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People should not go hungry. We take a lot of things for granted. Food. Fuel. The clothes on our back. The roof over our heads. When you’re stuck in your bubble, you don’t see what ails our community. And then you make assumptions that aren’t accurate. There are people who believe that we help individuals

1. That’s Italian: The recently opened restaurant at The Atlantic overlooks Fort Lauderdale Beach, but expect to be transported to the Amalfi Coast by executive chef Rocco Honig’s Italian/Mediterranean creations. The graduate of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale has infused the menus with several seafood-inspired twists on Italian dishes. 2. Something’s fishy: In addition

Fun Foodie News National Peking Duck Day: Thursday, Jan. 18 Pay homage to the classic Asian dish at David Grutman’s Komodo, a hotspot for Southeast Asian cuisine and celebrity sightings in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood, where it has gained an Instagrammable reputation. Another Miami hotpot, Jaya at the Setai, serves its Peking Duck with steamed pancakes,

Congratulations to Jubi Arriola-Headley of Fort Lauderdale, who earned the scholarship for African-American poets and free tuition to the 14th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Jan. 15-20, at Old School Square in Delray Beach. According to a festival press release, Arriola-Headley is “a first-generation African-American, born to Bajan (Barbadian) parents, who also identifies as gay. As

Friday, Jan. 12 Sports Florida Panthers vs. Calgary Flames When: 7:30 p.m. Where: BB&T Center Parties “AVANT-Garde Fridays” AVANT in Delray Beach (pictured) recently launched a weekly late-night series with rotating themes. When: Every Friday from 10 a.m. to close Where: 25 N.E. Second Avenue, Delray Beach [tw-divider][/tw-divider] Saturday, Jan. 13 Performances Dennis DeYoung The

The Martin File ? Martin founded Optime Consulting 1998 to help companies elevate and recognize their employees with strategies that will increase productivity and quality of life. ? The firm is located in Weston (2400 N. Commerce Parkway, Suite 302), with offices in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Spain. Optime has some 130 employees. ? Leading

Friday, Jan. 5 Performances “Volta” Cirque du Soleil’s new show is inspired by the adventurous spirit of action sports. When: 8 p.m. (through Jan. 14) Where: Tent next to Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Sports Miami Heat vs. New York Knicks When: 8 p.m. Where: AmericanAirlines Arena [tw-divider][/tw-divider] Saturday, Jan. 6 Festivals Las Olas Art Fair

The president of the Coral Springs Regional Chamber of Commerce admits with a laugh that the chamber didn’t do anything special to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its incorporation in 2017. But Cindy Brief notes that something special did happen—a partnership that unites two cities. In August, the chamber announced that it had integrated with

When Lyons Creek Middle School last year received its first A grade since 2010, Principal Horace Hamm and his team of teachers and administrators started the school year celebrating. But something gnawed at Hamm: The latest student data showed more than a third of the school’s nearly 2,000 students weren’t performing at grade-level. “We wanted

Creek’s Eduardo Souza shares some long-distance insights on the eve of the butterfly run Eduardo Souza isn’t one to let himself fall behind. When his mother, then in her early 60s, started running and placed in a local church race, he realized that nothing was stopping him from winning races as well. He started small

It started with a Labor Day barbecue. Something that had the potential to be a gathering of youths sitting and staring at their cellphones turned into a marathon session of one of today’s hottest games: bottle flipping. The goal is simple: Flip a partially filled water bottle and make it land upright. “My son and

Two South Florida entrepreneurs place their bets on unique flotation devices They say that no great idea can get off the ground without passion. For Coconut Creek resident Doug Schultz and Oakland Park resident Justin Rietema, it was a mutual love for being on the water that turned these friends into entrepreneurs and business partners.