The buzz in Boca Raton
Nothing about Boca Raton is the same. It’s better. BY CHARLYNE VARKONYI SCHAUB I was on my back getting a facial when Galia, my esthetician, started gushing about the new iPic theater in Boca’s Mizner...
View ArticleSeven myths about Addison Mizner
Susan Gillis, curator of the Boca Raton Historical Society, and the late Donald Curl, an original faculty member at Florida Atlantic University and Addison Mizner expert, compiled a list of trivia to...
View ArticleA travel writer’s journey to Palm Beach
BY THOMAS SWICK Almost immediately after I took a seat at the bar at būccan the young man to my left introduced himself, recommended the pizzas, gave me the name of his wealth management firm, and...
View ArticleBright nights: Way after hours, in Boca Raton
By Eric Barton There’s a sea of empty valet parking spots outside City Fish Market a few minutes to five on a Thursday. Inside, the bar is equally empty. But the bartender, the one with the handlebar...
View ArticleHow Ft Lauderdale got its beach, blvd. back
By Eric Barton It’s Friday night happy hour at American Social on Las Olas Boulevard, and the end of the bar has become something of a pre-concert party. A group of friends agreed to meet here before...
View ArticleDay, and entertaining nights, in Delray Beach
By Eric Barton Happy hour is almost over at Delray Beach’s Cut 432 when a woman pulls out a chair at the end of the bar. She’s in a red cocktail dress, the low neckline embroidered in what looks like...
View ArticleWhere everything works the way it should
Weston, Broward’s western-most suburb, is a clash of cultures that turns out beautifully By Eric Barton You have to understand something about the gas station at the east entrance to Weston. It’s...
View ArticleMerits of cosmetic surgery vs. going natural
The world buzzed at the Oscars last month when some familiar faces on the red carpet appeared so, well, unfamiliar. Can cosmetic surgery help you look younger without looking unnatural? By Robyn A....
View ArticleThe better way in Boca Raton, Delray Beach
Towns once known for retirees, and a retiring nightlife, find a healthier, beating heart By Eric Barton As you might expect from a nutritionist, Michelle Kaplan is holding a plate of vegetables:...
View ArticleA worldly travel editor’s road trip to the ‘nooks and crannies’ of Boca Raton
By Thomas Swick “Nooks and crannies,” my friend Don said, in the tone of someone imparting a secret. “Boca is all about nooks and crannies.” It certainly sounded revelatory, if not revolutionary, to...
View ArticleMeet Frank Stronach, the man behind Gulfstream: ‘This was my big gamble’
By Eric Barton Aman in a graphite suit and hair the color of white gold walks through the front door, and there’s a distinct feeling that something important has just occurred. The manager, who was...
View ArticleHow to see Boca, Delray from a stretch limo
By Eric Barton Out in front of the Delray Beach restaurant and bar Boston’s not a single parking spot is available. They’ve long ago been claimed by sunbathers who spent the day on the sand and patrons...
View ArticleBehind scenes at Pier 66 renovation project
By Eric Barton City & Shore Magazine Jessi Blakley grew up on the waters of Fort Lauderdale, boating and water skiing and learning to sail not far from where she grew up in the neighborhood of Rio...
View ArticleA recipe to get you back to your running self
By Eric Barton City & Shore Magazine Don Wennerstrom has a piece of advice he likes to give that works pretty well for new or returning runners. It also sounds a lot like a good life philosophy....
View ArticleBoat show helmsman answers our questions
By Greg Carannante City & Shore Magazine Andrew Doole, the man at the helm of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, is getting ready for quite a different event than his first in 1982. That...
View ArticleA record year for the Men of Style, 2019
By Robyn A. Friedman City & Shore Magazine The 12 men who dropped any inhibitions and stepped onto a fashion runway at The Galleria Fort Lauderdale Dec. 5 in front of a thousand or so strangers...
View ArticleOn with the shows: Critics picks of the season
By Greg Carannante, Ben Crandell, Rod Stafford Hagwood and Phillip Vallys City & Shore Magazine In Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 song Atlantic City, he sings, “Everything dies baby that’s a fact / But...
View ArticleWines that taste as good as the labels look
By Peg San Felippo City & Shore Magazine Wine, like art, is all about personal taste. When you find a winery that’s passionate about both, what better way to link the two than through the label....
View ArticleWhere Chris Evert got the hunger to win
By Greg Carannante City & Shore Magazine When Chris Evert was an eighth-grader at St. Anthony’s in Fort Lauderdale, she tried out for cheerleading and made the squad. It turned out to be the break...
View ArticleHospitality school recognizes Motwani patriarch
By Eric Barton City & Shore Magazine Everything landed on Ramola Motwani’s shoulders in 1994. She and her husband, Ramesh “Bob” Motwani, had bought a couple of hotels on Fort Lauderdale beach just...
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