Lake Worth

Q&A: Greg Rice, Grand Wine Meister for the Lake Worth Food and Wine Experience (Part 2)

Here's the rest of our interview with Greg Rice, local legend and Grand Wine Meister of tonight's Lake Worth Food & Wine Experience.  Part One ran yesterday. How long have you been hosting the event, and how did it all come about?I did it last year, the year before... it's been going on for ... More >>

Soma Center Café Shut Down, Facing Eviction

by Lisa RabThe vegan restaurant is locked and shuttered.​It's been a rough year for the vegan/raw food Soma Center Café. First, a newly opened West Palm Beach location closed its doors after just two months. Now the original Lake Worth hangout for yogis and raw foodies has been padlocked and is f ... More >>

Lake Worth Food & Wine Experience Arrives October 15

​Clear your calendars, eaters: The Lake Worth Food & Wine Experience is coming to the Lake Worth Cultural Plaza on October 15. The food and wine tasting event will gather over 30 restaurants for a decedent outdoor blowout on the Plaza lawn (Lake Ave. and "M" Street, Lake Worth). Running from ... More >>

Bank Robber in Lake Worth Pours Gas on Teller's Counter

Flickr​A gun apparently wasn't threat enough for a bank robber who struck Wednesday afternoon at the SunTrust location on South Dixie Highway in Lake Worth. The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office reports that the gunman also poured gasoline on the counter of the teller's window.Presumably, the man's poin ... More >>

Asspiss Won't Hold Back the Punk at Respectable Street

An Insider's Take on Soma Center's Restaurant Shuffle

​The Soma Center Cafe in Lake Worth has long been a favorite spot for healthy eating in Palm Beach County. New Times named it Best Vegan Restaurant this year, praising the deliciously fresh, innovative dishes and warm, free-loving atmosphere.But behind the counter at the crunchy, laid-back café, ... More >>

Art by Fire Works

Solo No More

Lake Worth Your Time

Ode to the Metalheads

Givers Hand Over Infectious Indie Pop at Propaganda

Lake Worth and Immigration: A Call for Reasonable Debate

Dayworkers looking for work outside LW Home Depot.​After last week's Community Relations Board meeting in Lake Worth, where a reading group from the Night Heron Grassroots Activism Center presented a PowerPoint lecture on hate groups operating in Lake Worth, I posted a couple of items on the meeti ... More >>

Connecting the Dots: Does FAIR Play a Role in Lake Worth Politics?

Support for AZ Sheriff Joe's draconian immigration enforcement.​The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is under scrutiny in Lake Worth these days. As we reported yesterday, residents packed a small room at Monday night's CRB meeting to hear a presentation on local "hate groups," inc ... More >>

Palm Beach County "Hate Groups" May Influence Local Policy

Even a board specifically appointed to promote harmony and mediate opposing viewpoints has a rough time getting residents -- or themselves, for that matter -- to see eye-to-eye in Lake Worth. Harsh words were exchanged Monday night when the Lake Worth Community Relations Board heard from activists a ... More >>

Murdered Nova Prof Morrissey Was Lake Worth High Grad

​Lake Worth blogger Lynn Anderson has reported that slain Nova cancer researcher Joseph Morrissey was a Lake Worth high alumnus who graduated in 1981. Anderson quotes from Morrissey's yearbook profile that his ambition was to "get rich quick and spend a lot of money." She also notes that the 46-ye ... More >>

Restaurant News: Au Revoir L'Anjou, Nick's Apizza Aopen, Tijuana Flats to the Gardens

​• After more than 30 years on Lake Avenue in downtown Lake Worth, it's time to bid adieu to L'Anjou, one of a fading breed of old-school French restaurants in ever-trendy South Florida. Declining business and illness in the owning Cela family were reportedly the cause. Though generally flying u ... More >>

Angry Pudding Ready to Seethe at Propaganda

Pictures From Yesterday's Palm Beach Pride Parade

​One thing we noticed at this year's gay pride parade is that gay people pretty much look like everybody else.Does this mean we have assimilated? ​The high flamboyance of yesteryear, the antics of the Radical Fairies, the haute drag queens in their showgirl finery were not so much in evidence. M ... More >>

This Weekend, Pridefest of the Palm Beaches Has More to Celebrate

You could theoretically travel around the world for twelve months attending gay pride festivals, from Melbourne in January to Manila in December. Blackman: Getting wet at tomorrow's Pridefest​The big US celebrations, in New York and San Fransisco, are scheduled to coincide with the historic Stone ... More >>

Proud Queens

Satisfied Customer Offers Step-by-Step Guide to American Pain Clinic

Stealth videographer Shirley Coffee caught this Lauderdale pain clinic image.​As we reported yesterday, a new pain clinic has opened in Lake Worth, a big white elephant of an unmarked two-story building on North Dixie Highway. Following the lead of other South Florida cities, Lake Worth City Commi ... More >>

Lake Worth Discusses How to Ease the Pain of Pain Clinics

From American Pain's site: Causing some aches in Lake Worth​The Lake Worth City Commission voted last night to pass an emergency ordinance that would place a 180-day moratorium on filing or receiving any applications to establish a pain management clinic within city boundaries. The commission sche ... More >>

UPDATED: Lake Worth's Noise Complaints Won't Fall on Deaf Ears

At 85 decibels, Lake Worth Commissioners can hear themselves think​It all started when owners of a French restaurant decided the noise from a bar next door was causing customer indigestion.They politely -- well, as politely as the French can -- asked their neighbors to turn it down during the dinn ... More >>

Lake Worth Gang Goes Down to Racketeering Charges

Lake Worth MLK member Martin Martinez, arrested on racketeering charges​The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office announced Friday morning that it has indicted and arrested 12 members of the MLK gang in Lake Worth after a seven-month investigation, dubbed "Operation Vida Loca." The MLK gang, whose mo ... More >>

Lake Worth Charity Makes Holiday Contributions Count

Gardening Day at For the Children, Lake Worth.​Tis the season for charitable giving, and choosing where to spread your meager holiday surplus is harder than ever this year. But folks who donate to one Lake Worth charity don't have to worry about whether their dollars will be spent wisely. For the ... More >>

Chiffon Curves

Foxy Faces

Lake Worth Commission Candidate Jo-Ann Golden Speaks on Immigration

Taking a nap at the Mentoring Center.​Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow's Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell's alleged ties to anti-immigration hate ... More >>

Lake Worth Commission Candidate Wes Blackman Speaks on Immigration

photo courtesy 2.bp.blogspot.com​Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow's Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell's alleged ties to anti-immigration hate grou ... More >>

Lake Worth Commission Candidate Ron Exline Speaks on Immigration

Lake Worth Mentoring Center gets grant from Community Foundation​Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow's Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell's alleged ti ... More >>

Go Green(market)

Courtesy of WPB Greenmarket.​If you've been making do with brown lettuce and rock-hard tomatoes from your local giant-mega-supermarket and counting the days until you could buy produce with real flavor from the people who actually grow it, you have only a few more days to check off.  Most Pal ... More >>

Suspect Charged in Vehicular Homicide in Lake Worth

Photo: Google MapsFlores' vehicle allegedly struck one of these concrete utility poles on this block of Sixth Avenue South in Lake Worth.​The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office is reporting that Antonio Flores, a 24-year-old Lake Worth resident, was driving drunk and without a license when last Thursday ... More >>

When Marylea Moffat's Trucking Company Went Sour, She Turned to Pickles

Photos by Bill CitaraMarylea Moffat was in a pickle.  The trucking company she and her husband ran had crashed and burned. Her marriage too. And getting a new job? Well, the way things are nowadays, good luck with that.  What she did have was a lifetime of family recipes for pickling just ... More >>

Power Plays

Idyllic Florida landscape courtesy of FMPAResidents of Lake Worth, many of whom have made small but successful careers specializing in complaining about their high utility bills, might not know the city actually gets the power to turn their fans and nuke their frozen dinners not from the beleaguered ... More >>

Lake Worth Farmers' Market Goes Year-Round

Photo by Flickr user cityflickrTired of the rubber-ball tomatoes, wilted corporate greens and vegetables older than Michael Jackson's last hit at your local giant-mega-supermarket? It's not like you have many options, because most farmers' markets close during South Florida summers, when the only th ... More >>

Party Like It’s 1959

From Discord Find Harmony

From Brothel to Bank Heist

BYOM

Ve Have Vays of Making You Party

DJs and Condoms

Palm Beach and Broward Restaurant Closings

Your intuition is correct: Restaurants dropped like tasered protesters at a Republican rally last year. The not-so-bad news is that new eateries opened in many of the vacated spaces, offsetting our net loss. Read on for a partial and unofficial Short Order list of closings in Broward and Palm Beach ... More >>

Vixens on Wheels

Open Grass Festival Moves South

The Last Mistress

The Lady Or The Tramp?

Wednesday Wine Tastings

Treat Your Special Lady Nice

It’s About Pride

There’s a Whore in All of Us

Try and keep her happy

Mashing Up Before Mash-ups Even Existed