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GIRL POWER 84 THE 102 ROBERT EVERGLADES 96 DID IT! We celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service by honoring Florida’s glorious contribution: our vital, and perpetually threatened, River of Grass. by lisa ocker

Powerful Boca businesswomen are on the ascent, aided by local organizations dedicated to shattering glass ceilings.

By nila do simon

For 112 years and counting, it’s been more than child’s play for Key West’s most haunted doll. by john thomason

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A volcanic St. Kitts peak known as “Mount Misery” becomes an unlikely place for a moment of Zen. by eric barton

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53FEEL GOOD

An area hypnotist breaks down the myths and benefits of “going under,” a local LPGA pro overcomes adversity on the links, and a lifestyle coach stands up for the health perks of standing up. by lisette hilton

61FLORIDA STYLE & DESIGN

Here are a few bright ideas to help light up your kitchen workspace—and some good-as-gold accessories.

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Carrots are a winning source of Vitamin A and antioxidants—and, whether whole, shredded or mashed, they’re ready for their culinary close-up. by mary brown malouf

Readers comment on articles from recent articles and blogs in Boca Raton.

71CITY WATCH

The imperiled Everglades is South Florida’s heart and soul.

Boca’s city council meetings may be more placid than Delray’s vociferous cage matches, but each city could learn from the other.

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74 FACE TIME

What’s the autumn buzz in and around Boca? We grant gold stars to our most influential teachers, learn how to dress for fall despite the scorching temps, get reel with a prominent fishing family and more. by shellie frai, dorothy macdiarmid and rich pollack, marie speed

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Meet a Palm Beach socialite who hopped at the chance to become a coffee entrepreneur, a Boca businessman making a racket about the future of tennis, and an entertainer specializing in tricks of the mind. by allison bowsher, nila do simon and john thomason

80 80 THE BOCA INTERVIEW

Randi Rhodes, a pioneering firebrand of South Florida radio, un-retires. by john thomason

115 BACKSTAGE PASS

We discover what happens when amateurs remake blockbuster movies in five minutes or less—and we Take 5 with a stage director who always wears her Thinking Cap. by john thomason

123DINING GUIDE

Don’t leave home without it! Our comprehensive guide to the best restaurants in South Florida includes new reviews of Abe & Louie’s in Boca Raton and Cena in Delray Beach. reviews by bill citara

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You might just see some familiar faces in our snapshots from talked-about social events in and around Boca Raton.

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Just when you thought the good fight had been fought—and won—you spot a naked lady in a bar. by marie speed

176 MY TURN

Why Boca Raton is still the leading authority among South Florida magazines—36 years after it first put its toes in the sand. by john shuff

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bocamag.com WEB EXTRAS Check out these bonus items unique to bocamag.com, stories in our September/October issue of Boca Raton or events in our area: FRONT ROW SEAT: We experienced a summer of standout shows in South Florida—from Twenty-One Pilots to Boy George to Alice Cooper—and the hits keep on coming with major concerts coming soon from Maroon 5, Adele and more. Catch the view from the front row with photographer Ron Elkman, who delivers upclose shots of the biggest shows. Click on the “Concert Photos” link under the A&E tab for day-after images.

BRUNCH SPECIAL: Chef John Thomas at Tryst breaks down a decadent breakfast treat—Crispy Rice-Crusted Brioche French Toast—in this issue’s “Deconstructing the Dish” segment (page 138). But if you’re looking to re-create this menu item at home, visit Web Extras for all the step-by-step details.

FAVORITE HAUNTS: To complement our spooky history of Robert the haunted doll (page 102), we revisit John Thomason’s 2012 feature on three local ghosthunting organizations, available through the end of October on the Web Extras link.

RHODES SCHOLAR: Want to know what it was like on South Florida radio legend Randi Rhodes’ first day back to broadcasting? After reading our interview on page 80, check out our exclusive video of her July re-launch at bocamag.com.

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BLOCKBUSTERS GONE BAD: Speaking of cool videos, click on the Web Extras link to see the deliberately awful movie parodies made by the budding filmmakers of Swede Fest Palm Beach (page 120).

CITY WATCH: Randy Schultz keeps our readers in the know when it comes to the news, issues, controversies and debates that most impact our community. Check out his “City Watch” blog every Tuesday and Thursday.

Clockwise from top: Boy George, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and 98 Degrees rocked South Florida stages this past summer.

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JUST LIKE HEAVEN “If The Cure never tours Florida again, its local fans received a remarkably generous send-off in Miami: a legacy tour of no fewer than 34 songs, four encores and three solid hours of music, with a set list divided between singles, deep tracks and rarities. It’s hard to believe the same band that produced the martial goth-rock of ‘The Hanging Garden’ also gave us the baroque pop of ‘The Perfect Girl,’ the party funk of ‘Hot Hot Hot!!!’ and the scraping industrial rock of ‘alt.end.’”

–John Thomason, A&E link, The Cure concert review

PALM BEACH COUNTY: OPIOID CENTRAL?

Ron Elkman’s up-close images of The Cure’s epic Miami performance

“Congress can’t even approve Zika money to help Florida and other states. In the Obama administration’s budget, however, is $1.1 billion for states to expand treatment for what a news release calls ‘opioid use

disorders.’ According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Palm Beach County, the annual drug poisoning death rate is more than 15 per 100,000 residents—the highest level.

Under the president’s plan, Florida could get as much as $47 million, based on a formula that ranks the seriousness of abuse state by state. Hard as it may be for officials in Delray Beach and Boca Raton to believe, Florida ranked just 31st in the drug poisoning death rate in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available.”

–Randy Schultz, Community link, City Watch column

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PASTA PERFETTO “When you go out for Italian, it’s pretty much a rule to try one of the homemade pasta dishes. We opted for the fresh ricotta gnocchi swimming in rich, creamy basil pesto. I could not put my fork down. Burrata is another must-have; it’s served

BLOG CENTRAL STAY CONNECTED TO THE COMMUNITY WITH OUR TEAM OF BLOGGERS: A&E: John Thomason takes readers inside the arts with concert, exhibition and movie reviews, cultural news and special profiles every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Also, check out our catalog of South Florida concert images, courtesy of Ron Elkman.

Friday. On Wednesdays, look for Alina Z., aka, “The Green Goddess,” who brings you the latest on healthy eating options. Also, check back every other Thursday for coverage of foodie events all over town, courtesy of Shaina Wizov.

DINING: Lynn Kalber breaks down the tri-county restaurant scene every Monday, Tuesday and

SHOP: Discover upcoming trunk shows, store openings, moneysaving tips and fashion trends

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HEALTH & BEAUTY: Lisette Hilton delivers local news from the worlds of exercise and medicine every Wednesday in her “Fit Life” blog.

COMMUNITY: Randy Schultz brings a reporter’s eye to Boca and

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I am writing to you today with regard to the latest print publication of Delray and Boca magazines. I was appalled and deeply offended by the sexist and misogynist advertisement placed in your July/August editions. The advertisement degrades women to mere sexual objects, and I urge you to reconsider in the future taking on ads such as these, as they not only create standards of beauty (white/Caucasian, underweight) that are harmful for women and especially young girls, but also reinforce gender relations in which women are objectified and sexualized. Numerous studies show the harmful effect on women’s and girl’s self-perception, as well as the link to eating disorders and gender-based violence.

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Tales from the Swamp THE MAGIC OF FLORIDA’S EVERGLADES IS POWERFUL—AND AT RISK.

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wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.” Simply, they are the heart of what gives this region its mystery and wonder.

But there’s a practical side to the Everglades, too, like the provision of drinking water to South Florida. Between sea level rise, population growth, a crisis in water quality, pollution issues surrounding Lake Okeechobee and the reluctance of state government to address Everglades restoration, this vast state resource—and our own future—is in danger of disappearing altogether. It’s impossible to write a love letter to this ancient swamp without becoming an alarmist over its continued existence; now is the time to run up the flag and try to save it. Again.

Another issue we explore in this magazine is one of “leaning in”—how Boca’s women leaders are galvanizing support for one another and the next generation through networking and mentoring, sharing resources, teaching empowerment (page 96). I find myself thinking those days are long over—we’ve won so many battles—and then I get schooled by what I read or hear and realize there is still work to be done. And we’ve got a great group of powerful women in Boca who are committed to doing it.

There is plenty more to rally around in this issue, from exploring the power in a haunted doll (do not read alone) to hiking a volcano in St. Kitts to the latest in dining and arts and entertainment. Dive in, escape those dog days of summer and we’ll see you next time.

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y earliest memory of the Everglades is a blur—literally—the image of my family running down the open stairwell in the Flamingo Lodge deep in Everglades National Park in the dead of August, a dense cloud of swarming, blood-sucking mosquitos in hot pursuit.

I was in seventh grade then, and we had just moved to Florida from England six months before. As part of my father Hugh Speed’s lifelong initiative to Show The Family The World, we had innocently embarked on a road trip to the Everglades—and were there less than 24 hours. “Wrong time of year,” he said helpfully, as we cowered in the safety of our Rambler station wagon, smearing ourselves with calamine lotion. We went to Jamaica instead.

Fast–forward some 40 years later to another memory: me, standing in thigh-deep water in Fakahatchee Strand with nature photographer/painter Jeff Ripple as we threaded our way through the dark cool swamp to the guzmania “cathedral.” Ripple took many of the photographs we feature in Lisa Ocker’s tribute to the Everglades on this year’s 100th anniversary of the National Park System (page 84). He was my guide on a few of the many Everglades trips I would take after I moved here to work for this magazine.

Because once you really experience this place, you have to go back, like there’s a magnetic pull from its vast weirdness—whether it’s hiking through marshes in Big Cypress, wading with Clyde Butcher through a mangrove swamp to find the right place for a picture, or kayaking in Long Pond with roseate spoonbills wheeling overhead. The Everglades, as Marjorie Stoneman Douglas once famously said, “are remote, never

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THINK AGAIN When director Nicole Stodard launched

her Fort Lauderdale theater company, Thinking Cap, in 2010, she was a oneperson organization. She took on props, costumes and sound, and directed without a stage manager. “I felt that I truly did everything but perform in [that first show],” she says. Thinking Cap has since grown into one of the most respected companies in the region, prized for its offbeat, experimental fare. And though its number of troupe members has grown, Stodard still takes on far more than the average director.

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We’re thinking about school and Halloween in September and October. It may still be hot, but autumn weather is coming.

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Do you have a favorite local restaurant dish? Send it to editor@bocamag.com—and we may feature you in an upcoming issue!

Buddha Bowl SAYS WHO: Phillip DiPonio WHERE TO FIND IT: Farmer’s Table WHY IT’S HIS FAVORITE: “It’s my favorite because of the abundance of fresh local ingredients and the amazing broth. It has stir-fried veggies, rice noodles, gingered egg and your choice of chicken, shrimp, tofu or seared tuna. It’s one of those dishes you just can’t stop eating.”

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LIFE LESSONS It’s back-to-school time, and we wondered how many of us really leave those memories behind. Here’s how a few of your friends remembered their favorite teachers. ✦✦✦ “I had so many favorite teachers. The one that first comes to mind is Kurt Nordstrom, my professor at University of Georgia who taught my case studies class in public relations—which is where I found my passion for the industry I have stayed in since graduating many years ago.”

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“Norman A. Burgdorf, my ninth-grade biology teacher at Francis T. Maloney High School in Meriden, Conn., was my favorite teacher. He once brought a paper bag into the lab, held it up for all to see, and horrified us by pulling out a dead cat for us to dissect. He was well into his late 60s, wore the same seersucker suit with a bow tie almost daily—quite a different look from the hippies of the late 1960s—and I was as afraid of him as I was fascinated by him. He was a character larger than life and taught us that we don’t yawn—rather we are yawned, as a bodily function.

He also thought that enzymes held the secret to good health. Dr. Burgdorf was the first character I came to admire, and to this day, I love meeting extraordinary people who follow a different drum. I just googled him, and he’s still kicking, at 107!”

—Jackie Slatkow, partner, Slatkow & Husak

“My favorite teacher was a very difficult and strict fifth-grade handwriting teacher, Mrs. Stevens. She smacked my knuckles with a ruler daily and was courageous enough to battle with me without suspending me for classroom disruption.

I never learned how to write properly; however, I did learn how to argue effectively, and I could make her laugh.”

—Keith O’Donnell, principal, Capital Markets, Avison Young

“My favorite teacher was a professor in college. He’s the one who turned me on to be an accountant. He used to write on the blackboard with his right hand and erase it with his left. If you weren’t paying attention, you would miss the 3 feet of information he was teaching!

His name was Fred S. Reynolds. Still remember it.”

—Jon Levinson, president, REL Enterprises

What you should be doing NOW ✓ This is the time of year to buy a new car (last year’s model, according to Consumer Reports), appliances, camping gear, cookware, air conditioners, fine jewelry and wedding supplies.

And jeans. ✓ Now is time to make those Thanksgiving travel plans.

DON’T-MISS EVENTS 3 [ 1 ] FAU KICKS OFF ITS FOOTBALL SEASON on Sept. 3 against the Southern Illinois Salukis, but you can bet everyone here is waiting for the Sept. 10 matchup with the Miami Hurricanes. [ 2 ] The first two BIG BLACK-TIE GALAS hit Boca in October—the second Mayors Ball hosted by the Rotary on Oct. 8 at Broken

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Sound Club and the annual chamber dinner on Oct. 22 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.

[ 3 ] It’s oom-pah time in Lantana with OKTOBERFEST at the American-German Club, 5111 Lantana Road (561/9676464), Lake Worth, on Oct. 7-9 and Oct. 14-16.

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Dressing for Fall When that fat autumn Vogue hits the newsstands, we all get a little bit of autumn-envy. All those thigh-high leather boots, mohair sweaters, plaid everything—while here, it’s still 90 degrees in the shade. Sigh. So we asked well-known image consultant/makeup artist/makeover expert Susan Bigsby to weigh in on how to look like autumn in the dog days of South Florida September. Bigsby lives in Palm Beach County despite a high-profile fashionista life including local and national television appearances, national press, high-profile clients including several governors and first ladies, and a stint as a former delegate to the United Nations.

And she still had time to share with us a few tricks of the trade. [ 1 ] READ UP on what’s new for fall and begin to get in the mood.

Even though the temperature won’t change for a while, we can incorporate a few things that will at least make us feel as though there is actually a change of season. [ 2 ] CHANGE YOUR MAKEUP from the fresh

face of summer to a more sophisticated look of a smoky eye or a deeper lip color. [ 3 ] CHANGE YOUR SUMMER straw or light-colored handbags to the deepertoned leathers of fall.

■ STONE CRAB SEASON

starts Oct. 15, so now is a good time to plan a big throwdown, before prices continue their inexorable upward climb throughout the season. We recommend Pop’s Fish Market, 131 W. Hillsboro Blvd., Deerfield Beach (954/427-1331); Old Dixie Seafood, 7000 N. Dixie Highway, Boca Raton (561/988-0866); and Capt. Frank’s, 435 Boynton Beach Blvd., Boynton Beach (561/732-3663).

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[ 4 ] AUTUMN COLORS ARE RICH AND

west ushers in autumn with a vengeance every year with a vast pumpkin patch, pony rides, u-pick fields and much more.

This is a great place to get corn stalks and other seasonal trappings—and have a ball with the kids. And don’t forget that Loxahatchee preserve is right down the road if you need a good dose of wild Florida. 10066 Lee Road, Boynton Beach, 561/733-5490

COLORFUL. I always think of the leaves changing—in a place where they actually change color, of course. Wear golds, deep oranges, purples, reds and greens in lightweight fabrics—and always wear your most flattering colors near your face. If you’re not sure what your best colors are, perhaps a personalized color analysis would be a good investment. [ 5 ] EVEN THOUGH THE RULE of “don’t wear white after Labor Day” is passé, I still don’t wear white shoes or handbags after September.

RECIPE:

JOE’S STONE CRAB MUSTARD SAUCE YIELD Makes 4 servings INGREDIENTS 1 tablespoon Colman’s dry mustard, or more to taste 1 cup mayonnaise 2 teaspoons Worcestershire 1 teaspoon A-1 sauce 2 tablespoons light cream Salt PREPARATION Place the mustard in a mixing bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer. Add mayonnaise and beat for 1 minute. Add the Worcestershire, A-1, cream and a pinch of salt and beat until the mixture is well blended and creamy. If you’d like a little more mustardy bite, whisk in 1/2 teaspoon more dry mustard until well blended.

Chill the sauce, covered, until serving.

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[ 6 ] ANIMAL PRINTS are always strong come fall. Pump up your style with leopard print shoes, a bag or another clothing piece. Just don’t wear all the critters at once!

For more about Susan or to get her help, contact Susan Bigsby LLC at 561/969-9071 or visit susanbigsby.com.

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days—with options ranging from Universal Studios in Orlando’s extremely scary Halloween Horror Nights (select nights from Sept. 16-Oct. 31) and, closer to home, Sugar Sand Park’s haunted house and a spooky canopy tour at Gumbo Limbo. There is a whole list of scary Boca events— check out bocaboodays.com for this year’s details.

This recipe is reprinted from Jo Ann Bass and Richard Sax’s book Eat at Joe’s: The Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant Cookbook.

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FISH FULFILLMENT

THE OWNER OF CAPTAIN CLAY & SONS HAS BEEN REELING IN YOUR DINNER FOR THREE DECADES.

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with an average day bringing in anywhere from four to 12 catches.

A FAMILY AFFAIR: Though he continues to fish a bit, Brand now spends most of his time at Captain Clay & Sons Fish Market, which he opened in 2006, and running fishing charters from Thanksgiving to Easter. Managed by his sons—Reed and Clay Jr.—and often visited by his youngest, Zack, the store is the place to find Brand when he’s not on the water. “I have three kids who are the best thing that ever walked the face of the earth,” he says. “I feel privileged every day to work with them.”

—RICH POLLACK

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WHAT’S THE ATTRACTION: Clay Brand, 58, has been making a living off the ocean for more than 30 years, mainly as a commercial fisherman but more recently as a fishmonger (Captain Clay & Sons Fish Market, in Delray Beach) and charter captain.

“I’ve been fishing as long as I can remember,” he says. “When I was 3 or 4, I started catching crayfish with my hands and asking my mother to cook them.”

By 1982, Brand had decided to become a commercial fisherman, getting up at “zero dark 30” and heading out in search of grouper, cobia, snapper, yellowtail and just about anything else found off the Florida coast. A good day would be catching 30 fish,

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ANNA SWEET

Beach last October when Sarah LaPierre and Kristen Alyce decided to join forces and create VIVRE Canvas Couture. The intricately hand-painted, handmade dresses, shoes and clutches reflect the beauty that is South Florida. Learn more from creative director, co-owner and co-founder LaPierre, and take a look at some VIVRE products on page 48.

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SARAH LAPIERRE THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR, CO-OWNER AND CO-FOUNDER OF VIVRE SHARES HER VISION FOR WALL-TO-BODY COUTURE. LaPierre, left, and Kristen Alyce

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How did the idea for VIVRE Couture come about?

What is the design process for dresses, shoes and clutches?

The idea for VIVRE came about pretty organically. Kristen (PR & marketing director, co-owner and cofounder of VIVRE) and I have known each other for a few years through the art world. We always followed each other’s projects until one event at Eau Palm Beach last October, when she asked me to come in to do a live painting on one of her Garbage Gone Glam paper dresses. We had such a great time, and I was so inspired to paint in this new way that I knew we had to do more together. It just had to be canvas instead of paper. We both loved the idea of truly wearable art—handpainted original pieces that you could take off your wall and wear.

I’m learning a lot of the design development as we move forward.

I’m new to this aspect of the creative process, but thankfully Kristen is quite talented there. We make a great team—Kristen leads the design of the structure, and I lead the design and direction of the painting. A lot of carefully spent time is going into the design, construction, painting and really every aspect of each piece. In fact, that’s an element we’ll feature for each product, so you can know how many hours went into your particular VIVRE item.

Where does your inspiration come from?

Our gorgeous coastline has a lot of play in the inspiration for VIVRE and for my painting style in general. The colors of life in South

Florida are vibrant and lush, and these are elements that I want to capture in my pieces.

This, along with the palette knife technique that I use, complements the lively shades and adds character with lots of texture for a canvas that is saturated with the spirit of our surroundings.

Where can VIVRE products be purchased?

Palm Beach purse, $350

You can purchase VIVRE products by placing an order on vivrecouture. com. We’re currently in discussion with boutiques in the area and will be coming soon to a store near you!

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PURSEBOX

The first day of school is always a big deal and now, more than ever, fashionable students can even set the tone when it comes to lunch. The bold new accessory here is the aptly named Pursebox. Geared to 21st-century tweens, Pursebox is a line of colorful, fashion-forward purses that are fully insulated and large enough to carry bento boxes and a large thermos, a big step above yesterday's traditional lunch boxes and modest brown paper bags.

Founders Melissa Yanovitch and Jennifer Bivona, both Boca natives, believed the time had come for a more refined lunchbox.

The solution? A purse that is multifunctional and gives girls the ability to express their own unique styles. Pursebox also offers customizable options, allowing girls to embellish their bags with charms and key chains. With their passion for fashion and entrepreneurship, Bivona and Yanovitch are proud to present girls with an innovative and trendy solution to an otherwise mundane product.

Where to buy: purseboxshop.com Price: $42

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ELEVEN PROTECT DAY CRÈME SPF18 Believe it or not, you’re not safe from the sun’s harsh rays while driving. There’s only so much your windows can do to block the sun, so they can’t fully protect your skin the way you would hope. This cream hydrates and nourishes the skin while also providing necessary sun protection for daily use.

WHERE TO BUY: Eleven Salon & Spa, 1440 N. Federal Highway, Delray Beach PRICE: $30

SALLY HERSHBERGER GLAM WAVES Just because you’re a mom, it doesn’t mean you can’t enter the car line looking and feeling glamorous. Moms should go for hairstyles they can do the night before and quickly refresh in the morning, typically the most hectic time of day. Sally Hershberger Glam Waves enhance waves while creating a sexy tousled style. This product controls frizz and creates a natural-looking, bouncy beach wave.

WHERE TO BUY: Target, 21637 State Road 7, Boca Raton PRICE: $12

CATRICE RE-TOUCH LIGHT REFLECTING CONCEALER Every now and then, we all need a little touch-up.

This reflecting concealer illuminates skin and hides imperfections for radiant eyes and a fresh appearance. It’s made for convenience, with an easy-to-use twist-up pen.

WHERE TO BUY: Ulta, 9882 Glades Road, Boca Raton PRICE: $5.99

DRYBAR DETOX DRY SHAMPOO Don't tell anyone, but other people also opt out of washing their hair every single day. So meet Detox, a great "shampoo" product for the mom on-the-go who wants her hair to feel fresh and clean.

WHERE TO BUY: Sephora, 6000 Glades Road, Suite 1024B, Boca Raton PRICE: $23

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Pressed for time in the morning? Look stylish even among the harried a.m. traffic with these transit-ready conveniences available at local retailers.

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BOCA RATON ENTREPRENEUR HEATHER MCMECHAN, CREATOR OF THE LOCAL MOM SCOOP BLOG, DISCUSSES THREE WAYS TO SIMPLIFY YOUR BACK-TO-SCHOOL GLAM. [ 1 ] KEEP YOUR COSMETIC BAG SIMPLE All you really need is a good concealer, mascara, eyebrow pencil and a lip gloss. These will be your best friends when you have that early morning rush when no one wants to get up.

[ 2 ] TAKE A SHOWER THE NIGHT BEFORE I think taking a shower the night before not only helps you unwind before bed but also saves you time in the morning.

You’re lucky to get a shower most days, but at least your hair will be done. Can you say keratin?

[ 3 ] PULL OUT YOUR OUTFIT THE NIGHT BEFORE SEPHORA SNAG-FREE HAIR ELASTICS Most women can agree that the typical hair elastic— a thinly disguised rubber band— is a personal version of hell. But not these. These Sephora elastics won’t leave you saying “ouch,” because they are made with a unique elastic fiber to prevent painful hair snags. Keep a box in the glove compartment for painless help in a pinch.

WHERE TO BUY: Sephora, 6000 Glades Road, Suite 1024B, Boca Raton PRICE: $3.50

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Whether you’re hitting the gym, meeting the teacher or conversing at a networking event, having all the pieces pulled for that specific outfit will have you looking and feeling your best— especially when you realize you forgot to make the lunches as you’re walking out the door.

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IN A TRANCE IF YOU THINK BEING HYPNOTIZED MEANS STARING FOR HOURS AT A DANGLING STOPWATCH AND LOSING ALL CONTROL—OR EVEN IMPERSONATING A FARM ANIMAL ON DEMAND—YOU’RE MISTAKEN. “A lot of people ask me if I’m going to make them cluck like a chicken. A lot of people believe that once they’re under hypnosis, they act like zombies to my commands,” says Yafi Yair, a doctor of psychology who runs a hypnosis practice in Deerfield Beach. “That’s not true at all.

You never lose your judgment.”

And that stopwatch? It’s so Victorianera. Today, with the right practitioner employing tools as basic as a reclining chair and soft music, hypnosis can help clients with negative habits, pain, anxiety, stress and even past-life exploration.

What’s it really like under hypnosis?

We asked Dr. Yafi, of Healthy Minds Practice, to give Boca Raton readers the lowdown on going under.  WHAT IS HYPNOSIS? Hypnosis is a really cool tool. What it has over other tools is that you’re connected directly to your own subconscious. So any information, memories, insights, wisdom and resources that you usually wouldn’t have access to in your normal awake and alert state—with hypnosis, you get access  to those parts of your mind.

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and look for guidance from within. Or they can connect to a really peaceful place within themselves to get a different perspective on their anxiety.

 IS THAT SCARY FOR SOME?

 CAN PEOPLE BE CURED IN ONE SESSION, OR DOES IT TAKE MANY SESSIONS TO HAVE AN EFFECT? The process is different for each individual. Some people can absolutely quit smoking after one session. The average is three or five sessions. And other people, depending on what they want to accomplish, can attend regular sessions, as with other therapies.

Hypnosis, by nature, is extremely relaxing, because the first two stages of hypnosis are physical relaxation and then mental relaxation. The only thing that could be weird for people (more than scary) is if people are really uptight and really controlling and find it difficult to let go. That initial feeling of your conscious mind relaxing may feel a little unusual to them.  DOES THE PERSON GOING UNDER LOSE

CONSCIOUSNESS? No. They know who they are and where they are the whole time. They know they’re in my office, closing their eyes. They’re not necessarily focusing on that, because they’re directing their intentions inward and focusing on their journey—but they always know that if they open their eyes, they’ll see me in the office.  HOW DOES EXPLORING THE SUBCONSCIOUS HELP PEOPLE TO QUIT SMOKING, LOSE WEIGHT OR DESTRESS? What happens when you’re under hypnosis is, first of all, you’re more open to suggestion. So if you’re given a suggestion that you like, such as enforcing that you’re able to quit smoking and that you’re tired of smoking, you’re going to internalize it, and it’s going to go much, much deeper than during a regular waking conversation.

That’s one way. Another way is that people connect with their own subconscious

 WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE HYPNOSIS STORY? My favorite story is of a client who came to me for past-life regression, which is one of my most popular services. And she was a little fearful, because she was just starting to discover her spirituality. But she trusted me as a practitioner … and I told her that … we’d take it slowly.

Not only did she go under very easily, but she had one of the most vivid experiences. She came back with names and dates. She actually connected to her own ancestry, which is quite uncommon. She was a man in her past life and saw herself burying her wife. And because she saw the tombstone, she had a full name and dates and everything. She wrote it all down and was able to go to ancestry.com and and find all these people that died hundreds of years ago. And her life really transformed. She is currently a Reiki master, doing spiritual work for other people, while still being a Christian and going to church.

Yafi Yair, Psy.D., Healthy Minds Practice, 954/471-3073 or healthymindspractice.com. Cost: $150 for each hypnosis session, which takes about an hour; other services include holistic counseling, energy healing and angel readings.

TEE TIME Despite diabetes, this golf pro is still swinging.

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ichelle McGann, a seven-time winner on the LPGA Tour, is intimately aware of her health. McGann, 46, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 13 and has played 27 years on the Tour while managing her disease. Today, the North Palm Beach resident shares what she has discovered about keeping healthy while playing the sport she loves.

“Walking daily has helped me keep my diabetes under control and be a good role model for those also living with this disease,” McGann says. “It’s important to be healthy as a golfer, because you use all body parts to swing the club. If you maintain your physical stamina, you can [play at] any age.”

To maintain her health while playing golf and traveling, McGann says she pays special attention to her overall calorie intake.

“As a diabetic, I watch my carbohydrate and protein intake,” she says. “Daily exercise is key for everyone to have the stamina to play 9 or 18 holes. To be mentally prepared, I have worked with a hypnotist and try to keep a positive outlook on every shot.”

Golf enthusiasts can see McGann play at this year’s Legends Tour, the official senior tour of the LPGA. The Legends Tour returns to Delray Beach for the third-annual Walgreens Charity Championship, presented by the Seagate Country Club, from Oct. 27-30. Among the golfing legends expected to play in 2016: Last year’s event champion, Sweden’s Liselotte Neumann; and World Golf Hall of Famers Nancy Lopez, Juli Inkster, Pat Bradley and JoAnne Carner. For more about the Tour or to purchase tickets, visit thelegendstour.com.

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OCTOBER IS THE MONTH FOR DRIVES AND PUTTS.

On Oct. 17, tee up to Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s 19th annual golf tournament benefiting the Ron & Kathy Assaf Center for Excellence in Nursing. Players will test their skills on the championship courses of Boca West, and ancillary festivities include an awards dinner and auction. Register for sponsorships or foursomes by contacting Michael Hoffer of Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation at 561/955-4642 or foundation@brrh.com.

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PRETTY IMPRESSIVE for a One-Year Old

We’ve specialized in women’s health for nearly three decades and have earned a national reputation for excellence for our capabilities in breast care. But with the opening of our new Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute in 2015, we’ve taken that reputation and our capabilities to even greater heights.

In its first year of operations, the Institute provided diagnostic procedures or other health-related services to over 60,000 individuals. Very simply, more and more women in the region are turning to us for care.

Maybe it’s because of our clinical expertise or spectrum of advanced imaging technologies. Or perhaps an expanded range of programs and offerings. Could be that all of this is now provided in a strikingly beautiful, $22 million, 46,000 square foot facility.

Maybe it’s all of the above.

The new Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Providing an environment of care that is complete, connected and comforting. Pretty impressive for a one-year old.

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HEALTHY AT WORK

Study after study shows that sitting long hours at work is bad for your health. As Wired phrased it in a 2013 article, “Sitting is the new smoking.” Americans spend an average of more than nine hours a day on their derrieres, but if you’re confined to a desk job, there are things you can do to break free of your position’s damaging effect on your health.

BAM! BAM! BODY founder and Organic Lifestyle Coach Natalie Cacciatore, of Boynton Beach, offers these tips for staying healthy at work.

MOVE!

It’s one thing to work out a few times a week, but that won’t compensate for being sedentary all day, according to Cacciatore.

“Take a five- to 10-minute break every hour to get up, stretch and walk around. Or even better, take a five-minute break every 25 minutes, if possible,” she says.

It’s best of all to “do this outdoors and get some direct sunlight and fresh air. Another great way to get more movement in your day is to take a walk during your lunch hour. Take the stairs instead of the elevator if possible, and park further away from the entrance of the building.”

All that, while keeping up your three to five weekly workouts combining weight-bearing and cardiovascular exercises, is a recipe for healthy living and working.

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THINK ERGONOMICALLY

Slumping and slouching over an ill-fitting desk all day makes for an unhealthy worker.

The tip here is to make sure your desk or workstation is set up ergonomically, Cacciatore says.

“You especially want to make sure you are not slouching, or that your neck is not bent to the side or forward,” she says. “Make an appointment with an ergonomic specialist if you can. If not, you can have a coworker take a picture of you sitting at your desk, so you may observe your posture and make the necessary changes.”

Cacciatore’s advice: Opt for a sit-stand desk to break up sitting and standing sessions.

MAINTAIN YOUR VISION

“Straining your eyes or squinting is another problem that can occur when staring at a computer screen all day and can even cause headaches,” she says. “Make sure that you can comfortably read the text on your screen without having to squint. Make sure you are blinking sufficiently and not allowing your eyes to get dry. Also, try not to cross your legs while seated, as that impedes circulation.”

For more, contact Cacciatore at 561/355-0587 or visit mybambody.com.

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WOOD FLOORS

Wood flooring visually warms the room and provides comfort underfoot that rock-hard stone and tile can’t. A chevron pattern adds visual movement and a chic vibe to the rift-sewn white oak floors. The forgiving medium-toned finish is easy to live with—not too dark, not too light.

proves the home’s all-important space can be as fabulous as it is functional.

There are those kitchens designed purely for function, all work and no play. And then there are others overwrought with ornamentation—easy on the eyes but hard on the chef. Find a kitchen that balances both pretty and practical, and you have a winning recipe. That’s why we love this kitchen. Small, yes, but it is big—really big— on inspiration. It dishes out plenty of ideas to help anyone who wants a kitchen that works hard and dazzles anyone who enters.

Following are seven of its tastiest features.

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A single, smartly designed island anchors the room. A center pass-through visually lessens the bulk of the base and allows light to flow beneath.

An overhang on all sides accommodates ample and flexible counter seating, and the majority of the island base houses storage. A slab of Caesarstone tops the island; its exaggerated thickness complements the room’s generous vertical height.

An absence of clutter, a narrow range of materials and a rejection of unnecessary detail gives the room its fresh, clean-lined style. With less ornamentation in the room, each element matters even more. Marble-like granite dresses the range wall and recurs on the countertops.

Sleek cabinetry and the island’s thick slab of Caesarstone lacks pattern and bold color that would detract from the room’s simple yet chic style. The keenly curated mix of materials, finishes and edited colors define the room’s appeal.

Big and bulky have no place in a kitchen short on space and big on light. Lucite barstools add chic modern style and add no visual clutter.

Mid-century-era tulip chairs and table furnish the dining area with fabulous form that is sleek and stylish.

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This room’s bow-tie configuration features a “cooking triangle” (refrigerator, stove and prep space) on one side of a single island and a “cleaning triangle” (two dishwashers and sink) on the other. The island sits off-center at an efficient arm’s length from the chef working at the range.

On the island’s opposite side, a wider span of floor space accommodates traffic flow as well as seating at the counter.

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SHINE AND SHIMMER Light and bright define this stunning space, and reflective surfaces play a big part in delivering both. High-gloss, floor-to-ceiling cabinets hide appliances and bounce light into the space, making the room feel more spacious and inviting. The floor’s soft sheen, the countertops’ glow, the brass hood’s gleam and the wall’s white and light gray tones visually expand and enhance the room.

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HIDE AND CHIC A painted cabinet panel dressed with gold hardware hides the refrigerator behind.

Dishwashers are similarly disguised. The treatments visually meld appliances into the beautiful cabinetry, all of which looks like built-in furniture. To foster the room’s sleek, uncluttered style, the design features no upper cabinets, open shelving or wall ovens that would muddle the décor.

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floridatable CINDERELLA CARROTS Beets, kale, and cauliflower—each of these humble vegetables has had

Inventive chefs can create elaborate works of culinary art using the carrot as their multipurpose medium. This veritable orange landscape on a salad plate presents raw carrots, carrot confit and a base of creamy carrot-mascarpone mash.

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its turn on the culinary stage over the last few years, their earthy, peasant origins gilded in butter and presented in the finest restaurants. The latest vegetable to get the Cinderella treatment: the carrot.

Creative chefs are placing this basic root—naturally sweet, beautifully colorful and fantastically inexpensive—under the spotlight. Carrots are ready for their close-up.

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A COLORFUL HISTORY Carrots may be synonymous with bright orange, but they were originally white. And purple.

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he wild plant originally found 1,000 years ago in Afghanistan was a small, white bitter taproot. Over years of human cultivation, as the carrot spread to Europe via Spain, it developed into a large, sweet yellow or purple root. The Dutch fiddled around with these to come up with the orange carrot, then the French fiddled around with those to come up with the iconic modern sweet orange carrot favored by Bugs Bunny. But a few countries preserved original strains, which have been bred back into the vegetable to produce multi-colored carrots for novelty-loving chefs.

MAIN DISH CARROTS Serve this version of a Moroccan tagine over rice or by itself with a green salad.

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Shred carrots, mix them with an egg, some black pepper and thyme and fry them like latkes, or potato pancakes, until crisp and brown.

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1 onion, sliced 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped or pressed 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon turmeric 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon black pepper ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon cumin

1 tablespoon thyme leaves 4 or 5 carrots, peeled and cut into 1/4” thick sticks 1 cup water (half vegetable or chicken broth, if desired) 1 1/2 to 2 cups cooked or canned chickpeas, drained 1 cup slivered almonds, toasted

Cook the carrots in olive oil over fairly high heat until they brown a little. Add onions and garlic and sauté over low heat for several minutes. Add salt, spices, herbs and water. Cover and simmer over medium-low heat until carrots are tender–about 25 minutes. When carrots are tender, add chickpeas.

Continue simmering until chickpeas are heated through and sauce is reduced and thick. Stir in 1/2 cup almonds. Taste, adjust seasoning, sprinkle remainder of the almonds over top. Garnish with sprig of thyme.

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Carrot Counsel Carrots don’t make your hair curly, as many children with stick-straight hair were told. But they do have some other, less cosmetic, benefits.

IMPROVED VISION Carrots are rich in betacarotene, which is converted into vitamin A in the liver.

Vitamin A is transformed in the retina to rhodopsin, a purple pigment necessary for night vision. Beta-carotene may protect against macular degeneration and senile cataracts.

HEALTHIER SKIN Vitamin A and antioxidants protect the skin from sun damage. Deficiencies of vitamin A cause dryness to the skin, hair and nails. Vitamin A prevents premature wrinkling, acne, dry skin, pigmentation, blemishes and uneven skin tone. Grated carrots may be mixed with honey for an inexpensive facial mask.

HEALTHY TEETH AND GUMS Raw carrots clean your teeth and mouth. They scrape off plaque and food particles just like toothbrushes or toothpaste.

CLEANSE Good source of fiber.

Enough said.

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Formerly performing as a regular on the relish tray circuit, carrots have found their way onto menus and recipes everywhere in Boca and Delray. Here are a few places that do them up right.

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Delray’s “Nuevo Latino” restaurant has a vegetarian dish made of its “signature coconut milk and habanero-curry reduction with yuca, calabaza, yautia, broccoli, carrots, spinach and Peruvian purple potatoes.”

105 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/274-9090

Upstairs at Bloomingdale’s at Town Center mall, the lowly carrot is honored with a casual cafe called Forty Carrots, with its namesake popping up in soup, several juices and a yummy carrot cake.

5840 Glades Road, Boca Raton, 561/394-2020

REBEL HOUSE At this maverick hot spot, carrots take a sweet turn in a Carrot Cake Roll made of goat cheese icing, raisins, walnuts, carrot marmalade, granola crumble and bourbon caramel.

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J ALEXANDER’S Carrot cake does not get any better than the one served here, with its unique buttermilk syrup adding flavor and moisture. And it’s served warm.

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Two Cities, Two Tones IN BOCA AND DELRAY, CITY MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS ON DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES

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hey both have five members.

They both have a ceremonial mayor. They both set policy for cities with an enviable dynamic.

But the dynamic of the Boca Raton City Council is not the dynamic of the Delray Beach City Commission, any more than the dynamic in Boca is the same in Delray. Indeed, the dynamic in Delray can be volatile. Yet each body often gets where it wants to go, even if the journey is different, and their combined recent record makes the anemic U.S. Congress look even less productive.

Among the examples: Both cities needed to reform their police and fire pensions. Done. Boca Raton needed to speed up permitting. Done. Delray Beach needed to update downtown building rules.

Done. Boca Raton needed to put a signature project on the main downtown intersection.

Done. Delray Beach needed to extricate the city from an overpriced trash-hauling contract. Done.

Stylewise, though, the Boca council and the Delray commission vary greatly. In Boca, the forecast for council debate is usually flat calm or a light chop. Commission meetings in Delray can mean swells and worse. Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein calls Boca Raton “coolly efficient. Our town and commission are a bit more passionate. We’re not afraid to mix it up.” That especially happened in June, as the commission quarreled over the city’s legal department.

Though Glickstein and Boca Raton Mayor Susan Haynie aren’t city CEOs, they run their respective meetings. They set the tone for how

the council and commission operate, and their backgrounds affect that tone.

Haynie has spent her life in government, with an emphasis on planning.

She values “consensus and collegiality” and seems to have achieved both. Haynie calls the council “very effective,” and the other council members—Mike Mullaugh, Jeremy Rodgers, Scott Singer and Robert Weinroth—agree with her assessment.

Perhaps more important, all four told me that even if they vote on the losing side they get a fair hearing. Discussion, Singer says, “never has crossed the line” since he joined the council with Weinroth in March 2014 and

“No Boca staff member would get the public scolding that occurs in Delray.”

Haynie became mayor. When Haynie was the rare dissenter in a 4-1 vote last year to reduce the size of downtown properties eligible for extra height under Ordinance 5052, she expressed her disagreement firmly but not personally. She didn’t make a speech.

Mullaugh, who has the most continuous service, says, “You can’t just have your own way, but people are looking out for the longterm interest of Boca Raton.” Rodgers, who

came on the council in 2015 and has the shortest service, says, “We don’t always agree, but we talk it out.”

Similarly, Haynie says, she lets residents vent if they don’t get personal. She reprimanded former council member Anthony Majhess “when he called (City Manager) Leif (Ahnell) a liar.” Otherwise, even after one of the regular critics has accused the council of selling out the city, betraying the people, etc., Haynie says impassively, “We appreciate your comments.”

Told of this, Glickstein says, “I say that, too.” Then he paused and added, “But sometimes I think my body language tells people that I don’t.”

True. Glickstein is perpetually impatient. A lawyer and developer, he has spent his career in private business, “where you can’t afford patience.” Glickstein worries more about outcome than process.

“A 5-0 vote every time is not an aspiration,” he says. “You have knowledgeable, prepared people making decisions. A split vote on a controversial item is OK. If they weren’t controversial, there wouldn’t be any debate. Our process may appear more messy (than in Boca), but there are far more 5-0 and 4-1 votes than 3-2 votes.”

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city watch in Boca Raton. Jordana Jarjura praised the commission for giving “consistent direction” on public safety, meaning sober houses and the city’s heroin problem. But regarding development, Jarjura—a land-use lawyer—“would like to see all commissioners base their decisions on the facts and the law, not personal opinions.”

Shelly Petrolia says, “We are getting a lot accomplished per policy, even though we all have our own opinions. We are all strong individuals.” Mitch Katz, however, says the commission “does not operate effectively, because we spend a lot of time at each other’s throats.”

He doesn’t just mean exchanges between commissioners. No Boca Raton staff member would get the sort of public scolding that occurs in Delray Beach. Sometimes it grows out of exasperation at slow or poor progress on a commission priority. Sometimes it happens out of necessity, as when Jarjura cross-examined former City Manager Louie Chapman during her first meeting. Sometimes it seems to be grandstanding or potshotting.

MORE CITY WATCH Whatever the motivation, I hear that such recent open criticism has made city department heads nervous. Regular criticism of Noel Pfeffer no doubt contributed to his departure for a private law firm.

Behind much of that difference in tone, however, is the difference in stability.

In Boca Raton, the troika of Ahnell, Deputy City Manager George Brown and Assistant City Manager Michael Woika has been in place for more than a decade. Ahnell has been manager for 17 years. Like Ahnell, City Attorney Diana Grub Frieser started in 1999.

Delray Beach has had three city managers since Glickstein and Petrolia ran as reformers in 2013. They and Jarjura had to run off the incompetent Chapman and hire an interim before Cooper began in January 2015. One assistant city manager started in 2014. The other resigned in August after less than a year. Many key department heads also are new to their jobs.

“That clarity in Boca adds value,” Glickstein says. “We’ve come a long way in three years, but we’ve spent far more time (than Boca Raton)

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.

fixing broken systems. Where Boca is would be a nice place for Delray Beach to be.”

Delray Beach once had similar stability in the top positions. With longevity, however, commission oversight dropped. Glickstein and Petrolia inherited a mess. Such basic city functions as purchasing remain problematic. Sometimes, a city needs turbulence, not just flat calm.

Note also the good point Weinroth makes when he says the city council “runs really efficiently—when you consider the obstacles.”

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Kate & Adriano Cerasaro

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rabbing a cold one with friends usually means a beer, but for Kate and Adriano Cerasaro of Rabbit Coffee Roasting Co., they’re working to replace that with a glass of their cold brew coffee.

A Virginia native, Kate moved to Florida when her children started school and met Adriano during a trip to Rome. The two fell in love and got married six years ago, with Adriano sacrificing living above a cafe “with the best coffee” to move to the US with his new wife.

When Iain Yeakle, a friend of Kate’s son, expressed interest in opening a roasting company in 2014, Cerasaro offered the use of her warehouse space in Riviera Beach. Adriano saw the new venture as an opportunity to create the perfect cup of coffee he had been missing since leaving his native Italy.

A career in the coffee business was never what the couple had in mind. Kate is admittedly still new to the personal practice of drinking coffee, but Adriano, who has since become well versed in all things roasting, feels he came into Rabbit Coffee with the best background: “I’m Italian,” he says with a smile. A few sips of one of their six single-origin roasts or a glass of their cold brew makes it clear the Cerasaros have found their calling.

In the increasingly saturated coffee market, the small company is focusing on delivering a product that stands out for its quality. It uses a destoner, a machine that removes small stones left in the beans after drying on rooftops, giving businesses that serve Rabbit Coffee the peace of mind of knowing their expensive grinding machines and customers’ cups of coffee won’t be compromised by loose pebbles. The couple purchased an afterburner for its roasting facility, a piece of machinery that controls the temperature of the beans, removes smokiness from the coffee and makes the roasting process more environmentally friendly. It’s a step in the roasting process that isn’t legally required for this still-growing operation, but it serves as another example of the local company differentiating itself through high standards of quality and customer care.

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Educating customers on beans and the brewing process is paramount to Rabbit Coffee’s success when competing with inexpensive iced coffees. With her upcoming product Cold Brew Coffee Energy Shots, Kate says the word “coffee” in the description is not redundant.

“People see ‘cold brew,’ and first of all they think it’s alcohol,” she says. “It’s not just the 20 hours in the refrigerator. First you have to roast the beans properly, then you have to coarsely grind them, then we put it in what looks like tea bags and soak it, then you take the beans out and drain them and filter them. So it’s a big process, and that’s what people have to realize.”

Another hurdle is getting into new customers’ cups. In Florida, regulations have been passed that limit the alcohol industry from giving away product to potential customers, a move that has helped even the playing field between big-name brands and smaller craft breweries. The same rules aren’t applied to the coffee industry.

“The hardest thing for us is to get in the door with restaurants, because the first thing they do is get set up with a company that gives them all the machinery,” says Kate, noting that niche roasteries like theirs aren’t equipped to give away thousands of dollars of machinery.

But there are many places where Rabbit Coffee has made it through the door. The company supplies coffee to a number of local restaurants and specialty shops and is looking to expand into gyms with its Cold Brew Coffee Energy Shots. Rabbit is the official coffee supplier for the Homestead Speedway Championship Race, and its products are now sold in the gift shop of the Hilton West Palm Beach. Restaurants like Copperpoint Brewing Co. and Buccan are integrating Rabbit Coffee into beers and mixed drinks.

The Cerasaros are on the lookout for a partner to open the first Rabbit Coffee Café and have also set their sights on expanding south into Fort Lauderdale and Miami. With its high-quality roasting techniques and commitment to coffee, Rabbit Coffee is in an ideal position to hop over the competition.

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Local Perks Rabbit Coffee is available at rabbitcoffee. com and can be shipped anywhere in the U.S., with the company expanding to include K-Cups shortly. Rabbit Coffee is also teaming up with local company Cravey, a high-end delivery service that brings clients meals from the best restaurants in the area along with a cup of hot (or cold brew) Rabbit Coffee straight to their door.

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Martin Blackman

A FORMER TENNIS CHAMPION HOPES TO SERVE UP THE NEXT GENERATION’S TOP PLAYERS.

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artin Blackman isn’t in the business of “now.” Instead, he’s focused on the future. As general manager of U.S. Tennis Association Player Development, Blackman and his team are dedicated to providing avenues, support and programming for the next generation of American players. Simply put, he’s responsible for the future of American tennis.

From his third-floor Boca Raton office overlooking the Chris Evert Tennis Academy, 46-year-old Blackman has a bird’s-eye view of some of the nation’s elite youths. And come this fall, when the USTA opens its much-anticipated National Campus—complete with 100-plus courts, state-of-the-art technology and an experienced coaching team—in Lake Nona, Fla. (just outside of Orlando), all the tennis world will be looking at Blackman.

Appointed to the position in 2015, his ascent comes at an uncharted time in the nation’s tennis history. Today, there is only one American men’s player in the ATP Tour’s top 20. A generation ago, five were in the top 20, led by Pete Sampras. (The women’s side is fairing much better these days, led by Serena and Venus Williams, and trailed closely by Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens and Coco Vandeweghe.) Blackman is looking to catapult America back to its heyday in the sport.

“We’re looking to capitalize on potential,” he says. “We look at every top player with a unique outlook. We figure out what’s the best team for them, and how do we get them that team. After all, we’re trying to develop champions.”

If the names Noel Rubin, Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul don’t ring a bell now, Blackman says not to worry; they will in a few years. The trio is among eight other young American players who Blackman feels will soon be in the top 50 tennis rankings. And if anyone should know, it’s Blackman, who has been around the sport his entire life.

Born in New York City to Caribbean-born parents (his father is from Barbados and mother from Jamaica), he’s played tennis at every level, including on the professional circuit. When he was 2 years old, Blackman’s father became the governor of the Central Bank in Barbados and the family moved to the island, where Blackman first picked up the game. He’d play tennis with his twin brothers, 10 years his senior.

The older boys wouldn’t take it easy on the younger Blackman, who remembers them firing aces at him when he was 4 and they were 14.

During summers, the Blackman family came back to New York so his father could teach at Hofstra University and where the young Blackman could hone his skills at U.S. facilities. When Blackman was 13, renowned tennis instructor Nick Bollettieri offered him a scholarship to play at the Bollettieri Academy in Tampa. There, he played alongside future greats Andre Agassi and Jim Courier.

Blackman would go on to win the 1986 USTA Boys’ 16s National Championships and then play at Stanford University, helping the

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school win two national titles with doubles partner Pat McEnroe. After turning professional in 1988, Blackman spent seven years on the tour, mostly as a journeyman, and winning a few Challenger events.

He began his coaching career as head coach at American University, followed by a stint as director of the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Maryland. After a two-year stint with the USTA as its senior director of talent identification and development, Blackman opened his own boutique academy on the courts at Boca Raton Resort & Club. His team worked with high-performing juniors to develop their skills, where every student who graduated from the program went on to play at the collegiate level.

Blackman inherits his current USTA role from his good friend Pat McEnroe, who served as general manager for eight years. If anyone is excited about the new $60 million Lake Nona facility, it’s Blackman, who says, “the new facility will send a message that it’s all about Team USA.” With a lean yet athletic build, Blackman still looks like he could hold his own against the world’s best players. Thankfully, he’s more interested in developing their talents than playing against them, something he says is a deep-seated belief.

“I feel that if you excel at what you do, doors will open up for you,” Blackman says. “In turn, you need to open the doors for others. And that’s what I’m hopeful to do.”

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Lucas Handwerker

THE HUMAN MIND IS A PLAYGROUND FOR THIS CHARISMATIC MENTALIST AND HYPNOTIST.

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or a man skilled in the art of illusion, Lucas Handwerker travels relatively light. At a recent gig in a Fort Lauderdale coffeehouse, his props were displayed on and around a folding table: a watch, a coin, two decks of playing cards, a wineglass full of pens, a stack of paperbacks—Thoreau, Emerson, Herman Hesse—and an inflated yellow balloon Scotch-taped to the wallpaper.

His biggest tool, an easel with chart paper, was barely used during the show. That’s because Handwerker is a mentalist, meaning that he plays tricks of the mind. His deceptions are as amorphous as thoughts; props are a means to an end, not the means themselves.

Mentalism is a branch of magic that dates back to the 16th century, and it peaked in popularity during the spiritualist boom of 19th century Europe. “It has no agreed-upon definition,” says Handwerker, 22, of Boca Raton. “The one that I like the best is using your five known senses to create the illusion of a sixth sense. The other really good definition is, I’m an actor playing the part of a psychic.

What I’m doing can look psychic, but it’s all very much psychological.”

Handwerker began his performance with a disclaimer: “Nothing in this show will work if you don’t want it to. It’s very much a show that works with you, not despite you. All that I ask is that you go into it with an open mind and an attitude of exploration. You’ll get out of it just as much as you put into it. If you pay attention, you’ll start to feel a new light.”

The next hour or so consisted of a string of quietly dazzling routines that combined careful deception, audience suggestion and, one might say, a bit of intuition. Card tricks, hypnosis and subliminal messaging share space in his act. He asserts that, unlike a traditional illusionist, his routines are not foolproof. “The thing about magic is most magicians can just go through the motions, and as long as they do it technically correct, they’ll get to the endpoint, and they’ll get to the applause. But with mentalism, every show I do there’s things that go wrong, there’s things that don’t work, because every audience is different. A lot of men-

talism is a lot more real than magic, because the methodology is real.”

At his Lauderdale performance, it’s more than likely he simply played us all like two-dollar harmonicas. But the result looked spontaneous and effectively mystical, and his show thrives on the seeming convergence of stagecraft and legitimate consciousness expansion. Not for nothing, he sprinkles his performances with references to Jean-Paul Sartre, Carl Jung and the prophet Edgar Cayce.

“A lot of what’s in the show is genuine psychology,” he says. “A lot of it is showmanship; a lot of it is moxie and just being able to woo a crowd.”

Handwerker, a Boca native, has been impressing crowds since around age 6, when he learned magic. He gave it up for mentalism in his teens, which he carried through college in upstate New York. Since graduating, he earned a certification in hypnosis and became a master practitioner in neurolinguistic programming, or NLP. These skills manifest in his stage performances as well as his day job—corporate trainings, retreats and workshops in areas like innovation and stress management.

The public shows, he says, “are just fun. They are my hobby.” But he is particular about their aesthetics. He always dresses in three-piece suits with pocket squares, in the tradition of a Victorian spiritualist, and he prefers unorthodox venues with local color: old theaters and schoolhouses, abandoned warehouses. He returned to Boca last year, and since February he has enjoyed frequent gigs at Dada in Delray Beach.

He is also exhaustively well read. He tries to finish a book a week, mostly nonfiction in areas like psychology, dreams, hypnotherapy and philosophy. At the time of this interview, he was finishing a book about brainwashing, which prompts a discomforting question: Couldn’t he use his mastery of hypnosis and suggestion for mind control, a la “The Manchurian Candidate?”

“The more I learn about hypnosis, it can definitely be used for more sinister means,” he says. “But I use my powers for good.”

“What I’m doing can look psychic, but it’s all very much psychological.”

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Not surprisingly, Handwerker isn’t sold on the validity of celebrity psychics. He thinks many of them use the same linguistic and psychological techniques he uses to simulate mind-reading.

“It’s hard to unilaterally say that there’s no such thing as psychics, because it’s hard to prove that anything doesn’t exist,” he says. “But I think most psychics you’ll meet, especially in the United States, won’t be real, especially the ones you’ll pay. If any of us are ever going to find a real, genuine psychic, I think it’s going to be someone’s abuela in southern Mexico in a hut somewhere. I think that’s who is going to be more genuinely intuitive than people who go on TV and take your money.”

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Randi Rhodes SOUTH FLORIDA’S QUEEN OF LIBERAL TALK BEGINS A NEW REIGN.

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WHAT’S DAMN NEAR FAMOUS ABOUT? It’s about how, if you were in show business, and show business was a totem pole, I’m where the dog lifts its leg. It’s also a love letter to my mother— who is incredible, who still lives in Boca—and my sister, who passed away, and how I raised her daughter. But it’s incredibly funny, believe it or not—all the road trips you have to take, moving from city to city at the drop of a dime because somebody called and said they’ll pay you $5 a week more. The characters are my family, and they’re hysterical people to begin with. I love this book.

YOU SAY THAT TALK RADIO IS THE BOTTOM OF THE TOTEM POLE, BUT IN SOME WAYS, IT’S THE MOST INTIMATE WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH AN AUDIENCE. That’s true, and why it doesn’t get the respect it deserves is a little stunning.

But I think it has a lot to do with the corporations. There used to be 500,000 radio jobs, because you had mom-andpop ownership, but after ’96, when they deregulated everything, all these mom-and-pops couldn’t resist the prices that the Clear Channels offered, and now we’re down to five owners.

It’s like the mafia: You’ve got the heads of the five families. And the families are all in collusion not to step on each other’s toes, to keep their advertising streams flowing.

So either you work for the corporate evil empire, which I did forever, or you get brave and you try to do it on your own. The motivation [for coming back to broadcasting] was that I spent a year

and a half writing this book, and I have to sell it. That’s why I wanted to create a platform.

DID YOU ALWAYS THINK THAT YOU WOULD COME BACK IN ANOTHER FORMAT? No. I moved to Costa Rica. I bought a house down there, and I didn’t think I was coming back. But I got diagnosed with breast cancer, and I had to come back. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past year. Every day at 9:45 I had radiation treatments; the last one [was in May].

SO THEY CAUGHT IT EARLY ENOUGH? They caught it very early. I always say to people, “if you have to have it, you want what I had.” It was Stage 1A, it was local, it was small, no vascular involvement, no lymph nodes. It takes a lumpectomy and 34 radiation treatments just to make sure it doesn’t come back. My sister had died of breast cancer; that’s why I raised her daughter. And it’s the same spot in the left breast. And my mother is an ovarian cancer survivor.

When you get diagnosed they give you a social worker, and she said, “Do you have any feelings of ‘why me?’” And I said, “‘Have you seen my family history?

Why not me!’ I was waiting for the other shoe to fall.”

So that’s why I came back from Costa Rica, but I didn’t share that with anybody, because I was afraid that I couldn’t sell my book if they thought the ‘cancer’ word was anywhere near me, and I thought I wouldn’t be able to start up a station if people thought I was sick.

So I didn’t tell anybody, but I’ll tell you

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n May of 2014, the dwindling ranks of liberal talk media lost one of its most ardent soldiers.

That’s when Palm Beach County’s own Randi Rhodes, a brashly talented Brooklyn transplant the Miami Herald once described as “rude, crude, loud, brazen [and] gleeful,” ended her awardwinning talk show after 22 fraught years of news, opinions, interviews, satire and shouting matches with listeners of all ideological stripes.

“The Randi Rhodes Show” began as a local talk show on Miami’s WIOD (610-AM) in the early ‘90s and went national in 2004, ultimately accruing 65 affiliates. Armed with a breathless machine-gun delivery and her inimitable Brooklyn drawl, she hectored Republicans and pushed Democrats to the left. Most importantly, she entertained while doing it. For her final few years on the airwaves, she was the only liberal on the radio in South Florida, leaving behind three drive-time hours that were never sufficiently filled.

To the relief of her legions of fans, Rhodes’ broadcasting hiatus proved to be short-lived. Thanks to more than $152,000 in Kickstarter funds, Rhodes returned this past summer with an Internet-based show on the national network Progressive Voices, which boasts 522,000 unique listeners. She used the crowd-funded donations to build her Delray Beach studio from scratch, where she broadcasts a decidedly less radio-friendly version of “The Randi Rhodes Show” from 4 to 6 p.m. (Nicole Sandler, a longtime South Florida progressive podcaster, also joined Progressive Voices, broadcasting from 3 to 4 p.m. in Rhodes’ studio.)

As Rhodes shares with Boca, her two-year sabbatical was as newsworthy as her show: She spent much of it in Costa Rica, during which time she wrote a memoir, called Damn Near Famous, and overcame breast cancer—a fight that she says contributed to her return to the combative world of political talk.

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theBOCAinterview this: Melissa Etheridge, who’s a dear friend of mine, had breast cancer. I reached out to her, and she said, “You’re about to find out what it really means when people throw out that expression, ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’” And the growth on the other side of this is so amazing. And she’s so right. My fight is back. I really want to do this again.

AND YOU NEED TO FIGHT TO DO WHAT YOU’RE DOING IN BROADCASTING. And I didn’t have it. When I left, I was like, OK, that was a good 30-year run. I did well, I was the No. 11 most-listened-to talk show host in the country and the No. 1 progressive. For a girl from Brooklyn, that’s pretty awesome.

And I went and took Howard [Vine, Rhodes’ partner] and slowed down; he had had a couple of heart attacks, too. So I said, “we’ve got to slow down.” Now, I get it—I get what my life is. I can’t just sit around in a rainforest and do yoga.

DID YOU START TO MISS BEING ON THE RADIO AFTER A WHILE? Those two years, 2014 and 2015, was the beginning of the 2016 election. And the idea of having to go down this road again with Hillary Clinton, and do the same debunking of the same old Bill Clinton stories, made me sick. I just looked at the future and said, “for the next two years I’m going to have to defend the Clintons again,” and the thought of it

made me nauseous. That’s part of why 2014 was the last year, and why I gave my notice.

They asked me to stay until May and I agreed, but I wanted out because I looked at the news and went, Oh my God, everything I ever said is going to have to get said again, and I’m just going to be repeating myself. I wanted new stuff. I wanted something exciting.

“It’s a weird talent.

I can’t sing, I can’t dance. But I know how to be in your head, just me and you. I know how to respect that space, and I know how to abuse it.”

HOW WILL THE INTERNET SHOW BE DIFFERENT FROM THE RADIO SHOW? You can curse, that’s for sure. And there’s no morning meeting where they’re going to tell you, “you better back off from trashing x or o, because they called the office and they don’t want to hear that on our network, or we have a fiduciary responsibility to this investor, who has an interest in this.

Electile Dysfunction [Hillary Clinton] has many, many scandals! It is just incredible. I have never seen this many scandals, although I will say Donald Trump, who has never held public office, has been sued 3,500 times. Three thousand 500 times people have had grievances that were sufficient enough to get into a court of law! Don’t we have great candidates?

Are you telling me, deep down inside, no matter who you’re for now, or if you’re staying home, that in this great exceptional country of ours, where we have scientists and software engineers, we have people that can cure cancer, we have people in this country that can do enormously complex logistics and get a package from my lovin’ hands to yours in less than 24 hours … and the best we can come up with was Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton? Yes, I believe that. We can’t do any better than these two people. What a great country.

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AND THAT’S HAPPENED TO YOU? Oh yes, it’s happened to everybody. Less at Clear Channel than at Air America, and that’s why you’re left to conclude that Democrats are mealy-mouthed, lily-livered liberals.

I WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN YOU STARTED OUT IN THE DEEP SOUTH, DEEJAYING COUNTRY MUSIC IN SEMINOLE, TEXAS. DID YOU ENJOY THAT WORK? Loved it. The thing that attracted me wasn’t the audience; it was the camaraderie that was inside the radio station—the people that you worked with were amazing.

Howard calls us circus freaks because we’re very unique individuals. It takes one to understand one.

WHEN YOU WERE DOING MUSIC, DID YOU WANT TO TRANSITION INTO TALK? When I first started doing talk radio, I was 31. And at 31, I [knew I didn’t want] to be a 40-year-old playing classic rock. It dawned on me that this was as far as you could go.

So I quit, and went to Broward Community College. I took one political science class, and I got addicted. Dr. Schindler was my political science professor. The first day of class, he said, “does anybody know why anyone would want to be a congressman? It costs millions of dollars to run for office, and you make $130,000 a year.” He said, “because then you know when the road’s going to be built, and you know where to put your Burger King and your gas stations, and that, my friends, is how you make money in America.” And I was so turned on by the whole thing, because I knew he wasn’t going to do Marbury v. Madison, which is what you had in high school. He was going to talk about Realpolitick. I loved him.

I thought, I’ve got to educate myself and do talk radio.

I got a part-time job on the Coast [radio station], and down the hall was WIOD. There was so much action at IOD! I hadn’t seen action at an AM station since Seminole, Texas!

AM was dead. Why was all this going on at this AM station? It was Neil Rogers and that whole crew he built down there. And these people were super talented, super devoted, real friends, slept on the studio floor, went out to lunch, got pizza delivered. Hurricanes came, and computers were flying down the hallway. You stayed there. And then you went down to Homestead and built a tent city and called the governor, and you shamed the president. It was real camaraderie, and a team, and I loved being part of it.

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ARE THERE ANY CONSERVATIVE TALK SHOW HOSTS THAT YOU ADMIRE?

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PREDICTING THE DEATH OF AM RADIO FOR YEARS. WHAT’S YOUR TAKE? It’s dead. You should just turn off the lights, cover the mirrors.

BUT SOME OF THESE SHOWS STILL HAVE MILLIONS OF LISTENERS. But it’s an older demo. God love them, they know the value of it, and I love that they do, but they’re getting older. Most seniors live on fixed incomes, and they don’t have the money to buy the Sleep Number bed, and the new computer, nor do they care to have a new iPhone. It’s not a self-sustaining model.

When that crowd ceases to be with us, so will AM radio.

But the frequencies are there. I have an interesting feeling that when Clear Channel goes bankrupt—and it will, shortly, if not by the time this goes to print—that the people inside will have a fire sale, and that some interested parties might see this as something we can build by doing x, and they’ll be reborn again, as television became cable and then became Netflix. I think when Clear Channel puts 850 radio stations on the market, some savvy guy or girl is going to buy them.

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Michael Smerconish—he’s an independent guy leaning right. I think he’s amazingly factual. I think he cares about what he says and knows the impact of what saying things in a public forum on a platform that large has.

I have a lot of respect for him. Phil Hendrie is a right-winger, and I think he’s one of the most talented men on the planet. When he does entertainment, there’s nobody as unique as him. He’s a phenomenon.

But the corporate guys? I worked with Hannity and Rush at Premiere; I never met Rush. He was five minutes across from where we’re sitting, and in all the years that I sat in that studio, that man never came and thanked anybody who gets his show on the air every day, or takes care of his equipment.

I can’t even tell you how that makes me feel.

I would never go a day without thanking an engineer. Hannity just seems dumb as a rock. Mark Levin writes his show for him, and I know that because Mark Levin is apparently a fan of mine. I have no respect for what he does. He sounds like a shrieking, shrill housewife from the Lower East Side in the ‘40s, selling fish!

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It's wild. It's wet. It's South Florida's beating heart­—and it may be on life support soon.

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“There are no other Everglades in the world.”

The Stats

WHERE IT IS:  1.5 million acres throughout MiamiDade, Collier and Monroe counties; the park comprises one-fifth of the historic Everglades

WHAT IT IS:  The largest subtropical wilderness in the U.S., a network of wetlands and forests that supports a diversity of plant and animal species found nowhere else

 One of three places in the world to be designated a World Heritage Site, International Biosphere Reserve and Wetland of International Importance

 First national park created to protect a fragile ecosystem rather than unique geologic features  Fresh water recharge area responsible for most of South Florida’s drinking water

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas said it first in The Everglades: River of Grass, published in 1947­—the same year Everglades National Park was established, which President Harry Truman declared a “great conservation victory.” What Truman didn't know then was how easily this fragile ecosystem could be lost by misguided water management and pollution. Although much has changed in the last 69 years, much remains the same. It’s an ecosystem on the brink, but it still, as Douglas wrote, is a “miracle of light ... shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida.”

We take a look at the state of the swamp here, as a nod to the centennial of our national park system— and the very future of Florida.

BOUNDARIES

ON THE NORTH: From just west of Krome Avenue and westward along the Tamiami Trail and the southern border of Big Cypress Preserve to Everglades City, zigzagging through the Ten Thousand Islands near Round Key toward the Gulf of Mexico ON THE WEST AND SOUTH: Skirting the Ten Thousand Islands in the Gulf of Mexico and through Florida Bay, excluding the Florida Keys, to U.S. 1 ON THE EAST: North along U.S. 1, then jogging west then north again past the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center and park headquarters, and just west of Homestead and back up to the Tamiami Trail west of Krome Avenue

Left, a swamp lily blooms; right, pitcher plants and a map of the park

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HOW TO GET IN AND POINTS OF INTEREST MAIN ENTRANCE AND ERNEST COE VISITOR CENTER, 40001 State Road 9336, Homestead (305/242-7700): Take Florida’s Turnpike south until it merges with U.S. 1 in Florida City. Turn right at first traffic light onto Palm Drive (State Road 9336) and follow signs to park.

Educational displays, orientation films and brochures available; books, postcards and insect repellent for sale; popular walking trails a short drive away including Anhinga Trail boardwalk bordering Taylor Slough, and Gumbo Limbo Trail, a paved path through a hardwood hammock SHARK VALLEY ENTRANCE, 36000 S.W. Eighth St., Miami: Take Turnpike to Tamiami Trail (U.S. 41/S.W. Eighth Street) and go west 25 miles.

Two-hour tram tours along 15-mile loop, bike rentals, observation tower (305/221-8455 for reservations in winter dry season and prices)

Big Cypress

GULF COAST ENTRANCE, 815 Oyster Bar Lane, Everglades City Boat tours of Ten Thousand Islands departing Gulf Coast Marina area daily; canoe rentals; restaurants, stores, lodging and campgrounds nearby (239/695-3311)

Tamiami Trail

Chokoloskee

Long Pine Campgrounds

Ten Thousand Islands

Ernest Coe Entrance

Gulf of Mexico

Flamingo Entrance

LONG PINE KEY CAMPGROUND near Homestead park entrance, open Nov. 15-May 31 (305/242-7700) ALONG MAIN EVERGLADES ROAD: Pineland Trail (half-mile); Pahayokee Overlook and boardwalk trail; Mahogany Hammock Trail meandering through dense, jungle-like hammock featuring largest living mahogany tree in the U.S. ABANDONED NIKE HERCULES MISSILE SITE, built in response to Cuban Missile Crisis: park ranger-guided tours available in winter

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Everglades City

Key Largo

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FLAMINGO, 38 miles south of park’s main entrance: Boat tours of Whitewater Bay back country north of Florida Bay; canoe, kayak, skiff, houseboat, bike rentals; limited marina services; Buttonwood Café offering breakfast and lunch; campground open year-round with spectacular sunrises and sunsets over Florida Bay; endangered manatees and crocodiles can be seen at marina; hiking and canoe trails (239/695-3101 for reservations during dry season)

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A guzmania "cathedral" deep in the swamp

DISTINCTIVE HABITATS Eight of the best-known habitats found in Everglades National Park include: HARDWOOD HAMMOCKS—Slight rises of humus-rich soil where dense stands of tropical mahogany, gumbo-limbo and cocoplum grow alongside temperate species such as live oak, red maple and hackberry, as well as many threatened and endangered plant species, providing cooler daytime resting places for animals including endangered Florida panthers PINE ROCKLANDS—Rugged limestone terrain canopied almost entirely by slash pine with a diverse understory including some species of plants that grow only here; found in the eastern part of the park and on Long Pine Key MANGROVE FORESTS—Found in coastal channels and winding rivers around southern

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tip of Florida; including several species of salt-tolerant trees in addition to the mangrove species; providing nurseries for young marine species, refuge for wading birds during dry months and protection against winds and storm surge during hurricane season COASTAL LOWLANDS—Well-drained regions found inland from mud flats of Florida Bay with shrubby, salt-tolerant vegetation SLOUGHS—Marshy, relatively deep rivers that remain flooded almost year-round with slow-moving current providing essential water flow from Lake Okeechobee southward; two distinct sloughs are Shark River Slough and the smaller, narrower Taylor Slough FRESHWATER MARL PRAIRIES—Marshes bordering deeper sloughs subject to shorterterm flooding and typified by diverse lowgrowing vegetation and periphyton attached to submerged surfaces, which are composed

of algae, bacteria, microbes and detritus, and are an important food source for invertebrates, tadpoles and some fish; endangered wood storks and snail kites are home here FLORIDA BAY—Largest body of water within the park, with more than 800 square miles of marine bottom mostly covered in submerged vegetation, providing shelter and food to many marine organisms that become food for higher vertebrates on the food chain including many fish, crustaceans and mollusks; corals and sponges grow on hard-bottom areas of the bay CYPRESS TREES—Flood-tolerant species growing in swamps east of Shark River Slough and into Taylor Slough in the southern Everglades, sometimes forming circular cypress domes with larger trees surrounded by smaller ones, as well as tree islands rising from vast areas of sawgrass marsh called cypress savannahs

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WHY IT MATTERS

BIODIVERSITY: “There are habitats and species that you don’t find anywhere else,” says Steve Davis, Everglades National Foundation ecologist.

WATER: Most of South Florida’s fresh water is recharged in the Everglades, falling as rain or flowing from points north, seeping into the soil and limestone below, and stored in the Biscayne Aquifer.

“The Everglades is important because if we can’t protect an ecosystem where all the components, all the players, all the stakeholders and all the science has been so clearly identified as a top national priority, where can we fix our pressing environmental problems?” asks Alan Farago, Friends of the Everglades conservation chair. “That sentiment was captured by former director of Friends of the Everglades, Joe Podgor, who said, ‘The Everglades is a test, and if we pass, we may get to keep the planet.’”

“THERE ARE HABITATS AND SPECIES THAT YOU DON’T FIND ANYWHERE ELSE.” —Steve Davis, Everglades National Foundation ecologist

Above, the famous ghost orchid; right, gnarled pine in a cypress hammock

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The Advocates acquaintances said that if he had shot at Smith, he wouldn’t have missed. Nevertheless, a jury found Smith not guilty.

An obituary published in Bird-Lore magazine proclaimed Bradley “the first martyr in bird protection.” His death, reported by major newspapers nationwide, helped galvanize conservation efforts.

Guy Bradley (1870-1905) was one of the country’s first game wardens, appointed to enforce Florida’s ban on hunting wading birds, which were being slaughtered nearly into extinction for plumage used to decorate women’s hats.

Bradley’s monthly pay was $35.

Plumes brought $32 an ounce.

One day, after hearing gunshots near his Flamingo home, Bradley jumped into his skiff and found a man he knew as Walter Smith and his two sons loading birds into their boat after shooting up a rookery. Bradley had arrested Smith and his older son before. At that time, Smith threatened to kill Bradley if he ever arrested either of his sons again. Smith made good on his threat, shooting Bradley and leaving him to bleed to death. Bradley’s brothers’ search party found his body the next day.

Smith turned himself in but claimed self-defense, citing a bullet hole in his boat. Evidence showed Bradley hadn’t fired his weapon, and his

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May Mann Jennings (1872-1963), president of the Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs and wife of Florida Gov. W. S. Jennings, led conservation efforts including the 1916 establishment of Royal Palm State Park, which was managed by the FFWC until 1947, when it was incorporated by Everglades National Park.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) ›› was known as the Mother of the Everglades—as well as the Grandmother, the Defender and the Grande Dame of the Everglades—for her efforts to champion conservation and restoration.

Born in Minneapolis, she moved to Miami in 1915 after a brief marriage to live with her father, the founder and

editor of the Miami Herald, who had separated from her mother when Marjory was a child. Douglas became a society reporter and columnist, but she bristled at the restrictions of full-time employment and became an accomplished freelance writer.

Douglas supported numerous causes—feminism, racial justice and conservation—and she became a member of the Tropical Everglades National Park Association in the 1920s.

But it wasn’t until the early 1940s that the Everglades became a consuming passion.

That’s when a publisher friend asked her to write about the Miami River for a series of books called Rivers of America. She persuaded the publisher to let her write about the Everglades instead. After years of exhaustive research, The Everglades: River of Grass was published in 1947.

Throughout her long life, Douglas railed against any entity or project that might threaten the Everglades’ fragile ecosystem. Despite her “tongue like a switchblade,” as one reporter wrote, Douglas was effective, impressing even

critics with her knowledge and commitment.

In 1969, she founded Friends of the Everglades to engage like-minded people in the cause. Their first successful battle involved halting construction of a jetport in Big Cypress.

Douglas died at the age of 108, and her ashes were spread over the Everglades.

John Rothchild, co-author of her autobiography, said death was the only thing that could “shut her up.” He added that the “silence is terrible.”

Ernest F. Coe (1866-1951), known as the father of Everglades National Park, was a Connecticut landscape architect who moved with his wife to Miami in 1925 when he was 60.

Coe loved nature and enjoyed exploring the Everglades on his own, camping out with a pillowcase over his head to keep mosquitoes out. During these treks, he noticed birds being slaughtered for their plumage and rare plants taken from their natural habitats. He was also dismayed by projects aimed at draining portions of the Everglades for development.

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Tropical Everglades National Park Association and drafted a proposal for the park. He gave speeches, wrote letters to public officials, took them on extensive tours and generally “made a nuisance” of himself, in his words.

Legislation to establish the park failed twice before passing in 1934. But the idea of excluding land from potential development remained controversial, and it wasn’t until 1947 that sufficient land was purchased and dedicated as Everglades National Park. Today, the visitor’s center at the park’s main entrance bears Coe’s name.

powerful arguments for restoring the ecosystem,” she wrote.

Three memorials bear Marshall’s name: the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, an eminent scholar chair in the University of Florida’s department of zoology, and a foundation established by his nephew aimed at restoring and preserving the Everglades through public outreach and education.

Recently, the Everglades Foundation created the George Barley Water Prize of $10 million to be awarded for a solution to phosphorous pollution.

Nathaniel P. Reed (1933- )

George Barley (19341995) was a seventh-genera-

Arthur Raymond Marshall Jr. (1919-1985) was a conservationist and early scientist studying the Everglades. His “Marshall Plan” became a blueprint for Everglades restoration.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas studied with Marshall while researching her landmark The Everglades: River of Grass, and she credited him for “filling in all the blanks” in explaining the Everglades’ significance.

“More than any other person, he stretched the idea of the Everglades and how we are connected, which created the most

tion Floridian, avid outdoorsman and real estate developer.

While fishing in the Everglades, he discovered a pollutioncaused algae bloom with no visible marine life in the water below. This discovery served as the catalyst for his lifelong efforts on state and national levels to reverse damage to the Everglades and protect the ecosystem. In 1993, Barley cofounded the Everglades Foundation with Paul Tudor Jones II. In 1995, Barley was on his way from Orlando to Jacksonville to discuss Everglades restoration with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives when his chartered plane crashed. He and the pilot were killed. At Barley’s funeral, Jones vowed that the fight for the Everglades would continue.

is considered one of Florida’s foremost environmentalists, having served as assistant secretary of the interior under presidents Nixon and Ford and special environmental adviser to Florida Gov. Claude Kirk, a longtime member of the South Florida Water Management governing board. He’s also served with many environmental organizations, including the National Audubon Society, Nature Conservancy, National Resources Defense Council and 1000 Friends of Florida. He’s now on the Everglades Foundation’s board of directors and has received a Champion of the Everglades Award from the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades.

“Here are no lofty peaks seeking the sky, no mighty glaciers or rushing streams wearing away the uplifted land. Here is land, tranquil in its quiet beauty, serving not as the source of water, but as the last receiver of it. To its natural abundance we owe the spectacular plant and animal life that distinguishes this place from all others in our country.”

—President Harry S. Truman, Everglades National Park dedication address, Dec. 6, 1947

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WHO LIVES THERE 14 federally listed endangered species, including Florida panther, American crocodile, West Indian manatee, Atlantic Ridley turtle, leatherback turtle, green turtle, hawksbill turtle, Cape Sable seaside sparrow, peregrine falcon, wood stork, Key Largo cotton mouse, Key Largo woodrat, snail kite ■ More than 400 bird species identified ■ 125 species of fish from 45 families ■ 25 species of mammals ■

60 species of reptiles and amphibians ■ More than 120 tree species ■ More than 1,000 species of seed-bearing plants ■ More than 24 orchids among numerous epiphytic plant species ■ An unknown number of unwanted Burmese pythons (about 2,000 have been removed, which is estimated to be a fraction of the total) ■ North of the Park: Miccosukee Indians at Tamiami Trail Reservation (one of three the tribe maintains), 40 miles west of Miami ■

Above, a red-shouldered hawk; right, a white-tailed deer

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Seminole Wars, three conflicts between native Americans and the U.S. Army led by Gen. Andrew Jackson, who sought to eradicate them from Florida; many Seminoles relocate to Oklahoma and others retreat into the Everglades to evade capture

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1832:

Bounty imposed on Florida panthers, leading to serious decline in their numbers

1847-48:

An engineer’s survey of South Florida wilderness, commissioned

by Congress, recommends drainage of the Everglades

Early 1900s:

Expanded dredging efforts transform large tracts of wetland into agricultural land, stimulating first of several land booms

1928: Ernest

F. Coe proposes Everglades National Park; Douglas joins board; major hurricane

washes out Lake Okeechobee dike, killing thousands of people and spurring creation of Herbert Hoover Dike

1934:

Legislation approved for Everglades National Park, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1948:

Congress establishes Central and Southern Florida Project for Flood Control, which years later becomes South Florida Water Management District; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers placed in charge, commencing years of projects that limit water flow and increase pollution into the Everglades

1964: Nike

Hercules Missile Site completed within park 160 miles from Cuban coast as part of larger defense system built in response to Cuban Missile Crisis

19621971:

Army Corps of Engineers convert meandering Kissimmee River into 56-mile

straightened canal, converting some floodplain into pasture and draining about 31,000 acres of wetlands, causing estimated 90 percent decline in waterfowl and 70 percent decline in bald eagle population

Mid1960s:

Wetlands upstream of park

are impounded and managed as reservoirs called water conservation areas, filling up over four years while no water is delivered to the park

1967:

Florida panther, snail kite and Cape Sable seaside sparrow placed on federal endangered species list

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THEN & NOW: WHAT THE PROBLEM IS “The problems in Everglades National Park are the result of water management strategies and decisions that really go back almost 100 years,” says Steve Davis, ecologist for the Everglades Foundation.

“Water that used to flow through the Kissimmee River through Lake Okeechobee and continuously into the Everglades is now discharged to the west and the east, and that results in significantly less water flowing south, leaving the park in a perpetual state of drought,” Davis says.

[This discharge also allows lake pollution and algae blooms into coastal waters, which is in the news this year—Ed.] Not only is there insufficient water entering the Everglades, but it’s not at the right time of year, and it’s unnaturally distributed. More than 70 species are threatened or endangered, and water mismanagement is directly responsible, Davis says.

“We have water quality issues that complicate matters, but we have technologies to deal with that,” including a network of filter marshes, according to Davis.

“We are currently cleaning the water that flows in from agricultural areas through a network of 60,000 acres of Stormwater Treatment Areas.”

But he and other experts agree that more filter marshes are needed to accommodate increased water flow. In addition to water quantity and quality issues, Alan Farago, conservation chairperson for Friends of the Everglades, claims part of the problem is a lack of political will on state and national levels.

“What’s underway now is a series of partial solutions that mainly serve the purpose of protecting the most powerful interest in the region, which is the sugar industry,” Farago says.

“What needs to happen is to take significant land out of sugarcane production and dedicate it to water storage and treatment so investments made by taxpayers can be protected.”

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imeline • Everglades Timeline • Everglades Timeline • Everglades Timeline • Everglades Timeline 1968:

Alligator Alley opens; expanded to four lanes with some culverts and bridges for water flow and wildlife to pass underneath

1969-70: Marjory Stoneman Douglas founds Friends of the Everglades and successfully halts construction of a jetport in Big Cypress

1970:

Congress passes Minimum Deliveries Act, ordering at least 1 billion gallons of water be delivered to the park annually, but the amount is just 20 percent of park’s historic average annual inflow

1979: Park

designated World Heritage Site

1983:

Following very high water discharges into park, scientists request specific changes to regional water management system that would improve hydrologic and ecologic conditions

1989:

Park acquires Northeast Shark Slough (109,500 acres) to restore

more natural distribution of water into park

1992:

Kissimmee River restoration begins, converting drainage canal back to meandering river; project completion slated for 2019

1993:

Everglades Foundation established

by outdoor enthusiasts led by George Barley and Paul Tudor Jones II

1995:

Florida panther population drops to 20-30 individuals; genetic restoration program initiated, and eight Texas female panthers introduced; by 2007, population increases to about 100

2000:

Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) authorized

by Congress to “restore, preserve and protect the South Florida ecosystem while providing for other water-related needs of the region, including water supply and flood protection”

2008: Gov.

Charlie Crist announces proposal to buy out U.S. Sugar for $1.8 billion and use the 187,000 acres to store and treat water destined for the Everglades, as called for in CERP; plans stall during recession, with final opportunity to purchase land expiring in 2020

2016: Rainfall

prompts greater discharges from Lake Okeechobee west; pollution and fish kills galvanize disparate groups representing fishing, tourism, conservation and other interests Environmental groups renew calls for Gov. Scott to build filter marshes for water storage south of Lake Okeechobee.

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Everglades Myths What is it about the most remote wildernesses that gives birth to myths and legends, and sightings of UFOs, ghosts and other non-human creatures?

Anyone who has driven across Tamiami Trail at night alone in the driving rain with fogged-up windows and the knowledge that unseen in the darkness are deep alligator-infested canals just inches from the roadway is already a little bit on edge. Would the sighting of a swamp creature be that great a stretch? The Everglades has its share of scary tales. Here are a few.

The Swamp Ape

Also called Florida Bigfoot or Skunk Ape because of its odor, the Swamp Ape reportedly has been seen throughout Florida by people describing a hulking humanoid figure covered in fur.

Floridaskunkape.com is “the official home and largest collection” of eyewitness reports, videos, still images, news stories and even audio of an eerie nighttime howl. Proprietors of the site offer a form for people to fill out with details of sightings, and they encourage witnesses to file immediately.

“Time is crucial,” they write.

One report came from someone driving around 10:30 a.m. on April 4, 2000, on the road leading to Billie Swamp Safari off Alligator Alley in Collier County. The creature was 6 feet tall with orange/tan hair and weighed 350-400 pounds. Following are excerpts from the report: FLORIDASKUNKAPE.COM: What the creature was doing while being observed: WITNESS: “As I was driving to the reservation, I looked off the side of the road and way off in the distance. I saw what I thought was a big man in a coat walking through the swamp. Then in like half a second, my mind linked what I was seeing to all of the BF [Bigfoot] videos, and I realized that I was looking at a skunk ape.”

FSA.COM: The creature exhibited the following humanistic qualities: W: “Walked upright. Seemed to pick something up. (Food maybe?)”

FSA.COM: I noticed something unusual associated with the encounter: W: “No, there was nothing at all unusual about seeing a 6-foot orangebrown ape-man skulking through the swamp. Just like any other day really.”

FSA.COM: Additional comments about the sighting: W: “Made me a believer.”

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Ghost Ship of the Everglades

Although sightings are much rarer than those of the Swamp Ape, the Ghost Ship of the Everglades has been discussed since the early 1900s when it was the subject of a newspaper article or possibly even earlier.

Legend has it that after a lengthy chase off the Florida Keys, pirates captured a merchant ship and forced merchant crew members to walk the plank to their deaths. The wife of the merchant ship’s captain was forced to watch. Finally, the woman fell to her knees, raised her hands in the air and called upon God to judge and punish her captors.

At that moment, an enormous wave swept over the calm waters and lifted up both vessels, carrying the pirate ship into the Everglades. The pirates washed overboard and wandered, lost, until they all died. And their ghosts have continued searching for a way out, according to reports from those who claim to have seen a ship with ripped sails and rotting masts gliding silently over the sawgrass.

Lost City

The tale of the Lost City is the lollapalooza of all Everglades myths, because it entwines various and sundry tall tales. Some feature skunk ape inhabitants, of course, while others tell of Confederate soldiers killed there

by Seminole Indians, and others relate that Al Capone had a moonshine operation there.

Archaeologists and state wildlife officials inspecting the 3-acre site about 8 miles south of Alligator Alley have found rotted shacks, a canoe, Indian artifacts and a big iron kettle apparently used to distill alcohol, Ken Kaye reported in a 2014 Sun Sentinel article. Some of these objects date back hundreds or even thousands of years, Kaye wrote.

“What we think it was, more than anything, was a Prohibition-era bootlegging operation,” Patsy West, director of the Seminole-Miccosukee Archives, told Kaye. “But everybody who went there came back with a story.”

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THE NEXT 100 YEARS

Night scented orchid

Plans have been approved for one of the most ambitious ecosystem restoration projects ever attempted, but the future of the Everglades—and the region—remains uncertain.

“I think what we do in the next 20 years would really dictate the long-term sustainability of South Florida,” says Davis.

“The science is clear, the need is clear, the solution is clear,” adds Farago. “The only thing that’s lacking is the political will, really at the state level and local level.”

In 1989, Congress passed the Modified Water Deliveries Project as part of the Everglades Expansion and Protection Act. The legislation is designed to increase water flowing into the Everglades and redistribute it to rehydrate Northeast Shark Slough and alleviate excessively wet conditions in western Shark Slough.

The project includes building two bridges along Tamiami Trail to allow water to flow beneath

the highway, and a levee and drainage canal east of the park to minimize flooding to agricultural and residential areas.

The much larger Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), approved by Congress in 2000, is intended to restore the greater Everglades ecosystem. At a cost of more than $10.5 billion and with a 35-plus-year timeline, this is the largest hydrologic restoration project ever undertaken in the United States. The plan’s goal is to restore the “right quantity, quality, timing and distribution” of fresh water. It includes increasing freshwater storage capacity and distributing the water for urban, agricultural and environmental purposes while reducing damaging floodwater discharges into coastal estuaries near Stuart to the east and Sanibel Island to the west.

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Local businesswomen in Boca and beyond are forming a league of their own.

By Nila Do Simon

M

ary Wong remembers when asking for help was a sign of weakness.

The president of the Office Depot Foundation says that working in an industry filled with men didn’t exactly encourage a Q&A culture.

But after decades in the retail sector, Wong switched careers to the nonprofit world in 2000, where

she had to ask questions to get over her learning curve.

“That vulnerability helped in a lot of ways,” says Wong, who recently celebrated the organization’s 4-millionth backpack giveaway since she implemented the program 16 years ago. “I felt enveloped by this camaraderie of people who wanted to see me succeed. There was a ‘we’ll-helpyou’ attitude.”

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Judith Selzer, left, and Mary Wong

And that, she says, was when she felt the noticeable turning of the tide in the business industry, when women in Palm Beach County and beyond were becoming more and more welcomed in the workforce. Gone are the “Mad Men” days where women were primarily seen as secretaries or assistants, or were pigeonholed as homemakers or part-time workers.

Instead, they have become business leaders who represent a large portion of Palm Beach County’s workforce. And the most interesting part? Women are doing this together, through prominent business-specific seminars and networking groups and events.

A recent national report from the Institute of Women’s Policy Research indicates that women-owned small businesses have steadily grown, representing 29 percent of businesses in 2015 compared to 26 percent

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in 1997, in part because of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 and the Women’s Equity in Contracting Act, which both seek to help businesses headed up by females win more government contracts. In Florida, womenowned small businesses have grown 74 percent in the past 25 years and represent

the sixth-fastest-growing state in that category. It’s no wonder women have decided to band together.

Wong says that as much as the business environment is embracing female leaders, it’s the women themselves who are owed much of the credit for changing generational attitudes. She’s involved in several women-specific networking groups, including the Foundation’s Wing Women Wednesday, started as a monthly get-together to continue the momentum from the hugely successful Office Depot Foundation Women’s Symposium. Over the years, Wong says the topics have developed into robust and meaningful conversations.

“There are people leading these groups who are good at execution,” she says.

“Previously, there were these groups whose

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"Previously, there were these groups whose topics were not focused. ... Now, we have leaders with agendas."

she said, she said Victoria Rixon on how the business atmosphere has changed: “I think it would be terrific if there would be just as many women as there are men at the business podium. When I look back at Boca Raton when I moved down here nearly 27 years ago, there was definitely a ‘good ol’ boys club,’ but I think that has gotten better. More women leaders are out there, and it’s growing. My hope is that one day we don’t have to delineate between women and men business leaders; it should just be the business leader community.” –Victoria Rixon, regional director of SunTrust Wealth Management

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Jackie Reeves on the sheer quantity of women in the workforce: topics were not focused, and we ended up talking about our boyfriends. Now, we have leaders with agendas. Women want to learn and get best practices in the short time frame that they have, and there are women these days who are making these talks stronger and stronger.”

A sign sitting in Wong’s office lounge reads “Be Someone’s Hero.” She says that as trite as it sounds, it reminds her that there are legions of other women and girls who are eager to learn from mentors. That’s one reason she started the Symposium in 2014.

The annual Palm Beach County event is attended by 300-plus women all around the nation and features a formidable lineup of female speakers whose messages resonate with the crowd of entrepreneurs and smallto large-sized business leaders.

The multiday event is kicked off with a formal dinner that Wong says is a “sage room to have a conversation about whatever you want to say.” Established women leaders sit next to aspiring girls often from at-risk neighborhoods, doling out advice and inspirational words. Wong says one young girl who previously attempted suicide was so moved by the women in the room and the symposium that it pushed her to enroll in courses at Palm Beach State College.

“If we can help perpetuate someone’s career, then we’ve done a good job,” Wong says.

Strength in Numbers Much has changed in recent decades, in so many ways that millennials can’t even fathom. For example, up until a generation ago, banks required women have a man cosign for a business loan. That decree only ended on Oct. 25, 1988, when President

“When I first moved to Boca from New York about 14 years ago, there were maybe 50 percent of the women in the Junior League of Boca Raton who didn’t have jobs. Today, more than 90 percent of our members work.

There’s clearly that dynamic that has shifted.”

–Jackie Reeves, managing director of Bell Rock Capital, LLC

Karen Granger on the importance of mentorship: “I’ve been raised to have mentors in my life. I think women are wired to be relational and we like to talk things out, whereas men like to go in the cave and think things out. And for someone to be the rudder on the ship, steering you in the right direction and encouraging you to keep going is important.”—Karen Granger, president and CEO of the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce

Sarah Martin on what specific area still needs female representation: “The tech industry is getting bigger and bigger, and because only 6 percent of tech businesses are owned by women, that’s a scary thing. An investment in girls and women in the tech industry is totally necessary, because otherwise we’re going to end up with a sector that has little to no women in the power positions.”

–Sarah Martin, CEO/founder of Experience Epic marketing

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Kate Volman

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"I knew I wanted to take stronger action in helping women and girls who feel they don't have confidence in themselves."

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BAND OF SISTERS: LOCAL WOMEN’S NETWORKING GROUPS • American Women’s Association Business: 561/389-1227

• 100 Women Who Care: 100womenwhocaresouthflorida.org

• Women on the Move: 561/509-0615; info@ mywomenonthemove.com

• The Boca Raton Welcome Club: welcometoboca@gmail.com

• Soroptimist International of Boca Raton/ Deerfield Beach: soroptimist4women.org

• Women’s Prosperity Network: 800/928-6928; teamwomensprosperitynetwork.com

• Executive Women of the Palm Beaches: ewpb.org; 561/868-7070; info@ewpb.org

• Womens Chamber of Commerce of Palm Beach County: 561/659-0285; execdirect@ womenschamber.biz

• Women Tech and Finance Talk Series South Florida: meetup.com/Women-TechFinance-Summit-Talk-Series-South-Florida/

• National Association of Professional Women – Boca Raton Chapter: napw.com/ chapters/boca-raton-chapter

Ronald Reagan signed the Women’s Business Ownership Act, allowing women more business independence.

“The work that other women have done has set the pace for us,” says Judith Selzer, co-founder of the Women’s Foundation of Palm Beach County (WFPBC). “We’re standing on their shoulders, and now we need to continue their work.”

Founded in 2007, the WFPBC is a philanthropic organization that seeks to invest programming and training in women and girls to empower them with skills to

• Women for Excellence: 561/735-4131; info@ womenforexcellence.org • Women’s Foundation of Palm Beach County: info@womensfoundationpbc.org

positively affect their community. Led by Selzer, who earned a master’s degree in women’s studies and formerly worked at Ms. Foundation, the organization has created a network of women creating opportunities for future female leaders. Networking events include Raise the Bar, the organization’s annual fundraiser that has raised nearly $60,000 each year.

“We wanted to create a space that is inspiring,” says Selzer, a public affairs consultant. “Yes, there’s a little ‘rah-rah,’ but it’s also a place to feel inspired and supported, and also be leaders over your own life and feel autonomy.”

She notes that the evidence for having "Gone are the 'Mad Men' women business days where women were leaders is striking, primarily seen as including with board secretaries or assistants..." representation.

Companies with boards that include at least three women with sustained representation outperform those with no female board directors.

In addition, those women-integrated boards have a 66 "...or were percent higher pigeonholed as return on invested homemakers capital, 53 percent

or part-time workers."

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• Junior League of Boca Raton: 561/620-2553; info@jlbr.org

• Women’s Executive Club: womensexecutiveclub.com (no phone # or email)

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• Impact 100: 561/336-4623; impact100pbc@ gmail.com

higher return on equity and 42 percent higher return on sales, according to a Catalyst study.

In addition to Selzer, WFPBC boasts another vocal female advocate, Kate Volman, the organization’s programming and communications liaison. Formerly the vice president of business development at the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, she went on to develop FAB (Female and Beautiful), a program that sought to build self-esteem in young girls.

Volman says part of the reason she wanted to get involved is because of what a 13-year-old girl once said to her. Volunteering at Big Brothers Big Sisters, Volman remembers her little sister saying that if a girl doesn’t have a boyfriend, then that means she isn’t loved.

“When she said that, I thought to myself, ‘Is that how girls view themselves and their worth?’” Volman recalls. “Do they need validation from a boy to feel important? When she said that, I knew I wanted to take stronger action in helping women and girls who feel they don’t have confidence in themselves.”

As much as both Selzer and Volman believe progress is increasing, they realize there’s more to achieve. Currently, only 4.6 percent of S&P 500 companies have women CEOs, and women make $0.78 for every dollar men earn in the United States. Studies show that women won’t reach pay equality until 2058.

And that’s exactly why female-centric groups are appearing more and more. As Selzer says, “Businesses can see that women have now claimed our power and our voices.

And we’re not going anywhere.”

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RoberT did IT ! r It’s not all fun and games for Key West’s most notorious doll.

By John Thomason

Robert, the most famous resident of Key West’s Fort East Martello Museum, has suffered a bad rap since he moved into the historical destination in 1994. He’s been blamed for hurricanes, divorces, house fires, lightning strikes, job losses, animal attacks, toothaches, terminal illnesses, lost luggage and too many deaths to name.

Most of these accusations arrive via mail, both electronic and snail.

According to Robert’s biographer, David Sloan, he receives “more letters in a month than most of us receive in a year.” One woman, after a visit to Robert, tripped when entering her basement and found the door locked behind her. So she sent Robert a missive: “My husband said that I probably turned the lock myself without even thinking about it and locked myself in the basement, but honestly, Robert, we both know the truth.”

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The motivation for all these supposed curses? It’s because the victims mocked Robert, or took his picture without his permission.

To all of these allegations, Robert has pled the fifth. That’s because he’s a doll—a turn-of-the-century Steiff doll, measuring three feet tall and stuffed with excelsior wool. He’s dressed in a sailor suit, carries a toy lion, and stares back at his visitors from black eyes made from wooden shoe buttons. His face is pockmarked. For an inanimate object, Robert has the capacity to give even hardened skeptics the creeps, and his reputation precedes him: More than 235,000 websites chronicle phenomena associated with Robert.

Many of these sources are, like much of the Internet, untrustworthy. Misinformation about Robert’s origins has spread like a game of paranormal telephone, propagating the false rumor that he inspired the creators of Chucky, the demon doll from the “Child’s Play” franchise, or that his first owner received him as a gift from a voodoo-practicing housekeeper. That’s why Sloan, a respected paranormal researcher who runs a ghost tour in Key West, wrote his 2014 book Robert the Doll: to separate the myth from the reality.

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Even after he was donated to the Fort East Martello Museum, staff treated him with trepidation and deference, as supernatural activity increased around them, doors slamming, lights flickering, camera batteries suddenly draining after their devices were trained on robert.

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Robert’s narrative begins in 1904, when Key West resident Minnie Otto, the daughter of a Prussian immigrant, brought the doll home from a trip to Germany as a present for her son, Gene. The two became inseparable. Gene’s parents would hear two distinct voices outside their son’s room, only to open the door and see only Gene—and Robert. Gene constructed a home for Robert—a furnished, scaleddown room in the attic of the family home—and even as an adult he included a clause in the home’s lease: “Robert must remain the sole occupant of the attic room.”

The relationship between boy and doll was not always sanguine. Gene’s parents would wake up to their son’s screams, finding Robert holding Gene down in his bed. “I didn’t do it! Robert did it!” became a common refrain whenever Gene was confronted with alleged misbehavior. After Gene moved away to pursue his career as an artist, Robert continued to perplex (or worse) renters of his family home. Two such occupants heard noises in the attic and found Robert in a different position than where they’d left him. Another claimed the doll locked him in the attic. Outside the house, children reported that Robert moved about freely from the turret room, glowering at them. The parents of a 10-year-girl, whose family had just moved in, found Robert sitting on her face at night, as if trying to smother her.

Even after he was donated to the Fort East Martello Museum, staff treated him with trepidation and deference, as supernatural activity increased

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around them: doors slamming, lights flickering, camera batteries suddenly draining after their devices were trained on Robert. In the late 1990s, an employee removed Robert to clean his feet and sailor suit, then placed Robert back in his locked case. The next morning, dust had gathered on Robert’s feet, matching dusty footprints found on the museum floor.

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Those who believe that Robert has the ability to affect physical matter—and they are legion—should also acknowledge that the paranormal can be a convenient scapegoat. Curses leveled by witches, occultists and devil dolls make for durable excuses to avoid personal responsibility or to justify unfortunate coincidence.

One letter writer to the Martello Museum blamed Robert because the writer broke a precious family heirloom after he arrived home.

“A guy called me to talk about how Robert was taking over his thoughts, how Robert was breaking into his liquor cabinet and drinking all of his liquor. What we actually had was a guy who would drink and black out,” Sloan recalls. “All of us know how people work to certain degrees. But I always look for patterns. When I investigate a haunting, I look for different people who don’t know each other to report similar experiences, as far as what the ghost did. A few letters mention being struck by lightning in association with Robert. A few people mention things with dead deer—hitting a deer on their way back from seeing Robert, or coming home and finding a dead deer on their lawn. That’s weird, that three people pick deer.”

Sloan has studied thousands of documents pertaining to Robert, and has reached a conclusion: Robert became possessed by the child of the Ottos’ laundress Emelene Abbott, who died between 1900 and 1910.

“I think Emelene’s son or daughter died in the house, and I think it went into the doll,” he says. “I don’t know if she placed it into the doll with voodoo, but I think Gene was playing with the spirit.”

As for the negative reputation the doll has accrued over the years, Sloan has a theory for that, too. “Once the doll arrived at the museum and started getting attention, I think there are two other entities that have come in to fill the role,” he says. “In all the time I’ve spent with Robert and all the times I’ve been there with people who are sensitive, I’ve really come to feel that there are these two entities. I’m not going to say they’re demons, but I believe they do not have good intent, and I believe they thrive off the negativity that many people bring to Robert, expecting the bad.”

It doesn’t help that paranormal TV specials for networks like the Travel Channel, motivated by the shock and awe that drive ratings, cover Robert the way they would a mass murderer—with creepy music, abrupt transitions from color to black and white, and manipulative editing choices.

“Most people just want to say, ‘he’s a doll, he’s go-

Above: A close-up of Robert Left: Young Gene Otto

ing to kill you,’” Sloan says. “I think it’s a disservice to a spirit that [originally was] an innocent boy who was trying to help us.”

For her part, Robert’s curator at the Martello Museum, Cori Convertito, has experienced nothing out of the ordinary—nor, she says, has any of the current staff. But as someone who’s been opening Robert’s mail for the past five years, to the tune of 150 messages per month, she’s heard it all.

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WANT TO EMBARK ON A STATEWIDE GHOST TOUR THIS HALLOWEEN? HERE ARE THREE ALLEGED HAUNTED HOT SPOTS TO GET YOU STARTED. pany: His mentally ill second wife, Ida Alice, is said to wander the school’s gardens and rotunda, lingering around a space once occupied by an oil painting of her late husband.

And one of Flagler’s mistresses is said to have hanged herself from a chandelier in a closed-off room in the fourth floor of Ponce Hall. “According to many of these students, the room is still completely boarded up,” writes Greg Jenkins in Florida’s Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore, Vol. 2. “Yet some are brave enough to peek through the keyhole to see if they can view the legs and feet of Flagler’s mistress still swaying from side to side.”

THE RIDDLE HOUSE AT SOUTH FLORIDA FAIRGROUNDS, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach, 561/790-5232 There’s plenty of reason for this colorful property in the Fairgrounds’ Yesteryear Village to be haunted: Constructed in the early 1900s, it was originally a funeral parlor built across the street from Woodlawn Cemetery, the first cemetery in West Palm Beach. Rumors of the ghost of a graveyard employee named Buck roaming the grounds soon circulated. In the 1920s, Karl Riddle, West Palm Beach’s first city manager and superintendent of public works, moved into the house. It was during Riddle’s residency that one of his employees, citing financial difficulties, hung himself in the home’s attic. His spirit is said to haunt this Victorian “painted lady,” with staff reporting rattling chains and murmuring voices.

Even in the mid-‘90s, when the Riddle House was reassembled and moved to its historic location at the Fairgrounds, carpenters found their tools thrown from the attic of the empty house. Once, a piece of wood appeared out of nowhere and struck a visitor climbing the staircase.

These days, Fairgrounds volunteers lead monthly ghost tours of the Riddle House—the next ones are Sept. 2 and Oct. 7—but the attic is strictly off-limits.

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valescing in its rooms and boardwalk after the notorious rape-and-murder scandal that tanked his career.

“A portly gray shadowy figure has occasionally been seen on the southern staircase,” Jenkins writes. The scents of Arbuckle’s favorite cigar and perfume have been detected, and guests have reported tripping on the staircase, always on the seventh step. We’d like to think Arbuckle, the perennial gagman, is placing ghostly bananas in our path.

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says. “He really embodies a lot of that. I don’t want to say I don’t believe, because I don’t want to dismiss everybody else. I’m the recipient of all those letters, so of course I have to believe there’s something about him.”

Convertito is the museum’s chief curator, but she’s also Robert’s de facto caretaker, manager and publicist. She handles his official email address (robert@ robertthedoll.org), website and Facebook account, which has helped him amass a worldwide fan base.

Enthusiasts can order Robert T-shirts, coasters and mini dolls from the museum’s online store. “People follow him religiously in Scandinavia, in England— he’s big in Japan,” Convertito says. “People all over the globe follow him and write to him. We’re humbled by that. The idea of people being afraid of him when they don’t live within a thousand miles of the museum … it is an impressive thing, his global reach.”

In 2015, Robert left Florida for the first time in his century-old existence. Zak Bagans, a paranormal TV personality and collector of haunted objects, invited him to Las Vegas (on the flight, he earned his own seat) to be featured on the debut episode of his series “Deadly Possessions.” Like the other Robert specials, it reduced the doll’s powers to staged theatrics.

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“Palm fronds whipped off the street and charged toward me and my dog. I was convinced I was actually insane,” he says. “I’ve been around a lot of paranormal stuff, and I believe in it, but it was going to such an extreme that I started questioning. I thought, I have to have a brain tumor. Something has to be making this happen to this extreme.”

Sloan is convinced that it’s the two dark entities— and not Robert’s peaceful original tenant—that caused these phenomena, and he is quick to urge caution for visitors of one of Key West’s most notorious tourist attractions. He recommends spectators visit Robert sober (not always easy in the Keys, we know) and, if they’re religious, to say a prayer. Secular visitors should imagine themselves covered in a veil of white light.

When asked if people should be afraid to visit Robert, Sloan paused for an impregnable beat, choosing his words carefully: “I think that’s up to the individual. People are more sensitive to different things. Robert himself is fine. He’s an innocent little boy. The things around Robert? Watch yourself.”

Sloan has studied thousands of documents pertaining to robert, and has reached the conclusion that robert became possessed by the child of the Ottos' laundress Emelene Abbott, who died between 1900 and 1910.

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Rainforest Meditation Finding Zen on the precarious cliffs of a St. Kitts volcano

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It’s raining

An aerial view of St. Kitts’ southeastern peninsula

—that we can tell from the sound of it hitting the rainforest canopy. It sounds like a thousand microwave popcorn bags popping somewhere far away, just an occasional drop making it down to the carpet of ferns below. But aside from the fact that it’s raining, there’s really nothing else that’s certain.

Most importantly, there’s no telling where we’re going or even where we came from. The nine of us are scattered around the base of a banyan tree, its roots snaking around shin-high, not tall enough for a seat but the perfect height to catch a hiking boot. The trail from where we came disappears down a muddy slope, sucked into the ferns and mango trees and palmettos. Up ahead looks impassable—a tangle of roots and vines, a curtain of inhospitable.

“That’s the end of the warm-up,” says our guide.

His name is O’Neil Mulraine, 59 and in ironman shape, having hiked this mountain nearly every day for 43 years. “Now we’re going to start on hill No. 1.”

The news that the half-hour we’ve been hiking so far was just a warm-up is received with mixed results. There’s some laughter from the experienced hikers, some downright deflation from the first-timers, and, for all of us, some trepidation about hill No. 1 on one of the Caribbean’s toughest climbs.

This is Mount Liamuiga, the tallest peak on the island of St. Kitts. A dormant volcano—at least for now—Liamuiga is far from the tallest Caribbean peak. But it’s one of the most grueling. Early settlers called it Mount Misery for the pain it inflicted on those who tried to scale its peak and reach the oasis in its crater.

These days, though, pain is marketable. In this era of aerial yoga and CrossFit and middle-aged marathoners, vacationers seek out personal bests and feats of strength. So instead of sitting on the black sand beaches of St. Kitts, we head off early one Friday morning. And we’ll learn soon, on hill No. 1, that Mount Misery lives up to its name.

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“Slaves would ... climb the volcano, reach the rim of the crater and jump, choosing to meet the rocks below instead of return to the plantations.”

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WHERE TO STAY ST. KITTS MARRIOTT RESORT & THE ROYAL BEACH CASINO

A view of “Mount Misery” from Brimstone Fortress

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fter the rest under the banyan tree, hill No. 1 begins with a scramble up what seems like nothing more than a mound of mud. Actually, though, there are footholds—it’s unclear whether they are natural or molded into the mountain.

Mulraine points out where a left foot goes here and a right hand pulls on a root there.

“It’s an area built by the hands of the almighty,” Mulraine says, speaking, as he does often, like a Hemingway character. “It’s owned by the government now, and so hopefully we’ll return it to the maker the way we found it.”

There’s some debate as to how the volcano on St. Kitts got its name.

Some say it was named by the English soldiers who first dropped cannons on the island in 1690. They would use the volcano trail—the same one still used today—to train. Imagine those soldiers in their wool redcoat uniforms trudging the steep terrain, and it’s easy to see why they’d name it Mount Misery.

Others say it’s a far more sinister story. When the colonials controlled the island, they covered it in plantations. Slaves worked the sugarcane and tobacco fields and built Brimstone Fortress on a plateau approaching Mount Misery, a hill that always, mysteriously, smells of sulfur. When the slaves ran away, as they often did, there was no escape.

So they’d climb the volcano, reach the rim of the crater and jump, choosing to meet the rocks below instead of return to the plantations.

When St. Kitts and the nearby island of Nevis got their independence from Britain in 1983, the locals renamed the volcano Mount Liamuiga, the original name of the island. It means “fertile land,” which is clear with every step in the mud, as thick as bread dough.

Mulraine grew up in a settlement just below Brimstone Fortress, and as a kid, he’d scramble up the hill that holds the old fort to collect hermit crabs.

He was about 16 when a friend invited him on a hike of the volcano.

“I fell in love with it, man,” he says. “It spoke to me.” He and his friend went back a day later to do it again and were stopped by a taxi driver near the trailhead with a tourist in the back looking for a guide.

The island’s largest and most luxurious hotel provides a nice respite for the rainforest hiker. The resort also caters to those wanting to hike, and can arrange guided tours. The resort features 389 rooms, an 18-hole golf course and a beach on Frigate Bay. There’s a 15,000-square-foot spa, eight restaurants and four bars. Before the hike, go easy on Thursday’s mojito night, but the Friday night buffetstyle fish fry is a fine way to refuel after the crater ascent. Rooms run from $200 to $650 during season. 858 Frigate Bay Road, St. Kitts & Nevis, 869/466-1200, marriott.com

WHERE TO EAT CARAMBOLA BEACH CLUB

This is a restaurant with two lives. The first one is during the day, when cruise ship passengers fill up beach loungers and watch sailboats pass on the Caribbean, eating wraps and sandwiches. When they’ve departed, Carambola breaks out the candles and leather-wrapped menus. Specializing in seafood, few places feel more like you’re in the islands, with a constant breeze running through the open-air club. And its remote location in St. Kitts’ southern hills makes it feel like you’ve discovered fine dining on your own private island. South Friars Bay, St. Kitts, 869/465-9090, carambolabeachclub.com

NICOLE PUDDIN’ POT

St. Kitts has a long tradition of roadside vendors selling local fare, and perhaps no other street vendor gets a longer line at lunchtime than Nibal Matthew, aka Nicole Puddin’ Pot, aka Baby’s Granddaughter. Most taxi drivers should be able to find her stand, near the police station in Basseterre. Or follow the spicy smell of her warming trays, full on Fridays with a stew called goat water and black pudding, a rice-stuffed blood sausage that tastes like jerk seasoning and multiple generations of perfected recipes.

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Clockwise from bottom: Nicky Spijkerman leads her team across the hill; Mulraine balances on a boulder; a ladder, assembled from fallen trees, assists hikers; an aerial view of St. Kitts; two images of Brimstone Fortress; and the volcano’s crater

A major eruption could flatten the entire north side of the island, and every few years, a rumble on the volcano is a reminder that it’s due.

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The driver asked, “Which one of you guys knows the volcano trail?”

Mulraine put his hand up, and he’s been leading tourists to the crater ever since.

On hill No. 1, the trail becomes a puzzle, requiring constant attention to find handholds on tree ferns and balancing running shoes on roots. There are maybe 20 steps of flat land, then the trail dips into a gully, loose rocks below with water running between them. Mud walls on both sides climb well overhead.

It seems daunting, impossible, that we’re only an hour into a hike that can take three or four hours. Then, Mulraine stops the group and points to an opening in the canopy.

“You see that? You see that rock?” he says, using a well-worn bamboo hiking stick to point to a ledge that has just peaked out of the clouds. “That’s where we’re going.”

And like that, we have a second wind. Perhaps we can make it up Mount Misery after all.

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ill No. 2 begins with much of the same as the first, roots and rocks and a cliff below waiting for those who might misstep.

Mulraine points out a blue snail with a yellow shell, the face of a monkey carved into a root, termite nests bigger than a kitchen trash can, and a banyan tree that has engulfed a boulder—he calls it Mr. Tree Rock. It’s all a fine distraction from the pain.

Although, it should be said, not everyone is hurting. Among our group are four French tourists, a couple of them looking like they’re in Olympic shape from daily yoga. With me that day were two employees from the St. Kitts Marriott, whom I had somehow convinced to come along. Sebastian Mena, the hotel’s assistant director of food and beverage, was having no trouble; he grew up in Chile, climbing 20,000foot peaks in the Andes.

Nicky Spijkerman, the hotel’s marketing manager and a native of the Netherlands, meanwhile, had never done anything like this. “What am I doing here exactly?” she joked during a short break. Here she is, at 31 years old, attempting her first real hike, which happens to be among the toughest mountains in the islands. Soon, though, Mulraine distracts us again from the pain by encouraging us to swing from a vine, out over a ravine that disappears into the clouds.

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Climbing the mountains of the Caribbean isn’t something you hear much about among hikers. You’ll find plenty of websites dedicated to climbing the highest peaks on each continent, or all the 15,000-footers in the Rockies. But even though they don’t get the same attention, the mountains of the Caribbean are, arguably, a far better task. They’re often quite challenging and incredibly scenic, with volcano-formed cliffs and steep slopes that rise quickly from sea level. And they also cutline just happen to be on tropical islands, with beaches and resorts and spas to massage your aching muscles nearby.

Mount Liamuiga, at 3,792 feet, is the 14th tallest of the Caribbean peaks. It’s a challenging hike, but it can also be completed in a day by most people in decent shape. The tallest of them, Pico Duarte in the Dominican Republic, rises to 10,164 feet and requires a two-day hike, usually with guides and pack mules.

Liamuiga, they say, has been dormant since 1692, although there are unconfirmed stories of an eruption in 1843. An analysis by volcanologists in 2001 determined it will likely erupt again. A major eruption could flatten the entire north side of the island, and every few years, a rumble on the volcano is a reminder that it’s due.

As we approach the rim of the crater, things get far trickier. Boulders packed on top of each other require moves akin to rock climbing walls.

We’ve given up on any attempt of staying out of the mud, sitting on rocks to move from one spot to another and stepping in ankle-deep puddles for flat footing.

During a brief stop before the final hill, No. 3, Mulraine tells the group a couple stories to remind us to be careful. There was the time two out-of-shape tourists ignored his advice and hiked anyway. It took them five hours up and five hours down. “Darkness took over,” Mulraine recalls. Without a flashlight, he led them down the trail in the dark, feeling their way along the edges of treacherous drops.

“That’s not going to happen today,” he promises, setting out on the final approach.

There’s something that affects thinking during this kind of hike.

Finding stable footing and a firm place to grab becomes the only single thing in your thoughts. These days, people talk about mindfulness and living in the moment, and we reach that state somewhere near the top.

One hand here, a foot there, and no thoughts of work or bills—only making it another step.

Mulraine reaches the top before the rest of us. He’s sitting in a small clearing that barely holds the entire group as we all begin pulling ourselves up the final rocks. “Welcome to the top,” he says. “I hope I didn’t push you too hard.”

In front of us is the crater, and at first, it’s a giant soup bowl of mist, a thick cloud blowing hard off the Atlantic. It douses us, like from a spray bottle.

Going into the crater is too risky, Mulraine explains. It’s a near vertical drop, a football field in length. Getting back up requires hoisting yourself up, hand over hand, with a rope. Lose your grip and there’s a plummet that those escaped slaves once found.

Instead, Mulraine takes us along the rim of the crater, first to a second clearing with a steep drop on each side. Here we eat boxed lunches from the Marriott, and then, just like that, the entire view changes.

The clouds engulfing the crater begin to drift off, as if someone waved a giant hand across the rim. The crater comes into view. Out in front of us is the oasis, a small lake with water as clear as if it came from the tap, wild grasses, leafy vines hanging from the cliffs, and steam rising up from the heart of the volcano. The sun peaks out, and now the crater is hit with a spotlight of yellow that makes it look like Eden.

Mulraine leads us up another series of boulders. Then there’s a ladder, made of fallen trees, and a plateau. At the end of the trail is a boulder that seems almost suspended in air, peeking out of the clouds.

Mulraine scrambles out to it on his belly and then hoists himself up. As we watch he stands on one foot, flexing his arms. Mena goes next, then Spijkerman, then the French yoga couple, taking their turns balancing on top of the world.

On the way up, we had feared the way down. We had talked about how we could possibly find footing, like lowering yourself off a roof onto a ladder that you can’t see. But instead we fall into a rhythm soon after we begin the descent. One foot, then the other, hand from one root to another. We barely take a break, rarely sip water, and instead listen to the popping sound of the rain on the canopy.

It’s a state of Zen, really, and apparently you can find it in the rainforests of the Caribbean.

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MIAMI CITY BALLET’S PROGRAM I WHEN: Oct. 21-23 WHERE: Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami ABOUT: Many of us enjoy dancing, but we’d prefer not to hoof ourselves straight to the grave. Yet that’s the punishment for adulterous men in “Giselle,” Jean Corelli and Jules Perrot’s perennially popular full-evening ballet. It’s all thanks to the Wilis, a group of spectral sisters-in-arms who torment their ex-lovers with fatal choreography from the other side. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves: “Giselle” is a love story as much as a ghost story. In Act 1, before her untimely death, Giselle is an effervescent peasant girl smitten with Albrecht, her aristocratic lover. When he strays, she dies from madness and heartbreak and spends Act II in the afterlife, where her imperative for revenge clashes with her transcendent feelings of love. Perhaps more than anything, “Giselle” is a romantic tribute to dance—the activity deployed in life, death and beyond—with one of the classical repertory’s most complex and challenging roles for a lead ballerina. It promises a captivating start to Miami City Ballet’s 2016-2017 season.

COST: TBA CONTACT: 305/949-6722, miamicityballet.org

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hotlist JAKE SHIMABUKURU WHEN: Sept. 14 WHERE: Parker Playhouse, 707 N.E. Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale ABOUT: Jake Shimabukuro calls the ukulele a “humble instrument”—a simple, small and sprightly lute that’s accustomed to playing second fiddle to, well … fiddles. But this fifth-generation Japanese-American and uke virtuoso has been working to change that perception during his storied, nearly 20-year career. One of Hawaii’s most celebrated native sons, he has released 12 solo albums since the dissolution of his acclaimed ‘90s band Pure Heart, and his eclectic output proves that even epic rock numbers can be reborn beautifully as stripped-down ukulele compositions—his repertoire includes everything from “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Thriller” to “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Hallelujah.” He’s also been featured everywhere from TED conferences to “The Today Show” to “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and even played onstage with somebody named Jimmy Buffett, whom we hear is going places in this business. Expect him to strum a diverse potpourri of acoustic covers and originals, including many from his latest LP, “Travels.”

COST: $17.50-$47.50 CONTACT: 954/462-0222, parkerplayhouse.com

“JOSE ALVAREZ (D.O.P.A.), KROME” WHEN: Sept. 22-Jan. 1 WHERE: Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton ABOUT: South Florida resident Jose Alvarez understands the art of the swindle, with as much emphasis on the “art” as the “swindle.” Beginning in 1988, the Venezuelan native and life partner of preeminent paranormal debunker James Randi embarked on a now-legendary hoax. After watching videos of selfprofessed psychic channelers, he concocted his own fictional shaman—a 2,000-year-old spirit he called Carlos—perfected a strange voice and toured his act around Australia, fabricating ancient wisdom. Alvarez’s performance art included “stopping a heart” onstage, and he went so far as to invent publicity materials and press interviews, all to bolster the ruse and expose the From left, Alvarez’s “Brahima, Ivory Coast,” and “Roberto, Guatemala” media’s gullibility. Alvarez wasn’t laughing, however, when he was arrested in 2011 in Miami for identity theft and passport forgery (his name isn’t Jose Alvarez, but he still uses the moniker in his art). He served two months at Miami’s Krome Detention Center, during which time his art blossomed: He created raw portraits of fellow-inmates using a ballpoint pen and any scraps of paper he could obtain. You might say that the drawings, which will form the backbone of this controversial exhibition, even manage to capture his cellmates’ souls. Or not.

COST: $10-$12 CONTACT: 561/392-2500, bocamuseum.org

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“THE ILLUSIONISTS” WHEN: Oct. 11-16 WHERE: Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami ABOUT: Those with a fear of drowning might want to schedule a bathroom break during the centerpiece of this Broadway box-office smash: a “full-view water torture escape” performed by master escapologist Andrew Basso. Full-view, eh? Take that, Houdini. Basso is one of seven stars of “The Illusionists,” a fast-paced marriage of the magical and the macabre, the harrowing and the hilarious, that critics have called “the Cirque du Soleil of magic” and “brain-bendingly spectacular.” It’ll be tough to top a Dream Team of conjurers as charismatic and award-decorated as this sextet, with each member specializing in a different magic branch, from levitation and mentalism to grand illusions. They include “The Inventor,” Kevin James (not that Kevin James), whose innovative theatrics were seen in the movie “Adaptation;” South Korea’s Yu Ho-Jin, the 2014 Magician of the Year winner from the Academy of Magical Arts; and Ben Blaque, whose danger-courting crossbow theatrics dropped the jaws of “America’s Got Talent” viewers.

COST: TBA CONTACT: 305/949-6722, arshtcenter.org

BRIAN WILSON WHEN: Sept. 14 WHERE: Hard Rock Live, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood ABOUT: In 2003, when Rolling Stone lauded the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” as the second-greatest album in rock history, I had to scoff: only No. 2?

With all due respect to top placeholders the Beatles, “Pet Sounds” revolutionized music so much that it still sounds postmodern 50 years after its release. Composer Brian Wilson, in the throes of madness/genius, departed from the conventionally structured surf and party songs that had propelled his band to the top of the charts and secluded himself in his studio. The result? A batch of 13 pop diamonds that were as musically adventurous as they were lyrically introspective, incorporating everything from live animal sounds and crushed soda cans to bicycle bells, train sounds and an electric theremin. His ambition was, quite simply, to create “the greatest rock album ever made.”

Few will argue that he achieved such a lofty goal. Wilson is now 73, and he’s not as mobile as he used to be, but he’s just as indefatigable: He’ll play “Pet Sounds” in its entirety, in what he’s describing as the album’s final send-off, in addition to plenty of other Beach Boys hits, with recent set lists exceeding 40 songs.

COST: $40-$80 CONTACT: 800/745-3000, myhrl.com

“THE AUDIENCE” WHEN: Oct. 23-Nov. 6 WHERE: Maltz Jupiter Theatre, 1001 E. Indiantown Road, Jupiter ABOUT: When this spangled drama premiered on Broadway in 2015, its appeal was built into its casting: “Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II” was all audiences of “The Audience” needed to fill the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. Though casting for the Maltz’s Florida premiere of “The Audience” has not been announced as of this writing, we’re fairly certain Mirren will not be reprising her Tony-winning performance in Jupiter. With or without her, the play remains a dynamic example of loose-limbed but intellectually stimulating infotainment about the

complex relationship between the monarch and her prime ministers. It’s set during select weekly meetings between Queen Elizabeth and her nation’s elected leaders from 1951 to present day. In two and a half stage hours, we hear from Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and more, as the actor playing the queen ages up to 60 years in front of our eyes. The minutes from these real-life rendezvous with the Queen were never released to the public, so expect plenty of speculative humor and dramatic sparks from playwright Peter Morgan.

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THIS FALL AT THINKING CAP Most regional theaters are still on off-season break, but Thinking Cap and its host theater, The Vanguard (1501 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale), schedule plays year-round. Here’s what they’ve lined up for the fall. For tickets, call 813/220-1546 or visit thinkingcaptheatre.com.

SEPT. 8-25: “A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney.” This sly comedy subverts the Disney mythos by imagining a wartsand-all Walt pitching an original screenplay about his last days on earth.

OCT. 20-NOV. 6: “Mud.” Stodard will re-envision this 1983 feminist touchstone by Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornes. “It’s timeless in terms of its relevance,” Stodard says. “It’s one of those beautiful-horrible kind of plays, like ‘Cleansed.’ I love plays that have that potential paradox at the heart of them.”

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y earliest, unshakable memory of Fort Lauderdale’s Thinking Cap Theatre is its 2012 production of Sarah Kane’s “Cleansed.” Set in a brutal institution overseen by a sadistic drug dealer, it’s a play rich in brutality and depravity, the sort of work few companies in this region would touch. But Nicole Stodard, Thinking Cap’s founder and artistic director, found the beauty in Kane’s revolting dystopia, cleansing her audience as much as her characters in a production full of imagination and formal derring-do, of nerve-rattling menace and aching empathy.

It’s just the sort of experimental work upon which Thinking Cap was built. Since its 2010 inception, this brainy company his been producing plays that challenge status quos, shatter taboos and confront issues of global injustice. Its production of “Waafrica” dealt with female genital mutilation. Stodard’s remix of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” was set in discoera America, and Thinking Cap’s version of the poker-faced religious satire “Church” was staged outdoors, in a tent-revival setting, complete with complimentary lemonade and handheld wooden fans for every “congregant.”

There are times when the cast members onstage nearly outnumber the ticketholders in seats, an occupational hazard Stodard is willing to risk. Her die-hard devotees appreciate it.

“There are all kinds of tastes, and some people don’t want the light stuff,” she says. “I had an elderly lady say to me, ‘I don’t want to see “Mame” again.’ It’s very important that we are true to our mission and don’t let it get watered down.”

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When you founded this company, what was the mission statement?

My background is strongly in gender studies and LGBTQ issues—very academic, with a strong dramaturgical background. It was, out of the gate, always going to be headier kind of fare. I felt kind of nerdy naming it Thinking Cap, but it came from an honest place. It was always intended to be more cerebral and more off-the-beaten-path kind of fare.

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And yet, after the success of your 2015 production of “Always … Patsy Cline,” did anyone urge you to go in a more mainstream direction?

Yeah. For the last year, people have been contacting us, asking for us to bring that back. Some people came to see it wearing T-shirts from a show they saw in Nebraska, who are groupies who will go wherever that show is mounted. I think that we will probably do another jukebox musical.

That show allowed us to continue to have union actors. It was huge for us from the standpoint of box office.

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You not only direct most of the shows; you often costume-design and sound-design too. Why do you take on such a full plate?

It helps us save money that way. Maybe it’s a control thing, too. The director really

is the one who has the vision for it. I interned in college at Epic Records, and I used to DJ; sound was always something I was really interested in. So doing the sound is as much about my interest in it and how closely tied it is to the pieces I choose to direct as it is to budget. With costume, it depends on the piece. The more I’ve done it, the more I’ve been willing to push myself to do pieces that are harder to costume.

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How do you manage to do all of this while raising three kids?

There are times I wish I could just be mom, because mom is such a timeconsuming job. But I don’t think I’d be happy without one of the two roles. I have a lot more people in the company now who are able to help me. Now I’m at a place where I have a brood of children and my fourth baby, Thinking Cap. It’s about taking one day at a time, and being OK with imperfection.

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How do local actors feel about stepping out of their comfort zones to act in your shows?

They might not feel very good about it initially, but when we come out on the other side, I think everyone is very appreciative. Nobody does theater to get rich; you want to work with people that you have good creative connections with and trust in.

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magine “The Fast and the Furious” remade with adult-driven Big Wheels absurdly crashing into each other on a rooftop. Conjure a version of “Jaws” in which a mutilated Mr. Potato Head stands in for human remains washed ashore— and a cutout of Nemo on a Popsicle stick signifies the titular shark. Fathom, if you will, a version of Hitchcock’s “The Birds” in which the avian predators have been replaced by shoddy cardboard cutouts dangling from strings.

These no-budget revisions of Hollywood classics, all clocking in at five minutes or less, have screened in Palm Beach County over the past four years, thanks to Swede Fest Palm Beach. A “swede,” in amateur cineaste parlance, is a deliberately artless parody of an earnest studio feature. The term originated in the 2008 comedy “Be Kind Rewind,” in which characters played by Jack Black and Mos Def re-create big-budget movies with nothing but elbow grease and a subversive sense of humor.

But sweding has long outgrown its inception, becoming a nationwide cult phenomenon. Organizers in Fresno, Calif., launched the inaugural Swede Fest in August of 2008.

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and budding directors everywhere post swedes on YouTube.

Belle Forino, former events manager for Midtown in Palm Beach Gardens, discovered the Fresno fest and thought it would be an exciting way to bring sweders and audiences to the Gardens. She trademarked Swede Fest Palm Beach in 2012 and shepherded its first four years, selling out three of them at venues like the Borland Center at Midtown and the Palm Beaches Theatre in Manalapan. This year, her colleague Elizabeth Dashiell, a board member of the Palm Beach Film Society, is taking over the reins, and she’s thrilled to be promoting this most democratic of film festivals.

“You could go out there with your smartphone and record [your swede],” Dashiell says.

“It’s all about found objects and using your own creativity. Anybody can do it. You also have professionals, those who make films independently or have some film training, and then it can be hilariously funny too. They have to work harder to make a bad film. I always say, it takes a lot of talent and creativity to be this awful.”

Some swede films are shot entirely with children embarking on their first experience behind and in front of cameras. Others are

shot with action figures, LEGO tableaux or cardboard cutouts instead of actors. The best swedes poke fun at the money-hemorrhaging budgets and fatuous gravitas of Hollywood products, while some contain sly commentary underneath the atrocious special effects. Mary Stucchi acted in a “Basic Instinct” swede that reversed the genders of the famous police interrogation scene, with a hairy man uncrossing his legs to the rapt gaze of female officers.

Now Stucchi, a theater graduate from Palm Beach Atlantic University, is making her first swede as director, a version of “Forrest Gump” that casts child actors and covers all the major characters and plot points in less than two minutes. “I want to make it as short as possible, for the sake of brevity,” she says. “As soon as you get past 30 seconds of the spoof, it’s like, we get it.”

At the end of each festival, most if not all of the entrants will walk away with an award— usually movie passes or gift cards for donated services—with the knowledge that nobody is likely to earn an industry contract from their swede. As Stucchi says, “it’s fast and easy and fun, and it’s less about the competition and more about a community of artists coming together and taking a stab at something.”

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A SWEDE FEST TOP 5 HERE ARE A FEW OF THE MOST MEMORABLE SWEDES FROM THE FESTIVAL’S FIRST FOUR YEARS. ›› In their version of “To Have and Have

Not,” the sweders satirize the famous “you know how to whistle, don’t you?” scene by having their “Lauren Bacall” hilariously fail at whistling for an endless series of outtakes. ›› Two movie franchises get a sweded

mashup in “The Goonies: Batsweded,” in which the Joker carries a Super Soaker and Batman deactivates his bat signal with handclaps. ›› You’ll never appreciate “Twister” again

Swede Fest founder Belle Forino, center, is flanked by current festival producers Jeff Langlois and Elizabeth Dashiell.

IF YOU GO WHAT: Fifth Annual Swede Fest Palm Beach WHERE: Kelsey Theater, 700 Park Ave., Lake Park WHEN: 7 p.m. Oct. 15

From left: Swedes of “The Hunger Games,” “Twister,” “Jurassic Park,” “Ghost” and “Memento”

after the sweders’ version mocks the movie’s eye-rolling romance and deploys a papertowel funnel as a tornado. ›› “Noah” becomes a swede of biblical

proportions when it’s staged on a dinghy filled with stuffed animals, with a garden hose providing the epic “flood.” ›› There’s nothing scary at all in the swed-

ers’ “The Shining,” in which a bucket of spilled red paint parodies the river-of-blood sequence. Meanwhile, Jack Torrance has logistical trouble axing down a door.

COST: $12 online, $15 at door CONTACT: 561/543-8276, swedefestpalmbeach.com DON’T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT. VISIT BOCAMAG.COM TO SEE THESE SWEDES FOR YOURSELF.

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For starters BOCA RESTO LOUNGE

3360 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton 561/430-5639

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t’s not every day Boca gets a great hangout. Sure, we get fancy new restaurants popping up right and left, and great new luxury stores. But sometimes all you want is that place where you can meet up after work or on a Saturday night and you know half the people when you walk in—and all of them when you walk out.

Boca Resto is that kind of place, and is already a local favorite, with all kinds of weekly events like Free Poker Thursdays or karaoke or tribute bands and DJs. In fact, there is house music or a DJ nightly from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. as well as special events (Pooches on the Patio springs to mind).

Although it calls itself a lounge, there is plenty of fun food—sort of like a great bar menu that went to college.

On a recent night with friends, we ate like teenagers: fried pickles, sesame seared rare tuna (this was very, very good), Argentine chorizo and beer-battered onion rings. It was worth every calorie, and a great place to catch up.

So next time you feel like meeting a friend or two for drinks and a bite, slip into this cozy Federal Highway catcher’s mitt and find your new neighborhood home-away-from-home.

AARON BRISTOL

—MARIE SPEED

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IF YOU GO HOURS: Sun.-Thurs.

11:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m., Sat. 4-11 p.m.

PRICES: Entrees $31 to $89 (for two) WEBSITE: abeandlouies.com

course) with the precision of a brain surgeon. And unlike some local steakhouses, which seem to feel pricy designer steaks are made better by adding a thick scum of bitter, indigestible carbon to the surface, the kitchen here Top, shrimp and scallop risotto; bottom, an Abe & cooks with a much defter touch, lightly Louie’s bartender keeps diners satisfied caramelizing the exterior while leavgold potatoes infused with indecent amounts ing the insides as rosy as Mr. Claus’s of butter. The latter is richer still, easily as much cheeks at Christmas. cream as spinach but impossible to stop eating.

That Abe & Louie’s prime rib is every bit the Surprisingly, it was in the closing moments equal of the sirloin should come as no surof the meal that the kitchen stumbled. Butprise. It offers the same deep flavor and rosy terscotch bread pudding was more cubes of color but is even tenderer, with the kind of bread soaked in watery gruel than the exluxurious texture that suggests butter cut from pected (and eagerly anticipated) ode to posh, behind the shoulder of a 1,200-pound steer. custardy decadence—a wrong against those A word about sides: terrific, at least the bestunalienable rights, to be sure, but only a short known steakhouse staples, hash browns and detour in our pursuit of happiness. creamed spinach. The former is served in a ridiculously huge portion, almost sweet Yukon —BILL CITARA

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here are some truths Americans hold to be self-evident. That all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, like life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. And a thick, juicy, rosy-rare steak.

At Abe & Louie’s, these rights—well, the last one, at least—are not only unalienable, they’re succulent and savory and satisfying right down to your toenails. There are other rights too. The right to a great bottle of red wine or a steely, ice-cold martini. The right to plump, sea-sweet shrimp as big as the Jolly Green Giant’s thumb dragged through a nervy cocktail sauce. The right to side dishes that aren’t afterthoughts but are stars on their own.

Then there’s the right to dine in a room that’s plushly appointed and comfortable, where the ambience is invigorating but blessedly free of such annoyances as DJs, bar games and dozens of blaring TVs. And the right to impeccable service, proffered by a staff that’s as coolly professional as those in too many other South Florida restaurants are clueless.

Of course, as George Washington and the boys understood, with rights come responsibilities.

At Abe & Louie’s that means having a mastodonsized bite taken out of your credit card.

The bites are tasty, though. Take those fat, thumb-sized shrimp. At $21 for four, that works out to … well, you do the math. But they’re practically a meal in themselves, arriving like a quartet of princelings on a bed of crushed ice with an excellent cocktail sauce and a ramekin of freshly grated horseradish incendiary enough to set your nose hairs on fire.

A little lighter on the palate and pocketbook is Abe & Louie’s signature salad, a nicely done affair that gilds pastel leaves of Bibb lettuce with diced apples, pistachios and big chunks of blue cheese in a tangy Dijon mustard vinaigrette.

There may be someone, somewhere, who sometime ordered something other than the reason for Abe & Louie’s existence—a glorious slab of USDA Prime beef. That person may be excused for the rest of this review. For everyone else, the 16-ounce aged New York sirloin is a thing of beefy beauty, delivering the kind of deep, rich meaty flavor other steaks can only dream about. It’s cooked (medium-rare, of

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this case tossed with a well-balanced balsamic vinaigrette and gilded with figs, cherry tomatoes and goat cheese so mild and creamy even confirmed goat-a-phobes might find themselves seduced.

Among the pastas con vongole, frutti di mare and arrabiata is pappardelle with short rib ragu. It’s not a large portion, but noodles as wide as a city street make a substantial base for shards of fork-tender short rib and chanterelle mushrooms in a Chianti-spiked sauce that sadly was under-reduced and watery.

A neat rectangle of snowy-white halibut got a crusting of sun-dried tomatoes and breadcrumbs, a perfect counterpoint to a properly reduced Chianti sauce. If the fish was a trifle overcooked, the terrific ricotta mashed potatoes and garlic-fueled broccoli rabe served alongside made it easier to forgive.

There’s a reason tiramisu is always, always on the dessert menu, and this is it: creamydreamy mascarpone, bracing espresso-soaked ladyfingers, a fine dusting of cocoa. It’s a certainty far more appealing than death, taxes and the rest of that stuff.

—BILL CITARA

Costoletta di vitello alla Milanese entree at Cena

IF YOU GO HOURS: Tues.-Thurs. 5-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5-11 p.m.

PRICES: Entrees $18 to $36 WEBSITE: cenamodern.com

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n this life there are a few certainties. Death and taxes, heat and humidity, traffic jams and crazy drivers. Oh, and Italian restaurants. In fact, if we had any more Italian restaurants we’d all be driving on the sidewalk and shouting hello.

Most of these establishments contribute much that is familiar and little that is new, prizing comfort and satisfaction over excitement and feats of culinary derring-do. Which suits most of us just fine, as will Cena.

Styling itself a “modern Italian restaurant,” Cena occupies the small but stylish space previously home to one of Angelo Elia’s more casual eateries. Its clean lines and laid-back ambience make it a pleasant and relaxing place to dine. In less humid weather, outdoor patios in front and back are equally inviting.

The menu doesn’t stray far from the tried and true. There’s carpaccio and fried calamari, linguine with clam sauce and veal Milanese, and always, always tiramisu. For something a little different, look to the specials. Like the trio of artichoke bottoms, trimmed down to buttery tenderness, bathed in garlicky olive oil and scattered with fresh herbs and Parmesan.

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The Office is a modern American gastropub that serves delicious, gourmet comfort food, in a setting reminiscent of a luxurious home office. Menu favorites include an array of juicy burgers, inventive salads, swell sandwiches, wonderful appetizers, mouthwatering seafood, chicken and beef entrees.

Vic & Angelo’s serves up delectable, rustic Italian cuisine, including soulsatisfying house-made pastas, crispy, thin-crust pizzas, refreshing salads, fresh fish and seafood, and enticing veal and chicken dishes, in a warm and welcoming setting.

• Lunch & Dinner Served Daily • Early & Late Happy Hour at Indoor & Outdoor Bars • Dine Indoors or on the Patio

• Lunch & Dinner Served Daily • Early & Late Happy Hour at Indoor & Outdoor Bars • Brunch Served Saturday & Sunday • Indoor and Outdoor Dining

201 E. Atlantic Ave. • Delray Beach • 561-276-3600 theofficedelray.com

290 E. Atlantic Ave. • Delray Beach • 561-278-9570 4520 PGA Blvd. • Palm Beach Gardens • 561-630-9899 vicandangelos.com

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$ Inexpensive: Under $17 $$ Moderate: $18–$35 $$$ Expensive: $36–$50 $$$$ Very Expensive: $50 +

PALM BEACH COUNTY BOCA RATON 13 american table —451 E. Palmetto Park Road. Contemporary American. This cozy, artfully rustic spot is one of the few restaurants in the U.S. that has a Josper oven, a pricy, charcoal-fired grill-oven hybrid that cooks foods quickly at high heat to retain maximum flavor and texture. It works like a charm on chicken, resulting in remarkably crisp skin and tender meat, as well as on fist-sized shrimp you can customize with one of several sauces.

Don’t miss feather-light profiteroles filled with caramel and pumpkin mousse. • Dinner nightly. 561/409-2061. $$

abe & louie’s —2200 W. Glades Road.

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Steaks. This outpost of the Boston steak house cooks up slabs of well-aged, USDA Prime beef like nobody’s business. Two of the best are the bone-in rib-eye and New York sirloin. Start with a crab cocktail, but don’t neglect side dishes like steamed spinach and hash browns.

• Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sun. 561/447-0024. $$$

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 daily. 561/997-7373. $$$ biergarten—309 Via De Palmas, #90. German/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. No Hollywood celebrity has gotten a better face-lift than Boca’s aging Bridge Hotel, now the sleek, contemporary Waterstone Resort & Marina. The hotel’s new signature restaurant, Boca Landing, is equally stunning, showing off its prime waterfront location and views. The mostly small-plates menu features Asian-inflected 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 daily. 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. 561/4834949. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/732-9142; 9897 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, 561/9652663; 11658 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/799-2965) $$ brio tuscan grille—5050 Town Center Circle, #239. Italian. The Boca outpost of this national chain does what it set out to do—dish up big portions of well-made, easily accessible Italianesque fare at a reasonable price. If you’re looking for bruschetta piled with fresh cheeses and vegetables or house-made fettuccine with tender shrimp and lobster in a spicy lobster butter sauce, you’ll be one happy diner. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/392-3777. (Other Palm Beach County locations: The Gardens Mall, 3101 PGA Blvd., 561/622-0491; CityPlace, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., 561/835-1511) $$

butcher block grill—7000 W. Camino Real, #100. Steak house/Contemporary American. This casual steak house 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 palatepleasing 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 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 daily. 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 char-grilled 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. $$$ the cheesecake factory—5530 Glades Road. American. Oh, the choices! The chain even has a Sunday brunch menu in addition to its main menu, which includes Chinese chicken salad and Cajun jambalaya. Don’t forget about the cheesecakes—from white chocolate and raspberry truffle offerings. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-0344. (Other Palm Beach County locations: CityPlace, West Palm Beach, 561/8023838; Downtown at the Gardens, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/776-3711) $$

chops lobster bar—101 Plaza Real S., Royal Palm Place. Steak, seafood. Steaks are aged USDA Prime—tender, flavorful and

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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. $$$$

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. 561/9980550. $$$

cuban café —3350 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd.

josef’s table —5030 Champion Blvd.

Continental. Though the kitchen does have a timid hand with sauces and seasonings, there’s no quibbling about the execution, whether a light, refreshing “tower” of lump crabmeat with mango, cucumber and tomato; rosy-rare double-cut lamb chops with port wine-mint sauce; pan-seared hogfish with orange beurre blanc; or the richly decadent half-moon chocolate tart. • Dinner nightly. Lunch Mon.–Fri. 561/353-2700. $$$

Cuban. 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. $

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 creamy burrata with prosciutto, tomato jam and arugula and a branzino served with spinach, clams and shrimp. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/362-8466. $$ dorsia—5837 N. Federal Highway. Continental.

The simple pleasures of the table—good food, personable 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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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. $$ the grille on congress—5101 Congress Ave. American. Dishes at this longtime favorite range from tasty chicken dishes and main-plate salads to seafood options like Asian-glazed salmon or pan-seared yellowtail snapper. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/912-9800. $$

houston’s —1900 N.W. Executive Center Circle. Contemporary American. Convenient location, stylish ambience and impeccable service are all hallmarks of this local outpost of the Hillstone restaurant chain. There are

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. $$

kapow noodle bar—431 Plaza Real. PanAsian. This wickedly stylish Asian-inspired gastropub delivers a delicious and inventive punch to the taste buds. Among the hardest hitters is tuna poke with sesame citrus soy-marinated ahi tuna, crispy wontons and habanero cucumber cream—not to mention cheesecake springrolls with a banana caramel dipping sauce. • 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 ornate, formal dining room and equally formal service are anomalies these days but are comforting nonetheless. 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. 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. $$$ la ferme—9101 Lakeridge Blvd. French/ Mediterranean. Classic style and classically oriented French cuisine come together at this elegant yet comfortable restaurant in a west Boca shopping mall. Though there are a few Asian and Italian-inflected dishes on the menu, at its heart Le Ferme (“the farm”) is as French as the Eiffel Tower. Start with gougères, cheesy pastry puffs filled with béchamel; don’t miss the unconscionably savory cassoulet; and finish with a tux-n-tails version of pineapple upsidedown cake that takes a classic one better. • Dinner daily. 561/654-6600. $$$

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JARDIN DEBUTS ON CLEMATIS Yet another sign that the local dining scene is going Big Time is the springtime debut of Jardin (330 Clematis St., West Palm Beach, 561/440-5273), an ambitious modern American eatery from the husband-and-wife team of Jordan Lerman and Stephanie Cohen.

The two chefs (he savory, she pastry) bring solid-gold resumés to their new venture, with stints at such estimable Big Apple restaurants as Eleven Madison Park and Dominique Ansel Bakery under their belts. Their West Palm restaurant strikes a contemporary but not severe pose, with a slate-finished facade partially open to the sidewalk and a plainly appointed dining room with the requisite spacious outdoor patio.

The 150-seat Jardin represents a homecoming for local boy Lerman, whose “ferociously seasonal” menu takes inspiration from cuisines around the world. Think a witty play on the South American chorizo sandwich called choripan, with duck filling in for the chorizo.

Or spaghetti nero with grilled squid, cracked tomatoes and fava beans or late-night dishes like crispy rice cakes with mojo pork ragu.

Cohen’s desserts make decadence seem positively austere, with sweet finishes like a tower of house-made donuts with honeysoaked churros.

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Fried Chicken If there’s any marriage made in gastronomic heaven, it’s the humble yardbird and a pot of hot oil.

Fried chicken isn’t just as iconically American as apple pie, hot dogs at the ball game and green bean casserole (well, the first two, anyway). It’s a gloriously addictive lesson in how the proper technique applied to a few simple ingredients can result in a dish infinitely more delicious than the sum of its parts.

As this space is just as seduced as the next guy by the savory steam wafting from the fryer, the irresistible crunch of crispy-golden skin and the first sensual bite into moist, tender meat, it seemed utterly reasonable—no, downright essential—that we made fried chicken the subject of this issue’s Boca Challenge.

The criteria for this challenge were as basic and obvious as the growling of your stomach when a platter of fried chicken is anywhere within the county line: taste, texture and the sublime marriage of the two, add value and average, and you get a total score.

Which is what eating our way through this succulent example of culinary Americana turned out to be. A total score.

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This chicken isn’t just finger-lickin’ good, it’s devour-your-armup-to-the-elbow delicious. The dark mahogany skin looks burnt, but it’s really just the sneakily piquant spice rub. Perfectly cooked with cracker-crisp, greaseless skin and moist, tender meat, it’s truly the Fried Chicken of the Gods. $13.95 (w/waffle)

BAY BAY’S

For more than 50 years Fran’s has been turning out succulent fried chicken, and it doesn’t take more than a couple of bites to see why. Seasoning is simple and the flour coating is not too thick, resulting in crispy-salty skin and juicy white and dark meat. The only flaw is that it’s fairly greasy. $10.50 (w/fries)

FRAN’S

The Colonel shouldn’t be embarrassed by the fried chicken dished up under his name, even though KFC is your basic industrial food service operation. The chicken here tastes like real food, and though the skin is soggy and a bit greasy, the meat is well-seasoned and tender. $7.99 (w/choice of two sides)

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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.

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la nouvelle maison—455 E. Palmetto Park Blvd. French. Elegant, sophisticated French cuisine, white-glove service and a trio of (differently) stylish dining rooms make Arturo Gismondi’s homage to the Boca’s storied La Vieille Maison the home away from home to anyone who appreciates the fine points of fine 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, cookbookperfect rendition of steak frites and assortment of desserts that range from homey apple tart to bananas Foster with chocolate and Grand Marnier. • Dinner daily. 561/338-3003. $$$

la rosa nautica—515 N.E. 20th St. Peruvian. Expect no ambience, no pretensions, low prices and food that satisfies on a very high level. Good starters 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

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way. Continental/Steak house. 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 daily. 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 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. $$

BUZZ BITES II NORTHERN MEXICAN RESTAURANT OPENS IN WEST PALM Carnivores with a taste for southof-the-border cookery and an interest in local history will appreciate the new Banko Cantina (114 S. Olive Ave., 561/355-1399), a restaurant specializing in the meat-centric cuisine of Northern Mexico located in the historic, 1921-vintage former American National Bank building in West Palm Beach.

Proprietor is Chicago-based restaurateur Sam Sanchez, whose culinary inspiration goes back to his childhood growing up in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. What that means on your plate are the familiar tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas and nachos, along with a roster of mesquite-grilled skewers of meat, seafood and veggies, plus outliers like paella and fresh local catch wrapped in banana leaves and grilled.

The space itself is plenty spacious, some 13,000 square feet on three floors with a rooftop bar, lounge, more than a dozen giant TVs, private dining room and main dining area that seats 130.

There’s also a 90-foot bar on the top floor and seating for another 150 hungry carnivores.

mario’s osteria—1400 Glades Road.

Italian. This popular spot is swanky in its reincarnation, but the rustic Italian and ItalianAmerican 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 daily. 561/392-0773. $$

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morton’s the steakhouse—5050 Town Center Circle. Steak house. 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 daily. 561/392-7724. $$$

new york prime—2350 N.W. Executive Center Drive. Steak house. 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 daily. 561/998-3881. $$$$

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nick’s new haven-style pizzeria —2240 N.W. 19th St., #904. Italian. Cross Naples (thin, blistered crust, judicious toppings) with Connecticut (fresh clams and no tomato sauce), and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the pies coming out 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 daily. 561/361-8688. $$ pellegrino’s—3360 N. Federal Highway.

Italian. The bold, brash flavors of New York-style Italian-American cuisine are as in your face as a Manhattan cabbie at this low-key favorite of chef-owner Bobby Pellegrino, nephew to the clan that owns the legendary Rao’s in East Harlem.

Pungent smells of garlic, anchovies, tomatoes and peppers fill the air; dishes like the rarely seen spiedini alla Romana, chicken Scarpariello and seafood spaghetti in Fra Diavolo sauce fill your belly. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/368-5520. $$$

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

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. $$

BUZZ BITES III CUISINE & COCKTAILS IN DOWNTOWN LAKE WORTH A pair of Broward restaurateurs are making a bet on downtown Lake Worth becoming a hip dining destination with their new C.W.S. Bar + Kitchen (522 Lucerne Ave., 561/318-5637), where updated comfort food, craft beers and mixological cocktails meet in the space formerly home to The Cottage.

Jeff John and Brian Freed have made C.W.S. their first foray out of Broward County, where they also own Revolution Live, America’s Backyard and Stache.

The duo’s latest venture has a menu crafted by Todd English and Jean-Georges Vongerichten alum Joshua Hedqvist, which features everything from tacos, burgers and wings to Bavarianstyle pretzels, house-made pastas and grilled cauliflower steak with tomato confit.

Libations include a variety of designer cocktails, courtesy of mixologist William Binder, plus craft beers and a sizeable selection of ryes, whiskeys and bourbons.

The cozy indoor dining room is supplemented by a much larger outdoor patio, complete with bar, picnic tables and even a putting green. A chef’s table is in a garden in back of the restaurant.

ruth’s chris —225 N.E. Mizner Blvd. Steak house. Not only does this steak-house 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 daily. 561/392-6746. $$$$

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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 daily. 561/368-0080. $$

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rance and America haven’t always seen eye to eye on everything, but when it comes to brunch at Tryst, the twain have not only met but combined to make one tasty midday morsel.

It goes by the moniker “Crispy Rice-Crusted Brioche French Toast.” Interestingly enough, the “French” part of (lower case) “french” toast doesn’t refer to the dish’s country of origin (that would most likely be Italy). Instead, the French connection (at Tryst, at least) are the slabs of rich, buttery, eggy brioche, which is as Francophillic as the Eiffel Tower, berets and stinky cigarettes.

What gives Tryst’s version of so-called french toast its American character is its jacket of crushed breakfast cereal— Rice Krispies, to be exact. There’s also a bath in cinnamon-orange custard (very French) and a drizzle of maple syrup (very American). But when sitting down to a big plate of the stuff, who really cares? It’s delicious whatever its nationality, thanks to the restaurant’s executive chef, John Thomas.

Chef Thomas and his decadent dish

—BILL CITARA

CHEF’S TIPS

It’s important to use clarified butter, which has a higher smoking point than butter that has not been clarified and is less likely to burn the cereal coating.

Don’t throw away the foam you skimmed from the surface of the butter during clarifying. It’s great on popcorn and in mashed potatoes, polenta or almost anything that goes better with butter.

If you want to add an adult edge to your french toast, try infusing the maple syrup with a tablespoon or two of bourbon, something Tryst has done in the past.

If the cinnamon-orange custard doesn’t french your toast, you can substitute just about any spices/flavorings you desire. The only absolute essentials are the eggs, milk and cream.

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Brioche and challah are essentially the same thing, Thomas says, so use whichever one suits you. Tryst uses bread from Delray’s Old School Bakery, which is open to the public.

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dining guide 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 firstrate, 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, 561/6255852) $$ sushi ray—5250 Town Center Circle. Japanese/Sushi. Impeccably fresh and exactingly prepared sushi and other Japanese specialties are on display. The Nobu-esque miso sea bass gives a taste of this modern classic at a fraction of the price of the original, while the chef’s sushi assortment offers a generous arrangement of nigiri and maki for a reasonable $20. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/394-9506. $$

tanzy—301 Plaza Real. Italian. Part of the

Tanzy’s weekend brunch goes full throttle, with menu items like gravlax, poached organic eggs, french toast sticks and its special “Boca Mimosas” available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

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truluck’s —351 Plaza Real. Seafood.

This stylish 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 soft-shells 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

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

swanky iPic Theater complex (though it does not service the 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 daily. 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 daily. 561/235-5819. $ taverna kyma —6298 N. Federal Highway.

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)

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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 daily. 561/393-6715. $$$

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 daily. 561/990-7969. $$

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dining guide tempura house—9858 Clint Moore Road, #C-112. 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 daily. 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. $

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prime catch—700 E. Woolbright Road. 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. $$

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. $$

vino—114 N.E. Second St. Wine Bar/Italian. An impressive wine list of some 300 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. $

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. $$

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 daily. 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 spicy “Hellswine,” are among the standouts. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. Brunch Sun. 561/883-3200. $

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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 wickedgood 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 restaurants

BUZZ BITES IV DOMUS OPENS IN ROYAL PALM PLACE A star-crossed spot in Boca’s Royal Palm Place is now home to a “modern Italian steakhouse” called Domus (187 S.E. Mizner Blvd., 561/419-8787).

Promising a “fresh approach to classic dishes,” the extensive menu boasts USDA Prime beef and a choice of lobster preparations, as well as dishes like shrimp and veal Francese, chicken cooked under a brick, pappardelle Bolognese and daily fish specials. There’s also a bar bites menu with most dishes costing $10 or less, a wine list strong on Italian and California bottles, and live entertainment Thursday through Saturday.

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anywhere in South Florida. Thank chef-partner Nick Morfogen, who turns out food that’s consistently as inspired, inventive and up-todate as it is thoroughly delicious. The menu changes weekly, 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 crisptender 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 daily. 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 chickenturkey meatballs in Parmesan-enhanced broth, and Cremona pizza with a sweet-salty-earthy-

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pungent mélange of pears, pancetta, Gorgonzola, sun-dried figs and mozzarella. • Lunch Tues.–Sun. Dinner daily. 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 daily. 561/501-4443. $$ atlantic grille—1000 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood/Contemporary American. This posh restaurant in the luxurious Seagate Hotel & Spa is home to a 450-gallon aquarium of tranquil moon jellyfish and a 2,500-gallon shark tank. Savor inventive cuisine that takes the contemporary to the extraordinary. Bold flavors, inspired techniques and the freshest ingredients make every meal a culinary adventure. • Lunch and dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/665-4900. $$

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 daily. 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 trufflescented wild mushroom pizza. • Dinner daily.

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. $$

buddha sky bar—217 E. Atlantic Ave.

cabo flats—Delray Marketplace, 14851

#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

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. $

caffé luna rosa—34 S. Ocean Blvd. Italian.

This favorite is always lively, and alfresco dining is the preferred mode. Entrée choices are enticing, but we went with the housemade pasta with pancetta, tomato and basil. Also delicious was the costoletta di vitello, a center-cut 14-ounce veal chop lightly breaded and served with San Marzano tomato sauce. For breakfast, indulge in a crab meat benedict, and for dessert, you can’t go wrong with the cheesecake imported from the Carnegie Deli. • Dinner daily. Brunch Sunday. 561/274-9404. $$ 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. $$

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dining guide 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. $$ house of siam—25 N.E. Second Ave., #116. Thai. The normally riotous flavors of Thai cuisine are muted at this family-friendly downtown spot, but that seems to suit diners just fine. Dishes, well-prepared and generously portioned, include steamed chicken and shrimp dumplings with sweet soy dipping sauce and crisp-fried duck breast in a very mild red curry sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/330-9191. $$

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il girasole —1911 S. Federal Highway.

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The wait staff at La Cigale reflects the diversity of its menu, with knowledgeable servers hailing from Lyon, Corsica and the Basque region of Europe.

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 daily. 561/272-9898. $$$

restaurant is casual, the kitchen takes its food seriously, whether the steallar 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 daily. 561/665-8484. $

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 sweetsavory butterscotch onions, and a brownievanilla ice cream sundae with strips of five-spice powdered bacon. The wittily decorated 1920svintage house-turned-restaurant is, as they say, a trip. • Dinner daily. 561/330-3232 $$

el camino —15 N.E. Second Ave. Mexican.

d’angelo trattoria —9 S.E. Seventh Ave. Italian. Don’t go expecting the tired old “Italian” culinary clichés at this wickedly stylish spot. Open your palate to more authentic and exciting Roman-style cuisine, like roasted veal bone marrow with brisk caper-parsley pesto, creamy-dreamy burrata with roasted fava beans and watercress salad, the classic tonnarelli cacio e pepe (“cheese and pepper”) and the best gelato this side of a real Roman trattoria. • Dinner daily.

561/330-1237. $$

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

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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 sugardusted 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 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. $$

Northern 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. $$

j&j seafood bar & grill—634 E. Atlantic 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. $$ jimmy’s bistro —9 S. Swinton Ave. Eclectic. Best bets are a lovely salad of ripe tomatoes and fresh, milky house-made mozzarella; a rich, elegant version of lusty Cajun etouffee; and caramelized bananas in puff pastry with silken vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. • Dinner daily. 561/8655774. $$ la cigale —253 S.E. Fifth Ave. Mediterranean. 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. Pan-Asian. 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 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). $

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out of denmark—2275 S. Federal Highway. Danish/Continental. Reprising the restaurant he closed in 2006 to care for his ill wife, chef-owner Jorgen Moller is back with his signature brand of Danish-inflected and continental dishes. The look, feel and menu remain very old school, the way his loyal patrons like it. The restaurant is perhaps best known for its Danish koldt bord, an array of small bites served on a three-tiered stand. Entrées are more familiar; both rack of lamb and Wiener Schnitzel are well-prepared and flavorful. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/276-2242. $$$ park tavern —32 S.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. The guys from Cut 432 have done it again with this hip, casual modern American tavern. The menu is tightly focused and tightly executed, whether Maryland crab cakes featuring fat chunks of succulent crab or the behemoth slab of tender, juicy prime rib for a near-saintly $29. Don’t miss the decadent soft pretzel bites. • Dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/265-5093. $$

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prime—29 S.E Second Ave. Steak/Seafood.

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mastino —25 N.E. Second Ave. Italian/pizza. While pizza from the restaurant’s oak-fired oven may be the focus, Mastino also dishes an array of small plates, from an achingly rich mac-n-three cheeses to a hearty “Old School” meatball with tomato sauce and ricotta to plump littleneck clams in a garlicky white wine-olive oil broth. • Lunch Fri.–Sun. Dinner daily. 561/921-8687. $ max’s harvest—169 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary 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 bourbonmaple glazed pork belly. • Dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/381-9970. $$ the office —201 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary 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

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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 goodlooking restaurant will fully live up to its name.

• Dinner daily. 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. Pretty much everything that comes out of Tyrell’s three-wood smoker is good, but his 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. $$

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 also 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 daily. 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 classy, 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 daily.

561/272-1944. $$$ tryst —4 E. Atlantic Ave. Eclectic. It’s tough to beat this hotspot with the lovely outdoor patio, well-chosen selection of artisan beers and not-the-usual-suspect wines, and an eclectic “gastropub” menu of small and large plates.

Try the fried green tomato caprese. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/921-0201. $$ 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 daily. 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. $$

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dining guide 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.

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Check out the recently renovated Cafe Boulud, whose new design includes warm wood flooring and a ceiling of seashells and pecky cypress.

Pan-Asian. 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. $

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 get-

ting 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. $$$ buccan—350 S. County Road. Contemporary American. Casual elegance of Palm Beach meets modern culinary sensibilities of Miami at the first independent restaurant by chef Clay Conley. The design offers both intimate and energetic dining areas, while the menu is by turn familiar (woodgrilled burgers) and more adventurous (truffled steak tartare with crispy egg yolk, squid ink orrechiette). • Dinner daily. 561/833-3450. $$ 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 daily. 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 see-and-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 service, ensures a fun place for a casual yet delectable meal—not to

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mention being a vantage point for spotting local celebs. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Outdoor dining. 561/655-0770. $$

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 daily. 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

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sophistication, like witty Peking duck tacos and decadent tuna and foie gras sliders. Sushi selection is limited but immaculately fresh.

• Dinner daily. 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 daily. 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. Steak house. “Meat Market” may be an inelegant name

for a very elegant and inventive steak house 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 daily. 561/354-9800. $$$$

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. $$

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-honeyglazed salmon fillet with crab and corn flan.

• Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/6559752. $$$

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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. $$$

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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. $$

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PALM BEACH GARDENS café chardonnay—4533 PGA Blvd. Contemporary American. This longtime stalwart never rests on its laurels. Instead, it continues to dish finely crafted American/Continental fare with enough inventiveness to keep things interesting. The popular herb-and-Dijon-mustard rack of lamb, regular menu items like duck with Grand Marnier sauce, and always superlative specials reveal a kitchen with solid grounding in culinary fundamentals. • Lunch Mon.– Fri. Dinner daily. 561/627-2662. $$

WEST PALM BEACH café centro—2409 N. Dixie Highway. Italian. There

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grato—1901 S. Dixie Highway. Italian. “Grato” is Italian for “grateful,” and there is much to be grateful for about Clay Conley’s sophisticated yet unpretentious take on Italian cookery. Anyone would be grateful to find such delicate, crispy and greaseless fritto misto as Grato’s, ditto for lusty beef tartare piled onto a quartet of crostini. Spinach gnocchi in porcini mushroom sauce are a revelation, so light and airy they make other versions 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 daily, Sunday brunch. 561/404-1334. $$

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leila—120 S. Dixie Highway. Mediterranean. Flowing drapes and industrial lighting complete the exotic decor in this Middle Eastern hit. Sensational hummus is a musttry. 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. $$

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are many things to like about this modest little osteria— the unpretentious ambiance, piano Thursday through Saturday during season, the fine service, the robust portions and relatively modest prices. And, of course, the simple, satisfying Italian cuisine. The kitchen breathes new life into hoary old fried calamari, gives fettucine con pollo a surprisingly delicate herbed cream sauce, gilds snowy fillets of grouper with a soulful Livornese. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner daily. 561/514-4070. $$

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. $$

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rhythm café —3800 S. Dixie Highway. Casual American. Once a diner, the interior is eclectic with plenty of kitsch. The crab cakes are famous here, and the tapas are equally delightful. Homemade ice cream and the chocolate chip cookies defy comparison. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/833-3406. $$

rocco’s tacos —224 Clematis St. Mexican. Big 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. Madeto-order guacamole is a good place to start. • 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) $ table 26°—1700 S. Dixie Highway. Contemporary American. Take a quarter-cup of Palm Beach, a tablespoon of Nantucket, a pinch of modern American cookery and a couple gallons of the owners’ savoir faire, and you have Eddie Schmidt’s and Ozzie Medeiros’s spot. The menu roams the culinary globe for modest contemporary tweaks on classically oriented dishes. Try the fried calamari “Pad Thai.” • Dinner daily. 561/855-2660. $$$

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COCONUT CREEK nyy steak —Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 5550 N.W. 40th St. Steak house. 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 daily. Brunch Sun. 954/977-6700. $$$$

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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. $$

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. $$

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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. $$$ SHG 41840_Boca-Mag_Sept-Oct_2ThrdsPg_4c_AG_MECH.indd 1 SeagateGrille_brm0916.indd 1

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Boca Raton’s Best New Restaurant: bistro 17—Renaissance Fort Lauderdale Hotel, 1617 S.E. 17th St. Contemporary American. This small, sophisticated restaurant continues to impress with competently presented food. The menu is surprisingly diverse. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 954/6261748. $$

bistro mezzaluna —1821 S.E. 10th Ave. Italian.

The bistro is all Euro-chic decor—mod lighting, abstract paintings. It also has good food, from pastas to steaks and chops and a wide range of fresh seasonal fish and seafood. Don’t forget the phenomenal wine list. • Lunch and dinner daily.

954/522-9191. $$ bongusto ristorante —5640 N. Federal Highway.

Italian. This is a well-kept secret, featuring dishes that will meet the standards of those who savor authentic Italian. Involtini capricciosi—tender-rolled veal stuffed with spinach, prosciutto and fontina cheese—is satiating, while the whole yellowtail snapper is an equal delight. • Dinner daily. 954/771-9635. $$

café emunah —3558 N. Ocean Blvd. Kosher, organic. Don’t let the New Age “spirituality” throw you off. Focus on the fresh, organic ingredients that are incorporated into inventive sushi, soups and salads and (mostly) Asian-influenced entrées. • Lunch and dinner Sun.–Thurs. Lunch Fri. 954/561-6411. $

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Italian. Standouts include crispy calamari in marinara sauce and flavorful veal osso buco. Our conclusion: explosive flavor, attention to all the details and fresh, high-quality ingredients. Waiters whisper the night’s specials as if they’re family secrets. • Dinner daily.

954/561-2554. $$

canyon—1818 E. Sunrise Blvd. Southwestern. Billed as a Southwestern café, this twist on regional American cuisine offers great meat, poultry and fish dishes with distinctive mixes of lime, cactus and chili peppers in a subtle blend of spices. The adobe ambience is warm and welcoming, with a candlelit glow. • Dinner nightly.

954/765-1950. $$ casablanca café —3049 Alhambra St. American, Mediterranean. The restaurant has an “Arabian Nights” feel, with strong Mediterranean influences.

Try the peppercorn-dusted filet mignon with potato croquette, Gorgonzola sauce and roasted pepper and Granny Smith relish. • Lunch and dinner daily.

954/764-3500. $$ casa d’angelo —1210 N. Federal Highway, #5A. Italian. Many dishes are specials—gnocchi, risotto and scaloppine. The marinated grilled veal chop is sautéed with wild mushrooms in a fresh rosemary sauce. A delightful pasta entrée is the pappardelle con porcini: thick strips of fresh pasta coated in a light red sauce and bursting with slices of porcini mushrooms. • Dinner nightly. 954/564-1234. $$ chima—2400 E. Las Olas Blvd. Steaks. The Latin American rodizio-churrascaria concept—all the meat you can eat, brought to your table—is done with high style, fine wines and excellent service. The sausages, filet mignon, pork ribs and lamb chops are very good. • Dinner daily. 954/712-0580. $$$

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eduardo de san angel—2822 E. Commercial Blvd. Mexican. Try master chef Eduardo Pria’s pan-

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sautéed Florida blue crab and yellow corn cakes. As far as soups go, there’s the pasilla-chile-flavored chicken broth with fresh “epazote” (fried corn tortilla strips, sliced avocado, sour cream and homemade cheese). The pan-seared beef tenderloin filet mignon is sublime. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 954/772-4731. $$$

il mulino —1800 E. Sunrise Blvd. Italian. This

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modest, unpretentious Italian restaurant doesn’t attempt to reinvent the culinary wheel. Instead, it dishes up big portions of simple, hearty, flavorful food at extremely reasonable prices. Zuppa de pesce is a wealth of perfectly cooked seafood over linguini in a light tomato-based sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily.

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indigo —Riverside Hotel, 620 E. Las Olas Blvd. Seafood. Enjoy delightful al fresco dining while sampling fresh seafood and exotic specialties. Dependable choices like ahi tuna are joined by more intriguing seafood dishes; landlubbers will enjoy a selection of steaks and chops. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

954/467-0671. $$ johnny v—625 E. Las Olas Blvd. American. Johnny Vinczencz made his mark at Boca’s Maxaluna and Max’s Grille and (the former) De La Tierra at Delray’s Sundy House. Now in his own restaurant on Las Olas Boulevard, Vinczencz has evolved. As for the impressive wine list, Johnny V has more than 600 selections.

• Lunch and dinner daily. Outdoor dining. 954/7617920. $$ sea watch—6002 N. Ocean Blvd. Seafood. For a right-on-the-beach, welcome-to-Florida dining experience, there’s Sea Watch. Decked out in a pervasive nautical theme, this is definitely tourist country, but it’s pretty and on the beach. The perfect entrée for the indecisive: The broiled seafood medley brochette, with lobster tail, jumbo shrimp and scallops, yellow squash, zucchini, mushrooms and pineapple. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/781-2200. $$ sublime —1431 N. Federal Highway. Vegetarian.

Not only does the menu offer an alternative to animal agriculture, the company’s profits support animal welfare. The haute vegetarian cuisine delivers with dishes like mushroom ravioli. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 954/615-1431. $

timpano italian chophouse —450 E. Las Olas Blvd., #110. Italian. Sink yourself into oversized booths with elegant white tablecloths and prepare to dive into excellent signature bone-in steaks. The menu includes chops and a diverse array of fresh fish and pasta dishes. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 954/4629119. $$

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HOLLYWOOD lola’s on harrison—2032 Harrison St. New American. Chef-owner Michael Wagner reinvigorates quintessentially American dishes with exacting technique and inventive flavor combos. Short ribs braised in Coca-Cola come with indecently rich, tarragon-laced creamed corn. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 954/927-9851. $$

taverna opa—410 N. Ocean Drive. Greek. Bring all your friends here and order a million mezes (Greek appetizers). Try the keftedes, Greek meatballs, and the lamb chops or snapper, which is filleted at the table.

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LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA blue moon fish company—4405 W. Tradewinds Ave. Seafood. This is one of the best spots in Broward County for waterside dining. Choose from a raw bar and fish nearly every which way, as well as daily, seasonal fish specials. • Lunch and dinner daily.

Brunch Sun. 954/267-9888. $$$

LIGHTHOUSE POINT le bistro —4626 N. Federal Highway. Modern French.

The menu 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. $$$

imaginative—and much more. Calypso offers a spin on island food that includes sumptuous conch dishes, Stamp & Go Jamaican fish cakes and tasty rotis stuffed with curried chicken, lamb or seafood. • Lunch and dinner Mon.–Fri. 954/942-1633. $

3- to 7-pound jumbo Nova Scotia lobster or a tender filet mignon. S&S cheesecake shipped from the Bronx is pure heaven. • Dinner nightly. 305/868-7256. $$$

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 mid1980s. 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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SeaLunch | Happy Hour | Dinner AVENTURA food. This seafood market and restaurant, more suited to a pier, offers some of the freshest seafood in the county.

Weekend Late-Night bourbon|steak —19999 W. CountryDining Club Drive.

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COCONUT GROVE European-American. The versatile menu features “simply grilled” items. The boldly flavored menu also offers “house specialties,” contemporary takes on bistro fare.

• Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 305/644-4675. $$

CORAL GABLES caffe abbracci—318 Aragon Ave. Italian. The dining room is handsome and understated, a fitting ambience for Miami’s movers and shakers. That’s just part of the draw of Abbracci, though the regional Italian fare has achieved its own status as some of the best in the Gables. You can’t go wrong with the porcini risotto or the pounded veal chop “tricolore.” • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 305/441-0700. $$

Steaks. Michael Mina’s elegant steak house in tony Turnberry Isle features impeccable service, an encyclopedic wine list and a roster of USDA Prime Angus, Wagyu and Kobe steaks. • Dinner nightly. 786/279-6600. $$$$

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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WHERE: Mar-a-Lago Club, Palm Beach WHAT: Chaired by longtime philanthropists Marilyn and Mark Swillinger, as well as Patrick Park, Dame Alyce Erickson and Brian Edwards, the Red Rose Gala benefited the National Society of Arts and Letters, Florida East Coast Chapter. The entire Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra performed, and conductor Gerard Schwarz received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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THE UNICORN CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION “ANGEL BALL”

WHERE: Boca West Country Club, Boca Raton WHAT: The “Angel Ball” raised more than a quarter of a million dollars to support programs that will improve the lives of children and young adults challenged by neurodiversity. Chaired by Gregory Fried of Gregory’s Fine Jewelry and hosted by Miss Florida Teen USA Gracie Smith, the attendees were able to watch an “art story” performed by speed artist Michael Israel.

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e h t t a n Be see ! e n e c s t righ Announcing our Season 2016/2017 Social Calendar in November’s issue of BOCA MAGAZINE. Find out the places to be and the causes to support in this special social season calendar for your handy reference— week to week, month to month.

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BARK AFTER DARK

WHERE: Empire-Estate, Boca West Country Club, Boca Raton WHAT: Charity Champions, a nonprofit dedicated to helping all animals and animal rescues

in South Florida, hosted its annual fundraiser, raising more than $20,000 in a raffle, silent auction and live auction prizes. The beneficiary was Chain of Love, a nonprofit that works to rescue abandoned, neglected and abused dogs in the area.

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Catalina Bolivar and Thomas Clark John Duford, Mark Bodkins, John Sabota, Jeff Josephson and Sue Perez Jonathan and Nichole Frank Patti Rogers, April and Ted Steiger, Erin Omiatek and Mark Felszarp Lisa Patterson, Rachel Oefelein, Jamie Diaz, Sheila Jendruczek, Julia Jendruczek, Alyce Billeter, Lorna Swartz and Crissy Rentas

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AMERICAN RED CROSS ANGELS MAD HATTERS LUNCHEON

WHERE: Boca Country Club, Boca Raton WHAT: This year’s Mad Hatters Luncheon, themed “Celebrate the Flowers of Florida” and chaired by Angels President Bonnie Mason, honored longtime supporter and Angels member Beverly Falb. The annual fundraiser is hosted by the South County American Red Cross Angels and is known for its hat competition.

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14th Annual

Gingerbread Holiday Concert

Table Sponsorships

Featuring the Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra

Includes 10 tickets. $2,150 is tax-deductible.

Presented by Lynn University Friends of the Conservatory of Music Now in its 14th year of making the holidays merry and bright, our annual Gingerbread Holiday Concert attracts grandparents, parents and children of all ages to the Boca Raton Resort & Club to enjoy the musical classics of the season, performed by the Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra, with Guillermo Figueroa conducting. The proceeds from this annual fundraising event support scholarships for the talented multinational student musicians attending the Lynn Conservatory.

Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016 2 p.m. | Photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus 3 p.m. | Concert Boca Raton Resort & Club—Great Hall 501 East Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida

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Silver $1,500 Includes 10 tickets. $1,150 is tax-deductible.

To sponsor a table, call +1 561-237-7745 or visit give.lynn.edu/gingerbread.

Ticket required for entry.

Valet parking is included.

Tickets: $35 Tickets are not tax-deductible.

To order individual tickets, phone: +1 561-237-9000.

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12TH ANNUAL BERNAYS AWARDS

WHERE: Embassy Suites, West Palm Beach WHAT: The luncheon was hosted by the Gold Coast PR Council, the largest independent organization of PR/marketing professionals in South Florida. The council presented awards in 13 different categories.

[ 1 ] Christie Caliendo and Pilar Portela [ 2 ] Marilyn Bauer and Jon Kaye [ 3 ] Ashley Svarney and Stephanie Immelman [ 4 ] Amy Monagan, Sandra Frens and Stephen Chrisanthus [ 5 ] Julie Mullen and Judy Joffe

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Create a Jewish Legacy Celebrates $33.2 Million Raised for Community’s Future

Eleven South Palm Beach County synagogues, day schools and Jewish organizations were recognized at the Create a Jewish Legacy Community Celebration. Together, led by the Jacobson Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, they raised $33.2 million in planned gifts during the first year of their partnership with the Harold Grinspoon Foundation’s LIFE & LEGACY™ initiative. Learn more at jewishboca.org/cjl.

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HITS A FULL HOUSE WITH THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY Nearly 300 enthusiastic young adults spent Saturday night, June 18 at the Young Adult Division’s (YAD) Chai Rollers Summer Soiree. They enjoyed casino games, dancing to the hottest tunes, taking great pictures in the photo booth and mingling with friends old and new at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center – and this proud group of young adults also made a substantial contribution to the Federation’s vital work locally, in Israel and around the world. Follow YAD online at jewishboca.org/yad or on Facebook at facebook.com/youngadultdivision. To learn more, call Liana Konhauzer at 561-852-5015 or email her at lianak@bocafed.org.

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two or more members of the council and commission can’t discuss city business with each other outside of a public meeting.

No such law applies to Congress. The Florida Legislature exempted itself from the open-meeting law. In Washington and Tallahassee, lawmakers can discuss ideas and attempt to work out differences long before a bill gets to the floor.

Indeed, without such leeway Congress and the Legislature might produce even less.

When a Boca council member approaches City Manager Leif Ahnell to introduce an ordinance, there has been no discussion with colleagues. There’s no way to gauge whether the ordinance has any support. “One comes forward with an idea,” Weinroth says, “and the other four say, ‘Huh?’” Weinroth knows the feeling. In July 2015 he proposed an ordinance to nearly double the density at so-called Planned Mobility Developments that are designed around public transportation. Weinroth, who had joined the council 16 months earlier, questioned whether much study was behind the density limit.

Haynie and others explained that there had been much study.

Weinroth withdrew the ordinance, and now calls that “my ‘Aha’ moment. I had been micro-managing. I took a step back, and it’s a much better vantage point. We all can’t be the Lone Ranger.”

I have spent two-plus years watching the Boca council and the Delray commission for this magazine’s City Watch blog. I spoke with nine of the 10 elected officials for this story.

My assessment is that Boca Raton city council members gravitate toward consensus. It is their true north.

In Delray Beach, for all the sometimes-clashing personalities, Jarjura correctly says, “We actually align on a lot of issues.” The commission collectively wants fewer downtown festivals.

The key vote on the iPic project was 4-1. Though the majority can shift, the change Glickstein, Petrolia and Jarjura favored is underway, though some of the early alliances are strained.

From my perspective, the members of the Boca Raton council and Delray Beach commis-

sion can work fairly well among themselves. In each city, however, pressure from small but active groups and individuals affects the dynamic, and not always in a helpful way.

As with members of Congress, local officials can’t mistake the loudest voters for the majority of voters.

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Back to the beginning MEMORIES FROM THE FRONT LINES—AND WHAT THE GIRLS ARE UP TO NOW

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get that after a certain age, every now and then, you feel like a dinosaur. I know it is not possible to get a grip on everything that is changing around us, hard as we try. Like understanding why your average millennial would rather use two thumbs to text a booklength message than pick up a phone and call someone.

It’s always been that way. For example, I remember my own mother never understood the concept of leaving a message on my telephone answering machine. She did so on rare occasions, but invariably ended it with “Love, Mom,” as if she was signing off on a letter.

There are people in my life now who ask me where “the cloud” is, and others who still think tattoos are the province of sailors on shore leave.

Where I personally get tangled up these days is on the subject of feminism, leaning in, woman power—the subject of an article we have in this issue celebrating women helping women in Boca (page 96).

I am of the generation that launched the Equal Rights Amendment, invented our own prefix (Ms.), burned our bras, quit shaving our legs and demanded equal pay. We wore boxy suits to work and learned to use sports metaphors like “drop the ball” and “hit a home run” and “slam dunk” so we could speak in terms that our male colleagues understood.

Some of us refused to carry purses. We all worked hard to be “one of the guys,” because

that’s what you did. You were headed for the boardroom, and you were hardworking and steely nerved. You were also probably no fun at all.

And after decades, I think we broke through the barriers. Women made inroads into corporate America, politics and the world financial stage. Feminism started to feel almost quaint to me, like an artifact from the 1960s or ‘70s.

Until the night a few years ago when I walked into the opening of a Delray dim sum restaurant and saw a completely naked woman covered in sushi—like a living, breathing, buck-naked sideboard. I was dumbstruck. That was about the time of the “Girls Gone Wild” parties, and when preteens started telling their mothers they wanted to “be” Kim Kardashian.

Next came the legions of women on Facebook posting hot selfies, because being hot was all that mattered. Or that Ukrainian model who surgically made herself into a living Barbie. Or 50 Shades of Gray making women swoon. And don’t get me started on that whole Tinder thing, or the girls today contemplating fake boobs as a high school graduation present.

So it’s not over. It never was. I guess we were just laying the groundwork back then, paying it forward.

This issue shows the women we know who are picking up where we left off—and driving home the concept of women as individuals rather than objects.

But I notice they are not lighting up their bras.

At least we got past that one.

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Happy Anniversary LAUNCHED OUT OF ADVERSITY MORE THAN THREE DECADES AGO, BOCA IS NOW THE PREMIER MAGAZINE OF SOUTH FLORIDA.

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his issue begins our 36th year publishing Boca magazine. When we began there were just three employees. Today there are 18, not counting our publications in Salt Lake City. Back then, my battle with multiple sclerosis was in its early stages, so our lives were encumbered with fear and uncertainty, which made starting a new venture tenuous.

When I resigned from my position as CFO of Capital Cities Communications, many friends and colleagues thought it was imprudent; good manners precluded them from voicing their serious apprehensions.

However, we forged ahead and started our company in Boca Raton with a vision and a sound business plan.

Throughout the years the glue—the magazine’s character—has been my wife, Margaret Mary, whose relaxed demeanor and common sense has guided our organization. Our marriage as well as our business has demanded a realism that is based on patience and a willingness to adjust. The art of any relationship is maintaining equilibrium and equanimity through the various changes and adjustments that people go through in a lifetime. It is the recognition that there are needs that will never be met by the other person and that there are things upon which you will never totally agree.

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The principles of Boca magazine are embodied in the physical product— what you hold in your hands—the curated content, the sharpness of prose, the quality of graphics and design. In the end, however, it’s quality that counts, not promises. We have been continually motivated by the axiom “deliver more than you promise” to our clients, our readers and our community.

Meeting these standards requires a total commitment from the people who, on a day-to-day basis, perform their tasks at Boca magazine with dedication and without fanfare. In the final analysis, teamwork combined with a sense of fun and purpose has been the reason for our longevity.

What lies ahead? Well, there are plenty of maps, charts and psychics that could predict our future. We realize it’s uncertain, but we remain convinced that the outlook for Boca magazine, its readers and our staff rests with our ability to adjust to the continuing change occurring around us.

The bottom line is that we must continue to publish a contemporary product whose mission is to reflect the people, places and events in and around Boca Raton—Florida at its best.

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