Archive for 'Quick Sips'
What they’re drinking at the boat show
By Peg San Felippo City & Shore Magazine The one subject as popular as the boats this month in Fort Lauderdale may be the wines: Who: Stephanie and John Herring The boat: Red Herring, a 2014 [...]
Wineries, breweries round out Florida trip
By Patti Roth City & Shore Magazine Take a tour. Try an unfamiliar flavor. (Watermelon or avocado wine, anyone? Or ale infused with zesty orange?) There’s even a tomato wine, fermented with peppers. Dozens of wineries [...]
Sommelier picks top rose wines under $25
By Peg San Felippo City & Shore Magazine There’s never a bad time to drink pink, but no better way to chill out the warmer months ahead than with a cold glass of rosé. Full disclosure, [...]
A wine shopping list direct from wine judges
By Mark Gauert City & Shore Magazine Wines from California emerged from the smoke and fire that swept Sonoma and Napa counties last fall to take most of the medals this year at South Florida’s home-grown [...]
10 award-winning wines, and how to find them
By Peg San Felippo City & Shore Magazine One of my pet peeves is hearing about a terrific wine and then not being able to find it. So after this year’s American Fine Wine Competition in [...]
Distillers try rum with a twist of orange
By Patti Roth City & Shore Magazine For many of us, rum lives up to a well-deserved reputation as a party animal. We savor it in fun, fruity and sometimes neon-hued drinks at poolside soirées, on [...]
See summer through Rosé colored glasses
By City & Shore Magazine Whispering Angel 2016 (Côtes de Provence, France): Pink as a sunset – which, come to think of it, would be an excellent moment to sip it, poolside – this refreshing import [...]
Albariño: A wine to call our own?
By Mark Gauert City & Shore Magazine I know Florida produces wine, so please don’t write. I know some bottle tropical fruit here and call it “wine.” They ferment mangos and papayas and clementines, or whatever’s [...]
How to build an incredible wine cellar
By Eric Barton City & Shore Magazine There’s a little bump of a ridge that runs all the way from Miami to Georgia. It was a sand dune a few thousand years ago, when the Atlantic [...]
Luxury wine tastes at economy prices
By Bob Hosmon City & Shore Magazine When I started writing about wine (40 years ago this June), my readers mostly wanted to know how to avoid buying the “wrong” wine. They really didn’t want to [...]
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- Fort Lauderdale's Parker Playhouse to shut down May 2019 for $25 million upgradeWith a leaking roof, toilet plumbing woes and a busted air conditioner, Fort Lauderdale’s 51-year-old Parker Playhouse theater is showing its age. Now, the popular auditorium inside Holiday Park will shut down May 2019 for the first wave of upgrades to the venue, a project planned to cost $25 million,...
- GroundUp Music Festival 2019: David Crosby, Lalah Hathaway, Tank and the BangasRock icon David Crosby, Grammy-winning soul singer Lalah Hathaway and joyful New Orleans upstarts Tank and the Bangas highlight the lineup for Snarky Puppy’s 2019 GroundUp Music Festival Feb. 8-10 at the North Beach Bandshell on Miami Beach. Tickets for the festival cost $85 per day or $225 for...
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- Fort Lauderdale's Parker Playhouse to shut down May 2019 for $25 million upgradeWith a leaking roof, toilet plumbing woes and a busted air conditioner, Fort Lauderdale’s 51-year-old Parker Playhouse theater is showing its age. Now, the popular auditorium inside Holiday Park will shut down May 2019 for the first wave of upgrades to the venue, a project planned to cost $25 million,...
- GroundUp Music Festival 2019: David Crosby, Lalah Hathaway, Tank and the BangasRock icon David Crosby, Grammy-winning soul singer Lalah Hathaway and joyful New Orleans upstarts Tank and the Bangas highlight the lineup for Snarky Puppy’s 2019 GroundUp Music Festival Feb. 8-10 at the North Beach Bandshell on Miami Beach. Tickets for the festival cost $85 per day or $225 for...
Shopping & Beauty
- Free $10 gift card with grocery purchase at Target and PublixJust in time for Thanksgiving shopping, use a coupon to get a free $10 gift card with grocery purchase at Target and most Publix markets. The coupon, good with a $50 food or beverage purchase, is printed on the back page of this week's Target ad inserted in the Nov. 17-18 Sun Sentinel. Target paper...
- Black Friday Survival Guide: Tips and tricks to get the best deals in stores and online through Cyber MondayIs Black Friday dead? I’ve been asked that question every November since stores started Thanksgiving Day openings in 2012. The answer: Not by a long shot. On Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, 164 million shoppers will hunt for bargains, according to this year's National Retail Federation holiday...
Sun Sentinel Breaking News
- California wildfire rescue crews increase efforts ahead of rain; at least 77 deadThe search for remains of victims of the devastating Northern California wildfire has taken on new urgency as rain in the forecast could complicate those efforts while also bringing relief to firefighters on the front lines. Up to 400 people fanned out Sunday to search the ash and rubble where...
- Hyde: LeBron's 51 points remind everyone what's missing | CommentaryThat shot. That final shot. That’s all you needed to see, what everyone came to see. All night long in his return to AmericanAirlines Arena with his new Los Angeles Lakers team, LeBron James reminded everyone about his rare talent by making shot after crazy shot as the Lakers buried the Heat 113-97....
- Brenda Snipes submits resignation as Broward elections supervisorJust hours after finishing a tumultuous election recount, Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes submitted her resignation, ending a 15-year tenure full of botched elections, legal disputes and blistering criticism. “It is true. She did send it,” said Burnadette Norris-Weeks, an attorney...
