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The Gunshine State

Recent mass shootings have prompted a deeper look into an uncompromising Second Amendment lobbyist from Tallahassee, who has turned the Sunshine State into a national petri dish for progun legislation.

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A Boca Raton CEO’s passion for wildlife photography has taken him from the lakes of Florida’s Treasure Coast to the valleys of Yellowstone and the islands of Antarctica.

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Departments 16 Editor’s Letter Despite the inspiring activism of the #NeverAgain movement and the platitudes of partisan pundits, there are few long-term solutions to the epidemic of gun violence.

By MARIE SPEED

19 The Local Palm Beach County’s archaeologist gets down to the bone, a restaurateur becomes an advocate for MS research, and Disney’s “Avatar”ride is as special as an ounce of Unobtainium. Plus, the season’s top gadgets, autumn décor tips and much more.

28: Dress Code: Red and black hues dominate fall style—along with cowgirl couture and chic hiking boots.

By ALLISON LEWIS, CHRISTIANA LILLY, MARIE SPEED AND JOHN THOMASON

47 #LoveBoca Boca magazine highlights its partners with a series of fun events—including Boca Bacchanal and the grand opening of Cinemark Bistro.

51 The Biz The stage is set for a new Drama major at Lynn University, the general manager of the

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region’s biggest country club explains why west is best, and Excell Auto Group makes used-car buying more exotic.

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59 Feel Good We explore a kind of natural “bathing” that doesn’t need water, and discover an entrepreneurial “Kitchen” that doesn’t need food.

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65 Home According to a handy new website, college dorms needn’t be places where interior design goes to die. Plus, Target’s new gem of a home brand, the attracting opposition of black and whites, the benefits of home staging and more.

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113 Dining Guide Our review-driven guide to the finest dining in South Florida spotlights Luff’s Fish House, Sardinia, and Restoration Hardware’s rooftop bistro. Plus, we deconstruct a seasonal Dada favorite, and talk barbecue with a celebrity chef.

By LYNN KALBER AND CHRISTIANA LILLY

137 The Scene The Concours d’Elegance revved its engines for charity, the ladies of Highland Beach’s UNICO chapter sipped, smoked and swirled, NBC’s Chuck Todd enlightened congregants of B’nai Israel, and more.

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144 My Turn The author reflects on how his discovery of Al-Anon—and a lot of faith—helped him evolve into a more compassionate parent.

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Just in time for Halloween, local playwright Michael McKeever is sinking his teeth into a feminist reimagining of a classic vampire fiction. Plus, an award-winning haunted house, an“Indecent”play, and a celebration of bees define autumn’s A&E.

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When we’re itching for that warm and fuzzy feeling that fall brings, we head to Dada in Delray Beach for Chef Bruce Feingold’s menu mainstay, the butternut squash ravioli. To learn how to make it at home, head to bocamag.com/september-2018.

In light of the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February, 2017-2018 Florida Teacher of the Year Kelly Guthrie Raley wrote about what she believes is to blame for our nation’s rash of school shootings. Visit bocamag.com/ september-2018 to read it and tell us what you think.

Five men who adopted their fourlegged pals from the Tri-County Humane Society gathered with Boca mag to tell their stories. Visit bocamag.com/september-2018 to see us corral their furry friends in behindthe-scenes video.

City Watch

Boca Raton is anything but sleepy, and Randy Schultz is the go-to for all the city politics, development and business news you need to know. For updates delivered straight to your email every Tuesday and Thursday, visit the City Watch tab on our website.

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Best Bites Think our dining guide is long? You haven’t seen anything until you’ve visited our digital version.

We’ve got critic-reviewed restaurants from Jupiter to Miami on the web. Visit the food tab to view the guide.

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The Never Again Problem

When keeping the story alive still doesn’t come with any answers Written By MARIE SPEED

he kids at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High asked all of us to keep the memory alive of that awful day last February.

They asked us not to let the issue dim and fade, lost in an ever-rotating news cycle. Our story in this issue (page 70) is partly to honor that request, and also to look at how we came to be here—and where we go now.

Florida is the poster child for gun rights, with a long legacy of legislation designed to protect those rights. But it’s also ground zero for gun massacres, with the Pulse nightclub tragedy, the Stoneman Douglas massacre, the airport gundown, the countless killings every week from Miami to West Palm Beach. In this issue, we try to make sense of where we are, but ultimately, none of it makes sense, not to me, not to anyone I know.

We can blame social issues, guns, the NRA, mental health treatment breakdowns in the system, weak schools, violent gaming, and on and on. I blame it all.

We can blame the dissolution of the family, bullying,

isolation, the devil—I blame it all. I know some things we could do, like banning the sale of military-style weapons, but that’s a small Band-Aid on what I fear is a larger and more pervasive sickness America is harboring.

The country I knew growing up—the Florida I knew—had public schools with open breezeways instead of hallways. The worst anyone ever did was smoke in the parking lot, or smuggle a dissected frog into the cafeteria at lunchtime to terrorize a table full of cheerleaders. The really bad boys might get into a fight in the Royal Castle parking lot on a Friday night, but no one even dreamed of guns or bombs or classmates dying in a fifth-period geography class.

So what is it? What dark and senseless force is creeping over us now? What do we do? When does it stop?

We have no answers. We can just write a story about it. Talk to the people. Publish some pictures.

Keep it going, like a secret you pass from person to person. We can only keep this story about dying real and alive for some kids who asked us to.

Please. Pass it on.

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190,285 Number of students enrolled in Palm Beach County public schools

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FIVE THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT FALL 1 If we get through October, we are pretty well over hurricane season.

2 The kids are back in school.

3 Football is back.

So is tailgating.

4 Planning for back-to-back holiday fun is in full gear, Halloween through Christmas.

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THINGS TO BUY NOW • Labor

Day sales are a great time to buy summer clothes (which we can use all year-round if they aren’t stark white).

•P revious-generation iPhones are a good bet before newer models are rolled out.

• This month is always a top time for deals on both small and large HDTVs, before the Black Friday madness that comes later.

•S ome people advocate waiting till now to buy pricey college textbooks, when you are back in class and your professors can tell you which ones are an absolute necessity.

• September has great off-season airfare deals.

•M ost bike makers release new models at the onset of fall, so this is also a great time to buy last year’s models.

Locals sound off on issues affecting our community.

Even though our weather still feels like summertime, what do you do to celebrate fall in South Florida?

“My family and I lather on the sunscreen and head to Bedner’s to take our annual family photo in their pumpkin patch. That always gets us in a festive fall mood despite it being a scorcher outside!”

—MICHELLE E. OLSON-ROGERS, FOUNDER, MODERN BOCA MOM; SOCIAL MEDIA CONSULTANT, ARMSTRONG MEDIA

“I create fall by decorating my deck with pumpkins, gourds and lanterns for Halloween and Thanksgiving. With the exception of last Thanksgiving, my family and I have a buffet-style Thanksgiving dinner on the patio and deck because the weather is so beautifully tropical. I decorate my tables with orange tablecloths and fall-themed table scatter.”

“Fall is a great time to get back on our bikes and enjoy our local scenic bike paths like the El Rio Trail and The Pondhawk Natural Area near the Spanish River Library.”

—PETER ARTS, COMMERCIAL INSURANCE AGENT, PLASTRIDGE AGENCY, INC.

—JOYCELYN PATRICK, COMMUNITY ACTIVIST

5 You get to quit reading about everyone else’s fabulous summer vacations on Facebook.

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“Mystery Science Theater 3000” 30th Anniversary Tour WHERE: Parker Playhouse, 707 N.E. Eighth St.,

Lewis Black WHERE: Coral Springs Center for the Arts, 2855 Coral Springs Drive WHEN: Oct. 19, 8 p.m.

COST: $52.47$73.67 CONTACT: 954/344-5990, thecentercs.com Conventional wisdom presumes that the Trump era would be a comedic renaissance for liberal comics like Lewis Black, but it’s not like he was exactly mellow during the Obama years. Black’s comedic persona is that of the perpetual outrage machine, whether he’s ranting about constitutional crises or subway delays. Prepare to hear a lot of words you still can’t say on television during his “The Joke’s On Us” tour.

Fort Lauderdale WHEN: Oct. 19, 7 p.m.

COST: $37.50-$47.50 CONTACT: 954/462-0222, parkerplayhouse.com In 1988, comedian Joel Hodgson created “Mystery Science Theater 3000,”a TV series that made rotten films palatable.

In the show’s enduring conceit, he played a janitor marooned on a satellite by a pair of mad scientists, who forced him to watch terrible movies—primarily those Z-grade creature features perfected by the likes of Roger Corman.

Hodgson’s character survives by mocking the movies, from his front-row seat, trading barbs with the wisecracking robots he created for companionship. The show has become a cult-TV touchstone; in 2017, Netflix had no problem crowdfunding $5.7 million for a 14-episode revival. This appearance offers the rare opportunity to experience Hodgson and new host Jonah Ray riffing live to a movie exclusive to the tour. Their target? A 1988 sci-fi stinker from Canada called “The Brain.”

David Byrne WHERE: Fillmore, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach WHEN: Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m.

COST: $59-$128 CONTACT: 305/6737300, fillmoremb.com Any appearance by David Byrne, the droll leader of avant-pop icons Talking Heads, is one worth celebrating. It’s been 10 years since he performed in South Florida, a gig with electronic-music frontiersman Brian Eno that stands as one of Miami’s most memorable concerts. Methinks he might top it this time around. He’s touring in support of “American Utopia,” his first solo record in 14 years, a dance-able collection of tropical rhythms, Krautrock beats, sunshiny themes and eccentric lyrics. The title, he has said, is unironic: “American Utopia” is part of Byrne’s ongoing multimedia “Reasons to be Cheerful”project, in which he seeks to promote joy and positivity across the fruited plain.

“Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting”

WHERE: NSU Art Museum, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale WHEN: Sept. 9, 2018-June 2019 COST: $5-$12 CONTACT: 954/525-5500, nsuartmuseum.org

For the past 60 years, this Fort Lauderdale cultural institution has been at the forefront of paradigm-shifting art movements, from traditional African sculpture to abstract expressionism, Pop Art and video art, acquiring and exhibiting masterpieces from each. In honor of its sixth decade, NSU Art Museum will present the visual-art equivalent of a greatest-hits compilation, offering tapas from its diverse collection, sprawled across more than 28,000 square feet of gallery space. Named after one of its most recent acquisitions—Jenny Holzer’s conceptual piece“Remember to React,”which urges spectators’ active engagement with art—the exhibit’s masterpieces run the gamut from Frida Kahlo to Purvis Young, Andy Warhol to Julian Schnabel.

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Don’t-miss events The 11th Boca Ballroom Battle is

scheduled for Sept. 14 from 6 to 10 p.m. at Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real. This event is the official end-of-summer blowout and features eight community leaders competing“Dancing With The Stars” style in an elaborate production. All proceeds benefit the George Snow Scholarship Fund. For tickets, email dfeiler@scholarship.org.

Bedner’s Fall Festival at 10066 Lee

Road, Boynton Beach, offers a pumpkin patch, corn maze, hay rides, a petting zoo and lots more for roughly the entire month of October. This is a surefire way to get your fall fix in, whether it’s still warm or not.

SEPTEMBER 14 Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios in Orlando opens.

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The second-annual Boca Pumpkin Patch Festival on Oct. 6-7 in Mizner

Park Amphitheater will feature more than 2,500 pumpkins as well as a carnival, a corn maze, a“scarecrow dress-up village” and a pumpkin food court and beer bar.

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A Piece of History

The county’s official archaeologist is digging Palm Beach Written by JOHN THOMASON

This is the last frontier of American archaeology outside Alaska. if you’re doing archaeology anywhere else in the nation you’re just adding more examples to established theories. Here, every time you stick a shovel in the ground there’s potential for change.”

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or years, nothing has excited Chris Davenport more than a four-centimeter bone fragment.

Roughly resembling a heartshaped arrowhead, the piece is decorated with a whirlpool pattern and a partial image of a legged critter. Discovered in 2017 among the infinite sprawl of the Belle Glade sugarcane fields, this Native American artifact may be“the oldest representational art in the state,” says Davenport, removing the priceless object from its Ziploc. I hold it with the delicacy of the Hope

Diamond, and it leaves a chalky residue on my palm.

“That is just shy of 4,000 years old,”Davenport adds.“That’s approximately the same age as the pyramids in Egypt. What’s interesting is that its design is also on pottery from the St. John’s River Valley. Is that a smoking gun, a link from one to the other?

“I tell my interns, this is the last frontier of American archaeology outside of Alaska. If you’re doing archaeology anywhere else in the nation, you’re just adding more examples to established theories.

Here, every time you stick a shovel in the ground, there’s potential for change.”

If you haven’t heard of this remarkable find, you’re not alone: As the designated archaeologist of Palm Beach County, a position that has only existed since 2005, Davenport’s profile is as buried as the artifacts he unearths. He considers himself “one of the best-kept secrets in the county.”

From his discreet office in Juno Beach, he uncovers this secret for Boca mag.

On why archaeology is important: I tell people that archaeology is similar to endangered species. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.

Archaeology and historic structures even more so, because you can always put two bald eagles together and get a third bald eagle. You can’t do that with archaeology and historic structures.

On the age of Palm Beach County: The oldest object we have is a spear point from Lake Okeechobee

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that is about 10,000 to 12,000 years old. The majority of archaeological sites in the county are about 2,000 years old. There’s a fair number of sites in Boca. You had the inlet, you had the lakes, you had endless food, effectively from the ocean or from the freshwater wetlands.

On why objects turn up: In 2006 through 2009, Lake Okeechobee went into a drought. The water dropped about 8 feet, and we found 33 new sites.

On the looting of artifacts: There is a select group, probably 1 percent, that [loots] for profit. The rest is for a love for history. For those people, I try to have their focus be on the love of history—not the find, not the hunt, not the actual artifact itself, but what does that represent? If you can establish that, you can have a working relationship. But that 1 percent?

You will never change their minds.

I got a call from a person saying, “I have a human skeleton here in fresh dirt—do you know anything about that?”When we got there, sure enough, there was fresh dirt turned up. Somebody was out there looting; digging up human remains is a federal offense.

On what he’s learned about the county’s history: Abner Doubleday was at Fort Jupiter. Samuel Colt brought revolving rifles down here. The first telegraph was here.

We had a Japanese colony in Delray Beach. That’s not taught in any history book!

On the nature of the job: Archaeology is a calling. It doesn’t pay well. There’s something in your psyche where you have to do it. You can’t choose to do this. You have to be drawn to it.

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Rocco’s Modern Life

The owner of a popular Mexican restaurant chain has turned a medical challenge into a passion for helping others Written by CHRISTIANA LILLY

Everybody in life has a decision they can make.

You can either stay silent about what you have— or maybe you do what I did and put your first foot forward not only in your life but in somebody else’s.”

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t was Aug. 15, 2016 when Rocco Mangel woke up and realized he couldn’t move the left side of his body. Three hours later, he regained movement in his limbs and immediately researched what could have happened. Doctors at Cleveland Clinic later diagnosed him with multiple sclerosis.

MS is a disease in which a person’s immune system attacks the protective layer over nerves, leading to miscommunication between the brain and the body.

Depending on the level of nerve damage, those with MS can lose their ability to walk.

“I spoke to my PR team and said, ‘I’m going to let everybody know that I have MS, and raise awareness,’” Mangel recalls. Since his diagnosis, he’s used his platform as a successful business owner to get people talking about the disease and raising funds for research and patient programs.

Mangel’s first name is synony-

mous with the Rocco’s Tacos family of restaurants, with eight locations in Florida and New York with more to come. “We’re an authentic casual Mexican restaurant—we’re not trying to reinvent Mexican food,” Mangel says.

Mangel grew up in the restaurant industry—his grandfather was a maître d’ at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City, his father owned a number of restaurants on Long Island, and Mangel worked for his father at delis and pizzerias around town.

However, he was getting into trouble and needed a new start. In 1997, with $200 and a Mobil gas card in his wallet, he drove to Florida and was hired as a busboy at Big City Tavern on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach. Over the next decade, he moved up in the South Florida food world, eventually teaming up with Big Time Restaurant Group—the owners of Big City Tavern—to open

a new restaurant called Rocco’s Tacos as the general manager and co-owner in December 2007.

“Anybody can open up a restaurant; it’s always busy on the first night,” Mangel says.

“It wasn’t until after the restaurant was super well received that I was like, ‘Oh my god, I got something on my hands here. This is a big tiger, I better grab it by the tail.’”

In 2009, Mangel realized that he couldn’t smell—he had severed his olfactory nerve.

His ENT doctor ordered an MRI to take a closer look and saw signs of MS, but tests came back inconclusive.

Every two years, Mangel would go back for MRIs to check for lesions, a sign that would indicate MS. Then in 2016, he was diagnosed with the disease. He manages his condition with a strict diet, and once a month he receives a transfusion to help slow its progression.

“Everybody in life has a decision they can make.

You can either stay

silent about what you have—and that’s good, some people decide they’re going to do that,” he says.“[Or] maybe possibly you do what I did and put your first foot forward not only in your life but in somebody else’s.”

His first goal was to raise $365,000 in 365 days—instead, he raised $500,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Earlier this year he received the Hope Award, the highest honor for volunteers to the society. But his philanthropic spirit didn’t begin with his diagnosis—he has raised $250,000 for breast cancer research and has also volunteered for the ALS Association, the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society, Toys for Tots, Tri-County Humane Society, March of Dimes and more.

“Now that I’m a public figure, if I give up, what message does that show?” Mangel says. “And most importantly, I’ve got a 5-year-old little girl that looks at me like I’m her knight in shining armor.”

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Five tech breakthroughs that make life easier, from phone charging to baby monitoring Written by ALLISON LEWIS

1 MILO SENSORS PROOF WRISTBAND, proofwearable.com, PRICE TBA Happy hour is soon to be technically advanced with this crowdfunded wearable.

PROOF is a biometric sensor that calculates a user’s blood alcohol level without the need for a breathalyzer or blood test. Individuals receive real-time updates via a smartphone app and alerts when blood alcohol levels rise or it is unsafe to drive.

2 PLOTT CUBIT, letsplott.com/cubit, $99 Designing that dream

space is simpler than you think with this smartphone-connected measuring tool, described as “the GPS for your creativity.”

Transmit real-time information such as photos of the room you’re updating to the Cubit app on your phone. Add features like cabinets and windows, based on their actual dimensions.

After completing the visual layout, Cubit guides users to coordinates on the real wall to place an object exactly as it looks on the app.

3 QUARTZ BOTTLE, clearlyquartz.com, $79 This reusable, self-cleaning water bottle with digital purification is the first of its kind. Using UV-C LED technology, it eliminates 99.9 percent of harmful germs and odors at the click of a button.

A double-insulated wall and vacuum seal keep drinks icy cold or steaming hot. Every four hours, it self-activates to stay clean, and one charge lasts up to three months.

baby monitoring camera. The video streams in high definition with many features: advanced night vision, motion, sound and cry alerts, a nightlight and a music player. Connect to the Arlo app on a tablet, phone or computer to check in on the baby 24/7.

5 GREENLIGHTING 6000 MAH SOLAR POWERED PHONE CHARGER, amazon. com, $39.99 Charge your mobile phone anywhere—even an airplane—with this solar-powered charger.

Attach the power bank to a window with a suction cup to charge. When fully charged, it can recharge a phone at up to 1 percent per minute.

An LED light indicator shows the battery level and charging status, and it’s compatible with most devices.

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3 of Hearts This board-game restaurant cooks up competition and camaraderie

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3 OF HEARTS

512 Lucerne Ave., Lake Worth 561/923-8573 HOURS: 4 to 10 p.m.

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his quaint café attached to a co-working space in downtown Lake Worth serves New American cuisine with a side of sunken battleships and triple-word scores.

Diners at 3 of Hearts receive two menus upon entry: a food menu and a board game menu. Both feature familiar favorites and imaginative surprises.

On the food side, chef John Whitmore’s irresistible deviled eggs offer a trifecta of toppings: traditional, plus avocado pesto and smoked beet variations. The grilled cheese fingers are a lip-smacking cardiac arrest in waiting, formed by cutting off the crusts of grilled cheese sandwiches, rolling the rest into cigar-shaped forms, deep-frying them in butter and serving them with a trio of sauces. (Pretty much everything in the menu comes in threes, which is no coincidence.)

While waiting for food, visitors can choose from up to 25 board games at no cost, from living-room staples like Clue and Yahtzee to left-field selections like Bad Pharma (“Formulate pharma drugs and make a pitch to get the most votes”) and everybody’s favorite R-rated group diversion, Cards Against Humanity.

Rubik’s Cubes, tic-tac-toe, and Connect Four are available at the bar.

Even if you’re not a gamer, 3 of Hearts offers everything a nouveau hot spot should: weekend brunches, a three-hour happy hour, live music on Thursdays and a 2,000-square-foot backyard garden that plays host to yoga sessions, artisan markets, wellness fairs and other special events.

Restaurateur Robin Popelsky opened 3 of Hearts late last year, after moving from New York, where she managed events for hotels. It was there she encountered a board-game lounge equipped with a barista counter and thought, why can’t the concept work for more than just cappuccinos and pastries?

She wasn’t alone. Aiming to foster analog entertainment in an increasingly digital world, board game cafes are trending in hip cities nationwide.

From 2007 to 2017, sales of tabletop games rose every year, suggesting a demand for cardboard, dice and difficult-to-hold, poorly sharpened pencils that a smartphone could never supply.

When you visit 3 of Hearts, just leave the iPhone in the car. When you’re trying to remove a “Charley Horse” from the cavity of a red-nosed patient, tweets can only get in the way.

—JOHN THOMASON

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Collectively creating the “Houses that Women Built” in South Palm Beach County – for its 2018 Annual “Women Can Do It” Women Build fundraising event - both harnessed and celebrated the unstoppable power of mission-driven women to come together to help transform their community with an inspiring “hand up, not a hand out”.

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Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach County Vice President and CDO, Kari Oeltjen: “This program has been purposely timed for the days leading up to Mother’s Day because Habitat for Humanity recognizes that women are uniquely positioned to nurture families and build communities.

As impassioned women-empowerment drivers, the local and national Women Builders deliver significant impact that enriches lives and communities, one home at a time.”

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Five Reasons We Love Mathews Brewing Company in Lake Worth Written by ALLISON LEWIS

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ormer engineer Dave Mathews (not that Dave Matthews) is tapping into his full potential. After 23 years of brewing beers in his garage, Mathews is sharing his suds at Mathews Brewing Co., the first and only craft brewery and taproom in Lake Worth.

Inside, the taproom offers guests a huge bar, plus high tops and a laid-back lounge area. The colorful beer menu displays everything on tap.

Beers are made in-house (the barrel systems are in plain sight), including his cask-conditioned brews, served at 50 degrees, rather than the 36-degree American standard. Outside, there’s a Zen garden, a stage and room for gourmet food trucks that rotate on a schedule.

If you’re ready to escape the humid Florida heat, drive up to Mathews Brewing for a cold frosty.

These other reasons make it an afternoon wellspent:

5. THE ZEN GARDEN: “I’m obsessed with rocks,” Mathews says, pointing to the huge rock sculptures, rock furniture and carefully cultivated rock beds outside. Easy-to-care-for plants add color and charm to the calming garden.

4. OPEN FOOD POLICY: “We don’t care if you

bring food, have it delivered from a local restaurant, or get something from the food trucks,” Mathews says.

3. LIVE MUSIC: One of the reasons Mathews bought the property is to host live entertainment.

His lineup of revolving artists entertains Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on the patio. Grab a pint or flight and listen for a while.

2. THE PAW-FECT PATIO: Dog owners, rejoice!

Fido, Luna and Sophie are welcome at Mathews’ dog-friendly patio. In fact, Mathews says his logo is designed after his late Jack Russell, Dakota.

Benches, tables and a covered area are all outside, too.

1. THE BEER: Fourteen creative, handcrafted brews rotate on tap, like the Sweet Emotion Cream Ale and the Peanut Butter and Jealous Stout (a PB&J without bread!). Recent additions include a strawberry blonde called“Rhythm”and an imperial stout called“Seek & Destroy.”

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Report from the Front You don’t have be 11 to find new thrills at Disney Written by MARIE SPEED

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ith peak summer vacation time over, slipping up to the world’s happiest place might be a slightly happier experience this season. Especially if you keep things focused. We had a chance to do just that and are here to report on the Disney highlights of our trip—which had a distinctly adult spin (although perfectly wonderful for real kids).

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From top, author and her sidekick Mary at the collaboration of VOID with ILMxLAB; the hot air balloon featuring characters in flight at Disney Springs

We were novices at the notion of virtual or augmented reality. We were not gamers. Or XBoxers. We were two middle-aged women strapped into massive Teflon vests and headsets about to enter a spaceship. I am not kidding.

Our small black room went dark, and I looked over, and Mary, my co-conspirator, was a stormtrooper. For real. As was I. That’s when the alien dropped in to tell us what our mission was, and a door slid open with a gangplank to a floating platform in deep space.

I am deathly afraid of heights, so this did not look doable. My knees buckled, but I made it out to the platform, into the rebel ship, and we were off. I will not spoil this for

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you, but I will say there are guns involved and a stormtrooper faceoff, Darth Vader and a sea monster or two. And it is maybe the most fun 10 to 15 minutes I have had in months, maybe years. Make a reservation and go. And may the force be with you.

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The Yak and the Yeti in Asia in the Animal Kingdom at the base of Expedition Everest has a full-service sit-down bar (a rarity in these parts) and a great Nepalese/ Asian-inspired menu. We loved the chicken tikka masala and the respite from strollers and humanity. And after zooming through Pandora, a pop can be helpful. Best to make reservations.

This is your warm-up ride for the new blockbuster Pandora version, and it never gets old to sail around the world, from Everest to Africa (where you are thisclose to elephants) and beyond. Still inspiring, still jaw-droppingly beautiful.

FLIGHT OF PASSAGE AT PANDORA

OK, strap on those FastPass bands (you’ll need them; the wait is epic otherwise) for this state-of-the-art Disney ride. Number one, Pandora itself is otherworldly and enchanting through the vegetation and detail alone. But the ride itself on the back of a banshee defies anything I’ve ever experienced (my companion said she thought they should have a support group after the ride just to process it). You straddle what seems like a chubby stationary bike, equipped with your assigned “Avatar” identity (the wait in line alone is entertaining as they get you ready), and then it gets dark and off you zoom into the 3D virtual world of a magical Pandora, swooping under tree limbs, through giant cascading waves, over floating mountains and clouds and lagoons and beasts and cliffs like a banshee unleashed. The banshee inhales and exhales as you ride, the wind blows in your face and it is one thrill a millisecond. Wow. That is all. Just wow.

Villas at Fort Wilderness

Staying at the new Villas at Fort Wilderness was the ultimate sweet escape from teeming parks, with a cozy Twin Peaks-in-Orlando vibe that starts with a soaring log lobby and massive fireplace (complete with rockers) and proceeds to a comfortable two-bedroom “villa” complete with kitchen area and living areas (it sleeps nine!) and a balcony overlooking the trees. The open-air lakefront Geyser Point Bar is a quiet, easy place to unwind. But we loved the civilized, cozy Territory Bar at the Artist Point restaurant (fabu!) and the fun menu it offered. (Fondue?

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The revamped Downtown Disney is now Disney Springs, a sprawling shopping, dining (great places, like Morimoto and STK) and entertainment district. The new VOID attraction is there (can we keep gushing about this?) as well as a whole new wing of great grown-up shopping from Kate Spade to Anthropologie, Johnny Was and more.

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What: Always a highly anticipated event, this two-day fête upped the excitement by turning a Sweet 16. During the first night’s Vintner Dinners, several local estates and the Boca Resort played host to private dinner parties, where a chef partnered with a vintner to create a one-of-a-kind menu. At one dinner, two chefs teamed up with two vintners for the very first time. On the second day, the community came out for the Bacchanalia, where more than 30 restaurants showcased their best dishes to be paired with wineries on the scene. Proceeds from the festival benefited the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum.

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“Having My Hip Replaced Was a Piece of Cake” - Werner Sichel hip replacement patient

Werner Sichel, retired economics professor and resident of Boca Raton is no stranger to having an active lifestyle. After years of use, his right hip was causing him pain.

Werner discovered Broward Health North’s minimally invasive option called the anterior approach. The anterior approach avoids cutting major muscles and is designed to result in less pain and a faster recovery. Less than a month after surgery, Werner is back to enjoying life.

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Matthew Linderman, general manager of Boca West Country Club

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The G.M. of Boca West on maintaining the country club’s sterling reputation Written by JOHN THOMASON

I’m one of those individuals who doesn’t come in the next day to figure out where my day is going to go. When I leave for the night, I know what I’m starting with the next day.”

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atthew Linderman’s desk at Boca West is one of those Oval Office-type deals, impressively wide and covered with neat piles of papers, each clipped together in its designated space. “I’m a little neurotic in knowing where everything is,” says Linderman, 47.

“I’m one of those individuals who doesn’t come in the next day to figure out where my day is going to go. When I leave for the night, I know what I’m starting with the next day.”

Such organization is necessary in a job that amounts to something like mayor of a small town.

As general manager and chief operating officer of Boca West, Linderman runs a community of more than 6,000 year-round residents, a population greater than that of Juno Beach, Pahokee or Tequesta. It peaks at 12,000 during high season.

At 1,400 acres, Boca West is the nation’s largest country club, encompassing 54 villages, 30 tennis courts, four golf courses and six restaurants. Eight hundred and fifty employees work under Linderman, in 21 departments.“I’ve always been able to delegate,”he says.“I’ve always believed in being a coach more than a manager—in leading the troops and getting them to think for themselves.”

Formerly food and beverage director at Four Seasons Palm Beach, Linderman joined Boca West as food and beverage director in 2005 and has remained at the club ever since, holding six job titles. He was the natural choice to replace Jay DiPietro, a lion of residential management, when he retired, at 80, in 2016.

“Jay and I always hit it off,” Linderman says.“Within the first year, Jay knew he could count on

me to help be his right hand. We had the same work ethic. I was always the guy doing more than his job title.”

Boca West is ranked as the No. 1 private residential country club in the United States by Platinum Clubs of America.“Being the No. 1 club, and being in Boca Raton—not in the middle of Indiana somewhere— you can’t rest on your laurels. ... We have to constantly be reinventing the wheel.”

For the future, that means a “refresh”of the spa and fitness center and an update to the lagoon-style pool area. Last year, Boca West opened its rebuilt the Golf and Activities Center, which houses lectures, comedy nights,

concerts, social clubs and lifelong learning classes in a space that is triple its original size. Akoya, the late developer Richard Siemens’ high-rise condo within Boca West, is expected to be complete by the end of 2018.

But Linderman believes that listening to his residents, and being visible around the club, is just as important as every new fitness machine or fresh coat of paint.

“A lot of people say they have an open-door policy, but I truly believe that,” he says.“I’ll walk to the restaurant and get stopped 50 times from people just wanting to talk to me about anything. They know I’m very approachable. ... It’s in my DNA.”

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Economic Driver

Inside Excell Auto’s two-decade success in the exotic car market Written by JOHN THOMASON

There are no pressure sales.

We just try to engage the customer, to show them the positives and the negatives.”

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customers who look at a specific car, and we’ll tell them—it’s not the right car for you...”

Zankl is sitting behind his desk in a corner office of Excell Auto, steps from a lounge that encourages clients to stay awhile. There’s a pool table, a café with complimentary espresso and a flat-screen tuned to sports. But browsing the nearby inventory is its own entertainment.

The showroom overflows with luxury and exotic cars—Excell’s specialty—in shades of canary yellow, fire-truck red,“Terminator”silver.

Among the 68 cars for sale at the time of this writing? A 2017 Ferrari 488 Spider ($319,900), a 1992 Porsche 964 U.S.

Cup Car ($299,000) and a 2017 Rolls-Royce Dawn convertible (“Please call for price”).

“I like to have the stuff that’s harder to find, versus 17 webpages of the same car,”Zankl says.

Excell caters to a particular niche of high-net-worth car buyers, and Zankl concedes that some are interested primarily in the status.“There are people that buy these cars because of what brand it is... But you also have your true enthusiasts, who buy the cars because of the performance, the comfort ... the sound system, the exhaust, the engine. Those are the true car people.”

Thanks to an increasing awareness that new cars lose 20 percent of their value when they’re

driven off the lot, Excell has benefited from a boom in pre-owned, low-mileage automobiles. And it isn’t just male executives purchasing Maseratis; women make up a significant share of clientele.“We’re seeing a lot of clients in their late 20s and early 30s, and we had a guy come in and buy a Ferrari who was 81.”

While Zankl occasionally takes one of Excell’s sports cars out for a weekend drive, his car-buying habits have evolved too.“I’m at a different stage in my life. ... I have three kids at home, so for me, an Escalade or a Range Rover is usually what I’m driving.”

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Drama Queen

College of Arts and Sciences Dean Katrina CarterTellison on launching Lynn’s first B.F.A. in Drama Written by JOHN THOMASON

“At many larger institutions, you’re competing for an opportunity to be able to go onstage, whereas here, when it’s an intentional small program, we know you’re going to have those opportunities.”

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The school’s brand-new B.F.A. in Drama program, hatched over a multiyear process of studying curricula and best practices at similar programs around the country, is finally underway for the 2018/2019 academic year.

“We’ve been laying the groundwork for it for a long time,” explains Katrina Carter-Tellison, dean of Lynn’s College of Arts and Sciences.

“It’s the passion and creativity of someone like Jan McArt, who’s been on our campus for years building interest. It’s the commitment of people like Elaine Johnson Wold to give us a professional theater. It’s the commitment of the administration to the transformative power of art itself. It’s also the connection between us and the Lynn Conservatory. It’s those four things that make this time the right time for it.”

Like many degree tracks at Lynn, this four-year, performance-heavy bachelor’s degree is limited to an elite number of students—eight in musical theatre and eight in drama. The intimate class sizes will play to Lynn’s signature belief in individualized learning, while guaranteeing stage time for the few who are chosen.

They’ll be acting, singing and/ or dancing every semester, including in three weekends of ticketed public performances. A musical revue, “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber,” and the Tony-winning drama “Clybourne Park” are among those included this season.

Carter-Tellison says it took “loads and loads of back-and-forth” with her colleagues to program an inaugural season that would showcase a diverse array of talent and would appeal to both students and audiences. But for Tellison, whose

academic career has long specialized in issues of socioeconomics and otherness—her dissertation as a sociology major at the University of Miami was titled “Skin Tone and Perceptions of Discrimination among African Americans: Evidence from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality”—no season will be complete without a work that stimulates students’ minds and perceptions. “Clybourne Park” fits that bill. “[Students] might read something like ‘Letter From a Birmingham Jail,’ or something by the Dalai Lama, but for them to go and see a play unfold in front of them, it’s often a completely different experience,” she says.

“It brings concepts and issues of justice to life.”

Not all of Lynn’s B.F.A. Drama graduates will end up forging a career in performing arts. But the ancillary benefits of the course are manifold, Carter-Tellison says. “Communication is one of the things employers say students are missing today. And a program like the B.FA. in Drama is something that will deliver students to them that have the ability to articulate a message, both in writing and in speaking.

“We are also graduating students who oftentimes are not conditioned to work together, to collaborate. ...

A play creates the ability to connect with people who maybe you don’t agree with, who come from a different place ... The ability to come together on a common project and see it executed are the types of skills [that will] serve them extremely well long-term.”

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Take to the Tall Timbers Refresh body, mind and soul in forest bathing’s multisensory experience Written by ALLISON LEWIS

Forest bathing strengthens the immune system through phytoncides, or antimicrobial plant compounds.

Walking in a forest decreases cortisol (stress hormone) levels in the body.

Individuals diagnosed with ADHD show an increased focus and concentration after 50- to 55-minute forest walks.

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Did you smell the dampness of the wet forest floor? Did you feel more relaxed or at ease?

Shinrin-yoku, the circa-1980s Japanese term for forest therapy, a.k.a. forest bathing, focuses on multisensory stimulation to help individuals connect directly with the natural world around them.

“The forest is a natural design space for us,” Fereshteh Toosi, a practicing artist on staff at Florida International University, says.

“We have an inherent connection to the outdoors.”

Toosi is a creative researcher and trained artist working outside traditional art spaces in places like swimming pools and outdoor venues. She studied horticulture therapy and its connection to wellness and green space. Today, she is a certified forest therapy guide and member of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy.

“The forest is the therapist; I’m just a guide,” she says.

Toosi leads two-hour group walks in Miami’s Pine Rocklands,

which is known for its unique tree canopy. She says there’s a sequence to the walks.

“First, there’s a sensory invitation. I invite the group to participate [with all senses] and let go of outside stresses of the world,”Toosi says. Then, individuals move slowly through the Rocklands. At designated intervals, Toosi invites walkers to hear, see, smell and feel everything happening in the Rocklands. For example, Toosi says some watch or talk to insects.

Others connect with the bark of a tree or the earthy smells around them.

“We use attention to notice surroundings. It’s not about getting to a destination,” she says.

After the walk, Toosi encourages participants to share experiences in a circle of peers.

It allows members to hear about other forest encounters and validate individual experiences.

Sometimes individuals feel sadness at the land’s destruction or grief after a long disconnect from the forest. But mostly, experiences are positive. Toosi says people consistently feel curiosity, calm, relaxation and wonder post-walk. They also enjoy tea

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foraged by Toosi on that day’s walk and share a cup of tea with the land in thankfulness.

“People feel a heightened sense of stewardship,”Toosi says.

“Adults connect with the child in themselves, the playfulness.”

Toosi offers walks for $35, mostly in Miami, but she caters to requests in parks and gardens around Fort Lauderdale and even West Palm Beach. She is working to develop coastal walks along the beach, too. For more information, contact Toosi at driftwoodwalks@gmail.com or at airbnb.com/experiences/131014.

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Heal and repair skin with a natural, personalized approach Written by ALLISON LEWIS

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believe in healing yourself,” says Patti Green, motioning to the body butters, cleansers, toners, facial oils and colorful tea leaves around her on a warm Delray afternoon.

Green is a lifestyle expert and founder of The Beauty Blend Kitchen, a product line that uses natural ingredients and essential oils to blend facial masks, cleansers and elixirs that meet an individual’s skin care needs from day to day. It’s the most personalized form of natural beauty to hit the market.

For almost 10 years, Green suffered from facial swelling and hives, until an autoimmune diagnosis changed her life. She found herself throwing out everything containing chemicals in her freezer, pantry, beauty cabinet and

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As Green researched, she found that ingredients like jojoba oil, rose hip oil, aloe and tea promote healing and repair for all skin types.

“People can heal themselves, but it’s a concerted effort,” she says.“It’s all about small steps.”

Green began combining ingredients in masks and cleansers, changing ratios and product combinations to fit her skin’s daily, changing demands. The experiment worked, and now Green, who has lived in Delray for four years, shares her products and story with others.

“I want to educate people [to] take control of what’s going on their skin,” Green says.“I believe you need to blend ingredients based on each day.”

For example, adding a table-

spoon of rosebuds and petals to one or two tablespoons of aloe vera gel creates a refreshing mask to reduce inflammation. Applying rose hip oil to the face after a cleanser or toner restores damaged skin tissue. Each Beauty Blend Kitchen purchase includes recipe cards for blending ideas, plus wooden bowls and spoons to use for mixing.

“Avoid metal,” Green cautions.

“It can react with skin. Always use the wooden bowls and spoons we provide.”

The Beauty Blend Kitchen is currently available at Circe + SWAG in Delray. Green hopes to expand her business to other local boutiques and pop-ups around South Florida. For more information, visit beautyblendkitchen.com.

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of buyers’ agents said staging a home makes it easier for buyers to visualize living in it

Target hits the bull’s-eye once again with the introduction of“Opalhouse,”its latest and most free-spirited home brand yet, this time centered on the eclectic aesthetic. Shop bold colors, cheerful prints and tons of texture. The colorful collection boasts more than 1,300 pieces for the home, spanning bedding, bath, décor, tabletop and furniture. In preparation for the launch, Target’s design team traveled far and wide to cities like Aix-en-Provence, Lisbon, Paris and Mallorca to gather inspiration to create a grouping of authentically inspired products. And with many items under $30, home design enthusiasts can incorporate rich materials like pressed glass, silk and velvet into their homes without breaking the bank. target.com

55% of buyers’ agents said the living room was the most important space to stage

93% of sellers’ agents recommended decluttering the home as the most effective aspect of home staging

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trendsetter. Apparently, he requested a local craftsman to construct a piece of furniture that would allow a gentleman to sit upright in comfort without wrinkling his clothing. Centuries later, what was once a status symbol is now a vintage icon.

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Florida—and its chief gun lobbyist Marion Hammer— set the bar for gun rights.

But is it a legacy we can sustain?

By RANDY SCHULTZ

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We may live in South Florida, but this ain’t the South.

That’s Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Ocala, Pensacola and all those parts of the state where the culture and the politics have turned Florida into the“Gunshine State.”

If Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties ran the Legislature and elected governors, the state likely wouldn’t have that reputation. But even after the new constitution in 1968 supposedly broke North Florida’s chokehold on power, this state has been the Deep South when it comes to the Second Amendment.

It began dramatically in 1987. The Legislature prohibited counties and cities from enacting firearms regulation and made Florida the first state that allowed residents to carry concealed weapons. For the next three decades, having laid down that marker, National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer rarely lost.

Legislators who were there 31 years ago said concealed carry would not have passed without Hammer.

Law enforcement generally opposed it. Matt Gaetz, a Republican congressman who sponsored more recent Second Amendment bills in the Legislature, called Hammer“the greatest force in Florida politics.”Others say she is the most powerful gun lobbyist in America.

Marion Hammer

Only after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Massacre last Valentine’s Day did the Republican majorities in Tallahassee cross Hammer with the passage of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Act. They raised the age for firearms sales to 21—law enforcement and active-duty military exempted—required a three-day waiting period and banned bump stocks, the $200 device that allows conversion of semi-automatic weapons to fully automatic. The legislation also made it easier to take weapons from people who pose harm to themselves or others. The NRA immediately sued. In an interview with Boca Raton magazine, Hammer calls the legislation “political eyewash” and “ridiculous.”Stoneman Douglas survivors and victims’ families“got used,”Hammer says, by legislators who favor tougher gun control.

Hammer, who is nearing 80, is a native South Carolinian with a long drawl and a longer memory.

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Hammer calls the legislation “political eyewash” and “ridiculous.” Stoneman Douglas survivors and victims’ families “got used,” Hammer says, by legislators who favor tougher gun control.

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Hammer’s language is rigid. New NRA President Oliver North called the Stoneman Douglas students “civil terrorists.”Hammer agrees.“Calling them that isn’t hate. It isn’t filth. It’s stating a fact.”

In Tallahassee, legislators come and go, especially since term limits took effect in 1994. Their power fades. Hammer’s influence endures. She doesn’t just play the long game. She plays the eternal game.

In 1985, then-Florida Senate President Harry Johnston—from Palm Beach County—killed statewide regulation of firearms. Two years later, however, Johnston was gone, after an unsuccessful run for governor.

Hammer had been preparing her bills for “several years.”With new legislative leaders and a new governor, Bob Martinez, Hammer was ready. Two years later, two pivotal and powerful Florida gun laws appeared before the Legislature: the Joe Carlucci

Hammer’s language is rigid. New NRA President Oliver North called the Stoneman Douglas students organizing for tougher gun control “civil terrorists.” Hammer agrees.

“Calling them that isn’t hate. It isn’t filth. It’s stating a fact.”

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Parkland students announce the Road to Change initiative at a press conference in June.

Uniform Firearms Act (preemption of local laws) and the Jack Hagler Self Defense Act (concealed carry).

Both passed, and Martinez signed them. Hammer’s legacy had begun.

Hammer recalls that firearms fees had ranged from $10 to $2,200 and that gun owners faced several hundred, sometimes conflicting, local regulations.“That bill was almost seven years in the making.”

On concealed carry, Hammer says, neither county commissioners nor sheriffs wanted responsibility for issuing permits. The job went to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam regularly has bragged about how many permits the state issues, and proclaimed himself “a proud NRA sellout” last year before his campaign for governor.

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74 She grew up poor on her grandparents’ farm after her father was killed in World War II. She learned to shoot by the time she was 6. She got involved in politics because of her opposition to the 1968 Gun Control Act, which Congress passed after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

In 1995, Hammer became the first female president of the NRA. She is tiny—under five feet tall—and favors bright blazers and a pageboy hairstyle. Her personality is resolute. Hammer raised two grandchildren after her daughter contracted inoperable cancer

and her son-in-law bolted. A grandson has dyslexia, and Hammer has advocated for McKay Scholarships that go to children with learning disabilities.

As the NRA’s Florida lobbyist, Hammer makes $110,000—less than one-tenth the salary of national Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. One could argue, however, that Hammer returns far more on her investment. The NRA must agree. Between 2010 and 2016, Hammer received roughly $1 million from the NRA as a board member.

Many Floridians may not know how common it

We may rank near the bottom in education and health care, but nobody beats Florida on guns.

WHAT THE LEGISLATORS ARE SAYING Boca Raton magazine contacted several state lawmakers regarding how they see “next steps” in school safety and gun legislation. Most replied; the following are either emails or excerpts from statements delivered at various times after the shootings in February, 2018.

Santa Fe, Texas—enough is enough with gun violence in our country!”

State Representative, 21st District , Lois Frankel, May, 2018 (D) “We should listen to the brave young students speaking out. Let’s ban high-capacity magazines and bump stock devices, require background checks at gun shows, increase funding for mental health, and guarantee individuals barred from buying guns are in a national database.

Republicans must stop obstructing and join Democrats to pass these smart gun-safety measures.

From Parkland, Florida, to

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Governor Rick Scott, March 2018, upon signing the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public School Safety Act (R) “On Valentine’s Day, we lost 14 of our kids, and three of our teachers. On a day that is supposed to celebrate love, they were brutally murdered in cold blood. Families were shattered. And unfortunately, this wasn’t the first time our state has been rocked like this.

In 2016, 49 innocent victims were murdered at Pulse nightclub, and early last year another five people were killed by a gunman at the Fort Lauderdale Airport. I cannot possibly convey to you the grief that I have seen and felt in attending funerals and spending time with these families. The hardest thing I have ever had to do as governor is try to find the words to console a parent who lost their child. There are just no words, and I truly cannot imagine the grief of losing a child. …

I know the debate on all these issues will continue, and that’s healthy in our democracy. People are passionate in their beliefs, and they should be. But we should not insult or disparage each other. We should work together to

make our schools safe for our kids. We have a lot of work ahead of us in order to enact these reforms and make our schools safer. This is a time for all of us to come together, roll up our sleeves and get it done.”

Senator Marco Rubio, the CNN Town Hall meeting, February, 2018 (R) “I absolutely believe that in this country if you are 18 years of age, you should not be able to buy a rifle, and I will support a law that takes that right away. … I think that’s the right thing to do.

I have traditionally not supported looking at magazine clip size, and

after this and some of the details I have learned about it, I am reconsidering that position. Because while it may not prevent an attack, it may save lives in an attack. ... So we’ll have to get into that debate, but that is something I believe that we can reach a compromise [on] in this country, and that I’m willing to reconsider.

[On arming teachers:] I don’t support that. ... The notion that my kids are going to school with teachers that are armed with a weapon is not something that, quite frankly, I’m comfortable with.

I’ve already announced ... a concept called a gun violence restraining order that allows authorities— and it has to be someone in your immediate family, it has to be somebody you live with, it has to be a parent, it has to be an administrator—can go to authorities and allow someone to not just be

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n the days following the Parkland shooting, the public called out for change across the spectrum—stricter gun laws, better parenting, improved security at schools, the elimination of gun-free zones. But a constant in these shootings has been the demand for mental health reform.

"My reaction was, ‘Oh my god, this is going to likely be another child or person who was troubled and reacted in this horrible, horrible way,’” says Dr. Holly Katz, the clinical and training director at the Faulk Center for Counseling in Boca Raton.

The public is torn in its views on the link between mental health and mass shootings, and there doesn’t seem to be concrete data or studies on the topic pointing to a common conclusion. According to a study in 2016 by the American Psychiatric Association, 1 percent of mass shooters had serious mental illness. On the other hand, criminologist Grant Duwe, author of Mass Murder in the United States: A History, wrote in a Los Angeles Times piece that 59 percent of public mass shootings from 1900 to 2017 were done by someone with a diagnosed mental disorder or showed signs of one.

On a broader level, Katz pointed out that roughly one in four people alive

have a diagnosable mental health illness.

“You would be surprised at the number of people who are sitting beside you on the bus, on the train, in the movie theater, at a restaurant that may have a diagnosable mental health disorder, and they are absolutely fine,” Katz says.

“Sometimes the perpetrators of these horrible crimes may not even have a mental health diagnosis. … Many of the times they are people that may not even meet the criteria for mental health disorder, but they’re living on the fringe.”

JUST PASSED

With cries for mental health reform and stricter gun laws after Parkland, the Florida Senate responded with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Act bill that includes a “red flag” provision, which would allow law enforcement to petition for weapons to be removed from an individual who they believe “poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to himself or herself or others by having a firearm or any ammunition in his or her custody.”

BUYING A GUN

Currently, Floridians aren’t required to have a permit to buy a gun, but a license is required for a concealed weapon. According to the Florida Department of Agriculture, applicants must submit fingerprints, which

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THE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE: WHAT THE LAWS—AND LOOPHOLES—ARE NOW

Gov. Rick Scott signs into law the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Act.

are checked against the Florida Crime Information Center database, National Crime Information Center database and National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

There are a litany of reasons that someone could be disqualified from receiving a license, such as a felony conviction, domestic violence injunction, record of drug or alcohol abuse, and two or more DUI convictions in the last three years.

WHAT THE BAKER ACT DOES

Law enforcement and medical professionals can use Florida’s Baker Act if someone is showing signs that they are a harm to themselves or to others.

Under the act, a mentally unstable person is hospitalized for 72 hours—from there, doctors can decide if the patient needs further observation. The Baker Act is on someone’s medical records that are accessible in the Mental Competency database when researching someone’s eligibility for

a concealed-carry license.

However, most criminals guilty of mass shootings obtain guns legally, and were never Baker Acted.

And if someone voluntarily commits him or herself?

No record anywhere.

When going through someone’s background, the government can only see what made it onto someone’s record. If the person has never been arrested or was never committed, that record is squeaky clean, no matter how fragile their mental state. Especially if the state is never notified in the first place—as was the case of the shooter in Sutherland Springs, Texas in November 2017, when the Air Force failed to notify the state of the shooter’s domestic violence court martial. He later killed 26 people and injured another 20.

Katz says, “I think we probably all need to look at things more holistically ... but to say this is about mentally ill individuals is a huge mistake.”

MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES 211, a crisis call center, 211.org THE FAULK CENTER FOR COUNSELING, 22455 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton; 561/483-5300; faulkcenterforcounseling.org MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, 909 Fern St., West Palm Beach; 561/8323755; mhapbc.org RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES, 21300 Ruth and Baron Coleman Blvd., Boca Raton; 561/852-3333; ralesjfs.org SOUTH COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, 16158 S. Military Trail, Delray Beach; 561/4950522; scmhcinc.org

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is for lobbyists in Tallahassee to shape legislation.

Hammer proposes the NRA’s bills, oversees their drafting and demands approval of any changes. She does not compromise. Gaetz told the New Yorker,“If you’re with Marion 95 percent of the time, you’re a damn traitor.”

Henry Flagler transformed Florida with his railroad. John Gorrie transformed Florida with his invention of air conditioning. Walt Disney transformed Florida with his theme park. And Marion Hammer has transformed Florida with her near-absolutist defense of the Second Amendment.

A New Yorker magazine profile last March correctly credited Hammer with creating laws in Florida that have reshaped attitudes nationwide. We may rank near the bottom in education and health care, but nobody beats Florida on guns.

prevented from purchasing any firearm and allow those to be taken from them—and the person will have due process. I support that, and I hope they will pass that.”

Sen. Bill Nelson, May, 2018 (D) “…Ten innocent people, eight students and two teachers were gunned down Friday when a gunman walked into a high school in east Texas and opened fire. Tragedies such as this are becoming too common in our society, and at some point, we have to say enough is enough. …Now, this congress has passed since the Mar-

jory Stoneman Douglas shooting, two bills into law, only two. And while this senator supported both of these, they alone are not nearly enough.

We can and we must do more. … We need to ban assault weapons and the long clips, and we need to close the gun show loophole. We need a comprehensive universal background check for the sale or the transfer of any firearm, regardless of where it’s purchased.

Because of the N.R.A. locking down their votes, if we’re not going to get anything on assault weapons or the gun show loophole or a comprehensive background check, then surely we ought to be able to come together in a bipartisan way to do something about mental health. …If we’re going to be serious about this, we must hire more school counselors, social workers, psychologists and other

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mental health professionals to get ahead of the problem and ensure any student who needs help is able to get it.

Let’s give our schools and our communities the help they need, the help they have been asking for. We can’t allow what happened in Parkland, Florida, and in Santa Fe, Texas, to become the new normal in this country. We have to do more to protect our kids in school and ensure that any student who needs mental health services is able to get those services.”

State Representative, 97th District, Jared Moskowitz (D), May, 2018

“Obviously I am proud of the [Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act] bill that we passed. Was it everything I wanted? No. Was it better than nothing? Of course. Am I happy we did something to make not just schools but the state of Florida safer? Of course.

Because if we didn’t do it I knew the federal government would not. And the federal government has now proven that to be true. … I am proud that we stepped up to the plate to be a leader, because it would have been easy for many folks on both sides of the aisle to do nothing.

We’re not back to the session until January. …

What I hope happens is that we revisit the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act— what’s missing, what needs to be addressed.

One of the things I can think of from the top of my head is this ‘red flag

provision,’ which is taking guns out of the hands of people who could endanger themselves or others, to give more guidance on that to judges. … There are also going to be more issues with school hardening and school resource officers next year.

This has to be a yearly commitment to school safety; it’s impossible from a budgetary standpoint to do it all in one year. But we can’t just do the little that we did and then walk away from that commitment. What happened in Texas reminds us that this is a long-term fight. While the politics are being debated on what to do about the proliferation of guns and about keeping them out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, in the meantime we have to do something to protect the students.”

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78 the easiest states in which to obtain a concealed carry permit. Roughly 1.7 million Floridians have permits, nearly double that of Texas, which ranks second. It got really easy for a year to obtain one because Putnam’s office failed to review national background checks for applicants. That period followed the Pulse nightclub shooting, which caused applications to spike. Having made Florida a pioneer in concealed carry, the NRA came back in 2005 with legislation known as “Stand Your Ground,” NRA-backed legislation that made Florida the first state to change the rules on self-defense. People who felt threatened no longer had a duty to retreat before using deadly force.“Stand Your Ground” also expanded the “castle doctrine” from one’s home to anywhere one happened to be. Twenty-three states have since approved similar legislation.

At the time, Hammer could cite no case of someone being wrongfully prosecuted for self-defense.

She now says,“What does it matter how many cases?”Hammer then cites the story she tells about men approaching her in a Tallahassee parking garage four decades ago and fleeing when she showed her gun.

“That is the case,”Hammer declares.“That started the research.”If she had shot, Hammer claims, she would have been prosecuted. To Hammer,“Stand Your Ground”opponents were“bleeding-heart criminal coddlers.”

Last year, against the recommendation of most state attorneys, the Legislature expanded“Stand Your Ground.”Previously, defendants or those “standing their ground”had to prove they deserved immunity.

Now, prosecutors must prove based on “clear and convincing evidence” that they don’t. That change makes self-defense different from any other case.

Gov. Rick Scott, who approved the expansion, had been one of Hammer’s favorite governors until this year’s legislation. In 2011, during his first session, Gov. Scott signed three major bills that the NRA favored.

One exempted holders of concealed carry permits from prosecution if they had “briefly displayed” their weapon. Another prohibited

Hammer at an NRA event

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avid Hogg and Emma Gonzalez have become the poster children in the movement for change after their friends were killed at their school on Feb. 14, 2018. However, they’re just two of a group of young advocates demanding change—and the numbers are growing.

The student body made its way to Tallahassee to speak to congressional leaders. They organized the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., and they announced the Road to Change 20-state bus tour during the summer, a movement to get young people registered and to the polls.

Students have been splashed across the covers of countless magazines, and the production of the school newspaper was covered

by The Washington Post.

The school’s performing arts students have taken the stage at the Billboard and Tony Awards, and on social media hundreds of thousands of people follow the young activists’ calls for change and action from lawmakers.

Truly, age is just a number.

From top, Parkland shooting survivors Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg pose with Mitch Dworet, father of Parkland victim Nicholas Dworet; student protestors at the Publix “die-in”; David Hogg; Patricia Oliver, mother of victim Joaquin, holds up his high school diploma at the MSD graduation ceremony this June.

“Being a teenager, you know that you’re not really respected by a lot of people.

There’s this stigma around our age group that we can’t take things seriously and we can’t be trusted and we’re stupid. … The heart and soul of this movement is in the students. We are the ones who created this, we are the ones who mobilized this, we are the ones who got people to come [to March for Our Lives]. We aren’t being controlled by anyone. This is us, this is our movement and this is our organization.”

— Delaney Tarr, 18

“Nobody should have to bond over the fact that your schools have been shot into, that you’ve been traumatized by something that should have been prevented if people had actually listened...After Stoneman Douglas we said, ‘Never again.’ And we are saying that Sandy Hook wasn’t enough, San Bernardino, Columbine, they all weren’t enough, Las Vegas wasn’t enough, Orlando wasn’t enough. Maybe Stoneman Douglas was enough. Now [after Santa Fe] we have to say that it wasn’t enough. People keep dying.”

— Rebecca Schneid, 17

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80 pediatricians from asking patients about firearms in the home. (The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down most of what became known as “Docs vs. Glocks.”)

Finally, Scott signed legislation that punishes— through fines and possible removal from office— county or city elected officials whom the NRA or any other party believes is trying to get around that ban on local firearms regulation. No other statewide preemption carries such penalties. After the Parkland shooting, as their constituents demanded action on gun violence, Boca Raton City Council members and their counterparts in about a dozen other cities challenged the 2011 law in court.

At a rally in Delray Beach after the Parkland shooting, former Mayor Cary Glickstein spoke so passionately on behalf of stricter gun control that

people urged him to run for governor. A lawyer by training, Glickstein sympathizes with the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. But he’s skeptical about their chances.

Tallahassee, Glickstein says,“can turn the screws as much as they want, as much as it stinks.”

And Tallahassee does turn the screws. For all the recent focus on “Stand Your Ground,” multiple Second Amendment bills arise almost every year. In 2014, Scott signed a record five. One made it easier to threaten deadly force. One prohibited insurers from discriminating against gun owners. One fast-tracked applications for concealed carry permits. One further restricted public information about gun owners. Why has it happened so dramatically and so quickly in Florida? Hammer (the name is apt) is a big reason, but she also has benefited from seismic political changes in Florida.

Mark Pafford

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Support for gun control is higher than ever, but why doesn’t it result in robust legislation?

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hen it comes to gun control, support for legislative action has, by some metrics, never been higher. In February, 97 perAndy cent of Pelosi respondents to a Quinnipiac poll supported universal background checks, a record high.

Public opinion on this issue has arguably been met with legislative inertia.

In 2016, in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, gun-safety advocate Andy Pelosi co-founded the Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, which drafted two proposals: a statewide ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and legislation requiring universal background checks on all gun sales,

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including those purchased at gun shows and between private sellers.

Neither moved forward in the Republican-controlled state legislature, though Mark Pafford, co-chair of the Coalition and a former state congressman, believes that party affiliation isn’t necessarily the issue.

“Gun issues are highly charged,” he says. “There’s a tremendous amount of backing from the NRA in terms of financial resources to campaigns, and many of the people in charge of committees to determine how these bills develop are not from high-density, metropol-

69% of Americans favor stronger gun control laws

itan type of areas. They are from rural communities. … Generally speaking, they’re extraordinarily protective of that, quote, right, and unfortunately what you see today is that philosophy embedded in this current debate about guns on campus, access to guns and background checks. Saying it’s Republican or Democrat is so superficial, it doesn’t qualify as an answer.”

On the opposite end of the activist spectrum, grassroots nonprofits such as Florida Carry, which did not respond to a request for comment in this article, work to prevent laws it

believes would hamper Second Amendment rights, lobbying the state legislature to keep the status quo intact. Pro-firearms advocates view even incremental laws restricting guns as the first steps toward slippery slopes that threaten their constitutional rights. They argue that schools should no longer be “defense-free zones,” where guns are banned and assailants are often the only people carrying them.

Pafford remains cautiously optimistic about the future, thanks to the persistence of the student activists from MSD. “These

children whose lives have been forever changed are more capable than many of the legislators—including myself—to represent this particular issue in a way no one else can. They’re still young enough to realize that sometimes, common sense is what you need to make things better.

“I’m very hopeful that to make this change, these kids are going to continue this activity. For all of this horrific tragedy, there might be some light at the end of the tunnel.”

—John Thomason

THE STATS:

• The NRA has made more than $11 million in direct contributions to federal lawmakers and candidates over the past 20 years.

• During the 2016 election cycle, the NRA spent $54 million on presidential and congressional races—with more than $11 million to support Donald Trump.

• In the past 15 years, the NRA has spent more than $132 million on ads either supporting or opposing presidential or congressional candidates.—SooRin Kim, ABC News, February 20, 2018

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Then-Delray Mayor Cary Glickstein speaks at one of the “Never Again” walkouts and rallies that erupted after the Parkland shooting.

In 1992, five years after those first landmark Second Amendment laws, Republicans began to establish dominance in Florida through three straight redistrictings. Among Republicans, the Second Amendment has become a signature issue. The voter-approved Fair Districts amendments in 2010 led to a successful court challenge of the 2012 redistricting and new maps for Congress and the Florida Senate.

But the lawsuit didn’t address the Florida House, in which Democrats haven’t been a factor for decades.

Here, as in the rest of the country, Democrats have tended to cluster in cities while Republicans favor suburban and rural counties. Almost every significant NRA-backed bill in the last 20 years has had a sponsor from north of the Interstate 4 corridor.

Still, such is Hammer’s aura that both parties

vailed before the trial judge, but Raja has appealed.

Around Florida, expansion of Stand Your Ground has produced what the Tampa Bay Times called“chaos”in a review last March of self-defense cases. Example: In 2014, former cop Curtis Reeves fatally shot a man who threw popcorn at him in a movie theater.

Reeves had left the theater and retrieved a gun from his car. He retreated and then advanced.

The trial court judge denied Reeves’“Stand Your Ground”claim. At deadline for this article, though, Reeves’ lawyers were arguing that the 2017 expansion was retroactive and Reeves deserves a new hearing.

We don’t know where this Second Amendment experience is taking Florida. We know that when U.S. News and World Report ranked states by their safety, Florida ranked only 35th. In the last two years, Florida

Almost every significant NRA-backed bill in the last 20 years has had a sponsor from north of the Interstate 4 corridor, the swing belt in Florida politics. often fall in line. Stand Your Ground passed 94-20 in the House—well above a party-line vote—and 39-0 in the Senate. Democratic senators said they went along to show the NRA that their party could embrace the Second Amendment.

Cut to this year. Because of Stand Your Ground and last year’s expansion, the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office had to rebut former Palm Beach Gardens police officer Nouman Raja’s claim that he shot Corey Jones in self-defense. Prosecutors pre-

has witnessed the second-deadliest mass shooting—at Pulse nightclub in Orlando—and the second-deadliest school shooting—at Stoneman Douglas. The Pulse shooter had a concealed weapons permit.

In this election year, the Stoneman Douglas students and their supporters seek to change Florida’s political culture when it comes to guns. To do that, they must get past Marion Hammer. For the“Gunshine State,”will the Parkland shooting be a turning point or just a pause?

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Clemens Vanderwerf has two business cards. One is for his job as president

and CEO of the charter aircraft company Privaira. The other is for his hobby as a wildlife photographer, a passion that takes him to some of the most remote spots on the planet to shoot pictures of birds, bears and an assortment of other creatures great and small.

A Netherlands native and business administration whiz, Vanderwerf came to Florida while running operations for a shipping company that transported oil rigs and other large equipment. That business got swallowed up by a bigger company, which then spit it out. After plans to finance a management buyout fell through, Vanderwerf went from sea to sky in 2013.

He was hired to turn around struggling Sky Limo Air Charter, which was based at Fort Lauderdale’s Executive Airport. It had been acquired by Noble Capital Markets, a Boca Raton investment company, and was rebranded Privaira after Venderwerf took the helm.

“I knew nothing about aviation, but there were a lot of similarities with what I’d been doing,”he says.“Both businesses are service-oriented and deal with transportation, logistics and high-end clients. The only difference is Privaira is not on the water; it’s in the air.”

Privaira moved to its current home at Boca Raton Airport in 2016. The company charters privately owned aircraft ranging from small island-hopping turbo-props to large business jets, with prices ranging from $1,300 to more than $5,000 per hour of flight time. Vanderwerf oversees about 60 employees, nearly half of whom are pilots.

“My job is very dynamic,”he says.“There are a lot of variables, and you never know what’s coming your way.”

The same could be said about his exotic hobby. The lanky 52-year-old Dutchman has gone to the ends of the earth to photograph wild animals in their ever-diminishing habitats. He’s been to Alaska 10 times and voyaged three times each to Antarctica and the South Georgia Islands, which are 1,000 miles off the tip of South America.

“I love to be out in nature, and I love to create beautiful images that actually mean something,”says Vanderwerf, a married dad of one.“A great image has to not only be technically good as far as exposure and compoVanderwerf in Antarctica

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sition but also evoke an emotion. I always try to tell a story with the images.”

One story he’s told is very close to home. It’s detailed in a small book of photos called The Burrowing Owls of Boca Raton Airport, and pays homage to the beloved but threatened species.

“The airport displaced a pair of burrowing owls to build something,”he says.

“But they came back and had four chicks, and I documented them over a few months’ time.”

Of course, most of his images are shot in places where there are no human residents to push around the animals: a horde of king penguins blanketing a South Georgia beach; a bald eagle plucking a fish from an Alaskan lake; a yawning leopard seal lounging on an ice sheet in Antarctica; a rare pure-white“spirit” bear in the woods of British Columbia; and so much more.

Vanderwerf has won many awards for his photographs. Perhaps his most prized shot is of a brown bear sleeping on its back with one of its massive paws curled behind its head. It was chosen for a special exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. “For every picture, I know where it was taken, when it was taken, all of the circumstances surrounding it,”he says, gazing at a screen-saver slide show of his pictures playing on his computer at work.“So when I sit here in my office in Boca Raton and look at these images, it transports me back to that time and place. It’s a beautiful thing.”

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King penguin and chicks, known as oakum boys, Gold Harbour, South Georgia Islands

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Cypress trees at sunset, Lake Blue Cypress, Indian River County, Florida

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Gregg Beletsky

OCCUPATION: General manager, Louis Vuitton Palm Beach; founder, Turtle Tuesday (volunteer beach clean-up organization, Palm Beach; follow him on Instagram: @Turtle.Tuesday) DOGGIE(S): Daisy and Daphne, 7-yearold sisters, littermates; tri-color wirehaired fox terriers; adopted October 2015 HOW HE KNEW THEY WERE FOR HIM: “You just know! It is a who-rescuedwho scenario as I had just lost my wire-haired fox terrier of 10 years to cancer the month before. There were four female terriers that were rescued from a breeder in Indiana. I met Daphne and was ready to go, but when they said she has a sister, I thought, “Well, you can’t break up the family!’”

BEST THING ABOUT YOUR FOURLEGGED PALS: “Unconditional love and affection. Four-legged animation.

I laugh every day! They can literally destroy any stuffed toy within an hour! The toy box is full of ‘carcasses’ with no stuffing and missing parts!

And if you are missing a sock, just look in their beds.”

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Man’s Best Friends These five (stylish) men adopted their dogs from our own Tri-County Rescue—and, happily, their lives have never been the same.

Photography by MICHAEL PRICE

Shot on location at Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Doggies from Tri-County Animal Rescue, Boca Raton Fashion by Maus & Hoffman Palm Beach 312 Worth Ave., Palm Beach 561/655-1141 Most dog leashes and collars provided by BiBi’s Doggie Boutique 250 Worth Ave., Palm Beach 561/833 -1973 shopbibi.com

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, 2051 S. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach 561/832-5328 ansg.org Special thanks also to Gregg Beletsky for his help with our shoot.

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OCCUPATION: Attorney at Lavalle, Brown & Ronan, PA DOGGIE(S): Jasmine, Happy and Dixie HOW HE KNEW THEY WERE FOR HIM: “We are a family with five boys, three dogs (all girls!) and a cat. Jasmine is 5 years old and full of energy. She is tough enough to handle playtime with all the boys. She’s so strong that even her licks can knock you over! Jasmine reminded me of a dog I had years ago, and I knew that she would be a good fit. She’s a big people pleaser and can’t resist a good, long game of fetch.

“Happy is 4 years old and, exactly as her name suggests, is the sweetest, most affectionate girl ever. Happy’s favorite spot in the house is to perch herself on the back of the couch and wait for the opportunity to jump in somebody’s lap. She is very good-natured but has no problem putting Jasmine in her place; she’s a little dog with a big bark.

“Dixie is our newest addition at 3 months old. We know that shy animals might not do so well in our lively household, so we look for animals that are drawn to our kids’ energy (we basically let the animal pick us!). We brought all the kids to the shelter, and we picked Dixie because she had a little attitude and a strong, playful personality. We knew she could hold her own with the other animals in our house. She is bringing the puppy playfulness back out of the other dogs. Dixie and our cat, Fruit Loop, were instant best friends. It’s looking like Dixie just may be the new leader of our pack. She’s a bright puppy who is super eager to learn. Anything for a treat!”

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OCCUPATION: Auto technician DOGGIE: Tank, an American Staffordshire mix, 2 and a half years old, adopted in August 2017 HOW HE KNEW TANK WAS FOR HIM: “He just stared at me with his head tilted. And I also wanted my other dog to have a buddy.”

HOW HE BEHAVES: “He is full of energy and always wants to run around and play.”

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OCCUPATION: Retired New York firefighter, played professional basketball, owned and operated car dealerships in New York for 30 years; restaurant owner and real estate developer DOGGIE: Chewy, 11-year old, seven-pound Chihuahua, adopted December 2006 CHEWY’S STORY: “My dad was an animal lover, and growing up, we always chose a rescue dog as our family pet. I did not choose Chewy. My wife Marie surprised us when she attended a charity event where 4-month-old Chewy was being offered to a loving and caring family. Marie couldn’t resist, and along came Chewy. I had never had a small dog. With a heavy heart, I tried to return Chewy to the shelter in exchange for a larger working breed of dog. What was I thinking? Fortunately they denied my request, and Chewy and I have become inseparable. Chewy and I eat together and sleep together. In our spare time, she is always at my side while fixing things around the house or watching sports on TV. Chewy is so loveable and well-behaved. We are blessed to have her watch over us.” bocamag.com

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MISSION: Tri-County Animal Rescue is a 100-percent no-kill, 501(c)(3), nonprofit animal shelter working to prevent the killing of over 170,000 unwanted pets in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties each year.

Since our inception, we have saved more than 55,000 domestic animals from being euthanized, placing them in homes through our adoption center. We also work with several organizations, businesses and the local school district to educate the community on animal awareness. At Tri-County Animal Rescue, we believe that every cat and dog—regardless of breed, gender, temperament, etc.—deserves to live a happy and healthy life.

Our mission, then, aims to shelter and provide a comfortable home for all animals placed in our facility. We consider every animal that comes to our shelter a member of our own family, loving and caring for them with the utmost respect and tenderness until we can place them in their safe, happy, forever homes.

CONTACT: 21287 Boca Rio Road, Boca Raton Tues.-Sun., 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Scott Grody

OCCUPATION: CEO, Scott Grody Travel DOGGIE(S): Sabella, 12, a Pomeranian and Jake, 9, a Cavachon HOW HE KNEW THEY WERE FOR HIM: “Those loving eyes eight weeks after birth.”

THEIR BEST ACT: “Jake sits up like a person and stares at you when he wants attention, and Sabella barks at you to make sure you are giving Jake that attention.”

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n the slopes of a volcanic crater on Maui, at an elevation of 3,500 feet, Casey Shim wakes every morning for a long day of farming. As the 87-year-old owner and sole employee of Shim Coffee and Protea Farm, he hand-picks, sun-dries, weeds, processes, and nurtures the coffee beans and decorative plants that comprise his seasonal business. He says the job is “25 hours a day and eight days a week,” entirely self-taught.

As he explains to guests,“It’s a learn-as-you-go farm, and nature has always been my best teacher.”

Shim is an Army veteran whose grandparents emigrated from China in the 1890s and bought the property he tills today. He points to a squat, single-room shack in the distance:

“That’s where my grandparents raised eight children.”

I visited Shim Farm on my first morning of a weeklong Maui trip, following 14 hours of travel time from Fort Lauderdale. I was still adjusting to the five-hour time difference and Hawaii’s mercurial temperatures. Seeing that my wife and I were not dressed for the morning’s nippy weather and overcast skies, Shim shuffled into his house and emerged a moment later with a pair of tattered raincoats—our first example of the charitable spirit of aloha.

I saw Shim’s ripe coffee beans—up to 1,000 beans grow on each of his 1,500 trees—and alien protea plants, with their bright yellow and red stamens bursting like frozen confetti

from fuzzy pincushions, before I saw a beach or a lei or a tiki hut. His modest farm did not fit the picture of Hawaii I had imagined.

The property is in the upcountry town of Kula, and it’s one of a handful of the island’s ag-tourism options. Driving up and down the slopes of the Haleakala crater, gas pumps and other civilized trappings are scant, two-lane roads often converge into one, livestock wander rolling hills, and signs advertise roping grounds and horseback riding—a holdover of upcountry’s paniolo, or cowboy, tradition. Shim keeps a couple of horses too, grazing in a shady corner of his farm.

“Horses are my psychiatrists,” he said.“You ride them, and all your problems go away.”

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nsurprisingly, tourism is Hawaii’s No. 1 industry, logging up to 250,000 arrivals each month. Maui is the chain’s second-most-visited island, after Oahu. Commerce is pervasive nearly everywhere on the island. At public outlooks offering postcard views of mountainous sunrises and sunsets, jewelry sellers ignore the “no vending” signs and hawk wares from the back of their trucks. Souvenir shops have sprouted like mushrooms in the beachfront cities and one-horse towns alike, overflowing with dashboard hula girls, pineapple-shaped cutting boards and tuneless ukuleles. Gather them all up, and there’s enough Balinese wood and Chinese plastic to make a sizable dent in the Great Pacific garbage patch.

(And yes, I came home with a few.)

But the upcountry town of Makawao was a prime example of tourism’s positive encroachment. A tiny history museum in the blink-and-you-miss-it downtown preserves this onetime paniolo community.

The curator described Makawao as “nearly a ghost town after World War II. Cowboys rode horses down the center of the street.” It was saved by tourism

and by artists opening galleries.

It’s now the kind of place selling novelty gifts and auric readings instead of saddles and spurs, though the heritage is kept alive each summer during a Fourth of July rodeo and parade.

But as Shim Farm illustrates, there are still places in upcountry Maui to escape from city life and breathe in nature. Ali’i Kula Lavender Farm may be the most intoxicating example.

On the morning of our visit, an impenetrable and very un-Hawaiian fog blanketed the farm. I overheard one shivering visitor comment,“this is like being in London.” Later, lightning would strike, for what one resident said was just the third time in 10 years.

Still, nothing could diminish the farm’s stock in trade: Ali’i Kula was an aromatherapist’s Eden, with row after row of more lavender strains than you knew existed. Spicy Spanish, tall-stemmed English and braided French were among the 25 varieties, a battalion of faded purple wisps blowing in the wind as far as the eye could see.

The 13 acres of farmland was about more than lavender, though, with tier after tier of “Avatar”-esque protea plants, a chicken coop, a terraced veg-

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etable garden and, every now and then, a flash of neon green as a Jackson’s chameleon darted among the lush rows of plants.

Surfing Goat Dairy, less than 10 miles away up twisty roads, was another unique stop, the island’s only outdoor goat dairy.

Named after the donated surfboards that stud the property and decorate its buildings, this 42-acre operation produces award-winning goat cheese for the entire state, along with mainland locations from Las Vegas to Nashville.

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On the tour, which runs about 30 minutes, we had the opportunity to pet and feed the animals on one of its 15 pastures, learned about the pasteurization process—16 hours from udder to shop—and sampled a few of its greatest hits. President Obama ordered 200 pounds of this stuff for his inauguration, and once I tasted it, I saw why.

The grandest (and priciest) ag-tourism destination on the island is certainly Maui Pineapple Tours from Maui Gold Pineapple Company, which services the island’s pineapple supply and a smaller portion of the continental U.S. market.

From the tour bus—dubbed the Pineapple Express—I explored the entire process, from field to factory, with frequent stops to meander among the 1,000 acres of pineapple stalks sprawling in all directions.

The tour culminated in a tasting surrounded by expanses of Maui Gold’s ripest pineapples.

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“We’re not going to run out of pineapple,”our guide Stephen Potter said, plucking a pineapple from a landscape of gold and green.

With a machete, he hacked off the spiny skin and sliced off liberally sized chunks for each of us. This continued for about 20 minutes and three more pineapples, which we devoured like gluttons. There was something communal and early-human about consuming food this way, in the raw, spitting out the inedible chunks, juice dribbling down our chins. Eating sloppy never felt so right.

You’ll leave the tour with a box of two Maui Gold pineapples ideally sized for carry-on transport. When you get home, you may cut them up into a fruit salad or blend them into a smoothie. But you won’t eat them fresh off the stalk while basking in the Hawaiian sun, giddy with an all-natural sugar rush. That experience is pure upcountry.

Whale watching cruises are one of Maui’s most exciting attractions, and no trip to the island is complete without one. I chose a three-hour Deluxe Whalewatch Sail, with lunch, from the Pacific Whale Foundation, an environmental nonprofit. “We like to use our boats as floating classrooms,” said Jenny Roberts, a marine biologist—and University of Miami graduate— who served as our cruise director.

Departing from the bustling port city of Lahaina, the voyage included a comprehensive education on humpback whales, which migrate 3,000 miles from Alaska to Hawaii each year to breed. More than half of the world’s humpback population visits Maui at some point during season; that’s up to 15,000 whales.

And yet, “a lot of whale watching is whale waiting,” Roberts said. Whales, after all, spend 90 percent of their time underwater. Soon enough, we spotted the first sign of a cameo— an exhalation of air creating an injection of mist just above the surface. Our captain dutifully took the bait, steering us toward the clue.

The atmosphere onboard was eerily quiet, with all eyes and smartphones and telephoto lenses scanning the water. Pretty soon, passengers perched around the top deck began calling out distant sightings—exhalations, a tail, a hump—at various navigational points.

You couldn’t help but wish you had eyes on port, starboard, bow and stern at the same time. The Pacific Ocean was lousy with whales, albeit mostly shy ones.

Our boat wasn’t the only one around; when a social whale showed itself, other cruises gathered around it like an armada encircling an enemy. While we didn’t experience the cherished “full breach”—when a whale, for reasons unknown, pierces the air, Shamu-like, with its entire body—our vessel stopped fewer than 50 yards from an enormous tail, and we tracked a white fin as it bobbed atop the water.

The leviathans didn’t exactly put on a show for us, but it made for a theatrical game of aquatic hide-and-seek nonetheless. Roberts said she sees about one full breach a day. After this first cruise, I was tempted to hop aboard the next one, hoping this time we’d strike gold.

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In between visits to upcountry, sprinkle your trip with these traditional diversions.

THE ROAD TO HANA Maui’s most legendary drive is a 52-mile stretch of hairpin, often single-lane highway that snakes through lush rainforest, with stops along the way for waterfalls, hikes, food stands and breathtaking arboretums. The trip takes two and a half hours without stops; reserve a full day to explore.

SNORKELING The waters of Molokini reef off the coast of Wailea are a prime snorkeling spot. I recommend sailing out on a 65-foot schooner with the affable crew of Kai Kanani, which provides lunch, drinks and two 40-minute snorkel sessions. On my journey, I spotted a moray eel, triggerfish, yellowfin surgeonfish, yellow tang and octopus.

KIHEI This prized beach town contains multiple parks ideal for sunset-gazing on the water, as waves lap against Maui’s ancient, jagged, volcanic rock. There’s a great nature trail at the end of one of the parks, and instead of a boardwalk, a sizable expanse of green fronts the beach, where plein air painters, sun-tanners, picnickers and dog walkers sprawl out for lazy afternoons. Maui is pretty much one giant photo op, but this is an especially vibrant place to snap a few memories.

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WHERE TO STAY THE COURTYARD MAUI KAHULUI MARRIOTT is a dependable link of the Marriott chain, with all the expected amenities (pool, Jacuzzi, fitness center) and some charming surprises (a fire pit, an on-site artisanal restaurant). It’s just minutes from the airport. (808/871-1800) KAMAOLE SANDS offers condo rentals for vacationers and residents alike, with full kitchens and living rooms fronting Kihei’s famed beach.

There’s a pool, hot tub, gym and ping-pong table onsite, but you’re paying for the primo location steps from the water. (800/451-5008)

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If the area of Wailea is the Palm Beach of Maui, then the GRAND WAILEA is its Breakers. The sumptuous Waldorf Astoria resort radiates island luxury, from its grand, tropical lobby to its waterfall-and-koi pond to the bulging Boteros that dot the property. Its signature restaurant, Humuhumunukunukuapua’a, named after Hawaii’s state fish, offers majestic sunset dining and a menu bristling with creativity. The best part? You get lei’d upon arrival. (808/875-1234)

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o drive Maui is to appreciate a slower pace than South Floridians are accustomed to.

On island time, road rage was nonexistent, and just about everybody, to my astonishment, drove the speed limit, even on a 45-mph highway.

I wondered if the placid congeniality that defines the island persisted during Hawaii’s false ballistic-missile scare, which had spooked the island chain just a month before my visit. There was fear and panic, to be sure: One tour guide I spoke with recalled that his friend“crawled into his bathtub with a bottle of Jameson and called his mom.”

But those videos of pedestrians scrambling for shelter and burrowing under manhole covers? More often than not, they were tourists, said most of the locals I talked to. Hardened Hawaiians have reconciled

the risk they face by living in the state most threatened by a nuclear exchange. One eccentric resident I met at a lookout— whose entire body was tattooed with Hawaiian kitsch, and who runs a“clothing-optional”drum circle whose attendees, he says, include Steven Tyler—said he wanted a“front-row seat”for the mushroom cloud.“Bring it on,” he added, moving his fingers to his lips in a smoking pantomime.“I’ve got the provisions.”

Another local, named Reid, with whom I booked an Airbnb night, was hosting a German couple the morning of the alert.

“They were freaking out,” he recalled.“I said, ‘follow me.’ We went outside and looked up.”

From the affable mates on cruise tours to the servers in restaurants to friendly hikers passing you on mountain trails, this sense of helping those in

need, and welcoming them to their community, permeates Hawaiian culture. I saw it in my upcountry travels, too—in Casey Shim, who started my tour an hour before schedule, and kept me rapt for two full hours.

It was there in Sarah Adams, my guide at the Lavender Farm, who, after leading us through that foggy, rainy visit, welcomed us back for another day of our choice at no charge. True, I was there on a press trip, and they wanted me to be pleased, but it runs deeper than that, and it’s one of the things Reid loves about the islands.

“The acceptance the locals have to put us first is pretty awesome, and you want to return that,”he said.“That acceptance that most of the local Hawaiians show through the aloha—that’s what’s contagious.

That’s what spreads.”

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21st Annual Golf Tournament Monday, October 15, 2018 • Boca West Country Club Presented by JM Lexus Our fun and challenging tournament will be led by Honorary Chairs, Jayne and Chris Malfitano and Co-Chairs, Terry Fedele and Amy Ross. The tournament features the championship courses of Boca West along with a helicopter ball drop, a spectacular awards dinner, a chance to bid on a once in a lifetime golf experience at Pebble Beach, and a premium amenity package for every golfer. Last year’s tournament was a sell-out, so reserve your sponsorship today to support the Hospital’s Ron & Kathy Assaf Center for Excellence in Nursing. Information is available at donate.brrh.com/golf

15th Annual Go Pink Luncheon Friday, October 26, 2018 • Boca Raton Resort & Club Join us at South Florida’s premier breast cancer awareness event as we welcome multitalented actress, producer, writer and singer Rita Wilson! In 2015, Rita was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, and has since reported a full recovery. Today, she stresses the importance of early detection, trusting your instincts and seeking a second opinion as keys to her own recovery. This incredible luncheon will feature all your favorites, a fabulous “pink” amenity, the amazing AutoNation Pink Daisy Pick Raffle, Wall of Strength for tributes to your favorite people and so much more! Community Philanthropist, Patti Carpenter serves as the luncheon Chair. All proceeds benefit cancer programs at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Reserve your sponsorship at donate.brrh.com/GoPink; tickets and tables on sale August 1, 2018.

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South Florida’s most prolific playwright presents a “Dracula” for the age of women’s empowerment Written by JOHN THOMASON

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ith his latest show, playwright Michael McKeever is biting into something a little different.

Most of the Carbonell winner’s recent works have addressed contemporary issues in modern settings: LGBT marriage, in“Daniel’s Husband;”school violence, in“After;”the swipe-right world of 21st century dating, in“Mr. Parker.”But with his feminist reimagining of “Dracula,”opening Oct. 11 in Miami, he’s transporting audiences back to Victorian England and the godfather of gothic horror—while still challenging today’s zeitgeist, in particular the #MeToo movement.

“In the past five or six years, I’ve been fascinated with taking the original Dracula novel and updating it,” McKeever says.“That whole concept of living off the life of others, of taking someone’s purity and sucking it out of them, is rife with metaphors. I’d been wanting to reinvent that, or make that story my own.”

Some events in McKeever’s version mirror Bram Stoker’s original, with legal solicitor Jonathan Harker and his fiancée Mina visiting the title character in

“I wanted to make [the women of Dracula] stronger than they were conceived as. They’re going to be the heroes. They’re not going to need anyone to rescue them.” his Transylvanian castle. From there, it spirals in new and subversive directions. In the novel, and in screen versions of the story, the women of“Dracula”are chaste, victimized ciphers. In McKeever’s telling, they become the tale’s three-dimensional heroines. Even the vampire hunter Van Helsing will be played by an African-American woman, Karen Stephens.

When conceiving his Dracula, McKeever didn’t have to look far. The count is akin to everyone from“Harvey Weinstein to Matt Lauer to Bill Cosby. It’s a creature who assumes that by nature, what he needs is his for the taking. Looking at it through that prism, it astounded me how similar the needs of these men and Dracula are.”

How will the women of this Dracula differ from the traditional telling?

From the opening scene, the main character, Mina,

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is going to be a woman ahead of her time. She’s chastised for not being a proper“Victorian lady,” because she doesn’t believe in the roles that have been defined for her. It’s

that energy and zest for life and defiance that first attracts Dracula, and that’s how the story unfolds.

The original is certainly a gothic thriller, but where do you see yours landing in terms of genre?

It’s going to be that.

One of the things [director] Stuart [Meltzer] said when I first pitched the idea to Zoetic Stage is,“yes, we’ll do it, and I love the idea of a feminist take, but it’s got to be scary.” He said, “I’ve never done horror onstage before, and I really want to do horror.”

As writers, directors, designers, we want to push ourselves. You can’t keep writing or directing the same play over and over again. We want to make it as scary and visually thrilling as we possibly can.

How do you channel that kind of ambience on a stage?

We live in a time right now where movies and video games and television have perfected the genre of knowing how to make people jump.

When you’re dealing with a screen, you can control where the audience is looking. But on a live stage, there’s no real way to control it, unless you specifically manipulate where you make

them look. And that’s all done with lighting and placement and staging.

We’re incorporating a lot of animations—a lot of projections we’ve never used before.

Dracula strikes me as one of the first antiheroes— he was the villain, but people liked him. Do you hope to find a similar complexity in your Dracula?

What I’m trying to do— and it fits with the whole #MeToo movement—is that he’s introduced as this charming, endearing, likable and yet mysterious character.

And that mystery just adds to his appeal. And it isn’t until later on in the play that we realize it’s a mask; he’s like the id personified. But even at the end, we want just a touch of the human that he was centuries ago to still be there.

How do you predict Bram Stoker purists will feel about your version?

I hope they’ll see that the heart of it is still there.

The fact that the play completely is going to end in ways no one sees coming is exciting for me. Purists might take issue with it. But my vision’s my vision, so I’m going to stick to it.

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IF YOU GO WHAT: “Dracula” WHERE: Zoetic Stage at Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami WHEN: Oct. 11-28 COST: TBA CONTACT: 305/949-6722, arshtcenter.org

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Now-Oct. 21

NICK CARONE: “SHADOW DANCE” at Boca Raton

“LISETTE MODEL” at Boca

“NOMADIC MURALS: CONTEMPORARY TAPESTRIES”

Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; $10$12 museum admission; 561/392-2500, bocamuseum.org. A peer of pioneering abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, this underrated artist toiled in the dark side of abstraction, founding a studio school and selling to major museums on the strength of his tempestuous, enigmatic paintings and drawings.

Coco Montoya

Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; $10-$12 museum admission; 561/392-2500, bocamuseum.org. Known

for direct and un-retouched images of city life from New York City to Paris, prolific photographer Lisette Model worked, and taught—her students included Diane Arbus, who would take Model’s penchant for human freak-shows to more extreme heights—until her 1983 death.

“Nomadic Murals”

at Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; $10-$12 museum admission; 561/392-2500, bocamuseum.org. In this

group exhibit, contemporary artists famous for working in other mediums—including Chuck Close, William Kentridge and Kara Walker—try their hands at tapestry, creating motley and monumental works in a medium that dates back to Pharaonic Egypt.

The Chris Thomas Band

Sept. 22

Sept. 22

Sept. 27- Oct. 14

COCO MONTOYA at Funky Biscuit, 303 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $20-$40; 561/395-2929, funkybiscuit.com. This

GHOST TOWN BLUES BAND at Arts Garage, 94

“MY WAY: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO FRANK SINATRA” at Kravis Center, 701

left-handed blues guitarist learned his craft under legends Albert Collins and John Mayall, performing with both before striking out on his own with 1995’s Gotta Mind to Travel. He has released seven forceful but melodic albums since then, including 2017’s Hard Truth.

N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 7 p.m.; $25-$35; 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org. This six-piece band

first charted on the Billboard blues listing in 2016 on the strength of its funky, gritty sound. Earning comparisons to Dr. John and the Allman Brothers, the band’s instruments are as eccentric as its sound, and include cigar-box guitars and electric push brooms.

Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; various show times; $55; 561/832-7469, kravis.org. MNM Produc-

tions’ final show of its Kravis season honors Ol’ Blue Eyes with no fewer than 56 songs performed by three golden-voiced singer-actors.

Sounds like a long evening, but with more than 1,300 songs to Sinatra’s credit, it’s barely a drop in the bucket.

Sept. 1 THE CHRIS THOMAS BAND

at Arts Garage, 94 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $30-$45; 561/4506357, artsgarage.org.

Channeling the dance moves and vocal chops of a classic crooner, singer Thomas leads a seven-piece big band through a program called “Sinatra to Soul,” where standards from Dean Martin and other Rat Packers rub shoulders with compositions popularized by Michael Buble and Harry Connick Jr.

Taylor Williamson

Sept. 28-29 TAYLOR WILLIAMSON

at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10, Boca Raton; various show times; $25-$35; 561/4839036, bocablackbox. com. In his mid-20s, this

awkward, self-effacing comedian was gigging at laundromats and quinceañeras before breaking out on “America’s Got Talent,” making it to the finals of Season 8. His standup, cerebral and dark but delivered with a boyish innocence, has continued to sharpen.

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DONNA SINGER at Arts Garage, 94 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 7 p.m.; $25-$40; 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org. Singer’s

SUSHI AND STROLL SUMMER WALKS at Morikami

surname doesn’t lie: This international jazz vocalist performs the Great American Songbook to sold-out audiences in the U.S. and throughout Europe. Supported by a four-piece band, she’ll take on Dinah Washington, Hoagy Carmichael and others in a production titled “Birdland Breezes.”

Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach; $9-$15 museum admission; 561/495-0233, morikami.org. The Morikami

opens its Japanese Gardens to guests for a discounted rate at this popular summer program, which offers rare craft sake selections—sparkly, creamy or canned—and roaring taiko drum performances by Fushu Daiko.

Sept. 14

Sept. 16

Sept. 20

DIERKS BENTLEY at Coral THE MIGHTY FLEA CIRCUS BRIAN REGAN at Kravis Sky Amphitheatre at South Center, 701 Okeechobee at Arts Garage, 94 N.E. Florida Fairgrounds, Blvd., West Palm Beach; 8 Second Ave., Delray Beach; 601-7 Sansburys Way, p.m.; $25-$100; 561/8327 p.m.; $25-$35; 561/450West Palm Beach; 7 p.m.; 7469, kravis.org. Drawing 6357, artsgarage.org. $38-$76; 561/795-8883, Expect to jump, jive and wail a clean-comedy line from westpalmbeachamphiwith this lively “swingabilthe Smothers Brothers to theatre.com. With 25 ly” band with a whimsical Sinbad and Seinfeld, Regan singles on the Hot Country chart including the megahit “Drunk on a Plane,” Bentley headlines this triple bill in support of his 10th studio album, The Mountain. Family duo The Brothers Osborne and Nashville quintet LANCO open the show.

name. With two guitars, drums and upright bass, the quintet hopscotches between jive-era swing, 1950s rockabilly and roots music, along with its spirited originals.

eschews profanity and politics, building a sizable fan base across a spectrum of demographics. Favoring absurdist observations, sarcasm and twisted facial expressions, his act is heavy on physical folderol.

“Hard Bodies”

Lady Antebellum

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Sept. 29-Jan 20

LADY ANTEBELLUM AND DARIUS RUCKER at Coral

“HARD BODIES: CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LACQUER SCULPTURE” at

Sky Amphitheatre at South Florida Fairgrounds, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach; 7 p.m.; $28-$91; 561/795-8883, westpalmbeachamphitheatre.com. Lady Antebellum,

the country crossover sensations behind “Need You Now” and “Just a Kiss,” support their seventh album Heart Break alongside co-headliner Darius Rucker (“Wagon Wheel”) of Hootie & the Blowfish fame.

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach; $9-$15 museum admission; 561/495-0233, morikami. org. Though present in East Asian art since the Neolithic era, lacquerware has enjoyed a renaissance since the late 1980s, as sculptors began utilizing the material in trailblazing directions.

This exhibition presents 30 works by 16 artists.

Sushi and Stroll Summer Walks

Oct. 4-21 “YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN”

at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave., Lake Worth; various show times; $23$38; 561/586-6410, lakeworthplayhouse.org. Mel

Brooks adapted his 1974 horror parody into this madcap stage musical, in which the insecure grandson of Dr. Victor von Frankenstein creates his own monster to rival his grandfather’s.

Eighteen new songs join the original movie’s iconic “Puttin’ on the Ritz” number.

Dierks Bentley

Oct. 6

Oct. 11

BRUCE VILANCH at Boca Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10, Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $35-$45; 561/483-9036, bocablackbox.com. From his

four-year stint on “Hollywood Squares” to his backstage contributions to television variety hours, this quick-witted jokesmithfor-hire is an enduring throwback from an earlier age. He remains head writer for the Oscars, tailoring his material to the eccentricities of each host.

“WHO’S BAD: THE ULTIMATE MICHAEL JACKSON EXPERIENCE” at Boca

Black Box, 8221 Glades Road, Suite 10, Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $40-$50; 561/483-9036, bocablackbox.com. Led by its

moonwalking frontman— Miami native James Times III—this sleek tribute act claims to be the only Michael Jackson tribute to predate the King of Pop’s passing. Touring for more than 14 years, “Who’s Bad” features live musicians, dancers and evocative costumes.

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Oct. 14

“SOUNDS OF SOUL” at

KID ROCK at Coral Sky Amphitheatre at South Florida Fairgrounds, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach; 7 p.m.; $28-$91; 561/795-8883, westpalmbeachamphitheatre.com.

X-SCREAM HAUNTED HOUSE at G-Star School of

PARTICLE at Funky Biscuit, 303 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $20-$30; 561/3952929, funkybiscuit.com.

Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $50-$60; 561/2437922, oldschoolsquare. org. The six vocalists of this

polished tribute pay homage to the Motown era and beyond. Expect choreographed dance moves, three-piece suits, four-part harmony and roof-rattling belters from the likes of Aretha Franklin, the Four Tops, Marvin Gaye and the Temptations.

The provocative celebrity returns for another set of his patented “hick hop”—a southern-fried stew of rap, rock, country and soul that’s too conservative for the hipster left and too amoral for the religious right. He’ll find enough in the middle to pack this “Red Blooded Rock N Roll Redneck Extravaganza” tour.

the Arts, 2030 S. Congress Ave., Palm Springs; haunts open at 8 p.m.; $10-$13; xscreamhauntedhouse. com. Now in its 15th sea-

son, this top-rated haunted attraction organized by the film students of G-Star School features two brand-new walk-throughs for 2018: “Curse of the Cat Goddess,” set in the realm of a sadistic pharaoh; and “The Last Laugh,” a new take on the killer-clown trope.

“Jam band” only begins to describe this space-age, largely instrumental quartet, which has released just one studio album in its 18 years. No matter: Each live gig is a singular cornucopia of improvisations blending progressive rock, jazz, funk and electronica.

Oct. 17 DEVON ALLMAN PROJECT

at Funky Biscuit, 303 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton; 8 p.m.; $50-$80; 561/395-2929, funkybiscuit.com. The initially

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 his top-charting third LP, Ride or Die.

Lantern Festival

“Sounds of Soul”

Kid Rock

Oct. 20 AMAZING BEES FESTIVAL

at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; noon to 4 p.m.; $15-$75; 561/393-7890, amazingbeesfestival.com.

Recommended for kids age 2 to 12, this buzzworthy edutainment festival celebrates nature’s pollinators with a bee-themed theatrical production that raises awareness about threatened honeybee populations. Children’s yoga and Zumba, Capoeira, oversized games, bounce houses, face paintings, clowns and stilt walkers complete the fun.

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Oct. 20

Oct. 22

LANTERN FESTIVAL at Morikami Museum, 4000 Morikami Park Road; 3 to 8 p.m.; $10-$20; 561/4950233, morikami.org. The

“THE DIAMOND GIRL” at Lynn University’s Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton; 7:30 p.m.; $10; 561/237-9000, lynn. edu. In the first entry in Jan

Morikami’s festival honoring the passing of loved ones will include a street fair, games and children’s activities; taiko drumming by Fushu Daiko; and vendors offering Asian and American delicacies. The evening ends with guests writing messages to their late loved ones and floating them in paper lanterns across a tranquil lake at nightfall.

McArt’s New Play Reading Series for 2018/2019, local playwright Tony Finstrom dramatizes The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope’s 1872 novel about a beautiful gold-digger. Finstrom describes it as “part romantic dramedy, part ‘Masterpiece Theatre.’”

Oct. 26 “THE SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY” at Parker

Playhouse, 707 N.E. Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale; 8 p.m.; $40.50-$50.50; 954/462-0222, browardcenter.org. Equal parts concert and theatrical production, this tribute to the best-selling musical duo of all-time combines storytelling with video projection, professional stage lighting and full-band renditions of Simon & Garfunkel’s greatest hits, from “Mrs. Robinson” to “Bridge Over Troubled Water.”

Devon Allman Project

Oct. 28 CARLOS CAMILO AND THE LIVE DIMENSION at Arts

Garage, 94 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 8 p.m.; $30-$45; 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org. Armed with the lofty goal of “making the world a better place one song at a time,” this Cuban-born, Miami-based pianist and composer hopes to spread love and positive vibes with his agreeable combination of smooth jazz and R&B. A four-piece band, from sax to bass to drums and synths, will help him achieve that objective.

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Oct. 19- Nov 11

BRETT ELDREDGE with Devin Dawson at Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; 7:30 p.m.; $35-$60; 561/393-7890, mizneramp.com. Country music

“INDECENT” at Palm

phenom Eldredge’s star has been on the rise since his 2013 debut Bring You Back, and his cachet has only increased three albums later, with five top-charting singles and a distinctive ability to cross over into soul and R&B sounds. Dawson, a YouTube celebrity turned country-radio success, will open the show.

Florida premiere of this Tony-winning play from 2017 chronicles the on- and offstage drama surrounding “God of Vengeance,” a controversial Yiddish play from 1923. From the prism of today’s roiling politics, “Indecent” explores anti-Semitism, war, music, theatre history and more.

YolanDa Brown

Brett Eldredge

Oct. 28 YOLANDA BROWN at Arts Garage, 94 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach; 7 p.m.; $30-$45; 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org. Considered the premier jazz saxophonist in the United Kingdom, this charismatic performer integrates reggae and soul music into her eclectic and award-winning sound, which has led to touring gigs with artists as diverse as Diana Krall and the Temptations. She makes her Delray Beach debut as part of her “Coming to America” tour.

Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St., West Palm Beach; various show times; $75; 561/5144042, palmbeachdramaworks.org. The South

Oct. 28- Nov. 11 “STEEL MAGNOLIAS” at

Maltz Jupiter Theatre, 1001 E. Indiantown Road, Jupiter; various show times; $60-$88; 561/575-2223, jupitertheatre.org. Strong women

are at the center of the Maltz’s 2018/2019 season, beginning with this durable dramedy by Robert Harling.

Set in an in-home beauty parlor in a cozy Louisiana parish, it follows the travails of six female friends through hardships, changes and triumphs.

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3035 S. Federal Highway, Delray Beach, 561/332-3406 Written by LYNN KALBER

Top, sebadas and arancini appetizer; opposite page, goat cheese ravioli and Chef Pietro Vardeu

I F YO U G O PARKING: Parking lot HOURS: Monday-Thursday, 4:30 to 10 p.m.; Friday, 4 to 11 p.m.; Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

PRICES: $13-$54 WEBSITE: sardinia-ristorante.com

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Not all the pastas are made here, but the spaghetti (not made in-house) with baby clams, tomato and asparagus proved the pasta vendor is of high quality.

The arancini (fregola lamb meatballs) appetizer had five perfectly round balls of Sardinian couscous with bits of ground meat and spices, served with a tomato-based dipping sauce that wasn’t needed. Each ingredient was separate but blended into an overall pop of flavor—the standard here.

There’s a mozzarella bar to try, with six types of cheese. The pane carasatu (Sardinian flatbread) comes with goat cheese and honey; or tomato sauce, pecorino and a poached egg; or prosciutto, tomato and arugula, among others. Paella is made with the fregola instead of rice, and there’s a chef’s tasting menu with seven courses and a wine pairing option. The meat and fish menu ranges from scaloppini to lamb shank, skirt steak, branzino, chicken breast Parmigiana and more.

Desserts include sebadas, an almost dish-sized traditional Sardinian pastry, with creamy pecorino inside a light, deep-fried dough fritter drizzled with honey and sugar (or Nutella, strawberries, banana and mint). The tang of the cheese with honey-sugar sweetness is a nice end to a meal, despite the dough being a bit overwhelming.

Sardinia Enoteca has gathered loyal fans since opening, and shown local diners there’s an alternative to the traditional American version of Italian. It’s a tasty lesson with a quality menu.

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t’s familiar yet different, like the aunt who resembles you a lot more than you’d like to admit. That’s what Sardinian cuisine is to Italian food.

Bringing this understanding— and some very good dishes—to diners is the goal of Sardinia Enoteca co-owners Antonio Gallo and chef Pietro Vardeu, who’s from Sardinia. In fact, they’ve opened five restaurants together, and still have the original Sardinia (opened in 2006) in Miami Beach. The Delray Beach venue opened in October 2017, where its chef de cuisine is Roberto Basile, Vardeu’s nephew.

There’s a hint of the Mediterranean blue in tiles surrounding the wood-fired oven/pizza area.

Blonde wood columns and dark wood tables fill the restaurant, where it can be a tad noisy with loud music despite the sound panels in the high ceiling. Wine racks line the walls, with the contents available by the glass, bottle or quartino, a favorite size of mine (about one and a half glasses).

The island of Sardinia is an autonomous region of Italy known for pasta, certain cheeses and cured meats. So instead of butter, Sardinia Enoteca serves whipped, light, creamy pecorino cheese with its bread. A lot of its dishes are cooked in the big oven, and much of them are similar to Mediterranean food, where they’re blended, but each ingredient still stands apart.

I’m fond of half-portion sizes, available here for paellas and pastas. The goat cheese ravioli (made in-house) in butter and sage sauce was a simple dish with a light, clean, lip-smacking sauce. I could have easily eaten a full portion.

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I F YO U G O PARKING: valet, street parking HOURS: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily PRICES: $15 to $39 WEBSITE: luffsfishhouse.com

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Luff’s Fish House

390 E. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, 561/609-2660 Written by LYNN KALBER

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hen I grew up in Boca, the 1920s bungalow currently home to Luff’s Fish House was a jewelry store belonging to a friend’s father.

Sparkling gems under counters have now given way to a shipshape restaurant that holds a few diners inside, with additional seating on two large, outdoor deck and patio areas.

Even on a recent sultry night, most chose to sit outside despite the lack of air conditioning (there are fans on the decks), because the noise level inside was in the eardrum-puncturing decibel range.

And that was with only a few tables occupied.

Owner Arturo Gismondi is known for his successful Boca restaurants, which include La Nouvelle Maison, Trattoria Romana, Biergarten and Cannoli

Kitchen. He’s now merged his new seafood vision with the familiar, popular food and service he’s known to deliver.

The new/familiar idea was evident in Luff’s dish creation: smoked fish-hummus dip and falafel fish fritters, to name a couple. We opted for the crab guacamole ($14), and it was solid, but the crab didn’t put it over the top. The three large scallops (a special, $29) were perfectly seared, with an opaque center, and arrived with the tasty, fresh crunch of fried rice and cashews. A guest’s dietary request for no eggs in the fried rice was honored, one example of the very good service.

Another special was mussels in coconut curry broth ($16), topped with lemongrass and basil. The broth was both light and rich, with a sweetness that helped the accompanying bread disappear

quickly. The coconut curry combo was also offered with grouper or clams. It’s clearly a favorite, and deserves its reputation.

Paella is on the Sunday menu as either a personal size ($23) or in a large cast-iron pan that could feed at least four, which explains the whopping price ($75). Loaded with shrimp, mussels, clams and sausage, it satisfies despite the slightly mushy yellow rice.

Sangria is also featured Sundays, although the red version was sold out by 7:15 p.m.

Almost everyone who has eaten at Luff’s talks about the Key lime pie ($12), with good reason. It’s an enormous slice, for one thing, topped with meringue and sitting on a graham cracker crust. The light yellow-green color and the tartness fulfill my two main Key lime requirements.

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This is how Boca gets into the spirit of the season …

16th Annual Gingerbread Holiday Concert Sponsor a table

Featuring the Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra Presented by the Lynn University Friends of the Conservatory of Music Now in its 16th year of making the holidays merry and bright, our annual Gingerbread Holiday Concert attracts grandparents, parents and children of all ages to the Boca Raton Resort and Club to enjoy the musical classics of the season, performed by the Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra, with Dean Jon Robertson conducting. This pops concert raises funds for scholarships for the talented student musicians attending the Lynn Conservatory. Your support makes it possible for many of our students to graduate to positions with renowned orchestras.

Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018 2 p.m. Photos with Santa 3 p.m. Concert

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hen you hear about the amazing view from atop the fourth floor at the oddly placed Restoration Hardware building, in the middle of the Okeechobee Boulevard median, one assumes it includes those famous blue Florida attractions, the Intracoastal and the ocean.

But you’d be wrong. The view that greets you is west down Okeechobee, where the cement snakes of I-95 and the boulevard meet, as Brightline chugs past.

You can’t see the ocean, except for glimpses from the second floor if you squeeze past building structures.

What you do find is an unexpected European rooftop, with atrium-like glass ceiling, large (fake but well done) eucalyptus trees, and a beautifully designed black-and-white area for drinking, eating and lounging. After all, you are in a furniture store.

But you could be in Paris or San Francisco—with prices to match.

(While ladies who lunch are frequent diners, the nearby Hilton and convention center provide guests with lanyards and expense accounts. A bottle of Prosecco at lunch? Of course! A $14 mimosa?

My pleasure.)

The Rooftop Restaurant is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and if those seem like retail store hours, it’s because they are. There are no reservations, but grab one of those pricey drinks from the barista bar, put your name on the list and wander the seductively designed floors of luxurious furnishings and accoutrements.

The food is top-quality, so don’t forget to eat. Executive Chef Seth Evan Kirschbaum (formerly at Darbster) has a small but interesting menu. There are a few light breakfast options, five salads, three flavor-filled boards (with items such as smoked salmon/bagel, $23; and artisanal prosciutto and Parmesan reggiano, $21), and nine entrees. If you don’t think

truffled grilled cheese is an entrée, try it here ($17). Or the fish of the day (rainbow trout when we were there), prime rib French dip, lobster roll or turkey club.

The burger was two thin patties with Swiss cheese between and on top and Dijonnaise; I added the garlic aioli that came with excellent hand-cut fries. The arugula salad was huge and tasty with fennel, sweet grapes, crunchy sunflower seeds, thin slices of Parmesan and a zingy citrus vinaigrette ($15).

At night, the view is pleasant with twinkling lights. It’s a romantic spot, if you’re so inclined, with cozy side alcoves and lighted candles all day long. If you approach from the east, you’ll see L.A. artist RETINA’s hieroglyph-like artwork on the building by architect James Gillam, who designed this and other RH stores.

A tip for lunchgoers: Bring sunglasses. And if you could use a new couch, this is the place.

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Abe & Louie’s—2200 Glades Road. Steakhouse. 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. $$$$

Seven-layer chocolate cake from Abe & Louie’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 the veal shank served on a bed of risotto. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly.

561/997-7373. $$$ Biergarten—309 Via De Palmas, #90. German/ Pub. Part vaguely German beer garden, part all-American sports bar, this rustic eatery offers menus that channel both, as well as an excellent selection of two-dozen beers on tap and the same number by the bottle. The food is basic and designed to go well with suds, like the giant pretzel with a trio of dipping sauces and the popular “Biergarten burger.” • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/395-7462. $$ Bluefin Sushi and Thai—861 N.W. 51st St., Suite 1. Sushi/Thai. Arrive early for a table at this Asian hot spot—it’s popular with no reservations for parties fewer than six. Don’t skip the tempura lobster bomb, big in both size and taste. The ginger snapper will impress both Instagram and your stomach. Try the chicken satay and pad Thai. Bluefin offers a variety of

dishes from multiple cultures, all well done. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/981-8986. $$

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. Heavy on small plates, the menu features tuna crudo, fried calamari and a killer cheese and charcuterie board. Probably the best dish, though, is the charred filet mignon with a red wine bone marrow reduction, with wickedly luscious house-made hazelnut gelato coming in a very close second. • Dinner nightly. 561/226-3022. $$$ Bonefish Grill—21065 Powerline Road.

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. Brunch on Sundays.

561/483-4949. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/732-1310; 9897 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, 561/965-2663; 11658 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/799-2965) $$

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) $$

Burtons Grill & Bar —5580 N. Military Trail.

New American. Known for its reliable food as well as its non-gluten, Paleo and “B Choosy” kids menu, the first Florida location for this restaurant is deservedly crowded, so make reservations. Don’t miss the General Tso’s cauliflower, the pan-seared salmon (Paleo), the crab cakes or the Key lime pie. Popular half-portions are available, too.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/465-2036. $$

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121 Butcher Block Grill—7000 W. Camino Real.

Steakhouse/Contemporary American. This casual steakhouse with a Mediterranean twist, an all-kosher menu, and a local, seasonal, sustainable ethos gives the stuffy old-fashioned meatery a swift kick in the sirloin. Beef here is all-natural and grass-fed, delivering big, rich, earthy flavor.

Seafood, whether raw (tuna tartare) or simply grilled (wildcaught 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. $$$

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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 the pan-fried calamari to the restaurant’s signature spin on the Cobb 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. 561/996-1234. $$$

Bouillabaisse, coq au vin, rack of lamb, salads and more desserts. • Dinner nightly. 561/997-0027. $$

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 Nova Scotian tails flash-fried and served with drawn butter or sizable Maine specimens stuffed with lobster. • Dinner nightly. 561/395-2675. $$$$

Casimir French Bistro —416 Via De

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

Palmas, Suite 81. French. Take a trip overseas without leaving the city and enjoy excellently prepared traditional French dishes, such as duck l’orange, beef bourguignon and rack of lamb, or go with Cajun chicken and veal Milanese. The comfortable dining room is a Parisian experience, as is the apple tarte tatin. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/955-6001. $$$

Suite B-30. 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. $

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. 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 evening. Voila! Also on the menu: pan-seared foie gras, homemade veal sausage, tasty onion soup, seabass

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, bacon 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. Italian. The “Best Spaghetti & Meatballs Ever” dish is pretty darn close to being just that. The burrata with tomato carpaccio, melt-in-your-mouth Dover sole almondine, orecchiette con sausage and linguine vongole are part of a very good menu. From Sicilian fish salad to veal piccata, 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 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 Choice short rib and the popular Buddha Bowl, with veggies, udon noodles and shrimp. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 561/417-5836. $$

Gary Rack’s Farmhouse Kitchen—399 S.E. Mizner Blvd. American. Natural, seasonal, sustainable.

You’ll enjoy the varied menu, and won’t believe it’s made without butters or creams. Try the too-good-to-be-true buffalo-style cauliflower appetizer, the seared salmon or buffalo burger, and have apple skillet for dessert. Healthy never tasted so good. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/826-2625. $$

Grand Lux Cafe —6000 Glades Road, inside 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; brunch on Saturday and Sunday. 561/392-2141. $$

The Grille On Congress —5101 Congress Ave. American. Dishes at this longtime favorite range September/October 2018

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Geoffrey Zakarian

We grill the celebrity chef on barbecuing dos and don’ts Written by CHRISTIANA LILLY

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elebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian knows his stuff when it comes to food. He’s a culinary authority on “Chopped” and “Iron Chef America,” and he’s authored cookbooks like “My Perfect Pantry” and “Town | Country.” When he was in town visiting his two dining concepts, Point Royal and Counter Point at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Boca mag had the chance to talk to him about football-season grilling and barbecue.

The biggest mistake people make [when barbecuing or grilling] is that the fish or the meat goes on the grill cold. It has to be room temperature.”

— Geoffrey Zakarian

There’s lots of different types of barbecue. What’s your favorite style?

I love Kansas City. ... They got steak, pork, chicken, offal—they got everything. It’s dry rub, and they use all the meats, all the proteins.

What’s the biggest mistake people make with barbecuing?

A lot of people equate barbecuing with grilling—it’s the opposite. [With barbecuing], you need a lot of patience...what you’re doing is cooking a lot of things low and slow.

How can we improve our grilling skills?

People want to cook too hot, too fast ... with cold product. The biggest mistake they use is either the fish or the meat goes on the grill cold. It has to be room temperature. For a piece of meat or steak, [it needs to sit] at least an hour. A piece of fish, at least a halfhour in the kitchen, wrapped up.

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How hot should our grills be?

The grill has to be completely white, where the coals are white ... and it has little embers. It’s almost out. Most people cook when the fire is just beginning, and then they get their food cooked, and then 45 minutes later it’s perfect and then they’re doing s’mores over it! That’s when you should cook. People put the food on way too early.

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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.

Contemporary American. Convenient location, stylish ambience and impeccable service are 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 Cajun trout, the mammoth salad offerings and the tasty baby back ribs. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/9980550. $$$

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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 Asian-inspired gastropub delivers an inventive punch to the taste buds. Among the hardest hitters is its angry shrimp dumplings and the char sui pork belly bao bun. The Saigon duck pho is yet one more reason to go.

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

Jimmy’s Fries to Caviar —6299 N.

Kathy’s Gazebo Café —4199 N. Federal

Federal Highway. Contemporary American. Going one better than soup to nuts defines Jimmy Mills’ Boca restaurant, 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. • Dinner Tues.Sun. 561/617-5965. $$

Highway. Continental. This local stalwart smoothly rolls along with its signature blend of French and Continental dishes. The Gazebo is classic and formal, with equally 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, Suite 700.

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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 Nouvelle Maison—455 E. Palmetto Park Blvd. French. Elegant, sophisticated French cuisine, white-glove service and a trio of (differently) stylish dining rooms make Arturo Gismondi’s homage to 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 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. $$

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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). 561/3628403. $$$ Le Rivage —450 N.E. 20th St., Suite 103. 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. $$

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Martini Mondays at Louie Bossi’s include half-off martinis and $2.50 meatball sliders.

Louie Bossi’s —100 E. Palmetto Park Road.

Italian. This jumping joint serves terrific Neapolitan pizza (thin crust), but don’t miss the other entrées. Start with a charcuterie/cheese plate and grab the amazing breadsticks. All breads and pastas are made on the premises. Other faves include the carbonara and the calamari, and save room for house-made gelato. Unusual features: Try the bocce ball court included with the retro Italian décor. • Lunch and dinner daily, weekend brunch. 561/336-6699. $$$

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

American. This location is something of a Bermuda Triangle for restaurants, with at least four restaurants 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, and service that is as professional as it is personable. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/994-0808. $$$

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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, a salad, two pastas, two entrées 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. $$

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Mario’s Osteria —1400 Glades Road, Suite 210. Italian. This popular spot is swanky, but the rustic Italian 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, Suite 108.

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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, and 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 duck spring rolls to the applewood bacon-wrapped meatloaf to the wickedly indulgent crème brûlèe pie.

• Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat–Sun. Dinner nightly.

561/368-0080. $$ Morton’s The Steakhouse—5050 Town Center Circle, Suite 219. 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. $$$$ New York Prime—2350 N.W. Executive Center Drive. Steakhouse. This wildly popular Boca meatery Monday, Monday packs them in with swift, professional service, classy supper club ambience and an extensive wine list. And, of course, the beef—all USDA Prime, cooked to tender and juicy lusciousness over ferocious heat. The bone-in rib-eye is especially succulent, but don’t neglect the New York strip or steak-house classics like oysters Rockefeller, garlicky spinach and crusty hash browns. • Dinner nightly. 561/998-3881. $$$$

Nick’s New Haven-Style Pizzeria —2240 N.W. 19th St., Suite 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 “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 Seafood Volcano, with spicy kani and cream cheese. If sushi doesn’t float your boat, gingery gyoza and crispy fried shrimp with a

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125 drizzle of spicy mayo probably will. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/361-8688. $$

Ouzo Bay Greek Kouzina—201 Plaza Real. Greek-American. This sleek Mizner Park destination combines Maryland and Greek dishes, reflecting the flagship Ouzo Bay in Baltimore. You’ll find classic Greek dishes done right here: the spanakopita, dolmades and baklava are excellent. A large variety of fish are flown in daily and served whole or deboned, but always well prepared. Try the crab cakes with your ouzo. Opa! • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/757-0082. $$$

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) $$

Prezzo —5560 N. Military Trail. Italian. A reincarnation of a popular 1990s Boca venue, this version has updated the dining room, kept the yummy oven-baked focaccia bread slices, and added a 21st-century taste to the menu. Don’t miss the tender bone-in pork chop, risotto croquettes, thin-crust pizza and seafood specials.

Vegetarian and gluten-free choices are on the menu, too.

• Lunch Mon.-Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/314-6840. $$ Rack’s 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 homey 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 spanakopita. Standout dishes include the moussaka, the creamy and mildly citrusy avgolemono soup and the precisely grilled, simply adorned (with olive oil, lemon and capers) branzino. • Lunch and dinner daily.

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. $$

Roots Italian Kitchen—212 S. Federal Highway. Italian. No pretentiousness here, with truffled burrata cream on sliced Roma tomatoes. Or gnocchi, linguine vongole, or risotto. All done well. Sauces and desserts are made in-house. Speaking of the cheesecakes, there are many varieties, so save room. • Lunch Tues.–Sat. Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/757-6581. $$$

Ruth’s Chris —225 N.E. Mizner Blvd., Suite 100.

Steakhouse. Not only does this steakhouse favorite emphasize its New Orleans roots, it also distinguishes itself from 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. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 651 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, 561/514-3544; 661 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/863-0660.) $$$$ Sapphire Indian Cuisine —500 Via de Palmas, Suite 79. 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.) $$

Six Tables a Restaurant—112 N.E. Second St., Boca Raton. American. Chef/owner Jonathan Fyhrie has a unique, elegant, one-seating, prix-fixe dinner and only six tables. The decor reflects the food, which is innovative in unexpected but attractive ways.

This 13-year-old restaurant’s staying power proves the pull of a beautiful space, amazing food and special attention from a talented staff. The velvety lobster bisque is a signature dish. The night’s options can include rack of lamb, filet au poivre, wild Scottish king salmon,

Buzz Bites I Get Your Hungry On: September is Here

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ood news: September is the best eating month here.

It has nothing to do with growing seasons, the steamy heat of the hurricane season or the fact that it’s easy to get a dinner reservation. It’s because it’s Boca Restaurant Month, Flavor Palm Beach, Crave GFL (Greater Fort Lauderdale) and Miami Spice.

That means from Palm Beach County through Miami-Dade, you will find deep dining discounts at great restaurants during all of September (except for Miami Spice, which is two months long through October as part of the Miami Now promotion). So search and eat well, as well as inexpensively. Find more details as well as restaurant names on these websites.

BOCA RESTAURANT MONTH: It’s the second year for this special and includes places in the “greater Boca Raton area,” too. Participating venues will have a three-course, prix fixe dinner menu priced between $36 and $40, not including tax/gratuity. Some will also have threecourse, prix fixe lunches for between $21 and $25. bocarestaurantmonth.com FLAVOR PALM BEACH: This event is entering its 11th year, and every reservation made through the website benefits the Palm Beach County Food Bank. Each restaurant that signed up to participate will have specially priced three-course meals for lunch and dinner. Diners will choose from three choices for each course. flavorpb.com CRAVE GFL: This event is in its 12th year—it was formerly known as Dine Out Lauderdale—and last year had more than 40 restaurants lined up for three-course, prix fixe dinners. sunny.org/restaurants/cravegfl MIAMI SPICE: There are 200 restaurants participating over two months, so you can visit dozens! Check the days of the week your restaurant offers the prix fixe lunch/ brunch ($23) or dinner ($39) specials. Look for Miami Spice at miamiandbeaches.com.

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By Bruce Feingold, executive chef and partner at Dada, 52 N. Swinton Ave, Delray Beach; 561/330-3232; sub-culture.org/dada

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f you ask Executive Chef Bruce Feingold how he would describe the menu at Dada, it’s hard to find an answer, but he settles on “eclectic American.” The team doesn’t like to stick to the sameold same-old, changing out dishes and bringing in seasonal ones. But there’s one that’s not going anywhere: the butternut squash ravioli.

The pillows of homemade pasta are stuffed with a puree of butternut squash, cheeses, brown sugar and seasoning, then a thyme cream sauce is spooned over the top.

Finally, crispy asparagus and diced tomatoes finish the presentation

You kind of almost reinvent yourself every time you come up with a new dish and get more people excited about it.”

WEB EXTRA: For Feingold’s recipe, visit BOCAMAG.COM/ SEPTEMBER-2018.

Feingold tries to get all his vegetables from South Florida farms, but when things heat up, he has to look at farms in Georgia, Pennsylvania, California and the Midwest.

and also brighten up the dish.

“It became one of the most popular dishes,”Feingold says.“I think people [would] threaten me if I take it off.”

In fact, it’s so popular that the ravioli has to be made off-site—Dada is inside the historic 1924 Tarrimore house with a kitchen line only 9 feet long. With such a high demand for the dish, there’s just not the room to properly make it. Instead, the man who supplies Dada with imported Parmesan cheese, olive oil, balsamic and truffle oil also rolls out the homemade dough and stuffs it with a puree of butternut squash, per

Feingold’s recipe.

Even though it’s a staple on the menu, it has transformed over the years as the chef plays with flavors and ingredients. He used to serve it with shiitake mushrooms and other winter vegetables, but he switched them out with asparagus and artichokes to lighten the flavors.

“I’ve always said if you’re not evolving, you’re dying,” Feingold says.“We’ve been here 18 years. …

You kind of almost reinvent yourself every time you come up with a new dish and get more people excited about it.”

—CHRISTIANA LILLY

Because of the dish’s popularity, an offsite “extension of the kitchen” makes the ravioli ahead of time to save time and space—on a busy night, the staff cranks out 700 dishes!

The butternut stuffing takes the longest. The squash is roasted until it’s tender, cooled, pureed and mixed with cheese and seasonings, strained, and refrigerated overnight. “You can’t rush it,” Feingold says.

While dishes come and go, Feingold says the butternut ravioli has always ranked among the top five favorites from diners.

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The cream sauce spooned over the ravioli is a combination of shallots, fresh thyme, Italian white wine, heavy cream from a Pompano dairy, and salt and pepper. Even while using heavy ingredients, the combination lends to a lighter sauce.

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’m focusing this issue’s Challenge on a beach-cuisine staple long associated with seaside shacks, flip-flops and surfboards. Rough job. The lobster roll is the Champagne of sandwiches: large hunks of lobster with a light, binding mayo sauce on a buttered, toasted bun that’s served hot dog-style, with the opening on the top.

While these delectable handfuls are associated with New England, it’s lucky for us our local chefs have put a fresh seafood spin on them. These beauties started swimming onto tables in the 1970s, and the first“World’s Best Lobster Roll”competition was held in 2017. The winner was from Park City, Utah. Maine clearly doesn’t have the lock on the rolls.

But Maine does have a claim on the lobster used, because the tender claw meat is the star of this production. Since Florida lobsters don’t have claws, they’re left out of this dish.

Some recipes call for celery, celery leaves, chives, Old Bay seasoning and more. We prefer clean and fresh, so that every bite serves up a small “oooh.”Now that’s a beachy SoFla lunch that makes you feel like Palm Beach royalty.

—LYNN KALBER

New England lobster roll from Boston’s on the Beach

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This sandwich was chock-full of silver-dollar-sized lobster chunks of mostly claw meat. Light mayo and a smattering of lettuce strips added color and a soft crunch. The roll was classic: buttered, toasted outside, the softer insides letting the mayo seep into the bread. For your side, choose the mango slaw: bright, zesty, perfect. $19.99.

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The open-topped bun was toasted and a bit doughy, and the nice-sized lobster bits were fresh and mixed with a slight mayo/celery combo. It was nestled on lettuce strips and would have been perfect, except that it was bland. The fries and slaw win the taste meter here, making the lobster crawl back into its shell. $18.95.

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This sandwich was good but not great.

The lobster meat was mixed with celery, onion and a nice amount of seasoning, along with a little more mayo than others. The bun stood on its own, but was a bit softer because of the excess mayonnaise. Served with either fries or mixed greens. $18.50.

Boston’s on the Beach

40 S. Ocean Blvd.

Delray Beach 561/278-3364

City Fish Market 7940 Glades Road Boca Raton 561/487-1600

City Oyster

213 E. Atlantic Ave. Delray Beach 561/272-0220

Lola’s Seafood Eatery

4595 Northlake Blvd.

Palm Beach Gardens 561/622-2259

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You have two options here. Served both warm (lobster with just drawn butter on the New England bun) and cold, this is the real deal. The cold version has a lot of flavorful lobster claw meat with just a kiss of mayo, letting the sea shine through. It’s served with fries and very good coleslaw. I’ll go back to try the warm version, too. $19.95.

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crispy duck and more, all done beautifully. Plan on a two-to-three-hour dinner. It’s worth it. • Dinner nightly.

561/347-6260. $$$$

Sushi Ray —5250 Town Center Circle, Suite 111.

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 $22. • Lunch Mon.–Fri., dinner nightly.

561/394-9506. $$

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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. The scarletta pepper steak and bone-in pork chops are excellent, as are the braised Angus beef short ribs with toasted pearl barley and collard greens. For dessert, try the red velvet bread pudding 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, Suite 247.

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 bread pudding with salted caramel sauce would be the envy of any Big Easy eatery. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/235-5819. $

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 Mon.-Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/994-2828. $$

Temper Grille —9858 Clint Moore Road.

American tapas. Even though it’s a tapas place, the portions are large, so plan to share your dishes or take home leftovers. Try the Temper Yakisoba noodles spicy or hot, lamb pops, shrimp bites and steak chimmis. • Dinner Tues.-Sat. 561/717-8081. $$ Trattoria Romana —499 E. Palmetto

Come discover a hidden gem filled with pastries, cookies, espresso, gelato, cappuccino, daily lunch menu, wine and an authentic Italian family!

We change our menu daily!

Visit our site to see what mamma is cooking today: www.cosaduci.com

141 NW 20th Street B-21 Boca Raton • 561.393.1201 Baking for a good cause: A portion of our proceeds will benefit research for Multiple Sclerosis.

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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. $$ The Banyan—189 N.E. Second Ave. American.

Snuggled under its namesake banyan tree in Pineapple Grove, this modern restaurant boasts a bright pink neon bar with bright cocktails, too. Try the purple Aviation gin cocktail paired with the Maryland crab bites or the Yum Yum Shrimp with spicy-sweet sriracha aioli. Sliders, tacos, mac trios and flatbreads do not disappoint. Order the crème brûlée cheesecake if it’s available. • 561/563-8871. $$

Batch Gastropub —14813 Lyons Road. Gastropub. Definitely try the homemade batches of cocktails on tap, which give this west Delray gastropub its name.

The artisanal mixes boast ingredients such as H.M. Tonic No. 22—the crisp, tangy part of a very good gin and tonic. The heirloom tomato and feta salad is a highlight with Champagne vinaigrette dressing. Also popular are the brisket and short rib burgers, the avocado toast and the chicken Caesar. But the drinks are what you’ll remember.

• Brunch Sat.-Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/877-0000. $$

Uni pasta from Beg for More Izakaya

Beg for More Izakaya—19 S.E. Fifth Ave. Japanese Small Plates. The large sake, whisky and beer menu here pairs beautifully with the small plates full of everything except sushi. No sushi. And that’s fine. Try the takoyaki (octopus balls), the crispy salmon tacos and anything with the addictive kimchi, such as the kimchi fried rice. There are pasta, teriyaki and simmered duck with bok choy dishes—or 16 varieties of yakitori (food on skewers). You’ll be back to beg for more.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/563-8849. $$ Brulé Bistro —200 N.E. Second Ave. Con-

Star Power

Get a bird’s-eye view of Delray by dining al fresco at Buddha Sky Bar’s outdoor private chef’s table for 12.

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temporary American. While the regular menu of this Pineapple Grove hipster hangout always has satisfying dishes (filet mignon carpaccio, seared tuna poke, seared diver scallops, slow-cooked lamb pappardelle), the nightly specials will amaze: beef Oscar, Tangier crusted yellowfin tuna. Oh, and the Meyer lemon tart? ‘Nuff said. Outside tables offer the best option for conversation. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/274-2046. $$

Buddha Sky Bar —217 E. Atlantic Ave. #3. Pan Asian. Don’t miss a meal at this stylish Asia-meets-industrial chic spot with a view of the Delray skyline. Chinese-influenced dim sum is inspired, while rock shrimp tempura and Tokyo beef skewers

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.

561/450-7557. $$

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. $$ Cabo Flats—Delray Marketplace, 14851 Lyons 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. $ Caffe Luna Rosa—34 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Italian. This multiple Delray Beach-award winning restaurant has sparkling service, comfort food taken to a higher level, and a setting just steps from the Atlantic. Open since 1993, and a success since then, they dish up big flavors in a tiny space, so call for reservations. Try the calamari fritto misto, then the rigatoni pomodoro and leave room for dessert. Or come back for breakfast. • Open daily from breakfast through dinner.

561-274-9404. $$

City Oyster —213 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood. This stylish mainstay of Big Time Restaurant Group serves up reasonably priced seafood that never disappoints, such as shrimp and grits with jumbo crab cake and jalapeño cheddar grits. • Lunch Mon.–Sun. Dinner nightly. Outdoor dining. 561/272-0220. $$

Cut 432—432 E. Atlantic Ave. Steakhouse. Hipper decor, a more casual vibe and an inventive take on steakhouse 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. 561/272-9898. $$$

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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 restaurants. Pay attention to the daily specials, especially if they include impeccably done langostini oreganata and the restaurant’s signature jumbo shrimp saltimbocca. • Dinner nightly.

561/393-6715. $$$

True —147 S.E. First Ave. American. True is the only place in South Florida to eat authentic Baltimore crab cakes. This small, unpretentious venue reminds us of a Key West food shack. The food is fabulous. Try anything with crab (crab dip, crab soup, crab sliders), but don’t miss the bacon-wrapped dates, beef brisket sliders and Fetacomply salad. End with the desserts made by Chef/Owner Frank Hawkins’ wife. • Dinner Tues.-Sun. 561/417-5100. $$ Twenty Twenty Grille —141 Via Naranjas, Suite 45. 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. $$$ Villagio Italian Eatery —344 Plaza Real. Italian. The classic Italian comfort food at this Mizner Park establishment is served with flair and great attention to detail. The reasonably priced menu—with generous portions—includes all your favorites (veal Parmesan, Caesar salad) and some outstanding seafood dishes (Maine lobster with shrimp, mussels and clams on linguine). There is a full wine list and ample people-watching given the prime outdoor seating. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561-447-2257. $$

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roll) as they are beautifully presented. Go early or call for a reservation. • Lunch Mon.-Fri. Dinner nightly.

561/883-0202. $$

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. $$

Ditmas —21077 Powerline Road. Contemporary kosher. This west Boca restaurant is named after a Brooklyn avenue in a district known for its food. Here you’ll find very good food, and no dairy products are used.

The menu is full of one-liners, so try the Not Stolen salmon with beat puree, The Butcher is Dead hangar steak, the Tony Fries (these are addictive) and the sangria. • Dinner Sun.-Thurs. 561/826-8875. $$$

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 pineapple upside-down cake. • Dinner nightly.

561/654-6600. $$$

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. $$

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. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/869-0030. $$

Villa Rosano —9858 Clint Moore Road. Italian.

You can be forgiven for imagining yourself in some rustic Italian hill town as the smells of garlic and tomato sauce waft through the air. Start by sopping up the house olive oil with slices of crusty bread, then move on to a stellar version of clams Guazzetto and delicate fillets of sole done a la Francese. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly.

561/470-0112. $$

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Boon’s Asian Bistro —19605 N. State

Bar Louie —1500 Gateway Blvd., #100. Eclectic.

Road 7. Japanese/Thai. This is one of two Boon’s (the other is in Delray Beach), and it’s where the rush to eat excellent sushi started. The fast-moving staff is choreographed to deliver dishes such as shrimp pad Thai that’s light, delicate and happily filled with shrimp. The Thai fried rice is unusually delicate too, with lots of egg, and is some of the best around. The sushi rolls are as fresh and inventive (try the Daimyo

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. 561/8530090. $

Vino —114 N.E. Second St. Wine Bar/Italian. An

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Buzz Bites II Food Markets and Food Halls arrive in PBC

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inally. That’s the word from those who admire the public food markets and food halls scattered around the country, but until now not in our fair county.

That ended earlier this year with the opening of the Grandview Public Market in West Palm Beach. With 11 food vendors, retail outlets, spinning and barre classes offered, among others, this has become an active eating and meeting place. The Warehouse District, as the surrounding area is called, is home now to retail hub Elizabeth Avenue Station, Palm Beach Squash Club, soon-to-open Steamhorse Brewing Company and a lot more.

Speaking of more, a second food hall is on the table to open in 2019 as the Delray Beach City Market, planned

by SoFla veteran restaurateur Dennis Max and real estate broker Craig Menin.

Larger in scale, it calls for filling the first floor of 120,000 square feet at 33 S.E. Third Street, just south of Atlantic Avenue. Features touted include 30 vendors, high ceilings, a rooftop garden and parking. We await with hungry stomachs!

Grandview Public Market

Josie’s Italian Ristorante—1602 S. Federal Highway. Italian. Famed chef and South Florida culinary godfather Mark Militello is back at Josie’s after a brief stint at Boca’s Prezzo, and his magic in the kitchen of this cozy, old-school Italian restaurant is duly noted. His influence is evident in the 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

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Henry’s—16850 Jog Road. American. This casual, unpretentious restaurant 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. $$ Il Girasole—2275 S. Federal Highway. Northern Italian. This South Florida classic is not trendy, but it offers a level of comfort and consistency that has been bringing people back for more than three decades. The food is fine hearty Italian, with excellent service. Try the veal Kristy or the calves brains. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/272-3566. $$

J&J Seafood Bar & Grill—634 E. Atlantic 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. Don’t forget to inquire about the stunning array of 10 specials—every night. • Lunch and dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/272-3390. $$

Jimmy’s Bistro —9 S. Swinton Ave. Contemporary American. This small gem off noisy Atlantic Avenue is big on taste and ambience, and has been busy since 2009. You can travel the world with dumplings, conch fritters, pork schnitzel, rigatoni Bolognese, étouffée and more. Reservations are recommended at this laid-back, comfortable venue. • Dinner nightly.

561/865-5774. $$

Joseph’s Wine Bar —200 N.E. Second Ave. Mediterranean-American. Joseph’s is an elegant, comfortable, intimate nook in Delray’s Pineapple Grove, and an ideal place for a lazy evening. This family affair—owner Joseph Boueri, wife Margaret in the kitchen, and son Elie and daughter Romy working the front of the house—has all tastes covered. Try the special cheese platter, the duck a l’orange or the rack of lamb. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/2726100. $$

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True culinary professionals turn out gently updated and classically oriented dishes notable for the quality of their ingredients and careful preparation. 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. 561/265-0600. $$

Latitudes —2809 S. Ocean Blvd. Modern American. You should come for both the sunset and the food.

This oceanfront restaurant is a gem tucked inside the Delray Sands resort. From the airy, bubbly interior to the raw bar, the décor is soothing and fun. Try the lobster and crab stuffed shrimp, the miso-glazed Skuna Bay salmon, the branzino or the veal Bolognese. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 561/278-6241. $$$

Lemongrass Bistro—420 E. Atlantic Ave. PanAsian. 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). $

MIA Kitchen & Bar—7901 W. Atlantic Ave. American. Well-known local Chef/Partner Blake Malatesta is famous for his locally sourced, inventive dishes—and for the most impressive Bloody Mary cart in the county. At his latest venture in Delray Marketplace, try the great, giant harissa lamb/sheep’s feta meatballs and the Maestro Del Mar (named after a competition Malatesta won with this recipe), a Florida seafood stew that can include gator, mofongo de yuca and a “fin to tail” broth. Good for what ails you, and worth the trip out west. Dinner nightly. 561/499-2200. $$

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. $$$ Sundy House—106 S. Swinton Ave. Contemporary American. It’s fine dining served in arguably the most beautiful restaurant and gardens in Delray.

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• 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

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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. 561/731-1819. $$

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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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Deck 84—840 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Burt Rapoport’s ode to laid-back tropical dining is like a day at the beach without getting sand between your toes. Though the restaurant is casual, the kitchen takes its food seriously, whether the stellar flatbreads, the thick and juicy 10-ounce special blend burger or homey seasonal cobbler. And the waterfront location just seems to make everything taste better.

• Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner nightly.

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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 fish tacos clad in delicate fried skin, set off by tart pineapple salsa. Cinnamon and sugar-dusted churros are the perfect dessert. And check out the margaritas, especially the smoky blend of 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. $$ The Grove—187 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. Chef-partner Michael Haycook and chef Meghan O’Neal change their menu biweekly, turning out dishes exhilarating in their freshness, creativity and elegant simplicity. An appetizer of octopus with olive oil, crushed potato aioli and lemon is outstanding. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/266-3750. $$

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AMERICAN GERMAN CLUB OF THE PALM BEACHES: This annual celebration on the second and third weekends in October means bratwurst, schnitzel, lots and lots of brews, liquor, schnapps and foot-stomping, skirt-swinging folk dancing. Runs Oct. 12-21 at 5111 Lantana Road, Lake Worth.

BIERGARTEN BOCA RATON: The celebration here usually lasts until around Halloween, and why not? This restaurant is an annual big-time participant in Oktoberfest, and that has included beer sampling, a pig roast, battle of the bands, costume contest and more. 309 Via De Palmas, Boca Raton

adding vanilla-scented custard to golden, flaky phyllo. • Dinner nightly. 561/303-3602. $$

Terra Fiamma—9169 W. Atlantic Ave. Italian.

The pleasures of simple, hearty, well-prepared Italian-American cuisine are front and center here. Among the pleasures you should enjoy are delicate, pillow-y veal meatballs in Marsala sauce; lusty chicken Allessandro with mushrooms, spinach and artichoke hearts; and a finely crafted tiramisu that’s as satisfying as it is familiar.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/495-5570. $$ Tramonti —119 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian. In a world where restaurants chase trends with the relentlessness of Casanova in full Viagra heat, Tramonti stands out as a classic outpost of authentic Italian cookery. Not trendy hardly means stodgy, however, as evidenced by expertly crafted, robustly flavorful dishes like the signature spiedini di mozzarella Romana, spaghetti al cartoccio and braciole Napoletana. Torta della nonna is a triumph of the highly refined simplicity that lies at the heart of true Italian cuisine. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/272-1944. $$$

Vic & Angelo’s—290 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian. Giving old-school Italian eateries a modest jolt of more contemporary cuisine and more youthful ambience has proved a winning formula for V&A. Best bets include succulent little baked clams, lusty and hugely portioned rigatoni with “Sunday gravy,” and lemon and caper-scented chicken cooked under a brick. Tiramisu is delicious, as is the Italian version of doughnut holes, zeppole. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner nightly. 844/842-2632. $$

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Menus are seasonal and imaginative. Try any of the fresh local fish dishes. • Lunch Tues.–Sat. Brunch Sun. Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/272-5678. $$

Taverna Opa—270 E. Atlantic Ave. Greek. Yes, you can order a side of belly dancing and napkin tossing with your moussaka and baklava at this chain. But the moussaka and baklava are very good; so is the rest of the food at the downtown Delray outpost. Also worth your while (and appetite) are appetizers like melitzanosalata, whipped eggplant with orange zest and roasted red pepper, and tarama, a creamy emulsion of bread, olive oil and salmon roe. Whole grilled bronzino is finished with lemon and orange juices for a citrusy flavor boost, while tongue-tying galaktoboureko goes baklava one better by

American/French. A little bit of Palm Beach, a little bit of France come to Deerfield Beach in the form of this elegant, sophisticated restaurant in the oceanfront Royal Blues Hotel. Service is as stellar as the views from the cozy, modestly opulent dining room, notable for the 1,500-gallon aquarium embedded in the ceiling.

Consistency can be an issue with the food, but when it is good it is very good. • Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Tues.-Sat., brunch Sun. 954/857-2929. $$$

Oceans 234 —234 N. Ocean Blvd., Deerfield Beach. Contemporary American. One of the only oceanfront (as in, on the beach) options in South Florida, this familiar-with-a-twist venue is fun to both visit and eat. Try the Infamous Lollipop Chicken Wings, a starter that could be an entrée. Seafood is definitely top-shelf, as are the desserts. A true Florida experience. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/428-2539. $$

Tamarind Asian Grill & Sushi Bar —949 S. Federal Highway. Asian. Quiet and

soothing, this multicultural venue serves sushi, sashimi, yakitori and wide-ranging Japanese appetizers. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/428-8009. $$

Tradition—626 S. Federal Highway. French. This is petite place with a large following, for good reason.

Owners Eric and Anais Heintz start meals with an amusebouche and a menu that spans the length of France. Order a creamy Caesar salad with a light anchovy-based dressing. Try the coq au vin (sauce cooked for two days), and if you like calves’ liver, this is the best you’ll find in the area.

End with a Grand Marnier soufflé (worth the 18-minute wait), and make your next reservation there before going home. • Dinner Mon.-Sat. 954/480-6464. $$

LIGHTHOUSE POINT Le Bistro—4626 N. Federal Highway. Modern French. The menu is modern and healthy—98 percent glutin-free, according to chef/owner Andy Trousdale. Check out the prix-fixe menu, which includes pan-roasted duck to beef Wellington. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 954/946-9240. $$$ Seafood World—4602 N. Federal Highway.

Seafood. This seafood market and restaurant offers some of the freshest seafood in the county. Its unpretentious atmosphere is the perfect setting for the superb king crab, Maine lobster, Florida lobster tails and much more. Tangy Key lime pie is a classic finish. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/942-0740. $$$

POMPANO BEACH Calypso Restaurant—460 S. Cypress Road.

Caribbean. This bright little dining room and bar (beer and wine only) has a Caribbean menu that is flavorful, imaginative—and much more. Calypso offers a spin on island food that includes sumptuous conch dishes, Stamp & Go Jamaican fish cakes and tasty rotis stuffed with curried chicken, lamb or seafood. • Lunch and dinner Mon.–Fri. 954/942-1633. $ Darrel & Oliver’s Café Maxx —2601 E. Atlantic Blvd. American. The longstanding institution from chef Oliver Saucy is as good now as when it opened in the mid-1980s. Main courses offer complex flavor profiles, such as the sweet-onion-crusted yellowtail snapper on Madeira sauce over mashed potatoes. Parts of the menu change daily. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sunday. 954/782-0606. $$$

COCONUT CREEK NYY Steak —Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 5550 N.W. 40th St. Steakhouse. The second incarnation of this Yankees-themed restaurant swings for the fences—and connects—with monstrous portions, chic decor and decadent desserts. The signature steaks are a meat lover’s dream; seafood specialties include Maine lobster and Alaskan king crab. • Dinner nightly.

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CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE WHAT: For the past 12 years, car enthusiasts and philanthropists have come together for three days of revving engines and helping kids during the Concours d’Elegance. This year’s festivities began with the duPont Registry Live Hangar Party at the Boca Raton Airport, which was filled with live entertainment, private jets, gourmet dining and the chance to meet Indy 500 race car driver Jack Harvey. The next evening, the Boca Raton Resort & Club hosted a gala including dinner, an auction and live entertainment from Tim Allen. Finally, the resort grounds were filled with antique and exotic cars and motorcycles for the highly anticipated Concours competition, judged by Allen and Jay Leno. More than 7,000 people attended the events and raised more than $10 million for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County.

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AN EVENING IN ANCIENT JERUSALEM WHAT: This elegant dinner, enjoyed by philanthropists and supporters of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, celebrated the American Friends of the Hebrew University organization and the Palm Beach Memory and Cognitive Research Fund. A special performance by Michael Bolton set the mood while guests reflected on the connections between American and Israeli Jewish people and the rich cultural heritage of Israel. AFHU strives to support the intellectual strength of Jewish people around the globe by supporting the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

WHERE: The Breakers

Robert and Marjorie Emden, Michael Bolton, Roberta and Stanley Bogen

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MEETING CHUCK TODD WHAT: Chuck Todd, NBC News’ political director and managing editor of “Meet the Press,” spoke to guests at Congregation B’Nai Israel in Boca Raton and conducted an informative Q&A. Todd spoke with guests about how he earned his reputation and place at NBC, as well as insights about the White House press room, working on television and following the campaign trail.

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WHERE: Arturo’s

Former Miami Dolphins players Roy Foster and John Bock

Peter Dosik, Nika Calagna and Anthony Calagna

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AKOYA BOCA WEST COCKTAIL RECEPTION WHAT: Akoya Boca West hosted a private cocktail reception for buyers, friends and family, where members of The Siemens Group presented updates on the project (the country club recently underwent a $50 million renovation). At Akoya, residents are able to enjoy condo living with the luxuries of country club life, with access to 18-hole championship golf courses, a 31-court tennis complex, a spa, a fitness and aquatics center, six restaurants and 1,400 acres of outdoor space.

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FOCUS BRASIL WHAT: Boca mag’s publisher, Margaret Mary Shuff, and its digital acquisition specialist, Lindsay Koolis, participated in a panel at Focus Brasil with the Brazilian International Press Association.

While on the panel, they discussed the changing American press and prospects for the marketplace. In particular, Koolis discussed content and marketing strategies in the digital era.

WHERE: Broward Center for the Performing Arts

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September/October 2018 issue. Vol. 38, No. 6. The following are trademarks in the state of Florida of JES Media, and any use of these trademarks without the express written consent of JES Media is strictly prohibited: Savor the Avenue; Tastemakers of Delray; Tastemakers at Mizner; Florida Style and Design; Delray Beach magazine; Boca Raton, South Florida At Its Best; bocamag.com; Florida Table; Boca Raton magazine. Boca (ISSN0740-2856) is published eight times a year (September/October, November, December, January, February, March, April/May, June/July/August) by JES Media. Editorial, advertising and administrative offices: 1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 103, Boca Raton, FL, 33487. Telephone: 561/997-8683. Please address all editorial and advertising correspondence to the above address. Periodicals postage paid at Boca Raton, Fla., and additional mailing offices. Subscriptions: $19.95/9 issues, $29.95/18 issues (shipping fee included for one- and two-year rates).

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God Made a Parent One family’s struggle with addiction is a lesson in holding on by letting go Written by JOHN SHUFF

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

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leven years ago, on the advice of a friend, Margaret Mary and I began to attend Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church in downtown Boca Raton. The church’s spartan meeting room had a lone desk for the moderator, and a set of bleacher seats for guests. And these guests were parents, spouses, brothers, sisters, friends—people seeking support for someone in their lives with an addiction to alcohol, drugs or both. The room was cold and inhospitable—just like the challenge these people faced when they walked in and took a seat. It’s not easy to face a loved one’s addiction—and learn how to navigate its course.

The meeting started with a prayer. The moderator asked new attendees to introduce themselves,“Hello, I’m John and this is my wife, Margaret Mary.”

Everyone responded,“Hello John, welcome.”Then the moderator opened the meeting to people to share their stories, the dark tales of addiction that had beleaguered them and their loved ones. Most were agonizing. Some speakers welled up in tears; others broke down and couldn’t continue. After 90 minutes our problems seemed small in comparison.

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A decade ago he’d had some run-ins with the law and had rebuffed us time and again when we pleaded with him to get help. Al-Anon became our vehicle to see how others were handling the challenges of addiction.

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