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We spotlight the individuals and organizations planting the seeds for a more environmentally conscious city—from passionate government officials to enterprising high schoolers.

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Whether it’s powerfully connected sex offenders, Ponzi scheming lawyers or tabloid-fodder divorces, South Florida has long been an incubator for sleazy headlines.

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In our spring home design report, we catch up with an architect who transformed an extravagant Bal Harbour home, glean the latest tips on coastal living from a renowned interior designer, and discuss trends with experts from the Kips Bay house.

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OK, so Florida is responsible for more National Enquirer headlines than O.J. Simpson and little green men combined. But we’ll take bonkers over boring any day.

An auto dealer from a legacy business explains his“Morse”code, a Boca-based rugby league is drawing young athletes to the sport, and a former IBM exec continues to innovate in the tech world.

In this month’s charity event roundup, Boca West became a Place of Hope, Boca Helping Hands keeps on truckin’, Impact 100 connected 50 community-conscious women with“Cocktails & Conversation,”and Unicorn Children’s Foundation celebrated inclusion.

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Bacchus descends on Boca once again, South Florida’s pet detective reveals the best way to be your own four-legged gumshoe, and a computer hacker explains why he’s one of the good ones. Plus, we break down which craft beer fits your personality, catch up with locals’ favorite springtime traditions and much more.

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61 #LoveBoca Boca magazine highlights its brand and partners with a series of fun events—including a VIP opening of a sustainable salad concept, and a lively gathering to support Alzheimer’s care.

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Choreographer Lauren Carey has given new life—and plenty of unorthodox ideas—to a beloved name in the Palm Beach dance scene.

Plus, our extensive calendar of nearly 40 events features special guests from Festival of the Arts, Monkee business in Delray, Miami City Ballet’s most quixotic journey, and more.

By JAMES BIAGIOTTI

176 My Turn A recent health scare reminds the author of what’s really important in life.

By JOHN SHUFF

145 Dining Guide Our review-driven guide to the finest dining in South Florida spotlights Il Mulino New York and Cap’s Place. Plus, we catch up with Driftwood’s angling chef, and suggest ways to get the most out of seasonal veggies.

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

Best Bites Think our dining guide is long?

You haven’t seen anything until you’ve visited our digital version. We’ve got critic-reviewed restaurants from Jupiter to Miami on the web. Visit the food tab to view the guide.

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BOCA’S BEST BEERS Our page on Florida’s top brews (page 54) was a blast to put together, but we could never forget about Boca Raton’s best craft beers. Visit bocamag. com/march-2020 for our favorite microbreweries within Boca’s city limits.

PAUL’S PLACE Cybersecurity expert Paul Debogorski is knowledgeable on everything having to do with bits and quarks, ones and zeroes (page 46). Visit bocamag.com/march-2020 for his thoughts on cyberattacks and his status as a“certified ethical hacker.”

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City Watch

Boca Raton is anything but sleepy, and Randy Schultz is the go-to for all the city politics, development and business news you need to know. For updates delivered straight to your email every Tuesday and Thursday, visit the City Watch tab on our website.

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On last month’s Boca magazine cover we inadvertently omitted the photographer’s credit. Libby Volgyes took this photograph of Chef Clay Conley of Buccan. We regret the error.

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Notorious

We’ve got the corner on American scandals—which comes with living in the most interesting state in the union Written by MARIE SPEED

he persistent accounting of Florida scandals (page 92) has actually gotten a little ho-hum these days; we’ve known for years that if anything hinky happens anywhere in America, there is a 98-percent chance there’s a Florida connection. Bernie Madoff, Jeffrey Epstein, dimpled chads, Trayvon Martin and on and on. We practically invented the scandal, the boiler room, Ponzi schemes. We have people who steal turtle eggs, who pose as European royalty, who bring in exotic reptiles stuffed in their underpants, who fake whiplash, steal Christmas toys, skip out on dinner checks. We have it all.

I have this theory that Florida serves as sort of the bathtub drain for the rest of America. When someone needs to wash out of Ohio or Illinois or Buffalo or Milwaukee, they just run downhill into this peninsula and get swallowed up by the crazy roiling culture clash we call Miami or Orlando or South Florida and disappear into the wild, wild vortex at the very center of it all.

After awhile, these people emerge all brand-new, wearing a Guy Harvey T-shirt and flip-flops, tanned, reinvented, ready to launch a whole new racket.

That is very cynical, but of course none of us who lives here gives it a second thought anymore; some of us even relish the fact that we’ve got that loony fringe element to keep us from being Iowa. Most of all, we are still holding onto all the stuff we love about South Florida, to hell with the bad guys. We have rocket launches. A whole museum in Sarasota dedicated to the circus. Christmas boat parades, Publix, Terry’s Key lime pie, roseate spoonbills, medianoches, cypress hammocks, stone crabs, Helen Babione, swamp lilies, I-95 (yes, I love that road—it works!) and more. I mean, you can’t blame people for wanting to come here, bad or good—but you always have to return to why it is, at its core, a very good place.

And I’ll take the wacko factor any day over the boring one.

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DON’T-MISS MARCH BOCA BACCHANAL

WHEN: March 6-7 WHAT: This longstanding food and wine event features lavish vintner dinners held at private estates throughout Boca on March 6, and the elaborate grand tasting at the

“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.

But baseball has marked the time.

This field, this game: It’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again.”

Boca Raton Resort & Club March 7 (7 to 10 p.m.) featuring bites from fine local restaurants as well as wine and Champagne tastings from world-renowned vintners.

WHERE: Boca Raton Resort & Club

CONTACT: bocabacchanal.com NOTE: This year America’s“preeminent painter of wine,”Thomas Arvid, will be at the Boca Bacchanal with a pop-up gallery and painting demonstration.

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS

WHEN: Feb 28-March 8 WHAT: This annual arts extravaganza features the popular film with orchestra—“The Empire Strikes Back”—joining Nu Deco Ensemble, journalist/commentator Amy Walter and award-winning author Jesmyn Ward, among other luminaries.

WHERE: Mizner Park Amphitheater CONTACT: festivalboca.org

LIGHT UP THE NIGHT

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—JAMES EARL JONES AS TERENCE MANN TO KEVIN COSTNER AS RAY KINSELLA IN “FIELD OF DREAMS”

WHEN: March 11, 5:30 to 9 p.m.

WHAT: Junior Achievement honors three community leaders for their “unquenchable spirit and passion for giving back to the community:” Marta Batmasian, Investments Limited; Margaret Mary Shuff, Boca magazine; and Bert White, Raymond James & Associates.

WHERE: The Addison, 2 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton CONTACT: LaToya Valentine, 954/979-7108, latoya@jasouthflorida.org

SAVOR THE AVENUE

WHEN: March 23, 5:30 to 9 p.m.

WHAT: Florida’s longest dining room table—down the middle of Atlantic Avenue—celebrates downtown Delray in a festive and elaborate annual event that is sold out every year. This year, a portion of the proceeds will benefit Delray’s Community Greening organization.

WHERE: Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach CONTACT: downtowndelraybeach. com Savor the Avenue

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27 3 Getaways We Love GASPARILLA INN The Gasparilla Inn & Club, the crown jewel of Boca Grande on the Gulf Coast, is a graceful, historic Queen Anne-style resort (a member of Historic Hotels of America) dating to 1913, when it welcomed wealthy “Social Register” Bostonians heading south to vacation. The Inn offers 142 luxurious accommodations, a Beach Club, spa and salon, boating, croquet, tennis, golf—and a wide front porch that is perfect for rocking and daydreaming. 500 Palm Ave., Boca Grande, 877/764-1420.

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10 SIGNS THAT SPRING IS HERE 1. Spring Break erupts everywhere from Key West to Delray.

2. Daylight Saving Time kicks in on March 8.

3. The Tabebuias bloom in a blaze of yellow.

THE MOORINGS This is undoubtedly the ultimate Keys experience, the way we dream the Keys should be, not as they are.

The property was initially built as a luxury estate in 1936 and was a coconut palm plantation for decades before it became an oceanfront vacation getaway with 18 private villas, more than 800 palm trees, a lap pool and the ultimate luxury of private island magic. There is no restaurant, no bar, no coconut monkey heads.

There is, however, the “Blue Charlotte,” the stately main house that figured prominently as the Rayburn house in the Netflix series“Bloodlines.” 123 Beach Way, Islamorada, 305/664-4708.

4. Snowbirds are at least thinking about packing up and heading north.

THE OCEAN CLUB

Since opening in 1962, The Ocean Club, a Four Seasons resort on Paradise Island, has been an elegant epicenter for the celebrity set visiting the Bahamas.

Its white sand Grace Bay beach is legendary, as are its 12th-century cloister gardens and exquisite personal service. The property includes Balinese-style spa villas and golf at Ocean Club Golf Course. Want an alternative to the Vegas-ification of Nassau? Indulge at The Ocean Club. One Ocean Drive, Nassau, Grand Bahama, +1-242/363-2501

“What is the very best thing about springtime in Florida—something you either like, or like to do?”

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6. Bird-watching is primo, as migratory birds from South America make a pit stop in South Florida.

7. Baseball season starts March 26.

8. The dreaded bathing suit quest is on the verge of beginning.

9. March Madness has everyone filling in their brackets.

Locals sound off on issues affecting our community.

“My favorite time of the year: Daylight Savings, when the days get longer and the lines are shorter. [In this month] Festival of the Arts is a great community event that really brings the Mizner Amphitheater to life; Addison Mizner would be proud of what has become of his little city.”

5. The Okeechobee Music Festival blasts open March 5 to 8.

“My favorite thing about springtime in particular are the music festivals. Gasparilla Music Festival, SunFest, Tortuga—they are all very defining of Florida and its roots, and give us a chance to have fun in the sun before it gets too strong.”

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Gary Gulman “To Fall in Love” WHEN: March 14-April 5 WHERE: Theatre Lab at FAU, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton COST: $40 CONTACT: 561/297-6124, fauevents.com Jennifer Lane’s play “To Fall in Love” imagines a long-estranged couple who attempt to piece together their failed relationship through the aid of a questionnaire designed to connect strangers.

But this middle-aged man and woman are not strangers seeking a new connection; they’re broken shells of their previous coupling, seeking enough duct tape to patch their life back together. “To Fall in Love” concludes Theatre Lab’s season with a robust blend of comedy, tragedy and uncomfortable truth.

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WHEN: March 7, 8 p.m.

WHERE: Broward Center for the Performing Arts,

201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale COST: $24.50-$44.50 CONTACT: 954/462-0222, browardcenter.org During the interim between recording and releasing his sixth standup special, 2016’s “It’s About Time,” comedian Gary Gulman was hospitalized for clinical depression. He entered treatment quietly, and kept the news from the public. It took years of recovery for Gulman to openly address his battle with this debilitating disease, in an unlikely medium: another standup special. In 2019, Gulman premiered “The Great Depresh,” a heralded HBO program that de-stigmatized his lifelong history with mental illness, finding raw humor and fresh insights amid the healing. But as with any prolific comedian, that routine was so last year: He’s back on the road this month with an hour-plus of brand-new material on his “Peace of Mind” tour. Here’s hoping he’s found it.

Okeechobee Music Fest WHEN: March 5-8 WHERE: Sunshine Grove,

12517 N.E. 91st Ave., Okeechobee COST: $279 and up CONTACT: okeechobeefest.com Three hundred and sixty-one days of the year, Okeechobee is a pretty sleepy place, with more bovine residents than human ones, and with the loudest ruckus coming from an airboat motor. That atmosphere undergoes a tectonic shift during the four days of this youth-targeted music and art festival, where devotees of alternative, reggae and electronic music enjoy headliners like the driving London folk rockers Mumford & Sons (below), the dubstep DJ and producer Bassnectar and the jubilant indie darlings Vampire Weekend. But the atmosphere is just as vital to the O.M.F. experience as the band lineup: If you’re bored with the tunes, consider the psychedelic, immersive art installations; Aquachobee Beach, which offers swimming, sunbathing and carnival rides; Chobeewobee Village, with yoga classes, vendors and more; or the Jive Joint, a comedy and vaudeville area.

Edward Steichen: “In Exaltation of Flowers” WHEN: March 24-June 14 WHERE: Boca Raton Museum of Art,

501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton COST: $10-$12 CONTACT: 561/3922500, bocamuseum.org The dapper Gilded Age photographer Edward Steichen is most remembered as the Annie Leibovitz of his day: a pioneer who captured fellowartists and celebrities in creative, iconic poses. But prior to his camera work, Steichen was a painter of florid distinction, as this collection of seven rare panels reveals.

Completed in an Art Nouveau style that married gold leaf and matte tempera, the large-scale paintings were commissioned in 1911 by financier Eugene Myer and his wife, Agnes, for the walls of their Park Avenue townhouse. But due to a financial setback, the glorious works, depicting the couple’s rarefied circle of friends and the flowers they symbolized—including dancer Isadora Duncan and prominent artists and opera singers—were never installed. Only now, after an extensive restoration effort, are Steichen’s opulent time capsules available for public view, more than 100 years after they were painted.

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She’s Got You Covered

A local teen develops a novel patent to prevent the spiking of drinks Written by JOHN THOMASON

I know people who had their drinks spiked, and because I’m going to college this year, I wanted to have a way for me and my friends to be safe.”

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— Shirah Benarde

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hirah Benarde is hoping to put a cap on the number of victims of drink spiking.

The practice of lacing one’s beverage with a substance such as rohypnol or ketamine has been a factor in rapes and sexual assaults for decades, and it has shown no sign of slowing. In a recent study by the American Addiction Centers of 969 participants, 56 percent of female respondents say they unknowingly consumed spiked food and drinks. And it’s not only happening to women; 44 percent of men in the same survey reported being victims.

“The issue’s a big deal today, in other countries too,”says Benarde, 17.“I know people who had their drinks spiked, and because I’m going to college this year, I wanted to have a way for me and my friends to be safe.”

So, at 16, while in her junior year at Oxbridge Academy, Benarde invented a product, cleverly titled the NightCap, to protect against drink spiking. It’s a covering that wraps around most glasses and Solo Cups, with a hole just large enough for a straw. When it’s not protecting a drinking vessel, the product doubles as a hair tie or wristband, increasing the likelihood that its owners will remember to take it with them.

When researching her invention, Benarde found“different kinds of lids”on the market,“but nothing that had a dual use. It’s a way to incorporate something you can use every day.”Benarde spent months on trial and error, developing early models using

socks and her mother’s hosiery, before settling on the black nylon-and-Spandex version that has gone to production.

To fund the project, she sought assistance from her 22-year-old brother, Michael, a student of Florida State University’s Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship. He helped organize an Indiegogo page for the NightCap, filmed a professional-looking video depicting its use in a social situation, hired a model for a photo shoot showing off the product, and was instrumental in exceeding their crowd-funding goal of raising $12,000 for marketing, manufacture and distribution.

Last fall, the NightCap, priced at $9 for preorder, raised $12,145 from 220 backers. A national TV appearance on Fox Business Network in September, with host Charles Payne singing the NightCap’s praises, didn’t hurt.

“There were a lot of orders that came in right when we left Fox Business,”Benarde says.“I think we raised $1,000 in the 10 minutes we walked out.”

Benarde expects to patent the NightCap by April and market it to bars, festivals and women’s organizations, creating new colored versions, possibly with school logos, to be sold in university shops around the country.

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Katz’ Meow Detective Jamie Katz is South Florida’s sleuth for missing pets Written by JOHN THOMASON

— Jamie Katz

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met Jamie Katz, South Florida’s pet detective, on a stakeout on a quiet suburban street in Coral Springs. We were supposed to rendezvous at a Starbucks, but she had received a call about a missing cat that morning, and shuffled her plans.

At 1 p.m., I climbed into the passenger seat of her idling SUV. She had been waiting, fueled by Dunkin’, since 9:30 in the morning. Her two tracking dogs, a Brittany spaniel named Gable and a terrier mix named Fletcher, had tracked the perimeter of the feline’s scent to a 10-house radius on this block. All eyes were on the twin cages set up on either side of a promising residence across the street, each enclosure stocked with chicken, tuna and cat food.

It was another day at the office.

“Nobody wants to sit in a car, but I’m going to do it for an animal,” she says. “I don’t want to do people anymore.”

After graduating from a Baltimore community college with a degree in Criminal Justice, Katz obtained her P.I. license here in Florida. Given her longtime love of animals—she had spent five years as a veterinary technician—she transitioned into a full-time pet detective in 2015, where she services the tri-county area from her home base in Fort Lauderdale.

She’s heard all of the Ace Ventura references, but as she describes to Boca mag, reuniting lost pets with their owners is serious business.

ON HER PROTOCOL: The first thing is I go over the who, what, when, where, how. I’ll make them a sign, send it to a local print store, and then tell them where every sign goes.

Once they have their signs up, then anytime they get a phone call, they’re going to call me, and I’ll tell them what to do, so this way they have the best guidance.

ON THE CAUSE OF MISSING PETS: Owner negligence is very common. People let their dogs out to use the bathroom, and then don’t watch them. You have pet sitters walking your pet, and you have a shy dog, and they don’t know your animal. A frond can fall off a tree and scare your dog, and it’ll back out of its collar, back out of its harness and take off.

ON PREVENTIVE STEPS PET OWNERS CAN TAKE: Definitely have a collar with the phone number embroidered on it, a name tag, a microchip, and make sure it’s registered. A lot of times people have micro-

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chips but they don’t realize they have to be registered, or if they move, they don’t update them, and it’s really important. Don’t let your animal out if your yard isn’t secure; go outside with your dogs.

ON ONE OF HER MOST UNIQUE CASES: I had a story where this woman, a scientist, had all these tortoises, and she had a rare one from Madagascar. She was selling her home, and so the realtors may have left the back gate open. One of the tortoises got out. It was two weeks into him being missing, and a mother called and said, ‘My 14-year-old son was fishing on the canal and saw a tortoise, and he knew that this kind of tortoise shouldn’t go in the water.

He grabbed him, and brought him home, and saw your sign.’This kid was 14, but I guess he was already majoring in biology, or something similar to the owner—I think she ended up giving him a job.

ON HER MOST CHALLENGING CASES: The most difficult cases are the ones where signs are taken down immediately. ... Signs are illegal all over the country. That’s the first thing I tell my clients. But that’s how you get information. You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to find your pet.

ON GIVING CLIENTS—AND NON-CLIENTS— THE BEST ADVICE I don’t mind people doing it themselves. There’s so many people who need help that if I can just give you advice on how to get your case set up properly, that’s fine with me too. If somebody can’t hire me, I don’t want them to not be able to have a way to find their cat or dog.

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Nobody wants to sit in a car, but I’m going to do it for an animal. I don’t want to [investigate] people anymore. I sat in my car for 17 hours on people cases, and that’s not fun. I wouldn’t want to do that again...”

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It’s All the Rage

Let off steam amid the visceral thrills of a Fort Lauderdale “rage room” Written by JOHN THOMASON

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reak Shit, Leave Happy.” That’s the blunt slogan of Wreck It Fort Laudy, the only South Florida rage room north of Miami.

The concept is simple, and incomparably satisfying. Ragers enter a room and, with the aid of an array of blunt weapons,

breaking a plate in your kitchen if you’re mad,” says Connor Gonzales, who started Wreck it Fort Laudy in 2019 with two business partners.“At the same time, it doesn’t have to be direct in that sense. You can come here as a simple date night, if you want to think outside the box.”

gloves and face masks that made us look like overprotected sanitation workers—or foot soldiers in a dystopian police state.

The rage room itself had a mountain of crushed glass, ceramic and plastic piled in a corner, as if a tornado had swept through a

burst into the air like so much popcorn.

Or tossed an unfortunate dinner plate like a discus thrower, reveling in the thrilling ca-chink of its fatal landing. Skilled ragers toss bottles into the air and break them aloft, but I’m no sportsman, so every time I tried resulted in a swing and a

destroy a selection of objects: dead computer hardware, housewares, bottles. Then they go home, adrenalized and dopamine’d.

Rage rooms began circa 2008 in Japan, and have been slowly bashing their way through the globe, opening across Europe and South America before unleashing havoc on the U.S. “We look at it like a cathartic experience, something that otherwise, in most lights, would be looked down on—like

“We’ve had people come after someone passed away, or they got fired. We had a divorce party a couple weeks ago,”adds co-founder Ricky Ballester.“But nine times out of 10, people just come here because it’s fun to break stuff.”

My wife and I tried Wreck It late last year.

The business is discreetly tucked away in an Oakland Park strip mall.

After signing the inevitable waiver, we suited up in our safety togs, faded blue body suits,

Walmart—debris from three days’ worth of ragers. We had 35 minutes to pulverize our inventory: antiquated PC monitors, old iPod charging stations, beer bottles, ceramic plates.

Wreck It supplies a faux tree stump in the middle of the room, which makes for an ideal spot to place your victims. You haven’t quite lived, dear reader, until you’ve swung a hammer upon a keyboard and watched its numbers and letters

miss. Still, we didn’t want to stop until all the monitors, vases and keyboards were destroyed. We finished earlier than our allotted time, leaving the staff to clean up our mess, feeling like we were The Who in some godforsaken hotel room in 1968.

If I return, I would pick different music than the dreamy folk-pop I chose.

I should have gone with the Teutonic thunder of Rammstein. Then, just maybe, I would have been able to crush those Bud Lites in mid-air.

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Better Call Paul Ethical hacker Paul Debogorski discusses the high-tech world of cyber investigations Written by JOHN THOMASON

It’s very difficult to predict the next big [cyber] attack, because that almost requires you to be psychic. You have to predict the future based on the information you know. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t.”

— Paul Debogorski

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aul Debogorski is a sleuth for the internet age. As president of his one-man firm, South Florida Cybersecurity Investigations, Debogorski handles computer security and forensics for businesses and individuals from Martin County down to Broward. It’s a job that often involves hacking into systems— ethically, of course—to diagnose vulnerabilities, identify wrongdoing and solve mysteries.

The city of Riviera Beach could have benefited from Debogorski’s services prior to last May, when hackers paralyzed the city’s computer systems, prompting the city council to pay a ransomware of nearly $600,000 for decryption keys.“I would have told them not to do it, because for one, you can’t rely on the honesty of thieves,” says Debogorski, 39, from his home office in Jupiter.“Secondly, if you pay the ransom, you’re only encouraging them to do it to other people. That’s one of the reasons this sort of attack exists, because it’s very lucrative for people.”

Debogorski, who spent 16 years as an IT specialist for the Department of Veterans Affairs before striking out on his own in the private sector, shares more insights into the world of virus prevention and high-tech gumshoeing.

ON THE NATURE OF HIS JOB: When people come to me for forensics work, I tell them,“Listen, it’s not like on ‘CSI’ where they do three button clicks on the keyboard, and boom, they’re in.”It doesn’t take two minutes to get in. Just one part of the process can take upwards of 24 hours.

ON WHO HIRES HIM: It can be from a law firm, for example. They have a case: It can be anything from hacking to first-degree murder, and evidence can very well be on an iPad, a personal computer, an iPhone. They would contact me, and with the software I have, I’d be able to extract the information from it, and say,“Here’s the picture that proves that this person was nowhere near where they were accused of being, and therefore they’re innocent,”and“Here’s the proof to show that this picture is legitimate, and not just PhotoShopped.”

thing with the email that looks off.

The grammar might look off, or they might make a spelling mistake that you know they wouldn’t make. I often tell companies that it doesn’t matter how good their cybersecurity policy is; often, all it takes is one single person clicking on one of those emails, and their entire company could potentially be compromised. Hackers know too well that the human element is usually the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain.

ON ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE: It won’t prevent all breaches, but I definitely recommend especially some kind of a paid antivirus service from Norton, McAffee, Kaspersky, the list goes on. It’s almost a case of, if you ask 10 IT guys what their preferred antivirus is, you’ll get 10 answers.

ON HOW VIRUSES SPREAD: A lot of them are spread via emails through something known as phishing. The email would look like it came from a legitimate company, or a person you know, but if you look closely at an email—and this is true for about 95 percent of phishing attempts—there’s just some-

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VENMO Don’t ask your server to split the check, and stop giving your friends IOUs. This app isn’t exactly brandnew, but it’s certainly a game changer. Venmo lets you transfer money to and from friends and family for free, and it’s as easy as sending a text.

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Kissimmee Prairie State Park in Okeechobee, Florida is the first state park in Florida to be recognized as a Dark Sky Park by the International Dark Sky Association. The lack of urban light pollution makes the park ideal for stargazing.

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SLEEP CYCLE With this smart alarm clock, instead of setting a specific time for your alarm to go off, you choose a period of time (the default is 30 minutes) in which to be woken up. The app tracks your sleep patterns through the night, and wakes you up gently during the lightest sleep stage in your wake-up period.You’ll start your day feeling energized and refreshed, even without a full night’s sleep. As an added bonus, the app also collects sleep statistics, from time spent snoring to quality of sleep.

GAMETIME Skip haggling with scalpers outside the stadium, and grab last-minute tickets to the big game or your event of choice on Gametime. Not just limited to sporting events, this app also offers tickets to concerts and theater productions. Prices fluctuate based on timing and availability, ensuring you’ll pay the best price to get in the door.

DUOLINGO Learning a second language isn’t for the faint of heart, but Duolingo is meant to make the arduous task more manageable.

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A hospitalization in the family helps inspire an FAU senior to develop a pioneering medical technology Written by CHRISTIANA LILLY

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t’s not every day you hear that the next big idea came out of a sharkskin biomechanics lab, but for 19-year-old Hannah Herbst, that’s exactly where her patent-pending invention was born.

At the time, her father was in the hospital with a surgical site infection after undergoing emer-

International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Ariz., the largest pre-collegiate STEM competition in the world. The event drew 1,842 young people from 80 countries, regions and territories to compete for more than $5 million in awards.

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[Sharkskin] can interrupt the settlements of bacteria. That’s something I proved through my research and I ended up finding to be very successful when I used it on the bandage.”

BRIGHT FUTURE Hannah Herbst became a fulltime college student at just 15 through dual enrollment, and she has been studying management information systems at Florida Atlantic University. She just graduated, and is looking toward a career in the information security field.

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gency surgery for colon cancer. A senior (yes, a senior) at Florida Atlantic University, Herbst was studying the properties of sharkskin when it occurred to her that the antibacterial properties in it could help patients like her father.

After more than 200 tests, she created a bandage inspired by the composition of sharkskin. Hospital-acquired infections account for 1.7 million infections—and are associated with 99,000 deaths— each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Herbst had something in her hands that could potentially help them.

“It can interrupt the settlements of bacteria,” she explains.“That’s something that I proved through my research and ended up finding to be very successful when I used it on the bandage.”

She entered her work into a science fair, which sent her to the

Her bandage won first place in the translational medical sciences category—no small feat, as it’s a category with a large number of entrants.

“For us, the most interesting part was the development of an antibacterial and reusable bandage inspired by sharkskin,”says Maya Ajmera, the president and CEO of the Society for Science and the Public.“It has an enormous effect on several industries, including reducing costs in the health industry. It reduces medical waste, and most importantly it reduces rates of infection globally.

“She’s got a pretty extraordinary trajectory ahead of her.”

And it wasn’t Herbst’s first rodeo at the fair—it was her third time qualifying to attend. During her freshman and sophomore years of high school, she brought her BEACON energy collection device and then a chemical iden-

tification device. While she didn’t win at the fair, her inventions led her to being named America’s Top Young Scientist, an inclusion in Forbes’ 30 Under 30, a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, and a TEDx Talk.

During her junior year, when her father was sick, she didn’t even want to go into the lab or enter any contests. Luckily, her mentor, Dr. Marianne Porter, changed her mind.

“When my dad first got diagnosed I wasn’t going to the lab. I had no interest in going back,” she says.“[Porter] ended up emailing me at the beginning of the summer and said, ‘Hannah, you came up with this great idea, try to do it.’ If not for her emailing me, I wouldn’t have gotten back.

“That led to something incredible. I’m forever grateful for her believing in me even when I didn’t want to believe in myself.”

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Boca Bacchanal: Preview The city’s big food and wine extravaganza is a delicious way to breeze into Spring Written by STAFF

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his year’s Boca Bacchanal at the Resort March 6 and 7 promises to be another sell-out, with the theme of “wine country.” New activities include a pop-up gallery and a painting demonstration by the nation’s premier painter of wine, Thomas Arvid, and a “Red-Carpet Touch-Up Station”

by Bloomingdale’s that will offer complimentary cosmetic applications and products for sale. Luxury jeweler Yvel-USA will host a pop-up jewelry store joining returning retailers Crown Wine & Spirits, Flint & Flame (chef-quality knives and cutlery) and Parks Luxury Sporting Goods.

THIS YEAR’S CHEFS

JOHN THOMAS, executive chef, Sub-Culture Group, West Palm Beach Chef John Thomas is at the helm of West Palm’s Sassafras, the newest venture from restaurateur Rodney Mayo’s Sub-Culture Group, following stints at 32 East under Chef Nick Morfogen (whom he followed at 32 when Morfogen stepped down) and Buccan under Clay Conley. He was also executive chef of Delray’s now-closed Tryst.

Thomas is dedicated to creating modern Southern cuisine with a bit of a twist. He is also passionate about delivering high-quality food, featuring items from both the West Palm Beach GreenMarket and local farms, to put his own spin on classic dishes for his diners.

AMY MEHRTENS, Chef de Cuisine, Copper Vine, New Orleans Mehrtens received her associate degree in Social Sciences from North Virginia Community College in Annandale, Virginia, and followed that with an associate degree in Occupational Studies, Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. She is also a certified introductory sommelier.

Mehrtens has more than 10 years of experience in the service industry, including sous chef at Commander’s Palace and interim executive chef at Café Adelaide.

TIM NICKEY, Corporate Chef, Kapow! Noodle Bar, Boca Raton In 2002, Chef Nickey became the executive chef at Morton’s Steakhouse in Boca Raton, followed by the executive sous chef for Abe & Louie’s Steakhouse. He joined China Grill Management in July 2007 as executive sous chef of China Grill South Beach and was promoted to executive chef of China Grill, Dragon Sushi & Kobe Club Miami. He later became executive chef of La Gorce Country Club Miami Beach, and in 2015 joined forces again with Jeffrey Chodorow and opened the hot spot Komodo Downtown Miami.

Currently, Nickey is the corporate chef for Kapow! Noodle Bar with locations in Boca Raton and West Palm Beach.

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RALPH FERNANDEZ, Culinary Director, Rex Gryphon Group Chef Ralph Fernandez brings more than 30 years of corporate food and hospitality experience to Rex Gryphon Restaurant Group, serving modern American cuisine based on classic techniques with new and old world flavors. Fernandez’s career spans positions for the Four Seasons (Houston), The Pierre Hotel (New York City), Garden City Hotel (5-Diamond/4-Star), Harrah’s Philadelphia (a division of Caesar’s Entertainment Corp.) and California Café restaurant group.

He also led the Fearless Restaurant Group (a 12-year tenure with iconic Philadelphia landmark Moshulu Restaurant, White Dog Cafes, Louie Louie, Autograph Brasserie), Trinity Hospitality Group, Forage American Brasserie and Denim American Bistro.

NATHAN DUENSING, Executive Chef, Marsh House, Nashville Since graduating from culinary school in St. Louis more than 10 years ago, Duensing has worked in kitchens all over the country including St. Louis, Chicago and most recently in Nashville as the executive chef of Gaylord Opryland Resort. An adopted native, Nathan is especially close with the local farmers and collaborates with them while developing his menus.

SHANNA AND BRIAN O’HEA, Chef-Owners, Academe Brasserie and The Kennebunk Inn, Kennebunk, Maine The O’Heas have gained international recognition by participating in cooking programs around the world including the Walt Disney World Epcot International Food and Wine Festival and Holland America Cruise Line. Shanna has appeared on Food Network’s“Chopped”and “Beat Bobby Flay,”and won on “Rewrapped.”

Academe’s signature lobster pot pie has been featured in O magazine as one of Gayle King’s favorites, on Food Network’s“The Best Thing I Ever Ate”and Travel Channel’s “Food Paradise,” and on Travel + Leisure’s Holiday Gift Guide.

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Learn Your Craft Eight Florida beers to match your mood

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That’s a lot of hops and suds from which to choose, so we put our intrepid taste-tester, Web Editor James Biagiotti, to the task of separating the wheat (beer) from the chaff. Here are his picks for the brews to best complement your demeanor, mood and social group.

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This blonde ale manages to be tropical without hitting the same familiar notes as other beachy brews. A perfect balance between pineapple flavor and pilsner malt, this beer is light enough to enjoy in a beach chair in the blazing summer sun, but still flavorful enough to add some flair to any beach day.

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FOR THE CONTEMPLATIVE: Wynwood

La Rubia- This American Blonde Ale exists on the fine line between a full-bodied craft beer and the comfort of a light lager. It’s unique enough to pique the interest of any beer connoisseur, but not so complicated that it will distract a drinker from enjoying the Wynwood Walls, located only a few blocks from the brewery’s taproom.

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Weiss- This German-style Hefeweizen from M.I.A. Beer Co. harkens back to the glory days of the 305, and brandishes a strong banana flavor that highlights the tropical weather and flavors of South Florida. It practically begs you to turn the channel to reruns of “Miami Vice” and bask in the nostalgia.

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of Florida’s most famous craft beers, Jai Alai is inspired by the Basque sport of the same name, and packs as much of a punch as a pelota smacking against the wall of a fronton. Not for the faint of heart, this IPA is nearly twice as strong as a standard light beer.

FOR THE OUTGOING:

Islamorada Beer Company Sandbar Sunday- Brewed on

Islamorada in the Florida Keys, Sandbar Sunday practically begs you to get out in the sun and party. This citrusy American wheat ale perfectly embodies the extroverted spirit of the Keys. Best enjoyed with a Key lime wedge, of course.

FOR THE THIN-BLOODED LOCAL: Due South

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On rare Florida days that dip below 70 degrees, this is the perfect brew to sip on. With caramel and vanilla flavors to warm things up, it’s the ideal beer to enjoy when the air conditioner’s shut off and there’s not a fireplace in sight.

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Anything on tap at Invasive Species Brewery- This brew-

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From top: The Bungalows Beach House and dock, drinks at the Hemingway Bar

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Rising From the Ashes At the all-inclusive Bungalows in the northernmost Key, relaxation is the destination Written by JAMES BIAGIOTTI

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n May of 2019, a fire engulfed the main building of the allinclusive Bungalows Resort in Key Largo, rendering the retreat inhospitable for more than six months. From the embers of that early-morning blaze came the inspiration that would later materialize into the new and improved Bungalows, a vacation destination where travelers and locals alike can escape into a land of luxurious, stress-free relaxation.

Bungalows provides a tropical reprieve for anyone who wants to enjoy the best that the Florida Keys have to offer, without the hassle of planning out

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a full trip themselves. The resort is fixed on 12 waterfront acres at Mile Marker 99 in Key Largo, facing the Buttonwood Sound.

Although it’s only 60 miles from the Miami International Airport by car, the resort is also accessible by seaplane via the Fort Lauderdale International Airport for visitors who wish to skip the South Florida traffic completely and enjoy a scenic flight that showcases the region’s natural beauty. Bungalows is an adults-only resort, exclusively accessible to guests 21-and-older, ensuring that patrons can enjoy their stay free of any distraction from their relaxation.

Upon arrival at the Bungalows, guests stay in—you guessed it— one of the resort’s 135 bungalows.

Guests have the choice of either a 900-square-foot waterfront bungalow or an 1,100-square-foot garden bungalow, each of which comfortably sleeps either two or four, and includes amenities such as outdoor tubs and showers, beach cruisers and a state-of-the-art entertainment system.

Each garden bungalow has a serene and tranquil oasis tucked away behind its unassuming picket fence, in which visitors can enjoy a candlelit bath under cover of palm fronds. Waterfront bungalows are steps away from the resort’s Coconut Beach, and each has a private veranda with an outdoor tub and oceanfront views. Here’s the lowdown on other amenities available to heighten your stay.

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All-too-aware that dining options can quickly grow stale at an all-inclusive resort, the Bungalows is home to three unique restaurants on the property—each with its own individual flair and flavor.

Dining and drinks are included with each stay.

Fish Tales is a casual restaurant that features a daily breakfast buffet, with freshly caught seafood and prime steaks as well as other traditional fare for lunch and dinner.

Sea Señor serves coastal Mexican cuisine that brings a south-of-the-border ambience to the traditional piscine fare that the Florida Keys are known for. Seating is directly on the water’s edge and under a canopy of palm trees, allowing guests to enjoy the view unimpeded from the comfort of their dinner tables.

Bogie & Bacall’s provides guests with a by-reservation-only fine dining option within the resort, and features a five-course menu that changes daily, showcasing local specialties and uninhibited creativity from the resort’s head chef. The venue also houses a “Hemingway Bar,” constructed with tiles emulating the style of the late author’s home.

WELLNESS

• The luxurious Zen Garden Spa includes a stateof-the-art eucalyptus steam room and a Himalayan salt therapy room. After enjoying a steam or a stay in the salt room, guests are led through a channel of bamboo to treatment cabanas, where they can enjoy massages and spa-inspired cocktails.

• Yoga classes are offered daily on the resort’s beach and its Tranquility Lawn, and an open-air fitness hut allows health-forward guests to get in their daily workout without sacrificing the resort’s tropical immersion.

AQUATIC EXCURSIONS

• A wide range of water-based activities are available at the Bungalows, from relaxing booze cruises on the S.S. Rum Runner and S.S. Margarita tiki boats to a snorkel excursion where guests can spend the day on the water fishing, swimming and exploring the incredible marine life at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.

• Guests can also take to the water with a picturesque sunset cruise on the resort’s Gemini Catamaran to enjoy an unparalleled Florida Keys sunset.

From top: Waterfront Bungalow deck, one of the resort’s floating tiki bars, and the Bungalows’ Sunset Pool at the golden hour.

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Teddy Morse Inside the third-generation businessman’s rise from slacker to CEO

Every single day , the first question I ask is: Is what we’re doing good for the company, is it going to put us at risk?”

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eddy Morse, chairman and CEO of the Ed Morse Automotive group, will tell you that growing up, he was a “typical car dealer’s kid”—heir apparent to the collection of dealerships started in South Florida in 1946 by his grandfather and later run by his dad, Ted Morse.

He took over the family business, which is still among the top 100 dealership groups in the country, after his father’s death in July 2016 and has been leading an impressive corporate growth ever since. Today, the company has 22 franchises representing 13 brands at 16 locations, including several in South Florida, a handful on the state’s west coast and three purchased last January in Texas.

With close to 1,100 employees, the company is continuing to see significant revenue growth, and Morse, now 45, says the company is “doing well.” He should know; he started there when he was only 14, working as a porter and sweeping floors at the family-owned Mazda and Dodge stores on Sample Road. Over the years, he took on just about every job to be found in a dealership, from detailing cars to selling them and even running a store of his own.

During the early years, however, Morse was more focused on hanging out at the beach with friends than he was about learning the car business.“It was more about having a good time than working,” he says, an attitude that would ultimately change after he went through the automotive marketing program at what was then Northwood University, and began selling Hondas at the family’s dealership in northern Palm Beach County.

In April 2008, when Morse was 33, his father and grandfather had enough confidence in him to hand over the keys to Bayview Cadillac, a flagship Fort Lauderdale store for the family, which at the time was going through a major renovation.

“I was running a luxury auto dealership during the worst financial meltdown since the Depression,”he says. He managed to survive the turbulence—even as the dealership was operating out of trailers—and come away a bit wiser.“I learned not to take anything for granted. It was ››

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›› the first time in my life that I feared that everything we worked for could go away.”

In 2012, the same year his grandfather died, Morse became the company’s marketing director, moving to its corporate headquarters on South Federal Highway in Delray Beach.

“Every single day, the first question I ask is: Is what we’re doing good for the company, is it

going to put us at risk?” he says.

One of the biggest decisions Morse has made since taking the reins of the company was to expand outside of Florida, a move his father and grandfather were reluctant to make because they wanted to stay where they had a firm grasp of the market. But in a recent interview, Morse said that enhanced technology—cellphones,

video conferencing and other advances—makes it much easier to have stores in the Dallas area.

Today, Teddy Morse—a husband and father of two—is a far cry from the young man who would show up for work a bit reluctantly.

“I love coming to work now,” he says. “I enjoy the people I work with, and I love cars.”

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While youth soccer remains popular in Boca, rugby is making an impact. More than 120 kids are now playing the English game as members of the Boca Raton Junior Bucs Rugby Club.

“It’s a great experience for the kids,”says Chris Vassel, a veteran rugby player who serves as vice president, coach and recruiter for the club.“Besides having a blast playing the game, they learn a lot about discipline, fitness and teamwork.”

Players also learn how to keep their heads up and use their shoulders to tackle, which reduces the risk of concussion.

“We have a lot of crossover football players, and the coaches have noticed that because of rugby, the kids’ tackling technique is much better,”says Vassel, a neurophysiologist.

The Junior Bucs have different age categories ranging from under-10 to under-19, and won three state championships in 2019. One reason for the success is the club has six certified coaches, including its president, South African expat

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“I got involved because my son wanted to play rugby,”says Vassel, 48.“It’s great to be involved with the growth of the sport locally.”

Each year, the Junior Bucs play 12 games between January and April against teams from all around South Florida. While they

may battle hard on the field, they observe the rugby tradition of embracing each other off of it.

“The camaraderie among rugby players is legendary,” says Vassel.

“You even make friends with your opponents.”

For more information, go to bocaratonyouthrugby.com.

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We have insanely brilliant people who are finding revolutionary approaches to health.”

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ete Martinez was an IBM executive during the computer giant’s glory days in Boca Raton. Now retired from Big Blue, he’s back at the same iconic complex with his own tech company and a goal of nothing less than to “improve the human condition.”

By coupling the powers of human and artificial intelligence, Martinez is striving to change the very way we approach health.

“We’re using the latest technologies to go deep into the body to better understand it,” he says.

“Health is defined by very complex genetic, biochemical, anatomical and cognitive systems that all work together, but we’ve splintered them for study in the past. Now, we have the ability to integrate them, and that’s where the magic is happening.”

Martinez founded SIVOTEC Analytics in what is now called the Boca Raton Innovation Campus. While his current team of 10 may be smaller than the IBM force once housed there, they are a formidable mix of scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs.

“It’s a Rubik’s cube of talent that we’ve put together to work on specific projects,” he says.“We have insanely brilliant people who are finding revolutionary approaches to health.”

The key in all this is to amass plenty of data for the supercomputers, which use artificial intelligence to

help process and analyze the near limitless variables of what makes any individual sick, and even extrapolate a personalized treatment custom-designed for each patient.

“It’s not the traditional way of the petri dish, the mouse and the monkey taking 15 years to resolve,” he says.“With the computing speed we have available, it can happen in minutes.”

SIVOTEC, which stands for “signatures in vivo (the living) through technology,” focuses primarily on genetic disorders that affect children. “We look at the underserved areas of kids who are devastated by some really difficult situations early in life,” says Martinez. “And we’re coming up with major discoveries.”

Meanwhile, the dad of four and grandfather of eight has lived in Boca for 44 years and remains proud of his IBM heritage.“It was very rewarding to work with such highly talented and socially conscious people,”he says.“They weren’t just lab rats. They played a big role in creating the Boca Raton community.”

And he’s now continuing the altruistic tradition in the same place.

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Planting a Better Future: The TREE Club

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on a Thursday at Boca Raton High School, and a group of students are gathered in a classroom—they’re brainstorming how to save the world.

For the TREE Club, there’s beach cleanups to be planned, outreach to the city of Boca Raton to organize a tree planting, or getting permits to kayak through Gumbo Limbo to pick up trash in the mangroves. They’ve applied for grants, pitched green initiatives to the School Board, attended city council meetings—and the teens plan it all between math and Spanish classes.

“It’s a community service club that’s built on community, charity and good times,”says Luke Lynch, the founder of the club, who is now a freshman at American University in Washington, D.C.“Although we’re environmentally based and we’ve had a lot of success in those initiatives, we’ll never fail to understand that the reasons of our success for beach cleanups and tree plantings come down to how we treat one another and that respect we build as a culture.”

An acronym for Taking Responsibility for the Earth and the Environment, the TREE Club was an offshoot of the school’s Environmental Club that was founded in 2016. With this club, students adopted parks, won grants to purchase water refill stations and more recycle bins for the school, had the outdoor lighting replaced with energy-efficient LED lights, and were recognized for their sustainability efforts.

Another club, called Our Planet, is registered as 501(c)(3) to promote sustainable agriculture and raising money for the Peruvian rainforest. On campus, there’s an aquaponics garden housing 100 blue tilapia and an herb and vegetable garden—the produce is donated to Boca Helping Hands.

Dr. Rachel Wellman, one of the advisers for the students, has led international field trips so students can experience all that they’ve been learning and advocating for—last summer, she and her husband chaperoned 10 students to the Galapagos in Ecuador, and in 2017 they went on a trip to Peru.

“It makes it more real,”Wellman says.“It’s kind of like doing the hands-on activities in the classroom, but really going out in the real world and seeing it with your own eyes and not just reading it in a textbook or seeing it on a PowerPoint.”

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themselves for“the real world”—they’ve written up 75-page applications, had meetings with city officials, given presentations, learned to draft emails, and seen projects through from beginning to end.

“What they have done is truly inspiring and brings many of us hope that this generation will help us turn things around for the

better of humanity,”Wellman says of the students.“I’m so blessed to be a teacher, mentor and guide to these wonderful students who have the drive to make a difference for social change, environmental change, positivity and fellowship.”

Students also partner with other clubs—like the art club—to help with their marketing and promotions, as well as nonprofits around town. Since they work together on their green projects, the students will turn around and help the nonprofits who helped them, such as volunteering at the soup kitchen at Boca Helping Hands. They’re also partnered with the Boca Raton Police Department, PROPEL, Key Club, Coastal Connection and more.

Looking forward, the club is talking to other high schools around town with the goal for them to create green clubs of their own.

“It’s planting the seeds in every single individual. We hope that students take those TREE Club lessons they’ve learned and plant trees in their own community when they go off to college,” Lynch says.

—Christiana Lilly

Making a ‘Connection:’ Lindsey Nieratka

Raton, but she’s a citizen of Earth.

Her C.V. is flush with lengthy tenures in exotic countries and dangerous communities. In 2001, as an undergraduate biology student at Illinois’ Knox College, she spent six months in Tanzania, in a study-abroad program, where she slept in a tent in Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area for six to seven weeks, surrounding by wildlife.“Hyenas were commonly in the camp at night,”she says.“One time we had lions in the camp.”

Then, in 2004, she began a 27-month Peace Corps service in Honduras—several years before the organization removed its volunteers from the Central American country because it was too perilous to maintain a presence. Both experiences, though far afield from the environmental needs of a developed American city like Boca Raton, planted the seeds for a vocation in sustainability.

“They really led me to think beyond a career in just straight biological science, to wanting to incorporate more of a human and community perspective,”she says. In

Tanzania,“talking to some of the wardens and rangers in Serengeti about the challenges they were having with poachers … helped me to understand that the health of the environment is always going to relate to the economic health of the people who are living within it.”

Nieratka moved to Palm Beach County in 2003, to begin a yearlong biology internship at Jonathan Dickinson State Park. After her volunteer work in Honduras, Florida remained her home base—where she taught environmental studies at FIU and Broward College, worked at environmental nonprofits and joined the Boca Raton Green Living Advisory Board.

In 2015, she became environmental sustainability coordinator for the City of Hollywood. She wrote the city’s sustainability assessment and Resiliency Action Plan, and wrote grants for new sustainability projects. She found her niche as a difference maker on the municipal level—an organizational midpoint between grassroots programs and top-down initiatives.

When she learned that Boca Raton was seeking its first sustainability manager, in 2018, Nieratka was easily persuaded.“I’m interested in doing this sort of work in the place I

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live, and the place where I’m raising my family,”she says.

The direction to hire a sustainability manager came from the city council.

“Although the city has really been part of the environmental/sustainability discussion for some time—reclaimed water, Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, recycling, tree and landscaping ordinance, etc.—the city council believed that we should increase the level of community participation in environmental/sustainability programs,”says Mike Woika, assistant city manager.“Lindsey was a great fit for the position. She had the educational background, and had great experience with other municipalities, and had a good understanding of the city. She is knowledgeable and passionate about sustainability, has great ideas for promoting sustainability topics, and can present information well.”

The signal achievement of Neiratka’s first year with the city was the creation of Coastal Connection, a citywide environmental initiative that “identifies and promotes actions and practices which limit environmental impact and increase environmental benefit.”“The name came from the idea that we are connected to the beach; the beach is connected to us,” Nieratka says.“Whether or not we live on the water, or our businesses are on the water, as a community the beach is part of who were are, and our actions are impacting the health and quality of our water and our coastal resources.”

Coastal Connection’s Restaurant Program awards “stars”—insignias in the shape of sea stars—to businesses that eliminate single-use plastics from their kitchens and dining rooms and offer sustainable menu options, among other environmental actions. The program is still new, and as of this writing, four restaurants have been certified with Coastal Connection—Gary Rack’s Farmhouse Kitchen, Ventura’s Pizza Kitchen, MANE Coffee and Mary’s Kitchen at the Christine E. Lynn Student Center at Lynn University.

“With everything we throw away, there are upstream and downstream impacts of that,”Nieratka adds.“The single-use plastic focus is a way of looking at our daily habits. That can extend well beyond plastics to other ways to reduce waste, and to look for healthier and more environmentally friendly ways of living our everyday lives.”

More improvements continued; last summer, for the city’s Parks & Rec month, Nieratka hosted a canoe and kayak cleanup event. But some of the most urgent environmental concerns will remain daunting.

“Like all coastal communities, we’re going to have challenges from sea level rise and other impacts of climate change,”she says.“We have a Sustainability Action Plan that will be coming out soon that will address transportation, waste management, water and energy conservation as well as resiliency to climate impacts.

“Adaptation to sea level rise is going to have to happen at this level,”she says.“We have control over a lot of our infrastructure and our local rules, which can help us be more resilient to the impacts. The way I think about it is we can’t necessarily move the needle on sea level rise and climate change by ourselves—but it also won’t move if we’re not a part of it.”

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proponents for environmental reform is in exactly the right seat to make it happen—city council seat D. Councilwoman Monica Mayotte is green in more ways than one. Not only is she one of Boca’s newest city council members, but she’s also the staunchest elected advocate for environmental reform in the city. Since her election to the council in 2018, she’s been instrumental in the hiring of Boca’s first sustainability manager, and continues to focus her efforts on protecting the city from climate change.

Mayotte was inspired to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle after she took her family to see former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary“An Inconvenient Truth”in 2006. The film, which included a graphic that depicted the state of Florida sinking underwater,“traumatized” her son, who at the time was 8 years old, and spurred her family into action.

“The way that I felt I could make him feel better was to see what we can do as a family to be on the right side of history, and what can we do to lower our carbon footprint,” she recalls.“So we started riding our bikes to school, I helped him start a ‘stop global warming’ club at school, and I had just bought this big SUV and was feeling really, really guilty about it. So we started doing things that a lot of families these days are doing—[like] no more plastic—to mitigate the carbon that we do use.”

Years later, when the opportunity arose for Mayotte to attend a Climate Reality Project training led by Gore in Chicago, she decided to make the trip—and bring along her son. Upon returning home, Mayotte decided to focus her efforts on sustainability projects here in Boca. She was enlisted by then-Mayor Susan Welchel to join the city’s Green Living Task Force, and eventually began to volunteer for the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, an organization that lobbies elected officials at the federal level for climate change legislation. Ultimately, it was her work with these sustainability efforts that spurred her to run for local office.

“I was a mentor and a speaker at a Climate Reality

training, and I said to a room of about 2,000 people that I was thinking about running for city council, and I got, you know, a standing ovation,”she recounts, chuckling.

“That following June I realized this is what I need to do, so that following October is when I filed to run.”

Mayotte lists water reclamation, seawall restoration, and fortification of the city’s water infrastructure as some of the ways that our local government is being proactive in its sustainability efforts, though she has even loftier goals in mind.

“I would love to see us go to 100-percent renewable energy in city operations,”she says of her dream scenario for the city’s measures to go green.“I would love to see the city commit either to the Sierra Club or to the Climate Reality Project’s 100-percent renewable energy commitments. Since we just started our sustainability program, we aren’t ready to make that commitment yet, but I’m hoping that in the next year or two we’ll get to the point where we are ready to make that commitment. … It’s a lot of work, but it’s work that needs to be done.”

Mayotte stresses that one of the most important factors to fighting climate change at the local level is cooperation between municipalities, and she thinks Boca Raton can be at the forefront of the movement.“I think we need to lead by example,” she says.“Rising waters don’t know municipal boundaries.”

Though the situation is dire, Mayotte finds hope in the residents of Boca Raton, and believes the city is trending in the right direction. “I think there’s a lot of people here who understand the issue. I get a lot of feedback in emails that are appreciating what I’m doing, so that gives me hope. There’s a lot of people that are engaged in things like the community garden and beach cleanups, so I know they understand there’s a problem. And that’s the first step in coming to a solution.

“I have hope that we can get this done. I want to make sure my children are afforded the great lifestyle that I’ve enjoyed in Florida since 1972. It’s not too late, because we have the technology to solve the climate change problem. We just need our legislators to understand this is a crisis that needs to be handled now.”

—James Biagiotti

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An expedition to the Earth’s most isolated continent is a mesmerizing and cautionary experience Written by RANDY SCHULTZ Photography by RANDY SCHULTZ & SHELLEY SCHULTZ

orget about those high-priced trips into space.You can travel to another planet without ever leaving Earth. Just visit Antarctica.

Even if you have traveled extensively—as my wife and I have—a trip to our least accessible continent will rival or exceed your most exotic voyage. You will return stunned by Antarctica’s stark grandeur and wraparound wildlife and fortified with a renewed understanding of the threat from climate change.

Obviously, you have to love nature. You also need to accept the potential hardships of the trips and the risks of being so isolated.

The rewards, however, make the trip well worth it. One afternoon, our ship moved slowly through a

channel as a pod of killer whales rolled off the starboard bow and a pod of humpback whales frolicked off the port bow. You visit vast colonies of penguins that pay you little attention as they go about their business. You see hundreds of seals basking on ice floes, giving a curious look as the ship slides past.

You see birds soaring endlessly on ocean currents.

And you see ice as you’ve never seen ice—in a gallery of colors and shapes. One afternoon, we left the ship to kayak among the icebergs and got close to examples of rare blue ice.

It’s formed from older glaciers and absorbs light, thus giving the ice its unique color.

Antarctica is one of the last pristine places on Earth. As one naturalist on our National Geographic/Lindblad staff said, “It’s a privilege to be here.”Another, from England, said,“It’s a different game down here, mate.”

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87 Understand first that Antarctica is a desert, with ice instead of sand. Ice is everything in Antarctica, from habitat to spectacle to threat.

One morning, our captain ran the ship onto “fast ice”—attached to the shore—that was deep enough for the passengers to disembark and walk on it. The sun shone brilliantly. Visibility was unlimited. Stark, white mountains rose on all sides. It was magnificent isolation. With everyone silent, you could hear the ice inhale and exhale as the sea rose and fell deep below it.

Another afternoon, however, the expedition team cut short an outing because the ice suddenly had shifted. Unless we moved quickly, the ship would be trapped. As the captain said, matter-of-factly, during one pre-dinner lecture,“You don’t f--- with the ice.”

Even the most ambitious cruise, though, doesn’t take you into the deepest, most inhospitable parts of the continent. Ships seek landing spots near and along the Antarctic Peninsula.

Our trip began as many do—from the port in Ushuaia, Argentina, in Tierra del Fuego. After the two-day journey through the Drake Passage—more about that later— our first landing was on Barrientos Island.

There we saw not hundreds of penguins but thousands. The island is home to gentoos—who appear to be wearing red lipstick—and their relatives, the chinstraps— named for the thin black line on their necks.

The penguins are all around you on the

beach, coming and going from the water.

They are all around you on the hills. They are in the distance on farther hills. If you have visited the Galapagos Islands, it’s like being around the sea lions and boobies.

“Totally unafraid,” one naturalist said.

Viewing a penguin colony is a sensory

experience. You see them. You hear their high-pitched raspy calls, each one meaning something. And you smell them, though quickly enough the smell becomes just part of the experience.

From Barrientos, we went to Neko Harbor. Where the island had been rocky, this first stop on the peninsula was deep in snow, even in the Antarctic summer. So the penguins moved along paths carved from repeated trips.

Visitors often use the same paths. Penguins, though, have the right of way. If you miss a small black head bobbing along and block the path, the penguin often will pause and wait for you to move. It has business, and you’re holding things up.

Our stop in Neko Harbor fell on the day of the National Women’s March. My wife

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had brought a poster, and two dozen women joined her for a group photograph at the summit of our hike. Below, a glacier calved.

Next came Pour-quoi pas (Why Not?) Island, named for the ship that brought French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot to Antarctica. We had made it beyond the Antarctic Circle, which at 66.5 degrees is as close to the South Pole as the Arctic Circle is to the North Pole.

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ton, and it seemed as if we had time-traveled. Even some veteran staff members never had been so far south.

Pour-quoi pas is home to Adélies, the smallest penguins. They share the beach with seals, slide across the ice on their bellies and watch for skuas, predator birds that work in pairs. One tries to distract the penguin while the other swoops in for an egg or chick.

You get history in Antarctica, too. After the ship started back north, we stopped at Detaille Island in Crystal Sound. It’s halfway down the peninsula. In 1956, Britain established a research station on Detaille.

Just three years later, however, it closed—in a great hurry.

The supply ship sent word to the men on the island that they had 30 minutes to leave or the ice would close in and the ship would have to depart without leaving its supplies.

Using sled dogs, the men traveled five miles over ice in that half hour and escaped.

Because of that hasty departure, much inside the huts remains from 61 years ago: a Hoover washing machine and“A Guide to Washing the Hoover Way;” stacked cans of Dollar Scotch Oats; a pair of long underwear hung over a clothesline near a stove. The U.K. Antarctic Heritage Trust has restored the station.

A short walk allows for expansive views of more penguins. We followed that up with a Zodiac ride around floating ice in Crystal Sound, having it a bit better than those mid-20th-century researchers did. The Orion crew offered hot buttered rum before we returned to the ship.

Did I mention the need to be flexible? On our last morning before heading back to Ushaia, the crew woke us at 4 a.m. for the passage through the Lemaire Channel. The sun, of course, already was high. Losing sleep was worth it. Before us stood snowy ice peaks rising from blue, pure waters flecked with more ice. It was mesmerizing and otherworldly, and it was over far too soon, because we knew that it was time to go home.

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IF YOU GO

Cruises run from November to March, to align with the Southern Hemisphere summer. Prices are lower during the holidays and higher after the first of the year.

January is the best month for penguin viewing, because the eggs have hatched and you can see chicks as well as adults.

The chicks stand out not just because they’re smaller but also because their feathers are gray, not white.

Travel only on an ice-rated ship.

Smaller ships are better because they give passengers access to more landing spots, some of which limit how many people can be on shore at one time. Our National Geographic Orion carried just 102 passengers. Check to see whether an itinerary includes landing, not just viewing, at a location.

The most reputable cruise lines have helped to organize the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators.

It promotes safety and environmental responsibility. We had to disinfect our boot soles leaving and returning to the ship.

There was not a bit of plastic on board.

Make sure your operator is a member of the association.

Antarctica is a photographer’s dream.

On our trip, a National Geographic staff photographer was on board and available —with helpful presentations, including tips on how to get the best pictures using an iPhone. Passengers could also use professional-level lenses through an arrangement with National Geographic/ Lindblad. B&H offered a one-hour webinar of tips and recommendations before the trip.

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lives; we had come on one where the wine choices changed every night.

Going back, though, also meant our second trip through the Drake Passage. Three oceans—Atlantic, Pacific, Southern—come together south of Cape Horn. The resulting currents can make for very high seas, causing what travelers call the Drake Shake. On our trip, the waves were about 25 feet. Our captain called that an eight on a scale of 10.

There’s no danger—the crew shuttered the stateroom windows, so high waves wouldn’t smash the glass—but you had to be very careful getting around.

Going south, it was more like the Drake Lake. Still, many passengers got seasick. The medical doctor on board was very busy. We used scopolamine patches, even though we never had been seasick. On the way back, everyone took the same precaution and didn’t miss any meals.

Despite the many creature comforts and the expertise of the expedition staff, visiting Antarctica comes with risks. Temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere summer are 30 degrees in daytime. If you suffer a traumatic injury—heart attack, broken leg—high-level treatment is days away. You can buy insurance that covers an airlift, but that’s only from the port city. You should be in good

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health and take care when hiking.

For those who go, however, the experience is profound. Researchers have called Antarctica our least understood continent, but the Earth’s future depends on knowing more about it. Ice is melting at both poles. That will contribute to sea level rise, absent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Perhaps even more important, researchers say, is that changing ice sheets will affect the circulation of the oceans and temperatures worldwide.

Nick Golledge, a climate scientist at the University of Victoria, Wellington’s Antarctic Research Center, says, “The sea-level estimates (for melting Antarctic ice) maybe aren’t as bad as we thought...but the climate predictions are worse.”

So while Antarctica can seem as remote as a distant planet, it’s a vital part of our earthly home. The ice covers continents that formed between 500 million and one billion years ago. Only now are we starting to learn its secrets.

The best way to start understanding Antarctica is to be among the lucky few who go there.

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t is perhaps hard-baked into the DNA of South Florida.

We are, after all, a place settled by prospectors who made fortunes selling plots, sight-unseen, to northerners. Which turned out to be prime pieces of swampland.

Those same hucksters often ended up representing the commoners. Consider what happened when Florida railwayman Henry Flagler wanted to get a divorce: He just paid off lawmakers until they made it legal. For one man. After his divorce was granted, the state reversed the law.

Florida remains a peninsula where political dynasties pop up like cheaply constructed suburban McMansions: glamorous palaces rising from the sawgrass and yet built of Chinese drywall ready to implode from the black mold of payoffs.

Even as we shake our heads at the greed, we can’t help but devour the stories. It’s almost with a sense of pride that we boast of our political implosions that rival Chicago or Kansas City or New York.

As proof, consider these recent doozies, where federal prosecutors and sleazy headlines descended on us like snowbirds in November.

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94 THE WORLD’S MOST CONNECTED PEDOPHILE It was perhaps foreboding that Jeffrey Epstein was dismissed in 1976 from his first job, teaching at a private school on the Upper East Side, for “poor performance.”

This was, after all, a man who decidedly should not have been allowed near children.

But during his two-year stint as a teacher, Epstein had been able to befriend the father of one of his students.

The man was the chief executive of Bear Stearns, and he offered Epstein a job. Epstein had an aptitude for trading, and he climbed quickly, becoming a limited partner in just four years.

He founded his own firm in 1981, working, as he described it, as a financial bounty hunter, the Wall Street version of“Star Wars”bounty hunter Boba Fett, tracking down money stolen from wealthy clients. He added his own wealth management firm in 1988, bought New York magazine in 1993, and in the early 2000s became a pioneer in the repo debt market that helped cause the Great Recession.

He counted among his acquaintances many of the powerful and famous: Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson, Michael Jackson, Alec Baldwin.

All the while, we know now, he was also a pedophile and sex trafficker.

That became clear in 2005, when Epstein paid a 14-year-old girl $300 to strip and give him a massage at his Palm Beach mansion. The woman’s stepmother

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reported the incident to the Palm Beach Police. The FBI would end up joining the investigation into Epstein, dubbing it “Operation Leap Year,”and finding 36 underage victims, many recorded on cameras Epstein had hidden around his mansions.

Police filed charges in 2006 accusing Epstein of sex with minors. He hired an all-star team of lawyers: Roy Black, Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr. They got Epstein an unbelievable deal: After he pled guilty to two charges, he spent just three and a half months in an unlocked room in a private wing of the county stockade before being allowed to leave for 12 hours a day, six days a week, for“work release.” In all, he served just 13 months.

In July 2019, federal prosecutors arrested Epstein again on charges of sex trafficking of minors whom he put on private jets between Florida and New York. He died about a month later—a suicide, the medical examiner concluded, although his lawyers disagree.

It would have been easy to assume that the Epstein sex scandal would have died with him. But after allegations that Britain’s Prince Andrew was among those who had affairs with the girls Epstein imprisoned, the prince gave a disastrous interview in November that forced him to withdraw from the royal family’s official duties. The story will continue, perhaps for years, as his victims file civil suits seeking money from his estate. Will the money fix the harm he caused? No. But will the suits reveal who helped Epstein traffic his victims? That’s for the next chapter of the Epstein story.

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Scott W. Rothstein fired off a text to his law partners on Oct. 26, 2009, that began: “Sorry for letting you all down.

I am a fool. I thought I could fix it, but got trapped by my ego and refusal to fail, and now all I have accomplished is hurting the people I love.”

Then he boarded a plane to Casablanca with $16 million, and but for a few court appearances, few people ever saw him again.

Until that moment, Rothstein’s rise had been one of curiosity for locals. Bronx-born and raised in Lauderhill, Rothstein spent 15 years after law school in relative obscurity. Not long after founding a firm with a couple of partners in 2002, he started selling“structured settlements”—basically investments in the potential of a lawsuit ending a big wad of cash. Soon, he bought his own jet and lived in a waterfront Fort Lauderdale mansion. His law firm had offices from Boca to Caracas, 100 lawyers in lavish spaces. He’d show off his collection of six-figure

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HE’D SHOW OFF HIS COLLECTION OF SIX-FIGURE TIMEPIECES TO ANYBODY WHO ASKED. HE PARKED HIS MILLION-DOLLAR BUGATTI AT VALET STANDS AND SENT RARE BOTTLES OF WINE TO NEIGHBORING TABLES. timepieces to anybody who asked. He parked his million-dollar Bugatti at valet stands and sent rare bottles of wine to neighboring tables.

The problem with Rothstein’s structured settlements was that they were based on few actual lawsuits. Instead, the money investors gave him would be used in part to pay dividends to previous investors—and to pay for Rothstein’s increasingly lavish lifestyle, which kept entire jewelry stores in business. By 2009, the pyramid scheme threatened to

collapse as Rothstein’s firm ran out of money.

Rothstein spent a little more than a month on the run. He boarded a chartered flight back to South Florida on Nov. 2, 2009, and would cut a deal with prosecutors, agreeing to testify against mob bosses he claimed to have been working with him for years.

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AMERICA’S NEW CAPITAL OF CORRUPTION The top federal prosecutor in South Florida got up in front of journalists in 2009.“Today,” U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said,“I have a sense of déjà vu.”

In just two years, four commissioners in Palm Beach had already been convicted on corruption charges. Then Acosta announced Mary McCarty would be next. She had

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said Rothstein lied to them—no surprise there—and so they backed out of the deal. He appealed, and his attorney, Marc Nurik of Boca Raton, claimed Rothstein’s “extraordinary assistance” meant he deserved a break.

In October an appeals court disagreed.

So, where is he now? Rothstein isn’t listed as an inmate on any federal database, perhaps because of his cooperation with prosecutors. Officially, he is serving a 50-year prison sentence“in an undisclosed location in the US Bureau of Prisons witness protection system.”

So perhaps he’s out there somewhere now, tossing a valet the keys to his Bugatti.

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spent 18 years, a veritable generation, on the Palm Beach County Commission, and held a kingmaker status. Acosta accused her of corruption and said she and her husband had conducted a bond underwriting scheme and benefited from thousands in hotel discounts.

After the indictment, Time magazine declared Palm Beach the“New Capital of Florida Corruption.”

The McCarty corruption bomb dropped not long after Congressman Tim Mahoney lost his re-election bid after coming clean that he had paid hush money to former mistresses. Worse, Mahoney was the man who took the job after Mark Foley’s career ended in a sex scandal of his own.

Before McCarty’s fall, Commissioner Tony Masilotti resigned and then pleaded guilty in 2007 to honest services fraud; he was sentenced to five years. Jeff Koons resigned from the commission, and even after pleading guilty to charges including felony extortion, didn’t serve any jail time. Commissioner Warren Newell got a five-year prison term after pleading guilty in 2007 to honest services fraud, although he was released in 2010.

But McCarty’s scandal may have been the biggest hit to Palm Beach County. She had interned for Tip O’Neill, served as the county’s Republican Party chair, and had

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FIVE COMMISSIONERS IN PALM BEACH HAD BEEN CONVICTED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES. TIME MAGAZINE DECLARED PALM BEACH COUNTY THE “NEW CAPITAL OF FLORIDA CORRUPTION.” counseled a younger generation into politics. McCarty spent 21 months behind bars on a 42-month prison sentence, and her late husband Kevin got out after five months on an eight-month sentence.

McCarty now works as a life coach, and according to her website, offers“24/7”services to her clients, including “how to prepare for prison.”After her release from prison, she told the Coastal Star:“The best part of my life is yet to happen.”

THE RICK SANCHEZ SCANDAL— NO, NOT THAT ONE If you’ve been in South Florida long enough, you know Rick Sanchez from his WSVN Channel 7 days, as an anchorman when such a title made somebody a luminary—a white-toothed Ron Burgundy deity with a velvet delivery at 5:30 and 10. It was no surprise to those

who remember him then that he landed as an anchor at MSNBC and later got his own show on CNN. His upward rise ended abruptly in 2010 when Sanchez, who once called Obama a“cotton-picking president,” implied that Jews controlled the media. He claimed his CNN bosses were bigots unwilling to see a Cuban man as an anchor, and they canned him.

But no, that’s not the Rick Sanchez scandal we’re writing about here.

For that, we have to go back to a few minutes after midnight on Dec. 10, 1990. Sanchez, then 32, was driving his 1991 Volvo home from a Dolphins game when a man inexplicably jumped out in front of his car. The man was outrageously drunk—a .235 percent blood alcohol level was more than what cops would consider inebriated. Police claimed Sanchez smelled of alcohol and claimed that he told cops and bystanders who gathered on 199th Street that blood tests were pointless and would hurt his career.

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99 AFTER HER PLAYBOY STORY, EVEN THE WASHINGTON POST ASKED: “OH FOXY ROXY, WHAT MORE COULD YOU POSSIBLY WANT TO REVEAL?” For reasons we may never know, the cops seemed to agree and didn’t test him right away. Instead, he drove home to get his driver’s license and proof of insurance.

He returned 20 minutes later.

When the cops did take Sanchez’s blood an hour and a half later, the test showed he had a blood-alcohol level of .15 percent, one and a half times the legal limit.

Sanchez faced a charge of DUI. His attorney, Richard Essen, told Miami New Times that Sanchez had returned home after the incident and had“a couple of drinks to calm his nerves”before the blood test was taken.

After pleading no contest, Sanchez faced a potential sentence of six months in jail. Instead, he paid $350, served six months of probation, did 50 hours of community service, and completed a 15-hour driving course. Six months later, he got his license back.

The man he hit, construction worker Jeffrey Smuzinick, spent two months in a coma. He suffered brain damage and couldn’t use the right side of his body. He died four years later in a nursing home. He was 35. His family told reporters that the chummy relationship Sanchez had developed with local cops after years of crime scene reporting had led to the sweetheart deal.

These days, Sanchez is far from his CNN glory days.

He landed a gig in 2011 as the color commentator during Florida International football games and a weeknight show on the Russian-owned cable news network RT, which also airs programs from Larry King and Jesse Ventura.

Meanwhile, there’s a Twitter page for Jeffrey Smuzinick with a tag line that reads in part:“Rick Sanchez of CNN killed me.”It lists Smuzinick’s location as heaven.

THE ALMOST NEVER-ENDING DIVORCE OF THE CENTURY Roxanne Dixon had just graduated junior college, selling life insurance and living in a Lake Worth trailer court, when she met her future husband. She was 22 and he was 44. Peter Pulitzer lived on Palm Beach, the heir to the newspaper fortune and worth $25 million. They

married in 1975, had twin sons, and set upon a life of utter debauchery.

Or at least, that’s what it seemed if you followed their divorce proceedings after Peter sued for divorce in 1982.

The newspapers—not just the tabloids, but the entire media—told sordid tales about the two, who both claimed the other had a long list of affairs, involving the handyman, the French baker and a Grand Prix race driver. Both accused the other of bedding the wife of a millionaire Kleenex heir.

Headline writers named her “Foxy Roxy.” Court papers detailed supposed rampant cocaine use by both of them.

Threesomes. Sex with a musical instrument. Even the Washington Post, after Roxanne told her story to Playboy (and also appeared nude for $70,000), asked: “Oh, Foxy Roxy, what more could you possibly want to reveal?”

In what many called the Divorce of the Century, Roxanne got almost nothing: the clothes on her back, a Porsche, her jewelry and $2,000 a month for two years, which the judge called “rehabilitative money.”The Palm Beach Daily News called her“the loser in Palm Beach’s most scandalous divorce.”She taught aerobics for a while.

Peter got custody of the boys and moved to Okeechobee, where he tried his hand at farming oranges.

In 1989, Random House published The Prize Pulitzer, Roxanne’s tell-all book. It remained on the best-seller list for 36 weeks, became a made-for-TV movie and earned her a reported $2 million. She went on to pen novels based on the characters she’d met in Palm Beach.

In 2011, Peter Pulitzer appealed to his ex-wife’s fifth husband, wealth management consultant Tim Boberg, for financial help. Boberg agreed to help save Pulitzer and his sons from bankruptcy. Boberg told the Palm Beach Daily News that it was a sign of just how far Roxanne had come: “It’s an ironic turnaround that no one would have expected.

Someone who was so destroyed was able to come back.”

Peter Pulitzer died in 2018. That same year, the palatial Colorado home owned by Roxanne and Boberg mysteriously burned, the police initially classifying the incident as a crime scene. Since then, Roxanne Pulitzer has remained headline-free, perhaps her longest stretch since the socalled Divorce of the Century.

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lively intermingling of cultures coupled with an international sophistication— plus that live-and-let-live attitude that eschews conformity to social norms. This is the pulsating vibe of a thriving metropolis named Miami, offset by the exotic calm of a tropical oasis.

Or, there’s a reason they call it “Magic City.”

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Above, the simplicity of basic forms and light and shadow lend drama to the dining space; below, the rear elevation shows the architect’s flair for geometry, balance, scale and proportion.

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But how do you harness that magic in an architectural context in one of the city’s most prestigious neighborhoods? When called upon to design this single-family house in Bal Harbour’s most exclusive residential community—a spec home for father-andson real estate moguls Shlomi and Oren Alexander—architect Chad Oppenheim’s mission was clear: Use architecture to capitalize on the Miami vibe, and optimize it from every conceivable angle.

“Given the parameters of the vacant lot, how do we make the most of it?”says Oppenheim.“That’s where our special sauce comes in.” For him and his team, it’s wasn’t just building on a site with a view—it was constructing a lifestyle.

The design started with a nod to entertaining and unwinding. The ground floor was equipped with ample spaces and generous seating for guests. To promote an open, easy flow among spaces, the living and dining areas were connected to interior courtyards through sliding glass panels that vanish into the walls, an effort that maximized stunning, uninterrupted views of the bay.

Two large courtyards achieved seamless indoor/ outdoor spaces, while terraces were strategically placed to take advantage of Miami’s balmy climate.

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Warm oak and travertine detailing attain a calming palette that references the colors of Miami.” ­—Chad Oppenheim

The elegance of fine natural materials and indoor-outdoor flow give the house its sense of place.

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The serenity of reflecting pools flanking the entryway linger past the front door along the pathway through the main hall inside.

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The serenity of reflecting pools flanking the entryway lingers past the front door along the pathway through the main hall inside. The home’s landscaped roof deck area features lush landscapes and dazzling views of the bay and neighboring islands. The second floor was organized around a large linear playroom flooded with natural light via four large skylights. Six additional bedrooms, all with landscaped terraces, are on either side. A secluded sanctuary—the master bedroom—is accessed by a private anteroom that spans the width of the house. It has separate master baths—one with a spa and the other, a gym.

“Warm oak and travertine detailing attain a calming palette that references the colors of Miami,”says Oppenheim. Still, this is an urban villa, so concrete, glass and stainless steel also play a significant role.

And just as the layout promotes continuity, the consistency of elements, showcased in streamlined floors, walls, staircases and ceilings, maintains that fluid connection.

The winning combination of the clients’ exceptional taste and design sensibilities, amplified by Oppenheim’s mastery of his craft, has led to the construction of a brilliant Miami house.

And yes, it’s magic, indeed.

The master bedroom is a study in calm and texture; below, an upper staircase becomes a sculptural element in the warm and inviting living area.

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Designer Erin Paige Pitts channels her love of coastal style and luxe livability into a renovated home in Boca Raton Written by BRAD MEE Photography by BRANTLEY PHOTOGRAPHY

lose your eyes and picture a fabulous, feel-good coastal interior. Chances are you envision open rooms filled with bright light, soothing colors, natural materials and a cleanlined modern style that’s as luxurious as it is livable.

We’re with you on that. Truth is, you’ve just imagined the spaces designer Erin Paige Pitts recently created for a client’s Boca Raton vacation home.

“It was just a big white box,”says Pitts, describing the original 5,042-square-foot spec home overlooking the sparkling waters of an Intracoastal canal. Her client loved the setting, but wanted much more from the featureless interiors. He craved something warm and inviting, open and modern, luxurious but flip-flop-friendly.

This may sound like a tall order, but it is right in Pitts’ wheelhouse. The designer specializes in coastal interiors, and her portfolio overflows with such dreamy spaces—engaging, elegant and easygoing.

When asked to describe a great interior, Pitts is quick with an answer.“When you walk into a room and everything relates and plays well together, but you can’t tell why,”she says.“It isn’t complicated to the eye, but it has lots of depth.” She created exactly this for the spaces inside this home, and offers insight into how she did it. Ready to be inspired?

Tropical leaves add height to a group of glass bottles and collected accessories in the living room.

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by Crezana Design. “It was my way of keeping it modern with layered textures and shots of blue-gray that repeat elsewhere in the home,” she says.

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Pitts chose Behr’s Mission White—“an off-white grayish cream”—to paint the walls throughout the interior.“It creates a neutral backdrop that unifies the spaces,”says Pitts, who prefers to put more vivid colors into furnishings and fixtures rather than walls.

“A vacation house should be relaxing, so I choose colors that bring the temperature down a notch,” she explains. For a designer specializing in coastal properties, it’s not surprising that water inspires her palette.

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Pitts relies on texture more than pattern to deliver interest and depth to her interiors. When she injects pattern, it frequently references water. In this home’s living room, she dressed a main feature wall with head-turning wallpaper that frames the overhauled fireplace. The room’s pillows and Hombre stool feature similarly abstract water-like motifs, as does the dining room’s art, the master bedrooms’ draperies and its Phillip Jeffries wallpaper.

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Pitts bumped the fireplace out from the wall and covered it in Ann Sacks tiles that she stacked to create a more modern look and to accentuate the linear firebox. Victoria Larsen grasscloth wallpaper references the water of the backyard pool and the beach not far from the home.

Pitts staged watery art pieces on top of the dining area’s clean-lined console table.

Dark overhead beams help to visually separate the living area from the kitchen and dining spaces. The kitchen boasts a waterfall-style island topped in Cambria Brittanica Quartz.

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To help foster the interior’s light and bright ambience, Pitts introduced highly reflective materials that repeat from room to room. She built up from the existing marble-like floor tiles that glisten underfoot.

Shimmering blue-gray tiles clad the living room fireplace, while sparkling glass tiles dress the kitchen backsplash. Colored glass bottles gleam on tables and shelves, and reflective metal accents of brass and polished nickel animate accent pieces, hardware and accessories.“I like to play with light and bounce it around,”the designer says.

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Pitts puts a lot of effort into creating interiors that look and feel effortless. Editing is vital to creating this effect.“I select some things that I want to grab your attention and choose others that don’t,”she says.“I create priorities.”In the living room area, for example, the bold wallpaper and tiled fireplace catch one’s eye immediately, while the modern white sectional and wood sofa table are more subtle. The dining room’s driftwood-like chandelier performs as the hero of the space, while below, the oval table and soft-hued banquet are equally beautiful, yet less attention-grabbing.

If everything in a room shouts, you won’t be able to hear anything. Pitts masterfully chose and orchestrated elements than meld into a harmonious whole.

ONE FOR THE BOOKS WONDERING WHAT TO DO with that dreary dining room used only once or twice a year? Erin Paige Pitts offers a stylish solution.

“A lot of people don’t want a dedicated dining room that sits vacant most of the time,” says Pitts, explaining that in many homes, a more casual dining area near the kitchen is the main go-to for relaxed meals and entertaining family and friends. For this home’s client, Pitts transformed a secluded dining room off the entry into a chic reading space that can double for eating and entertaining when desired. She anchored the room with a round, wood-topped table and installed built-in cabinets and shelves for storage, collectibles and books.

“Now, it’s a fantastic multi-purpose space that gets lots of use,” she says.

LEFT PAGE: Pitts positioned the dining table away from the door to promote the easy traffic flow and paired with a custom, free-standing banquette created

by Delray Upholstery Company.

Above, a light fixture by Arteriors Home resembles driftwood molded into a modern form.

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Spring Forward

Stay one step ahead with our inside (and outside!) look at South Florida home design trends for the season Written by ROBIN HODES

A “The Spring design trend we’re most excited about is the increased demand for natural materials.

We’re noticing a desire for more authentic products, perhaps as a reaction to the rise of synthetic and man-made materials in recent years.

I love to work with natural materials, especially marble, because there’s beauty in the imperfections.

—Alizée Brion

lways a highlight of our thriving design scene, the Florida iteration of the esteemed Kips Bay Decorator Show House, a New York City institution that has graced South Florida for three years and counting, was recently open for “oohing and aahing” by industry professionals and design lovers alike.

Nineteen of the nation’s top interior design firms were enlisted to transform a stunning plantation-style house in West Palm Beach owned by famed interior designer Lars Bolander.

Though the show house (also a charitable effort benefiting both the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County) closed its doors on March 1, we were privileged to glean insight about Spring 2020 design trends from two leading participants, both of whom are based in our own Sunshine State, and here’s what they said: ALIZÉE BRION, who created the Kips Bay Decorator Show House’s entrance, honed her design skills working with renowned architecture and interior design firms including celebrated designer Philippe Starck’s office in Paris. Under her direction, Light On

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White, an international architecture and interior design studio based in Miami with offices in Paris, New York and London, crafts exceptional properties in the world’s most desirable locations.

KEITH L. WILLIAMS AND MARIO NIEVERA, partners of Nievera Williams Design, Inc., based in Palm Beach, were responsible for the landscape design of the Kips Bay Decorator Show House’s garden.

For decades, the pair has garnered numerous awards for enhancing landscapes throughout the United States and beyond.

Furnishings from Alizée Brion’s Light on White studio

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“We both agree that for Spring 2020, the trend toward native plants that require minimal watering will continue. One such plant is sedum, a perennial with thick, succulent leaves and fleshy stems that requires little water to flourish. When used in a low formation, combined with a channel of rocks, the effect is stunning. Other indigenous varieties like silver saw palmetto and silver buttonwood pair beautifully in gardens to achieve high drama with relatively low maintenance.”

—Keith Williams and Mario Nievera

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LETA AUSTIN FOSTER, who designed the show house’s study, started her interior design business in 1975, and has retained many of her client relationships for more than 40 years. Along with the team of professionals at Leta Austin Foster and Associates, Inc., Austin Foster continues to bring her distinctive flair to custom residential projects and has also recently launched a new concept that makes her unique talent accessible to a broader audience. PREtty FABulous ROOMs is a website offering beautiful and timeless spaces, pre-designed by Austin Foster herself, that are available at a fraction of the cost without sacrificing quality.

JOBE LOPEZ, owner of the South Florida-based landscaping company Lopez Group, Inc., is widely recognized for his visionary, one-of-akind gardens, and the front garden he created for the 2020 Kips Bay Palm Beach Show House is no exception. Lopez operates on the principle that a garden should feel effortless, which is achieved by selecting plants that complement the structures that surround them. His philosophy is that architecture, interior design and landscape design must work together as a single entity.

Billy Baldwin room from PREtty FABulous ROOMs by Leta Austin Foster

“The classic combination of blue and white is cool, welcoming, and especially refreshing for spring. Additionally, indoor/outdoor fabrics have become increasingly popular due to the wider variety of patterns and textures now available.

More durable and impervious to the elements, they are fade-resistant—important to consider when living beneath the Florida sun. Through our strong relationship with esteemed makers like Quadrille, we are easily able to incorporate performance fabrics upon request.”

—Leta Austin Foster

“In spring 2020, we will start seeing a shift in the approach toward Florida-friendly planting. Native gardens have, in the past, been considered ‘chaotic’; however, landscape designers now are moving toward arranging these plants in a more harmonious way. Also, we will notice a stronger tendency to create gardens that can be managed using little to no harmful pesticides, thus minimizing the impact on the environment for future generations.”

A Nievera-Williams garden

—Jobe Lopez

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With its boldly patterned and colored leaves, this is a fun plant to pair with unique pots and containers.

The decorating world’s passion for patterns has spread to indoor gardening. The hottest look for houseplants proves it, with the popularity of colorfully variegated and veined plants surpassing that of their plain-leaved cousins.

1. DRACAENA LEMON SURPRISE

(Dracaena Deremensis) Vibrant stripes of white, lime and dark greens define the long, curling leaves of this compact, easy-to grow plant. Its diminutive size makes it easy to place around the house, and its need to dry out between waterings makes it easy to maintain.

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It tolerates low light, making it perfect for bookshelves and dimmer spots indoors.

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(Fittonia Albivenis) Aptly named for the netted, nervous-system-resembling pattern on its quilted-like leaves, this low-growing, creeping plant is compact, making it ideal for medium-light windowsills and areas where space is tight. It’s a thirsty plant requiring frequent watering, and it wilts when dry.

4. LEMON LIME PRAYER PLANT

(Maranta Leuconeura) A high-contrast, herringbone pattern makes the leaves appear to glow. It makes a great hanging and draping plant that loves bright light (but not direct sun) and slightly moist soil. Its trailing arms can be trimmed for a more compact shape, if desired.

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It offers an assortment of leaf sizes and vein colors ranging from silvery white to pink and green.

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Ballet Florida is back—and rewriting the classical rulebook Written by JOHN THOMASON

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eet the new boss, who in this case is not like the old boss.

For more than 23 years, until its abrupt 2009 bankruptcy, Ballet Florida was the linchpin of dance in the Palm Beaches, fusing classical ballet with contemporary expression. Nine years after it folded, a new breed of talent began operating under the name, albeit with an edgy take on the conventions we associate with ballet—pointe shoes, tutus, sprung floors and prosceniums. While the new Ballet Florida offers some of those familiar trappings, it has

“It was very important that we were the ones to take over the name [Ballet Florida]. We were students of [founder Marie Hale’s]. It was really special to us. I think she understood that. … that it wasn’t somebody random coming in, and saying, ‘I’m going to start Ballet Florida.’”

—Lauren Carey

IF YOU GO

WHAT: Ballet Florida: “Visions” WHERE: Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach WHEN: 7 p.m.

March 7, 1 and 7 p.m. March 8 COST: $40 CONTACT: 561/832-7469, kravis.org

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developed a reputation for its more adventuresome, site-specific performances—like the warehouse spaces in Fort Lauderdale’s hip FAT Village. Or its pop-up routine at last year’s re-opening of CityPlace into the transformed Rosemary Square. Or the company’s charming parcourse-style choreography at the Norton Museum’s sculpture garden on a recent Art After Dark, in which dancers performed from positions nestled amid the artwork and foliage.

“We all finished in the Great Lawn, where we had a tarp set up,” recalls artistic director and choreographer Lauren Carey.“The piece was called ‘Elements,’ and the final element was water, so we choreographed a giant slip-and-slide piece. It was fun to perform, and fun to create.”

Bringing the ballet world out of its comfort zone is just one of the goals of Ballet Florida 2.0, whose founders all honed their skills under the original company’s tutelage. A West Palm Beach native, Carey, 29, left to enroll at Juilliard and then NYU to study dance education, building her thesis on a business plan to start a dance company in Florida.

She moved back in the mid-2010s to do just that, and today, she teaches, rehearses the company and hosts intimate “Living Room” performances from her home studio in the historic El Cid neighborhood.

With her annual Kravis Center performance on the horizon, she discusses Ballet Florida’s mission and more with Boca magazine.

Do you see your company as a continuation of the original Ballet Florida?

I think that we are a reinvention of that. It held such weight in the community—not only for the audience but for the dancers, for the students. … We’re hoping to bring that hub back to the dance community.

What does your company bring that is unique to ballet here?

What we choose to showcase is very different from other companies in the area. We train in ballet, but the repertory is very contemporary.

I enjoy collaborating with other mediums— musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, costume designers. Bringing in those other elements is what is interesting to me as an artist and curator of sorts. That’s what our audience is really thirsty for. They’re used to going to the theater, seeing a performance and leaving, and I think that format is shifting. They want to be more involved, they want an experience, They want to interact.

Are there certain challenges in staging ballets outside of traditional settings?

Yes. One instance comes to mind. I said to one of

my dancers, ‘get up on the tree, and see what you can do,’ and it was covered in ants. There are challenges, but our dancers are so eager and willing to try whatever.

We very much work together in creating, and I trust them very much.

What do you explore through your choreography?

I like to explore humanity. I did a piece called “Vessel” three years ago after the passing of my mentor, Dennis Lane. I worked with a visual artist to create these large-scale bones that were part of the set.

That piece focused on vulnerability, on how you can spend your life in this body, this vessel, and then it’s nothing. That theme has carried on into my work.

Why has ballet endured as the gold standard of dance?

Ballet is the base for a lot of other forms. The work we do requires you to start there, and have that aesthetic in your vocabulary. I think there is still an intrigue and an allure about the art form. From an audience point of view, if you’re not a dancer yourself, it’s exciting.

It’s magical. I think that’s why it still holds a lot of weight.

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“Anime Architecture” at Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach; $11-$15 museum admission; 561/495-0233, morikami.org. This exhibition celebrates the animators responsible for the iconic cityscapes in features like “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell.” Curator Stefan Riekeles spent years compiling the more than 100 works comprising the show, which include location photographs, concept sketches and full-color animation cells.

“Art Couture: The Intersection of Fashion and Art” at Cornell Art Museum, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; $5-$8; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org.

The Cornell’s spring exhibition explores the inextricable link between contemporary art and fashion design, considering the way each practice influences the other.

It includes illustrations and clothing from revered fashion designers, including Delray Beach’s own Amanda Perna.

Roz Chast at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 7 p.m.; $30-$45; 561/300-4138, festivalboca.org. The New Yorker’s most enduring and entertaining comedic truth-teller, award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist Chast distills the anxieties, observations and absurdities of middle-aged life in the 21st century with a concise and deadpan wit—not to mention a frazzled style of drawing that is wholly her own.

“Miss Saigon” at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; various show times; cost TBA; 561/832-7469, kravis.org. This special-effects-enhanced musical tragedy, based on Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly,” charts the doomed romance between a young Vietnamese woman and an American G.I., leading up to and following the fall of Saigon. Expect an onstage helicopter landing on the Broadway tour.

“Anime Architecture”

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Andre De Shields at Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $60$90; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org.

Broadway triple-threat talent De Shields, who won three major awards for his work in the 2019 Tony-winning musical “Hadestown,” is a critically acclaimed actor who also starred in Broadway’s “The Full Monty,” “Play On” and “The Wiz.”

The Weight Band at Funky Biscuit, 303 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $40-$70; 561/395-2929, funkybiscuit.com. More than just a tribute to legendary Americana group The Band, The Weight Band features former Band musicians including Jim Weider, along with Band songwriters and associates, who perform iconic numbers such as “Up on Cripple Creek,” “The Weight” and “Ophelia.”

Bobby Collins and Friends at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10, Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $60-$100; 561/4839036, bocablackbox.com.

Named after Bob Hope and channeling the vintage humor of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, observational comedian Collins is one of the circuit’s most familiar faces, performing some 200 dates a year.

At this performance, he and his favorite comics take the stage, with 100 percent of proceeds benefiting Vermont’s Zeno Mountain Farm.

“Warrior Class” at Sol Theatre, 3333 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton; various show times; $40; 866/8114111, primalforces.com.

Playwright Kenneth Lim, a veteran writer on “House of Cards,” penned this drama about a New York State G.O.P. assembly candidate with impeccable credentials, whose meteoric ascent is threatened by a girlfriend from his past who may or may not come forward with allegations of unbecoming behavior.

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Amy Walter: “Where Are We Now?” at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 7 p.m.; $35; 561/300-4138, festivalboca.org. The title of political analyst Walter’s lecture is an apt one: In today’s fast-shifting political landscape, it’s impossible to tell where we will be from one day to the next. But with her presentation scheduled two days after Super Tuesday, Walter is likely to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the likely 2020 Democratic nominee.

“The Empire Strikes Back” with Live Orchestra at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 7:30 p.m.; $35-$150; 561/300-4138, festivalboca.org. Constantine Kitsopoulos guides the Symphonia through John Williams’ iconic, rousing score, while fans—perhaps many in costume— enjoy the critically acclaimed “Star Wars” sequel on the Amphitheater’s 130-LCD screen.

Nu Deco Ensemble at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 7:30 p.m.; $25-$125; 561/3004138, festivalboca. org. Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble made such an impression in its Boca Raton debut at last year’s Festival of the Arts that programmers have asked it back again for another set of modern, genre-bending mash-ups of symphonic, popular and world music.

Postmodern Jukebox at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 7 p.m.; $25-$225; 561/3004138, festivalboca.org.

This musical collective originated in 2011 as a group of friends making music in a Queens basement. Since finding its niche—recording contemporary pop hits in swing, ragtime and other vintage styles— Postmodern Jukebox has became an internet and touring juggernaut, amassing 4 million YouTube subscribers.

Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival at Cinemark Palace, 3200 Airport Road, Boca Raton, and other local movie theaters; cost TBA; 561/558-2520, bocajff. org. Returning for its fourth year, this festival showcases stimulating and thought-provoking national and international shorts, documentaries and features that illuminate aspects of the Jewish experience.

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Art Garfunkel at Coral Springs Center for the Arts, 2855 Coral Springs Drive, Coral Springs; 7:30 p.m.; $58.85-$95.23; 954/344-5990, thecentercs.com. A poet, memoirist, actor and solo musician, Art Garfunkel remains most famous for his historic collaboration with fellow folkrock legend Paul Simon.

Expect their hits, from “The Boxer” to “Scarborough Fair” to “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” to dominate the set list.

Dom Irrera at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10, Boca Raton; 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday; $35-$45; 561/4839036, bocablackbox. com. Irrera is a stalwart road warrior of standup, mixing pungent observations about life with self-deprecating confessionals. His friendly, easygoing delivery often clashes with scabrous material, so consider this your warning.

Spidey at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 7:30 p.m.; $29-$39; 844/672-2849, miznerparkculturalcenter.com.

No, he’s not a wisecracking superhero, but this Spidey is likely to spin his own webs of illusion.

A master of mentalism and the power of suggestion, Spidey has stunned celebrities from Jennifer Lopez to Neil Patrick Harris, and he’ll read the minds of Boca audiences as part of his “Make Believe” tour.

Walter Trout at Funky Biscuit, 303 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton; 9 p.m.; $40$60; 561/395-2929, funkybiscuit.com. In his five-decade career, this indefatigable blues guitarist has performed with Canned Heat, Percy Mayfield and John Mayall. His latest release, “Survivor Blues,” is a selection of 12 deep-cut covers from pioneers in the pantheon of blues, played in Trout’s reverential, inimitable style.

Pop2Opera with Jenene Caramielo at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 7:30 p.m.; $35-$45; 844/672-2849, miznerparkculturalcenter.com.

This versatile singer’s unusually eclectic range encompasses opera, pop, musical theatre, jazz and country, and her shows—she has played everywhere from the White House Governor’s Ball to New York’s 54 Below to an opening gig for the Beach Boys—blur the distinctions between these varied genres.

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“Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” with Paul Reubens at Coral Springs Center for the Arts, 2855 Coral Springs Drive, Coral Springs; 7:30 p.m.; $58.85-$95.23; 954/344-5990, thecentercs.com. The 1985 cult comedy by Tim Burton celebrates its 35th anniversary with a tour of the movie on the big screen. Reubens, star and creator of the adventurous man-child Pee-Wee Herman, will conclude the night with stories about the making of the film.

“Gigi” at Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton; 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday; $50-$70; 561/2379000, lynn.edu. Lerner and Loewe’s delightful musical about a wealthy playboy who falls in love with a free-spirited, soon-to-be courtesan in turn-of-the-century Paris is sure to receive a stand-up treatment courtesy of Elaine Wold.

Actor and philanthropist Lois Pope makes her long-awaited return to the stage as Aunt Alicia.

Killer Queen at Pavilion at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $20$75; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org.

Reported to be the longest-established tribute to influential stadium rockers Queen, this 27-year-old U.K. band is fronted by Freddie Mercury look-alike—and sound-alike—Patrick Myers, and has held the distinction of playing some of the same packed arenas as Queen itself.

Classic Albums Live: Pink Floyd, “The Wall” at Pavilion at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $20-$75; 561/2437922, oldschoolsquare. org. Hear live, note-fornote renditions of every mind-expanding track on Pink Floyd’s epochal double album, which spawned its own feature film and a record-shattering concert tour in the 2010s on the strength of hits like “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2,” “Hey You” and “Comfortably Numb.”

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George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at Society of the Four Arts, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach; 7:30 p.m.; $40; 561/6557226, fourarts.org. You’ll be amazed at the glorious sounds four strings can make: This inventive collective of all-singing, all-strumming ukulele virtuosi specializes in upending listeners’ expectations, with set lists that span from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana, and Otis Redding to Ennio Morricone.

Beatles on the Beach Festival at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; various show times; $53.50 and up for two-day pass; beatlesonthebeach. com. Monkees vocalist Micky Dolenz and the symphonic Beatles tribute McCartney Mania headline the second iteration of this homegrown celebration of the Fab Four, which features dozens of bands and Beatles-related ancillary activities throughout Delray Beach.

A Conservatory Extravaganza at Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall at Lynn University, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton; 4 to 8 p.m.; $30; 561/237-9000, lynn.edu. Celebrating the event’s 20th anniversary, faculty and performing arts students of Lynn University showcase their talents in singing, acting, musicianship and more, with five separate performances occurring simultaneously for one ticket price. Tickets include complimentary food and drinks.

Lauren Mitchell at Arts Garage, 94 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $35-$45; 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org. Soulful Florida singer Mitchell is known for her galvanizing vocal style, with its bombastic echoes of Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross. She’s backed

by Grammy-winning rock and blues artists, in concerts intended to create catharses in her audiences.

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Miami City Ballet: “Don Quixote” at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; various show times; $30-$110; 561/8327469, kravis.org. Marius Petipa’s kaleidoscopic full-length ballet reimagines Cervantes’ masterwork as a lavish dance epic complete with strutting toreadors, ruffling skirts and wandering gypsies, culminating in one of the ballet world’s most famous pas de deux. MCB’s Opus One Orchestra performs the Ludwig Minkus score.

“Space Odyssey: The David Bowie Musical Experience” at Pavilion at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $20$75; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org.

Frontman and masterful Bowie mimic David Brighton performs this eclectic tribute to the late glam rocker. Backed by a full band, Brighton tours audiences on a multimedia concert through Bowie’s many stylistic and sonic metamorphoses, complete with costume changes.

“Stage Struck” at Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 N.W. Ninth St., Delray Beach; various show times; $35; 561/272-1281 ext. 5, delraybeachplayhouse. com. With its echoes of “A Star is Born,” Simon Gray’s comedic thriller centers on a theatre director who discovers and marries a budding ingénue—who, in turn, becomes an industry superstar while his life is on the skids. Until, that is, he discovers the opportunity to make a killing in more ways than one.

“Eye to I: Self-Portraits From the National Portrait Gallery” at Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; $10-$12 admission; 561/392-2500, bocamuseum.org. Artists have often focused their tools—cameras, palettes, chisels—on themselves, and this exhibition compiles self-portraits from the early 20th century to the present, from artists as varied as Joseph Albers, Edward Hopper, Elaine de Kooning and Diego Rivera.

Chris Wallace at Society of the Four Arts, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach; 3 p.m.; $35; 561/6557226, fourarts.org. The son of broadcast royalty Mike Wallace, Chris has forged his own distinctive career as an anchorman. The host of “Fox News Sunday,” Wallace is a registered Democrat on a right-leaning news and opinion network, and has been unafraid to criticize Trump Administration actions and officials. He’ll speak on “A View From Washington.”

Miami City Ballet: “Don Quixote”

“Space Odyssey: The David Bowie Musical Experience”

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Chris MacDonald’s “Memories of Elvis” at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10, Boca Raton; 2 and 7 p.m.; $35-$45; 561/4839036, bocablackbox. com. Elvis impersonator MacDonald, a dead ringer for the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, will pay tribute to Presley’s legacy with this theatrical production. He’ll perform songs from the many eras of Elvis’ career, supplemented with costume changes, backup singers, dancers and an eightpiece concert band.

Connoisseur Concert 4 at Roberts Theatre, 3900 Jog Road, Boca Raton; 3 p.m.; $50-$84; 561/376-3848, thesymphonia.org. Conductor Laura Jackson leads the Symphonia and guest piano soloist Marika Bournaki through “Music in Bloom,” a program celebrating springtime that includes Julia Adolphe’s “Shiver and Bloom,” Benjamin Britten’s “Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge” and Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3.”

Delray String Quartet “Goes to Vienna” at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 188 S. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 3 p.m.; $40-$50; maspconcerts.org. The Quartet performs selections by three composers from one of the most fertile cities in the history of classical music: Joseph Haydn’s “String Quartet in G Major,” Hugo Wolf’s “Intermezzo in E-flat Major” and Johannes Brahms’ “String Quartet in C Minor.”

“Come From Away” at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; various show times; $35-$91; 561/832-7469, kravis.org.

A new musical inspired by one of the lesser-known impacts of the 9-11 attacks, “Come From Away” is set during Operation Yellow Ribbon, in which the Canadian government shut down its airspace, grounding 38 planes in a small town in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This unorthodox musical was nominated for seven Tonys.

Lucie Arnaz at Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $60-$90; 561/2437922, oldschoolsquare. org. The daughter of Lucille Ball, Arnaz launched her showbiz career at age 12 on her mother’s pioneering “The Lucy Show,” and has gone on to a distinguished career as a triple-threat talent on stage and screen, including key roles in “The Jazz Singer” remake and Broadway’s “Lost in Yonkers.”

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ADVENT SCHOOL

BOCA RATON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

-Grades: Infants - 8th -Students: 400 -Student-Teacher Ratio: Varies -Tuition Range: $4,400 - $14,000 -Denomination: Christian

-Grades: PreK3 - 12th -Students: 630 -Student-Teacher Ratio: Varies -Tuition Range: $9,400 - $13,475 -Denomination: Christian

At Advent, your child will become a CONFIDENT, CAPABLE, CHRISTIAN LEADER making a difference in the world! Advent combines rigorous academics with character development in a safe environment. Our Transitional Kindergarten program gives the Gift of Time. Call for information! Other innovative programs include PreK Dual Language and Emergent Reader groups, Elementary STEM enrichment, a competitive robotics program for Middle School, 1:1 Technology, Spanish and more. Advent also provides opportunities in spiritual growth, fine arts, and athletics. Aftercare/camp programs offer engaging activities. The Early Childhood School offers VPK and Summer VPK. Infants to 8th Grade – you can grow with us!

Boca Christian gives students the highest caliber of college-preparatory education in a Christian environment, located on a spacious 22-acre campus in the heart of Boca Raton Boca Christian is an independent PreK3-12th grade school established in 1973 as a ministry of Boca Raton Community Church. The school’s vision is to develop Christian leaders of influence for today and tomorrow by nurturing academic excellence and inspiring Christian character. Boca Christian is known for a family-oriented environment, outstanding records in college placement, athletics, and the arts, as well as a commitment to service by our students and faculty.

300 E. Yamato Road • Boca Raton • 561.299.5155 • AdventSchoolBoca.org

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DIVINE SAVIOR ACADEMY

GRANDVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL

-Grades: PreK - 4th -Tuition Range:

-Grades: PreK – 12th -Tuition Range:

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-Students: 18 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 6:1 -Denomination: Christian

$12,500-$22,000

-Students: 270 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 8:1 -Denomination: Private Independent

Divine Savior Academy operates four private Christian schools in South Florida and Texas. Our Delray Beach campus serves students in preschool and elementary through college-prep academics, caring teachers, and a Christian environment. The doors opened in September 2018, with plenty of room to grow with the community. Our 41,600 square foot space includes 18 big light filled classrooms, 300 seat auditorium, movement room, outdoor playground, and more. Recent Doral Campus graduates have been accepted to Yale, Vanderbilt University, M.I.T., Cornell University, University of Massachusetts, and more. You are invited to schedule a personal tour online.

Grandview Preparatory School is an independent college preparatory, nonsectarian, coeducational day school founded in 1997. Student enrollment is offered for PreKindergarten through Grade 12. Grandview redefines ‘Preparatory’ with innovative learning experiences and focus on character and values. In class and beyond, Grandview students discover their talents, create their own path, engage in meaningful activities, and contribute to the community. Nestled in a residential neighborhood in Boca Raton located on Spanish River Boulevard, east of Florida Atlantic University, west of the Atlantic Ocean, we welcome you to visit with us and experience our community.

15935 Lyons Rd • Delray Beach • 561.359.3090 • divinesavioracademy.com

336 Spanish River Blvd. NW • Boca Raton • 561.416.9737 • grandviewprep.net

NORTH BROWARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL

PINE CREST SCHOOL BOCA RATON

-Grades: PreK - 12th -Tuition Range:

-Grades: PreK - 8th -Tuition Range:

$24,200 - $34,340

-Students: 1,708 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 14:1 -Denomination: Non-denominational

$23,960 - $32,330

-Students: 2,664 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 9:1 -Denomination: Independent

North Broward Preparatory School is an extraordinary community of learners and has been educating, empowering and inspiring day and residential students since 1957. We think beyond traditional education to transform learning and provide unique learning experiences outside of the classroom. Our students are immersed in a multi-cultural community and have the confidence to influence beyond borders.

True to tradition and inspired by innovation, Pine Crest School offers a researchbased, challenging curriculum complemented by arts and athletics. We believe that building social and emotional competencies in a safe, secure, and inclusive learning environment is fundamental to our students’ success. Pine Crest classrooms foster creativity and innovation, giving students opportunities to practice ethical thought leadership and to become curious, adaptable learners. Our goal is to send our graduates out into the world as leaders who know their strengths and who have the courage to challenge norms, break barriers, and move forward with confidence. #PCFutureReady

7600 Lyons Road • Coconut Creek • 954.247.0179 • nbps.org

2700 St. Andrews Boulevard • Boca Raton • 561.852.2800 • pinecrest.edu

SAINT JOHN PAUL II ACADEMY

SPACE OF MIND SCHOOLHOUSE

-Grades: 9th-12th -Tuition Range:

-Grades: 1st - 12th -Tuition Range:

$13,050 - $13,800

-Students: 430 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 14:1 -Denomination: Catholic Based

$29,000 - $31,000

-Students: 50 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 3:1 -Denomination: Non-denominational

Saint John Paul II Academy, located in Boca Raton, Florida, is a Catholic coeducational college preparatory school in the Diocese of Palm Beach following the tradition of Saint John Baptist De La Salle and the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Saint John Paul II Academy provides a rigorous academic curriculum designed to prepare students for success in college and in life. Our faith-based learning community fosters excellence in all programs and enables the spiritual, academic, artistic, and physical development of each student. Dedicated faculty and staff instill the Gospel values of tolerance, concern for the poor, justice, peace, and responsibility while welcoming students of all beliefs and backgrounds.

Students learn best when they feel safe, loved and celebrated. Space of Mind is a fulltime, part-time or afterschool experience for 1st - 12th graders and gap year students that is thoughtfully curated to personal learning styles, interests and skills. Our interdisciplinary curriculum engages students through project-based learning that is informed by state standards, inspired by current events, individually paced and socially collaborative.

4001 N. Military Trail. • Boca Raton • 561.314.2100 • sjpii.net

102 N. Swinton Ave • Delray Beach • 561.894.8772 • myspaceofmind.com

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ST. JOSEPH’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

-Students: 530 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 14:1 -Denomination: Presbyterian

-Grades: Infant - 8th -Tuition Range: $11,453 - $16,058

-Students: 200 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 1:8 -Denomination: Episcopal

Preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds (Gold Seal Quality Care Program). Academic program K-8 with high quality, challenging academics enhanced by robust technology innovation in the classrooms; leadership skill building; strong fine arts and performing arts programs; critical thinking and project-based learning. High school-level honors Algebra 1, Geometry, and Spanish I for middle school students. Accredited by CSF and MSA. Before and after-school programs. Interscholastic Sports program. After school enrichment for elementary. Stateof-the-art technology, including 3-D printing, video productions, coding. Competitive robotics. Stanford Achievement Test. Lunch program. Clinic with full-time nurse.

Uniforms required. Parent-Teacher Fellowship. Summer Camp Program.

Nurture your child’s S-STEAM at St. Joe’s - the only independent school that nurtures and enlightens the whole child. By focusing on Spirituality, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts/language arts and Math, we encourage collaboration, innovation, critical thinking, and 21st century skills promoting educational excellence. All this in an inclusive, Christian environment. Call for a tour today.

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-Grades: PreK-8th -Tuition Range:

-Grades: Early childhood - 8th -Students: 135 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 14:1 -Tuition Range: $22,500-$30,750 -Denomination: Non-denominational

$4,430 -$11,135

-Students: 370 -Student-Teacher Ratio: 17:1 -Denomination: Lutheran

For over 50 years, St. Paul has been an accredited traditional Christian school in east Boca Raton. St. Paul offers leveled reading and math groups, art, music, band, advanced technology, physical education, Spanish as well as STEM in grades 6-8. Our extra -curricular sports programs often excel to state and national levels. Our Early Childhood Program is nurturing and provides flexibility with days and times. After school care and summer camp are available. Our Parent Teacher League offers many opportunities for parents to be involved. We would love your family to join our family!

The Greene School is dedicated to cultivating the unique nature and potential of each student and is committed to building a school community based on kindness and compassion. We provide a nurturing and caring environment, enhanced by a low student-teacher ratio. Our personalized learning approach incorporates individualized attention, hands-on experiential learning, and a challenging, well-rounded curriculum.

The Greene School creates a trusting and safe atmosphere for students to explore, question, practice, make mistakes, create, and imagine. Explore the possibilities at The Greene School, where we are changing what’s possible.

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College Prep Curriculum | S.T.E.A.M. | Fine Arts | Competitive Sports | VPK Provider | Financial Aide Available

Boca Raton Christian School | 470 NW 4th Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33432 | 561-391-2727 | bocachristian.org The school admits students of any race, color, nationality, or ethnic origin | BRCS is a ministry of Boca Raton Community Church

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Il Mulino New York/Boca Raton

451 E. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, 561/338-8606 Written by LYNN KALBER

O I F YO U G O PARKING: Valet HOURS: Lunch Mon.Sat., 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Brunch Sun., 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; Dinner Mon.-Sun., 5-11 p.m.

PRICES: $28-$68 WEBSITE: ilmulino. com/boca-raton

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n Palmetto Park Road, just west of Northeast Fifth Avenue, sits a perfect snapshot of Boca Raton dining. There are three restaurants next door to each other: Italian, French, Italian. Most already think two of three venues in Boca are Italian, and with another large Italian restaurant just two blocks west of this trio, you could be forgiven for believing that adage.

No matter the statistic, any new standout Italian restaurant needs to offer extraordinary dishes, especially if the meals are expensive. Il Mulino New York/Boca Raton joins La Nouvelle Maison and Trattoria Romana to make this one upscale, worth-the-price block.

Il Mulino opened in March 2019 as a temporary pop-up when the short-lived Union 27 folded. In June, Il Mulino decided to become a Boca resident.

Four pre-menu bites arrive ahead of even the water: a Grana Padano chunk, zucchini chips floured and dusted with red pepper, an array of breads and a bruschetta with a rich tomato/basil/garlic/red wine vinegar topping made better by anchovies melted into the mix. As with all memorable tastes, the extra step makes the difference.

This is where Il Mulino excels—the extra step. We had the langostino special, de-shelled and sautéed in chardonnay and garlic, with risotto. While expensive ($48), it was seriously worth almost any price. The tender shellfish were as creamy as the hearty risotto, which came with ribbons of zucchini, peas and a sweet, smoky flavor.

The red snapper was also a special ($49), with bay scallops, clams, shiitake mushrooms and cherry tomatoes in a white wine/lemon/

butter sauce. Flavors melded and then melted in the mouth. The risotto funghi ($36) was full of mushrooms, a perfect comfort dish.

The just-right squid ink pasta in the night’s Fra Diablo special was made in-house, but not all pastas are. A limoncello tiramisu ($14) combined the best of those worlds in a meringue-like dessert with a coffee-based cream sauce.

The ambience evoked a NY venue, with the tables close together, but it was still possible to have a private conversation.

The techno music playing when we first arrived gave way to bossa nova sounds more suitable for high-end dining. The mellow feeling continued when our server asked for the car’s valet ticket, and had the car brought around as we left. Extra details—and a refined end to a refined meal.

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Cap’s Place Island Restaurant 2765 N.E. 28th Court, Lighthouse Point, 954/941-0418 Written by LYNN KALBER

D I F YO U G O PARKING: At Cap’s dock, next to Lighthouse Point Yacht Basin & Marina HOURS: Opens at 5:30 p.m. year round; open Tues.-Sun., closed Mon. For same-day reservations after 3:30 p.m., call phone number.

PRICES: $15.95$37.95 WEBSITE: capsplace. com

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inner at Cap’s Place includes a ferry ride and a stroll up a boardwalk that takes you back to the 1920s, with employees who love the place and food that is worthy of that love.

This is one of the best—if not the only—Old-Florida seafood restaurants you’ve never heard of.

This bigger sister to a Florida shack is solid wood, with historical photos, fishing line floats, old lanterns, carved wooden accents and a casual ambience illuminated by bare light bulbs. There’s a large sense of the past here, where Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met for dinner in 1942, during a series of secret war conferences set nearby. Many celebrities have been here for the food and the history: Joe DiMaggio, Kate Smith, George Harrison and Myrna Loy, among others.

Cap’s Place is still tended to by family members of the original owners, Cap Knight and Albert Hasis. Only the current owners

and chef can drive to the restaurant (it started on an actual island), so even employees ride the ferry along with all the customers. The bar, built by Hasis from Everglades bamboo and polished wood from the decks of ships, is in a separate building from the same vintage, with a lighter bar menu available alongside very good drinks.

Known for the purest—and best—heart of palm salad in South Florida, Cap’s cooks its ingredients simply to let the flavor shine. Fish can be prepared nine different ways: broiled, char-grilled, baked, pan-fried, pan-roasted, deep-fried, sautéed, blackened Cajun style, or classic scampi style. The daily specials also included a New Zealand rack of lamb.

The crab cakes ($37.95) were 98-percent crab; the sauce has a smidgeon of cayenne pepper in it for some zing. The yellowtail snapper filets ($35.95) were served tail- and skin-on, which emerged crispy and salty, while the tender

flesh was in buttered scampi sauce.

Bacon-wrapped scallops ($13.95) were crispy outside, tender inside.

Our server displayed the incredibly heavy heart of a sabal palm log that can make 10-12 salads. The trees are grown in an Okeechobee nursery for Cap’s. Whole, raw food at its best, the salad ($13.95) is large, crunchy, a bit sweet and unlike any other salad you’ve had.

“Pretty much everything” is made in-house, said our server.

That includes the Key lime pie, slightly tangy and complemented by the homemade whipped cream.

The entirely pleasurable experience comes with a single warning: Do not wear high heels. The boat ride and boardwalk will be difficult if you do. Reservations are taken by email and phone only. The directions to dock parking may seem complicated, but aren’t. Riding on the ferry at sunset is an added bonus, as are the mansions you pass on the way to your time-travel trip to 1928, and Old Florida.

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We get reel with this line-casting Driftwood chef I like to build things. As a chef, you don’t get to hold on to your creations for too long. I enjoy having something useful that I built that I can see. I built some of the tables at Driftwood.

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immy Everett has opened several restaurants in major cities —New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles—for others. But opening his own, Driftwood in Boynton Beach, was his scariest move. With only a week’s padding for finances, he put it all on the line, offering his comfort food with a twist in a modest setting.

Word is out, and he’s drawing more than just the locals. Food enthusiasts seeking the creative spins he puts on familiar dishes are coming in regularly and bringing friends.

The Lake Worth native takes cues from his former boss, Wylie Dufresne at the famed WD-50 in New York, where food was science and cutting-edge dishes appeared. But Everett knows his audience here. That means no gels or foams, or unpronounceable foods: rather, subtle shifts in the traditional. An oil extracted from a powder he made from dehydrated olives that’s brushed on a swordfish. Subtle, but a surprise flavor on a day-old fresh fish.

“When I make food at Driftwood, I want it to be comfortable; I want people to recognize it,”he said.“We’re not in New York City or even Wynwood. A lot of the people we serve on a regular basis—they’re not looking to be blown away. They just want a good plate of food.”

He was fishing when we caught up with him for our chat.

Does being a fisherman help when dealing with a fishmonger?

“I grew up fishing. It always bothered me when you’d go to a restaurant and they were using imported frozen seafood.

So seafood has turned into a big focal point at Driftwood. I don’t order fish. I don’t know what’s going to be caught. So I’ll send my main fish guy a text to see what he’s got. ... I think it’s more important to run out of something, because I’m not willing to buy something that’s not up to par with what I want to serve.”

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What one thing did you take away from working with the master modernist, Wylie Dufresne?

“The big thing Wylie taught me was to question everything—that things aren’t set in stone with food. You can always do something different than everyone else has done. Like, you don’t look at a carrot as a crunchy round vegetable that you can glaze, steam, or slice raw. There’s so many other options than what your mind is set from history and from what people have traditionally done with ingredients.”

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Other than money—you opened with a week’s worth of funds in your pocket—what’s your biggest struggle being a chef/owner?

“The all-time, absolute No. 1 issue, no question about it, is staffing. Finding people like cooks who take pride in what they do. They want to learn, they want to grow and get something out of the experience other than just a paycheck.”

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DINING GUIDE Palm Beach County BOCA RATON Abe & Louie’s —2200 Glades Road. Steakhouse.

All Americans are endowed with certain inalienable rights, among them the right to a thick, juicy, perfectly cooked steak.

At this posh, comfortable (and expensive) meatery, the USDA Prime steaks are indeed thick, juicy and perfectly cooked, also massively flavorful and served in enormous portions.

Don’t miss the New York sirloin or prime rib, paired in classic steakhouse fashion with buttery hash browns and ubercreamy creamed spinach. Chased with an ice-cold martini or glass of red wine from the truly impressive list, it’s happiness pursued and captured. • Lunch/brunch Sun.-Fri., dinner nightly. 561/447-0024. $$$$

Arturo’s Ristorante—6750 N. Federal Highway.

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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 the veal shank served on a bed of risotto. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/997-7373. $$$

Bluefin Sushi and Thai—861 N.W. 51st St., Suite 1. Sushi/Thai. Arrive early for a table at this Asian hot spot— it’s popular with no reservations for parties fewer than six. Don’t skip the tempura lobster bomb, big in both size and taste. The ginger snapper will impress both Instagram and your stomach.

Try the chicken satay and pad Thai. Bluefin offers a variety of dishes from multiple cultures, all well done. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/981-8986. $$ Boca Landing —999 E. Camino Real. Contemporary

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American. The Waterstone Resort & Marina’s signature restaurant, Boca Landing, offers the city’s only waterside dining and shows off its prime location and views. Heavy on small plates, the menu features tuna crudo, fried calamari and a killer cheese and charcuterie board. Probably the best dish, though, is the charred filet mignon with a red wine bone marrow reduction, with wickedly luscious house-made hazelnut gelato coming in a very close second. • Dinner nightly.

561/226-3022. $$$

Burtons Grill & Bar —5580 N. Military Trail.

New American. Known for its reliable food as well as its non-gluten, Paleo and “B Choosy” kids menu, the first Florida location for this restaurant is deservedly crowded, so make reservations. Don’t miss the General Tso’s cauliflower, the pan-seared salmon (Paleo), the crab cakes or the Key lime pie.

Popular half-portions are available, too. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/465-2036. $$

Butcher Block Grill—7000 W. Camino Real. Steakhouse/Contemporary American. This casual steakhouse with a Mediterranean twist, an all-kosher menu, 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. Seafood, whether raw (tuna tartare) or simply grilled (wild-caught salmon), is palate-pleasing as well. • 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 the pan-fried calamari to the restaurant’s signature spin on the Cobb salad are nicely done too. Parmesan truffle fries are crispy sticks of potato heaven; chocolate-espresso cake a study in shameless, and luscious, decadence. • Lunch Mon.– Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/368-1077. $$$

Casa D’Angelo —171 E. Palmetto Park Road.

Italian. Chef Rickie Piper, who has mastered the menu and cuisine of this fine-dining staple for more than a decade, knows when to say when with both plating and ingredients.

His dishes, including the sides and accompaniments, are visually appetizing and aromatic. A grilled veal chop easily 3 inches thick proved tender and juicy, and the wild mushrooms served alongside in a marsala added earthiness. • Dinner nightly. 561/996-1234. $$$ Casimir French Bistro —416 Via De Palmas, Suite 81. French. Take a trip overseas without leaving the city and enjoy excellently prepared traditional French dishes, such as duck l’orange or beef bourguignon, or go with Cajun chicken and veal Milanese. The comfortable dining room is a Parisian experience, as is the apple tarte tatin. This is a local favorite, and may we add they have what is as close to real French bread as anyplace in Boca? • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/955-6001. $$$

Chez Marie French Bistro—5030 Champion Blvd.

French. Marie will greet you at the door of this nicely decorated, intimate, classic French restaurant tucked in the corner of a strip shopping area. This feels like an intimate neighborhood bistro and is a welcome discovery. From escargot encased in garlic butter, parsley and breadcrumbs to a tender duck a l’orange to an unforgettable crepe Suzette, you’ll be in Paris all evening. Voila! Also on the menu: pan-seared foie gras, tasty onion soup, seabass Bouillabaisse, coq au vin, rack of lamb, salads and more desserts. • Dinner nightly. 561/997-0027. $$

Chops Lobster Bar—101 Plaza Real S., Royal Palm Place. Steak, seafood. At this upscale downtown restaurant, steaks are aged USDA Prime—tender, flavorful

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Spring For Vegetables This season, cook fresh with veggies and herbs you can only find this time of year Written by JAN NORRIS

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side from the sound of play ball!, South Florida misses most of spring. But it is the green season, and the change of available produce has us praising peas, reaching for rhubarb and anxiously approaching artichokes.

Bins are filled with the colors and shapes we love: the scarlet ribs and flowing emerald green leaves of Swiss chard; rosy cheeks on fat, juicy strawberries; the tight coils of fiddleheads; the spongy brown caps of morels; and the fuzzy deep green of fresh mint leaves—those julep hopefuls.

Here’s a look at some of those wonders springing up, and ideas about using them in your dishes.

ARTICHOKES These are simple enough to just steam with lemon and go for the leaves, chopping the fleshy choke bottom into a dip. It’s more fun to pick the petals and clean the choke, then grill the bottoms, brushed with oil, over charcoal, giving them a smoky flavor perfect for spreading with a tarragon butter.

SWISS CHARD Did you know this plant is related to beets? They’re great when merely swish-sautéed with garlic and chopped onions, but add tiny new potato wedges and some cannellini beans, and you have one of the ever-popular“bowls.”

FIDDLEHEAD FERNS These snail-like coils—new fern fronds—are hard to find in common produce sections, but look in specialty stores. They’re best sautéed in butter or olive oil, after blanching a bit. They benefit from the brightness of citrus—orange zest grated over and a little Parmesan cheese on top do it for us.

RAMPS These wild leeks are usually found in the Appalachian Mountains and hollows, though they grow in forests elsewhere. Peeled down to softer insides, these are great on the grill, brushed with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt.

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grilled pears, too, in a composed salad with crumbled goat cheese.

MORELS Get out your pocketbook, and spring for these delectable mushrooms whenever you find them. Coveted by chefs for their texture and raw-earth flavor, these should be showcased as prizes on a plate. Do little to them except wash, and halve, then sauté until softened slightly.

With venison, they’re the ticket.

RHUBARB For Midwesterners, these pink celery-like stalks come in at the same time as strawberries, and are instantly paired as a sweet for pie or cobbler.

But move it to the savory column for a relish that is beautiful on the plate with a butter-poached fresh fish fillet, or alongside a vegetarian roasted portobello cap stuffed with spanakopita filling: spinach, fresh dill and feta cheese.

KOHLRABI This alien-looking knob isn’t as common as many others in the produce bin, but it’s a treat for those in the know. Crunchy and sweet with a slight turnip-like bite at the end, it’s a great addition to a slaw with carrots and a light, sweet dressing, as the Thai use with rice wine vinegar and a drop or two of honey. Another way to use them is as noodles—spiral-cut them, cook, and mix with a cheesy sauce and little pancetta.

PEAS We of Southern bent call these English peas, to differentiate from black-eyes and field varieties. They’re so yummy eaten right out of the pod that frequently we find ourselves coming up short after shelling. All things peas can be consumed, from the delicate sprouts to the pods, though careful trimming is needed there. One simple dish that pleases, especially on a spring picnic table, is an overnight layered pea salad, made like a trifle in a clear bowl with chopped ham, green or sweet white onion, layers of dressing, bacon bits, croutons and cheese to create a hearty salad.

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561/395-2675. $$$$

Cuban Café—3350 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd., Suite B-30.

Cuban. One thing Boca needs more of is coffee windows—and real Cuban restaurants. Which is undoubtedly why 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. $

Domus Italian Restaurant—187 S.E. Mizner Blvd. Italian. The “Best Spaghetti & Meatballs Ever” dish is pretty darn close to being just that. Who says we have too many Italian restaurants? The burrata with tomato carpaccio, melt-in-yourmouth Dover sole almondine, orecchiette con sausage and linguine vongole are part of a very good menu. From Sicilian fish salad to veal piccata, a light calamari fritti to chicken Parmesan, you can find something for all appetites. Save room for the tartufo. • Dinner nightly. 561/419-8787. $$$

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. $$

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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 Choice short rib and the popular Buddha Bowl, with veggies, udon noodles and shrimp. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

561/417-5836. $$

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Frank & Dino’s —39 S.E. First Ave. Italian. The Rat Pack is alive and well here in both décor and soundtrack.

So, too, are traditional Italian dishes such as Dentice oreganata, capellini Pomodoro and tiramisu. But you may want to get there early for one of the longest happy hours around (11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays) for Damiano meatballs, filet mignon sliders or antipasto misto between lunch and dinner. • Lunch Mon.-Fri.; dinner nightly. 561/218-4636. $$$

Gary Rack’s Farmhouse Kitchen—399 S.E. Mizner Blvd. American. Natural, seasonal, sustainable. You’ll enjoy the varied menu, and won’t believe it’s made without butters or creams. Try the too-good-to-be-true buffalo-style cauliflower appetizer, the seared salmon or buffalo burger, and have apple skillet for dessert.

Healthy never tasted so good. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/8262625. $$

Grand Lux Cafe —6000 Glades Road, inside 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; brunch on Saturday and Sunday.

561/392-2141. $$

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

Houston’s —1900 N.W. Executive Center Circle. Contemporary American. Convenient location, stylish ambience and impeccable service are hallmarks of this local outpost of the Hillstone restaurant chain. There are plenty of reasons why this is one of the most popular business lunch spots in all of Boca, including menu items like Cajun trout, the mammoth salad offerings and the tasty baby back ribs. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/998-0550. $$$

Jimmy’s Fries to Caviar —6299 N. Federal Highway. Contemporary American. Going one better than soup to nuts defines Jimmy Mills’ Boca restaurant, an easygoing, affordable bistro in the old Darbster space that really does offer fries, caviar and more. Four varieties of fish eggs are shown off nicely crowning a quartet of deviled eggs, while the thick-cut fries complement a massively flavorful, almost fork-tender hanger steak in the classic steak frites.Try the seasonal soups as well. • Dinner Tues.-Sun. 561/617-5965. $$

Josephine’s —5751 N. Federal Highway. Italian.

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

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Kapow! Noodle Bar —431 Plaza Real. Pan-Asian.

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This Asian-inspired gastropub delivers an inventive punch to the taste buds. Among the hardest hitters is its angry shrimp dumplings and the char sui pork belly bao bun. The Saigon duck pho is yet one more reason to go. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/347-7322. $$

Kathy’s Gazebo Café —4199 N. Federal Highway.

Traditional French. Elegance, civility and very good food meet here for dinners that last at least two hours, and it’s worth it.

Try the Dover sole (pricey, but it won’t disappoint), the escargot, coq au vin if it’s a nightly special, gazpacho, duck, veal, lobster and more. Don’t forget the rich, well-crafted desserts. Classical dining at a longtime standard; jackets recommended. • Lunch Mon.-Fri. Dinner Mon.-Sat. 561/395-6033. $$$

Ke’e Grill —17940 N. Military Trail, Suite 700. Traditional American. In this busy dining scene for more than 30 years, you will find a lot of seafood (fried calamari, blue crab cakes, yellowtail snapper Francaise and lots more), a few steak, chicken, lamb and pork options, and a quality house-made apple crisp. Your traditional choices are baked, fried, breaded, grilled, broiled, sauteed. With Provencal, Francaise, maple mustard glaze, toasted macadamia nut pesto and piccata twists. A consistent crowd for a consistent menu. • Dinner nightly. 561/995-5044. $$$ La Nouvelle Maison—455 E. Palmetto Park Blvd.

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

La Villetta—4351 N. Federal Highway. Italian. This is a well-edited version of a traditional Italian menu, complete with homemade pastas and other classic dishes. Try the signature whole yellowtail snapper encrusted in sea salt; it’s de-boned right at tableside. Shrimp diavolo is perfectly scrumptious. • Dinner nightly. (closed Mon. during summer). 561/362-8403. $$$ Le Rivage —450 N.E. 20th St., Suite 103. French. Don’t overlook this small, unassuming bastion of traditional French cookery. That would be a mistake, because the dishes that virtually scream “creativity” can’t compare to the quiet pleasures served here—like cool, soothing vichyssoise, delicate fillet of sole with nutty brown butter sauce or perfectly executed crème brûlee. Good food presented without artifice at a fair price never goes out of fashion. • Dinner nightly. 561/620-0033. $$

Loch Bar —346 Plaza Real. Seafood. This sister restaurant to Ouzo Bay includes fried oysters, moules frites and Maryland crab cakes. The bar offers literally hundreds of whiskeys, a noisy happy hour crowd and live music most nights. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/939-6600. $$ Louie Bossi’s—100 E. Palmetto Park Road. Italian. This jumping joint serves terrific Neapolitan pizza (thin crust), but don’t miss the other entrées. Start with a charcuterie/cheese plate and grab the amazing breadsticks. All breads and pastas are made on the premises. Other faves include the carbonara and the calamari, and save room for house-made gelato. Unusual features: Try the bocce ball court included with the retro Italian décor. • Lunch and dinner daily, weekend brunch. 561/336-6699. $$$

Luff’s Fish House—390 E. Palmetto Park Road.

Seafood. A renovated 1920s bungalow houses this shipshape restaurant, in addition to two large, outdoor deck and patio areas. It’s known for familiar dish names with new tweaks: smoked fish-hummus dip, falafel fish fritters, crab guacamole, mussels in coconut curry broth, plus the paella on Sundays only. Don’t leave without the enormous slice of the Key lime pie, topped with meringue on a graham cracker crust. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/609-2660. $$ Madison’s —2006 N.W. Executive Center Circle.

American. This location is something of a Bermuda Triangle for restaurants, with at least four restaurants 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, and service that is as professional as it is personable. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/994-0808. $$$ Maggiano’s —21090 St. Andrews Blvd. Italian. Do as the Italians do, and order family-style: Sit back and watch the endless amounts of gorgeous foods grace your table. In this manner, you receive two appetizers, a salad, two pastas, two entrées and two desserts. The menu also includes lighter takes on staples like chicken parm, fettuccine alfredo and chicken piccata. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/361-8244. $$ Mario’s Osteria—1400 Glades Road, Suite 210. Italian.

This popular spot is swanky, but the rustic Italian fare keeps with an osteria’s humbler pretensions. Signature dishes like the garlic rolls, lasagna and eggplant “pancakes” are on the new menu, as are butternut squash ravioli and thick, juicy rib-eye served “arrabiata” style. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/239-7000. $$

Matteo’s —233 S. Federal Highway, Suite 108. 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.

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You Live in the Right Place WEST PALM BEACH FOOD TOURS: This cooking class and market tour is unique to West Palm Beach. It features a group trip to the city’s GreenMarket, where you meet farmers and then a stop at cookbook author Judith Olney’s home in Flamingo Park for a hands-on cooking class and lunch.

The final classes of the season are March 14 and 21. Tickets are $95 per person and available at westpalmbeachfoodtour.com.

SUR LA TABLE, ALL LOCATIONS: This beautiful cooking store chain has innovative kitchen gadgets, but it’s also known for its popular cooking classes, which focus on subjects such as sushi at home, essentials of bread baking, gnocchi from scratch, cast iron cooking and care, knife skills, the art of croissants, classic French desserts and much more. Date night classes feature different cultures: An Italian Affair, Metropolitan Grill, Springtime in Paris, South American Flavor… you get the drift. Suffice it to say, you’ll find something you’re interested in. Costs generally run from $59 to $79 per person, depending on the class. Fun is guaranteed, and so is a delicious experience. Store locations include: Mizner Park, Rosemary Square and Downtown at the Gardens.

PUBLIX APRONS COOKING SCHOOL: We are lucky to have one of the Publix cooking schools in our backyard. The subjects have ranged from a pasta making workshop to Sushi 101 to India for the Evening. Every month, there are classes from $40 to $100 per person, depending on the class. A plus: You can watch the cooking classes free online! Aprons Cooking School, 5050 Champion Blvd., Boca Raton; 800/242-1227.

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Max’s Grille —404 Plaza Real. Contemporary American. After 24 years in Mizner Park, This modern American bistro is a true local classic. The food and decor are both timeless and up to date, and 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 the applewood bacon-wrapped meatloaf to the wickedly indulgent crème brûlèe pie. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat–Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/368-0080. $$

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Morton’s The Steakhouse—5050 Town Center Circle, Suite 219. Steakhouse. There’s seemingly no end to diners’ love of huge slabs of high-quality aged beef, nor to the carnivores who pack the clubby-swanky dining room of this meatery. While the star of the beef show is the giant bone-in filet mignon, seasonally featured is the American Wagyu New York strip. Finish off your meal with one of the decadent desserts.• Dinner nightly. 561/392-7724. $$$$

restaurant’s staying power proves the pull of a beautiful space, amazing food and special attention from a talented staff. The velvety lobster bisque is a signature dish. The night’s options can include rack of lamb, filet au poivre, wild Scottish king salmon, crispy duck and more, all done beautifully. Plan on a two-to-three-hour dinner. It’s worth it. • Dinner nightly.

561/347-6260. $$$$

New York Prime —2350 N.W. Executive Center

Sushi Ray —5250 Town Center Circle, Suite 111.

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

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 $22. • Lunch Mon.–Fri., dinner nightly.

561/394-9506. $$

a popular 1990s Boca venue, this version has updated the dining room, kept the yummy oven-baked focaccia bread slices, and added a 21st-century taste to the menu. Don’t miss the tender bone-in pork chop, thin-crust pizza and seafood specials. Vegetarian and gluten-free choices are on the menu, too. • Lunch Mon.-Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/314-6840. $$

Tanjore Indian—500 Via de Palmas. Indian. Six different kinds of naan bread let you know this isn’t your usual Indian menu, and the naan itself is a light bite of heaven. House-roasted and ground spices help make the seafood, chicken, lamb and vegetarian dishes memorable. Try the Angarey tandoori chicken and the side dish of aromatic white rice with cumin seeds. Smooth rice pudding with candied almonds and raisins let you end the meal with a sweet light bite. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/288-5800. $$

Rafina—6877 S.W. 18th St. Greek. If you find the

Tanzy—301 Plaza Real. Italian. Part of the swanky iPic 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. $$

ater 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. The scarletta pepper steak and bone-in pork chops are excellent, as are the braised Angus beef short ribs with toasted pearl barley and collard greens.

For dessert, try the red velvet bread pudding and your choice of a trio of sorbets. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/922-6699. $$

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Prezzo —5560 N. Military Trail. Italian. A reincarnation of

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Legumes take center stage in Villa Rosano’s Nuts About Salad—a protein-heavy dish with pecans, sunflower seeds, walnuts, raisins and gorgonzola in a balsamic vinaigrette.

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. $$ Ruth’s Chris —225 N.E. Mizner Blvd., Suite 100.

Steakhouse. Not only does this steakhouse favorite emphasize its New Orleans roots, it also distinguishes itself from its competitors by just serving better food. The signature chopped salad has a list of ingredients as long as a hose but they all work together. And how can you not like a salad topped with crispy fried onion strings? Steaks are USDA Prime and immensely flavorful, like a perfectly seared New York strip.

The white chocolate bread pudding is simply wicked. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-6746. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 651 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, 561/514-3544; 661 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/863-0660.) $$$$ Seasons 52 —2300 Executive Center Drive. Contemporary American. The food—seasonal ingredients, simply and healthfully prepared, accompanied by interesting wines—is first-rate, from salmon roasted on a cedar plank to desserts served in oversized shot glasses. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/998-9952. (Other Palm Beach County location: 11611 Ellison Wilson Road, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/625-5852.) $$

Six Tables a Restaurant—112 N.E. Second St., Boca Raton. American. Chef/owner Jonathan Fyhrie has a unique, elegant, one-seating, prix-fixe dinner and only six tables. The decor reflects the food, which is innovative in unexpected but attractive ways. Open since 2004, this

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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) to mouthwatering entrées like lamb shank (slow-cooked in a tomato sauce and served on a bed of orzo), massive stuffed peppers or kebobs. • Lunch Mon.-Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/994-2828. $$ Trattoria Romana—499 E. Palmetto Park Road.

Italian. This local mainstay does Italian classics and its own lengthy list of ambitious specials with unusual skill and aplomb.

The service is at a level not always seen in local restaurants. Pay attention to the daily specials, especially if they include impeccably done langostini oreganata and the restaurant’s signature jumbo shrimp saltimbocca. • Dinner nightly. 561/393-6715. $$$

Twenty Twenty Grille —141 Via Naranjas, Suite 45. Contemporary American. You’ve probably licked postage stamps that are larger than Ron and Rhonda Weisheit’s tiny jewel box of a restaurant, but what it lacks in space it more than makes up for in charm, sophistication and imaginative, expertly crafted food. Virtually everything is made in-house, from the trio of breads that first grace your table to the pasta in a suave dish of tagliatelle with duck and chicken confit. Don’t miss the jerk pork belly and grilled veal strip loin. • Dinner nightly. 561/9907969. $$$

Villagio Italian Eatery—344 Plaza Real. Italian.

The classic Italian comfort food at this Mizner Park establishment is served with flair and great attention to detail. The reasonably priced menu—with generous portions—includes all your favorites

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(veal Parmesan, Caesar salad) and some outstanding seafood dishes (Maine lobster with shrimp, mussels and clams on linguine).

There is a full wine list and ample people-watching given the prime outdoor seating. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561-447-2257. $$

Vino —114 N.E. Second St. Wine Bar/Italian. An impressive wine list of some 200 bottles (all available by the glass) offers a multitude of choices, especially among Italian and California reds. The menu of “Italian tapas” includes roasted red peppers with Provolone, as well as ricotta gnocchi with San Marzano tomatoes. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/869-0030. $$

WEST BOCA Boon’s Asian Bistro —19605 N. State Road 7.

Japanese/Thai. This is one of two Boon’s (the other is in Delray Beach), and it’s where the rush to eat excellent sushi started.

The fast-moving staff is choreographed to deliver dishes such as shrimp pad Thai that’s light, delicate and happily filled with shrimp. The Thai fried rice is unusually delicate too, with lots of egg, and is some of the best around. The sushi rolls are as fresh and inventive (try the Daimyo roll) as they are beautifully presented. Go early or call for a reservation. • Lunch Mon.-Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/883-0202. $$ City Fish Market—7940 Glades Road. Seafood. A multimillion-dollar remodel of the old Pete’s has turned it into an elegant seafood house with a lengthy seafood-friendly wine list, impeccably fresh fish and shellfish cooked with care and little artifice. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/487-1600. $$

Ditmas Kitchen—21077 Powerline Road. Contemporary kosher. This west Boca restaurant is named after a Brooklyn avenue in a district known for its food. Here you’ll find very good casual food, and no dairy products are used. Try the Hibachi salmon, all-kale Caesar salad, the shnitzel sandwich. • Dinner Sun.-Thurs. 561/826-8875. $$$

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 the foie gras terrine and proceed to lamb rack or pan-seared salmon with braised baby artichokes. C’est délicieux. • Dinner nightly. 561/654-6600. $$$

Oliv Pit Athenian Grille—6006 S.W. 18th St. Modern Greek. The owners’ goal of bringing together the best of Greek cooking under one roof, much like the melting pot that is Athens, is covered here in an extensive menu. The best way to enjoy the food is to share it: the Pikilia trio with tzatziki, spicy feta and eggplant spread is a starting place. Try the mix grill platter and the hearty red Greek wine. End the night with a unique, velvety frappe cappuccino.

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Everyday Favorites For an affordable bite at any time, consider these durable chains and homegrown Boca favorites—where the attire is understated and reservations are rarely necessary.

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. $$

Bonefish Grill—21065 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. Brunch on Sundays. 561/483-4949. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/732-1310; 9897 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, 561/965-2663; 11658 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/799-2965) $$ Brio Tuscan Grille—5050 Town Center Circle, #239. Italian. The Boca outpost of this national chain does what it set out to do—dish up big portions of well-made, easily accessible Italian-esque fare at a reasonable price. If you’re looking for bruschetta piled with fresh cheeses and vegetables or house-made fettuccine with tender shrimp and lobster in a spicy lobster butter sauce, you’ll be one happy diner. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/392-3777. $$

The Cheesecake Factory—5530 Glades Road. American. Oh, the choices! The chain has a Sunday brunch menu in addition to its main menu, which includes Chinese chicken salad and Cajun jambalaya. Don’t forget about the cheesecakes, from white chocolate and raspberry truffle offerings. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-0344.

(Other Palm Beach County locations: CityPlace, West Palm Beach, 561/802-3838; Downtown at the Gardens, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/776-3711). $$ Nick’s New Haven-Style Pizzeria—2240 N.W. 19th St., Suite 904. Italian. Cross Naples (thin, blistered crust, judicious toppings) with Connecticut (fresh clams and no tomato sauce), and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the pies coming out of Nick Laudano’s custom-made ovens. The “white clam” pizza with garlic and bacon is killer-good; Caesar salad and tiramisu are much better than the usual pizzeria fare. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-2900. $$ 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) $$

Steve’s Wood Fired Pizza—9180 Glades Road. Italian. With an emphasis on fresh, local ingredients and rigorous preparation—the hand-rolled dough rises for three days before use—this reliable purveyor offers varieties of ‘za that are both familiar and novel, from BBQ chicken and veggie primavera to Mom’s White Roasted Garlic and the Mupsa (mushroom, pepperoni and sausage) . • Lunch and dinner Tues.-Sat., dinner Sun. 561/483-5665. $$

Tap 42—5050 Town Center Circle, Suite 247. Gastropub. This hugely popular nouveau-Industrial gastropub is not for the faint of eardrums when packed, but don’t let that discourage you. The kitchen here executes the hell out of a short, simple all-day menu. Grilled salmon chopped salad with tomatillo ranch dressing is delightful, as is guacamole studded with fat chunks of bacon and charred corn. Same goes for decadent shrimp mac-n-cheese. The wicked-good chocolate bread pudding with salted caramel sauce would be the envy of any Big Easy eatery. • Lunch Mon.-Fri. Brunch Sat.-Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/235-5819. $

True—147 S.E. First Ave. American. True is the only place in South Florida to eat authentic Baltimore crab cakes. This small, unpretentious venue reminds us of a Key West food shack. The food is fabulous. Try anything with crab (crab dip, crab soup, crab sliders), but don’t miss the bacon-wrapped dates, beef brisket sliders and Fetacomply salad.• Dinner Tues.-Sun. 561/417-5100. $$

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 nightly. 561/470-0112. $$

BOYNTON BEACH Bar Louie —1500 Gateway Blvd., #100. Eclectic.

Attempting to split the difference between happening bar and American café, Bar Louie in the sprawling Renaissance Commons complex mostly succeeds, offering burgers, pizzas, fish tacos and a variety of salads, all at moderate prices and

in truly daunting portions. In South Florida’s world of trendy and expensive bistros, this is a welcome relief. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/853-0090. $

Driftwood —2005 S. Federal Highway. Modern American. Take food combos that sound unusual (popcorn sauce, avocado chocolate ice cream) but that taste wonderful and you’ve got Chef Jimmy Everett’s ideas on the table. They March 2020

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don’t last long, because they taste terrific. Try the smoked swordfish, the lobster with pickled okra, ricotta dumplings, the burger with gouda, the grilled octopus and pastrami’d chicken breast with roasted cabbage. • Brunch Sun. Dinner Tues.-Sun. 561/733-4782. $$

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

Prime Catch —700 E. Woolbright Road. Seafood.

Waterfront restaurants are few and far between in our neck of the woods, and those with good food are even more rare.

Prime Catch, at the foot of the Woolbright bridge on the Intracoastal, is a best-kept secret. The simple pleasures here soar—a perfectly grilled piece of mahi or bouillabaisse overflowing with tender fish. Don’t miss one of the best Key lime pies around. • Lunch and dinner daily, Sunday brunch.

561/737-8822. $$

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Sushi Simon —1628 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. $$

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The Venu —8794 Boynton Beach Blvd. Modern European/American. A comfortable supper club vibe with better-than-average food. Live entertainment supplements large portions, with dishes such as braised wild boar pappardelle, grilled salmon and arancini. Happy hour portions are large, too; desserts are decadent. Worth a trip to west Boynton Beach. • Dinner Mon.-Sat. 561/200-0222. $$

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3rd and 3rd—301 N.E. Third Ave. Gastropub. This quirky, individualistic, obscurely located little place is one of the most important restaurants in Delray. The menu changes frequently, but hope the evening’s fare includes plump scallops with caramelized mango sauce, stunning delicious roasted cauliflower with Parmesan mousse and bacon, and wicked-good espresso panna cotta on it at your visit. • Dinner Mon.-Sat. 561/303-1939. $$ 50 Ocean—50 S. Ocean Blvd. Seafood. The former Upper Deck at Boston’s on the Beach is now the more upscale, seafood-oriented spot. The menu ranges from familiar to slightly more inventive, from a classic lobster bisque and crisp-tender fried clam bellies to rock shrimp pot pie and baked grouper topped with blue crab. The cinnamon-dusted beignets are puffs of amazingly delicate deep-fried air and should not under any circumstances be missed. • Lunch Mon.-Sat. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sun. 561/278-3364. $$

Angelo Elia Pizza • Bar • Tapas— 16950 Jog Road. Italian. Nothing on the menu of Angelo Elia’s modern, small plates-oriented osteria disappoints, but particularly notable are the meaty fried baby artichokes stuffed with breadcrumbs and bocamag.com

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speck, delicate chicken-turkey meatballs in Parmesan-enhanced broth, and Cremona pizza with a sweet-salty-earthy-pungent mélange of pears, pancetta, Gorgonzola, sun-dried figs and mozzarella. • Lunch Tues.-Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/381-0037. $

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

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

The Banyan—189 N.E. Second Ave. American.

Snuggled under its namesake banyan tree in Pineapple Grove, this modern restaurant boasts a bright pink neon bar with bright cocktails, too. Try the purple Aviation gin cocktail paired with the Maryland crab bites or the Yum Yum Shrimp with spicy-sweet sriracha aioli. Sliders, tacos, mac trios and flatbreads do not disappoint. Order the crème brûlée cheesecake if it’s available.

• 561/563-8871. $$

Batch Gastropub —14813 Lyons Road. Gastropub.

Definitely try the homemade batches of cocktails on tap, which give this west Delray gastropub its name. The artisanal mixes boast ingredients such as H.M. Tonic No. 22—the crisp, tangy part of a very good gin and tonic. The heirloom tomato and feta salad is a highlight with Champagne vinaigrette dressing. Also popular are the brisket and short rib burgers, the avocado toast and the chicken Caesar. But the drinks are what you’ll remember.

• Brunch Sat.-Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/877-0000. $$ Beg for More Izakaya —19 S.E. Fifth Ave. Japanese Small Plates. The large sake, whisky and beer menu here pairs beautifully with the small plates full of everything except sushi. No sushi. And that’s fine. Try the takoyaki (octopus balls), the crispy salmon tacos and anything with the addictive kimchi, such as the kimchi fried rice. There are pasta, teriyaki and simmered duck with bok choy dishes—or 16 varieties of yakitori (food on skewers). You’ll be back to beg for more. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/563-8849. $$ Brulé Bistro —200 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. The regular menu of this Pineapple Grove favorite always has satisfying dishes. Its specialties include crab tortellini with black truffles, chicken meatballs with coconut broth and cashews, plus signature dessert pistachio crème brùlée. Spirits and house cocktails steeped in speakeast style are paired with an ever-changing menu.

Outside tables offer the best option for conversation.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/274-2046. $$ Buddha Sky Bar —217 E. Atlantic Ave. #3. Pan Asian. Don’t miss a meal at this stylish Asia-meets-industrial chic spot with a view of the Delray skyline. Chinese-influenced dim sum is inspired, while rock shrimp tempura and Tokyo beef skewers with twin chimichurri sauces touch the heart and the taste buds. Veggie fried rice is exemplary thanks to the kitchen’s application of wok chi. • Dinner nightly. 561/450-7557. $$

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THE SECOND TRUE FOOD KITCHEN is taking the large former Restoration Hardware space, before RH built its four-story landmark in the middle of the Okeechobee Boulevard median. truefoodkitchen.com BARRIO SANGRIA BAR, coming right next to long-time (and original tenant) City Cellar, will be a tapas bar featuring housemade sangria (white, rose and red). This is a great people-watching area, just FYI. HIGH DIVE, a second location from popular local chef Jeremy Bearman (of Lantana’s Oceano Kitchen) will be a seafood tapas venue. highdivewestpalm.com PLANTA, cashing in on the vegetarian/ vegan trend, has locations in Miami’s South Beach and three in Toronto. It’s supposed to open sometime in 2020. plantarestaurants.com PURA VIDA, a café with a juice bar, is also expected sometime in 2020. With multiple locations in Miami-Dade County, it will offer breakfast all day, lunch and dinner. puravidamiami.com —Lynn Kalber

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Burt & Max’s —9089 W. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. This bastion of contemporary comfort food in west Delray is approaching local landmark status, forging its own menu while borrowing a few dishes from Max’s Grille, like the hearty chopped salad and bacon-wrapped meatloaf.

Other dishes are variations on the comfort food theme, including a stellar truffle-scented wild mushroom pizza. • Dinner nightly. Sunday brunch. 561/638-6380. $$

Cabana El Rey —105 E. Atlantic Ave. Cuban tropical.

Little Havana is alive and well in Delray. The menu is a palette-pleasing travelogue, including starters like mariquitas (fried banana chips) and main courses such as seafood paella (think mussels, shrimp, clams, conch, scallops and octopus). • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/274-9090. $$

Caffe Luna Rosa—34 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach.

Italian. This multiple Delray Beach-award winning restaurant has sparkling service, comfort food taken to a higher level, and a setting just steps from the Atlantic. Open since 1993, and a success since then, they dish up big flavors in a tiny space, so call for reservations. Try the calamari fritto misto, then the rigatoni pomodoro and leave room for dessert. Or come back for breakfast.

• Open daily from breakfast through dinner. 561-274-9404. $$

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 a jumbo crab cake. This is the place to see and be seen in Delray, and the food lives up to its profile. • Lunch Mon.–Sun. Dinner nightly. Outdoor dining.

561/272-0220. $$

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Cut 432—432 E. Atlantic Ave. Steakhouse. Hipper decor, a more casual vibe and an inventive take on steak-house favorites make this sleek restaurant just different enough to be interesting.

Starters such as ceviche (prepared Peruvian style) and ultrarich oysters Rockefeller are first-rate, while the wet-aged beef is appropriately tender and tasty. • Dinner nightly. 561/272-9898. $$$

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

Deck 84—840 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American.

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

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Forget Taco Tuesdays: At El Camino, all tacos are $2 every day during the 4-8 p.m. happy hour.

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

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• Lunch and dinner daily; weekend brunch. 561/650-6699. $$

The Grove —187 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. Chef and sommelier Michael Haycook and Dining Room Manager Paul Strike 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. $$ Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar—1841 S. Federal Highway. American. You don’t have to worry about calories (most dishes are under 500), you don’t have to worry about finding something you haven’t tried before (new items are added every three months) and freshness is the silent ingredient throughout. Try the pesto Caprese flatbread, the supergrain salad and the steak or salmon or chicken. Desserts offer big tastes in small jars. • Lunch and dinner daily; brunch on weekends. 561/266-3239. $$

Henry’s—16850 Jog Road. American. This casual, unpretentious restaurant in the west part of town never fails to delight diners.

Expect attentive service and crisp execution of everything—from meat loaf, burgers and fried chicken to flatbreads and hefty composed salads. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/638-1949. $$

Il Girasole —2275 S. Federal Highway. Northern Italian. If you want Northern Italian in a low-key atmosphere, and nobody rushing you out the door, this is your spot. Start with something from the very good wine list. Try the yellowtail snapper, the penne Caprese and the capellini Gamberi, and leave room for the desserts. Reservations recommended. • 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. Contemporary American. This small gem off noisy Atlantic Avenue is big on taste and ambience, and has been busy since 2009. You can travel the world with dumplings, conch fritters, pork schnitzel, rigatoni Bolognese, étouffée and more. Reservations are recommended at this laid-back, comfortable venue. • Dinner nightly.

561/865-5774. $$

Joseph’s Wine Bar —200 N.E. Second Ave. Mediterranean-American. Joseph’s is an elegant, comfortable, intimate nook in Delray’s Pineapple Grove, and an ideal place for a lazy evening. This family affair—owner Joseph Boueri, wife Margaret in the kitchen, and son Elie and daughter Romy working the front of the house—has all tastes covered. Try the special cheese platter, the duck a l’orange or the rack of lamb.

• Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/272-6100. $$

L’Acqua —110 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian. You’ll get what you pay for here: very good Italian food in an upscale, modern, cool gray and white restaurant that is a refreshing change from busy Atlantic Avenue. The antipasti (bread, balsamic/honey dipping sauce, Parmesan chunks, bruschetta) are so good, they could be dinner. But save room for the pollo Parmigiana, the scallopine piccate al limone, the four kinds of risotto, and dessert. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/563-7492. $$$

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La Cigale —253 S.E. Fifth Ave. Mediterranean. Popular venue since 2001, with Greek and Italian dishes and more. Highlights are seafood paella, roasted half duck and grilled jumbo artichoke appetizer. Lots of favorites on the menu: calf’s liver, veal osso buco, branzino, seafood crepes. Nice outdoor seating if weather permits. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/265-0600. $$ Latitudes —2809 S. Ocean Blvd. Modern American.

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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, 561/5448181; 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/733-1344). $

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 take on the thick, juicy Prime beef burger and simply wicked maple-frosted donuts with bacon bits and two dipping sauces. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/276-3600. $$ Park Tavern—32 S.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. Check out the high-top seating or bar stools during an excellent happy hour menu that includes deviled eggs, pork sliders, chicken wings and a happy crowd. Entrees are generous and well executed. Try the fish and chips, one of six burgers, fish tacos and more. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.-Sun. 561/265-5093. $$ Prime—29 S.E Second Ave. Steak/Seafood. Prime is aptly named for its heart of the action location, neo-supper club decor, extensive wine list and roster of designer steaks. Starters and desserts fare better than entrées, especially the Maryland-style crab cakes and luscious chocolate bread pudding. Service is strong so with a bit of work this restaurant will fully live up to its name. • Dinner nightly.

561/865-5845. $$$

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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. $$$ Salt7—32 S.E. Second Ave. Modern American. All the pieces needed to create a top-notch restaurant are here: talented chef, great food, excellent service. From the pea risotto to the crab cake to the signature steaks and a lot more, this is a venue worth the money. Thanks goes to Executive Chef Paul Niedermann, who won TV’s notorious “Hell’s Kitchen” show, and his talent is displayed here on the plate. • Dinner Mon.-Sat. Brunch Sunday. 561/274-7258. $$$ Sazio —131 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian. This long-lived venue on crowded Atlantic Avenue is a reason to sit down and take a breath. Then take up a fork and try the linguine with white clam sauce or the ravioli Sazio or grilled skirt steak or pretty much anything on the menu. Prices are reasonable; leftovers are popular. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/272-5540. $$

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. $$

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COCKTAILS & CONVERSATION WHAT: Impact 100 hosted “Cocktails & Conversation” at Boca West Country Club’s Prime Cut and invited women from southern Palm Beach County to learn more about the organization’s mission to positively affect the community through collective giving. The event was hosted by Impact 100 members Sharon DiPietro and Edith Stein, and welcomed more than 50 women to enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a sushi bar and a guest appearance by renowned pianist and vocalist Chris Autore.

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SIP & SHOP WHAT: “Ladies’ Night Out—Sip & Shop For A Cause” brought together close to 300 savvy and stylish shoppers to the Parkland Golf & Country Club. The event, chaired by Jeniffer Freeman and Heidi Alderman, featured boutique shopping, raffles, a silent auction, libations and Asian-inspired tapas.

Proceeds from the evening benefited the Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center’s Betty & Marvin Zale Early Childhood Learning Center.

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WHAT: Boca Helping Hands unveiled its new refrigerated food delivery truck, which will allow the nonprofit to provide perishable foods to more than 3,000 more families. The community rallied around the local charity when its previous truck broke down, and raised more than $150,000 in a short amount of time to fund the purchase.

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THE UNICORN CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION COMMUNITY INCLUSION AWARDS WHAT: These awards recognized unsung heroes for their efforts toward building a better and more inclusive community for individuals with special needs and their families. This year’s Champion of Inclusion Award went to Debbie Majors of the City of Boynton Beach. The event also celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Unicorn Children’s Foundation and the launch of its new rebrand.

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veryone, at least once in his or her lifetime, would love to attain the status of number one. No matter the field of endeavor— sports, music, writing—everyone wants to have his or her achievement acknowledged by peers, or recognized as a legacy when they pass on. What a wonderful feeling to say to yourself, “This is what I’ve left behind.”

I am almost 80 now, and time is moving quickly. Sometimes I think it’s too late to come up with anything new; ideas take time to perfect, to germinate, to test. There’s no time to practice, to tweak, to make things better and better.

I was told last October that my heart was failing.

The “ejection fraction” which measures how your ticker is pumping was operating at levels that were dangerous. My doctor told me to get it taken care of immediately.

In a flash, I had a pacemaker and defibrillator put in my heart.

God only knows what that buys. In this life there are no guarantees, no warranties, no buybacks, no sure things.

After what was described as a routine procedure, I was told my left lung had been punctured and I needed a tube inserted between my ribs into the lung. While inserting the tube, the doctor commented that only 1 percent of people undergoing a pacemaker implant ever has a lung punctured. (I like to think I finally attained the 1 percent status but, sadly, the wrong one). After two days the tube in my lung was removed, triggering immediate relief.

But wait, there’s more. When I was released from Boca Raton Regional Hospital there was a three-

inch incision below my left collarbone, and it was challenging to breathe; my chest and back radiated pain when I coughed, sneezed, laughed, took a deep breath.

Things were going south. I called 911, and back to the ER I went. The paramedic said my vital signs were fine. However, when the ER doctor said that the X-ray of my lungs showed double pneumonia I was knocked down a notch or two. I said to myself,“Dear Jesus, how many more hurdles are in front of me?”After 45 years with MS, now what? After another seven days in the hospital and veins that were crying for relief from all the antibiotics pumped in me, I was discharged.

I know I dodged a bullet, and it causes me to pause and ask the question,“Where has my precious time gone?

What impact have I had on others? What’s next?”

Those are some questions every person asks as they see the sand in the hourglass sifting to the bottom. Those are the questions that make me wonder if I have left a legacy, if my work has been enough, if I have used my time in this life the best way I could have.

No one has the answers to those questions. You just keep moving.

And you may notice that the days are getting longer now; springtime is beginning to light up the mornings. Maybe there is time, after all, to savor the moments in life that make it sweet, and to feel grateful for all I have done so far. It’s been a rough few months but I am here now—and it’s not over yet.

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