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Lighthouse ArtCenter Unveils

Newly Renovated 3-D Building

Lighthouse ArtCenter (LAC) is pleased
to announce the reopening of its newly
renovated 3-D building at 395 Seabrook
Road, Tequesta, FL 33469. This extensive
year-long renovation will enhance the
creative experience for students of all ages
and skill levels, instructors, and the local
community.
The upgraded building features an
expanded roster of classes and instructors,
offering programs from introductory pottery
wheel lessons to advanced hand-building
techniques. These enhancements will
allow LAC to host more visiting artists and
introduce new ceramics offerings during
summer camps for children, promoting Jamie Bates, 3 Wings Visiting Artist, Front of building left view
artistic development within the community. instructing a workshop Chad Steve, Ron Shaw
“We are incredibly grateful to our Wednesday and Select Fridays from 6 to 8 p.m., fostering
contributing LAC Board Members, community members, followed a whirlwind fundraising campaign, including a fun and communal learning environment.
and an anonymous grant that made this project possible,” benefit concerts from former Metallica bassist and local “The instructors bring a wealth of diverse expertise
said Jeni Licata, executive director. “The community supporter Jason Newsted. to the table, and now they have a state-of-the-art facility
interest has been strong. Registration for classes in the The newly renovated 3-D studio will empower students that perfectly complements their skills and techniques,”
newly renovated building is open, and several classes are to create a variety of projects, including abstract and said Director of Ceramics and Sculpture Chad Steve. “I
already full.” figurative sculptures, mugs, teapots, and platters. With am confident that both students and faculty will produce
Originally built in 1973, Lighthouse ArtCenter classes available during both day and evening hours, their finest work yet in the coming year.”
purchased the building in 2019 from Jupiter Medical participants can choose from 8-week courses, shorter Registration is open for classes and workshops. For
Center after leasing it for about 20 years. The acquisition multi-day workshops, and special events like Wine Down more information, visit lighthousearts.org.
Film Review: The Family Man

By Nils A. Shapiro to be a good life when the love he had felt for Kate those And then, in a totally unexpected twist of the film’s
Is there anyone of a many years ago is rekindled, and the joys of fatherhood story line, Jack discovers that the final decision is not
“respectable” age who added. really his to make after all!
does not remember But when the business partner of his other, corporate life Fortunately for the readers of this column, the only
and love the film, enters the auto dealership one day the memories of those decision you have to make is whether to find this film on
It’s a Wonderful exciting, luxurious times kick in and Jack manipulates the Netflix. And that should be an easy one. The answer is,
Life, starring Jimmy opportunity into an invitation for a business meeting that definitely!
Stewart? You know– leads to a critical decision about which of these two very
the one in which an different lives is right for him.
angel in the form of
an old geezer gives
Jimmy a peek at
how his life might Experience Dentistry
have turned out if
he had done things
differently, and how
that would have affected others’ lives as well.
That all-time classic 1946 film still shows up around with a
holiday time even these many years later, but I was
especially reminded of it while watching a film first
released in 2000 and now being streamed on Netflix.
The Family Man is a wonderful example of Nicolas
Cage at his best, equally convincing in both aspects of a
dual role. Woman’s Touch
In a brief opening scene set at New York City’s JFK
airport, Jack Campbell (Cage) is rushing to catch his flight
to London for an important temporary financial training
opportunity with Barclay’s Bank, despite his girlfriend,
Kate, (Tea Leoni in the role) pleading with him not to go Cosmetic & Comprehensive Restorative Dentistry
for fear that it will lead to the end of their relationship.
We then see Jack 13 years later—sure enough, a
bachelor—now a highly successful, wealthy New York State of the Art & Same Day Restorations
financial executive in the process of putting together a
multi-billion-dollar corporate merger. When he leaves
his office and stops at a small shop on the way home to Nitrous Oxide/Oxygen Sedation Available
his penthouse apartment he becomes a bystander in a
dangerous situation: the store owner refuses to accept
a winning $238 lottery ticket and pay its owner (played
by Don Cheadle), claiming the ticket is a phony. The Joanne Green, D.D.S.
ticketholder pulls out a gun and threatens to shoot the
store owner.
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his winnings. But the latter’s strange response—informing
Jack that he has now brought the consequences on Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
himself—leaves Jack bewildered.
As we soon learn, in this film the ticketholder serves
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when Jack awakens the next morning, instead of being in
his Manhattan penthouse apartment he finds himself in a www.joannegreendds.com
New Jersey home with a wife, Kate—the former girlfriend
he last saw at JFK Airport—and two children!
Confused and panic-stricken, Jack races to his Medical College of Virginia School of Dentistry - Cum Laude
Manhattan office only to be turned away by doorman and
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no choice but to make the best of it…which means working
for Kate’s father, in the man’s auto dealership. It turns out