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LIME Fresh Mexican Grill Launches Student Special

With Spring Break nearing its end, LIME Fresh Mexican Grill wants to ensure hungry students returning to school can fill their appetites while remaining within their budget. The eatery’s new Student Special provides a burrito or regular quesadilla (chicken, beef or veggie) with chips and a soda for $8. The deal is available for any student

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PrimoHoagies to Open Fort Lauderdale Location

PrimoHoagies, known for its gourmet hoagies with high-quality meats and cheeses, will open its first Fort Lauderdale location (1499 SE 17th St.) today with a perk for the first patrons. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the company plans to provide free Primo Size Hoagies to the first 100 customers, while rewards customers will enjoy Primo Size

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FENDI Caffe opening in the Miami Design District

FENDI recently launched the opening of FENDI CAFFE  at OTL Restaurant in the heart of Miami’s vibrant Design District, located across from the FENDI Boutique. The pop-up location will last through May 1, which follows the success of the FF Vertigo-inspired iteration last summer. The new creative concept for the FENDI CAFFE draws creative cues from the

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Without Missing a Beat

Though an African-American physician in Chicago, Daniel Hale Williams, is credited with performing an open-heart procedure in 1893 by closing a stab wound to the organ, it would be more than a half-century before a series of breakthroughs slowly shed light on all that was possible involving cardiac surgery. Developments during the mid-20th century, including

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Tacocraft Taqueria & Tequila Bar to Open in Plantation

Tacocraft Taqueria & Tequila Bar will establish another South Florida location this week when its doors officially open Friday at Plantation Walk, a luxury dining and shopping complex at 321 North University Drive in West Broward. The opening will mark the fourth location of Tacocraft in South Florida by Handcrafted Hospitality, the restaurant group that founded

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From the Editor

AnnaLynne McCord addresses her letter on The Unsealed, the entrepreneurial brainchild of Lauren Brill, one this month’s featured innovators and influencers, to “anyone who has ever felt invisible.” AnnaLynne has been traveling to Cambodia for the past decade to visit young female survivors of human trafficking. She makes the nearly 9,000-mile flight because, as a

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Blazing Her Own Trail

In interior design, a professional’s rise in the industry typically takes time. It can mean starting at the bottom of a company, gaining experience with clients, and finding and perfecting an aesthetic that resonates, all before even thinking about striking out on your own. Plus, in South Florida, where designers and firms abound, the competition

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Free At Last, Part 2

Back in the Game Lauren’s father had bought her brother tickets to a New York Rangers hockey game for his birthday. And she was not happy about the male-bonding thing. “I must have been 6, and I said to my dad, ‘Excuse me, do you think because I’m a girl that I don’t want to

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The Good Fight

Kelly Hyman can still hear the anguish and desperation in their voices. Feel the pain ravaging their bodies. Understand the anger and the determination to seek justice. Hyman was an attorney for hundreds of women suffering from the horrific complications connected to transvaginal mesh implants—devices used to repair weakened bladder and pelvic areas. Clients cited

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Free At Last, Part 1

The irony, Lauren Brill will tell you, is that English never revealed itself in school as an entrepreneurial path, let alone the life-altering off-ramp in her healing journey. As a youngster growing up in Rockland County, New York, math was her academic jam, a subject easily digested by her logical, incisive mind—although, given Lauren’s opinionated,

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How Sweet It Is: Devin Braddock

Devin Braddock Corporate pastry chef, Ariete Hospitality Group Back story: The prodigious talent that has made Braddock a household name in Miami pastry circles runs in the family. Her grandmother was an elaborate cake decorator in Tampa, where Braddock grew up; she cooked out of a baking kitchen inside her house. “I’d see her forming

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How Sweet It Is: Luis Vasquez

Luis Vasquez Executive pastry chef, Miami Beach Edition Back story: The native of Caracas, Venezuela recalls cooking in the kitchen with his father and decorating cakes with his mother at a young age. But, early on, it was his love of painting and sculpting that fueled his creative energy. But the worlds of art and

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