A private club with a speakeasy on the fifth floor cleared its first vote downtown, Monday is the last day to register if you want a say in November, and the city just put out a Halloween calendar with a wiener dog race in it.

Let's get into it.

The city's planning and zoning board signed off unanimously on an eight story, 54,681 square foot private social and wellness club beside Sanborn Square, with a rooftop and 85 automated underground valet spaces.

The fifth floor alone holds a wine cellar, a speakeasy, a card room, an Asian-infused restaurant and a library.

It goes to the CRA next. Plenty of time to find a member who likes you.

Source: WPTV

Monday, October 5 is the deadline to register for the November 3 general election, online at RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov, by mail, or in person.

Register by Monday, October 5, or you are not voting on November 3.

Three days. One form. No excuse that will sound good in November.

Source: BocaNewsNow

Howl-O-Ween runs Saturday, October 24 from 9am to noon at Countess de Hoernle Park, with a dog show at 9:30, a wiener dog race at 10:30 and the costume contest at 11:30.

It is free, there is no RSVP, and there is a paw spa doing nail trims.

Most of the October calendar is free too. Spooky tennis on the 30th is $30.

Source: City of Boca Raton

FAU women's volleyball hosts Temple at 6pm, and every home match is free admission. It is the conference opener, so the student section actually turns up.

Abessinio Court at Eleanor R. Baldwin Arena, 777 Glades Rd.

Also Friday: the Friday Night Artisan Market runs 5pm to 10pm in the Boca Center courtyard, free to browse. Dive-In Movie Night at the Meadows Park pool, 7:30pm to 10:30pm, free, watch from the water or the deck with food trucks parked up. Carrie: The Musical opens at 7pm in FAU's black box studio, telekinesis at close range, through Oct 11. Joe Marcinek Band with Brock Butler at the Funky Biscuit, $25 to $40, doors 8pm, and a free happy hour set with Twocan Blue at 5pm. Girlfriend Material at Crazy Uncle Mike's, 8:30pm. Biergarten has a live band on and happy hour runs 4pm to 7pm before it starts.

Shops at Boca Center, 5050 Town Center Circle. Meadows Park, 1300 NW 8th St.

Passport to Pours gives you sixteen sample pours and a stamp book for $58. Twelve country-themed bars out on the lawn, 5pm to 10pm, 21 and over with ID, and it raises money for a senior dog rescue. The non-drinking ticket is $24.

Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real.

Also Saturday: FAU football vs Texas Southern at 6pm is the Pink Game for Breast Cancer Awareness, tickets from $15, wear pink. Karen Rontowski's psychic standup at The Studio, 7:30pm, comedy then live tarot from the audience. Kim Waters plays two separate sets at the Funky Biscuit, 6pm and 9pm. Fushu Daiko taiko drumming at the Willow Theatre, 1pm or 7pm, $15. Lynn women's soccer hosts Eckerd at 6pm. The history museum is free all day, 10am to 4pm, and Biergarten has another band on.

Volleyball is free again at 1pm, this time against Rice. Sunday afternoon start, out in time for dinner, and Rice is the better of the two visitors.

Abessinio Court at Eleanor R. Baldwin Arena, 777 Glades Rd.

Also Sunday: two markets run the same hours, 9am to 1pm, both free. The Boca Green Market is produce, flowers and handmade things, and the Boca Farmers Market runs ninety-odd vendors. Biergarten's happy hour goes all day Sunday, which almost nobody knows. The Lynn Philharmonia matinee is at 3pm with a tuba concerto, which you will not hear twice. Carrie matinee at 2pm. Grateful Sundaze at Crazy Uncle Mike's, 7pm, a rotating Dead jam that is never the same lineup.

5th Ave Shops, 1954 NE 5th Ave. Boca Raton Innovation Campus, 4950 Communication Ave.

Boca Fish House is Chef Daniel Cournoyer's place, and if that name rings a bell it is because he ran Blue Moon Fish Company for years. The kitchen is open to the dining room, so you watch the thing being cooked.

The sautéed Chilean sea bass with potato gnocchi and wild mushrooms is $48, the grilled salmon is $36, and oysters are $4 each.

Boca Fish House, 7050 W Palmetto Park Rd Ste 31. 561-372-9112.

Dinner only, closed Mondays, and reservations go through a human on the phone.

Joseph's Classic Market is a gourmet grocery with a real deli counter behind it, doing New York slices, hand-tossed pies, strombolis and sandwiches built to order. The butcher case is Certified Angus, hand cut daily.

Every sandwich and wrap on the board is $12.99.

The one to get is the Melanzana Caprese, breaded eggplant Milanese with their own mozzarella, marinated roasted red peppers, arugula and pesto aioli. Feeding a crowd, the grilled chicken party sub starts at $45.98.

Joseph's Classic Market, 6000 Glades Rd. 561-347-2314.

Open till eight most nights, six on Sunday.

Bliss Salon is a women's salon, but the men's haircut sits right there on the same price list, so the two of you can book together and get it done in one trip instead of two errands. They also post three stylist levels with the reasoning for each, so you know who is holding the scissors before you book.

A women's cut starts at $90 and a men's cut at $55, and booking a Mentee means you pay less and get more attention.

Bliss Salon, 17940 N Military Trail Ste 200. 561-988-8989.

Full highlights run from $215, so build in the time and the budget before you sit down.

Boca Beauty Academy runs a campus salon that is open to anybody, walk in or book ahead. The work is done by students, and their own line on it is that they are trained and supervised by licensed teachers.

Classic facial $45, hydrafacial $75, makeup application $35.

The board goes a lot further down than that: microdermabrasion $85, a glycolic peel $65, a brow wax $15. Call for salon times, because the hours posted online are the admissions ones.

Boca Beauty Academy, 7820 Glades Rd. 561-487-1191.

Girl Next Door Fitness is out in Sandalfoot and it is adults only. Everyone starts in the same place: first-timers have to take the Homeroom intro class before anything else, so nobody walks into a room already mid-routine.

New clients get three classes for $45 instead of $85, or ten for $150, good for two months.

Girl Next Door Fitness, 23103 Sandal Foot Plaza Dr. 561-766-3600.

They are in the International Pole Sport Federation dictionary for a trick they invented, so the instruction is real.

Niko's is Nikolay Kovalevich's gym and the credentials are not decoration: 2003 Muay Thai world champion, European champion the year before, and fighters out of UFC, ONE and Bellator have trained under him. There is jiu jitsu too, under a third-degree black belt.

The first class is free and a drop-in is $50.

Spend the free one on boxing, kickboxing or jiu jitsu, whichever you were actually curious about. Months run $220 with a $100 signup, and they want a call before you turn up so the timings are right.

Niko's Muay Thai, 23123 State Road 7 Ste 106. 754-399-9477.

An independent optical boutique with over a thousand frames and a lab on the premises, which is why they can do emergency and same-day work when a chain would mail your glasses away for two weeks.

They will put new prescription lenses into frames you already own, even frames you did not buy there, and some repairs are done while you wait.

Eye Catchers Optique, 318 E Palmetto Park Rd. 561-338-0081.

Family-owned out west since 2003, and the web shop is a fraction of the floor. Over a thousand mezuzahs in glass, stone, lucite and epoxy, and challah boards from $58 up to $155 for the leatherette with the tray.

Their own rule, printed plainly: pick up only, nothing ships. So it is a Saturday errand, not a tab you leave open.

Cohen's Judaica, 8903 Glades Rd Ste H-12. 561-488-2028.

The label has a store here, and what it is worth going in for is leather. Fall 2026 is what is on the floor now, and the edits running at the moment are built around leather and suede dresses around $698.

Dresses start at $168, and the sale rack drops to $161.

No hours are published anywhere, not on their site and not in the plaza directory, so call before you drive over. The phone that answers is the New York office, weekdays 9am to 5pm.

Walter Baker, 340 Esplanade Ste 55. 212-300-4353.

The Added Touch has been open for fifty years, which in a Boca plaza is close to geological. Their own line on it, printed on the homepage: we have been in business for 50 years so there's gotta be a reason.

Dresses run $84 and the leggings start at $48.

What they are actually known for is Strap-Its, the one-size seamless bras with swappable decorative straps built for off-the-shoulder and open-back dresses, twelve attachable styles at $39, and they claim the largest collection of them anywhere. Returns run 21 days.

The Added Touch, 8177 W Glades Rd Ste 5. 561-347-1993.

Open till six Monday to Saturday, four on Sunday.

Not Boca, close enough to be worth the drive. On Sunday the Coco Market Wellness Festival runs 9am to 3pm at the Delray Beach Amphitheater with yoga, meditation and sound baths all day, plus massage and energy work.

All of it is free, including the classes.

Friday is the First Friday Art Walk, 6pm to 9pm, galleries with the artists in them, free, and this month there is live portrait sketching. Over at Arts Garage you can bring your own food and wine to the table: The Blues Brothers Soul Band Friday at 8pm from $55.50, a Foreigner and Bad Company double bill Saturday at 8pm from $48, and Nat King Cole done by Julius Sanna Sunday at 7pm from $50.50.

Old School Square, 51 N Swinton Ave, Delray Beach. Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave, Delray Beach.

One tank of gas, and nobody checks whether you live there.

Season runs to the end of November, which is long enough for one more bad week. Caldwell Roofing has been family-run here since the 1980s and holds state license CCC-033696.

Their printed rule is the useful bit: every roof is installed by their own crews, never subcontractors.

Caldwell Roofing, 103 NW 43rd St. 561-392-0971.

Worth knowing the answer before the week you need it.

Boca Impact Window & Door is family-owned with its own install crews and no subcontractors, fitting PGT and CGI units. They take part in the My Safe Florida Home program, which matters if you are chasing that grant.

A two-year labor warranty, stated plainly on their own site.

The units carry the manufacturer's warranty on top of that. License CGC1520762 is current and active on the state record, in Matthew Hillstrom's name at the same address they publish.

Boca Impact Window & Door, 3601 N Dixie Hwy Bay 17. 561-556-4539.

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The volleyball is free on Friday and free again on Sunday, so you can find out whether you actually like going to things before you spend $58 on a stamp book and sixteen pours on Saturday night. Wear pink if you are doing the football too.

Everything else here keeps. The fish house takes reservations by phone, the salon will put two of you in chairs at once, and the roofer is a call you make now so you are not making it in a storm.

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