Shark Week is right around the corner! Celebrate the fun and fright of this week-long Floridian favorite at the Ritz-Carlton in Fort Lauderdale. The hotel recently partnered with Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” team to raise awareness of shark conservation efforts with fun events and nightly episode screenings through August 4. Guests can enjoy a dive-in
This nondescript Italian restaurant, located in downtown Fort Lauderdale, is one of the best-kept secrets of South Florida locals. We’re letting the cat out of the bag to share some incredible dining opportunities available through the end of September at Valentino Cucina Italiana. This summer, guests can enjoy a unique Prix-Fixe menu that includes an
Throughout the Month Cirque Du Soleil: Corteo When: July 24-Aug. 4 Where: BB&T Center What: The new show from the celebrated contemporary circus company invites audeinces to “get carried away with life.” Featuring live music, aerial dancers and performers, the production follows a clown that dies and watches his funeral take place in a carnival-like
Photo above courtesy of El Camino Rocco’s Tacos Locations: Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Delray Beach The Florida favorite offers $6 margaritas and shots, $4 Mexican draft beers, $16 pitchers, and half off tequila bottles. Diners have their choice of more than 300 tequila varieties as well as Rocco’s famous homemade Margarita sour mix. Info
Mai Kai Enjoy dinner and a show at Fort Lauderdale’s famed Mai Kai Restaurant and Polynesian Show. Voted the area’s Best Unique Dining Experience, this local landmark features signature dishes as well as traditional fare that guests can dine on while watching the Polynesian dance revue. If you’re looking for an experience that kids will
Yogis can practice the art of zen with their best friend at the “Downdog with Dogs” events at Tri-County Animal Rescue in Boca Raton. Led by renowned yoga instructor Naya Rappaport, these yoga classes are pet-friendly and created to foster physical interaction between people and dogs. “The class will be therapeutic for both the humans
Everything in life is a choice, except death and taxes. If you choose to perceive something negatively, that’s your choice. I choose to see the good. You have one life to live. Why not look at things in a way that propels you instead of stopping you? For much of my life, I had
Where: The Spa at Auberge Beach (2200 N. Ocean Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) The treatments: Massages and body rituals involving the quartz table The lowdown: At first glance, nothing about the custom-manufactured Gharieni quartz treatment table screams ancient Egypt. Its chic body-length design and inversion gravity settings all speak to a work of contemporary wonder in
If your notion of mall bites is a food court with requisite stands for pizza, subs, burgers and bourbon chicken, then Sawgrass Mills wants you to think again. Thanks to the surge in sit-down restaurants at the Sunrise outlet mall, the sprawling retail behemoth off Panther Parkway has emerged as one-stop shopping in more ways
Matthew Liebman and Daniel Shmul entered their high school years at Cypress Bay in Weston anxious to join as many clubs as they could. Advised by their guidance counselors that getting involved would make for the best high school experience, they joined various clubs but often wound up disappointed. “All these clubs at Cypress
