Headlined by Rich and Jill Switzer, Deborah Silver, Anthony Nunziata, Avery Sommers and Phil Hinton, a special evening to benefit a beloved member of South County’s public-relations community was a rousing success. A sold-out crowd of 200 raised mone
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Psychodrama therapist Pamela Goffman adorns her office in Delray Beach with colors and heart figures that help her bring comfort to clients. Goffman is a lover of the arts and an ardent supporter and former board member of the Arts Garage. Tim Stepie
Harry Valentine of coastal Boca Raton says people at the Arts Garage are like family to him. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Stephen Moore
Harry Valentine’s love affair with the Arts Garage began a year and a half ago when he was wandering around do
By Jane Smith
City leaders want to reclassify some “agencies” that receive taxpayer dollars as “service providers.”
“We need to move away from using ‘nonprofit status’ to describe them,” Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein said in mid-Nov
By Jane Smith
The Arts Garage continues to have angels who want to see the performing arts venue succeed.
Its lease, already extended six months, received another two-month extension in early September from Delray Beach city commissioners. They
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By Jane Smith
The popular Arts Garage will soon be able to book bands for the summer, after its chief public provider decided to step outside its guidelines and aid the struggling arts venue.
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Helen Bass puts the hammer into the project as soon-to-be-homeowner Gethro Phaitus
keeps watch during a roof-raising at 421 SW Fifth Ave. in Delray Beach.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
The Phaitus family — mom Yvescar; daughter Geica, 4; son Liam, 2;
By Jane Smith
The popular Arts Garage venue received reprieves recently from two Delray Beach agencies, but the nonprofit organization can no longer rely just on its programming.
The organization needs a strategic plan, city commissioners and t
By Jane Smith
The Arts Garage in Delray Beach must present better financial records before its chief public provider will release any more money, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board voted unanimously in late January.
The CRA had co
By Mary Hladky
The creative team behind Delray Beach’s successful Arts Garage is now breathing similar cultural life into Pompano Beach.
The nonprofit Creative City Collaborative, which launched and manages Arts Garage, was selected by the Pomp
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach’s excitement over the Arts Garage got a long-term commitment Dec. 10 when city commissioners approved a contract to sell the 10,000-square-foot facility to the arts group for $2.5 million.
The Creative City Col
By Betty Wells
State auditors were scheduled to arrive in the offices of the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency on April 30 to begin an audit for the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee.
The audit was requested by State Sen. Jeff C
By Betty Wells
The Arts Garage, Delray’s Beach’s small, popular music and theater venue, needs to raise $2.5 million in 30 months to pay the city for its home — 10,000 square feet of retail space at the Old School Square parking garage. The execut
By Greg Stepanich
The closing in April of the Caldwell Theatre Co. after money problems forced it to dim its footlights was a blow to more than the company itself and its audiences.
It also was a shock to the whole South Florida theater system, aki
Clockwise from top left: Michael Serratore,
Nick Santa Maria, Kim Ostrenko and Kim Cozort,
in God of Carnage, at Caldwell Theatre. Photos provided
Ed Asner appears as Franklin D. Roosevelt in FDR.
By Greg Stepanich
Early last month in downt
