Stan Kenton One of the finest entertainment-and-dining experiences I’ve ever had occurred Monday night at the American Rock Bar & Grill in Deerfield Beach, where Mike Egan’s Teacher Teacher Big Band performed to a pitifully small audience. This despite the absence of a cover charge. It was FREE for a drink or dinner. I […]
Mike Norris Jazz Orchestra Get this. The Mike Norris Jazz Orchestra played without cover charge Monday at the American Rock Bar & Grill in Deerfield Beach, and the number of people in the audience roughly equaled the number in the band. Not long before, the same band played at a place in west Boca Raton […]
“Fluoride vote acknowledges passion, yields to science.” Thus read the headline of an editorial in the Palm Beach Post after the Wellington Village Council voted to resume fluoridating its water supply, reversing a policy enacted in January 2014. The editorial contained this sentence: “Moreover, there is still no credible evidence linking public water fluoridation with long-term […]
M. William Phelps At the South Florida Book Festival on Saturday, M. William Phelps, a New York Times bestselling author of about 30 books on real murders, told an audience that some of the crimes he wrote about occurred in Florida, which he views as a harbor for degenerates and assorted other nefarious characters. […]
Bice Ristorante A website on Google says Bice most often is used as a female name in Italy, and pronounced bicha. In English, a similar word, with one letter added and one removed, is similarly pronounced, without the last syllable. It likewise is applied to a female, but not in a flattering way, if […]
Pat Beall Last week, two events that will alter the social landscape in America made newspaper (there are some left) headlines. One was the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to end the private operation of prisons, a move likely influenced by a 2013 series by investigative reporter Pat Beall in the Palm Beach Post that […]
You might have heard something on the grapevine about a book called MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died making the rounds in Palm Beach County and beyond. At least I’m doing my utmost to see that you become aware of it, for good reason, or reasons. First, it has historical importance. Second, […]
Leonard Pitts Jr. A week or so ago, I sent an email to the Miami Herald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., decrying his denunciation of Donald Trump for giving credence to those linking vaccines with autism. Now hold on: I think Trump is an absolutely awful candidate for the presidency, or any other […]
Dennis Noday Stan Kenton had to be smiling in his grave last Tuesday when the Dennis Noday & Lee Harris Superband filled a room at the American Rock Bar & Grill in Deerfield Beach with that powerfully brassy, but mellifluous, sound which marked the Kenton ensembles of the 1940s to ’70s. What a […]
Hear ye, hear ye! Tomorrow – woops, we’re almost there – you can, if you have a Kindle or compatible device, get my current book for FREE. The title is MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died, a novel closely based on a real murder that happened in the posh, ocean-side town in […]