The water at the city beaches is clean again just in time for the weekend, the library is putting $55,000 behind an artist who wants its atrium windows, and a 1939 building downtown gave up its apartments to get a restaurant.

Let's get into it.

The city lifted its swimming advisory on Thursday afternoon at Spanish River, Red Reef, South Beach and South Inlet Park, after the Florida Department of Health tested the water on Wednesday.

The samples came back at an acceptable level of Enterococcus bacteria under state guidelines.

The advisory had kept swimmers out at all four city beaches.

Your weekend just got its ocean back.

Source: City of Boca Raton

The city opened a $55,000 commission for a temporary artwork across the atrium windows at the Downtown Library, built on memoirs by residents 55 and over with the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

No application fee, and up to three finalists get $2,500 each just for making the shortlist.

Submissions close December 8. The piece goes up in August 2027.

Qualifications only. They do not want a design yet.

Source: City of Boca Raton

The planning board backed a revised plan for the two story 1939 building at 101 E. Palmetto Park Road, next to Sanborn Square, dropping the four studio apartments and turning the ground floor into a restaurant.

The restaurant gets 550 square feet of outdoor seating, and the building still has no parking of its own.

The Community Redevelopment Agency has the final say. Nothing changes outside.

Eighty seven years in, it finally gets a patio.

Source: Boca Daily News

Barrel of Monks hands its Saturday to Parade of Souls and Camelot Days, a travelling ren fest with medieval trivia, a raffle and a costume contest, and then keeps going to eleven. Entry is free and DATURA plays 6 to 9pm.

Two beers land that day and nowhere else: Parade of Souls, an imperial stout, and Camelot Days, an amber lager.

Doors at noon, raffle at 4pm, trivia at 5pm, costume contest and raffle draw at 7pm. Turn up in costume and the bar takes 10% off. See the event.

Barrel of Monks Brewing, 1141 S Rogers Circle #5, Boca Raton. 561-510-1253.

Eleven hours under a roof, on the night the forecast says 70%.

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FAU opens The Reunion, its homecoming picnic, on the outdoor basketball courts this afternoon, in the one week a year the campus is worth crossing town for.

Five hours on the courts, nothing to buy and nothing to RSVP for.

It runs 2 to 7pm, so it works as an afternoon or as the start of a night. Claim a free ticket.
FAU outdoor basketball courts, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton.

Go straight from work. It is still running at seven.

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Randy Goodman, who has played Caesars Palace, The Bellagio and MGM Grand, does mind reading and psychological illusion in a cabaret room where every seat is close. Bar and doors at 6pm, show at 7pm.
The Club Room at The Studio, 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. 954-910-5826.

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Fritz Lang's 1927 silent masterpiece gets a live score at the Willow Theatre, 7pm, $15.
Willow Theatre, 300 S Military Trail, Boca Raton.

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The Listeso String Quartet plays fourteen horror film scores by candlelight, Thriller and Tubular Bells through the Psycho prelude and Danse Macabre. Doors 7:45pm for an 8:30pm start, sixty minutes, seats zoned $22.80 to $54.40. One seating only, and there is no other Boca date until November.
St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, 100 NE Mizner Blvd, Boca Raton.

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Patch Reef Park opens its Community Accessibility Program tonight, 6 to 8pm, with a sensory room, drop in open play and sensory friendly equipment. Regular hours start Saturday, Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 7pm, and membership is free to apply for.
Patch Reef Park, 2000 Yamato Road, Boca Raton. 561-367-7034.

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Life's a Beach runs 10am to 4pm inside Historic Town Hall, a hundred years of coastline with vintage swimwear and photomurals. Indoors all three days.
Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum, Historic Town Hall, Boca Raton.

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Community Greening opens its tree nursery for a volunteer morning, 9 to 11am, free.
Community Greening nursery, 22313 Boca Rio Rd, Boca Raton.

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Life's a Beach is open 10am to 4pm and it is indoors, which a 60% Saturday is going to want. It runs to February 2027.

Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum, Historic Town Hall, Boca Raton.

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Powered by X runs a free outdoor boot camp 9:30 to 10:30am. Saturday is forecast at 60%, so check before you drive.
Spanish River Park, 3001 N State Rd A1A, Boca Raton.

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Nicole Gasparri leads it 10 to 11am at the South Beach Park Pavilion, every level welcome. Outdoors, same forecast.
South Beach Park Pavilion, Boca Raton.

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Kickoff against Rice is 12pm.
Flagler Credit Union Stadium, Boca Raton.

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The Fashion Arts Sewing Studio runs a basics class 1 to 2:30pm, indoors, and you leave with the thing you made.
The Fashion Arts Sewing Studio, 7025 Beracasa Way #206, Boca Raton.

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The October Full Moon session at Red Reef Park runs 6 to 7:15pm and a seat is $25.31. Saturday evening is forecast at 70% with gusts to 31, and the brewery above has a roof and runs to eleven.
Red Reef Park, 1400 N Ocean Blvd, Boca Raton.

Sunday is forecast at 90% rain with gusts to 37. The good news is that it hands you three free indoor classes before lunch, all of them in The Move below.

Vuori and Slash Fitness run full body strength 9 to 11am, free and indoors, class to ten then shopping and refreshments to eleven. Boca is the only Florida date on their calendar. Bring a mat.
Vuori, Town Center at Boca Raton, 6000 Glades Rd, Boca Raton.

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The second annual Power of Sports 5K and Wellness Social goes off at 9am, packet pick up from 7:30am, and its own page says rain or shine. The Wellness Social on its own is free, the 5K with it is $45, and it benefits Bigger Than Sports.
Lynn University, 3601 N Military Trail, Boca Raton.

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Intro to Kayaking runs 9 to 10:30am on open water, with gusts forecast to 37. Whether it sails is their call, so ring first.
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, Boca Raton.

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The Beauty Social Awards hands out awards to the people who actually do the hair, lashes and brows here, 5 to 11pm, $34.26, with a glam night built around it.
99 SE 1st Ave, Boca Raton.

Tiki Coffee and Desserts is a dessert counter downtown that sources halal, and it is open 11am to midnight every day of the week. Readers have it at 5.0 from 27 on Yelp.

The Dubai knafa with pistachio and Nutella crepe is their marked bestseller, shredded kataifi and chocolate folded into a crepe.

It is $17. The knafa on its own is $13, a strawberry cup $16, the OG latte $8, a waffle stick $8. Delivery is $7.99 and free over $40. See the dessert menu.
Tiki Coffee and Desserts, 1501 NW 2nd Ave Ste 4, Boca Raton. 561-213-9673.

Eleven at night is the correct time for this.

Lyndsi L opened Blo Boca in Regency Court at Woodfield in June 2024, the first of several she is planning in the county. It is a blow dry bar rather than a salon, so you book a style off a menu and walk out with it.

They are booking Halloween glam right now, and the makeup menu runs from a full face down to just the lashes.

A blow out is $55, with a braid $65, with a head massage $65, and a customized look runs $85 to $99. Full face makeup is $75, lashes on their own $15. Open 8am to 6pm Monday to Thursday, 8am to 7pm Friday and Saturday, and 10am to 5pm Sunday. See the full menu.
Blo Boca, 3013 W Yamato Rd Suite B-4, Boca Raton. 561-367-3919.

Sunday hair, and nobody has to know how you got it.

Composure Club is a fourteen thousand square foot private club that has not opened yet, and on Sunday it opens the doors for one free class. The Ascend is bodyweight HIIT, and the bands and mats are provided.

You get inside before the members do, and it ends with coffee from Mane Coffee and a B12 shot from The Biostation.

11am Sunday, free, and the RSVP is required because the space is capped. Founder David Somberg built it around six rooms rather than a gym floor: turf lanes, a movement studio, a contrast suite with cold plunge and sauna, a treatment room, a cafe, and a butterfly sanctuary for sound baths. See the club.
Composure Club, 500 NE Spanish River Boulevard, Boca Raton.

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Boca Yoga Club meets inside lululemon at Town Center, 9:30 to 11am with doors at 9:20, an all levels vinyasa led by ambassador Kim Rose, juice from Frank's Authentic Juice after. Vuori runs free full body strength in the same mall at 9am. Both are free and both are indoors.
lululemon, Town Center at Boca Raton, 6000 Glades Road #1148C, Boca Raton.

Three free classes before lunch, on the wettest day of the weekend.

Varley is new at Town Center. Lara Mead started the label in London in 2014, and it is built for how women actually dress now, not gym clothes pretending to be clothes.

They have ten stores in the country and this is the only one in Florida.

The Barker high neck sweat is $168, the Hawley half zip $148, the Sally half zip $158, the wide leg pant $132, the Orlen rain jacket $320. Their DoubleSoft line is the one to touch first. Open 10am to 9pm Monday to Saturday and 11am to 7pm Sunday. See the store.
Varley, Town Center at Boca Raton, 6000 Glades Rd, Boca Raton. 561-752-7498.

Sunday afternoon is the quiet hour to go.

Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall opens at South Florida PBS in Boynton Beach on the morning this issue lands, an immersive walk through sixty years in the field. It runs to January 24 2027.

This is the first weekend it exists, and every hour of it is indoors.

General admission is $45, seniors, students, military and first responders $38, children 3 to 12 $22. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:30am to 5pm, which covers the worst of Sunday. Get tickets.

South Florida PBS, 3401 S Congress Ave, Boynton Beach. 561-274-8309.

A short drive north, and dry the whole way through.

Drip Envy runs two things out of one suite. Physician guided peptides, GLP-1, BPC-157 and NAD+, shipped cold to your door, and nurse administered IV therapy in a walk in lounge with recliners.

A registered nurse takes vitals and a questionnaire before anything goes in, and the concierge fee is one flat rate that covers everyone in the room.

Twelve published drip formulations run $249 to $649. Concierge at home or at a hotel is a flat $75 a visit for the whole group. Walk ins are welcome, 9am to 6pm Friday and Saturday, closed Sunday. They hold 5.0 from 7 on ClassPass and 5.0 from 4 on Yelp, both thin counts. See what they run.
Drip Envy, 3200 N Federal Hwy Suite 107, Boca Raton. 561-408-4800.

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