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Barbara Marshall
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The years Barbara Marshall and her husband, commercial photographer, C.J. Walker, have spent patching up a 1920s house provide an interesting perspective for the home and real estate trends she frequently writes about for The Post. She spent 13 years in television news in South Florida before beginning a freelance print and video production company, then joined the Palm Beach Post in 2003. Her two kids are in college and grad school, leaving Barbara and her husband with the geriatric dog.
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Kravis’ Shen Yun a pretty show with a political message
The photos are gorgeous confections of color, costume and choreography.Elaborate, expensive ads tout a Shen Yun performance as “five thousand years of Chinese music and dance in one night,” that takes the audience on “a magical journey through ancient dynasties and faraway lands.”Not mentioned is the proselytizing tucked into the ...
MCB mixes Broadway, ballet in last program
Broadway meets ballet this weekend when Miami City Ballet brings its last program of the season to the Kravis Center. The crowd-pleasing “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” was George Balanchine’s first Broadway collaboration, from the 1936 musical “On Your Toes.” The fast-paced, accessible ballet includes gangsters, strippers and is that a ...
Ponce de Leon landing anniversary events:
No one knows exactly where Juan Ponce de Leon landed, but it hasn’t stopped various cities from claiming the landing spot. Tuesday Melbourne Beach: Unveiling of a 10-foot Ponce statue at Ponce de Leon Landing Park, with costumed landing re-enactment. www.vivaflorida.org. Ponte Vedra Beach: A 6-foot tall statue of Ponce ...
He’s a ‘Ponce’ — no matter how you pronounce it
As if Jim Ponce wasn’t already local history on two legs. On Wednesday, the 95-year-old Palm Beach County historian — a primary source for nearly a century of Florida’s recent history — will be joined by the entire state in celebrating a family anniversary. Five hundred years ago, a distant ...
The Quiet Life of Mr. Peeps
It was a sweet night for Mr. Peeps. Immediately after he walked into Lake Worth’s Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery two Fridays ago, Mr. Peeps, a k a Bob Born — a quiet, retired physicist who lives in Jupiter — was surrounded by a posse of new peeps. Mr. Peeps’ ...
How do you find Jupiter’s little radio station? Look for the antenna in the palm tree!
While there are several ways to grow a radio station’s audience, not many include fertilizer. But then, few radio stations use a 70-foot Washingtonian palm tree planted in back of its studio as an antenna pole. “We try to take good care of that tree,” said Tom Boyhan, the owner ...
Even amateurs can have fun at Gulfstream Park Race Track and Casino in Hallandale Beach
To the serious racing fan sitting behind us at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach one Sunday last month, I apologize. I know placing bets based on horses’ names marked us as race track amateurs, but in our defense, we were right about “IRunFast.” It’s too bad the other horses weren’t ...
Book goes behind the wrestling scene
Think professional wrestling is all showbiz smoke and mirrors? It’s true, says Fred Shernoff, a Wellington resident who has written a book (available on Amazon) about running a wrestling league with his younger brother when they were in their 20s. Called “Doing the Job,” the book’s title refers to the ...
Lopez settling in as MCB chief
In her small office at Miami City Ballet’s headquarters, Lourdes Lopez lights an aromatherapy burner filled with calming lavender oil and inhales deeply. “It helps me calm down, to decompress,” she said. Calm has been elusive for Lopez since September, when she became artistic director of South Florida’s only major ...
Take a Christmas trip back in time
What did Christmas decor in South Florida look like nearly 100 years ago? There were plenty of shells, coral, burlap and decorated tree branches, according to the designers of the first Cason Cottage Christmas Showcase House in Delray Beach. And, possibly, some stuffed birds. The 11 Delray Beach designers were ...
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