Kim Ng remembers the moment like it was yesterday. She was 8 years old and attending her first Major League Baseball game on a bright summer weekend afternoon. Ng recalls navigating the interior corridors of Yankee Stadium until she reached her section and finally walked into the open air at one of the sport’s most
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When Brandon Barriera was 4-years-old, he had yet to string together a complete sentence. “He was a late bloomer,” says his father Sergio Barriera. But Sergio will never forget how Brandon’s first full sentence set the course for both of their lives. At their home in Brooklyn, New York, they were huddled around the television
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The Leo Goodwin Foundation Teen Center, part of the North Fort Lauderdale campus of Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County, is bustling. It’s 4 p.m. and kids are streaming into the after-school club. They show their membership cards and sign in. Some go to coolers and grab a flavored water; others sift through an
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Pictured above from left to right: Chi Chan, Oliver Saucy, Carlos Vaquerano, Josie Smith-Malave Josie Smith-Malave Chef/co-owner Bubbles & Pearls, Wilton Manors Did you know: From 2006 to 2011, the chef was on Bravo TV’s Top Chef during seasons 2, 3 and 5. She is also the founder of Global Soul Project, a food
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The executive chef at Sorrisi, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek’s fine dining Italian restaurant, has been in the position for less than a year. But Katherine Carrasco had an idea of what her regular customers would want even before she approached the restaurant’s red and green awnings and walked through its open double doors. As a
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Following the success of their Jet Runway Café on the tarmac at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Mitch Amsterdam and Mike Linder latched onto a similar idea along the docks at Lauderdale Marine Center. Yot Bar & Kitchen, like the airport restaurant, is off the beaten path, something that Linder says has propelled business since Jet
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He doesn’t mind being knee-deep in algae. In fact, scientist H. Dail Laughinghouse will tell you it’s where he feels most comfortable. But Laughinghouse admits to having his “Oh, my gosh. This is what I do for a living?” moments from time to time. “So, there I was at Lion Country Safari [in Loxahatchee] sitting
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Where: 250 N. Pompano Beach Blvd., Pompano Beach Phone: 954.366.3768 Website: oceanicpompano.com Back to the Future: The late-summer opening of Oceanic—a 20,000-square-foot architectural marvel overlooking the Atlantic—not only delivered destination dining to revitalized Pompano Beach Fishing Village but also brought the culinary journey for owners Lou and Joy Moshakos full circle. Opportunity
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For the 20 years she has been the artistic director of the Township Center for Performing Arts, Claudia Genteel has seen her share of talented artists and musicians perform at the Coconut Creek theater. But few hold a place in her heart like the Sugar Pops Orchestra, which has been part of the theater’s subscription
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Whether the story is about fictional protagonist John Deal, now an American icon in the crime novel genre, or a page out of history’s real-life stories, Les Standiford’s writing has a narrative element that makes whatever he’s decided to put his pen to a page-turner. The Pinecrest author’s latest, a nonfiction book called Palm Beach,
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Preparing paella for hundreds on a Friday night certainly sounds more daunting than helping his mother and grandmother stage the same meal for family in Ponce, Puerto Rico. But some aspects of Roberto Santiago’s childhood paella experience continue to resonate—namely, the passion that the executive chef at Shooters Waterfront has for this enduring dish. It’s
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The way Area Stage Company founders John Rodaz and Maria Banda-Rodaz met could be a script for a theater love story—a play about a couple whose chance meeting was orchestrated by destiny. It’s 1989. A woman is riding on a tram down Lincoln Road. It’s her first day in the United States after moving from
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