No Boobs in Boca

What is art...who knows? Most of us would hesitate before answering, humbled by what we don't know, only awed by what we've been given over the ages. It's been said that art is the signature of civilizations, perhaps a belief the city of Boca Raton does not subscribe to. Ask local South Florida sculptress Mary Eiland whose marble carved nude female torsos were removed from public display by a park director at Patch Reef Park who cited the art as 'inappropriate'. Art in Public Places regulations allow the city to reject any artwork considered inappropriate for public display, although there is no specific criteria except it appears art in Boca better not contain any tatas. Boca is well known for it's lovely landscaped streets, luxurious high end homes...let's hope it doesn't get an equally well deserved reputation for being a cultural wasteland.

Florida Sold for 73 Million!

Florida has reached a new all time low...not only do we graduate terrorists but now we have Rick Scott as governor?

Scott's Columbia/HCA company, the largest private for-profit health care company in the US, had to pay a record $1.7 billion dollar fine for defrauding Medicare. During deposition he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times. He was forced to resign as CEO back in 1997, with his company admitting to 14 felonies. Since then Scott has been involved with multiple businesses, primarily health care and pharmaceutical related but claims no lobby ties.

Deciding to run for political office in April 2010 to oppose health care reform with his health insurance buds, Scott paid over 70 million campaign dollars out of his own pockets...not to mention the backing received from lobbyists, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Seminoles, & Sugar Industry. A special thanks to the GOP who after calling first him a crook did a full 360 & gave him $$$ support.

Floridians you have opened the monster's cage. Don't complain when you find your fingers missing...

Kyrie Eleison.

Happy Halloween Night

Looks like the Miami Heat is doing it's part to help the Miami condo market rebound. The LeBron Effect just might be the answer to some condo developer prayers...even now the ching ching of luxury condo buyers across from the Arena is making some sweet music. Some of the buildings offer top of the line amenities at off-peak prices & this just may be the shot in the arm downtown Miami has been needing. We're talking a knockout skyline of Marina Blue, Marquis Residences, 900 Biscayne Bay & Ten Museum Park towers...downtown restaurants & retail businesses. All hoping some of that Heat starlight will cast downtown in hipper light.

Be nice to see downtown Miami back & kicking like it used to.

Lobsters Beware

Love to eat them with hot butter mingled with guilt. Just don't like to look at them alive & wiggling.

Something so sad about a creature that has managed to live fifty to a hundred years only to be boiled alive. Some studies even showing that lobsters genuinely feel pain. It leaves one hoping that the law of karma will not catch up to everything we do. With that in mind, be advised lobster season has begun...you who are truly heartless may want to try your hunting luck just a little south of the Deersfield Beach pier where this big boy was snared. But if you, like me, prefer to leave the guilt and simply enjoy the plate, better you head over to 15th Street Fisheries for the best & freshest Florida lobster. Far less chance of karma hitting you over the head.

Snail Coladas

Adding once again to our favorite South Flo cocktail menu we now have the special family Snail Juice recipe, courtesy of a Hialeah man who uses these illegal 10 inch snails as part of his "El Africano'' or "Oloye Ifatoku" African religion Ifa Orisha, not to be confused with Cuban Santería.

Claiming it can cure a variety of ailments (probably promising male virility no doubt), Mr. Charles Stewart pours snail juice aka snail mucous down the gullets of his patients....so sickening them as to bring it to the attention of the authorities who conducted a snail raid! Turns out he was aided in his snail smuggling efforts by a high priestess who smuggled them in under her dress...a vision possibly more nauseating than the snails themselves....snails that can consume up to 500 species of plants, as well as plaster and stucco.

Authorities are putting out bolos warning South Florida residents to report any sightings of the giant suckers...bet they start to turn up on a few local menus before long.

Hottest South Florida Hotels

With Super Bowl weekend right around the corner you might want to check out the list of the hottest hotels to be found anywhere in South Florida.

At the top of the list is the Epic Hotel, 54 stories worth of Bay and Miami skyline views. But if it's sail shaped night lit spectacle doesn't send you you could always try the Ritz Carlton on Ft. Lauderdale beach. Every room at the Ritz has an ocean or intracoastal view, with a 29,000-square-foot sundeck on the 27th floor complete with an infinity pool, private cabanas and a bar. Or like Truman used to do make your way down to Islamorada to visit the famous & now renovated historic (1946)Cheeca Lodge which would be my preference. So check out the hottest South Florida hotel list for yourself right here.

Now all you have to do is afford it.