Ben Brown is more than just the captain of Sussex. He personifies so much that is admirable about English county cricket, meaning many neutrals are pleased when he does well.However, it would not be
I take a hit from an asthma puffer. Viewed from my friend s house, where she sings
E Te Ariki and wind chimes battle against the small wooden house in a southerly, Te Ahu Pātiki is many shades of brown toast, fat and squat. If Mt Kilimanjaro is the House of God, Mt Herbert Te Ahu Pātiki is perhaps our kitchen.
Foraging for herbs and fruit is effortless. A banquet of ripe feijoas awaits if you know where to look and who to ask, the information shared gently and knowingly face to face across a fence. I take just a handful for the child who loves them, shoving their deep green goodness into an old bread bag. She will eat them like lollies, scraping every last morsel of sweet flesh, leaving discarded husks in her wake.
Bill DiPaolo
Special to the Daily News
A grinning, 4-foot-high cast bronze gorilla sitting in the front window has been drawing attention from pedestrians since Ben Brown Fine Arts opened in early April on Worth Avenue.
It joins a number of other galleries that moved to Palm Beach either permanently or with pop-ups over the past year to get their art closer to clients who were limiting their travel because of the coronavirus pandemic or who had moved here from the Northeast to escape the ravages of COVID-19.
Pop art by Andy Warhol, a giant rendering of the Palm Islands in Dubai and other art work valued up to $4 million are among the items for sale at Ben Brown.