By Design
Editor’s Letter: March 2018 I feel like I can trust you, so I’m going to admit something. I have no idea what shiplap is. Literally none. What is it made…
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Erik Petersen
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Springing Back
Editor’s Letter: February 2018 Most Fort Lauderdale people, I reckon, have had this experience at least once. You’re somewhere far from Fort Lauderdale, and you mention to someone – we’ll…
The Happy Warrior
The upbeat boss of a popular local food shop is one of the growing number of Americans dealing with an ugly illness – and looking for a new kidney. If…
The Floating Economy
Editor’s Letter: November 2017 Let me give you two words and, without thinking about it, note the first images you picture. Ready? Okay, here goes: yacht jobs. You can see…
Playing Favorites
Editor’s Letter: October 2017 If you watched the Dolphins in the ’80s you can skip the next several paragraphs, since you don’t need me to tell you who Jim Jensen…
Fashion Plate
Editor’s Letter: September 2017 In 1967, the Beatles released the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. (For good measure that year, they also released Magical Mystery Tour.) In that…
Mr. Birch’s Gift
For seven decades, Hugh Taylor Birch State Park has stood alone, a slice of Old Florida amid a new and renewed Fort Lauderdale. The old rail route offers a bumpy…
Community Wickets
Editor’s Letter: August 2017 I was in that bar down at the proletariat end of Las Olas, and I was in the mood to watch sports. So I ordered a…
The Bag Man
Editor’s Letter: July 2017 My wife and young child were still asleep when I slipped outside to go meet my dealer. I didn’t realize yet that she was my dealer,…
The Big Softie
Editor’s Letter: June 2017 I try not to go in for gender stereotyping and outdated concepts of masculinity, but that’s hard when you’re standing in the middle of Home Depot…