Joe Capozzi
Party on the patio coming to an end? Rudy's Pub hoping Lake Worth Beach won't pull plug on back lot
TO MUSIC LOVERS and hipsters of all ages, the back patio at Rudy’s Pub is a patch of heaven on earth, a safe place to dance under the...
Search
Joe Capozzi
- May 15
- 2 min
"Bans Off Our Bodies!" — Hundreds rally for abortion rights in downtown West Palm Beach
THEIR ANGRY VOICES were loud. The signs they carried were even louder. Nearly 1,000 abortion rights supporters rallied in downtown West...
255 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- May 8
- 4 min
Lake Worth Beach cancer survivor hoping Rudy’s fundraiser will take bite out of medical bills
FLIP ON THE remote these days, the scrolling menu of television viewing options can seem endless. For Jeff Shores of Lake Worth Beach,...
799 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- May 2
- 5 min
Is free parking in downtown Lake Worth Beach about to end?
UPDATE: This story was updated at 5:30 p.m. May 6 to reflect the city's decision to delete the parking study from the May 9 City...
957 views1 comment
Joe Capozzi
- Apr 25
- 5 min
Tunnel vision for downtown West Palm Beach: Bury Okeechobee Boulevard traffic underground
PALM BEACH COUNTY transportation planners are about to explore a bold plan to reroute a half-mile stretch of Okeechobee Boulevard through...
982 views1 comment
Joe Capozzi
- Apr 18
- 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...
267 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Apr 11
- 5 min
Former county commissioner patiently waits for construction of Jupiter park named after her in 2012
EVERY OTHER WEEK or so, the driver of a brown Honda Pilot performs a peculiar ritual while motoring north along a certain stretch of U.S....
278 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Apr 6
- 5 min
'My peace has come, I will pass this way no more forever,’ Oklahoma Seminoles in South Florida say
DEEP INSIDE A lush South Florida hardwood hammock, leaders of the Great Seminole Nation of Oklahoma gathered Sunday morning for an...
752 views1 comment
Joe Capozzi
- Mar 28
- 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...
1,367 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Mar 25
- 3 min
Soaring like 'Iron Man' — Flyboarding superhero owns the sky over Palm Beach International Boat Show
SOARING ACROSS sky, Kristen Smoyer looks like a comic book superhero come to life. Her feet strapped to a water jet, she rises 40 to 50...
115 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Mar 18
- 5 min
Oklahoma Seminoles ready to connect with Florida ancestors’ spirits in historic visit to Jupiter
ON A SUNDAY morning early next month, members of the Great Seminole Nation of Oklahoma will march through a gate off Indiantown Road and...
1,688 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Mar 13
- 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...
2,726 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Mar 2
- 6 min
Wife-carrying race?? Don't laugh. Lake Worth Beach run might be 'the hardest minute of your life'
ELLIOT STOREY OF Delray Beach has run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, bicycled up mountains in California and pumped iron in strongman...
567 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Feb 27
- 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...
588 views1 comment
Joe Capozzi
- Feb 25
- 6 min
As real estate prices skyrocket, scammers target unsuspecting renters desperate for a bargain
ON A SUNNY morning in January, marketing writer Amanda Kahan was working in her Lake Worth Beach home when she heard a knock on the door....
1,525 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Feb 21
- 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...
835 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Feb 17
- 3 min
The Trouble With Harry’s — Wayward truck nearly silences popular dive bar’s edgy outdoor quips
SOME MIGHT SAY Harry’s had it coming. Like a back-hand smack to the mouth of Lake Worth Beach’s biggest smart aleck, a wayward delivery...
1,617 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Feb 4
- 4 min
Area leaders mourning death of former Palm Beach County Attorney Gary Brandenburg
PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND community leaders across South Florida are mourning the death of long-time municipal government attorney Gary...
1,442 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Feb 3
- 7 min
Fiddler on the boat delivers sweet bluegrass at West Palm Beach GreenMarket
THE FIDDLER ON Clematis Street lives alone on a boat in the Intracoastal Waterway. His faithful companion is an Albert Knorr violin,...
271 views0 comments
Joe Capozzi
- Jan 28
- 5 min
Cold snaps bring out alligators — and their space invaders: 'Most of the time people get too close.'
THE GATOR WAS doing what authentic non-football Florida gators do when cold snaps force them out of the water in search of a warm...
520 views0 comments