A sense of pride washes over Jen Hellman as she explains to customers at Boca Raton’s Farmer’s Table that she just graduated at the top of her class. “I didn’t know there was a valedictorian for DUI school,” she says. It’s not exactly the type of quip you expect to hear at a farm-to-table restaurant
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Meteorologist Bryan Norcross has a special message for South Florida: Hurricane Irma presents the biggest threat to Broward County and all of South Florida since Hurricane Andrew. We don’t yet know how bad it will be, but we need to be ready for an extreme hurricane, and be happy if it’s something less. We should
Man & Woman of the Year Where: Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach What: Members of Broward County’s business and philanthropic community raised more than $500,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society at the Man & Woman of the Year competition. The winners were Gene A. Berman of Marcus & Millichap and Vicki Schuerger of Kelley
Your Lifestyle guide to hurricane preparedness Effects of Irma could be felt in South Florida by Friday. Broward County has several shelters, should you need to evacuate. Coconut Creek Lyons Creek Middle School: 4333 Sol Press Blvd. Monarch High School: 5050 Wiles Road Coral Springs Coral Glades High School: 2700 Sportsplex Dr. Davie Fox Trail
To describe John Coburn’s garden, a friend recently said, “You could charge $5 admission.” It’s lush and beautifully manicured, with Zen fixtures and butterflies fluttering about. The design came to him and his girlfriend, Dori Brenes, after a therapeutic day at Butterfly World. They turned the space, which a year ago had not one plant,
A Creek mom spreads positivity with painted rocks When her 8-year-old son picked up a colorfully painted rock on the way to his weekly tennis lesson in Coral Springs, she told him to put it back. Less than an hour later, the boy found another rock with the words “Coral Springs Rocks” and a link
John DiCintio is something of a local celebrity. Having lived in South Creek for about 30 years, the police captain regularly gets waves and honks from neighbors. His popularity speaks not only to the practice of community policing but also to the fact that, as DiCintio says, officers are never quite off the clock. “It’s
When Sandra Canning goes too long without taking photographs, she doesn’t feel like herself. If she isn’t exploring her ideas through the camera lens, she grows miserable—even though doing so sometimes hurts just as much as keeping it inside. “So much of my creative process is inquiry—myself and my subject—but so many people don’t do that.
Seminole Coconut Creek’s newest restaurant gives diners the best of two cultures Eric Douglas has something in common with Seminole Casino Coconut Creek’s newest restaurant, The Bol. The restaurant is a mixture of two cultures, serving both Vietnamese and Chinese fare. While the operating manager speaks about how he came to work for the Seminole
Disadvantaged students interview in style, thanks to a Creek professor Atlantic Technical College professor Debra Oistacher looks forward to her Nov. 11 birthday party each year. On the invitation, she includes the requisite details: when, where and a reminder not to bring gifts. No gifts? Instead, the self-styled “professional do-gooder” asks party attendees to bring
