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36. <title>&#8216;We are getting ready to welcome the public back&#8217;: Check out newly rescued sea turtles at Gumbo Limbo in Boca Raton</title>
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50. <description><![CDATA[Check out the first arrivals of sea turtles at the newly permitted rehabilitation center operated by The Coastal Stewards, a nonprofit working out of the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton. ]]></description>
51. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A 2-year-old green sea turtle named Terra, rescued at the Pompano Beach fishing pier on April 22, was injured by fishing hooks stuck in her flipper and her esophagus. A fellow turtle, a hawksbill named Little Sadie who is just a few months old, washed ashore in Miami on April 29 and was found to have eaten plastic.</p>
52. <p>These two youngsters are among the first arrivals at the newly permitted rehabilitation center operated by The Coastal Stewards, a nonprofit working out of the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton.</p>
53. <p>The public will get their first views of the endangered reptiles on Thursday, May 9, when The Coastal Stewards starts allowing visitors to see them up close. The pair are in tanks closely monitored by the organization&#8217;s veterinary team, which is offering medication and food before the gentle creatures can be released back into the ocean.</p>
54. <p>&#8220;We are getting ready to welcome the public back,&#8221; said John Holloway, president and CEO of The Coastal Stewards. &#8220;We are planning extensive rehab and collaborative work (with other organizations), not only on sea turtles, but also manatees and cetaceans,&#8221; which are marine mammals such as dolphins.</p>
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56. <p>The rescue program had been on hiatus since last year, when all turtles were <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/03/15/injured-sea-turtles-removed-from-boca-nature-center-after-employees-dismissed/">ordered removed from Gumbo Limbo</a> amid personnel turmoil and accusations of a toxic workplace. The city of Boca Raton decided to get out of the business of turtle rehab, shifting the responsibility to the nonprofit.</p>
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94. <p>Eight green turtles and one loggerhead were shipped to Zoo Miami, Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach and the Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center in Stuart. Two of the turtles, Morgan and Cane, had been permanent residents of Gumbo Limbo because they were considered to be unable to survive in the ocean.</p>
95. <p>The Stewards inked an agreement with the city in April 2023, and say they received a new Marine Turtle Permit from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission las month, allowing them to rescue injured turtles and rehabilitate them until they are ready for release.</p>
96. <p>Morgan, the green sea turtle that first came to Gumbo Limbo after being rescued in 2014, had been relocated to the Loggerhead Marinelife Center during the upheaval, but has since returned to Gumbo Limbo. Cane remains at the Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center in Stuart.</p>
97. <figure id="attachment_10934311"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tfl-l-rehab-gumbo-limbo-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" alt="Little Sadie, a hawksbill sea turtle, is examined at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel)" width="3724" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tfl-l-rehab-gumbo-limbo-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10934311" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tfl-l-rehab-gumbo-limbo-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tfl-l-rehab-gumbo-limbo-02.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tfl-l-rehab-gumbo-limbo-02.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tfl-l-rehab-gumbo-limbo-02.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tfl-l-rehab-gumbo-limbo-02.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Little Sadie, a hawksbill sea turtle, is examined at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
98. <p>Sea turtle season is about to begin in South Florida, and Coastal Stewards veterinarian Dr. Shelby Loos expects an abundance of injured turtles to make their way to Gumbo Limbo. The site has 10 tanks, three for medium to large creatures and the rest for juvenile hatchlings.</p>
99. <p>Green sea turtles like Terra are on the endangered species list, while hawksbills such as Little Sadie are considered &#8220;critically endangered,&#8221; which means they face a high risk of extinction. They are menaced by illegal harvesting, ocean pollution, climate change, coastal development and injuries from fishing gear and boat strikes.</p>
100. <p><em>South Florida Sun Sentinel writer David Fleshler contributed to this report.</em></p>
101. <h4>IF YOU GO</h4>
102. <p><strong>WHAT:</strong> Meet the new sea turtles at Gumbo Limbo and veterinarian Dr. Shelby Loos</p>
103. <p><strong>WHEN: </strong>12:30-4 p.m. Thursday, May 9. Afterward, hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays and noon-4 p.m. Mondays.</p>
104. <p><strong>WHERE:</strong> Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton</p>
105. <p><strong>COST:</strong> $5 suggested donation for entry to Gumbo Limbo; a separate donation is encouraged to Coastal Stewards</p>
106. <p><strong>INFORMATION: </strong>561-544-8605; <a href="https://www.thecoastalstewards.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thecoastalstewards.org</a></p>
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116. <title>Brightline ending monthly discounted passes on June 1, citing passenger growth and renewed focus on Orlando</title>
117. <link>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/05/07/brightline-ending-monthly-discounted-passes-on-june-1-citing-growth-in-passenger-traffic/</link>
119. <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Lyons]]></dc:creator>
120. <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 13:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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129. <description><![CDATA[Brightline, the high-speed inter-city railroad between Miami and Orlando, is jettisoning its monthly discounted passes for frequent travelers in Central and South Florida, citing significant growth in ridership. They will be replaced by a more expensive offering that can be used over longer stretches of time.]]></description>
130. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Business apparently is so good at Brightline, the Florida&#8217;s burgeoning high-speed railroad, that its discounted monthly passes designed to woo passengers are no longer needed.</p>
131. <p>The upscale train service, which serves a 235-mile segment between Miami and Orlando with four South Florida stations in between, has announced to the dismay of many customers that it intends to dispose of three passes aimed at incentivizing travelers. It plans to replace them with more expensive 10-ride passes for frequent travelers.</p>
132. <p>The move serves as a reminder to the public about what Brightline intended to be: A high-speed regional train line between Miami and Orlando, not the upscale commuter service that has become popular among South Florida riders during an interim build-out period. Brightline, whose trains started zipping along the Florida East Coast Railway corridor through West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami in 2018, inaugurated the second leg of its regional service to Orlando International Airport last September. And now is the time, company officials say, to focus on building ridership to Orlando.</p>
133. <p>&#8220;As it relates to the folks who ride our train, I&#8217;m certainly empathetic toward how this impacts them,&#8221; Brightline spokesman Ben Porritt said. &#8220;At the same time we are working as a business to move people between Central and South Florida, and that’s what the business was set up to do.”</p>
134. <p>Porritt reaffirmed a monthly company report for March to bondholders that Brightline is restricting the number of seats it sells for trips among the five South Florida stations so it can sell more tickets for longer haul travel to Orlando.</p>
135. <p>&#8220;We know there is more demand but we are artificially capping [South Florida] capacity to sell more Orlando tickets,” he said. &#8220;We’re doing everything we can sell long haul.&#8221;</p>
136. <p>He added that the capacity crunch may ease with the forthcoming delivery of additional train coaches at mid-year. &#8220;That will free up additional capacity, but we are focusing on building out the long-haul business,&#8221; he said.</p>
137. <p>Sales of the following passes, introduced roughly six months ago, will cease effective June 1:</p>
138. <ul>
139. <li><strong>All-Station Shared</strong>: Sold for $1,199, the pass was designed for passengers to travel between Orlando and the South Florida stations. Riders could use it for 12 trips during a 90-day period, which translated into $99 s ride.</li>
140. <li><strong>SoFlo Solo</strong>: Sold for $399, this monthly pass allowed for 40 rides to be used in a 30-day period, with fares starting at $10 per ride. The passes could be auto-renewed monthly at a 5% discount and included onboard food and beverage discounts.</li>
141. <li><strong>SoFlo Shared</strong>: The passes started at $229 for economy fares. They could be used for 12 rides in 30 days at $19 a trip. It was the cheapest monthly pass of the three and was restricted to travel among the five South Florida stations. Orlando was not included.</li>
142. </ul>
143. <p>According to a chart on the Brightline website, the 10-packs at the SMART or economy level will go for $350 for travel between Miami and West Palm Beach, and for $250 from Miami to Fort Lauderdale.</p>
144. <p>PREMIUM passes for a Miami-to-West Palm Beach run will sell for $550, while passes for rides between Miami and Fort Lauderdale will cost $350.</p>
145. <p>All are valid for 30 days from purchase. In a nod to customer loyalty, the railroad says, &#8220;please enjoy your first 10-Ride SMART Pack on us.&#8221;</p>
146. <p>“In recent months, it has become increasingly difficult to accommodate all Guests as peak trains are reaching capacity,” the company says in a recently posted announcement that appears on its website. “We continue to evaluate the best approach to balance customer demand — and as a result, the sale of Train Passes will be discontinued effective June 1, 2024.”</p>
147. <p>“Current passholders may continue to use their pass until it expires,” the statement says. And a pass designed for riders between Aventura and downtown Miami will carry on as it exists under an agreement between Brightline and Miami-Dade County.</p>
148. <p>Hardly enough, though, to mollify dissenters in the fan base.</p>
149. <p>“With the new proposal it’s going to more than triple if you use more than 40 rides,” said Dion Cassata, a lawyer from Boca Raton and frequent train traveler to his office in downtown Miami. .</p>
150. <p>“I like Brightline a lot,” he said. “I’ll just wind up using it less.”</p>
151. <p>In a way, the capacity problem created by higher demand is a byproduct of the company&#8217;s intense marketing efforts that kicked into high gear during the first quarter.</p>
152. <p>Brightline has entered into a wide array of deals and discount plans offered in conjunction with educational institutions, cruise lines and professional sports teams. None of those arrangements will be affected, Porritt said.</p>
153. <p>But prices have steadily climbed at Brightline, known for its upscale stations occupied by bars, restaurants, retail and various passenger amenities to go along with its fast inter-city service at speeds reaching between 79 mph and 125 mph. On any given day, would-be riders are confronted with $49 one-way trips between Fort Lauderdale and Miami that are listed in the economy section for travel during the course of each business day.</p>
154. <h4>The Tri-Rail alternative</h4>
155. <p>Those feeling priced off the fast train can always head west to Tri-Rail, the publicly subsidized commuter line that operates along a state-owned rail corridor. The line has 18 stops mainly west of Interstate 95 between Mangonia Park north of West Palm Beach and Miami International Airport. Prices are as low as five bucks for rides on weekends.</p>
156. <p>Tri-Rail recently started service into downtown Miami and the Miami Central station built and operated by Brightline. At this point, the service requires a change of trains near Hialeah for a cross-county ride into downtown.</p>
157. <p>In its note to riders, which Porritt reaffirmed, Brightline said it has been working with Tri-Rail’s operating agency, the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, “to facilitate a new Tri-Rail express route serving daily commuters between West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale and Brightline Miami Central Station.&#8221;</p>
158. <p>&#8220;We’ve really revolutionized the way people get around South Florida,&#8221; Porritt said, &#8220;And for the longest time people questioned us as to whether people would get out of their cars.”</p>
159. <p>It&#8217;s why Brightline is not only working with Tri-Rail on the downtown Miami connection, but with the governments of Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counites to build out a separate coastal commuter line along the FEC corridor.</p>
160. <p>&#8220;There is an audience there and a demand for that type of service,” Porritt said.</p>
161. <p>In an email, Tri-Rail spokesman Victor Garcia acknowledged that David Dech, the authority&#8217;s executive director, &#8220;has had some conversations with Brightline and shared that we are looking at adding an express train. He is exploring the concept of one express train from West Palm Beach to MiamiCentral in the morning and one returning northbound in the afternoon, as a one-seat ride making limited stops.&#8221;</p>
162. <p>Garcia said Tri-Rail &#8220;is compiling passenger survey feedback before finalizing an updated schedule.&#8221;</p>
163. <p>It is at a board meeting, which will take place May 31, that funding for the express service will be proposed as part of a budget presentation for Tri-Rail&#8217;s forthcoming fiscal year, which starts July 1.</p>
164. <p>&#8220;There is a chance that the service is in place sometime this summer if approved,&#8221; Garcia said.</p>
165. <p>Thus far, there is no indication that a surge of disgruntled Brightline passengers is heading over to Tri-Rail.</p>
166. <p>&#8220;Weekday ridership remains at a steady 15,000 average since February,&#8221; Garcia said. &#8220;So no significant ridership wave has been experienced at the moment.&#8221;</p>
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171. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">10943635</post-id><media:content url="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/High_Speed_Rail_Florida_27663-2.jpg?w=1400px&#038;strip=all" fileSize="181017" type="image/jpeg" height="150" width="150" isDefault="true"><media:description type="html"><![CDATA[ A Brightline train approaches the Fort Lauderdale station in September, the month it started service to Orlando.  The company now says it&#039;s seeking to boost capacity due to heavy demand for trips to Central Florida as well as in South Florida. (Marta Lavandier/AP file) ]]></media:description></media:content>
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176. <title>Here are the 2024 winners of the Sun Sentinel’s annual high school journalism contest</title>
177. <link>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/05/04/here-are-the-2024-winners-of-the-sun-sentinels-annual-high-school-journalism-contest/</link>
179. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathy Laskowski]]></dc:creator>
180. <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
181. <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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188. <description><![CDATA[Students from 15 high schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties entered the South Florida Sun Sentinel's annual journalism contest. Here are the 2024 winners.]]></description>
189. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For nearly 30 years, the South Florida Sun Sentinel has honored the best high school journalists. Students from 15 schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties entered the annual contest with material published in the 2023-24 school year. Congratulations to the young journalists of tomorrow.</p>
190. <h4>News writing</h4>
191. <ul>
192. <li><strong>First Place:</strong> Graeme Melcher of The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, for “Reshaping the Square.”</li>
193. <li><strong>Second Place:</strong> Jasmine Bhogaita of Eagle Eye News at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, for “Diyas and Days Off: Hindus in Broward County petition for Diwali to become a school holiday.”</li>
194. <li><strong>Third Place:</strong> Daniel Morrison of The CHAT at Pembroke Pines Charter High School, for “Jags witness one of nature’s biggest spectacles until 2044.”</li>
195. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Karmiah Smith of The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, for “The Silent Epidemic.”</li>
196. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Jad Dargam of The Legend at Suncoast Community High School, for “No Money, More Problems.”</li>
197. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Patrick Gohl of Tornado Times at Pompano Beach High School, for “Parent permission required by district for students to take AP Psychology.”</li>
198. </ul>
199. <h4>Feature/Entertainment writing</h4>
200. <ul>
201. <li><strong>First Place (tie):</strong> Samantha Maynes and Veronika Egorova of The Paw Print at Boca Raton Community High School, for &#8220;Addressing Stereotypes.&#8221;</li>
202. <li><strong>First Place (tie):</strong> Brynn Schwartz and Andie Korenge of the Eagle Eye News at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, portfolio.</li>
203. <li><strong>Second Place:</strong> Sienna Rose Sossi of The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, portfolio.</li>
204. <li><strong>Third place:</strong> Sanaiya Pinnock of Calibre at Western High School, portfolio.</li>
205. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Priya Gowda and Lila Goldin of The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, for &#8220;Up in Smoke.&#8221;</li>
206. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Madison LeMaster of The Torch at Olympic Heights High School, for “Changing the Lives of Struggling Readers One by One.”</li>
207. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Eric Tovin of The Navigator at Fort Lauderdale High School, for “Coach Terry Portice Inducted into HSBN Hall of Fame – Welcomed into Baseball Paradise!”</li>
208. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Summer Mcelroy of The Sword &amp; Shield at South Plantation High School, for &#8220;Girlhood.&#8221;</li>
209. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Alexandra Kimbrell of West Boca Bullseye at West Boca Raton Community High School, portfolio.</li>
210. </ul>
211. <figure id="attachment_10938111"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="865px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="The South Florida Sun Sentinel honored high school student journalists from Broward and Palm Beach counties at an event Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Deerfield Beach. The award presentation included a tour through the media company's printing plant." width="1730" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10938111" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-04.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The South Florida Sun Sentinel honored high school student journalists from Broward and Palm Beach counties at a Thursday event Thursday in Deerfield Beach. The award presentation included a tour through the media company&#8217;s printing plant. (Kathy Laskowski/South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
212. <h4>Commentary</h4>
213. <ul>
214. <li><strong>First Place:</strong> The Eagle Eye News Editorial Board at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, for “Compromised Student Safety: Global Conflicts Should Not Affect the Safety of Students.”</li>
215. <li><strong>Second Place:</strong> Daniel Morrison and Kara Warren of The CHAT at Pembroke Pines Charter High School, “Rethinking the future of standardized testing: the Digital SAT.”</li>
216. <li><strong>Third Place:</strong> Natalia Vasquez and Savannah Ghibaudy of The Galleon at Spanish River High School, for “Face-Off: Movies vs. books.”</li>
217. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Amelia Welch of The Torch at Olympic Heights High School, for &#8220;Lion Zen Day.&#8221;</li>
218. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Jad Dargam of The Legend at Suncoast Community High School, for “Form 2680.”</li>
219. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Annika Karbstein of The Legend at Suncoast Community High School, for “Mary Jane, Yes or No?”</li>
220. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Patrick Gohl and Cali Jade Berrios of Tornado Times at Pompano Beach High School, for “Resiliency training: noble cause, lacking implementation.”</li>
221. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Daniel Wu of Cobra Chronicle at Park Vista High School, for “Professional Athletes Unjustified Salaries.”</li>
222. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Gonzalo Taype of Cobra Chronicle at  Park Vista High School, for “Phone Holders: Worth it or Worthless?”</li>
223. <li><strong>Honorable Mention</strong>: Gavin Leser of The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, for “The Top Five Trees on Campus.”</li>
224. </ul>
225. <h4>Sports writing</h4>
226. <ul>
227. <li><strong>First Place:</strong> Isaac Edelman of West Boca Bullseye at West Boca Raton Community High School, portfolio.</li>
228. <li><strong>Second Place (tie):</strong> Barkley Wyckoff of Cobra Chronicle at Park Vista High School, portfolio.</li>
229. <li><strong>Second Place (tie):</strong> Gavin Murray of The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, portfolio.</li>
230. <li><strong>Third place:</strong> Michael Smith of The Bulldog Bark at South Broward High School, for &#8220;From Under Dog to Top Dog; SBHS Boy’s Soccer team wins first state championship in school history.&#8221;</li>
231. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> Peyton Blythe of The Galleon at Spanish River High School, for &#8220;Dancing With the Sharks.&#8221;</li>
232. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> Santiago Illarramendi of The Sword &amp; Shield at South Plantation High School, portfolio.</li>
233. <li><strong>Honorable Mention: </strong>Daniel Morrison of The CHAT at Pembroke Pines Charter, for &#8220;Pickleball — the game you may have never played — may be Charter’s newest sport.&#8221;</li>
234. <li><strong>Honorable Mention: </strong>Isabelle Dimant of The Torch at Olympic Heights High School, for &#8220;The 2023 Ballon d’Or Debate.&#8221;</li>
235. <li><strong>Honorable Mention: </strong>Jessie Gesund of Eagle Eye News at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, for &#8220;Fall, Fumble, Fracture: MSD student athletes sustain injuries participating in high school athletics.&#8221;</li>
236. <li><strong>Honorable Mention: </strong>Caroline Walsh of Calibre at Western High School, for &#8220;Reversing the Narrative&#8221; and &#8220;Flip the Script.&#8221;</li>
237. <li><strong>Honorable Mention: </strong>Casey Brodnicki of The Legend at Suncoast Community High School, for &#8220;Sliding Into Next Season.&#8221;</li>
238. </ul>
239. <figure id="attachment_10938110"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="750px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="The South Florida Sun Sentinel honored high school student journalists from Broward and Palm Beach counties at an event Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Deerfield Beach." width="1500" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10938110" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-02.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Managing Editor Gretchen Day-Bryant addresses high school student journalists from Broward and Palm Beach counties on Thursday at the Sun Sentinel’s Deerfield Beach office. (Kathy Laskowski/South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
240. <h4>Photography</h4>
241. <ul>
242. <li><strong>First Place</strong>:  Ashwin Kishor of The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, for &#8220;Block Party.&#8221;</li>
243. <li><strong>Second Place:</strong> Carolina Ochoa Lozano of Eagle Eye News at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, for &#8220;Baseball Slide.&#8221;</li>
244. <li><strong>Third Place</strong>: Saarah Juman-Welch of The Bulldog Bark at South Broward High School, for &#8220;Soccer State Win.&#8221;</li>
245. </ul>
246. <h4>Social Media</h4>
247. <ul>
248. <li><strong>First Place:</strong> Arik Karim and Gavin Murray of The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, for “Snap Out of It.”</li>
249. <li><strong>Second Place:</strong> The Galleon at Spanish River High School, for “Galleon Promotion.”</li>
250. <li><strong>Third Place:</strong>  West Boca Bullseye at West Boca Raton Community High School, “Football Game Day drone.”</li>
251. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> Eagle Eye News of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, for “False Threats.”</li>
252. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> The Sword &amp; Shield of South Plantation High School, for “Sword &amp; Shield is out.”</li>
253. <li><strong>Honorable Mention: </strong>Isaac Edelman of West Boca Bullseye at West Boca Raton Community High School, for “Football Postgame Interview.”</li>
254. <li><strong>Honorable Mention: </strong>The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, “Man on the Street: Pink Friday.&#8221;</li>
255. <li><strong>Honorable Mention: </strong>The Galleon at Spanish River High School, for “Pep Rally and Club Rush galleries.”</li>
256. </ul>
257. <figure id="attachment_10938112"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="286px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="The South Florida Sun Sentinel honored high school student journalists from Broward and Palm Beach counties at an event Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Deerfield Beach. The award presentation included a tour through the media company's printing plant. Students from Park Vista High School in Lake Worth Beach are seen here in the newspaper's ink room." width="572" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10938112" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/TFL-L-HIGH-SCHOOL-AWARDS-03.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The South Florida Sun Sentinel honored high school student journalists from Broward and Palm Beach counties at an event Thursday in Deerfield Beach. The award presentation included a tour through the media company&#8217;s printing plant. Students from Park Vista High School in Lake Worth Beach are seen here in the newspaper&#8217;s ink room. (Cynthia Schector/Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
258. <h4>Layout/Design</h4>
259. <ul>
260. <li><strong>First Place:</strong> The Galleon at Spanish River High School, portfolio.</li>
261. <li><strong>Second Place:</strong> Daniela Penafiel of The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, portfolio.</li>
262. <li><strong>Third Place:</strong> Andie Korenge of Eagle Eye News at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, for “Chronically Online.”</li>
263. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> The Sword &amp; Shield of South Plantation High School, portfolio of pages.</li>
264. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> The Paw Print at Boca Raton Community High School, for mental health and coping series.</li>
265. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> Juliana Lopez Candelaria of  Cobra Chronicle at Park Vista High School, for “Coffee, Tea or …”</li>
266. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> Alison LaTorre of Eagle Eye News at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, for for “Up All Night.”</li>
267. </ul>
268. <h4>Best Overall</h4>
269. <ul>
270. <li><strong>First Place</strong>: The Muse at Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Adviser Carly Gates.</li>
271. <li><strong>Second Place:</strong> Eagle Eye News at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Adviser Melissa Falkowski.</li>
272. <li><strong>Third Place:</strong> Cobra Chronicle at Park Vista High School, Adviser Cynthia Schector.</li>
273. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> The Paw Print at Boca Raton Community High School, Adviser Aurora Dominguez.</li>
274. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> The CHAT at Pembroke Pines Charter High School, Adviser Faren Fagen.</li>
275. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> The Bronco Beat at Palm Beach Central High School, Adviser Eric Jourgensen.</li>
276. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> The Galleon at Spanish River High School, Adviser Suzanne Delenay.</li>
277. <li><strong>Honorable Mention:</strong> The Legend at Suncoast Community High School, Adviser Traci Lowe.</li>
278. </ul>
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288. <title>Coming soon: Burtons to open 2nd Florida location, plus Piu Argentinian Ice Cream headed to Davie</title>
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303. <description><![CDATA[When it comes to food, South Florida is a great place to be. So many new restaurants open nearly every day. Here's what's coming soon to a city near you.]]></description>
304. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to food, South Florida is a great place to be. So many new restaurants open nearly every day. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s coming soon to a city near you.</p>
305. <p><strong>Burtons Grill &amp; Bar, Plantation<br />
306. </strong>1003 S. University Drive; <a href="http://BurtonsGrill.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BurtonsGrill.com</a> </p>
307. <p>Seven years after its <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2017/10/24/burtons-grill-bar-in-boca-is-chains-first-location-in-florida/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first location bowed in Boca Raton</a>, this Massachusetts-based chain is scheduled to finally open its second Florida location on Tuesday, May 21, according to <a href="https://burtonsgrill.com/news-events/plantation-fl-011724/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Burtons Grill website</a>. The 6,200-square-foot storefront will occupy the Market on University plaza, with murals from Miami artist Juan Manuel Rozas splashed across the 175-seat dining room. There’s also a patio and a 50-seat private dining room. The menu includes cheesesteak spring rolls and crispy calamari for starters and General Tso bowls and Mediterranean chicken risotto for mains, along with steak frites, burgers and salmon romesco.</p>
308. <p><strong>Piu Argentinian Ice Cream, Davie<br />
309. </strong>6310 Griffin Road, Unit B-101 </p>
310. <p>This frozen treat shop <a href="http://dos.sunbiz.org/scripts/ficidet.exe?action=DETREG&amp;docnum=G24000017868&amp;rdocnum=G24000017868" target="_blank" rel="noopener">registered to owner Mauricio Bastidas Castillo</a> is coming later this year to the University Pointe apartment complex on the southeast corner of Griffin and Davie Roads, next to Pho Bar Vietnamese Kitchen and Taco Love. Although a menu isn’t available yet, it will specialize in Argentinian &#8220;helado,&#8221; a delicious middle ground that marries the density of Italian gelato with the soft, creamy texture of traditional ice cream, without quite tasting like either.</p>
311. <figure id="attachment_10903188"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="440px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Why, yes, that is a Flaming Hot Cheetos Burger. It's a menu item at Sugar Factory American Brasserie, scheduled to open later this summer in downtown Delray Beach. (Sugar Factory / Courtesy)" width="1280" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10903188" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-l-sugar-factory-delray-03.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">Sugar Factory / Courtesy</div>Why, yes, that is a Flaming Hot Cheetos Burger. It’s a menu item at Sugar Factory American Brasserie, scheduled to open later this summer in downtown Delray Beach. (Sugar Factory / Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
312. <p><strong>Sugar Factory American Brasserie, Delray Beach<br />
313. </strong>307 E. Atlantic Ave.; <a href="http://SugarFactory.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SugarFactory.com</a> </p>
314. <p>Adorned in neon, sprinkles and Instagrammable grass walls, this candy-coated chain is expected to arrive in Delray Beach this summer, replacing Lionfish, the acclaimed seafood restaurant on swanky Atlantic Avenue that abruptly shut in April after 3 1/2 years. The new, over-the-top restaurant is a celebrity magnet known for creating cocktails and Couture Pops (lollipops) endorsed by the likes of The Rock, Bruno Mars, Nick Jonas, Kendall Jenner and Pitbull. And the food menu itself? It’s just as grandiose, with rainbow-colored sliders served with a rubber duck, cheeseburger- and pizza-loaded fries, a Flaming Hot Cheetos Burger, another hamburger dipped in 24-carat gold leaf, a firecracker shrimp stir-fry, a salted caramel cheesecake &#8220;insane milkshake&#8221; and a $99 &#8220;King Kong Sundae.&#8221; A Sugar Factory spokesperson <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/17/i-didnt-want-to-do-it-anymore-acclaimed-lionfish-restaurant-in-delray-beach-has-closed-to-be-replaced-by-celebrity-magnet-sugar-factory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Sun Sentinel in April</a> that an attached retail shop will offer 100 varieties of candy and “party accessories such as sashes and tiaras.”</p>
315. <p><strong>ROK Prime Korean BBQ, Boynton Beach<br />
316. </strong>1729 S. Federal Highway </p>
317. <p>One of South Florida’s longest evangelists of Korean cuisine, chef-owner Michael Kwon will bring a sister restaurant to his 12-year-old ROK Korean BBQ in Lauderhill sometime later this summer. His new 2,200-square-foot restaurant in the Sunshine Square plaza will feature tabletop grills firing all-you-can-eat prime cuts of meat such as pork belly and bulgogi, along with banchan, vegetable-loaded side dishes that are staples on Korean barbecue menus. The opening of ROK follows the <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2022/08/11/now-open-fk-your-diet-in-sunrise-plus-another-ny-cafe-debuts-in-soflo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022 closing of Bap Bistro in Sunrise</a>, where Kwon (Mandarin Oriental in Washington, D.C.; Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne) served build-your-own bibimbap bowls.</p>
318. <p><strong>Man Ray, Lake Worth Beach<br />
319. </strong>522 Lucerne Ave.; <a href="https://www.sub-culture.org/locations/man-ray/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sub-Culture.org</a> </p>
320. <p>Named after the iconic painter and photographer subversive who straddled two art movements — Dada and Surrealism — this restaurant is expected to open later this year on Lucerne Avenue in downtown Lake Worth Beach, replacing the former C.W.S. Bar + Kitchen. Billed as a spinoff of <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2022/01/21/two-delray-beach-restaurants-named-in-yelps-top-restaurants-of-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dada in Delray Beach</a>, the eclectic sit-down comes from Palm Beach restaurant impresario Rodney Mayo (Kapow!, Sassafras, Hullaballoo, the <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/09/new-south-florida-restaurants-open-close/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently opened El Segundo</a>) and features no menu yet.</p>
321. <figure id="attachment_10917825"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="440px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Founded in Miami, Pura Vida has been focusing on expanding in Palm Beach County. Pictured here is a recent ribbon-cutting in Jupiter. (Pura Vida/Courtesy)" width="2908" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10917825" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-Pura-Vida-Jupiter-Ribbon-Cutting-01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">Pura Vide</div>Founded in Miami, Pura Vida has been focusing on expanding in Palm Beach County. Pictured here is a recent ribbon-cutting in Jupiter. (Pura Vida/Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
322. <p><strong>Pura Vida, Delray Beach<br />
323. </strong>6 South Ocean Blvd.; <a href="https://www.puravidamiami.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">puravidamiami.com</a> </p>
324. <p>This Miami-based, health-conscious chain is quickly expanding throughout SoFlo with a particular focus on Palm Beach County. The new Pura Vida Delray Beach will overlook the ocean when the 4,000 square-foot space opens this summer. Founded by Omer and Jennifer Horev in 2012 (there are already 24 eateries), the fast-casual keeps an eye on food allergies and dietary restrictions, offering dishes such as pasture-raised egg sandwiches, salads, raw organic acai bowls, wraps and gluten-free vegan sweets. &#8220;We are thrilled to continue our journey of growth in Palm Beach County with the opening of our new stores in Jupiter and Delray Beach,&#8221; Omer Horev says. &#8220;Our aim has always been to foster spaces where individuals can come together to enjoy not just great food, but a lifestyle centered around health and wellness.&#8221;</p>
325. <p><strong>Howl at the Moon, Fort Lauderdale</strong><br />
326. 600 SE Second Court; 754-356-4695; <a href="https://www.howlatthemoon.com/fort-lauderdale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HowlattheMoon.com</a> </p>
327. <p>In a <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1997/03/07/dueling-piano-players-make-beach-club-a-howl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bygone Fort Lauderdale party era</a>, dueling-piano bars tickled the ivories into the wee hours of the morning at Beach Place. Now one of those singalong nightspots, Howl at the Moon, is <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2022/05/28/sing-us-a-song-dueling-piano-bars-making-a-comeback-at-mickeys-downtown-bistro-howl-at-the-moon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staging a comeback</a> with a 5,000-square-foot venue off Las Olas Boulevard, behind Big City Tavern. It is slated to open in October. As with the other 12 national locations, this new piano-bar will sling cocktails, shots and beers, no doubt to loosen your tongue for belting out “Don’t Stop Believin’” for the 50th time. Meanwhile, performers will face each other across black baby-grand pianos, taking song requests for tips while inviting customers onstage.</p>
328. <p><strong></strong></p>
329. <p><strong>Mister O1 Extraordinary Pizza, Miramar</strong><br />
330. 1 Main St.; <a href="https://www.mistero1.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mistero1.com</a></p>
331. <p>Renato Viola&#8217;s pizzeria is expected to open this fall at the new Manor at Miramar, an eight-story, mixed-use development right in the heart of the southern Broward County city. <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2022/02/12/upper-crust-the-us-government-calls-his-pizza-extraordinary-now-renato-viola-is-opening-mister-o1-pizzerias-around-south-florida/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Known for star-shaped, Neapolitan-style pizzas</a>, Mister O1 has multiple South Florida locations, including in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Aventura and South Beach. </p>
332. <p><strong>The Knife Parrilla Argentina, Coral Springs</strong><br />
333. 9231 W. Atlantic Blvd., <a href="https://thekniferestaurant.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TheKnifeRestaurant.com</a></p>
334. <p>After closing locations in Hallandale Beach and Sunrise over the years, Argentinean-style steakhouse The Knife is carving its way back into Broward with a new home within Coral Square Mall. The 38-year-old restaurant chain&#8217;s newest outpost expects to debut this spring at the mall’s east entrance, beside Foot Locker, <a href="https://www.simon.com/mall/coral-square/stores/the-knife" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the mall’s website</a>. The &#8220;parrilla,&#8221; which touts all-you-can-eat cuts at a fixed price, includes short ribs, rump and bottom sirloin, picanha, N.Y. strips, boneless chicken thighs, flank pork and beef briskets, along with side bars devoted to appetizers, salads and charcuterie. (There are also empanadas, desserts and cocktails including the <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/10/16/try-the-messi-burger-sip-the-messi-mojito-visit-the-messi-mural-its-messi-mania/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Messi Favorito Mojito</a>, in honor of Inter Miami superstar Lionel Messi, of course.) Other locations remain in Doral and at Miami’s Bayside Marketplace. </p>
335. <p><strong>Bondi Sushi, Oakland Park</strong><br />
336. 3333 N. Federal Highway; <a href="http://BondiSushi.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BondiSushi.com</a></p>
337. <p>This beachy, Big Apple-born, sushi-bar chain is expanding with its first Broward outpost, which expects to debut this summer at Oaklyn, a new sky-high <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/11/17/oakland-park-grows-up-new-towers-morphing-citys-skyline-with-art-restaurants-nightlife/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tower giving Oakland Park a jolt of big-city appeal</a>. The 2,100-square-foot kitchen comes from founder-partners David Hess, Aiden Carty and Justin Hauser, and will occupy space next to soon-to-open burger joint La Birra Bar and the motorcycle-themed Imperial Moto Café. The dining room will be distinguished by a Japanese-style cocktail bar and a sweets shop called Icebergs, which will serve Japanese ice cream, rice-cake desserts, sodas and candy. Bondi, which also operates a Miami Beach outpost, will serve king salmon and yellowtail jalapeno sashimi, 12 kinds of handrolls (from lobster and toro to A5 Wagyu and truffle avocado), 14 types of nigiri (sea scallop, seared albacore), crispy rice and shishito pepper appetizers. </p>
338. <figure id="attachment_238512"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="440px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Jarael Holston-Jones, owner of Fat Boyz Barbecue, says he will keep the Deerfield Beach flagship open and open a new Fort Lauderdale location by year's end." width="1200" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="238512" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/10/02/PZ5DFLWBSRFYHMVKS7NYZECAKY.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">John McCall / Sun Sentinel / South Florida Sun Sentinel</div>Jarael Holston-Jones, owner of Fat Boyz Barbecue, is planning to open a Coral Springs location sometime this spring. (John McCall / South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
339. <p><strong>Fat Boyz Barbecue, Coral Springs</strong><br />
340. 10334 W. Sample Road; <a href="http://FatBoyzBarbecue.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FatBoyzBarbecue.com</a></p>
341. <p>Owner Jarael Holston-Jones has <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2022/09/29/in-restaurant-news-fat-boyz-barbecue-opens-in-deerfield-beach-fords-garage-wellington-runs-out-of-gas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grown</a> and <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2019/09/20/fat-boyz-barbecue-to-close-in-deerfield-beach-and-open-at-ex-hickory-sticks-site-in-fort-lauderdale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shrunk</a> his smoky empire of barbecue multiple times over the years, so you’d be forgiven for feeling déjà vu over the pitmaster’s soon-to-open Coral Springs location. After the pandemic and overaggressive expansion <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2021/04/21/pour-out-some-sauce-fat-boyz-barbecue-permanently-closes-in-coral-springs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed his last outpost there in 2021</a>, Holston-Jones’ shrine to Southern-style smoked ribs and brisket is expected back this spring. The new 1,000-square-foot shack will replace the former Juana La Cubana Café on West Sample Road and cater to take-out crowds, although its menu will be identical to other locations in Deerfield Beach and Fort Lauderdale. Its usual crowd-pleasers include dry-rubbed St. Louis spare ribs kissed with hickory and spice, Texas-style brisket, smoked lean pastrami and its Big Daddy sandwich, a combo of pulled pork, chopped brisket and mac &#8216;n&#8217; cheese on a kaiser roll. </p>
342. <p><strong>SoHo Kitchen, Fort Lauderdale</strong><br />
343. 3020 N. Federal Highway; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sohokitchenfortlauderdale" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram.com/sohokitchenfortlauderdale</a></p>
344. <p>This breakfast-lunch café plans to open this spring in Plaza 3000, next door to Lotus Chinese Kitchen and The Mason Jar Café. The eatery, which comes from husband-and-wife New York transplants <a href="https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&amp;directionType=Initial&amp;searchNameOrder=SOHOKITCHEN%20P240000031180&amp;aggregateId=domp-p24000003118-e1487427-2bba-4ec8-989c-1240eb630cbf&amp;searchTerm=Soho%20Kitchen&amp;listNameOrder=SOHOKITCHEN%20P240000031180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew and Jutbina Pirgousis</a>, doesn’t have a full menu available yet but is said to specialize in all-day brunch and lunch specials. </p>
345. <figure id="attachment_75324"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="440px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Opening night brings a packed house at Fort Lauderdale's newest hot spot, Tacocraft Taqueria &amp; Tequila Bar, Tuesday, December 1, 2020." width="1200" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="75324" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/05/27/JH6UFRX535CKDATJAVUILY4CHY.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">Michael Laughlin/Sun Sentinel</div>Tacocraft plans to open its latest location in Coral Springs in June. (Michael Laughlin/Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
346. <p><strong>Tacocraft, Coral Springs</strong><br />
347. 3300 N. University Drive; <a href="http://Tacocraft.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tacocraft.com</a></p>
348. <p>This <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2022/03/23/now-open-tacocraft-taqueria-in-plantation-addiction-kitchen-in-lighthouse-point/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">growing taqueria chain</a> is not only backed by powerhouse investors — gridiron great Dan Marino, radio star Paul Castronovo and restaurateurs Anthony Bruno, Pat Marzano and Marc Falsetto — but its new Coral Springs location will be its largest yet. When it debuts in June, the 4,500-square-foot, 200-seat restaurant from Handcrafted Hospitality will anchor the new City Village, a soon-to-open, mixed-use shopping plaza spanning two blocks on North University Drive. Along with a lineup of tacos (korean short rib, chicken al pastor, carne asada), there are trendy smash burgers, salads, fajitas, churro ice-cream sandwiches and a bar program of margaritas and tequila-forward cocktails. The Coral Springs location joins outposts in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2020/11/30/tacocraft-now-open-in-downtown-fort-lauderdale-photos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fort Lauderdale</a> and Plantation. </p>
349. <p><strong>Celis Juice Bar, Delray Beach</strong><br />
350. 335 E. Linton Blvd., Suite B-12; <a href="https://celisjuicebar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celisjuicebar.com</a></p>
351. <p>This health-conscious eatery (make sure you check out their <a href="https://www.instagram.com/celisrunclub/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running club</a>) will open its newest location in May, joining the original brick-and-mortar in West Palm Beach that opened in 2015 and the Palm Beach venue that followed a couple of years later. The quick-service restaurant offers fresh-pressed juices, smoothies, acai bowls and made-to-order breakfast and lunch. The boutique-chain is owned by the Celis brothers — Alex, Camilo and Felipe — and Taki Kastanis, who is also CEO of Yolk restaurants.</p>
352. <p><strong>Yolk, Boynton Beach</strong><br />
353. 9884 S. Jog Road, Suite D9; <a href="https://eatyolk.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eatyolk.com</a></p>
354. <p>When this location opens sometime this spring, the number of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eatyolk/reels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yolk</a> eateries will increase to 18 nationwide — spanning across South Florida, Illinois, Indiana and Texas. The other two SoFlo locations are in Boca Raton and West Palm Beach. The new Boynton Beach venue will measure 2,900 square feet and seat 90 people inside and 72 on a patio designed with Yolk’s signature yellow umbrellas for shade. Touting a menu it describes as &#8220;constantly pushing the envelope with new and creative brunch dishes served in urban, upscale settings,&#8221; the eatery will be serving various French toast and eggs Benedict dishes <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EatYolk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as well as items</a> such as Breakfast Mac &amp; Cheese and Santa Fe Frittata. That&#8217;s in addition to gourmet five-egg rolled omelets, signature scramblers, pancakes, crepes, build-your-own options, burgers, sandwiches, coffees, lattes, craft beers, wines and cocktails. The brand has a <a href="https://eatyolk.com/test-kitchen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">test kitchen program</a> to come up with foodie-forward culinary options. </p>
355. <p><strong>Jerk and Lime at Nicole’s House, Delray Beach<br />
356. </strong>182 NW Fifth Ave.; <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nicoles_house_/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram.com/nicoles_house_/</a><strong><br />
357. </strong></p>
358. <p><a href="https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&amp;directionType=Initial&amp;searchNameOrder=JERKLIMEATNICOLESHOUSE%20L210001852600&amp;aggregateId=flal-l21000185260-c164af95-dcae-4642-b387-8c07485eda67&amp;searchTerm=Jerk%20%26%20Lime%20at%20Nicole%E2%80%99s%20House%20LLC&amp;listNameOrder=JERKLIMEATNICOLESHOUSE%20L210001852600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Owner Nicole Myers</a>’ long-in-the-works Caribbean restaurant plans to open a slight jog west of downtown Delray Beach, a block north of the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, sometime this spring, the restaurant’s Instagram confirms. Myers, originally from St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, is cooking up a menu that will include braised oxtail with plantains and rice and pea cabbage, stew fish, fried lobster tail with jumbo shrimp, fried catfish, pepper steak with mashed potatoes, and jerk chicken with garden fruit salad.  </p>
359. <p><strong>Juliana’s Pizza, West Palm Beach<br />
360. </strong>905 N. Railroad Ave., West Palm Beach; <a href="http://JulianasPizza.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JulianasPizza.com</a><strong><br />
361. </strong></p>
362. <p>For most pizza lovers, the arrival of Juliana’s to <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/01/11/julianas-pizza-and-more-west-palm-beachs-nora-district-unveils-newly-planned-restaurants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Palm Beach&#8217;s rising NORA district</a> heralds yet another New York-born pie shop sowing new roots in South Florida. But to folks fascinated with the Empire State’s <a href="https://www.grubstreet.com/2012/10/pizza-legend-patsy-grimaldi-gets-his-good-name-back.html#_ga=2.120861832.1635116358.1705081111-1251608017.1705081110" target="_blank" rel="noopener">very long and winding pizza wars saga</a>, Juliana’s represents a slice of Big Apple royalty. The short version: Juliana’s was founded by restaurateur Patsy Grimaldi, who at various times ran Patsy’s and Grimaldi’s and traces his bona fides back to the original Lombardi’s, and has been selling pies in Brooklyn&#8217;s Dumbo neighborhood since 1990. (Juliana’s is named after Grimaldi’s late mother.) The history gets more convoluted from there, but Juliana’s has racked up countless accolades, topping best-pizzeria lists from TripAdvisor and USA Today to Cosmopolitan. The man most directly responsible for its South Florida expansion is cofounder Matthew Grogan, an ex-Wall Street executive and current Palm Beacher, who will bring Juliana’s menu of coal-fired pies with thin, crackerlike crusts, egg creams, meatballs and seltzer to West Palm in early 2025.  </p>
363. <figure id="attachment_10386759"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="440px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Drunken Dragon, a Korean barbecue restaurant and tiki cocktail hub, has closed its longtime Miami Beach flagship and will reopen in Hallandale Beach's Atlantic Village sometime in late 2024. (Drunken Dragon / Courtesy)" width="2048" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10386759" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tfl-l-restaurants-coming-soon-drunken-dragon-01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">Drunken Dragon / Courtesy</div>Drunken Dragon, a Korean barbecue restaurant and tiki cocktail hub, has closed its longtime Miami Beach flagship and will reopen in Hallandale Beach’s Atlantic Village sometime in late 2024. (Drunken Dragon / Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
364. <p><strong>Drunken Dragon, Hallandale Beach<br />
365. </strong>601 N. Federal Highway; <a href="http://DrunkenDragon.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DrunkenDragon.com</a><strong><br />
366. </strong></p>
367. <p>What happens when a Korean barbecue spot touting tiki-themed cocktails, Asian tapas and DIY grilling uproots from flashy Miami Beach? In Hallandale Beach, at least, enter the Drunken Dragon. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DrunkenDragonMIA/posts/pfbid0PcgMBdKqkCQ4ZFXtKp5YdEo7Rz4bmS3yxRfR15yrkhiB3A9ccTuPH6ivyTMt1wijl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The restaurant called it quits</a> after 10 years on Alton Road <a href="https://www.instagram.com/drunkendragon/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with a Dec. 31 farewell party</a> ahead of a planned late-2024 opening at <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2021/11/11/early-peek-atlantic-village-bringing-birria-tacos-korean-barbecue-south-beach-rooftop-bar-to-hallandale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atlantic Village, a sprawling live-shopping complex</a>. The move from cofounder Angel Febres and his Homecookin’ Hospitality Group (Rácket in Wynwood, Foxhole in Miami Beach) has been in the works since 2021. Drunken Dragon’s new 300-seat eatery is a rebranding of the barbecue house into what it calls a “craft-cocktail supper club,” with 37 communal grilling tables, a “Dragon Lounge” and live entertainment.  </p>
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377. <title>Annual Boca Bash party on Lake Boca &#124; PHOTOS</title>
378. <link>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/28/annual-boca-bash-party-on-lake-boca-photos/</link>
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386. <description><![CDATA[Photos of the 2024 Boca Bash boat party on Lake Boca in Boca Raton. ]]></description>
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396. <title>UPDATED: Boca Raton art museum&#8217;s &#8216;Creature Features&#8217; extended, but time&#8217;s running out to catch &#8216;Smoke &#038; Mirrors&#8217; conspiracies &#038; magic exhibit</title>
397. <link>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/23/boca-raton-museum-art-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-tackles-the-art-of-fake-news-hoaxes/</link>
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409. <description><![CDATA[Don't call this fake news, but Tony Oursler's "Creature Features" gallery, a centerpiece of the Boca Raton Museum of Art's "Smoke &#38; Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art" exhibition, has been extended through Oct. 13.]]></description>
410. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>UPDATED April 22, 2024: Don&#8217;t call this fake news, but Tony Oursler&#8217;s &#8220;Creature Features&#8221; gallery, a centerpiece of the Boca Raton Museum of Art&#8217;s &#8220;Smoke &amp; Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art&#8221; exhibition, has just been extended through Oct. 13. &#8220;Smoke &amp; Mirrors,&#8221; meanwhile, will close as originally planned on May 12.</strong></em></p>
411. <p>Call them conspiracy theories, alternative facts or disinformation, but the theme of the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s new blockbuster exhibition is the almighty lie.</p>
412. <p>“Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art,” running Nov. 18 through May 12, takes on historical myths that manage by magic or illusion to dupe the public. Featuring the works of 30 contemporary artists, the years-in-the-making show is aptly timed for the present, museum curator Kathy Goncharov says.</p>
413. <p>Just consider the rolling carnival of recent tech breakthroughs like ChatGPT, facial-recognition software and AI deepfakes, which seem at first like wild and mysterious magic, producing shock and awe for users who don’t quite grasp the inner workings, she says.</p>
414. <p>“It’s easy to believe in magic,” Goncharov says. “It’s comforting sometimes. Since COVID, there’s been a spike in spiritualism TV shows, a spike in people who believe in mysticism, and it brings to mind all the 1920s artists who practiced psychic mysticism after the 1920 Spanish flu killed a lot of people.</p>
415. <p>&#8220;How can you believe that stuff? Well, I think this show will make you realize you can convince people of anything, and that maybe the message is, ‘Don’t be so gullible.’ ”</p>
416. <figure id="attachment_10056588"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="581px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Tony Oursler translucent resin sculpture &quot;Cardiff Giant,&quot; a riff on an actual 19th century hoax that fooled the American public, is on display at the Boca Raton Museum of Art's new blockbuster show &quot;Smoke &amp; Mirrors,&quot; opening Nov. 18. (Tony Oursler / Courtesy)" width="4032" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10056588" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-07.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">Tony Oursler / Courtesy</div>Tony Oursler&#8217;s translucent resin sculpture &#8220;The Cardiff Giant,&#8221; a riff on an actual 19th-century hoax that fooled the American public, is on display at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. (Tony Oursler / Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
417. <p>There’s arguably no greater fib than the one lying in the museum’s biggest gallery.</p>
418. <p>At 10 feet, 4 inches tall and dubbed “The Cardiff Giant,” artist Tony Oursler’s resin sculpture is a replica of one of history’s most elaborate hoaxes: a grotesque behemoth straight from the Bible. It riffs on a “giant” invented in 1868 by George Hull, a cigar maker and avowed atheist who, during a business trip, debated a revivalist preacher’s literal reading of a Bible passage about giants who once walked the Earth. As a ruse — and to prove a point — Hull invented his own.</p>
419. <p>First, he had a 5-ton slab or gypsum carved into a petrified, naked man lying on his back with a mysterious smile. Then, he sealed the fake archeological wonder inside an iron coffin and buried it in the Cardiff, N.Y., backyard of his relative, a farmer named William “Stub” Newell. A year later, on Hull’s orders, Newell ordered crews to dig a well on the property — and they accidentally-on-purpose unearthed the giant.</p>
420. <p>Yes, this thing <a href="https://www.history.com/news/the-cardiff-giant-fools-the-nation-145-years-ago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actually hoodwinked Americans</a>. “A New Wonder,” declared the front page of the Syracuse Daily Standard newspaper. One Syracuse science lecturer thought the fake giant was a statue carved by French Jesuits centuries earlier. In the first week alone, about 2,500 people reportedly <a href="https://www.cnyhistory.org/2014/10/cardiff-giant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stopped by to see it</a>; Newell set up a tent and charged 50-cent admission. Even <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1948/05/23/archives/cardiff-giant-again-colossal-hoax-of-eighty-years-ago-now-on-view.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">circus showman P.T. Barnum infamously tried to buy it</a> and was, of course, rebuffed.</p>
421. <p>Oursler, with his colossal tribute, doubles down on the 155-year-old hoax: Projected on his statue’s translucent front, which is lying on its back, are a cavalcade of YouTube clips showing UFOs and other conspiracy theories. This artwork is one of dozens of “Smoke &amp; Mirrors” sculptures, video installations, paintings, prints and posters that fill the entire ground floor of the museum, each sharing one thing in common: They tackle the confusion between illusion, belief and reality with tongue-in-cheek spirit.</p>
422. <p>Oursler, a New York video artist who’s made music videos <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtsV50_-p4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for David Bowie</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MF6trC529M" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Foo Fighters</a>, has devoted his entire career to hoaxes, conspiracy theories and alternative facts that have duped human beings for centuries. Along with The Cardiff Giant, his “Creature Features” gallery — a room the museum commissioned for this show — carries deadpan video tributes to the Cottingley Fairies, the Flatwoods Monster, mermaids, Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle and Mina “Margery” Crandon, a 1920s psychic who claimed she could channel her dead brother.</p>
423. <p>“It’s not that I’m fascinated by hoaxes,” Oursler says. “I’m fascinated by people struggling to transcend the banality of daily life, and the belief systems that drive it. On the other side are magicians and charlatans and madmen who exploit it with UFOs and moon hoaxes.”</p>
424. <figure id="attachment_10056593"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="581px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="&quot;In Event of Moon Disaster,&quot; a traveling piece created by a pair of Massachusetts Institute of Technology artists, was adapted with a Florida twist by Boca Raton Museum of Art curator Kathleen Goncharov for the museum's new blockbuster show &quot;Smoke &amp; Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art.&quot; (Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta and Boca Raton Museum of Art / Courtesy)" width="8256" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10056593" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">(Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta and Boca Raton Museum of Art / Courtesy)</div>&#8220;In Event of Moon Disaster,&#8221; a traveling piece created by a pair of Massachusetts Institute of Technology artists, was adapted with a Florida twist by Boca Raton Museum of Art curator Kathleen Goncharov for the new &#8220;Smoke &amp; Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art&#8221; exhibit. (Halsey Burgund, Francesca Panetta and Boca Raton Museum of Art / Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
425. <p>Speaking of moon hoaxes, Goncharov’s new installation “In Event of Moon Disaster” is devoted to NASA and its Apollo 11 moon landing. The piece, a traveling project first created by the <a href="https://docubase.mit.edu/project/in-event-of-moon-disaster/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> to warn the public about the dangers of deepfake technology, is named after a real-life, notoriously chilling speech that President Richard Nixon would have read if astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins failed to land Apollo 11 on the moon.</p>
426. <p>The video, which depicts a deepfaked Nixon reading the contingency speech, plays on an old-fashioned TV inside a circa-1969 South Florida living room, complete with tacky palm-tree wallpaper and rotary telephones. Goncharov decorated the room using antique furniture she bought from <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2019/07/20/summertimeout-oddballs-nifty-thrift-is-one-of-the-best-in-the-us-says-yelp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OddBalls Nifty Thrift</a> in Oakland Park, she says with a laugh.</p>
427. <p>“I wanted to create an old TV room in Florida, as if you were watching Nixon’s speech live,” she says. “I’m even putting in fake newspapers about how Apollo failed.”</p>
428. <figure id="attachment_164797"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="581px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="In a file photo, magician skeptic James &quot;The Amazing&quot; Randi, left, and husband Jose Alvarez check out old scrapbooks on Randi's career at their Plantation home." width="1200" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="164797" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/10/22/HZHX6RDXLJGZ5I67XXYK3ECQUU.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">Taimy Alvarez / Sun Sentinel</div>In this file photo, magician skeptic James &#8220;The Amazing&#8221; Randi, left, and husband Jose Alvarez check out old scrapbooks on Randi&#8217;s career at their Plantation home. (Taimy Alvarez /South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
429. <p>Goncharov says her original inspiration for “Smoke &amp; Mirrors” was her friend, professional magician and <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2015/03/26/now-you-see-them-the-tricky-world-of-the-amazing-randi-and-jose-alvarez/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">late Plantation resident James &#8220;The Amazing&#8221; Randi</a>, a skeptical crusader who for 40 years went on the warpath against spoon-bending mentalists and mystics who claimed they could channel 1,000-year-old deities. (<a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2020/10/21/the-amazing-randi-magician-and-skeptical-crusader-devoted-to-debunking-the-supernatural-dies-at-92/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Randi died in October 2020</a> at age 92.)</p>
430. <p>The first gallery that museumgoers encounter chronicles Randi’s legacy, with historical photos showing the 32 times he appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” his public feud with Uri Geller — and the time he “decapitated” Alice Cooper’s head at a rock concert with a prop guillotine.</p>
431. <p>In another alcove of the museum is a black-box theater shrouded in stage curtains, the mysterious backdrop for another commissioned piece called “Jeanette Andrews: magi.CIA.n.” Here Andrews, a performance artist, riffs on the declassified CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception — a Cold War-era spycraft manual written by magicians — by performing tricks from the book.</p>
432. <p>“It’s very humorous,” Goncharov says. “There’s a video of her doing magic, but then there’s another video of her performing the same tricks but as a CIA spy.”</p>
433. <figure id="attachment_10056585"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="500px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="&quot;Jeanette Andrews: magi.CIA.n&quot; is on display at the Boca Raton Museum of Art as part of &quot;Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art.&quot; (Jeanette Andrews / Courtesy)" width="1000" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10056585" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-03.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">Jeanette Andrews / Courtesy</div>&#8220;Jeanette Andrews: magi.CIA.n&#8221; is on display at the Boca Raton Museum of Art as part of &#8220;Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art.&#8221; (Jeanette Andrews / Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
434. <p>Other works include pieces by Gavin Turk and Stephen Berkman, both about the same subject: The Mechanical Turk, a fantastical device that <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/the-turk-a-chess-playing-robot-was-a-hoax-that-started-an-early-conversation-about-ai.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">traveled the globe in the late 1700s</a> as the world’s first robotic chess-playing machine. Of course, it was a hoax.</p>
435. <p>“The thing traveled the world and even beat Benjamin Franklin in a match,” Goncharov says. “In reality, it was just a professional chess player hiding in a wooden box.”</p>
436. <figure id="attachment_10056592"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="581px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="A still from artist Gavin Turk's video &quot;Mechanical Turk,&quot; depicting a mechanical chess-playing robot, which is on display for the Boca Raton Museum of Art's new show &quot;Smoke &amp; Mirrors.&quot; (Gavin Turk / Courtesy)" width="8000" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10056592" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tfl-l-boca-raton-museum-smoke-mirrors-exhibit-1116-02.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><div class="photo-credit">(Gavin Turk / Courtesy)</div>A still from artist Gavin Turk&#8217;s video &#8220;Mechanical Turk,&#8221; depicting a mechanical chess-playing robot, which is on display for the Boca Raton Museum of Art&#8217;s new show &#8220;Smoke and Mirrors.&#8221; (Gavin Turk / Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
437. <h4><em>IF YOU GO</em></h4>
438. <p><em><strong>WHAT:</strong> “Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art” </em></p>
439. <p><em><strong>WHEN:</strong> Through Sunday, May 12, 2024</em></p>
440. <p><em><strong>WHERE:</strong> Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real</em></p>
441. <p><em><strong>COST: </strong>$12-$16, free for children under 15</em></p>
442. <p><em><strong>INFORMATION:</strong> 561-392-2500; <a href="http://BocaMuseum.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BocaMuseum.org</a></em></p>
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452. <title>Boca Raton man sentenced to 12 years in DUI crash that killed couple, injured 1</title>
453. <link>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/22/boca-raton-man-sentenced-to-12-years-in-dui-crash-that-killed-couple-injured-1/</link>
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462. <description><![CDATA[Jaime Gomez Escobedo, 36, of Boca Raton, was sentenced last week to 12 years in state prison in the West Boca crash last year that killed a husband and wife and injured a third person.]]></description>
463. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A man who was driving while drunk and crashed into a car in West Boca early last year, <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/04/11/boca-raton-man-faces-dui-manslaughter-charges-in-rollover-crash-that-killed-two-and-injured-one/">killing a husband and wife</a> and severely injuring their passenger, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.</p>
464. <p>Jaime Gomez Escobedo, 36, of Boca Raton, ran a red light in his 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee at the intersection of U.S. 441 and Kimberly Road about 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 1, striking the passenger side of a 2021 Nissan Rogue SUV that was traveling west on Kimberly Road through a green light, according a probable cause affidavit.</p>
465. <p>The impact forced the Nissan to &#8220;violently&#8221; roll over, finally stopping while upside down at the southwest corner of the intersection, the affidavit said.</p>
466. <p>Arie Oberlender, the 82-year-old driver of the Nissan, and passenger Golda Oberlender, 79, both of New York, were pronounced dead at the scene. A spokesperson for the Palm Beach County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the Oberlenders were married.</p>
467. <p>Their passenger, Frida Bross, of Boca Raton, survived and was hospitalized with multiple serious injuries. Gomez Escobedo&#8217;s car spun before stopping in the south lanes of the intersection, and he was taken to Boca Raton Regional Hospital to be evaluated, the affidavit said.</p>
468. <p>Once admitted in the hospital, Gomez Escobedo&#8217;s blood-alcohol content was .360, according to the warrant. Two later tests showed levels of .349 and .298. The legal limit in Florida is .08%. Shortly before noon, an investigator at the scene smelled alcohol coming from Gomez Escobedo&#8217;s Jeep while doing an assessment of the crash scene.</p>
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471. <p>A witness who was riding his bicycle on the sidewalk near the intersection at the time of the crash told law enforcement he saw the Jeep driver get out of the car and &#8220;casually&#8221; drop a Corona beer can on the shoulder of U.S. 441, the affidavit said. Another witness said he saw Gomez Escobedo walk away from his car after the crash, appearing to be &#8220;stumbling around&#8221; and could smell alcohol on him when he got near Gomez Escobedo.</p>
472. <p>Gomez Escobedo pleaded guilty April 16 to two counts of DUI manslaughter and one count of DUI causing serious bodily injury.</p>
473. <p>He was sentenced to 12 years in state prison, with a minimum mandatory sentence of four years, for the DUI manslaughter charges and a concurrent sentence of five years for the third charge, according to court records. His driver&#8217;s license will be revoked for life.</p>
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483. <title>Preserving the skate park: Sibling skateboarding pros call upon Boca Raton to restore the park where their greatness began</title>
484. <link>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/22/preserving-the-skate-park-sibling-skateboarding-pros-call-upon-boca-raton-to-restore-the-park-where-their-greatness-began/</link>
486. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Abigail Hasebroock]]></dc:creator>
487. <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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493. <description><![CDATA[Pedro and Fabiana Delfino grew up skateboarding in Boca Raton's Tim Huxhold Skate Park. But these days, the park's limited hours and fees make it harder for local kids to enjoy. Here's how the siblings are trying to make skateboarding just as accessible as when they were young.]]></description>
494. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pedro Delfino needed to finish his homework.</p>
495. <p>The time was nearing 5 p.m. on a weekday in the early 2000s, and the Tim Huxhold Skate Park in Boca Raton teemed with as many as 60 skateboarders. Top music tracks blared from speakers.</p>
496. <p>In those days, the skate park hosted competitions, pizza parties and even live bands.</p>
497. <p>At the time, Pedro Delfino would scramble to finish his schoolwork behind the park&#8217;s check-in desk before launching outside to join the throngs of skateboarders, eventually including his younger sister, Fabiana Delfino.</p>
498. <p>Now, upon revisiting their childhood hub on a recent afternoon, Pedro, 29, and Fabiana, 27, lament the park’s decline from its heyday. Few remnants remain — faded pictures on a bulletin board from when Tony Hawk visited the park in 2001, rusty metal bars used for tricks.</p>
499. <p>“It was a different park back then,” Fabiana said.</p>
500. <p>The Boca Raton-grown siblings are both full-time, professional skateboarders, sponsored by big-name brands, including Monster Energy and Santa Cruz Skateboards for Fabiana and Vans for Pedro.</p>
501. <p>Growing up, the Delfinos spent just about all their time at three locations: home, school and the Tim Huxhold Skate Park. They and other South Florida skateboarding enthusiasts are rallying to not only keep but improve the park, calling on the City of Boca Raton to give it some much-needed updating.</p>
502. <p>Their recent visit was a case-in-point. To skate, Pedro was required to pay a $3 daily admission fee and don a helmet. Neither would be so bad, but the park didn&#8217;t have protective gear to rent that day, so Pedro&#8217;s mother brought him a helmet, and the park doesn&#8217;t accept modern forms of payment, such as credit cards or Venmo.</p>
503. <p>Pedro, his sister and his mother rummaged through their wallets and car cup-holders for spare change. Eventually they scavenged enough coins to pay the fee.</p>
504. <p>“It’s like they want to make it a challenge to skate here,” Fabiana said.</p>
505. <p>Only the vending machines appeared to be relatively new, she noted.</p>
506. <p>“What a dead, sad park.&#8221;</p>
507. <figure id="attachment_10895248"  class="wp-caption aligncenter size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class="  lazyautosizes lazyloading" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="690px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Professional skateboarders, siblings Pedro and Fabiana Delfino of Boca Raton, visit Tim Huxhold Skate Park in Boca Raton where they grew up skateboarding on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The city had talked about getting rid of the skate park, but a few months ago, a bunch of advocates rallied at a city meeting to not only keep the skate park but also make it better. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel)" width="5792" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10895248" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-1.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Professional skateboarders, siblings Pedro and Fabiana Delfino of Boca Raton, on a recent visit to Tim Huxhold Skate Park in Boca Raton, where they grew up skateboarding. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
508. <h4>Saving South Florida&#8217;s skate parks</h4>
509. <p>Pedro Delfino first began skateboarding at the Tim Huxhold Skate Park when he was 5-years-old, shortly after his family moved from Miami to Boca Raton, and his younger sister soon followed suit, often the only girl there.</p>
510. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K8c2OEYTDzk" width="100%" height="500px" scrolling="yes" class="iframe" allowtransparency="1" id="663c4cd461ff0" allowfullscreen="yes" allow="geolocation" ></iframe>
511.  
512. <p>But as the siblings improved, their hometown’s skate park only grew less accessible.</p>
513. <p>To use the park, visitors, including city residents, have to pay either a daily fee or buy a pass. Even if people don’t mind biting the cost, they can’t do so until the park opens. The current hours are 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturdays and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays.</p>
514. <figure id="attachment_10895247"  class="wp-caption aligncenter size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="757px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Operation time posted at Tim Huxhold Skate Park in Boca Raton on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The city had talked about getting rid of the skate park, but a few months ago, a bunch of advocates rallied at a city meeting to not only keep the skate park but also make it better. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel)" width="2893" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10895247" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-4.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Operation time posted at Tim Huxhold Skate Park in Boca Raton. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
515. <p>When Pedro was a student at Florida Atlantic University and Fabiana was a student at Palm Beach State Colle<span style="color: #000000">ge a few years later, neithe</span>r skateboarder could use the Tim Huxhold Skate Park either in-between or before classes because it wasn’t open during the day.</p>
516. <p>And though it was within walking distance for both of their college campuses, they instead drove 30 miles north to the free, fence-less West Boynton Skate Park where they still practice now when they aren&#8217;t traveling the world for skateboarding events.</p>
517. <p>These deterrents are what brought a pack of skateboarders to a Boca Raton community <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/01/17/what-do-boca-raton-residents-want-most-for-the-future-the-city-wants-to-know/">forum on Jan. 18</a> to advocate not only for free admission and longer hours but also to make sure the skate park is kept open in the future.</p>
518. <p>City Spokeswoman Anne Marie Connolly said in a statement the engagement from the skating community brought an awareness to the city.</p>
519. <p>Strategic planning sessions are coming up in May, which Connolly said will likely start conversations about “that area and the amenities within it.”</p>
520. <p>No plans are currently in the works for free admission or hours expansion, but Connolly also noted the daily fee has not increased since the facility’s inception in 1998. The fees “help offset the city staff supervision, maintenance of the facility and electricity costs for the lights,” and the hours “reflect the typical usage.”</p>
521. <p>Toni Frallicciardi, the co-founder of Surf Skate Science in Deerfield Beach, a homeschool co-op, said in the months leading up to a January meeting she had received calls from parents concerned about the skate park possibly closing in the future.</p>
522. <p>Connolly did not respond to questions about whether the city had planned on shutting down the park.</p>
523. <p>At a March 25 City Council meeting during which the <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/03/28/whats-missing-in-boca-raton-what-more-than-200-residents-want-most-for-the-city/">findings of the community forum</a> were presented to council members, former deputy mayor Monica Mayotte asked if people expressed a desire for the skate park to be downtown or if it could exist elsewhere in the city.</p>
524. <p>&#8220;I did not get the impression that it had to be downtown,&#8221; Community Advisory Panel Chair Linda Marenus said during the meeting.</p>
525. <p>The push to restore the Boca Raton skate park has only been further amplified by recent closures of other parks. Two skate parks, Drop In Action Sports Complex, Inc. in Boca Raton and Ramp48 in Fort Lauderdale, closed in 2022 and 2023, respectively.</p>
526. <p>On April 8, skateboarding advocates created a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-demolition-of-palm-beach-gardens-skatepark-and-plant-drive-park">petition</a>, which has more than 2,000 signatures, to halt the demolition of Plant Drive Skatepark in Palm Beach Gardens, which is at risk of being replaced by an ice rink.</p>
527. <p>“All of us in our community are just really fighting for some safe, free, quality skate parks for everybody to be able to skate at,” Frallicciardi said.</p>
528. <p>Frallicciardi said her son, who is a student at FAU, along with other skateboarders on campus, would likely use the Tim Huxhold Skate Park a lot more if it was open more often and free.</p>
529. <p>When Pedro and Fabiana visited, one other skateboarder was there, adorning a helmet with spikes.</p>
530. <figure id="attachment_10895253"  class="wp-caption aligncenter size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="757px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Professional skateboarder Pedro Delfino of Boca Raton, visits Tim Huxhold Skate Park in Boca Raton where he and his sister grew up skateboarding on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The city had talked about getting rid of the skate park, but a few months ago, a bunch of advocates rallied at a city meeting to not only keep the skate park but also make it better. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel)" width="6000" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10895253" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-2.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Professional skateboarder Pedro Delfino of Boca Raton performing tricks at Tim Huxhold Skate Park in Boca Raton. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
531. <h4>A &#8216;deviant&#8217; Olympic activity</h4>
532. <p>Despite some of the recent shuttering of skate parks in South Florida, skateboarding’s Olympic debut in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, proved it to be a more than-worthy spectator sport, generating renewed interest and hiking up the desire for more skate parks, a fact Jason Ranft knows very well.</p>
533. <p>Ranft, the owner of Jay Ramps, based in Hollywood, has been building skate parks for more than 30 years in cities around the world and for celebrities such as rapper Lil Wayne and actress Michelle Pfeiffer.</p>
534. <p>“There’s a ginormous demand of skate parks due to the Olympics,” he said. “Ever since then, globally, there&#8217;s an insane demand.”</p>
535. <p>The biggest hurdle skateboarders still face are stigmas, especially in an upscale city such as Boca Raton, Ranft said.</p>
536. <p>People fear what skateboarding could bring to a city, such as graffiti, he said, but that’s an outdated and false belief.</p>
537. <p>“What skateboarding became and what it is today is such a family-oriented (activity),” he said.</p>
538. <p>To some, skateboarding should be deemed as an asset to a city rather than just an activity.</p>
539. <p>Zach Moldof, the president of the nonprofit Skate Bud, which advocates for skateboarding accessibility, grew up skating in Broward County, a pastime he believes helped him stay out of trouble.</p>
540. <p>But instead of being seen as a way to help the youth, Moldof said skateboarding is often deemed a “deviant activity” or “destructive.”</p>
541. <p>No one is more familiar with the perception that skateboarding is a blemish to a city than Fabiana.</p>
542. <p>“I grew up at a time where skateboarding was viewed as a degenerate activity,” she said. “It&#8217;s something that criminals did, young kids up to no good. And that&#8217;s a stereotype, honestly, that&#8217;s been enforced upon me.”</p>
543. <p>She receives nothing but admiration now from friends and family alike, but only after proving that becoming a professional was possible and could pay her bills.</p>
544. <p>More than a decade ago, she and others made persistent efforts to improve the Boca Raton skate park, such as bringing in new obstacles. Fellow skateboarders started petitions, and Fabiana said she even wrote a letter to the city suggesting ways to improve it.</p>
545. <p>“We fought for many years and unfortunately we grew up, and so when you grow up, you have to focus on other things, and fighting for the state park, it gets pretty exhausting,” she said. “That park needed a lot of love, and the city never showed it love.”</p>
546. <figure id="attachment_10895251"  class="wp-caption aligncenter size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" sizes="757px" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" alt="Professional skateboarders, siblings Pedro and Fabiana Delfino of Boca Raton, visit Tim Huxhold Skate Park in Boca Raton where they grew up skateboarding on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The city had talked about getting rid of the skate park, but a few months ago, a bunch of advocates rallied at a city meeting to not only keep the skate park but also make it better. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel)" width="6000" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10895251" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TFL-L-boca-skate-park-0412-6.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Professional skateboarders, siblings Pedro and Fabiana Delfino of Boca Raton, visit Tim Huxhold Skate Park in Boca Raton where they grew up skateboarding. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel)</figcaption></figure>
547. <p>What would bring professionals such as the Delfinos back to practice at the Boca Raton skate park?</p>
548. <p>“At the very least, my absolute ask is just that we save this park,” she said. “It&#8217;d be great to redo it. But if we could take down the fences, and make it free for everybody &#8230; I would be (there) every day.”</p>
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558. <title>First look: Design plans for Boca Raton&#8217;s Center for Arts and Innovation</title>
559. <link>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/04/20/first-look-design-plans-for-boca-ratons-center-for-arts-and-innovation/</link>
561. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Abigail Hasebroock]]></dc:creator>
562. <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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568. <description><![CDATA[The city's future premiere cultural destination has a concept design out, and over the next few months, city officials and other stakeholders will provide feedback. ]]></description>
569. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first designs for the Boca Raton Center for Arts and Innovation, an arts-oriented destination planned for the city’s burgeoning downtown, were revealed Friday.</p>
570. <p>The center is in the &#8220;very early stages&#8221; of the design process, said Antoine Chaaya, the partner in charge of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, during an unveiling of the design at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.</p>
571. <p>The project is slated to begin construction at the end of 2025 or early 2026 at the north end of Mizner Park in downtown Boca Raton, and open in 2029 — so long as it meets its fundraising threshold.</p>
572. <p>The ultimate goal of the design is to create a &#8220;collision of activity,&#8221; said Joshua Dachs, the project&#8217;s theatre and spatial planner.</p>
573. <p>Andrea Virgin, the center&#8217;s chairperson and CEO, envisions the center as an anchor in South Florida, transforming Boca Raton into a premier destination.</p>
574. <p>This will be achieved by hosting a range of events and a variety of interests in the center, including fashion shows, product launches, book fairs and music events.</p>
575. <p>To accomplish this, the center&#8217;s three-story design currently proposes:</p>
576. <ul>
577. <li>Artist studios</li>
578. <li>A multi-functional main venue for events, exhibitions and performances.</li>
579. <li>Covered rooftop terrace offering food and drinks</li>
580. <li>Outdoor piazza</li>
581. <li>Work spaces</li>
582. <li>360-degree panoramic space hoisted above the center allowing up to 100 people views of the entire city</li>
583. <li>Underground parking</li>
584. </ul>
585. <p>The purpose of Friday&#8217;s event was to provide &#8220;shapes of where things might be able to go&#8221; based on the center&#8217;s intentions, Virgin said.</p>
586. <p>The next six months will involve receiving feedback from city officials any other people or groups who could be impacted by the center.</p>
587. <p>Virgin said the team will consider factors such as traffic and access as the design moves forward.</p>
588. <figure id="attachment_10907915"  class="wp-caption aligncenter size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" alt="Renderings illustrate the first design concept for the Boca Raton Center for Arts and Innovation, which is intended to host a variety of events and cater to diverse interests, including live music events, fashion shows, product launches, business ventures and more. (Renzo Piano Building Workshop/Courtesy)" width="1024" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10907915" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-01.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-01.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-01.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-01.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-01.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Live music performances are expected to be one of the many events the Center for Arts and Innovation will host once open to the public. (Renzo Piano Building Workshop/Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
589. <p>So far, the center has been in the works for six years, and it is currently employing a long-term land lease with the city on the site where it will be built, right where the current amphitheater is.</p>
590. <p><span style="color: #000000">When the project&#8217;s architect, Renzo Piano, was <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/09/06/boca-ratons-center-for-arts-and-innovation-to-be-designed-by-an-international-architect/">announced in September</a>, the total cost for the project was not public, and it remained that way on Friday. </span></p>
591. <p>&#8220;There&#8217;s about a six to eight month process where the city reviews scale, where the donors review scale, where our stakeholders review scale,&#8221; Virgin said. &#8220;The price could fluctuate quite a bit either direction; we might scale down, we might scale up depending on how the conversations go.&#8221;</p>
592. <figure id="attachment_10907920"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" alt="Renderings illustrate the first design concept for the Boca Raton Center for Arts and Innovation, which is intended to host a variety of events and cater to diverse interests, including live music events, fashion shows, product launches, business ventures and more. (Renzo Piano Building Workshop/Courtesy)" width="1024" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10907920" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-02.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-02.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-02.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-02.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tfl-z-boca-renzo-piano-design-02.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">One proposed feature of the Center for Arts and Innovation is a 360-panoramic space from which people can look out at the city. (Renzo Piano Building Workshop/Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
593. <p>In Boca Raton alone, the arts generates $25 million and support more than 600 jobs — numbers that are expected to &#8220;grow exponentially with the new Center for Arts and Innovation,&#8221; said Jennifer Sullivan, the senior vice president of marketing and programs for the Palm Beach County Cultural Council.</p>
594. <p>According to the center&#8217;s website, it will generate more than $1 billion in economic impact and support more than 12,000 jobs.</p>
595. <p>&#8220;We are excited for the future and for the center&#8217;s role in underscoring Palm Beach County as Florida&#8217;s cultural capital,&#8221; she said during the event.</p>
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605. <title>&#8216;This a way to promote our unique culture&#8217;: FAU sports teams brewing custom coffee blends</title>
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608. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nile Fortner]]></dc:creator>
609. <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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617. <description><![CDATA[Winchell Mountain Coffee has partnered with FAU's Men's Basketball Team and Women's Beach Volleyball team to collaborate on custom blends of coffee with a portion of proceeds going to the athletes on each team.]]></description>
618. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people start their day with a cup of coffee, but not Florida Atlantic University beach volleyball player Maddie Sides. By 7 a.m., she’s doing weight room lifts that will prepare her for sports victories and beyond.</p>
619. <p>“I start my day with lifts and working with my team,” she said. “Our team is very close, and one thing I’ve learned from my team, other athletes and being involved with The Owl Collective is the importance of teamwork and collaboration.”</p>
620. <p>Originally from Summerfield, North Carolina, Sides, a freshman marketing major, moved to Boca Raton last August. She comes from a family of professional athletes. Her dad was a professional cyclist and by the time she got to college, she decided to be a student-athlete.</p>
621. <p>“The culture of the people here made me choose FAU,” Sides said. “Boca is unbeatable, and we have unity here.”</p>
622. <figure id="attachment_10896167"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2105.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" alt="FAU Women's Beach Volleyball player Maddie Sides works with The Owl Collective on a coffee collaboration. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)" width="1600" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2105.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10896167" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2105.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2105.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2105.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2105.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2105.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">FAU Women&#8217;s Beach Volleyball player Maddie Sides works with The Owl Collective on a coffee collaboration. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
623. <p>That unity led to FAU alumnus Bryan Rammel, the founder of <a href="https://www.theowlcollective.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Owl Collective</a>, FAU’s first collective to help student-athletes with their NIL (Name, Image and Likeness). When the NCAA’s interim policy passed in June 2021 for athletes to be compensated for their NIL, Rammel saw this as an opportunity for FAU.</p>
624. <p>“With me being a marketing major, I saw the opportunity to utilize student-athletes as influencers,” he said. “To help get them connected to different brands, corporations, and to do marketing campaigns as well as partnering them up with nonprofits and other organizations.”</p>
625. <p>Rammel, a 2018 FAU grad who has been in marketing for a decade, is a marketing consultant. He started The Owl Collective as a passion project to help athletes in more than just sports, contributing to their personal well-being and professional development as well.</p>
626. <figure id="attachment_10896176"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_2113.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" alt="FAU alumnus Bryan Rammel is founder of The Owl Collective. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)" width="1365" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_2113.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10896176" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_2113.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_2113.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_2113.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_2113.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC_2113.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">FAU alumnus Bryan Rammel is founder of The Owl Collective. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
627. <p>“I’m FAU head to toe,” he said. “There’s no secret that universities have sometimes multiple collectives, and that’s the case with FAU. But the fact is, none of the collectives that have shown up are actually run by FAU alumni or even members that have been affiliated with the university.”</p>
628. <p>Rammel and athletes like Sides have also used The Owl Collective to do food drives and marketing campaigns. And now, <a href="https://www.winchellmountaincoffee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Winchell Mountain Coffee</a> has partnered with FAU&#8217;s Men&#8217;s Basketball Team and Women&#8217;s Beach Volleyball team to collaborate on custom blends of coffee with a portion of proceeds going to the athletes on each team.</p>
629. <p>These student-athletes helped collaborate on the design and marketing of the products, with sales going toward their NIL.</p>
630. <p>“Right now, the coffee blends are available at <a href="https://vicoffeebar.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VI Coffee Bar</a>, (pronounced &#8216;six&#8217;),” Rammel said. “We’re trying to get them in more coffee shops in the Boca Raton and Palm Beach area.”</p>
631. <figure id="attachment_10896179"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2043.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" alt="A variety of custom blends created by FAU student-athletes are available at VI Coffee Bar in Boca Raton. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)" width="2400" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2043.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10896179" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2043.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2043.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2043.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2043.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2043.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">A variety of custom blends created by FAU student-athletes are available at VI Coffee Bar in Boca Raton. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
632. <p>The coffee blends sold at VI, 1159 S. Federal Highway, in Boca Raton, include Beach Blend with Ethiopian and Sumatran roasted separately and then blended together by hand.</p>
633. <p>“Before coffee, we looked into different items that we could do this exercise with,” Rammel said. “But coffee really resonates because everyone drinks it, and it’s something an athlete can stand behind. Like, if we have liquor or beer, we’d have to make sure the athlete is over 21, and especially if they’re promoting it.”</p>
634. <p>Also available are Heating Up Paradise, a Guatemalan coffee to a dark French roast, and Back in Paradise, a medium-dark blend Yirgacheffe, Nicaraguan and Sumatran all to a medium roast.</p>
635. <p>“I think the Beach Blend is the most popular,” Rammel said. “The feedback on the taste is great, and the same with the packaging. All the athletes put their input on everything from the packaging, to the design and content, and it means a lot to them.”</p>
636. <p>Sides, along with the rest of FAU’s Women’s Volleyball Team, also attend the marketing meetings with The Owl Collective. They work directly with the people who make the designs on the coffee bags, giving feedback until every member of the team is happy with the outcome.</p>
637. <p>Winchell Mountain Coffee was introduced to the beach volleyball team last fall. After extensive meetings both in person and over Zoom, they decided to collaborate on something that was close to their hearts.</p>
638. <figure id="attachment_10896180"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2182.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" alt="The Florida Atlantic University Women's Beach Volleyball team shows off the Beach Bash Roast coffee bag they created with Winchell Mountain Coffee. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)" width="2400" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2182.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10896180" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2182.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2182.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2182.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2182.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2182.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The Florida Atlantic University Women&#8217;s Beach Volleyball team shows off the Beach Bash Roast coffee bag they created with Winchell Mountain Coffee. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
639. <p>“Two years ago, we did a Capri coffee bag,” Sides said about the coffee in honor of their late coach Capri Starr Grotowski. “We launched that at our annual Beach Bash in her honor every year.”</p>
640. <p>Her husband, Steve Grotowski, took over as head coach in July 2022.</p>
641. <p>“Seeing that product come from our idea, to actually seeing it on the table and giving it to people and telling them what it’s about, was super rewarding,” Sides said. “Winchell, The Owl Collective and everyone has been absolutely amazing, helpful, and it’s been an awesome experience to help us get out there.”</p>
642. <figure id="attachment_10896182"  class="wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline"><img decoding="async" class=" lazyautosizes lazyload" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2224.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" alt="Beach Bash Roast is one of the coffee blends created through a partnership with Winchell Mountain Coffee and the FAU Women's Beach Volleyball team. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)" width="1600" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2224.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1" data-attachment-id="10896182" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2224.jpg?fit=620%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 620w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2224.jpg?fit=780%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 780w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2224.jpg?fit=810%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 810w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2224.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1280w,https://i0.wp.com/www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5J5A2224.jpg?fit=1860%2C9999px&amp;ssl=1 1860w" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Beach Bash Roast is one of the coffee blends created through a partnership with Winchell Mountain Coffee and the FAU Women&#8217;s Beach Volleyball team. (Bryan Rammel/Courtesy)</figcaption></figure>
643. <p>While The Owl Collective has gained the attention of students, staff and current athletes, it’s also gained attention from an FAU alumnus and athlete.</p>
644. <p>“I graduated from FAU in 2015 and unfortunately, things like N.I.L. weren’t available when I played,” said author and NFL player Brandin Bryant.</p>
645. <p>Bryant&#8217;s children’s book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/So-You-Want-be-Athlete/dp/B0CQTVKD3N" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;So, You Want to be an Athlete?&#8221;</a>, is about combining athletics and academics. Writing the book during the COVID pandemic and then being published, Bryant said he believes opportunities like The Owl Collective only add to the FAU experience.</p>
646. <p>“They call FAU &#8216;winning in paradise&#8217; for a reason,” Bryant said. “I’m very optimistic about The Owl Collective, FAU sports, and once any kid, recruiter or prospect comes to this area, this campus, they’ll fall in love. It’s only a matter of time before all our sports programs take off.”</p>
647. <p>With NIL and coffee concepts being used as educational tools, The Owl Collective is also looking to get the coffee sold on the college campus or distributed in front of FAU sports games.</p>
648. <p>“This a way to promote our unique culture,” Sides said. “Everyone here is like a family and we all really support each other. Whether it’s our coffee, preparing for volleyball, our athletes, or anything, we want people to look at FAU and say, ‘Wow, you all have something that’s really special.&#8217;”</p>
649. <p>Visit <a href="https://www.theowlcollective.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">theowlcollective.com</a>.</p>
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