Being the first has come with its share of opportunities for Lisa Lutoff-Perlo. But it’s the doors that the president and CEO of Celebrity Cruises continues to open for others that is reimagining the company, captivating the industry—and inspiring women around the world. Since becoming the first female to lead one of Royal Caribbean Cruises
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Though youth remain at the heart of the formidable work being done throughout the state by Children’s Home Society of Florida, it’s the family core that’s driving the esteemed nonprofit organization’s bigger intentions. Since its inception more than a century ago in Jacksonville, CHS has been one of Florida’s most prominent and persistent voices when
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By the Numbers In addition to celebrating 75 years, the Humane Society of Broward County boasts other equally impressive figures. HSBC placed 6,791 dogs, cats and furry friends in 2017. Its 33,000-square-foot, air-conditioned shelter, which opened in 1992, can accommodate 150 dogs and 150 cats. Approximately 100,000 patrons visit the shelter annually. More than 500
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Where: 20 SE Fifth Ave., Delray Beach; 6020 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton Website: lesorellerestaurant.com [image_with_text_over icon_size=”fa-lg” image=”18641″ title=”Sister Act”] As evidenced by the five-star raves on social media, diners in Boca and Delray are delighting in the authentic Italian cuisine and familial warmth at the two Palm Beach County locations of Le Sorelle, the
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PAWS & Havana Nights As current president of the fundraising affiliate for the Humane Society of Broward County, Julie Strauch understands as well as anyone that the 212 members of PAWS (Pets Are Worth Saving), including 57 board members, aren’t just there to socialize. “When I say I have a working board, I’m not kidding,”
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Since debuting his first fashion collection in 1987, much of Isaac Mizrahi’s life has played out in the most public ways. On the runway, his sense of style brought him celebrity and fortune. On screens big and small, his engaging personality led to a star turn in a 1995 film documentary (“Unzipped”), his own TV
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The preeminent presidential historian of our time acknowledges that these are strange days indeed. Her latest best-seller—Leadership: In Turbulent Times—mines the formative experiences of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson for insights into how and why they became the right men to guide our nation through some of its most trying episodes.
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When you hang your salt-rimmed glass on the kind of craft margaritas that El Camino creates, only the freshest ingredients make the cut. So, it should have come as no surprise to customers at the restaurant’s Delray Beach outpost a few years ago when the watermelon-jalapeño margarita quietly rotated off the menu for a brief
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Rarely does a high school student’s excuse for missing a final exam come off sounding like Ivy League material. Then again, how many teenagers have to be in Washington, D.C., on a school night because the nonprofit organization they helped to create is being honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award? In the
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Note: In response to the news that disgraced stand-up Louis C.K. has booked six shows this week in Florida, Lifestyle presents the February Editor’s Letter by Kevin Kaminski, part of our special issue—Stories from Parkland: One Year Later. When it comes to someone being their own worst enemy, it shouldn’t shock us that a man who
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The working title of Marlee Matlin’s February presentation during the Broward College Speaker Series borrows from a children’s book she co-wrote in 2007. But the idea that “Nobody’s Perfect” resonates throughout the causes connected to promoting inclusion for which the Academy Award-winning actress, who lost her hearing at 18 months old, continues to advocate. In
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I was born without a physical ear, and no ear canal, on my left side. Over the years, I had surgeries meant to replicate the ear structure. They took cartilage out of my rib cage and sculpted it; then they wrapped it in a nice bow with skin grafts. It took eight surgeries—the first one
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