Barrys Buzz July 12, 2012

Delray businessman and former political candidate Nick Loeb got engaged Tuesday to Sofia Vergara. Sun-Sentinel Executive Editor Antonio FIns, will resign to be Executive Director of the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation. Ellyn Okrent was appointed Executive Director of the Florence Fuller Child Development Centers. If you are going to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts or Discovery Center, be sure to try the Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House, just east of the MODS for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Amazing food with reasonable prices. Check out the menu at www.o-bhouse.com or call 954.530.7520. Philippe by Philippe Chow Restaurant on Palmetto Park Road has closed, after less than a full year of operations. Operation Homefront-Florida needs volunteers to pickup donated school supplies from area Dollar Tree stores that will be distributed to military children in late July and early August. Dollar Tree locations through out the area are collecting donations from generous customers at the cashier check out station. The collection period will runs to August 6, 2012. Volunteers will designate which location(s) they would like to pickup donations from. To register, visit www.backtoschoolbrigade.net. Donations will be used to fill backpacks for military children as part of Operation Homefront’s Back to School Brigade. The Brigade provides military children the opportunity to start school with all the supplies they need to be successful. Operation Homefront delivered over $2.5 million in school supplies to military children. Remember Castro convertibles? They are now back. Go to www.castroconvertiblesusa.com to order. Wayne Barton Study Center is collecting back to school supplies. Info at www.waynebartonstudycenter.org. Barry Epstein Live internet television show airs Friday at 10 a.m. on www.wrpbitv.com featuring Kathryn Dressler, Social Media, Communications and Promotions Coordinator for the Museum of Discovery and Science along with traveling Zoo Keeper Sandy Mangold with a live Gecko, former State Senator and State Attorney candidate Dave Aronberg and Sun-Sentinel columnist Kingsley Guy. Watch to win free tickets to the Cinemark theatres to see Ice Age, which is the only movie opening at the Cinemark Theatres on Friday or any other movie you choose. The Immigrant and Backwards in High Heels are at the Stage Door Theatre 8036 W. Sample Road, Coral Springs Don’t miss the true story of an Immigrant coming to Texas. Call 954.344.7765 for ticket information. Jesus Christ Superstar will be at the Count de Hoernle theatre, 7901 N. Fed. Hwy. Boca through July 15. Go to http://www.entractetheatrix.org/ for ticket prices, reservations and further information or call 561.366.9033. Cabaret Verboten is at the Arts Garage, 180 NE 1st Street through July 29. Tickets are $20 to $35. Call 561.450.6357 or visit www.artsgarage.org. Aladdin and His Magic Lamp is at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park Community Center, 300 S. Military Trail, Friday July 13-Sunday July 15. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Call 561.347.3948 or visit www.willowtheatre.org for further information and seating chart. Fifteen Boca restaurants will compete in a Boca Burger Battle: A Grilling Affair at Sanborn Square July 14 from 7 to 11 p.m. Tickets are $50 advance at www.bocaburgerbattle.com or $75 that evening which includes food, wine and spirits. Gold Coast Public Relations Council hosts “Meet the Editors” July 17 11:30 a.m. at NCCI Holdings, 901 Peninsula Corporate Circle. Visit www.goldcoastprcouncil.com or email gcprc@gmail.com for further information. The Levis JCC hosts the second annual “Run, Sweat & Beers “ benefit 5k run/walk on July 19 at 7 p.m. in the South County Regional Park, West Boca. Fee is $30. Register at www.levisjcc.org/5k. The first 400 registered runners get a shirt. Axl and Oliver Vinograd, varsity golf brothers at Spanish River High School will host their first annual Kids Cancer Foundation Golf Tournament Fundraiser on July 29 at Boca Greens Country Club. Scramble shotgun start is 1 p.m. followed by a reception and raffle ceremony at 6 p.m. Email axlboca10@hotmail.com or call 561.350.9519 for more info. On Friday, August 31, the Sunset Cove Amphitheater will host a live concert featuring Sublime with Rome with special guests Cypress Hill, Pepper, and the Dirty Heads. The Boca Raton Theatre Guild’s 2012-2013 season will begin with a comedy, and end with a classic. A.R. Gurneys Sylvia, and Kander & Ebbs Chicago will run in September and March at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park, located at 300 South Military Trail in Boca Raton, just south of Palmetto Park Road. Tickets for Sylvia will go on sale on August 1st, and can be purchased at the Willow Theatre Box office: 561-347-3948. Save the date: "Henrietta, Countess de Hoernle 100th Birthday Gala: Our Legend, Her Legacy" will take place on her birthday, Sept. 24, at Boca West Country Club. The event presenter is The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller. Honorary chairpersons are Christine Lynn and Barbara and Dick Schmidt. Gala chairwoman and vice chairwoman are Commander Isabel K. Paul and Dame Alyce E. Erickson, respectively. Hollywood celebrity couple Giuliana and Bill Rancic will be the keynote speakers at Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation’s 9th Annual Go Pink Luncheon Friday, October 26, 2012 from 11am to 1:30 pm at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. The second Meet Me on the Promenade downtown street festival is Oct. 26 and 27 with a Halloween theme. WWW.WestBocaLeaders.com has openings in some categories. Call 561.852.0000 for further information. If you have foreclosure issues, go to www.finestofsouthflorida.com and call 561.945.0000 for the help you need. You can have your own internet television show very inexpensively. Contact Wayne at wrpbitv@yahoo.com. Birch Communications is a multi-million dollar company with an exclusive wholesale agreement with AT&T. If you would like to save money on your AT&T land phones without changing your numbers, call 561.852.0000. For Al-Anon-meetings in South Palm Beach County, go to www.southpalmbeachafg.org/meeting_list.html Barry Epstein, APR, is a noted public relations, marketing and political consultant based in Boca Raton, president of the Luxury Chamber of Commerce (www.luxurychamber.com), the West Boca Leaders networking group and the founder and former president of the West Boca Chamber of Commerce; with a weekly internet television show on www.wrpbitv.com. Website; www.publicrelations.nu; email: pr@publicre