Mark Gauert

2 days ago | sun-sentinel.com | Mark Gauert

Work in the South Florida Sun Sentinel‘s suite of magazines, City & Shore, City & Shore PRIME and Explore Florida & the Caribbean, has won nine awards in statewide journalism competitions. Explore Florida & the Caribbean, the magazine’s travel issue in collaboration with the Orlando Sentinel, won first place in the Niche Site/App category from the Florida Society of News Editors; and first place in the Special Sections category from the Florida Press Club.

1 week ago | sun-sentinel.com | Mark Gauert

I don’t like what’s happened to light. You know, light, as in “let it shine on you,” “trip fantastic” and “let there be’’ light. That light. Because something has happened to light – or at least lighting – over the past few years. I remember flying home and seeing miles of amber lights glowing up from South Florida through the window of the plane. It looked soft and welcoming down there. Like home.

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Mark Gauert

The curtain may have dropped on the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach, but the show of great ideas for home design and decor goes on in the April HOME Issue of City & Shore magazine. “One of the fun things about visiting someone’s home is getting to see what they’ve done with the place,” says Greg Carannante about his story from the eighth annual show, a fundraiser for the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County.

1 month ago | sun-sentinel.com | Mark Gauert

My dad, the 92-year-old doctor, is on the phone. “You hyper-extended the tip of your finger?” he says. “I did,” I say. “It’s in a brace now.’’“The middle finger of your right hand,” he says, “is in a brace now?’’“Yes,” I say. “It is.”“Just the one?” he says, and I can tell he’s about to laugh. “It’s not funny!” I say. “My middle finger sticks up all the time now!”“All the time?”“Well, for at least the next six to eight weeks,” I say.

1 month ago | sun-sentinel.com | Mark Gauert

March is PRIME time for City & Shore magazine, featuring our cover interview with bestselling Florida author Carl Hiaasen. Decades before the memes and punchlines, the Broward native spawned a fictional franchise populated by preposterous oddballs, bottom-feeders and other shadowy denizens of the Sunshine State. He’ll bring his singular brand of satirical wit March 6 to the Festival of the Arts Boca, in advance of a new novel – “Fever Beach,” his 32nd book – publishing in May.