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Staci Sturrock

Fashion Editor

Staci has written about fashion for The Palm Beach Post since 1999 but also covers general assignment features.

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Penny Burke was an attorney for death row inmate Adrian Doorbal. Doorbal and two others were part of the Sun Gym crew that abducted and tortured a man for a month and killed two others in Miami in 1994. The Sun Gang’s exploits have been used as a basis for a movie by Michael Bay called “Pain and Gain.”Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Anthony Mackie and Mark Wahlberg star in “Pain & Gain,” based on the Sun Gym gang’s crimes in mid-1990s Miami.

An advocate for love: Penny Burke went from criminal defense attorney to writing about second chances after widowhood

Mort and Sheila Schwam became engaged three months after they met, wed, raised three daughters, and in their 45th year of marriage, traveled to Alaska for a vacation. While there, 59-year-old Mort, a man known in his Rockland County, N.Y., neighborhood as “Mr. Mort,” owner of a dry cleaner and ...

Barrel and Grain gastro pub at 125 Datura St. in West Palm Beach. (Taylor Jones/The Palm Beach Post)

On tap: a lineup of brews and good pub grub

This week’s bar: Barrel & Grain Local Taphouse The scene: In the rustic downtown West Palm Beach space previously occupied by Spoto’s Oyster Bar and Gratify, Barrel & Grain offers a gratifying lineup of brews (almost 200 bottled, another 50 rotating on tap), wines (15, always changing) and spirits (i.e., ...

Hugh Jackman returns as “The Wolverine.”

Haven’t I seen this film before?: Big action sequels rule multiplex this summer (again)

Not gonna lie. If you’re a fan of original scripts, complex characters and thought-provoking conflicts, it’s going to be a long summer at the cineplex.But, if you thrill to a big-screen car chase, comic-book heroes, special effects or sequels, 2013 is your lucky number. (And this summer, movies are a ...

An interior view of Ceviche, a tapas bar and restaurant in Delray Beach. (Bill Ingram/The Palm Beach Post)

Too good to share: Ceviche’s bodacious crab cakes

Now I’m no crab cake connoisseur – that would be my Maryland-born colleague Leslie Gray “Old Bay” Streeter – but this Texas gal thinks Ceviche’s Cangrejos de la Casa ($13.95) is the best she’s ever tasted. Perched atop a thick slice of grilled tomato that’s resting in a buttery sherry-saffron ...

A cocktail titled Dirty Bird at Ceviche a tapas bar and restaurant in Delray Beach.(Bill Ingram/The Palm Beach Post)

Small plates and splendid ambiance at Delray’s Ceviche

This week’s bar: Ceviche Tapas Bar & RestaurantThe scene: I like many things about Ceviche, but this might top the list: There’s only one discreet little TV in the whole place, and to this diner, that speaks to the Florida chain’s focus on food, ambiance and service. Open since January ...

Thaikyo Asian Cuisine in Manalapan. (Bruce R. Bennett/The Palm Beach Post)

Manalapan’s secret dish: wahoo with a jalapeño kick

At Manalapan’s Thaikyo, cuisines collide on a menu that includes Thai specialties (curries and Pad Thai), Japanese delights (sushi, sashimi, teriyaki) and even a Chinese dish or two (Peking Pork and Crab Rangoon).“A lot of people ask, ‘What’s your best dish?’ and I’m speechless, because we do a little bit ...

Jana Torvi stands near Christopher’s Kitchen, located at Midtown in Palm Beach Gardens. (Richard Graulich/The Palm Beach Post)

North Palm Beach County dining, outdoors tops her list

When Jana Roe Torvi found herself ready to relocate from Boston, where she’d graduated from Emerson College and worked for 12 years in corporate human resources, it was decision time: Where to go next? “I had family in upstate New York, and family in sunny Palm Beach County — it ...

Uptown Art, in CityPlace in West Palm Beach, teaches people with no painting experience how to re-create a painting, brushstroke by brushstroke. The class on a recent Tuesday evening was a packed house. (Jennifer Podis/The Palm Beach Post)

Uptown Art in CityPlace: Adult art classes a new date night destination

Adulthood can sometimes seem like a continuous sprint from errand to appointment to obligation, with little spare time for smelling the roses, much less painting them.Just ask Lauren Bagwell, a busy 31-year-old occupational therapist who once made her art a priority. Despite good intentions, it’s been difficult lately to carve ...

Peter and Janey Henriksen, of Palm Beach Gardens, posted a Little Free Library in front of their house and stocked it with 20 books. Now they have four to six visits a day from neighbors who keep the library going and the books on the shelves always fresh and new. The inscription on the box reads: “This Little Free Library is a gift from friends who wanted to PAY IT FORWARD. They hope you will do the same!” (Jennifer Podis/The Palm Beach Post)

Little Free Library built in Palm Beach Gardens

It’s such a happy-looking library, painted yellow, decorated with palm-tree stickers and shielded from the Florida sun by its own thatched roof. About the size of a microwave oven, it’s pedestrian-friendly, too, awaiting book lovers next to a sidewalk in bucolic Palm Beach Country Estates, along the northern boundary of ...

The Pucker Powder machine in Rapids Water Park’s new gift shop dispenses 14 flavors of powdered candy.

Now in its 35th year, Rapids has new rides, rental cabanas and gift shop

It’s amazing how quickly you bond with someone when hurtling backwards in the dark on a tiny raft — which is exactly the slippery situation you’ll find yourself in on Black Thunder, a tunnel, then a funnel, of fear, Rapids Water Park-style. Now in its 35th year, the 35-acre park ...

 
 

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