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Andrew Abramson covers the city of West Palm Beach. His blog is West Palm Beat.
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PB County moves toward bidding for Japanese-style Inn at Morikami
Palm Beach County will take bids for a Japanese-style inn at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, more than 35 years after the hotel was originally planned. The Morikami, which is county-owned, has been in existence since 1977. On Tuesday, the Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to accept bids ...
West Palm Beach police chief questions security at SunFest after Sunday stabbing
A stabbing at SunFest on Sunday evening — in what is believed to be the first such violence in at least 23 years at the event— has West Palm Beach Police Chief Vincent Demasi questioning security measures at the city’s largest annual festival. Raige Hasko, 18, a senior baseball player ...
Festival goers dodge storms as SunFest’s headliners hit the stage
For the first 90 minutes SunFest looked like a wash, but the skies cleared up just in time to turn the opening night of West Palm Beach’s largest annual event into a success. The five-day arts and music festival kicked off with a moderate downpour keeping most fans away. That ...
Club and restaurant owner says Clematis Street needs stronger identity
Few people have experienced the booms and busts of Clematis Street like Rodney Mayo, a pioneer of the city’s nightlife scene. Mayo opened Respectable Street in 1987, bringing the new wave music scene to a quiet street. Today, he still owns Respectable Street, along with Dr. Feelgood’s, Lost Weekend, Hullabaloo, ...
Hands-on Ponce de León exhibit featured at Palm Beach County History Museum
Half a millennium after Juan Ponce de León put Florida on the map, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County is modernizing the legendary explorer. Between now and June 29, the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum is featuring “Claiming La Florida: On Board with Juan Ponce ...
As ‘Tempest’ hits shelves, here’s a ranking of Dylan’s LPs, from ‘Highway 61’ to a Christmas album (?)
So many brilliant musicians explode into our lives for a moment, releasing a masterpiece or two before they fade away. Music is timeless, and we’ll forever have these works of art to cherish. But in so many cases, we’ll always wonder what could have been. Would Buddy Holly, a musical ...
SunFest count drops, but officials say attendance in May as strong as ever
SunFest’s official attendance figures dropped by nearly 100,000 people this year, but festival organizers say SunFest still might have drawn its most attendees in recent years. For the first time, SunFest organizers say they have “an accurate picture of the festival’s attendance,” thanks to new and sophisticated ticketing and gate ...
BLP highlights local jam band scene with weekend party
Matt Beck’s plan to create a self-sustaining local jam band scene should have been easy. South Florida is the eighth largest metropolis in the country and full of Northeastern transplants who grew up in cities where jam music thrived. But as Beck and publicist Destiny Spang’s production company, Brotherly Love ...
DrFameus scores with a unique electro-drum set at Funky Buddha
You can’t fully appreciate a quality drummer until you give him the spotlight that a drummer rarely receives. Allen Aucoin, drummer for the electro jam band Disco Biscuits, was stage center Friday night at the Funky Buddha, bringing his side project DrFameus to Boca Raton and showing that drummers deserve ...
SunFest: Matisyahu looks so different but continues to deliver
Matisyahu, one of the most talented musicians out there, is about so much more than looks. But more than four months after the one-time Orthodox Jewish boy wonder shaved off his beard and let the world see his face, you can’t help but think that Matisyahu has changed. This wasn’t ...
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