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A room with a crew: Five South Florida homes with enough room for a yacht
By Robyn A. Friedman City & Shore Magazine Fort Lauderdale is known as the “Venice of America” — and with good reason. The city boasts 165 miles of navigable waterways, from scenic canals to flowing rivers [...]
Ten waterfront restaurants to tie up to for the boat show, or any time
By Mike Mayor and Rebecca Cahilly-Taranto City & Shore Magazine Beach House Pompano — 270 N. Pompano Beach Blvd., Pompano Beach, 954-607-6530, BeachHousePompano.com. It has the makings of a South Florida treasure, a place with a [...]
Norwegian Bliss winter season begins Nov. 17
By Mark Gauert City & Shore Magazine Is it possible to get away from a crowd of 4,004 passengers and 1,716 crew aboard a 994-foot cruise ship? A cruise ship that boasts the longest (at 1,000 [...]
John Offerdahl takes a grilling in our quiz
By Greg Carannante City & Shore Magazine In the long lineup of former-athletes turned restaurateurs, there are only a few who have scored in the healthy-food field as John Offerdahl has. His standout performance as proprietor [...]
Preview Ft Lauderdale International Film Fest
By Robyn A. Friedman City & Shore Magazine The 33rd Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLiFF) will roll out more than 200 American indie and foreign language features, documentaries and short films from Nov. 2-18. [...]
A Miami dancer’s unusual path to the top
By Eric Barton City & Shore Magazine Samantha Hope Galler had been a rising star in the ballet world, a talent identified not long after her first recital. She was 9 years old. At the Boston [...]
The difference a private education makes
By Patti Roth City & Shore Magazine A school in West Palm Beach offers an aviation program with a flight simulator. A barn with pigs and goats is part of a school in Davie. Students at [...]
Meet Rocco Nankervis, our chef of the year
By Rebecca Cahilly-Taranto City & Shore Magazine The national Mastro’s Restaurants group sought out some serious local talent to launch its first foray in South Florida, Mastro’s Ocean Club on the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale, [...]
What Dave Barry enjoys most about Florida
By Greg Carannante City & Shore Magazine All you need to know about Dave Barry’s South Florida ethos is condensed into the top corner of davebarry.com (I’m assuming booger.com was taken). There, in the style of [...]
The great eight: Best new restaurants, 2018
By Rebecca Cahilly-Taranto City & Shore Magazine This was the year Fort Lauderdale’s Las Olas Boulevard came back on the map as a dining destination. The year restaurateurs (and restaurant groups) expanded big-time. The year some [...]
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- Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood will be open Saturday after agreement reverses shutdownThe popular Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood will be open Saturday after reaching an agreement to reverse a city shutdown over safety and parking issues.
- Who needs food halls? This Davie strip mall is a fantasyland for Asian-food fansThe Foodtown shopping center has three Vietnamese eateries, a Hong Kong-style barbecue restaurant, a Thai restaurant, a Taiwanese shaved ice shop and a global market with halal meat and exotic seafood.
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- Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood will be open Saturday after agreement reverses shutdownThe popular Yellow Green Farmers Market in Hollywood will be open Saturday after reaching an agreement to reverse a city shutdown over safety and parking issues.
- Who needs food halls? This Davie strip mall is a fantasyland for Asian-food fansThe Foodtown shopping center has three Vietnamese eateries, a Hong Kong-style barbecue restaurant, a Thai restaurant, a Taiwanese shaved ice shop and a global market with halal meat and exotic seafood.
Shopping & Beauty
- Broward County's 954 area code ranks near top for most robocalls in the nationIf you have a 954 area code, you're getting more robocalls than most people in the nation. That Broward County area code ranked near the top of YouMail's September Robocall List. A staggering 4.4 billion robocalls were made in September, according to the visual voicemail company. That's 147 million...
- Getting unsolicited political text messages? Here's how to stop themRobocalls drive us crazy, and now there’s a new nuisance to deal with on our cellphones: text messages from political candidates. With early voting beginning Monday and running through Nov. 4, many voters will be inundated with unsolicited text messages from candidates. Some people on the receiving...
Sun Sentinel Breaking News
- Mom angry after cop is filmed punching daughter, 14. Cops say video doesn't tell whole story.Two Coral Springs cops hold a 14-year-old girl face down, her arms pinned beneath her. One of the officers puts a knee into her back and pummels her twice in the ribs with a closed fist. A bystander shrieks: “Why are you hitting her?” And that’s all the blurred nine-second video clip captured of...
- School shooter tormented his mother yet she escorted him to buy an AK-47Nikolas’ Cruz’s mom thought he was too disturbed to ever live on his own, but she took him to buy an AK-47 anyway, according to documents released Friday by prosecutors in the Parkland school shootings. An employee from Gun World of South Florida told detectives that an older woman who he thought...
- Amendment 1 property tax break: Why some love it, others fear itif you’re a Florida homeowner, there’s a good chance the amount of money you pay in property taxes will be lower next year. That’s because voters in November will decide if an extra homestead exemption should be given to homes assessed at more than $100,000. Many city and county leaders fear passage...
