From the day we adopt our pets, we promise to always be there for them. We whisper in their ears that we will care for them for their entire lives. We look forward to growing old together.
Our vows are well intended, but we can’t pr
By Greg Stepanich
Beginning with this coming season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art will mark its 10thanniversary at its lovely building in Mizner Park.
It moved there in January 2001 after having been in a small space on Palmetto ParkRoad since 19
Hurricanes can put the hurry in you. When Hurricane Andrew took aim on South Florida in1992, I stood inside my bathtub with my roommate and three puzzled cats. Living just a mile from the ocean in Lantana, we waited for the Category 5 storm to str
Picturesque outside and serene within, the First Church of Christ, Scientist sanctuary almost belies its amazing journey from an Air Force base in Boca Raton to its
200 SE Seventh Ave. home in Delray Beach. The January 1949 move was a
By Thom Smith
Heads turned. Hands waved. Horns honked.
Motorists and pedestrians from Sebastian to Boca Raton had no trouble recognizing thefamiliar cyclist during the first week of June. Steve Weagle was at it again, biking north to south to rai
By Greg Stepanich
Three Palm Beach County musicians got together nearly 20 years ago to found a chambermusic series that would explore the broader reaches of the classical repertory, and this month, the annual four-week series returns to prov
By C.B.Hanif
The blessings are likely to be mutual once again this month when Monsignor TomSkindeleski, of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach, leads his ninth annual Knights of Columbus father-and-son contingent in service to ind
By Arden Moore
Irwin Stovroff of Boca Raton is living proof that you’re never too old to make adifference and that you should never underestimate the healing power of dogs.
Stovroff, energetic at 87, first caught my attention when he recent
For two decades, Florida Stage has brightened the cultural landscape far beyond its little corner in Manalapan. Inevitably, the magnitude of the little company has
grown, so its orbit had to expand.
On June 20, the last lines of the
By Greg Stepanich
It was controversial when it first hit the stage back in 1967, but today it standsas a landmark of the American theater, and the first truly successful rock musical.
I speak, of course, of Hair, which evennow is playing in Lon
By Arden Moore
Living in South Florida gives true meaning to the dog days of summer. Just ask Susan Baker, of Lake Worth, who must set her alarm clock pre-sunrise just to ensure her two poodles can get in a morning walk before
turning into hot do
By Thom Smith
Once known as sleepy Delray, it now seems like the town that never sleeps. A coupleof months ago we had Savor The Avenue, with diners at “long tables” down the middle of Atlantic Avenue. Then the Delray Beach Film Festival — the li
By Greg Stepanich
The arts season for 2009-10 is in the books, but that doesn’t mean we’re all goingto be reduced to flipping on the A/C and watching videos of cats playing piano apps on an iPad (cute as that is).
Longtime observers of the cultu
By C.B. Hanif
The last Monday in May is the unofficial beginning of summer. It’s also a day when Americans visit cemeteries, gather for parades and picnics, or watch the
National Memorial Day Concert at the U.S. Capitol.
Most important, folks ref
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America’s connection to Garfie
By Thom Smith
Brace yourselves. It’s April, but it seems like the season is just starting.
Savor the Avenue’s long table has barely been cleared, the last reel is stillspinning at the Delray Beach Film Festival, and already the aroma of conch
various faith traditions as it gets around these parts. And it just became m
By Arden Moore
The first place Suzi Goldsmith headed after relocating from Detroit to Palm Beach County in 1985 wasn’t to dine at the famed Breakers Hotel, tour the FlaglerMuseum or catch an outdoor concert at Bryant Park.
She made a beeline to an
