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Q: I am looking for an exquisite dining experience for my father-in-law, preferably in Palm Beach County. He will be celebrating his 95th birthday on Feb. 13 and there will be six of us. He walks well but not if there are 100 steps to get in. He wears hearing aids so it can be busy but not screaming loud. He is so with it and loves to eat — everything — and I would want a beautiful, scenic ...

The next boomtown in South Florida has been right under our noses all this time, and we didn’t see it. The little city that could turns out to be, of all places, Oakland Park, smack in the middle of Broward County. You’ve driven by it, or through it, a thousand times and you never gave it a second thought. As Sun Sentinel reporter Phillip Valys lays out in great detail in a must-read story, ...

The South Florida Sun Sentinel earned top honors at the Society of Professional Journalist’s Sunshine State Awards on Friday, including first place for public service and journalist of the year. The Sun Sentinel’s investigation, “Innocence Sold,” won the James Batten Award for Public Service and was one of two finalists for the Gene Miller Award for Investigative Reporting. The investigation ...

The South Florida Sun Sentinel has won honors in two journalism contests that showcased both investigative and feature stories. That includes multiple awards from the Society for Features Journalism, a national competition, and the Green Eyeshade Awards, the nation’s oldest regional journalism contest. Winning the prestigious Green Eyeshade itself, and the first-place category of ...

Gourmet dining is a treat on special occasions, but what about the rest of the time, when we want to eat out but don’t want to spend a lot of money? We are lucky that Fort Lauderdale has lots of options for cheap eats, my definition of “cheap” being less than $20 for an entree. For the list I created below, I tried to find locally owned sites that get consistently good reviews from the South ...