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Photos (except where noted) by Grove Bay   Bringing the Big Apple to the Sunshine State is no easy feat, but with a repertoire of renowned restaurants—Glass & Vine, Stiltsville Fish & Bar and Stubborn Seed—Grove Bay Hospitality Group makes it seem like a piece of cake. Or, in the case of its Root &

Since blowing up in 2003 as a pop culture icon through his breakout work on Bravo television’s “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” Carson Kressley has been on 16-year tear that shows no signs of losing steam. He’s done everything from authoring three books to hosting his own show on Oprah Winfrey’s network (“Carson Nation”)

Photo by May Bagnel Photography As a certified divorce financial analyst, Victoria Lowell is all too familiar with the fallout of broken marriages. And from her perspective, the only thing more hurtful than marital infidelity is financial infidelity, which, she says, happens more often than most couples think. “When you find out someone has been

Photos by Eduardo Schneider When Betania Bastos gets an idea, she becomes restless. As a baker, she can’t relax until she goes to the kitchen and brings an idea to life. It’s that same drive that has helped the Brazilian native in her baked-from-home food business. While living in Venezuela, Bastos worked in the food

Photography by James Woodley Shot on location at Bonnet House Museum & Gardens, Fort Lauderdale Model: Kenzie Mariano (km-fit.com) Dresses: All wedding gowns courtesy of Zola Keller Las Olas (zolakeller.com) Hair & wedding accessories: Rebecca Mousseau, Phairis Luxury (phairisluxury.com) Makeup: Ana Martignetti (anamartignetti.com) Flowers: Courtesy of Ann’s Florist & Coffee Bar, 1001 E. Las Olas

Photos by Evelyn Suarez At most restaurants, diners expect to see salt and pepper on the table, and maybe some ketchup and steak sauce. But at Pirate Republic Seafood Restaurant, table staples are a little different. Four glass jars contain Brazilian peppers—dedo de moca, biquinho, malagueta and bode—to wake up the taste buds before the

Hearing Wanda Sykes’ take on hot-button issues in her stand-up shows, it’s hard to believe that one of the country’s most popular comics was once tied to a desk job. Though Sykes says she always loved comedy, her first job out of college was as a contracting specialist for the National Security Agency in Washington

No longer just a wildly popular ski town, Breckenridge has emerged as one of Colorado’s more inviting summer destinations Like so many other Rocky Mountain towns, Breckenridge owes its early notoriety to the discovery of gold in them there hills. Prospectors first found nuggets along the Blue River in 1859, putting this high-altitude (9,600 feet)

Leave it to Americans to turn another country’s military victory into an opportunity to drink. Such is the case with Cinco de Mayo (May 5), which will have people raising a salted margarita glass this Sunday for reasons that have nothing to do with the actual back story. Not that that’s ever stopped us from

From the outside, everything at 10812 Buttonwood Lake Drive in the gated Hidden Lakes community in Boca Raton appeared normal. The three-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot, two-story house was well-maintained, the lawn was mowed, the hedges trimmed. The tenants, Alfonso Baldonado Jr., 46, and his wife, Sophia Manuel, 41, were a friendly couple who owned a successful staffing

Photography by Eduardo Schneider I like living in the uncomfortable. Speaking before 600 people I don’t know? I like that. You grow every time you embrace a new opportunity, and I love that opportunity for personal growth. I also love being a role model for my daughters in that sense [Leah, now 29; Amanda, 27],