It’s been more than 20 years since Jeff Sandler and Vinny Munno, then mobile DJs living in Boca Raton, were searching for a place to call their own in South Florida. They made it a habit to check out large, empty buildings that were available for rent, look inside, and maybe even call the agent
Read MoreA Creek resident launches a nonprofit to help the Keys after Irma What began as a Facebook post asking for unused hurricane supplies soon became a nonprofit organization with long-reaching effects. Coconut Creek resident and Winston Park Elementary School teacher Krystal Langley began gathering goods for her hometown of Marathon, the day after Hurricane Irma
Read MoreThis past summer, Adyant Khanna, a junior at Miami Palmetto Senior High School, led a mission in India to provide clean water to more than 1,000 residents in three different villages. “My family is from India, and I’ve visited there for as long as I can remember,” he says. “It’s impossible not to notice the
Read MoreSome people need to find their talent before they translate it into a calling. Not Shelly Berg. The dean of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music could play piano with two hands before he even started attending Cleveland Institute of Music at age 6. “If you had asked me when I was 6
Read MoreChris Green started as a typical car-obsessed teenage boy, eager to make his car cool. Soon, he found his way into the automotive industry, growing his youthful hobby into a multimillion-dollar business. When Green was 15, his mother bought him his first car, a 1995 Volkswagen Jetta. He tinkered with it and its speakers, and
Read MoreWith just a few words, 17-year-old Anh-Thu Le brings the room to silence. Not an easy feat, considering the room was packed with more than 200 guests from the county. Anh-Thu’s speech was part of the third annual Debate Initiative, a luncheon fundraiser for Broward County Public School’s debate programs. The Debate Initiative serves more
Read MoreThere were a few snags during Michael Sayih’s first race. It was a duathlon: a 5-kilometer run, followed by a 30-kilometer bicycle ride, followed by another 5k run. He was 5 and was strapped to the back of the tandem bicycle steered by his father, Jim. Jim found their position at the start line, braced
Read More“There’s no doubt in my mind,” writes Eliot Weisman in his recently released book, The Way It Was, “that my life and the FBI’s perception of my life would have been very different if I had been in that picture.” It’s a picture that was worth a thousand words to the feds and, ultimately, 10
Read MoreSitting inside an empty, darkened TV studio at the WPLG complex in Pembroke Park, Louis Aguirre shares one benchmark after another like a man who sees the bigger picture with more clarity than ever. For more than an hour, he points to stitches in time—his broadcasting break at Telemundo, his stretch on “Fox & Friends,”
Read MoreThe plan was to stay on the MSC Seaside for two nights. On the second night aboard the ship, we’d drift to sea, but return to the dock to disembark as the sun was rising. Eventually, MSC Seaside, “the ship that follows the sun,” will leave its homeport of Miami to destinations such as Nassau,
Read MoreHappy New Year and cheers to 2018! *Sunday, Dec. 31* Performances Billy Joel The Piano Man will ring in the New Year in South Florida for the third consecutive year. When: 9:30 p.m. Where: BB&T Center For the Foodies: New Year’s Eve Tasting Menus 3030 Ocean: Five-course meal ($100 per person, with the option to
Read MoreThough all eight South Florida philanthropists who posed for the cover of Lifestyle at C&I Studio in November 2016 looked resplendent in their black high-season dresses, something about Debbie Zelman couldn’t help but take your breath away. As a cancer survivor, she defied description. In 2008, at age 40, she was diagnosed with Stage IV
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