Hunky pop crooner Michael Buble, arguably the greatest thing to come out of Canada since Celine Dion and socialized medicine, kicked off his Crazy Love world tour in South Florida last night. After his sold-out gig at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, the singer of Haven’t Met You Yet headed to Tampa and Atlanta then on through the United States and Europe. Be the first to get a glimpse of the show by clicking here or on the photo below:

Buble, Friday at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise (Click on the photo for more)

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Kourtney and Khloe

They picked a fine time to visit!

Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian, who are in South Florida to film season 2 of Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami, will tape an episode in Wellington Sunday afternoon.

At the International Polo Club Palm Beach.

Yes, John Goodman’s place.

For some reason, the company producing the Kardashians show for E! is trying to keep the whole polo trip hush-hush. And Shamin Abas, the club’s spokeswoman, declined comment.

But the cast and crew are expected at the club’s brunch and afternoon match.

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Woods (Click on the photo for more)

According to new documents released in the Thanksgiving car crash that eventually brought golf prodigy Tiger Woods back down to earth, Woods’ wife handed ambulance personnel two bottles of pain medicine which she told them Woods took earlier in the day.

The paperwork, released by the Florida Highway Patrol to the Orlando Sentinel today, also shows that Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, tried to ride to the hospital in the ambulance with Woods.

The paramedics, however, barred her from entering, saying that the case was domestic violence-related.

The state troopers’ notes also intimates that the hospital where Woods was taken after he hit two curbs then a tree while pulling out of his driveway in Windermere, went all out to protect Woods’ reputation.

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Casey

For the second time since 2007, the Palm Beach area chapter of the Red Cross is losing its CEO after a brief tenure.

Larry Casey, the visible frontman of the disaster-responding charity, told Page2Live he’ll step down on April 9. He has been leading the non-profit’s branch, which reaches into the Treasure Coast and cuts across Florida to the west coast, for just 20 months.

Casey took the reins from J.B. Hunt, who was fired in 2008 because she made it a habit to take decisions without discussing them with the board.

About his departure, Casey said he is looking for a change in his career. And he’s taking in a teenage family member, with whom he plans to spend more time.

Privately, according to an insider, Casey had expressed frustration with the American Red Cross’ current drive to take more control of local chapters.

And then, Casey always seemed more at ease in one of his previous jobs, as longtime aide to former Republican U.S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw.

“It’s just the right time to go,” Casey said. “Hurricane season is still a few months away and the chapter will have time to find someone else.

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Exline

Disgraced former West Palm Beach City Commissioner Jim Exline this week filed a lawsuit against a woman who caused a chain collision in Lake Worth last year, ultimately injuring him.

I’m told the woman’s insurance company, State Farm, wants to pay Exline $6,500 for the medical bills that resulted from the June crash. Exline’s bills are at least five times higher, and counting. So he sued.

Exline, 45, made news in 2007 when he resigned his seat and pleaded guilty to tax evasion. He was sent to a federal prison camp near Atlanta for 10 months.

Although he wouldn’t comment about the accident or the lawsuit, Exline, an urban planner by trade, says he has been struggling since he rejoined society in April 2008.

“There’s absolutely no planning going on out there,” he said today. “I’m just waiting it out, like a lot of people. I’m a planner. That’s what I do. I don’t know anything else.”

And he’s still nursing the injuries that occurred near downtown Lake Worth, when a Hyundai plowed into another car, which then hit Exline’s Jaguar.

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You nasty thing, Charlie Crist!

The guv went on Greta Van Susteren’s On The Record on Fox News Monday night wondering if his opponent for the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio, used the Republican party’s credit card to get his back waxed.

Yikes!

Crist is behind in the polls, but still!

Crist matter-of-factly threw that line at Greta while the two discussed the recent revelations that Rubio had used a party card for personal expenses. Check out the exchange, and vote in the poll below.

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Palm Beach radio talker Rush Limbaugh is pulling an Alec Baldwin!

Ten years after the staunch Democrat star of 30 Rock swore he’d leave the country if George W. Bush won the White House, GOP leader Limbaugh said on his show Monday that he, too, would leave — if Prez. Barack Obama’s health care reform becomes law of the land!

Rush Limbaugh with galpal Kathryn Rogers Saturday at Mar-a-Lago

Limbaugh said on his show (WJNO-1290 AM) Monday that he’d hightail it outtahere if doctors were banned from seeing private patients under the new health care plan.

“If it passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I’m leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica,” Limbaugh said.

But like Baldwin, who never made good on his promise even after two terms of Bush, Rush seems hesitant, and clarified his statement in this e-mail to Page2Live this morning: “If U.S. doctors aren’t allowed by law to see patients in private practice outside the coming government health care monopoly, I will consider leaving the country for any major medical treatment.”

Costa Rica?

El Rushbo tells me that insurance companies are already bankrolling clinics in that Central American country in anticipation of the reform.

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Rush's ad

Rush Limbaugh cares as much for baby turtles as he does for the Democrats’ jackass.

Palm Beach radio talker Limbaugh is sick of laws protecting the giant marine reptiles, and he wants everyone to know.

Limbaugh is buying newspaper ads this week — one in today’s Shiny Sheet and another later this week in the Palm Beach Post – to poke fun at the Town of Palm Beach’s policy that force the 300 or so households lucky enough to live on the beach to turn off outdoors lights from March 1 until October 31.

Within that time span, giant sea turtles — including several endangered species — dig the sand in the middle of the night to lay eggs, and their babies hatch in early fall.

Artificial lights are known to confuse the animals. They use the moon to navigate to nesting grounds then back to the ocean.

The Conservative lightning-rod Limbaugh lives on a $50 million-plus beach compound that includes a 32,000-square-foot home smack dab in the middle of turtle country. (see it here)

In his ad, Limbaugh mentions a phony group, the Turtle Preservation Society of Palm Beach, welcoming back turtles and hatchlings.

“The lights are off in eager anticipation of your arrival in May,” the ad reads.

A picture show a turtle roaming the sand in broad daylight.

“Kathryn (Rogers, Limbaugh’s galpal) and I bought a full page ad in the Shiny Sheet Sunday to make a subtle protest of all the local and state ordinances requiring people who live on the beach in Palm Beach to go dark EIGHT months of the year (!!!!!) for sea the turtles,” Limbaugh told Page2Live in an email.

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The boisterous Palm Beach artist Edwina Sandys — a painter, sculptor, illustrator, print-maker, and the granddaughter of WWII British Prime Minister Winston Churchill — is showing some of her work at the Whitney building downtown West Palm Beach. The show’s curated by local collage artist Bruce Helander. The show opened over the weekend, and is scheduled to be open to the public until March 20. To see who’s been there, click here or on the photo.

Former U.S. Congressman Mark Foley (right) with oil heiress Ginny Bond and Foley's partner, Layne Nisenbaum (Click on the Michael Price photo for more)

Reynolds

Silver screen legend Burt Reynolds was released from the Jupiter Medical Center after undergoing heart bypass surgery last week.

The star of Deliverance and The Longest Yard is under 24-hour care at home in Hobe Sound, according to Entertainment Tonight.

At 74, Reynolds had been planning to have the quintuple bypass for a month. The surgery usually is prescribed when clogged arteries prevent proper blood flow through the heart.

Reynolds’s rep, Erik Kritzer, released this statement: “Mr. Reynolds has been released from a hospital in Florida in which he had a planned bypass operation. He wants to thank everyone for their good wishes and states that he has a great motor with brand new pipes and he is feeling great. Doctors plan on a speedy recovery.”

Reynolds hasn’t been in the greatest health since last year, when he returned to this area to live full-time. Reynolds injured himself in a fall at home in September and was treated at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach. Two weeks later, he admitted to battling an addiction to pain killers and checked into rehab at West Palm Beach’s Hanley Center.

Reynolds has been a visible presence in the local arts landscape as of late. He’s been teaching theater classes at his Burt Reynolds & Friends Museum in Jupiter.

“I saw him a month ago and he looked in great shape,” said Palm Beach Film Commissioner Chuck Elderd. “I don’t think many people here knew he was having heart problems.”