The LOOP (Las Olas Oceanside Park) on Fort Lauderdale Beach will feature a holiday experience providing free entertainment events called WONDERLAND. From Christmas weekend through Dec. 31, visitors of all ages can enjoy an array of themed sights, sounds, special activities and performances. Over Christmas weekend, The LOOP will present two special free holiday concerts. The
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The JA Circle of Wise Women and the Junior Achievement of South Florida will host one of the most extensive culinary experiences in South Florida during JA World Uncorked. The experience includes culinary offerings from local eateries and a vast selection of wine, spirits and specialty cocktails from Breakthru Beverage and craft beers from Funky
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As the Downtown Doral area expands its offerings of family-friendly events, live entertainment and trendy restaurants, the mixed-used plaza also offers various holiday-themed shows in December to enhance guests’ cultural experiences. World-renowned artists will be featured during Downtown Doral’s Holiday Fest celebration for three weeks. Upcoming shows include: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s Wild and Swingin’
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Growth spurt: The success of The Wharf Miami, which debuted in late 2017, had shown the creative minds at Breakwater Hospitality Group that if you build a 30,000-square-foot open-air setting with cocktail stations, cultural and entertainment offerings, and culinary pop-ups, people will come … in droves. But as Breakwater co-founder Emi Guerra and his team
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Between programming on Bravo and the Food Network, we’ve all seen enough reality cooking shows to know that chefs don’t mind throwing down from time to time. But at least the kitchen competition that starts this month between Fabio Viviani (pictured, left) and Marco Vico (pictured, below) has a benevolent ingredient. The celebrity chef from Florence, Italy, whose Riviera by
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The Weston Town Center’s Food and Wine Festival will commence from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 12, at the shopping mall. This year’s event will feature numerous wine samplings and food bites from local and nationally recognized wineries and top restaurants from Weston and nearby cities. The festival will include a kids’
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The Hallandale Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (HBCRA) and ArtServe in Fort Lauderdale will celebrate the completion of a new mural designed and painted by Evoca1, a world-renowned public artist, as part of their “12 Months of Art Program.” The public is invited to witness the unveiling of the new piece of art as well as
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As a celebrity judge, television veteran Malcolm-Jamal Warner will join the fourth annual Exit 36 Slam Poetry Festival. The star of The Cosby Show and current hit The Resident will also be performing his poetry at the festival and delving into his illustrious career during an Artist Talk. “We are honored that actor and poet Malcolm-Jamal Warner will
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When he’s not busy re-imagining residential spaces in a more traditional sense for clients enthralled by his eye for contemporary simplicity and classical splendor, interior designer Victor A. Diaz, owner of Curated.Art in North Miami, loves transforming homes for the holidays. One of those transformations, a detail-rich project for a client in Coral Gables, has become an annual
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As South Florida’s largest celebration of Caribbean-American heritage, the Caribbean Food & Rum Festival provides an excellent opportunity to celebrate everything the Caribbean has to offer on Sunday, Dec. 12, at ArtsPark at Young Circle in Hollywood. The family-friendly event features food, rum, cocktails, music, and arts and crafts from various islands, including Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, the
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Art Basel Miami Beach opens today. But as any art aficionado can tell you, business-wise it’s kind of already over. That’s because the biggest sales always happen during the VIP days (that was Tuesday and Wednesday this year), before the fairs are open to the public. And early indicators suggest it’s been a success—maybe not
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The United Way of Broward County will host its 30th Annual Day of Caring event from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Dec. 11. It will consist of a drive-through celebration and shoebox drop-off event, presented by Memorial Healthcare System The nonprofit organization aims to UNITE community members in support of their neighbors in need by taking
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