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A 2020 gift guide to support South Florida creatives

This is really the year to think k local when it comes to shopping for holiday gifts — your neighbo ors and their businesses are hurting. Of course, shopping local lly may require a little more advance planning, research, strategy and eff ffort. But what better time to stop at that neighborhood spot you’ve beenn meaningmeaning to try or the place a few towns over that your friends have mentioned? Here are eight local gift ideas, with a website and physical address, as appropriate. There may be no better way to get in the holiday spirit than with a little mask-tomask exchange of mutual appreciation.

Put your money where his mouth is

Cruise Bogle is a Delray Beach painter who creates beautiful beach scenes and depictions of ocean life as framed originals and less expensive prints, as well as on T-shirts, tumbler cups and stickers. This winter, your cousin up north needs a shirt with a Cruise Bogle octopus on it (tank top $20.99, long sleeve $39.99). The gift comes with a story, too. Bogle painted these images with his mouth. A skim-boarding accident at age 19 left Bogle paralyzed but undaunted. More than a decade later, Bogle describes himself as a “wheelchair-bound

but mentally free, mouth-painting quadriplegic artist, professional smiler and positive thinker.” All proceeds from the sale of his art and merchandise cover Bogle’s ongoing physical therapy. Visit CruiseBogle.com.

Remember Tortuga?

How about the gift of optimism? The 2021 Tortuga Music Festival is committed to Fort Lauderdale Beach Park on Nov. 12-14, with the same lineup as the COVID-canceled 2020 festival: headliners Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan and Tim McGraw, joined by a strong undercard featuring Morgan Wallen, Jon

Pardi, Pitbull, Barenaked Ladies and others. Tickets are on sale, with a new wrinkle: The daily music schedule is set and

single-day tickets are available now — so if you don’t want to invest $239 for a three-day pass, pick a single day with your favorite acts and spendp $138. Visit TortugaMusicFestival.com.

For the manatee hugger

Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach, which pioneered fish-edible six-pack rings, has a new line of long-sleeve T- shirts made from recycled plastic bottles. The shirts come with UPF 50-plus protection in 20 designs, including several inspired by favorite beers. How can your sister resist putting your nephew in a Sea Cow Milk Stout shirt? Price: $42.95. Keeping those bottles out of the ocean? Priceless. SaltWater Brewery is at 1701 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Visit SaltWaterBrrewery.com.

For the creative type

Sunday, Nov. 29, is Museum

Store Sunday (who knew?), when the shop inside your local museum will offer unique deals on items that will forever rehabilitate your gift-giving reputation. For instance, the store at the Boca Raton Museum of Art has plates, vases and mugs created by Delray Beach ceramic artist Jeff Whyman, inspired by the shell collection that informs his exhibit “Out of Nature.” The museum celebrates these distinc

tive pieces as functional art: “His spouts are twisted, his vases sag and tilt, and his plates are rife with lumpy accretions.” Prices range from $50 to $200.

The store also has artful

face masks ($12-$18);

“Truth Bomb,” a new book about pioneering female artists ($34.95); and many other items. The museum celebrates Museum Store Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., offering 20% off your purchase, a free mask with a purchase of $50 or more, free museum admission

and curbside pickup for phone orders 3-6 p.m. The Boca Raton Museum of Art is at 501 Plaza Real. Visit BocaMuseum.org.

Merry movie night to all

How about a movie night with a group of family, friends or co-workers in an actual theater with a film of your own choosing? (Did someone say “Caddyshack”?) With an eye on creating COVIDsafe entertainment, Coral Gables Art Cinema is

offering a deep theater

rental discount, with a rate of $275 (members $200) for screenings for groups of 20 or fewer. (The typical rate might be twice that much.) You bring the movie on Blu-ray or DVD, and the theater handles the rest (there’s a charge if you need Gables Cinema to find the film for you). For a $5 flat fee each, guests get one candy, a nonalcoholic beverage and popcorn (when purchased for every guest in the party). Concessions also can be purchased a la carte at regular prices, including beer and wine. Time slots are 10 a.m., noon, 1, 5 and 8 p.m. daily, with the theater open 30 minutes in advance, mask and social-distancing protocols in place.

The theater requests that rentals purchased with the pandemic discount be used by mid January. If you can’t wait, Gables Cinema is offering a Black Friday

rental deal of $99 for screenings through Nov. 30. The theater is at 260 Aragon Ave. Visit GablesCinema. com.

Lake Worth quirkiness

Convivio Bookworks, a letterpress and book arts studio in Lake Worth operated by John Cutrone and husband Seth Thompson, revels in the glory of the handmade, including beautiful face masks (created by a family in Chiapas, Mexico), tin ornaments, advent calendars, soaps, prints and cards (one declares Keep Lake Worth Quirky). Their Christmas Stock-up Sale offers $10 off a purchase of $75 or more and free domestic shipping. Visit ConvivioBookworks.com.

Support your local musician

Your favorite South Florida band hasn’t played much or at all, in the past nine months. Many of them have shops on their websites where you can buy vinyl, downloads, artwork and conversation-starting apparel that will make you stand out in a crowd, come the day we crowd together again.

A collection of seasonal joy lifted by a modern musical vibe, the album “Give

Thanks” was released on Nov. 20 by Black

Violin, the internationally acclaimed, classically trained hip-hop duo of Kev

Marcus (violin) and Wil B. (viola). Beyond the music, these former classmates at Fort Lauderdale’s Dillard Center for the Arts are widely respected for their mentorship with low-income students, work worthy of support. Visit BlackViolin.net.

More new music is coming with the Dec. 4 release of “Cliffs,” the debut album from Miami’s

Lemon City Trio. Guitarist Nick Tannura, drummer Aaron Glueckauf and keyboardist Brian

Robertson produce layers of textured grooves that can be soulful and earthy, cinematic and celestial. Highly recommended. Visit LemonCityTrio.com.

For the sports (beer) fan

If you have kids of a certain age, or if you are still a kid of a certain age, you may be interested in the Florida Panthers’ new Reverse Retro jersey.

Because we can’t all be wearing a Tua jersey. Part of an NHL-wide series that honors each club’s history, the Panthers’ version revives the big cat and claws on the front, with a palm tree graphic on the shoulders and a ‘96 on the collar to celebrate the 1996 Stanley Cup Finals team. The jerseys go on sale Dec. 1 and are available for pre-order now at FLATeamShop.com/retro. They cost $210 blank or $260 with player name and number, $90/$120 for youth.

Because most worthwhile things include beer, know that Funky Buddha

Brewery in Oakland Park will celebrate the jersey and their affiliation with the Panthers with a throwback release of their own on Dec. 1. Retro Floridian, a limited-edition nod to the original recipe of the beer that started it all in 2010, will be available in the tap room and at participating South Florida bars and restaurants. While you’re drink-shopping, remember that Funky Buddha also has a merch store. The Funky Buddha Brewery is at 1201 NE 38th St., Oakland Park. Visit FunkyBuddhaBrewery.com.

There are a variety of ways to enjoy the work of Delray Beach artist Cruise Bogle, a quadriplegic who paints with his mouth.

The work of Delray Beach artist Jeff Whyman can be found at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

BLACK VIOLIN Former Dillard classmates Wil B., left, and Kev Marcus just released a Black Violin holiday album titled“Give Thanks.”

GETTY You don’t have to host a screening of the iconic shot-inSouth-Florida comedy“Caddyshack”for family and friends at Gables Cinema. But you could.