Festive Your Way
Editor’s Letter: December 2018 Around the holiday season, there are two kinds of people in Fort Lauderdale. There’s Publix eggnog people, and there’s Winn-Dixie eggnog people. (There used to be…
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Erik Petersen
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Cathedrals in the Sand
Editor’s Letter: November 2018 Landmarks? We know what they look like. A sturdy brick Northeastern hall, or maybe a European church, that lends itself to quiet explanations from volunteer docents.…
Our New, Old City
In sites around the city and at the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, a new understanding of our history – and our present – is taking shape. The timeline sits buried…
Dream Team
Jack Jackson and Johnny Vinczencz were both already well known in the Fort Lauderdale restaurant world. What would happen when they partnered on a new place? It happens in sports…
Paisley Power
Editor’s Letter: September 2018 Everybody got a nickname in the bar down at the proletariat end of Las Olas. On any given night, you could run into Smashley, Joker, Peaches,…
Sea Change
Editor’s Letter: August 2018 The Fort Lauderdale neighborhood I grew up in, and where my parents still live, is called Knoll Ridge. It’s not a name anyone ever really used…
The Red Zone
A new Asian fusion place brings tastes from all over the Far East – by way of the Hamptons. The red doors you pass by as you enter Red Door…
Cracking Smiles
Benedetti Orthodontics spent time and money getting their new, custom-built office just the way they wanted it. The results are evident from the moment you walk in. You walk into…
The Inevitable
Editor’s Letter: July 2018 I remember not feeling particularly lucky, but knowing that I was. Hurricane Andrew coincided with the start of my high school football career. It made landfall…