We The People
When The Restaurant People began in the mid-’90s with a single Himmarshee spot, the Fort Lauderdale restaurant scene looked quite different than it does today. More than two decades later,…
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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…
Trashing the Beach
Beach and ocean pollution is a major issue, with plastic bags and polystyrene cited as two of the biggest culprits. Now though, cities and residents are finding ways to fight…
Capturing the Waves
When you live with the ocean and natural Florida, it can be possible to forget their beauty and uniqueness. But fear not; Joey Waves is here to help. Few are…
Angling for Change
In three decades, the Fort Lauderdale-based Billfish Foundation and its army – navy? – of angler volunteers have done vital work helping to preserve some of the ocean’s most awe-inspiring…
Lauderdale for Locals
Summertime in Fort Lauderdale – when the tourists go home & we’re left on our own. Down here though, the party never stops. And in the hot-and-sticky months, there’s some…
Adventures with BJ
BJ Golnick has traveled the world for the likes of the National Geographic Channel and Animal Planet – but he always comes home to Fort Lauderdale. If you ever find…
Mayo on Food
Mike Mayo arrived at the Sun-Sentinel in 1989, figuring he’d stay about five years. Nearly three decades later, he’s taken his reporter’s notebook everywhere from the Dolphins’ locker room to…
The Old Ways
The concept was simple: Go to three of Fort Lauderdale’s great longstanding restaurants and ask their head chefs to select and create a dish from Fort Lauderdale Recipes, a book…
A Long Walk
Fort Lauderdale continues to experience rapid, sustained population growth. The question isn’t whether the city will continue changing into a more urban, crowded place – it will. The question is…