The highly visible Dania Beach Hurricane, one of the United States’ 112 wooden roller coasters, will be sold for scrap to help fund a local charity, a spokeswoman for the owner said. The proprietor, Jerald Holland, wants to choose the right charity to provide the coaster to as a donation. on the grounds that announcing [...]
The fewest South Floridians since 2008 are asking for unemployment checks. Declining claims suggest South Florida employers haven’t launched significant layoffs. New requests for unemployment aid have dropped to a four-year low in South Florida, as the labor market slowly recovers from the recession. The recent tally of first-time claims for unemployment insurance most commonly [...]
In the 1970s, Veronica Le-Bert’s father and brothers started a business exporting parts for the massive mining machinery that excavates copper, gold, lithium and other minerals in South America and the Caribbean. For 13 years, Le-Bert International chugged along as a family-run company, becoming a well known name in the industry. Then George Le-Bert decided [...]
Motivated by South Florida’s reputation as being a “culinary crossroads, ” the Food Network basically opened its first casual restaurant and gourmet market inside the nation Thursday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport terminal. Foodies and fans of the most popular lifestyle network, magazine and website is now able to get their fix at the meals Network [...]
Where movies once played on the big screen at Miami Beach’s Lincoln Theatre, there is now a 19-foot LED screen with videos of models parading down the runway in the hottest fashion looks. The rebirth of the historic theatre marks the long-awaited arrival of H&M in Miami Beach, which sets out to restore the glamour [...]
A new Haitian TV network is debuting in South Florida, broadcasting mainly in Creole to fast-growing Haitian communities from Delray Beach to Florida City. Haitian Digital Television is the brainchild of film producer and TV veteran Claude Mancuso, who ran a local 24-hour Haitian cable TV channel that closed in 2006. His new venture will [...]
The 53rd Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show wrapped Monday, and though bad weather dampened opening day attendance, it didn’t keep the serious buyers at bay, according to several exhibitors. “It went really well,” said Bob Denison, president of Denison Yacht Sales in Fort Lauderdale, which had 12 new and 8 pre-owned boats on display. Although [...]
The coming wave of transoceanic shipping steamed into Port Everglades early Monday morning and tied up at Berth 32. And it is big. The aptly-named MSC Texas, the largest cargo ship ever to call at the port, is a forerunner of what’s to come: massive oceangoing vessels plying trade between continents, utilizing an expanded Panama [...]
A job fair at the Signature Grand in Davie on Wednesday drew more than 7,500 people, a stark reminder that even with a declining unemployment rate many in South Florida are still searching for work. The line of those hoping to land a job – or at least an interview with one of the 60 [...]
With the ghoulish celebration a few weeks away, early-bird shoppers have already started to descend on mom and pop, chain and pop-ups costume stores in search of the perfect Halloween outfit. Last year rain dampened many South Floridians’ Halloween plans as such some costume sellers are anticipating pent-up demand from revelers this year. “We’re hoping [...]
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