Subject: Palm Beach Gardens

• Give Art for Peace a Chance

  December 13, 2007

• A Pool With A View

  March 26, 2009

• Weakest. YouTube Remix. Ever

  May 2, 2008

• Flavor Palm Beach Report: Metronome

  September 8, 2008

• Morning Juice: Menorah Gets Spicy Treatment, Boynton a Town of Twits, Florida Lawman Targets Jewish Slots Tradition

  Hanukkah Tastes Better on Rye Shalom, and welcome to the first Hanukkah-themed edition of the Morning Juice. If you're Jewish like me, then you know that you celebrate Hanukkah only because of its proximity to Christmas and you'd feel like you had no reason at all to take next Thursday off if not for this minor holiday. And oh, if you're Jewish like me, then you're not really Jewish at all. But in these trying times, aren't we all Jewish?And if you're Jewish like Rabbi Shlomo Ezagui of Chabad

  December 19, 2008

• Best Place To Ice-Skate

  March 11, 1999

• Presumed Guilty

  May 13, 1999

• Foodstuff

  August 19, 2004

• Best Poet

  May 12, 2005

• Steaking a Claim

  Can Amazonia survive the glut?

  January 17, 2008

• Letters for February 14-20, 2008

  February 14, 2008

• V-Day Planner: In Search of the Big O

  Belinda Eaton, Girl with Oysters, from Belindaeaton.comPly her with aphrodisiacs all night, and you've got it made, right? This week in New Times, Robb Walsh dispenses pearls of wisdom on the world's favorite bivalve here. And below, a plan to spend your V-Day shelling out:Sage Bistro and Oyster Bar 2000 Harrison St,, Hollywood, 954-391-9466 This swank new raw bar and French bistro keeps at least four kinds of oysters on ice, all flown in daily. You might find Blue Point, Kumamoto, Fanny Bay

  February 11, 2009

• Booze for the Boobies

  The more you drink, the more RA Sushi donates.

  October 16, 2008

• Food with a View

  September 4, 2008

• Light My Fire?

  I try and fail to warm to Oakwood Grill

  July 17, 2008

• In With the Old, Out With the New

  Café Chardonnay holds steady in boom and bust

  June 12, 2008

• The Muscle Men

  Inside the "Rejuvenation Centers" at the heart of the nation's largest illegal steroid and HGH operation

  March 13, 2008

• KISS Country

  November 29, 2007

• Letters for September 27-October 3, 2007

  September 27, 2007

• Mexi-Can't

  Cantina Laredo sells mole to the middle

  August 30, 2007

• Powerfall

  August 16, 2007

• Soviet Block Party

  Some people just prefer the taste of Russian dressing

  June 21, 2007

• Dublin Calling

  January 4, 2007

• Subtropical Spin

  Far From Gone (Self-released)

  June 23, 2005

• Flat Earth

  February 3, 2005

• Poetic Justice

  September 9, 2004

• Hit Me, Baby Anne

  Orlando's exports: oranges, a mouse, and Baby Anne

  July 15, 2004

• Sweat for a Cause

  May 27, 2004

• Boxed In

  Are YOU ready to rumble?

  September 11, 2003

• Bug Out

  Who are you calling a lepidopteran?

  July 31, 2003

• Zo Knows

  Charity basketball is in Mourning

  July 10, 2003

• What a Drag!

  The amateur action gets fast and furious at Moroso Motorsports Park

  April 25, 2002

• Screen Scene

  The PBGIFF keeps its film offerings short, sweet, and homegrown

  February 28, 2002

• Don’t Get Holidazed!

  Holiday Gift Guide 2001

  November 22, 2001

• The Gods Must Be Crazy

  If this is Ambrosia, then I'll take Hades over Olympus any day

  June 28, 2001

• No Blues for Ouzo Blue

  Photo from ouzoblue.comThey're dancing on the tables in Palm Beach Gardens -- literally -- with the debut of Palm Beach County's second Ouzo Blue. The first Blue set up in Lake Worth in January, bringing Greek faves from dolmades and spanakopita to moussaka and lamb kebabs, plus lots of table dancing, belly shaking and napkin throwing to the city's renascent downtown. (To see what restaurant critic Gail Shepherd had to say about it, click here.)The concept was so successful that partners George

  April 16, 2009

• Hey, St. Jude

  May 21, 2009

• The Office Comes to Delray

  That's what she ordered.The latest episode of The Office doesn't star Steve Carell but David Manero.  Let me explain. There are actually two Offices: one a TV show that reveals Life In a Cubicle as the mind-numbing, soul-sucking vampire it really is. The other is a coming restaurant from one of South Florida's chief dining impresarios.  This second Office will slide into the Atlantic Avenue spot in downtown Delray formerly occupied by Louie Louie, with an opening pegged for late Novemb

  June 16, 2009

• Cue the 'Cue: The Gardens Hosts Pit Masters

  Photo by Flickr user thebittenwordIf you've made the rounds of all the local barbecue joints and decided you'd rather eat dirt than one more rack of dry, smokeless ribs, desiccated chicken or tough, taste-free brisket, well, for two days at least, you're in luck.  No, it's not a dirt cook-off. It's Grillin' in the Gardens, a two-day celebration of fine barbecue that goes off Friday and Saturday, June 19 and 20, at Mirasol Park in Palm Beach Gardens. Some 34 teams of 'cue masters from Florid

  June 18, 2009

• Cash for Clunkers? Disaster-Prone Biotech Founder May Get $350,000 From Palm Beach Gardens

  pbgfl.comMayor Joe Russo​Frederick Sancilio's streak of bad luck looks like it's about to change. A founder of a Wilmington, North Carolina, company called aaiPharma, Sancilio watched from his seat on the board of directors as his company's chief operating officer was busted for fraud in 2004. And even after Sancilio assumed his former role of CEO, he couldn't save the company from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005. He was part of a $7.6 million settlement in 2007.So Sancilio is lugging quite a bi

  August 20, 2009

• Battered Businessman Gets His 350-Grand From Palm Beach Gardens

  photo: pbgfl.orgPalm Beach Gardens City Hall​Frederick Sancilio had to sweat a little more than he might have expected, but last night the founder of a failed biotech in North Carolina managed to get the $350,000 loan he wanted from Palm Beach Gardens. The South Florida Business Journal reports that the city council voted 3-2 in favor of the loan to Sancilio & Co., which makes vitamins.We sounded a skeptical note about Sancilio in yesterday's post. But Palm Beach Gardens staff and official

  August 21, 2009

• Gimme Shelter: Is it a Bus Stop? Or is it Art? Palm Beach Gardens Decides.

  "Ceci n'est pas une bus-stop."​ "All art is quite useless," Oscar Wilde once declared. But in Palm Beach Gardens, maybe not. The Palm Beach Gardens city council has $440,000 burning a hole in their pockets: They're planning to spend the money commissioning eight works of public art that will also function as bus stops. The council is calling for proposals through August 31st, which doesn't give designers a lot of time: artists are advised that their sculptures/shelters/happenings have to be

  August 24, 2009

• Morning Juice: Marijuana, Equestrian Racing Events May Cloud Judgment

  What isn't South Florida smoking on this Tuesday morning?​A deep-pocketed Israeli businessmen is vowing revenge against the Broward Sheriff's deputies who he said beat him up and hurled anti-Semitic slurs during a traffic stop for marijuana DUI in June. The Sun-Sentinel's Jon Burstein has quotes from an angry Guma Aguiar.The Palm Beach Post's Andrew Marra reports that the apparent murder-suicide discovered Monday in Delray Beach was likely a result of the couple's medical problems.A lobbyist f

  August 25, 2009

• Flavor Palm Beach Debuts Next Week

  ​Flavor Palm Beach, the county's month-long answer to Dine Out Fort Lauderdale and Miami Spice, will begin next Tuesday and run through the end of September. The premise is the same as its contemporaries: dine out at participating locations throughout the month and receive a three-course meal for $30. Three-course lunches run just $19.09, in honor of the centennial birthday of Palm Beach County. To celebrate the event's arrival, Flavor will hold a kick-off party on Friday evening at 5:30 at th

  August 25, 2009

• The Meatist Gets Funky With Aged Beef

  Photo by flickr user aliciazs.​Have you ever had one of those moments when you look in your fridge and see that beauty of a steak that you bought a few days ago and forgot about, and it looks a little... funny? And you think, "Well, maybe it will smell all right," but you know in your gut that it won't, and then you have that flash of desperate thought: "How the hell is this ruined when butchers charge an arm and a leg for aged beef -- isn't that what this is?" ​No, it's not. And you know i

  August 28, 2009

• Jupiter Official Worked for Company That Got Town's Backing for 350K Loan

  Why go through all the trouble of vetting a company that wants a big pile of cash from the town when the town has a high-ranking official who can vouch for them?If you said "conflict of interest" then congratulations! But you'll never make it in Jupiter.Today's South Florida Business Journal has an article that reveals (in the subscriber-only section) that Jupiter's finance director Mike Villella worked for a vitamin maker, Sancilio & Co. from 2003 till spring 2008. So it's quite a coinciden

  August 28, 2009

• Venus Williams Sidelined With Writer's Block

  Flickr: Jarielle McGill-AndersPeter Griffin: Available for female roles?​Venus and Serena Williams have been either training for tennis championships or winning them since they were old enough to walk. Nearing 30 years old, they still live with their dad in the family's estate in Palm Beach Gardens. This makes their life stories fascinating -- but it also makes it virtually impossible for them to write the kinds of screenplays they appear to favor, according to this piece in the Times.The arti

  August 31, 2009

• Morning Juice: South Floridians Wrestle With Degrees of Guilt

  ​I don't want to jinx it, so I'll just say that we haven't had to worry about currihanes lately. But there's still six more weeks left in the danger zone. Let's whistle past the graveyard; besides we have plenty of other worries:As H1N1 gains momentum, the feds are close to distributing out the vaccine and Broward hospitals are getting ready for a patient surge, if not from infected people then from hypochondriac types who form the "worry well." [Sun-Sentinel]Incredibly, a WPBF news van caught

  September 16, 2009

• The New Rules for Doing It Over Dinner -- Dating, That Is

  Photo by Flickr user pieeetrCoffee date: good. Breakfast date: fail.​This week's column is going to piss some people off and cause all kinds of debate, but frankly, I don't care. This whole dating thing has gotten way out of hand, and I'm going to lead a revolution. Yep, lil ol' me, the Love Bites gal, is going to detail how all my singletons out there can handle the whole who-pays-and-where-do-we-go dining and dating deal for 2009 and onward. Listen up.My ire was sparked when a friend shared

  October 21, 2009

• Weekend Food and Booze Events

  ​• Remember the pie-eating contest scene from the '80s classic Stand By Me? Now picture that, but with raw fish. (I'll give you a moment to compose yourself.)All better? Good. Because you'll need your strength for Sushi Jo's second annual sushi-eating contest, going down on Saturday at 5080 PGA Blvd., Ste. 105, in Palm Beach Gardens. I can't imagine a worse thing to do to yourself than stuff your guts full of raw fish and sticky rice. But watching someone else do it for the promise of $300..

  October 22, 2009