(Press Release) Palm Beach Gardens, FLA. - (November 3, 2025) - Little Smiles™ has launched its 16th Annual Holiday Toy Drive, inviting the community to donate new, unwrapped gifts for local children in need, from newborns to age 18, now through December 25, 2025.
 
Community members can make a difference by shopping the Little Smiles Amazon Wish List, making an online donation, texting LITTLESMILES to 44321, or dropping off a new, unwrapped toy at participating businesses listed on littlesmilesfl.org, or at the Little Smiles North Pole, 3569 91st Street North, Suite 4, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33403.

By GERRY BARKER
Splash Magazines Worldwide
Photos by Gerry Barker

You know an artist has achieved fame when he is called by just one name: Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Dali. Another artist you could place at the top of that list -- Rembrandt.

Now, the largest exhibit of privately held Dutch 17th-century paintings ever organized in the United States, including 17 paintings by Rembrandt, is being shown at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. "Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection," is on view from Oct. 25, 2025, through March 29, 2026.

On loan from the Leiden Collection, one of the world's largest private collections of 17th-century Dutch art, and named after the city where Rembrandt began his career, the exhibit coincides with the 400th anniversary of the Dutch founding of New Amsterdam on the island of present-day Manhattan.

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(Press Release) WELLINGTON, FL – The Mall at Wellington Green, in partnership with Stand Down, a local nonprofit dedicated to supporting Palm Beach County veterans and their families in the fight against homelessness, will host two special community initiatives honoring local veterans this November and December.
 
Honor Wall and Veterans Day Ceremony
November 1–8
City Furniture Court
From November 1 through November 8, The Mall at Wellington Green will dedicate an Honor Wall in the City Furniture Court. Shoppers are invited to post an American Flag honoring a veteran or active military member, with the goal of watching the wall visually grow throughout the week. 

By GERRY BARKER
North Palm Beach Life

Over 60 years has passed since "The Addams Family" TV show premiered on ABC in 1964 (it actually originated in 1938 as cartoons The New Yorker, created by Charles Addams). America fell in love with its spooky and kooky characters: Gomez, wife Morticia, daughter Wednesday, Pugsley, their son, Uncle Fester, Grandma and their servants, Lurch and Thing. That same campy, creepy family is still delighting audiences in a national touring production, which made a stop -- appropriately enough -- on Halloween night at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.

In this version, the plot revolves around Wednesday, who is all grown up and fallen in love with Lucas, who hails from a "normal" family. Wednesday doesn't know how to break the news to her mother. Gomez knows, which sets in a motion his conflicted feelings of loyalty between wife and daughter. Can a dinner in the Addams stately mansion prove "normal" and "creepy" can coexist?

The cast provides plenty of laughs, even injecting some temporary references, like a jibe at RFK Jr. in a campy romp that will delight fans of the TV show and make new fans of the characters. A special shoutout to Grandma, who steals every scene she's in. If only Lurch could have shown us to our seats, it would be perfect.

The Addams Family runs through Nov. 2 at the Kravis Center.
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(Press Release) (Boca Raton, FL – October 30, 2025) The 48th annual Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors, today announced that the glittery annual ceremony and after-party at FAU’s University Theatre in Boca Raton is SOLD OUT. The fun, festive, entertainment-packed event is scheduled for Monday November 17, at 7:30 pm.
 

(Press Release) (Delray Beach, FL – October 30, 2025) With the vision of “Connecting Our Community to the World Through the Arts,” Marjorie Waldo, President & CEO of Arts Garage, today reiterated that the nonprofit organization’s 2025-2026 theatre season continues next week with the second of five thought-provoking and socially relevant productions from professional, cutting-edge playwrights and performers.

(Press Release) West Palm Beach, Fla. – Constitutional Tax Collector Anne M. Gannon announced today the start of the 2025 Property Tax season with approximately 620,972 property tax bills being mailed to property owners throughout Palm Beach County. More than $6.197 billion is expected to be collected this year.  This local revenue will be used to fund critical county and municipal public services, such as the school district, sheriff’s office, healthcare, parks, fire rescue, and libraries.