SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6 - SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
Happy Sunday, 561.
Labor Day lands tomorrow, and this issue is built for it: one more day at Rapids Water Park, a glowing jellyfish room across from the Pompano Pier, and a 14-seat wine room hidden inside a Boca brewery. One money note while you plan the fall: Brightline is running $15 one-way SMART fares on select off-peak Friday, Saturday and Sunday trains between the five South Florida stations, Boca Raton included. You have to book at least two hours ahead, buy by October 31, and finish the trip by November 1. It does not cover Orlando.
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The glowing jellyfish room 25 minutes south of Boca
The Jellyfish Museum sits at 199 N Ocean Blvd, a short walk from the Pompano Beach Pier, and the AP picked it up in August as what the city and its founders believe is the first museum in the country devoted entirely to jellyfish. It keeps up to 25 species, with around 20 on display at any given time in backlit tanks, and it rotates the collection every six to eight months. General admission is $23. Florida residents pay $21, but only Monday through Friday, since there is no resident rate on Saturday or Sunday. Ages two and under are free. Doors are 10 am to 7 pm daily with last entry at 6:30. Two things that catch people: the guided tour fee is charged separately from admission, and tickets are non-refundable, though you can move your date free up to 24 hours out.
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Lions out the windshield: the drive-through safari 50 minutes from Boca
Lion Country Safari is open every day of the year except Thanksgiving, holidays included, so it is one of the few big family days out that is actually running on Labor Day Monday. You drive your own car through the preserve and the last car is admitted at 4:30 pm. Check what you are driving before you go, because convertibles, motorcycles, soft-top Jeeps and low-clearance cars are not allowed through, and windows and sunroofs stay closed the whole way. The park is cashless, so bring a card. One note on the money: the Monday through Thursday rate of $50 and $39 plus tax excludes select holiday periods and special events, so Labor Day itself is unlikely to qualify. Go the following week instead if the price is the point.
Read the Full Story → · Tickets →A mile and a half of boardwalk over a living wetland on Hagen Ranch Rd
Green Cay Nature Center & Wetlands runs about a mile and a half of elevated boardwalk over 100 acres of constructed wetland on Hagen Ranch Rd in Boynton, with wading birds working the shallows a few feet below the rail. It is not one long loop, it is a half-mile loop and a mile loop off a central spine, so walking the outer edges of both is roughly 1.2 miles. The whole thing is free and so is the parking. The boardwalk is open sunrise to sunset every day; the nature center and its live-animal exhibit room run Wednesday through Saturday, 9 am to 3 pm. You do not need to drive to the Everglades to see an alligator: the levee that cuts across the middle of the wetland is a known sunning spot, so watch the banks. Go at first light this week, less for the heat than the afternoon storms. No dogs, no bikes, no food on the boardwalk and no jogging, all posted. There is also utility work on Hagen Ranch Rd right now, so give yourself an extra ten minutes on a weekday morning.
Read the Full Story → · Park Info →Luke Bryan plays the amphitheatre off Sansburys Way on Saturday
The Word On The Street tour hits the big West Palm amphitheatre at 7 pm Saturday, with Randall King, Lauren Watkins and Lanie Gardner opening, so 7 pm actually means something here. It anchors our full weekend plan, which is live now: a French bakery morning on Jog Rd in west Delray, a world-championship Neapolitan pie on Okeechobee Blvd, and a free drop-in sketching afternoon inside the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Tickets are on Ticketmaster, and the venue is mobile entry only, so download yours before you leave the house.
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That is a black and white cookie, rebuilt as a cake. Rosh Hashanah pre-orders close this week.
The Mini Black and White Cake stacks vanilla cake, chocolate cake and marshmallow buttercream under that icing and it serves 6 to 10. It sits on the High Holidays menu at Sugar Hi Boca in Regency Court at Woodfield, next to the round challah, rugelach, chocolate or birthday cake (!!) babka and Shana Tova platters.
Rosh Hashanah starts at sundown Friday. The round challah needs two days' notice and the rest of the menu at least one, so Wednesday, September 9 is the last day to order challah for Friday pickup. Pickup runs Thursday 9/10 through Saturday 9/12, pre-orders are final, and the kitchen is nut-free. Their tip, not ours: order two challahs and make French toast the next morning.
See the Rosh Hashanah menu →A hidden wine room just opened inside Prosperity Brewers
The nanobrewery on NW 1st Ave in the ROC Urban warehouse district added the Prosperity Wine Room on August 26, and it is a separate room from the taproom with its own hours and fourteen seats total. The list is 100 wines under $100 spanning every major wine region, and 25 of those pour by the glass through a Coravin, which is how a room that size can open a serious bottle for one glass. Tastings run the first and third Wednesday of the month, 6 to 9 pm: six wines for $20 with a $10 credit toward any bottle featured that night. Note the taproom next door keeps different hours, so check which one you are actually going to before you drive over.
Read the Full Story → · Prosperity →| → | Rapids Water Park (Riviera Beach) Open on Labor Day, gates at 10 am, and Monday closes out the four-day run. The park stays open Friday through Monday into the fall, but closing time moves around by date, so pull up the hours calendar before you plan dinner after. Parking is $20 bought online and the whole park is cashless. One deadline worth knowing: the 2027 season pass sale, which throws in the rest of 2026 free, ends Labor Day. Our guide · rapidswaterpark.com |
| → | Flagler Museum at Whitehall (Palm Beach) There is an 1886 private railcar parked in a glass pavilion behind the house at One Whitehall Way, and the same $28 ticket that gets you into Whitehall gets you aboard it. Docent tours and parking are both free with admission. Open Tuesday to Saturday 10 to 5 and Sunday 12 to 5, closed Mondays. Fully air conditioned, which in September counts for a lot. Our guide · flaglermuseum.org |
| → | Umoja McNeish at Arts Garage (Delray Beach) Violins Reimagined, live at 94 NE 2nd Ave in downtown Delray this Saturday, Sept 12, 8 to 10 pm. Tickets run $43 to $48. Box office is open Tuesday to Saturday, 1 to 5 pm. 📅 Add to Calendar |
Thu 10 Sep |
🎶 Clematis by Night: Brothers of Others FREECENTENNIAL SQUARE & GREAT LAWN · DOWNTOWN WEST PALM BEACH The city's free Thursday concert series on the waterfront keeps rolling, 6 to 9 pm, with Brothers of Others on the stage. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket and stay for the breeze off the Intracoastal. 📅 Add to Calendar |
Thu 10 Sep |
🎤 Kehlani at iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre 🎟 TICKETSITHINK FINANCIAL AMPHITHEATRE · 601-7 SANSBURYS WAY, WEST PALM BEACH Kehlani stops at the big amphitheatre off Sansburys Way on Thursday night. Tickets through the venue. It is a mobile-entry, cashless venue with a clear bag policy, so sort all three out before you get in the car. 📅 Add to Calendar |
Sat 12 Sep |
🎨 Family Fun Day: Dragonfly Clip at Morikami WITH ADMISSIONMORIKAMI MUSEUM · 4000 MORIKAMI PARK RD, DELRAY BEACH Kids design and build their own dragonfly clip in the Kamiya Room, noon to 3 pm, included with museum admission (adults 18+ $18, kids 6-17 $12, 5 and under free, before tax). The gardens off Jog Rd in west Delray are the rest of the afternoon. Last admission ticket sells at 4:30. 📅 Add to Calendar |
Fri 18 Sep |
🎭 From Cuba, With Love at Arts Garage TICKETS FROM $50ARTS GARAGE · 94 NE 2ND AVE, DELRAY BEACH A one-man show in the intimate room a block off Atlantic, subtitled The Story of a Peter Pan Kid. Dr. Manuel Prestamo tells his own story as one of the more than 14,000 children sent alone from Cuba to the U.S. through Operation Pedro Pan in the early 1960s. 8 to 9:15 pm. Tickets $50 to $55. 📅 Add to Calendar |
Sat 19 Sep |
🌊 International Coastal Cleanup at Spanish River Park FREESPANISH RIVER PARK · 3001 N STATE ROAD A1A, BOCA RATON · 8-11 AM Boca's leg of the worldwide beach and mangrove cleanup on A1A, 8 to 11 am. Free tee shirts while supplies last and community service hours given. All ages, but anyone under 18 has to take part with a registered parent or guardian, so no drop-offs. Space is limited, so call 561-544-8612 to reserve a spot. 📅 Add to Calendar |
Wed 23 Sep |
🎤 Wu-Tang Clan & Bone Thugs-N-Harmony at iTHINK 🎟 TICKETSITHINK FINANCIAL AMPHITHEATRE · 601-7 SANSBURYS WAY, WEST PALM BEACH Wu-Tang and Bone Thugs share the West Palm amphitheatre stage on a Wednesday night, 7:30 pm show. Tickets through the venue. 📅 Add to Calendar |
Fri-Sun 25-27 Sep |
🍲 West Palm Beach Asian Night Market FREENANCY M. GRAHAM CENTENNIAL SQUARE · 100 N CLEMATIS ST, WEST PALM BEACH Three afternoons and evenings of Asian street food, desserts, night-market shopping and cultural performances at Centennial Square downtown. Admission is free; you pay for what you eat. The listing has floated a couple of different start times, so check it the week of before you build an evening around it. 📅 Add to Calendar |
Wed 14 Oct |
💍 Ladies Night Out at Mindy's Munchies $100 PER PERSONMINDY'S MUNCHIES · 2901 CLINT MOORE RD, BOCA RATON · 7:30-9 PM The Clint Moore Rd candy shop teams up with Beading BFFs for a beads-and-bites evening: sushi, salad, chocolate and sweet treats, BYOB, and you leave with a necklace you strung yourself, up to two charms included. Space is limited, so reserve by emailing [email protected]. 📅 Add to Calendar |
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