Joe Capozzi
Goodbye, Fourth of July fireworks, hello, drone show? Lake Worth Beach may consider it
LAKE WORTH BEACH city commissioners are open to the idea of replacing the city’s annual Fourth of July fireworks display with a colorful...
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Joe Capozzi
- Jan 5
- 5 min
Henry Flagler reimagined: Gilded Age Palm Beach gets colorful modern spin at LWB art exhibit
IMAGINE HENRY FLAGLER in Palm Beach today decked out in a striped Maus & Hoffman blazer or wearing a top hat with Lilly Pulitzer...
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Joe Capozzi
- Dec 14, 2022
- 6 min
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer has a very shiny connection to Lake Worth Beach
JENIFER GILLEN IS about to spend her first Christmas in her new home. And for perhaps the first time in her life during the holidays, the...
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Joe Capozzi
- Dec 8, 2022
- 4 min
Model python, and her model handler, ready to strike a pose at West Palm Beach art class
AS MODELS GO, Lucy isn’t one to strut the catwalk in a Christian Dior dress or pitch cosmetics on television. But the beautiful creature...
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Joe Capozzi
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
‘A gift to you:’ AIDS Quilt panels in Lake Worth Beach include new one tuned with music
ONE OF THE newest panels in the AIDS Memorial Quilt comes with, of all things, a QR code. Scan the code with your smartphone and you’ll...
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Joe Capozzi
- Oct 19, 2022
- 8 min
They put the fright into Fright Nights — Proud 'Family of Freaks' celebrates 20 years of scares
THERE’S A LAWYER, an armored truck courier and a Starbucks barista; a first-grader, a fashion model and a firefighter; a Chipotle cook,...
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Joe Capozzi
- Oct 13, 2022
- 9 min
'This is Respectable Street!' —Nightclub’s namesake band humbled to play West Palm Beach show Nov. 4
ONE DAY LAST month, English drummer Terry Chambers was looking over the schedule of his band’s upcoming fall U.S. tour when the name of...
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Joe Capozzi
- Oct 4, 2022
- 12 min
A homeless man dies, a Lake Worth Beach community mourns
HE WAS AS much a part of Spillway Park as the trees, birds, squirrels and snook. Just after sunrise every day for the past 20 years or...
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Joe Capozzi
- Sep 30, 2022
- 7 min
Banned books required reading at new Lake Worth Beach book clubs for kids, adults
ONE DAY NEXT month, a group of children will gather in a cheerful reading room in downtown Lake Worth Beach to flip through the pages of...
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Joe Capozzi
- Sep 15, 2022
- 4 min
Restaurateur Rodney Mayo finally finds his right fit in Lake Worth Beach with Dada spin-off
AFTER YEARS OF flirting with the city, Rodney Mayo is finally bringing his Sub-Culture brand to downtown Lake Worth Beach. Mayo, the...
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Joe Capozzi
- May 21, 2022
- 8 min
The 'Fakahatchee Hilton' — A getaway worth checking out, even if you can't check in
AT THE “Fakahatchee Hilton,’’ solitude is a five-star amenity. There are no bellhops, no room service, no king beds with...
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Joe Capozzi
- Apr 18, 2022
- 6 min
How you can peek inside the Melbourne home where Jim Morrison of The Doors lived as an infant
JIM MORRISON SLEPT here. Long before he first sang “come on baby, light my fire” with The Doors, he cried here, too, learned to crawl...
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Joe Capozzi
- Mar 28, 2022
- 6 min
Extreme Makeover Masterpiece — Artists feel right at home in newest Lake Worth Beach pop-up gallery
LAST SATURDAY NIGHT, more than 200 art lovers from as far away as Miami gathered for the opening of Palm Beach County’s newest gallery...
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Joe Capozzi
- Mar 13, 2022
- 8 min
‘We are not on vacation here’ — Ukrainian refugees in Palm Beach find no escape from war back home
AS SAFE HOUSES go, it’s hard to beat an oceanfront condo on Palm Beach with a swimming pool and view of the Lake Worth Beach Pier. But...
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Joe Capozzi
- Feb 27, 2022
- 3 min
Daughter honors late mother who nudged her into chalk art after Lake Worth Beach festival visit
JUST AROUND THE CORNER from Jimi Hendrix, one block from Kevin Costner in “Yellowstone” and right next to Miley Cyrus, 18-year-old...
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Joe Capozzi
- Feb 21, 2022
- 6 min
As virus retreats, chalk artists eager to hit pavement at Lake Worth Beach Street Painting Festival
WHEN THE COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the usual slate of chalk art festivals around the United States, California artist Naomi Duben...
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Joe Capozzi
- Jan 23, 2022
- 4 min
'Surreal' plight of Gulfstream Hotel inspires Lake Worth Beach artist's satirical poke with brush
FOR THE PAST 17 years, as the six-story, 100-room Gulfstream Hotel sat shuttered and empty, Lake Worth Beach residents waited patiently...
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Joe Capozzi
- Dec 27, 2021
- 3 min
Forget Italy. You can see Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach.
IT TOOK MICHELANGELO five years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Italy. It will take the Armory Art Center in West Palm...
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