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The Metropolitan brings visionary perspective and artful living to Downtown Delray Beach. A luxury boutique condominium of 48 residences, showcasing timeless elegance at its best. This contemporary masterpiece features tropical modernist design by Richard Jones Architecture and sophisticated décor by Venus Williams’ V*Starr Interiors.

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48 Hours in Miami

The party never stops in Miami. Hit the nightlife scene at an old Havana cabaret, a Baz Luhrman-designed gilded 1920s hotel, a haute hostel bar, a retro club with a Studio 54 vibe and ice skating rink —and the design district.

By NILO DO SIMON

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Day to Night Drinks: Mocktails to Cocktails

Juice it up with artisan cocktails that go from day to night as crushed berries, herbs and flowers are transformed into adult beverages with a shot, or two.

By LIBBY VOLGYES

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A history of music in South Florida: A tribute to the birthplace of disco, Margaritaville and the Miami sound from Buffet to the Beatles, Estefan to Flo Rida.

By SCOTT PICCOLI

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Escape Rooms

Indiana Jones wannabes and closet gumshoes can test their skills solving mysteries to escape Egyptian mummies and tombs, alien base installations and psycho killers.

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Departments

30 Editor’s Letter

67 Biz

161 The Scene

By GARY GREENBERG

By SHAYNA TANEN

Here’s what matters in March: Boca Chatter last-minute tips for spring break, vintage maps and books that are Worth the Trip to the Old Florida Book Shop, an interview with America’s premier balloon dressmaker and Women Volunteer of the Year winners.

42: Dress Code: : We’re feeling blue this spring in watercolor shades of the Atlantic in accessories and sand-soft new suede shoes.

64: City Watch: City Watch: Expediency is the ticket when luring a business from Boca to Delray.

77 Feel Good

176 My Turn

By ALLISON LEWIS, RANDY SCHULTZ, MARIE

By THOMAS YAIR

As spring’s zephyrs blow into Boca, our thoughts turn to MLB baseball and new beginnings.

By MARIE SPEED

33 The Local

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Mall czar Sal Saldana goes the extra mile to cater to customers, KRS Global cleans up and the Historical Society keeps the past current.

A good left punch can leave you feeling better—and healthier, a peek at pickleball (no pickles involved). On the hunt for healthy nosh, or nibble? There’s an app for that.

By LISETTE HILTON

117 Backstage Pass

Check out who’s on the playbill at this year’s Festival of the Arts, including a New Yorker cartoonist—plus a March calendar with everything from the Capital Steps to the miracle of Smokey Robinson.

High season soirées from South Florida State of the Market, Generation Hope, to the I Have a Dream gala.

Negligent parenting without consequences turns out a nation of ruffians and scofflaws the author opines.

By JOHN SHUFF

127 Dining Guide

Our comprehensive guide to the best restaurants in South Florida includes reviews of the Wine Spectator award-winning Caffé Luna Rosa, haute hotel dining at Bistro Ten Zero One, a classic Brooklyn deli in Boca, Junior’s and beach o’clock cocktails at Benny’s.

Reviews by LYNN KALBER

ON THE COVER: Wynwood Walls mural by Fin DAC from the United Kingdom

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Check out these bonus items unique to bocamag.com, stories in our March issue of Boca Raton and events in our area this season:

SOCIAL MEDIA

CITY WATCH: Want to know what’s happening in your community? Randy Schultz provides the raw truth about what’s going on in Boca.

His columns appear on the website under the “Community/City Watch” tab on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Don’t miss Boca on everything from FACEBOOK (facebook.com/bocamag) to INSTAGRAM (instagram.com/bocamag) and TWITTER (@bocamag) for community news, retail trends, foodie updates and much more.

comforting meal of double bone-in Kurobuta pork chops from 50 Ocean Chef Joseph Bonavita Jr. To tackle this meal yourself, visit the“In the Magazine”tab on our website and go to the March issue, where we’ll break it down for ya.

FRONT ROW SEAT: Talk about having a cool job… Ron Elkman has taken photos at dozens of concerts in South Florida this year. Visit our website for concert galleries, including: Billy Joel, the Sunshine Music Festival and Kenny Rogers. You can find our galleries under the “Arts & Entertainment” tab on bocamag.com.

IRISH DANCER: Watch Sarah Shapiro, who has qualified for the

RON ELKMAN

DECONSTRUCTING THE DISH: Impress your friends with a

Kenny Rogers

World Champion Irish dance competition three times, do what she does best. Visit the “In the Magazine” tab on bocamag.com for video of her feet in motion.

MUSIC FESTIVAL GUIDE: Which festivals are worth going to this year? We’ve got your answers in this handy rundown of South Florida’s best fests. Visit our website and click “In the Magazine”to see what’s worth listening to.

WINNING FORMULA

Boca Raton’s social media platforms are the place to be when it comes to special giveaways this season.

Check our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages for alerts and instructions, and you may be one of our lucky winners.

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This residential development TOWER 155 (“Project”) is being developed 155 Boca Raton Road, LLC ("Developer"), which has a limited right to use the trademarked names and logos of Compson. Any and all statements, disclosures and/or representations shall be deemed made by Developer and not by Compson, and you agree to look solely to Developer (and not to Compson and/or any of its affiliates) with respect to any and all matters relating to the marketing and/or development of the Condominium and with respect to the sales of units in the Condominium.

ORAL REPRESENTATIONS CANNOT BE RELIED UPON AS CORRECTLY STATING THE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DEVELOPER. FOR CORRECT REPRESENTATIONS, MAKE REFERENCE TO THIS BROCHURE AND TO THE DOCUMENTS REQUIRED BY SECTION 718.503, FLORIDA STATUTES, TO BE FURNISHED BY A DEVELOPER TO A BUYER OR LESSEE. These materials are not intended to be an offer to sell, or solicitation to buy a unit in the condominium. Such an offering shall only be made pursuant to the prospectus (offering circular) for the condominium and no statements should be relied upon unless made in the prospectus or in the applicable purchase agreement. In no event shall any solicitation, offer or sale of a unit in the condominium be made in, or to residents of, any state or country in which such activity would be unlawful. This is not intended to be an offer to sell nor a solicitation of offers to buy real estate to residents of CT, ID, NJ, NY and OR, unless registered or exemptions are available, or in any other jurisdiction where prohibited by law, and your eligibility for purchase will depend upon your state of residency. For correct representations, reference should be made to the documents required by section 718.503, Florida Statutes, to be furnished by a developer to a buyer or lessee. All images and designs depicted herein are artist’s conceptual renderings, which are based upon preliminary development plans and are subject to change without notice in the manner provided in the offering documents. All such materials are not to scale and are shown solely for illustrative purposes.

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Jason Clary, Gary Greenberg, Lisette Hilton, Scott Piccoli, Helene Rothstein, Randy Schultz, John Shuff, Nila Do Simon, Libby Volgyes, Thomas Yair CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

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With more than 20 years of experience in comprehensive investment planning, asset allocation strategies, and investment management for qualified retirement plans, companies, professionals, and high net worth families, Heller has honed his experience while continuing to provide his clients with a high level of customized service.

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Services provided by the Heller Financial Group include: Retirement Planning, institutional money management, private managed accounts, comprehensive investment planning, investments, estate-wealth preservation analysis, insurance, educational funding, concierge service, as well as liability management and corporate services through affiliates.

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THE EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING AND SO ARE WE!

AKOYA, the most anticipated new luxury condominium in Boca Raton, is now under construction. Set behind the gates of the Nation’s #1 Private Residential Country Club, Akoya’s modern, elegant design is the striking addition to Boca West that will set a new gold standard in luxury condo living. Residents will enjoy spectacular golf and lake views, as well as an unrivaled, highly serviced, maintenance-free lifestyle. But simply being #1 was not enough. That’s why Boca West recently completed a $50 million renovation to its stunning slate of word-class amenities with no assessments. AT AKOYA, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE LIMITLESS.

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Younger than Springtime Getting old is a matter of choice, not birthdays

By MARIE SPEED

his month signals the beginning of spring, the vernal equinox, the start of MLB Spring Training and the point at which our dazzling Florida winter starts its gradual transition from twinkly cool nights into a soft, endless summer. I always think of this as a very young time of year. Maybe that’s why my mind is on starting over and new beginnings.

The best advice I’ve heard lately on this subject was from Clint Eastwood when he was asked in a recent interview how he manages to stay so engaged and youthful at age 86. His response was simple: “You just don’t let the old man in,”he said.

Exactly.

The old man (or woman) is standing right there next to all of us—I don’t care how old you are. I knew young men fresh out of college when I lived in Jacksonville who were already assuming the profiles of their fathers as they followed them into banking or law or insurance. They were the latest in a long line of Southern men in their families who had never once questioned the paths they would take or the dark suits they would wear or the country clubs they would join. They were already 60 by their 29th birthday; they were old before their hair turned gray.

The old man has already stepped into the lives of some of my friends—people who never try new places or venture more than a few miles from their homes and spend most of their days in front of the television. They are always tired, or planning to be tired, or reminding the rest of us that we are all really getting up there.

On the other hand, there are the ones who have simply forgotten how old they are. They are too busy learning how to paint or play guitar or do Tai Chi. I know a 90-year-old woman who is a therapy clown at hospitals and another 80-something man who loves his volunteer work, his screwdrivers and his weekly Dolphins games.

These are the dancers who still dance, the adventurers still dreaming of uncharted islands and the women who fall in love like teenagers at a prom.

These are the people I think about and the ones I want to be this time of year and next year and the year after that. I want to go on another swamp hike, kayak a new river, fly to Cuba for a weekend and get back into yoga. I want to remember the present is what matters now, not the past or the future. I want to give that old man a wet kiss on his cheek and tell him to step off.

Springtime is here, and we all need to dive right in.

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Roger Dean Stadium & The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches

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The total acreage of Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter.

6,871

The number of seats that Roger Dean Stadium holds for fans. The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches has 6,500 seats.

1998 The year Roger Dean Stadium was built in Jupiter, which makes it 18 years old. By contrast, The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches will host its inaugural season with its first home game on March 1, 2017.

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The number of major league baseball teams that make South Florida their home for spring training.

The Washington Nationals and Houston Astros share The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach while the St. Louis Cardinals and the Miami Marlins share Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter.

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THREE DON’T-MISS EVENTS WHERE: Mizner Park Amphitheater and the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center WHEN: March 2-12 ABOUT: Festival of the Arts BOCA brings worldclass musicians to South Florida, along with wellknown authors and historians.

COST: From $9.99 to $125 CONTACT: 866/571-2787, festivalboca.org

Boca Bacchanal

“ I think I read this somewhere.

‘Springtime is the land awakening.

The March winds are the morning yawn.’”

WHERE: Mizner Park Amphitheater on Saturday and private residences on Friday WHEN: March 24 and 25 at 7 p.m.

ABOUT: Boca Bacchanal includes Bacchanalia, a Saturday night event returning this year to the Mizner Park Amphitheater and the popular vintner dinners, taking place in private residences. New this year is the “Spirits vintner dinner.” Held at the Addison in Boca, it will include six cocktails with dinner.

Proceeds from Boca Bacchanal support education and historic preservation programs of the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum.

COST: Bacchanalia is $125 per person. Vintner dinners are $325 per person.

CONTACT: 561/395-6766 ext. 301, bocabacchanal.com

Ninth Annual Savor the Avenue

WHERE: Atlantic Avenue from Swinton Avenue to Southeast Fifth Avenue WHEN: March 27, 5:30 p.m.

ABOUT: Delray and Boca magazines are teaming up with Delray’s Downtown Development Authority to create a table stretching for five blocks with room for more than 1,000 dinner guests. Savor the Avenue will feature 16 some restaurants, with $3 for each reservation donated to the Delray Beach Public Library. Reservations are made directly with the participating restaurants.

COST: Varies by restaurant CONTACT: 561/243.1077, downtowndelraybeach. com/SavortheAvenue Savor the Avenue

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~Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994), “Covering the arrival of spring” Locals sound off on issues affecting our community.

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—J.C. PERRIN, SVP-SFL COMMERCIAL BANKING MANAGER, SEACOAST BANK

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“The bathroom at the Tin Muffin Café. I LOVE the food and charming atmosphere. The bathroom however, is in a class all by itself. It is elaborately decorated for every occasion, season and even had a special election tribute. It simply puts a smile on my face with each visit!”

—JACKIE REEVES, MANAGING DIRECTOR, BELL ROCK CAPITAL, LLC

“HEADING EAST ON CAMINO GARDENS JUST WEST OF DIXIE IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LITTLE PICTURE-PERFECT PARK WITH A RED BRIDGE, AN OLD GROWTH TREE—WITH HUGE BRANCHES GREAT FOR CLIMBING—AND A GLASS TOP LAKE FULL OF FISH! IT’S A SLICE OF HEAVEN.” —SARAH PEARSON, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, EXTERNAL RELATIONS BOCA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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Mikara’s 5 spring fashion trends SUPERSIZED ACCESSORIES This spring, big is big: XXL bags/totes, platform shoes, navel-grazing necklaces and over-the-top earrings.

80’S FASHION Farewell 1970s fashion and hello to 1980s dramatic ruffles, puffy sleeves and one-shoulder shirts/jumpsuits.

BRIGHT, VIBRANT STRIPES Look for broad bands to skinny hypnotic stripes in every color you can imagine.

ATHLEISURE The latest spin is a skin-skimming look that outlines every curve in a woman’s body while still maintaining some semblance of chic-ness.

UTILITARIAN STYLE Military-inspired clothing with oversize cargo pockets, boxy shaped pants and ripstops equipped with drawstring cords and toggles.

Mikara Reid is a stylist and image incubator and a Fashion Institute of Technology NY and Parson New School alumna. She has worked with name brands such as Mercedes Benz NY Fashion Week, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Costume Crew, Project Runway’s Nathaniel Paul, and iMute magazine. For more information, visit MoreMikara.com

1. St. Patrick wasn’t named Patrick. His birth name was Maewyn Succat, but he changed his name to Patricius after becoming a priest, according to Mental Floss. And he wasn’t Irish either. He was actually born in Britain around 385 A.D. and his parents were Roman citizens.

2. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in New York City in 1762 when Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through the city. Today, there are more than 100 St. Patrick’s Day parades across the United States.

3. St. Patrick used the threeleafed shamrock to illustrate his teachings about how the Holy Trinity—Father, Son and Holy Spirit— could be “separate entities yet one in the same.” Today, the shamrock is often a symbol of good luck, according to National Geographic.

You’re in the mood for a spur-of-the-moment vacation, but last-minute flights are, well, sky-high. Here a few tips that might get you a deal.

Most airlines have last-minute discounts available on trips Monday through Thursday, according to Expedia, so if at all possible, avoid traveling during the weekend or toward the end of the week. Flexibility is key when traveling last-minute, so keep your mind open to flights that are on not-as-popular travel days or times. Most of the time, flights that are the first or the last to depart any particular airport will be cheaper than those in the middle of the day. Typically, Tuesday and Wednesday will be the cheapest days to fly.

Be flexible with your plans

For those who have the means and time flexibility,

What is spent on beer for March 17, according to Mental Floss.

34.7 million Number of Irish-Americans in the US.

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extending your trip can slash the final price tag on your flight as there are generally more options for flights within a wider price range. Also, flights are generally cheaper on weekdays, as we detailed earlier, so by extending your trip past the weekend, you can actually end up saving money on the flight.

Check for discounts

Many airlines offer discounts for students, military members and seniors. More often than not, travel sites will not list such discounts at the forefront, so if you’re using a travel site, you may have to do some digging, but the price cut will likely be well worth your efforts. ­

1 in 10,000 Your odds of finding a fourleaf clover on your first try, according to Scientific American.

Monday, March 20, 6:29 a.m.

The exact moment of the 2017 Spring Equinox in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Chris Rock Miami International Film Festival

WHERE: Various cinemas in Miami WHEN: March 3-12 COST: Varies per event CONTACT: 305/237-3456, miamifilmfestival. com MIFF is the nation’s preeminent festival showcasing Ibero-American cinema.

WHERE: Hard Rock Live, 5747 Seminole Way, Hollywood WHEN: March 29 COST: $65-$180 CONTACT: 800/745-3000, myhrl.com It’s been more than 20 years since Chris Rock’s breakthrough HBO special, “Bring the Pain,” established him as a megastar. That standup show—and its follow-up,“Bigger and Blacker”—created the perception of Rock that still holds: a brash, un-P.C., black-leather-jacketed truth teller, the antiCosby. But in the nine years since his last standup tour, he’s become less of a provocative outsider and more of a multihyphenate mogul—executiveproducing documentaries, acting on Broadway, hosting awards shows, and writing and directing feature films. How this time in showbiz and off the comedy club stage will affect Rock’s“Total Blackout Tour”remains to be seen, but there’s only one way to find out.

Carol Burnett “Guys & Dolls”

WHERE: The Wick, 7901 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton WHEN: March 9-April 9 COST: $75-$80 CONTACT:

561/995-2333, thewick.org This musical, inspired by the mythical New York underworld of journalist Damon Runyon, has become a theatrical icon.

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WHERE: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale WHEN: March 19 COST: $31-$170 CONTACT: 954/462-0222, browardcenter.org Back in the golden age of the comedy-variety genre,“The Carol Burnett Show” averaged 30 million viewers a night. To put that into perspective, today’s top-rated comedy,“The Big Bang Theory,” attracts just 20 million—no inflation adjustment necessary. Burnett’s protogender-bending humor, which satirized everything from fairy tales and soap operas to Hollywood and the royal family, holds up just as well as its indefatigable creator, who at 83 remains a sharp, gregarious and productive road warrior. On this spontaneity-filled tour, titled “An Afternoon of Laughter and Reflection,”Burnett will share video clips from her storied career and will field questions from the audience.

Dinosaur Jr. WHERE: Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale WHEN: March 29 COST: $25 CONTACT: 954/564-1074, cultureroom.net Dissonance has always been embedded into the fabric of Dinosaur Jr., the Amherst, Massachusetts, trio whose 1980s emergence laid foundational stones for alternative and college rock. It was there in the music, which married crank-it-to-11 arena-rock volume with lo-fi punk distortion and singer J. Mascis’ incongruous vocal drawl, with its country-slacker disaffection.

And it was certainly there in the mercurial musicians themselves, whose personalities and creative visions clashed enough to warrant a 10-year hiatus between albums. Since 2007, Dinosaur Jr. seems to have

mended its fences without losing the healthy juxtapositions of its influential music. Its 2016 release “Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not,”represents the band’s best work in nearly a decade.

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The Old Florida Book Shop There’s something for everyone at this hidden gem in Fort Lauderdale Written by ALLISON LEWIS

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3426 Griffin Road, Fort Lauderdale, 954/319-1441 oldfloridabookshop. com

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n a cloudy afternoon, I took I-95 South to Fort Lauderdale in search of the Old Florida Book Shop. I found the unmarked storefront by following a phalanx of shelves full of gently used books to the right of the entrance.

I opened the door and inhaled the comforting smell of vintage paper and ink. Down a narrow hallway, I found owner William Chrisant, his reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, who offered a shy smile.

Chrisant has been in the book business for 38 years, the last five years Florida, three of those spent building this shop. The right wall was solid bookshelves stacked 16 feet high.“There are books behind the books … these are triple shelved,”said Chrisant.“I ran out of space straight away.”

His current collection numbers about 20,000, which he calls“overstock.”And he has a method to the selection process.“I subscribe to a service that lists all the auction records for something and shows what auction house had it and what they sold it for,”he said.“ Then you have to look at your copy—is it comparable? Does it have a dust jacket if it needs one; is it signed, not signed? The condition is everything.”

Chrisant grew up with literature, which followed him to college. When a professor introduced him to some stores in Britain and Germany, he began building a collection.

“My studies were so specialized. The books I wanted to buy were specialized. ... They had old books, and I valued them, and I started buying those as a student … I kept buying and buying and buying. Then I started selling. My first store was $75 per month for 200 square feet. Then it just got bigger and bigger,”he said.

Books are organized by category: Asia, Europe, South America, fiction, fashion, art, photography, architecture—the list went on as he gave me a quick tour. Several large wooden armoires near the entrance were filled with leather-bound volumes. “… People sometimes buy them just because they’re pretty, which is OK. I have a lot of leather because it seems to be in demand,”Chrisant said.

A red cover with a gold castle caught my eye: The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.“It’s only $30, but its suede and its from the ‘30s, but it’s perfect,” he said.

“The paper is fabulous, the type is fabulous. It’s a work of art. Almost more like an artifact than a book.”

Chrisant also sells vintage maps and magazines, including some rare New Yorkers from the 1920s.

Although he doesn’t advertise, Chrisant has a few regulars.“There’s a hunger for old books,” he said.

“People who come in almost invariably buy something.”

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The bookstore interior; owner William Chrisant

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DENIM MOTO JACKET, $119, Chico’s at Boca Town Center, 6000 Glades Road, 561/392-7181

TREND WATCH: Spring 2017

Update any wardrobe with these five trends › Stripes › Tropical prints › Crisp whites › Denim › Sheer fabrics

OFF SHOULDER GIGI JERSEY TOP, $195, PIN DOT STRAIGHT PANT, $350, Rebecca Taylor, 19501 Biscayne Blvd., 305/952-5288

Signs of Spring Add stripes, florals and denim to your closet this season Written by ALLISON LEWIS

RUFFLE FRONT BLOUSE, $59.50, Ann Taylor Town Center, 6000 Glades Road, 561/391-0785

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MIDI COSTA OASIS DRESS, $159, Ann Taylor Town Center, 6000 Glades Road, 561/391-0785 FRENCH STRIPED, TRIM FITTING SAILOR SKIRT with eyelet trim, $340, Susan E. Riley, 240 Worth Ave., Palm Beach, 561/315-7828

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MOODY BLUES Pantone’s Fashion Color Report for Spring 2017 forecasts three shades of blue that will be trendy this year.

They are:

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“STONES AND TASSELS,” Gemtastic tassel necklace, $24, Haystacks, 401 E. Atlantic Ave., 561/270-7850

LILLIAN MULTISTRAND NECKLACE, $79, Chico’s at Boca Town Center, 6000 Glades Road, 561/392-7181

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HANDCRAFTED TURQUOISE RING, $195, Shoptiques.com

DENIM BRACELET, $14, Charming Charlie, 9195 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach 561/638-6822

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Sheree’s tips for fabulous hair BLONDE BOMBSHELL

Maintain your natural blonde color with the Brightening Blonde shampoo and conditioner, LaDove Funsch says.

FIGHTING FRIZZ

After shampoo and conditioner, LaDove Funsch recommends the Diamond Dust leave-in cream to fight frizz, and the label.m smoothing cream as a styler.

PREVENTION PLAN

The Therapy line is best for preventing sun and water damage, Funsch says.

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Hair Today label.m shines with new hair care ideas Written by ALLISON LEWIS

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en years ago, label.m was launched in Europe as a hair product brand targeted for hairdressers and salons. Fast forward, to Spring 2015, where label.m launched in the United States. Under the direction of chemist and entrepreneur Sheree LaDove Funsch, the company now has roots in South Florida.

What makes label.m so different from other hair products is its natural ingredients and what LaDove Funsch calls “affordable luxury.”

“One thing about the [label.m] products is, there’s a natural ingredient story, or ingredients that are patented to us,” LaDove Funsch said. label.m strives to use as many organic elements as possible in product formulas.

She finds inspiration everywhere, and this is exemplified in label.m’s wide range of hair products.

“I got to know this particular Hawaiian pineapple—a white pineapple. It has an enzyme that naturally brightens your hair. …The white pineapple enzyme is what makes your blonde brighter,”LaDove Funsch said. This enzyme is one of the ingredients used in the Brightening Blonde series by label.m.

Another example is the Diamond Dust collec-

tion, one of label.m’s most popular product groups.

“We were in Antwerp, Belgium, at a beautiful diamond cutting facility. As they’re cutting these diamonds, I was watching all the dust just falling to the floor … I’m watching how the dust is radiating and sparkling. I was like, ‘I want to take some of this back to the lab,’ ”she said.

LaDove Funsch took some dust home and Diamond Dust, a line of hair products that adds extra shine and protects hair from heat, was born.

“My favorite product to develop was Diamond Dust because being over in Antwerp and seeing the diamonds and having this inspiration to take that dust … Being able to make that come to life was really exciting,”LaDove Funsch said.

The chemist splits her time in London, California, New Jersey, and of course, South Florida. label.m’s American manufacturing facility is based in Miami.

“Our manufacturing facility where we’re making all the products is the only certified organic manufacturing facility in the country that can make professional salon products,” she said.

The label.m brand is available in salons and online at labelmusa.com.

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SHOPPING

DINING Rocco’s Tacos • BRIO

Uncle Tai’s • Morton’s Steakhouse Sushi Ray • Tap42

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KEVIN FEDORA, $49, Chico’s at Boca Town Center, 6000 Glades Road, 561/392-7181

Trending: Texture

DENIM BRITNEY BAG, $89, Chico’s at Boca Town Center, 6000 Glades Road, 561/392-7181

Suede and denim are spring must-haves Written by ALLISON LEWIS

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SAYS WHO: Laura Simon WHERE TO FIND IT: Ziree Thai & Sushi WHY IT’S HER FAVORITE: “It is extremely difficult to make this selection with the breadth and depth of amazing cuisine, restaurants and chefs in Downtown Delray Beach,”Simon said.“But my favorite dish would be the Crunchy Tuna Roll. It has tuna and avocado, is fried tempura style and served with the chef’s special sauce.”The family owned and operated restaurant has been in Delray since 2005.“Many Friday nights you can see me there with my parents Roy and Beth, along with Uncle Ernie and cousin Zicky Simon enjoying the friendly service, delicious dishes and visiting with people we know.”

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of experience in the corporate sector and hospitality industry, including event marketing and management positions with Office Depot Inc., The Breakers Palm Beach and other luxury resort properties. Simon has a Bachelor of Science degree in Tourism Management from Clemson University. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Delray Beach Historical Society; former president of Atlantic Community High School PTSA Organization; a member of the International Downtown Association and a member of RHI (Responsible Hospitality Institute). Simon is married and has a daughter. Running is a favorite hobby and she logs 4-5 miles six days a week. Simon loves the beach and snorkeling and has recently taken up surfing and paddle boarding.

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Lucky Step Sarah Shapiro embraces Irish heritage through dance Written by JASON CLARY

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S The best way I can describe Irish dance is to spring up with your feet turned down and toes pointed for two minutes.“ —Sarah Shapiro

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arah Shapiro has found her calling as an Irish dancer.

“My mom and I have Irish heritage,”Shapiro said.“Her parents were born overseas, and when I was younger, we’d do presentations on Ireland in my classes. My first grade teacher told my mom that her daughter signed up for Irish dance classes and it was right down the street.”

Shapiro was nervous at first. She didn’t know anyone in her class, but that trepidation didn’t stop her from branching out and making lifelong friends.

Irish dance requires firm posture and upper body stiffness with free flowing, rapid leg movement. It’s contrary to many dances that call for flexibility. To build stamina, Irish dancers often take up other sports and workout routines.

“I joined the cross-country team to help with dance,” Shapiro said.“Running helps, and especially sprinting. The best way I can describe Irish dance is to spring up with your feet turned down and toes pointed for two minutes. Any sort of strength training and exercise helps.”

Along with juggling workouts and school, Shapiro dances at several dance studios up to five times each week. She has big ambitions, and not even an injury can stop her.

“Right before regionals (the qualifying event for the World Championships) in 2015, I broke my foot,”she said.“I was in a boot for two and a half months. Once I got the boot off, my ankle was so weak, and I couldn’t do a lot of the moves I used to be able to do. I still competed but I didn’t qualify (for Worlds). I used that as motivation and trained even harder.”

Shapiro qualified for World Championships in 2014, 2015 and again in 2017. This year, the event will be held in Dublin, Ireland. In past years, it was held in Canada, England and Scotland.

“Irish dance is so much bigger than a lot of people can imagine,” Shapiro said.“World Championships is such a spectacle. People come from around the world to compete there.”

Apart from the competition, Shapiro’s fondest memories of Irish dance are the people she’s met, the fast friends she has made and the places she’s been. Despite the rivalry, she said the participants are all supportive of one another.

Shapiro’s future looks bright. Ultimately, her goal is to earn Teagascóir Choimisiúin le Rinci Gaelacha (TCRG) certification (the bar exam of Irish dance) and open up her own dance studio. She also wants to study medicine in college, specializing in sports or dance injury. In the meantime, she is dancing as fast as she can.

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Just Skate At 17, Zion Wright is skating his way to the top Written by JASON CLARY

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“I miss my family and think about them all the time. I try not to think about how much I miss them because if I do, it gets me kind of down. It’s game time out in L.A. You can’t get distracted.

Sometimes I’ll call my dad or mom so they can help me stay focused.”

Another opportunity skateboarding has brought Wright is traveling. Whether for a tournament, a shoot or fun, he’s on the road a lot. Some trips tend to “pop up out of nowhere,”he said.

Although Wright is classified as an“amateur” skater, he’s on the path to becoming a pro, which judging by his talent and current rankings, could come sooner rather than later. It’s ultimately up to Wright to show his board sponsor that he’s consistent and mature enough to get the “pro” designation.

Determined, Wright said the key is to“keep showing them you’re professional material.”

When not skating, Wright is the pure definition of“laid back.”But when he gets on a skateboard, he’s got the competitive edge that has helped him rise above many others in the sport.

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upiter native and 17-yearold skateboard phenomenon Zion Wright is one of the top young skaters in the world. He started skating when he was 4 years old, before most people could form coherent sentences.

He’s even sponsored by companies like Red Bull and Nike.

Looking at clips from Wright’s skateboarding career, it’s obvious he has an insane amount of natural talent. But to get where he currently is, he’s had to endure many falls, failed tricks and gruesome injuries. Wright has broken his wrist and collarbone and persisted through many cuts, scrapes and bruises. His most frightening injury happened in 2014 when he broke his femur (thigh bone) trying to jump a gap. Most people have hesitations when revisiting a traumatic experience, but Wright maintains the attitude that“anything can happen.”

“My first contest coming back from the leg break, my dad drove up to Georgia,”Wright said.“I qualified first out of 100 skaters and hit every trick that I wanted to.”

Use the term “kid” lightly when describing Wright—his work ethic, attitude and execution of difficult tricks sets him far beyond his years.

Wright hasn’t let that success get to his head. He still puts in the work and spends time with family and friends.

Two years ago, Wright moved to Los Angeles to be closer to more skating opportunities. He said his typical day is waking up, reaching out to people to see if anything is happening and skating.

“I don’t plan stuff out unless I’m really trying to get a trick,”Wright said.“Being out in L.A., it’s easy to slack off. I just try to skate as much as I can.

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Balloon Power Fundraising entertainers John Watkins and Tristen Burkholder are blowing it up at the ninth annual Boating Beach Bash Written By HELENE ROTHSTEIN

IF YOU GO: March 18 at Spanish River Park, 561/715-2622 VISIT: boatingbeachbash.com or email: jay@boatingbeachbash.com

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risten Burkholder has a balloon headdress that would make Carmen Miranda jealous, and a “Game of Thrones” dress sporting extended angel wings. The “Little Miss Muffet” balloon dress comes complete with a purple balloon spider.

Created by Burkholder, 25, and her partner, John Watkins, 31, of the Red Suit Experience, the couple will perform for the ninth annual Boating Beach Bash, the largest free fun-day for people with special needs, their families and caregivers on Saturday, March 18, at Spanish River Park.

The first ranked balloon dressmaker in the U.S., and the third ranked in the world, Burkholder’s creations are inspired

by Valentino and the late British designer, Alexander McQueen.

Masters of balloon art and innovative international marketing campaigns for companies such as Clinique, Louis Vuitton and Kiehl’s, Watkins and Burkholder use magic, mentalism, balloon art and a spirit of creativity to raise funds or sell products. They are members of an elite group of entertainers, or as Watkins said,“There are only 24 people in the world doing what we do and 20 of them work for us.”

Watkins’ specialty is creating anthropomorphic animals and life-size balloon replicas of people. Many of his creations are functional—couches you can sit on or bicycles you can ride.

The couple met Jay Van Vechten, founder and executive director of Boating Beach Bash, who started the event in 2009 along with Zack Rice, marina director at Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, which donates more than two dozen yachts to the event.

“We both fell in love with Jay and his wife, Lowell, and how generous they are,”said Watkins.

“They have such a heart for the bash; it’s hard not to want to get involved.”

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A Woman for all Seasons Susan Whelchel named Woman Volunteer of the Year Written by ALLISON LEWIS

I’ve always tried to make it clear to people: without nonprofit organizations, Boca wouldn’t be the Boca it is today.”

— Susan Whelchel

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t this year’s November luncheon, the Junior League of Boca Raton honored women in the greater Boca-West Palm area who have made incredible impacts in the community doing volunteer work. Of these, one won the coveted and prestigious Woman Volunteer of the Year: Susan Whelchel.

Whelchel is a former two-term mayor of Boca, former city council member, school board member and CRA member, among other things. When asked about what being named the Woman Volunteer of the Year meant to her, she paused.

“The answer doesn’t completely come out like my heart wants it to,” she said.“Truly, I never thought that I would win.”

Whelchel has been a member of the Junior League her entire adult life. In fact, it was her first foray into working toward the betterment of an organization and its causes, she said.

She’s had the opportunity to work on various projects over the years, and there are two in particular that stand out.

When she was still the mayor of Boca, Whelchel promoted a partnership between the Junior League and the city to turn some land into a community garden.

“I brought the property to the Junior League to grow a garden,” she said. “That was certainly a big deal.”

Another project she remembers fondly was the creation of the Don Estridge High Tech Middle School, on the former site of IBM. “I’m very proud of that,”Whelchel said.

But perhaps, Whelchel’s biggest legacy is stressing the importance of nonprofit work.

“I’ve always tried to make it clear to people: without nonprofit organizations, Boca wouldn’t be the Boca it is today,” she said.

Although she doesn’t have any definite projects lined up for 2017, Whelchel is sure something will come along.

“I am very grateful and appreciative and hope to keep doing good work,” she said.

Until then, Whelchel is looking forward to spending a little more time at home—after years of service.

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From the Heart Longtime community activist Rosemary Krieger receives Lifetime Achievement Award Written by SHAYNA TANEN

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W I told them not to expect me to win because there are so many wonderful women who do excellent work in the community. ” — Rosemary Krieger

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hen Rosemary Krieger was announced as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, she said she could hardly get out of her chair because she was so shocked. She even told her daughter and two sons, who all traveled from out of state to attend the Junior League’s 29th Annual Woman Volunteer of the Year Luncheon and Fashion Show, not to get their hopes up.

“I told them ‘well, don’t expect me to win, because there are so many wonderful women who do excellent work for nonprofits in the community,”’ she said.“I felt every one of them could have won the award.”

Krieger is not a member of the Junior League of Boca Raton, but she is heavily involved in the Boca Raton community. She is on the advisory council of Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse (AVDA), based in Boca, and has been volunteering with the organization for 26 years. The organization offers alternative choices to ending violence and domestic abuse to promote violence-free relationships and social change.

“I was just delighted [about the award] because AVDA got this too, and I just love AVDA.” Krieger and her husband moved to Boca in 1990 from New York and opened an executive suite of offices for international, national and regional clients. In 1998 she sold RGK Enterprises Inc., her large executive suites company. And since moving here, Krieger has volunteered with countless nonprofit organizations, she said, because that’s where her heart is.

She has been involved with the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, Bethesda Hospital Foundation, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, YMCA, March of Dimes, American Association of Caregiving Youth, Food for the Poor and American Heart Association, just to name a few.

Krieger lives in Boca Raton with her husband. She has three children and three grandchildren.

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Laws of Attraction Both Boca and Delray know the importance of bringing in new businesses Written by RANDY SCHULTZ

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ast fall, a remarkable thing happened in Delray Beach.

The city beat out two rivals for a corporate headquarters–Kaufman Lynn Construction, which is leaving its longtime location in Boca Raton. To lure a company with about 125 employees and an average salary of more than $100,000, some cities would have thrown money at it.

Delray Beach, however, gave Kaufman Lynn no financial incentives. Instead, the city gave the company a zoning change,

quick site plan approval and a commitment that the company wouldn’t have needlessly long waits for building permits.

The company thus got assurances that it wouldn’t waste money during a prolonged city review while Kaufman Lynn’s meter was running. The city got a first-rate project in an area Delray Beach wants to redevelop: Congress Avenue. Kaufman Lynn President and CEO Michael Kaufman said the company wants to be a part of “stabilizing the Congress Corridor.”

This year’s session of the Florida Legislature will feature another debate over whether the state should spend money to recruit businesses.

Gov. Rick Scott wants $85 million for Enterprise Florida. House Speaker Richard Corcoran wants to end public financing for the agency. Last year, largely at Corcoran’s urging, the House rejected Scott’s attempt to get $250 million for Enterprise Florida.

Scott loves to fly around the state for signing ceremonies when a company gets an incentive package. He did it in 2013, when Hertz agreed to move its headquarters from New Jersey to Lee County. He doesn’t show up when the deals underperform or worse, which happens about 60 percent of the time, according to studies of Enterprise Florida’s record.

Office Depot Inc. is a case in point. The company once had its head-

quarters in Delray Beach, but then got an incentive package to move across the line to Boca Raton rather than out of the area.

In 2013, the company merged with Office Max and picked Boca Raton over Naperville, Ill., for the combined headquarters. Even as Office Depot negotiated an updated incentive package, however, the company was discussing a merger with Staples that would have shifted the headquarters to Massachusetts. The federal government blocked the merger last year. Office Depot remains in Boca, but for how long and at what strength is uncertain.

It can be hard for state and local governments to stay out of such bidding wars; with Office Depot, you’re talking 2,000 jobs.

Still, the record in Boca Raton shows that the sustainable approach probably is creating a good climate for business, with some incentives as needed.

Boca Raton got into the game early. In 1978, seeking to lure companies whose employees would live in the company’s developments, Arvida created the Arvida Park of Commerce, recently rebranded as the Park at Broken Sound. The nearby TriRail station—at Yamato Road just east of Congress Avenue—is the busiest on the system that runs from Miami to West Palm Beach.

That’s because of commuters who ride shuttles from the station to jobs in and around the park.

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iccardo Roscetti is a bit of a clean freak. But he has a good excuse. Roscetti runs KRS Global, a biotech company that produces sterile pharmaceutical products. “We scrutinize everything,” said Roscetti, a self-confessed “lab rat”and CEO of the Boca Raton-based company. “At eight o’clock every morning, I’m in the lab looking at the samples and checking the environmental monitoring, making sure we have no bacterial growth, or anything like that, in our clean rooms.”

KRS currently has eight high-tech clean rooms where lab workers clad in protective gear from sole to scalp formulate the injectable medications in a pressurized environment kept pristine by high-efficiency particle (HEPA) air filters. There are redundant safeguards and continual monitoring of air quality as well as drug purity and dosage.

Still, problems can arise. Roscetti once had to toss $30,000 worth of a drug because the pH was too acidic, and he says it may have stung the patients during injection. A bigger threat is contamination by bacteria

or fungi, which can be deadly.

“We’ve never had a recall because I’d rather throw it away if there’s any uncertainty about it potentially hurting someone,”he said.

KRS was founded in 2001 by Boynton Beach resident Roscetti, 53, and his partners Ken Johnson and Shane Brown. The company produces generic drugs as well as IV bags, syringes and other products for clients including pharmacies, hospitals, doctors’ offices, universities and veterinary clinics. Most of the business these days comes from filling drug shortages.

“If a drug is not available because the pharmaceutical companies didn’t make enough, compounders like us fill that need,”he said.“The FDA keeps a shortage list, and we produce many of those drugs.”

Business is booming, and Roscetti said plans are in the works to double the size of the facility and increase the staff from 100 to 160 by the end of 2017.

“Boca is a great spot for us,”said Roscetti. “Between city support and the talent coming out of FAU, it’s a great environment for a biotech company.”

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Mall Czar Sal Saldana oversees Boca’s most luxurious shopping enclave Written by GARY GREENBERG

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hen shopping at a mall, most people don’t give a second thought about how it’s run. And that’s fine with Sal Saldana.

The Texas-born son of Mexican immigrants is the general manager of Town Center at Boca Raton, a 220-store shopping mall known for its high-end retailers and opulent ambiance.

“We don’t want customers to think twice about what’s going on behind the scenes,”said Saldana,

53.“We just want them to have the best shopping experience they can because we know there are other places they can go.”

In service of that, he admits taking things to the extreme at times.

“When our valet area was being redone a while back, a lady started complaining about how dirty her shoes got while walking to the stand,”he recalled.“So I took a towel one of my valet guys was holding and brushed off her shoes.

She looked at me and said, ‘Not

the top, the bottom.’ She lifted her feet, and I wiped off the bottoms.

Then she said to her husband, ‘Come get your shoes wiped.’

“That may seem like an odd thing for me to do, but I wanted to set an example. We want our customers to know that we will cater to them, and that this is a first-class operation.”

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“Boca has an amazing reputation for quality, and we’re a reflection of that,”he said.

The mall is one of hundreds owned by industry giant Simon Property Group (SRP). Saldana and a close-knit team of 10 manage it.

“It’s really like running a small city,”said Saldana, who lives in West Boca with his wife of 29 years.

Saldana first got interested in mall management when he was a radio DJ on South Padre Island at the southern tip of Texas.

“I also did ad sales and some of my clients were malls,”said Saldana, whose on-air name was

BOCA SNAPSHOTS: The crew of the B-29 Enola Gay, which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and future astronaut Gus Grissom, served briefly at the Boca Raton Army Airfield.

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The personal computer developed by IBM engineers in Boca Raton in 1981 was so secretive it had a code name: “Acorn.” In 1983, Time magazine named IBM’s PC “Machine of the Year.” It was the first time an object won the honor.

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Bobby Ocean.“The malls were fascinating environments for me, so I became a marketing director for one of them. I loved it.”

He went on to manage in Pensacola, Houston and Jacksonville.

It’s a constantly evolving business and currently being challenged by the meteoric rise of Amazon and other Internet retailers. But Saldana is confident that brick-and-mortar stores will always have a place.

“You just can’t have the same shopping experience online,” he said.“Granted, there’s a level of convenience, but you’ll never be able to replace that feeling of walking into a store, seeing something you want, touching it and taking it home.”

Still, Saldana—a father of two grown daughters who enjoys painting and composing music in his spare time—knows he needs to tap into his creativity to stay relevant.

“I want to be the most innovative property within the company,” he said.“We spearhead a lot of new ideas.”

One of his innovations was to establish a “luxury ambassador” to greet people and act as a mall concierge.

“One individual can make a big difference,” said Saldana.“It takes the shopping experience up to the level of a high-end hotel resort.

We want people to feel that this is not just another mall but a destination. We want people to come here and say, ‘Only in Boca.’”

The Good Old Days The Boca Raton Historical Society makes the old new again Written by GARY GREENBERG

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istory is really all about people, and Mary Csar speaks of the figures who shaped Boca Raton as if they were old friends.“Frank Chesebro was an early pioneer who used to ride his bicycle to Miami and helped start the first school,”said Csar, executive director of the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum.“He and his wife were very wellto-do. They owned the first car in town.”

Chesebro was a horticulturist who kept a diary of short, tweet-like entries, which the society posts on Twitter“so people can now follow the everyday life of a pioneer 100 years ago,”said Csar.

Csar and the society are all about bringing history to life. And just because Boca’s history is relatively short, it’s not lacking for characters. These include: architect Addison Mizner, whose grand plans for the posh resort community collapsed during a land bust; industrialist Clarence Geist, who helped Boca weather the Great Depression; realtor J.C. Mitchell, who lobbied Washington to bring a World War II Army air base to Boca; and Arvida founder Arthur Vining Davis, who convinced IBM to build the facility where the first personal computers were manufactured.

“We’ve been blessed with scores of citizens who were never satisfied with the status quo,”said Csar.

“They always wanted to make Boca Raton better.”

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The Historical Society & Museum is based in Boca’s original city hall and offers revolving exhibits, outreach programs, historical tours, lectures and special events, such as the Boca Bacchanal food and wine festival.

“One of the greatest roles of the Historical Society is building a sense of community by collecting, preserving and sharing our history,” said Csar.“You can’t have a community without a sense of where you’ve been or who you are. And that’s what we do.”

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Local sporting goods stores sell pickleball equipment, including paddles, balls and gloves, according to Travieso, who recommends protective eyewear.

But if you don’t have the equipment, don’t worry. Boca Raton residents can wander over to get a free introductory clinic or lesson offered most Friday mornings at Boca Raton’s Sugar Sand Park. Simply wear shorts, a comfy shirt and tennis shoes; the park provides paddles and balls.

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For more information about pickleball in Boca Raton, contact Travieso at raultravieso1@gmail. com or call 561/2396965.

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A sport with a funny name is gaining ground in Boca and Delray Written by LISETTE HILTON

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ongtime Boca Raton resident Raul Travieso got good and bad news after he had total hip replacement surgery more than a year ago. His doctor said he’d probably have to give up his favorite sport, racquetball, but he could give another less-jarring sport, pickleball, a try.

“From the day I showed up and played, I fell in love with it and have been obsessed with the game ever since,”Travieso said.

Travieso, a 1971 Boca Raton High School graduate and 39-year veteran firefighter-paramedic for the Boca Raton Fire Department, plays five or more days a week and is the Boca Raton ambassador for the USA Pickleball Association (USAPA). The game is played with a paddle (twice the size of a pingpong paddle) and a plastic ball with holes,“kind of like a whiffle ball,”he explained.

It’s played on a tennis-like court, indoors or outdoors.

“The size of a pickleball court is about a third of the size of a tennis court and about 90 percent of the people that play pickleball play doubles. So, it’s a lot of fun,” Travieso said, explaining that it combines elements of tennis, badminton and pingpong—and is easy to learn for beginners.

Unlike tennis, pickleball hasn’t matured locally to tournament competition. But the game is growing nationally: there are national competitive tournaments and professional pickleballers who are actually making money in the sport.

“In Boca, we are just starting to get organized, so, those ladders and the teams will come slowly,”Travieso said.

Travieso said he got involved with USAPA to help lobby for courts in the city.

Pickleballers can play on official indoor courts at the Sugar Sand Park fieldhouse on designated days and at Pompey Park and Delray Community Center in Delray.

Boynton Beach, Deerfield Beach and Coral Springs also have places to play pickleball and Pompano Beach has a pickleball complex, according to Travieso.

“What I’m looking for from the city is to provide more court time indoors and also build a six to eight [court] outdoor facility for us,”he said.

Pickleball got its start in 1965 when three dads attempted to entertain their bored kids. There are different accounts of how the sport got its name. One is that one of the founders’ wives coined the name because the game’s combination of sport influences was reminiscent of the pickle boat in crew, “where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats,” according to the USA Pickleball Association (USAPA).

Another account credits a founder’s dog Pickles, who chased the homemade ball and ran away with it.

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ina Anderson, 29, was going to school to become a health coach, when she came up with the idea for the Healthy Places app, healthyplacesapp.com. Today, the app, which has more than 1,000 listings of healthy places from Jupiter to Homestead, as well as local deals and reviews, is available for free on Google Play and iTunes. “[The Healthy Places app] is basically a healthy Yelp, Yellow Pages site you can go onto and find healthy dining, farmers’ markets, wellness centers, fitness and even events in your area,”said Anderson, who lives in Fort Lauderdale and is owner and founder of Healthy Places.

“The reason I built the app in the first place was to help people,” Anderson said.

When studying for her health degree, she wondered how she could coach people to live healthy without giving them some kind of helpful tool.

“There’s a McDonald’s on every corner, and if you’re not very in

tune with the health and wellness community, it might be really hard for you to find places that are better for you to eat,”she said.“All the places you need to know about for a healthy lifestyle, you can basically find on the Healthy Places app.”

Are these places really healthy or paid-for ads?

Anderson said the places listed haven’t paid for the listings; rather, they’re handpicked. Anderson said she and her team might see or hear about a place that claims to offer something for the healthy lifestyle. She’ll do the research and decide whether it deserves a place under any of the app’s categories.

In the dining category, for example, there are locations for vegan, gluten-free, organic, local, clean meats and more.

The lists of healthy places grows weekly. And anyone visiting the app can suggest a healthy place for consideration by going on the website.

“Just give us a lead, so we can look into it,”Anderson said.

CALORIE-COUNTING AT FAST FOOD CHAINS In May 2017, fast-food chains with more than 20 locations in the United States must have calorie counts on their menus.

But that might not matter much.

Researchers conducting a study in places where the rule already exists found that as few as 8 percent of fast-food eaters make healthy choices based on menu calorie counts.

Why? To reach fast-food consumers, who tend to be more concerned with cost and convenience, it takes more than a mere mention on a menu. In fact, the required labeling goes mostly unnoticed, according to researchers.

What’s needed is bigger, clearer messages that put calorie counts into perspective, they said.

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Ever feel like you want to punch somebody’s lights out? Well, you can at least pretend while boxing a trainer or a bag.

Boxing for a few minutes will likely calm your nerves and leave you feeling empowered.

And boxing might even improve work performance.

Researchers found that a three-minute boxing round during work hours improved workers’ ability to think and mentally perform.

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ho wouldn’t benefit from learning a skill that teaches coordination and flexibility, works on reaction time and footwork and engages the upper and lower body? Oh, and there’s another benefit: it’s a stress reducer.

That skill? Boxing.

Billy Eskamani, owner of Boca Black Belt Academy, has been teaching the martial arts, including Brazilian jujitsu, Taekwondo, kickboxing, boxing and MMA, in Boca Raton since 1998.

Learning the skill doesn’t mean physically hurting someone else or yourself. Eskamani teaches one-onone training, and he uses boxing drills (the ones professionals would use to train) but with pads. The person learning hits the pads with all their might, without hurting themselves or the trainer.

Eskamani said you can box at any age.“I’ve had people from 4 to 80,”he said.“I tailor programs for them to learn,”noting that even

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though you’re not sparring with an individual, you can learn the actual techniques—and the skills translate to other sports.

“Kids who start with me at a young age seem to progress to become better players on team sports just because they get the head start with coordination and the drills we do to keep them flexible,”Eskamani said. Adults, regardless of how coordinated they are when they start boxing, benefit with improved balance, coordination, flexibility and reaction time. Kickboxing, which focuses on the lower body, complements the boxing workout.

Eskamani has specific techniques and advice to prevent injuries in the sport, and has a great warm-up routine to help you get started on those workouts.

For more information, contact Boca Black Belt Academy, 74 S. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton, 561/2515062.

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A 140-pound person can burn 13 calories a minute while boxing. Thirty minutes of boxing in the ring might burn 400 calories. Half an hour in front of a punching bag is a little less taxing, burning some 200 calories, according to shape.com.

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Men’s Fitness predicted “butt-kicking workouts,” like boxing and kickboxing, would be among the top 10 fitness trends in 2016.

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El Tucán If you close your eyes and listen to the percussion section, you’d think that you were in 1940s Havana, Cuba. That’s exactly the atmosphere El Tucán creates with its modern-day dinner-and-a-show concept.

Developed in late 2015 by Emilia Menocal, with Cuban family roots, El Tucán presents upscale dining accompanied by some of Latin music’s hottest acts, including Cucu Diamantes and Orishas. That all started from the days Menocal was working at The Raleigh Hotel when dozens of tourists

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asked where they could see live Latin big bands play and she couldn’t name one location. From that revelation, the cabaret show with a Latin American vibe was born.

“Miami needed this Latin cabaret show that’s a throwback to the old days of Havana,”she said.“I knew there was a market for it. There are places in Miami to see Latin music, but there is no place that was this elegant and chic.”

El Tucán has brought new life to the heavily dotted bar scene in the Brickell neighborhood. When Will Smith jumps on stage for an impromptu performance, no wonder guests begin to expect the unexpected at El Tucán.

“You don’t have to fly to Havana to experience something that’s very authentic,” Menocal said.

El Tucán, 1111 SW First Ave., Miami; 305/535-0065; eltucanmiami.com

Cecconi’s Although Miami might be dominated by a vibrant Cuban culture, expect to discover a refined Italian influence at Cecconi’s at Soho Beach House. A stylish restaurant inside a members-only club, first-time guests are

immediately struck by the dreamlike design, which includes an airy courtyard space beneath huge wood pergolas and glimmering ornamental lights, and brightly painted wood floors and lush foliage. The modern-day menu includes handmade pastas and contemporary interpretations of Italian classics, such as veal chop Milanese. Weekend dining includes a European-style buffet brunch, with decadent selections of egg dishes, pastries and more.

Cecconi’s, 4385 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 786/507-7902; cecconismiamibeach.com

Basement at the Miami Edition An ice skating rink, a bowling alley and some of the best DJs playing on Miami Beach; if that’s not one of the best nightlife combinations in the 305, then we don’t know what is. The Basement at the Miami Edition hotel is full of revelry on any night of the week thanks to its 2,000-square-foot ice skating rink overlooking Collins Avenue and a four-lane bowling alley with LED screen displays and interactive lighting. And

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t’s a quick drive from Palm Beach County, but Miami seems like light-years away with its dazzling skyline and a singularly cool reputation earned through its pulsating tropical vibes of entertainment and nightlife. Factor in top-notch cultural institutions, world-class dining, glittering beaches and nearly round-the-clock sunshine and no wonder Miami has become a destination not just for its nearby neighbors, but also the globetrotting elite. Here are a few highlights of some of the 305’s newest and most desirable hot spots.

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Clockwise, from top, ice skating rink at Basement at Miami Edition, the micro club at Basement, The Broken Shaker patio with tiki bar (inset)

if skating or bowling isn’t your thing, Basement offers a micro-club with a hedonistic, 21st-century homage to the seminal Studio 54.

Basement at Miami Edition, 2901 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 786/257-4500; editionhotels.com/miami-beach

On paper, The Broken Shaker shouldn’t have been named one of The World’s 50 Best Bars in 2014. After all, the hipster bar is in a small hostel with a transient clientele. But Freehand Miami isn’t your typical hostel, and The Broken Shaker is far from the average bar. Freehand Miami is the area’s first upscale hostel, incorporating innovative design by the acclaimed Roman and Williams, and a comfortable, communal atmosphere.

That plays well into its indoor/outdoor bar, The Broken Shaker, which features cocktails mixed with fresh greens growing in Freehand’s own garden, many inspired by the diverse culture of Miami. Enjoy a drink while sitting at The Broken Shaker’s relaxed courtyard, where you no doubt will be mingling among a like-minded group of individuals who appreciate a handcrafted cocktail as much as you do.

The Broken Shaker at Freehand, 2727 Indian Creek Drive, Miami Beach; 305/531-2727; thefreehand.com

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Faena Hotel There are visionaries, and then there is Alan Faena. In December 2015, the Argentine hotelier and developer created his namesake Faena Hotel in the newly founded Faena District of Miami Beach with a mission: to catalyze a cultural renaissance in the city and further link North America with South America. He enlisted film director/producer Baz Luhrmann and Academy Award-winning costume designer Catherine Martin to develop the narrative for the concept hotel. Together they created an artful visual language of stunning Art Deco appeal, oldworld grandeur, sumptuous velvet textures and a Damien Hirst-design nine-foot gilded skeleton of a woolly mammoth. Art isn’t the only thing the Faena Hotel is known for; in addition, it is home to Los Fuegos restaurant, helmed by celebrity chef Francis Mallmann, and Pao by Paul Qui restaurant, created by the “Top Chef”winner. There’s also the 3,000-square-foot Faena Theater, which showcases cabaret-style revues, and the property’s beach club, Faena Playa, on

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Faena hopes to bring “extraordinary experiences to Miami Beach,” recalling the golden age of Miami.

Faena Hotel, 3201 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305/534-8800; faena.com

The Salty Donut What started out as a craft donut store serving artisanal treats during the weekend from a remodeled trailer in an empty Wynwood lot has quickly become a phenomenon. The Salty Donut’s chef-inspired creations and smallbatch quantities made it a huge hit among local foodies, so much so that the pop-up location in Wynwood now has a sister site in a traditional brick-and-mortar store that opened at the end of 2016. Donut flavors change weekly; there’s no doubt about the level of creativity and care that goes into each sweet bite. Staple flavors include guava and cheese, and maple bacon (which uses a brew from J. Wakefield Brewing).

The Salty Donut, 50 NW 23rd St., Miami; 305/925-8126; saltydonut.com

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Beaker & Gray A restaurant without a concept is a bit like a man without a country. It’s everything but nothing specific at the same time. That’s exactly the idea behind Beaker & Gray, the cool, playful restaurant in the artsy Wynwood district. When chef and owner Brian Nasajon and bar manager and owner Ben Potts created their globally inspired restaurant in December 2015, they knew they were taking a chance by going concept-less.

“We wanted to use ingredients from around the world, but without resembling a specific style,” Nasajon said. “We are both technique-forward and wanted to create simple, heartfelt cuisine and cocktails that couldn’t be found anywhere else in South Florida.”

What they ended up conceptualizing is

a menu with risotto mixed with fig, Thai basil and chorizo, and drinks like the Blast Furnace, produced with beer from Fort Lauderdale’s own Funky Buddha. Named after key culinary tools—a cocktail beaker and a Gray Kunz spoon—Beaker & Gray recently launched a brunch menu filled with playful additions, including a drink called the Teenage Mutant Ginger Turtle, a blend of Reyka vodka, tomatillo, ginger and house pepper blend.

“We are very stubborn about making good food and drinks,”Nasajon said.

“There’s the first bite in which you say it’s really good. But then there’s that feeling you get when the taste is really more delicious with each bite.”

Beaker & Gray, 2637 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305/699-2637; beakerandgray.com

J. Wakefield Brewing Although a refreshing mojito might be a staple in some parts of Miami, at Wynwood it’s all about the craft beer. One of the finest places to enjoy a pint is at J. Wakefield Brewing, an eclectic brewery and taproom born out of the owner’s love of craft beer. John Wakefield started brewing beer as a hobby, and that quickly ballooned into becoming a brewmaster recognized for quality creations. Open in 2015, the brew pub is complete with “Star Wars” murals and comic book lithographs—a space as eccentric as the beer selection, which includes everything from wheat beers to stouts.

J. Wakefield Brewing, 120 NW 24th St., Miami; 786/254-7779; wakefieldbrewing.com

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Set against the glistening Biscayne Bay, the Perez Art Museum Miami’s (PAMM) sleek and contemporary setting is matched only by its renowned exhibits and collections. Since moving into its Herzog & de Meuron-designed space in 2013, PAMM has not only bridged a gap between North American and South American artists, but also presented some of the world’s finest modern art exhibits.

Its collection includes nearly 2,000 pieces of work, and recent exhibits from contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julio Le Parc solidify its place as a premier art museum, not only in South Florida but the nation.

PAMM, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305/375-3000; pamm.org

The Miami Desgn District is luxury fashion, upscale design and architecture, and gourmet dining. This tony neighborhood has injected vibrant sophistication in a once overlooked neighborhood surrounded by award-winning restaurants such as Michelle Bernstein’s Crumb on Parchment and Michael’s Genuine Food and Drink. Public art works include the iconic Fly’s Eye Dome

by Buckminster Fuller. The Design District has become a walkable destination where the posh and stylish meet their match in the forms of Hermes, Dior and Louis Vuitton.

And it seems the district is only getting better, with plans to open Jean Georges Vongerichten’s ABC Kitchen, four concepts from Joël Robuchon, as well as Estefan Kitchen, fine dining from Gloria and Emilio Estefan.

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Anyone in Miami will tell you the city’s hippest neighborhood is Wynwood, the artsy, culturally rich area that’s well known for its colorful street art, eccentric galleries and monthly Art Walks. Wynwood Walls is a museum-like outdoor park with ever-changing murals. Be sure to book a walking tour, offered daily by a pair of local artists and step into Wynwood Kitchen & Bar, the Latin American restaurant known for its small-plate cuisine.

Wynwood Walls, 2520 NW Second Ave., Miami; 305/531-4411; thewynwoodwalls.com

It’s like a scene from Seattle: throngs of customers lining up for their turn to order a cup of coffee from Panther Coffee. The specialty coffee house continues to find dedicated coffee fans who truly understand this is no ordinary cup of java. Joel and Leticia Pollock’s Panther Coffee roasts its beans on site and in small batches, preserving a fresh, aromatic flavor in each of its cups. Panther Coffee, 3407 Main Highway, Miami; 305/677-3952; panthercoffee.com

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t’s a delicate balance, the transition of day-to-night drinks. Even more so when you’re trying to, say, simplify your life. Of course, you could just drink Perrier during the day and do shots all night. But then again, we’ve been evolving quite a bit lately. We want more than lemon in water. More than shots of tequila. (Okay, tequila shots have their place and time but you can’t do tequila shots all night). We want cocktails. And—dare I use the word—mocktails.

What if there was a drink—a super-refreshing, thirst-quenching drink that you could batch out for a special day and sip on at the pool or beach or swank party, or just treat yo’self on any given Saturday?

Then, when the sun set or the time felt right, you could add a bit of booze and transform it into the plushest, greatest cocktail ever?

Is that even possible?

To find an answer to this idea, we turned to three local bartenders. We challenged them to come up with a drink that goes from day to night, mocktail to cocktail. The only requirement was the “day”drink couldn’t include alcohol.

“People are living a very healthy lifestyle,”noted Bob Higgenbotham, beverage director at 13 American Table.“Despite what might happen when the sun sets, people are really taking care of themselves during the day throughout Palm Beach County as a whole. Look at what people eat and what people drink. I think people are a lot more health-conscious when the sun’s out.”

So without further ado—here are your drinks:

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96 13 American Table Bob Higginbotham, beverage director MOCKTAIL:

Running on Fumes Fizz

(pictured on preceeding page) 2 ounces beet, apple and ginger juice blend 3/4 ounce activated charcoal honey syrup 1/2 ounce lemon juice 2 healthy-sized mint sprigs Sparkling Water Glass: Collins Garnish: Mint Combine all juices and honey syrup in glass. Slap one mint sprig and add to liquids. Fill glass halfway with crushed ice and swizzle. Top with more crushed ice and sparkling water.

Garnish.

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Purple is the New Charcoal 1 1/2 ounces Hendrick’s gin 1/2 ounce The Bitter Truth elderflower liqueur 1/4 ounce Dolin Blanc vermouth 3/4 ounce beet, apple and ginger juice blend 1/2 ounce lemon juice 1/2 ounce activated charcoal honey syrup 1 egg white Glass: Coupe Garnish: Cracked Five Pepper Blend Dry shake all ingredients to foam up egg white, then shake again with ice to chill and dilute. Double strain into coupe and garnish.

It’s got a lot of different things going on. For me, my drinks can be complicated but not by too many ingredients.

It’s the process, but I keep the ingredients relatively simple. This one got away from me.

I didn’t dial back but went forward.”

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– James Longstreth

Max’s Grille James Longstreth, bartender Blackberry Lemonade 4 muddled blackberries Rosemary sprig 1 ounce simple syrup 1 ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice Soda water Muddle blackberries and add simple syrup and lemon juice.

Top off with soda water and garnish with rosemary sprig.

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Blackberry Bourbon Lemonade (offered on the menu on weekends and during the day), simply add 2 ounces Buffalo Trace Kentucky bourbon.

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Sobe

Muddle two limes and a handful of basil leaves.

Fill with ice.

Add 1 ounce Coco Lopez Shake 30 seconds, top with soda water, pour into highball glass.

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Sobe at Night, add 1 1/2 ounces white rum.

When the sun sets, you can go for drinks that pack a little more punch, but maybe only have one or two of them.” — Jamin Stilley

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99 It’s light and refreshing but still has roast-y and spicy notes to it. It’s a nice easy sipper during the day but add some tequila to get the party going. Tequila has a party reputation but it can be so much more than that.

Tequila now is more mature and clean. It’s more robust.”

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Rebel House Hayden Gartzman, bartender

Snowbird Season 4 grilled orange slices 2 basil sprigs Top with ginger beer Muddle basil and orange Add ice and ginger beer

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Florida Winter

Simply add 1 1/2 ounces tequila to muddled step, followed by ice and topped with ginger beer. For an added kick, add 1 ounce of Ancho Reyes.

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A brief history of rock ‘n’ roll in the tri-county region Written by SCOTT PICCOLI

When he first heard the music of Chaucer, a one-man band from West Palm Beach, Chris Carrabba wrote an email to the band’s founder, Josh Simkowitz, introducing himself as an admirer.

Carrabba was responding in part as a fan: he called Chaucer “pretty incredible”in an interview with Boca Raton magazine. But he was also acting with a sense of purpose: one musician voicing support for another in a region with a reputation for discouraging musical ambition.

Carrabba was best known for more than a decade as the face and voice of Dashboard Confessional. A kind of balladeer of punk-rock with an intensely devoted following, Carrabba continues to make records and tour internationally and he still claims Boca Raton as a base.

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You have to become bigger everywhere else before you finally get noticed in Florida. I had to leave and come back and look like an overnight success at home.” — Chris Carrabba

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JIMMY BUFFETT’S ENDLESS SUMMER Jimmy Buffett’s affections aren’t all Florida-centered. His love of football’s New Orleans Saints, for example, might come as a letdown for long-suffering Dolphins fans.

But the connection remains strong between this Southern-born bard of the tropics and his longtime adoptive state. He’s got a home in Palm Beach, a business office in Key West and restaurants, stores and hotels named for his signature song, “Margaritaville,” all across Florida (and beyond). Buffett’s local concerts have a block-party air that owes to South Floridians’ strong sense of him as one of their own.

To hear him, an established performer, talking excitedly about Chaucer and other emerging talents that he’s encountered in his backyard—the band Civilian (recently relocated to Nashville), the singer-songwriter Kelsie Baron (a bandmate in the Carrabba side project Twin Forks)—is to question the idea of South Florida as music-unfriendly.

And it’s more than just one local partisan’s word.

Scattered across decades and a trio of counties, the collective output of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties presents itself like the stock of a sprawling record store.

Grouped by genre and local geography, you’ll find gritty ‘60s R&B from Overtown and Liberty City; classic ‘70s disco from a studio in Hialeah; an ‘80s Latin pop explosion set off by an expatriate couple from Cuba, the Estefans; rap and hip-hop ranging from the raunch of 2 Live Crew to the dapper multiculturalism of Pitbull; rock, punk and metal from the ‘70s onward, born here; milestone albums of the 20th century, recorded here; and a collection of esteemed jazz musicians.

Miami, long celebrated as a showcase for dance beats and club culture, has even managed to give rise to an acclaimed country band, the Mavericks. From commercial blockbusters to cult finds, South Florida boasts a record of music-making that anyone paying attention can defend with confidence.

There is no single South Florida sound, and there never was, because there have been so many. In this story devoted to music, we take a spin through that imaginary store’s aisles.

From left, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Aretha Franklin and B.B. King

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103 And Then There Was Disco “We created disco.” That’s veteran Miami record producer and songwriter Willie Clarke flat-out telling Boca Raton magazine that Miami invented modern dance music. The“we”refers to the crew at TK Records, a Hialeah label founded by local mogul Henry Stone.

Clarke migrated to TK from an R&B label, Deep City, that he co-founded with Liberty City record store owner Johnny Pearsall. Deep City’s output predated disco, and Clarke contends that disco arose from the Miami melting pot of soul, blues, Bahamian and Jamaican music, plus a dash of his own marching band experience at Florida A&M University.

“The idea of dance was always prevalent in Miami,” said Clarke, who won a Grammy in 1975 as co-writer and arranger of singer Betty Wright’s “Where Is The Love.”

Clarke’s claim to disco primacy would—and should—get plenty of argument. Ultra-rhythmic, club-tailored records tagged as disco were dropping from around the country in 1974 and 1975, and Miami was just one city in the mix. From Los Angeles came Barry White’s sumptuous“Love Theme.”From New York came Gloria Gaynor’s pulsing cover of the Jackson 5’s “Never Can Say Goodbye.”

JIM MORRISON’S FLORIDA NIGHTMARE Lead singer of The Doors Jim Morrison was trolling his audience the night of March, 1, 1969 at the Dinner Key Auditorium (now Coconut Grove Convention Center).

What happened is still debated. Bandmates said their unpredictable frontman only pantomimed exposing himself.

But other witness accounts led to formal charges of indecency— and then a trial and a guilty verdict with the possibility of jail time for the Florida-born Navy brat. Two years later, Morrison died in Paris at 27, his conviction still on appeal. His defense prevailed in 2010 when, at the urging of Gov. Charlie Crist, the state’s Board of Clemency pardoned Morrison.

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Barred from nearly every white-owned venue in the South, black musicians in the early and middle 20th century found welcome on the“Chitlin’ Circuit” of black-owned clubs and theaters in racially segregated cities such as Miami.

Miami’s“Little Broadway,” along Northwest Second Avenue in Overtown, was one such segregated corridor—a cluster of venues and none grander than the Lyric Theater, which hosted performances by royalty of jazz (Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald), soul (Aretha Franklin) and blues (B.B. King).

The musical energy wasn’t confined to just one block, neighborhood or city. Future R&B superstars Sam & Dave got one of their first key breaks—an encounter with a record producer—singing at the old King of Hearts nightclub in Miami’s Liberty City around 1962. A young James Brown was putting on shows even earlier, in the middle and late ‘50s, for mixed-race crowds at the old Million Dollar Palms club in Hallandale.

The arrival of I-95 delivered an eminent-domain strike to the very heart of Overtown in the 1960s, with the elevated freeway erasing swaths of a community where thousands lived, worked and played.

Little Broadway was effectively shuttered; only the Lyric Theater survives today.

But music-making continued. Miami in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s put out homegrown R&B, funk and soul that won a measure of acclaim at the time.

But it’s in retrospect that those recordings—by the

likes of Clarence Reid, Gwen McRae and Joey Gilmore—are hailed today as classics in their own right, worthy of play alongside the better-known output of Memphis and Motown.

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The Beatles

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1964-THE BEATLES, Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Feb. 16. In their second live appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the Fab Four drew another 70 million viewers just one week after their groundbreaking U.S. debut on Sullivan’s New York soundstage,

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1968-MIAMI POP FESTIVAL. There were two, in fact: May 18-19 and Dec. 28-30, both at the Gulfstream Park racetrack in Hallandale Beach. The first, from the future producers of Woodstock, starred the electrifying Jimi Hendrix and a handful of other trailblazers including Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and the early metal band Blue Cheer. The second, from a rival producer, brought together almost three dozen performers of the day, including Marvin Gaye, Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell, Steppenwolf, Richie Havens and the Grateful Dead.

1990-2 LIVE CREW, Club Futura, Hollywood, June 11. The Miami rap crew’s live show got bandmates Luther Campbell and Chris Wong Won arrested and jailed on charges of obscenity. The bust by Broward Sheriff’s deputies came days after a federal judge had declared a Crew album obscene, and spurred a landmark First Amendment legal case

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that Campbell and Co. ultimately won.

1993-NIRVANA with the Breeders, AT&T Bayfront Park Amphitheater, Miami, Nov. 27. Though a bridge too far for many tour routers, South Florida wasn’t entirely deprived of next-wave live music.

Perry Farrell’s Lollapalooza festival was a regular visitor, and in Nirvana, Miami got to host the band that led what many consider to be the last great global uprising in punk and alternative rock. Nirvana’s lone trip here became even more poignant with the suicide of frontman Kurt Cobain less than five months later.

1999-PHISH, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida Everglades, Dec. 30-31.

The jam band from Vermont greeted the new millennium with tens of thousands of concertgoers sprawled across a patch

of Florida grassland. This improbable New Year’s Eve “residency,” for which the band played multiple sets, set the table for a homegrown festival, Langerado, that built its own city-sized encampment at Big Cypress in 2008 with the Beastie Boys and R.E.M. as headliners.

2007-IGGY POP & THE STOOGES, Dec. 5, Collins Park, Miami Beach, for Art Basel.

When a shirtless-as-ever Iggy Pop shouted “Get up here!” and “Join the Stooges!,” he turned the occasion at hand into something more than what it was—a free concert on the beach sponsored by a tony art festival. The crowd at this rare Stooges reunion got to share in the primal energy exchange between band and audience that had made these proto-punks famous.

People poured onstage, cheerfully demolishing the boundary between band and audience, while Iggy & the Stooges showed they could still summon the barely-controllable power in songs such as “Loose,” “Skull Ring” and “I Wanna Be Your Dog.”

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But Miami unquestionably was the birthplace of another dance-floor breakthrough: 1974’s“Rock Your Baby,” sung by West Palm Beach native George McRae—spouse of singer Gwen—and written not by Clarke but by his TK stablemates Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey.

Finch and Casey would go on to form KC and the Sunshine Band. The rest, as they say, is history: Stone’s homegrown label became a global brand in music industry circles. And more than anything the Magic City had produced to that point, runaway KC hits such as“That’s The Way (I Like It)”and“Get Down Tonight” laid claim to the concept of a“Miami sound.”

THE BEE GEES FIND A HOME South Florida and the Bee Gees made perfect sense together.

Australian siblings Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb were creatively stumped and out of fashion in the early 1970s when they came to Miami, a land of perpetual reinvention.

There, they cut an album at Criteria Studios that yielded a danceable hit single, “Jive Talkin’.”

Soon after, this trio of folk-rockers rebounded as stars of disco. The Bee Gees resettled here, buying homes in greater Miami and opening a local recording studio, Middle Ear. It was here that Maurice Gibb died unexpectedly, in 2003, at age 53 of an intestinal blockage. Robin passed away in London in 2012, succumbing to cancer.

Barry carries on as a touring live performer and keeper of the Gibbs’ massive songbook.

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After disco, the “Miami sound” designation would pass quite literally to the infectious Anglo-Cuban pop of Miami Sound Machine, and the group’s sparkplug of a singer, Gloria Estefan. Hailed as Miami’s First Couple, Cuban expatriates Gloria and Emilio Estefan are the most visible, and successful, U.S. ambassadors of tropical music with a string of crossover, Latin-pop hit singles and platinum-selling albums dating to the 1980s.

The Estefan phenomenon enabled the Latin pop music industry to develop in South Florida, and a Miami pop sound carried on through radio-friendly crooners such as Jon Secada and Enrique Iglesias.

The Estefan’s true-life immigrant tale is now played on Broadway in 2016 as a hit musical,“On Your Feet!”

But South Florida’s natural, powerful connection to music from the Antilles and the Americas takes many forms. The Calle Ocho festival, held every March in Miami’s Little Havana for block-party crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands, is a massive showcase for Hispanic music. Everyone from the mighty salsa queen Celia Cruz to Puerto Rican reggaeton star Daddy Yankee has performed there.

Music was a bridge—sometimes shaky—between Miami’s Cuban exiles and their former homeland’s communist regime. A 1999 concert at Miami Arena by Los Van Van, the venerable Cuba-based dance band, drew both spectators and protestors. But a truce held long enough for Los Van Van to throw one of their trademark dance parties.

With formal relations between the U.S. and Cuba warming, Miami nowadays is allowing itself a less tentative embrace of native Cuban culture. In 2015, surviving alumni of the Buena Vista Social Club—the aging Cuban music maestros rediscovered on the island in the 1990s—finally played in Miami.

South Florida also serves as a base for the first family of reggae music. Survivors and heirs of Bob Marley,

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the Jamaican icon who died in Miami in 1981, have extended the Marley legacy with ventures such as the annual 9 Mile Music Festival on Miami’s Virginia Key.

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JACO PASTORIUS: A LIFE CUT SHORT The late Jaco Pastorius, all-time great bass player, expanded the instrument’s possibilities with his prowess on fretless electric bass. It was in South Florida that he grew up and won his first professional gig backing a white soul singer named Wayne Cochran.

Pastorius went on to acclaim as the bassist for Weather Report, a pioneering jazz fusion band of the 1970s. He then forged ahead on his own as a solo artist and session player. But Pastorius also struggled with mood swings and substance abuse. He died in 1987 of injuries sustained in a violent encounter with a bouncer outside a bar.

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It’s tough to imagine now, but Miami wasn’t always the mecca of hip-hop it’s become today. There was a time when pretty much the only “name”rapper the city could boast was Luther Campbell—Uncle Luke—and he was arguably as famous for his epic legal battle against an obscenity charge as he was for his X-rated lyrics.

True, there was Blowfly, the antic and equally bawdy slinger of rhymes who had had an earlier musical life playing R&B under his given name, Clarence Reid. But Reid as himself or as Blowfly commanded more devotion from music geeks than from the mainstream listening public. Uncle Luke’s Miami bass style of music also had a moment in 1996, with the Quad City DJs hit,“C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train),”chugging on to club and radio playlists.

But little by little the groundwork laid by Campbell began to produce dividends. Miami rapper Trick Daddy went from a Campbell cameo to a celebrated career of his own, and he gave a boost to lady rapper Trina. The hip-hop duo No Good graduated from writing and producing for Campbell’s label to notching a hit of their own,“Ballin’ Boy,” in 2002.

The aughts is when Miami as a rap capital caught on. The Source Awards, rap’s own Grammys, were making their home in Miami and drawing hip-hop luminaries here. Then came Rick Ross, who put Carol City on the map with his anthem “Hustlin’,”and then demolished any threat of a one-and-done career by knocking out more hits and, for good measure, feuding with 50 Cent. In short order, there was a local cadre—including Flo Rida, DJ Khaled, Pitbull—exporting hip-hop dreams of Miami grit and glitz to the masses.

When it comes to pure, post-disco dance music, Miami and Miami Beach aren’t originators so much as showcasers. But in that role, the region has become indispensible to contemporary electronic music. The annual Winter Music Conference, a DJ and elec-

tronic music confab, draws the scene’s global elite to South Florida. The companion Ultra Music Festival, in downtown Miami, is one of the country’s single biggest American concert events, of any genre, year in and year out.

South Florida, with its dance clubs and collective cultural marketing savvy, appears to have built the infrastructure to preserve its place as a global dance music capital for as long as rave kids keep flocking to the beats.

From Suburbia to the Major Labels: Punk, Emo, Hardcore and More Two early Florida punk acts—The Eat, from Miami, and Charlie Pickett & the Eggs, from Dania Beach — were classic examples of delayed acclaim. It took decades, literally, for greater recognition to come. The Eat got theirs with a 2007 anthology from Alternative Tentacles, the label run by one of punk’s laureates, Dead Kennedys alumnus Jello Biafra. Chicago-based Bloodshot Records followed in 2008 with a Pickett retrospective, Bar Band Americanus.

It was in the 2000s, also, that South Florida punk bands finally started breaking through in real time.

After an early run with Further Seems Forever, a tuneful punk band from Pompano Beach, Chris Carrabba in his Dashboard mode caught a post-punk wave that also hoisted up another band, New Found Glory, from Coral Springs.

Their successes as paragons of“emo”—a boyish strain of punk—paralleled a different sonic burst that was even more concentrated in South Florida: a punk-metal hybrid movement that had prominent U.S. record labels drawing up contracts for a clutch of local hardcore bands: Endo, Nonpoint, Darwin’s Waiting Room, Crease, Puya and H20. And before that crop of heavies came Saigon Kick, Nuclear Valdez, Collapsing Lungs and Marilyn Manson—hard rock acts that found audiences well beyond the South Florida communities that spawned them.

Like all regional uprisings, these peaked and receded. But they added chapters to the local lore that runs through every new batch of hometown band startups.

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across the region’s automotive sprawl, in an economy that hasn’t stopped catering to seasonal residents and second homeowners. Carrabba wasn’t quite joking when he said,“You have to become bigger everywhere else before you finally get noticed in Florida.

“I had to leave and come back and look like an overnight success at home,” he added.“But [by then] I had done like 450 shows around the country.”

But the geographical and cultural separation have also contributed to the character of music-making here.“I think that’s the real reason why the bands coming out of Florida aren’t just excellent, but driven. Other [touring] bands aren’t coming in, so they’re the bands,”Carrabba said of the locals.“They need to become as good as the bands they wish were coming down.”

The 2000s were an enviably busy decade for South Florida across genres, from the hyper-intelligent dance music of Awesome New Republic to the sensory metal of Torche to the antic“grindcore” of I Set My Friends on Fire—all of whom garnered national attention.

In the rock-punk-alternative realm Carrabba occupies, South Florida has been relatively quiet of late. A handful of bands, including Jacuzzi Boys and Surfer Blood, have drawn notice beyond their backyards, but there hasn’t been another scaled-up regional happening.

Carrabba thinks that’s bound to change: “We’re in for something good here. How can we not be? It’s time,”he said, adding,“When it’s that moment again, I’ll be the first person cheering them on.”

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VANILLA ICE IN PARADISE South Florida is a land of second acts, and if anyone ever came here needing a fresh start, it was rapper Vanilla Ice. He notched hip-hop’s first No. 1 pop single, “Ice Ice Baby,” in 1991, and then triggered an almost historic case of buyer’s remorse, tied to the discovery of his not-so-gangsta past.

In any event Ice’s music career never recovered from the backlash. Here on the Gold Coast, the former Robert Van Winkle of suburban Dallas has found some peace as the house-flipping dynamo of DIY Network’s “The Vanilla Ice Project.”

MARILYN MANSON: THEY CAME FROM BELOW Landing like a declaration of war against every South Florida lifestyle cliché, the dark, profane and theatrical band Marilyn Manson was in some measure a reaction to, its tropical suburbia. Led by a screaming wraith of a singer in ghostly white face paint, the group relished the strangeness of the connection. “It wasn’t that we were proud of being from South Florida,” co-founder Scott Putesky—stage name Daisy Berkowitz— told Boca Raton. “It was unique. It was weird. … We were virtually goth-industrial, with a little bit of metal...”

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hen asked about the popularity of their businesses, the owners of Boca Raton’s escape rooms offered variations on a common theme: People still want to have fun I.R.L.—in real life.

“It’s just one hour with no cellphone,” said Sandor, owner of QRoom Escape. “Google is not going to help you.”

“For a whole hour, there is no thinking about anything but playing the game,” added Master Escape Room’s Sandra Matsuoka. “Nobody is looking at their phones. You are there.”

“People want to put down their electronic devices and actually communicate, go back to the way it was,” said Jason McGuire, of Try-N-Escape. “We’ve become an antisocial society because of social media. And I think people want to break free; they just don’t know how. So they’re turning to stuff like this.”

Indeed they are. Escape rooms—a kind of physical video game in which participants solve a series of puzzles in order to break out of an enclosed space in an hour’s time—have become a booming 21st century industry. The global phenomenon began in Asia circa 2008, flourished in Eastern Europe and eventually expanded to the United States.

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At least four rooms operate in Boca Raton alone, with many others sprouting in West Palm Beach, Broward County and Miami-Dade. Although the themes may vary—from the Wild West to alien invasions to Victorian gumshoeing—much of the formula remains the same. There are always challenging padlocks, hidden objects and teamwork-intensive puzzles. The owner will inevitably be watching you from surveillance cameras, dispensing clues when necessary through primitive walkie-talkies. That’s right, kids: no texting!

Just like any other art form, some escape rooms are more exceptional than others. As a Zagat-style public service, we attempted five of them, judging each on their ambience, puzzle variety and difficulty level. Now get cracking!

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3350 N.W. Second Ave., Suite A2, Boca Raton; 561/409-4930 ROOM PLAYED: Welcome to the Wild West ESCAPED IN: 59 minutes PREMISE: You’re a team of bandits caught in a quagmire. On the one hand, you’ve just pulled off the biggest bank heist in Texas state history. On the other hand, two members of your posse, who spent the morning wantonly throwing around their pilfered

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cash, have wound up in the hoosegow. The objective is twofold: first to break out of the cell and join your fellow thieves, and then to retrieve the moneybag and escape the prison in the hour before the sheriff arrives. Clues hidden by a former inmate light the way.

SCENIC DESIGN: This escape room is carefully chiseled from outlaw mythology, evoking the austere jailhouses of many a showbiz serial or paperback western. Faux-windows, pictures of famous real-life bandits and wall-mounted six-shooters add ambience and more. The pokey, range-life background music adds rustic color.

PUZZLE VARIETY: The seemingly tight spaces of Welcome to the Wild West belie the multitude of puzzles required to escape.

Many of the clues are grounded in numerology, so expect the supplied whiteboard—Try-N-Escape is the only escape room I visited to offer one—to resemble a madman’s math equation by the journey’s end. Even better is the mousetrap-like complexity of some of the room’s other reveals, requiring plenty of ambitiously executed moving parts.

DIFFICULTY: You get three free clues, and you’ll likely use them all and then some. But even in hindsight, each puzzle logically checks out, and enough subtle nudges are embedded in each

enigmatic breadcrumb that the larger the group, the better the chance of total self-sufficiency.

OVERALL: Whether you begin the mission on either side of the bars, this pleasingly retro jailbreak offers a smattering of thrills to accompany its heady puzzlers, and its healthy balance of challenges caters to a broad spectrum of skill sets.

RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: “High Noon,” Louis L’amour novels

The Delray Escape 900 Linton Blvd., Suite 201A, Delray Beach; 561/501-4046 ROOM PLAYED: Area 51 ESCAPED IN: 37 minutes PREMISE: You’re a team of crusading journalists hoping to finally expose the truth about the U.S. government’s most clandestine military base. But once inside Area 51, you accidentally open the containment cells for the extraterrestrial entities and prompt the base commander to launch the self-destruct system, set for T-minus 60 minutes.

SCENIC DESIGN: The Delray Escape is one of the region’s newest escape rooms, and its Area 51 feels freshly minted—appropriately immaculate for an experimental alien breeding ground. An atmosphere of panic, complete with discarded flak jackets, hazmat

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It could happen to anyone. You’re partying at a hip nightclub ...the bartender offers free shots...soon you are chained to a bathtub.

A bloody “body” At QRoom Escape

ESCAPE FROM BOCA

Expand your geographic horizons and try these other South Florida escape rooms, too.

Sherlock Escape Room, 262 S.W. 12th Ave., Deerfield Beach Themes: Ransacking secret agents and an amnesiac victim form the basis of “Amy’s Revenge,” while Sherlock Holmes and secret-society nefariousness imbue “Sherlock’s Rescue.”

Contact: 561/921-7466, sherlockescaperoom.com

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Q Quest, 717 E. Atlantic Blvd., Pompano Beach Themes: In “Chainsaw BOB,” you must escape a psycho’s lair before he returns with a suitable weapon; in “Room Amnesia,” you’re the victim of food poisoning who wakes up in a strange room without your memory—and with the police on your tail.

Contact: 954/951-2829, qquestgames.com

The Great Escapist, 209 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach Themes: You face an impossible mission in “Spy Story,” a thriller set in a British secret agent’s apartment; cold fusion science forms the basis of the high-tension “Escape Room Bomber”; and an elite team of escape-room masters might just welcome you into their club in “Secret Society.”

Contact: 561/660-5120, thegreatescapistfla.com

The Escape Zone, 540 N. Miami Ave., Miami Themes: Become a crime scene investigator in “Where is Amanda?,” outsmart royalty in the historical fantasy “Quest for the Throne” and escape underground captivity in “The Dungeon.”

Contact: 786/233-3342, theescape.zone

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113 material and bullet casings, permeates the rooms. But in other ways, particularly the room’s tacky presentation of an inflatable ET, the Delray Escape betrays its budget.

PUZZLE VARIETY: Hidden objects and seemingly unbreakable locks—the meat and potatoes of Escape Room 101 formula—rule the day, but the best puzzle is one requiring the planning, dexterity and communication skills of multiple team members.

DIFFICULTY: As the first escape room I played, I expected to suffer from a significant learning curve. But the escape was remarkably stress-free; I’ve been trapped longer in malls. Part of the problem is the comparative dearth of puzzles: There just aren’t enough challenges to extend the experience and heighten the tension.

OVERALL: Area 51 is an acceptable introduction to escape rooms, but experienced escapees may be turned off by its relative simplicity. For UFO buffs like yours truly, however, it deserves brownie points. The truth is out there!

RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: “The X-Files,”Whitley Strieber books

QRoom Escape 4470 N.W. Second Ave., Boca Raton; 561/571-2423 ROOM PLAYED: The Mind Eraser ESCAPED IN: Did not escape in time PREMISE: It could happen to anybody: you’re partying at a hip nightclub, and you find a cool bartender who offers you and your friends free shots. And another round. And another. Eventually, as the witching hour approaches, you’re too plastered to drive. The bartender has an answer for that, too. He calls his buddy, an Uber driver, for a lift. Except you don’t go home. You wake up in a strange room, chained to a bathtub containing a bloody body, and must escape within an hour.

SCENIC DESIGN: The clingwrap-muffled mannequin in the tub is the first of many effectively gruesome details.

Note the hatchet lodged in a refrigerator, the cryptic messages scrawled in blood, the severed doll heads sitting atop the fridge and mounted on walls like taxidermy.

Harsh, percussive sounds, distant screams, and the iconic score from “The Exorcist” pipe through the speakers. Crafted from serial-killer lore, this is very much a place you want to leave.

PUZZLE VARIETY: The Mind Eraser relies less than most rooms on hidden objects and spatial-configuration skills. Logic and deduction from the murkiest of visual clues will save the day. The amateur gumshoes in your group will be your most valuable asset.

DIFFICULTY: The sub-average rating for this metric isn’t because the room is too easy—quite the contrary. The puzzles are absurdly challenging, relying on esoteric clues that will be difficult for even the most seasoned escape-room enthusiast to decode. Expect a lot of help from the ownership, whether you ask for it or not.

OVERALL: The near-impossibility of solving some of the game’s final puzzles yields to frustration, which impacts the fun factor. Also, more consideration to story could have connected the arbitrary setup with the gritty, B-horror theme. But some witty, genuinely shocking surprises reveal a clever craftsman with better games ahead of him.

RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: “Saw,” “American Horror Story: Asylum”

Above, Sander among QRoom Escape’s creepy effects

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Top, Daniel D’Onofrio and Tamara D’Onofrio open a safe; below, Tamara is chained to a dentist chair, both at Adventure Vault; an Egyptian tomb with a restless mummy is behind the doors (top right) at The Master Escape Room. Inset, escapees Maggie Stoppel, Matt Smith and Laura Stoppel beat the clock.

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1700 N. Dixie Highway, Suite 126, Boca Raton; 561/571-5381 ROOM PLAYED: The Egyptian Tomb ESCAPED IN: 59 minutes PREMISE: In an organized expedition to Egypt, you inadvertently stray from your group and wind up in a locked tomb containing the sarcophagus of a long-dead pharaoh. Like a zombie, the mummy is about to rise again. Can you make it out of the room in time?

SCENIC DESIGN: No expense was spared in transforming pedestrian office space into multi-tiered Egyptian catacombs. From the carefully considered architectural details to the wall décor, the design revels in the colors and iconography of ancient folklore, each element as mysterious as it is iconic. The lighting, likewise, is dynamic, and its multiple textures are integral to the mission.

PUZZLE VARIETY: A concerted effort to appeal to right-brain and left-brain thinkers pays off in The Egyptian Tomb’s eclectic array of puzzles. Whatever your specialized skill set, from geometry to numerology to word games, expect to utilize it.

DIFFICULTY: It’s possible, with an experienced, razor-sharp team, to escape this room without assistance. Ours was not this team.

We accepted a few nudges from the voices behind the curtain, but when the Eureka! moments arrived, the puzzles’ logic proved ironclad and above reproach. An escape room should be neither cakewalk nor prison cell, and The Egyptian Tomb strikes an ideal balance.

OVERALL: Constructed with nimble intricacy, narrative cohesion and copious forethought, The Master Escape Room might just be the region’s standard-bearer.

RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: The “Indiana Jones” franchise, Dan Brown novels

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The Adventure Vault 3350 N.W. Second Ave., Suite A4, Boca Raton; 561/922-3881 ROOM PLAYED: Death and Breakfast ESCAPED IN: Did not escape in time (but so close!)

PREMISE: With a thunderstorm crackling and pouring overhead, what group of road-trippers can’t resist the warmth and refuge of that quaint B&B just off the interstate with a vacancy to spare?

Rotten luck: the proprietor is secretly a psychotic cannibal, and you’re set to be the next morning’s mystery meat. Escape his dungeon in an hour’s time, and you can keep your appendages.

SCENIC DESIGN: Not only is Death and Breakfast appropriately murky and gruesome—you start the game with the restricted aid of a dental-chair light, leaving the blood-streaked walls, upturned cockroaches and dismembered organs in the dark—it’s also mordantly funny in its embrace of serial-killer kitsch. The room is chock full of detritus, so be patient: there are just as many red herrings embedded in its nasty cubbyholes as there are clues.

PUZZLE VARIETY: Any good escape room is a thinking person’s room, but Death and Breakfast is especially cerebral. Directions are issued on cryptically written hidden missives you’ll need to decode—the more brainpower the better. Truthfully, puzzle variety is stronger in other rooms I explored, but the merits of Adventure Vault lie in the linearity of its approach. One clue leads to another, without the brain-fogging distraction of multiple puzzles clouding your consciousness at the same time.

DIFFICULTY: Even with stellar help in this escape room—my wife and I worked with Carbonell-winning actress Margery Lowe and her husband, former Caldwell director Clive Cholerton—we missed the deadline by an excruciating one lock. But there’s an important caveat: unlike the other rooms, we didn’t have any help along the way from the owners. The fact that we solved all but one puzzle with nothing but our smarts and our wiles is a testament to the game’s appropriately solvable architecture.

OVERALL: A compelling narrative through-line, inspired ambience, and a real doozy of an opening setup propel one of the region’s finest rooms. Whether it’s doing any favors to the bed-and-breakfast industry is debatable.

RECOMMENDED FOR FANS OF: “Psycho,” the 2004 musical-horror-comedy “Dead & Breakfast”

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Image: Koen Vanmechelen, Black Medusa, 2015. Fondazione Berengo, Venice, Italy.

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Bob Mankoff The New Yorker’s cartoon overlord discusses a life in panels and captions.

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ometimes, Bob Mankoff has to convince the world that his work really is work.

His title—cartoon editor of The New Yorker —sounds like the cushiest of positions: Who wouldn’t relish the opportunity to act as the comedy gatekeeper for one of the world’s most esteemed magazines?

But with 1,000 cartoons submitted weekly, that’s a lot of tiny islands and deadpan animals. Not to mention the magazine’s famed caption contest, which requires Mankoff to sift the three best captions from some 5,000 reader submissions each issue. And there’s his daily cartoon blogging, and his “Cartoon Lounge” video series, which usually runs a few times a month. In a video last year, the 72-year-old editor slam-dunked a basketball (with some assistance), which inspired a reflection on hoops-themed New Yorker cartoons.

“My job, both as a cartoonist and cartoon editor, is to evaluate these cartoons,” he said. “People generally think of the job as me sitting there having a good time, but I’m on the job.”

In a presentation at Festival of the Arts Boca, Mankoff will discuss his charmed but busy career March 4 at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center.

Humor evolves, and there are probably more cartoons in the magazine now that not only people don’t get, but aren’t meant to be gettable. ” What was that first cartoon you sold?

The very first cartoon I sold in June 1977 showed a guy at what looks like an elaborate printing press from the 19th century, and the newspaper is coming off the press, and the guy getting the paper looks like he’s at breakfast: he has his orange juice and eggs.

The first seven or eight cartoons I sold to The New Yorker had no

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caption. They were just visual jokes. I had come out of graduate school, and I really liked these clever puzzles—not so much funny, but where you had to put together various visual elements to understand them.

To be a great cartoonist, do you have to be a great artist? Is it more important to be a skilled humorist?

It’s a combination.

There’s all different

kinds of art that go into cartooning. There’s high illustrative art with wonderful compositions, and then there’s a more primitive, free style that goes back to James Thurber.

There’s what I call “good bad drawing”: the person can’t draw that well, but the drawing is very charming...

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize not for his singing ability— but would you want Pavarotti to sing “Like a Rolling Stone?”

As someone who’s been cartooning for The New Yorker for 40 years, have the style and tenor of cartoons changed?

There’s a little less observational [humor].

It’s skewed more to the absurd now. Humor has a very strong regressive and transgressive component, but New Yorker cartoons are really not like that.

It’s more like you’re joining in this comic dance and puzzle that’s basically benign.

Yet there was an issue last year in which every cartoon was about Trump, and you received some negative feedback.

tioned a bit out of character there, because the situation was so abnormal. Sometimes, there’s such a huge and strange and disturbing event happening historically that you simply can’t ignore it. But I think humor is overrated in terms of its political influence. I think it has very little, truthfully, because there are many bigger forces at work in society. It might have a marginal influence, but the people for or against Trump were not going to be changed by New Yorker cartoons, or John Oliver or Trevor Noah.

How important are cartoons to the success of the magazine?

My joke is 98 percent of people read the cartoons first, and the other 2 percent lie. I think [cartoons are] very important, because they’re part of what’s emblematic about the magazine.

The New Yorker’s a very serious magazine, and at a certain point, no matter how well written, seriousness becomes tediousness.

So the cartoons do provide this relief.

We probably func-

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WHAT: Bob Mankoff presentation WHEN: 4 p.m. March 4 WHERE: Mizner Park C.A.C., 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton COST: $40 CONTACT: 561/368-8445, festivaloftheartsboca.org

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KOBIE BOYKINS at Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 2 and 7 p.m.; $25-$47; 561/2437922, oldschoolsquare. org. As part of Old School

MATISYAHU at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10; 8 p.m.; $65-$105; 561/483-9036, bocablackbox.com. The influential reg-

“JEWTOPIA” at Sandler Center at Levis JCC, 9801 Donna Klein Blvd., Boca Raton; $23-$36; 561/5582520, levisjcc.org. Cultures

TONY BENNETT at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; 8 p.m.; $36 and up; 561/832-7469, kravis.org.

Square’s lecture series, Boykins will discuss his groundbreaking work as an engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and his development of the solar arrays that powered two Mars exploration rovers.

gae-rocker, who integrates Orthodox Jewish themes into his eclectic music, will perform an intimate acoustic set, playing stripped-down versions of hits, obscurities and new material that will showcase his soulful voice and beat-boxing abilities.

collide in this madcap comic play, in which a gentile guy pretends to be Jewish to win over the girl of his dreams.

Meanwhile, his childhood best friend, Adam Lipschitz, is having his own problems with his non-Jewish fiancee.

With 19 Grammy Awards in a career spanning 60 years, this indefatigable national treasure will perform his half-century of hits, including “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”

Tony Bennett

Kobie Boykins

Matisyahu Martin Barre

Lucie Arnaz

Capital Steps

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March 5

CAPITOL STEPS at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; 8 p.m.; $40; 561/832-7469, kravis.org. The troupe of

MARTIN BARRE at Arts Garage, 94 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $45-$75; 866/811-4111, artsgarage.org. Guitarist

LUCIE ARNAZ: “LATIN ROOTS” at Lynn University,

“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: IN CONCERT” at Kaye Audi-

political satirists will bring much-needed mirth to the aftermath of a heated electoral season through a bipartisan collection of sketches and parody tunes.

Barre has built up a formidable resume through his 43 years with Jethro Tull, scoring accolades for his inimitable solo on “Aqualung” and a Grammy Award for his contribution to 1988’s “Crest of a Knave.” His current incarnation tours both the hits and deep cuts of Jethro Tull’s rich catalog.

3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton; $50-$70; 561/237-9000, lynn.edu.

The daughter of Lucille Ball will perform this tribute to her father, Desi Arnaz, in a sentimental journey of English and Spanish songs, from Irving Berlin and the Gershwins, to Augustin Lara and Rafael Hernandez.

torium at FAU, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton; 2 p.m.; $25-$55; 800/745-3000, fauevents.com. Celebrating

its 20th anniversary at FAU, conductor/accordionist Aaron Kula’s Klezmer Company Orchestra will perform a concert version of the classic musical based on Sholem Aleichem’s tales of Tevye and his daughter, complete with full cast and orchestra.

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Museum, 1 Whitehall Way, Palm Beach; 3 p.m.; $10-$28; 561/655-2833, flaglermuseum.us. John

Modern will conclude the Flagler’s 2017 Metaphysical America lecture series with this examination of esoteric and occult beliefs and practices in the Gilded Age, and how the human brain and spiritualism interact.

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March 8

SMOKEY ROBINSON

“THE CAMP” at Lynn University, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton; 7:30 p.m.; $10; 561/237-9000, lynn.edu. This staged

DEVON ALLMAN at Funky Biscuit, 303 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $25-$35; 561/395-2929, funkybiscuit.com. The

JOHN SEBASTIAN at Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 2 and 7 p.m.; $25-$47; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org. The

at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; 8 p.m.; $30$140; 561/832-7469, kravis.org. For his band The Miracles, Robinson penned Motown’s first single to reach No. 1 in the Billboard R&B charts, with “Shop Around.” More than 55 years later, he has established a fertile legacy as one of the Motown genre’s quintessential voices.

reading of a world premiere play by South Florida’s Michael McKeever is set in post-World War II Eastern Europe, where a U.S. Army General confronts a village of “good people” for acquiescing to the horrors perpetrated around them.

Devon Allman

John Modern, The Mystical Brain

formerly estranged son of music legend Gregg Allman, Devon forged his own path with the award-winning bands Honeytribe and Royal Southern Brotherhood. Now he’s touring under his own name and his own releases, most recently the soulful LP “Ragged and Dirty.”

Crest’s folk music series continues with the singer, songwriter and bandleader of The Lovin’ Spoonful, the iconic roots-music act whose contributions to the mid-60s rock revolution included “Do You Believe in Magic?” and “Summer in the City.”

John Sebastian

Samantha Fish

Rigoletto

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March 10-12

“SPENCER FINCH: BACK TO KANSAS” at Norton

ELAYNE BOOSLER at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10; 8 p.m.; $30-$40; 561/4839036, bocablackbox.com.

SAMANTHA FISH at Funky Biscuit, 303 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton; 9 p.m.; $20-$40; 561/395-2929, funkybiscuit.com. Though not yet

CEDRIC BURNSIDE PROJECT at Arts Garage, 94

“RIGOLETTO” at Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; 8 p.m.; $20-$140; 561/8327469; kravis.org. Palm

Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach; free; 561/8325196, norton.org. Repeated viewings of “The Wizard of Oz” led American artist Finch to create “Back to Kansas,” a large print comprising 70 blocks of brilliant and subtle color. The work will be complemented by related pieces exploring Finch’s passion for timebased experiences.

Fighting industry sexism, this multi-talented comedian had to self-finance her first comedy special in 1985. She hasn’t looked back since, bringing her sarcastic, urbane and politically charged wit to C-SPAN and countless television and radio talk shows—not to mention playing sets for queens and presidents.

30, this roots-rock singer-guitarist has released seven albums, shared the stage with Buddy Guy and Johnny Lang, and topped the blues charts with her Americana-tinged 2015 album “Wild Heart.”

N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $30-$45; 866/811-4111, artsgarage.org. The grandson of

blues pioneer R.L. Burnside grew up alongside his iconic grandfather, taking up the drums at age 13. The instrument has earned him four Blues Music Awards, but his recent interest in the guitar propels his current project.

Beach Opera’s production of Verdi’s masterpiece of passion and vengeance features 10 singers making their regional debuts in a classic tale of a hunchbacked jester, a lecherous duke, a woman abducted and a curse fulfilled.

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“HEATHERS” at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10; 8 p.m.; $25-$35; 561/483-9036, bocablackbox.com. Barclay

GEORGE PACKER at Society of the Four Arts, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach; 3 p.m.; $35; 561/6557226, fourarts.org. This

“RINGING TRUE” at

“LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE” at Sandler Center

at Arts Garage, 94 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $30-$45; 866/8114111, artsgarage.org. This

daughter of two professional musicians has blazed her own trail in jazz, topping charts and earning awards for her dusky, soulful and often vulnerable voice. The Grammy winner has performed and recorded with David Bowie, Paul Simon and many others, and her repertoire stretches to 1920s Songbook favorites.

Performing Arts presents its production of this scabrous musical comedy about the Darwinian world of high school, based on the satirical 1988 film. Singer-comedian Sarge will star alongside an age-appropriate cast of 14to 25-year-olds.

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celebrated American novelist, playwright and New Yorker investigative reporter received a National Book Award for The Unwinding, his recent literary history of the new America. He will speak on “The American Unwinding and the New Administration.”

Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton; $25; 561/347-3948, willowtheatre.org. This

one-woman musical written and performed by Rebecca Joy Fletcher presents her spiritual awakening through magic realism, live music and Talmudic dream sequences.

at Levis JCC, 9801 Donna Klein Blvd., Boca Raton; $23-$36; 561/558-2520, levisjcc.org. Scripted by

Nora and Delia Ephron from the bestseller by Ilene Beckerman, this international hit explores the time capsule of a woman’s life through her choices of clothing and accessories.

Nestor Torres

Adam Ezra Group Adam Ezra Group Tenors Unlimited George Packer

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March 24-25

MIAMI CITY BALLET: PROGRAM IV at Kravis Center,

“BRIGADOON” at Lynn

“GYPSY” at Maltz

“THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA” at Kravis Center,

ADAM EZRA GROUP at Funky Biscuit, 303 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton; 9 p.m.; $10-$20; 561/3952929, funkybiscuit.com.

701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; 8 p.m.; $20-$99; 561/832-7469; kravis.org. The season-closing performance features “Who Cares,” a sophisticated and nostalgic pairing of Balanchine and Gershwin; “Arden Court,” Paul Taylor’s acrobatic 1981 masterwork; and Balanchine and Mozart’s “Divertimento No. 15.”

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University, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton; various show times; $50-$70; 561/237-9000, lynn.edu.

Expect fanciful Highlands regalia, spirited songs and dance, and live music from the Lynn Philharmonia in this limited-run, professional production of Lerner and Loewe’s beloved time-travel romance.

Jupiter Theatre, 1001 E. Indiantown Road, Jupiter; $70-$91; 561/575-2223, jupitertheatre.org. Based

on the memoirs of real-life burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee, this musical from the dream team of Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents features a powerhouse lead role, a cast culled from all ages, and Broadway standards including “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” and “Let Me Entertain You.”

701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; 8 p.m.; $37-$93; 561/832-7469; kravis.org. Cameron Mack-

intosh’s extravagant Broadway tour of the Andrew Lloyd Weber staple features a cast and orchestra of 52, brand-new scenic design, Tony-winning costumes, and new choreography and staging.

This pop-rock sextet, whose sweaty, passionate, tireless live performances have earned comparisons to Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, is also known for merging music and activism.

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magine you’re in a smallish Italian trattoria with tables close together (but you still can’t hear the latest gossip at the next table, drat it all!) and bustling servers with plates full of … wait, did you see that pasta dish?

What was that?!

It’s probably the linguini Amalfitana at Caffé Luna Rosa, with clams, mussels, calamari, shrimp and yellowtail snapper in garlic tomato sauce and pops of flavors in every forkful. Close your eyes, reach for the calamari fritto misto and magnifico. The large pieces are lightly breaded and tender, a perfect start to the night’s eating debauchery.

In this choice, oceanview spot with the sand just a few feet away, you can imagine you’re in the Piazza San Marco (except with better food) or off the Via Veneto.

Since opening in 1993 as a gelateria, this place has been a success.

There’s no gelato now, but there is a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence wine list, and dishes that have earned Luna Rosa“Restaurant of the Year” recently from Delray Beach (twice). Some of the staff, it should be noted, are partners with owner Francis Marincola. They have stakes in the place, and it shows. The service sparkles and was attentive enough to earn raves from my dining crowd. And they are a tough crowd.

The bread, pasta and sauces are all made here. We were tickled with the roasted garlic in olive oil that was served with the bread.

Not a drop was left.

The rigatoni pomodoro and meatballs are reminiscent of a Northeastern U.S. Italian Sunday meal. Pasta isn’t al dente or cooked too long, but just right. Our ravioli

with pomodoro-Parmigiana crema was good, but the cheese filling could have used something more to make it great. Maybe herbs or arugula and spinach. The rich sauce in both dishes is full of flavor, allowing the San Marzano tomatoes to shine. It’s a mark of comfort food done well.

A scamponi dish, with two colossal, 8-inch butterflied shrimp and lump crabmeat stuffing that included celery and red pepper bits, next to tender, buttery veggies and herbed brown rice was enough for two meals. It was pricey ($39.95), but I’m not proud; I carted home that doggy box and re-lived the meal the next day.

I could not re-live the Key lime tart. That was history.

With a sweet graham cracker crust, and a tart Key lime custard topped with fresh whipped cream, the dessert that was large enough for four people disappeared like an ice cube on a hot sidewalk.

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he times, they are a-changin’, as we headed to the West Palm Beach Marriott for dinner. Yes, to eat.

At Bistro Ten Zero One, Executive Chef Christian Quinones is injecting oomph back into dining here, with innovative dishes and mini food fests on site. He’s earned cache at Florida Culinary Institute, Mar-a-Lago, the Four Seasons, and NYC and Puerto Rico venues.

Now he’s part of the “What? We’re eating at a hotel? Oh, so yes!” movement.

Take his ahi tuna poke. Well, take someone else’s; you can’t have mine. It has smooth bites of yellowfin and avocado bathed in a light, flavorful, soy truffle dressing,

where puffed rice adds a light crunch. This is an entrée masquerading as an appetizer.

I dove into the pulled pork tacos with pineapple-papaya compote and a slightly spicy mayo. These are small, balanced morsels and not meat-heavy. This chef is all about harmony and lightness.

A grilled golden beets salad on mixed greens with warm toasted almonds to melt the shaved Manchego was a mouthful of cream, crunch and sweetness. The Florida orange and pine nut salad, creamy, slightly crunchy with cucumber, avocado, Kalamata olives and honey vinaigrette was a nice blend of saccharine and citrus.

Here I was, around the corner

from out-of-towners checking in and scooping up seasoned lamb Bolognese on homemade, thin pappardelle pasta with oregano, where whipped mascarpone ends the bite with a puff of creaminess.

Pan-seared, buttery scallops were done to order, and bright green pea-asparagus risotto added a delicate taste instead of a heavy starch tone.

The local catch of the day, grouper, was the only dish that disappointed. The fish was slightly overcooked and a bit dry. A plus at the end of the meal was a dense yet moist bread pudding with salted caramel gelato and fresh whipped cream.

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had Something Different, and it was all it claimed to be.

More on that in a minute.

First, I found a deli. A real “wow, this is what Wolfie’s used to be!”deli. It’s from Brooklyn, so I wanted recently opened Junior’s to be all of that. I went to my first deli in Brooklyn, where my mom was born and raised. It also took me back to my childhood when we went to Wolfie’s on Miami Beach, and took my Cleveland-born husband back to Corky and Lenny’s.

Same idea: you sit down and are served full-sour pickles, coleslaw and pickled beets. That’s before you order! Bread used to be part of the deli deal, but no more—except at Musso & Frank’s on Hollywood Boulevard. But I digress.

Pickles are garlic-tangy and pack a punch. They are strong and evocative, and have the requisite crunch. The coleslaw is vinegary, with a big taste. No mayonnaise-based dressing here. The pickled beets are slightly sweet

with onions. It’s all made in-house and starts the meal off with a palate bang. The tastes are exaggerated. We could have stopped there, but Junior’s has a full bar, so we ordered drinks and settled in.

Next test: the latkes, or potato pancakes. Served with chunky, sweet, house-made applesauce and sour cream, these are thin (but not too thin) and crunchy.

This leads me to Something Different, as my sandwich was named. It’s two potato pancakes, with beef brisket tucked in a ball between them. I have a thing for brisket, so this seemed a perfectly normal combo to me. But it’s more like that state fair food, a hamburger between two doughnuts.

(Isn’t it wild to watch people who order and eat that?) I ate one-third of it, because it was huge, and I took the rest home. The pancakes’ crunchy, fried goodness complimented the juicy brisket, which was served with jus, too. Just for topping. Because there wasn’t

enough on the plate.

We had corned beef on rye. Of course, we did. Junior’s makes its deli mustard with a slight kick to it. Perfect. The corned beef was tender, mounded like a baseball between the bread slices. The rye bread was the only thing that disappointed—it tasted a bit bland. It was not as spectacular as the rest of the food which, granted, meant reaching a high bar.

Save room for Junior’s“The World’s Most Fabulous” cheesecake. That’s probably an understatement. It’s so thick it sticks to your fork. It’s creamy, and it’s impossible to talk while you’re eating it. You can taste the cheesy goodness in the moist sliver of what I thought was low-cal cheesecake (joking). As if I care.

This is Junior’s first foray into Florida. I’m guessing it won’t be the last. Did I mention you can order the cheesecakes online? For delivery? Um, back in a minute.

Gotta make a call …

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DINING GUIDE Palm Beach County BOCA RATON 13 American Table —451 E. Palmetto Park Road. Contemporary American. This cozy, artfully rustic spot is one of the few restaurants in the U.S. that has a Josper oven, a pricey, charcoal-fired grill-oven hybrid that cooks foods quickly at high heat to retain maximum flavor and texture. It works like a charm on chicken, resulting in remarkably crisp skin and tender meat, as well as on fist-sized shrimp you can customize with one of several sauces. Don’t miss feather-light profiteroles filled with caramel and pumpkin mousse. • Dinner nightly.

561/409-2061. $$

Boca Landing—999 E. Camino Real. Contemporary American. The Waterstone Resort & Marina’s signature restaurant, Boca Landing, offers the city’s only waterside dining and shows off its prime location and views. The mostly small-plates menu features Asian-inflected tuna tartare, green curry mussels and fried calamari. Probably the best dish, though, is the thoroughly continental filet mignon with crab and béarnaise, with wickedly luscious house-made hazelnut gelato coming in a very close second. • Dinner nightly. 561/368-9500. $$

Abe & Louie’s—2200 Glades Road. Steak-

Seafood. Market-fresh seafood is the cornerstone, like Chilean sea bass prepared over a wood-burning grill and served with sweet Rhea’s topping (crabmeat, sautéed spinach and a signature lime, tomato and garlic sauce.) • Dinner nightly. Lunch on Saturdays. 561/483-4949. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/732-9142; 9897 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, 561/965-2663; 11658 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/799-2965) $$

house. All Americans are endowed with certain inalienable rights, among them the right to a thick, juicy, perfectly cooked steak. At this posh, comfortable (and expensive) meatery, the USDA Prime steaks are indeed thick, juicy and perfectly cooked, also massively flavorful and served in enormous portions. Don’t miss the New York sirloin or prime rib, paired in classic steakhouse fashion with buttery hash browns and uber-creamy creamed spinach. Chased with an ice-cold martini or glass of red wine from the truly impressive list, it’s happiness pursued and captured. • Lunch/brunch Sun.-Fri., dinner nightly. 561/447-0024 $$$ Tiramisu from Arturo’s

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Arturo’s Ristorante —6750 N. Federal Highway. Italian. Arturo’s quiet, comfortable dining room, slightly formal, rigorously professional service and carefully crafted Italian dishes never go out of style.

You’ll be tempted to make a meal of the array of delectable antipasti from the antipasti cart, but try to leave room for main courses like fresh jumbo shrimp grilled in hot marinara sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly.

561/997-7373. $$$ Biergarten—309 Via De Palmas, #90. German/ Pub. Part vaguely German beer garden, part all-American sports bar, this rustic eatery offers menus that channel

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both, as well as an excellent selection of two-dozen beers on tap and the same number by the bottle. The food is basic and designed to go well with suds, like the giant pretzel with a trio of dipping sauces and the popular “Biergarten burger.” • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/395-7462. $

Bonefish Grill—21069 Powerline Road.

Brio Tuscan Grille —5050 Town Center Circle, #239. Italian. The Boca outpost of this national chain does what it set out to do—dish up big portions of well-made, easily accessible Italian-esque fare at a reasonable price. If you’re looking for bruschetta piled with fresh cheeses and vegetables or house-made fettuccine with tender shrimp and lobster in a spicy lobster butter sauce, you’ll be one happy diner. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/392-3777. (Other Palm Beach County locations: The Gardens Mall, 3101 PGA Blvd., 561/622-0491; CityPlace, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., 561/835-1511) $$

Butcher Block Grill—7000 W. Camino Real, #100. Steakhouse/Contemporary American. This casual steakhouse with a Mediterranean twist and a local, seasonal, sustainable ethos gives the stuffy old-fashioned

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Himmelbaum grew up in Boca Raton, worked as a server in Delray Beach (Park Tavern, Tryst, 3rd and 3rd), and created Mucho Gusto Delray with partner Jake Hebert. And then there was the bartending. He sort of fell into it.

How life ties into cocktails: Passion. Anyone who meets me will say I’m one of the most passionate people they’ve ever met. I’m a bit eccentric. I use my brain to make eccentric connections, small odd connections between flavors, and that helps me when I’m creating these crazy concoctions.

The importance of having the right people behind the bar: Hospitality is the mainstay of the restaurant industry. The bar is a place where you come when you don’t want to be stuck at home. Worse comes to worst, you have the bartender to talk to.

The best-case scenario, you sit next to someone really interesting.

Comeback liquors: Gin and mezcal are the two biggest for cocktails right now.

Strangest thing he ever drank: I took a shot of gefilte fish jelly in college. First and last shot.

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meatery a swift kick in the sirloin. Beef here is all-natural and grass-fed, delivering big, rich, earthy flavor; the New York strip is 12 ounces of carnivorous pleasure. Seafood, whether raw (tuna crudo) or simply grilled (wild-caught salmon), is palate-pleasing as well. Don’t miss the fresh mozzarella, made and assembled into a salad at your table.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/409-3035. $$$

The Capital Grille—6000 Glades Road. Steaks.

This is one of more than three dozen restaurants in a national chain, but the Boca Grille treats you like a regular at your neighborhood restaurant. Steaks, dry-aged if not Prime, are flavorful and cooked with precision, while starters from Wagyu beef carpaccio to a lighter version of the hardy chopped salad are nicely done too. Parmesan truffle fries are crispy sticks of potato heaven; chocolate-espresso cake a study in shameless, and luscious, decadence. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/368-1077. $$$

Casa D’Angelo —171 E. Palmetto Park Road.

Italian. Angelo Elia’s impeccable Italian restaurant is a delight, from the stylish room to the suave service to the expansive wine list, not to mention food that’s by turn elegant, hearty, bold, subtle and always delicious. Dishes off the regular menu make excellent choices, like chargrilled jumbo prawns with artichoke, arugula, lemon and olive oil. But pay attention to specials like pan-seared snapper and scallops in a spicy, garlicky cherry tomato sauce. • Dinner nightly. 561/338-1703. $$$ The Cheesecake Factory —5530 Glades Road. American. Oh, the choices! The chain has a Sunday brunch menu in addition to its main menu, which includes Chinese chicken salad and Cajun jambalaya.

Don’t forget about the cheesecakes, from white chocolate and raspberry truffle offerings. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-0344. (Other Palm Beach County locations: CityPlace, West Palm Beach, 561/802-3838; Downtown at the Gardens, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/776-3711) $$

Chez Marie French Bistro —5030 Champion Blvd., Boca Raton. French. Marie will greet you at the door of this nicely decorated, intimate, classic French restaurant tucked in the corner of a strip shopping area. From escargot encased in garlic butter, parsley and breadcrumbs to a tender duck a l’orange to an unforgettable crepe Suzette, you’ll be in Paris all evGlassg. Voila!

Also on the menu: calf’s liver, homemade veal sausage, tasty onion soup, seabass Bouillabaisse, moules frites, rack of lamb, salads and more desserts. Dinner nightly.

561/997-0027 $$

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Chops Lobster Bar —101 Plaza Real S., Royal Palm Place. Steak, seafood. Steaks are aged USDA Prime—tender, flavorful and perfectly cooked under a 1,700-degree broiler. There’s all manner of fish and shellfish, but you’re here for the lobster, whether giant Australian tails flash-fried and served with drawn butter or sizable Maine specimens stuffed with lobster. • Dinner nightly. 561/395-2675. $$$$

Buzz Bites I To-go gets a kick with Farmer’s Table Express

The rush of the season is over, and thank the sun-and-sand elves for that! But sometimes it takes a while for our gottaget-it-done metabolism to slow down in tune with the humid temps.

That’s where Farmer’s Table Express is a lifesaver. The popular healthy-andyummy restaurant’s sideline venture has prepared foods to make your life easier.

It’s next door to the restaurant, which is adjacent to the Wyndham Hotel, out by Town Center mall. The lineup includes ready-to-go sandwiches, salads, snacks, sauces, dressings, juices and vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily; online ordering available. Sounds like a plan to me. (1950 Glades Road; 561/409-2727)

Cuban Café —3350 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd. Cuban.

Diners pack this traditional Cuban restaurant for lunch specials that start at $7.95, including slow-roasted pork served with white rice and black beans. Other highlights include the Cuban sandwich and (on the dinner menu only) lechón asado. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/750-8860. $

Davinci’s of Boca—6000 Glades Road.

Italian. Expect carefully prepared Italian fare that will satisfy both traditionalists and the more adventurous.

The former will like crisp, greaseless fried calamari and hearty lasagna made with fresh pasta. The latter will enjoy creamy burrata with prosciutto, tomato jam and arugula and a branzino served with spinach, clams and shrimp. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/362-8466. $$

Domus Italian Restaurant—187 S.E .Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton. Italian. The “Best Spaghetti & Meatballs Ever” dish is pretty darn close to being just that. The burrata with tomato carpaccio, melt-in-yourmouth Dover sole almondine, orecchiette con sausage and linguine vongole are part of a very good menu.

From Sicilian fish salad to veal picante, a light calamari fritti to chicken Parmesan, you can find something for all appetites. Save room for the tartufo. Dinner nightly.

561/419-8787 $$$

Dorsia—5837 N. Federal Highway. Continental.

The simple pleasures of the table—good food, personable service, comfortable ambience—are what this modestly stylish restaurant is all about. The menu has a strong Italian bent, evidenced by dishes like a trio of fried zucchini blossoms stuffed with an airy three-cheese

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pring training is here at last with twice as many stadiums and teams in Palm Beach County as last year. Welcome, Washington Nationals and Houston Astros. March is nirvana for baseball fans.

More games means lots of opportunity between innings to down a hot dog, brat or sausage with all the fixings. Stadium food and drink have come a long way in the past 10 years. The once lowly hot dogs are all-beef, kosher, bun size or foot-long, part pork, all turkey, some with cheese already built in.

(What is that about?) But not for moi. The only home-run hot dog winning my palate is the New York dog.

As a little girl, I visited my grandmother in Brooklyn and we’d head to a hot dog cart. “Those things will kill you,” my mother said. (One of the few times my mom was wrong.) New York birthed the hot dog on Ellis Island with Nathan’s Famous debuting in 1916. It’s still a standard. Give me a fresh bun, spicy brown mustard, sauerkraut and onions – that’s my true Big Apple dog.

I found a world of dogs: the Reuben dog, Pizza dog, Korean dog, the Cowboy, BLT & Cheese dog and you get the idea… But the traditionalist doesn’t want anything competing with the dog. Here are the stats:

—LYNN KALBER

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THE DISH: The all-beef jumbo New York Street dog comes with kraut, red onion sauce and deli mustard on a poppy seed bun for $5.28. The steamed dog is thick and meaty, and the tomato sauce has sautéed onions. The bun was a bit soggy from that. But a good dog overall.

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Hotdog-opolis 6020 N. Federal Highway and 8177 Glades Road Boca Raton Gourmet Killer Dogs 4057 W. Atlantic Ave. Delray Beach CostCo 17800 Congress Ave. Boca Raton

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THE DISH: These deep-fried, all-beef jumbo dogs sat in a tasty, stalwart bun, topped with good sauerkraut and slightly spicy deli mustard for $6.99. Excellent dogs, excellent preparation. Top dog. This is a home run.

GOURMET KILLER DOGS

THE DISH: These hot dogs are allbeef, steamed (the CostCo Kirkland Signature dog), with a small but sufficient cup of sauerkraut, self-applied deli mustard and onions. The dogs are average, buns are fresh, and toppings are OK. What made this stand out? A $1.50 price tag.

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mousse, and a cookbook-perfect rendition of veal scaloppine lavished with artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes and a tangy lemon-white wine sauce. • Dinner nightly.

561/961-4156. $$

Farmer’s Table —1901 N. Military Trail.

American. Fresh, natural, sustainable, organic and local is the mantra at this both tasty and health-conscious offering from Mitchell Robbins and Joey Giannuzzi. Menu highlights include flatbreads, slow-braised USDA Prime short rib and the popular Buddha Bowl, with veggies, udon noodles and shrimp.

• Breakfast Mon.–Fri. Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly.

Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/417-5836. $

Grand Lux Cafe —Town Center at Boca Raton.

American. The Cheesecake Factory’s sister brand is an upscale take on the original formula, with an atmosphere inspired by the great cafes of Europe. The menu offers a range of international flavors, and the specialty baked-to-order desserts are always a big hit. • Lunch and dinner daily; breakfast on Saturday and Sunday.

561/392-2141. $$

The Grille On Congress—5101 Congress Ave. American. Dishes at this longtime favorite range from tasty chicken entrees and main-plate salads to seafood options like Asian-glazed salmon or pan-seared yellowtail snapper. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/912-9800. $$ Houston’s—1900 N.W. Executive Center Circle.

Jimmy’s Fries to Caviar —6299 N. Federal Highway. Contemporary American. Going one better than soup to nuts is Jimmy Mills’ latest endeavor, an easygoing, affordable bistro in the old Darbster space that really does offer fries, caviar and more. Four varieties of fish eggs are shown off nicely crowning a quartet of deviled eggs, while the thick-cut fries complement a massively flavorful, almost fork-tender hanger steak in the classic steak frites. Lobster bisque is indecently rich and luxurious, ditto the Grand Marnier-infused chocolate mousse. Dinner Tues-Sun. 561/617-5965 $$ Glass Happy

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New Rapoport place Rappy’s brings a challah of good options

Order a challah French toast, a matzo brei omelet, six kinds of caviar (it is Boca, people!), pastrami, salads, potato latkes, hotdogs, Reubens and more, but admit Burt Rapoport’s incarnation of the New York deli, Rappy’s, adds another good nosh to the area. Rapoport’s restaurant empire (his Rapoport Restaurant Group also owns Henry’s, Deck 84 and Burt & Max’s; Rapoport is also a partner in Max’s Grille in Mizner Park) has expanded to include a lox, er, lot more dining options.

This “delica-restaurant-tessen” named for Burt’s father opened in December as part of the Park Place plaza, at 5560 N. Military Trail (between Clint Moore and Yamato), and is open for breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner.

There’s a full indoor/outdoor bar area with happy hour Monday-Friday from 2:30-5:30 p.m. That has to be one of the earlier happy hours around. We’re ready.

Contemporary American. Convenient location, stylish ambience and impeccable service are all hallmarks of this local outpost of the Hillstone restaurant chain. There are plenty of reasons why this is one of the most popular business lunch spots in all of Boca, including menu items like crab cakes, the mammoth salad offerings and the tasty baby back ribs.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/998-0550. $$$

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Josef’s Table —5030 Champion Blvd. Continental. Though the kitchen does have a timid hand with sauces and seasonings, there’s no quibbling about the execution, whether a light, refreshing “tower” of lump crabmeat with mango, cucumber and tomato; rosy-rare double-cut lamb chops with port wine-mint sauce; panseared hogfish with orange beurre blanc; or the richly decadent half-moon chocolate tart. • Dinner nightly.

Lunch Mon.–Fri. 561/353-2700. $$$

Josephine’s —5751 N. Federal Highway. Italian.

Tradition trumps trendy, and comfort outweighs chic at this Boca favorite. The ambience is quiet and stately but not stuffy, and the menu is full of hearty dishes to soothe the savage appetite, like three-cheese eggplant rollatini and chicken scarpariello. • Dinner nightly.

561/988-0668. $$

Kapow Noodle Bar —431 Plaza Real. PanAsian. This wickedly stylish Asian-inspired gastropub delivers a delicious and inventive punch to the taste buds. Among the hardest hitters is tuna poke with sesame citrus soy-marinated ahi tuna, crispy wontons and habanero cucumber cream—not to mention cheesecake springrolls with a banana caramel dipping sauce.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/347-7322. $

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Double Bone-in Kurobuta Pork Chops with winter salad of apples, chestnuts and pomegranate; roasted cauliflower puree and blueberry jus

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on’t let the long recipe name intimidate you. This is a complete entree you can make at home without much trouble.

And let’s just say you could be very, very popular in a short time—about one dinner preparation’s worth of time.

When this appeared on the menu at 50 Ocean in the fall, a case of these pork chops (24 total) sold out in an hour. Yes. “This is very seasonal— very wintery, when you eat it, it makes you feel warm inside, it’s a comforting dish,” said Chef Joe Bonavita Jr. It also looks fairly amazing. Your kitchen work ends up looking like art. But you planned it that way.

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Top, Chef Joe Bonavita; right, the artfully plated final dish

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Why Kurobuta pork?

“This is a crossbreed between a Japanese pig and an American pig. It’s fattier, with more flavor. It’s acorn-fed. You can find them at Whole Foods or at a butcher.”

You use a double bonein pork chop because…

“It looks great, and when you cook bone on, it tastes better.

It holds it together and keeps it juicy and makes it tender and you get a lot of flavor out of that chop.”

How about finding pomegranate seeds?

“There’s no short cut.

You need to buy a pomegranate, cut it in half and remove the seeds.”

What preparations are most important to this dish?

“Making the jus is important, let it cook to get the flavor.”

How about a cooking timeline?

“Make the jus first.

While that’s cooking, roast the cauliflower, and then roast the apples, then after that everything just floats together.”

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Kathy’s Gazebo Café —4199 N. Federal Highway. Continental. This local stalwart smoothly rolls along with its signature blend of French and Continental dishes. The ornate, formal dining room and equally formal service are anomalies these days but are comforting nonetheless. Classic dishes like creamy lobster bisque, house-made duck paté, broiled salmon with sauce béarnaise and dreamy chocolate mousse are as satisfying as ever. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/395-6033. $$$

Ke’e Grill—17940 N. Military Trail. American. The attraction here is carefully prepared food that is satisfying, flavorful and reasonably priced. The fist-sized crab cake is a good place to start, followed by sea bass with a soy-ginger-sesame glaze. • Dinner nightly. 561/995-5044. $$$ La Ferme—9101 Lakeridge Blvd. French/Mediterranean. Classic style and classically oriented French cuisine come together at this elegant yet comfortable restaurant in a west Boca shopping mall. Though there are a few Asian and Italian-inflected dishes on the menu, at its heart Le Ferme (“the farm”) is as French as the Eiffel Tower. Start with gougères, cheesy pastry puffs filled with béchamel; don’t miss the unconscionably savory cassoulet; and finish with a tux-n-tails version of pineapple upside-down cake that takes a classic one better. • Dinner nightly. 561/654-6600. $$$

La Nouvelle Maison—455 E. Palmetto Park

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Blvd. French. Elegant, sophisticated French cuisine, white-glove service and a trio of (differently) stylish dining rooms make Arturo Gismondi’s homage to the Boca’s storied La Vieille Maison the home away from home to anyone who appreciates the finer points of elegant dining. The cuisine showcases both first-rate ingredients and precise execution, whether a generous slab of silken foie gras with plum gastrique, posh lobster salad, cookbook-perfect rendition of steak frites and an assortment of desserts that range from homey apple tart to bananas Foster with chocolate and Grand Marnier. • Dinner nightly. 561/338-3003. $$$

La Rosa Nautica—515 N.E. 20th St. Peruvian. Expect no ambience, no pretensions, low prices and food that satisfies on a very high level. Good starters include antichuchos, chunks of grilled beef heart, and causa, a terrine-like layering of mashed potatoes and chicken salad. Ceviche and the lomo saltado are among the best in South Florida. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/296-1413. $$ La Tre —249 E. Palmetto Park Road. Vietnamese.

For almost two decades, this elegant little spot has been celebrating the delicate, sophisticated flavors and textures of traditional and contemporary Vietnamese cuisine. A house signature, shrimp tossed with coriander curry pesto, is an inspired riff on Vietnamese classics. Service and wines match the refinement of the cuisine. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-4568. $$

Buzz Bites III New Hoffman’s Chocolates store opens at Delray Marketplace

Nothing wrong with the place getting a little sweeter, and we can count Hoffman’s Chocolates as a major conspirator in that plan. The latest location in western Delray Beach means a craving for double-dipped chocolate-covered pretzels (yes, they are as good as they sound!) can be sated easily, no matter where you are when the urge hits.

This is the 10th Hoffman’s Chocolates store opening, and that’s a lot of chocolate-covered strawberries cooling on the shelves. We’re happy the Hoffman family puts caramel apples within reach of our hot little hands at 14851 Lyons Road in the Delray Marketplace.

With a staff of almost 10, the store sells the usual 70-plus types of chocolates and confectionary goodies: chocolate-drenched cookies, chocolate-covered strawberries, gourmet caramel apples and gift baskets galore. There really can never be too many types of confectionary goodies, can there?

La Villetta—4351 N. Federal Highway. Italian.

This is a well-edited version of a traditional Italian menu, complete with homemade pastas and other classic dishes. Try the signature whole yellowtail snapper encrusted in sea salt; it’s de-boned right at tableside. Shrimp diavolo is perfectly scrumptious. • Dinner nightly. (closed Mon. during summer). 561/362-8403. $$ Le Rivage —450 N.E. 20th St. French. Don’t overlook this small, unassuming bastion of traditional French cookery. That would be a mistake, because the dishes that virtually scream “creativity” can’t compare to the quiet pleasures served here—like cool, soothing vichyssoise, delicate fillet of sole with nutty brown butter sauce or perfectly executed crème brûlee. Good food presented without artifice at a fair price never goes out of fashion. • Dinner nightly.

561/620-0033. $$ The Little Chalet—485 S. Federal Hightway.

Continental/Steakhouse. This clubby faux chalet touts both its pricy pedigreed beef and that once-hip culinary staple of the 1950s and ’60s, fondue. The latter offers a unique taste experience, especially if you go for the

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three-course prix fixe fondue dinner for two. It starts off with a choice of cheese fondues; we suggest trying the Parmesan, cherry tomato and fresh basil. Entrée fondues feature beef, chicken and shrimp cooked in a burbling consommé, to be dabbed with any of seven different sauces. Dessert fondues are all about the chocolate; try the decadent chocolate-peanut butter. • Dinner nightly.

561/325-8000. $$$

Madison’s —2006 N.W. Executive Center Circle.

American. This location is something of a Bermuda Triangle for restaurants, with at least four eateries preceding this local outpost of a Canadian chain that styles itself a “New York grill and bar.” What Madison’s has going for it is an exceedingly handsome and capacious space, as well as service that is as professional as it is personable. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/994-0808. $$ Maggiano’s —21090 St. Andrews Blvd. Italian.

Do as the Italians do and order family-style, sit back and watch the endless amounts of gorgeous foods grace your table. In this manner, you receive two appetizers, two salads, two pastas, two entrées, two vegetables and two desserts. The menu also includes lighter takes on staples like chicken parm, fettuccine alfredo and chicken piccata. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/361-8244. $$

Mario’s Osteria—1400 Glades Road. Italian.

This popular spot is swanky in its reincarnation, but the rustic Italian and Italian-American fare keeps with an osteria’s humbler pretensions. Signature dishes like the garlic rolls, lasagna and eggplant “pancakes” are on the new menu, as are butternut squash ravioli and thick, juicy rib-eye served “arrabiata” style. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/239-7000. $$ Matteo’s —233 S. Federal Highway. Italian.

Hearty Italian and Italian-American food, served in giant “family style” portions, needs no reinventing.

Though there is no shortage of local restaurants cooking in that genre, it’s the details of preparation and service that make Matteo’s stand out. Baked clams are a good place to start, as is the reliable chopped salad.

Linguini frutti di mare is one of the best in town. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-0773. $$

Max’s Grille —404 Plaza Real. Contemporary American. After 24 years in Mizner Park, Dennis Max’s modern American bistro is a true local classic.

The food and decor are both timeless and up to date, the ambience is that of a smooth-running big city bistro. Service is personable and proficient. The menu is composed of dishes you really want to eat, from grilled artichokes with rémoulade to wild Alaskan salmon with citrus beurre blanc to the wickedly indulgent crème brûlèe pie. It’s a classic. Just like Max’s Grille. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat–Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/368-0080. $$ MaxsGrille_brm0317.indd 1

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Morton’s The Steakhouse —5050 Town Center Circle. Steakhouse. There’s seemingly no end to diners’ love of huge slabs of high-quality aged beef, nor to the carnivores who pack the clubby-swanky dining room of this meatery. While the star of the beef show is the giant bone-in filet mignon, seasonally featured is the American Wagyu New York strip. Finish off your meal with the blueberry white chocolate bread pudding. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-7724. $$$ New York Prime —2350 N.W. Executive Center Drive. Steakhouse. This wildly popular Boca meatery packs them in with swift, professional service, classy supper club ambience and an extensive wine list. And, of course, the beef—all USDA Prime, cooked to tender and juicy lusciousness over ferocious heat. The bone-in rib-eye is especially succulent, but don’t neglect the New York strip or steak-house classics like oysters Rockefeller, garlicky spinach and crusty hash browns. • Dinner nightly. 561/998-3881. $$$$ Nick’s New Haven-Style Pizzeria —2240 N.W. 19th St., #904. Italian. Cross Naples (thin, blistered crust, judicious toppings) with Connecticut (fresh clams and no tomato sauce), and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the pies coming out of Nick Laudano’s custom-made ovens. The

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“white clam” pizza with garlic and bacon is killer-good; Caesar salad and tiramisu are much better than the usual pizzeria fare. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-2900. $

Ninja Spinning Sushi Bar —41 E. Palmetto Park Road. Japanese/sushi. “Whatever floats your boat” isn’t just a saying at this hipster sushi bar. Your sushi really does float on a boat, one of many bouncing along a channel cut into the top of the restaurant’s large, square sushi bar. High notes are the Mexican roll with tempura shrimp and avocado, and the sneakily fiery jalapeño-laced tuna tartare. If sushi doesn’t float your boat, gingery gyoza and crispy fried shrimp with a drizzle of spicy mayo probably will. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/361-8688. $$

P.F. Chang’s —1400 Glades Road. Chinese.

There may have been no revolution if Mao had simply eaten at the Boca outpost of P.F. Chang’s—the portions are large enough to feed the masses—and the exquisite tastes in each dish could soothe any tyrant. We particularly like the steamed fish of the day, as well as the Szechuan-style asparagus. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-3722. (Other Palm Beach County location: 3101 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/691-1610) $$

Piñon Grill—6000 Glades Road. Contemporary American. The menu seemingly lists every recent trendy dish to come out of modern American restaurant kitchens, but Piñon succeeds with spot-on execution, mammoth portions and reasonable prices. Try the lobster and crab ceviche, the chicken paillard or the chocolate and “cherried” waffle with ice cream, which is the irresistible definition of lusciousness. • Lunch and dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/391-7770. $$ Racks Downtown Eatery + Tavern— 402 Plaza Real. Contemporary American. Though the menu generally falls under the heading of modern American comfort food, that can mean anything from elegant presentations like the jaw-dropping lobster cobb salad to homier offerings like burgers and pizza, fiery Buffalo-style calamari, succulent chicken roasted in the wood-fired oven and an uptown version of everyone’s campfire favorite, s’mores.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/395-1662. $$

Rafina —6877 S.W. 18th St. Greek. If you find the ambience of most Greek restaurants to be like a frat party with flaming cheese and ouzo, this contemporary, casually elegant spot will be welcome relief.

Food and decor favor refinement over rusticity, even in such hearty and ubiquitous dishes as pastitsio and

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561/409-3673. $$

Ristorante Sapori —301 Via de Palmas, Royal Palm Place. Italian. Sapori features fresh fish, veal and chicken dishes imbued with subtle flavors. The grilled Italian branzino, the veal chop Milanese and the zuppa di pesce served over linguine are especially tasty, and the pasta (all 17 kinds!) is available in full and half orders, with your choice of 15 zesty sauces. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/367-9779. $$

Ruth’s Chris —225 N.E. Mizner Blvd. Steakhouse. Not only does this steakhouse favorite emphasize its New Orleans roots, it also distinguishes itself from many of its competitors by just serving better food.

The signature chopped salad has a list of ingredients as long as a hose but they all work together. And how can you not like a salad topped with crispy fried onion strings. Steaks are USDA Prime and immensely flavorful, like a perfectly seared New York strip. The white chocolate bread pudding is simply wicked. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-6746. $$$$

Sapphire Indian Cuisine —500 Via de Palmas. Indian. Raju Brahmbhatt’s modern, sophisticated restaurant will smash any negative stereotypes of Indian cuisine or the restaurants that serve it. It’s sleek and stylish, with a well-chosen wine list and a staff that’s eager to please. The food is elegant and refined and alive with the complex blend of spices that makes Indian cuisine so intriguing. Try Bagarey Baigan, plush-textured, thumb-sized baby eggplants in a lush coconut-curry sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/362-2299. $$

Seasons 52—2300 Executive Center Drive.

Contemporary American. The food—seasonal ingredients, simply and healthfully prepared, accompanied by interesting wines—is first-rate, from salmon roasted on a cedar plank to desserts served in oversized shot glasses. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/998-9952. (Other Palm Beach County location: 11611 Ellison Wilson Road, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/625-5852) $$ Sushi Ray —5250 Town Center Circle. Japanese/ Sushi. Impeccably fresh and exactingly prepared sushi and other Japanese specialties are on display. The Nobu-esque miso sea bass gives a taste of this modern classic at a fraction of the price of the original, while the chef’s sushi assortment offers a generous arrangement of

nigiri and maki for a reasonable $20. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/394-9506. $$

Tanzy —301 Plaza Real. Italian. Part of the swanky iPic Theater complex (though it does not service the theater), this handsome spot relies on quality ingredients and careful preparation instead of culinary special effects and car chases. The Parma Bar, a sort of sushi bar for meat and cheese fanatics, also does terrific quattro formaggio fiocchi and spiced pear. Savory grilled skirt steak and massive bone-in veal chops are excellent, as are the braised Angus beef short ribs with toasted pearl barley and collard greens. For dessert, try the Almond Basket, which includes fresh berries and your choice of a trio of sorbets. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/922-6699. $$$

Tap 42 —5050 Town Center Circle. Gastropub.

This hugely popular nouveau-Industrial gastropub is not for the faint of eardrums when packed, but don’t let that discourage you. The kitchen here executes the hell out of a short, simple all-day menu. Grilled salmon chopped salad with tomatillo ranch dressing is delightful, as is guacamole studded with fat chunks of bacon and charred corn. Same goes for decadent shrimp mac-n-cheese. The wicked-good chocolate

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Taverna Kyma—6298 N. Federal Highway.

Greek/Mediterranean. Few present Greek cuisine better. Expertly prepared dishes cover the spectrum of Mediterranean cuisine, from cold appetizers (dolmades—grape leaves stuffed with rice and herbs) to hot starters (spanakopita, baked phyllo with spinach and feta cheese) to mouthwatering entrées like lamb shank (slowcooked in a tomato sauce and served on a bed of orzo), massive stuffed peppers or kebobs. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/994-2828. $$

Trattoria Romana—499 E. Palmetto Park Road. Italian. This local mainstay does Italian classics and its own lengthy list of ambitious specials with unusual skill and aplomb. The service is at a level not always seen in local eateries. Pay attention to the daily specials, especially if it includes impeccably done langostini oreganata and the restaurant’s signature jumbo shrimp saltimbocca. • Dinner nightly. 561/393-6715. $$$ Truluck’s—351 Plaza Real. Seafood. This stylish

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and sophisticated Mizner Park restaurant applies the steak house formula of classy, clubby ambience, formal service and an extensive wine list to seafood from across the nation, with great and consistent success. Crab is the specialty here and there are myriad versions—stone, Dungeness, Alaskan, soft-shell and more. Crispy softshells stuffed with crab and andouille are very good, if served without a drizzle of ketchup-y sauce on top. • Dinner nightly. 561/391-0755. $$$

Twenty Twenty Grille —141 Via Naranjas.

Contemporary American. You’ve probably licked postage stamps that are larger than Ron and Rhonda Weisheit’s tiny jewel box of a restaurant, but what it lacks in space it more than makes up for in charm, sophistication and imaginative, expertly crafted food. Virtually everything is made in-house, from the trio of breads that first grace your table to the pasta in a suave dish of tagliatelle with duck and chicken confit. Don’t miss the jerk pork belly and grilled veal strip loin. • Dinner nightly.

561/990-7969. $$ Uncle Julio’s —449 Plaza Real, Mizner Park.

Mexican. Taking Tex-Mex cuisine gently upscale with better-quality ingredients and more skillful preparation, this colorful restaurant offers more than the usual suspects. You can get honey chipotle chicken fajitas, as well as beef fajitas, and one of the only palatable tamales around. • Lunch and dinner daily.

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service and its careful preparation of familiar and less-familiar dishes. The “specialties” section of the menu has exciting dishes, like the Hunan vegetable pie, finely minced veggies sandwiched between sheets of crispy bean curd skin, and Hunan-style lamb, whose seared and succulent meat shows off the kitchen’s skill in the use of wok qi. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-8806. $$$

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Villagio Italian Eatery —344 Plaza Real. Italian. The classic Italian comfort food at this Mizner Park establishment is served with flair and great attention to detail. The reasonably priced menu—with generous portions—includes all your favorites (veal Parmesan, Caesar salad) and some outstanding seafood dishes (Maine lobster with shrimp, mussels and clams on linguine). There is a full wine list and ample people-watching given the prime outdoor seating. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561-447-2257. $$ Vino —114 N.E. Second St. Wine Bar/Italian. An impressive wine list of some 200 bottles (all available by the glass) offers a multitude of choices, especially among Italian and California reds. The menu of “Italian tapas” includes roasted red peppers with Provolone, as well as ricotta gnocchi with San Marzano tomatoes.

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WEST BOCA City Fish Market—7940 Glades Road. Seafood. A multimillion-dollar remodel of the old Pete’s has turned it into an elegant seafood house with a lengthy seafood-friendly wine list, impeccably fresh fish and shellfish cooked with care and little artifice. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/487-1600. $$

Sybarite Pig —20642 State Road 7. Contemporary American. A labor of love, pork and beer, everything at the Pig but the coarse-grain mustard is made in-house, from the bread for sandwiches to the eclectic sauces to the variety of terrific sausages.

Roasted bone marrow and wagyu duck fat burgers, along with subtly spicy “Hellswine,” are among the standouts. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. Brunch Sun. 561/8833200. $

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Tempura House —9858 Clint Moore Road, #C112. Japanese/Asian. Dark wood, rice paper and tiles fill the space. An appetizer portion of Age Natsu, fried eggplant, is a consummate Japanese delicacy. Don’t miss the ITET roll with shrimp tempura and avocado, topped with spicy mayo, tempura flakes and eel sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/883-6088. $$

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Eclectic. Attempting to split the difference between happening bar and American café, Bar Louie in the sprawling Renaissance Commons complex mostly succeeds, offering burgers, pizzas, fish tacos and a variety of salads, all at moderate prices and in truly daunting portions. In South Florida’s world of trendy and expensive bistros, this is a welcome relief. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/853-0090. $

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Josies’s—1602 S. Federal Highway. Italian. Famed chef and South Florida culinary godfather Mark Militello has been working his mouthwatering magic in the kitchen of this cozy, old-school Italian restaurant. His influence is mostly felt in the lengthy roster of daily specials, but old favorites like beefy short rib meatballs, an upmarket version of the classic San Francisco cioppino, and Josie’s signature veal Bersaglieri (veal medallions with artichokes, olives and roasted peppers in lemon-white wine sauce) don’t fail to satisfy either. • Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner nightly. 561/364-9601. $$ Prime Catch —700 E. Woolbright Road. Seafood. Waterfront restaurants are few and far between in our neck of the woods, and those with good food are even more rare. Prime Catch, at the foot of the Woolbright bridge on the Intracoastal, is a best-kept secret. The simple pleasures here soar—a perfectly grilled piece of mahi or bouillabaisse overflowing with tender fish. Don’t miss one of the best Key lime pies around. • Lunch and dinner daily, Sunday brunch. 561/737-8822. $$

Sushi Simon—1614 S. Federal Highway.

Japanese. It’s been called “Nobu North” by some aficionados, and for good reason. Local sushi-philes jam the narrow dining room for such impeccable nigirizushi as hamachi and uni (Thursdays), as well as more elaborate dishes like snapper Morimoto and tuna tartare. Creative, elaborate rolls are a specialty. • Lunch and dinner daily.

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DELRAY BEACH This quirky, individualistic, obscurely located little place is one of the most important restaurants in Delray. The menu changes frequently, but hope the evening’s fare includes plump scallops with caramelized mango sauce, stunning delicious roasted cauliflower with Parmesan mousse and bacon, and wicked-good espresso panna cotta on it at your visit. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/303-1939. $$

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32 East—32 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. There are trendier, flashier, more celebrated restaurants than this beacon of vibrant modern American cuisine in downtown Delray, but there are no better restaurants anywhere in South Florida. The menu changes daily, but still look for items like the sublime black truffle-Gruyère pizza and the venison-wild boar sausage duo, which is the stuff of carnivorous fantasies. For dessert, the chocolate-peanut butter semifreddo is truly wicked in its unabashed lusciousness. • Dinner daily.

561/276-7868. $$$

50 Ocean —50 S. Ocean Blvd. Seafood. The former Upper Deck at Boston’s on the Beach is now the more upscale, seafood-oriented spot. The menu ranges from familiar to slightly more inventive, from a classic lobster bisque and crisp-tender fried clam bellies to rock shrimp pot pie and baked grouper topped with blue crab. The cinnamon-dusted beignets are puffs of amazingly delicate deep-fried air and should not under any circumstances be missed. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sun. 561/278-3364. $$ Angelo Elia Pizza • Bar • Tapas— 16950 Jog Road. Italian. Nothing on the menu of Angelo Elia’s modern, small plates-oriented osteria disappoints, but particularly notable are the meaty fried baby artichokes stuffed with breadcrumbs and speck, delicate chicken-turkey meatballs in Parmesan-enhanced broth, and Cremona pizza with a sweet-salty-earthy-pungent mélange of pears, pancetta, Gorgonzola, sun-dried figs and mozzarella. • Lunch Tues.–Sun. Dinner nightly.

561/381-0037. $ Apeiro Kitchen & Bar —14917 Lyons Road.

Mediterranean. West Delray diners have another reason to stay in their neighborhood with this stylish, contemporary Mediterranean eatery. Apeiro’s menu spans the entire Mediterranean, with dishes like Moroccan-spiced lamb ribs, 14-ounce double-cut pork chops, and fluffy meatballs adorned with tomato sauce, ricotta and pesto. The apple crostata, baked in a wood-burning oven, is one of the best desserts in town. • Dinner nightly. 561/501-4443. $$ Atlantic Grille —1000 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood/ Contemporary American. This posh restaurant in the luxurious Seagate Hotel & Spa is home to a 450-gallon aquarium of tranquil moon jellyfish and a 2,500-gallon shark tank. Savor inventive cuisine that takes the contemporary to the extraordinary. Bold flavors, inspired techniques and the freshest ingredients make every meal a culinary adventure. • Lunch and dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/665-4900. $$

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with twin chimichurri sauces touch the heart and the taste buds. Veggie fried rice is exemplary thanks to the kitchen’s application of wok chi. • Dinner nightly.

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Burt & Max’s —9089 W. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Burt Rapoport and Dennis Max have struck gold with their first collaboration in years, bringing an accessible and affordable brand of contemporary comfort food to west Delray. A few dishes from Max’s other eatery, Max’s Grille, have made the trek, like the hearty chopped salad and bacon-wrapped meatloaf. Other dishes are variations on the comfort food theme, including a stellar truffle-scented wild mushroom pizza. • Dinner nightly.

Sunday brunch. 561/638-6380. $$$ Cabana El Rey —105 E. Atlantic Ave. Cuban tropical. Little Havana is alive and well in Delray. The menu is a palette-pleasing travelogue, including starters like mariquitas (fried banana chips) and main courses such as seafood paella (think mussels, shrimp, clams, conch, scallops and octopus). • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/274-9090. $$

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Road. Mexican. Mexican cuisine often has more personas than Madonna. This highly stylized cantina adds another—that of California’s Chicano culture. All your favorite Mexican dishes are there, as well as enormous margaritas, but also niftier items like the crispy tuna tacos.

Try the restaurant’s famous avocado fries with garlic and cilantro, and finish off with Captain Crunch deep-fried ice cream. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/499-0378. $

Caffé Luna Rosa—34 S. Ocean Blvd. Italian.

This favorite is always lively, and alfresco dining is the preferred mode. Entrée choices are enticing, but we went with the housemade pasta with pancetta, tomato and basil. Also delicious was the costoletta di vitello, a center-cut 14-ounce veal chop lightly breaded and served with San Marzano tomato sauce. For breakfast, indulge in a crab meat benedict, and for dessert, you can’t go wrong with the cheesecake imported from the Carnegie Deli. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sunday. 561/274-9404. $$

Cena—9 S.E. Seventh Ave. Italian. Like death and taxes, heat and humidity, Italian restaurants are a certainty in these parts. Most prize comfort and satisfaction over feats of culinary derring-do, as does this small but stylish restaurant in a space once occupied by one of Angelo Elia’s stable of eateries. Tender artichoke bottoms bathed in garlicky olive oil are a worthy starter, as is a salad of peppery arugula with figs and mild, creamy goat cheese. Sun-dried tomato-crusted halibut with Chianti sauce is a break from the familiar. Tiramisu, though as familiar as apple pie, is exceptionally well-done. • Dinner Tues.-Sat. 561/330-1237 $$

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Cut 432 —432 E. Atlantic Ave. Steakhouse.

Hipper decor, a more casual vibe and an inventive take on steak-house favorites make this sleek restaurant just different enough to be interesting. Starters such as ceviche (prepared Peruvian style) and ultrarich oysters Rockefeller are first-rate, while the wet-aged beef is appropriately tender and tasty. • Dinner nightly.

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Dada—52 N. Swinton Ave. Contemporary American. The same provocative, whimsical creativity that spawned Dada the art movement infuses Dada the restaurant, giving it a quirky charm all its own. The comfort food with a moustache menu has its quirky charms too, like shake-n-bake pork chops with sweet-savory butterscotch onions, and a brownie-vanilla ice cream sundae with strips of five-spice powdered bacon. The wittily decorated 1920s-vintage house-turned-restaurant is, as they say, a trip. • Dinner nightly. 561/330-3232 $$

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El Camino —15 N.E. Second Ave. Mexican. This sexy, bustling downtown spot is from the trio behind nearby Cut 432 and Park Tavern. Fresh, quality ingredients go into everything from the tangy tomatillo salsas to the world-class tacos of fish clad in crisp, delicate fried skin and set off by tart pineapple salsa. Cinnamon and sugar-dusted churros are the perfect dessert. And do check out the margaritas, especially the half-and-half blend of smoky mezcal and blanco tequila. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/865-5350. $$

Fifth Avenue Grill—821 S. Federal Highway.

American. Since 1989, this upscale tavern has been a Delray favorite. The straightforward menu focuses on entrées like lamb osso buco and tenderloin brochette teriyaki. Add a lobster tail for good measure. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/265-0122. $$

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DINING GUIDE RESTAURANT DIRECTORY Henry’s—16850 Jog Road. American. This casual, unpretentious restaurant from Burt Rapoport in the west part of town never fails to delight diners. Expect attentive service and crisp execution of everything— from meat loaf, burgers and fried chicken to flatbreads and hefty composed salads. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/638-1949. $$

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House of Siam —25 N.E. Second Ave., #116. Thai. The normally riotous flavors of Thai cuisine are muted at this family-friendly downtown spot, but that seems to suit diners just fine. Dishes, well-prepared and generously portioned, include steamed chicken and shrimp dumplings with sweet soy dipping sauce and crisp-fried duck breast in a very mild red curry sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/330-9191. $$

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Il Girasole —2275 S. Federal Highway. Northern Italian. This South Florida classic is not trendy, but it offers a level of comfort and consistency that has been bringing people back for more than three decades. The food is fine hearty Italian, with excellent service. Try the veal Kristy or the calves brains. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/272-3566. $$

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Ave. Seafood. This local favorite on Atlantic Avenue—owned by John Hutchinson (who is also the chef) and wife Tina—serves up everything from burgers and wraps to a menu brimming with seafood options.

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Jimmy’s Bistro —9 S. Swinton Ave. Eclectic.

Best bets are a lovely salad of ripe tomatoes and fresh, milky house-made mozzarella; a rich, elegant version of lusty Cajun etouffee; and caramelized bananas in puff pastry with silken vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce.

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Sweetbreads in chanterelle cream sauce are glorious; a barely grilled artichoke with mustardy remoulade is gloriously simple. Watching your server skillfully debone an impeccably fresh Dover sole is almost as satisfying as eating it. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/2650600. $$

Lemongrass Bistro—420 E. Atlantic Ave. Pan-Asian. Casually hip ambience, friendly service, moderate prices and a blend of sushi and nouveau pan-Asian fare make this a popular destination. The quality of its seafood and care in its preparation are what gives Lemongrass its edge. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/278-5050. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 101 Plaza Real S., Boca Raton, 561/544-8181; 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/733-1344). $

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Max’s Harvest—169 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. Dennis Max, instrumental in bringing the chef and ingredient-driven ethos of California cuisine to South Florida in the 1980s, is again at the forefront of the fresh, local, seasonal culinary movement.

Max’s Harvest soars with dishes like savory bourbon-maple glazed pork belly. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/381-9970. $$ The Office —201 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Your office is nothing like this eclectic gastropub, unless your office sports more than two dozen craft beers on tap and a menu that flits from burgers and fries to mussels. Don’t miss the restaurant’s winning take on the thick, juicy Prime beef burger and simply wicked maple-frosted donuts with bacon bits and two dipping sauces. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/276-3600. $$ Park Tavern—32 S.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. The guys from Cut 432 have done it again with this hip, casual modern American tavern. The menu is tightly focused and tightly executed, whether Maryland crab cakes featuring fat chunks of succulent crab or the behemoth slab of tender, juicy prime rib for a near-saintly $29. Don’t miss the decadent soft pretzel bites. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/265-5093. $$

Prime—29 S.E Second Ave. Steak/Seafood. Prime is aptly named for its heart of the action location, classy neo-supper club decor, extensive wine list and roster of designer steaks. Starters and desserts fare better than entrées, especially plump, crabby Maryland-style crab cakes and indecently luscious chocolate bread pudding. Service is a strong suit too, so with a bit of work this good-looking restaurant will fully live up to its name. • Dinner nightly. 561/865-5845. $$$ Racks Fish House + Oyster Bar—5 S.E. Second Ave. Seafood. Gary Rack, who also has scored with his spot in Mizner Park, certainly seems to have the restaurant Midas touch, as evidenced by this updated throwback to classic fish houses. Design, ambience and service hit all the right notes. Oysters are terrific any way you get them; grilled fish and daily specials are excellent.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/450-6718. $$$ Smoke —8 E. Atlantic Ave. Barbecue. With famed pit master Bryan Tyrell manning the smoker, this joint smokes every other barbecue spot in South Florida. Pretty much everything that comes out of Tyrell’s three-wood smoker is good, but his competition-style ribs are porky-smoky-spicy heaven, the Sistine Chapel of rib-dom. Crisp-greaseless house-made potato chips, meaty baked beans and plush-textured banana-coconut pudding are also excellent. The ambience is an inviting blend of Southern hospitality, urban chic and sports bar. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/330-4236. $$ WEB EXTRA: check out our complete tricounty dining guide only at BOCAMAG.COM.

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YOUNG ADULTS LIGHT UP ATLANTIC AVENUE WITH HANUKKAH SPIRIT AND JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY’S YOUNG ADULT DIVISION Another record-breaking crowd of young adults spent Saturday night, December 17, at Honey Delray on Atlantic Avenue, getting into the Hanukkah spirit at the annual Blue & White Party. Arriving with gifts for children in need, they enjoyed drinks and seasonal treats, dancing, mingling, and more. This year, the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County’s Young Adult Division (YAD) joined forces with the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County’s NextGen for this event. Stay up to date with YAD’s many social, educational, service and philanthropic opportunities on Facebook at facebook.com/YoungAdultDivision, or connect with Liana Konhauzer at 561.952.5015 or lianak@bocafed.org.

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WITH THE JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIOn The dynamic local attorneys, CPAs, financial consultants, life insurance professionals and estate planners of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County’s Jacobson Jewish Community Foundation’s Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) enjoyed their annual Holiday Party on December 7 at Honey Delray on Atlantic Avenue. With great camaraderie and commitment, they celebrated their successes in developing permanent resources to ensure the continuity of Jewish life, programs and services locally, in Israel and worldwide, through permanent endowment funds, lifetime gifts, bequests in wills, trusts and planned giving programs. To learn more about the PAC, call Lisbeth Rock Cauff at 561.852.3188 or email lisbethc@bocafed.org.

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WITH JEWISH FEDERATION’S DEBORAH AND LARRY d. SILVER CENTER FOR JEWISH ENGAGEMENT More than 400 volunteers of all ages from throughout the Jewish community fanned out across the area on December 18 to help those in need at 17 hands-on projects. Whether preparing food for the hungry, assembling holiday gift bags, gardening, enjoying games or crafts with children or seniors, or much more, all were inspired and energized by joining with the full vibrant diversity of their Jewish community to aid their less fortunate neighbors. The day closed with a joyous pre-Hanukkah concert featuring internationally renowned Josh Nelson. Learn about engaging with the Jewish community at jewishboca.org/engage or connect with Rabbi Josh Broide at joshb@bocafed.org or 561-852-3173.

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pal at Avison Young Commercial Real Estate, points out that during its early years the park depended greatly on IBM. The company’s Boca Raton facility was booming.

With IBM long gone, O’Donnell said he’s newly bullish about the park because in 2015 the city added the Planned Mobility Development element to encourage projects that reduce the impact from traffic. The concept seeks to bring a city feel to the suburbs.

The Research Park at Florida Atlantic University is Boca Raton’s other main economic estuary. Twelve buildings comprising about 350,000 square feet sit on 80 acres on the north side of FAU’s main campus. The approach is the opposite of bidding wars.

“We focus on people,” said Andrew Duffell, who has been the park’s president and CEO for six years. He means the people and resources of FAU. Students can serve as interns to companies leasing space at the park. Companies get what Duffell calls “access” to FAU faculty, who can serve as consultants.

When I spoke with Duffell in December, he said the occupancy rate at the park was 85

percent. The Technology Business Incubator within the park was full. Duffell had cut back the time he spent recruiting, he said,“because so many companies are coming to us, and we don’t have that much room.” During the 1990s, the park offered below-market leases as an attraction. These days, Duffell said, the leases are market rate “or a little higher.”

FAU has made the recruiting easier. Adding a medical school brought better, more specialized equipment. After John Kelly became president three years ago, Duffell made sure the park’s focus aligned with what he calls the “pillars” of Kelly’s plan for the university.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Duffell believes that “creating the right climate is much more lucrative” over time for business recruitment than incentives.

Unlike many cities, Boca Raton has its own incentive fund of $5 million, which the city replenishes every year. According to the city’s figures, the fund has helped to recruit and/or retain 8,400 jobs since 2010 for an investment of roughly $4.3 million.

Some deals have been city-only. Others have had large contributions from the county and the state. The most recent high-profile

deal brought Cancer Treatment Centers of America—$357,500 from the city and county and $1.5 million from the state. Office Depot remains the largest— $1.5 million from the city and $3 million from the state, with another $500,000 from the county.

Perhaps downtown Boca Raton becomes the next corporate hub. Perhaps it’s Congress Avenue in Delray Beach. In both cities, the best business incentive may be giving business no incentive to look elsewhere.

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A lack of accountability may be a large part of today’s troubled society Written by JOHN SHUFF

remember as a teenager the rules my father established as long as I lived in his house: tell the truth, no drinking and driving and always let mom and dad know when I was coming home if I was going out for an evening. If I was going to be late, I was to call and let them know when to expect me. My father in particular made me accountable for my actions. No negotiations, no stretching the rules into some kind of convenient interpretation—just three directives that I was expected to follow. This was not unreasonable but the consequences for crossing the line were severe as I found out late one summer evening when I sashayed into the kitchen smelling like the Burger Brewery. He asked if I’d been drinking. I said “Yes,” and he said,“You’ve lost the use of the family car for a year.”

That was yesterday. Fast forward into the 21st century.

There have been dramatic changes in the dynamics of the American family and the attitude of our young people. I’m worried. No, I’m terrified at the prospects for America given the current state of America’s youth. Call them Generation Y/Millennial (born 1980-2000) or Generation Z/ Boomlets (born after 2001).

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lost, as some universities offered to distraught students after the recent presidential election.

Last year we saw professional athletes who kneeled when the national anthem was played and witnessed more than 750 homicides in Chicago, mostly gang-related. Public schools are failing and have metal detectors at their entrances.

another and the molestations continued. The church tried to sweep it under the rug but the lawsuits mounted. As a result, the American Catholic church’s treasury has taken a nearly $3 billion hit to settle these cases.

Today, the church is proactively addressing this problem but the horse left the barn decades ago, scarring the credibility of

We have become a society with no boundaries, no consequences. Many children are reared by parents who establish no expectations or standards of behavior.”

Look at our government. They work for the people but make rules that they themselves do not follow. They have exempted themselves from sexual harassment in the workplace but our courts are filled with civil suits involving the same transgression. The doozie is health care.

Our esteemed leaders (who are our employees) put a health care plan in place for the nation but opted to keep their own private health care plan instead and got away with it. There are no boundaries for them when it comes to protecting their bureaucracy.

I’m a practicing Catholic but I’m still angry at powerful members of the church for protecting priests who abused children. Leaders looked the other way as pedophile priests were transferred from one parish to

the church among some of its parishioners.

You get the drift. We have become a society with no boundaries and no consequences. Many of our children are being reared by parents who do not establish expectations or standards of behavior. Instead, the boundaries are moved to accommodate the situation. Consequences are nonexistent and everyone is cozy—so comfortable that “accountability” is a forgotten word. The admonition: establish boundaries of expected behavior.

State consequences for straying outside those lines. Never move them. Never. They will reinforce accountability for your children’s behavior. That’s the result we want and the hope they will carry it forward to their children. A society without these boundaries is a society in chaos.

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