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The practice of William A. Sunshine, MD, FACR is pleased to announce the expansion of Rheumatological Services to East Delray Beach
Board-certified rheumatologist, Dr. William Sunshine, has been diagnosing and treating the most complex inflammatory diseases over the last 29 years in Boca Raton. He and his staff are now pleased to announce the opening of their new East Delray Beach office.
Dr. Sunshine’s practice is unique in delivering the personalized, compassionate care and attention of a solo practitioner, while at the same time leveraging the support of his membership in AARA (American Arthritis and Rheumatology Associates)—the largest rheumatology super-group in the nation powered by Bendcare™.
Collectively, AARA has created optimal clinical algorithms to support proper pathways of care for chronic inflammatory patients.
SERVICES INCLUDE:
• Personalized Care & Thoughtful Treatment • Proper Diagnosis of Arthritic Diseases • Autoimmune Inflammatory Disease Management • Infusion Center of Excellence • Osteoporosis Management • Consultation/Second Opinion • Minor Ambulatory Procedures
Dr. Sunshine has also conducted several clinical trials, authored multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals, and served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Please call 561.862.0401 for an appointment.
Delray Beach Office: 230 George Bush Boulevard Delray Beach, FL 33444 Boca Raton Office: Sandler Medical Plaza 660 Glades Road; Suite 306 Boca Raton, FL 33431
Anna Leigh and Leigh Waters The country’s youngest pro pickleballer and her mom are double trouble
Ten-year-old Anna Leigh Waters had never held a pickleball paddle until 2017. It was late August, and hurricane Irma was projected to make landfall in South Florida, so the Waters’ escaped to Anna Leigh’s grandparents’ house in Pennsylvania. That’s where her grandfather taught her the game, and she took to it like Mozart at a piano. She joined the pro tour just two years later, and to date has won 12 career gold medals, some with her doubles partner—who happens to be her mother, Leigh Waters. At the time is this writing, she had won nearly $42,000 in prize money, and was ranked fourth in the country in the Pro Pickleball Association. Sponsors came calling; the ladies both endorse gear from Paddletek, whose website raves, “Anna Leigh’s custom Bantam TS-5 delivers power, speed and control, all in her favorite colors.”
Anna Leigh’s whirlwind rise is only beginning to sink in. “In 2019, we were the No. 1 team in the world, which was amazing,” she recalls, from her spacious home in the Village of Golf. “And I was 12 years old, and we won nationals. I don’t think I could appreciate it until now. Looking back on it, seeing what I did then and what I’m doing now is pretty cool.”
Anna Leigh is feared throughout the ranks for the fierceness of her play. Learning the game at a time when “dinking” in the “kitchen”—scoring points near the net for a more delicate strategy— was the perceived wisdom for women players, Anna Leigh took to hitting the ball hard. She developed a four-word catchphrase for this aggressive style of play: Rip, Bang, Win, Cake. “Rip means to hit the ball hard. … Somebody in pickleball who hits the ball hard is called a banger,” she explains. And the cake? That’s just a reference to her celebratory sweet tooth.
“The best players told us, ‘You can’t play like that, you’ll never win; this is a game of finesse.’” Leigh says. “People had never seen it before. Now, people are speeding it up from all over the court, and hitting big volleys.”
These days, Anna Leigh is seen as such a threat that most returns are hit to Leigh, a formidable ranked player in her own right. “I’m 42, so I’m one of the oldest,” Leigh says. “And I’m playing 20-year-olds or early 30-year-olds. I’m starting to feel it. When we played in 2019, they were hitting her all the balls, and keeping them away from me. And now it’s changed, to where I’m seeing most of the balls and she’s seeing very little. I’m feeling more pressure now than before, because I don’t want to let her down.”
When the Waters’ sat down for this interview, they had just returned from a tournament in Las Vegas, having played 17 tournaments in 2021 alone, a number all the more notable considering Anna Leigh’s other passions. She plays soccer for the AC Delray Rush organization, working for a coach who understands the touring rigors of pickleball. As for school, she’s been a remote learner since before it was de rigueur, from third grade. She works at her own pace, often during summers, and is a grade ahead for her age. Moreover, her schedule allows her to leave schoolwork at home and to focus only on pickleball when she’s on the road.
Approaching just three years into their pro run, the Waters’ have been on the cover of a pickleball magazine, and have seen their matches broadcast on YouTube, where Anna Leigh has developed a following. They have begun to be recognized in Publix and on the courts at Delray Beach Tennis Center.
“We were playing the other day, and some lady came up and said, ‘oh my gosh, you’re Anna Leigh and Leigh Waters—I could tell by the sound,’” Anna Leigh says. “When you listen to really good pickleball, there’s a defined sound.” As for how Anna Leigh got to be beyond really good in such a short span of time, Leigh has a theory for that: “I think she played it in another life.”
Max Weinberg The E Street Band stickman and Delray Beach resident is as serious about local zoning as he is about rock drumming
No matter your generation or demographic, Max Weinberg has been available for your discovery.
For late boomers and early Gen-Xers, it was, and is, his role as drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band; Weinberg has held the sticks on the Boss’s recording sessions and marathon concerts since 1974. For millennials like myself, it was his time as bandleader for Conan O’Brien’s late-night talk show, beginning in 1993, in which he functioned as the deadpan foil to the host’s offbeat antics.
Real estate buffs may have clued into Weinberg through his serial renovations, which have been featured in the Wall Street Journal. He has flipped 44 houses at the time of this writing.
And as of last year, Delray Beach locals may know him as one of the seven members of the city’s planning and zoning board.
“My avocation, apart from my profession, has been, over the past 40 or so years, in tandem with my wife, buying properties, fixing them up. … These were houses that needed some tender, loving care, and were sold with the idea that you’re going to enjoy living in them,” says Weinberg, 70. “One of the reasons they asked me to put my name in for the planning and zoning board is because I had so much practical experience on the other side of the dais as an applicant.”
Weinberg’s relationship to Delray Beach began in 2008, when Springsteen and the E Street Band toured the BB&T Center in Sunrise, and Weinberg chose to stay at the Seagate. Nine years later, Weinberg and his wife, Becky, moved to Delray Beach, after “two extremely bitter, cold winters” in his native New Jersey.
“We met so many people so easily that we were drawn into the life of Delray Beach,” he recalls. “As a member of the planning and zoning board, I’ve really delved into the history, and I’m a member of the Historical Society and the Preservation Trust, so I really do know the history here. It’s a lovely place to live. If my children were young, I’d say it was a lovely place to raise a family. Once I started living here, I started getting drawn into trying to help the town.”
Weinberg jumped into these civic duties with both feet, immersing himself
in the minutiae of Florida land development regulations and Delray’s comprehensive master plan. He’ll spend days on homework, researching the board’s agenda items for meetings that can last up to six hours. He speaks eloquently and at length about all things building and zoning, an outgrowth of his longtime passion for architecture. To wit: “I think that in certain parts of Delray Beach, a watered-down version of Corbusier’s international style, which was conceived a hundred years ago, is inappropriate for the neighborhood.” Generally, while he describes his philosophy as “not anti-development at all,” his motto is “preserve the best, and improve the rest. You want to be very, very careful that in getting what you want, you don’t lose what you have—it’s a quote that was attributed to Little Richard, who some say is the architect of rock ‘n’ roll. It’s important that in looking toward the future, you respect the past, you learn from the past, and you honor the past. … If I have a soapbox, that’s the soapbox I get on.” In addition to his contributions to city planning and historic preservation, Weinberg has also enriched Delray Beach’s cultural venues with his presence, playing venues such as Arts Garage and the Old School Square Pavilion with his current outfit, Max Weinberg’s Jukebox, formed with three versatile musicians from New Jersey. Like the name suggests, the shows are a hodgepodge of material from rock history, with the audience selecting the entire set list each night in real time from a “menu” of some 200 songs. One show from last year, for instance, saw the group segue from AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” into Tom Petty’s “American Girl” into Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.” Weinberg often tells stories from his nearly 60-year career in music between songs. This sense of unpredictability onstage—of not knowing what the next song in the set list will be—isn’t new for a member of Springsteen’s band. “[Bruce will] turn around in a concert, and pick out a song we haven’t played in 20 years,” Weinberg says. “That’s the unspoken ability of the E Street Band, this ability to have the recall. It’s amazing; under the pressure of 50,000 people out there, you rise to the occasion.Joe Mullings “I’ve always embraced Tom Brady’s saying; he articulated my thoughts perfectly. He said, ‘if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.’”
