Vincent Foti’s 4-month-old Kitchenetta, just south of Oakland Park Boulevard, takes the same Neapolitan-inspired cuisine served at Salerno’s and puts it through a wringer of fabulosity. No elastic waistbands here. High concept reigns in the flat-screen TV on the wall, in the acid orange-and-green colors splashed throughout the restaurant, and…
It’s dinnertime and you’re driving along Oakland Park Boulevard east of I-95, lost in a beltway of insurance shops and tattoo parlors and curl-‘n’-spray hair salons. You’re starving. Out of the corner of your eye, you spot a nondescript, one-story building with a sign sporting the colors of the Italian…
The Capital Grille compares nicely to a smash Broadway road show: polished to the hilt, full of practiced verve and talent, and yet as adventurous as surfing on Lauderdale beach. The brainchild of RARE Hospitality Intl. Inc. in Atlanta, the first Capital Grille opened in Providence, Rhode Island, in July…
Some people might call it luck that the 9-month-old Chima Brazilian Steakhouse continues to attract customers to a lonely little shopping plaza down on Las Olas Isles. The site has been a restaurant heartbreaker since long before Il Tartufo took a tumble there two years ago. But the Brazilians would…
She writes like Jacqueline Susann with a talent implant. She looks like Marla Maples with a few breakfasts at Tiffany’s under her Dolce & Gabbana belt. And she sounds strikingly similar to the characters she creates — smart-mouthed and just a little bit whiny. Meet Candace Bushnell, literary sensation in…
Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a complex, abstract, and challenging guy. A disciple of Freud, this father of analytical psychology split the mind into the conscious and the unconscious, cooked up the introvert-extrovert concept, spun out engaging interpretations of myths and symbols, and — as if to bring these…
It’s hardly as appealing as ice cream, as addictive as chocolate, or as adaptable as seafood. So what were organizers of this weekend’s Second Annual Delray Beach Garlic Fest thinking when they chose a pungent collection of cloves as the theme for a food bash? Perhaps they were looking for…
If he isn’t taking tickets and overseeing productions until all hours at the EDGE/ Theater in South Beach, where he’s artistic director, then Jim Tommaney is up at 6:30 a.m. doing his bookkeeping at his Fort Lauderdale apartment. Or he’s directing rehearsals for a new play at the Studio Theater…
You’d have to go a long way to find a local business war with as much color and pizzazz as the one being waged between South Florida’s two gay superstores, GayMart and CatalogX. None of the cool corporate positioning of Target versus Kmart here. Think more along the lines of…
Lake Worth speech pathologist Ken Mylott first encountered Epicureanism at Florida State University, where he graduated with a speech degree but concentrated in philosophy. Being a nonjudgmental type of guy, he took immediately to the precepts of simplicity and living in the “now” set forth some 300 years before Christ…
Renovation and reinvention are at the heart of Victoria Park history. At the beginning of this century, the land now occupied by the Fort Lauderdale neighborhood was slated by Henry Flagler as a right of way for his fledgling Florida railroad. Dade County pioneers William and Mary Brickell, who owned…
It really isn’t fair. You’ve worked another ten-hour day, slogged through traffic, suffered with errands, returned the irritating phone calls, fed the pets. Now its 7 p.m., and there’s nothing in the fridge except for a prehistoric casserole and a jar of Grey Poupon. Wouldn’t it be nice to sit…
The genesis of Pride FilmFest, which opens tonight (June 3) with a glitz-and-glam gala at the Broward County Main Library Auditorium, has the same breezy inevitability as one of those “let’s-put-on-a-show” movies starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. “Two years ago I went up to the Gay and Lesbian Film…
He’s been toasted by Vogue and Wom-en’s Wear Daily and creates clothes worn by Madonna, Mary K. Blige, and Erikah Badu. The latest kid to flick the fickle Bic of the fashion world is Anand Jon, a graduate of the Art Institute of Fort Laud-erdale. The 24-year-old is returning on…
