Broward Health CEO takes over as top executive at Memorial Healthcare System

Shane Strum, president and CEO of Broward Health, will assume additional responsibilities by becoming acting CEO of Memorial Healthcare System. This development puts the top executive of both tax-payer-funded health systems in Broward County under the leadership of one individual, something never thought possible in the competitive healthcare environment. Originally Published: September 23, 2024 at 4:10 p.m. ... Read More

Taste of the Gardens returns to Pembroke Pines with food, fun & philanthropy

This is “Small Bites,” a South Florida Sun Sentinel feature with tiny tidbits on the food and beverage scene — because we know that sometimes you just don’t have room for a long article. You want a little news brief instead, an amuse bouche of information, if you will. Enjoy! WHAT: It’s become a tradition at the Shops at Pembroke Gardens. Taste of the Gardens, the annual Pembroke Pines event where you get to sample the culinary creations of local restaurants, started 15 years ago... Read More

As a husband and a father, I know passing Amendment 4 is crucial | Opinion

Building and nurturing a family has shaped my understanding of how essential it is to have the freedom to make informed and autonomous decisions about reproductive health and family planning. This election season, voting yes on Amendment 4 in Florida is not just a matter of personal choice — it is a fundamental step to safeguard the rights and freedoms of our families. Amendment 4 seeks to enshrine the right to make reproductive and family planning decisions into Florida’s Constitution.... Read More

‘This show just keeps getting better and better’: Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ season 23 debuts this week with 3 SoFlo chefs

Attention cooking-competition fans in SoFlo: We will be well-represented in Season 23 of TV’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” with three chefs participating from Palm Beach and Broward counties. Chef Gordon Ramsay’s hit show — last season ranked as fall 2023’s No. 1 cooking show among adults age 18 to 49 and total viewers — is set to debut locally at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, on WSVN-Ch. 7 and WFLX-Ch. 29. According to Fox-TV, this upcoming season for the first time filmed on the East... Read More

From ideas to cash: South Florida’s innovation industry taking hold and expanding

For owners of rescued or inherited pets, a company called EpiPaws, founded by Andria Beal, a Ph.D. in biology, is developing a blood test to learn the age of their newly acquired animals. It’s information that’s important to know, she says, in order to feed your dog or cat the right food, assess how much exercise they should get, or give animals any preventive health care they may need. For businesses looking to use Generative Artificial Intelligence, Chuck Whiteman, founder of... Read More

Berlin Church Plant Embraces All That Jazz

It’s Saturday night, and you’re looking for jazz in Germany’s capital. You could catch an after-midnight jam session at A-Trane in Charlottenburg, get cozy in the stylish, intimate ambience of the Zig Zag Club in Friedenau, or catch a solo saxophonist serenading the crowd at Berlin’s oldest jazz club, Quasimodo. And there’s one more option: You could wait until morning and go to church in the Wedding district. One part church plant, one part jazz project, Kiez Church (Neighborhood... Read More

Reading Scripture through Embodied Eyes

We all lead diverse sensory lives—in the form of memories, reflections, emotions, and events that become embedded into our embodied lives. It is through our five senses that we encounter the world, and these experiences get encoded into the fabric of our beings to be later recalled, from compassion and peace to trauma and violence. In other words, our physical senses matter to how we walk through this life. But more than that, they reflect the creativity and beauty of God himself. We are... Read More

Houston Ballet Debuts New Work Based on… C.S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis wrote at the end of his book The Four Loves that he didn’t feel like he could fully express the nature of love on the page. “I dare not proceed,” he concluded. Now one of the largest ballet companies in the United States is trying to fill in where words fall short, commissioning Four Loves by choreographer Silas Farley with a full orchestral score by composer Kyle Werner. The one-act ballet premiered at Houston Ballet over the weekend.  At a dress rehearsal before the... Read More

The ‘Antioch of Asia’?

In 1983, Ed Pousson picked up Patrick Johnstone’s Operation World prayer guide and read an entry on Singapore. In it, the Southeast Asian country was described as the ‘Antioch of Asia.’  The American missionary and his Malaysian wife, Lai Kheng, had previously lived and served in Malaysia and were planning to make their home there after leaving the mission field.  Reading about Singapore changed the course of their lives.  “It was a defining moment for both of us,”... Read More