkability, landscaping and an airy, open feel. The vibe and stores feel younger— and there’s plenty of parking.

NEW, INTRIGUING DEVELOPMENT FRONT

Tom Chakurda

Boca’s Midtown has a lot of promise—with the possibility of its own Tri-Rail station, Tom Crocker behind the scenes and the opportunity to grow Boca in a well-conceived fashion.

IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME

The 20th St. corridor’s transformation into an FAU student housing and community center

FAU Stadium

we’ll-say-anything-to-discredit those-who-do-not agree-withus, especially citizens questioning city authorities

6 BIGGEST ISSUES FACING BOCA

• Complacency (look at the voter turnout) • Workforce/affordable housing • Traffic flow, especially during season, no matter what the experts (or the numbers) say. Drivers know. • Ugly new buildings or living testament to design guideline breakdown • Walkability of downtown • Lack of shared vision by city leaders

MOST UNDERUSED BUT IMPRESSIVE FACILITY IN BOCA

FAU’s football stadium

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GAME CHANGERS

ANDREA O’ROURKE

“With the stresses of life, political divide and technology, the human connection is more important than ever.”

AARON BRISTOL

Boca Raton City Council member

Andrea O’Rourke has made herself clear. She is not a politician. She sees herself as a next-door-neighbor, and a “voice of the residents” of Boca. O’Rourke won a position on the council this March after a grassroots campaign that was arguably strengthened by her ties to BocaWatch, a vocal group in East Boca led by community activist Al Zucaro formed to contest the rapid growth in Boca Raton, particularly downtown. She says she wants to maintain the core values and quality of life that attracted people to Boca in the first place.

“My biggest goal is to have open dialogue between the different factions in the community to make decisions on what is really the greater good of the future [of Boca].”

JOHN KELLY

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FAU President

LESLIE GLICKMAN

Co-Founder, Yoga Journey

Leslie Glickman is on a mission to cultivate community in Boca Raton. She started Saturday morning yoga classes in Sanborn Square and created Something Big, a yoga event in Mizner Park that brought together more than 1,500 people on New Year’s Day—and that people are still talking about. Glickman says she wants people to see yoga as an enriching experience that not only elevates individuals, but the Boca community as a whole.

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John Kelly hit the ground running when he came in as FAU president in 2014—and the momentum hasn’t stopped. For example, this year? When students said they didn’t have time to meet with advisers before class or work, he put advisers in parking lots to meet with students. He hired Lane Kiffin to bring FAU’s football program alive, started the“Unbridled Ambition” campaign, and is working toward his vision of a student district on 20th Street.

“I take a hands-on approach. I have a good feeling on the pulse of the university. When I hear of areas where we aren’t doing what we said we would do, we figure out where to fix it.”

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General Manager, Town Center

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Saldaña is the customer service guru behind Town Center—he knows what you want before you do. Since becoming general manager in 2013, Saldaña has spread his passion for customer service throughout every corner of the mall, adding dog carriers as an amenity at the concierge booth and requiring food court uniforms to be all black. Saldaña wants to ensure that shopping at Town Center is not just a trip to the mall; it’s an experience that makes a difference in someone’s day.

“Despite the fact that we’re known as a luxury destination, we’re everyone’s destination.”

JOHN TOLBERT

President, Boca Raton Resort & Club

“I’m continually asking myself how we can inspire and motivate talented people of all ages and backgrounds and how we can create synergies across multiple generations. I believe we bring out the best in people when we stimulate a healthy, vibrant cross-pollination of viewpoints and ideas.”

“The children here are healthy and successful, and not a day goes by that I don’t run into somebody who has been touched by this center.”

ELLYN OKRENT

CEO, Florence Fuller Child Development Centers Ellyn Okrent joined Florence Fuller in 2012, recognizing that she could make a great impact on disadvantaged children who live in healthy homes but still need help. Since she became CEO, Okrent says the centers have embraced a full-family approach to child success, become more active in the community, taken over the Boca Raton Children’s Museum, and completed a $4.5 million campaign to build the Perper Learning Center, an activity center at the west campus. She’s motivated by all the opportunities that are available that she hasn’t yet explored, but she still hopes she’ll work herself out of a job one day.

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John Tolbert is claiming the spotlight this year in more ways than one. He is a participant in this year’s Boca Ballroom Battle. In May, he was named the “Power Leader for Hospitality”by South Florida Business Journal and the “Luxury Leader of the Year”by Hilton International. The Boca Raton Resort & Club earned“Luxury Hotel of the Year”and“Excellence in Food and Beverage”awards from Hilton International this year as well.

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Water full of algae last summer along the shoreline of Sewall’s Point on the St. Lucie River under the Ocean Boulevard bridge

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Above: An aerial view of the algae bloom in the Stuart area Right: FAU chemistry professor Bill Louda

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The smudge on the microscope slide doesn’t look like a horrifying menace. It’s just algae—a trendy shade of neon green. Magnified, it’s spotted and encased in a clear coat that FAU chemistry professor Bill Louda calls“mucilage”—a.k.a. slime. Put a few billion of those clumps into a warm body of water, though—especially one loaded with fertilizer runoff and septic tank seepage—and you have the makings of a“Blob”-scale horror flick. It played out in waterways across South Florida last summer, streaking bright green ribbons through canals and shoving broken mats of foul-smelling, dead scum against shorelines and boats. As toxins oozed into water and floated through air just before Fourth of July weekend, the epic algae bloom of 2016 closed beaches from St. Lucie to Palm Beach counties. It canceled fishing trips, ended paddleboat excursions and emptied waterfront restaurants. The beautiful Indian River Lagoon system, which the state calls“the most diverse brackish estuary in North America,”received major damage. Seagrass beds that fed manatees withered. Snook, snapper, shrimp and crab in the area fled or died. Re-

cently restored oyster beds perished. Wading bird nest counts fell. A fishy smell of decay and poison hovered around the shoreline. Sometimes algae blooms release toxins, and sometimes they don’t. This particular one did, massively. On July 5, 2016, toxin levels at the St. Lucie Lock & Dam measured more than eight times the level

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“There’s no seagrass left. The seagrass died, the oysters died, the fishing isn’t what it was.”

– Jensen Beach business owner Irene Gomes

Left: Irene Gomes near the Jensen Beach boardwalk Below: Boats in Stuart sit surrounded by algae in June 2016

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considered hazardous by the World Health Organization. At the Bathtub Reef Beach in Stuart, toxin levels reached 40 times the level deemed hazardous. Workers at Central Marine in Stuart wore respirator masks all day to endure a stench that Central Marine’s manager described as “25,000 times worse than a sewer.” In Jensen Beach, Irene Gomes, owner of the quaint Driftwood Motel, said she warned her customers against swimming or eating the fish they caught. As national TV crews descended, cancellations throughout the region surged. She briefly closed the motel. “It was the Fourth of July, and they shut all the beaches down,” Gomes recalls, exasperated. The wet winter led to an algae bloom in Lake Okeechobee. By May, as temperatures rose, its Nickelodeon green slime could be seen from space—NASA’s Near Earth Observatory took amazing pictures as scientists declared that the algae bloom covered 33 square miles. The Army Corps’ storm water releases were followed by an unusually hot spring and summer. Once the algae“inoculant”hit the slow-moving, protected waters of the St. Lucie, rimmed with farms, suburban housing and old septic tanks, the slime seemed to be everywhere at once. Martin County, home to the St. Lucie River and the Indian River Lagoon, suffered the worst of the bloom. In Palm Beach County, the toxic algae were briefly redirected into the Lake Worth Lagoon section of the Intracoastal Waterway. It snaked past President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. It fouled the beaches of Peanut Island, then meandered out the inlet with the tides.

THE LITTLE ALGAE WITH A BIG IMPACT Last summer's particular algae bloom were organisms that have always been in the ecosystem—tiny single-celled algae that, if stressed by brackish waters, ultraviolet radiation or other threats, emit powerful toxins that can irritate skin and eyes, provoke nausea or vomiting, and damage the liver and nervous systems.

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96 Fearing an economic disaster, Martin County commissioners pleaded with Governor Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency, the first step in applying for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance. On June 29, 2016, the governor complied. In a statement, he blamed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Obama Administration for a litany of unfinished engineering projects that might have avoided the necessity of sending polluted water out to sea during heavy rainfall events. “The State of Florida will devote every available resource to find solutions for the families and businesses in this area,”Scott said. But the true causes of 2016’s summer of slime were much more complex than an unfinished dike repair project, and there was plenty of blame to share. FEMA denied Scott’s application for emergency funds. A year later, Gomes’ motel has guests again, but she remains frustrated and worried about the health of the river. “There’s no seagrass left,”she says.“The seagrass died, the oysters died, the fishing isn’t what it was.”

A Perfect Storm

Beneath the lakes, rivers and marshes of South Florida, water moves constantly through the porous limestone. It emerges in open waterways, where sunlight, stormwater runoff and pollution can reach

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This aerial view from last summer shows the algae in Lake Okeechobee along the Herbert Hoover Dike. At that time, it stretched more than 200 square miles.

it. Damage to one part of the system inevitably impacts the other parts of the system. Complicating matters, Florida’s climate features dry and wet seasons, sometimes to an extreme, like in 2016. Normally, between May and October, about two-thirds of the region’s annual rainfall inundates the system. This is followed by a prolonged season of drought, which often creates a serious fire risk by April. Although it’s normal for 12 inches of rain to fall in August, only 2 inches of rain falls during a typical January. But something went terribly wrong in January 2016. It was like the weather thought it was summertime, not winter, sending wet-season rains of more than 9 inches. As Lake Okeechobee water levels rose past 16 feet, it put pressure on the vulnerable Herbert Hoover Dike that it wasn’t designed to bear. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ordered the floodgates open. Algae-filled lake and stormwater surged into the brackish St. Lucie River. Before it was drained, straightened and developed, the 18,000-square-mile Everglades and coastal estuary system had evolved over centuries to absorb the vicissitudes of subtropical droughts and floods. Wet-season rainwater meandered southward from what is now the Orlando region and into Lake Okeechobee and continued southward to the

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This diagram shows how the original “River of Grass” flowed, before the damming of the lake and the elaborate Army Corps of Engineers waterway systems. The water flowed in a southwesterly direction through the Everglades, filtered and cleansed along the way until it flowed into Florida Bay.

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This diagram shows how the water is discharged today—unfiltered and full of pollution—into the St. Lucie River to the east, and toward the Caloosahatchee River to the west, completely upending the ecology of those systems—as well as the Florida coastline. The result last summer was a blanket of algae along the St. Lucie River (below).

FIGURE 1: Historic Natural Everglades Flow

FIGURE 2: Current Everglades Flow

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headwaters of the Everglades. Along the way, the freshwater percolated through the marshy “River of Grass,” where it was cleaned. It eventually seeped into Florida Bay to mingle with seawater and support the mangrove forests that nurture fish nurseries. Now, the water’s movement is highly managed. Those rainy-season deluges refill the aquifers that supply water utility wells—the wells that enable millions of people to enjoy their swimming pools, showers, slushy drinks and lawn sprinklers. That same water must fill the canals that irrigate the sugarcane and celery fields. Those same canals serve as a flood control system for subdivisions during tropical rain events. They make real estate development possible on low-lying land. What if the occasional outpouring of stormwater wreaks havoc on the ecosystems along the coast? That’s just one of many data points that a water manager must consider.

Rivers and waterways It was Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, orphan, riverboat captain and eventually Duval County Sheriff and legislator, who ran for governor in 1904 on a campaign to drain the Everglades. The dredging of the“useless

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98 swamp”for settlement and farming began in earnest in 1906, with the blessing of President Teddy Roosevelt, as the digging of the New River Canal began. By 1916 the government launched the digging of another rod-straight canal, this one between Lake Okeechobee and the St. Lucie River. The goal of the St. Lucie Canal, at first, was flood control. By 1937 the canal was dug to a depth of 6 feet to allow for boat traffic, and deepened again to a depth of 8 feet in 1949. Today the highly managed system of interconnected waterways starts in the north with input from a cattle-ranch-rimmed waterway, Fisheating Creek, and the once-curving Kissimmee River and floodplain. In one of the worst acts of civil engineering malpractice in history, it was straightened between 1960 and 1971 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to allow farming and development in the formerly vast floodplain. The experiment proved to be an ecological disaster, causing waterfowl populations to drop by 90 percent and commercially desirable fish populations to dis-

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Top right: Then-Governor Charlie Crist, whose Everglades Restoration Plan was hailed by environmentalists, toured the St. Lucie River and estuary back in 2007 Right: The slime last summer inches southward, lining the shores of the Intracoastal near the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach

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ay 8 should go down in Florida political history as an extraordinary day. Extraordinary, because both sugarcane grower Florida Crystals and the environmental preservation group the Everglades Foundation agreed on an element of Everglades restoration. Normally implacable political foes, the dueling groups issued statements praising the legislative compromise plan hammered out by Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart and House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Land O’ Lakes at the last minute of an extended 2017 legislative session. The budget compromise allows for reservoir construction south of Lake Okeechobee that will eventually enable an additional 300,000 acre-feet of water to be kept at the headwaters of the Everglades, rather than flushed out to sea. It relies on state land-acquisition and other trust fund money, plus borrowed Florida Forever bonds to complete the project. Displaced farmworkers receive hiring preferences and retraining opportunities as state land now leased to sugarcane growers is converted to water storage. During the political debates, concern for the workers was one of the most oft-cited objections to the project. Florida Crystals’ vice president, Gaston Cantens, said, “The initial proposal could have threatened existing Everglades restoration plans, but this most recent version uses science-based research to continue the construction of CERP projects.” Florida Crystals was founded by Cuban émigrés and Palm Beach billionaires Alfy and Pepe Fanjul. The Everglades Foundation is funded in part by New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones. Mark Perry, executive director of the Florida Oceanographic Society in Stuart, called the reservoir “a critical part of the solution” to the algae bloom crisis. “One foot off of Lake Okeechobee is 467,000 acre-feet of water. So that reservoir is almost one foot of lake discharge,” he said. “We discharged 737 billion gallons in 2015-2016. But you’ve got to remember it is a dynamic reservoir. You fill it up, let it drain into the Stormwater Treatment Areas, and then let it percolate into the Everglades. You can do that about four times in a year. So that could take about 480 billion gallons a year. It’s part of the solution—a critical part of the solution.”

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A protest last summer in Stuart organized by Citizens for Clean Water and the Rivers Coalition

appear. Now under restoration, the Kissimmee is fed by East Lake Tohopekaliga, adjacent to busy Orlando International Airport. With the help of locks and pumps, the Kissimmee River water moves southward into Lake Okeechobee, and then out the Caloosahatchee River to the west, the St. Lucie River to the east. Massive pumping stations move stormwater during floods and maintain water levels for irrigation and boating during drought. Restoring the historic flow of the water and the health of the ecosystem is a dream of many environmental activists, most of whom backed Governor Charlie Crist’s plan to buy U.S. Sugar’s land to re-establish water flow south of Lake Okeechobee. The South Florida Water Management District under Gov. Scott reversed that plan as a costly deviation from other necessary projects. With massive housing developments, cattle ranches, mining operations, highways and utility plants scattered all along the way, the flow and the water levels of the system will always require management. But elements of that historic flow can and should be restored to more natural patterns, according to Lisa Interlandi, attorney with the Everglades Law Center. She says it’s the only reasonable way for agricultural and development needs to coexist with environmental ones, given Florida’s extreme weather patterns. “This year we are in a drought. It points even more to the need for a reservoir south of the lake. There are not enough places to store water during the rainy season,”Interlandi says. She’s unhappy about a new

"Florida Bay is in a state of emergency itself because of the lack of fresh water. They just need to go ahead with the [Comprehensive Everglades Restoration] plan that’s always been there." — Lisa Interlandi, Everglades Law Center attorney proposal to add hundreds of deep injection wells to send the polluted stormwater underground rather than sending it out to sea where it damages the rivers. “Florida Bay is in a state of emergency itself because of the lack of freshwater,” Interlandi said.“They just need to go ahead with the plan that’s always been there.” Finishing the 17-year-old Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, known as CERP, involves completing dozens of projects. Some are designed to clean the stormwater and farm runoff before it moves farther along. Others are intended to capture rainy-season stormwater for use during the dry season. Still others will eliminate stretches of unnecessary canals and levees. Projects to clean the stormwater had taken precedence, given a court order demanding it. The projects to store rainy-season water are further behind schedule. Sugar farmers and their fertilizer typically shoulder most of the blame for the creeping algae blob that initially appeared in Lake Okeechobee during the CONTINUED ON PAGE 158

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Clockwise from opposite page: Park outside Sagrada Familia Basilica, street snapshots of storefront, flower cart, people watching at a café

hen I’m in Barcelona, Spain, I want to wear combat boots with a short skirt. I want to drink beer at breakfast and coffee all night. I want to liberate the part of me that worries and give way to the rebel within. Not because I want to be bad, but because I want to get caught up in the current of gutsy freedom and independence that courses through the city’s cobblestone streets and crackles in its sunny plazas. Barcelona is the heart and soul of the autonomous region of Catalonia. Since 1922, a contingency of people has been vying for independence from the rest of Spain. Although this movement is controversial and not widely supported, the resolute aplomb and sense of liberation that comes with this mentality appears contagious, as if it were being served up in the water and expelled into the air. Big-city haste makes an appearance now and again. It’s subdued with a chilled-out beach vibe, true respect for self-expression and the fantastical works of Antoni Gaudí, whose in-

fluence twists and twirls into fruition throughout Barcelona. It’s a siren call to the imagination. To explore the place with your nose buried in a guidebook, map in hand, would be to entirely miss everything that makes Barcelona so captivating. Allow me to convince you of one thing: Leave TripAdvisor out of this. Barcelona is best enjoyed by getting pulled into the ebb and flow of the culture and seeing where it takes you. Here are some pointers from Barcelona natives to steer you off the beaten tourist path and give you a dose of the city’s local favorites, neighborhood by neighborhood.

Carlos Salamero,

40-year-old father of two and affectionate teddy bear type: ‘’El Clot neighborhood is one that I visit regularly. Clot Street and Rogent Street form a perfect T and are both pedestrian streets where there are always a lot of people meandering and shopping. They’re all small, local stores, no big businesses. The two streets meet at Mercat del Clot (Clot Market), which is small but very

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popular. Just below you’ll find Parc del Clot (Clot Park), a fairly wide green area, with the city hall at one end and the Plaza de las Glorias at the other.’’ Aside from drinking wine at lunch and riding bicycles with baskets, I can’t think of anything that makes me feel more European than a bustling covered market. Mercat del Clot was built in the late 1800s in the same spot that was used centuries before as a traveling market for farmers to sell their produce. Today, you’ll find a colorful array of fruits and vegetables, charcuterie, local cheeses, mushrooms foraged nearby and a wide assortment of other gourmet delights. Grab a fresh loaf of bread and some Iberian

ham, then head to nearby Parc del Clot. Avail yourself of the laid-back, open green space that’s so hard to find in Barcelona. The ruins of a 19th century warehouse turned aqueduct/fountain, ping-pong tables and boules courts make for great people-watching. A couple hours here observing the world and taking in the ambience, and we’re talking next-level intimacy with Barcelona. Bodega Carol is a classic tavern serving up artisan cheeses, ham revered by locals in the know and tapas done right. Cozy up to a wine-barrel table, and rub elbows with the bar’s regulars. Part store, part bar, Bodega Sopena is the place to go for house-made

vermouth, inexpensive wines, small bites and an authentic El Clot experience.

Olga Lopez Garcia, 45-year-

old working woman likely to be spotted in a sidewalk cafe with an espresso: ‘’I love the neighborhood of Poblenou. It combines an old industrial zone with areas that are much more modern. What I like best is the ramblas, which you can walk on until you reach the sea, full of terraces where

you can stop and have a drink or tapas.’’ Poblenou has everything. It maintains a village vibe and tapers off into a couple of beaches that melt into the Mediterranean Sea. It offers a great selection of local shops and restaurants that avoid the push-and-shove of their counterparts in the highly congested tourist areas. A gentler, more relaxed version of its city-center cousin with the same name, La Rambla in Poblenou is a café- and store-flanked pedestrian thoroughfare longing for a lazy ramble. Nibble, sip and get wrapped up in the sounds and smells of local folks going about their lives.

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IF YOU GO

Getting from Barcelona Airport into the city center is user-friendly and inexpensive. Aerobús runs from both terminals every five minutes and costs about six euros each way. Its buses are easy to identify, and operators speak in English. Once in the city, the metro system is easy to understand, taxis are reasonably priced, and walking is enjoyable and generally safe. If you’re lugging a wheeled suitcase, I suggest taking a taxi. A large percentage of Barcelona’s streets are paved with textured cobblestones, and the vibrations and the racket are unpleasant and embarrassing. Yes, this is something I know from experience. Like many places, Barcelona is most picturesque during the fall and the spring. Summers are hot and sticky, and A.C. isn’t common in Spain. Fiestas take place throughout the year and celebrate any number of things: saints, neighborhoods, onions. A great website for tracking down the best restaurants, cultural events and things to see in the city is timeout.com/barcelona. As for safety, I have traveled multiple times as a single female in Barcelona and almost always felt comfortable, day or night. With that said, there can be scammers and thieves in high-traffic tourist areas, so keep your wits about you.

Above, Parque Central de Pablo nou; right, traveling on a sightseeing bus and below, the popular pedestrian thoroughfare La Rambla

Don’t miss the fanciful Parc Central with its flower-covered walls and weeping willows, and save a couple hours to get lost in the neighborhood’s neoclassical cemetery. Take advantage of Poblenou’s proximity to the beach, and find a spot with fresh seafood and a view. Boo Restaurant & Beach Club has a modern, cosmopolitan aesthetic and juts out straight through the beach with indoor and outdoor seating. This is a great place for a sunset cocktail and a dose of salty sea air.

CONFESSION

I have a confession. I’m not just OK with the typical, hop-on, hop-off double-decker sightseeing buses that you find in most big cities. I passionately believe in them. After a transatlantic flight dumps you in the middle of what could potentially be an overwhelming, big-city setting, I can’t think of anything better than feeling the wind in your hair on the second story of that cheesy, informative bus. You get the lay of the land, a foundation of knowledge about where you are, and you don’t have to do a single thing except sit there. Afterward, you have a better idea of where and how you’d like to spend your time. Barcelona has two bus companies like this, and they’re comparable in almost every way: Barcelona Bus Turistíc and Barcelona City Tour. Tickets are under 30 euros, there are dozens of stops, and you are welcome to get on and off as you please with either a one- or two-day pass.

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106 ANTONI GAUDÍ

Antoni Gaudí was a Spanish Catalan architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries known for his distinct Catalan Modernist style. Almost all his works can be found in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família, which should be complete by 2026. Gaudí´s architecture was often inspired by his passions—nature and religion—and incorporated the use of stained glass, wrought ironwork and carpentry. He often employed the technique of trencadís, which is mosaic made using shards of ceramic. The result of these combined approaches is a larger-than-life collection of imagination-bending buildings, houses and gardens. His works are a kaleidoscope of colors that require you pay close attention, as whimsical details hiding in every nook and cranny could easily be overlooked.

Sagrada Familia Basilica

CALÇOTADAS

Calçotadas are traditional Catalan feasts where spring onions are cooked over an open flame until their outsides are ashy and black and their insides are steamed and tender. Served with grilled meats, cava, Romanesco sauce and, most importantly, gusto, calcots are best consumed with your head tossed back, winding them down your mouth with reckless abandon. As the story goes, the tradition began in 1898 in the small Catalan town of Valls, where a peasant farmer called Xat de Benaiges was the first to replant mature onions for a second stint of growth. Today—more than 100 years later—this modest vegetable is at the heart of colorful traditions of feasting and celebrating, drawing thousands to Catalonia each year. Calçotadas take place between January and March. They are hosted by families, restaurants and at festivals. The most prominent event is La Gran Fiesta de la Calçotada, which takes place on the last Sunday of January in Valls, where it all began.

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What I like best are the ramblas, full of terraces where you can stop for tapas or a drink—which you can walk on until you reach the sea.

Juan Arasanz, single

38-year-old known for being the last one standing at any party: ‘’The truth is that in the last few years, more and more tourists are coming to Barcelona, and more and more neighborhoods are becoming touristy. The natives of the city are becoming more conscious of the problems involved with so many people coming here to visit, and in a

lot of areas, especially Barceloneta and Ciutat Vella, the locals are fed up. As for me, I’m always in Grácia, Sant Antoni, El Clot and Poblenou—in simple spots, like bodegas and bars with artisan beer, where the price is right and there aren’t too many tourists.’’ Grácia is where Barcelona’s charged atmosphere of independence really comes to life. Considering the neighborhood’s history, it makes sense. Grácia became grafted to the ever-expanding city in 1897, and not without protest. Today, the village plays to the beat

of a nonconformist tune filled with artists and artisans, bohemians and fashion-forward young people. And none of them give a damn what you think. Sociable plaza culture and quirky shops dominate and you’re likely to come across any number of pop-up markets, pop-up soccer games and pop-up music as you stroll along Grácia’s orange-tree-lined lanes. La Panxa del Bisbe is the place to dine in Grácia. Small plates designed by chef Xavi Codina are presented with surprising twists while relying on classic Mediterranean flavors and seasonal

produce. For a chic stay, El Palauet suites are ideally located on the popular Passeig de Grácia, one of Barcelona’s higher-end shopping destinations. The hotel’s 1906 art nouveau building—with stained glass windows, frescoes and high ceilings—provides a plush escape from the city. It maintains a sense of connectedness through its rooftop terrace and spacious balconies. As if the suites’ contemporary elegance wasn’t appealing enough, heated Japanese toilet seats and iPad control panels left me believing I was Catalan royalty.

Above: Plaça del Sol square at night; left, a suite at El Palauet

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The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens have a new cultivator. Written by JOHN THOMASON

nn Weaver Norton may have been related to Palm Beach County art royalty—she was the second wife of Ralph Hubbard Norton, who started the Norton Museum—but her artistic vision was entirely her own. When Ralph died, in 1953, this largely self-taught sculptor 30 years his junior began to build her life’s work by brick and chisel, kiln and granite slab. The nine monumental sculptures created on the West Palm Beach property they shared have been preserved, more than 60 years later, as the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens. Tucked in a residential street in the El Cid neighborhood, with no visitor parking spaces and minimal signage, the gardens and Maurice Fatio-designed house still feel like a best-kept secret. Walking the gardens, with their 300 palm species, surprising water features and fluttering butterflies, feels like escaping into a fairytale ruled by semiabstract giants. The Nortons’ rich history in this region is one Roger Ward has come to know well. A leader at the Norton Museum from 2001 to 2011, Ward joined the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens as its new executive director in March. (Between these Norton bookends, he worked for the Homeland Security Department investigating works of art confiscated during the Nazi era, an experience he describes as “like being in a Dan Brown novel”). As he explains to Boca Raton, he plans to raise the Gardens’ artistic profile while honoring its storied legacy.

“I think the special quality of this place is going to become more important over the next 30 or 40 years. There won’t be many parcels of land like this left.” What made you want to pursue this job opportunity? I’ve always been interested in the family, and Ann Weaver Norton was influential in the making of the collection we see today. She loved art, of course, being an artist herself. And I think she had a kind of

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prescience about the art market at that moment. She maybe understood better than [Ralph] that this was his moment. I’m also intrigued by her as a woman who worked on a monumental scale, who either carved or built sculptures at a time when only men did that.

How unique is this venue in the landscape of art destinations in the region? There’s only one other property with a house that contains art surrounded by gardens, and that’s the Bonnet House. And it’s very different; it’s not so much the art of the owner-artist. It’s more about the art they bought. Whereas this focus is about Ann and her art. The entire experience here was, from the beginning, a curated one in the sense that building this garden, creating this kind of a sanctuary habitat for native species and plants and birds and butterflies, was very much the founder’s intention.

When I think of the cultural venues of Palm Beach County, I don’t often conjure this place. Do you feel like part of your job is to raise its profile? Yes and no. I think it’s rather wonderful that there are places that can be new discoveries for people who may have lived here a long time. Before March 15, I think I’d been here twice in 16 years. That does say that the visibility of the place has been minimal. People who live

right here in this immediate neighborhood know, but that’s a tiny percentage. One of the strategies to increase visibility is the recently formed professional partnership with the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary fair.

Do you plan on integrating new forms of art on these grounds? I love the idea of working with the fair to bring certain kinds of well-known contemporary artists. I like the idea of, every year, having at least two shows that have to do with artists that maybe are brand-new to this neighborhood. I love the idea of having artwork out in the gardens, of sculptures embedded within the gardens that will get people to go back there and look, and that play off Ann’s sculptures. There’s also a historical theme here. I would like for us to look back at some of the artists with whom Ann herself was associated, and to put her art in the context of their art. I also want to do shows that help us express our mission here, which is to integrate nature, art, conservation, science and the appreciation of the indigenous South Florida habitat.

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The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens is officially closed to the public during July and August, but it will be open by appointment. And in September, the Gardens will open “Ann Weaver Norton: In Context and Retrospect,” which examines Norton’s art alongside the work of colleagues such as Alexander Archipenko and Jose de Creeft. The Gardens are at 2051 S. Flagler Drive. Call 561/832-5328 or visit ansg.org.

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July 2

“DISNEY’S BEAUTY & THE BEAST” at The Wick

“BEST IN SHOW FESTIVAL” at Palm Beach

“BUILDING A LEGACY: GIFTS FROM THE MARY GRIGGS BURKE COLLECTION” at Morikami

VANS WARPED TOUR at Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach; 7:30 p.m.; $42-$52; 800/745-3000; livenation. com. The durable summer

Theatre, 7901 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton; various show times; $45$85; 561/995-2333; thewick.org. All eight songs

from the Oscar-winning 1991 Disney film have transferred to the stage in this timeless fairy tale, along with six new compositions from the musical-theater powerhouses Alan Menken, Howard Asman and Tim Rice.

Photographic Centre, 415 Clematis St., West Palm Beach; free; 561/2532600; workshop.org. This

third-annual exhibition will showcase selections from the most recent Pictures of the Year International (PoYI) competition, the country’s most prestigious contest for photojournalism.

Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach; $9-$15 museum admission; 561/495-0233; morikami.org. In honor of the

Morikami’s 40th anniversary, the museum will showcase an eclectic selection of paintings, prints, ceramics, textiles and lacquerware from longtime patron Mary Griggs Burke.

festival celebrating the best in punk, emo, hardcore and metal past and present will tour its most eclectic lineup in years, including GWAR, Hatebreed, Bowling for Soup, Anti-Flag, Save Ferris and Streetlight Manifesto.

David Spade

“Building a Legacy”

Sam Hunt

Vans Warped Tour

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July 14 and Aug. 11

July 14-15

July 15

“1984” at Pompano

SUSHI & STROLL SUMMER WALK at Morikami

DAVID SPADE at Palm Beach Improv, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach; various show times; $42.50; 561/833-1812; palmbeachimprov.com. The “Satur-

SAM HUNT at Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach; 7 p.m.; $26-$60.25; 561/7958883; westpalmbeachamphitheatre.com.

Beach Cultural Arts Center, 50 W. Atlantic Blvd., Pompano Beach; various show times; $19-$39; 954/839-9578; outre theatrecompany.com.

Playwright Andrew White adapted George Orwell’s dystopian cautionary tale into a stage drama back in 2004, and its timeliness continues to grow. “1984” is former Boca company Outre Theatre’s first show in its new Pompano Beach home.

Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach; 5:30-8:30 p.m.; $6-$8 museum admission; 561/495-0233; morikami.org. Stroll tranquil Japanese gardens, enjoy traditional Japanese food and listen to the Japanese drum music of Fushu Daiko in this monthly summer tradition.

day Night Live” alum, “Just Shoot Me” award recipient, and deliverer of many a potent pop-culture potshot will bring his sarcasm-laced material to the Improv for a rare intimate set.

Hunt, a former college football prospect who eschewed pigskin for pedal-steels, wrote songs for country legends like Kenny Chesney and Reba McEntire before unveiling his award-winning debut “Montevallo” and its five charting singles.

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INCUBUS AND JIMMY EAT WORLD at Perfect Vodka

“SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER” at Lake Worth Play-

THE BOSS PROJECT at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10, Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $30$40; 561/483-9036; bocablackbox.com. This

ART WALK GALLERY: “6X6” EXHIBIT at Crest

Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach; 6:45 p.m.; $16-$81.50; 561/7958883; westpalmbeachamphitheatre.com. California

funk-rock band Incubus headlines this stellar alternative bill on the strength of its newly released eighth album, imaginatively titled “8.” Jimmy Eat World, the former emo stalwarts all grown up, open the concert, along with Judah & the Lion.

house, 713 Lake Ave., Lake Worth; various show times; $29-$72; 561/586-6410; lakeworthplayhouse.org. A

sunnier version of the 1977 film that inspired it, this nostalgic stage musical features a giant cast and a foot-tapping Bee Gees score of iconic hits from “Stayin’ Alive” and “Night Fever” to “It’s My Neighborhood” and “How Deep is Your Love.”

Bruce Springsteen tribute act channels the Boss’ inexhaustible energy while performing more hits than Bruce’s own set lists usually encompass.

July 9-Sept. 10

Theatre Galleries, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; free; 561/2437922; oldschoolsquare.org.

Check out works in acrylic, oil, collage, mixed-media, glass, wood and more, all created in a 6-inch-by-6-inch square format, and donated to Old School Square for its annual “6X6” Art Sale in late July.

“HUMAN ANIMALS: THE ART OF COBRA” at NSU

Art Museum, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; $5-$12; 954/525-5500; nsuartmuseum.org. “Cobra” has nothing to do with slithery creatures: It’s an acronym for an avant-garde art movement that thrived in post-WWII Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. The NSU Art Museum contains the largest Cobra collection in America, and this summer it showcases the artists’ creative use of animal imagery.

“Paw Patrol Live!”

Incubus

“Human Animals” Jimmy Shubert

Firefall

July 15

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July 28-29

FIREFALL, POCO AND PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE at

“PAW PATROL LIVE!”

“COMPANY” at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; various show times; $45; 561/832-7469; kravis.org.

6X6 ART SALE at Crest The-

JIMMY SHUBERT at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10, Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $25-$35; 561/483-9036; bocablackbox.com. Blue-collar

Pompano Beach Amphitheater, 1801 N.E. Sixth St., Pompano Beach; 7 p.m.; $28-$73; 954/5195500; ticketmaster.com.

Collectively, these three bands bring more than 120 years’ experience blending country and rock. Sing along to the amplified twang of Firefall hits like “You Are the Woman,” Poco classics such as “Crazy Love” and Pure Prairie League staples like “Amie.”

at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; various show times; $21.50 and up; 561/832-7469; kravis.org.

The Nickelodeon animated series springs into three dimensions at this children’s show, in which protagonist Ryder and his pack of rescue dogs help solve the disappearance of a missing mayor—and teach lessons about citizenship and problem-solving in the process.

A star-studded cast of South Florida theater luminaries enacts Stephen Sondheim’s darkly comic masterpiece about the challenges of modern relationships in this Tony-winning musical produced by MNM Productions.

atre Galleries, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 6 p.m.; free; 561/243-7922; oldschoolsquare.org. The

work of artists who donated original pieces contained within a 6-inch-by-6-inch frame will be sold, for $30 apiece, at this fourth-annual fundraiser for Old School Square.

standup comedian Shubert introduced his observational, working-class persona to a national audience when he reached the finals of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” in 2014.

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Aug. 1

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LADY ANTEBELLUM at Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach; 7:30 p.m.; $26.75-$60; 561/795-8883; westpalmbeachamphitheatre. com. Following a year out of

STRAIGHT NO CHASER AND POSTMODERN JUKEBOX at Mizner

FOREIGNER at Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach; 7 p.m.; $17-$91.95; 561/7958883; westpalmbeachamphitheatre.com. Founding

“PATRICIA NIX: AMERICAN BAROQUE” at Boca Raton

the spotlight, this venerable, Grammy-winning country trio returns to South Florida as part of its global “You Look Good” tour, featuring selections from the group’s latest album, “Heart Break.” Arrive early for openers Kelsea Ballerini and Brett Young.

Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 7:30 p.m.; $36-$56.45; 561/393-7984; myboca. us. Two musical collectives

re-interpret pop history at this co-headlining tour: the a cappella sensations Straight No Chaser and the vintage genre rebooters Postmodern Jukebox, who both put unique spins on familiar hits.

member and guitarist Mick Jones keeps the flame of these power balladeers alive for another world tour of classic-rock favorites. Opening the show will be Cheap Trick—no strangers to the lighter-waving rock anthem—and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience.

Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; $10-$12; 561/392-2500; bocamuseum.org. A native Texan

and current Palm Beacher, collagist Nix has earned comparisons to Joseph Cornell on the strength of her surrealist, boldly colorful and strikingly constructed works, which reference tarot cards and other spiritualist iconography.

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Parker Playhouse, 707 N.E. Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale; 8 p.m.; $33.39-$54.39; 954/462-0222; parkerplayhouse.com. The

only Elvis Presley tribute artist hired to perform at Graceland’s Heartbreak Hotel, MacDonald’s summer tour of the King’s music and legacy includes costume changes, backup singers and dancers, and an eight-piece concert band.

The once-angry young men of Linkin Park, who fused rap and metal to meteoric success in the early 2000s, have mellowed sonically while deepening their lyrical output. Expect cuts from all of their albums during their “One More Light” world tour, accompanied by openers Machine Gun Kelly.

Improv, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach; 8 p.m.; $25; 561/8331812; palmbeachimprov. com. Married comedians

Tom Segura and Christina Pazsitzky, creators of the hit podcast Your Mom’s House, bring their top-rated—and proudly juvenile—humor on the road.

This screechy-voiced actor, controversy magnet, podcast host and subject of the 2017 documentary “Gilbert” is one of the most distinctive, if polarizing, talents in standup comedy. He may have starred in “Aladdin,” but trust us: Don’t bring the kids.

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hitmakers will co-headline a summer jaunt for the second year in a row, reminding their Gen-X fan base of a time when alternative rock and Top 40 commingled across hits like “Push,” “3 AM” and “Mr. Jones.”

The ‘90s are the new ‘80s, and these pop icons (and guilty pleasures?) conjure some of the decade’s danciest titans, including Palm Beach County’s own Vanilla Ice, Salt-N-Pepa, Coolio and Young MC.

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t sure doesn’t look like a sushi-Thai restaurant, or any kind of Asian venue for that matter, except for the small sushi counter and stacked sushi boat platters on one wall. But don’t try to tell that to the crowd packing Bluefin Sushi on a weekday night. In a strip shopping mall, the streamlined dark wood, stone and metal area screams steak-

Above, a variety of sashimi; below, the interior at Bluefin; below right, the Lobster Bomb

PARKING: Parking lot available HOURS: Sunday-Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. No reservations for tables fewer than six. PRICES: Sushi rolls $4-$13; Dinners $16-$33 WEBSITE: bluefin sushiboca.com

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house, but then my pretty blue, chilled bottle of Nihonjin No Wasuremono sake arrives, and I don’t care about the decor anymore. I’m concentrating on the “Forgotten Japanese Spirit” genie in a bottle, a nicely dry liquid that gives me some soft hints of kiwi and goes very well with my lobster bomb roll. Bluefin Sushi and Thai has been around for about a decade, and Chef Yozo Natsui oversees the dishes. It’s a Boca of all ages, dressed up and dressed down. (Two ladies actually put their designer purses carefully on the napkins they had placed on the floor. This is Boca, after all.) For those who turn their noses up at the idea of combining Japanese and Thai cuisine on one menu, the

formula works here. My lobster bomb was huge, with tempura lobster cooked and tucked back into its shell, surrounded by a separate tempura lobster roll with avocado, asparagus, masago and a tiger sauce billed as spicy, but which was actually a little too mild. The delicate tempura had a light crunch, letting the lobster shine amid the bright green snaps of asparagus paired with smooth avocado. The Chirashi dish of sashimi—a banquet in a bowl—came with credit-card-sized pieces of very fresh tuna, salmon, eel and more, including tamagoyaki (egg omelette) and large roe with white rice. I impolitely stare as a ginger snapper arrives at the next table. This is a whole fish, deep-fried and topped with ginger, mushrooms, onions, bell peppers and scallions. It was impressive, and the way the diner dug in with his chopsticks and pulled out tender fish made me want to order it right away—after I’d just eaten three other dishes. (I blame the sake.)

Don’t forget the Thai offerings. The satay chicken marinated in yellow curry and coconut milk, with small ponds of peanut and cucumber-red pepper-vinaigrette dips, mingled sweet, sour and spicy tastes without any overwhelming the other. My Japanese spirit, the one that has regular sushi cravings, won’t put Bluefin Sushi in the forgotten area any time soon. I’ll be back early for the blue bottle and the lobster bomb.

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t could be a bistro in Paris, with hustle and bustle and plates flashing by, lights streaking through a window, glasses clinking, the smell of bacon wafting from a nearby kitchen. But Brulé Bistro is right here—Delray Beach—and you’re still diving into seasonal dishes with colorful, mouth-tingling accents in an atmosphere full of local charm, joie de vivre—and maybe a little Champagne, if the spirit moves you. We were smitten with Chef de Cuisine Jason Binder’s seared, tender beef Oscar, with a lump crab cake and béarnaise sauce, where the crab chunks wage war

with the bread crumbs and win. Or the Tuna Tangier, crusted yellowfin tuna perfectly seared with truffled wild mushroom bread pudding and swoon-worthy foie gras drippings. Here you may find saffron-infused cavatelli as a chef’s nightly special, or marinara sauce with shrimp and lobster reduction topped with asiago. For dessert, we loved the creamy house-made vanilla gelato and the lemon tart sprinkled with pistachio dust. Binder says his dishes are influenced by Chef Clay Conley of Buccan, Imoto and Grato.“I really admire his tastes and hope some of what I’ve gleaned is on the table

here,”says Binder, when he stops by to see how customers are faring. It’s Pineapple Grove, and the sidewalk is humming. Passersby stare at your plate, then tug their partner’s elbow and point to the restaurant’s front door. They say, “That looks great—let’s stop here.” If you want to hear your conversation, sit outside, or at the inside bar, where you can easily see a blackboard full of different alcohol combinations. There’s a reason that Brulé is one of Delray locals’ go-to places, far enough off the Avenue to feel civilized, but lively enough to feel as if you’re on a night out. Maybe even in Paris.

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here can be magic in a name—take Renzo’s, for instance, which was around for decades. A little more than one year ago, the name changed from Renzo’s to Novello. It was co–owned by Chef Angelo Romano, owner of the popular Paradiso Ristorante in Lake Worth. That lasted about a year; he’s no longer at Novello. Owner Marco Turano is still there, and he is a charming host and purveyor of some excellent food. Novello is an immersion in traditional American-style Italian décor: a mural of Italy on one wall, light Tuscan-color plastered walls, a dark wood bar, white tablecloths, and servers in the requisite black with ties tucked

into shirts. The wine list is good; there is a soft backdrop of a pianist playing “Al Di La,” and the intoxicating waft of tomato sauce and garlic fills the room. But the stereotype stops there. Novello transcends the typical Italian-American trattoria with top-notch food, starting with gorgonzola-stuffed dates tucked in a cozy baked phyllo snuggie. They deliver a trifecta of tastes: sweet, salty and sharp. The Dover sole is beautifully plated and just as pretty on the inside: creamy and meltin-your-mouth tender. Four meaty chops completed the rack of lamb, each seared outside with a true tender medium-rare inside and drizzled with jus. After our dessert of traditional tiramisu, we were

treated to tart-but-tasty complimentary house-made limoncello with shortbread cookies. We only had two cavils. First, we ordered the bronzino special, but suffered through the sole with no complaints. We also requested a half-order of the ricotta gnocchi but never received it. When the gnocchi omission and lack of bronzino were mentioned, many apologies were offered. These dinners are as pricey as a Venetian gondola ride, so what you get should be what you ordered. A well-prepared meal with pleasant surroundings like these should have earned top stars all around. Still, as we said, the food is exquisite and well worth the visit.

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house. All Americans are endowed with certain inalienable rights, among them the right to a thick, juicy, perfectly cooked steak. At this posh, comfortable (and expensive) meatery, the USDA Prime steaks are indeed thick, juicy and perfectly cooked, also massively flavorful and served in enormous portions. Don’t miss the New York sirloin or prime rib, paired in classic steakhouse fashion with buttery hash browns and uber-creamy creamed spinach. Chased with an ice-cold martini or glass of red wine from the truly impressive list, it’s happiness pursued and captured. • Lunch/brunch Sun.-Fri., dinner nightly. 561/447-0024 $$$

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Arturo’s Ristorante —6750 N. Federal Highway. Italian. Arturo’s quiet, comfortable dining room, slightly formal, rigorously professional service and carefully crafted Italian dishes never go out of style. You’ll be tempted to make a meal of the array of delectable antipasti from the antipasti cart, but try to leave room for main courses like fresh jumbo shrimp grilled in hot marinara sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/997-7373. $$$ Biergarten—309 Via De Palmas, #90. German/

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Pub. Part vaguely German beer garden, part all-American sports bar, this rustic eatery offers menus that channel both, as well as an excellent selection of two-dozen beers on tap and the same number by the bottle. The food is basic and designed to go well with suds, like the giant pretzel with a trio of dipping sauces and the popular “Biergarten burger.” • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/395-7462. $

Boca Landing—999 E. Camino Real. Contemporary American. The Waterstone Resort & Marina’s signature restaurant, Boca Landing, offers the city’s only waterside dining and shows off its prime location and views. The mostly small-plates menu features Asian-in-

flected tuna tartare, green curry mussels and fried calamari. Probably the best dish, though, is the thoroughly continental filet mignon with crab and béarnaise, with wickedly luscious house-made hazelnut gelato coming in a very close second. • Dinner nightly. 561/368-9500. $$

Bonefish Grill—21069 Powerline Road. Seafood. Market-fresh seafood is the cornerstone, like Chilean sea bass prepared over a wood-burning grill and served with sweet Rhea’s topping (crabmeat, sautéed spinach and a signature lime, tomato and garlic sauce.) • Dinner nightly. Lunch on Saturdays. 561/483-4949. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/732-9142; 9897 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, 561/965-2663; 11658 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/799-2965) $$

Brio Tuscan Grille —5050 Town Center Circle, #239. Italian. The Boca outpost of this national chain does what it set out to do—dish up big portions of well-made, easily accessible Italian-esque fare at a reasonable price. If you’re looking for bruschetta piled with fresh cheeses and vegetables or house-made fettuccine with tender shrimp and lobster in a spicy lobster butter sauce, you’ll be one happy diner. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/392-3777. (Other Palm Beach County locations: The Gardens Mall, 3101 PGA Blvd., 561/622-0491; CityPlace, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., 561/835-1511) $$

Butcher Block Grill—7000 W. Camino Real, #100. Steakhouse/Contemporary American. This casual steakhouse with a Mediterranean twist and a local, seasonal, sustainable ethos gives the stuffy old-fashioned meatery a swift kick in the sirloin. Beef here is all-natural and grass-fed, delivering big, rich, earthy flavor; the New York strip is 12 ounces of carnivorous pleasure. Seafood, whether raw (tuna crudo) or simply grilled (wild-caught salmon), is palate-pleasing as well. Don’t miss the fresh mozzarella, made and assembled into a salad at your table. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/409-3035. $$$

The Capital Grille—6000 Glades Road. Steaks. This is one of more than three dozen restaurants in a national chain, but the Boca Grille treats you like a regular at your neighborhood restaurant. Steaks, dry-aged if not

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iPic’s master mixologist stirs up some drama in his cocktails Written by LYNN KALBER

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e’s a man of many hats, or bar glasses, and what seems to be boundless creativity. Pair that with Adam Seger’s passion for history, great cocktails and food, and you have the perfect party guest. Or party giver. Luckily, if you’ve ever visited an iPic movie theater, you’ve been a guest at a Seger party. The luxury theaters known for their big reclining seats and superb moviegoing experience are also acclaimed for their food and drinks. And Seger shows up onscreen before each flick and shows you how to make those drinks. At iPic onsite restaurants in South Florida (Tanzy in Boca and The Tuck in Miami Beach), he works with a favorite film bash in mind, like the one from “Breakfast At Tiffany’s.” “That party scene is with people having unbridled fun. They’re enjoying themselves, and it shows how cocktails help people to relax and be themselves. And it’s the bartender who makes that connection, as well,”Seger says. This Master Bartender and Advanced Sommelier makes unusual connections seem the norm.“We’re starting to be a place where we have a great bar that happens to be at a luxury movie theater.”

Are cocktails regional? “Oh, yes. The mojito is something we’re quite passionate about both in Mizner Park and Miami Beach. In Mizner Park, we have our own herb gardens for basil and mint in our mojitos.” Tell us about the next hot cocktail ingredient. “Passionfruit is on the rise. We’ve had that from the beginning. It’s the bacon of the cocktail world. Beautiful and exotic. And using a lot of fresh chiles—everything from spicy margaritas to spicy martinis, integrated into the mojito or daiquiri, coupled with a little bit of savoriness.” Is there an elusive drink ingredient you want to try? “I’d like to get my hands on some more ambergris. It is used in extremely expensive perfumes, like Chanel No. 5. It was also called for in 19th century punch recipes. It comes from a sperm whale [a bile duct excretion that can be expelled from either end—Ed.] and floats to the top of the ocean. It floats around for about 10 years and becomes solidified and bleached by the sun, and then washed up on the beach. It’s very scarce, but it just takes a tiny bit of it. The aroma makes you think you’re on the most pristine beach you’ve ever been on.”

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Prime, are flavorful and cooked with precision, while starters from Wagyu beef carpaccio to a lighter version of the hardy chopped salad are nicely done too. Parmesan truffle fries are crispy sticks of potato heaven; chocolate-espresso cake a study in shameless, and luscious, decadence. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/368-1077. $$$

Casa D’Angelo —171 E. Palmetto Park Road. Italian. Angelo Elia’s impeccable Italian restaurant is a delight, from the stylish room to the suave service to the expansive wine list, not to mention food that’s by turn elegant, hearty, bold, subtle and always delicious. Dishes off the regular menu make excellent choices, like chargrilled jumbo prawns with artichoke, arugula, lemon and olive oil. But pay attention to specials like pan-seared snapper and scallops in a spicy, garlicky cherry tomato sauce. • Dinner nightly. 561/338-1703. $$$ The Cheesecake Factory —5530 Glades Road. American. Oh, the choices! The chain has a Sunday brunch menu in addition to its main menu, which includes Chinese chicken salad and Cajun jambalaya. Don’t forget about the cheesecakes, from white chocolate and raspberry truffle offerings. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-0344. (Other Palm Beach County locations: CityPlace, West Palm Beach, 561/802-3838; Downtown at the Gardens, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/776-3711) $$

Chez Marie French Bistro—5030 Champion Blvd., Boca Raton. French. Marie will greet you at the door of this nicely decorated, intimate, classic French restaurant tucked in the corner of a strip shopping area. From escargot encased in garlic butter, parsley and breadcrumbs to a tender duck a l’orange to an unforgettable crepe Suzette, you’ll be in Paris all evGlassg. Voila! Also on the menu: calf’s liver, homemade veal sausage, tasty onion soup, seabass Bouillabaisse, moules frites, rack of lamb, salads and more desserts. • Dinner nightly. 561/997-0027 $$

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e do things a little differently in Boca, which keeps life interesting. For instance, the 6th Annual Boca Burger Battle, on July 15, once again includes burgers made of the best meat around, plus appealing patties made from other things like black beans or chickpeas. Don’t knock it ‘til you try it. Those options are normal menu items for The New Vegan, which placed first in“Best Alternative Grill Master”in 2016, and third in overall“Best Grill Master.”From 6 to 10 p.m., top area chefs will combine their favorite grilling techniques with their secret recipes and special sauces, then present their burger masterpieces to the judges. Eat the entries, plus vote for the“People’s Choice”award. Others defending their 2016 titles will be M.E.A.T. Eatery & Taproom (“Best Grill Master”) and Tucker Duke’s Lunchbox (“Best Boca Burger”). Wash everything down with craft beers and wines. All of this deliciousness takes place at Sanborn Square Park, 72 N. Federal Highway. VIP tickets (early admission is at 6 p.m.) are $125, and $50 for general admission at 7 p.m. A portion of the proceeds will benefit PROPEL, People Reaching Out to Provide Education and Leadership, a Boca Raton nonprofit. It’s a rain-or-shine event, so plan to arrive hungry.

Royal Palm Place. Steak, seafood. Steaks are aged USDA Prime—tender, flavorful and perfectly cooked under a 1,700-degree broiler. There’s all manner of fish and shellfish, but you’re here for the lobster, whether giant Australian tails flash-fried and served with drawn butter or sizable Maine specimens stuffed with lobster. • Dinner nightly. 561/395-2675. $$$$

creamy burrata with prosciutto, tomato jam and arugula and a branzino served with spinach, clams and shrimp. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/362-8466. $$

Cuban Café —3350 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd. Cuban.

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Diners pack this traditional Cuban restaurant for lunch specials that start at $7.95, including slow-roasted pork served with white rice and black beans. Other highlights include the Cuban sandwich and (on the dinner menu only) lechón asado. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/750-8860. $

.Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton. Italian. The “Best Spaghetti & Meatballs Ever” dish is pretty darn close to being just that. The burrata with tomato carpaccio, melt-in-your-mouth Dover sole almondine, orecchiette con sausage and linguine vongole are part of a very good menu. From Sicilian fish salad to veal picante, a light calamari fritti to chicken Parmesan, you can find something for all appetites. Save room for the tartufo. • Dinner nightly. 561/419-8787 $$$

DaVinci’s of Boca—6000 Glades Road. Italian. Expect carefully prepared Italian fare that will satisfy both traditionalists and the more adventurous. The former will like crisp, greaseless fried calamari and hearty lasagna made with fresh pasta. The latter will enjoy

Dorsia—5837 N. Federal Highway. Continental. The simple pleasures of the table—good food, person-

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Gelato

y first gelato experience took place in northern Italy in the 1980s at a store called Gelateria 2000. Back then, the year 2000 seemed impossibly far away, and so did any hope of having this swoon-inducing Italian ice cream make its way to our shores. Naturally, I had to eat as much of it as possible. Gelato is made with cream, milk and sugar, and has less fat than ice cream. (It has more sugar, but we’ll ignore that.) Top-notch gelato is beautiful to admire. The taste is tipped off by the depth of color, and the richness is evident in its thick swirls. Now we have gelato around every corner in Boca, with flavors like Nutella, crema Sicilia with ricotta cheese and cinnamon, stracciatella (chocolate shavings), and Anastacia (bread, butter and jam). All but one of the gelatos tasted are made onsite. Cream Linton’s gelato is made at a central location, with multiple stores supplied. But enough talk. It’s hot, hot, hot outside, and gelato is just what you need. Here’s where to go and what to try. —LYNN KALBER

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TOTAL I tasted vanilla, limone, crema Sicilia with ricotta cheese and cinnamon (similar to cannolli filling) and Amarena with dark cherry. Limone was the favorite, with the tart lemon flavor lingering. It was not as smooth as expected, but more like a snow cone texture instead. Order two scoops in a cup for $4.39.

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I tasted stracciatella, variegate all’Amarena, Anastacia (bread, butter and jam) and Justin Bieber (pistachio). This is the first U.S. store for the Italian company, and the gelato took me right back there. Flavors are creamy and decadent, with rich textures all around, and the unusual flavors are aptly named. Order two scoops in a cup for $5.99.

CREAM LINTON

I tasted Sunken Treasure (vanilla with chocolate-covered peanuts), toasted coconut almond fudge, Garbage Can (vanilla with crumbled candy bars), and Creamsicle (vanilla with orange sorbet). The gelato looks like ice cream but tastes like gelato: creamy and full of fruit or candy bars. Order two scoops in a cup for $6.30.

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Cream Linton

520 Linton Blvd., Delray Beach 561/266-2222

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able service, comfortable ambience—are what this modestly stylish restaurant is all about. The menu has a strong Italian bent, evidenced by dishes like a trio of fried zucchini blossoms stuffed with an airy three-cheese mousse, and a cookbook-perfect rendition of veal scaloppine lavished with artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes and a tangy lemon-white wine sauce. • Dinner nightly. 561/961-4156. $$

Farmer’s Table —1901 N. Military Trail. American. Fresh, natural, sustainable, organic and local is the mantra at this both tasty and health-conscious offering from Mitchell Robbins and Joey Giannuzzi. Menu highlights include flatbreads, slow-braised USDA Prime short rib and the popular Buddha Bowl, with veggies, udon noodles and shrimp. • Breakfast Mon.–Fri. Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/417-5836. $

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Natural, seasonal, sustainable. You’ll enjoy the varied menu, and won’t believe it’s made without butters or creams. Try the too-good-to-be-true buffalo-style cauliflower appetizer, the seared salmon or buffalo burger, and have apple skillet for dessert. Healthy never tasted so good. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/826-2625. $$

Grand Lux Cafe —Town Center at Boca Raton. American. The Cheesecake Factory’s sister brand is an upscale take on the original formula, with an atmosphere inspired by the great cafes of Europe. The menu offers a range of international flavors, and the specialty baked-to-order desserts are always a big hit. • Lunch and dinner daily; breakfast on Saturday and Sunday. 561/392-2141. $$

The Grille On Congress—5101 Congress Ave. American. Dishes at this longtime favorite range from tasty chicken entrees and main-plate salads to seafood options like Asian-glazed salmon or pan-seared yellowtail snapper. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/912-9800. $$ Houston’s—1900 N.W. Executive Center Circle.

Buzz Bites II Hot summer dining specials

e love the summer months, not only because you have free sauna visits every time you step out your door, but because these are the months of eating out without reservations—and with plenty of available parking and dining deals. Starting Aug. 1, both Broward and Miami-Dade counties have restaurant programs that put top venues within a non-season price range. You can plan to eat out five of seven nights, and pay about the same as one dinner during the season. The savings are that good. Starting Sept. 1, Boca Raton will debut its Boca Loves New York dining program, a monthlong event in September inspired by the city’s significant connections to New York (Yes, we know we are the sixth borough). Forty to 50 participating restaurants will offer prix fixe menus inspired by the Big Apple. To find out more, call 561/395-4433. Dine Out Lauderdale runs for six weeks, and promises three-course prix fixe meals for $36. That’s not a typo. To figure out your eating pattern, visit sunny.org for a list of participating restaurants. Then try all the places you haven’t gotten to yet, and discover new favorites. Miami Spice runs through Sept. 30, and offers three-course prix fixe meals for both lunch at $23 and dinner at $39 at participating venues. The restaurant list is at miamiandbeaches.com. Check for which days of the week the Spice program is valid at restaurants, as days vary.

Contemporary American. Convenient location, stylish ambience and impeccable service are all hallmarks of this local outpost of the Hillstone restaurant chain. There are plenty of reasons why this is one of the most popular business lunch spots in all of Boca, including menu items like crab cakes, the mammoth salad offerings and the tasty baby back ribs. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/998-0550. $$$

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Smoked Fish Dip Chef Anthony Hoff has something fishy going on

“I could eat a whole order by myself. It’s a great sharing dish. For happy hour, for three or four people, it’s nice to have it on the table as you decide what to eat for dinner. This dip sells itself.”

moked fish dip screams comfort, beaches, sun, sand and sea. It’s the smoothness of the dip, the crunch of a cracker, the smoky taste that hits the back of your mouth, maybe a little steel drum action as a backdrop. “I love smoked fish dip,” says Executive Chef Anthony Hoff, who’s been with City Fish Market since it opened in Boca Raton in 2008. “But every time you get it, it’s just a store-bought item. It always tastes the same, even in restaurants, because most of them buy it from the same place. But ours is made from smoked trout. People can buy smoked mahi or smoked marlin at a lot of different places.” Chef Hoff was so enthusiastic about his love for this dip that it was infectious, and before we knew it, we were swimming to the store for smoked trout.

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— Anthony Hoff

CHEF’S TIPS What makes this recipe different from store-bought: “I think you should make this dip and do it up right. We add a hint of horseradish, red onion, chives, parsley—a touch of dill. It makes all the difference.” The difference between using sour cream or cream cheese: “(Cream cheese is) just better for a dip; it’s got a better consistency. Sour cream is a little more runny. When you mix cream cheese and mayonnaise, it has a little more body to it and holds up better.”

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Other ingredients that make it pop: “The hot sauce is whatever you like. I’m from Maryland; there’s no substitution for Old Bay. That flavor is completely different. Or it can be omitted. It’s only a hint and won’t make or break the recipe.” Ways to serve it: “There are a lot of options. We give two different kinds of chips, tortilla and wonton, served with little sticks of fresh celery, carrots and cucumber. You could serve it with some jalapeños to give it a little kick.” WEB EXTRA: Get the recipe and watch the step-by-step video. Visit BOCAMAG.COM under “In the Magazine.”

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fork-tender hanger steak in the classic steak frites. Lobster bisque is indecently rich and luxurious, ditto the Grand Marnier-infused chocolate mousse. • Dinner Tues.-Sun. 561/617-5965. $$

Josephine’s —5751 N. Federal Highway. Italian. Tradition trumps trendy, and comfort outweighs chic at this Boca favorite. The ambience is quiet and stately but not stuffy, and the menu is full of hearty dishes to soothe the savage appetite, like three-cheese eggplant rollatini and chicken scarpariello. • Dinner nightly. 561/988-0668. $$

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Junior’s —409 Plaza Real, Mizner Park, Boca Raton. Deli Restaurant/Bakery. A meal starts with a crunch of garlic-tangy pickles, with excellent coleslaw and pickled beets. That’s before you order. Try the corned beef (of course!), the potato pancakes and go from there. You must, however, not miss the “World’s Most Fabulous” cheesecake. Because it is. • Open daily from breakfast through dinner. 561/672-7301. $$ Kapow! Noodle Bar —431 Plaza Real. Pan-Asian. This Asian-inspired gastropub delivers an inventive punch to the taste buds. Among the hardest hitters is its angry shrimp dumplings and the char sui pork belly bao bun. The Saigon duck pho is yet one more reason to go. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/347-7322. $

Kathy’s Gazebo Café —4199 N. Federal Highway. Continental. This local stalwart smoothly rolls along with its signature blend of French and Continental dishes. The Gazebo is classic and formal, with equally classic dishes like creamy lobster bisque, house-made duck paté, broiled salmon with sauce béarnaise and dreamy chocolate mousse are as satisfying as ever. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/395-6033. $$$

Ke’e Grill—17940 N. Military Trail. American.

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The attraction here is carefully prepared food that is satisfying, flavorful and reasonably priced. The fist-sized crab cake is a good place to start, followed by sea bass with a soy-ginger-sesame glaze. • Dinner nightly. 561/995-5044. $$$

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Buzz Bites III Pig-Sty BBQ: Move over, there’s a new pit master in Boynton

dd how it’s 80-plus or 90-plus degrees out, and we crave barbecue. Think about it. Other than deep frying, there’s no other hot-as-anything kind of homestyle cooking. We are just gluttons for punishment—and a great slab of grilled ribs, with an amazing sauce slathered everywhere. Add Pig-Sty BBQ to your must-try list, because late last year, first-time restaurant owner Elliot Harris introduced celebrated Kansas City pit master Bryan Tyrell to his Boynton Beach place. Tyrell is an original member of the famed Kansas City Slaughterhouse Five barbecue competition team, as well as a member of the two-time American Royal grand champion team in the World Series of Barbecue. The duo has a love of food and music. Chomp on some ribs or the Jakl (smoked brisket on toasted roll with melted provolone and an onion ring) and listen to Harris’ great sound system while local and touring bands take the stage. There’s Carolina-style pulled pork, smoked wings and burnt beef ends served only Tuesdays and Saturdays. Salads, desserts and nonmeat dishes are on the menu, alongside breakfast and lunch. (706 W. Boynton Beach Blvd., Boynton Beach; 561/810-5801)

La Ferme —9101 Lakeridge Blvd. French/ Mediterranean. Classic style and classically oriented French cuisine come together at this elegant yet comfortable restaurant in a west Boca shopping mall. Though there are a few Asian and Italian-inflected dishes on the menu, at its heart Le Ferme (“the farm”) is as French as the Eiffel Tower. Start with gougères, cheesy pastry puffs filled with béchamel; don’t miss the unconscionably savory cassoulet; and finish with pineapple upside-down cake. • Dinner nightly. 561/654-6600. $$$

dining rooms make Arturo Gismondi’s homage to Boca’s storied La Vieille Maison the home away from home to anyone who appreciates the finer points of elegant dining. The cuisine showcases both first-rate ingredients and precise execution, whether a generous slab of silken foie gras with plum gastrique, posh lobster salad, cookbook-perfect rendition of steak frites and an assortment of desserts that range from homey apple tart to bananas Foster with chocolate and Grand Marnier. • Dinner nightly. 561/338-3003. $$$

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include antichuchos, chunks of grilled beef heart, and causa, a terrine-like layering of mashed potatoes and chicken salad. Ceviche and the lomo saltado are among the best in South Florida. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/296-1413. $$

La Tre —249 E. Palmetto Park Road. Vietnamese. For almost two decades, this elegant little spot has been celebrating the delicate, sophisticated flavors and textures of traditional and contemporary Vietnamese cuisine. A house signature, shrimp tossed with coriander curry pesto, is an inspired riff on Vietnamese classics. Service and wines match the refinement of the cuisine. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-4568. $$ La Villetta—4351 N. Federal Highway. Italian. This is a well-edited version of a traditional Italian menu, complete with homemade pastas and other classic dishes. Try the signature whole yellowtail snapper encrusted in sea salt; it’s de-boned right at tableside. Shrimp diavolo is perfectly scrumptious. • Dinner nightly. (closed Mon. during summer). 561/362-8403. $$ Le Rivage —450 N.E. 20th St. French. Don’t overlook this small, unassuming bastion of traditional French cookery. That would be a mistake, because the dishes that virtually scream “creativity” can’t compare to the quiet pleasures served here—like cool, soothing vichyssoise, delicate fillet of sole with nutty brown butter sauce or perfectly executed crème brûlee. Good food presented without artifice at a fair price never goes out of fashion. • Dinner nightly. 561/620-0033. $$ The Little Chalet—485 S. Federal Hightway. Continental/Steakhouse. This clubby faux chalet touts both its pricy pedigreed beef and that once-hip culinary staple of the 1950s and ’60s fondue. The latter offers a unique taste experience, especially if you go for the three-course prix fixe fondue dinner for two. It starts off with a choice of cheese fondues; we suggest trying the Parmesan, cherry tomato and fresh basil. Entrée fondues feature beef, chicken and shrimp cooked in a burbling consommé, to be dabbed with any of seven different sauces. Dessert fondues are all about the chocolate; try the decadent chocolate-peanut butter. • Dinner nightly. 561/325-8000. $$$

Madison’s —2006 N.W. Executive Center Circle. American. This location is something of a Bermuda Triangle for restaurants, with at least four eateries preceding this local outpost of a Canadian chain that styles itself a “New York grill and bar.” What Madison’s has going for it is an exceedingly handsome and capacious space, as well as service that is as professional as it is personable. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/994-0808. $$

Maggiano’s—21090 St. Andrews Blvd. Italian. Do as the Italians do and order family-style, sit back and watch the endless amounts of gorgeous foods grace your table. In this manner, you receive two appetizers, two

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salads, two pastas, two entrées, two vegetables and two desserts. The menu also includes lighter takes on staples like chicken parm, fettuccine alfredo and chicken piccata. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/361-8244. $$

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Mario’s Osteria—1400 Glades Road. Italian. This popular spot is swanky, but the rustic Italian fare keeps with an osteria’s humbler pretensions. Signature dishes like the garlic rolls, lasagna and eggplant “pancakes” are on the new menu, as are butternut squash ravioli and thick, juicy rib-eye served “arrabiata” style. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/239-7000. $$ Matteo’s —233 S. Federal Highway. Italian. Hearty Italian and Italian-American food, served in giant “family style” portions, needs no reinventing. Though there is no shortage of local restaurants cooking in that genre, it’s the details of preparation and service that make Matteo’s stand out. Baked clams are a good place to start, as is the reliable chopped salad. Linguini frutti di mare is one of the best in town. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-0773. $$

Max’s Grille —404 Plaza Real. Contemporary American. After 24 years in Mizner Park, Dennis Max’s modern American bistro is a true local classic. The food and decor are both timeless and up to date, the ambience is that of a smooth-running big city bistro. Service is personable and proficient. The menu is composed of dishes you really want to eat, from grilled artichokes with rémoulade to wild Alaskan salmon with citrus beurre blanc to the wickedly indulgent crème brûlèe pie. It’s a classic. Just like Max’s Grille. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat–Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/368-0080. $$ Morton’s The Steakhouse—5050 Town Center Circle. Steakhouse. There’s seemingly no end to diners’ love of huge slabs of high-quality aged beef, nor to the carnivores who pack the clubby-swanky dining room of this meatery. While the star of the beef show is the giant bone-in filet mignon, seasonally featured is the American Wagyu New York strip. Finish off your meal with the blueberry white chocolate bread pudding. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-7724. $$$ New York Prime—2350 N.W. Executive Center

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Drive. Steakhouse. This wildly popular Boca meatery packs them in with swift, professional service, classy supper club ambience and an extensive wine list. And, of course, the beef—all USDA Prime, cooked to tender and juicy lusciousness over ferocious heat. The bone-in rib-eye is especially succulent, but don’t neglect the New York strip or steak-house classics like oysters Rockefeller, garlicky spinach and crusty hash browns. • Dinner nightly. 561/998-3881. $$$$

Nick’s New Haven-Style Pizzeria —2240 N.W. 19th St., #904. Italian. Cross Naples (thin, blistered crust, judicious toppings) with Connecticut (fresh clams bocamag.com

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and no tomato sauce), and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the pies coming out of Nick Laudano’s custom-made ovens. The “white clam” pizza with garlic and bacon is killer-good; Caesar salad and tiramisu are much better than the usual pizzeria fare. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-2900. $

Ninja Spinning Sushi Bar —41 E. Palmetto Park Road. Japanese/sushi. “Whatever floats your boat” isn’t just a saying at this hipster sushi bar. Your sushi really does float on a boat, one of many bouncing along a channel cut into the top of the restaurant’s large, square sushi bar. High notes are the Mexican roll with tempura shrimp and avocado, and the sneakily fiery jalapeño-laced tuna tartare. If sushi doesn’t float your boat, gingery gyoza and crispy fried shrimp with a drizzle of spicy mayo probably will. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/361-8688. $$

P.F. Chang’s —1400 Glades Road. Chinese. There may have been no revolution if Mao had simply eaten at the Boca outpost of P.F. Chang’s—the portions are large enough to feed the masses—and the exquisite tastes in each dish could soothe any tyrant. We particularly like the steamed fish of the day, as well as the Szechuan-style asparagus. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-3722. (Other Palm Beach County location: 3101 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/691-1610) $$

Piñon Grill —6000 Glades Road. Contemporary American. The menu seemingly lists every recent trendy dish to come out of modern American restaurant kitchens, but Piñon succeeds with spot-on execution, mammoth portions and reasonable prices. Try the lobster and crab ceviche, the chicken paillard or the chocolate and “cherried” waffle with ice cream, which is the definition of lusciousness. • Lunch and dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/391-7770. $$ Racks Downtown Eatery + Tavern— 402 Plaza Real. Contemporary American. Though the menu generally falls under the heading of modern American comfort food, that can mean anything from elegant presentations like the jaw-dropping lobster cobb salad to homier offerings like burgers and pizza, fiery Buffalo-style calamari, succulent chicken roasted in the wood-fired oven and an uptown version of everyone’s campfire favorite, s’mores. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/395-1662. $$

Rafina —6877 S.W. 18th St. Greek. If you find the ambience of most Greek restaurants to be like a frat party with flaming cheese and ouzo, this contemporary, casually elegant spot will be welcome relief. Food and decor favor refinement over rusticity, even in such hearty and ubiquitous dishes as pastitsio and spanakopita. Standout dishes include the moussaka, the creamy and mildly citrusy avgolemono soup and the precisely grilled, simply adorned (with olive oil, lemon and capers) branzino. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/409-3673. $$

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Ristorante Sapori —301 Via de Palmas, Royal Palm Place. Italian. Sapori features fresh fish, veal and chicken dishes imbued with subtle flavors. The grilled Italian branzino, the veal chop Milanese and the zuppa di pesce served over linguine are especially tasty, and the pasta (all 17 kinds!) is available in full and half orders, with your choice of 15 zesty sauces. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/367-9779. $$

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Roots Italian Kitchen —212 S. Federal Highway. Italian. No pretentiousness here, with truffled burrata cream on sliced Roma tomatoes. Or gnocchi, linguine vongole, or risotto. All done well. Sauces and desserts made in-house. Speaking of the cheesecakes, there are many varieties, so save room. • Lunch Tues..–Sat. Dinner Tues..–Sun. 561/757-6581. $$$ Ruth’s Chris —225 N.E. Mizner Blvd. Steakhouse. Not only does this steakhouse favorite emphasize its New Orleans roots, it also distinguishes itself from many of its competitors by just serving better food. The signature chopped salad has a list of ingredients as long as a hose but they all work together. And how can you not like a salad topped with crispy fried onion strings. Steaks are USDA Prime and immensely flavorful, like a perfectly seared New York strip. The white chocolate bread pudding is simply wicked. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-6746. $$$$ Sapphire Indian Cuisine —500 Via de Palmas. Indian. Raju Brahmbhatt’s modern, sophisticated restaurant will smash any negative stereotypes of Indian cuisine or the restaurants that serve it. It’s sleek and stylish, with a well-chosen wine list and a staff that’s eager to please. The food is elegant and refined and alive with the complex blend of spices that makes Indian cuisine so intriguing. Try Bagarey Baigan, plush-textured, thumb-sized baby eggplants in a lush coconut-curry sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/362-2299. $$

Seasons 52—2300 Executive Center Drive. Contemporary American. The food—seasonal ingredients, simply and healthfully prepared, accompanied by interesting wines—is first-rate, from salmon roasted on a cedar plank to desserts served in oversized shot glasses. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/998-9952. (Other Palm Beach County location: 11611 Ellison Wilson Road, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/625-5852) $$ Sushi Ray —5250 Town Center Circle. Japanese/ Sushi. Impeccably fresh and exactingly prepared sushi and other Japanese specialties are on display. The Nobu-esque miso sea bass gives a taste of this modern classic at a fraction of the price of the original, while the chef’s sushi assortment offers a generous arrangement of nigiri and maki for a reasonable $20. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/394-9506. $$ Tanzy —301 Plaza Real. Italian. Part of the swanky iPic Theater complex (though it does not service the

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theater), this handsome spot relies on quality ingredients and careful preparation instead of culinary special effects and car chases. The Parma Bar, a sort of sushi bar for meat and cheese fanatics, also does terrific quattro formaggio fiocchi and spiced pear. Savory grilled skirt steak and massive bone-in veal chops are excellent, as are the braised Angus beef short ribs with toasted pearl barley and collard greens. For dessert, try the Almond Basket, which includes fresh berries and your choice of a trio of sorbets. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/922-6699. $$$

Tap 42—5050 Town Center Circle. Gastropub. This hugely popular nouveau-Industrial gastropub is not for the faint of eardrums when packed, but don’t let that discourage you. The kitchen here executes the hell out of a short, simple all-day menu. Grilled salmon chopped salad with tomatillo ranch dressing is delightful, as is guacamole studded with fat chunks of bacon and charred corn. Same goes for decadent shrimp mac-n-cheese. The wicked-good chocolate bread pudding with salted caramel sauce would be the envy of any Big Easy eatery. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/235-5819. $

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Greek/Mediterranean. Few present Greek cuisine better. Expertly prepared dishes cover the spectrum of Mediterranean cuisine, from cold appetizers (dolmades—grape leaves stuffed with rice and herbs) to hot starters (spanakopita, baked phyllo with spinach and feta cheese) to mouthwatering entrées like lamb shank (slowcooked in a tomato sauce and served on a bed of orzo), massive stuffed peppers or kebobs. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/994-2828. $$

Trattoria Romana —499 E. Palmetto Park Road. Italian. This local mainstay does Italian classics and its own lengthy list of ambitious specials with unusual skill and aplomb. The service is at a level not always seen in local eateries. Pay attention to the daily specials, especially if it includes impeccably done langostini oreganata and the restaurant’s signature jumbo shrimp saltimbocca. • Dinner nightly. 561/393-6715. $$$ Truluck’s—351 Plaza Real. Seafood. This stylish

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and sophisticated Mizner Park restaurant applies the steak house formula of classy, clubby ambience, formal service and an extensive wine list to seafood from across the nation, with great and consistent success. Crab is the specialty here and there are myriad versions—stone, Dungeness, Alaskan, soft-shell and more. Crispy softshells stuffed with crab and andouille are very good, if served without a drizzle of ketchup-y sauce on top. • Dinner nightly. 561/391-0755. $$$

Twenty Twenty Grille—141 Via Naranjas. Contemporary American. You’ve probably licked postage stamps that are larger than Ron and Rhonda Weisheit’s tiny jewel box of a restaurant, but what it lacks

in space it more than makes up for in charm, sophistication and imaginative, expertly crafted food. Virtually everything is made in-house, from the trio of breads that first grace your table to the pasta in a suave dish of tagliatelle with duck and chicken confit. Don’t miss the jerk pork belly and grilled veal strip loin. • Dinner nightly. 561/990-7969. $$

Uncle Julio’s —449 Plaza Real, Mizner Park. Mexican. Taking Tex-Mex cuisine gently upscale with better-quality ingredients and more skillful preparation, this colorful restaurant offers more than the usual suspects. You can get honey chipotle chicken fajitas, as well as beef fajitas, and one of the only palatable tamales around. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/300-3530. $

Uncle Tai’s —5250 Town Center Circle. Chinese. In an area with more cookie-cutter Chinese restaurants than cookies, Uncle Tai’s stands out for the elegance of its decor, the professionalism of its service and its careful preparation of familiar and less-familiar dishes. The “specialties” section of the menu has exciting dishes, like the Hunan vegetable pie, finely minced veggies sandwiched between sheets of crispy bean curd skin, and Hunan-style lamb, whose seared and succulent meat shows off the kitchen’s skill in the use of wok qi. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-8806. $$$ Villagio Italian Eatery—344 Plaza Real. Italian. The classic Italian comfort food at this Mizner Park establishment is served with flair and great attention to detail. The reasonably priced menu—with generous portions—includes all your favorites (veal Parmesan, Caesar salad) and some outstanding seafood dishes (Maine lobster with shrimp, mussels and clams on linguine). There is a full wine list and ample people-watching given the prime outdoor seating. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561-447-2257. $$ Vino —114 N.E. Second St. Wine Bar/Italian. An impressive wine list of some 200 bottles (all available by the glass) offers a multitude of choices, especially among Italian and California reds. The menu of “Italian tapas” includes roasted red peppers with Provolone, as well as ricotta gnocchi with San Marzano tomatoes. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/869-0030. $

WEST BOCA City Fish Market—7940 Glades Road. Seafood. A multimillion-dollar remodel of the old Pete’s has turned it into an elegant seafood house with a lengthy seafood-friendly wine list, impeccably fresh fish and shellfish cooked with care and little artifice. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/487-1600. $$

Sybarite Pig —20642 State Road 7. Contemporary American. A labor of love, pork and beer, everything at the Pig but the coarse-grain mustard is made in-house, from the bread for sandwiches to the eclectic sauces to the variety of terrific sausages. Roasted bone marrow and wagyu duck fat burgers, along with subtly

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Tempura House —9858 Clint Moore Road, #C112. Japanese/Asian. Dark wood, rice paper and tiles fill the space. An appetizer portion of Age Natsu, fried eggplant, is a consummate Japanese delicacy. Don’t miss the ITET roll with shrimp tempura and avocado, topped with spicy mayo, tempura flakes and eel sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/883-6088. $$

Villa Rosano —9858 Clint Moore Road. Italian. You can be forgiven for imagining yourself in some rustic Italian hill town as the smells of garlic and tomato sauce waft through the air. Start by sopping up the house olive oil with slices of crusty bread, then move on to a stellar version of clams Guazzetto and delicate fillets of sole done a la Francese. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/470-0112. $$

BOYNTON BEACH Bar Louie —1500 Gateway Blvd., #100. Eclectic. Attempting to split the difference between happening bar and American café, Bar Louie in the sprawling Renaissance Commons complex mostly

succeeds, offering burgers, pizzas, fish tacos and a variety of salads, all at moderate prices and in truly daunting portions. In South Florida’s world of trendy and expensive bistros, this is a welcome relief. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/853-0090. $

Josie’s Italian Ristorante—1602 S. Federal Highway. Italian. Famed chef and South Florida culinary godfather Mark Militello has been working his mouthwatering magic in the kitchen of this cozy, old-school Italian restaurant. His influence is mostly felt in the lengthy roster of daily specials, but old favorites like beefy short rib meatballs, an upmarket version of the classic San Francisco cioppino, and Josie’s signature veal Bersaglieri (veal medallions with artichokes, olives and roasted peppers in lemon-white wine sauce) don’t fail to satisfy either. • Lunch Mon.-Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/364-9601. $$

Prime Catch—700 E. Woolbright Road. Seafood. Waterfront restaurants are few and far between in our neck of the woods, and those with good food are even more rare. Prime Catch, at the foot of the Woolbright bridge on the Intracoastal, is a best-kept secret. The simple pleasures here soar—a perfectly grilled piece of mahi or bouillabaisse overflowing with tender fish. Don’t miss one

of the best Key lime pies around. • Lunch and dinner daily, Sunday brunch. 561/737-8822. $$

Sushi Simon—1614 S. Federal Highway. Japanese. It’s been called “Nobu North” by some aficionados, and for good reason. Local sushi-philes jam the narrow dining room for such impeccable nigirizushi as hamachi and uni (Thursdays), as well as more elaborate dishes like snapper Morimoto and tuna tartare. Creative, elaborate rolls are a specialty. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/731-1819. $$

DELRAY BEACH 3rd and 3rd—301 N.E. Third Ave. Gastropub. This quirky, individualistic, obscurely located little place is one of the most important restaurants in Delray. The menu changes frequently, but hope the evening’s fare includes plump scallops with caramelized mango sauce, stunning delicious roasted cauliflower with Parmesan mousse and bacon, and wicked-good espresso panna cotta on it at your visit. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/303-1939. $$

32 East—32 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. There are trendier, flashier, more celebrated restaurants than this beacon of vibrant modern American cuisine in downtown Delray, but there are no better

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restaurants anywhere in South Florida. The menu changes daily, but still look for items like the sublime black truffle-Gruyère pizza and the venison-wild boar sausage duo, which is the stuff of carnivorous fantasies. For dessert, the chocolate-peanut butter semifreddo is truly wicked in its unabashed lusciousness. • Dinner daily. 561/276-7868. $$$

50 Ocean —50 S. Ocean Blvd. Seafood. The former Upper Deck at Boston’s on the Beach is now the more upscale, seafood-oriented spot. The menu ranges from familiar to slightly more inventive, from a classic lobster bisque and crisp-tender fried clam bellies to rock shrimp pot pie and baked grouper topped with blue crab. The cinnamon-dusted beignets are puffs of amazingly delicate deep-fried air and should not under any circumstances be missed. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sun. 561/278-3364. $$ Angelo Elia Pizza • Bar • Tapas — 16950 Jog Road. Italian. Nothing on the menu of Angelo Elia’s modern, small plates-oriented osteria disappoints, but particularly notable are the meaty fried baby artichokes stuffed with breadcrumbs and speck, delicate chicken-turkey meatballs in Parmesan-enhanced broth, and Cremona pizza with a sweet-saltyearthy-pungent mélange of pears, pancetta, Gorgonzola, sun-dried figs and mozzarella. • Lunch Tues.–Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/381-0037. $

Apeiro Kitchen & Bar —14917 Lyons Road. Mediterranean. West Delray diners have another reason to stay in their neighborhood with this stylish, contemporary Mediterranean eatery. Apeiro’s menu spans the entire Mediterranean, with dishes like Moroccan-spiced lamb ribs, 14-ounce double-cut pork chops, and fluffy meatballs adorned with tomato sauce, ricotta and pesto. The apple crostata, baked in a wood-burning oven, is one of the best desserts in town. • Dinner nightly. 561/501-4443. $$

Atlantic Grille —1000 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood/ Atlantic Grille at the Seagate

Contemporary American. This posh restaurant in the luxurious Seagate Hotel & Spa is home to a 450-gallon aquarium of tranquil moon jellyfish and a 2,500-gallon shark tank. Savor inventive cuisine that takes the contemporary to the extraordinary. Bold flavors, inspired techniques and the freshest ingredients make every meal a culinary adventure. • Lunch and dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/665-4900. $$

The Banyan—189 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach. American. Snuggled under its namesake banyan tree in Pineapple Grove, this modern restaurant boasts a bright pink neon bar with bright cocktails, too. Try the purple Aviation gin cocktail paired with the Maryland crab bites or the Yum Yum Shrimp with spicy-sweet sriracha aioli. Sliders, tacos, mac trios and flatbreads do not disappoint. Order the crème brûlée cheesecake if it’s available. • 561/563-8871. $$ bocamag.com

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Buddha Sky Bar —217 E. Atlantic Ave. #3. Pan Asian. Don’t miss a meal at this stylish Asia-meets-industrial chic spot with a view of the Delray skyline. Chinese-influenced dim sum is inspired, while rock shrimp tempura and Tokyo beef skewers with twin chimichurri sauces touch the heart and the taste buds. Veggie fried rice is exemplary thanks to the kitchen’s application of wok chi. • Dinner nightly. 561/450-7557. $$

Burt & Max’s —9089 W. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Burt Rapoport and Dennis Max have struck gold with their first collaboration in years, bringing an accessible and affordable brand of contemporary comfort food to west Delray. A few dishes from Max’s other eatery, Max’s Grille, have made the trek, like the hearty chopped salad and bacon-wrapped meatloaf. Other dishes are variations on the comfort food theme, including a stellar truffle-scented wild mushroom pizza. • Dinner nightly. Sunday brunch. 561/638-6380. $$ Cabana El Rey —105 E. Atlantic Ave. Cuban tropical. Little Havana is alive and well in Delray. The menu is a palette-pleasing travelogue, including starters like mariquitas (fried banana chips) and main courses such as seafood paella (think mussels, shrimp, clams, conch, scallops and octopus). • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/274-9090. $$ Cabo Flats—Delray Marketplace, 14851 Lyons Road. Mexican. Mexican cuisine often has more personas than Madonna. This highly stylized cantina adds another—that of California’s Chicano culture. All your favorite Mexican dishes are there, as well as enormous margaritas, but also niftier items like the crispy tuna tacos. Try the restaurant’s famous avocado fries with garlic and cilantro, and finish off with Captain Crunch deep-fried ice cream. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/499-0378. $

Caffe Luna Rosa—34 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Italian. This multiple Delray Beach-award winning restaurant has sparkling service, comfort food taken to a higher level, and a setting just steps from the Atlantic. Open since 1993, and a success since then, they dish up big flavors in a tiny space, so call for reservations. Try the calamari fritto misto, then the rigatoni pomodoro and leave room for dessert. Or come back for breakfast. • Open daily from breakfast through dinner. 561-274-9404. $$

Cena—9 S.E. Seventh Ave. Italian. Like death and taxes, heat and humidity, Italian restaurants are a certainty in these parts. Most prize comfort and satisfaction over feats of culinary derring-do, as does this small but stylish restaurant in a space once occupied by one of Angelo Elia’s stable of eateries. Tender artichoke bottoms bathed in garlicky olive oil are a worthy starter, as is a salad of peppery arugula with figs and mild, creamy goat cheese. Sun-dried tomato-crusted halibut with Chianti sauce is a break from the familiar. Tiramisu, though as fa-

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miliar as apple pie, is exceptionally well-done. • Dinner Tues.-Sat. 561/330-1237. $$

City Oyster —213 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood. This stylish mainstay of Big Time Restaurant Group serves up reasonably priced seafood that never disappoints, such as shrimp and grits with jumbo crab cake and jalapeño cheddar grits. • Lunch Mon.–Sun. Dinner nightly. Outdoor dining. 561/272-0220. $$

Cut 432 —432 E. Atlantic Ave. Steakhouse. Hipper decor, a more casual vibe and an inventive take on steak-house favorites make this sleek restaurant just different enough to be interesting. Starters such as ceviche (prepared Peruvian style) and ultrarich oysters Rockefeller are first-rate, while the wet-aged beef is appropriately tender and tasty. • Dinner nightly. 561/272-9898. $$$

Dada—52 N. Swinton Ave. Contemporary American. The same provocative, whimsical creativity that spawned Dada the art movement infuses Dada the restaurant, giving it a quirky charm all its own. The comfort food with a moustache menu has its quirky charms, too, like shake-n-bake pork chops with sweet-savory butterscotch onions, and a brownie-vanilla ice cream sundae with strips of five-spice powdered bacon. The wittily decorated 1920s-vintage house-turned-restaurant is, as they say, a trip. • Dinner nightly. 561/330-3232. $$

Deck 84—840 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Burt Rapoport’s ode to laid-back tropical dining is like a day at the beach without getting sand between your toes. Though the restaurant is casual, the kitchen takes its food seriously, whether the stellar flatbreads, the thick and juicy 10-ounce special blend burger or homey seasonal cobbler. And the waterfront location just seems to make everything taste better. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/665-8484. $

El Camino —15 N.E. Second Ave. Mexican. This sexy, bustling downtown spot is from the trio behind nearby Cut 432 and Park Tavern. Fresh, quality ingredients go into everything from the tangy tomatillo salsas to the world-class tacos of fish clad in crisp, delicate fried skin and set off by tart pineapple salsa. Cinnamon and sugar-dusted churros are the perfect dessert. And do check out the margaritas, especially the half-and-half blend of smoky mezcal and blanco tequila. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/865-5350. $$

Fifth Avenue Grill—821 S. Federal Highway. American. Since 1989, this upscale tavern has been a Delray favorite. The straightforward menu focuses on entrées like lamb osso buco and tenderloin brochette teriyaki. Add a lobster tail for good measure. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/265-0122. $$

The Grove —187 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. Chef-partner Michael Haycook and chef

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Meghan O’Neal change their menu biweekly, turning out dishes exhilarating in their freshness, creativity and elegant simplicity. An appetizer of octopus with olive oil, crushed potato aioli and lemon is outstanding. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/266-3750. $$

Henry’s—16850 Jog Road. American. This casual, unpretentious restaurant from Burt Rapoport in the west part of town never fails to delight diners. Expect attentive service and crisp execution of everything—from meat loaf, burgers and fried chicken to flatbreads and hefty composed salads. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/638-1949. $$

Il Girasole —2275 S. Federal Highway. Northern

rary American. The guys from Cut 432 have done it again with this hip, casual modern American tavern. The menu is tightly focused and tightly executed, whether Maryland crab cakes featuring fat chunks of succulent crab or the behemoth slab of tender, juicy prime rib for a near-saintly $29. Don’t miss the decadent soft pretzel bites. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/265-5093. $$

Ave. Seafood. This local favorite on Atlantic Avenue— owned by John Hutchinson (who is also the chef) and wife Tina—serves up everything from burgers and wraps to a menu brimming with seafood options. Don’t forget to inquire about the stunning array of 10 specials—every night. • Lunch and dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/272-3390. $$

Jimmy’s Bistro —9 S. Swinton Ave. Eclectic. Best bets are a lovely salad of ripe tomatoes and fresh, milky house-made mozzarella; a rich, elegant version of lusty Cajun etouffee; and caramelized bananas in puff pastry with silken vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. • Dinner nightly. 561/865-5774. $$

La Cigale —253 S.E. Fifth Ave. Mediterranean. La Cigale’s Tapas Bar menu features Happy Hour specials, including cumin-spiced meatballs and chicken liver pate, from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday to Saturday.

True culinary professionals turn out gently updated and classically oriented dishes notable for the quality of their ingredients and careful preparation. Sweetbreads in chanterelle cream sauce are glorious; a barely grilled artichoke with mustardy remoulade is gloriously simple. Watching your server skillfully debone an impeccably fresh Dover sole is almost as satisfying as eating it. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/265-0600. $$

Lemongrass Bistro—420 E. Atlantic Ave. PanAsian. Casually hip ambience, friendly service, moderate prices and a blend of sushi and nouveau pan-Asian fare make this a popular destination. The quality of its seafood and care in its bocamag.com

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porary American. Dennis Max, instrumental in bringing the chef and ingredient-driven ethos of California cuisine to South Florida in the 1980s, is again at the forefront of the fresh, local, seasonal culinary movement. Max’s Harvest soars with dishes like savory bourbon-maple glazed pork belly. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/381-9970. $$

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House of Siam —25 N.E. Second Ave., #116. Thai. The normally riotous flavors of Thai cuisine are muted at this family-friendly downtown spot, but that seems to suit diners just fine. Dishes, well-prepared and generously portioned, include steamed chicken and shrimp dumplings with sweet soy dipping sauce and crisp-fried duck breast in a very mild red curry sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/330-9191. $$ Italian. This South Florida classic is not trendy, but it offers a level of comfort and consistency that has been bringing people back for more than three decades. The food is fine hearty Italian, with excellent service. Try the veal Kristy or the calves brains. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/272-3566. $$

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preparation are what gives Lemongrass its edge. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/278-5050. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 101 Plaza Real S., Boca Raton, 561/544-8181; 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/733-1344). $

American. Your office is nothing like this eclectic gastropub, unless your office sports more than two dozen craft beers on tap and a menu that flits from burgers and fries to mussels. Don’t miss the restaurant’s winning take on the thick, juicy Prime beef burger and simply wicked maple-frosted donuts with bacon bits and two dipping sauces. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/276-3600. $$

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Prime—29 S.E Second Ave. Steak/Seafood. Prime is aptly named for its heart of the action location, classy neo-supper club decor, extensive wine list and roster of designer steaks. Starters and desserts fare better than entrées, especially plump, crabby Maryland-style crab cakes and indecently luscious chocolate bread pudding. Service is a strong suit too, so with a bit of work this good-looking restaurant will fully live up to its name. • Dinner nightly. 561/865-5845. $$$ Racks Fish House + Oyster Bar—5 S.E. Second Ave. Seafood. Gary Rack, who also has scored with his spot in Mizner Park, certainly seems to have the restaurant Midas touch, as evidenced by this updated throwback to classic fish houses. Design, ambience and service hit all the right notes. Oysters are terrific any way you get them; grilled fish and daily specials are excellent. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/450-6718. $$$ Smoke —8 E. Atlantic Ave. Barbecue. With famed pit master Bryan Tyrell manning the smoker, this joint smokes every other barbecue spot in South Florida. Tyrell’s competition-style ribs are porkysmoky-spicy heaven, the Sistine Chapel of rib-dom. Crisp-greaseless house-made potato chips, meaty baked beans and plush-textured banana-coconut pudding are also excellent. The ambience is an inviting blend of Southern hospitality, urban chic and sports bar. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/330-4236. $$

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145 Sundy House —106 S. Swinton Ave. Contemporary American. It’s fine dining served in arguably the most beautiful restaurant and gardens in Delray. Menus are seasonal and imaginative. Try any of the fresh local fish dishes. • Lunch Tues.–Sat. Brunch Sun. Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/272-5678. $$

Taverna Opa —270 E. Atlantic Ave. Greek. Yes, you can order a side of belly dancing and napkin tossing with your moussaka and baklava at this chain. But the moussaka and baklava are very good; so is the rest of the food at the downtown Delray outpost. Also worth your while (and appetite) are appetizers like melitzanosalata, whipped eggplant with orange zest and roasted red pepper, and tarama, a creamy emulsion of bread, olive oil and salmon roe. Whole grilled bronzino is finished with lemon and orange juices for a citrusy flavor boost, while tongue-tying galaktoboureko goes baklava one better by adding vanilla-scented custard to golden, flaky phyllo. • Dinner nightly. 561/303-3602. $$

Terra Fiamma—9169 W. Atlantic Ave. Italian. The pleasures of simple, hearty, well-prepared Italian-American cuisine are front and center at Wendy Rosano’s latest venture. Among the pleasures you should

enjoy are delicate, pillow-y veal meatballs in Marsala sauce; lusty chicken Allessandro with mushrooms, spinach and artichoke hearts; and a finely crafted tiramisu that’s as satisfying as it is familiar. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/495-5570. $$

Tramonti—119 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian. In a world where restaurants chase trends with the relentlessness of Casanova in full Viagra heat, Tramonti stands out as a classic outpost of authentic Italian cookery. Not trendy hardly means stodgy, however, as evidenced by expertly crafted, robustly flavorful dishes like the signature spiedini di mozzarella Romana, spaghetti al cartoccio and braciole Napoletana. Torta della nonna is a triumph of the highly refined simplicity that lies at the heart of true Italian cuisine. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/272-1944. $$$

Vic & Angelo’s—290 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian. Giving old-school Italian eateries a modest jolt of more contemporary cuisine and more youthful ambience has proved a winning formula for V&A. Best bets include succulent little baked clams, lusty and hugely portioned rigatoni with “Sunday gravy,” and lemon and caper-scented chicken cooked under a brick. Tiramisu is delicious, as is the Italian version of doughnut holes, zeppole. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner nightly. 844/842-2632. $$

LAKE WORTH Couco Pazzo—915-917 Lake Ave. Italian. Despite the name, there’s nothing crazy about the cooking at this homey eatery. It’s the hearty, soul-satisfying Italian cuisine we’ve all come to know and love. Spaghetti Bolognese is a fine version of a Northern Italian classic. • Dinner nightly. (Tues.–Sun. during summer). 561/585-0320. $$

Paradiso Ristorante —625 Lucerne Ave. Italian. A Tomasz Rut mural dominates the main dining room, and there is also a pasticceria and bar for gelato and espresso. Chef Angelo Romano offers a modern Italian menu. The Mediterranean salt-crusted branzino is definitely a must-try. Plus, the wine list is a veritable tome. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/547-2500. $$$

Safire Asian Fusion—817 Lake Ave. PanAsian. This stylish little restaurant offers food that gently marries East and West, plus a roster of more traditional Thai dishes and inventive sushi rolls. Menu standouts include tempura-fried rock shrimp or calamari cloaked with a lush-fiery “spicy cream sauce.” Among the newer items are panang curry and duck noodle soup. Expect neighborly service and reasonable prices. • Lunch Tues.–Fri. Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/588-7768. $

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LANTANA The Station House —233 Lantana Road. Seafood. If you’re hungry for Maine lobster, plucked live out of giant tanks and cooked to order, this modest replica of a 1920s train station is the place to go. Lobsters come in all sizes (up to 6 pounds) and are so reasonably priced that getting a taste of one without reservations is highly unlikely. • Dinner nightly. 561/547-9487. $$$

PALM BEACH Bice —313 Worth Ave. Italian. Bice continues to hold the title of favorite spot on the island. The venerable restaurant offers a marvelous array of risottos and fresh pastas and classic dishes like veal chop Milanese, pounded chicken breast and roasted rack of lamb. The wine list features great vintages. • Lunch and dinner daily. Outdoor dining. 561/835-1600. $$$ Buccan —350 S. County Road. Contemporary American. Casual elegance of Palm Beach meets modern culinary sensibilities of Miami at the first independent restaurant by chef Clay Conley. The design offers both intimate and energetic dining areas, while the menu is by turn familiar (wood-grilled burgers) and more adventurous (truffled steak tartare with crispy egg yolk, squid ink orrechiette). • Dinner nightly. 561/833-3450. $$$ Grilled swordfish from Cafe Boulud

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Café Boulud—The Brazilian Court, 301 Australian Ave. French with American flair. This hotel restaurant gives Palm Beach a taste of Daniel Boulud’s world-class cuisine inspired by his four muses. The chef oversees a menu encompassing classics, simple fare, seasonal offerings and dishes from around the world. Dining is in the courtyard (not available during summer), the elegant lounge or the sophisticated dining room. • Dinner nightly. 561/655-6060. $$$ Café L’Europe —331 S. County Road. Current international. A Palm Beach standard, the café has long been known for its peerless beauty, the piano player, the chilled martinis and the delicious Champagne and caviar bar. Try one of its sophisticated classics like Wiener schnitzel with herbed spaetzle, grilled veal chop and flavorful pastas. • Lunch Tues.–Fri. Dinner nightly (closed Mon. during summer). 561/655-4020. $$$ Chez Jean-Pierre —132 N. County Road. French. Sumptuous cuisine, attentive servers and a seeand-be-seen crowd are hallmarks of one of the island’s premier restaurants. Indulgences include scrambled eggs with caviar and the Dover sole meunière filleted tableside. When your waiter suggests profiterolles au chocolat or hazelnut soufflé, say, mais oui! • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/833-1171. $$$ Cucina Dell’ Arte —257 Royal Poinciana Way. Italian. The wide range of items on the menu and the great quality of Cucina’s cuisine, combined with its fine

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Echo—230A Sunrise Ave. Asian. The cuisine reverberates with the tastes of China, Thailand, Japan and Vietnam. The Chinese hot and sour soup is unlike any other, and the sake list is tops. This offsite property of The Breakers is managed with the same flawlessness as the resort. • Dinner nightly (during season). 561/802-4222. $$$ HMF—1 S. County Road. Contemporary American. Beneath the staid, elegant setting of The Breakers, HMF is the Clark Kent of restaurants, dishing an extensive array of exciting, inventive, oh-so-contemporary small plates. Don’t depart without sampling the dreamy warm onion-Parmesan dip with house-made fingerling potato chips, the sexy wild boar empanaditas, chicken albondigas tacos and Korean-style short ribs. The wine list is encyclopedic. • Dinner nightly. 561/290-0104. $$ Imoto —350 S. County Road. Asian Fusion/Tapas. Clay Conley’s “little sister” (the translation of Imoto from Japanese) is next to his always-bustling Buccan. Imoto turns out Japanese-inspired small plates with big-city sophistication, like witty Peking duck tacos and decadent tuna and foie gras sliders. Sushi selection is limited but immaculately fresh. • Dinner nightly. 561/833-5522. $$ Jové Kitchen & Bar—2800 S. Ocean Blvd. Contemporary Italian. Jové is named for the Italian god of the sky, and when the folks at the tony Four Seasons decided to remake their premier restaurant, they reached high to offer the kind of food, service and ambience that would appeal to both their affluent older clientele and a younger, hipper, foodie-oriented crowd. Mission accomplished with dishes like the inventive take on octopus marinated and grilled with baby fennel, red pepper sauce, artichoke and olives. Desserts sparkle too. • Dinner nightly. 561/533-3750. $$ Leopard Lounge and Restaurant—The Chesterfield Palm Beach, 363 Cocoanut Row. American. The restaurant offers excellent food in a glamorous and intimate club-like atmosphere. In fact, it’s advisable to make early reservations if a quiet dinner is the objective; the place becomes a late-night cocktail spot after 9. The menu is equally decadent. • Breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner daily. 561/659-5800. $$

Meat Market—191 Bradley Place. Steakhouse. “Meat Market” may be an inelegant name for a very elegant and inventive steakhouse but there’s no dissonance in its food, service or ambience. Multiple cuts of designer beef from multiple sources can be gilded with a surprising array of sauces, butters and upscale add-ons. Whole roasted cauliflower is an intriguing starter, while a meaty Niman Ranch short rib atop lobster risotto takes surf-n-turf to a new level. Cast your diet to the winds and order the dessert sampler. • Dinner nightly. 561/354-9800. $$$$

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Nick & Johnnie’s—207 Royal Poinciana Way. Contemporary American. Expect flavorful, moderately priced California-esque cuisine in a casual setting with affordable wines and young, energetic servers. Keep your wallet happy with five-dollar dessert specials. • Lunch and dinner Mon.–Sat. Breakfast Sun. 561/655-3319. $$

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Renato’s —87 Via Mizner. Italian with continental flair. This most romantic hideaway is buzzing in season and quietly charming all year long with Italian classics and a Floridian twist—like the sautéed black grouper in a fresh tomato and pernod broth with fennel and black olives and the wildflower-honey-glazed salmon fillet with crab and corn flan. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/655-9752. $$$

Ta-boo —2221 Worth Ave. American. This self-described “American bistro” is less typical “American” restaurant or classical French “bistro” than it is posh-casual refuge for the see-and-be-seen crowd in and around Palm Beach. The eclectic menu offers everything from roasted duck with orange blossom honey-ginger sauce to dry-aged steaks and an assortment of pizzas. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/835-3500. $$ Trevini Ristorante —290 Sunset Ave. Italian. Expect a warm experience, complemented by a stately but comfortable room and excellent food. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/833-3883. $$$

WEST PALM BEACH Banko Cantina—114 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. Northern Mexican. Start with the Adelita cocktail and don’t look back. The bacon-wrapped shrimp, the Al Carbon steak tacos and the house guacamole add up to a full-flavor dinner. The west-facing rooftop bar is a nice sunset option, and the Pan de Elote (homemade sweet cornbread with vanilla ice cream and berries) is a delightful end to the evening. • Dinner daily. 561/355-1399. $$

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taste like green library paste. Don’t miss the porchetta either, or the silken panna cotta with coffee ice cream and crunchy hazelnut tuille. • Dinner nightly, Sunday brunch. 561/404-1334. $$

Leila—120 S. Dixie Highway. Mediterranean. Flowing drapes and industrial lighting complete the exotic decor in this Middle Eastern hit. Sensational hummus is a must-try. Lamb kebab with parsley, onion and spices makes up the delicious Lebanese lamb kefta. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sun. 561/659-7373. $$ Marcello’s La Sirena—6316 S. Dixie Highway. Italian. You’re in for a treat if the pasta of the day is prepared with what might be the best Bolognese sauce ever. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. (closed Memorial Day– Labor Day). 561/585-3128. $$

Pistache—1010 N. Clematis St., #115. French. Pistache doesn’t just look like a French bistro, it cooks like one. The menu includes such bistro specialties as coq au vin and steak tartare. All that, plus guests dining al fresco have views of the Intracoastal Waterway and Centennial Park. • Brunch Sat.–Sun. Lunch and dinner daily. 561/833-5090. $$

The Regional Kitchen & Public House —651 Okeechobee Blvd. Southern with Mediterranean twist. Across from the PBC Convention Center and next to Kravis Center for the Performing Arts means it’s a shoe-in for an excellent pre-theater meal. Or a post-theater drink and nosh. Executive Chef/Co-owner Lindsay Autry’s version of pimento cheese (prepared tableside), fried chicken, pickled shrimp and tomato pie are dishes you thought you knew, until you try these. Memorable, delectable comfort food, and bartenders who know what they’re doing. • 561/557-6460. $$

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DEERFIELD BEACH Chanson—45 N.E. 21st Ave. Contemporary American/French. A little bit of Palm Beach, a little bit of France come to Deerfield Beach in the form of this elegant, sophisticated restaurant in the oceanfront Royal Blues Hotel. Service is as stellar as the views from the cozy, modestly opulent dining room, notable for the 1,500-gallon aquarium embedded in the ceiling. Consistency can be an issue with the food, but when it is good it is very good. • Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Tues.-Sat., brunch Sun. 954/857-2929. $$$

Oceans 234—234 N. Ocean Blvd., Deerfield Beach. Contemporary American. One of the only oceanfront (as in, on the beach) options in South Florida, this familiarwith-a-twist venue is fun to both visit and eat. Try the Infamous Lollipop Chicken Wings, a starter that could be an entrée. Seafood is definitely top-shelf, as are the desserts. A true Florida experience. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/428-2539. $$

Tamarind Asian Grill & Sushi Bar —949 S. Federal Highway. Asian. Quiet and soothing, this multicultural venue serves sushi, sashimi, yakitori and wide-ranging Japanese appetizers. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/428-8009. $$

LIGHTHOUSE POINT Le Bistro—4626 N. Federal Highway. Modern French. The menu is modern and healthy—98 percent glutin-free, according to chef/owner Andy Trousdale. Check out the prix-fixe menu, which includes pan-roasted duck to beef Wellington. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 954/946-9240. $$$

Rocco’s Tacos—224 Clematis St. Mexican. Big

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Time Restaurant Group has crafted a handsome spot that dishes Mexican favorites, as well as upscale variations on the theme and more than 200 tequilas. Tacos feature house-made tortillas and a variety of proteins. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/650-1001. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 5250 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton, 561/416-2131; 110 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/808-1100; 5090 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/623-0127) $

Seafood. This seafood market and restaurant offers some of the freshest seafood in the county. Its unpretentious atmosphere is the perfect setting for the superb king crab, Maine lobster, Florida lobster tails and much more. Tangy Key lime pie is a classic finish. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/942-0740. $$$

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POMPANO BEACH Calypso Restaurant—460 S. Cypress Road. Caribbean. This bright little dining room and bar (beer and wine only) has a Caribbean menu that is flavorful, imaginative—and much more. Calypso offers a spin on island food that includes sumptuous conch dishes, Stamp

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Darrel & Oliver’s Café Maxx—2601 E. Atlantic Blvd. American. The longstanding institution from chef Oliver Saucy is as good now as when it opened in the mid-1980s. Main courses offer complex flavor profiles, such as the sweet-onion-crusted yellowtail snapper on Madeira sauce over mashed potatoes. Parts of the menu change daily. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sunday. 954/782-0606. $$$

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COCONUT CREEK NYY Steak —Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 5550 N.W. 40th St. Steakhouse. The second incarnation of this New York Yankees-themed restaurant swings for the fences—and connects— with monstrous portions, chic decor and decadent desserts. The signature steaks, dry-aged for 21 days, are a meat lover’s dream; seafood specialties include Maine lobster and Alaskan king crab. Don’t miss the NYY Steak 151 volcano for dessert. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sun. 954/977-6700. $$$$

FORT LAUDERDALE 15th Street Fisheries—1900 S.E. 15th St. Seafood. Surrounded by views of the Intracoastal, this Old Florida-style restaurant features seafood and selections for land lovers. We love the prime rib. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/763-2777. $$ 3030 Ocean—Harbor Beach Marriott Resort, 3030 Holiday Drive. American. Now led in the kitchen by Adrienne Grenier of “Chopped” fame, the new-look 3030 has a farm-to-table focus, along with an emphasis, as always, on locally sourced seafood. • Dinner nightly. 954/765-3030. $$$

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14th Annual Go Pink Luncheon Friday, October 13, 2017

Join us as we welcome celebrated journalist and author Joan Lunden, who was diagnosed with an especially rare and aggressive form of breast cancer in 2014. Today, Joan seeks to empower women to become their own healthcare advocate. She is a special correspondent on the TODAY Show and host of the CBS series Your Health. All proceeds benefit breast cancer programs at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Reserve your sponsorship at donate.brrh.com/GoPink; tickets and tables on sale August 1, 2017. Joan Lunden

20th Annual Golf Tournament Monday, October 16, 2017 Presented by JM Lexus Our challenging tournament will be led by Honorary Chairs Marilyn and Stan Barry and Co-Chairs Terry Fedele and Richard Schuller. The tournament features the championship courses of Boca West along with a helicopter ball drop, an amazing awards dinner, a chance to bid on a golf experience at Pebble Beach, and a premium amenity package for every golfer. Last year’s tournament was a sell-out, so reserve your sponsorship today to support the Hospital’s Ron & Kathy Assaf Center for Excellence in Nursing. Information is available at donate.brrh.com/golf.

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WHAT: More than 700 guests attended the National Multiple Sclerosis Society South Florida Chapter’s annual gala, which included a popup shop and fashion show. The MS Society aims to advance research and treatments to work toward an MS-free world. Karen Schneier Dresbach, the society’s president for 17 years, was awarded the MS Hope Award, the highest volunteer award, for raising more than $50 million throughout her time with the society. WHERE: Broward County Convention Center

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PEGASUS WORLD CUP INVITATIONAL WHAT: This inaugural thoroughbred horse race, with a $12 million purse, matched up two of the most prominent racing horses, Arrogate (the winner) and California Chrome. Celebrities, food, fashion and music punctuated the luxurious and lively racing event that drew a crowd of more than 12,000. WHERE: Gulfstream Park, Hallandale Beach

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decade, controversial or otherwise, were approved under that plan. The results irritate some people, and they bring with them the problems of success. Of course, Boca Raton could have decided to do something else. The city could have decided in 1980 not to form the Community Redevelopment Agency and to accept its desultory downtown. The city could have decided not to annex the property that became home to IBM and not to create what became the Arvida Park of Commerce, now renamed the Park at Broken Sound and still the city’s main employment center. Those actions could have produced results that caused problems—or failure.

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Florida Atlantic University offers a similar example. In 1990, FAU could have remained a very provincial university. Some members of the FAU Foundation preferred that approach, and they resisted the go-go attitude of new President Anthony Catanese. If that sentiment had prevailed, however, the Broward County legislative delegation likely would have used its considerable power to create a new, Broward-based university. The move would have diminished the stature of FAU, which Broward legislators believed was overlooking the county’s needs and focusing only on Boca Raton. Catanese recognized the threat. He ran off the small-towners and

increased FAU’s offerings in Broward enough to appease the legislators. The clumsy attempt to give Catanese a Corvette when he departed in 2002 for the Florida Institute of Technology forever will taint his reputation. Successive presidents have had to raise admission standards that lagged as Catanese rushed to expand. Still, the “unbridled ambition” current President John Kelly touts for FAU as more of a traditional university likely is possible only because Catanese saved FAU by thinking big at the right time. As with the city, Boca Regional’s progress creates its own problems. The hospital doesn’t have the facilities to adequately meet the new

demand. More of those “sophisticated”patients want private rooms. A new power plant is necessary. Boca Raton also has major needs: more downtown parking, traffic solutions, more efficient permitting. But those are the problems you want. Fedele calls himself “the luckiest hospital CEO in the country” because the donor base means that

Boca Regional won’t have to pay for the upgrade out of its operating surplus. Meanwhile, the city gets to talk about a new downtown campus, a student district near FAU and a revamped Midtown, among other things. Sure, Boca Raton is not the beachside town it was when tragedy found the Drummond family. But thank goodness.

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winter of 2016. But that’s not the whole story. Cattle ranchers, suburban grass-lovers, septic tank owners, and possibly even a massive phosphate mining operation along the Peace River may share some of the burden, says Bill Louda, the environmental scientist in FAU’s chemistry department. Then there’s the weather.

Paradise lost?

The pressures on the Everglades system have been building for a long time, Louda noted. Farmers back-pumped dirty, fertilizer-laden water into the lake decades ago during rain events. The pollution still lies on the lake bed, he noted. Property owners—like the first owners of the Driftwood Motel—installed septic tanks that send nitrogen, bacteria and other junk into the St. Lucie River, where it feeds algae. Northwest of the system, in an area of Florida known as Bone Valley, 75 percent of the United States’ phosphate fertilizer is ground from the rock, its waste sent to a pond. Louda has a grant application in to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to try to pinpoint more precisely which factors may have been most decisive in causing the epic bocamag.com bocamag.com

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2016 algae bloom. Having answers might help taxpayers save many millions in the ensuing cleanup and restoration efforts ahead, he said. But with President Trump gunning to strip the EPA, he’s not holding out much hope that his grant will be funded. This particular algae bloom was an organism that has always been in the ecosystem, a type of cyanobacteria called Microcystis aeruginosa. Neither plant nor animal, it’s a tiny single-celled algae species that behaves like a bacterium, one full of chlorophyll. If stressed by brackish waters, ultraviolet radiation or other threats, it emits powerful toxins, including one called microcystin, that can irritate skin and eyes, provoke nausea or vomiting and damage the liver and nervous system. An official state report, penned in 1999, was clear about the threat to humans:“Reported hazards to human health include gastroenteritis, asthma, eye irritation, blistering around the mouth and nose, and toxic injury to the liver. Microcystin is also known to be a tumor-promoter in laboratory animals.”The toxins persist and can accumulate in the organs of shellfish and fish. Solving this algae problem is a priority for politicians who understand the economic implications of tourism loss. But the political

battles over the solutions have pitted farmer against fisherman, lobbyist against legislator, and Everglades activist against rural worker. The South Florida Water Management District has purchased land and begun construction on stormwater storage areas near the Indian River Lagoon. But once completed, it will supply just a fraction of the water storage needs. The problem of finding land for water storage south of Lake Okeechobee remains. Without political accord or scientific objectivity, the threat of toxic algae blooms may be here to stay. It could ebb each dry season, and then surge again each hot summer rainy season. Anytime flood control managers must send freshwater out to sea to avoid inundating the Glades area communities or breaching the Herbert Hoover Dike, the algae threat pervades. Gomes says most people in Florida today don’t realize what is being lost. “In the late ’50s and early ’60s, the water was clear, and I used to go shrimping with my grandfather in the Indian River Lagoon. We had to step through the seagrass, there was so much of it,”she recalls.“It is just so imperative that we do something fast. I look out over the river and the ocean, and I feel like I have to defend it.”

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54 and Counting Another anniversary underscores the rare gift of true commitment Written by JOHN SHUFF

ast Saturday night when I saw her across the table, I saw the face of the woman I fell in love with almost 57 years ago. It was the same face I saw a few days earlier when I was rummaging through old family pictures. She was much younger then, of course, a lively brunette with a radiant smile. You could see in the photo that great sense of humor, the undaunted spirit. It was the face, now and then, of the person who has been at the center of my life. I met Margaret Mary Scanlan on a blind date my sophomore year at Notre Dame, and after a long courtship we were married in August 1963. During our 54 years of marriage we’ve had our ups and downs, disagreements and fights. I can still remember the plate of

In an era when everyone wants to renegotiate—to give less than 100 percent while expecting more—Margaret Mary has always been there for everyone. meat loaf she dumped on me six months into marriage. I made a remark about her cooking, and the food landed on me and halfway up the wall. Then there was the time years later after we moved to Florida, when I mouthed off about something and she pushed me—in my wheelchair—into the swimming pool. Suffice to say that I learned the hard way not to mess with Margaret Mary. I have learned that marriage demands commitment, courage and good communication. In the

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eyes of the world, Margaret Mary has always been in the background, although her work for our business and our family is not always visible. But my life and the lives of our children would be nothing without her. She’s solid as a rock, dependable, a good friend to many and the backbone of our family. In an era when everyone wants to renegotiate—to give less than 100 percent while expecting more—Margaret Mary has always been there for everyone. She has lived patiently with my multiple sclerosis for 42 years. She’s been instrumental in child-rearing and has been the leader of JES Media since its inception in 1981. Despite the roller coaster she’s been on, Margaret Mary has not once complained or given less than her best. Marriage requires work and attention, and ours is no exception. This often entails being honest or even critical of a mate. You simply owe it to your partner to be forthcoming. Such openness in a spirit of love and acceptance can elevate a partnership to a higher level. This is what happened to us. In its first six years, our marriage was nothing to write home about. In fact, it was headed down the tubes largely due to my inability to communicate. I was the workaholic, the guy who never needed to talk, who did what he did—when he wanted. We were occupying the same space but there was no connection, no sense of a shared life. Marg was the one who called me out. Her deal was simple: “I’ll hang

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in there if you get help.” After almost two years of counseling, things became much better. Our marriage flourished, and our respect for one another grew immensely. Marg’s candor and patience, and our willingness to adjust, helped establish and maintain a much-needed equilibrium. This courage on her part to address a problem and be part of the solution has helped shore up our marriage, year after year. Margaret Mary’s accomplishments, while unknown to most people, will endure forever. She has been the best partner a guy could ever have. In 54 years of marriage there have been many bumps in the road, a few flat tires and the realization that riding on the rims is not a pleasant experience. However, Marg’s equanimity has guided us with a steady hand. It has made our life together worth the ride. Thanks for hanging tough when I needed it most. I love you. Happy Anniversary.

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