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50 years ago, the Hank Aaron ‘zoo’ invaded WPB before final assault on Babe Ruth's home run record
FIFTY YEARS AGO , on one of the final days of spring training, Henry Aaron was struck in the head by a baseball at West Palm Beach...
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Mar 31, 20248 min read
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Spring training renovations delayed until 2025 as Marlins, Cardinals revise Jupiter stadium 'facelift'
THE MIAMI MARLINS and St. Louis Cardinals won’t start work on a $108 million renovation of their shared spring training facility in...
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Mar 5, 20244 min read
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Lake Worth Beach Cottages Tour is back: Walk inside small Old Florida spaces where proud owners are ‘living large’
LAKE WORTH BEACH’S famous cottages are about to go on tour again. After a pandemic-induced hiatus, the nonprofit Cottages of Lake...
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Mar 1, 20244 min read
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What’s a 50,000-year-old mammoth leg doing at the Palm Beach Show’s art, jewelry and antique exhibition?
MORE THAN 50,000 years ago, a giant woolly mammoth roamed the icy tundra between Britain and mainland Europe. This weekend, the mammoth’s...
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Feb 17, 20244 min read
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Like a hippie ‘Hallmark movie,’ Boynton couple re-weds 50 years after first marriage ended in divorce
JUST IN TIME for Valentine’s Day, a love story so enduring, so blissfully sappy, so torn from the script of a Hallmark movie, and so rock...
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Feb 13, 20248 min read
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The Return of the Bridge Muses: Artist starts restoring two popular murals beneath Royal Park Bridge
THE ROYAL PARK Bridge muses are returning. Sean Yoro, the internationally acclaimed artist known as Hula, returned to downtown West Palm...
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Feb 11, 20242 min read
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Photographer Harry Benson arrived in America 60 years ago, along with a band called The Beatles
WHEN THE BEATLESÂ arrived in America for the first time, there was no shortage of photographers documenting the moment on the tarmac at...
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Feb 4, 20243 min read
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ByJoeCapozzi.com wins three first-place awards in 2023 Florida Press Club competition
BYJOECAPOZZI.COM won three first-place awards and a second-place honor in the Florida Press Club’s 2023 Excellence in...
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Jan 30, 20242 min read
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Rudy's at Bamboo: Popular Lake Worth Beach music venue to expand upstairs into Bamboo Room
RUDY'S PUB, a popular downtown Lake Worth Beach music venue, is about to expand into an iconic space directly above it — the...
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Jan 26, 20243 min read
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Jack The Bike Man selling its warehouse, ending late founder’s dream for grand West Palm Beach home
THE LATE JACK Hairston’s dream to convert an old West Palm Beach warehouse into a permanent home for his popular Jack The Bike...
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Jan 14, 20243 min read
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Banjo picker who advised presidents and jammed with folk icons enjoying a mellower gig in Lantana
ON A RECENT Monday evening, banjo picker John Holum led a few neighbors on singalongs of some old favorites: John Denver’s “Take Me Home,...
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Nov 26, 20239 min read
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Thanks a latte! New lease keeps Subculture Coffee on Clematis Street five more years
SUBCULTURE COFFEE CAN keep brewing at its original Clematis Street store for the next five years after city commissioners, rejecting an...
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Oct 19, 20233 min read
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How pickleball — yes, pickleball — is reuniting some Florida Marlins baseball champions
BACK IN OCTOBER 2003, when he was winning two World Series games for the Florida Marlins, 25-year-old pitcher Brad Penny had no reason to...
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Oct 17, 20235 min read
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Prison art documentary at Norton museum kicks off second annual Subculture Film Festival
LONG BEFORE SETTING out to be a filmmaker, Karim Dakkon spent a good part of his childhood hanging out at a neighbor's house in the...
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Oct 11, 20237 min read
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Marlins-Cardinals throw stadium renovation schedule a sharp curve
IT WILL BE business as usual next spring at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium — just baseball and no construction activity — for the Miami ...
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Oct 5, 20236 min read
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The day Brooks Robinson stuck around with a young photographer in West Palm Beach
IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, the Baltimore Orioles star Brooks Robinson is standing on a baseball field, holding a bat and looking at the camera...
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Sep 29, 20236 min read
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Poet, about to turn 102, still spinning verses for Lantana neighbors: Meet the ‘Bard of Carlisle’
GERSON FABE STARTED writing poetry when he was 74. Stung by the death of his wife, he channeled his grief into emotional verses. That was...
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Sep 24, 20236 min read
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Rarely seen movie about rocker Meat Loaf coming to L-Dub Film Fest, thanks to the late Franne Lee
A RARELY SCREENED 1982 movie about the rock star Meat Loaf is coming to downtown Lake Worth Beach this weekend as part of the 11th annual...
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Sep 18, 20236 min read
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Saying goodbye to the late 'Jack the Bike Man' — Celebration of life set for Sept. 19 in West Palm
A CELEBRATION HONORING the wonderful life of the late “Jack the Bike Man’’ wouldn’t be complete without a few bicycles, even if it is...
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Sep 14, 20236 min read
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Bartender who befriended Jimmy Buffett hosting LWB paddle-out celebration of music icon's life
HE ARRIVED BY bicycle and sat alone at the bar. For a famous musician, Jimmy Buffett, who died Sept. 1, was famously approachable, a...
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Sep 10, 20237 min read
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