Nick Jurkowski

During a sports season where the Dolphins have the worst record in the NFL and the Miami Heat already seem hell-bent on a lackluster (or worse) follow-up to last year’s stunning championship win (dropping almost all of their preseason games and...

We all hope that the Heat turn themselves up and take-off on a course to repeat as NBA champions. But, so far, the chances look questionable at best. As is always the case during a tumultuous season, it is helpful to have some good places to go...

I recently attended a bachelor party (isn’t it a weird feeling to realize all your friends are getting married?) that was hands down the best I’d ever been to.

Naples is an upscale, sophisticated community on Florida’s west coast. Early settlers to the area described the bay as “surpassing the bay in Naples, Italy.” The name stuck, and the Naples of Florida was born.

North Miami Beach is located roughly halfway between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Once known as Fulford (after a prominent citizen of the area), citizens of the town changed the name in 1931, after realizing that “Fulford” sounds like it...

Oakland Park is a small town in Broward County that used to be called Floranada – a combination of “Florida” and “Canada.” The denizens wisely changed the name of their town once they realized that such a combination was not...

Before Miami became the hot spot that it is, there was Palm Beach – the destination of choice for affluent folks from the Gilded Age and on. Palm Beach still packs ‘em in, offering a huge variety of activities for even the most jaded...

Ever antagonistic to its neighbors, Palm Beach Gardens has always been an independent-minded community. From its inception, when it was forced to change its name from Palm Beach City by the nearby city of Palm Beach, to more recently, when it...

Lantana is a small seaside village in Palm Beach County just minutes from West Palm Beach. Preserved in Lantana is that Old Florida small-town-fishing-village charm, and it is a popular winter destination for a large number of Floridians and others.

Miami is so many things to so many people: A cultural center, a nightlife Mecca, a vacation hotspot, and home of The Golden Girls. In a city as large, famous, and exciting as Miami is, how does one pick one thing to do or see above all others?