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Forget LA and NYC: This is the New Maker Hotspot

A small city in South Florida is an under-the-radar, up-and-coming hotbed of makers. Miami obviously has a huge arts scene. Locals know that Ft. Lauderdale does, too. But Lake Worth, in Palm Beach County, is the one to watch. It's a city on the verge.

The Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency has received over $23 million in grants from HUD to improve blighted areas of the city as part of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. They've used the money to...

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Live music: Violinist mixes classical, hip-hop in Lake Worth show

There's an under-the-radar concert series in a two-story condo complex on Lucerne Avenue in Lake Worth, and it's west of Dixie Highway and the downtown area. That's where violinist Gareth Johnson (garethjohnson.org) — who earned his master's from the Lynn Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton — has resided and presented his monthly downstairs "Parlor Series" since last summer.

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Artist's creatures are ugly inside and out

Woody Othello's new installation at Unit 1 gallery in Lake Worth is a living room filled with odd and grotesque creatures who fritter away their lives and dwell in mediocrity. One stoneware sculpture, a figure with black, saucerlike eyes, is sprawled on a section of hardwood floor, gazing at a gold watch. His skin tone is chalky gray and medicinal green, his toenails dark and gangrenous, his bald cranium enlarged and pointed. Another creature with jaundiced skin stands on an end table, joined by a pair of frowning, unscrupulous-looking cohorts with red and purple skin.

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Cultural Council of Palm Beach County: Art goes green with new exhibit

Art goes green at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County's newest exhibit "Re-purposed/Re-seen." The council reached out to local artists to create art with recycled objects for the show. Different techniques such as collage, painting and assembling various materials were used.

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