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Tory Vagasy answers all our questions
By Greg Carannante City & Shore Magazine When the lustrous, bell-like timbre of Tory Vagasy’s voice rang from the stage of the America’s Got Talent semifinals just three months ago, her flawless rendition of the Disney classic, Can You [...]
Chef Norman Van Aken answers all our questions
By Greg Carannante City & Shore Magazine Let’s not allow the huffing and puffing of the current celebrity chef trend drown out the bellwether contributions of Florida’s Norman Van Aken. I refer you to Smithsonian magazine: [...]
Best of Show winner goes for two at Concours
By Eric Barton City & Shore Magazine Stephen Plaster grew up in Missouri not far from a stretch of Route 66, so it’s no surprise muscle cars became his thing. But there was one car that [...]
Hospitality school recognizes Motwani patriarch
By Eric Barton City & Shore Magazine Everything landed on Ramola Motwani’s shoulders in 1994. She and her husband, Ramesh “Bob” Motwani, had bought a couple of hotels on Fort Lauderdale beach just months before the [...]
Where Chris Evert got the hunger to win
By Greg Carannante City & Shore Magazine When Chris Evert was an eighth-grader at St. Anthony’s in Fort Lauderdale, she tried out for cheerleading and made the squad. It turned out to be the break point [...]
Wines that taste as good as the labels look
By Peg San Felippo City & Shore Magazine Wine, like art, is all about personal taste. When you find a winery that’s passionate about both, what better way to link the two than through the label. [...]
On with the shows: Critics picks of the season
By Greg Carannante, Ben Crandell, Rod Stafford Hagwood and Phillip Vallys City & Shore Magazine In Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 song Atlantic City, he sings, “Everything dies baby that’s a fact / But maybe everything that dies [...]
A record year for the Men of Style, 2019
By Robyn A. Friedman City & Shore Magazine The 12 men who dropped any inhibitions and stepped onto a fashion runway at The Galleria Fort Lauderdale Dec. 5 in front of a thousand or so strangers [...]
Boat show helmsman answers our questions
By Greg Carannante City & Shore Magazine Andrew Doole, the man at the helm of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, is getting ready for quite a different event than his first in 1982. That one [...]
A recipe to get you back to your running self
By Eric Barton City & Shore Magazine Don Wennerstrom has a piece of advice he likes to give that works pretty well for new or returning runners. It also sounds a lot like a good life [...]
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- Caretaker pleads guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from Broward coupleA caretaker for an elderly couple in Plantation has pleaded guilty to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from them to pay off her credit cards, put a down payment on a home and pay for her daughter’s wedding reception, court records say.
- DeSantis appoints Corcoran to Board of GovernorsTALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday tapped former state education commissioner Richard Corcoran to serve on the state university system’s Board of Governors.
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- LGBTQ+ Pride month: Find events in South FloridaPride month is bringing block parties, drag shows, exhibits (and even a flotilla) to South Florida cities including Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach.
- Time to savor Memorial Day weekend restaurant specials (as well as a cocktail and grocery offer)Don’t feel like cooking this Memorial Day weekend?Here’s a list of restaurant specials in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Sun Sentinel Breaking News
- Caretaker pleads guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from Broward coupleA caretaker for an elderly couple in Plantation has pleaded guilty to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from them to pay off her credit cards, put a down payment on a home and pay for her daughter’s wedding reception, court records say.
- DeSantis appoints Corcoran to Board of GovernorsTALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday tapped former state education commissioner Richard Corcoran to serve on the state university system’s Board of Governors.
- Banksy, Basquiat and Warhol pieces brought millions to Worth Avenue gallery owner. They were all fake, feds say.Daniel Elie Bouaziz sold fake Banksy, Jean-Michael Basquiat, Henri Matisse and Roy Lichtenstein pieces for hundreds of thousands of dollars, complete with forged signatures and documents falsely stating the pieces ownership histories, court records say. He is also accused of laundering some of the profits.
