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Bill Yeats, the Irish poet, wrote a few So when he died Sunday morn- BBefore long, Nash didn’t see old lines once that aimed for candor about ing at 89 in Charlottesville, where wwhen he looked at Chet. how and why people devote themselves one of his two daughters had taken And now, I don’t see gone when to each other. charge of his care, it didn’t take me I look across the road. Instead, They ended like this: “…Only God, my long to recognize two facts. I see Chet watching still, there dear,/Could love you for yourself alone/ One, I had just witnessed an wwhere the century-old oaks paint And not your yellow hair.” example of unleavened love, the ttheir green-limbed dreams with Yeats was wrong, though. Not about kind Yeats did not consider, deliv- a thousand fingers, brushing the the way most young people cherish each ered in unison by individuals who bbelly of the pregnant sky. other, which was the pretext of his poem have different interests, live in dif- There, where she’ll soon give “For Anne Gregory,” but about the way ferent places, and carry on with bbirth to the future, and the strong, any of us can love each other if we choose. widely different temperaments ssteady pulse of his long life is I learned this again as I watched the and ambitions. ssilent now. children, their spouses and a grandson And two, no matter what any- The fact is, Chet was never Old. he helped raise step in to care for their body else says, there is really no HHis mother didn’t name him “Old.” father and my neighbor, Chester Schene- such thing as “old people.” There are off theh time,i we usedd to sneakk out iin OldOld wasn’t his job, his vocation or his man, over the last three years. people who have quit or given up, but my old red International pick-up truck, style. Old, hell. There is no Old, even in They loved him for himself alone (just that can happen at any age. The only way buy a highly illegal pineapple ice-cream a nation where 13 percent of the popula- as he loved them), and they did it in a to know this, though, is to spend some sundae, and roar up and down the farm tion, more than 40 million people, are particularly American way, at least as I time with those accused of being old. roads outside of town laughing like fools. now 65 or older. Or in a Sunshine State imagine it. I’ve been doing that piecemeal since That’s when I began to see beyond her where 17.7 percent of the 19 million resi- Like many American families, theirs I was 18, when I used to visit a working- yellow hair, which had turned steel gray dents were born before the sun ever rose is spread out. So they had to come from class nursing home in my college town and usually clung matted and flat to her on the second half of the 20th century. all over the map for extended periods to “to help somebody in need,” as I once skull, tied back and I doubt washed more Chet, of course, couldn’t have cared sample some of his undying good cheer, announced self-importantly to my mother. than once every couple of weeks. less whether a demographer or some and to share theirs with him — either Turns out, I was the one in need. And I It was something like that with Chet, young whippersnapper called him old. here in Florida or in Crete last spring, was the one who benefitted the most, not too, as my family and I did things for He lived fully in each day until the day where his oldest son keeps a home. that old woman they introduced me to, him — a little shopping, some transport he didn’t. And then he signed off, prob- To meet up, they traveled from Ari- the one who had no family or apparent to doctors, an occasional task around his ably the same way he always signed off, zona, Tennessee, Virginia, or from an friends and never received any visitors. place. He wasn’t pretty to look at, but he in person or by phone, either one. active-duty billet on the bridge of a Navy She was foul-mouthed, fearless, unin- was beautiful to behold. “I’m out,” he’d say. warship in the Mediterranean, some- hibited and big-hearted, a Kansas farm Hands down, we got the most out of But never old. ■
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The video created a political firestorm in Britain, Florida Media Group LLC included in a statement by Pfc. Bradley includes radio transmissions between whose equivalent to the National Secu- Pason Gaddis Manning, read by his defense attorney the soldiers, joking about the violence rity Agency, the Government Commu- [email protected] David Coombs, at a press conference they were committing. nications Headquarters (GCHQ), has Jeffrey Cull following Manning’s sentencing to 35 While the video, released by WikiLeaks come under equal scrutiny for wide- [email protected] years in military prison for releasing under the title “Collateral Murder,” is spread surveillance. Jim Dickerson hundreds of thousands of documents to graphic, the additional releases by Man- David Coombs finished reading Man- [email protected] the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. ning shed a bright light on the classified ning’s statement at the post-sentencing Street Address: The statement accompanies Manning’s wars being waged by the U.S. govern- press conference: “When I chose to FLORIDA WEEKLY request to President Barack Obama for ment, far from public view. The War disclose classified information, I did so 11380 Prosperity Farms Road, Suite 103 a presidential pardon. Diaries (http://wardiary.wikileaks.org) out of a love for my country and a sense Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33410 Across the Atlantic, David Miranda, include hundreds of thousands of field of duty to others.” Addressing President Phone 561.904.6470 • Fax: 561.904.6456 the partner of journalist Glenn Gre- reports from both Afghanistan and Iraq. 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Thirty-three years later, those eyes sparkle like emeralds as Madame Zeani, who lives in suburban West Palm Beach, talks about her career, first as a perform- er then as a teacher. “I was the age of 6 in the countryside and I was singing all the time to my mother,” she says. She sings a ditty in a low, even tone. “I cannot say that there was a moment Virginia Zeani and her husband, Nicola Rossi in my life that I did not sing or whistle,” Lemeni, in the 1960s. she says. She whistles, letting loose a bril- liant trill that resonates throughout her elegantly appointed living room. “I was 5 or 6 and I would whistle in the >> What: Venetian Arts Society Gala Salon garden for the birds.” celebrating the life and career of Virginia Rocky, her perky bichon frisé, barks his Zeani. approval. >> When: 6:30 p.m. Sept. 28 Madame Zeani will turn 88 in October, >> Where: Cinema Paradiso, 503 SE Sixth St., and she still draws applause, whether it’s Fort Lauderdale at home or in public. >> Cost: $45 non-members, $30 mem- Lately, she has drawn accolades. bers In 2010, Classical Singer magazine >> Info: (954) 709-7447 or willie@venetian- named her Teacher of the Year. Also in artssociety.org 2010, King Michael of Romania awarded her his highest honor, “Nihil Sine Deo.” America was exhausting, she says. One And on Sept. 28, the Venetian Arts winter, she performed four separate Society of Fort Lauderdale will hold a dates, making the trans-Atlantic crossing golden anniversary salon in Madame each time. Zeani’s honor, including the screening of “I was not trying to have celebrity. I a documentary that will offer highlights was trying to work hard and to have an of her career. honest career. This was my idea, and I “She’s such a charming woman. The COURTESY PHOTOS am so happy when I see people of a cer- audience is going to eat her up with a The eyes have it: A glamour shot of Virginia Zeani taken in the 1950s or ’60s. tain age that heard me on the stage and spoon,” said William Riddle, executive they say, ‘Oh, we had a big emotion, we director of the Venetian Arts Society. were so happy.’ They never make public- Still quite elegant, she is every inch the ity of this,” she says. diva, but she is very approachable. She does remember much of the pub- “She is very positive, but very strong. licity surrounding Callas. An international diva is not a wallflower, “When she died, I passed from here so I found out from the very beginning to there, I arrived in Bucharest to record what a strong persona this woman has,” ‘Tosca’ and I called home and the house- said one of Madame Zeani’s former keeper said my husband was not home students, Marilyn Mims, herself an inter- because he was called to the Italian nationally known soprano, and now a television network because Callas was vocal instructor at Palm Beach Atlantic dead,” she says. University. Madame Zeani’s husband had trav- Madame Zeani honed that personality eled on the same ship as Callas from in a world that was much as it had been the United States to Italy shortly before centuries before. Callas made her famous debut in “La “I was born in the countryside in Gioconda” at the Arena in Verona in Romania, where there was no electricity, 1947. Both had been engaged to sing in no water, nothing. It was a peasant place, “Turandot” in Chicago but the company so I stayed there until the age of 6,” she folded before the show opened. says. She was born in 1925. In Verona, Callas had wowed the No electricity meant no radio and little crowd while singing at a home. Madame exposure to the outside world. Zeani’s husband introduced her to the “I heard always the gypsies and I was Virginia Zeani and her husband, Nicola Rossi Lemeni, star in “The Tales of Hoffman.” artistic director of the Verona Opera so enchanted that every time they played Festival. for Sunday afternoons singing with, By then, Romania had come under “Puritani;” she had not realized they “She was this big woman, and she as the French say, “bouche bée,” open the communist government that would were close in age. sings Norma. And everybody says, ‘My mouth,” she says, her accent revealing rule for more than 40 years. She did not This time, it was love at first sight. God, she can sing Gioconda,’ because her Romanian roots. see her parents for 16 years after she left Within a week, Mr. Rossi Lemeni she had this immense, solid sound, with Then at age 9, she fell in love with Romania for Italy. asked her to marry him. She accepted which sound she sang a lot of Wagner in opera after seeing a production of “Mad- She learned major roles and worked three weeks later, and they married in the beginning of her life,” Madame Zeani ama Butterfly.” toward winning leads at regional opera Rome the next spring. says. “People forget these things. They “I saw ‘Butterfly’ and I came home and houses. Her pregnancy with their son Ales- write stupidity. She died for stupidity. I’m I told my mother I would be an opera Then, in 1948, her big break came. sandro may partially explain her absence sorry.” singer. She told me to forget these stupid Soprano Margherita Carosio fell ill from the American stage. It never was easy for Callas, who was things,” she says. and the Teatro Duse in Bologna needed Rudolf Bing, general manager of the a teen in German-occupied Greece dur- That exposed her to a bold, new world. a replacement for its Violetta in Verdi’s Metropolitan Opera, had tried to engage ing World War II, had a brilliant career, a “For me, the first important thing was “La Traviata.” her. failed marriage, an ill-fated romance with to hear the radio. The second was to see Madame Zeani was available. She had signed a two-year contract, Aristotle Onassis, then died under mys- the bathroom in porcelain,” Madame She was all of 22, and she was a sensa- then married and then was awaiting the terious circumstances in 1977. Zeani says, laughing. tion. She sang Violetta more than 600 birth of her son. times over the course of her career. “I didn’t come, and Bing was upset for “Maria was always unhappy with Learning opera That led to tours all over Europe, years,” she says. everything,” Madame Zeani says. including performances in England dur- He was powerful, and could make At 13, she moved to Bucharest and Second career began to study music in earnest. She sang ing Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation year. or break singers’ careers in the United There would appear to be nothing in a church choir and she paid for lessons States. His firing of soprano Maria Callas unhappy about Madame Zeani. with the nominal fee she received for her Operatic couple in 1958 created a scandal. For more than 30 years, Madame Zeani choral work. It was at Milan’s La Scala that her per- Madame Zeani managed to avoid has been known as an inspired teacher. She came of age during World War II, sonal destiny was fulfilled. that. After all, she enjoyed following her Around the time she and Mr. Rossi and in March 1947, at age 21, she traveled She made her debut there in 1956 as husband and had a solid career in Italy. Lemeni were curtailing their stage to Milan to study with tenor Aureliano Cleopatra in Handel’s “Julius Caesar.” She even created a role, that of Blanche careers, they received an invitation to Pertile. She also learned from conductor Bass Nicola Rossi Lemeni, with whom in Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogue of the teach at Indiana University in Bloom- Arturo Toscanini’s coaches at La Scala, she had briefly sung in Bellini’s “I Puri- Carmelites,” for the opera’s premiere at ington, academic home to some of the the world-famous opera house in Milan. tani” in Florence, had the title role. He La Scala. had been costumed as an older man in Traveling back and forth to dates in nation’s top musicians, including Joshua FLORIDA WEEKLY www.FloridaWeekly.com WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 NEWS A9
Bell, Sylvia McNair, Chris Botti, Leon- woman. I was a graduate student,” Ms. ard Slatkin, Hoagy Carmichael and Ms. McNair says. “I didn’t have a hundred Mims. dollars, and here swans into my life a “I think I was one of the first to enroll prima donna assoluta.” as one of her private voice students. I had And a prima donna she remains. only been studying singing for, like, two On a busy afternoon, Madame Zeani or three years at that point,” Ms. McNair holds court in the living room as two says by phone from Bloomington, where vocal students, sopranos from Romania she also has followed Madame Zeani’s and from Switzerland, greet visitors. path as a singer and a teacher. “I was an She helps those students train their idiot. I didn’t know anything. I had no voices and they help her around the idea the legendary career this woman house. In the past year, arthritis in her had had and was still having at that point. knee has made walking painful, and she I had no idea that she was an artist on frequently uses an elegant silver-capped the same level as Maria Callas, Renata cane. Tebaldi — the great divas. They were the When she needs assistance, she sings reigning prima donnas at the great opera out to the students, who match her note houses for two to three decades.” for note, tone for tone. Ms. McNair, a soprano who has had She still drives, calling it “my great an impressive international career of her joy.” own, was in awe. Madame Zeani and But beyond that joy are her legacies of husband had moved from Rome. music and family. “So she moved to the middle of a “It’s not just about her gift, or my cornfield in southern Indiana and all I gift. It’s about the gift that we’re pass- knew at that point was what I heard on a ing down to future generations. It has recording or two. I didn’t realize what I such tentacles in the world of singing,” was walking into,” she says. ABOVE: A recent portrait of soprano Virginia said Ms. Mims, who named her daugh- Zeani. RIGHT: Madame Zeani as Violetta in “La Madame Zeani says her husband had ter Virginia, also a classical singer, after Traviata.” been invited to teach in Bloomington. Madame Zeani. “Thank you, God, that “We were thinking, no it’s not possible. Mr. Rossi Lemeni died in 1991; Madame they did come to America, because I do We refused. Then the dean called again Zeani continued to teach in Blooming- not think that there would be a lot of Ital- and called again,” she remembers. “And ton until 2002, when she settled in West ian bel canto singing going on.” at a certain point, I said to Nicola, ‘You Palm Beach after visiting former student As for family, her son, Alessandro, a have to go see this university. It’s the best Marilyn Mims. physician, lives around the corner from in the world, very well organized.’” Ms. Mims met Madame Zeani after her with his wife and son. He liked the campus and persuaded his auditioning in 1984. “I have family who are ex-Italian who wife to come see. “I sang two very difficult arias with are American. Everybody has to find the “My friends in Rome said, ‘You are my audition at 10 a.m., and I wrote her a country of the dreams of every Europe- here so important. In Indiana, you have note. She immediately called me on the an, America. Now, if our dreams are not to go with the Indians.’ But I was curioso phone, and I’ll never forget that phone the same, who cares? It’s a great, great so I came to visit him,” she says. call because I couldn’t understand a country. After Italy, which is difficult at She also liked the town and the cam- word she was saying,” Ms. Mims says. this moment, I would never want to live pus. Madame Zeani did not really learn teaching by demonstration, which meant in another place.” “I was 56, he would be 61 and we said, English until she settled in the United I got to hear her sing a lot. That meant She muses some more, then, with a ‘What the hell?’ … I came to Indiana and States. I was hearing this voice as beautiful as prima donna’s largesse, she calls for lived with the Indians and they didn’t kill “Bless her heart, I doubt she spoke five the purest diamond coming out of the Champagne and the laughter me, so I stayed there 24 years.” words of English, so she did a lot of her face and body of this drop-dead gorgeous continues. ■ A10 NEWS WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY The loss of a pet can cause incomprehensible grief For those of us who are NOT animal tional bonding and the quality of other Gardens resident, she holds degrees llovers, please indulge a discussion that relationships in our lives will be a deter- from Cornell and Columbia and trained wwill hopefully speak to the hearts of the mining factor. Some of us will find that at the Ackerman Institute for Fami- lindaLIPSHUTZ ffolks who’ve been smitten by their four- intense feelings can be triggered even ly Therapy in Manhattan. She can be llegged friends. years after the loss; upon the sighting an reached at 561-630-2827, online at www. [email protected] When an individual forges an intense animal on the street, or an anniversary palmbeachfamilytherapy.com, or on bbond with a beloved pet, the passing date that passes. Twitter @LindaLipshutz. of this creature may be an excruciating We may feel a bit Gina blinked twice and did a double loss. Those of us who’ve never estab- defensive or embar- take. The neighbor’s new dog looked lished this level of connection with rassed that we’re strug- just like Fluffy. But, of course it wasn’t animals may not be able to fathom this gling the way we do. Fluffy. pain. We may be genuinely baffled by When those around us Gina fought to hold back tears. Her the intense grief reactions shown and minimize the loss or beloved poodle, Fluffy had died six may truly believe: “It’s just an animal imply it’s inappropriate months ago after a protracted illness, after all.” To imply that one should to react so strongly to and Gina had been heartsick ever since. move on, and not grieve, may uninten- the loss of a non-human, She couldn’t stop crying, and had lost tionally communicate a callous insensi- we may become hurt or her zest for so many of the activities tivity to another’s loss — a loss that can highly offended, and our she’d previously enjoyed. be quite real, and quite deep. grieving process may be Her husband Phil, had been just as Some of us have had very limited hampered. upset about losing Fluffy at first, but or compromised social interactions in Sometimes our family he’d bounced back a lot quicker. Lately, it our every day lives. We may have had members are at a loss seemed as if Phil was becoming increas- hurtful or disappointing relationships on how to be support- ingly more frustrated with her. He was with others, or discouraging experi- ive to us. They may feel too diplomatic to say: “Enough already,” ences or setbacks. However, with our awkward and frustrated, but everything about his demeanor and pets, we may feel free to show an unin- and desperate for life tone of voice implied that he believed it hibited, playful side of ourselves we’re to return to the way it was about time she let go of the sadness. too intimidated to display anywhere was. They don’t always He wanted to enjoy himself, and Gina’s else. And, we may actually like this side understand that they somber mood was dragging him down. of ourselves. can be show tremendous Gina and Phil had no children. When Coming home daily to a pet that compassion, even when she told others that Fluffy had been accepts our flaws and loves us uncon- saying nothing; just by her beloved child, she knew they just ditionally may be a source of enormous squeezing our hands and didn’t understand. She knew they were comfort and joy. And, for those of us communicating patient thinking: “How can you equate feelings who have not have children of our own acceptance. for an animal with the love of a child?” (whether by choice or circumstance) We should never One acquaintance had seemed almost our pets may have filled an emotional underestimate the pow- belligerent when Gina had confided void, offering a fulfilling sense of family erful draw of a bond how much she missed Fluffy. “Come connection. with a being that loves Have you seen Otis? on, Gina. It’s just a dog. But, then again, All of us handle grief in a very unique us unconditionally, ask- I guess if you’ve never had children of and individual way. We may not fully ing very little in return. Friends: I was finalizing the last details of this article your own, you might equate the two.” understand what we are feeling, or even Losing this comfort and when I received notice that my beloved dog, Otis, a It took every bit of restraint for Gina to comprehend why we are being impact- source of joy can be 10-pound male Havanese, white with tan markings, ran keep from smacking her. ed the way we are. incomprehensible. ■ away while under the care of a trusted pet sitter. We Gina had eventually stopped talking The level of grief we experience will have been searching frantically for him since August 19. about Fluffy to some of her girlfriends often be determined by our stage of life — Linda Lipshutz, He was last seen at 13410 South Shore Boulevard in Wel- because of reactions like this. If others and particular life circumstances, the M.S., LCSW, is a psy- lington. 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Love, labor, lost jjob, running a house painting business it. He made himself content with the for low-wage workers keeping them tto increase his earnings. That extra benefits of a sustained and predict- there. The path is closing that made it iincome enabled my brother to go to able path that allowed for a decent possible for my father and millions of leslieLILLY ccollege, paid for the family automo- standard of living. Its benefits included others to aspire to a middle class stan- [email protected] bbiles, and eventually resulted in enough the ability to buy a home; health and dard of living. ssavings to purchase a lakeside cabin medical coverage; a modest income on Once upon a time, we thought about wwhere my father spent his retirement retirement; savings that allowed him to the economy and American workers dif- years, growing a beautiful vegetable pursue his gardening and to go fishing ferently. The U.S. Department of Labor My dad left home in search of a job garden, and tending a grape vineyard now and then; and an annual trip dur- says on its website, “The vital force of during the heart of the Great Depres- from which many a bottle of Florida ing the holidays to visit the kids, now labor added materially to the highest sion when he was 17 years old. I have an wine was made. grown and gone. Today, who among the standard of living and the greatest pro- old photograph of him taken in South My dad was a hard-working man. nation’s working families would not be duction the world has ever known and Carolina in the National Guard. He had The fruits from his labor enabled my grateful for just this much? This was a has brought us closer to the realization a gun, a uniform, and a small stipend brother and me to grow up in a safe humble American Dream and now it’s of our traditional ideals of economic that enabled him to get started with his neighborhood, in a modest home with a gone missing. and political democracy. It is appro- life in those lean years. During World stay-at-home mom. When I think about The origins of Labor Day a hundred priate, therefore, that the nation pays War II he joined the Navy, worked in the working people of this country and years ago are still subject to debate, but tribute on Labor Day to the creator of the mailrooms of the Atlantic fleet and the diversity today’s workers represent, there is no doubt its catalyst was a grow- so much of the nation’s strength, free- learned the postal business. On dis- I think of my father. Having experi- ing appreciation for the workers whose dom, and leadership — the American charge from the Navy, he went to work enced the uncertainty of hard economic labors were building the country toward worker.” in the U.S. Post Office in Jacksonville times, the job security he enjoyed then greatness. It is hard to find evidence of The nation’s love of its labor seems where our family took root. As a rail- as a government employee was both a that thankfulness now. Labor Day seems lost; and, if the plight of American work- way postal clerk, he worked in a mail blessing and a curse. He might have had in majority repurposed as a shopping ers now are any indication, we have no car on the Ham and Jack line for 30 ambition to do more with his life, but he event and the last hurrah of summer. cause for celebration. ■ years. Over time, moving mail by air grew up in a time and in a circumstance Large parades of marching union locals, and truck became more common, and that the yoke of responsibility was great vast picnics celebrating the communi- — Leslie Lilly is a native Floridian railway postal clerks went the way of to provide for his family as his first and ties’ workers and their families, and the and immediate past president and CEO the dinosaur. only priority. I will never know all the flowery speeches in praise of the Ameri- of the Community Foundation for Palm When his job disappeared, Dad man- sacrifices he made to stay put and make can worker are in short supply. Blame it Beach and Martin Counties. Her profes- aged the transition successfully. He do, in order to bring home a regular on the poisonous political climate and sional career spans more than 25 years scrambled for an appointment for and paycheck. the Darwinian economics of our time. in the charitable sector, leading major served three years as a postmaster of a There was no flavor of entitlement to Unions are demonized. Suspicion and philanthropic institutions in the South small rural post office in central Flor- it. He worked hard as a public servant derision are broadly caste upon work- and rural Appalachia. She resides with ida. When he retired, his work history providing a needed service. Yet he had ing people trying to make a livable her family and pugs in Jupiter. Email her spanned more than 60 years, most of no illusions about the limitations of the wage. 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Otherwise weakening of be navigating this new system,” said in the service district: Palm Beach, Certified Sedation Dentist and is highly muscles causing drooping of the eyelid should Andrea Stephenson, executive direc- Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River and reliable, safe & effective for comfort & be a very rare occurrence. tor of HCSEF. “It is vitally important Okeechobee counties. amnesia during all types of dental treatment. Further confusion can arise when selecting for people to understand their options, Local health councils work with which product to use. Most studies show then to enroll in the appropriate plans, communities on efforts designed to that each product’s effectiveness and results and finally to effectively utilize the are comparable to one another. I recommend improve access to health care, reduce choosing a particular product if you have used health benefits they will have.” disparities in health status, assist state it in the past and were happy with the results. USF will oversee and work with a and local governments in the develop- Overall, any of these products offer a pain- consortium of 10 partners, including ment of sound and rational healthcare free, quick and safe procedure to give you a HCSEF, to reach and assist individu- policies and advocate on behalf of wrinkle free, relaxed and youthful appearance. als and families throughout the state. vulnerable and underserved popula- To see if Botox is right for you, please call my office to schedule a free consultation. Navigators will be trained and certi- tions. ■ Dr. Jay Ajmo earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree Dr. Lipan’s interests are focused on facial plastic surgery, from Emory University School of Dentistry in 1986. He is having completed a fellowship at Stanford University, a an active member of The American Academy of Cosmetic position accredited by the America Academy of Facial Plastic Dentistry and designated Master Cosmetic Dentist by the and Reconstructive Surgery. Rosenthal Institute for Aesthetic Dentistry. Originally from New York City, Dr. Lipan He’s been awarded Diplomate Certification from the completed undergraduate work at Cornell University, went Good Samaritan Medical Center International Congress of Oral Implantologists, Diplomate on to graduate in the top of his class with a distinction in from the American Dental Implant Association and a research at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and then trained Mastership from the Misch International Implant Institute. with well-respected facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons He’s a member of The American Academy of Oral at the University of Miami. Dr. Lipan resides in Palm Beach offers video monitoring for Implantologists.Dr. Ajmo is Board Certified in IV sedation Gardens with his wife and their two daughters. and maintains an active membership with the American Society of Dental Anesthesiology. patients with seizures Jay L. Ajmo D.D.S.,P.A. Gardens Cosmetic Center PGA Center for Advanced Dentistry 4060 PGA Blvd. Suite 203 SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY “By adopting this procedure, we’ve 7100 Fairway Dr. Suite 59 Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 greatly improved our patients’ qual- Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418 561-626-3223 Good Samaritan Medical Center’s ity of care,” said Mark Nosacka, CEO xÈ£ÈÓÇnÈÈÈÊUÊÜÜÜ°*`iÌÃÌÀÞ°V www.gardenscosmeticcenter.com neurodiagnostic department now at Good Samaritan Medical Center, offers long-term video-EEG monitor- in a prepared statement. “The pro- ing for patients cess is extremely who suffer from safe and effective seizures. This in diagnosing sei- Got Download? technology allows zures and non- staff to simulta- epileptic attacks.” neously view the The best candi- patient’s brain dates for the vid- activity and physi- eo-EEG monitor- cal behaviors on ing are those who The iPad App two monitors. have never been One cam- clearly diagnosed. It’s Local. It’s Entertaining. It’s Mobile. era uses an EEG The process (electroencepha- allows patients logram) to record to find out more electrical activity information about It’s FREE! in the brain while their condition. a second focuses Based on the Search Florida Weekly in the on the room to results, a doctor iTunes App Store today. ensure the patient’s safety if an epi- will prescribe a drug treatment plan sode occurs. The video-EEG camera specific to the patient’s needs. has an attached microphone to capture To learn more about Good Samari- iPad is a registered trademark the patient’s verbalizations and allow tan Medical Center, or to find a doctor, of Apple, Inc. All rights reserved. staff to describe what they are seeing visit www.goodsamaritanmc.com or Visit us online at www.FloridaWeekly.com in real time. call 655-5511. ■ A14 BUSINESS WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY MONEY & INVESTING The runaway cost of educating a nation thatt total U.S. credit card debt is loan. Repayment timing is skewed to ability of federal loans did, by reen- smaller,s at a mere $800 billion. the tail end or maturity of the loan. forcing a circle of rising costs being When a citizen hears these big However, a percentage of the loans able to be easily financed. jeannetteSHOWALTER, CFA numbers,n they likely think: how could to students who are still in school Now, instead of the U.S. govern- [email protected] students loans have outpaced credit will ultimately get reclassified into a ment seeing the mess that it has made, cardc debt levels? Will student loans limbo state. Assuming 33 percent of a new proposal by President Obama getg repaid? What is the U.S. govern- the 23 percent gets reclassified into will thicken the plot of student loan ment’s ultimate exposure to all this nonpayment for whatever reason, originations. As proposed, the fed- Few U.S. citizens are aware that debt? then a whopping 40 percent of the eral government, through the Depart- federal liabilities currently total close First, the federal exposure to stu- $569 billion (or $227 billion) might ment of Education, would begin rank- to $17 trillion. Some $12 trillion is dent loans is mostly through direct well be in trouble. ing colleges and universities. The issued debt or government bonds. federal lending, at $569 billion. Sec- But that is just the numbers on rankings will consider graduation The balance of liabilities is mostly ond, the government has guaranteed direct loans and does not consider the rates, incomes upon graduation, stu- IOUs to the various trust funds of some $429 billion of private sector exposure of the U.S. government on dents who went on to earn advanced the social programs, Social Security, student loans, also known as Federal loans that it has guaranteed. degrees, cost effectiveness, ability to Medicare, etc. To see the breakdown Family Education Loans. The balance Estimates of collectability of FFEL deliver quality education and/or his- for yourself, visit www.Treasury HDi- of federal loans is de minimis. loans, those that are guaranteed, is tory of widening the gates for lower rect.gov. As per the reports of the National found in a study, “Student Loans: Title incomes students. Somehow a matrix Fewer citizens are cognizant that Student Loan Program Data System IV Student loan Program Metrics” by is supposed to emerge that will allow the U.S. federal government has (third quarter of federal fiscal year, Mark Weadick of Student Loan Capi- the federal government to grant more directly loaned more than $569 bil- ended June 30), some 41 percent of tal Strategies LLC. As of June 30, 2012, money to better-ranked colleges or lion just to fund loans to students the $569 billion in direct loans is cur- the percentage of FFEL loans in for- lower loan rates to their students. for their post-secondary education rently in “repayment.” bearance or default was 34 percent. Student loans are HUGE and grow- and the government has guaranteed A meaningful percentage of stu- Based on a combined forbearance ing faster than consumer credit. They another $429 billion of student loan dent loans has questionable credit and default rate of 34 percent, some are already deeply troubled. Their debt. status or is in actual default. Spe- $145 billion in loans currently have a “long tail” nature makes it impossible And even fewer citizens connect cifically, 5 percent is on default, 8 high probability of not being repaid… to know today how bad the future those dots to come to an understand- percent is in forbearance; 13 percent and that is before any extrapolation ultimate repayment will be. The cure ing that the U.S. borrowed money is being deferred; 7 percent is in a of student loans that have not even being proposed by the current admin- from domestic and foreign lenders “grace” period; summed, 33 percent entered repayment status. istration is far from a cure and only (and is paying interest on the debt) is in limbo. How did these student loan num- deepened the government’s reach and in order to turn around and make The balance, 23 percent of direct bers get to be so very big? They grew adds complexity to a very messy sec- loans to students and that the U.S. is student loans, relates to students still at a rapid rate since 2007. The direct tor of spending. ■ realistically on the hook for billions in school. Therefore, the credit status loan portion grew by 500 percent, more as student defaults will trigger of the 23 percent will take several from $100 billion in 2007 to $569 bil- — Jeannette Showalter, CFA is a performance of the federal guarantee. years to be determined, as these loans lion in 2013! commodities broker with Worldwide Of the $1.2 trillion in total student do not require current interest and/ Did the number of students attend- Futures Systems, 239-571-8896. Find loans currently outstanding, approxi- or principal repayments. Hence, stu- ing college increase by 500 percent her on Facebook at Jeannette Show- mately $1 trillion is tied to the U.S. dent loans are called “long tail” loans over the same period? No. College alter, CFA. government. To put the size of stu- because so much of the payment does costs exploded. And what allowed dent loans in perspective, consider not happen on the beginning of the college costs to explode? The avail-
Cris Martinez joins WPBF 25 First Alert Weather Team SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY 25 President and General Manager ple safe and informed while personally Caroline Taplett. “Cris has a real pas- addressing their questions and concerns. The WPBF 25 First Alert Weather sion for weather. The combination of I couldn’t ask for a better team to be a Team expands to five severe weather his expertise and engaging on-air per- part of than WPBF 25 First Alert Weather, experts with the addition of Meteo- sonality fully complement our existing and I’m especially excited to collaborate rologist Cris Martinez from WGCL in weather team and will give our view- with Mike Lyons, who’s been forecasting Atlanta, the station announced. ers one more reason to watch the most here for over two decades.” Mr. Martinez holds the Certified accurate and trusted group of forecasters Mr. Martinez has been affiliated with Broadcast Meteorology (CBM) Seal of in the West Palm Beach market.” Big Brothers/Big Sisters, March of Dimes, Approval from the American Meteoro- “I knew from a very young age that and the American Diabetes Association. logical Society, of which he is a mem- my life would involve studying and fore- He spends his free time working out, ber. He’s also involved in the National casting weather. Now I get to return to researching tornadoes and tropical Weather Association and the National Florida and apply my passion to South weather, cooking and enjoying the out- Association of Hispanic Journalists. Florida’s fascinating and volatile climate,” doors. “We’re excited to add Cris as another said Mr. Martinez. “I consider interacting He joins veterans Mike Lyons, Sandra experienced veteran to the WPBF 25 with viewers one of the highlights of my Shaw, Justin Mosley, and special con- First Alert Weather Team,” said WPBF job, and I look forward to keeping peo- tributor Felicia Rodriguez. ■ Cris Martinez FLORIDA WEEKLY BUSINESS A15
WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMERCE SCORE offers business boot-camp, workshops
______SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY • Making the big decision about how to move forward with your business Palm Beach SCORE’s mission is to idea help businesses thrive and grow and • Find financing for your business the nonprofit will once again offer a • Learn how to define the actual fund- Boot-Camp series for people who want ing needs and capital requirements for to start their own business or grow your business their existing enterprise. Palm Beach • Hear what several local funding SCORE continues to expand its services sources have to say about funding avail- Belle Glade, FL to provide more accessible, low-cost ability ■ When: Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 resources to entrepreneurs. from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Starting Sept. 4, SCORE launches its Other September SCORE Palm Beach ■ Where: Mandel Public Library, four-part workshop series called “Sim- workshops include: SCORE’s “Writing 411 Clematis Street, 3rd Floor, Hibiscus ple Steps” —a business-boot camp A Winning Business Plan” to be held, Room, West Palm Beach, FL 33401 designed to guide aspiring entrepre- Tuesday, Sept. 10, 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ■ When: Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 neurs through the basics of building a at the Belle Glade Chamber of Com- from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. business. The workshop includes the merce 540 South Main Street, Belle ■ Where: Palm Beach SCORE, 500 creation of financial and marketing Glade. South Australian Ave, Suite115, West plans as well as an estimate of the fund- “Writing a Winning Business Plan” Palm Beach ing needed to get started. is useful for anyone in the process of ■ Register: Online at SCORE’s web- “Preparation and planning is just as starting a new business or for some- site: www.palmbeach.score.org important as a great idea when it comes one who started a new business in the Business owners will benefit from to small business success,” says Jerry past couple years. It also discusses the SCORE’s “Small Business Financial Steinberg, who will step up to the role important of the Business Plan, how to Essentials” to be held Thurs. Sept. 26, of chapter chair of SCORE Palm Beach identify your target audience and learn tailor it to the audience it’s being pre- 5:45 to 8 p.m. at Keiser University, 2085 in October. Steinberg was also recently how they buy sented to, and how SCORE will assist Vista Pkwy, West Palm Beach. appointed to serve a three-year term • Doing competitive research - How you as you develop your plan through This workshop will cover the basics on Palm Beach County’s Small Busi- to know what your competitors are free one-on-one mentoring. of accounting & financial analysis for ness Assistance Advisory Committee doing Price $30 in Advance, $50 at the Door. the small business owner or operator, (OSBA), which works to encourage the • Pricing your product or service - Register at http://palmbeach.score.org/ using practical small business language growth and development of small busi- Learn to properly price your product
______SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY receive coupons for McDonald’s menu the Challenge. For over 20 years, chil- Main Library, September 6, 4:30 p.m.; items, while supplies last, and to enter dren in Palm Beach County have been Elizabeth Lahti Library, Indiantown, This September, for National Library a library prize drawing. More than participating in McDonald’s Reading September 7 11 a.m.; North Palm Beach Card Sign Up month, young readers 10,000 children throughout Palm Beach Challenge and ‘lovin’ it!’” said Cilla Public Library, September 11, 3:30 p.m.; are invited to discover the fun that and the Treasure Coast participated Jacobson, Youth Services Coordinator Lake Park Library, September 25, 4 p.m. their local libraries have to offer with in the McDonald’s Reading Challenge for the Palm Beach County Library In addition to McDonald’s, sponsors the 21st Annual McDonald’s Reading program last year. System, in a prepared statement. of the Reading Challenge include Flor- Challenge. “Our patrons love the McDonald’s Throughout September, reading ida Dairy Farmers, Houghton Mifflin With support from participating Reading Challenge. The children start ambassador Ronald McDonald® will Harcourt Co., Parenting Plus Magazine, libraries in Palm Beach and Treasure asking about it at the beginning of the host story hours at the following librar- Scripps and 103.1 WIRK. Complete Coast counties, the McDonald’s Read- summer and look forward to a visit by ies in Palm Beach and Treasure Coast rules for the McDonald’s Reading ing Challenge encourages children Ronald McDonald who gets them excit- Counties: Okeechobee Library, Sep- Challenge are available at participating in grades K-5 to sign up for a library ed about reading and participating in tember 4, 3:30 p.m.; Palm Beach County libraries or by calling 833-2723. ■ card or show a valid library card to TRUSTCO R Trustco Mortgages - We Close Loans! YourBANK Home Town Bank Fast, Local Decisions - Schedule Closing Date at Application - Low Closing Costs - Close your First Mortgage in 30 days!* Our loans close on time! No Points and No Tax Escrow required
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Please note: We reserve the right to alter or withdraw these products or certain features thereof without prior notification. www.trustcobank.com A16 BUSINESS WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY Police Foundation grant Tax notices mailed; dispute by Sept. 16 SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY beachclerk.com, in person at the Clerk’s buys microchip scanner for pets Governmental Center or branch loca- The Property Appraiser’s Office has tions, or by mail to 301 North Olive Ave- SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY The Universal Microchip Scanner mailed 642,400 Notices of Proposed nue, Room 203, West Palm Beach, 33401. is capable of detecting and displaying Property Taxes and Proposed Non-Ad Nearly 30 percent of petitioners used The Palm Beach Gardens Police codes from most brands of microchips Valorem assessments to property own- the Clerk’s myVAB system to file their Foundation has awarded a grant for and has been demonstrated to have the ers in Palm Beach County. The notices VAB petitions last year. The myVAB sys- the purchase of a Universal Microchip highest overall sensitivity of commer- were mailed Aug. 22. The preliminary tem gives real-time access to petitions, Reader to help return stray animals cial scanners. information was posted Aug. 23 for each allows petitioners to view scheduled home. The Foundation encourages own- property on the Property Appraiser’s hearings and submits supporting materi- Each month, lost animals are found ers to speak to their vet and consider website, pbcgov.com/PAPA. als electronically. by patrol officers or brought to the micro chipping their pets. If your pet is Property owners who disagree with “More than 13,000 petitions have been police station by local residents. Estab- already micro chipped, be sure to keep the proposed amount of their property filed online through myVAB since we lishing quick and proper ownership of a the microchip registry updated with taxes can voice their objections at pub- launched the service in 2008,” Ms. Bock pet helps reunite them with their owner current information. lic hearings held in September by their said in the statement. “For those prop- and prevents them from being turned For more information about the Palm respective taxing authorities. The dates erty owners who choose to contest their over to Palm Beach County Animal Beach Gardens Police Foundation visit and times are listed on the Notice. tax bills, myVAB is a simple, convenient Care and Control. www.pbgpolicefoundation.org. ■ “My office receives thousands of calls way to file a petition and get updates each year from property owners to com- throughout the VAB process.” plain about their property taxes, but my Petition forms for those who choose office cannot help them with taxation not to use the online myVAB option issues,” said Property Appraiser Gary are available from the Clerk’s office, Nikolits, in a prepared statement. “How- the Property Appraiser, or the Flori- ever, if the property owner has a problem da Department of Revenue’s website with our Jan. 1 estimate of market value at myflorida.com. All VAB petitions — or was denied an exemption or classifi- whether submitted in person, online or cation, they should call my office for an by mail — must include a $15 filing fee. explanation.” The VAB, which consists of two The Property Appraiser’s contact county commissioners, one school board numbers are on the Notice. “If we are member and two citizen members, unable to resolve the matter, the prop- approves and hires special magistrates erty owner can file a petition with the to settle any disputes between the prop- Value Adjustment Board,” Mr. Nikolits erty owner and Property Appraiser. It is said. The VAB petition-filing period has an independent entity that is not affili- begun, and ends Monday, Sept. 16. ated with the Property Appraiser or Tax Hearings on petitions filed in 2013 Collector. will begin September 30. Last year, Palm As clerk to the VAB, the clerk’s office Beach County property owners filed receives and processes petitions, sched- 6,390 VAB petitions, down 18.2 percent ules and coordinates hearings, records Bankers Elite (Bankers Elite-0112-FL) is a single premium deferred annuity. All withdrawals during from 7,809 VAB petitions filed in 2011, the hearings and more. For more infor- the initial guarantee rate period are subject to surrender charges and market value adjustment. The GHDWKEHQHÀWLVWKHDFFXPXODWHGYDOXHDWWKHWLPHRIGHDWK0D[LPXPVXUUHQGHUFKDUJHVDUH according to a prepared statement from mation on myVAB, the Value Adjust- EXWEHFRPH]HURDIWHUWKHLQLWLDOUDWHJXDUDQWHHSHULRGH[SLUHV7KH Palm Beach County Clerk Sharon Bock. ment Board or the Clerk & Comptrol- PLQLPXPJXDUDQWHHGUDWHDIWHUWKHLQLWLDOUDWHJXDUDQWHHH[SLUHVZLOOEHGHWHUPLQHGHDFK\HDUVEDVHG RQDIRUPXODSUHVFULEHGE\WKHLQVXUDQFHFRGH,WPD\QRWEHOHVVWKDQQRUPRUHWKDQ7KH Taxpayers have three options to file ler’s office, see mypalmbeachclerk.com UDWHGHWHUPLQHGE\WKLVIRUPXODIRULV5DWHVHIIHFWLYHDQGDUHVXEMHFWWRFKDQJH VAB petitions: online at www.mypalm- or call 355-6289. ■ 7KH,56PD\LPSRVHDSHQDOW\IRUZLWKGUDZDOVSULRUWRDJH . Annuities issued by Liberty Bankers /LIH,QVXUDQFH&RPSDQ\/%-)UHHZD\6XLWH'DOODV7;ZZZOLEHUW\EDQNHUVOLIHFRP
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This signage •Cleaning beneath the pier and sur- Loggerhead Marinelife Center has provides instructions on the proper way Loggerhead Marinelife Center has cre- rounding areas on a regular basis. been actively cleaning the Juno Beach to respond if a sea turtle is caught on ated the first Responsible Pier Initiative •Hosting annual educational work- Pier on a quarterly basis since 2011. a fishing hook or entangled in mono- in the state of Florida and is already see- shops for first responders. Since its start, LMC and Jupiter Dive filament fishing line. This information ing positive changes because of it. Sea •Displaying educational signage on Center have removed over 1,300 pounds has proven to be both informative and turtle strandings and entanglement with the pier. of debris from underneath the pier, most effective. fishing gear are common occurrences Florida Fish and Wildlife Conserva- of it consisting of monofilament fishing As a result of the Responsible Pier throughout the state of Florida. Each tion Commission, Jupiter Dive Center, line, lead fishing weights and fishing Initiative, one sea turtle has already been year, more than 250,000 sea turtles are Loggerhead Marina, Marine Industries hooks. successfully rescued. accidentally captured, injured or killed Association of Palm Beach County, Fisheries interactions and boat strikes A sub-adult loggerhead sea turtle was by U.S. anglers. Many of these injuries Inc., Palm Beach County Environmen- impacted one in four of the sea tur- transported to LMC back in September and deaths take place while turtles are tal Resource Management, Palm Beach tle patients treated at LMC last year, 2012 after being accidentally hooked by migrating through highly fished areas. County Parks and Recreation, Scubapro, emphasizing the need for the Respon- a fisherman at the Juno Beach fishing These occurrences prompted the center the Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ini- sible Pier Initiative. pier. Because the first responders had to take action, the Marinelife Center said tiative and West Palm Beach Fishing In 2012, LMC directed conservation participated in the center’s educational in a prepared statement. Club are nine of the many organizations training sessions with staff from the Juno workshops, officials knew the proper “We identified local fishing piers as that have already endorsed this initia- Beach Fishing Pier, Palm Beach County protocol for handling a hooked sea tur- an area in dire need of ocean conserva- tive. Moving forward, LMC has plans to Ocean Rescue, Palm Beach County Parks tle. Once the sea turtle arrived at the tion and sea turtle awareness education,” introduce the program to like-minded and Recreation and Palm Beach County center’s hospital, radiographs revealed said Tommy Cutt, LMC chief conserva- organizations and fishing piers around Environmental Resources Management. the sea turtle had ingested four hooks; tion officer, in the statement. Mr. Cutt the state of Florida. The purpose of these efforts was to two in the oral cavity, one in the stom- explained that many times fishermen “We are extremely thankful to these provide first responders at the pier and ach and another further in the intestinal will accidentally hook a sea turtle and organizations for standing behind us local beaches with the necessary infor- tract. Surgery was performed to remove cut off the fishing line. “Although there is on this new initiative. We truly believe mation to respond effectively to trau- the two in the mouth and one in the no prosecution for hooking a sea turtle, that this could help save hundreds of sea matic sea turtle injuries and strandings. stomach. The final hook was passed a we want to educate the fishing commu- turtles annually and provide a brighter The final component of this initiative week later. After five months of rehabili- nity and public about the importance of outcome for future generations,” Mr. can be seen right here in Juno Beach. tation, the sea turtle was released back contacting the proper authorities,” he Cutt said. Lake Worth Fishing Pier and The sea turtle rescue and response sig- into the wild. added. Dania Beach Fishing Pier have already nage, funded by Palm Beach County has For more information, see marinelife. The Responsible Pier Initiative con- committed to implementing the Respon- been placed on the pier and continues to org or call 627-8280. ■
Pizza Trolly’s Sabatello makes donation to Place of Hope SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY Pizza Trolley as partners and are appre- ciative of their generous support.” Michael Sabatello, owner of Pizza Mr. Sabatello partners with other Trolley, has had a long relationship non-profit agencies to market his busi- with Place of Hope, and that connection ness while supporting local, worthwhile continued recently with a donation causes. “What they do is outstanding from his gourmet food truck to Place and special,” he said of Place of Hope. of Hope’s newest venture, Treasures for “Our donation and support is only the Hope Charity Store. right thing to do.” On Aug. 16, Mr. Sabatello presented Sales from Treasures for Hope direct- Treasures for Hope Store Manager Brit- ly support the families, youth, opera- tany McInnis with a check for 10 per- tions and programs of Place of Hope. cent of the sales generated from the Based in Palm Beach Gardens at 9078 Pizza Trolley, according to a prepared Isaiah Lane, Place of Hope is a faith- statement. In recent months, the char- based, state-licensed child welfare orga- ity store and mobile Italian eatery have nization that provides family-style foster formed a mutually beneficial business care (emergency and long-term); fam- alliance, in which the Pizza Trolley ily outreach and intervention; maternity offers shoppers a convenient dining care; safety for domestic minor sexually option right in the store’s parking lot. trafficked victims; transitional housing Ms. McInnis said it’s a draw every time and support services; adoption and fos- it arrives. ter care recruitment and support; hope COURTESY PHOTO “People either discover the Pizza and healing opportunities for children Brandon Price, John Donnini and Pizza Trolley owner Michael Sabatello make a donation to Trolley or Treasures for Hope,” she and families who have been traumatized Place of Hope’s charity store manager Brittany McInnis. said. “When people come to shop, they by abuse and neglect. can have a great meal. Or when they For more information about Pizza about Treasures for Hope, visit 3540 see treasuresforhope.org or call 691- stop for a great meal, they can shop for Trolley, see pizzatrolley.com. For more Northlake Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 8881. ■ a great cause. We’re lucky to have the FLORIDA WEEKLY REAL ESTATE A21 www.FloridaWeekly.com A GUIDE TO THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 COURTESY PHOTOS COURTESY
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This stunning, fully furnished Toll and many other extras are offered with Brothers home is located on a premier this residence. Furnishings are mostly lot in Jupiter Country Club. Purchase as shown in Toll Brothers models, with includes a full golf membership. The some additions by owner. The home home at 146 Rosalia offers a spectacular has been gently lived in part time by its private outdoor living area with pool current owners. The gated community and summer kitchen. This home is has Palestra with restaurant, two pools, sited on a .3-acre lot with lake and golf tennis, and a fitness center. The main views. The spacious 2-story features a clubhouse is under construction. It’s master and one guest bedroom on the located five miles from Jupiter beach, first floor. A gourmet kitchen offers and is a 20-minute drive to West Palm the finest granite countertops and Beach airport. Lang Reatly lists the stainless steel appliances. A sweeping home for $1,350,000. The broker is Vicky staircase leads to a loft and additional Witkowski, 561-398-3830, v.witkowski@ bedrooms and bathrooms. Impact glass langrealty.com. ■ A22 REAL ESTATE WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY KOVEL: ANTIQUES Fun furniture mash-ups make for modern-age collectibles a room at a cost of $1,342. To add to the image of the fair’s EME Building (the give them to my grandnieces or not. jjoke, the book held by the monkey is engineering building), and the bowl has A: Your Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, terryKOVEL ttitled “History of Furniture.” an etching of the Administration Build- Bullet (their dog), Lone Ranger and Q: Awhile ago, ing. It’s marked “Rogers Mfg. Co.” on the Tonto figurines on horses were made [email protected] CCharlie Sheen back. Is it worth by Hartland Plastics of Hartland, Wis. aappeared on “The much? In 1953 Hartland introduced a series of TTonight Show” A: The 1939 miniature military and Western figures About 20 years ago, two antiques wearing Babe New York depicting real and fictional American experts wrote a book titled “Fantasy Ruth’s 1927 World World’s Fair is a heroes, wranglers and gunfighters, many Furniture.” It spawned a new style Series ring. What favorite among mounted on their horses. Early figures based on past ones. Pedestals shaped is that ring worth, World’s Fair col- were generic cowboys, cowgirls, palo- like blackamoors, chairs with seats that anyway? lectors. Spoons minos and pintos. In 1954, stars of early look like huge shells, Victorian furniture A: Experts like yours origi- TV Westerns were created. They were that seems to be made from plumbing think that if the nally were sold made until 1963. In good condition, each pipes, and carved wooden chairs and Babe’s 1927 World in sets of 12 and of these figures sells for about $50 to tables that have full-size carved bears Series ring were picture various $350, and even more if they are in their holding up tabletops or climbing on put up for auc- fair buildings. original boxes. Hartland also is known chair backs were pictured in the book. tion, it could An individual for its more famous — and more expen- Dogs are carved as figures beneath a sell for close to spoon is not sive — baseball players, made from 1958 Victorian-style table. Lifelike figures of $500,000. But the worth a lot. We until 1993. women with flowing hair are part of Art “if” is a big one. have seen single Tip: Don’t put plastic covers on Nouveau pieces. Furniture pieces of any Sheen bought spoons selling upholstered furniture or the top of a age selected for the book were not tradi- the ring in a pri- for $15 to $40. dining room table. Eventually the plastic tional. The idea persists today. Modern vate sale, and Q: My friend could stick to the furniture and ruin the artists have made tables that look like the ring’s his- asked me if I finish. ■ piles of books, and crouching men form tory is murky. At A live monkey in the living room would be a still had my Roy the base of a modern cocktail table. one time it was Rogers and Dale — Terry Kovel answers as many ques- Best-known of all is the work of Ital- shock, but this monkey is bronze. He is holding owned by Barry a leather-bound book that serves as a tabletop. Evans Hartland tions as possible through the column. By ian artist Piero Fornasetti, who made a Halper (1939- figures because sending a letter with a question, you give cube-shaped table painted to look like a The whimsical table sold for $1,342 at Neal 2005), a well- Auction Co. in New Orleans in July 2013. she read that full permission for use in the column or building, and an umbrella stand painted known baseball they were worth any other Kovel forum. Names, addresses to look like a live cat sitting on a pile collector. But no one knows exactly how a lot of money. I not only have Roy or email addresses will not be published. of books. Decorating magazines often Halper got the ring — and some of the Rogers and Dale Evans, but also Hart- We cannot guarantee the return of any show rooms with tables piled with real sports memorabilia he owned has been land’s Lone Ranger and Tonto. They are photograph, but if a stamped envelope books to hold a lamp. A table made from found to be fake. on their original horses and all of the is included, we will try. The volume of a bronze life-size monkey sitting on a Q: I recently discovered a 1939 World’s accessories — hats, saddles, reins, guns mail makes personal answers or apprais- leather-bound book and holding another and rifles — are in excellent condition. als impossible. Write to Kovels, (Florida large book over his head sold recently. Fair silver souvenir spoon in my attic. The top of the handle has an embossed Please let me know how much they are Weekly), King Features Syndicate, 300 The 27-inch-high table adds humor to worth. I have not decided if I want to W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.
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Making Faces to headline at Hunan festival BY SCOTT SIMMONS were her favorite,” said the band’s lead [email protected] vocalist and guitarist, John DeMatteo. It didn’t hurt that the woman was The band that has played just about connected to the cultural council in everywhere in South Florida is going Hunan. the distance for its next gig. “Bands from 27 different countries Making Faces, which opened for Bare- will be playing,” Mr. DeMatteo said. naked Ladies at SunFest, was to leave “We’re going play our original music Aug. 28 for China on an all-expenses- and some cover songs that offer the paid-trip to play the 2013 Zhangjia- original flavor of America.” jie International Country Music Week, He said he expects the four-piece Sept. 1-5. band to play 10 to 15 shows during the “A woman from Hunan, China, saw us visit to China. COURTESY PHOTO at SunFest and loved our band, said we Matt Shea, Matt Gaulin, John DeMatteo, John Boes, Jesse Lopez of the band Making Faces. SEE FACE, A31 w A26 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY SANDY DAYS, SALTY NIGHTS A wardrobe malfunction I should have seen coming saw walking down the street in Cali- because I have a horror of exposed the bra will make its slow way to my fornia with nice hair, good make-up bra straps, I had opted for a strap- waist. I was midway down the bread and an expensive handbag on her less bra. My version, aisle when I felt my underpinnings artisHENDERSON arm. though, has seen heading south. [email protected] “This was clearly a woman better days. The I shrugged my shoulders, tried for whow cared about her appear- elastic stays a subtle lift and hoped I had every- ance,” she writes. But the are stretched thing back in place. woman’s pants had a hole run- loose, and if But as I crossed the parking lot to I love advice books. In the fierce ning down the seam of the I wear it for my car and then turned to lift the world of dating, I take every advan- seat. “She probably had no too long or first bag of groceries out of my cart, tage I can get. I turn to them when idea of the magnitude of the stand in a I came eye-to-boob with an awkward I need to know the truth on what to wardrobe malfunction tak- less than reality: My strapless bra had slipped wear (heels), how to behave (sweet- ing place on her backside.” upright past the point of coverage. ly) and what men really want (devo- The problem, Mrs. Scott position, And my white blouse? Essentially tion, unsurprisingly). says, could have been see-through. I had spent the last 20 After I finish a chapter I feel avoided if the woman had minutes giving the fine people of proud of myself, as if I’ve done some inspected herself from Publix a peep show. vaguely healthy thing like walk a every angle before walk- I had to laugh there in the mile or eat a plate of kale. ing out of the house. parking lot. Madame Chic Lately I’ve expanded my interest I nodded thoughtfully would certainly be horrified. outside of romance, which is how and filed this information But at least the bag boy didn't I came to pick up Jennifer Scott’s away in the mental space seem to mind. ■ hugely entertaining guide, “Les- where I store helpful tips sons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish I already know. Secrets I Learned While Living in I thought, of course you Paris.” should inspect yourself Mrs. Scott gives us a step-by- from every angle. I thought, step approach to achieving effortless of course you should look French glamour, a look that actually your best when you leave takes a lot of work. the house. What I should have Thankfully, she’s happy to share thought was: Of course ward- the tips she learned from her stay robe malfunctions can happen to overseas (the no make-up look, the anyone. 10-item wardrobe and the art of the On a recent Saturday afternoon I Mona Lisa smile). She even throws stopped by the grocery store on my in a few cautionary tales. way home from a meeting. Under a section titled “Check I wore a white blouse and Yourself From Different Angles,” she colorful cotton slacks. The relays a story about a woman she shirt had narrow sleeves, and
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In 1948, S. Garton Churchill and Cecil Head won the Life Master Pairs with the highest score ever recorded in that event, averaging 65.2 percent for four sessions. More than four decades later, both were still active in the game and still scoring successes. Indeed, in the 1989 Epson Pairs, in which 80,000 players worldwide played the same deals simultaneously, Head, then 78, finished fifth overall in North America and 16th in the world. He was partnered by Dr. George Dysart. On the deal shown, Head achieved a top score by making five clubs doubled following a highly animated auction. West led the king of spades, taken by dummy’s ace. At first glance, it seems declarer must lose two clubs and a diamond, but Head proceeded to prove otherwise. At trick two, he ruffed a spade, then crossed to the ace of hearts and ruffed a heart. Having done all he could to deprive West of safe exit cards, Head next led West covered with the king (it would a low club. not have helped him to play low), West won with the queen and cashed dummy ruffed, and a heart was ruffed the ace, but was then in a hopeless posi- with declarer’s last trump. tion. Dummy’s remaining heart was dis- In practice, he returned a spade, on carded on the ten of diamonds, and which Head discarded a diamond from dummy’s two remaining trumps scored dummy while ruffing in his hand. the last two tricks to give Head his Declarer cashed the ace of diamonds doubled game. ■ and led the jack for a ruffing finesse. PUZZLE ANSWERS
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Please send calendar listings to ■ County Contemporary: All ■ Chandelier Status Weekend [email protected]. Media Juried Show — Through At The Lake Worth Playhouse Starring Sommore — Sept. 6-8. Sept. 7 Tickets: $25 At The Bamboo Room The Stonzek Theatre is at 709 Lake Ave., ■ “We Were Here: The People Lake Worth. Playhouse: 586-6410; Films: At The Plaza Theatre of the Belle Glade Culture Wel- 296-9382. www.lakeworthplayhouse.org. The Bamboo Room is at 15 S. J St., down- comed You in 1513” — Through town Lake Worth. Call 585-BLUES or Aug. 31 ■ Movies — Aug. 29: “The Act of Kill- Plaza Theatre, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., visit bambooroomblues.com. ing” and “Shadow Dancer.” Manalapan; 588-1820 or www.theplaza- At The Lighthouse theatre.net. ■ Suenalo — 9 p.m. Aug. 30. Tickets: ■ Other events — Sept. 21: Divas On $12 advance, $15 at the door Stage; $15. Sept. 27-29: LDUB Film Festi- ■ “Waist Watchers the Musical” Jupiter Lighthouse and Museum, Light- val; $9-$30. Oct. 3-8: Two one-act plays — Through Sept. 1. Tickets: $45 ■ Rocket Man — The ultimate Elton house Park, 500 Captain Armour’s Way, by Woody Allen, “Riverside Drive” and John tribute. 9 p.m. Aug. 31. Tickets: $13 Jupiter. Admission: $9 adults, $5 chil- “Central Park West”; $15. Oct. 23: Come- At Science Center advance, $18 at the door dren ages 6-18; children under 6 and dian Lisa Landry; $26-$30. active U.S. military admitted free. 747- ■ Ben Prestage — 9 p.m. Sept. 6. 8380, Ext. 101; www.jupiterlighthouse. The South Florida Science Center and Tickets: $7 advance, $10 at the door org. Children must be at least 4 feet At MacArthur Park Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Trail N., West tall to climb. Tours are weather permit- Palm Beach. 832-1988 or visit www.sfsm. ■ Iron Mike Norton/The Demian ting, call for tour time. RSVP required John D. MacArthur Beach State Park org. Band — 9 p.m. Sept. 7. Tickets: $10 for tours, 747-8380, Ext. 101. Lighthouse and Nature Center is at 10900 Jack Nick- advance, $13 at the door Sunset Tour — Sept. 6, 11, 20, 25. Sunset. laus Drive, North Palm Beach. 624-6952 ■ “Savage Ancient Seas: The $15 Members/$20 Non-Members. RSVP or www.macarthurbeach.org. Ancient Aquatic Deep” the water At The Colony Hotel required, 747-8380, Ext. 101. world of the late Cretaceous period. ■ Nature walk — 10-11 a.m. daily; Through Sept. 16. Tickets: Adults $11.95. ■ Lighthouse Moonrise Tour — Animal feeding — 11 a.m. weekends in 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach. Call 655-5430 Oct. 18, Nov. 17, Dec. 17. Sunset. $15 Mem- the Nature Center. ■ Science Nights — 6-9 p.m. the or visit www.thecolonypalmbeach.com bers/$20 Non-Members. last Friday of the month. Aug. 30: Sea- ■ Guided Snorkeling Tour — 10 Fari Science Night. ■ The Royal Room — Wayne Hos- ■ Hike Through History — Sept. 7, a.m.-noon Saturdays. ford, through Aug. 31. 8:30 p.m. shows Oct. 5, Nov. 2, Dec. 7. This two-mile trek Fresh Markets with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. for din- passes through historic points of inter- ■ Butterfly walk — 11 a.m.-noon ner on Fridays and Saturdays. The Polo est on the 120-acre Jupiter Inlet Light- Aug. 24. Lounge — Tommy Mitchell pianist Tues- house Outstanding Natural Area. The ■ Sailfish Marina Sunset Cel- day through Thursday evenings; Motown hike departs from the flagpole at the ebration — 6 p.m. Thursdays. Shop Friday nights with Memory Lane; the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and is weather At The Mos’Art for arts and crafts made by artists from Mel Urban Trio Saturday nights. dependent. Program is open to adults around the country. Sailfish Marina, east and children. Minimum age 5, ages 13 The Mos’Art Theatre is at 700 Park Ave., of the Intracoastal, just south of Blue At The Cruzan and under must be accompanied by an Lake Park. Call 337-OPOD (6763) or visit Heron Boulevard, Palm Beach Shores; adult. Hikers footwear, active wear, a www.mosarttheatre.com. 842-8449. hat, and a full water bottle or canteen South Florida Fairgrounds, 601-7 Sans- should be carried. Admission is free but ■ Films: Aug. 29: “Love is All You ■ Jupiter Green & Artisan Mar- burys Way, suburban West Palm Beach. space is limited; RSVP required. 747- Need” and “Shadow Dancer.” Aug. ket — 5-9 p.m. Fridays, Riverwalk 795-8883, www.cruzanamphitheatre.net. 8380, Ext. 101. 31-Sept. 5: “Twenty Feet From Stardom” Events Plaza, 150 S. U.S. 1, Jupiter. Free. and “Fill the Void.” Includes baked goods, fresh produce, ■ Blake Shelton, Easton Corbin ■ Lighthouse Chickee Chats – arts and crafts, jewelry, pet products and Jana Kramer — 7:30 p.m. Aug. Story Time for Kids — Sept. 2, Oct. and more. Vendors welcome. Contact 31. Tickets: $25-$73 1, Nov. 5, Dec. 3. 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free; rec- At North Palm Beach Library Harry Welsh at (203) 222-3574 or visit ommended for kids 10 and under. www.harrysmarkets.com. ■ Jason Aldean and Thomas 303 Anchorage Drive, North Palm Beach; Rhett — 7 p.m. Sept. 7. Tickets: $37-$452 At The Lake Park Public Library 841-3383, www.npblibrary.org. ■ The West Palm Beach Antique & Flea Market — 9 ■ John Mayer and Phillip Phil- ■ Knit & Crochet — 1-3 p.m. Mondays a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays on Narcissus lips — 7:30 p.m. Sept. 8. Tickets: $50-$975 Lake Park Public Library is at 529 Park Avenue, north of Banyan Boulevard. Ave., Lake Park. All events are free. 881- ■ Kids Crafts ages 5-12 — 2 p.m. West Palm Beach green market vendors ■ Honda Civic Tour with Maroon 3330. Fridays also will be there. Resumes Sept. 21. For 5, Kelly Clarkson and PJ Morton information, search Facebook or call — 7 p.m. Sept. 14. Tickets: $48-$3,500 ■ Super Hero Hour — 3:30 p.m. 670-7473. Thursdays. Ages 12 and under. At Palm Beach Improv At Cultural Council ■ Palm Beach Gardens Green ■ Adult Writing Critique Group Palm Beach Improv is at CityPlace, 550 Market — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays — Saturdays 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. 16 years S. Rosemary Ave., Suite 250, West Palm through September. Under a roof, and Cultural Council of Palm Beach County and up. Beach; 833-1812 or palmbeachimprov.com. partly indoors, at STORE Self Storage, is at 601 Lake Ave., downtown Lake 11010 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Worth; 471-1602 or palmbeachculture. ■ Anime — 6-7 p.m. Tuesdays. Ages ■ Gilbert Gottfried — Aug. 30-Sept. Gardens; 630-1146 or visit www.pbgfl. com. 12 and up. 1. Tickets: $22 com. 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■ Norton Museum of Art — Thursday, Aug. 29 Saturday, Aug. 31 “Lucian Freud: Paintings and Prints,” September through Sept. 1. “Circa 1960, Figure and ■ Cherie Currie — The lead singer ■ Phill Fest — 7-10 p.m. Aug. 31, Form,” through Sept. 1. “Architecture ■ Adult Discussion Group — Con- of the Runaways plays a concert 8 p.m. Downtown at the Gardens’ Centre Court, in Detail – Works from the Museum temporary topics of philosophical, politi- Aug. 29 at the Harriet Himmel The- 11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Drive, Palm Collection,” through Oct. 20. “Block cal, socio-economic and moral implica- ater, CityPlace, West Palm Beach. Mike Beach Gardens. Free; 340-1600. by Block: Inventing Amazing Architec- tions. 6:30-8:30 p.m. the first Thursday of Peters and the Resolvers open. Tickets: ture,” through Oct. 20. “the Middle East each month (next meeting is Sept. 5) in $50; cheriecurrieconcert.com. ■ Kids Story Time — 11:30 a.m. and the Middle Kingdom: Islamic and the conference of the Jupiter Library, 705 Saturdays, Loggerhead Marinelife Cen- Chinese Artistic Exchange,” through Military Trail; call Irene Garbo at 715-7571. ■ Story time session at the Lox- ter, 14200 U.S. 1, Juno Beach; free. Visit Oct. 27. “Rob Wynne: I Remember ahatchee River Center — 9:30 www.marinelife.org. Ceramic Castles, Mermaids & Japanese ■ An Old Fashioned Labor Day a.m. Thursdays, Burt Reynolds Park, 805 Bridges,” through Oct. 6. Art After Dark, Party in Lake Worth — Art, Songs, N. U.S. 1, Jupiter; 743-7123; or visit www. Tuesday, Sept. 3 with music and art demonstrations, is Food and Soap Box Orators, including loxahatcheeriver.org/rivercenter. 5-9 p.m. Thursdays. Final free Thursday State Sen. Jeff Clemens, County Com- is Aug. 29. Museum closes Sept. 2-16. missioner Shelley Vana, Lake Worth ■ Bingo — Noon every Thursday at ■ Rotary Club of the Northern Admission: $12 adults, $5 visitors 13-21; Commissioner Andy Amoroso, AFL-CIO the Moose Lodge, 3600 RCA Blvd., Palm Palm Beaches — Tuesdays at 7:15 free for members and children under 13. Leader Pat Emmert, IATSE Leader Terry Beach Gardens. Lunch available at 11 a.m. a.m. at the Doubletree Hotel, 4431 PGA Half-price admission on Thursdays after McKenzie and FLARA leader Tony Fran- Packs start at $15. $250 games. 626-4417. Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens. Contact Phil Sept. 19. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday- setta will appear. Rod MacDonald will Woodall at 762-4000 or email pabwood- Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Closed Mon- lead the crowd in song, 6-9 p.m. Sept. 6, ■ Clematis by Night — Live music [email protected]. days and holidays. At 1451 S. Olive Ave., at Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery, 15 S. J 6-9 p.m. Thursdays, Clematis Street at West Palm Beach; 832-5196 or norton. St., downtown Lake Worth; 588-8344. the Waterfront, downtown West Palm Ongoing Events org. Beach. Aug. 29: Boombox. Free; 822-1515 ■ West Palm Beach Antiques or visit www.clematisbynight.net. ■ Palm Beach Photographic Festival — See hundreds of dealers ■ Artists of Palm Beach County Centre — Through Nov. 16: Kadir in antiques, collectibles and decora- ■ Studio Parties — Free group les- Art on Park Summer Exhib- Lopez, two exhibitions; tive items noon-5 p.m. Sept. 6, 9 a.m.- son at 7 p.m., followed by parties 8-10 it — Mondays-Saturdays noon-6 p.m. 5 p.m. Sept. 7 and 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. p.m. Thursdays, Alexander’s Ballroom, Through Sept 27. Free. Everyone wel- ■ “The Conflux of Eternities” Sept. 8 at the South Florida Fairgrounds, 51 W. Indiantown Road, Jupiter. Cost: $15 comed. Art on Park Gallery, 800 Park and “An American Presence in West Palm Beach. Tickets: $7 adults, per person; 747-0030 or alexandersball- Ave. Lake Park. 345-2842, www.artistsof- Cuba.” Opening reception 5:30-7:30 $6 seniors, free for under 16. A $10 room.com. PalmBeachCounty.org. p.m. Aug. 23. The Photographic Centre early buyer ticket allows admission at is in the City Center, 415 Clematis St., noon Sept. 6. Discount coupon online at ■ Dance Tonight — Open Latin/ ■ The Loxahatchee River Envi- downtown West Palm Beach. Hours are wpbaf.com. Information: (941) 697-7475. Ballroom Mix Party Thursdays. Group ronmental Center — Burt Reynolds 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and Lesson 7:15-8 p.m.; Party 8-10 p.m.; Park, 805 N. U.S. 1, Jupiter; 743-7123; or 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; call ■ Ginger’s Dance Party — 8-10 Admission: $20 (theme $25) for entire www.loxahatcheeriver.org/rivercenter. 253-2600 or visit www.workshop.org or p.m. Sept. 7 on the West Palm Beach evening, includes light buffet. 914 Park www.fotofusion.org. Waterfront, downtown West Palm Ave., Lake Park; 844-0255. ■ Children’s Research Station Beach. Info: westpalmbeach.org/events. — Loggerhead Marinelife Center pro- ■ Palm Beach State College Art ■ Susan Merritt Trio and Guests gram is designed to exercise children’s Gallery — Gallery hours: Monday, ■ American Needlepoint Guild — 7:30-10:30 p.m. Thursdays at the science skills through an experimental Wednesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tues- — 10 a.m. every second and fourth Mon- Wine Dive, 319 Clematis St., downtown lab. 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays; day, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Palm Beach State Col- day (next meeting is Sept. 9), 110 Man- West Palm Beach. No cover; 318-8821. 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Saturdays. lege, BB Building, 3160 PGA Blvd., Palm grove Bay Way, Jupiter. Call 747-7104 or Free. 14200 U.S. 1, Juno Beach; 627- Beach Gardens. 207-5015. email [email protected]. ■ The Great Books Reading and 8280. Discussion Group meets at 10 a.m. ■ Palm Beach Zoo — Zoo Safari ■ Special Event and Tribute to the first and third Thursday of each ■ Lighthouse ArtCenter — Nights are 5:30-9 p.m. Fridays through Benefit the Military Order of month. Barnes & Noble coffee shop, Closed for maintenance through Sept. September with a different family-friend- the Purple Heart — 5 p.m. Sept. 10, 11380 Legacy Ave., Palm Beach Gardens. 2. Sept. 9-Oct. 22: “Photo Now!” and ly theme. Dress to match the themes to Carmine’s Ocean Grille, 2401 PGA Blvd. Free; 624-4358. “Arty Bras.” 3rd Thursday, 5:30-7:30 be entered to win a Palm Beach Zoo (at Prosperity Farms Road), Palm Beach p.m. Museum admission: $5 ages 12 and $150 value prize pack. Members free; Gardens. Cost: $10; drinks are half-price. Friday, Aug. 30 above. Under 12 free. Saturdays, free non-members $15.95 adults/$9.95 chil- Music will be provided by guitarist Alex admission. Gallery Square North, 373 dren (3-12). Zoo is at 1301 Summit Blvd., Zambony-Mehta; 279-9626 or www.life- Tequesta Drive, Tequesta; 746-3101 or West Palm Beach; 547-9453.“Wings Over wave.com/pzambony. ■ Northwood Village Art & Wine lighthousearts.org. Water” Bird Show: 11 a.m. weekdays; 11 Promenade — 6 p.m. the last Friday a.m. and 2 p.m. weekends. “Wild Things ■ Shabbat B’Yachad (Shabbat of the month, 400 Northwood Road, ■ Flagler Museum — Open 10 Show,” 1 p.m. weekdays; noon weekends. Together) — For young families, 10:30 West Palm Beach. Free. 822-1550 or a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon- Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. everyday. 1301 Sum- a.m. the second Friday of each month northwoodvillage.org. 5 p.m. Sunday. Museum is housed in mit Blvd., West Palm Beach. Tickets: (Sept. 13), at 10:30 a.m. at JCC North (in Henry Flagler’s 1902 beaux-arts man- Adults $18.95; seniors, $16.95; children Midtown on PGA Boulevard). Free.Chil- ■ Downtown Live — 7-10 p.m. Fridays sion, Whitehall; at 1 Whitehall Way, 3-12, $12.95; free toddlers. 533-0887 or dren experience Shabbat’s celebratory through Aug. 30. Aug. 30: Alter Eagles. Palm Beach. Tickets: members free; $18 www.palmbeachzoo.org. rituals with parents, family members Free. Downtown at the Gardens’ Down- adults, $10 youth (13-17) with adult; $3 or caregivers. Call 640-5603 or email town Park, 11701 Lake Victoria Gardens child (6-12) with adult; under 6 free. 655- [email protected]. ■ Drive, Palm Beach Gardens; 340-1600. 2833; www.flaglermuseum.us
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drive off. scraping all the way down to asphalt, Sixty years later, author Mitchell CHILL The cold takes a stranglehold when yellow light wheeling. It peeps as it Zuckoff joins a team trying to track she walks out; she imagines she can backs up, then gores forward again, and recover that third plane. The book From page A25 hear the hairs in her nose crackle with the diesel softened by distance and the alternates between his story and his each breath, and feels her tear ducts veil of snow, almost like fog, obscuring recounting of the horrors faced by the grow treacly … the mall, a dark block with floodlights stranded men. We suggest the following books Summary: At the beginning of “Mid- burning at the corners, like a fort or a Mr. Zuckoff obviously did his (three thrillers, one literary novel and winter Blood,” police superintendent prison. research: His prose is stuffed with mil- one history book) for their superlative Malin Fors leaves her house to go to Summary: It’s four days before itary and aviation details. He describes descriptions of the snow and cold. work in the city of Linkoping, Sweden; Christmas, and the Red Lobster in searching for the plane like looking Just think of it as snow porn for it’s the most brutal February anyone New Britain, Conn., is closing its doors for a dust speck on a hockey rink, summer Floridians. can remember. for good at the end of the day. It’s and quotes a geology professor who It’s so cold, her car won’t start. snowing like crazy. At one point the declares, “ … Nature in winter Green- But then her partner Zeke calls and manager, Manny DeLeon, looks out land is a mother that devours her own swings by to pick her up: They have the window and “snow streaks past children.” a case. The tortured body of an obese sideways, as if he’s riding a train.” The Chilling. man has been found in a field outside blizzard’s already shut down New York of town, hanging from a tree. Who is City, and promises to dump two more he? How did he get there? Who com- feet of snow in Connecticut before it’s mitted the crime? through. Mons Kallentoft’s novel hit the Stewart O’Nan not only writes bestseller lists in Sweden, selling insightfully about the human condi- tion, but his descriptions of a cold New England winter are poetic: Manny “trades the broom for a bag of ice melter, strewing the white pebbles like chicken feed” … a car drives “alone across the far vastness of the lot, where a bulldozed mound of old snow towers like a dirty iceberg.”
■ “The Dark Winter” by David Mark ($25.95, Blue Rider Press) Excerpt: The snow has begun to fall. Fat, white, perfect flakes tumble ■ “61 Hours” by Lee Child in their millions from a sky a hundred ($9.99, Dell) shades of black, icing the curbs, the Excerpt: Reacher woke up at ten to pavements, the rooftops, the awnings, seven, to a silent, sepulchral world. adding inches of height to the wet, Outside the den windows the air damp city. more than 300,000 copies there, and was thick with heavy flakes. They McAvoy looks but does not see. The has been translated into 26 languages were falling gently but relentlessly windscreen is misted insensible from and sold more than 1.5 million copies onto a fresh accumulation that was the breath that eases from his lungs worldwide. already close to a foot deep. There in a low, icy, angry whistle. Two great On the back cover, Magnus Utvik, was no wind. Each of the billion of dorsal fins have been carved into the identified as “Sweden’s leading critic” flakes came parachuting straight snow upon the glass by wipers he has raves: “Don’t bother with Stieg Larsson down, sometimes wavering a little, no memory of switching on. He does … Kallentoft is better.” sometimes spiraling, sometimes side- not register the weather. Nor the cold. All you need to know: Cold perme- ■ “Frozen in Time: An Epic Story stepping an inch or two, each one Just grinds his teeth and narrows his ates this murder mystery like a drafty of Survival and a Modern Quest for disturbed by nothing but its own feath- eyes and drives the people-carrier too northern home with a broken heater. Lost Heroes of World War II” by erweight instability. Most added their fast on slick, treacherous roads. Mitchell Zuckoff tiny individual masses to the thick Summary: It’s coming up on Christ- ($28.99, HarperCollins) white quilt they landed on. Some stuck mas, and a young girl is murdered with Excerpt: Even more than its size, to fantastic, vertical feathered shapes a machete in a church, in the middle Greenland’s most defining feature is on power lines and fence wires, and of a service. Detective Aector McA- its climate. Temperatures vary along a made the shapes taller. voy Sensing a connection between spectrum of discomfort, ranging from Summary: Jack Reacher is riding that murder and two others, Det. Sgt. bone-rattling to instant frostbite. In a bus that crashes during a brutal Aector McAvoy investigates. many places, temperatures regularly snowstorm in South Dakota. When he The action takes place in the dark, reach the only place on the thermom- and the other passengers are rescued dreary, economically depressed port eter where Celsius and Fahrenheit and brought to an nearby small town, city of Hull, England, in the middle agree: 40 degrees below zero … For Reacher becomes involved in solving a of winter. Even if you don’t read it, at much of the year the north of Green- murder and helping protect a witness, look at the cover of “The Dark Winter” land is ringed by solid pack ice, and all in sub-zero weather with two major should cool you off a little. The photo the waters to the south are beset by snow storms advancing on the area. of the underbelly of a bridge is so ITAL storis, CLOSE ITAL a twenty- Like James Bond, Reacher is, of mysterious and brooding it should run mile belt of floating icebergs. course, too good to be true, but this chills down your spine. Then there’s the wind. In fall and is sheer entertainment. “61 Hours” is winter, devastating blizzards known as not only a page-turner, but Lee Child’s ■ “Midwinter Blood” by Mons Kal- ITAL piteraq CLOSE ITAL storms race constant, creative descriptions of the lentoft more than a hundred miles per hour cruel weather are sure to make you ($25.99, Emily Bestler Books) across the unbroken landscape. The feel cooler. ■ Excerpt: Malin leaves the apartment. wind blows glacial dust that can scour Goes down the three flights of stairs glass or blind eyes left unprotected. to the door of the building. With every Soldiers stationed at an American base step she feels the cold come closer. in Greenland during World War II It’s practically below freezing in the ■ “Last Night at the Lobster” by sometimes crawled from one building Just think stairwell. Stewart O’Nan to the next to avoid violent winds. An Please let the car start. It’s almost ($14, Penguin Books) officer who stepped blithely out of his of these cold enough to freeze the gasoline to Excerpt: Outside, the wind cuts hut was thrown twenty feet into a wall, ice. through his thin shirt, lacy flakes catch breaking both arms. books as She pauses at the door. The chill in his eyelashes. The slushy ghosts Summary: If the locale of “Frozen mist is drifting in waves through the of footprints bleed through the new in Time” doesn’t make you shiver, the streetlamps’ cones of light. She wants cover. It’s noticeably warmer, the snow premise will. In this true-life story, a snow porn to run back upstairs, go into the apart- heavy as wet cake, crystals sticking cargo plane carrying five men slams ment, tear off her clothes and creep together as they fall. He should prob- into Greenland’s icy terrain during the for summer back into bed. Then it comes again, ably break out the snowblower, but for Arctic winter of 1942. A search plane her longing for Police Headquarters. now he sows handfuls of ice melter, a carrying nine men crashes while look- quick fix so no one from lunch ends ing for them. Then a third plane with { Floridians So: Pull the door open, run to the car, fumble with the key, open the door, up breaking a hip. Far across the lot, a three men, searching for the second throw yourself in, start the engine, and big town plow roams the aisles, blade plane, vanishes during a storm. A34 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEK OF AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY PALM BEACH SOCIETY 2nd Annual Physicians Talent Showcase, for Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches & Kretzer Piano Music Foundation, raising $55,000, at Harriet Theater.
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Park Avenue BBQ to close Courtney Lake Worth location after 22 years Conran, BY SCOTT SIMMONS [email protected] Blondies Cafe Fans of Park Avenue BBQ Grille will be sorry to hear that Dean Lavallee is BY LOREN GUTENTAG COURTESY PHOTO [email protected] Meghan (left) and Courtney Conran of closing his Lake Worth restaurant, the Blondie’s Cafe in Tequesta. second one in his nine-restaurant chain and the chain’s oldest location. Following the saying that blondes “Unfortunately, it’s true,” he said have more fun, Courtney and Meghan In fact, the restaurant walls are shortly after a meeting in which the Conran not only have fun in the sun, filled with photographs of the Blond- closing was announced to the restau- but also have fun in the kitchen. ies enjoying different hobbies with rant’s employees. The Conran sisters, AKA the Blon- friends and family that helped them The restaurant will close Sept. 3; Mr. dies of Tequesta, are the co-owners of achieve their goals. Lavallee said it will offer specials dur- Blondies Cafe, which offers breakfast, Polka dot booths, aqua walls, two ing that final week. lunch and dinner. women who finish each other’s sen- He said a broker had approached JAN NORRIS/FLORIDA WEEKLY “Our family loves food, we love tences, and proud parents who help him four months ago about selling the Dean Lavallee opened the Lake Worth loca- food, we have always been a foodie the sisters in any way they can cre- property; he was not sure for what it tion of Park Avenue BBQ Grille in 1991. family,” says Meghan, who mostly ates nothing more than a homey and would be used. works the front of the house while there,” he said. family-oriented environment. Mr. Lavallee said the restaurant, Courtney watches over the kitchen. The Park Avenue is at 2401 N. Dixie “We like to build relationships which opened in 1991, had remained Originally from Oyster Bay, N.Y., Highway, Lake Worth; 586-RIBS or pab- with our customers,” says Courtney. profitable, but he was facing the the Conran sisters say they were bqgrille.com. “Everyone knows everything about us realities of an aging building as well always surrounded by food and the and vice-versa; we think that’s really as a market that has restaurant business. While their Speaking of barbecue: Sonny’s Real important,” added Meghan. changed over the father owned multiple Italian markets Pit Bar-B-Q has closed its location on past two decades. throughout Long Island and Manhat- Indiantown Road in Jupiter. Name: Courtney Conran “It’s a tough mar- tan, naturally, they found themselves Burrito Bros and Barbecue has Age: 26 ket to be in. We helping out and eager to learn. opened in spot, and we understand it Original Hometown: Oyster Bay, were either going After moving to Florida six years offers a mix of Mexican fare and bar- N.Y. to have to move or ago, and working for their father, becue. It’s at 1150 W. Indiantown Road, Restaurant: Blondies, 181 N. U.S. put a lot of money Courtney attended The Florida Culi- Jupiter. More details to come. Highway 1, Tequesta. 744-0807 or into it,” he said of nary Institute, where she says she blondiesgoodfood.com LAVALLEE the location, which focused on all types of cuisine while Also closing: Field of Greens will Mission: “We serve great good had issues in recent Meghan attended Palm Beach State close its location at Downtown at the with great service,” says Courtney. years with the roof, air conditioning College for business. Gardens on Aug. 31. “We have high quality homemade and parking lot. In September of 2011, after their American food done the right way “When a structure gets old, it’s hard father retired and Courtney graduat- Pairings in Delray Beach: Blake and with a smile,” Meghan says. to do a respectable job,” he said, citing ed, the sisters opened Blondies where Malatesta, executive chef at 50 Ocean Cuisine: American fare serving small, aging bathrooms and a small res- they not only combined their passion in Delray Beach, has created a lineup breakfast, lunch and dinner. taurant cooking line. for food and business but also their of pairing dinners, Training: Graduated from Florida Most employees have been offered reputation as “blondes.” scheduled from Culinary Institute. positions at other restaurants in the “When we worked for our dad, September through What’s your footwear of choice chain; some, like popular server Jo Key, everyone already knew us as the December, with in the kitchen? “Camouflage Crocs. who has worked for Mr. Lavallee more blondes,” says Courtney. “It was the Chef Malatesta and They’re absolutely ridiculous looking, than 20 years, will retire. perfect name for our restaurant.” an expert from the but they’re comfortable, non-skid, and In the coming year, Mr. Lavallee said Inventive and original, the 26- and selected winery, I just love camo!” customers can look forward to dining 24-year-old duo created an expansive liquor company or What is your guilty culinary on organic fruit and vegetables grown menu with playful and creative names brewery to guide pleasure? “This is such a hard ques- on a 5-acre property he is under con- where most dishes are named after MALATESTA diners through the tion to answer because I love every- tract to buy in Martin County; part of family members. evening. thing! Anything from french fries to the land will be home to a worm farm From Cousin Bridget’s Beezy cakes The pairing dinners will be held 6 pancakes to pizza! But I have to say, and vermiculture will help fertilize to Grandma’s B.L.T., Dad’s Way egg p.m.-9 p.m. each evening. Pricing varies pizza is my ultimate downfall.” the soil. He also will sell his original sandwich, and even Mom’s Meatloaf, each evening: What advice would you give location on Park Avenue in Lake Park, the Blondies serve it all. Sept. 24 is Don Julio Tequila someone who wants to be a chef? which has sat empty for a decade or so. While Meghan says that her favor- Oct. 15 is Cigar City Craft Beer “You have to be grounded, know what He mused about the location. ite item on the menu is the Dr. Seuss Oct. 29 is Jack Daniels direction you’re going in, have experi- “It was my second location. There scramble, Courtney says she can’t get Nov. 19 is Majestic Wines ence, and have a good team behind was a lot of sweat and blood there,” he enough of the classic burger. Dec. 10 is Moët Hennessy you. said. He and employees transformed Despite the amount of hours they 50 Ocean is above Boston’s at 50 S. “If you don’t have these things, then a former Denny’s into the restaurant, find themselves in the restaurant, the Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach. Reserva- don’t be in the business! It is impor- incorporating reclaimed lumber to sisters say that they still find time for tions required; call 278-3364 or visit tant to pay attention to detail and build tables and panel walls. fishing and boating. maintain consistency.” ■ 50ocean.com. Complimentary valet “I’m proud of what we did parking is available. ■ THE DISH Highlights from local menus
The Dish: Vietnamese sandwich, or bành — savory pho with rich broth and fresh mì, with chicken bún with never-ending vermicelli — but a sandwich sounded good on a hot August The Place: Vietnamese Express Café, 531 day. U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach; 841-1313 And this sandwich, the classic bành mì, The Price: $6.95 proved satisfying. The Details: Lighter than Chinese cuisine The bits of grilled chicken combined and sweeter than Thai food, Vietnamese fare, nicely with the pickled daikon and carrot, with its French influences, makes for a satisfy- cucumber slices and spicy mayonnaise served ing summer meal. atop a hoagie roll. Vietnamese Express Café, tucked into a The sandwich also is available with grilled small plaza just north of the Park Avenue pork, which a dining companion said was ■ BBQ Grille on U.S. 1, offers all the classic fare quite tasty. — Scott Simmons SCOTT SIMMONS/FLORIDA WEEKLY [email protected] 561.328.7536 www.WalkerRealEstateGroup.com
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