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Sunset Lounge progresses through expansion in West Palm Beach
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Sunset Lounge, a beacon in the Black community in West Palm Beach, is pushing ahead with its renovation and expansion. The city of West Palm Beach purchased the property in 2015. Now neighbors and…
Alliance of Women Executives (AWE) Awards Scholarships to 20 Young Women who will Attend Palm Beach County Colleges
Boynton Beach, FL – During a time when good news is sorely needed, the non-profit Alliance of Women Executives (AWE) made the college dreams of 20 Palm Beach County young women come true. The organization awarded $30,000 in scholarships to…
Celebrating Black History Month
In honor of Black History Month, we would like to highlight the great success Genia Baker, Project Manager for The City of West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and former resident of the Historic Northwest Community, is accomplishing for this…
To NoMi is to Love Me – Reinventing Downtown North Miami
By Sharon McCormick When North Miami’s CRA decided to focus on the reinvention of its downtown, they reached out to RMA to help them take the first critical step – to develop a comprehensive strategic marketing plan. Our plan, which…
Foxy messages abound in Pompano Beach recycled-art show
By Phillip Valys Luke Ahern’s adopted children, KJ and Zavon, screeched their bikes to a halt in the driveway of their Columbus, Ohio, house. Ahern saw them panting. A police cruiser pulled down their street. It drove past, unconcerned. Not…
Book challenge helps local school encourage reading
COURTESY Bailey Contemporary Arts’ Lyrics Lab Book Challenge and Pompano Beach CRA Engineer Horacio Danovich recently raised money and collected donated books to stock 28 classroom libraries at Pompano Beach Elementary School. Pictured are Steve Larson, principal of the school,…
Broward’s newest and best beach parking garage
by Ryan Yousefi – New Times Pompano Beach has a brand-spanking-new parking garage that has changed the beach parking game forever. The new garage, located at NE Second Street between A1A and Pompano Beach Boulevard, includes 669 spaces, LED-lit sails, a…
Artists face themselves in new show at Bailey Contemporary Arts
by Phillip Valys (via SouthFlorida.com) In her Polaroid self-portraits, Sarah Henderson inhabits female badasses from history and mythology: the Aztec goddess Coatlicue, a pregnant Mother Nature covered in ivy, Wild West gunslinger Calamity Jane, a crystal-toting guru named Amethyst. The…
Habitat for Humanity – Women Build: RMA Belles for Rhonda Wells
At RMA, we love giving back to the community and strive for new opportunities every day to do so. So when Genia Baker (RMA Project Manager) proposed for us to join in building a home for Rhonda Wells and her…
Tune In: Kim & Chris to appear on WLRN “Topical Currents”
Tune in to WLRN’s “Topical Currents” on June 30th at 1pm for some insights from our very own Kim Briesemeister and Chris Brown! Click here to listen in via the web. About the program: Joseph Cooper and Bonnie Berman share…