Lee Schrager Reflects on 10 Years of South Beach Wine & Food Festivals Lee Brian Schrager, one of the nation’s preeminent event planners and public relations experts, serves as the Vice President of Corporate Communications & National Events at Southern Wine & Spirits of America. He joined the company in 2000 and oversees projects for [...]
It’s Ferries & Pontoon Boats We’ll Need Twenty African American Democrats and one WASP-ish Republican white guy lunched together in Tallahassee last week. It wasn’t any typical lunch. The 20 comprise the state legislature’s African American Democratic caucus; the white guy at whose table and in whose mansion they were dining is the state’s new [...]
Of all the world class chefs who’ll be descending on South Beach for this week’s Wine and Food Festival, none will be more renowned than Miami’s very own Michael Schwartz. Namesake and mastermind of Michael’s Genuine Food and Drink, the James Beard Award-winning wizard has in less than four years turned his taste for simplicity [...]
It’s been often called Super Bowl for film geeks. For me it’s another opportunity to go on a movie-related rant. Oscar weekend is here, readers, and I’m in a celebratory mood, not just because both frontrunners for Best Picture, David Fincher’s The Social Network and Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, are damn fine movies (that’s [...]
By Tiffany Hanan Madera, artburstmiami.com Last weekend at the Adrienne Arsht center, the Ziff Opera house was filled to the brim with a buzzing, vibrant, and mixed audience. People of diverse ages and backgrounds, races and relationship to dance converged in participation and anticipation of an evening of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. After the [...]
For the artistically inclined, one of the highlight events of the year in South Florida is the Coconut Grove Arts Festival. For people who just want to enjoy a great day outdoors, taste an assortment of delectable foods, brush up against award winning artists and delight in amazing musical happenings, the Coconut Grove Arts Festival [...]
What’s sex like after childbirth? As my wedding date creeps dangerously close, it’s beginning to look like I’ll be married before menopause. Miracles happen. While I’m on a roll, I’m even thinking of pushing a human out of my vagina sometime soon. But the thought scares me for more reasons than I can list. Not [...]
Samuel Gompers Redux The president’s penchant for a shadow government run by insider “czars” that rule by ukases is spreading. Riots like in Greece aimed at protecting welfare-state entitlements have been called to explicitly “shutdown the state” of Wisconsin in defiance of representatives elected to bring their budget under control. Unmindful of Governor Walker’s call [...]
Food on the go has been getting a total makeover. By Randy D. Grice II This past Tuesday night, droves of people with rumbling stomach gathered to dine on food from one ore more truck. Biscayne Boulevard and 109th Street was packed with food lovers waiting for an outdoor dining experience. The trucks have a [...]
Stefan Kanfer Captures the Man Called Bogie Pick any page in Stefan Kanfer’s teaming Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart (Knopf $26.95) and you’ll find some kinda silver screen gem. Take page 103, for instance. It begins by trailing off on all the Oscars Casablanca lost, then it rebounds [...]
Deco Bike hopes to launch program in early March With less than one third of its stations around Miami Beach remaining to be installed, the citywide shared bicycle program, Deco Bike, could be rolled out in just a couple of weeks. “We hope to up and operating the first week in March,” said Oscar Ramirez, [...]
