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Diverse views and depictions of Palm Beach County make up the outdoor painting contest that is the Lighthouse ArtCenter’s fourth annual Plein Air Festival. Award-winning artists from around the country will paint throughout Palm Beach County, depicting scenes from the beaches and nat-ural Florida landscapes to the quickly disap-pearing old Florida homes and residential areas. Known as “Paint-Outs,” the artists will be visiting seven outdoor areas to paint the varied landscapes and cityscapes that make up Palm Beach County.

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President Trump’s recent appearance at an event celebrating Black History Month had an unintended consequence surpris-ing even for President Trump. He suc-ceeded in raising Frederick Douglass from the grave. Said the president of the historic figure, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.”

It was a revelatory statement by Trump. It revealed the dearth of his knowledge regarding African-American history. It wasn’t as though he was given a pop quiz so his hosts could catch him unprepared. He walked into the opportunity under his own volition, fully confident he would rule the room. But instead, it was a sightless excursion through a plate glass door left closed by his own ignorance. Crash. Thud. Ouch. It was sad.

President Trump was there to pay hom-age to distinguished African-Americans whose historic contributions changed America for the better. He winged it, trusting he knew all that was necessary. He brought along as added insurance his soon-to-be minted secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson. One and done.

Afterward, White House press secre-

tary Sean Spicer attempted to recover the president’s African-American bona fides but he fell short. He also illustrated a lack of knowledge about African-American his-tory. He was supposed to help the media put Trump’s remark about Douglass in the “proper” perspectives or at least in the proper century. It did not work out that way.

The Washington Post quoted Spicer. “I think there are contributions — I think he wants to highlight the contributions that he has made, and I think through a lot of the actions and statements that he’s going to make, I think the contributions of Frederick Douglass will become more and more.” It was cringe-worthy, right down to the cleanup attempt.

Afterward, others rose to President Trump’s defense. He simply misspoke. His grammar was faulty. He used present tense instead of past tense when referring to the departed Douglass; and “being rec-ognized more and more” doesn’t mean the president thought Douglass was making the rounds on Wall Street to embellish his reputation. Of course, Trump knows who Frederick Douglass is (or was?).

It’s a good try were it anyone but Presi-dent Trump. Who doesn’t make a faux pas now and then? But Trump has already schooled the nation to expect a rising tide of shocks because he knows so little about so much.

On this occasion, it was as if Trump snatched a rhetorical Kleenex out of a box to blow his nose. What need had he of a more substantial cure? His gratuitous

remark was intended to fill the void left by the emptiness of his intellect. He could not acknowledge the accomplishments of someone he clearly knew nothing about. He improvised.

He ventured a blasé note in praise of said person, admitting no ignorance. He sidestepped further forays into uncharted territory. Thus, his comment about Dou-glass was innocuous, projecting appre-ciation without value, substance without knowledge, and worth without respect. It is what Trump does in response to and in the circumstance of finding himself on unfamiliar ground. He wrote the book on this ploy. He is the master of piled higher and deeper.

But his performance didn’t quite pass muster. The rhetorical blank he shot was too obvious and on a day in a month when America is paying homage to and celebrat-ing African-American men and women who changed the course of the nation.

News of Trump’s performance explod-ed on the internet. “Frederick Douglass” trended on Twitter so copiously you would have thought he was Beyoncé’s long lost brother — which, in a way, Douglass is (present tense).

The uproarious revival was a gift, com-ing as it did on the first day of Black His-tory Month. No one could have imagined Douglass rocketing in popularity more than 120 years after having shed his mortal coil. But then, he was an extraordinary individual, already nationally known at the time of his death as an eloquent orator, writer, author, and statesman.

He escaped from slavery and made his fortune as a successful publisher of The North Star, an anti-slavery newspaper. He was a powerful voice and leader within the abolitionist movement. He was a contem-porary of Susan B. Anthony.

Their paths crossed in 1845 in New York while Douglass was on the road on a speaking tour. Two years later, he moved to Rochester, where Anthony lived. He took a strong interest in Anthony’s efforts to build a women’s movement and attend-ed the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls. Anthony recognized Dou-glass for his unwavering support. He was, she said, the only man who stood up and spoke at the conference in defense of women’s rights.

She never forgot it. The two became lifelong friends and fellow activists work-ing in common cause. By the time of his death in 1895, Douglass was a national figure, his fame secure as an extraordinary African-American leader and a staunch defender of race and gender equity. ■

— Leslie Lilly is a native Floridian. Her professional career spans more than 25 years leading major philanthropic institu-tions in the South and Appalachia. She writes frequently on issues of politics, public policy, and philanthropy, earning national recognition for her leadership in the charitable sector. She resides with her family and pugs in Jupiter. Email her at [email protected].

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The mainstream press still skews toward fairness

A “Two Minutes Hate” was daily generated by the fictional government in George Orwell’s “1984” — “a hideous exercise of fear and vindictiveness” to direct public anger at a contrived enemy and away from national leaders.

Are we seeing a real incarnation of that in Donald Trump’s hatred of the press?

As a longtime member of the press, I recall Franklin D. Roosevelt’s test: “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”

If Trump considers himself an enemy of journalists, then we in the press should welcome being judged by that standard — for this self-chosen “enemy” is a petulant, childish braggart who has no respect for the truth or anyone who disputes his “alternative facts,” better known as lies. We will stand in the distinguished company of targets such as The New York Times and major TV news organizations.

Trump’s vindictiveness is clear. Although he tries to use the press, he works to demonize it and under-mine the credibility of those who chal-lenge his transparent falsehoods. He and his administration have called jour-nalists “outrageous,” “slime,” “scum,” “sleazy,” “the opposition party” and — with supreme irony — “among the most dishonest human beings on Earth.”

This echoes a persistent canard that

the press is biased against conserva-tives. There is bias — leftward and rightward — in some outlets, but the mainstream media is objective. Bias is charged by those who simply don’t like what’s reported — that it’s not biased in their favor.

The different functions of presi-dents and the press naturally produce tension, and other presidents disliked how they were covered. But they didn’t spew Trump’s virulence.

Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

John F. Kennedy told journalists: “It is to the printing press — to the records of man’s deeds, the keeper of his con-science, the courier of his news — that we look for strength and assistance.”

And upon leaving the White House, Barack Obama thanked the press for its “extraordinary service to our democ-racy.”

They understood the vital role of the press — as did our Constitution’s authors, who made it the only pro-fession they protected by name. They understood that the essential liber-ties of democracy — the freedoms to speak, assemble and vote — all demand a constant flow of objective informa-tion and robust debate, especially infor-mation and debate which hold account-able those in power. And these must come from an independent, skepti-cal, vigorous press.

Thus, one of the first actions that authoritarian figures take is to vilify and curb the press. They know that lies and

demagoguery will wither in the bright light of responsible journalism. So jour-nalists must be discredited, lest they be believed.

When we confront the possibility of such figures, whether Trump or anyone else, we need the press more than ever. We need those who recognize real facts, who will not passively accept lies as truth and who will expose injustice, cor-ruption and bigotry.

The age of the Internet and social media, including tweets, changes the environment in which the press oper-ates. People have vastly more sources of information and opinion, which is good. But although some of that informa-tion is accurate and some of the opin-ion is worthwhile, there’s also a lot of propaganda, venom, fabrication and self-serving promotion. And competent journalists must evaluate all that, uncov-er the lies and present reliable news, which hopefully will be trusted.

Yet while the environment has changed, the mission of the press remains constant: to provide the knowledge citizens require to exercise their expressive rights.

For 28 years, I was a full-time journal-ist and still write columns in my retire-ment. I am proud to be part of this hon-orable profession.

Other demagogues have tried to intimidate or silence us. They failed. The latest one also will fail. Two min-utes of hate or four years of hate will not succeed. ■

— Roger Buckwalter of Tequesta is a retired editorial page editor of The Jupiter Courier.

Gorsuch is the anti-Trump

If President Donald Trump is a bud-ding authoritarian, as his critics allege, one of the safeguards is Judge Neil Gorsuch.

For all that Trump has flouted norms and gotten off to an at-times amateur-ish start in the White House, his pick of Gorsuch was extremely normal and highly professional. The Gorsuch nomi-nation is exactly what everyone should want from a President Trump, especial-ly those who most fear and loathe him. Yet Trump’s fiercest opponents began denouncing Gorsuch immediately.

This is the dilemma for Democrats: Either Trump is a threat to the republic because he doesn’t appreciate the Con-stitution and is bound to violate it with excessive assertions of executive power, or Gorsuch is a threat to the republic because he has an overly punctilious view of the Constitution that entails, among other things, a dim view of executive overreach. Both can’t be true.

If Democrats really believe that Trump is as dangerous as they say, they should think of Gorsuch as the

equivalent of Gen. James Mattis. He is a responsible choice from what they consider an irresponsible president, and they should embrace him on those grounds. Gorsuch is the opposite of Trump in every way that should matter to the president’s enemies.

If they hate Trump because he’s anti-intellectual, Gorsuch is a Harvard-edu-cated lawyer who is widely admired for his acute analysis and writing.

If they worry that Trump has shown little regard for the Bill of Rights, Gor-such is a stickler for it, including the Fourth Amendment that will be the foremost obstacle if Trump’s law-and-order agenda goes too far.

If they fear federal power under Trump overawing the prerogatives of states and localities, Gorsuch is a devot-ed friend of federalism.

If they are anxious about the Trump executive branch trampling on the other branches of government, Gorsuch calls the separation of powers “among the most important liberty-protecting devices of the constitutional design.”

Why won’t Democrats follow the logic of their anti-Trump reasoning and support Gorsuch?

First, there is sheer partisanship. They believe the Antonin Scalia seat has been “stolen” from them because Senate Republicans refused to act on

the nomination of Merrick Garland. Second, Democrats don’t truly

oppose Trump on procedural or con-stitutional grounds, and so have no use for the likes of Gorsuch. Liberals didn’t object to President Barack Obama’s executive orders unilaterally rewriting immigration law, or recoil when he was repeatedly shot down 9-0 by the Supreme Court.

Third, the left cares about social issues more than anything else, particu-larly the judicial imposition of the cur-rent abortion regime. If Gorsuch isn’t on board, it doesn’t make a difference whether he will be a presumptive check on the president or not.

Finally, Democrats are getting sucked into the politics of the primal scream. They are heading toward all-out war against Trump, in which case all that matters about Gorsuch — or anyone else — is that he is associated with the president. The best way for Trump to overcome this unhinged opposition is to make choices as sound as he did with Judge Gorsuch — an unassailable pick being assailed by people who profess to yearn for sobriety and traditional norms, even as they reject both them-selves. ■

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The series of three lectures is open to the public free of charge.

Here’s the schedule:Feb. 16 — “A Solidarity that Doesn’t

Break,” with the Rev. Hannah Adair Bonner. The Rev. Bonner is a United Methodist pastor whose call led her to keep vigil for 80 consecutive days at the Waller County Jail, Texas, where Sandra Bland, an African-American woman, was jailed and died while in custody.

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Extremism has crept into all three of the world’s Abrahamic faiths. Panelists will discuss how fear manifests itself within each of these three faith communities: Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

March 2 — “When No One Wants to Listen,” with Tony Plakas, chief execu-tive officer, Compass Community Cen-ter. No one feels more vulnerable than a fearful teenager struggling with his or her sexual identity. Mr. Plakas leads Compass, an organization dedicated to working with the LGBT youth and the communities in which they live.

Lectures are held in Coleman Hall at St. Mark’s, 3395 Burns Road, in Palm Beach Gardens. For information, con-tact St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and School at 622-0956. Connect with St. Mark’s at facebook.com/stmarkspbg. ■

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In the late 1980s, the J. Paul Getty Museum was rocked by a scandal that forever changed the world of antiqui-ties.

Arthur Houghton, who served as curator at the Getty during this period, will provide a unique inside perspective of these momentous events that sparked his recent thriller novel, “Dark Athena,” during a Coudert Institute event set for 5:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at The Sailfish Club.

A rogue curator had stolen millions from the museum’s coffers, and as was later learned some of the most prized antiquities acquired by the Getty and many famous museums had been looted from other countries.

Mr. Houghton unfolds the fasci-nating story of the Getty scandal and the resulting sweep-ing changes in inter-national laws involv-ing the acquisition of antiquities.

Admission is free to members of the

Coudert Insitute and $150 for nonmem-bers. Dinner is included. Tickets are available online at www.coudertinsti-tute.org or by phone at 659-6161.

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When you live with a cavalier King Charles spaniel, you know that at some point, you are going to be medicating your dog to manage congestive heart fail-ure from mitral valve disease. That day has come for me and Harper, my 9-year-old cavalier.

I took her to the veterinary ER last month because she was showing classic signs of heart failure: restlessness, rapid respiration and coughing. I had been chalking the coughing up to the grass that she loves to eat, but combined with the other two signs, I knew it wasn’t something to ignore. Harper’s cardiolo-gist wasn’t able to see her right away, but based on chest X-rays and clinical signs, she prescribed three medications to help control Harper’s symptoms until she could be examined. One of them is a diuretic.

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■ Ask for a copy of the prescription. You may be able to purchase medication for less at big box stores such as Target or Costco. They can leverage their purchas-ing power to get lower prices, something your vet may be unable to do. Getting a medication direct from your veterinarian

can be more convenient, though, and may be worth the price difference to you.

■ Ask about compounding. If your pet is difficult to medicate because the pills don’t come in small sizes, a compounding pharmacy can for-mulate the drug in a different way, such as a chicken-flavored liquid or a cheese-flavored chewable.

■ Ask online pharmacies if they are accredited by the Nation-al Association Boards of Phar-macy Top-Level Domain program or, for compounding pharmacies, the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board. The American Veterinary Medical Association notes that medications that are packaged or shipped improperly may be ineffective.

■ Ask if the medication should be given with food or on an empty stomach. It can make a difference in the effective-ness.

■ Ask when to start the medication. Your pet may have already gotten a dose at the veterinary hospital and might not need more until the next day.

■ Ask how much leeway there is in timing the doses. If a medication needs to be given every 12 hours, but your schedule is variable, it’s good to know if your pet can get the drug a little early or a little late.

■ Ask what to do if your pet misses a dose. Usually it’s not advisable to double up on a dose, but only your veterinarian knows for sure. ■

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Caregivers need to take care of themselves

Just as Sheila was rushing to catch her favorite Pilates class, she heard her mother, Beatrice’s, panicked voice calling from the bedroom. Sheila groaned inwardly, as she raced to see what was wrong. “What is it, Mom?”

Beatrice replied: “I don’t feel right. I’m dizzy and feel some chest pains. Maybe we should call Dr. Smith. Or, should we just go to the emergency room?”

Beatrice had been living with Sheila and her husband, Stan, ever since Sheila’s father had died suddenly two years prior. Beatrice had become seriously depressed after the loss of her husband and couldn’t be left alone.

When Sheila consulted with her two siblings, both made it clear they were unwilling to assume any of the responsibil-ity of caring for their mother’s emotional, medical or financial needs. Sheila had tried to enlist the support of her sister, Gwen, a busy attorney in Houston, to come for a few days so Sheila could attend an out-of-town wedding with peace of mind. Gwen had said the dates wouldn’t work— Gwen always had trials or was vacationing in exotic places. If Gwen came to visit her mother twice a year it was a stretch. And, let’s not discuss their brother, Don, who was not even in the equation.

Now, Sheila’s mind was racing. Should she call 911, or was that overkill? She’d already taken her mother to the ER twice that month. Both times they’d waited for hours, only to be told it was a false scare.

Sheila’s head was pounding. She’d final-ly taken a personal day from work, with plans for Pilates and lunch with friends. But, she would now have to cancel. Forget Pilates! Forget lunch! Forget her own life! It seemed that every time Sheila took any time for herself there would be another scare involving her mother.

Sheila usually had a sunny attitude and wasn’t one inclined to complain. But, today she started to feel sorry for herself. Sheila had become completely run down — with constant colds. She’d cancelled her own doctor and self-care appointments. She rarely had time to meet with friends. At night she was too exhausted to have any meaningful conversation with her hus-band. And, let’s not even talk about being in the mood for sex. Stan was a great sport, but Sheila worried that the demands of

Beatrice’s care had put a serious strain on their marriage.

Some well-intended individuals find themselves in the position of assuming so much responsibility for an incapacitated loved one that they tend to neglect their own emotional and physical health. The challenging demands on caregivers can easily become so overwhelming that these individuals can be stripped of their spirit, to the point of exhaustion and “burned out” with a serious depletion of emotion-al reserves. Hence, the term “Caregiver Burnout.”

Symptoms of caregiver burnout are often similar to the symptoms of stress and/or depression: feeling irritable, sad, hopeless or helpless, changes in appetite, weight or sleep patterns, abuse of alcohol or drugs, withdrawal from friends or fam-ily, and in extreme cases thoughts of self-harm. In these serious instances, medical and/or mental health professionals should be contacted immediately.

One of the biggest stressors of caregiv-ers who suffer from “Caregiver Burnout” is that it’s virtually impossible for the caregiver to be in control of his or her schedule. The caregiver is often derailed— forced to rearrange plans and respond to inconvenient emergencies—that are not only frightening, but exhausting.

Many caregivers are so consumed by the responsibility that they might not be aware their own functioning could be seriously compromised. These individu-als may place unreasonable demands on themselves — with unrealistic expecta-tions about how things will progress — so they’re at risk of becoming demoralized

and overwhelmed — placing their own health in jeopardy.

What we often discover in extended family emergencies is that one person usu-ally ends up shouldering the lion’s share of demands. Even if the entire family lives in close proximity, we often find that one per-son usually steps up to the plate to assume responsibilities, while another may find “convenient” reasons to step aside.

So, what can we do to prevent caregiver burnout?

It’s important that caregivers recognize that it’s not uncommon to have negative feelings of frustration or resentment. This is not a negative reflection on the care-giver’s character, nor does it imply that they’re not loving, gracious individuals.

It’s important for the caregiver to reach out to trusted relatives and friends for emotional support. It feels good to vent and to receive genuine acknowledgement. Taking the time for relaxed timeouts and social engagements can make a big differ-ence.

Caregivers need to remind themselves of the following rule:

Self-care is not an option — it’s a neces-sity. Caregivers shouldn’t neglect their own medical care, and should take time for routine personal tasks such as haircuts and dental appointments. Even the occasional splurge on an indulgence like a massage or facial can give a lift and boost one’s self-esteem. Eating properly, getting regular exercise and a good night’s sleep can make a huge difference.

Recognizing one’s limits is crucial — reaching out for assistance makes a big difference. Understandably, some families do not have the financial means to hire

outside aides to help. If there is an extend-ed family network, enlisting their sup-port may make a difference. Even giving the caregiver a weekend off from familial obligations can be a meaningful show of appreciation.

It can be valuable to reach out to the many resources and social service agen-cies that provide a multitude of services. These organizations may offer support groups, provide information about hiring health care aides or even offer respite ser-vices to give families overnight relief.

Many South Floridians are placed in the “un-elected” position of becoming the family member who lives the closest to an infirm relative and are the ones called upon to handle the problems. Whether they’ve agreed to shoulder this responsi-bility, they’re often faced with the expecta-tions by others that they’ll be the ones on call.

During emergencies, charged emo-tions and exhaustion may wreak havoc on civilized discussions. Caregivers may not always put into words how overwhelmed they are nor do they know how to specifi-cally spell out what they need. They may not have the strength to be gracious when they receive a well-intended phone call from a relative because the conversation feels like one more chore on the to-do list.

To be fair, many out-of-state relatives are well intended, sincerely wishing to offer support. Sometimes, though, their efforts are inadequate or misunderstood. They may truly not know what to say or do to be helpful. Why not ask the caregiver how they can be of help, even long dis-tance, perhaps by making telephone calls or lightening the load by handling issues remotely?

Obviously, clear communication, direct-ness and consideration should make a big difference. However, lifelong hurts, jeal-ousies and resentments among relatives may come storming back with a vengeance if the parties do not pay close attention and take steps to head off hard feelings. Acknowledging each other’s efforts is usu-ally greatly appreciated. ■

— Linda Lipshutz, M.S., LCSW, is a psy-chotherapist serving individuals, couples and families. A Palm Beach Gardens resi-dent, she holds degrees from Cornell and Columbia universities and trained at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy in Manhattan. She can be reached in her Gardens office at (561) 630-2827, online at www.palmbeachfamilytherapy.com, or on Twitter @LindaLipshutz.

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There are many different kinds of warning signs posted along streets, roads and highways. No passing zone, railroad crossing, merging traffic, divid-ed highway, school zone, animal cross-ing, construction ahead, curves and cor-ners, narrow bridge — the list goes on. Similar to these recognizable yellow and black traffic signs are warning signs for heart attacks. Becoming familiar with them could save your life, just like pay-ing attention to warning signs when you are driving.

A heart attack occurs when there is a blockage in the flow of blood in an artery that leads to the heart. Part of the heart muscle is then damaged or destroyed because it does not receive enough oxygen. More than 700,000 Americans have a heart attack, also known as a myocardial infarction, every year. The key to surviving a heart attack is knowing the warning signs so you can get emergency medical treatment.

If you think you are having a heart attack, call 9-1-1 immediately for an ambulance to take you to the hospital. Do not try to drive yourself. Some of the early warning signs of a heart attack include:

Chest pain or discomfort that lasts longer than a few minutes or goes away and then comes back. This pain may be severe and feel like uncomfortable pres-sure, squeezing or fullness that is not relieved by changing positions or resting.

Pain that extends to other areas of the body, such as the shoulder, arm, back, neck, jaw or stomach.

Shortness of breath as well as light-

headedness, sweating, fatigue, fainting, nausea or vomiting.

It is important to remember that not all people who have heart attacks expe-rience the same symptoms or to the same degree. The warning signs of a heart attack for women may be slightly different than those for men. While both commonly experience chest pain or discomfort, women may be more likely to have shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting and back or jaw pain.

Warning signs of a heart attack can appear at any time, at rest or in motion and at work or play. A heart attack may strike suddenly, but most people have warning signs and symptoms hours, days or weeks beforehand. One of the

earliest warning signs of an impending heart attack is chest pain, or angina, that occurs repeatedly because of exertion and is then eased by rest.

Early intervention for a heart attack is imperative to reduce damage to the heart muscle. Clot-busting drugs can be administered and special procedures can be done to open up blood vessels. However, treatment works best when administered within an hour of the first symptoms of a heart attack. Survival will ultimately depend on how rapidly you receive treatment, how much dam-age there is to the heart, and the loca-tion of the damage.

The Heart & Vascular Institute at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is home to some of the region’s finest heart specialists and surgeons. With numer-ous prestigious awards and accolades

from trusted organizations including Healthgrades, The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association, and more than 30 years of experience caring for you, we hope to bring you peace of mind in knowing your heart and vascular health is in good hands.

We know that you are in the driver seat, and you have a choice when it comes to who cares for you. We want to be a part of the team you choose to meet your healthcare needs, and we want to help you make the best, most informed decisions about your journey toward better health.

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center hosts free monthly heart attack risk assessments the second Wednesday of every month. To register, please call (855) 387-5864 or visit www.pbgmc.com/events. ■

Gardens Mall plans walking eventThe Gardens Mall Walking Club

meets monthly for brisk power walk-ing and special presentations hosted by Jupiter Medical Center.

The club next meets Feb. 21, and this month’s special guest speaker is Dr. Raiza Lopez, a board-certified internal medicine specialist with Jupiter Medi-cal Specialists. Dr. Lopez will discuss heart health, includ-ing risk factors, managing stress and how participants can add positive lifestyle changes like diet and exer-cise into their daily routine.

New member registration begins at 8:30 a.m. in the Nordstrom Court. Light bites will be served. Nutrition discus-sion starts at 9 a.m., followed by mall walking. New members will receive a complimentary Mall Walker Fit Kit, which includes a tote bag, water bottle, pedometer and T-shirt.

To reserve your spot, contact Teresa Dabrowski, guest services and tourism director, at tdabrowski@thegardens-

mall.com or call 622-2115. Mall walking hours are Monday-Sat-

urday, 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

The Gardens Mall is one mile east of Interstate 95 on PGA Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens. ■

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and the party starts.Each year, from scaffolds and ply-

wood, tenting and mesh, a legion of men and women raise a vast village of venues. PGA Tour people call this “the build” or “build-out,” and, on a morning in late January, the skeletal beginnings stand in plain view.

Honda’s tour-nament director, Andrew George, from IMG Golf North America, starts at the end of the Champion course, the very back of the green complex at Num-ber 18, in the framework for the vast Nicklaus Village and a new showcase near its center: at this moment a wall of windows, supported by steel poles. From the inside, Mr. George steps to the glass.

This, he says, will be the Legends Club, the high end, on the order of Berckmans Place at the Master’s in Augusta. Ticket price: $750. View: Priceless. Through the glass, privileged fans can peer down over a player’s shoulder as he flanges out of the sand or bumps a putt for wealth and glory. They can look up over the green and out across the lake and see the full sweep of the finishing hole. Here, even the portable restrooms will be better. “Guests expecting stone crabs,” Mr. George says, “don’t expect Porta-Potties.”

For those of more modest means, don’t despair. To embrace more than 200,000 spectators, the build-out extends across the course, through 26 structures and more than 220,000 square feet of hospi-tality space (nearly double that of five years ago), carefully sited for proxim-ity to players and elevated views of the action on two, three, even four holes.

With the Honda’s 10-year run of record revenues and donations to char-ity, the build gets bigger every year, and it snowballs into the avalanche of Advance Week and the tumble of Tour-nament Week.

“This is the earliest we’ve ever start-ed,” Mr. George says. “The scaffold vendor is T&B (Equipment Co.), out of (Ashland) Virginia. There are very few contractors who can do that magnitude of the steel, the temporary stuff, in the time frame that we need. We came out here before Thanksgiving, with the T&B lead foreman, and we spent a good three days laying out the flags exactly how the layout will look, and they pulled the strings to show us what that line is going to look like.

“We had these guys come to start the scaffold flooring on Dec. 5. It’s about a 10-, 11-week build, and then it all comes down in four weeks.”

T&B is the largest of more than 50 vendors raising the parapets and pam-pering the customers, and part of the challenge, Mr. George says, is “to make sure all the vendors play nice in the sandbox.”

That’s just the action end. The sales staff, George says, works all year to find paying sponsors for chalets and sky suites and public venues to mingle and feast, with prime backer Ameri-can Honda and major sponsors United Technologies and Tire Kingdom and the likes of Cobra Puma Golf, Anheus-er-Busch, Florida Power & Light and Jupiter Medical Center taking the lead. Sponsors want comfort and, especially, exposure, and they count on the build-out to provide them.

Off a meeting and a phone call, Ken Kennerly walks up from another cart. He’s the top man, the Honda’s executive director and, Mr. George says, its guid-

ing light. Each year, since the tournament moved from Mirasol across the street for 2007, the build-out has grown, and Mr. Kennerly’s efforts are a big reason. “Ken is an awesome boss,” Mr. George says. “We trust him, he trusts

us. And he listens.”Rounding the back side of the nascent

Legend Club, the leadership encounters a man named Jim, head of a crew of four from Clayton Floor Covering & Design out of Scottsdale, Ariz. He’s in charge of carpets and floor-covering, been on site for the last three weeks, and says, “I push these guys in front of me, because you never know when the weather’s not gonna cooperate or something. At the end, you still gotta get finished on time, so I’m always pushing.”

He looks over at Andrew George and adds, “It’s nice to have someone even-keel to direct all of it.” Mr. George smiles and says, “If you get upset, it doesn’t change anything.”

Then Mr. George and Mr. Kennerly cross paths with two other key manag-ers, Nick Schling and Karla Wallace, on a Skype call just then with the high-end caterer, Spectrum Concessions out of Houston.

Mr. Schling has taken the job that Mr. George stepped up from, director of operations, ram-rodding builders and vendors, making sure all is safe and in working order and compatible with laws, including the Americans with Dis-abilities Act. Under Mr. Schling’s direc-tion, the interior of the Legends Club, now just steel scaffolds and plywood flooring, will soon take on its tented roof and walls of layered mesh. Then Ms. Wallace will tackle the inside décor and catering.

The whole management team must harken to both sponsors and contrac-tors, and to representatives from the PGA Tour, to building inspectors, on site from Palm Beach Gardens, and to Palm Beach County and the water dis-trict and, especially, to residents of PGA National, whose daily routines face dis-ruption. Happily, George says, many of them volunteer at the tournament.

On his staff, Dawn Shnur and Jim

Coleman guide more than 1,600 vol-unteers in efforts across the course, from transporting players and marshal-ing crowds to registration, cart con-trol, child care, starting and standard-bearing and sharpshooting the ShotLink lasers. They, too, stand in awe of the city mushrooming across the course.

Most who will surge into the habitats of the Honda Classic will miss the build-out’s dynamics. The structures funnel crowds and carts and food and the play-ers on the PGA Tour. They need power. They need water. They need kitchens and product storage and avenues for delivery and removal. And they need nearly all of that action to play out behind-the-scenes.

The Champion is a wonderful course, Mr. George says; within 600 yards of the resort, patrons have an easy walk to holes 18, 17, 16, 10, nine, one three, four and eight. It suffers only from too much frontage. With little back-of-house, reduced even more this year as PGA National expands its merchandise shop, staff have had to create places to cook and store food and hardware.

Seen from the end of the complex at 18 this January day, immense lattice-works clearly surround two open “tunnels,” where working machines and people

will hide from view. “Air conditioning guys will start all the way down at the end of one tunnel and drop the units in,” Mr. George says. “They go underneath, and they have ducts, going up through there. They’ll cut holes and put grates on top. The next tunnel over will be for the caterer. They’ll have back-of-house, coolers down here to store product. Inventory. Looks like a Sam’s Club or a Costco down here.”

Those cooking the food face an added challenge. “You can’t go underneath when you have a grill, so we have a com-pound for those guys over on the Fazio (course),” Mr. George says. “They cer-tainly burn through the miles on their golf carts going back and forth.”

So much of the operation depends on timing, starting with the barn-raising. Maybe that’s why Andrew George first likens the build-out to “Legos,” then amends it to “Tetris,” a video game where tiles in various colors and shapes drop in an accelerating avalanche, while the player tries to match them in the right order before they land.

Crucially, the structures also need sight-lines. Fans and players alike want unobstructed views, from multiple directions. And viewers are not just looking out. Thanks to roaming cameras

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and another part of the build, TV tow-ers, millions are looking in. So sponsors have their vision-quests, too.

The biggest of those has created a distinctive clean look, echoing the vast White City of Chicago’s World Colum-bian Exposition of 1893. It springs from the colors of American Honda, blue and white, and the need to be seen. “As we’ve continued to build down this line on 18,” George says, “we’ve noticed that a lot of the camera angles from the player’s second shot going into the green really pan out and see this entire run. On the white, the blue really pops. This will be a Honda logo on top of the tent, so every time there’s a shot from TV, you’ll see it.”

Under the structures, wide areas of grass seem submerged … in shade. Brad Nelson, PGA National’s director of agronomy and head greenskeeper, will lose mower-access to these areas for the duration of the build-out and the tournament.

Don’t he and his crew have enough to handle just keeping the Champion and four other courses at PGA National in prime playing shape? As it is, they’ve had to over-seed the Champion’s Ber-muda grass rough with rye twice, when the weather balked. Through the weeks leading up to the tournament and the final push of Advance Week, the grounds-keepers will have exactly one full day, the Saturday before, to whip the course into final PGA playing shape.

From the 18th hole on this cool morn-ing, Andrew George and Ken Kennerly head for the heart of the Honda, or at least the teeth and claws.

The Bear Trap, holes 15, 16 and 17, weaves among waterways and narrow greens, and it bedevils players and entices everyone else. In 2007, Mr. Ken-nerly says, he and former tournament director Ed McEnroe envisioned it as a signature, like Augusta’s Amen Corner. In its first year, the stands hosted 350 patrons.

“We thought it was the Taj Mahal,” Mr. Kennerly says. Now it holds 4,500. People come just to rub the nose or claws of the bear statue.

In full array, it’s party central. At this moment, it’s a set of steel poles capped in a large plywood platform pieced by palm trees. It will never, Mr. Kennerly promises, become the enclosed stadium of the 16th hole at the Waste Manage-ment Open in Phoenix, but it will con-tinue to grow, out and up. And the tour-nament staff will scramble to sell space and keep it hopping.

Marketing may prime the pumps, but the flow of services is human, and relentless. Those doing the planning and labor refer to the tournament office in PGA National as the “war room.” Every napkin, every sign, every railing and fold-out seat, Karla Wallace says, must be put in place, and she adds, “We have millions of moving parts.”

There’s a lot of money in the mix, too. “Total cost of the build is into the millions now,” Mr. Kennerly says. “Our total expense budget for the tournament is around $12 million. Our revenues are getting up to $15 million. Once we’ve taken the expenses out, every dollar that’s left over goes to the charities.” With the enthused stewardship of Bar-bara Nicklaus, her son, Gary, and their Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foun-dation, the Honda scores near the top in percentage of income given to charity, setting records even in years (such as 2015) when weather and the absence of a certain Tiger Woods work against them.

On the day he committed to play in the Honda, ticket orders jumped. On the day he withdrew, staff and fans alike issued a collective sigh. This year, he had to withdraw again, citing back injuries.

Regardless, staff and workers are busy putting the finishing touches on a dyna-mo. This business, Mr. Kennerly says, is sales and marketing, and what they’re selling is not just golf but entertain-ment. It’s creating and sharing energy.

From his vision, Mr. Kennerly decreed not so much a dome as a box.

“I call it the Big Box theory,” Mr. Ken-nerly says. “It’s kind of the Sam Walton idea, what he did with Walmart. You create these big stores, and then Home Depot comes in and a PGA Tour Super-store. So, right away, we created the Wine Garden. We sold it to our spon-sor. That was 2012. Then there was the military, what we could do to honor and

recognize them, so the Patriots Outpost is a bigger box. I knew if we filled up 17 that energy would come out, you could really feel it, the players love it, as opposed to just 120 feet of sky suites.”

The biggest, loudest box spreads around the Bear Trap. Here, normal discourse edges into the raucous as fans boost their favorites or bet on longest drive or nearest the pin or whose caddy reaches the green first.

There’s no party here on this day, but there’s another buzz in the air. The rising tide of digital technology has washed over the Honda. No more phone zones. This year, outside normal deco-rum around greens and tee boxes, users of phones and electronic devices can talk and click anywhere on the grounds. And the phalanx of electronic score-boards, including five of the Honda’s own and 11 from the PGA Tour, will be joined along these platforms by mov-ing bands of light, the kind marching across the balconies of sports stadiums everywhere.

“People were telling us they couldn’t keep track of scores and players,” Mr. George says. “We don’t have a space to put the video board, so we’re going to have a ribbon board all the way around. This one alone, we’ll have about 300 feet of the ribbon board.”

A last surprise waits, just ahead.Mr. George and Mr. Kennerly stand

on a bare platform on the western end of the course, above the 14th hole. This, if you will, it’s the People’s View. It’s as good as any, here and maybe anywhere: tees, greens, fairways and players in full view, water and tropical landscape in full array, and everyone’s invited. It only stands to get bigger.

Workers scrambling now among the scaffolds have a small city to build, and little time. Not long before, Mr. George and wife Alexandra’s son Evan, age 18 months, was kicking a soccer ball across this bare platform. Walls and a tent-roof, added by workers from Proteus On-Demand Facilities, out of Atlanta, will be up within the week. Mr. George him-self used to run in the morning and play enough golf to compete. Now, he says, “Especially at tournament time, any free moment that I have I want to zip home and see the family.”

That word resonates through the build-out. The main contractor, T&B, books a dozen rooms in local hotels, and Mr. George says many of the workers leave their families for a month or more. Others pounding the temporary struc-tures into place, sometimes in cold rain

or high wind or afternoon heat, are from Caribbean islands, from Mexico and Central America, and, he says, “They do a tremendous job.”

That might apply to the tournament staff, too. Karla Wallace puts it this way: “We have to really take control of our areas. We’re like family, and we get along really, really well. It’s very stress-ful at times, and we can always count on each other.”

To those passing through the turn-stiles into the Honda Classic, that spirit may seem as invisible as the underpin-nings of the build-out. Just as surely, they can rely on it. ■

Schedule of events for 2017 Honda Classic>> Feb. 16 — 7-10 p.m. Kickoff party, The

Gardens Mall. $50 admission charge per person, with all proceeds benefi ting The Honda Classic Cares charitable initiatives.

>> Feb. 20 — 12:30-5 p.m. The Honda Classic Pro-Am (Champion Course, PGA National)

>> Feb. 21 — All day. PGA TOUR Profession-als Practice Rounds (Champion Course); Executive Women’s Day and Junior Clinic TBD.

>> Feb. 22 — All Day. The Honda Classic Cares Pro-Am (Champion Course)

>> Feb. 23 — Military Appreciation Day. 7 a.m. The Honda Classic — First Round

Begins 6-9 p.m. Concert (Michelob ULTRA Terrace)>> Feb. 24 — SunPass Day 7 a.m. The Honda Classic —Second Round

Begins 6-9 p.m. Concert (Michelob ULTRA Terrace) 7:30 p.m. Tire Kingdom Fireworks Spec-

tacular>> Feb. 25 — Tire Kingdom Family Day 8 a.m. Honda Classic Saturday Pro-Am (Old

Marsh Golf Club) 9 a.m. The Honda Classic — Third Round

Begins Noon-8 p.m. Kids Club Honda Pavilion 6-9 p.m. Concert (Michelob ULTRA Terrace) 7:30 p.m. Tire Kingdom Fireworks Spec-

tacular>> Feb. 26

9 a.m. The Honda Classic — Final Round — Pairings & Tee Times

6 p.m. Awards Ceremony — 18th Green>> Feb. 27

8 a.m. The First Tee of the Palm Beaches Invitational

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The E in the new Mercedes E-Class might stand for electronics

Mercedes is making 2017 a signpost to bring technology to its coddled masses. The new E-Class is a mainstream car that wants to do all of the thinking for you. So the real question is, can you still enjoy driving it?

The design of the new 2017 Mercedes E-Class signals its midpoint in the fam-ily lineup between the entry-level C-Class and flagship S-Class sedans. It borrows the sweeping bodylines of its little brother, but it wears the better-creased lines and the upright grille of its respectable bigger brother. In fact, the redesigned E-Class offers a bridge to make the Mercedes sedan trio into cohesive kinship.

Inside is where the best looking features of the E-Class hide. It borrows the sweep-ing wave design of the S-Class where the dashboard curves around the door, expands around the driver, and then mir-rors this pattern for the passenger side. It is an artistic touch that makes this car worth the extra money. But more than just a look-er, there is a huge brain in the E-Class, too.

It has a 12.3-inch central screen that works in conjunction with the center console touchpad to control nearly every aspect of the car. Everything from the radio operations to the trunk release height is programmed through this system. There is even cologne that can be deployed through

the air conditioning vents using the central command setup. But the real reason why Mercedes added such a large screen with so many features was to contain all of its technology options.

A companion to the central screen is the available 12.3-inch unit that goes directly in front of the driver. This turns the speed-ometer into a 3D virtual world that also monitors how close other vehicles are. It also has programmable screens that are controlled by touchpads on the steer-ing wheel. These allow drivers to access everything from entertainment, to naviga-tion controls, to local gas prices with the same kind of swiping movements that are

on today’s smartphones.But where technophiles will be really

impressed is with the semi-autonomous drive pilot system. With all of the car’s radar sensors activated and cruise control set, this Benz can basically chauffeur itself. Drivers have control over how closely they want the car to follow others in traffic, and they can even tell the car to change lanes (by manually engaging the turn signal.)

Daredevil owners will find out that this E-Class can go for up to a minute with no outside help. After that, it will ask for some engagement from the driver, and quite frankly, we are not ready to encourage anyone to use these features as anything

more than a safety aid. It’s not yet the time to let go of the wheel, but this Mercedes is definitely trying to put us in the back seat.

Besides, there’s no need for self-piloting, as this E-Class is a fine driving machine. The company’s air body control system is one of the best luxury features we’ve tried in quite some time. When the car is in comfort mode, there’s no more avoiding that one overly rough road that we all wish were repaved. And when the selectable ride is set to sport, this is a true sure-footed German machine.

Our test car was the base rear-wheel drive E300 sedan. Mercedes is able to pro-duce an impressive 241 horsepower from the 2.0-liter turbocharged motor. But more importantly, the power delivery is smooth. And while this is a heavy luxury sedan, the nine-speed transmission works to make sure it’s never out of breath when pass-ing on the highway. For those who need more power, there is a hotter 400 hp AMG model, but the base car will likely serve most Mercedes buyers just fine.

And being a jack-of-all-trades is exactly what the E300 needs to be. The base price for the E-Class is $53,075. When all the big technology options are added, this sedan easily can climb to over $70k. That kind of money means it needs to be impressive beyond just the Mercedes-Benz tri-star on the grille, and the new E-Class does that for the right people.

Those who have resisted smartphones are not going to like this car. But if you’ve camped out in front of the Apple Store, Mercedes has your luxury treat already available today. ■

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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 16-22, 2017 | A19WWW.FLORIDAWEEKLY.COM

BY ROGER WILLIAMS

rwilliams@fl oridaweekly.com

When Visit Florida, the state’s offi-cial tourism promoter, hired an Oxford Economics company called Tourism Economics to detail the effect of tour-ists on the Florida economy last year, Donald Trump had not yet taken office as the 45th president of the United States.

The numbers for 2015 were glowing: $108.8 billion in spending, or about $300 million a day; $11.3 billion gener-ated in state and local taxes and $13.1 billion in federal taxes; one in every six nonfarm jobs supported by visitor spending.

And that was in a tough market.“Florida has to compete with other

domestic and international destinations

for every visitor,” Gene Prescott, a Visit Florida board member and president of the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, said in a recent press release.

With the help of Visit Florida, the state was doing one heck of a job, suggested Ken Lawson, president and CEO. “In 2015, our visitors spent $30 billion more in Florida than they did just five years ago.”

That was true in Palm Beach Coun-ty on the east coast and in Southwest Florida’s Collier, Lee and Charlotte counties. Each expe-rienced five years of unprecedented growth, according to officials and county growth records.

Now that might be changing, with only

Palm Beach County somewhat shel-tered from a slowdown. The county is now home to two sports stadiums and four Spring Training professional base-ball programs (the Marlins, Astros, Car-dinals and the Nationals). In addition to significant arts and cultural attractions, the county now also is home to the

winter White House, Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound.

Collier, Lee (with the Twins and Red Sox taking Spring Training in two stadi-ums) and Charlotte counties are not so lucky, depending on one’s expectations of a Trump winter White House.

“In Palm Beach County it’s been a wonderful couple of years, and we hope it continues,” said Glenn Jergensen, executive director of the Palm Beach Tourist Development Council. Tourism generates more than $7 billion in the local economy, including $45 million in bed taxes that now run a penny high-er than ever before, at 6 cents, since the county was declared a high-impact county for tourism, by the state, and permitted to raise the rate, he noted.

“Sports is a huge driver of activity. We’ve seen a little softness in terms of bookings (especially from the inter-national market), but now that the elections are over, the other benefit we have is the winter White House. We’re hoping that will be positive. Mr. Trump was here last weekend and he’ll be coming next weekend. Media from around the world arrives, gets updates on what the president is doing — and

Study shows exceptional revenue from visitors to Florida in 2015, but counties are wary about a slowdown.

Gauging tourism

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the sun is out and people are coming by to see the place — we’re hoping it will be like a commercial.”

But on the southwest coast from Naples north through Charlotte Coun-ty, tourism officials confirm that while year-over-year jumps in visitors, spend-ing and hotel occupancy have been consistent, and consistently good, they might be over for now.

In Collier in December 2015, for example, 50 percent of hotels and motels reported an increase in reservations, and 33 percent more said they remained the same. That changed in December 2016, however, with only 12.9 percent report-ing increased reservations. Almost 55 percent reported reservations down, according to figures published by the Naples, Marco Island, Everglades Con-vention and Visitors Bureau.

Another factor that could hurt: The Legislature could eliminate Visit Florida. House Speaker Richard Corco-ran is pushing to kill the agency along with Enterprise Florida and several dozen programs and organizations that promote job growth and diversification.

On Feb. 8, proposed legislation that could kill the agency passed the House Careers & Competition Subcommittee.

It moves to the House Commerce Committee. No date has been set for a hearing by that panel.

Proponents say the $76 million in the tax dollars Gov. Rick Scott wants for Visit Florida would be better spent on education, public safety or another

priority.The softening of the tourism market

could result from several factors, includ-ing politics, especially on the southwest coast and partiicularly in the market for international travelers.

“We’ve been predicting a slowdown for a while and we’re finally here,” said Tamara Pigott, executive director of the Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau. “Economies are cyclical, and were at a slowdown point.”

A number of con-ditions play into that, she added.

“We saw a little decline in hotel occu-pancy in the fourth quarter, some per-haps from election malaise, some Brex-it (the British exit from the European Union). Our United Kingdom numbers are way, way off. We didn’t see it in the third quarter because those trips were booked. Our fourth quarter was less than half of what it was in the fourth quarter in 2015.”

And because international visitors stay longer and spend more money, los-ing some of that trade makes a big dif-ference.

Lorah Steiner, director of the Charlotte Harbor Visitor & Convention Bureau, was working against that trend last week when the VCB was printing a Charlotte County guide in German — and doing it in Germany, where it will be distributed courtesy of Visit Florida.

“They worked with BrandUSA and made it possible to get videos done in different languages — that was probably

responsible for moving the needle 4 per-centage points last year,” she says.

In 2017, however, that success might be more limited. The tourist market and its economy are a little less radiant, a trend with an unpredictable outcome.

“This year will be difficult to tell: Are we seeing a cooling off or a reaction in tourism due to Zika or hurricanes or Trump?” Ms. Steiner asks. “The interna-tional folks might be upset about Trump — that’s a consideration, how people feel about him.”

Oxford Economics, meanwhile, offered this amended look at the economy, and tourism, in an introduction to a very recent study titled “Effects of a Trump Presidency”:

“The election of Donald Trump has introduced new uncertainty into the out-look for the U.S. travel industry … Trump ran a campaign calling for shifts in foreign, fiscal, trade and immigration policies that have potentially significant implications for the global economy and travel.

“The conclusion of this analysis is that the most likely sce-nario involves signifi-cantly watered-down positions that would produce only margin-ally slower economic growth in 2017 and 2018 relative to our pre-election baseline scenario.

“But travel is noto-riously more reactive

to external events. International leisure travelers in particular have discretion in their choice of destinations and readily shift preferences based on any num-ber of real or perceived factors. Given Trump’s protectionist platform, ques-

tioning of longstanding alliances, and ‘America first’ rhetoric, it bears asking what effect his presidency might have on travel to the U.S.”

When a research site called Hopper.com looked at data for flight searches from 122 countries in a post-election five-week period, it noted a 17 per-cent decline after President Trump announced his travel ban (the ban was banned as unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week).

Covered by various media, the Hop-per.com report shows that flight search-es with U.S. destinations from such nations as New Zealand, Ireland, Den-mark and China all have fallen at least 30 percent, with only searches from Russia going up.

To a veteran tourism champion such as Lee County’s Ms. Pigott, all that comes down to this:

“Travel Research (an analyst) gave us a projection for occupancy in 2017 that shows a slight decline of half-a-percent. Demand is flattening out. We’re maxi-mized on demand, and it’s true of the whole country.

“So the hoteliers are going to be forced to be really good revenue man-agers — to decide when to drop or increase rates. And I think we’re in for a bumpy ride on the international side. The value of the dollar is strong now and it means the euro and some others currencies are worth less money.”

So what’s the good news?“When I look out my window and see

what we have here — it’s beautiful, it’s safer and visitors want to come back,” Ms. Pigott said. “They want to escape their gray skies and crowded urban markets. And we’re still one of the most naturally beautiful areas in Florida.” ■

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CORCORAN

STEINER

Name: David Pulver

Title: Co-chairman of the New

Discoveries Research Luncheon &

Lecture

Location: Palm Beach

BY MARY THURWACHTER

mthurwachter@fl oridaweekly.com

Bladder cancer is the elephant in the room. So says David Pulver, a nine-year survivor of a serious form of bladder cancer and co-chairman of the Inau-gural New Discoveries Research Lun-cheon & Lecture on March 8.

“People don’t like to discuss their bladder.”

But Mr. Pulver does. He’s written about it, as well, having co-authored “Bladder Cancer-A Patient-Friendly Guide to Understanding Your Diagnosis and Treatment Options.”

The book came about, Mr. Pulver said, when he went to Johns Hopkins Green-burg Bladder Institute for treatment and his doctor gave him a copy of a book he had written about the disease. But the book was out of print.

Mr. Pulver worked with the doctor to write a new book that not only con-tained a helpful medical orientation, but also addressed the topic from a patient’s point of view.

“I was looking for patient-friendly,” Mr. Pulver said. “The book will help patients have a conversation with their doctors.”

The March 8 luncheon at the Beach Club in Palm Beach was created to raise

awareness and money to find a cure for bladder cancer, the fifth most common cancer in the country. Guest speakers are Dr. David McConkey, director of Johns Hopkins Greenburg Bladder Insti-tute, and Fay Vincent, a former Major League Baseball commissioner, and a bladder cancer survivor.

One in 42 people will be diagnosed with bladder cancer during their life-time, and although bladder cancer is a common cancer, it has been vastly ignored.

Mr. Pulver, who lives in Palm Beach Gardens with his wife, Carol, also coun-sels many bladder cancer patients.

He has served on the board of direc-tors of BCAN (Bladder Cancer Advo-

cacy Network), a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to educating and supporting bladder cancer patients and their families, funding and advocating for bladder cancer research, and rais-ing public awareness about the disease, since 2008.

Mr. Pulver, who is president of Cor-nerstone Capital Inc., a private invest-ment company, co-founded and was chairman and co-CEO of The Children’s Place, a leading retailer of children’s clothing. He serves on the board of directors of Carter’s, a leading manufac-turer and retailer of infants and young children’s apparel.

David PulverAge: 75Where I grew up: West Hartford,

Conn.Where I live now: Palm Beach Gar-

dens, and we have a seasonal home in Mendham, N.J.

Education: Colby College in Water-ville, Maine, and Harvard Business School (MBA)

What brought me to Florida: Main-ly the weather. We have had a home here since 2001 and over the years spent more and more time here. We are now Florida residents.

My job today: I run the family invest-ing office and am involved with vari-ous charities. I am a trustee at Colby College, and a member of the board of directors of BCAN.

My first job and what it taught me: I was a marketing vice president of Met-alphoto, a small company in Cleveland. It taught me that family businesses are

great, if you’re in the family.Career highlights: One would be co-

founding The Children’s Place. Another was going on the board of Costco when they only had three stores. I was on the board for 10 years and it was quite a ride. I’ve also been involved in the blad-der cancer community for about eight years and enjoy counseling and helping people. When I wrote the book, “Blad-der Cancer-A Patient-Friendly Guide to Understanding Your Diagnosis and Treatment Options,” I wrote it from a patient’s point of view.

Hobbies: A little golf. I still ski. I’m a political junkie.

Best advice for someone looking to make it my field: Have tenacity. Work hard and never give up. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

About mentors: My dad died right after I graduated high school so I never had a person who set me on a path. I always figured things out on my own. ■

MOVING ON UP

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” — David Pulver,

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Inaugural New Discoveries Research Luncheon & Lecture>> Guest speakers: Dr. David McConkey,

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>> When: 11:30 a.m. March 8>> Where: The Beach Club, Palm Beach. >> Cost: $200>> Info: Anita Parker, (301) 215-9099, Ext.

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‘Harmony’BY JANIS FONTAINE

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Ballet Palm Beach and the Palm Beach Symphony are giving back to the community by performing a free con-cert, “Harmony: An Exhibition of The Arts,” on Feb. 26.

The concert takes place at Meyer Amphitheatre, an al fresco stage at the West Palm Beach’s popular waterfront, at Datura Street and Flagler Drive.

The Palm Beach Symphony will present works such works as Tchai-kovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture,” Berlioz’s “Le Corsaire” and excerpts from Rimsky-Korsa-kov’s “Scheherazade.”

Ballet Palm Beach will perform danc-es from “Gatsby,” a new ballet based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. The two groups will join forces to perform “Peter and the Wolf” featuring Prokofiev’s classic score. Their next Ballet Palm Beach production is “Sleeping Beauty & Other Works,” which comes to the stage in May.

This family-friendly concert is a great way to introduce your child to the won-ders of the ballet and the incredible tal-ent of the accomplished musicians who make up the orchestra. Bring your own blanket or chairs for seating, and pack a picnic basket or pick up take-out from one of the many downtown eateries.

If you go: Harmony, 2 p.m. Feb. 26, Meyer Amphitheatre, 104 Datura St., West Palm Beach. Free. Info: www.downtownwpb.com/events.

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BY BILL MEREDITH

Florida Weekly Correspondent

From rock, pop and fusion to blues, bluegrass and other forms of roots music, John Smotherman has proven to be one of South Florida’s most versatile guitarists and vocalists since moving here in 1984.

The Palm Beach Gardens resident ini-tially moved from his native Tennessee to work as an engineer for aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in Jupi-ter, but his self-taught musical skills soon caused him to soar with multiple

bands. Former groups include variety act Lite-N-Up and roots music trio 301 East; current bands include blues unit the Micah Scott Project and bluegrass trio Smiley Tunehead.

Mr. Smotherman took his engineer-ing and musical prowess to locales both stateside (Indiana) and interna-tional (Sweden) starting in 1992 before returning to South Florida since 2001. His instrumental prowess also includes dobro, mandolin, banjo, bass, and per-cussion, but in the past year, one of the area’s ultimate band mates has done

The lifeguard, surfer and West Palm Beach native who lives across the street from the beach describes his art as “pretty simple.”

He builds variously sized surfboards out of driftwood, carves them by hand and mounts them on framed backdrops he paints with tropical scenery — all from his Jupiter home.

“This is almost an extension of how I live my life,” said Rick Welch, a Palm Beach County Ocean Rescue captain. “When I’m doing a piece, I like for my stuff to look like it just floated in, that it came in on the last high tide. If I could make it smell like a sea breeze, I would.”

Rock? Jazz? Musician can play it

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Jon Smotherman plays a mix of musical styles.

It’s the year of the emerging

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Amber Moran, this year’s poster artist.

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With friends like these, who needs, uh, enemas?

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Found: West Palm Beach Antiques Festival, South Florida Fairgrounds. Next show is March 3-5. Info at www.wpbaf.com.

The skinny: My antiques dealer friends gave these cufflinks to me when I chuckled at the images depicted on them. They were part of an estate from northern Florida.

My friend, food journalist Jan Norris, an expert on antique buttons, knew these scenes well, and said she’s seen the metal in a variety of finishes.

The patent date for the sterling cufflink attachments is 1949, so these

buttons probably were made into jewelry in the ’50s or ’60s.

Love them or hate them, there’s nothing buttoned down about their humor. ■

THE FIND:

King Louis XIV may have been known as the Sun King.

But the French monarch had a penchant for putting things where the sun doesn’t shine.

In other words, he liked his enemas — they were supposed to improve the complexion, among other things.

His court at Versailles set the standards for fashion.

Everyone at court did as the king did, so it became the fashion to ply the princely posteriors of Europe with purgatives laced with scented and colored water.

And it became enough of a joke that the great playwright Molière penned “The Imaginary Invalid,” a work that pilloried the practice.

Hence the buttons on my cufflinks.

But it didn’t begin with Louis.

The practice of infusing one’s innards with water and other substances began in ancient times — the Egyptians even did it.

And more than a century before King Louis’ regular lavements, Britain’s King Henry VIII also required the treatments.

His groom of the stool — that’s Tudor English for the royal heinie washer — related “when His Grace rose to go upon his stool which, with the working of the pills and the enema, His Highness had taken before, had a very fair siege.”

Bless his poor plugged-up heart. I’m sure he felt better after that, but what did he expect from a diet that consisted of nothing but meat and sweets?

That was the reality of a world in

which vegetables were viewed as the food of the poor.

The buttons mounted on my cufflinks also are of that world.

Some experts believe the buttons, made of silver-plated brass sometime after 1700, actually depict Louis XIV himself, receiving an enema from a gigantic syringe, then relieving himself on the pot as the physician stands by.

The detail in the medals is gorgeous, right down to the ピleur de lis pattern on the walls.

This disproves the notion that people were prudes back in the day.

The physician smiles and so do we. ■

A pair of cufflinks made from

18th century buttons.

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The 18th century buttons that form these cufflinks measure just over 1 inch in diameter. They

depict a man receiving an enema, of all things (left), and demonstrat-

ing his relief on a chamber pot (right).

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Mr. Welch’s “pret-ty simple” pieces attracted the atten-tion of the ArtiGras Fine Arts Festival committee, which selected him to be one of 10 emerging artists at this year’s event. From Feb. 18 to 20, Rick Welch Surf Art will move out of the house and into a booth at Abacoa for tens of thou-sands of patrons to see.

“It’s a giant experiment,” he said. “This will be the first time where I have that many people exposed to what I do.”

Mr. Welch, through the encourage-ment of his family and friends and following a bout with blood cancer, decided to “give it a go” and try to get into the juried exhibition.

“Since all of that cancer garbage, I don’t want to say I’m better for it, but I pushed a little harder for it,” he said.

The lymphoma survivor has spent much of his time off creating inventory in anticipation of actual sales.

“I think, for the first time, I’m just really looking forward to sitting there quietly and listening — having people come in and comment on stuff,” Mr. Welch said. “If it sells, it’s great. If it doesn’t, it just goes back on the wall at the house.”

David Yurko, another emerging art-ist, designs wooden Bluetooth boom boxes using a computer-aided-drafting program and a computer-numeric-con-trol tool. The married father of twin, 6-year-old boys developed the concept by accident.

“I built one for my wife for her birthday,” Mr. Yurko said. “I wanted to give her jewelry but decided to make that instead. It was a totally random thought.”

His “totally random thought” got him into ArtiGras, much the same way Mr. Welch’s “pretty simple” art did.

“I’m always tinkering and trying to build things — that’s just what I do,”

Mr. Yurko said. “When I first thought of selling these, my mind immediately went to ArtiGras.”

He signed up for the training sessions offered by the festival that teach new talent how to display, market and sell their art at an outdoor show.

“ArtiGras itself helps you as an emerg-ing artist,” Mr. Yurko said. “It’s a great platform and a great opportunity.”

He still has the juried-art jitters.“I’m totally nervous, are you kid-

ding me?” Mr. Yurko laughed. “You’re putting it all out there to scrutiny. Are people going to like it, and if they like it, are they going to buy it?”

Mr. Yurko, as well as Mr. Welch, along with the eight others making their art-show debuts, represent a group of emerging artists unlike any the festival has seen in its 32 years, according to ArtiGras spokeswoman Rebecca Seelig.

“I just feel like this is the year of the emerging artist,” Ms. Seelig said. “In the past, they were trying to see whether this was their path, when this year, they know it is their path. They have the expertise.”

Amber Moran, the 2017 poster artist and a former emerging artist, has risen from the ranks since that first show in 2011.

“That’s when I became a professional artist,” Ms. Moran said.

The upstate New Yorker-turned-South Florida resident dipped brushes into watercolors as a young girl to pro-duce images of the dairy farm on which she grew up. She entered her animal,

landscape and tree scenes in school competitions and hung them around the house.

“When I wasn’t helping out on the farm or playing with my cousins, I was painting,” Ms. Moran said.

She and her husband moved to the area in 2004 and started a family, and the painting all but stopped. Her two boys, now 8 and 10, took up most of her time.

“I attended ArtiGras every year and really loved to look at the artwork and wished I was doing something with mine,” Ms. Moran said.

The brushes and the watercolors resurfaced, this time to produce scenes from the sandbar in Jupiter — the inspi-ration for the poster.

“In the summer, we usually go every weekend,” Ms. Moran said of the shal-low spot on the Intracoastal Waterway.

“Weekend Sandbar Fun” incorpo-rates colorful fish, seahorses and shells scattered about the surface in her sig-nature sprightly style. Her parents, who have kept their daughter’s childhood creations up on the walls, are coming down for the special occasion.

“I’m just so excited and honored,” Ms. Moran said. “I’ve worked really hard to try to get here in this type of position. It makes me want to keep going and evolving and doing my best. I don’t think that, 10 years ago, I would have seen myself here where I am now.” ■

Beach. “Sophistication Is Overrated” is a rare

bird: A coffee table book you’ll actually use! Babs Horner is a gourmet caterer and her sister, Susan Palma, is an interior decorator, and they combine forces for this book that is full of recipes as well as tips and tricks for memorable entertaining.

You’ll find fine crystal and china in this book, but you’ll also find rubber chickens, blow-up dolls and a hearty belly laugh or two. RSVP to 655-8553 or email [email protected]. Complimentary valet parking is available.

IndiaFest 2017The Palm Beach India Association brings

the rich culture of India to Meyer Amphi-theatre, 104 Datura St., West Palm Beach, at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, with IndiaFest. More than 25,000 people are expected to attend this festival that features live enter-tainment, yoga sessions by Naya Rappa-port, Bollywood-inspired cardio workouts with Kahini Chandriani, Indian fashion and jewelry, and Henna tattoos. A-list perform-ers include Benny Dayal, one of India’s biggest rock stars and a judge on the Indi-an version of “The Voice,” “Voice India,” and India’s top-rated DJ, DJ Lemon, who will spin Bollywood tunes. Chef Pushkar

Marathe, chef de cui-sine at Meat Market Palm Beach, will offer live Indian cooking demos, and vendors will offer all kinds of authentic Indian food.

The festival is free. For more information, visit www.gopbia.org.

Sunday at the WaterfrontEach month on the third Sunday year-

round, West Palm Beach hosts a free out-door concert at the Meyer Amphitheatre from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. People come with picnic baskets and puppies, kids and blan-kets, lawn chairs and coolers, and set up camp on the lawn for the duration of the concert. This concert series features lively, eclectic performances, and on Feb. 19, find The U.S. Stones, a tribute band performing the best of the Rolling Stones. This band is tight, with its own Mick Jagger clone, and Keith Richards and Ron Wood look-alikes, plus dead-on sound and performances.

The concert is free. For information, visit www.wpb.org.

Tickets for ‘Phantom’ are on sale Tickets are now on sale for a “bigger

and better” production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom Of The Opera” opening at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach on March 23 for 15 performances running through April 1. This new produc-tion by Cameron Mackintosh features new

staging and new scenic design by Paul Brown, new costumes by Maria Bjornson, choreography by Scott Ambler, and light-ing design by Paule Constable. There are also new special effects showcasing the famed chandelier. The production, which includes a 52-member cast and orchestra, is all under the direction of Laurence Con-ner. Critics praised and audiences cheered the production when it played in Great Britain.

Based on the classic novel “Le Fantôme de L’Opéra,” by Gaston Leroux, this moody love story tells of a masked figure who

lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House and terrorizes performers until he falls madly in love with an inno-cent young soprano and devotes himself to making her a star using every devious trick he can think of. With its moving score and timeless songs like “Music of the Night” and “All I Ask Of You,” “Phantom” is a show people see again and again.

For tickets, which start at $31, call 832-7469 or visit Kravis.org. For more infor-mation about the production and to see a video sneak peek, visit www.ThePhanto-mOfTheOpera.com/ustour/. ■

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>> What: ArtiGras Fine Arts Festival>> Times and dates: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb.

18 and 19, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 20.>> Where: Abacoa, Jupiter>> Cost: $10 in advance, $12 at the gate, free

for children 12 and younger>> Info: 746-7111 or artigras.org

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Katie Travis and Chris Mann in “The Phantom Of The Opera.”

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ABOVE: A boom box by David Yurko.LEFT: Surf-inspired art by Rick Welch.

Crowds fill Abacoa at a previous ArtiGras.

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John Smotherman practices on guitar. He has lived in South Florida since 1984.

something he’s never done before — embarked on a career as a solo per-former.

“I did my first solo gig at Rudy’s for one of the club’s festivals,” he says of the diminutive downtown Lake Worth venue, which features mostly solo to trio acts. “That was only a 30-minute set, so I had enough material. After that went well, I had the idea that maybe I could look for other solo opportunities once I built up my song list.”

Predict that list at your own peril. Sure, there are requested favorites by artists like Tom Petty (“Runnin’ Down a Dream”), The Eagles (“Tequila Sun-rise”), Dire Straits (“Sultans of Swing”), Paul Simon (“50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”), James Taylor (“Sweet Baby James”), The Doors (“Light My Fire”), Jimi Hendrix (“The Wind Cries Mary”), The Beatles (“Norwegian Wood”) and Jimmy Buffet (“Come Monday”), but mostly lesser-known gems off the beat-en path of the pop and classic rock charts.

Few other than Mr. Smotherman could also conceive of and pull off Ste-vie Ray Vaughan’s “Riviera Paradise,” Jethro Tull’s “Thick as a Brick,” Prince’s “Cream,” Little Feat’s “Willin’,” Stevie Wonder’s “Boogie On Reggae Woman,” Bob Dylan’s “Buckets of Rain,” Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line,” Booker T. & the M.G.’s “Green Onions,” Robert John-son’s “Come On in My Kitchen,” Freddie King’s “Hideaway,” and Dave Brubeck’s “Take 5.”

“The list is a combination of tunes that I get requests for, plus some more obscure material that I really like to play,” he says, “but even some of those lesser-known tunes are by pretty well-known artists.”

A versatile guitar is required to encompass such feels from acoustic, progressive and roots-rock to blues, country and jazz, so Mr. Smother-man’s hollow-bodied, acoustic-electric hybrid instrument by Clearwater-based Michael Kelly Guitars is essential. Another key to his solo act is a Boomer-ang looping pedal, which allows him to record multiple rhythm guitar tracks on the fly, then play them back to sing and solo over.

“I had to work with that pedal at home and get used to it before playing out,” he says. “It will definitely point out if you’re unknowingly speeding up or slow-ing down. But I’m glad I found it. I didn’t want to resort to using backing tracks and vocal harmonizers, but rather to keep it as simple and organic as possible.”

Others among the area’s best guitar-

ists have long admired Mr. Smother-man’s organic approach.

“John is a great player,” says Lake Worth-based Andy Stein, who freelanc-es with various artists in South Florida, plays solo gigs with his own looping pedal, and is perhaps best-known for his 1990s work with West Palm Beach progressive pop band Inhouse. “I love his instrumental tone, his style, and the passion he brings to his playing.”

“John has the ability to come up with little parts that help create and define a song,” says Palm Beach Gardens-based Mario LaCasse, the blues veteran who plays with The Natty Bos, and is per-haps best-known as a founding mem-ber of the 1970s-1980s act Misbehavin.’ “When you add that to the physical abil-ity he has playing guitar, I don’t think there’s anything he can’t do.”

That includes writing, recording and performing original material. Mr. Smotherman’s compositions on his ReverbNation site include playful fla-menco feels (“Cathedral”), surf music (“La Furia Nacosta”), funk (“Cham-pagnzee”) and jazz (“Sassy Gams”). On the bluegrass-themed “Rover,” Mr. Smotherman’s banjo playing is the driv-ing force, and he even plays violin lines to accompany his additional guitar, bass, and drum programming.

All are instrumentals, but the versatile musician is working on new originals with live drum tracks — some of which will also feature his deep yet nimble voice, which tends to be underestimated only by comparison to his reputation as a player.

“I’d like to eventually release a solo CD,” Mr. Smotherman says, “so I’m waiting until I do that to post new mate-rial on the Web site. And I’m trying to decide which of the originals, vocal and instrumental, are best-suited to this for-mat before putting them into this show. Doing solo gigs, I’m singing more than I ever have; up to 30 songs a night.”

Lest anyone think that Mr. Smother-man’s musical expertise is a by-product of his meticulous engineering skills, rare errors like the one at a recent solo performance showed a self-deprecat-ing nature that’s a far greater factor. Before he delivered a spot-on rendition of Jethro Tull’s “Living in the Past,” complete with mimicry of lead singer Ian Anderson’s vocals and his flute solos on the guitar, Mr Smotherman stopped midway through a first attempt.

Asked why afterward, he grimaced, then laughed. ■

— See John Smotherman perform solo at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Shipwreck Bar & Grill, 1511 N. Old Dixie Highway, Jupiter (746-8882), and at 5 p.m. March 10 and 17 for happy hour sets at Double Roads Tavern, 251 U.S. Highway 1, Jupi-ter (203-7061).

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CALENDAR

Please send calendar listings to cal-endar editor Janis Fontaine at [email protected].

THURSDAY2/16Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show — Through Feb. 21, Palm Beach County Convention Cen-ter, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. 822-5440; www.palmbeachshow.com.

The West Palm Beach Winter RV Show — 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 16-19, South Florida Fairgrounds, West Palm Beach. $8 adults, free for age 12 and younger. Discount for all active and retired mili-tary and first-responders. Free parking. (813) 741-0488; www.frvta.org.

Art After Dark — 5-9 p.m. Thursdays at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. Tours, DIY art activities, music, films, gallery talks. Free. 832-5196; www.Norton.org.

Clematis by Night — 6-9 p.m. Thursdays. www.clematisbynight.net.

■ New Horizon — Feb. 16. This seven-piece band plays an eclectic mix of funk, R&B, blues and jazz.

Palm Beach Fine Craft Show — Feb. 16-19, Palm Beach County Con-vention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. (203) 254-0486; www.PalmBeachFineCraftShow.co.m

Young Friends of the Palm Beach Symphony: Mix & Mingle for Music — 5-7 p.m. Feb. 16, Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. An exclusive soiree with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and browsing at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show. Free for members, $35 for nonmem-bers. 655-2657; www.palmbeachsym-phony.org.

Girls Night Out at iBar — 5:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 16, PGA National Resort & Spa, Palm Beach Gardens. Hosted by Sally and KOOL 105.5 FM, shop the latest fashions, live entertainment, mini-makeovers, cocktails, an auction, raffles, supporting KidSanctuary. Free admission and valet parking. 627-4852.

The Palm Beach Young Profes-sionals Social — 5:30-7 p.m. Feb. 16, Palm Beach Art, 214 B S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan. Pre-registration required. Free for members, $10 guests. www.palmbeachchamber.com.

Use Your Illusion: How the Brain Perceives Reality — 7 p.m. Feb. 16, Civil Society Brewing Co., 1200 Town Center Drive, No. 101, Jupiter. Enjoy a cup of coffee, a craft beer, or glass of wine and learn about the latest trends in sci-ence and technology with a world-class scientist. Dr. Joseph Schumacher, post-doctoral researcher for the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, speaks about his research which combines imag-ing and behavioral techniques to investi-gate how learning impacts the function of neural circuits. Free. 370-7740; www.sfsciencecenter.org.

“WaistWatchers The Musi-cal!” — Through March 26, PGA Center for the Arts, 4076 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens. Book and lyrics by Alan Jacobson, music by Vince Di Mura. Show times: 2 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday and 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Sat-urday and 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $40-$65. www.waistwatchersthemusical.com; (855) 448-7469.

FRIDAY2/17Bagels & Books: Tilar J. Mazzeo — 10 a.m. Feb. 17 at the Mandel JCC, 5221 Hood Road, Palm Beach Gardens. The New York Times bestselling author of “The Widow Clicquot,” discusses “Irene’s Children,” the moving story of Irena Sendler — called the ‘female Oskar Schindler” — who saved 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Tickets: $12 for Literary Society Reader Level, $15 guests. www.JCCOn-line.com/bookfestival.

Spend the Weekend with Ros-coe Tanner — Feb. 17-19, at the Palm Beach Gardens Tennis Center, 5110 117th Court N. The tennis star from the 1970s known for his powerful serve is teaching “Serves You Right,” an adult doubles and serving camp with col-leagues Curley Davis and Amy Polizzi. The $320 fee includes a Friday night meet-and-greet party, two mornings of instruction, lunch on Saturday and Sun-day, and a parting gift. To register, email Amy Polizzi at [email protected].

Gardens Movie Nights & Food Truck Bites — 6:30 p.m. Feb. 17, Veterans Plaza Amphitheater, 10500 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens. Film: “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.” Bring blankets or lawn chairs. 630-1100.

SATURDAY2/18ArtiGras — Feb. 18-20, Abacoa Town Center, Jupiter. The most anticipated art fair and show in Palm Beach County returns with food, beer and wine, live entertainment, kids’ activities. 748-3946; www.artigras.org.

West Palm Beach Greenmarket Strawberry Festival — 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 18 at the West Palm Beach Water-front, 101 N. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach. Freshly made strawberry short-cakes by Chef Carlino, with proceeds benefiting Hospice of Palm Beach Coun-ty, plus more than 80 vendors, unlimited mimosas for $10, free kids activities, live music and monthly chef showcases. Pet friendly. Free parking in the Banyan and Evernia city garages during market hours. www.wpb.org/events.

Children’s Carousel Concert — 10-11:30 a.m. Feb. 18, DeSantis Family Chapel, 300 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. The Palm Beach Atlan-tic Symphony and PBA Preparatory Department with dancers and actors perform. Free but complimentary tick-ets required by calling 803-2970.

Butterfly Walk — 10 a.m.-noon Feb. 18, Mounts Botanical Garden, 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. The Atala Chapter of the North American Butterfly Association hosts this walk in search of atala hairstreak and other butterfly species. Garden admission is a $5 donation. The walk is free. www.nabapalmbeach.org.

The Science of Chocolate — 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 18, South Florida Sci-ence Center and Aquarium; 4801 Dreher Trail N., West Palm Beach. Free with museum admission and for members. $16.95 adults, $12.95 ages 3-12, $14.95 seniors, free for children younger than 3. www.sfsciencecenter.org.

Ballet Palm Beach presents “Romeo and Juliet” — 2 p.m. Feb. 18 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19, Eissey Cam-pus Theatre, 11051 Campus Drive, Palm Beach Gardens. Tickets: $19-$45. 814-5598; www.BalletPalmBeach.org.

Winter Equestrian Festival — Through April 2 at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center, 3400 Equestrian Club Drive, Wellington. The world’s finest horses and riders com-pete in show jumping and equestrian dressage. On Saturday Night Lights the action starts at 7 p.m. with free Grand Prix equestrian competition including show jumping, plus food, family-friend-ly activities, and live music. www.pbiec.coth.com; 793-5867; www.equestrians-port.com.

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The fourth annual Out of the Ordinary Into the Extraordinary Fundraiser — 1-4 p.m. Feb. 19, Palm Beach Improv at CityPlace, 550 S. Rose-mary Ave, Suite 250, West Palm Beach. Featuring Frank Del Pizzo, imperson-ator Mr. Billy and two mystery come-dian colleagues, plus a silent auction, 50/50, raffles and door prizes. $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Benefits For-ever Greyhounds, which rescues retired racing Greyhounds. 574-5576; www.for-evergreyhounds.org.

“Music at St. Patrick: Jazz in the Hall — 3 p.m. Feb. 19, St. Patrick Church Parish Center, 13591 Prosperity Farms Road, Palm Beach Gardens. Fea-turing Sandra Mandella and The Bobby Chirafisi Sextet. Free-will offering. 626-8626, [email protected].

■ Sunday on The Waterfront — 4-7 p.m. Feb. 19, on the Palm Stage at the West Palm Beach Waterfront, 101 N. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach. A per-formance by “U.S. Stones” in a tribute to Rolling Stones modeled after a Stones’ show and featuring a young Mick Jag-ger clone. Bring your own chairs or blankets. www.maximumbands.com/rolling_stones.html .

■ The 11th annual International Piano Festival — Feb. 19-24, begin-ning at 4 p.m. Feb. 19, in the Helen K. Persson Recital Hall in Vera Lea Rinker Hall, 326 Acacia Road, West Palm Beach. Concerts: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20 and Feb. 22, and concluding with a concerto concert featuring the PBA Symphony at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24 in the DeSantis Family Cha-pel, 300 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. 803-2970 or visit www.pba.edu/performances for ticket information.

Palm Beach International Polo Season — Sundays through April 23 at the International Polo Club Palm Beach, Wellington. A season of chal-lenge cups, qualifier matches and tour-naments leading up to the U.S. Open Polo Championship. 282-5290; www.internationalpoloclub.com.

MONDAY2/20Fire & Ice: Symphony Beneath the Stars, Palm Beach Sympho-ny 2017 Annual Gala — 7 p.m. Feb. 20, The Breakers, Palm Beach. Cocktails, dinner, dancing, and live music featuring an intimate performance by cellist Amit Peled. Proceeds benefit the Palm Beach Symphony. Tickets: $650. 655-2657; www.palmbeachsymphony.org.

DESIRE Party — 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20, in the Gold Room at The Breakers Palm Beach. Hosted by the Young Friends of the Palm Beach Symphony. Signature cocktails, dinner by-the-bite, a DJ spin-ning tunes and creative black tie. Pro-ceeds support the symphony’s music education outreach programs. Tickets: $175. 655-2657; www.palmbeachsympho-ny.org.

TUESDAY2/21Music for the Mind Concert — 7 p.m. Feb. 21, Harriet Himmel Theater at CityPlace, 700 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach. Features a performance by the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Youth Tour-ing Company, 30 students in grades 4-12 who will perform a lively program of music from Broadway to Motown. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 students, at the door. Proceeds benefit the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Goldner Conservatory of Per-forming Arts. 748-0036.

The Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians & Jews Annual Din-ner — Feb. 21 at The Breakers, 1 S. County Road, Palm Beach. Philanthro-pist and Palm Beach resident Frances Fisher will be presented with the pres-tigious 2017 John C. Randolph Award. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bret Stephens, editorial page deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal, will be the guest speaker. The cocktail reception begins at 5:30 p.m. and the dinner at 6:30 p.m. For tickets, call 833-6150.

WEDNESDAY2/22How to Start a Successful Busi-ness — 10 a.m.-noon Feb. 22, West Palm Beach TED Center, 723 39th St., West Palm Beach. Sponsored by the Florida Women’s Business Center. Free, but advance registration is required at www.FLWBC.org or call 265-3790.

LOOKING AHEADClematis By Night — 6-9 p.m. Thurs-days at the West Palm Beach Water-front, 101 N. Flagler Drive at Clematis Street, West Palm Beach. www.clematis-bynight.net.

■ The Flyers — Feb. 23. This ver-satile trio can play it all, from blues to rock.

■ Impulse — March 2.

■ Andrew Morris — March 9.

Women of Distinction Luncheon — 11:15 a.m. Feb. 23 at The Breakers, Palm Beach. Palm Beach Atlantic Uni-versity will honor Palm Beach residents Emilia May Fanjul and Darlene Luccio Jordan as Women of Distinction 2017. Tickets, $200 each or tables of 10 for $2,000, are available at 803-2971. Pro-ceeds benefit a PBAU scholarship fund. www.pba.edu/wod-honors-2017.

Northwood Village Art Night Out — 6-9 p.m. Feb. 24, Northwood Road, West Palm Beach. Local arts and crafts vendors from all over South Florida, plus shopping at the unique boutiques and galleries open late, and live street-side artists and musicians. www.north-woodvillage.com.

AT DRAMAWORKSPalm Beach Dramaworks at The Don & Ann Brown Theatre, 201 N. Clematis St., downtown West Palm Beach. Call 514-4042, Ext. 2; www.palmbeachdra-maworks.org.

“Collected Stories” — Through March 5.

“Arcadia” — March 31-April 30.

“The Cripple of Inishmaan” — May 19-June 4.

AT THE DUNCAN Duncan Theatre, Palm Beach State Col-lege, 4200 Congress Ave., Lake Worth.

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868-3309; www.duncantheatre.org.

BODYTRAFFIC — 8 p.m. Feb. 17-18. Tickets $45. Series tickets $135 and $145. 868-3309; www.duncantheatre.org.

AT THE EISSEYEissey Campus Theatre, Palm Beach State College, 11051 Campus Drive off PGA Blvd, Palm Beach Gardens. Tick-ets: 207-5900; www.eisseycampusthe-atre.org.

Ballet Palm Beach presents “Romeo and Juliet” — 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18, 4 p.m. Feb. 19. Tickets: $19-$45 at 814-5598 or www.BalletPalm-Beach.org.

Linda Eder — 8 p.m. Feb. 24. Part of the 2017 Arts in the Gardens series. Single tickets: $18. Subscriptions for the series are $135 and $180.

Eissey Campus Art Gallery — BB Building. “10” — An Exhibition Organized By Karla Walter and Jacques de Beaufort. A variety of media, methods, and visu-al approaches. Artists include Rolando Chang Barrero, Amber Dawn Tutwiler, Sarah Knouse, Yury Darashkevich, and TD Gillispie. Through March 17.

AT THE GARDENS MALLThe Gardens Mall, 3101 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens. 775-7750.

A Beautiful Life: Walk and A Doc — 9 a.m. Feb. 21. Dr. Raiza Lopez, a board-certified internal medicine specialist with Jupiter Medical Specialists, will discuss heart health, including risk factors, man-aging stress, and making positive lifestyle changes like joining a walking club. www.thegardensmall.com or 622-2115.

AT THE KELSEY The Kelsey Theater, 700 Park Ave., Lake Park. 328-7481; www.thekelseytheater.com.

Full Throttle Wrestling Pres-ents Fight Club Round 3 — 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18. FTPW Champion Shannon Moore defends his title against Golden Challenge Champion Vandal Ortagun.

AT THE KRAVIS Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. 832-7469; www.kravis.org.

“Pippin” — 8 p.m. Feb. 16. $30 and up.

Twyla Tharp: 50th Anniversary Tour — 8 p.m. Feb. 17. $20 and up. Arrive by 6:45 p.m. for Beyond the Stage, a free pre-performance discus-sion by Steven Caras.

Chaka Khan — 8 p.m. Feb. 18. $25 and up.

Big Band Swing — 8 p.m. Feb. 19. Michael Feinstein conducts The Kra-vis Center Pops Orchestra. $78 for the 3-concert series.

AT THE LIGHTHOUSEJupiter Lighthouse and Museum, Light-house Park, 500 Captain Armour’s Way, Jupiter. Admission: $10 adults, $5 chil-dren ages 6-18; free for younger than 6. Jupiter Lighthouse participates in the Blue Star Museums program. Children must be at least 4 feet tall to climb. Tours are weather permitting; call for

tour times. RSVP required for most events at 747-8380, Ext. 101; www.jupi-terlighthouse.org.

Lighthouse Sunset Tour — Feb. 22 and March 1, 8, 22, and 29. Time var-ies. Climb to the top. Reservations are required.

Lighthouse Story Time & Crafts for Kids — 10:30 a.m. March 7. Story time and a craft for ages 8 and younger. Bring a mat to sit on. Free, but reserva-tions are required.

Twilight Yoga at the Light — 6-7 p.m. Feb. 20, 27. Mary Veal, Kula Yoga Shala, leads. Donation. Bring a mat and a flashlight.

Lighthouse Book Club — 6-7 p.m. March 1. Join the museum staff in a book discussions on all things Florida. Book for March: “Killing Mister Watson,” by Peter Matthiessen. By donation. Reser-vations: 747-8380, Ext. 101. www.jupiter-lighthouse.org.

AT THE MALTZ Maltz Jupiter Theatre, 1001 E. Indian-town Road, Jupiter. Tickets: $56 single tickets. Ask about the four-play and the five-play package. Season tickets are $202. www.jupitertheatre.org; 575-2223.

“Disgraced” — Through Feb. 26.

“Gypsy” — March 21-April 9.

AT THE JCCThe Mandel JCC, 5221 Hood Road, Palm Beach Gardens. 689-7700; www.jccon-line.com/pbg.

Feb. 16: Duplicate bridge; The Leb-ensohl Convention: Everything You Need to Know; Spend the Day at the J with Joan Lipton; Dr. Joan’s Winter 2017 Art History Lecture Series; bereave-ment support group

Feb. 17: Beginner’s bridge supervised play; duplicate bridge

Feb. 20: Timely Topics Discussion Group; mah jongg and canasta play ses-sions; duplicate bridge

Feb. 21: Duplicate bridge; Learn How to Properly Fill Out A Convention Card; beginner’s duplicate bridge; mah jongg 101; ACE Presents: FDR & The Jews: A New Perspective

Feb. 22: Mah jongg and canasta play sessions; duplicate bridge; Men Let’s Talk

Feb. 23: Duplicate bridge; The Leb-ensohl Convention: Everything You Need to Know; Spend the Day at the J with Joan Lipton; Dr. Joan’s Winter 2017 Art History Lecture Series; Let’s Make Up: A One Act Presentation

Feb. 24: Beginner’s bridge supervised play; duplicate bridge

AT THE PLAYHOUSEThe Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. 586-6410; www.lake-worthplayhouse.org.

Date Night featuring Mary Grace and Michael Cartwright — Feb. 17-18. Stonzek. $20.

Movies in the Stonzek Theatre:

Oscar Nominated Short Films: Through Feb. 23.

AT THE IMPROV

Palm Beach Improv at CityPlace, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., Suite 250, West Palm Beach. 833-1812; www.palmbeachimprov.com.

Colin Kane — Feb. 17-18.

Jeff Ross — Feb. 19.

Kountry Wayne — Feb. 22.

Sinbad — Feb. 24-26.

AT THE SCIENCE CENTERThe South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, 4801 Dreher Park Road, West Palm Beach. Admission is $16.95 for adults, $12.95 for children ages 3 to 12 and $14.95 for seniors aged 60 and older. Admission is free for kids younger than age 3 and museum members. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-

6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 832-1988; www.sfsciencecenter.org.

Our Body: The Universe Within — Through April 23.

AT FOUR ARTSThe Society of the Four Arts, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach. Call 655-7227; www.fourarts.org.

The Met Opera: Live in HD: Dvo ák’s “Rusalka” — Feb. 25.

The National Theatre: Live in HD: McDonagh’s “Hangmen” — Feb. 18. $25 each or $15 for students. (Student tickets must be purchased in person)

Concerts:

■ Trio Solisti — Feb. 19.

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#SFL■ “WaistWatchers The Musical!” — Through March 26, PGA Center for the Arts, 4076 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens. www.waistwatchersthemusical.com; (855) 448-7469.

■ BODYTRAFFIC —

8 p.m. Feb. 17-18, Duncan Theatre. 868-3309; www.duncantheatre.org.

■ Ballet Palm Beach presents “Romeo and Juliet” — 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18, 4 p.m. Feb. 19, Eissey Campus Theatre. 814-5598; www.BalletPalmBeach.org.

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■ Walnut Street Theatre, “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” — Feb. 22.

■ Pianist Charlie Albright — Feb. 26.

Exhibits: “Illustrating Words: The Wondrous Fantasy World of Robert L. Forbes and Ronald Searle” — In the Mary Alice Fortin Children’s Art Gallery.

LIVE MUSICBB&T Center — 1 Panther Parkway, Sunrise. Tickets available through Tick-etmaster. 800-745-3000; www.thebbt-center.com.

■ TobyMac Hits Deep Tour — Feb. 18.

Camelot Yacht Club — Jazz ses-sions start at 8 p.m. Tuesdays at Camelot Yacht Club, 114 S. Narcissus Ave., West Palm Beach. TCHAA! Band performs. 318-7675.

The Colony Hotel — 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach. 659-8100 or 655-5430; www.thecolonypalmbeach.com.

■ Motown Fridays with Memory Lane — 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

■ Saturday Late Night with the Dawn Marie Duo — 9:30 a.m.-mid-night, music and dancing.

Royal Room Cabaret: The doors open at 6:30 for dinner and the show starts at 8:30 p.m.

■ John Pizzarelli — Feb. 16-18 and 21-25.

■ Christine Andreas — Feb. 28-March 4.

ONGOING The Ann Norton Sculpture Gar-dens — 2051 S. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 seniors 65+, $7 for students, free for members and younger than age 5. 832-5328; www.ansg.org.

■ Todd McGrain’s The Lost Bird Project — On display through June 28.

■ RISING: The Mystical World of Sophie Ryder — On display through April 30.

Artisans On the Ave. — 630 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. 582-3300; www.arti-sansontheave.com.

■ “Mad Pie Girl” Cynthia Zmetro-nak — Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Feb. 17. Free. Refreshments.

APBC Art on Park Gallery — 800 Park Ave., Lake Park. 345-2842; artistsof-palmbeachcounty.com.

■ SCAPES 2017 Exhibit — Feb. 20-March 25. Original landscapes, sea-scapes, cityscapes, skyscapes. Opening reception: Feb. 24. Judge: Raymond P. Neubert. 345-2842. Get the submission form at www.artistsofpalmbeachcoun-ty.org/eventdetail.php?281

The Armory Art Center — 1700 Parker Ave., West Palm Beach. 832-1776; armoryart.org.

■ “New & Now: Work by New Faculty Fall 2016” — On display in the East and Greenfield Galleries.

Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts — 1105 Second Ave. S., in an his-toric FEC train depot building, Lake Worth. 310-9371 or 508-7315. www.ben-zaitencenter.org.

■ Glasstronomique — March 11. The

center’s casual gala is its main fundraiser of the year. Live art demonstrations.

The Box Gallery — 811 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach. 786-521-1199; www.TheBoxGallery.Info.

■ High Gloss WPB: The Art of Fash-ion — Through March 30.

The Center for Creative Educa-tion — 425 24th St., West Palm Beach. 805-9927, Ext. 160; www.cceflorida.org.

■ “Three Amigos” — Featuring new paintings by Jill Krutick, Florida Artist Hall of Fame Inductee Bruce Helander, Miles Slater and J. Steven Manolis.

The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County — 601 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. 471-2901; www.palmbeachcul-ture.com.

■ “X x X” (10 X 10) Juried Exhi-bition — Through March 18.

The Flagler Museum — One Whitehall Way, Palm Beach. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: free for members; $18 adults, $10 youth (13-17) with adult; $3 child (6-12) with adult; younger than 6 free. 655-2833; www.flaglermuseum.us.

■ The Religion of Biologic Liv-ing: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg — Feb. 19. Brian C. Wilson speaks.

■ The First World’s Parliament of Religions at Chicago’s 1893 Columbian Exposition — Feb. 26. Eric Ziolkowski speaks. Part of the 2017 Whitehall Lecture Series.

Trio Céleste — Feb. 21. Part of the 2017 Music Series.

The Florida Trail Association Loxahatchee Chapter — Leads nature walks. New adventurers are wel-comed. Get info and register at www.loxfltrail.org.

■ The annual Ocean to Lake Hiking Trail Backpacking Event — Feb. 18-23. A six-day, 62-mile strenu-ous hike. Call Fred at 585-6386 or email [email protected].

■ Okeeheelee Park Walk — 7:30 a.m. Feb. 18, 7715 Forest Hill Blvd, West Palm Beach. Margaret Brabham leads a walk in this expansive park. Meet at Okeeheelee Park South in the hiking/biking trails parking lot. 324-3543.

■ Bird Walk at Wakodahatchee — 7 a.m. Feb. 19, 13026 Jog Road, Delray Beac. Meet in the parking lot. Call Paul at 963-9906.

Habatat Galleries — 513 Clematis St, West Palm Beach. 469-8587; www.habatat.com

Feb. 17 — Tomas Hlavicka

March 17 — William LeQuier & Jack Schmidt

Harbourside Place — 200 U.S. 1, Jupiter. 935-9533; www.harbourside-place.com.

■ Live Music on the Waterfront — 6-10 p.m. in the amphitheater.

■ Live Music Sunday on the Waterfront — Noon-4 p.m. Sundays in the amphitheater.

■ Tai Chi Class — 9 a.m. Saturdays. Cost: $10.

■ AMPed Yoga — 10 a.m. Sundays. An all-levels vinyasa yoga class. $10. Kids’ yoga class for $5.

■ Jupiter Green & Artisan Mar-

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Friday, February 17 at 8 pm

Dreyfoos Hall Tickets start at $20

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Beyond the Stage: Join us for a pre-performance talk by Steven Caras in the Cohen Pavilion at 6:45 pm.

CHAKA KHANSaturday, February 18 at 8 pm


From I’m Every Woman to I Feel for You,

10-time Grammy winner has sizzled

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MICHAEL FEINSTEIN CONDUCTS THE KRAVIS CENTER POPS ORCHESTRA:BIG BAND SWINGAssociate Conductor, Larry Blank

Guest Artists: Jarrod Spector and Marilyn Maye

Sunday, February 19 at 8 pm


Robust rhythms from Duke Ellington,

Benny Goodman and other big band greats.

Sponsored by Ari Rifkin Adele Siegel

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Joyous pop, jazz journey –

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Regional Arts Concert Series

NEW WORLD SYMPHONYAlasdair Neale, Conductor

Monday, February 20 at 2 pm


Concerto competition program.

Series sponsored by Leonard and Sophie Davis

Beyond the Stage: Join us for a free pre-performance talk by Sharon McDaniel in the Cohen Pavilion at 12:45 pm.

Photo credit Eisaku Tokuyama

CALENDAR

ket — 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays, year-round.

The Historical Society of Palm Beach County — Johnson History Museum, 300 N. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach. Free admission. 832-4164; www.historicalsocietypbc.org.

■ “For the Love of the Game: Baseball in the Palm Beaches” — Archival photographs and historical artifacts tell the story.

■ “The Bill of Rights and You” — Through Feb. 28.

“Returning to Cuba” — Through April 1.

The Lighthouse ArtCenter — Gal-lery Square North, 373 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta. Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon-day-Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $5 Monday-Friday, free on Saturday and for members and exhibit-ing artists. 746-3101; www.Lighthouse-Arts.org.

■ “Illuminating the Deep” — Through March 4.

■ The Fine Art of Exploration — Features the art of Else Bostleman.

■ Third Thursday — 5:30-7:30 p.m. the third Thursday of the month. Wine and passed hors d’oeuvres reception and exhibits, concerts, lectures, art demonstrations, live performances and gallery talks.

The Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach — 411 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. 868-7701; www.wpbcitylibrary.org.

■ Pilates — 10:30-11:30 a.m. Thurs-days. Bring your own mat. By donation.

■ Crocheting for Fun — 2-4 p.m. Wednesdays through Feb. 22. Join craft-er Peggie Miller to try out a variety of techniques for crocheting projects. For adults. Materials are provided. Free. In the Hibiscus Room.

■ Martin Luther King Jr. & the Creation of a Civil Rights Lega-cy (Civil Rights 1954 to 1968) — 2-4 p.m. Feb. 19. Professor Terriel Byrd. In the Clematis Room.

The Multilingual Language & Cultural Society, 210 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. www.multilingualso-ciety.org or call 228-1688.

■ German Conversation Group — 11 a.m. Feb. 18, March 18, and April 15, C Street Cafe, 319 Clematis St, West Palm Beach.

■ Italian Movie Club — 4-7 p.m. Feb. 18. Film: “Benvenuti al Sud,” Italian,

English subtitles. $15 general admission. RSVP to [email protected]

■ Make Your Own Pizza — 3-5 p.m. Feb. 19. Cooking and conversation in Italian. Call for details.

■ Italian Dinner: Lazio — 6 p.m. Feb. 21, Pizzeria That’s Amore, 8918 Lantana Road, Suite D, Lake Worth. Res-ervations are required. RSVP to [email protected]

The Norton Museum of Art — 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. Free admission. 832-5196; www.norton.org.

■ Art After Dark — 5-9 p.m. Thurs-days.

■ Spotlight — Recent Acquisitions: In conjunction with Black History Month featuring work by Njideka Akunyili Cros-by, Mickalene Thomas, and Willie Cole.

■ The sixth annual RAW exhi-bition — The Recognition of Art by Women exhibition features Austrian artist Svenja Deininger.

Palm Beach Gardens City Hall Lobby Gallery — 10500 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Info: 630-1116 or [email protected].

■ “Stimulation Granted” — Through March 2. Mixed-media paint-ings by artist Carol Staub.

The Palm Beach Photographic Centre — 415 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. 253-2600; www.workshop.org.

■ “Albert Watson” — Through March 11.

The Palm Beach Zoo & Conser-vation Society — 1301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets: $18.95 adults; $16.95 seniors, $12.95 age 3-12, free for younger than 3. 533-0887; palmbeachzoo.org.

The River Center — 805 N. U.S. 1, Jupiter. Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. The Loxahatchee River Dis-trict was created more than 30 years ago to monitor and protect the river. Call 743-7123; www.loxahatcheeriver.org.

■ Public Tour and Fish Feeding — 2-3 p.m. Saturdays. A staff member leads a tour of the facility, including a touch tank presentation and feeding. ■

The West Palm Beach Fishing Club 2017 Speakers Series — 7 p.m. Wednesdays, Jan. 25-Oct. 15, at the West Palm Beach Fishing Club, 201 Fifth St., West Palm Beach. 832-6780; www.westpalmbeachfishingclub.org.

■ Feb. 22: Nick Smith, Fly fishing for billfish ■

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AREA MARKETS

Riviera Beach Marina Village Green & Artisan Market — 5-9 p.m. Wednesdays, 200 E. 13th St. at Broadway, Riviera Beach. Also has a flea market and antiques. Info: 623-5600 or www.harrysmarkets.com.

Lake Worth High School Flea Mar-ket — 5 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays and Sun-days, under the Interstate 95 overpass on Lake Worth Road. Info: 439-1539.

West Palm Beach Antique & Flea Market — 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Satur-days through May on Narcissus Avenue north of Banyan Boulevard. Free. Info: www.wpbantiqueandfleamarket.com.

The West Palm Beach Greenmar-ket — 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays along the West Palm Beach Waterfront, 100 N. Fla-gler Drive, West Palm Beach. Parking is free in the Banyan and Evernia garages during market hours. Info: www.wpb.org/greenmarket.

The Green Market at Wellington — 9 a.m. Saturdays through April 29 at 12100 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington, next to the amphitheater. Pet friendly. Info: www.greenmarketatwellington.com.

Lake Worth Farmers’ Market — 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, through April 29, Old Bridge Park, 1 S. Ocean Blvd., Lake Worth. Info: 283-5856; www.lakeworth-farmersmarket.com.

Delray Beach’s Winter GreenMar-ket — 9 a.m.-noon every Saturday at Old School Square Park, 96 NE Second Ave., Delray Beach. Info: 276-7511; www.delraycra.org/greenmarket.

The Gardens GreenMarket — 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays, City Hall Municipal Complex, 10500 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens. Live entertainment from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. No pets. Through May 7. 630-1100; www.pbgfl.com.

Jupiter Farmers Market at El Sol — 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays through April 30, 106 Military Trail, Jupiter. Info: 283-5856; www.Jupiterfarmersmarket.com.

Royal Palm Beach Green Market & Bazaar Veterans Park — 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays, Veterans Park, 1036 Royal Palm Beach Blvd. Royal Palm Beach. Through April 30. Closed Easter weekend. Pet friendly. www.rpbgreenmarket.com.

Jupiter Green & Artisan Market at Harbourside Place — 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Sundays year-round, 200 N. U.S. 1, along the Intracoastal Waterway in Harbourside Place. Pet friendly. New vendors should call 623-5600 or visit www.harrysmarket.com.

The Green Market at Palm Beach Outlets — 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays, 1751 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., West Palm Beach. Info: 515-4400; www.palm-beachoutlets.com. ■


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A panoramic novel about how America began its global ascent to power

■ “An Honorable War,” by Rob-ert N. Macomber. Pineapple Press. 392 pages. Hardcover, $26.95; trade paperback, $16.95.

How does Robert Macomber keep doing this? The 13th installment of his splendid Honor Series once again transforms a pile of historical fact into a work of colorful, well imagined and highly suspenseful entertainment.

Captain Peter Wake, assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence, is no desk jockey, but a man of action — in this case, leading the action plan that he designed to satisfy the ambitious and often outlandish Theodore Roos-evelt, assistant secretary of the Navy. The author’s subtitle sets the historical scene: “The Spanish-American War Begins.”

This episode, cast as another segment of the memoirs of Capt. Wake, launches a three-part trilogy within the burgeoning series.

It is immensely impressive, though it sometimes walks on the edge of too much detail and too many voices. As is so often the case in historical fiction, we

must accept the awkward convention of a narrator remembering conversations verbatim. It’s a small price to pay for the explosive results.

Roosevelt is a warrior wannabe who has just enough clout and cunning to engage his country in the destiny of Cuba.

The story Mr. Macomber tells so engagingly begins with the explosion of the USS Maine, one of the first U.S. battleships, in Havana Harbor. It was a deadly catastrophe that killed hundreds and helped fire anti-Spanish sentiment and rally U.S. support for an independent Cuba. Indeed, the ship had been sent to protect American interests following Spain’s cruel suppression of the Cuban revolution.

Wake finds himself charged with two missions. The first is to gather informa-tion about Spanish intentions and mili-tary capacities as well as the situation of Cuban rebels. He and Rork, his longtime friend and associate, barely escape this clandestine operation with their lives.

The second mission, based on the information gathered in the first, involves maneuvers against Spanish forces con-ducted from the port of Isabela. Wake puts together a fleet of converted yachts whose agility makes them unusually effective against the larger Spanish ships. He also masterminds all kinds of tactical tricks that surprise the enemy sailors and throw them off guard.

These actions scenes are superb, and for many readers the heart of the novel.

For this reader, the heart of the novel is in the complex relationship between Rork and his beautiful wife, a woman from a powerful Spanish family who

followed her heart instead of her head in marrying this strong-minded, duti-ful patriot. Indeed, she seems to have betrayed her heritage and she has sac-rificed her relationships with her adult sons at great emotional cost.

Wake loves her dearly, but she knows that he must follow the call of duty above all else. They are both hoping for a quiet togetherness in their older years, which are soon approaching.

As he has done regularly, Mr. Macomb-er sets his main characters and plot lines in the context of how politics governs decision-making. His portrayal of the ins and outs of political jostling adds a dimension of interest that will seem

oddly familiar to the news addicts of today.

An author who is committed to authen-ticity, Mr. Macomber excels at presenting the material, especially the technological culture at the 19th century’s conclusion. The conversations about armaments have an unexpected allure, so important are such details to the characters involved.

This panoramic novel has several major settings, a large cast of well-defined char-acters and a generous supply of insights about how the United States began to transform itself into a global power.

About the authorRobert N. Macomber is an award-win-

ning author, internationally acclaimed lecturer, former defense consultant and an accomplished seaman. His novels are the product of his intense research, both academic and at the locales in which they are set.

When not on research treks, lecture tours or book-signing journeys, Mr. Macomber lives on Pine Island, along the same coast of Southwest Florida where he grew up. For relaxation, he enjoys sailing his small sloop among the nearby mangrove islands and loves cooking the exotic cuisines from his many novels. Learn more at www.RobertMacomber.com or find him on Facebook. ■

— Phil Jason, Ph.D., United States Naval Academy professor emeritus of English, is a poet, critic and freelance writer with 20 books to his credit, including several studies of war litera-ture and a creative writing text.

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LATEST FILMS

‘The LEGO Batman Movie’

★★★ Is it worth $10? Yes

“The LEGO Batman Movie” is a delightful satire of Batman as a pop cul-ture icon, and it’s a pretty decent Bat-man movie at the same time. The DC Comics Extended Universe, the Dark Knight trilogy, the first four “Batman” movies and even the old “Batman” TV show are referenced with a sly wink and smile. But that’s not all: Voldemort, King Kong and Sauron also appear. The only things all these properties have in common is that Warner Bros. owns them, and they’re part of what makes this movie so amusing.

This spinoff of the 2014 animated hit “The LEGO Movie” finds Batman (Will Arnett) more alone and stubborn than ever. He likes it this way, he says. He even, after saving Gotham City for the umpteenth time in a rousing opening sequence, tells The Joker (Zach Gali-fianakis) that he’s not Batman’s arch nemesis, and in fact he means nothing to Batman. The Joker is just another bad guy.

Crushed, The Joker convinces all of Gotham’s villains to surrender them-selves during new Commissioner Bar-bara Gordon’s (Rosario Dawson) swear-ing-in ceremony. Suddenly, Batman has

no one to fight and nothing to do. Worse, while enamored with Ms. Gor-don he unwittingly agrees to become orphan Dick Grayson’s (Michael Cera) guardian, so now he has a kid to worry about, too. Determined to have some-thing to do, Batman allows Grayson to become sidekick Robin and sets out to send The Joker to the Phantom Zone (where Superman sent Zod).

The action scenes are exciting and visually impressive, the zany gags are funny and plentiful, and the movie is chock full of more characters than it rightly needs. Ordinarily this would be a bad thing, but the story is contained well enough that the cameos are part of the fun and not a distraction.

What’s interesting and surprising about director Chris McKay’s film is the amount of time spent on Batman’s emotions.

Batman only cares about Batman, ostensibly, until we find him alone in the vast Bat Cave staring at a picture of his slain parents while Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) cleans bathroom floors. It seems the tough billionaire alpha who has spent his life fighting crime (and not doing that great a job, considering he also ensures there’s crime to fight) is covering up an empty hole where his heart used to be. Given that it’s played for laughs and offers a welcome change from the “Wham!” “Bang!” of the rest of the movie, this actually works quite well.

Everything was awesome for Warner Bros. when “The LEGO Movie” built its way to a $258 million domestic gross, and for viewers watching “THE LEGO

Batman Movie,” the awesomeness con-tinues. The two movies are kind of like creating different toys with the same box of LEGOs: The similarities are there, but the differences allow each to feel new. To do this with a movie full of characters we’ve seen before is a rare and creative accomplishment. ■

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>> Another spinoff, “The LEGO Ninjago Movie,” is scheduled to open Sept. 22 this year. “The LEGO Movie Sequel” is currently fi lming and targeted for release Feb. 8, 2019.

FILM CAPSULES

20th Century Women ★★★ ½(Annette Bening, Lucas Jade Zumann,

Elle Fanning) In 1979, a singer mother (Ms. Bening) asks two female friends (Ms. Fanning and Greta Gerwig) to help her 15- year-old son (Mr. Zumann) become a man. Ms. Bening leads the stellar ensemble in this wonderful com-ing of age story that sublimely captures the travails of adolescence and the spirit of the ’70s. Don’t miss it! Rated R.

Silence ★★(Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam

Neeson) Director Martin Scorsese’s lat-est follows two priests (Mr. Garfield and Mr. Driver) as they travel to Japan to find their mentor (Mr. Neeson). It notably lacks Mr. Scorsese’s dynamic style, and as a result is a dull bore of 161 minutes. Rated R.

Hidden Figures ★★★(Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Hen-

son, Janelle Monae) African-American women and brilliant mathematicians Katherine (Ms. Henson), Dorothy (Ms. Spencer) and Mary (Ms. Monae) play integral roles in launching astronaut John Glenn into outer space in the early ’60s. It hits the racial plights you expect and have seen before, but the perfor-mances are solid and it tells a great (true) story about three tremendous women. Rated PG. ■


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★★★Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way

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HOROSCOPESAQUARIUS (January 20 to Feb-

ruary 18) This is a good time for the usually “serious-minded” Aquarian to let loose and enjoy some fun times. Expect to get good news about a workplace issue.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Changed plans might upset some people, but your needs should be respected. Offer explanations when necessary. But don’t let yourself be talked into changing your decisions.

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The adventurous Aries won’t be disap-pointed with taking on a new chal-lenge, despite some initial misgivings. Look for this move to open other opportunities down the line.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Let that beautiful Bovine smile not only put you at ease, but also show that you’re ready, willing and more than able to confound the naysay-ers around you. A new admirer has important news.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Be

careful how you handle a relation-ship that you’re hoping to save. You already have the facts on your side. Avoid weakening your position by embellishing it with unnecessary dra-matics.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Tak-ing definitive stands isn’t easy for the often-wavering Moon Child. But you not only need to stay with your deci-sion, but also reassure others it was the right thing to do.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) As a proud Lion, you’re right to be upset about those who might be lying about you to others. But the best revenge is proving them wrong by succeeding at what you set out to do.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Caution is still advised before making a financial commitment to a “promising” project. Look for the facts behind the fluff. Devote the weekend to loved ones.

LIBRA (September 23 to Octo-ber 22) A Taurus offers comfort and

advice as you deal with an upsetting event. Use this as a learning experi-ence that will help you avoid similar problems in the future.

SCORPIO (October 23 to Novem-ber 21) A romantic situation creates some chaos for single Scorpions. But it’s well worth the effort to work things out. A trusted friend can offer some helpful advice.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Expect to make new friends as your social circle expands. Also, remember to tell that family member how proud you are of his or her achievements.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) New ventures continue to be favored. And with your self-confidence rising all the time, you’ll want to see how well you can do with a new challenge. So, go to it.

BORN THIS WEEK: You have a gift for bringing people together. You would make a fine judge or coun-selor. ■

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Center for Creative Education fundraiser at Jet Aviation, West Palm Beach

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Lynora’s continues expansion with market on Dixie

CUISINE

The family behind the newly opened Lynora’s North in Tequesta continues to add to their portfolio.

Toward the end of March, watch for Lynora’s Market and Deli to open in a 1950s gas station on Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach.

“In Italy, there are a lot of little neigh-borhood markets with fresh foods, and prepared foods. My mom has always wanted to do one here,” said Angelo Abbenante.

After finding the little space that was in an active neighborhood and a grow-ing culinary corridor, he jumped on it, and is making her dream come true.

Angelo is the son of Lynora’s found-ers Maria and Raffaele Abbenante, who put their stamp on the county with Lynora’s in west Lake Worth in 1976. The popular, casual pizzeria and pasta restaurant named for Maria’s grand-mother served the community for 27 years, until the couple retired.

They came back to work to help open a new Lynora’s in downtown West Palm Beach in 2013, and most recently, the restaurant in Tequesta.

The marketplace that will double as a commissary for all the restaurants, including one planned for western Del-ray Beach, is next, he said.

Its focus will be grab-and-go prepared dinners and pizzas, as well as imported ingredients to make a meal yourself.

“With all the busy lives out there, it’s nice to go in and pick up a fresh mani-

cotti or lasagne and some meatballs, and just heat it up in your oven.”

Also on site is the wood-burning pizza oven from Naples. Angelo will be in charge of making the Napoletana-style pizzas; he is a VPN pizza maker. VPN is a certification from the Asso-ciazione Verace Pizza Napoletana — an Italian group that takes Napoli-style pizzas seriously, guarding the use of the name. Angelo is only one of two VPN pizzamakers in Florida.

“We just got the oven in; it took six months to build,” he said. “It can cook a pizza in 60 seconds.”

It’s white tiles with red, matching the wall tiles that give the small space a retro feel. Only a couple of seats for sandwich-eaters at lunch will be avail-able inside; the prepared food cases will

take up the rest of the space not used by the kitchen.

“We’ll have pizza delivery, but really, it’s meant for grab-and-go customers,” Mr. Abbenante said.

Along with imported Italian specialty foods such as cheeses, canned tomatoes, olives, and oils, there will be fresh pasta made on site, and fresh Italian bread, baked by Raffaele.

“Our longtime customers will recog-nize it from the old restaurant. It’s the old recipe from 1976,” Angelo said.

Tiramisu, Italian pastries, cookies, and cakes also will be available, and eventually, imported Italian wines.

The market will be at 3301 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach. Hours, ten-tatively scheduled, are 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

In briefSeems to be the year for hot dogs.

Chicago Hot Dog is opening in the Home Depot plaza on Northlake within the next week. Alan Goldberg, who grew up in Chicago, will bring to the area Chicago Vienna all-beef dogs and the expected condiments, along with hand-cut Idaho potato fries and Chi-cago “supreme” tamales. Watch here for more details when it opens. … Leila, a downtown West Palm Beach Mediter-ranean, has launched a midday mezze to the restaurant. Diners can choose their own sampler platter that includes hummus, falafels, and baba ghanoush. A special prix fixe menu, $20, is a full meal of appetizer, entrée, and dessert. The signature dish is Shish Tawook, a mari-nated chicken breast with lemon. ■

VINO

Natural wines: The next big thing

There’s a reason why so-called “natural” wines are making such a big impression these days. Mostly, it’s an indication of the overall trend for foods and lifestyles that are closer to the earth, non-GMO products, all-natural ingredients, yoga and the like.

One Southwest Floridian is betting the farm (so to speak) on the quality and appeal of natural wines. He’s Peter Rizzo, and his new store, Natural Wines Naples, is educat-ing both seasoned wine lovers and newbies to the flavors and appeal of natural wines. First, let’s figure out what natural wines really are.

Basically, natural wines are made in the purest, simplest way possible. The vine-yards are organic or even biodynamic. The winemakers use only naturally occurring yeasts to induce fermentation; there’s no addition of other yeast strains. And the winemaking is what’s known as “noninter-ventionist,” which means no filtering, no additives, no manipulation.

Just grow the grapes, crush them and let nature take its course.

“These wines have a place on every wine lover’s shelf,” Mr. Rizzo says. “They’re very expressive, and a lot more interesting than wines made in a more commercial manner. I really believe in this.”

And so do I, after the tasting session we shared.

Even though natural wines are some-thing of uncharted territory for most of us, there are plenty of reasons to get to know them.

These winemakers believe that great wine is made in the vineyard. The grow-ing areas are free from any insecticides, pesticides, herbicides or other chemicals. The wines are made without any additives — no extra acid or flavoring compounds, no industrial yeasts or enzymes. And they have extremely minimal sulfur content. There’s no weird manipulation, like micro-oxygenation, reverse osmosis or concentra-tors.

The result: wines that are alive, that express a sense of place and that improve — quickly — with time.

As you might expect, vineyard yields are low, so quantities are not very high.

Mr. Rizzo, who spent most of his career in advertising, relocated with his family to Naples in 2002 and opened Natural Wines Naples just a few months ago. Since then, he’s seen a steady increase in interest and in store traffic.

While some natural wines are made from fairly exotic out-of-the-way varietals (I saw a bottle of Romortin and Orbois blend), you’d recognize the vast majority of wines in Mr. Rizzo’s extensive selection.

“I need to show people classic represen-tations,” he believes. “Even though many makers of natural wines push the envelope with nontraditional varietals, we have all the classic wines, and all the classic flavors.

“Just because a wine is natural, it doesn’t sacrifice the familiar taste profiles we all enjoy.”

He makes sure of that, with extensive descriptions of each wine’s flavor and aroma profiles on bottle tags that he hand-writes. And he’s especially proud of the fact that he offers interesting choices in all price ranges.

“There’s nothing rare or exotic about natural wines,” he says. “You might be surprised to see some bottles with crown caps on them instead of corks, and we do have some wines made from grapes you might not be familiar with, but you’ll find all your favorites here, with many priced under $20.”

He was kind enough to offer me samples in several price ranges, and the quality was striking. Here are some we especially enjoyed:

■ Les Quarterons Sancerre 2013 ($30) – A sweet floral nose, completely unlike tra-ditional Sauvignon Blanc from this region of New Zealand, with flavors of apple, peach and quince. WW 90.

■ Skeveldra Sancerre 2012 ($42) – Absolutely zero sulfites in this zippy, fra-grant version with exotic floral, lemon, apricot and vanilla aromas and flavors. I’ve never decanted a white wine, but I’d give this one an hour or two in the glass before sipping. WW 91.

■ Donkey & Goat White Blend Cali-fornia 2014 ($35) – As mentioned above, some makers of natural wines stray a bit off the reservation. This boldly structured white is a blend of Vermentino, Grenache Blanc, Picpoul and a few other northern Rhone varietals with interesting flavors of red apple peel, yellow peach and canta-loupe. WW 92.

Ask the Wine WhispererQ: How is natural wine different from

organic wine? — Scott F., Naples

A: Organic wines, while made from organically grown grapes, can still be manipulated technologically or chemically during the winemaking process. In a way, all wine is organic, but not all organic wine is natural. ■

— Jerry Greenfield is the Wine Whis-perer. He is also the creative director of Greenfield Advertising Group. Find his book, “Secrets of the Wine Whisperer,” on Amazon or at www.winewhisperer.com, where his other writings are also available.

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Peter Rizzo opened Natural Wines Naples a few months ago, with the intent of educating both seasoned wine lovers and newbies to the flavors and appeal of natural wines.

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ABOVE: The pizza oven at Lynora’s Market and Deli, which will open in March on Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach.LEFT: The interior of the space, in a former gas station.


The Dish: Loaded Mill Grits with BBQ Shrimp

The Place: The Regional Kitchen & Public House, CityPlace, 651 Okeechobee Road, West Palm Beach; 557-6460 or www.eatregional.com.

The Price: $11; with shrimp, $18

The Details: Creamy and slightly chewy stone-milled grits cooked in milk easily stand alone, with plenty of stir-ins served at the edge of the bowl: crispy

bacon, roasted jalapeño bits, grilled scal-lions and hoop cheddar cheese melted on top.

The addition of five plump Florida shrimp, smoky with housemade barbe-cue sauce, takes it to a second level. You could top it all with a poached egg for an additional $2.

This is on the brunch menu, served weekend days, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. It’s a bowl worthy of sharing — if you’re so gener-ous. ■

— Jan Norris

BY MARY THURWACHTER

mthurwachter@fl oridaweekly.com

In high school, Michael Mclaurin thought long and hard about his career. He was a star athlete, a center on his high school football team in Chicago. He had scholarship offers at several good col-leges — and a passion for cooking.

“I remember sitting in the guidance counselor’s office and they asked me what I wanted to do,” he said. “I liked playing football, but realized very few players make it to the NFL. I had always liked to cook. I was looking for a college (where he was offered a scholarship) that had culinary school, but I didn’t find one, so I chose cooking.”

Today, the 6-foot, 5-inch, former high school football star is scoring rave reviews from customers at Bravo! Cucina Italiana in Jupiter’s Harbourside Place.

“Business is good,” Executive Chef Mclaurin said. “Never a dull moment.”

The restaurant’s terrace offers a lovely view of the shopping plaza’s waterfront amphitheater.

“The food is excellent and a very good price,” said Chef Mclaurin, who super-vises a team of 25 cooks and a sous chef. “The service is excellent, too.”

One dish he particularly recommends is chicken scaloppini ($17.99) with roast-ed portobellos, provolone, lemon caper butter feta, tomatoes and herb linguine.

“It’s such a flavorful dish,” he said, “a great combination of flavors.”

Chef Mclaurin, who has been at the Jupiter restaurant for a year, previously worked at Yardbird in Miami Beach and Del Frisco’s Steak House in Palm Beach and other locations.

“I enjoy making dishes perfect for guests,” he said, “and teaching cooks working their way up.”

He and his wife, Tisha, have two chil-dren, Demi, 7, and Tegan, 7 months, and live in West Palm Beach.

“I have no regrets about not choosing football,” he said, “especially with all I hear about concussions. I play basketball now, when I can. It’s a lot less dangerous than football.”

One day, he hopes to own his own restaurant.

Michael MclaurinAge: 32Original hometown: Chicago Restaurant: Bravo! Cucina Italiana,

149 Soundings Ave. at Harbourside Place in Jupiter, 747-4445, www.bravoitalian.com. Open for lunch, brunch, happy hour and dinner.

Mission: Serve the highest quality food to each and every guest.

Cuisine: Italian cuisineTraining: Washburne Culinary Insti-

tute in ChicagoWhat’s your footwear of choice in

the kitchen? MozoWhat advice would you give some-

one who wants to be a chef? Try to stay as calm as possible. ■

In the kitchen with...

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THE DISH: Highlights from local menus

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2 AMICI MARKET155 N. County Road, Palm Beach; 832-

0201 or www.myamicimarket.com.

The Feb. 13 prepared foods menu at Amici read something like this: A lunch special of short ribs, with bacon mac and cheese, a burrito of duck with hoisin sauce, a pasta special of farfalle Bolognese.

It’s clearly not your average deli counter.

Amici also has a nice selection of cheeses and a solid wine selection, and it’s easy to bop in and out when you want something nicer than what the supermarket has available.

1 CARMINE’S GOURMET MARKET2401 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens; 775-0105 or www.carmines.com.

Sometimes, I don’t have time to linger over a lovely lunch at Carmine’s La Trattoria, with its Intracoastal views. But that does not mean I can’t eat well. Instead, I head to the deli counter for a sandwich. Few things equal the fresh, roasted turkey at Carmine’s. But if I’m in a really big hurry, I opt for a slice of the Grandma pizza, also known as a slice of Nonna’s pizza, with plenty of basil and other herbs, red sauce and mozzarella. They also have a great selection of fresh meats and seafood, produce and wine, and we love it when someone in the office stops by the bakery for cookies.

3 JOSEPH’S CLASSIC MARKETNorthmill Plaza, 4409 Northlake Blvd. (at Military Trail), Palm Beach Gardens; 799-0322 or

www.josephsclassicmarket.com.

Joseph’s has one of the nicest selections anywhere of prepared foods and a beautiful bakery. You’ll hear nothing but praise from me for the pizza, either, which has a light, thin, crispy crust and hearty marinara. There’s a nice deli department, too, and lovely produce, meat and seafood counters.

— Scott Simmons

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Eclairs from Amici Market in Palm Beach.

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Carmine’s Gour-met Market has a large selection of salads for takeout.

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