Billie Jean King Cup returns to Delray for a fifth time
Plus a wire-transfer scam using the city's name, and a parking vote that vanished.
Big tennis news landed Wednesday afternoon, and it is the kind that fills hotel rooms in a quiet month. Also on the table: a scam email wearing the city's name, and a downtown parking fight that got postponed instead of settled.
The Billie Jean King Cup is coming back to Delray Beach for a fifth time. The Palm Beach Post reported it Wednesday evening. For a city that treats its tennis stadium like a second downtown, this is the good kind of news. It usually means international teams, full stands, and a downtown that hums on a week it otherwise would not. Details beyond the return itself are still thin, so hold off on booking anything. If you have sat through a tie here before, you know the routine. Get tickets early, and walk in from Atlantic if you can.
Nothing Bundt Cakes is now open in Delray
Nothing Bundt Cakes has opened a Delray Beach location, per Boca magazine. A chain bakery is not usually news. This one earns a line because of the problem it solves. There is a specific Delray week that happens to everyone eventually. A kid's birthday, a thing at work, and a neighbor's retirement all land inside five days. What you need is a cake that survives a car ride and does not require a plan. Now there is another place in town to grab one. Where it ranks against the local bakeries is an argument for another morning.
Four state festival awards, and nobody notices the people who earn them
Delray Beach won four SUNsational Awards from the Florida Festivals & Events Association. The 2026 statewide winners list leaned heavily on Palm Beach and Broward County cities. Four is a serious haul for one city. If you have stood on Atlantic Avenue during a street festival and wondered who actually runs all this, that is your answer. These awards go to the people doing permits, stage schedules, and porta-potty math months in advance. It is not a job most residents think about once. It is also the whole difference between a festival that works and one you leave early.
Scammers are emailing permit applicants asking for wire transfers
The city says fraudulent emails are going out to people with projects in front of Development Services. The senders impersonate city staff. They tell applicants that wiring money will move a project forward. Delray Beach says plainly that it never requests payment that way. If you are mid-permit on a kitchen remodel, an addition, or a new build, this one is aimed squarely at you. The wire request is the tell, every time. Do not reply to the email. Look up the department's number yourself, call it, and forward the message to the city so they can track it.
The Subculture Coffee parking vote got called off
Delray Beach canceled a vote that could have revoked Subculture Coffee's parking agreement. It was on the commission's agenda, and then it was not. For the shop, that is a reprieve rather than a resolution. Parking agreements are the quiet plumbing of a downtown like ours. They shape how many people a business can seat, and where their customers actually put the car. With the vote pulled, the current arrangement holds. It also means the question is still live and will likely surface again. Keep half an eye on it if you park downtown on weekends.
This weekend runs from flamenco to baseball
The August 21-23 stretch is fuller than the calendar has any right to be. Flamenco, comedy shows, baseball games, and family events are spread from Delray up to Jupiter. August is supposed to be the dead season down here. It never quite is. This is the month locals get the town back, and the schedule keeps going anyway. The Boca Raton Tribune laid out the full slate across the Palm Beaches. Pick one thing that gets you out before noon, and one thing that does not. That is a properly used August Saturday.
A Latin American printmaking show lands at The ANNEX in September
The ANNEX at 290 SE 2nd Avenue has its next exhibition set. "Masters of the Matrix: Latin American Printmaking" runs September 20 through January 31. Suzanne Snider curated it, and the show gathers multiples by Latin American artists. The announcement leads with Francisco Amighetti's 1981 chromoxylography, "El Recien Llegado," or "The Newcomer." Amighetti was Costa Rican and died in 1998. A four-month run sounds generous, which is exactly how people manage to miss these things entirely. Put it down now for a gray Sunday in October or a stretch when the visitors come back.