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Dancers perform in the main dining room of the Mai Kai. (Photo by Richard Graulich)

Paradise in a tiki glass at Ft. Lauderdale fest

There’s one simple reason Fort Lauderdale is the postcard-perfect location for The Hukilau, this weekend’s 20th annual tiki convention. “The Mai-Kai,” says Christie “Tiki Kiliki” White, Hukilau’s co-founder and producer. “Without it, we would not be here.” See, South Florida residents may take the family-owned, 57-year-old venue on Federal Highway ...

Buddy’s Singer Island Pub pulled away as the clear winner.

Taking Your Pulse: Buddy’s Singer Island Pub wins our ‘dive bar’ poll

Fans of Buddy’s Singer Island Pub have spoken. Loudly.With 59 percent of the vote, the bar — located mere blocks from the sand of Riviera Beach’s municipal beach — was the clear winner of Taking Your Pulse’s poll for favorite local dive bar.The Brass Ring Pub ended up with 15 ...

Taking Your Pulse: Down to our final 7 for favorite local dive bar

Some of the area’s best-known dive bars will battle it out in our Taking Your Pulse poll.From the Brass Ring to Ralph’s Stand Up Bar in Jupiter to Delray’s Sail Inn, some very famous watering holes will duke it out.Which one’s your favorite? Click here to vote. We’ll have the ...

Guanabanas ended up narrowly winning our poll.

UPDATE: Taking Your Pulse: Guanabanas edges Cod & Capers in tight seafood battle

UPDATE: Due to a tallying error, we incorrectly reported that Cod & Capers won the vote for favorite local seafood place earlier on April 1. We apologize profusely to both Cod & Capers and Guanabanas for this discrepancy. In a pitched battle for local seafood supremacy, it came down to ...

Which local place for seafood is your favorite?

Taking Your Pulse: Down to our top 10 for local seafood spots

Old-school seafood spots and places which put their own spin on seafood dishes are both represented in Taking Your Pulse’s final 10 for favorite local seafood spots.The places range from as far north as Tequesta all the way to Lantana, and each with their own fervent fans.Vote for your favorite ...

Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins wins Taking Your Pulse’s poll for most anticipated SunFest act.

Taking Your Pulse: Smashing Pumpkins win poll for most anticipated SunFest act

Smashing Pumpkins’ biggest hits may have come during the 1990s, but SunFest fans are ready for them more than anyone else. Billy Corgan’s band was the runaway winner of the Taking Your Pulse poll for most anticipated SunFest act, taking 17 percent of the vote. We had nearly 700 total ...

Among those on the schedule for SunFest 2013 are The Offspring, Phillip Phillips and Smashing Pumpkins.

Taking Your Pulse: Which SunFest artist are you looking forward to most?

We’re going back to the old method of Taking Your Pulse — no nominations this time, just a poll — for our SunFest special.We want to know which SunFest group or solo act is the one you’re looking forward to the most.And we’ve put them all out there.All you need ...

Which one was your favorite karaoke spot?

Taking Your Pulse: Backyard Bar wins our karaoke poll

Backyard Bar, located at the Palm Beach Hibiscus bed and breakfast, wins the Taking Your Pulse poll for favorite local karaoke spot.Backyard Bar pulled down 33 percent of the vote, putting it well ahead of its two closest competitors.Skeeter’s Lounge of Boynton Beach and the Applebees at the corner of ...

Which karaoke spot is your favorite?

Taking Your Pulse: We’re at our final eight for favorite local karaoke spot

We’ve hit our final eight for Taking Your Pulse’s poll for favorite local karaoke spot.We’ve got representatives from all over the region — and all sorts of different places to sing.Click here to vote for your favorite. We’ll have results on Monday.

Panera Bread takes our panini top spot. (Post file photo)

Taking Your Pulse: Panera wins for favorite local panini

Panera Bread wins this week’s Taking Your Pulse poll for favorite local panini. The national chain, which has several locations in Palm Beach County, won with 23 percent of the vote. There was a three-way tie for second — Prosecco Cafe in Palm Beach Gardens, Sonny’s Gelato Cafe in Boca ...

Where’s your favorite panini made?

Taking Your Pulse: We’ve reached our final nine for favorite local panini

Sandwich fans have given us our top nine places for panini here in the area, and now it’s up to you to vote on your favorite. The places range from the Panera Bread chain to cafes like Paris Bakery & Cafe in West Palm Beach and Alaina’s in Palm Beach ...

Among the Norton’s exhibits is one about Annie Leibovitz’s photography.

Taking Your Pulse: Norton Museum wins favorite local gallery poll by narrow margin

The Norton Museum of Art has long given Palm Beach County one of the top art collections anywhere, especially in an area that’s smaller than a major metropolitan region.And its fans understand, making it the winner of Taking Your Pulse’s poll for favorite local art gallery.The Norton had 31 percent ...

Which local gallery is your favorite?

Taking Your Pulse: Final 10 for favorite art gallery mixes better-known museums and smaller esoteric spots

In nominating the galleries for what ended up being our top 10, our readers didn’t just stick with the well-known places.Instead, the Taking Your Pulse poll for favorite local art gallery has a mix, as the more famous art spots mix with smaller but no less interesting places.The better-known Norton ...

The sign’s the same over John G’s, even if the location’s a little farther south for our winner.

Taking Your Pulse: John G’s wins battle over breakfast spots

It may have moved from its very familiar spot, but John G’s hasn’t moved out of the hearts of its fans. The Manalapan eatery — once a landmark at the Lake Worth Casino building until 2011 — was the winner of the Taking Your Pulse poll for favorite local breakfast ...

Which local place is your favorite for breakfast? Let us know!

Taking Your Pulse: We’re down to our final 11 for favorite local breakfast place

Two weeks ago, Taking Your Pulse voters gave us a slew of nominees for favorite local pizza, showing more love for the little corner pizzeria than the big chains.The same thing happened when we asked you about favorite breakfast place.Staying away from the more familiar names, you tended to nominate ...

Taking Your Pulse: Cobb Downtown 16 in Gardens wins poll for favorite local theater

The Cobb Downtown 16 at Downtown at the Gardens tops the Taking Your Pulse poll for favorite local movie theater. Cobb Downtown 16 ended up with 29.5 percent of the vote, edging out the Muvico Palace 20 at CityPlace (21.1 percent) and the iPic Theatres at Mizner Park in Boca ...

Taking Your Pulse: Down to our final six for favorite local movie theater

We’re down to our final six in the battle for favorite local movie theater.There’s a decidedly southern bent to our poll — fans placed four South County theaters, including three from Boca Raton alone, into our final six.So let us know your favorite this week. Click here to vote, and ...

Nick’s New Haven Style in Boca Raton won our Taking Your Pulse poll. (Photo by Shayne Hensley)

Taking Your Pulse: Nick’s New Haven Style in Boca wins our poll for favorite local pizza

This time around, apizza ended up on top.Nick’s New Haven Style, which calls its premiere dish “apizza”, won the Taking Your Pulse poll for favorite local pizza with 33 percent of the vote.The Boca restaurant prefers to call its pizza “apizza” after the Neapolitan pizza common in the Connecticut city ...

Which local pizza is your favorite?

Taking Your Pulse: After a slew of nominations, we’re down to our final 10 for favorite pizza

This was unexpected.When we asked for your favorite local pizza place, we knew we would get quite a few responses. But more than 400?!And when we combined them with our responses from Facebook, we ended up with close to 600.So thanks, everyone!We also ended up with a very interesting top ...

Fletch, Loggerhead Marinelife Center Mascot at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach.

Taking Your Pulse: Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno your pick for favorite bargain attraction

The turtles win this round.Loggerhead Marinelife Center, known best for their turtle exhibits, was the winner in our Taking Your Pulse poll for favorite local bargain attraction.Juno Beach’s Loggerhead pulled in 44 percent of the vote, ahead of Mandel Public Library in West Palm Beach with 20 percent.Clematis by Night ...

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