Disadvantaged students interview in style, thanks to a Creek professor Atlantic Technical College professor Debra Oistacher looks forward to her Nov. 11 birthday party each year. On the invitation, she includes the requisite details: when, where and a reminder not to bring gifts. No gifts? Instead, the self-styled “professional do-gooder” asks party attendees to bring
Seminole Coconut Creek’s newest restaurant gives diners the best of two cultures Eric Douglas has something in common with Seminole Casino Coconut Creek’s newest restaurant, The Bol. The restaurant is a mixture of two cultures, serving both Vietnamese and Chinese fare. While the operating manager speaks about how he came to work for the Seminole
When Sandra Canning goes too long without taking photographs, she doesn’t feel like herself. If she isn’t exploring her ideas through the camera lens, she grows miserable—even though doing so sometimes hurts just as much as keeping it inside. “So much of my creative process is inquiry—myself and my subject—but so many people don’t do that.
John DiCintio is something of a local celebrity. Having lived in South Creek for about 30 years, the police captain regularly gets waves and honks from neighbors. His popularity speaks not only to the practice of community policing but also to the fact that, as DiCintio says, officers are never quite off the clock. “It’s
A Creek mom spreads positivity with painted rocks When her 8-year-old son picked up a colorfully painted rock on the way to his weekly tennis lesson in Coral Springs, she told him to put it back. Less than an hour later, the boy found another rock with the words “Coral Springs Rocks” and a link
To describe John Coburn’s garden, a friend recently said, “You could charge $5 admission.” It’s lush and beautifully manicured, with Zen fixtures and butterflies fluttering about. The design came to him and his girlfriend, Dori Brenes, after a therapeutic day at Butterfly World. They turned the space, which a year ago had not one plant,
Though their backgrounds are in fine dining, the three owners of a Pompano Beach waterfront restaurant were determined to call their latest venture a tavern. Historically, a tavern is a public house or inn, a place for travelers to stop by for a drink and maybe some shut-eye. For Andy Patton, general manager of The
Art Sotloff remembers the nightly video calls with his son, Steven, as if they were yesterday. “No matter where he was, in Syria or Turkey, in Egypt, we would talk, even if it was 3 or 4 in the morning here.” Steven and Art would chat about their favorite sports teams, the Miami Heat and
Despite launching more than 200 restaurants, and becoming one of his country’s undisputed kings of franchising, Stavros Florias didn’t see a future in South Africa. The CEO of Fournews Developments had spent two decades developing popular brands, including News Café, the coffee bar/cocktail venue/restaurant that populates the country and neighboring regions. (It’s unrelated to the
445 Solano Prado, Coral Gables Listing price: $14 million Listing agent: Danny Hertzberg, The Jills Team, Coldwell Banker; 305.505.1950; [email protected] Specs: 7,398 square feet • 7 bedrooms / 7 bathrooms / 1 half-bathroom The details: Global tastes (Ecuadorian wood doors, Spanish stone exteriors and Italian walk-in closets) and South Florida drama come together at this
