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Deerfield Bar helps Deerfield Boy

Known for great drink specials, burgers and infamous bike nights, Deerfield Beach restaurant and bar Crabby Jacks isn’t afraid to be something else: fundraisers.

Beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, Crabby Jacks will be raising money for the Brewer family with contests, live music, drink and food specials, and giveaways. Among the many prizes [...]

Fat Kids for a Good Cause

Ruthie Medina, then 6, with "Mami Zoila" - as she called her, and younger sister Raquel.

In the spring of 1988, 4-year-old Ruthie Medina was just happy to be an older sister to newborn Raquel. She didn’t think that one of her mother’s follow-up appointments at the doctor was going to turn into a breast [...]

Pumpkin in Mexican food? Ay dios Mio!

If you’ve been reading along, you may be familiar with South Florida’s lack of seasons. Besides sports, Floridians know that fall is arriving when pumpkins emerge on street corners, grocery stores and front lawns across the tri-county area.

In my search to satisfy everyone’s cravings with varied Fat Kid days of the week, I discovered that, [...]