The Edit, Episode 15
A Cause for Laughter
Just the Funny theater is presenting LOL: Ladies Out Loud, an all-female cast of comedians performing to benefit LEAP, an organization providing life skills to incarcerated women. The variety show of improv, original sketches and musical parodies stars the women of Just the Funny’s award-winning company. This marks the third time South Florida’s most prolific and celebrated improv theatre shows its feminine side– of some 40 cast members, about half are female — and puts its proceeds to good use. LEAP’s prison education program teaches practical employment, entrepreneurship, and essential life skills. Saturday, June 29th at 9 PM at the Just the Funny Theater located at 3119 Coral Way in Miami (just 6 blocks East of Miracle Mile)for tickets visit www.ticketweb.com.
Cruising for the Next Gala
Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade held a festive, kid-friendly event to announce a major donation by Norwegian cruise lines. City of Miami Mayor Frances Suarez, Norwegian president and CEO Andy Stuart and Boys and Girls Clubs president Alex Rodriguez-Roig were there to announce the cruise line would donate it’s yet-to-launch billion-dollar ship, Norwegian Encore, for the non-profit organization’s 13th annual “Wild About Kids” Gala. Stuart and his wife Allison Stuart will chair the gala and work to raise over $1.5 million.
Cheers to Children
Dedicating the country for a week to a single beverage is serious so for Negroni Week – sure, it could be a real thing –we can enjoy these gin cocktails at MO Bar at Mandarin Oriental. Until Sunday, June 30 find three specials priced at $17 and while it might not at first glance seem particularly special, 50 percent of proceeds will benefit Voices for Children. And for that we’ll raise a glass. Each cocktail contains two blended gins and the Negroni by MO Bar has Bitters, Vermouth, and Grapefruit, the White Negroni has Lillet Blanc, Dry Vermouth, and Lemon and the Strawberry Negroni is mixed with Bitters, Vermouth, and Strawberry.
Brett Graff is SocialMiami.com’s managing editor and has been a journalist covering money, people and power for over 20 years. Graff contributes to national media outlets including Reuters, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Maxim, and the PBS show, Nightly Business Report. A former U.S. government economist, her nationally syndicated column The Home Economist is first published in The Miami Herald and then on the Tribune Content Agency, where it’s available to over 400 publications nationwide. She is broadcast weekly on two iHeartRadio news shows and is the author of “Not Buying It: Stop Overspending & Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids,” a parenting guide for people who might be tempted to buy their children the very obstacles they’re trying to avoid.
