During his first-ever acoustic tour last year, legendary rocker Peter Frampton would turn to his writing partner, Gordon Kennedy, and quip, “So people pay so much a month to stream songs, and we get how much?” To which Kennedy would reply, “Nothing.” That exchange explains, in part, why Frampton joined other songwriters on Capitol Hill
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• The tangible passion that Ana Calderon Randazzo brings to her role at Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center can be measured any number of ways using time as the yardstick. Like the 29 years she’s worked at CDTC, the past three as executive director. Or the snapshot tours of the Fort Lauderdale-based facility she no
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Theresa Caputo is accustomed to the questions, but the answers never change. No, she can’t see into the future. No, she can’t predict which Powerball numbers will hit. And no, she doesn’t have a crystal ball. The Long Island Medium says that’s the world of psychics. “I’m Theresa Caputo, and I talk to the dead,”
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An attractive young woman has lost her balance and tumbled into the pool at David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie. As fate would have it, a 12-time Olympic swimming medalist is there to save the day. He snags her phone as she’s falling in and notices a credit card “past due” alert flashing on
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• It’s been six years since a bullying incident during band class left Rebecca Zerbo crying in a middle-school bathroom. That night, the Boca Raton resident went home and wrote messages of positivity to keep in her back pocket. Whenever she felt down, she reached for one of the sayings and read the encouraging words.
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In the nearly 30 years since Chazz Palminteri wrote and performed “A Bronx Tale” as a one-man show in Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical tale about an Italian-American boy (Calogero) caught between the working-class values espoused by his father (Lorenzo) and the allure of organized crime embodied by the neighborhood mob boss (Sonny) has taken on
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Drunk in Love Champagne and Caviar Couple’s Journey Where: Eau Spa Address: 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan The experience: The aptly named “Caviar Couple’s Journey” is an indulgent, five-hour itinerary designed for couples seeking uninterrupted relaxation. It’s a luxury also to be enjoyed by singletons, I can attest. The experience has much to do with
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Despite the daylong drizzle that had turned its famed dirt track to mud, Pimlico Race Course, just outside of Baltimore, was abuzz last May 21. A record crowd of more than 135,000 awaited the 141st running of the Preakness Stakes, the second leg in thoroughbred racing’s annual Triple Crown. Appropriately enough, the honor that day
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Heather Geronemus Residence: Plantation Organization: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (Geronemus sits on the national board of directors). The nation’s largest nonprofit working to protect families from impaired drivers, MADD also provides support to survivors and families whose lives have been altered by drivers under the influence. Her involvement: A drunk driver killed Geronemus’ father in
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When Becky Rosa sees an image of Winnie-the-Pooh, she doesn’t think about the teddy bear and his friends having adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood. She obsesses over what’s really in Pooh’s “hunny” jar. The London-born artist and clothing designer shares this aside toward the end of a candid interview on a bench outside of
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Over the years, Scotch and whiskey snobs have given bourbon its share of grief, leading to a handful of misguided notions about the barrel-aged beverage, which is distilled from a dry-grain mix that includes at least 51 percent corn. For starters, as noted by the American Bourbon Association, Kentucky does not have a monopoly on
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Vanessa Cole swears she’s never posed for a magazine fashion photographer, but you wouldn’t know it by the way the Plantation resident is seducing the camera (and enchanting much of the crew) like a seasoned supermodel during an all-day shoot aboard a 164-foot custom yacht. While the photographer snaps image after striking image of the
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