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A wish for On Jan. 1, Kathryn W. Davis will have Play blossoms seen every New Year since 1908. She Mother-daughter team stars in Dramaworks show. B1 w vows she will continue to try making PEACE a difference in 2012.

BY SCOTT SIMMONS [email protected]

athryn W. Davis is a visionary. K Oh, her eyesight is not what it used to be — after all, she is two months shy of 105. But she sees beauty where others don’t, and offers hope when others won’t. Mrs. Davis took up paint- ing at 97 — a hip fracture kept her off the tennis courts — and her Jupiter Networking Island home is adorned See who’s out and about in with dozens of colorful Palm Beach County. A15 w landscapes, portraits and still life canvases that mir- ror her vision of a world at peace. As she was about to turn 100, Mrs. Davis looked back on her life and reflected on ways in which she still might make a difference. To mark her first cen- tury, Mrs. Davis established Projects for Peace, an initia- tive for undergraduates at American colleges and uni- versities that was inspired by her son’s Davis United Go figure World College Scholars Figurines and statues were the Program, to design grass- photographs of their day. A12 w roots projects for peace. She gave $1 million that first year, followed by two more gifts of $1 million to guide the projects. SCOTT SIMMONS / FLORIDA WEEKLY Kathryn Davis relaxes with her 5-month-old Maltese pup, Miss Teaser II, in the sunroom of her Jupiter Island SEE PEACE, A8 w home. Behind her are displayed many of her paintings, including a series inspired by forests. New Year’s hopes and wishes from local leaders, Page A9 Downtown at the Gardens hosts NYE party for pint-sized revelers

SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY At noon there will be a kid-friendly downtown West Palm offers a “Winter toast with 97.9 FM WRMF personalities, Wonderland” with falling snow and ice- Pets of the Week Looking for a celebration for little rev- complete with hats and horns. skating. Henrietta, Tiny and other elers this New Years Eve? The party takes place in the Carousel Presented by Palm Beach IceWorks, the animals need homes. A6 w Downtown at the Gardens has planned Courtyard. snow falls Monday through Wednesday an event for pint-sized celebrants. Downtown will then host an adult party at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Thursday From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 31, kids — from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. through Sunday at 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and Download can countdown the “Noon Year” at the Pee Wee Lewis and the Hues will play, 8:30 p.m. our FREE mall at 11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave. and there will be fire shows, fortunetell- Ice Skating on the Plaza — for $5 per in Palm Beach Gardens. ers and other party favors. The party will person including skates, for 20 minutes — App today Young partiers can celebrate with free be in Centre Court. is Wednesday-Thursday, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Available on carousel rides, games, face painting and a If it’s snow and ice you’re looking for Friday, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. the iTunes App number of surprises. on New Year’s Eve, CityPlace in to 10 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 7 p.m. ■ Store. w

PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE ROGER WILLIAMS A2 ANTIQUES A12 ARTS B1 PAID LINDA LIPSHUTZ A10 BUSINESS A13 EVENTS B6-7 FORT MYERS, FL PERMIT NO. 715 PETS A6 REAL ESTATE A16, A20 FILM B11 A2 NEWS WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY COMMENTARY Boom shacka lacka lacka, Boom shacka la boonka boo versityv of Florida in 2012. That is my number people who are fat, poor and undeserving. We Mary: You can’t get the White House. The oneo New Year’s resolution. All that namby-pam- WILL have a new tax on Rednecks. We WILL Koch brothers are giving that to Newt. You said byb crap about academic freedom — that’s what ban the Rebel flag from pick-up trucks. What you could steal Billy Nelson’s Senate seat, but rogerWILLIAMS thoset pinkos at Yale complained about when do you say? I’m not fetching your beer just for that. And I’m [email protected] theyt gave back $20 million just because some- Wall #1: not moving to Florida, either, not with all those bodyb wanted to tell them who to hire and what Wall #2: polyester oldies wearing diapers down there. tot preach… sorry, teach. So agreed: we buy those Wall #3: Connie: Not that White House, babydoll, the Happy New Year! damn ‘Gators in 2012 just like we bought the Wall #4: “Boom shacka lacka lacka, Boom other White House — the one at the U.S. Naval And what should we resolve to inscribe on Seminoles, no matter how much it costs. OK? shacka la boonka boo…” Observatory up on Connecticut Avenue. The the annual tablet where nothing yet appears? David: Right on, bro, as they say “In the U.S REP. CONNIE MACK (Naples and vice president’s residence where that pig-belly That’s always the question. Ghetto.” Hey, remember that song by Elvis? But Fort Myers): Formerly known as Cornelius liberal Joe Biden lives, remember? It’s white too, Now, through the strategic employment of let’s not forget Newt. We’re going to buy Newt’s Harvey McGillicuddy IV, Rep. Connie Mack is and it’s a lot nicer. wild imagination and fanciful listening devices way into the White House in 2012, too, agreed? married to Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack Mary: Oh, my God. (don’t try this combination at home — leave it Charles: Yeah, that too. “Cause I wanna, said (R-Calif.). Chairman of the Subcommittee on Connie: You take it well, honeybell. Newt to a professional), I’ve been able to answer that I wanna, I wanna take you hiiiiigher, Yeah let me the Western Hemisphere, which is part of the needs a handsome young gunslinger on the tick- very question for those In The Know. take you hiiiiigher, Baby, baby let me light your powerful Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Mack et — anti-tax, anti-poor people, anti-compro- Without going into the technical details, I’ve fiiiiiirrre, O yea, a little bit hiiigher…” has announced his intention to become a U.S. mise, screw-South America, assassinate Chavez, divined the New Year’s Resolutions of several of David: “Boom shacka lacka lacka, Boom shac- senator, an office also won by his father, who nuke Cuba, and drill for oil in the national parks the great and powerful. I intend to share them ka la boonka boo” once moved up from a Southwest Florida Con- or build a 2,000 mile pipeline, whichever comes with the rest of us — the small and meek (as Charles: Dude, we rock like Ike and Tina! gressional district to serve two terms in the U.S. first — ‘cause God knows Newt’s not handsome Dorothy said to the Wizard of Oz). David: Yeah, but we’re Charles and David, Senate. or young. Don’tcha think those jowls under his ■ THE BILLIONAIRE KOCH BROTH- HA-HA-HA-HA! Connie: Mary, can you get me a beer? I mean chin look like wings? ERS, Charles, 75, and David, 71: Each brother ■ U.S. REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN- a glass of pinot? Mary: O, baby. And you can deliver Florida’s is worth about $20 billion. Koch Industries is SCHULTZ (Broward and Miami-Dade Mary: Dammit, Connie, if I’ve told you once 29 electoral votes to the Koch — I mean, to strongly anti-regulation, and has sold millions Counties): Rep. Wasserman-Schultz, the first I’ve told a hundred times — get your own beer. Newt. Please don’t mention those jowls again. of dollars of petrochemical equipment through Jewish Congresswoman ever elected to office I mean, wine. Connie: You got it, sweatmeat. subsidiary companies to Iran, a U.S.-named in Florida, according to her online biography, Connie: But you’re a Republican, Mary, a Mary: So now let’s make our New Year’s sponsor of global terrorism, according to a sits on the House Committee on the Budget and conservative. You’re not a feminist. You can get resolutions. I’ll go first. I resolve always to bring Bloomberg news investigation. Strong Tea Party aggressively supports affordable health care, me a beer — I mean a glass of wine. you a beer whenever you ask in 2012, which is supporters, the Kochs have spent more than $50 women’s issues, children’s issues, and Jewish Mary: And what if I do? What’s in it for me? going to be a very good year for the Koch — I million to lobby in Washington in the last five issues. Connie: Take your choice, honeybuns — the mean for Newt, and for you. years. Their Charles G. Koch Charitable Foun- Debbie, alone in a room with four white Senate or…or….OR… Connie: For you, too, chickie. And I resolve dation also bought the economics department walls: Mary: Yes Cornelius? not to spend more than 50 days… at Florida State University by giving it $1.5 mil- I’m going to cut off…I’m going to cas….I’m Connie: …The White House! Mary: Make it 40 days, babydoll… lion. In return, Charles and David get to dictate going to stop those Y-chrome wacko elephants Mary: What do you want, honeybuns: Bud- Connie: …not to spend more than 40 days in who FSU hires and what they preach… sorry, if it’s the last thing I do. We WILL have social- weiser, Old Milwaukee or your favorite, Pabst Florida throughout 2012. teach, in a new program that pushes “political ized medicine in 2012. We WILL help poor Blue Ribbon? Mary: Oh, baby… economy and free enterprise.” people. The Koch brothers WILL pay taxes, like Connie: A nice pinot would… Connie: Oh, honey…. Charles: I swear — I swear, David, and mark other people, at 30 percent, not 12 percent. We Mary: Pabst it is, then…Wait! Connie and Mary together: “Boom shacka my words — we are also going to buy the Uni- WILL give away government money, lots of it to Connie: What? lacka lacka, Boom shacka la boonka boo…” ■

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A4 NEWS WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY OPINION Publisher Michelle Noga [email protected] Editor & Circulation Director Applying while Asian Betty Wells [email protected] tthem when “Applying While Asian.” University of California at Berkeley is Studies have demonstrated what every forbidden by law from using quotas; its AAsian parent and kid knows: Asians are student body is more than 40 percent Reporters & Columnists richLOWRY ddiscriminated against in the admissions Asian. Only a bigot would believe that Scott Simmons Special to Florida Weekly pprocess. The Center for Equal Oppor- these schools are consequently worse Athena Ponushis ttunity, a think tank opposed to racial learning environments, or that they are Tim Norris ppreferences, in a 2005 study looked at an places characterized by monochromat- To check or not to check the Asian in-state male applying to the University ic, lock-step thinking because so many Jan Norris box? That is the pointed choice faced of Michigan who had no parental con- students share a broad-brush ethnic Mary Jane Fine by Asian-American students applying to nection to the school. If he had a 1240 designation. Artis Henderson gain admission to what are supposed to SAT score and a 3.2 GPA, he had a 92 Stephen Hsu, a professor of physics at Jeannette Showalter be the most tolerant places on Earth, the percent chance of admission if black the University of Oregon and an outspo- Nancy Stetson nation’s colleges. and 88 percent if Latino. If white, he had ken critic of current admission practic- Linda Lipshutz The Associated Press ran a report only a 14 percent chance, and if Asian, a es, laments that Asians seem strangely Roger Williams on Asian students of mixed parentage 10 percent chance. accepting of the unfair treatment of Yona Mishanina checking “white,” if possible, on their Thomas Espenshade, the Princeton their children. The official Asian-Amer- applications to avoid outing themselves University academic and co-author of ican groups tend to support anti-Asian Photographers as Asians. The Princeton Review Stu- the book “No Longer Separate, Not Yet quotas because they are captives of lib- dent Advantage Guide counsels Asian- Equal,” examined applicants to elite eral orthodoxy before all else. Scott B. Smith American students not to check the race private schools with comparable grades, The Obama administration’s mis- Rachel Hickey box and warns against sending a photo. scores, athletic abilities and family his- named Justice Department has joined Jose Casado In a culture that makes so much of tories. He concluded that whites were with its wishfully named Education Principal Designer celebrating ethnic heritage, especially significantly more likely to get admit- Department to urge schools to get cre- Scott Simmons of racial minorities, and that values fair- ted than Asians. This accounts for what ative in circumventing Supreme Court [email protected] ness above all, Asian-American students must be the first mass effort of a minor- limits on affirmative action. It’s not think that they need to hide their eth- ity group to “pass as white” since Jim quite “Asians need not apply,” only that nicity because the college admissions Crow. they should expect their ethnicity to Graphic Designers process is so unfair. If African-Amer- All of this is done in the name of a be used against them should it become Hanna Isotalo ican motorists fear that they will be “diversity” of a crude, bean-counting known to the authorities. ■ Eric Raddatz Paul Heinrich pulled over by the cops for the phantom sort. The private California Institute Natalie Zellers offense of “Driving While Black,” these of Technology doesn’t use quotas; its — Rich Lowry is editor of the Nation- Nick Bear kids worry about what will happen to student body is 39 percent Asian. The al Review. Hannah Arnone Chris Andruskiewicz

Circulation Alex Somerville Shawn Sterling Rachel Hickey Bradley Manning and the Fog of War

Account Executive rries, with close to 400,000 military ture of a chaotic forward operating base Barbara Shafer rrecords of the U.S. war in Iraq. Next was with little to no supervision, no controls [email protected] CCablegate, WikiLeaks’ rolling release whatsoever on soldiers’ access to classi- amyGOODMAN ((with prominent print-media partners, fied data, and a young man in uniform Special to Florida Weekly ffrom The New York Times to The struggling with his sexual identity in the Business Office Manager GGuardian in Britain) of classified U.S. era of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Manning Kelli Carico [email protected] StateS Department cables, more than a repeatedly flew into rages, throwing fur- Accused whistle-blower Pvt. Bradley quarter-million of them, dating from as niture and once even punching a supe- Manning recently turned 24. He spent far back as 1966 up to early 2010. The rior in the face, without punishment. his birthday in a pre-trial military hear- contents of these cables proved highly His peers at the base said he should not Published by ing that could ultimately lead to a sen- embarrassing to the U.S. government be in a war zone. Yet he stayed, until his Florida Media Group LLC tence of life ... or death. Manning stands and sent shock waves around the world. arrest 18 months ago. Pason Gaddis accused of causing the largest leak of Among the diplomatic cables released Since his arrest, Manning has been [email protected] government secrets in United States were those detailing U.S. support for the in solitary confinement, for much of Jeffrey Cull history. corrupt Tunisian regime, which helped the time in Quantico, Va., under con- [email protected] More on Manning shortly. First, a fuel the uprising there. Noting that ditions so harsh that the U.N. special Jim Dickerson reminder of what he is accused of leak- Time magazine named “The Protester,” rapporteur on torture is investigating. [email protected] ing. In April 2010, the whistle-blower generically, as Person of the Year, Ells- Many believe the U.S. government is website WikiLeaks released a video berg said Manning should be the face of trying to break Manning in order to called “Collateral Murder.” It was a that protester, since the leaks for which use him in its expected case of espio- Street Address: classified U.S. military video from July he is accused, following their impact in nage against WikiLeaks founder Julian FLORIDA WEEKLY 2007, from an Apache attack helicopter Tunisia, “in turn sparked the uprising in Assange. It also sends a dramatic mes- 11380 Prosperity Farms Road, Suite 103 over Baghdad. 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In Two of those killed were employees of 2006 massacre by U.S. troops in the the e-mail, Manning described the leak the international news agency Reuters: Iraqi town of Ishaqi, north of Baghdad. as “one of the more significant docu- Namir Noor-Eldeen, a photojournalist, Eleven people were killed, and the cable ments of our time, removing the fog Subscriptions: and Saeed Chmagh, his driver. described eyewitness accounts in which of war and revealing the true nature Renowned whistle-blower Daniel the group, including five children and of 21st century asymmetrical warfare.” One-year mailed subscriptions: Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon four women, was handcuffed, then exe- History will no doubt use the same $31.95 in-county Papers that helped end the war in Viet- cuted with bullets to the head. 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PET TALES Pets of the Week Check the neck Take a few minutes to ensure your pet’s collar and tags are in good shape COURTESY PHOTOS COURTESY BY DR. MARTY BECKER When it comes to cat collars, some peo- replace the collar soon. Universal Uclick ple fear their pet will get snagged while As for those tags, they need checking, roaming and die. Other people argue that too. A license is great, but since many lost It’s a New Year’s tradition around my their cats stay indoors and so never need a pets are picked up by people in the neigh- home, one that has outlived three genera- collar. But if your pet has ever slipped out, borhood, it’s a good idea to supplement the tions of pets but still works to help ensure or might, you ought to reconsider a collar license with an ID tag that has a couple of >>Henrietta is a 6-year-old spayed Chihuahua the safety of the animals I live with now. and tag. As for cats being caught by their phone numbers — your home, mobile and mix. She weighs 10 pounds, is quiet and calm No, not resolutions, although I make collars, this is resolved by the simple piece the number of a friend or relative. Check but sociable, too. She qualifi es for the Senior to those, too — vowing, among other things, to of elastic in most cat collars that enables the to make sure the information is current and Senior program; adopters 55 and over pay no exercise the dogs more, take more time for pet to slip free of the collar in a pinch. legible, and if not, order a new tag. I never adoption fee. their training and do more for animals who If you have the right kind of collar on your put the pet’s name or my address on the are not as lucky as mine are. pet, look at the holes and the fasteners. The tags. Instead, my pets’ tags say “REWARD!” The tradition I’m talking about is far collar is weakest at these spots, with a collection of phone numbers. I want easier to accomplish. I call the pets over and so if you see signs of to get the point across that I want my pets check their necks. excessive wear or back quickly. I always do my “neck checks” around the strain, you’ll Don’t delay in fixing any problems you first of the year. It’s easy to remember that need t o find with your pet’s neck check. Issues with way, especially for me, a person who has a collars and tags are easy to fix, and these hard time remembering much of anything items are the cheapest insurance you can when it comes to appointments: heartworm buy against loss or accidents. And if your and flea medications on the first of the pet isn’t microchipped, add that to your month, neck checks the first of the year, to-do list. Animals given up as lost forever annual exams on each pet’s birthday. (Any have been reunited with their families variation and I’m hopelessly lost!) because of this technology. The neck check is easy, taking a few min- Video bonus: Watch Pet Con- >>Tiny is an 8-month-old neutered male. He’s utes to look for wear and fit on the collars, nection’s Dr. Marty Becker active, sociable and does somersaults. and legibility on the tags. and his daughter, dog-trainer Consider the collar first. A properly fitted Mikkel Becker, discuss collar is important, but so is the right type. the best — and To adopt a pet For dogs, a buckled or snap-together collar worst — choices The Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, Humane made of leather or nylon webbing is the for collars on Society of the Palm Beaches, was founded in 1925 best choice, and the proper fit is comfort- Vetstreet.com and is a limited admission non-profi t humane so- ably close but not too snug. Make sure your (vetstreet.com/ ciety providing services to more than 10,000 ani- dog’s not wearing a “choke” or prong collar learn/choosing- mals each year. It is located at 3100/3200 Military the-right-collar- Trail in West Palm Beach. Adoptable pets and other for everyday use. These pose a potentially information can be seen at hspb.org. For adoption deadly hazard if left on an unsupervised for-your-pet). ■ information, call 686-6656. dog. MULLINAX FORD OF PALM BEACH Proudly using BASF products BODY SHOP Quality Work performed by Certifi ed Craftsmen www.basf.com ฀฀฀฀฀฀ END OF YEAR SPECIAL 20% Off Retail Labor in our Body Shop Mention Promo Code: Florida Weekly Discount not available on 1210 Northlake Blvd., Lake Park insurance claims. 561-868-2358 Body Shop Offer expires 01/31/2012. [email protected] Pucci & Catana Luxury Pet Boutique

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฀฀฀฀฀ FLORIDA WEEKLY WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 A7 NEWS OF THE WEIRD Are you suf ering from BY CHUCK SHEPHERD DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Auto Accident Pain? Militia news Chronic Neck Anti-government survivalists engaged now is probably that of John Joe Gray, in high-profile standoffs have made 63, and his extended family in a 47-acre, News of the Weird — most recently well-fortified compound in Trinidad, the story of Ed Brown and his wife Texas, southeast of Dallas. They have and supporters, resisting a federal tax lived ascetic settlers’ lives since Mr. or Low Back Pain? bill, holed up for nine months in the Gray jumped bail in 2000 on a traffic New Hampshire woods near Plainfield charge. Mr. Gray has said he feels free in 2007. (The Browns were arrested on his land and warned authorities “bet- by a U.S. marshal who tricked his way ter bring plenty of body bags” if they try Get Back in the Game inside.) The longest-running standoff to re-arrest him. Lawn chair lift-offs with Q Larry Walters made history in 1982 Couch of Bend, Ore., made a similar Non-Surgical with perhaps the most famous balloon lawn-chair flight and had scheduled ride of all time — in an ordinary lawn another, for November 2011, to float chair, lifted by 45 helium-filled weather over now-allegedly peaceful Baghdad, Spinal balloons — soaring to over 16,000 feet to raise money for Iraqi orphans. (Mr. in Southern California before descend- Couch subsequently postponed his ing by shooting the balloons one by one. flight until March 2012 to give the chari- Decompression QIn 2008, gas station manager Kent ties more time to organize.) Treat Neck Pain, Just nuts Back Pain and Q Unlicensed “surgeon”-castrator going under his knife. Edward Bodkin resurfaced recently Q It is almost no longer weird that after more than a decade under the Western chefs attempt to get as exotic Sciatica caused by radar. He was sentenced to four years as they can serving plants, insects and in prison in 1999 in Huntington, Ind., obscure parts of animals in their dishes t
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DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE (removing the testicles, with consent, cultures far removed from America. Jen- of five men). Mr. Bodkin was arrested nifer McLagan’s recent book on how to t
FACET SYNDROME in August 2011 in Wetumpka, Ala., and cook animals’ “odd” parts describes var- charged with possession of child por- ious recipes for cooking hearts, heads, t
FAILED BACK SURGERY nography, but authorities also recovered tongues and ears, and guesses that the WITHOUT THE USE OF DRUGS, castration equipment, videos of castra- next big thing in Western eating will be INJECTIONS OR SURGERY tions, photos of testicles in jars and a testicles. “(S)teaks and chops are like form contract apparently used by Mr. bulletproof to cook,” she said. “Any idiot Bodkin to obtain the consent of men can cook a steak, right?” What’s in a name? DR. MICHAEL PAPA In January 2009, the New Jersey York Daily News in October 2011 that Division of Youth and Family Services the state acted only based on the names Chiropractor removed three kids from the home of the parents had given the kids -- Adolf Clinic Director Heath and Deborah Campbell in Hol- Hitler Campbell, who was then 3, and land Township, apparently after becom- his then-1-year-old sisters, Honszlynn ing alarmed that the Campbells might Hinler Jeannie Campbell and JoyceLynn We welcome be white supremacists. Though a court Aryan Nation Campbell. The Campbells DR. JONN MCCLELLAN later concluded that the kids had been have consistently denied that they are “abused,” the Campbells told the New neo-Nazis. to the practice. State local resident graduate of Benjamin Baby-momma daddy High School Thomas Beatie was big news in “Oprah,” and subsequently had three March 2008 when he and his wife, children (who mugged delightfully for Nancy, decided to start a family, except the cameras on the syndicated TV show GIFT CERTIFICATE that Thomas, not Nancy, took on the “The Doctors” in October 2011). He also COMPLIMENTARY CHIROPRACTIC child-bearing responsibilities. (Thomas, revealed on the show that it might be born a female, had his breasts removed time to get his tubes tied, as each preg- EXAMINATION & CONSULTATION but retained his reproductive organs.) nancy requires him, irritatingly, to aban- Thomas got pregnant, appeared on don his male hormone regimen. $150 VALUE This certii cate applies to consultation and examination and must be presented on the date of the i rst visit. This certii cate will also cover The Pervo-American community a prevention evaluation for Medicare recipients. The patient and any other person responsible for payment has the right to refuse to pay, cancel payment or be reimbursed for any other service, examination or treatment that is performed as a result of and within 72 hours of Convicted child-sex offender Char- made of cardboard. Price, spotting a sun- responding to the advertisement for the free, discounted fee or reduced fee service, examination or treatment. Expires 01/15/2012. lie Price, 57, was arrested in Pittsfield, glasses display in a Rite-Aid pharmacy, Mass., but only for disturbing the peace had begun kissing and licking the face of — because the “victim” was merely the pictured model and groping her. Q PAPA CHIROPRACTIC & PHYSICAL THERAPY Get Florida Weekly delivered 2632 Indiantown Road 9089 N. Military Trail, Suite 37 to your mailbox for only Jupiter Palm Beach Gardens * 561.744.7373 561.630.9598 $ 95 31 PER YEAR www.PapaChiro.com *Rates are based on standard rate postage. A one-year in-county subscription will cost $31.95 to cover shipping and handling. Call for out-of-county and out-of-state postage and pricing options. 20 Years in Jupiter & Palm Beach Gardens! Subscribe online at www.FloridaWeekly.com or Call 239.333.2135 WE ACCEPT MOST INSURANCE PLANS A8 NEWS WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY PEACE From page 1

Mrs. Davis, who divides her time between homes in Jupiter Island, New York and Maine, also underwrote last year’s “Peace on Earth” exhibition at the Lighthouse ArtCenter. Her experiences are firmly anchored in the last century, but Mrs. Davis remains engaged in current affairs. During a recent Friday afternoon at her home, Mrs. Davis was celebrating the end of U.S. involvement in Iraq. Peace signs adorned her necklace and watchband as she sat in a sunroom that offered views of the Intracoastal Waterway beyond. Miss Teaser II, her 5-month-old Mal- COURTESY PHOTO tese puppy, scampered about the room, Kathryn W. Davis with her husband, Shelby drawing laughter from Mrs. Davis and Cullom Davis. her two assistants. COURTESY IMAGE punishment, if it is a punishment. But the dog did not distract her from Works by Kathryn W. Davis, including “Early Snow” (above) and “Tropical Bouquet” (below), “I think it might be to teach me to the subject at hand. will be part of an exhibition organized by the Lighthouse ArtCenter called “Jupiter Island learn patience because why else should “When I think of the people, who- Artistry,” open Jan. 31-Feb. 29 at Northern Trust Bank, 11301 N. U.S. Highway 1, North Palm I be inflicted with bad eyesight.” ever, being slaughtered, being drowned Beach. Call 622-4600 to schedule a tour. by air bombs, I think it’s terrible. And Still driven, but not driving for what? Nothing that they don’t have She has eight grandchildren and Her eyesight keeps her from behind to decide at a peace meeting any- eight great-grandchildren, all of whom the wheel of a car, but not a golf cart. way,” she says. “So I’m very pleased are close to their matriarch. Mrs. Davis, who learned to drive that today, Obama has taken this step, “My family is thriving, I’m glad to more than 90 years ago, still has a valid which I hope will be the first step say,” she says. driver’s license, which will be up for toward making a peaceful world.” renewal in 2012. Mrs. Davis, born Feb. 25, 1907, An artist’s life “I remember when I learned to drive, remembers the First World War. Through it all Mrs. Davis has stayed which was way below the driving age. “It’s terrible the way people go into active. I was out driving with my brother, who a war so brazenly and cheerfully and “When I was 96 years old I inadver- was about seven years older than I, and hopefully — for what? So they can kill tently broke my hip on the tennis court I said to him, ‘Billy, I’d like to learn to each other? That’s all,” she says. and I found out to my distress that I drive.’ And he said, ‘I’ll teach you.’ And Her own brother joined the cavalry could no longer play tennis,” she says. I said, ‘Show me.’ So he showed me the during that first war to end all wars, She even had worked out a deal with clutches. Every car had a clutch — one, and lived to tell about it. her tennis pro. two, three — and then one to go back. “I remember my mother was very “You’re only allowed one serve to my So I listened very attentively, and I shaken because my brother skipped two. You must cover the whole court; came home and I told my mother very camp and came to Philadelphia to see I only have to cover the singles court. proudly that I now knew how to drive us and she said he’d be arrested for You must be careful how you hit the the car and she said, ‘That sounds desertion,” Mrs. Davis says. ball, because if you hit it and I can’t wonderful, Kat, take me for a ride.’ So return it, it means it you didn’t hit it I took her for a ride, and luckily, there Suffragettes march right and therefore it was your mistake were very few cars around and I man- It was during that decade that Mrs. a group through the Caucasus Moun- and it’s my point,” she says, laughing. aged to bring her back safely and from Davis had her first taste of activism. tains, when their horses were stolen “So the poor man accepted all these then on, I felt I knew how to drive.” “I do remember marching in a suf- and the group was forced to survive on things and I used to win some games “And this is a lady who has two fragette parade at that time, when I a menu of wild berries and spit-roasted from him.” speeds — fast and faster,” says one of was 4 years old, by my mother’s side, mountain goat. The tennis world’s loss was the art her assistants. waving my little yellow flag in inno- Did experiences like that contribute world’s gain. Mrs. Davis says she was amazed at cence,” she says with a chuckle. “I to her longevity? Mrs. Davis took up painting after her how easy it was to renew her driver didn’t know what I was waving for but “If I hadn’t come back safely, it did,” injury. license last time. That in turn made her it was a good idea. It was for votes for she says with a laugh. Yes, she uses brushes to paint, but suspicious of other drivers. women.” She earned her doctorate in Geneva sponges, feathers, leaves and fingers “I slowed down considerably Some things never change. and wrote a study titled “The Sovi- are part of her arsenal of tools. because I wanted them to slow down,” “And we’re still working on that ets at Geneva,” about the League of She works in acrylic — it dries she says. “I led them to safety whether in Afghanistan and in places where Nations, which had its headquarters quickly. they wanted to or not. I did my good women are not given their rights. I feel there. She has since returned to Russia And to paint with her fingers, she deed.” it’s time that all women have the right more than 30 times and she celebrated dons medical exam gloves and gets to to vote in the countries in which they her 95th birthday with Mikhail Gor- work. Slowing down live and that if given a choice, they’d bachev. “It’s really wonderful how fast you That gives Mrs. Davis time to focus vote for peace,” she says. While in Switzerland, she met can go. I have some that I can show on what matters. That certainly gets Mrs. Davis’ vote. her future husband, Shelby Cullom you that I did in 10 minutes,” she says. That includes peace. “A lot of people tell me that I’m Davis. They married in 1932, and they Mrs. Davis says she usually paints “There is a lot to be done, and a lot fighting a losing battle, that it’s returned to the United States, where from photographs, but do not expect a of people are needed,” Mrs. Davis says. ingrained in men to go to war, and I Mr. Davis wrote for such publications copy. Still, she remains optimistic. say it isn’t ingrained in anybody. They as The Atlantic Monthly, Current His- “I’m not any good at copying. I try, “I had noticed that I bought some ingrain it in themselves, and it should tory and Reader’s Digest. but I find I wander away and put in baby underwear for a new grandchild be a very easy thing to eliminate, so we Mr. Davis’ writing attracted the some strokes that may not be there,” which had peace symbols on it, which must continue to try to eliminate it,” attention of Thomas Dewey, who asked she says. are on this watch,” she says, pointing she says. Is fighting that desire to kill him to be an economic adviser and Her compositions are strong, and her at her wrist. “Apparently, the peace an uphill battle? speechwriter for his presidential cam- sense of color is keen in her Impres- symbol is being reproduced on many “I often wonder why the good lord paign. In 1969, Mr. Davis was appointed sionistic works. things now.” made us so that we all have to eat each to a six-year term as ambassador to The painting is part of what keeps Slowing down also means more time other to be satisfied, not that all of us Switzerland. her in the present. with that little dog, Miss Teaser II. do. Some are vegetarians but I think Politics aside, Mr. Davis also invested “I think that any painting is very So what is the origin of that name? that’s a minority,” Mrs. Davis says. “I in a company that became known as good for one’s soul. You can express “I couldn’t remember Maltese,” Mrs. myself am a vegetarian in theory, but Shelby Cullom Davis & Co., and built a yourself, and sometimes when I feel Davis says. “People asked me, ‘What in practice I hunger for the meat that portfolio of insurance stocks. An initial a little unhappy that I’m not doing kind of dog is that?’ and I had to think. I eat, so that’s not good. It’s one of my $100,000 investment grew to more than enough in this world, I think I’d better Her name is Teaser so it must be Mal- flaws.” $800 million by the time Mr. Davis try and paint what I want the world tese. But I call her Sweetie Pie, Lamb Yes, but at nearly 105, it is a flaw that died in 1994. to look like or what I would like to be Chop, Honey Bunch… ” seemingly has served her well. The couple’s children are Shelby doing,” she says. “I’d love to be skiing. “Trouble,” interjects one of her assis- M.C. Davis, born in 1937, and Diana I’d love to be playing tennis. I’d love tants. First trip to Russia Davis Spencer, born in 1938; both are to be hiking and climbing mountains, “She knows she rules, but she sub- Mrs. Davis journeyed to Russia in active with foundations of their own. because I always was very active and mits to being picked up,” Mrs. Davis 1929 shortly after she graduated from Mrs. Davis’ grandson, Christopher C. it’s been very difficult sometimes to be says. college. Davis, runs the family business, now tied down by my lack of strength and And laughter ensues. ■ She was traveling on horseback with called Davis Funds. my lack of sight, which is my worst FLORIDA WEEKLY WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 A9 Reflections on a new year IF NOT NOW,

We asked local community and cultural leaders Any resolutions? “You know, I can’t to offer their thoughts on the New Year. Here are believe that New Year’s is going to be around the corner. This year has gone so fast. It doesn’t seem WHEN? their comments: possible to me to think that Christmas is going to Most Rev. Gerald M. Barbarito be in another week.” By Elizabeth Johnson Bishop of Palm Beach An assistant reminds her: “Last year, your reso- lution was to be of good intent.” Schedules. Stress. Commitments. Deadlines. “I would continue with that resolution. I can’t What are you Expectations. To-do’s... The excuses are endless. They looking forward say it’s a resolution, but it is a hope, a desire. to in 2012? “I look Many people say they want to leave this world a aren’t going away. Stop tricking yourself and face the forward to doing all the better place than they found it and that is one of fact that you need to get healthy. There is no time like the things I do every year in my desires. You can call it a resolution that I do present. carrying out my ministry want to do that.” here in the wonderful You could buy a book or exercise equipment to motivate Diocese of Palm Beach. Jamie Stuve I am especially looking President and CEO, your activity level. You could put together shopping lists forward to the ‘Year of The Loxahatchee River Historical Society and recipes of healthy meals. You could even join (yet Faith,’ which the pope has called to begin on Oct. and Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum another) gym in the hopes that you actually go this time. 11, 2012, the 50th anniversary of the Opening of the Second Vatican Council. I look forward to What are you But let’s face reality. You need something other than the preparation for this year as well as promoting looking forward yourself to hold you accountable to making change. If not the purpose of the year, which is to help Catholics to in 2012? “I’ve appreciate more the gift of faith, deepen their reached the point where I now, then when? relationship with God and strengthen their com- just look forward to what mitment to sharing their faith with others. each day brings and try If you would describe yourself as “lacking will power or Are you worried about anything not to have predetermined motivation” when it comes to exercise, then you really in the coming year? “There are many expectations. That being need someone to ensure you get to your workouts and challenges that lie ahead of the world and I said I am looking forward believe we need to face them with trust in God to some new Jupiter Inlet eat in a way that fuels and nourishes your body. and always in a context of faith.” Lighthouse & Museum “A postcard in the mail from Get In Shape For Women Any resolutions? “My resolution is the educational programs we are launching in 2012, usual one which is to hopefully grow in my own like ‘Hiking Through History’ for scouting and got my attention. Having failed in the big box gyms, the relationship to God and to help others grow in that families groups and doing some traveling to see idea of working out with women with the help of a trainer relationship which brings joy and security.” other lighthouses, including the Yaquina Head was appealing. From the moment I walked into the gyms, Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area. Gary Beach Are you worried about anything I knew this was the place for me. My trainer believed in Tony Award-winning actor and resident in the coming year? “It’s hard to be me and helped me get started. Having a personal trainer of Palm Beach Gardens responsible for a non-profit organization in these continues to help me be accountable for making my gym times and not worry about having enough funds appointments,” says Tara Koeschel, a GISFW client and a What are you for the good work our dedicated staff accomplish- looking forward es. We have a powerful vision for the Jupiter Inlet 12 Week Body Transformation Challenge Winner. to in 2012? “Having Lighthouse & Museum site as both a nationally just moved here two years acclaimed heritage destination and a major eco- “The appointments make all the difference for me. ago from New York City, I nomic driver for the area. Preserving history and Knowing I have my trainer there waiting for me to show look forward to our winter historical properties is legacy work — I worry that up really helps me to stay focused! I am also so motivated here. I love ‘the season,’ there won’t be enough far-sighted folks to support the theaters starting up these long-range plans.” by all the women that I train with; I am inspired by each again…. I must say I’m Any resolutions? “I read a wonderful one of them,” shared Kimberly Tejada, a committed looking forward to the article in the current issue of ‘Shambhala Sun’ GISFW client and 12 Week Body Transformation Winner. elections and the dialogue they inspire.” (Speak No Evil, Tweet No Evil) about a contem- Are you worried about anything porary concept of Buddhist right speech. I was Get In Shape For Women realizes that no matter how in the coming year? “Not really. I still feel astounded at how easy it is to think you are a much you may want something, it takes support from we’re heading in a good direction.” decent person when in fact a lot of negative talk is Any resolutions? “Eat less, sleep more coming out of your mouth. So my first resolution is others to get there. Small group personal training studios and stop lying.” the old adage — if you don’t have anything nice for women offer weight training, cardio, supportive to say about someone, don’t say anything. I’ve nutrition and accountability to help you reach your goal. Jeffrey Berman already noticed how hard this is! This will keep Berman Enterprises me busy in 2012, but my other resolution is to be FOR A FREE WEEK TRIAL CALL 561-799-0555 (Downtown at the Gardens) more spontaneous, so watch out!” OR VISIT GETINSHAPEFORWOMEN.COM Michelle Wasch-Lobovits What are you Each franchise is independently owned and operated. looking forward Executive Director, to in 2012? “Wak- JCC of the Greater Palm Beaches “I saw an ad in the newspaper ing up on Dec. 22, 2012 for Get In Shape For Women and thinking ‘so this is What are you at a time when my face felt the beginning of the new looking forward full and my pants were tight, Mayan calendar era? Eh, to in 2012? “2012 so on an impulse I signed up. feels the same as the old will be a remarkable year, My goal was to lose 10 lbs. one,’ and then falling back not only for me but for but then went on to lose 20! asleep.” our entire community as I hated exercise and having Are you worried about anything we break ground on the an appointment made my in the coming year? “Yes, not waking up new Mandel JCC in Palm workout happen. I love the Dec. 22.” Beach Gardens. I’ve been people at Get In Shape For Any resolutions? “I’d like to try and looking forward for a num- Women. Now I have more stay the same height.” ber years to see what will energy, sleep better and my be a vibrant, state-of-the-art campus of Jewish husband notices I’m happier! I Kathryn W. Davis life and learning start to emerge from the ground. just joined for another year to Artist and philanthropist It’s going to be an incredible year … and this is keep it off and get more toned. just the beginning.” Thank you! I feel great.” Are you worried about anything What are you - Ann Marie Russo in the coming year? “I avoid worrying looking forward to CALL TODAY FOR A GISFW Client in 2012? “I’m looking by thinking in long-term instead of short-term forward to some more outcomes, which can cause worry. Using this peace. That’s why I’m approach, I become confident that things turn out so happy today because just the way they are supposed to.” FREE there’s more peace in the Any resolutions? “I don’t make New FREE Week of Personal Training Middle East, today, finally. Year’s resolutions because, as everyone jokes, It was very late coming, they are made to be broken. 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But, do we take the time to ing us (and learning) should be a moti- us have lost their civility — that con- call to cancel when we’ve changed our vator to mind our manners. When we ventional manners are non-existent. plans? The people who work hard to cut ahead in line, castigate a service lindaLIPSHUTZ We may feel assaulted by the seeming serve us appreciate when we take the person or treat them as a non-person, impatience, insensitivity and rudeness time to show them that we value their we are demonstrating important les- [email protected] we witness firsthand. We’re all very time and feelings. sons. It’s quite disarming to observe a quick to indignantly take offense at the And what about patience? Are we person demeaned as if they don’t have I received an email from an old friend poor manners of young people, and to able to tolerate the person in front of feelings, or their feelings don’t count. I haven’t seen in a long time. She shared admonish their parents for failing to us in line who takes their sweet time? Most of us are collectively embar- the news that a close relative had passed serve as proper role models. Or do we start fuming and muttering? rassed when we, or the ones we love, away and that she and her family were But let’s not be so quick. Have we, What about the poor salesperson who is show signs of incivility. If our cell taking it hard. As I was about to send an too, become insensitive to the peace not able to satisfy our request? Are we phones shrill in a quiet audience, we emailed reply of condolences, I stopped of others in coffee shops or waiting able to contain our contempt? become sheepish or aghast that we’ve myself with chagrin. rooms when we talk loudly on our cell The other day I saw a woman con- disturbed the quiet. It’s not that we are REALLY?!! Sending condolences phones? Is it a sign of our times that we tinue a conversation on her cell phone inherently rude or indifferent. Rather, by EMAIL!! I promptly picked up the don’t look twice if we see two people in a crowded store while a saleswoman we are not always mindful to feelings of phone to call her instead, and shared sitting in a restaurant, simultaneously was trying to offer assistance. There others, or the world about us. a heartfelt conversation, reminiscing checking their cell phones for mes- were others waiting their turn but the Have we forgotten the pleasure of and catching up with a friend who had sages, instead of talking to each other? woman seemed oblivious to the bottle- sending a hand written note? Yes, we do shared an important chapter in my life. What frightens us even more is the neck she was causing. Was this woman save on the postage but we lose some- The exchange jarred my attention and worry that we, too, may become be “one so consumed by the immediacy of the thing personal when we communicate prompted me to reflect on the ways we of those” who are so self-absorbed that call that she was unaware that others in electronic transactions. It takes a relate to those around us. And, impor- we barrel through life without consider- were inconvenienced? Did this imply certain amount of mindfulness to put tantly, I wondered if there has been a ing our impact on others. Have we too, she believed her needs mattered more ourselves in another’s shoes. Let’s make significant change in how considerate become complacent or inconsiderate? than the sensibilities of the others? sure to show our humanity. Whether we are of other people’s feelings. I once asked a young woman why she There are aspects of our current it’s a service person or a neighbor, let’s Many of us grew up in the generation didn’t answer the text of a young man culture that dehumanize us. Reaching take the time to look in their eyes when schooled in reciting the Golden Rule who had requested meeting for a din- out for customer service and getting we speak — communicating that we by rote. You know, that old saying: “Do ner date. Without a trace of discomfort diverted to an operator in India can respect their individuality as people. ■ unto others as you would have others she replied, “I’m not interested in going leave us feeling marginalized. Waiting do unto you.” The adults in our lives out. He’ll know if I don’t answer, I’m not on hold with music playing, when we Linda Lipshutz, M.S., LCSW, is a psy- prompted us to say “please and thank interested.” Is that the accepted proto- call our insurance carrier or cell-phone chotherapist serving individuals, cou- you” on demand, and to always “put col in today’s world? Few of us enjoy an company can be unnerving. Waiting on ples and families. A Palm Beach Gar- ourselves in the other person’s shoes.” awkward conversation, with the poten- security lines at the airport and having dens resident, she holds degrees from While we pride ourselves on hav- tial of hurting someone’s feelings. But our luggage rifled through by agents Cornell and Columbia and trained at ing mastered the rudimentary basics of what ever happened to common cour- with a surly attitude can leave us feel- the Ackerman Institute for Family Ther- today’s technology, we’re often bewil- tesy of returning a phone call? We cer- ing like cattle. But does that entitle us apy in Manhattan. She can be reached dered when navigating the social land- tainly make the effort when we’re eager to pass along the surliness? in her Gardens office at 630-2827, or at scape of the current generation. At to secure a coveted table at a hot new Knowing that our children are watch- palmbeachfamilytherapy.com. This Week at The Four Arts  We hope you will join us for one of these exciting programs. 

On Display All Season Thursday, January 5 at 10 p.m. Exhibit: Florida’s Wetlands • No Charge • (561) 655-7226 Campus on the Lake Workshop Begins: Shakespeare’s Advice on Love, Leadership and Human Nature with Drs. Jones Avery and Rodewald On Display through January 15 Exhibits:The Art of Illustration: Original Works of Howard Chandler Christy $120 for eight sessions • (561) 805-8562 and J.C. Leyendecker and Andy Warhol:The BazaarYears 1951-1964 Thursday, January 5 $5; free admission for members • (561) 655-7226 Children’s Library Story Time: Happy NewYear! Time: 10:30 a.m. (Preschool) 2:30 p.m. (Family) Monday, January 4 through Monday, January 30 No charge • (561) 655-2776 Campus on the Lake Classes:Yoga and Pilates with Larkin Barnett Time: 9-10 a.m. every Monday,Wednesday, Friday and Saturday Friday, January 6 at 3:30 p.m. $15 per session • (561) 805-8562 Food on Fridays: Fun Chefs School Age Cooking Class with Stacey Stolman Webb $13 • (561) 655-2776 • Reservations Required Wednesday, January 4 at 8 p.m. Concert: Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel,“Russian Rapture! Friday, January 6 at 2:30, 5:15 and 8 p.m. Music of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky” Film: Jane Eyre • $5 $40/$45 • (561) 655-7226 Saturday, January 7 at 12 p.m. Thursday, January 5 at 2:30 p.m. The Met Opera, Live in HD: Die Walküre • $25/$15 with student I.D. Campus on the Lake Lecture:“The Origins of Carnival” (561) 655-7226 with Theodore K. Rabb • $20 • (561) 805-8562 Sunday, January 8 Part of the Splendors of Italy Series Concert: Brentano String Quartet • $15 • (561) 655-7226

FOUR ARTS. FOR EVERYONE. 2 Four Arts Plaza • Palm Beach, FL 33480 • (561) 655-7227 • www.fourarts.org FLORIDA WEEKLY WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 A11 MacArthur Beach events include kayaking, music and art

A variety of events are offered in *, - /- January at John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. / Ê7", Ê, "7 Ê
,/-/ ■ Learn to Kayak! Jan. 1, 10:00 a.m. (about 1 hour) Representatives from Adventure Times Kayaks will teach a land-based course that gives beginners the skills necessary for kayaking. Reservations are recommended. The program is free with park admission. For information and reservations call the Ranger Station ■ Bluegrass Music at 624-6950. Jan. 15, 1-4 p.m. 9"1ÊEÊ9"1,Ê Nathan Rich and the “Untold Riches” ■ MacArthur Under Moonlight bring their foot-stompin’ and hand- 1 -/Ê
, Ê Concert: clappin’ bluegrass music to the Park’s Jan. 7, 7-9 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) Amphitheater. The concert is free with  6/ Ê/" Relax in the moonlight for a magical park admission of $5 per carload. night of music. This concert series will
Ê, */" be held once a month featuring a dif- ■ Family Art in Nature Program ferent band every month. This month’s Jan. 15, 2-4 p.m. musician is local artist Alex Kash. Born A workshop designed for the whole and raised in San Francisco, Mr. Kash is family. Design and create something ...TO BE HELD AT a songwriter, 12-string acoustic guitar- beautiful out of the unexpected. Child ist and solo artist. His music combines and parent will create something spe- 4530 PGA BLVD, Americana, soul, R&B and jazz sounds. cial using a variety of materials. The No reservations required and children program cost $35 for members of the SUITE 101 under age 10 are free. Admission is “Friends of MacArthur Beach” or $40 for $5 per person. More information: 624- non-members. Reservations required. 6950. Call Janice Kerber at 776-7221, ext. 104 for reservations. ■ Bluegrass Music with the Conch Stomp Band ■ F.U.N. Program: “Plant Processes” Jan. 8, 2-4 p.m. Jan. 21, 9-10 a.m. ,
9]Ê The Conch Stomp Band plays a vari- Discover how plant structures help ety of bluegrass songs. This program plants to survive in our coastal com- 
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,9ÊÈ] is free with park admission. Call 624- munity. This program is free with park 6950. admission. Reservations required; call 2012 Janice Kerber, 776-7221, ext. 104. ■ Art in Nature Program: Whimsical FROM Landscape Painting instruction ■ Birding Jan. 12, 10 a.m. Jan. 22, 1 p.m. ÈÊ* ʇʙÊ* This course teaches basic compo- Bird lovers can join a Ranger-led sition, and painting technique with educational walk identifying many spe- a touch of whimsy. Cost is $30 for cies of birds that make their home in members of the “Friends of MacArthur the park. Reservations recommended. Beach” and $35 for non-members. Res- Visitors should bring binoculars or rent ervations required. Call Janice Kerber, them at the Park’s Nature Center. Pro- 776-7221, ext. 104, for reservations and a gram is free with park admission. For materials list. more information, call 624-6950. ■ Reading with a Ranger ■ Daily Nature Walks and Tours 
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Well-known politi- A: Your plate was recording for Sun Record anything about its origin or value? cians, royalty, sports figures, actors, writers, made by Gillinder & Co. in 1954, “That’s All A: The game of mahjong is based on a religious subjects and newsworthy crimi- Sons of Philadelphia, Right” and “Blue Moon of card game played in China in the late 1800s. nals, places and events were the inspiration which was founded by Kentucky,” recently sold The game became popular in the United for the figurines. They were made to sell, so William Gillinder in for $896. States in the 1920s. Early sets were imported the figurines had to depict something that 1861. It’s part of the Clas- Q: I have a collection from China. Tiles were made of ivory, bone would add decorative value to a home. But sic pattern designed by England's Derby Porcelain Works of swanky swigs with var- or wood. Some sets came in intricately the potters had few sources to use when P.J. Jacobus (1844-1910). made these figurines, copies of fa- ious decorations. Most of carved rosewood boxes, while others were making a portrait — just a few prints, paint- There were five plates mous statues of William Shakespeare them are in good shape, packed in cardboard boxes. Sets made in ings and sometimes statues. Staffordshire in this pattern. The oth- and John Milton. The 12 ¼-inch but some of them are the United States during the 1930s usually potters wanted to tap the American mar- ers pictured the 1884 figures sold as a pair for $460 at a cloudy. I’ve tried soak- have Bakelite or plastic tiles. Joseph Park ket by selling figurines of American politi- U.S. presidential and 2010 Charlton Hall auction in West ing them with denture Babcock, a Standard Oil Co. civil engineer, cians. George Washington was a popular vice presidential candi- Columbia, S.C. cleaner and scrubbing the often is credited with bringing the game subject, and both standing figures and busts dates, Democrats Gro- outside gently with liquid to the United States after he saw it being of Washington were made. But since no ver Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks dish detergent, to no avail. Do you have any played when he was sent to Suzhou, China, English potter had ever seen the first U.S. and Republicans James G. Blaine and John other suggestions for getting the glass clear in 1912. One of the names the Chinese used president, some potters wound up labeling A. Logan. Value: under $100. again? for the game was “ma que,” which means figurines of Benjamin Franklin as George Q: Can you tell me if there is a market for A: It depends on what caused the glasses “sparrow.” Babcock trademarked the name Washington. William Shakespeare and John vinyl records from the 1940s and ’50s? I have to become cloudy. Hard water can cause “Mah-Jongg” and published a book of game Milton were famous British writers seldom two albums’ full. calcium deposits to build up on the glass and rules in 1920. Several manufacturers made shown in widely distributed prints, but a A: Most records made before the 1940s make it cloudy. Filling the glasses with warm their own versions of the game but had to large statue of Shakespeare stands in West- were made with a hard shellac surface, water and adding a denture tablet usually use other names for it. Babcock assigned his minster Abbey, and a smaller one of Milton so they usually broke if dropped. By 1946, clears it up. Other solutions include soaking rights to the name to Parker Brothers in 1924. is owned by the York Castle Museum. So unbreakable vinyl records were being sold the glasses in a mixture of hot water and a Mahjong is still played in the United States, several Staffordshire potteries made 12-inch commercially. Companies began phasing out cup of white vinegar, or washing them in a but the version played now is different from copies of the statues that could be displayed the production of phonograph records after dishwasher with a cup of vinegar poured the version played in the 1920s, according to on a fireplace mantel. And, of course, dis- compact discs became available in 1982. in the bottom of the dishwasher. You also the National Mah-Jongg League. playing the statues suggested that the own- There has been renewed interest in vinyl can try using a cleaner meant for shower Tip: Rotate your dining room, kitchen, ers were well-read. recordings in the past few years because doors. If none of these solutions works, your and coffee tables on your birthday. 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“Sales are trending up, listing inventories are falling — we are seeing multiple offers on homes in some local markets. Our state is in a mini-recovery.” – John Tuccillo, Florida Realtors Chief Economist ON THE REBOUND?

Economic analysts cautiously optimistic about turnaround in Florida

BY DAVID ROYSE Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, The News Service of Florida Weekly.com usually a harbinger of sales for the sea- son, were up 6.6 percent over last year. Across the forecasting spec- Mr. Yun said at the Realtors conference in Orlando that prices appear to be stabilizing in trum, from academics to some Florida, and that South Florida, in particular, is government watchers to indus- poised to see a new mini-boom. fore- try groups, there’s a cautious “Don’t be surprised to see a gain in home cast- prices in the Miami and Naples markets in the ed optimism about Florida’s econo- next 18 months,” he said in a recent statement tax my in the New Year. put out by the Realtors. “From there, the recov- revenue ery is likely to roll northward to Central Florida over the From a recent gathering of economists at and then North Florida.” a Realtors conference, where the consensus next year and a University of Central Florida economist Sean half. was that the state has already started a bit of a Snaith agreed with the optimism, though tem- recovery, to employment agencies, to the gover- Much of Florida’s fate pering it with less bullishness about the pace. is tied to the national nor of the state, there’s a sense that finally, the In his latest forecast from the UCF Institute state has turned the corner. economy — as it goes, so for Economic Competitiveness, Mr. Snaith said go the local economies to In Florida, where the economic heights of “slow” will continue to be a key word — he the middle of the last decade were propped up a certain degree. In Florida, predicts unemployment in Florida will remain that link is particularly acute on a booming housing industry, it is in the real above 9 percent until the end of 2014 — but that estate market that many economists are looking because of the state’s reli- some areas will see growth. ance on people moving here, either to gauge whether the crash has reached its low Payrolls and incomes are expected to creep point. in retirement or for new opportunities — when up, retail sales will be much stronger, and hous- housing was booming, there was a stream of And Florida Realtors Chief Economist John ing starts will go up, Mr. Snaith predicts. Tuccillo said at a recent real estate industry people moving to the state to take part in that Still, he said, things won’t look like 2006-2007 boom — and people coming here on vacation. conference that indicators in that industry are for quite some time. good. Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells “The year is shaping up to be another year of Fargo in Charlotte, N.C., said in a recent state- “Sales are trending up, listing inventories subpar growth,” the institute said in its report. are falling — we are seeing multiple offers on ment that the U.S. economy, in turn, is tied in “Growth, to be sure, will continue and 2012 will part to the financial crisis in Europe. But, he homes in some local markets,” Mr. Tuccillo said. be an improvement over a largely disappointing “Our state is in a mini-recovery.” also expects a national recovery to continue 2011, but economic growth for the year will (be next year — and that, he noted, makes it easier “Buyers have stepped back into the Florida less than) 2 percent and payrolls will expand by market,” added Lawrence Yun, chief economist for retirees and others in other parts of the just 1.8 percent.” country to sell homes and buy new ones in for the National Association of Realtors. “The near term economic picture for Florida Those projections come as a business survey Florida. is for a modest acceleration of the pace of It also means a recovery in tourism, which found hiring likely to increase after the first of recovery, including the labor market over the the year, nationally. ManpowerGroup earlier helps fuel Florida’s economy. next two quarters,” the report said. Gov. Rick Scott made a turn-around in jobs this month released its Manpower Employment But, Mr. Snaith noted, “the damage to our Outlook Survey, which said that after taking out his primary goal. It’s been a mixed year — jobs economy from the recession, housing and have indeed been created and the unemploy- seasonal variations, employers’ plans for the financial crises was severe, and the process of first quarter of next year are still to add jobs at ment rate has dropped more than in almost any rebuilding will take time.” other state, from around 12 percent when he a plus 9 percent clip, up from the fourth quarter State economists have come to share Mr. and about the same as a year ago. was elected to 10 percent now. But the state’s Snaith’s caution, after getting a bit giddy earlier jobless rate remains among the highest in the “This represents the most promising hiring in the year. Revenue forecasters for the state outlook since 2008,” ManpowerGroup said. nation. had projected strong growth numbers that back Gov. Scott, too, though is optimistic that the Despite stubbornly high unemployment — 10 in the spring had given lawmakers hope that percent in November in Florida — and months trend is in the right direction. there might be state budget growth this year, “We’ve turned the corner,” the governor said of low consumer confidence readings, retail- or at least flat tax revenue. But after a couple ers are predicting the largest year-over-year in an interview with The News Service of Flor- of months of warnings that taxes weren’t com- ida. “This was a state that was losing jobs for increase in holiday shopping since before the ing in as strong as first thought, economists in recession, a very welcome sign that things are four straight years and this year we’ve generat- October reduced their projections fairly dra- ed 134,800 private sector jobs. So we’re heading on the upswing. matically, slicing $1.6 billion from the state’s The National Retail Federation said sales on in the right direction.” ■ A14 BUSINESS WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY MONEY & INVESTING Time to make some New Year’s investment resolutions iis not a financial geek so practice aloud formance. True, one year is not neces- you are not getting phone calls. tto yourself or write the story of your sarily a good yardstick, as some strate- ■ You (or your accountant or your pportfolio on paper. Many investment gies and algorithmic trading needs 18 adviser) should pull all your various jeannetteSHOWALTER, CFA ffirms have different ways of present- months to 2 years for evaluation. accounts together to see allocations [email protected] iing the same information so transition ■ An equity portfolio that is very and performance on a consolidated iis not seamless; it takes a while to get large will most often approximate basis. You will want to know your con- ooriented to each firm’s layout. market returns; so if such a portfolio solidated exposure to: equities, bonds, With the year’s end will come year- ■ Make a commitment to set an is not faring as well as benchmarks, and other alternative asset classes; end investment statements from your annual review with your advisers or you might have reason for immedi- you will want to know consolidated advisers. What to do? First things first: brokers. The best time to book a meet- ate concern. If managers tell you that income from the portfolio. Remember: know your portfolio. After understand- ing is after the market closes: the office they invest for the long term and are portfolio allocation is more important ing your portfolio as much as you is quiet and the adviser won’t have any not deterred by short-term result. Be than the individual selections! And you possibly can (on your own or through distractions. Make sure you received careful that you do not hear this tune want to create true portfolio diversifi- assistance), then talk to your advis- your statements in advance and that again next year. Accumulated years of cation, beyond traditional asset classes ers. After reflection (and not knee- you have done your best to understand short-term returns ultimately become of bonds and equities jerk reactions), then consider making them. Make a list of questions and the long term. Consider the benefits of several changes, focusing on asset allocation attend the meeting with a note pad. ■ Be cautious to not get focused on investment advisers. There is value to as the most important of portfolio ele- Like a lecture, you will want to take one individual stock or one sub-man- having multiple advisers as each might ments. notes and reread them that evening. ager in your portfolio review with your have a different area of expertise and Here are some suggestions to help You want to ask the same questions adviser as it, again, derails your focus each has a different view of the world. you keep your financial house in order over and over until you understand the from the picture and many an adviser Studies have shown that after 2008, in 2012: answers. You want to absorb as much can talk his/her way out of any corner. there was marked shift in wealth port- ■ Make a commitment to under- insight from your advisers as possible. ■ Making a decision to allocate folios from a sole adviser to several stand what your statements are telling If you start a meeting in a critical more funds or pull funds while in a advisers. ■ you about your portfolio’s components or negative frame of mind and use meeting might not be to your advan- and performance. Numbers tell a story critical language (as you are disturbed tage; you might be better served to — Jeannette Showalter, CFA, is a and you need to find out your story. that you have losses or under per- consider all the information over sev- commodities broker with Worldwide Find your year-end statements and formance), you might be limiting the eral days before you make any changes. Futures Systems, 239-571-8896. For study them. When you sit flown with amount of information that you really You might be better served to speak to mid- week commentaries, write to your broker or adviser, you will review need to gather to make an informed all your advisers before you make any [email protected]. all elements of those statements, espe- assessment of your portfolio. asset changes. — An investment in futures con- cially those parts of the statement that ■ Be cautious when you hear that ■ Let your adviser know clearly how tracts is speculative, involves a high are not comprehensible to you. You your adviser is not concerned about often you want communication other degree of risk and is suitable only for cannot have a meaningful conversa- what has happened in the past 12 than statements or mass e-mailing’s. persons who can assume the risk of tion with a lawyer, a spouse and your months and is really only concerned Some clients want constant dialogue loss in excess of their margin deposits. multiple investment advisers unless about the next five to 10 years. You and others will plan to talk to you in You should carefully consider whether you understand your statement. You might be dead in five to 10 years. a year or more. The adviser might be futures trading is appropriate for you. will know that you know when you can Such discussions really take the cli- thinking that you want to be left alone Past performance is not necessarily explain it to a spouse or someone who ent’s attention away from recent per- all the while you are wondering why indicative of future results. 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COURTESY PHOTO Laura Turnbull, left, Skye Coyne and Arielle Hoffman star in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ production of “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.” MOM’S THE WORD Dramaworks production of “Marigolds” is a family affair for mother-daughter team Waiting for the fig to fall Sometimes relationships are about BY SCOTT SIMMONS have at succeeding. the title marigolds. opportunity. B2 w [email protected] “I don’t really relate to this Playing Tillie is Ms. Hoffman’s because I feel like I came from a first professional stage role, and a Laura Turnbull gets to be the happy family,” the Coral Springs world away from the last time she mother she hoped she never would actress says. “Dysfunction was appeared on stage with her mother be, and she is delighted about it. not an everyday thing. As adults, and father, director/actor Avi Hoff- Ms. Turnbull is set to star in we can come back and say, ‘Wow, man, in a production of “Fiddler on Palm Beach Dramaworks’ produc- Mom was a little too tough on us at the Roof.” tion of “The Effect of Gamma Rays times.’” “It’s a very different experience,” on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,” But that is part of the challenge she says. “One, because it’s exclu- which opens Jan. 6. of bringing that bitter, abusive sively with my mom and there’s no “It’s interesting to take on a char- mother, Beatrice, to life. big musical numbers.” acter like this because she’s pretty “She got lost along the way,” Ms. The play hinges on Tillie’s sci- harsh. She’s not really going to Turnbull says of Beatrice. “But ence fair project — marigolds win mother of the year, not that I that’s more fun to play than the raised from seeds exposed to radia- assume that I could,” Ms. Turnbull person who is nice and is a Donna tion — and her mom’s desire to says. Reed role.” destroy any opportunities she has In the Pulitzer Prize-winning play And adding further to the chal- at succeeding, in part because the by Paul Zindel, she portrays a con- lenge is the casting of Ms. Turn- manic, drug-using Beatrice sees trolling single mom who thwarts bull’s own daughter, Arielle Hoff- any opportunities her daughters man, as Tillie, the girl who grows SEE MARIGOLDS, B4 w Society See who is out and about in Palm Beach Brazilian Court sets 8th annual author series County. B12, 15-17 w

SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY dicated columnist Liz Smith and fash- The Brazilian Court Hotel & Beach ion designer Arnold Scassi, becoming Club announces its 8th annual Author a member of the Board of Directors of Breakfast Series, moderated by Parker Literary Partners. The non-profit orga- Ladd and Jackie Weld. Mr. Ladd origi- nization aims to teach “the more than nally launched the Author Breakfast one million adult” New York popula- Series based on a television program tion who cannot read, write or count at he hosted on A&E, “The Open Book.” a fifth-grade level. Ms. Weld, a trustee of Literary “Once again, I am proud that we LADD WELD are providing a program with such Partners, now serves as the Honorary who has long been involved in the arts Chairman of the executive commit- diversity and we can look forward to and literary world of New York, will some very stimulating discussion,” tee. She is also a trustee of the writers’ moderate two of the six Author Break- organization PEN. said Mr. Ladd, founding moderator, in fast Series events this season. a written statement. “I am also happy Author breakfasts are held in the Mr. Ladd, a former English and his- ballroom of Café Boulud at The Brazil- to welcome Jackie Weld as an author tory teacher, worked at renowned interviewer. Her talent will be much ian Court, beginning at 8:45 a.m., con- Keeping the holiday light publishing house Charles Scribner’s cluding at 10 a.m. Reservations are appreciated.” Sons in New York City as a publishing How to throw a fun party with a Ms. Weld, a novelist and biographer executive. In the 1980s, he joined syn- SEE AUTHOR, B4 w minimum of fuss. B19 w B2 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY SANDY DAYS, SALTY NIGHTS Fig, fall into my mouth

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A look at the 2012 Author Breakfast Series Lineup:

■ Jan. 20 (mod- erated by Parker Ladd): Alexandra Sty- ron — “Reading My Father: A Mem- oir.” Part memoir, part eulogy. Ivana Lowell Louis family of prominent journalists STYRON — “Why Not Say and politicians on one side, debutante What Happened: A balls and equestrian trophies on the Memoir.” Born into one of the most other, Ms. Darst grew up hearing sto- celebrated Anglo-Irish families, the ries of past grandeur. Guinnesses, Ms. Lowell grew up at the whim of two literary heavyweights — ■ March 2 her mother, writer Lady Caroline (moderated by Park- Blackwood, and stepfather, poet Rob- er Ladd): ert Lowell. Sally Bedell Smith — “Eliza- ■ Jan. 27 (mod- beth the Queen: The erated by Jackie Life of A Modern Weld): Monarch.” Alice Hoffman BEDELL SMITH Michael Gross — “The Dovekeep- — “Unreal Estate: ers.” Ms. Hoffman’s Money, Ambition and Lust for the Land most ambitious and in Los Angeles.” mesmerizing novel, set in ancient Israel. ■ March 30 (moderated by Jackie MATTHEWS Chris Mat- most elite mystery Weld): thews — “Jack writers including a William Kuhn — “Reading Jackie: Kennedy: Elusive Hero.” News anchor tale of his own. Her Autobiography in Books.” and political commentator, Mr. Mat- Cherie Burns John Burnham Schwartz — thews, has written an extraordinary — “Searching for “Northwest Corner” — The New York biography based on personal interviews Beauty: The Life of Times Book Review called “Reserva- with those closest to JFK. Millicent Rogers.” tion Road” “a triumph,” and the novel Caesars: Lives of the Presidents from was universally acclaimed and made ■ Feb. 17 (moderated by Parker ■ Feb. 24 (mod- Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. into a major motion picture. Ladd): DEMILLE erated by Parker Bush.” Mr. Schwartz reintroduces the unfor- Nelson DeMille — “The Rich Ladd): Jeanne Darst — “Fiction Ruined gettable characters of “Reservation and The Dead.” This bestselling author Nigel Hamilton — “American My Family.” The youngest of four Road” in a superb new work of fiction introduces 20 original tales by today’s daughters in an old, celebrated St. that stands magnificently on its own. ■

this? MARIGOLDS “I think he’s very excited to come see “It’s a real-life slice of someone’s world and how they it. I think he’s really proud and I think From page 1 got through it.” he’s really excited that Mom and I get to act together,” she says. – Laura Turnbull, star of But Ms. Hoffman and her mom aren’t her own life as a failure. Tillie’s older the only members of the Turnbull-Hoff- sister Ruth bends to their mom’s will “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” man family who will be appearing on and is spared some of her wrath. the Palm Beach Dramaworks stage. That anger comes across in the writ- Turnbull says. emulate. I know who I am and I stick to Meet Harvey the rabbit. ing. And in a way that makes the play that, and that’s who Tillie is.” “The rabbit, named Harvey, is a the- “I think it’s very well written and has similar to life. But that’s where similarities end in ater bunny,” Ms. Hoffman says. “The something to say,” Ms. Turnbull says. “Until you break the pattern, make this production. play calls for a little white rabbit, coin- “There are moments, depending on the change, some dynamics in the fam- Ms. Turnbull brags about both of her cidentally we have a little white rabbit, how the mother is treating the daughter, ily unit just get passed on until someone daughters, Arielle, 17, and Liana, 13. and everybody loves him.” and you say, ‘Wow.’ breaks it,” she says. “Maybe it’s because “I adore them, and respect them in Harvey, who plays Peter, seems to “Paul Zindell says himself he based someone in the household doesn’t know so many ways and am proud to be enjoy the role. this on his mother. Write what you any better. I think in that way it’s kind their mom,” she says. “And this mother “He commutes with us. He came in know and that speaks volumes in a play of timeless.” doesn’t have those characteristics in so with us and was so friendly. It’s a family like this.” Just like the differences between sib- many ways.” affair with my mom and my rabbit,” she The reality of the storytelling spoke lings. And, unlike Tillie, Ms. Hoffman is says. “So he’s making his theater debut to her. “It’s interesting because I auditioned looking ahead to college with the sup- as well. He was destined for this.” ■ “It’s a real life slice of someone’s for the older sister. I didn’t know I port of two loving parents. world and how they got through it,” Ms. would be reading for the younger sister “In February, I start my college audi- in the know Turnbull says. until (producing artistic director Wil- tions, so I’ll be flying up to Chicago The play is not all dark, either. liam Hayes) told me I would be reading and New York to audition for a bunch >>What: “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man- “Arielle’s character is the light and the for the younger sister,” Ms. Hoffman of colleges and get in somewhere,” she in-the-Moon Marigolds” hope and that little bit of ‘I will survive says. “As I read the play more, I found says. “I have no idea where I’m going. It >>When: The show opens in previews Jan. 4-5; no matter what,’ she says, adding that that I was very similar to Tillie, the really just depends on where I get in.” offi cial opening night is 8 p.m. Jan. 6. Show runs she appreciates the diversity of the two younger daughter.” Top schools in the Chicago area through Jan. 29. characters. How so? include Northwestern, DePaul and Roo- >>Where: Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 It’s a play that frequently changes the “She is very different from her sister sevelt, she says. Clematis St., downtown West Palm Beach. people who assume its roles. and her mom in the play. She is very But she is hopeful to land in New >>Cost: $55 per person; student/Equity pric- “I’ve talked to a few people, a couple intelligent but thrives on being alone. York. ing at $10 also is available. of actresses, who’ve said to me, ‘This She would rather be working on a sci- “My top choice is Carnegie Mellon >>Info: 514-4042, Ext. 2, or www.palm- play changed my life because I played ence experiment or be with her rabbit,” and I’m also applying to Juilliard,” she beachdramaworks.org. the daughter and my mom came to see Ms. Hoffman says. “She has this inner says. and recognized herself in the play,’” Ms. self-confidence in her life that I try to So how does Dad feel about all of FLORIDA WEEKLY www.FloridaWeekly.com WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT B5 MUSINGS Type A in a Type C world mmode, and deception is the goal.” moves. All is given. — Robert Langs, “The Listening Process” And I leaving — did I ever enter? — Rx the garden fresh, each and every leaving [email protected] “Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa; never before, un-presented, unprece- hortush conclusus, fons signatus. (A gar- dented. Nude, descending the stare case. dend enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a A blurry of flashings and scintillation. IN (rising) garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.)” Untimely. How could such a package beginning: — Song of Solomon, 4: 12 been left unopened? “A B C: It’s easy. It’s like counting up to 3. Sing a simple melody.” “I am forgotten as a dead man out of ending: — Sampson Alan Mark & Sean Jay, mind: I am like a broken dish.” Do I ever leave? This is for you: “Easy As 1,2,3” — Psalm 31: 12 Beyond meaning, but not meaningless. Beyond action-discharge, but not still. middling: ending: No barrier and no content and no mys- “The Type A field is the one that “You have searched me and you know tery. Content. Beyond contentious and has generally been written about and me. You know when I sit and when I consensual. Not contextual. Totally rim thought of, especially by classical ana- rise. You perceive my thoughts from shot; sting snap shot. If there is getting lysts. It’s the field in which symbolic afar... If I go up to the heavens, you are lost, it likely happens here, de profundis communication prevails... It’s a play there. If I make my bed in the depths, clamavi. space, and a creative space, a field in you are there.” which illusion in also present… The — Psalm 139 (...... Type B field is what I call an action- ...... discharge field..., which has to do with (...... ) ■ taking contents within yourself, plac- ...... ) — Rx is the FloridaWeekly muse who ing them into the other person, not for middling: hopes to inspire profound mutiny in the purpose of understanding but to So: dreaming a little dream. get rid of them... It is not designed for all those who care to read. Our Rx may OUT (falling) be wearing a pirate cloak of invisibility, understanding. And the Type C field is In the master dance class of my beginning: but emanating from within this shadow the most fascinating of all because it’s dreams all is given. Given is the key- No framed dinner with Andre here. is hope that readers will feel free to really not been identified before... I call stone; given is the arch. The time, the This is a simply a glass of cold water respond. Who knows: You may even it the static field... It’s a very interesting place, the riddle and its answer that given in name to the least little one inspire the muse. Make contact if you field in that non-communication is the gives me entry: All is given. Monster party. Soon: the longest night of the dare. medium. Language is used in order not memories, Caesarian birth, sunshine year is over. The dreidels spin no more. to communicate. One is symbolic and threnody, moonshine plainchant: All is The wise men have come and gone via the other is interactional..., but in a Type given. Even the garb, the socks and the the long route. The ancient ancestors C field, all language is used as a barrier... tights sleep again, perhaps with the elves and Type C field is one in which mean- and the too, too many to be counted inglessness is the model, the lie is the caribou, the lion and the lamb. (Who?)

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Thursday, Dec. 29 perience, unabashed display of musical vir- tuosity. 9 p.m. Dec. 30. General admission $15. Bamboo Room, 25 S. J St., Lake Worth, ■ Story time session at the Loxa- 585-2583. hatchee River Center — 9:30 a.m. Thursdays, Burt Reynolds Park, 805 N. U.S. ■ West Palm Beach Antiques 1, Jupiter. Call 743-7123 or visit www.loxa- Festival — The show is open noon-5 hatcheeriver.org/rivercenter. p.m. Dec. 30, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 31 and 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Jan. 1 at the South Florida ■ Winter Break Paddle Camp — Ex- Fairgrounds, off Southern Boulevard just plore Jupiter waterways and beaches with east of U.S. 441, suburban West Palm Beach. Jupiter Outdoor Center counselors. Two Early buyers admission at 9 a.m. Dec. 30 is sessions: Dec. 26-30 and Jan. 2-6. Ages 6-14. $25. Adult daily admission $7, seniors $6 $250 per week. $75 per day. $450 for both with a $1 discount coupon for adult admis- weeks. 10 percent sibling discount. Call sion available at www.wpbaf.com. Free for 747-0063 or visit www.jupiteroutdoorcent- 16 and under. Phone: (941) 697-7475. er.com. ■ The Second City’s Improv All-Stars ■ Mos’Art Theatre — Screenings of “Be- — Dec. 30-Jan.1 — The world’s pre- ing Elmo” 4:45 p.m. and “The Way” 6:30 mier improv and sketch comedy theatre, p.m. Dec. 29. Tickets: $8. 700 Park Ave., introducing generations of comedy leg- The Capitol Steps perform New Year’s Eve at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Lake Park; 337-6763. ends. Sans scripts and inhibitions, the Sec- Tickets: $50, $60 and $85 for special VIP seats with Champagne toast and meet and greet. ond City’s Improv Allstars use audience ■ Matisyahu — 8 p.m. Dec. 29 — Few art- suggestions to create comedy on the spot litical events. Tickets: $50, $60 and $85 for and foreign relations as it relates to Israel ists make an impact as complete as the one – never seen before and never to be seen special VIP seats with Champagne toast & the United States, 1-2 p.m. Mondays, JCC Matisyahu made with his Top 40 hit “King again. Tickets $35-$50. The Kravis Center, and meet and greet. The Maltz Jupiter North, 4803 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gar- Without A Crown.” Here was a true origi- 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Theatre, 1001 E. Indiantown Road, Jupi- dens. Free/Friends of the J; $18 annual fee/ nal, the song announced — a Hasidic Jew- Call 832-7469 or visit www.kravis.org. ter. Tickets $43-$60. Call 575-2223 or visit guests; 712-5233. ish musician from New York singing reg- www.jupitertheatre.org. gae songs about his religious devotion. The ■ Old Northwood Historic District ■ Howie Mandel — Jan. 2-3 — The Lyric Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West 24th Annual Holiday Candlelight ■ New Year’s Eve Swing Time — 8 p.m. Theatre, 59 S.W. Flagler Ave., Stuart. For Palm Beach. Call 832-7469 or visit www. Home Tour — 5-9 p.m. Dec. 30 — Featur- Dec. 31 — An evening of celebration, live show times and tickets, call (772) 286-7827 kravis.org. ing 10 historic homes, architecture rang- swing music, hor d’ourves, and a Cham- or visit www.lyrictheatre.com. ing from Mediterranean Revival, Mission, pagne toast featuring Missy McArdle and ■ Howard & The White Boys — Tight Frame Vernacular and Art Deco. Tickets the Glen Rovelli Orchestra. Tickets: $35. Tuesday, Jan. 3 blues chops coupled with a natural versa- $30 prior/$35 day of event. Portion of pro- The Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave., tility at handling the funk, R & B, and rock. ceeds to benefi t Forgotten Soldiers Out- Lake Worth. Call 586-6410 or visit boxof- 8:30 p.m. Dec. 29. General admission $12. reach. Tour reception begins at 3510 Spruce fi [email protected]. ■ Hebrew for Beginners — This eight- Bamboo Room, 25 S. J St., Lake Worth, 585- Ave., West Palm Beach. Visit www.histori- week Hebrew course, taught by Gila John- 2583. chometours.com. ■ 15th New Year’s Eve Burning Bowl son, is designed to cover everything from and Guided Meditation Paddle Tour Aleph to Tav, (the Hebrew alphabet) to ■ Sailfi sh Marina Sunset Celebration ■ Best of Broadway Revue — 7:30 p.m. — 6-8 p.m. Dec. 31 — Jupiter Outdoor Cen- conversational Hebrew and beyond. Class- — Shop for arts and crafts made by artists Dec. 30 — Students from the Conservatory ter host guided kayak tour of Jupiter Inlet es tailored to meet the needs of participat- from around the country, 6 p.m. Thursdays, of Performing Arts present a musical revue Aquatic Preserve. Burning bowl ceremony, ing students. Session 2 is Nov. 1-Dec. 20. Sailfi sh Marina, east of the Intracoastal, including songs from “Brigadoon,” “Kiss meditation and campfi re. Adults $55. Chil- Session 3 is Jan. 10-Feb. 28. At JCC North, just south of Blue Heron Boulevard, Palm Me Kate,” “Once Upon a Mattress” and dren $25. Call 747-0063 or visit www.jupi- 4803 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens. Beach Shores; 842-8449. more. Adults $20. Students $15. The Maltz teroutdoorcenter.com. Price: eight-week session: $64/Friends of Jupiter Theatre, 1001 E. Indiantown Road, the J; $80/guests; 712-5233. ■ Dance Tonight — Open Latin/Ball- Jupiter. Tickets $43-$60. Call 575-2223 or ■ B-Liminal and Moska Project — Ring room mix party featuring live music by visit www.jupitertheatre.org. in New Year’s with reggae, rock and surf. ■ Mah Jongg & Canasta Play Ses- Jimmy Falzone every Thursday. Group les- Dec. 31. Guanabanas, 960 North A1A, Jupi- sions — Tables grouped by game prefer- son 8-9 p.m. Party 9-10:30 p.m. Admission Saturday, Dec. 31 ter. Call 747-8878 or visit www.guanaban- ence (mah jongg or canasta) and level of $15 for entire evening, includes light buffet. as.com. skill. Coffee, cold beverages and a variety 914 Park Ave., Lake Park. Call 844-0255. of goodies provided. 12:15-3:30 p.m. Tues- ■ West Palm Beach Greenmarket — ■ New Year’s Eve Spectacular — 8 p.m. days and Thursdays, JCC North, 4803 PGA ■ Science Becomes Art — Through 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays through April 14 at Dec. 31 — An evening of improv, sketch Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens. Price: Free/ Dec. 30 — The Max Planck Florida Foun- the Waterfront Commons, 101 S. Flagler and musical comedy, with dinner, dancing Friends of the J; $5/guest; 712-5233. dation presents a collection of 40 striking Drive, downtown West Palm Beach. Free and the ball drop from New York City. $40, photographs of scientifi c research from parking in the Banyan Street garage until 2 all inclusive. The Atlantic Theater, 6743 W. ■ Stayman Memorial Bridge — Su- around the world. First time these works p.m. Phone: 822-1515. Indiantown Road, Jupiter. Call the box of- pervised Play Sessions with Sam Brams, will be seen in the United States after trav- fi ce 575-4942 or visit www.theatlanticthe- 10 a.m.-noon Tuesdays, JCC North, 4803 eling Germany, Austria and Thailand. Palm ■ Kids Story Time — 11:30 a.m. Satur- ater.com. PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens. Play party Beach Photographic Centre, 415 Clematis days, Loggerhead Marinelife Center, 14200 bridge in a friendly atmosphere while ben- St., West Palm Beach. Please call 253-2600. U.S. 1, Juno Beach. Free; marinelife.org. ■ The Supreme Mary Wilson — Dec. 31 efi ting from expert advice with judgment and Jan. 3-7. Tickets: $350 for New Year’s calls and hand rulings. No partner neces- ■ Norton Museum of Art — Through ■ Bonerama New Year’s Eve — Even Eve, including cocktail party, dinner and sary. Coffee and light refreshments provid- Jan. 1: “Recent Acquisitions: Photography.” in a city that doesn’t play by the rules, New show. The Colony’s Royal Room, 155 Ham- ed. Price: Free/Friends of the J; $6/guests; Museum is at 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Orleans’ Bonerama is something different. mon Ave. in Palm Beach, just one block 712-5233. Beach. Art After Dark, with music, art dem- They can evoke vintage funk, classic rock south of Worth Avenue, one block west of onstrations, is 5-9 p.m. Thursdays. Admis- and free improvisation in the same set; the Atlantic Ocean. Call 659-8100. ■ Zumba class — 7:15-8:15 p.m. Tues- sion: $12 adults, $5 visitors 13-21; free for maybe even the same song. 10p.m. General days and 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays at members and children under 13. Hours: 10 admission $70. Bamboo Room, 25 S. J St., Sunday, Jan. 1 the Burns Road Recreation Center, 4404 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sun- Lake Worth, 585-2583. Burns Road, Palm Beach Gardens. Drop-in day; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. second Thursday of the fee, $12; resident discount, $10. 630-1100 or month. Closed Mondays and major holi- ■ BLAST! — 8 p.m. Dec. 31 — Winner of ■ Palm Beach Gardens GreenMarket www.pbgfl .com. days; 832-5196. the 2001 Tony Award for Best Special The- — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays through May 6. It’s atrical Event and the 2001 Emmy Award at City Complex, 4301 Burns Road. Phone: Wednesday, Jan. 4 Friday, Dec. 30 for Best Choreography, comprised of 35 756-3600. brass, percussion and visual performers brought together in a unique explosion of Monday, Jan. 2 ■ Yoga on the Waterfront — Wednes- ■ Mos’Art Theatre — Screenings of “Be- music and theatre. The Kravis Center, 701 day evenings 5:45 p.m. at the Lake Pavil- ing Elmo” and “Young Goethe in Love” Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Call ion, 101 S. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach. various times Dec. 29-Jan. 4. Opening night 832-7469 or visit www.kravis.org. ■ Timely Topics Discussion Group — Residents $40 per eight-week session. Non- tickets: $6. General admission: $8. 700 Park ■ Capitol Steps — New Year’s Eve — 5 Join this lively discussion group covering residents $50 per eight-week session. Drop- Ave., Lake Park; 337-6763. p.m. and 8 p.m. Dec. 31 — The ensemble the most up-to-date topics faced by our in’s $10 per class. To register, call 804-4902. ■ Spiritual Rez — Reggae funk dance ex- performs spoofs and satires of current po- local community including national affairs FLORIDA WEEKLY www.FloridaWeekly.com WEEK OF DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4, 2012 A&E B7 WHAT TO DO, WHERE TO GO

■ “Break Up Support Group” — 10 sea turtle release into the ocean. To be held er Center, 805 N. U.S. 1, Jupiter. Arts and a.m. Wednesdays, various locations in at 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays, and crafts for kids. Cost: $3; 743-7123. Palm Beach Gardens. Sponsored by The at 11 a.m. 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Saturdays. Ad- Counseling Group, which provides free mission is free; 14200 U.S. 1, Juno Beach; ■ Jupiter-Tequesta Orchid So- Christian counseling, classes and support 627-8280. ciety — The group meets at 7 p.m. the groups; 624-4358. second Wednesday of the month (next ■ Society of the Four Arts — Mu- meeting is Jan. 11) at the Jupiter Commu- ■ Hatchling Tales — 10:30-11:30 a.m. seum, library and gardens are at 2 Four nity Center, 200 Military Trail, Jupiter. Call Art Wednesdays, Loggerhead Marinelife Arts Plaza, Palm Beach. Admission: Free 746-7363. Center, 14200 U.S. 1, Juno Beach. Free; to members and children 14 and under, $5 ■ Classes marinelife.org. general public; 655-7226. Cultural Tours — Miami Beach: The Long Sandbar — 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Jan. For Adults, Teens, ■ Bridge Classes with Sam Brams — January Events 11 — JCC North, 4803 PGA Blvd. Learn the Children and Special Needs, 10-noon Wednesdays — JCC North, 4803 Jewish history of Miami. Pre-registration from Beginner to Professional, PGA Blvd. Six-week session $72 or $15/ required. $60 friends of the J/$70 guests. Daytime, Nights, Weekends. class. Pre-registration appreciated. Call ■ The Nylons — Jan. 5 — From Toron- Call Rhonda Gordon 712-5233. Register: LighthouseArts.org Rhonda Gordon 712-5233. to in the late 1970s to headlining Carnegie Hall, the platinum-selling Nylons may best ■ 30th Anniversary Hospice (Gift Certiicates Available) Ongoing Events be known for their hit, “The Lion Sleeps Evening honoring Helen Mes- Å Tonight.” 7 p.m. Tickets $35/$29. The Sun- sic — Jan. 13 — Hosted by the Palm Beach CERAMICS rise Theatre for the Performing Arts, 117 S. Membership of Hospice Foundation of ÅDRAWING ■ Painting exhibition by Marilyn Second St., Fort Pierce. Call the box offi ce Palm Beach County for the Honorary Life ÅJEWELRY Muller — Through Jan. 11 — Including (772) 461-4775 or visit www.sunrisetheatre. Chairman and other supporters. Begins at Å recent paintings from the local artist, at the com. 7 p.m. at The Breakers, Palm Beach with a MIXED MEDIA Palm Beach State College Eissey Campus champagne reception, followed by dinner, ÅOPEN STUDIOS Theatre Lobby Gallery. Open Mon.-Fri. ■ The Bronx Wanderers — 8 p.m. dancing and signature fashion presenta- ÅPAINTING 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and all performances. 11051 Jan. 6 — Mix of rock and roll, doo wop and tion — the Oscar de la Renta 2012 collec- Å Campus Drive, off PGA Boulevard. For fur- the Bronx. Tickets $35-$55. Call 278-7677 or tion presented by Saks Fifth Avenue, Palm PHOTOGRAPHY ther info, call 207-5905. visit www.SunsetEt.com. Eissey Campus Beach. Individual tickets $750. Junior tick- Theatre, Palm Beach State College, 11051 ets (age 40 and under) $450. To donate or ■ Fitness classes for women — Campus Drive off PGA Blvd. reserve a seat, contact Nita Mitchell 832- Classes are sponsored by the Jupiter Rec- 8585 or [email protected]. reation Department. Aerobic Dance is 8:30 ■ The God Upgrade: Finding your a.m. Mondays, Total Body Toning is 8:30 21st century spirituality in Judaism’s 5,000 ■ Famed Ragtime Pianist re- a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and Zumba year-old-tradition by Rabbi Jamie Korn- turns to Tequesta — Bob Milne — Latin Fitness Workout is 9:45 a.m. Tues- gold. 6:30 p.m. Jan. 6. Temple Judea, 4311 He’s played for George and Barbara Bush, days and Thursdays. First class is free to Hood Road. Call Mindy Hanken 712-5236 the Library of Congress and the Derry, Ire- new students. Cost of a fi ve-class fi tness or email [email protected]. land Jazz Festival. He returns to The Epis- card that allows for fl exible attendance copal Church of the Good Shepherd, 400 is $26.50 for Jupiter residents and $33 for ■ The Effect of Gamma Rays on Seabrook Rd., Tequesta on Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. non-residents. A fi ve-class Zumba card is Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds — Tickets $10. Students $5. Call 746-4674. $31.50 for Jupiter residents and $39.50 for Jan. 6-Jan. 29 — This Pulitzer Prize win- Student Art Exhibition by The Benjamin non-residents; 10-class cards also are avail- ning play by Paul Zindel depicts a mentally School — Jan. 13-Feb. 20 — Pre-kindergar- able. Classes will be held at the community unbalanced woman’s far-reaching effects ten through grade 12. Includes photogra- center, behind the Police Department on on the lives of her two daughters, while a phy and paintings. Eissey Campus Theatre Military Trail, Jupiter. For information, young girl struggles to keep her focus and Lobby Gallery, open Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 contact instructor Kathy Andio at 236-4298 dreams alive. Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 p.m. and at all performances, 11051 Campus or www.empoweringsolutionswithkathy. Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Individual Drive off PGA Blvd. Call 207-5905. com. tickets $55. Call the box offi ce 514-4042 ext. 2 or visit www.palmbeachdramaworks.org. ■ Flower Arranging — Fresh and Holiday ■ “Five Thousand Years on the Professional — 10 a.m.-noon on Fridays. Loxahatchee” — Jupiter Inlet Light- ■ Golden Dragon Acrobats — 8 Session 3: Jan. 13-Feb. 3. Session 4: Feb. ArtCamp house & Museum, 500 Captain Armour’s p.m. Jan. 9 — Hailing from the Repub- 24-March 16. JCC North, 4803 PGA Blvd. Way, Jupiter, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Sun- lic of China this troupe leaves audiences $140/session. Pre-registration required. Kids ages 4 to 12 day. 747-8380, Ext. 101; jupiterlighthouse. spellbound by the graceful presentation Call Rhonda Gordon 712-5233. January 2-6, 2012 org. of the ancient folk art of acrobatics includ- ing jugglers, cyclists and tumblers. Tickets ■ International Folk Dancing — Wondering what the kids will do ■ Flagler Museum — Museum is $25 and $30. Eissey Campus Theatre, Palm 1-2 p.m. Fridays Jan. 13-Feb. 3 — JCC North, on the holiday break? During the housed in Henry Flagler’s 1902 beaux-arts Beach State College, Palm Beach Gardens. 4803 PGA Blvd. Dance from Europe, Is- fun-filled days of camp, students mansion, Whitehall. The museum is at 1 Call 207-5900. rael and Greece. No experience or part- will combine seasonal art themes Whitehall Way, Palm Beach. Tickets: free ners needed. Pre-registration appreciated. and imagination to make ceramic for members; $18 adults, $10 youth (13-18 ■ “Cabaret” — Jan. 10-29 — The Kan- Walk-in’s welcome. Four-week session $8 creations, fine crafts and create art using classical techniques. years) accompanied by adult; $3 child (6-12 der and Ebb show is set amid the decadence Friends of the J/$16 guests. Each class $4 Space is limited! years) accompanied by adult; and free for of 1929 Weimar Germany’s netherworld Friends of the J/$6 guests. Rhonda Gordon Call now to register! children under 6. 655-2833. and follows the unlikely romance between 712-5233. writer Cliff Bradshaw and performer Sally ■ Children’s Research Station Bowles. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, 1001 E. ■ Remembering Haiti Walkathon — Loggerhead Marinelife Center pro- Indiantown Road, Jupiter. Tickets $43-$60. — In memory of the 300,000 who died in gram is designed to exercise children’s Call 575-2223 or visit www.jupitertheatre. the earthquake, 7 a.m.-noon Jan. 14 at 824 science skills through an experimental lab. org. Lake Ave., Lake Worth. Each child receives a lab coat, veterinary instruments, a worksheet, and their own ■ JCC North Book Club — The Lost ■ 5th Annual Give to Kids Car sea turtle replica to name and study. Kids Wife by Alyson Richman — Jan. 10. Free. Show — 9:30 a.m. Jan. 15 — presented by take their sea turtle’s straight and curved JCC North, 4803 PGA Blvd. Call 712-5233. MCSNT, the Inspire Club and SERods & measurements with a measuring tape and Customs at Jensen Beach High School, off calipers. Based on the measurements, Dr. ■ JCC North Author Event — Cele- Jenson Beach Boulevard. For information Logger helps the group place their turtles brating Sisterhood — 10 a.m. Jan 11. Women and registration, call Jordan 351-7075. Spec- into a size classifi cation to determine age from area Synagogue Sisterhoods come to- tators admitted free. School of Art: (561) 748-8737 and species. They role play taking blood gether for the fi rst community “Celebrating 395 Seabrook Road, Tequesta, FL 33469 with a syringe and learn about the differ- Sisterhood” brunch. Featuring Ilene ‘Gingy’ ■ Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Museum: (561) 746-3101 ent things a blood sample can reveal. The Beckerman and Ellen Frankel. Tickets $36. Class: A One Nun-sense musi- 373 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta, FL 33469 children look at X-rays, locate a hook in JCC North, 4803 PGA Blvd. Call 712-5233. cal event. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16. Tickets $30. LighthouseArts.org the turtle’s throat and learn more about the The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, 1001 E. Indian- steps necessary during sea turtle rehabilita- ■ River Totters Arts n’ Crafts — town Road, Jupiter. Tickets $43-$60. Call tion. Then, the group tags their turtles with 9 a.m. second Wednesday of each month 575-2223 or visit www.jupitertheatre.org. a unique number and mimics a successful (next session is Jan. 11), Loxahatchee Riv-