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Scenes from Joe DiMaggio Legends Game 2011 - Bill Lee

Bill "Space Man" Lee, former Boston Red Sox pitcher discusses the jerseys that he has picked up during his well traveled baseball career.

 

A Dug Out View

A little up close view of the American Leaguers in the dugout during the Joe DiMaggio Legends Game on January 29, 2012.  The game is a fundraiser for the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital.

 

FORMER JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL PATIENT TO PLAY IN JOE DIMAGGIO LEGENDS GAME

 

Alberto Rojas, 15, On Roster Alongside MLB Greats

During Annual Charity Baseball Game

 

Hollywood, FL – Alberto Rojas, 15, a freshman at West Broward High School in Miramar will be sporting his own personalized jersey and taking the field alongside more than 60 former major league baseball players during the Joe DiMaggio Legends Game.  Rojas is a cancer survivor and a former patient at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. He will join the former MLB greats during the 23^rd annual exhibition baseball game at Fort Lauderdale Stadium on Saturday, January 29 (1:00p.m).

 

In 2008, Rojas, 13 was diagnosed with a rare form of Ewing Sarcoma, a soft bone tissue cancer which spread aggressively from his tailbone into his lungs.  He underwent extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments for a year while his family and friends remained ever-faithful, believing he would regain his health and beat the 10% chance at recovery doctors gave him.  Rojas survived, is now cancer free and is an advocate for other young cancer patients.

 

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. I was diagnosed with cancer so I could help people and inspire people.  When I’m finished with all of my treatment I am going to volunteer at the hospital that saved my life.  And I’m going to talk to little kids with cancer and make sure they don’t lose hope,” said Rojas.

 

Stearns Weaver Miller, as a sponsor of the event, has offered their player position to Alberto, allowing him to join the former MLB greats on the field. Stearns Weaver Miller is a full service law firm with offices in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and Tallahassee.

 

Proceeds from the charity fundraiser support Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital and will help underwrite the cost of a planned pediatric oncology unit that will serve children and families coping with cancer.  

 

Inside Vatican Splendors

Mark Greenberg President of Evergreen Exhibitions who handle the Vatican Splendors tour and Monsignor Roberto Zagnoli, Exhibition Curator from the Vatican, discuss the exhibition on display at the Museum of Art | Ft. Lauderdale.

 

Miami Today Profile - Sheldon Anderson

After nearly 19 years with Northern Trust in Miami Sheldon Anderson has seen the bank grow 400 employees in the state to more than 700.
Now, as Southeast Regional CEO he’s responsible for all those, as well as the bank’s growing presence in Georgia.

 

Northern Trust focuses on a particularly attractive kind of client, the kind with more than $5 million in investable assets. Though it’ll work with clients with $1 million, the $5 million is what Mr. Anderson called the bank’s sweet spot.
That demographic, however, isn’t only Northern Trust’s territory.
Several institutions, like JP Morgan Chase’s private bank have entered the market recently looking for clients in the high net worth space while smaller, local banks also cater to wealthy individuals and families.
Mr. Anderson, however, said “this is nothing new” and that the bank has changed its strategy little to deal with competitors.
In the future, he continued, the bank sees significant opportunities in endowment and nonprofit management.
Mr. Anderson spoke with Miami Today staff writer Zachary S. Fagenson at Northern Trust’s Southeast headquarters on Brickell Avenue.

Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris

In this clip, cast members Margery Lowe, Patti Gardner and Karen Stephens along with director Clive Cholerton discuss the newest production of the Caldwell Theatre Company, Bruce Norris's "Clybourne Park."

 

 

Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris

January 2 – February 6, 2011

 

Home is where the heart—and history—is in Clybourne Park, a "buzz-saw sharp new comedy" (The Washington Post) that cleverly spins the events of A Raisin in the Sun to tell an unforgettable new story about race and real estate in America.

Act I opens in 1959, as a white couple sells their home to a black family, causing uproar in their middle-class Chicago neighborhood.

Act II transports us to the same house in 2009, when the stakes are different, but the debate is strikingly familiar.

Adamant provocateur Bruce Norris launches his characters into lightning-quick repartee as they scramble for control of the situation, revealing how we can—and can't—distance ourselves from the stories that linger in our houses. "But you can’t live in a principle, can you? Gotta live in a house. And so do they. Not in this house they don’t." The same house represents very different demographics in each ACT, as we climb through the looking-glass of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun.

These hilarious and horrifying neighbors pitch a battle over territory and legacy that reveals how far our ideas about race and gentrification have evolved—or have they?

"A spiky and damningly insightful new comedy" —The New York Times

"Completely audacious, architecturally ingenious entertainment" —Entertainment Weekly "Outrageously funny and squirm-inducing" —The Independent (London)

"A lively, darkly humorous affair . . . remarkably perceptive, hilarious, and surprisingly poignant" —Associated Press

"[A] buzz-saw sharp new comedy . . . of inadvertent bad manners" —The Washington Post

"Superb, elegantly written, and hilarious" —The New Yorker

"The funniest play of the year" —London Evening Standard

"Genius" —The Times of London

Do we really take the time, or have the desire, to understand the other side of the conversation? Clybourne Park is a thought provoking play about race, community, change, and things that have not changed. We begin in the living room of a home for sale outside of Chicago in 1959 and conclude in the same living room 50 years later, 2009.

Though provocative, and definitely not politically correct in terms of dialogue or subject matter, Clybourne Park is both extremely funny and intellectually rich. Enter the issue of race, both sides, black and white actually, and mix in differing opinions of community, progress and trying to adhere to political correctness…or not! Clybourne Park reaches out and screams “now that is what I’m talking about!”

Talk Back to Caldwell

Following select performances of "Clybourne Park" by the Caldwell Theatre Company, cast members and community leaders invite the audience to discuss issues raised in the production.

For the January 19, 2011 performance the cast was joined by Pamela Guerrier, Manager, EEO/FH from the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners Office of Equal Opportunity and Lia T. Gaines, Executive Director of the Center for Enterprise Opportunity.

Return of Baby Doc - What does it mean for Haiti?

The Haitian-American Diaspora in South Florida was stunned this week when former Haitian dictator Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier returned to the country after a 25-year exile.  How might this affect Haiti's future elections and the country’s relationship with the United States?

Vatican Splendors Uncrated

How's your Italian?

In this clip, Vatican curator Msgr. Roberto Zagnoli discussed the historical and religious significance of the uncrated objects

 

Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale  Unveiled Priceless Artifacts from the Vatican on Thursday, January 20 at 10 a.m.
Three objects featured in Vatican Splendors exhibition were uncrated at special media event  
Presented by Holy Cross Hospital in Association with PNC Bank and AutoNation

They include:

•    Caliper of Michelangelo Buonarroti
•    The Veronica of Il Guercino
•    Bernini Angel

California Dream-scaping

California Impressionism: Paintings from The Irvine Museum

 

From the current exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art

Starting with the late 1880s and continuing into the early part of the twentieth century, California’s majestic landscape was the inspiration for many American artists. They set out to capture California’s vivid colors and intense sunshine in a distinctive style that has come to be called California Impressionism or California plein air painting after the French term for "in the open air." Venturing out into nature, these artists often depicted California as a colorful, sunlit garden of wildflowers or a tranquil retreat.

As a regional variant of American Impressionism, the California plein air style is a composite of traditional American landscape painting and influences from French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. With the turn of the century, when Impressionism had only recently become an accepted American style, Southern California experienced an influx of young artists, most of whom had been trained in that style and had never known any other. The period from 1900 to 1915 marks the flowering of California Impressionism. It is part of the continuum of American art’s passion with landscape, a lineage that began long before the early years of the American republic.

This exhibition presents masterpieces of California Impressionism from the Irvine Museum, arguably the most important collection of West Coast American Impressionism. The Irvine Museum is the only museum in California dedicated to the preservation and display of California Impressionism or plein-air painting. The colorful collection of more than 60 California Impressionist paintings presents the work of more than forty-four artists. Among the well-known artists featured in the exhibition are William Wendt, Guy Rose, Dona Schuster, Granville Redmond and Alson Clark.