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October 3, 2008
Mayor Jack McDonald, guest speaker at the Palm Beach Board of Realtors luncheon Wednesday, told members not to worry if ...
September 25, 2008
Photo courtesy of Tracy Olson Setting the tone for the fund-raising season, one no-nonsense cause-supporter told me yesterday: ...
September 24, 2008
A long-time reader told me yesterday that she was going to put a campaign sign on her lawn when it occurred to her that she ...
September 17, 2008
Major excitement here on Royal Poinciana Way! Workers are planting the beds in the median with the drought-resistant vegetation ...
September 16, 2008
Ted Kennedy, 1968, after some Worth Avenue shopping. Photo courtesy of Davidoff Studios. My visual treat this morning was ...
September 15, 2008
Did you all see that gorgeous harvest moon setting into the pool of clouds in the western sky this morning? What an awe-inspiring ...
September 4, 2008
I knew it wouldn’t take long for a Sarah Palin-Palm Beach connection to reveal itself. And it has — almost faster ...
August 20, 2008
Hope everyone made it through the wind and rain OK Tuesday. The Palm Beach Daily News building — the original part ...
August 6, 2008
Balloon Guy’s pièce de résistance, the police motorcycle For we happy band of brave year-rounders, Palm ...
July 24, 2008
“Vegetation interference.” FPL saying this caused Wednesday’s protracted Midtown power failure. Which reminded ...
July 22, 2008
Bloomberg has an interesting story about Donald Trump Jr.’s plans to invest in India: Trump Jr. Plans $1 Billion Fund ...
Daily News photo by Jeffrey Langlois After Donald Trump closed last week on the $95 million sale of Maison de L’Amitié ...
June 26, 2008
A few odds and ends from the week: Best new coined phrase: Blingsheviks — from Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal ...
June 25, 2008
Reporter William Kelly’s story about Publix considering expanding or rebuilding its Palm Beach store reminded me of ...
June 22, 2008
Though Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev has confirmed one of his companies is the presumptive $100 million buyer of ...
June 5, 2008
I’ve yet to locate a picture of Dick, Palm Beach’s fighting cat, but I just got a new lead from Debi Murray, ...
May 23, 2008
Picassos boosted, Palm Beach resident convicted, feral cat champion fined… Who says it’s quiet around here in ...
May 8, 2008
It’s been a tragic week here on the island. James Heyman, who lived with friend James Hunt Barker for 18 years, died ...
April 30, 2008
Rendering of the Advanced Technologies & Administration Building, designed for shoulder-rubbing. The rendering below ...
April 25, 2008
I’ve been sidelined with the flu, but wanted to share this lovely image, sent from a friend’s cell phone. A ...
April 17, 2008
Author James Patterson, whose interview with reporter Robert Janjigian is in print and online today (link: Patterson’s ...
April 15, 2008
Do you remember the first live theater production you saw? For Michael Hall, the Caldwell Theatre’s artistic director, ...
April 14, 2008
My heroes at Boing Boing have just posted their view of Palm Beacher Dan Borislow’s magicJack, which I blogged about ...
April 3, 2008
If you visit us here at the Shiny Sheet over the next couple of weeks, keep an eye out for the sparrows nesting inside our ...
And talking about sparrows … here’s American Idol contender David Cook with a word or two on the subject. A shameless, ...
March 28, 2008
The white-cushioned chaise lounges on the Brazilian Court hotel patios pose a serious threat to productivity. They are so ...
We called two florists the other day to order white carnations to distribute during Fellowship Week, which starts April ...
March 26, 2008
Durie Malcolm Bersbach Desloge Shevlin Appleton spent a lifetime denying she was ever married to John F. Kennedy, a story ...
March 25, 2008
The technology gods have thrown an invisibility cloak over my house. Nothing’s working, or working right. My 17-year-old’s ...
March 20, 2008
Today is the officially the first day of spring, and the blooming tabebuias are a sure sign of its arrival in Palm Beach. ...
March 19, 2008
The credit crisis, Tibetan monks being carried off by Chinese police, the “slow trickle of governor kink,” as ...
March 18, 2008
This file photo shows Jesse Newman in his Palm Beach PR office, which is now based at home. Jesse Newman likes to tell of ...
March 7, 2008
This was a light week for blog posting. I’m blaming it on Chicago — fabulously fun but where a horrible cold ...
March 6, 2008
While observing the latest Palm Beacher trading tux for prison garb this week, I thought about a quote I’d just read ...
February 24, 2008
Wednesday, a woman who lived and worked at the Everglades Club sued her former employer, alleging — in her words — ...
February 19, 2008
A slip of former CIA and FBI director William Webster’s tongue — and his deft recovery — drew an expected ...
February 18, 2008
While Palm Beach set about banning burger joints last week, billionaire Nelson Peltz was banking on them. An SEC filing reported ...
February 13, 2008
Another blessedly rainy day here in Palm Beach — a bust for beachgoers, but a boon for our watershed. No need to stay ...
February 12, 2008
Oh, thanks a lot Tim Luke. I went to Culture & Cocktails last night to hear the HGTV Cash in the Attic star talk about ...
February 4, 2008
Other than, say, the Brownies and the Little Rascals, I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to belong ...
January 22, 2008
A nonprofit new to many Palm Beachers makes its debut Thursday on the 33480 fund-raising circuit. A flock of South County ...
January 21, 2008
I rousted my 17-year-old out of bed at 6:30 this morning on her Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day school holiday. She didn’t ...
January 7, 2008
If you need proof of Palm Beach’s love of the party, look no further than Testa’s Wednesday, when the fun-loving ...
January 3, 2008
Baby, it’s cold outside for Floridians! I know Northerners have no sympathy for those of us shivering in today’s ...
December 29, 2007
The Roches, that harmonious trio of singing sisters, brought their long-running act to the Kravis Center’s Rinker ...
December 24, 2007
If you’re reading this today, you’re probably not a last-minute Christmas shopper. Luckily for those who are, ...
December 20, 2007
Today, 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth becomes the oldest British monarch, surpassing her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria’s ...
December 18, 2007
Frank Abagnale’s speech to Palm Beach Crime Watch was like a Promise Keepers-Focus on the Family mashup. Reporter Margie ...
December 14, 2007
Whoa — what a week! Is everyone feeling the season? In Palm Beach, of course, the word “season” has at ...
December 12, 2007
A flight of Palm Beach’s top chefs entertained — even shocked — a crowd of foodies at Café Boulud ...
December 6, 2007
Fashion editor Robert Janjigian spotted something familiar halfway through the new Lilly Pulitzer resortwear catalog. Right ...
December 4, 2007
Thailand may now rival Palm Beach for the number of pink shirts per capita, ever since royal astrologers deemed it an auspicious ...
November 26, 2007
Larry Keller reports in today’s Palm Beach Post that property appraiser records will no longer disclose part-time islander ...
November 23, 2007
Yesterday evening, the end of a long, eventful day, my 13-year-old son proclaimed: “This has been the worst Thanksgiving ...
November 21, 2007
Palm Beach always starts to hum at Thanksgiving. Families reunite for the long weekend, as escapees from northern climes ...
November 1, 2007
I’m posting a little later than usual today — chalking it up to a sugar hangover. I discovered this Halloween ...
October 31, 2007
A national survey says 1 in 3 Americans believes in ghosts. Believer or not, ghost stories can be fun — unless perhaps ...
October 26, 2007
As rain was falling into puddles early this morning, The Chesterfield hotel became a cozy refuge for Greater South County ...
October 24, 2007
Riffing off a New York Times essay on how city dwellers view wealth, Wall Street Journal reporter and blogger Robert Frank ...
October 23, 2007
The Q3 reports are in and while Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney lead their parties in the national fund ...
October 19, 2007
File this one under “no good deed goes unpunished.” Or unpublished. Names removed to protect privacy. A friend ...
October 15, 2007
Pam Henderson, executive director of Palm Beach’s Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults, agreed to be PB Upd8’s ...
October 12, 2007
Things I’m smiling about today, other than the weekend being within arm’s reach: The Nobel Prize medals for physics ...
October 11, 2007
I was on my way to a business lunch at the Palm Beach Yacht Club Wednesday when I spotted the name “Just Chillin” ...
October 8, 2007
Congratulations to Debbie Massey for her very clever and fun description of all things Palm Beach: Aaahhhh…The ABC’s ...
September 27, 2007
I’ll be away from the blog for a few days — back here Oct. 3. Travel looms, and obviously it’s top-of-mind ...
September 20, 2007
A scene from the first Park(ing) Day Friday is National Park(ing) Day, and I’d like to tell you this means there will ...
September 14, 2007
A poll released this week shows Florida’s preferred presidential contenders are New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and former ...
September 13, 2007
The Palm Beach chamber resumed its monthly breakfast meetings at The Breakers hotel yesterday. Just writing that sentence ...
September 10, 2007
It’s now official — Sept. 10 is Neiman Marcus Day in Palm Beach, proclaimed by Mayor Jack MacDonald in honor ...
September 6, 2007
With Palm Beach Day Academy in session as of Tuesday, all the kids who attend school locally are now back at their desks. ...
September 5, 2007
A friend called with cheery news the other day. She said a documentary on global warming reported that Florida would be submerged ...
August 28, 2007
Thanh Hoang, 1997 Watercolor, gouache, graphite and ink on paper Private Collection If you’ve been meaning to get ...
August 22, 2007
A hot blog topic lately has been pricey beer — the world’s most expensive brews, in fact. No surprise, really, ...
July 27, 2007
The KRI Dewaruci I’d been so curious about a ship docked at the Port of Palm Beach this week that on Wednesday I found ...
July 26, 2007
Palm Beach Fire-Rescue’s Craig Stanfield guides Trauma Hawk as it lands on the Palm Beach Country Club golf course ...
July 19, 2007
Photo by Lee Hershfield We had a reporter here once who used to head to the beach for a swim during her summer lunch breaks. ...
July 18, 2007
The good times were rolling at the Four Arts Children’s Library Tuesday in honor of author Laura Numeroff’s ...
July 17, 2007
“By hanging out in a ritzy neighborhood, you’ll get comfortable with wealthy people and attuned to what they ...
