{"id":239452,"date":"2026-04-20T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239452\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:13:09","slug":"photos-edie-falco-celebrates-peta-milestones-at-fort-lauderdale-soiree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239452\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Edie Falco Celebrates PETA Milestones at Fort Lauderdale Soir\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tShareShare on Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPostShare on X<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tShareShare on LinkedIn<\/p>\n<p class=\"news-release-preamble\">For Immediate Release:<br \/>April 20, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"news-release-preamble\">Contact:<br \/>Hannah Nelson 202-483-7382\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tFt. Lauderdale, Fla. \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Saturday night,\u00a0The Sopranos\u00a0and\u00a0Nurse Jackie\u00a0actor\u00a0Edie Falco\u00a0helped toast PETA\u2019s decades of victories for animals at \u201cOnce Upon a Time: Come Relive PETA\u2019s Magical Milestones,\u201d an\u00a0enchanting\u00a0storybook-inspired soiree at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale.\u00a0Photos are available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/misc\/photos-edie-falco-and-sherlyn-gonzalez-celebrate-peta-milestones-at-fort-lauderdale-soiree\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-39.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"401\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1189949\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-39-602x401.png\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-39-602x401.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1189949\"  \/><\/a>Credit: PETA<\/p>\n<p>Falco, whose many collaborations with PETA have included the popular \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dhC90abWnOY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t Take My Cheese<\/a>\u201d Super Bowl campaign, joined guests for delicious vegan cocktails, canap\u00e9s, and a presentation from PETA\u2019s leadership about how PETA is working to secure a\u00a0happily-ever-after\u00a0for animals everywhere. PETA also presented the prestigious Nanci Alexander Activist Award to Dr. Kathy Strickland, the veterinarian who blew the whistle on the abuse of monkeys at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2025\/11\/10\/the-runaway-monkeys-upending-the-animal-rights-movement?campaign_id=9&amp;emc=edit_nn_20251104&amp;instance_id=165737&amp;nl=the-morning&amp;regi_id=94012803&amp;segment_id=209910&amp;user_id=bb4bc913c3ee0fbe5343aa645ed172f5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">infamous primate dealer Alpha Genesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PETA\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to abuse in any way\u201d\u2014points out that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/headlines.peta.org\/every-animal-is-someone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Every Animal Is Someone<\/a>\u00a0and offers free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/every-animal-is-someone.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Empathy Kits<\/a>for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PETA.org<\/a>\u00a0or follow PETA on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/official.peta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/peta\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShareShare on Facebook PostShare on X ShareShare on LinkedIn For Immediate Release:April 20, 2026 Contact:Hannah Nelson 202-483-7382 Ft.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-239452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}