Manalapan News

Gabriela Shalev, Israel's permanent representative to the United Nations and an award-winning author, was the keynote speaker at the seventh annual Scholaship Brunch of the American Friends of The Hebrew University.

When internationally recognized Rabbi Marc Schneier gets off the plane at Palm Beach International, he doesn't go right to the beach.

Gilded Age lunches: The Flagler Museum , at Cocoanut Row and Whitehall Way, hosts lunches from noon to 3 p.m. Also, on view, "A Spirit of Simplicity: American Arts and Crafts from the Two Red Roses Foundation," through Jan.

Ten years ago, Frank "King of the Modern Castle" McKinney invited 500 guests for the splashy opening of his latest magnum opus, 1370 S. Ocean Blvd., a 3-acre oceanfront 72-room Manalapan estate.

Florida Stage Manalapan, FL LORT C; $696/week minimum Artistic Associate: Jonathan Wemette 1st rehearsal: April 20, 2010.

PICKS OF THE DAY Masterworks Chorus: The chorus and orchestra will perform Handel's MESSIAH at 5 p.m. at the Royal Poinciana Chapel.

Dippolito says he has friends in the family. a He pleaded guilty to running an investment scam .

In her documentary, A Passion for Giving, airing Tuesday on local public television station WXEL, filmmaker and part-time Manalapan resident Robin Baker Leacock aims her camera at subjects as diverse as Dan Ackroyd, a Palm Beach socialite and soup kitchen volunteer and asks, "Why do you give?" "The most surprising thing was they all said, 'Giving ...

Robin Baker Leacock's documentary, 'A Passion for Giving,' will be aired on PBS station WXEL at noon Tuesday, and at later dates.

Pinnochio, a 5-year-old neutered domestic short hair, is a bit of a celebrity. He was featured in a painting by Kathy Wallace that graced a ball invitation this year.

Ambassador Gabriela Shalev, left, Israel's representative to the U.N., talks with TV journalist Claire Shipman at the Friends of the Hebrew University Scholarship Brunch at The Ritz-Carlton Sunday.

When Boston resident Beverly Myers and her husband Herb bought their winter home in Manalapan 19 years ago, she found herself with 2 acres of property, half on the ocean, half on the Intracoastal.

Holiday wonderland: Festival of Trees "World Tour" and Holiday House, will be on display from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Ann Norton Gardens, 253 Barcelona Road, West Palm Beach.

What: 'The Storytelling Ability of a Boy' Where: Florida Stage, 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan When: Friday through Jan.

Florida Stage, one of the largest theaters in the nation producing solely new plays, will move in July from its longtime home in Manalapan to the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.

Florida Stage soon will become the Kravis Center's resident theater company. The company, which has been based in Manalapan for 19 of its 23 years in business, will open its first show at the Kravis in July in the center's Rinker Playhouse, officials said Monday.

Who caught whom? That evidently was the gimmick in the 1960s along Palm Beach's inlet dock when this unidentified man positioned himself beside a fish he'd caught.

Holiday travel is stressful. Add air travel to the mix with its crowded planes and fees, and some of the joy can disappear faster than a turkey leg.

The Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan: an unlikely place for a neo-Nazi stabbing. a The stabbings that occurred October 26, during a presentation by a Nazi historian at the Ritz-Carlton were a one-sided affair, it seems.

The construction of a deep-water well needed as a backup for the town's reverse-osmosis water treatment system is about a month behind schedule, according to hydrogeologist Jim Andersen, a town consultant.