Beach chair rentals are holding at ten dollars an hour, the council is deciding whether to leave a seat empty until March, and parking at the beach costs more starting Thursday.

Let's get into it.

The city re-signed Oceanside Beach Service for the chairs and umbrellas at South Beach, Red Reef and Spanish River parks, and the rates are not moving. Boca expects $185,000 out of it in year one.

A lounge, cabana or umbrella is $10 an hour or $30 all day, and an umbrella for the whole year is $300.

That is real money in forgotten beach chairs.

Source: Boca Daily News

Yvette Drucker leaves the council on November 10 to run for county clerk, and the council is deciding whether to appoint anyone before the March 9 election. Mayor Andy Thomson wants it filled so votes cannot deadlock.

Councilwoman Michelle Grau put the whole job at maybe eight meetings, which is what an appointee would actually sit through.

They decide within two weeks whether anybody gets to apply.

Source: Boca Daily News

On October 1 a weekday beach day goes from $35 to $40, weekends and holidays go from $50 to $55, and the resident annual permit goes from $85 to $90. The gatehouses stop taking cash the same morning.

Buy the annual permit today or tomorrow and you still pay $85. From Thursday it is $90, and it is cards, Apple Pay or Google Pay only.

The chairs held their price. The parking did not.

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Pamela Passaretta runs Poets on the Fringe, a weekly poetry workshop where you read your own work out loud and the room tells you what landed. The invitation is open to poets established and emerging. She ran the same thing in Washington, DC for ten years before she ran it here.

Free. 3:30pm to 5:45pm. 18 and up. Spanish River Library, 1501 NW Spanish River Blvd.

No reservation, and the seats go. Early is the move.

FAU's Paradise Patrol takes over American Social in Mizner Park for taco tuesday and giveaways, landing exactly in the gap between leaving work and deciding what to do with your night. You do not need the degree.

Free. 4:30pm to 6:30pm. American Social, Mizner Park, 351 W Plaza Real Unit 315.

No ticket, no list, and the patio is the good part.

Sicilian Oven puts its drink specials across the whole restaurant instead of penning them into the bar, and the window opens at 11:30am and does not shut until 7. Wood fired kitchen, so order The Boss with the rice balls and the house Sicilian salad.

Monday to Friday, 11:30am to 7pm. $6 well cocktails, $8 select spirits, $3 off wine by the glass, $1 off every beer.

Sicilian Oven, 21170 St. Andrews Blvd Ste 9. 561-750-9772.

That is not a happy hour. That is a shift.

All About Aesthetics sells monthly memberships instead of one-off appointments, which is how you end up with a standing skincare habit rather than a once-a-year panic before an event. Niki Radovic is the board certified nurse practitioner who does the injecting herself, not a name on the door.

A PLUS is $99 a month. A LIST is $275 a month. The TOX membership is $169.

Not signing up for anything? The Hydrafacial is 30 minutes, which fits in a lunch break.

All About Aesthetics, 21301 Powerline Rd Ste 108. 561-757-7391.

Ninety-nine a month is roughly what you already spend on the products that are not working.

Haven Pilates does not make you pick one intro deal. There are four of them and you can work through the lot before you ever buy a membership. Founder Dana Shaked danced professionally and has been teaching for twenty years.

First class $20. Three classes $66. A full unlimited week $74. Private posture assessment $70.

Classes run 50 minutes, with modifications called out for every level, so nobody is watching you fail.

Haven Pilates, 6063 SW 18th St Ste 106.

Seventy-four dollars for a whole week is the cheapest way to find out if you actually like this.

Boca Raton Bridal is 15,000 square feet, the biggest bridal floor in South Florida, and the US flagship for Israeli designer Arava Polak. The rail worth walking in for is the sample rack, where real designer gowns start at $900 and leave with you that afternoon instead of eight months later.

Samples from $900. Gowns $2,000 to $20,000. The VIP Bridal Concierge is $800 and closes the entire showroom for three hours for you and five guests, robe and champagne included.

Galia Lahav, Pnina Tornai, Leah Da Gloria, Dana Harel and Martina Liana all hang under one roof, and it is not only wedding gowns. There is a rail of little white dresses for showers and rehearsal dinners, plus evening and plus size.

Boca Raton Bridal, 3698 N Federal Hwy. 561-447-6541. Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat 10 to 5. Tue and Thu 11 to 7.

Eight hundred dollars to have the place to yourself is the most Boca thing in this issue.

Auto SuperShield has worked out of the same Boca shop since 2002, and the deal on right now is for the one piece of glass that keeps getting hit. Optically clear XPEL film, down from $600 to $450.

The Gold Coating Package is $1,200 for a coupe, $1,350 for a sedan or mid-size SUV, $1,500 for a full-size SUV or truck. One-stage paint correction and a five-year ceramic included.

Do not want to drop the car off? Their detailing unit comes to your driveway.

Auto SuperShield, 4701 N Dixie Hwy. 561-367-0101.

Twenty-four years in one town is its own kind of review.

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Tonight costs nothing either way. The poetry room has been meeting every week since long before you heard of it, and the tacos come with an FAU crowd and no list at the door.

The rest is priced like somebody actually wants you to try it. Twenty bucks to get on a reformer, ninety-nine a month for your skin, and a designer gown off the rack for nine hundred. Pick one and go.

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