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Fort Lauderdale’s historic playhouse, The Parker, proudly displays plaques on its wall listing performers who have graced its stage through the years. Rita Moreno. Tony Randall. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Elizabeth Taylor. Milton Berle (in “Norman, Is That You?” from 1972). Uncle Miltie had a flair for the outrageous. So does The Parker’s current act: the Fort Lauderdale City Commission. The ...
FORT LAUDERDALE — Pickleball players might love the idea of having 42 courts just a stone’s throw from their neighborhood. But that’s not the crowd that showed up at a City Hall meeting on Tuesday, August 22, to blast the elected leaders of Fort Lauderdale — even though only two of the five on the dais were the ones who approved a $20 million project that will bring an 8-acre pickleball ...
The Fort Lauderdale commissioners who joined VIPs to welcome Inter Miami superstar Lionel Messi are reimbursing the soccer team. Commissioners Pamela Beasley-Pittman and Warren Sturman said Tuesday they would write checks to cover the value of the July 16 event as soon as they get a bill. Commissioner Steve Glassman said via text he’s already sent a check for $100, an amount “way more than the ...
Tensions between Steve Glassman and John Herbst — two of Fort Lauderdale’s most vocal commissioners — were on display Tuesday after Glassman demanded to know why the city falsely claimed Inter Miami added stadium seats without a permit and how the media posted the story so quickly. “The world is watching how we behave,” Glassman said. “We have to be spot-on.” The email in question, authored by ...
Fort Lauderdale commissioners gave the direction to move forward with the next steps, which include a site evaluation and a 30 percent design completion.