A Helping Hand

Their introduction came seven years ago. Michael Hartwell, an auto collision technology instructor at Atlantic Technical College, and his students replaced a set of tires on the van of the school’s information management specialist, Kristy Bak. He noticed the disabled parking permit on the window. Bak’s son, Andrew, was diagnosed with schizencephaly at birth, a

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5 Questions with Robert C. Mattes, Parks and Recreation Director, Village of Pinecrest

Though Robert C. Mattes majored in outdoor recreation and psychology at Plymouth State University, it took becoming the recreation director for the city of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, to see that working in parks and recreation could be, to use his word, “wonderful.” “It really wasn’t until I started that career that I realized this isn’t

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The Lifestyle List

Friday, March 2 Laughs and Memories Sopranos Night with Vincent Pastore and Goumba Johnny Catch a Rising Star presents a night of stand-up with “The Sopranos” actor Vincent Pastore and comedian Goumba Johnny Where: Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach Tickets: Starting at $47 Info: 561-243-7922; OldSchoolSquare.org The Fab Faux The

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Show of Solidarity

Students throughout the tri-county region refused to wait for the National School Walkout in March to make their voices heard in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In the week following the Feb. 14 attack, high school students from Hialeah Senior High, Western High in Davie, Cypress Bay in

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The Lifestyle List

Thursday, Feb. 22 — Celebrate National Margarita Day and Food Fun Cantina Laredo Try the Great Minds Drink Alike! Perfect Patrón ‘Rita with lunch specials such as Ensalada de Pollo and Sopa y Jicama-Green Apple Slaw Where: The Village at Gulfstream, 901 S. Federal Highway, Hallandale Beach Info: 954.457.7662; https://www.cantinalaredo.com/location/hallandale-florida/ Brimstone Woodfire Grill Half off Kush Margaritas and Don

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T Bone Burnett

Despite a journalist’s best-laid plans, interviews don’t always go as expected. In the case of Lifestyle’s recent conversation with T Bone Burnett, one such detour says as much about the perspective he brings to his artistic endeavors as any of the mile markers along his remarkable musical journey. Though the renowned producer, performer and songwriter

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Spike It

The Beach Volleyball Major Series returns to Broward, with the competition drawing to an action-packed conclusion during the first weekend in March. World-class male and female players from around the globe—battling for a total purse of $600,000—will take to the sand at Fort Lauderdale Beach Park for quarterfinal, seminfinal and medal matches, starting Friday, March

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Parkland Strong

As I watched the teenage son of one of my dear friends recount to CNN’s Anderson Cooper what he had witnessed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, my mind raced back to Nov. 20, 2014. My wife and I were asleep when my cell phone rang at 12:34 a.m. As the father of

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The Lifestyle List

Lifestyle’s Pick Eugene Robinson The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and associate editor of The Washington Post visits Boca Raton as part of Florida Atlantic University’s 2018 Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American presidency. Robinson, a regular on MSNBC and NBC’s “Meet the Press,” will speak about “Covering the Presidency in the Modern Media Age.” Where: Carole

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Atlantic Hotel & Spa
Life Lessons: Ashley Brown

In the U.S., 28,000 kids age out of foster care every year. Of that group, almost half end up homeless in the first two years. Everyone wants to focus on infants, but the actual percentage of younger children in foster care is not that high. For whatever reason, teenagers don’t pull at the heartstrings as

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Ashley Brown
Sight to Behold

Where: Las Olas Isles, Fort Lauderdale Floor size: 17,352 total square feet Bedrooms/baths: 7 bedrooms, 6 full baths, 5 half baths Details: This majestic estate on an elevated, full-acre double point lot features three property sides along the water (as well as a 350-foot concrete dock) and panoramic views of the Intracoastal and New River.

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Bella Fortuna Fort Lauderdale
Life Lessons: Nancy Gold

People don’t necessarily know what they’re going to be attracted to, what’s going to be the key to their heart. Sometimes they just have to experience it. We come in, sometimes, with unrealistic expectations. We have to look at what’s realistic at the age you’re at, the stage you’re at in life, [and] say, “You

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Nancy Gold