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Across the first decade of the 21st century, dozens of glamorous and wildly successful South Florida personalities have graced the cover of City & Shore. They informed, inspired and entertained us with their unique life stories. Now, in this 10th anniversary issue of the magazine, we catch up with 10 of those fascinating people whose star appeal still lures us into their worlds of fame and fortune.

94 ROOMS TO KNOW

Ask a South Florida designer to pick a favorite room from the past decade and it’s like asking them to pick a favorite child. Their final answers are as varied as their decorating styles, Design Writer Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub says. And they all had stories to tell.

104 LOOK 10 YEARS YOUNGER NOW

Whether you’re looking to burn calories or beautify, a new you may be one appointment away. Explore ways to tighten, tone, trim and beautify – or, seek medical advice when those tactics can’t quite correct the issues. Either way, writers Valerie Nahmad Schimel and Nancy McVicar report, a new you could be on the way.

111 10 DESTINATIONS FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS

World traveler Thomas Swick picks the best places to visit in the next decade – far from home, and close to it. A journey of several thousand miles begins with a single step through these pages – starting with Shanghai.

123 THE STELLAR CELLARS A great wine list can make a great restaurant – and wine writer Bob Hosmon says these eight wine-wise, customerfriendly establishments know it.

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The Party Did I tell you the story about An especially splashy launch the time I talked five guys for Fort Lauderdale’s annual into dressing up as angels – complete with little wings - and boat parade at the Gray Robinson, PA Winterfest parading in broad daylight White Party at the Harbor through Fort Lauderdale? This Beach Marriott. and other memorable stories from our first 10 years.

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WE SAT DOWN WITH 10 SOUTH FLORIDA STYLE-SETTERS TO LISTEN – AND LEARNED.

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Has the past decade contributed anything to fashion? When we reflect on the past 10 years, what will we remember? I believe it was King Solomon – who knew a thing or two about luxury goods – who said in Ecclesiastes 1:9 , “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Yes, there were plenty of trends - from bling to BoHo - but when I think of the Noughties I think of two things: the rise of Messy Manes celebrity fashion and the democratization of fashion. First of all, if you attained any level of fame in the Double Ohs and didn’t have some sort of fashion connection in your portfolio (fragrance, clothing line, endorsement deal, etc.) then you just weren’t really trying, were you? Red Carpet And the world of fashion became a game everyone could play, thanks in part to masstige (mass produced goods com- 1. Sex and the City: Do not underesti- 6. Military Might: Ever since 9/11 mate girl power. The ladies who love, lunch, and the subsequent wars in Iraq and bined with designer prestige) or high-low leer and live had so much influence on Afghanistan there has been a rise in dressing where women began pairing fashion they made Manolo Blahnik and the popularity of camouflage, khaki and their luxe items with down-market duds: Jimmy Choo household names. Even cargo looks. picture, for example, a Chanel jacket more, they ushered in the ultra-femme worn with Levi’s jeans. feeling in fashion after the manly minimal- 7. Overdone Denim: Just when we Here are some other global trends ism of the ’90s. were getting a tad overwhelmed by from the Double Ohs: the oh-my-goodness embellished and 2. The Rise of the Red Carpet: rhinestone festooned denim, along It used to be just Joan Rivers and her comes skinny jeans and now everyone Sex and the City looks like an Emo garage band. mini-me daughter. Now the red carpet at Hollywood events is a crowded, 8. Somewhere in the middle was the return full-blown media event with everyone asking the same question: who are of designer jeans. With a vengeance. you wearing? Designers are thrilled for the publicity and the public hungrily 9. The Right To Bare Arms: Michelle consumes the trends for less through Obama, surely one of the most fashioninexpensive copies on the internet conscious First Ladies since Nancy (DressMe.com, Unique-Vintage.com, Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, ushered Net-a-Porter.com). We even came up in the sleeveless sheath dress as the with a term for it: Fast Fashion. You go-to uniform for moms everywhere. know, like fast food. 10. Size Matters: Accessories were 3. Messy Manes: From women either downsized (skinny neckties, tiny bowties) or lived large (oversized wearing updo’s with loose strands to guys sporting faux hawks, hair sunglasses, costume jewelry). was mostly artfully unarranged.

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Whether you are redecorating or just adding a little spice to your décor, Design Writer Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub says the right lighting fixture can transform the room from bland to beautiful.

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Fashion and Style Director Elyse Ranart sits down with 10 South Florida style-setters to listen - and learn.

Think you know your City & Shore trivia? Test your knowledge with the editor in this 10-point multiple choice quiz on our first 10 years – and Ask Rod you could win a sumptuous dinner for six at SoLita Las Olas. Looking over the past 10 years in fashion, will we even remember the trends? How could we forget? Contributors

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What do Michelle Obama, Shaquille O’Neal and Madonna, among others, have in common? A 10th anniversary look back on 10 years of our covers.

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4. Tribalism: A tramp stamp tattoo here, a few face piercings there. Throw on an animal or ethnic print and globalization never looked so good. 5. Momma Got A Brand New Bag: The status bag – or “it” bag – became an accessory Holy Grail for a lot of women (see Sex and the City).

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NOW TEN DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME I TALKED FIVE GUYS INTO DRESSING UP AS ANGELS – COMPLETE WITH PINK, FRILLY WINGS – AND PARADING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT THROUGH THE STREETS OF FORT LAUDERDALE FOR CHARITY?

They were so cute – everyone thought so! Even the guys. (Mostly). Hard to believe I really did that. Even harder to believe City & Shore Magazine is already celebrating its 10th Year Anniversary! How many stories I could tell from our first 10 years – all of them memorable, all of them good. It feels like just yesterday we were planning this new, sophisticated South Florida magazine. It was a good idea then – and, as good thoughts always prevail, City & Shore has now grown into a leading lifestyle magazine. Through challenging times - from an internet bubble to a real-estate bubble - nothing burst City & Shore’s bubble. Looking back, I can see now that the tough economic years made City & Shore an even stronger magazine – and a powerful philanthropic voice in South Florida. City & Shore staff, advertisers, my family and friends have not only raised thousands of dollars for great charities, but created the fun memories I will always cherish. How could I forget waking before dawn one Sunday, riding 31 miles in the Kids In Distress Inlet Challenge - and then wiping out just before the finish on the corner of Commercial Boulevard and A1A? Getting a finisher’s medal from the kids we helped with our fundraising that day made all my knee pain go away. How could I forget screaming like a groupie for the Man of Style representing Fort Lauderdale Children’s Theatre, in a contest supporting 10 local charities? (My contestants won The Galleria’s Men of Style contest, I’m proud to say, two years in a row.) How could I forget the faces of the five guys at the Glamathon Strut in their angel costumes? A memory only slightly diminished when, instead of strutting, I found them all drinking beers at a Himmarshee bar along the parade route. (They were still cute). So many events City & Shore has sponsored, so many memories, so many wonderful relationships with our readers and our advertisers. Ten years on, City & Shore is South Florida’s community voice and the most desirable magazine. Even through challenging times, we’ve expanded our publishing and online ventures. In addition to City & Shore and our website, www. cityandshore.com, we now publish City & Shore Home, Wear It Well Fashion, the in-room magazines for the Westin Diplomat Golf Resort & Spa, the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and, most recently, the Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach and the Doral Golf Resort & Spa. Check in - and check us out! City & Shore has grown over the past decade thanks to an incredibly talented staff, loyal readers and supportive advertisers. I thank you all. And I can’t wait to tell you stories from the next decade. — Michelle Simon

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10 YEARS, 10-POINT MULTIPLE CHOICE –

1. The most number of celebrities to appear on a cover of City & Shore – excluding this anniversary issue – at the same time? A. Two. B. Three. C. Ten. D. Britney Spears. 2. The only celebrity featured in a City & Shore feature story twice in 10 years? A. Donald Trump. B. Ivana Trump. C. Ivanka Trump.

– ONE WAY TO WIN Think you know your City & Shore trivia? Be the first to e-mail the editor at mgauert@ sun-sentinel.com or, if you prefer, Tweet to @ CITYANDSHORE, with the correct answers to the following 10-point quiz. You could win a suitably grand 10th anniversary prize – a three-course meal for six – and a bottle of wine – from SoLita Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale, www.solitalasolas.com. The winner, and the answers, will be announced at www.cityandshore.com. Good luck!

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B. An October/ November 2006 essay by Dave Wieczorek on how Barbra Streisand can command a $750 ticket for her concerts.

September 2006 cover story?

C. An October/ November 2009 essay by Chelsea Fuller suggesting the Kardashians might be the Brontë sisters of our times.

B. Atop the hood of her beloved 1978 Pontiac Trans Am.

D. A January/February 2010 cover story by Elizabeth Rahe on fitness, featuring 42-yearold Olympian, and Parkland resident, Dara Torres.

3. Who agreed to appear on the cover only after a HickeyFreeman suit was arranged for him to wear to the photo shoot?

6. For his February/ March 2004 cover story, Donald Trump allowed photographer Peter Langone and Art Director Greg Carannante how many minutes to photograph him at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach?

A. Dwayne “The Rock’’ Johnson.

A. “As much time as you guys need.”

D. Chris Evert.

B. Michael Kors. C. Ricky Williams. D. Bono. 4. Which artist created an original piece of artwork for a cover, the only one in 10 years not to feature a photograph? A. Guy Harvey. B. Art Basel. C. Peter Max. D. Christo. 5. The story which prompted the most links to our website, www.cityandshore. com (designed by Art Director Anderson Greene)? A. A February/March 2001 essay by Enrique Fernandez on how to buy a custom-made suit.

B. 127 hours. C. 15 minutes. D. “A New York minute.” 7. Andy Roddick was an especially accommodating subject for our April/May 2006 cover photo. In it, Style Director Elyse Ranart talked him into appearing: A. Bare chested. B. Atop the hood of his beloved 1978 Pontiac Trans Am. C. With Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez (the A-Rod to A-Rod issue). D. With an ice cream cone. 8. Where did we photograph homegrown supermodel Niki Taylor for our August/

A. In a penthouse atop Trump Tower in New York City.

C. On the set of Saturday Night Live, her first-time hosting gig. D. At the intersection of Southwest 90th Avenue and Stirling Road, near her former home in Cooper City. 9. Which celeb said “I’m shy. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.” A. Kim Kardashian (October/November 2009). B. Cameron Diaz (June/July 2004). C. Donald Trump (February/March 2004). D. Johnny Depp (December 2004/ January 2005). 10. Who has the most fun bringing these stories to you, and is the most grateful for your readership over the past 10 years? A. The writers. B. The photographers. C. The art director. D. The fashion and style director. E. The editor. F. All of the above. And, from all of the above, thank you! –Mark Gauert

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contributors Elizabeth Rahe (“In the City” and “On the Shore” items, pgs. 31-49; and “Niki Taylor,” pg. 90) is a former Sun Sentinel Lifestyle editor. Jan Norris (Dining item for “In the City,” pg. 34) is the former editor of The Palm Beach Post’s Food & Dining section.

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Ellen Forman (“The Party,’’ pg. 62) is a former business writer for the Sun Sentinel. Charlyne V. Schaub (“N-M Q&A’’, pg. 54, “Home & Décor,’’ pg. 79 and; “Design: Rooms to Know,’’ pg. 94) is the former editor of the Sun Sentinel’s Home & Garden section. Doreen Christensen (“Coco Would be Proud,’’ pg. 54) writes the Sun Sentinel’s Pretty Good Idea: Beauty tips & trends blog.

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your questions c/o fashionguy@ sun-sentinel.com; or twitter@ FashionDude.

Robyn A. Friedman (Calendars, pgs. 39 and 57; and “Curb Appeal,’’ pg. 82) is the Sun Sentinel’s real-estate columnist.

Dave Wieczorek (“Ten of 10,” anniversary stories, pg. 87) is the former assistant editor of Sunshine, the Sun Sentinel’s Sunday magazine.

Rod Stafford Hagwood (“Ask Rod,” pg. 78) is the Sun Sentinel’s fashion editor. Send

Valerie Nahmad Schimel (“Look 10 Years Younger Now, Part 1,’’ pg. 104) is a Miami

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Nancy McVicar (“Look 10 Years Younger Now, Part 2’’ pg. 106) is a former health and medical writer for the Sun Sentinel.

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COMIC CONVEYANCE Jay Leno headlines Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance, along with Indy stars and extraordinary cars. BY ELIZABETH RAHE

ay Leno should feel right at home when he performs at the Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance gala dinner Feb. 26. Not only is this a return engagement – he took the stage at the inaugural Concours five years ago – but the event is packed with classic and antique cars, a well-known passion for the late-night host. His 17,000-square-foot Big Dog Garage (www.jaylenosgarage.com) in Southern California houses a collection that spans automotive history, beginning with the 1906 Baker electric car and 1906 Stanley Steamer. The fleet even includes a turbine-powered, biodiesel-fueled car that Leno dreamed up with the help of GM engineers – a process that included a few cocktailnapkin sketches. Called the EcoJet, it features a futuristic, Batmobile-like profile and Honeywell LTS-101 jet engine. It was built almost entirely at Big Dog Garage, which houses a top-notch machine shop. Although he employs a team of specialists, Leno also knows his way around an engine, and he seems to possess encyclopedic knowledge of the automotive realm. One of his early jobs was doing new car prep and light maintenance work at Foreign Motors of Boston. That was before he headed to California for his shot at the big time. To get there he drove his first car, a 1955 Buick, which often doubled as his bed, parked in alleys next to comedy clubs. He still counts the Buick among his many automobiles, trucks and motorcycles

Jay Leno performs at the Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance Gala Dinner.

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which he collects not as museum pieces but to drive. In addition to Leno’s gala performance, the Concours commemorates its fifth anniversary with a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500, which event founder Rick Case calls an American icon. “In true Concours fashion we are thrilled to honor such a tremendous milestone in the car-enthusiast realm,’’ he says. The three-day event, Feb. 25-27, includes displays of classic and exotic cars, motorcycles, boats and planes, plus a chance to mingle with some big names in Indy racing. Legends of Indy awards will be presented to the Unser family, Roger Penske, A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears and Helio Castroneves. The founder of AutoNation, H. Wayne Huizenga, will receive the Automotive Lifetime Achievement Award. Here is a rundown of the festivities, which benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Broward County: Feb. 25 – The duPont Registry Live! Hangar Party, 6-8 p.m. at the Boca Raton Airport, $50. Tastings from more than 20 South Florida restaurants paired with fine wines, display of exotic and classic cars, planes, boats and motor coaches, plus jewelry, art and more. Guests also will enjoy live entertainment and a chance to mingle with some of the Indy legends. Feb. 26 – Gala dinner featuring Jay Leno at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. Reception 5:30-7 p.m.; dinner, auction and show 7-10 p.m. Black-tie optional; tickets $500 and up. The event includes The Legends of Indy and Automotive Lifetime Achievement awards presentation and live auction of luxury items, trips and hot new cars. Feb. 27 – The Boca Raton Concours d’ Elegance at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $50. Vintage automobile and motorcycle exhibition with awards at 3 p.m. Special tribute to the Indianapolis 500 featuring a display of Indy cars and memorabilia, Boca Raton Concours d’ Elegance, Feb. 25-27, 954-537-1010, www.bocaratonconcours.com. –Elizabeth Rahe 32

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A vibrant new playground lights up Las Olas

Something’s been missing on Fort Lauderdale’s Las Olas Boulevard, according to restaurant entrepreneur Tim Petrillo. There’s been a nightlife void since the closing of O’Hara’s several years ago, and Petrillo hopes the recently opened Vibe Ultra Music Lounge fills it. “We’re seeing a lot of people staying on Las Olas. They eat at YOLO or Timpano and finish the evening at Vibe,” says Petrillo, CEO of The Restaurant People Inc., the group behind Vibe’s next-door neighbors, YOLO and O Lounge, as well as Tarpon Bend. The club has the requisites for drawing a nighttime crowd, including cocktails and dancing, of course, but also bottle service in VIP mini lounges, available via advanced reservation. The vibrant, modern décor is spiked with intriguing lighting displays, both inside and out. Sculptured white walls and columns flow in arguably feminine forms, and a white brick fire pit blazes on the ample outdoor patio. Then there’s Vibe’s primary reason for being – the music. “We have various acts, from flamenco to percussionists to jazz bands to a violinist who plays with a DJ and a guy who sings Frank Sinatra songs,” Petrillo says. Vibe is booking the musicians 45-60 days in advance and listing them on the website and Facebook, he says, but the mix of music is a work in progress. “The market will tell us what people want.” Vibe Ultra Music Lounge, 301 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-713-7313, www. vibelasolas.com, Facebook: Vibe Las Olas. Open Mon.-Thurs. 7 p.m.-2 a.m., Fri.-Sat. 7 p.m.- 3 a.m.; valet, garage and municipal parking available. –Elizabeth Rahe

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Passionate support backs MS Gala and Rene Ruiz fashion show When a dear friend was diagnosed with MS, Coral Gables fashion designer Rene Ruiz got involved with the Multiple Rene Ruiz Sclerosis Society and the MS Gala & Fashion Show. He has fashions been filling the runway of the high-profile fundraiser with highlight the his designs ever since. At his eighth event, Jan. 20 in Fort MS Gala. Lauderdale, he will present his Fall 2011 collection, accented by jewelry from J.R. Dunn. Working with the organization has been an honor, Ruiz says. “With the help of wonderful chairs over the years, we have made this fundraiser one of the largest and most successful ladies luncheons in the country.” Indeed, since its inception 27 years ago, the event has raised more than $4.5 million for research into the causes, treatments and hopefully a cure for MS. Carrie and David Schulman of Plantation, who have been involved since the first event, also have a personal connection with the cause. They are the principals of DBS Financial Group, the title sponsor of the gala, and Carrie has been battling the disease since 1984. She says one of the most important aspects of the gala is raising awareness about MS, a chronic and often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system. “While some people with MS have noticeable symptoms, others do not. Even though a lot of us sitting in the audience look fine, we are not always fine,” she says. In addition to the fashion show, the event includes a luncheon, music, raffle, auction and more. 28th Annual MS Gala & Fashion Show, Jan. 20, 2011, Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, 954-731-4224, www.nmssfls.org.

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DINING OUT: RARE Las Olas Part steakhouse, part club, Rare Las Olas – from the same folks who brought you New York Prime and Gulfstream Café in Palm Beach county – is the latest entry in the nouveau steakhouse movement. Little was done to the former Bova Prime spot on Las Olas Boulevard, said Jerry Greenbaum, CEO of CentraArchy Restaurant Management, the company behind Rare. “We didn’t have to do much – just cleaned up a little and fixed up a few things.” The lounge upstairs is now just that: a clubby lounge. Cocktail servers handle the couch-and-table crowds, and a DJ spins for them after hours. It’s drawn the crowds ever since opening, Greenbaum said. “Our business is way up.” Despite a similar menu, it’s very different from New York Prime in Boca Raton. “Oh, yeah. It’s a much younger crowd. One of our taglines is ‘We’re a

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South Beach steakhouse without the South Beach hassles’ – or attitude,” Greenbaum said. The vibe is modern chic, with white leather on the chairs and benches around the perimeter of the room. Servers show plenty of décolletage and sport high heels; white-jacketed waiters in black pants make it seem like a Rat Packer might be holding court in the private room overlooking the dining room upstairs. The few tables outside will expand once permits are secured from the city, Greenbaum said. The cuisine is upscale steakhouse fare, with a few twists here and there. A “pizza burger” from the bar menu is a huge Prime burger cut into six pizza wedge shapes. “It’s a great value for $18,” Greenbaum said. The portions are eye-popping in size and design, at least for starters and sides. Beef carpaccio is fanned around a plate and looks like a flying saucer landing on a table. “We’re probably going to cut back that plate a little,” Greenbaum said, laughing. “Haystacks” – fried shredded potatoes and onion rings served in a combo order – easily feed four. “We give good value, and our food is great quality.” Steaks are expensive, Greenbaum said. Wallet-watchers can get a steak frites for $28, but more common is the 14-ounce fillet for $59 – with sides, though family-sized, a la carte. He’s not worried. Economy plays no role for his diners. “People will always want to go out for a good steak and we’ve got the best,” he said. “All our meat is USDA certified Prime.” The wine list is comprehensive, with a few jewels here and there – but the crowd was more into the cocktails, at least during later hours. “I think we’re a good fit here next to YOLO,” Greenbaum said. “We offer something different.” –Jan Norris Rare Las Olas, 401 E. Las Olas Blvd., 954-527-3365; www.rarelasolas.com/rare/. Open for dinner daily from 5 p.m., and serving a bar menu in the late-night lounge. 34

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Hell’s Kitchen winner Holli Ugalde will help celebrate the grand opening of B Ocean Fort Lauderdale in early March with cooking classes and a gourmet dinner for hotel guests and locals. Ugalde, the seventhseason winner of the FOX chef reality show, will host weekends several times a year. She also has created signature dishes for the recently launched hotel, at A1A and Sunrise Boulevard in a former Holiday Inn. The soft opening also launched a new brand, B Hotels & Resorts, developed to offer guests more selfexpression in their stay, a la cruise ships, says Chris Tompkins, corporate vice president. “Cruise ships do a phenomenal job in allowing individuals to create their own experiences,” says Tompkins, who has worked with Princess Cruise Lines and several hotel brands, including W Fort Lauderdale. In that spirit, B Ocean guests may choose from 13 types of rooms and suites and select activities from an expected slate of 15-20 adventures, such as the celebrity chef weekend, an eco-tour of the Everglades, parasailing or scuba diving. Dining options include SAIA, a signature sushi restaurant, Quench, a casual outdoor patio/pool bar and B’Stro, offering grab-n-go items for breakfast, gourmet chopped salads and organic fare for lunch and cheese and tapas in the evening, along with wine from the Enomatic self-service bar. For events, B offers a penthouse floor – B on Top – with 8,000 square feet of space and panoramic vistas. Every guest room features ocean views, including the Stunning Curve Rooms, featuring floor-to-ceiling windows. Free high-speed wireless Internet is available throughout the resort – including on the beach. Tomkins stresses the approachability of the brand, which has expansion plans for major urban and resort centers in the United States, the Caribbean, primarily through hotel conversions. “It’s upscale but designed to be a chic, classy, modish environment that’s also very comfortable.” –Elizabeth Rahe B Ocean Fort Lauderdale, 999 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., 954-564-1000, www.boceanfortlauderdale.com.

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Bust of an Angel, Giotto di Bondone, circa 1304. Polychrome mosaic, The Reverenda Fabbrica of Saint Peter, Vatican City State

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Vatican treasures take visitors on a 2,000-year journey Cast of Pietà from Saint Peter’s Basilica; Michelangelo Buonarroti; cast 1975 from 1930 copy from original 1499. Plaster, marble powder; Private Collection, Vatican City State

From oil lamps discovered at the tomb of St. Peter to an original bas relief Pietà made by Michelangelo to the handwritten poetry of the late John Paul II, 2,000 years of history are told through Vatican Splendors: A Journey through Faith and Art, Jan. 29-April 24 at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. More than 200 artworks and historical objects are presented in specially created environments that tell the story of early Christianity and the Catholic Church up through modern times. Highlights include a gold and silver reliquary containing bone fragments of St. Peter and St. Paul, paintings by Giotto and Guercino and sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. “This exhibition…literally opens a window onto the development of the Catholic Church, its contributions to the political and cultural life of the western world, and depictions of faith and art,” says Irvin Lippman, the Museum of Art’s executive director. The journey begins with a reconstruction of St. Peter’s tomb as it appeared in 160 A.D. The original tomb is in the necropolis deep beneath the altar of the Basilica of St. Peter. The story continues with galleries dedicated to the rise of Christian Rome,

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the early Renaissance, Michelangelo, the Renaissance-era St. Peter’s Basilica, the Reformation period and liturgical art. The last three galleries are dedicated to the Catholic Church’s dialogue with the world, papal portraiture and the contemporary papacy, along with art through the ages collected by the Vatican. “Some of the artwork has never been on display outside of the Vatican,” says Mark Greenberg of Evergreen Exhibitions, which has brought the exhibit only to two other cities, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. “I still get amazed at the beauty of the artworks. The Vatican has collected so much art and has been the reason for the creation of so much artwork…Even if you go to Rome, you would not be able to see some of these works.” Tickets are timed and guaranteed within a half hour of the scheduled slot, Greenberg says. They also entitle visitors to view Museum of Art exhibits. The exhibition is presented by Holy Cross Hospital with additional support from PNC Bank and AutoNation. Vatican Splendors: A Journey through Faith and Art, Jan. 29-April 24, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-525-5500, www.moafl.org. Tickets may be purchased in person at the museum box office or via www.ticketmaster.com or 877-282-8422. –Elizabeth Rahe

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Poor, to raise funds to help meet the housing needs of developing countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. Guests will enjoy a cocktail reception, live music, silent auction, dinner and dancing. 6:30 p.m. at Boca West Country Club. $225. 954-427-2222, www. foodforthepoor.org/boca.

Let’s Hang On: A Tribute to the Jersey Boys featuring Bobby Valli, 7 p.m. at Bienes Center For the Arts, St. Thomas Aquinas, 2801 SW 12 St., Fort Lauderdale. 954-513-2272.

29th Annual Boca Raton Heart Ball, a Broward Center for black-tie event featuring the Performing Arts gourmet dining, live celebrates its 20th and silent auctions and anniversary. Enjoy a cocktail a romantic evening of reception in the Peck entertainment and dancing, Courtyard, a gala dinner on all to benefit the American the stage of the Amaturo Heart Association. 6:30 p.m. Theater and premium at St. Andrew’s Country seating for a musical Club, Boca Raton. $325. performance by Grammy 561-859-4330, www.heart. org/bocaratonheartball. “Sit. Stay. Sleep. Award-winning artist Diana A Designer Dog Krall. 5:30 p.m. at the Broward Center. Tickets The Junior Bed Auction,” start at $500. 954-468-3289, League of benefiting Hospice of Palm www.browardcenter.org. Greater Fort Beach County Foundation. Lauderdale’s 11th annual Guests will have the -13 Watch legends Riverwalk Run, a day of opportunity to bid on oneof golf compete fitness and fun for the whole of-a-kind designer dog at the Allianz family. Choose a 5-mile or beds. Cocktails and tidbits Championship, one 5-K run, a 5-K fitness walk from local restaurants will of the PGA Champions or a Kids Fun Run, followed be served. 7 p.m. at Robb Tour’s tournaments, with by a pancake breakfast, & Stucky, 200 Plaza Real, music, on-site massages, Boca Raton. $100. 561-988- proceeds benefiting Boca Raton Regional Hospital. kids’ activities and more. 2742, www.hpbcf.org. Events include a Women’s 7 a.m. at Huizenga Plaza. Executive Pro-Am, Allianz $25, online registration; $30, “Basics of Championship Fairway 5K/ paper registration; $40, day Sushi,” a Family Day, three rounds of of the race. 321-480-0590, hands-on championship golf, a Golf www.riverwalkrun.com. workshop with Sushi Chef & Wine Experience and Mitsutoshi Sekita. Learn more. The Old Course at how to make sushi, cultural Broken Sound Club, Boca information about sushi Raton. Times and prices — and, of course, enjoy eating your creations. 1 p.m. vary. 561-241-4653, www. Second Annual allianzchampionship.com. to 3 p.m. at the Morikami Evening To Celebrate Museum and Japanese Classic Beauty, The Platters, Gardens in Delray Beach. hosted by Ryan Greene, legendary $65. 561-495-0233, MD, Ph.D. An evening recording artists of cocktails, restaurant www.morikami.org. with over 30 hits, 7 p.m. tastings, entertainment and at Bienes Center for the a live auction to benefit the Sun Sentinel Children’s Arts, St. Thomas AquiFund. 6:30 p.m. at The nas, 2801 SW 12 St., Fort “Dreams Across the Sea,” the 16th Lauderdale. 954-513-2272. Dauer Museum of Classic Cars, 10801 NW 50th annual Boca Raton St., Sunrise. Donations Gala of Food For The

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Take a walk on the wild side and enjoy an evening of safariinspired fun while helping to raise money for abused and neglected children in South Florida at the KID Safari Soiree Gala, sponsored by the Kids In Distress Auxiliary. Enjoy appetizers, cocktails, silent and live auctions, dinner and dancing. 6:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Bonaventure, Weston. $150. 954-252-3365, www.kidaux.org.

Andy’s Family Pasta Dinner, an annual beneﬁt for LifeNet4Families, a cooperative feeding program, presented by BankAtlantic. Includes an Italian buffet and fun activities for the kids. Hosts Andy Cagnetta, CEO of Transworld Business Brokers; broadcasting personality Joe Rose and Miami Dolphins Running Back Ricky Williams. The honorary chefs this year include Jarett Levan, CEO of BankAtlantic; and Leone Padula. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Signature Grand, 6900 State Road 84, Davie. $35; kids are free with a paying adult. Please bring a bag of food to donate. 754-224-3109. www.andyspastadinner.com.

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Levinson Jewelers and Dior host a luncheon preview of new Dior timepieces: 1. Laurie Sallarulo, VP of development with 211 Broward; and Jen Klaassens, director of programs with The Wasie Foundation. 2. Caroline Dura, Dior marketing manager; Elyse Ranart, fashion and style director for City & Shore Magazine; Robin Levinson, co-owner of Levinson Jewelers; and Isabelle Kenealy, Dior regional sales manager. 3. Marsha Zimberg and Lori Greene. 4. Robin Levinson, Angela Nowland, managing partner with The Capital Grille; and Isabelle Kenealy, Dior regional sales manager. 5. Robin Levinson and BankAtlantic SVP, regional manager Dorie Vega. 6. Dr. Marilyn Padilla and Claudette Richards.

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Kids in Distress Inlet Challenge Bike Ride: 1. Jack Santoro, Matthew Cilla, Ann Cilla, Tracy Miller, Rachel Cilla, Jonny Simon, Michelle Simon, publisher of City & Shore Magazine, David Simon, Mikey Simon (#1 Kid Fundraiser) and Sam Simon. 3. The crowd. 2. Marc Schoenfeld, Mikey Simon, Bill and Kara Feinberg. 4. Valentina Tishenko-Aponte and Sheena Johnson. Opening of RL52 Realty’s real estate showroom and gallery, at 1034 E. Las Olas Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale: 5. Marc Serota, Michael McCrary, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, Marc Rosen, Bill Poster and Sol Kandell. Symphony of the Americas’ annual “Style and Substance’’ luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66: 6. Lisa Frucht and Mary Broderick with honoree Patrick A. Daoud, of Daoud’s Fine Jewelry in Fort Lauderdale.

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1. Gabrielle Union visits Dr. Cory Lessner at Millennium Laser Eye Center in Sunrise. Full Moon party at The Ritz-Carlton, Fort Lauderdale: 2. Deborah Wiltshire, Dean Johnson and Maritza Meza. “Charitable Afternoon in Style” Shopping Event & Book Signing to Benefit Making Autistic Strides at Sara Mique: 3. Sandra Feldman, president, Making Autistic Strides; author Haley Moss (seated), Diane Scharf, VP, Making Autistic Strides. 4. Sandra Feldman, Joan “Sara Mique” Lamonica and Diane Scharf. Champagne & Shoes event at the Grateful Palate in Fort Lauderdale: 5. Silvia Isaacs, Meghan Leckey, of the Grateful Palate; and Adam Irwin. 6. Meghan Leckey and Grace Abel, sommelier at the Grateful Palate. 7. LeBron James hosts “Trilogy A List Party – Part 1” at Mansion Nightclub in Miami Beach. King Jewelers in Aventura hosts a Benefit for The Ricky Williams Foundation: 8. Maxine King, Ricky and Kristin Williams.

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Wonder what it might be like to judge a real wine-tasting competition, like the American Fine Wine Competition in Fort Lauderdale? Sit down, open a bottle – or 16 – and we’ll pour through the process of choosing just the right wine. (Even one that goes with red cabbage). BY MARK GAUERT The Wine Angel set my glass down on the judging table, and smiled.

IF YOU GO The American Fine Wine Competition Gala Dinner, presented by Patriot Risk Management, Inc., featuring all the wines from the competition and a five-course wine-inspired dinner, will be 6-11 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six, Fort Lauderdale. Emcee Alan Kalter, announcer for The Late Show with David Letterman, live music by Dayve Stewart & the Vibes, entertainment by artist Michael Israel, who will create original works of art for the live auction. Other auction items include packages of wine bottles signed by the winemakers. Buy a lottery ticket for your chance to win a “Bejeweled” Lexus IS, filled with prizes including a $12,500 diamond necklace from Jewels in Time in Boca Raton. The event benefits the Diabetes Research Institute and the Sun Sentinel Children’s Fund. Tickets $200 per person. Lottery ticket $100. For additional information or to learn more about sponsorship opportunities, visit www.AmericanFineWineCompetition. com or call Shari Gherman at 561-504-VINE (8463).

“The chardonnays are coming ﬁrst,’’ she said. “There’ll be four of them.’’ “Four of them?” “Yes,” she said. “Then will come the pinot noirs, the cabernets and the syrahs.’’ “Four more … of each?” I said. “We’re going to drink 16 glasses of wine?” “Yes,’’ she said. I gulped. (Air). The Wine Angel smiled. “Cheers!’’ she said. I knew the judges in the American Fine Wine Competition, Jan. 16-17 at the Hyatt Pier Sixty-Six in Fort Lauderdale, would be sampling 600 wines. Could I sip, smell and swirl my way through this mini preview of “just” 16? I looked around the dining room of the Jet Runway Café at Fort Lauderdale’s Executive Airport, host for the preview. I do love wine, at least when it’s good … but, questions began to pop into my 0.00-alcohol content mind. Did the Wine Angel really just say 16 wines? In one sitting? In an hour and a half? Do real wine judges really do that? More urgently, I wondered who was going to be driving me home tonight. And would I even remember how to get there? It does seem like a lot of wine, said AFWC co-founder Monty Preiser, a Palm Beach County resident who also publishes The Preiser Key to Napa Valley. But a good judge doesn’t have to drink a lot to know whether a wine’s any good. “That’s a relief,’’ I said. Because, after drinking 16 glasses of wine in 1 1/2 hours, I’m not sure I’d be able to make a sober judgment about the state of my shoelaces, let alone the oakiness of my chardonnay. “You take a gulp of the wine and you’re going to swish it throughout your mouth and use all your taste receptors,’’ Preiser demonstrated to the preview judges. “Then, you’re going to open your mouth a little bit – and this is where the gross part comes in if you haven’t ever seen it – you’re going to bring some back air through your mouth and nose – retro smell, so to speak – and that brings the air over the wine and again into your nose.” Back air over liquid, getting into my mouth and nose? Sounded like what happened the last time I tried snorkeling. The time I thought I was going to drown. cityandshore.com

on the shore That won’t happen here, Preiser reassured. Instead of drinking the wine after you’ve tasted it, you just spit it into the plastic cup the Wine Angel had conveniently placed next to my stemware. “That way you don’t have to swallow the wine to get the entire feel and entire ﬁnish of the wine,” he said. That sounded almost…manageable. Even nice. If I didn’t drown.   

The actual tasting was about to begin. The dining room, overlooking a runway just lighting up in the twilight, fell silent – except for a sound I’d heard before, but couldn’t quite place. Ping. Ting. Ping. Where had I heard a sound like that before? I began to notice that whenever a Wine Angel set a glass down a little too close to another, the crystalline rims would touch gently - sending tiny pings and tings through the dining room. Then I remembered. Prayer chimes, used to clear the mind of worldly matters before prayer and meditation. How perfect, I thought, as the Wine Angels began to pour the chardonnays, to hear a sound so close to prayer chimes just before a tasting. We want our judges’ minds – as much as their palates - clear when they select wines at a competition. We may even depend on it. We could, after all, try wines on our own. We could open bottle after bottle, swirl, smell and sip until we found just the right one to pair, say, with the lobster, crab and coconut ceviche on the menu this evening. Or with the three-mushroom ravioli in a pesto cream sauce. Or with the panseared salmon with braised red cabbage parsnip purée. But most of us do not have the money nor the time – not to mention the vital internal organs – to support such extensive wine sampling. Our raviolis would turn cold, our ceviche warm, long before we found one that really, truly paired with, say, red cabbage. So it’s good to know there are clearminded, hard-working judges around the tasting tables of the annual American Fine Wine Competition. Because of the work they do, we know now you’ll want to open a chardonnay The wines served at the preview of with the lobster, crab and coconut ceviche. And the American Fine Wine Competition, a cabernet sauvignon with the three-mushroom generously hosted and sponsored ravioli. And the pan-seared salmon, served with by Patriot Risk Management and red cabbage? introduced by Steve Mariano, the Trust the judges: Pinot noir. CEO, were:    Chardonnay: Phelps Creek, “Somebody asked how we happened to start this Castillo di Amorosa, Deerfield Ranch competition,” said Sara Preiser, Monty’s wife and a and Mattebella. co-founder of the four-year-old AFWC. “Because we’ve Pinot Noir: Russian Hill, Z’IVO, all been judges in competitions around the country. Gauthier and Papapietro. And at least four out of the five flights [we taste at other Cabernet Sauvignon: Pope competitions] were not good wines.” Valley, Mithra, Seven Hills and Judges know it takes a lot of swirling, smelling, Barnett sipping – and, yes, spitting - to winnow a wine list down Syrah: Michael-David, Bianchi, to wines really worth recommending. Brochelle, Hyde Vineyard. At times, “the spit cup is your friend,” Sara Preiser I am not a judge in the competition. affirmed. Sometimes in competitions, “It will help you…’’ But, of the 16 wines, I was “Get through the evening,” said Shari Gherman, particularly fond of the 2008 Phelps president of the AFWC, finishing her sentence. Creek chardonnay, the 2007 Russian At last year’s competition, Gherman invited more Hill pinot noir, the 2007 Mithra than 515 wines - primarily from California, Washington, cabernet sauvignon and the 2007 Oregon, New York, Ohio and New Mexico - to enter the Brochelle syrah. Compliments to chefs Sam Continued on page 132 Friedman, James Danato and Pinar Fisk from Silver Lining Inflight Catering (www. silverlininginflightcatering.com), who prepared the evening’s excellent dishes at the Jet Runway Café at Fort Lauderdale’s Executive Airport (www.jetrunwaycafe.com). Especially the red cabbage

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CLASSICAL MUSIC’S FUN HOUSE Frank Gehry composes a playful new home for classical music in South Florida

Frank Gehry designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Dancing House in Prague. Now, this architectural icon known for injecting playfulness into all of his buildings, has designed the new campus of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, his first Florida commission. Gehry decided to do the project because of his long time friendship with Michael Tilson Thomas, the symphony’s founder and artistic director. The symphony’s fellowship program provides top graduates of music programs with training to enhance their music education. When Howard Herring, CEO and president of the symphony, asked Gehry why he would take on this smaller commission, he replied: “I have never been able to design a music facility that is about the future of music. If I were to trust anyone to the future of music it would be Michael Tilson Thomas.” Most of the high-tech additions to the new building are the result of Thomas’ understanding of electronic media, which began when he took over young people’s concerts from Leonard Bernstein. The $160 million project is a far cry from the nearly 100-year-old Lincoln Road Theater, the symphony’s headquarters for the past 23 years. The Gehry building has 14 highdefinition projection screens for video, 756 seats arranged in a style that resembles theater in the round and satellite platforms to feature singers or a pianist. One of the most spectacular features is a 7,000-square-foot projection wall and audio system that allows the indoor concerts to be seen and heard in the surrounding park. Two concerts a month will be broadcast in the first season. “We live in a world of screens,” Herring said. “We are acknowledging that and trying to use the projection to enhance musical experience but always remembering we must maintain the integrity of music.” Herring recognizes it’s a gamble to allow those outdoors to enjoy a free concert, but he hopes it will pay off eventually. “We think over time, we will win a new audience. We think this music has strength, and when people hear it they will be influenced and take the next step - buying tickets.” –Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub 52

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Jan. 25: Opening ceremony of the Frank Gehry designed facility to honor donors and contributors, performance by the New World Symphony and concert video shown on the building’s exterior projection wall. Jan. 26-Jan. 30: Public performances.

Jan. 26 and Jan. 28: Performances marking the world premiere of a New World Symphony commissioned new work by British composer Thomas Ades.

Jan. 27: First of the Journey Concerts, a new performance format designed to create a journey through the composer’s music, featuring works of Franz Schubert. The main stage and four staging platforms will allow transitions from one work to the next. Jan. 27-28: Free live “wallcasts” allow members to view and hear the concerts from the public park.

Jan. 29: Gala and grand opening. Multimedia concert, dinner and dance party.

Jan. 30: World premiere of 11 short ﬁlms by students and graduates of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts shown as the orchestra performs Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. For more information, call 305-673-3331. For gala tickets, call 305-428-6733.

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A new lipshine and foundation from Chanel that hold up in heat, humidity

N-M Q&A A Conversation With Rusty Smith, The New V.P./General Manager of Neiman Marcus Fort Lauderdale Rusty Smith has a Dalmatian named Dakotah, drives a Toyota Sequoia and loves to watch Top Chef and Survivor. He began his career at Neiman Marcus more than 15 years ago and has risen through the ranks after serving as manager and assistant store manager at Neiman’s Bal Harbour and Boca Raton. What is the favorite part of your job? Spending time with customers and listening to what they are looking for so their expectations can be met. How has retail changed in this economic climate? Due to the heightened competitive environment, customer service plays an even greater role. What was your favorite item in the Neiman Marcus Holiday Book? My two favorites are the Neiman Marcus Exclusive 50th Anniversary His & Hers Book and the Dale Chihuly pool sculpture. What is on your iPod? Beautiful Day, February Song and Iris. What is the last book you read? The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller. Who are your favorite fashion designers? Giorgio Armani for his timeless architectural design, Valentino for his iconic and feminine design and Naeem Khan for his stunning artisan detail and design. If you had one wish, what would it be? Neiman Marcus was built on supporting the charities and organizations within our communities. My wish is that Neiman Marcus Fort Lauderdale can be supportive and always look for ways to give back to the many charities and organizations. – Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub

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Chanel celebrity makeup artist Angelia Levin previewed the Spring and Summer 2011 Makeup Collections in Miami Beach recently, and we couldn’t help feeling the iconic brand had finally figured out a way around South Florida’s heat and humidity. Levin, who regularly gets the red-carpet glam on Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman, showed a pearly palette of roses, peaches and corals along with yellow and petal pink nails, at the exclusive Soho Beach House. She also introduced two new stars: Rouge Coco Shine, due in April; and Vitalumiere Aqua, coming in March. The new Hydrating Sheer Lipshine, $32, happily marries a gloss and a lipstick. It’s perfect for pouts in sunny South Florida. Offered in 18 slightly sparkly shades, from nudes to berries, the easy-to-wear, transparent formula glides on like a dream and leaves lips soft and moisturized. Next up was the oil-free Ultra-Light Skin Perfecting Makeup SPF 15, $45. It’s formulated with mineral-coated pigments that help minimize the effects of perspiration and oil. It promises to be a godsend in the death-throes of steamy summer as your makeup slides off around noon. The lightweight liquid slips on like silk and offers invisible yet full coverage. It comes in 10 shades of rose and beige, arriving in March. Chanel’s Spring collection will be available in January; Summer in May. –Doreen Christensen

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A taste from Market 17’s eclectic menu: Pan-roasted duck breast, grilled endive and jicama salad, sweet potato purée and a blackberry maple gastrique.

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Market 17 Farm Fresh Market and Bar We’d been hearing good things about Market 17.

Brother and sister owners Aaron and Kirsta Grauberger – he from Seasons 52, she from Johnny V’s – had opened a new restaurant in Fort Lauderdale serving “wine country cuisine.’’ Daniel Ramos, formerly chef at the Sundy House in Delray Beach, was in the kitchen, crafting dishes prepared from scratch daily and “utilizing traditional French techniques.’’ “For every dish we make we also make a stock to correspond with each dish - a duck stock, chicken stock, beef stock, vegetable stock, etc.,’’ Kirsta explained. “And of course the French love their butter, and we do as well.” It all sounded good. And we’d certainly found much to love at Seasons 52 and Johnny V and the Sundy House brunch… “You will love Market 17,’’ said friends and colleagues who work in the Portside Yachting Center on 17th Street at Eisenhower Boulevard, where Market 17 occupies the west end of the ground floor. They’d been a couple of times to enjoy the restaurant - and the bar – after work. Now we were sitting at a table for two on the covered patio at Market 17, on a cool Friday evening. We were lingering over espressos near a burbling wall fountain, having just finished an eclectic, creative, expertly served – and delicious – meal. And, yes, we were in love. Market 17, which moved into the space previously occupied by Jack Jackson’s FISH restaurant on the southwest foot of the Southeast 17th Street Causeway Bridge, is not easy to see. There is signage, but I wondered how many drivers would see “Market 17” in the hulking Portside Yachting Center near the Broward Convention Center and wonder if it’s, well, a market – not a restaurant. I don’t think that’ll be a problem for long. Market 17 seems poised to become a word-of-mouth kind of place – the “find’’ you thought only you knew about, only to be surprised by the big crowd the next time you go. “We believe in serving delicious, creative food,’’ said Kirsta, who greets diners at the door. We soon believed it, too. 56

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Among the aforementioned eclectic starters on the menu, which changes daily depending on the availability of ingredients: Sautéed Canaveral white shrimp, with yellow grits, gruyère and jalapeño; a house-made charcuterie of turkey and cranberry sausage, andouille sausage, sweet and spicy Cajun ham and pâté de campagne. Among the entrées, pan-seared Florida pompano, with black barley, sunchoke purée, cardoons, Savoy cabbage and Maine lobster sauce; market vegetable farro risotto, a seasonal vegetable medley; poached Florida lobster, with tarragon butter, shiitake mushrooms, pecans, collard greens and sage-caramelized gnocchi; and panseared Colorado bison loin. Bison? Yes, cooked beautifully and served with roasted butternut squash, green beans and smoked corn sauce. I can recommend a 2007 Hands of Time cabernet blend by Stag’s Leap with that one – served by the glass. Kirsta also recommended a petite syrah by Three, a winery in Contra Costa, Calif. This is one wine-country cuisine restaurant, by the way, that does not forget the wine. Among the formidable list prepared by the Graubergers, both sommeliers – are a 2005 Pirouette from Washington’s Columbia Valley; a 2004 Brunello di Montalcino; and, hello, a 2006 Chassagne-Montrachet, 1er Cru “Les Chaumées.’’ (Did I mention we were in love?) At the end of the meal, we looked at each other across a triple-layer Key lime mousse, and smiled. Each dish we’d sampled was a surprise and delight – masterfully prepared, plated, pleasantly served. We’d been hearing good things about Market 17. We’ll be hearing more. – Mark Gauert

Market 17, at Portside Yachting Center, 1850 SE 17th St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-399-0017, www.market17.net. Indoor and patio dining available, as well as tasting menus and Dining in the Dark events, served in a separate dark room by wait staff wearing night-vision goggles. All ingredients are chemical, hormone and pesticide free.

January

-16 Fort Lauderdale Orchid Show, the third largest orchid show in America. War Memorial Auditorium, Fort Lauderdale. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday. $5, advance purchase; $10, at the door; children 12 and under free. 954828-5380, www.ﬂos.org.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, South Florida Chapter’s, 28th annual MS Gala & Fashion Show. Over 1,200 guests will enjoy lunch and the fashions of Rene Ruiz, not to mention an extravagant auction and rafﬂe prizes. 10 a.m. at the Broward County Convention Center. Tickets start at $150; sponsorships available. 954-731-4224, www. nationalmssociety.org/ﬂs. See story, pg. 32.

-23 46th Annual Broward Shell Show, one of the largest shows of its kind in Florida. See thousands of beautiful and unusual shells from around the world. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Emma Lou Olson Civic Center, 1801 NE Sixth St., Pompano Beach. Free. 305-467-4412, www.browardshellclub.org.

New World Symphony Gala and Opening of Frank Gehry Building. Music and art lovers from around the world will celebrate the Symphony’s

new Frank Gehrydesigned campus with cocktails, a world premiere performance, dinner under the stars and an after-party surprise — all to raise funds for the New World Symphony’s future. 6:30 p.m. at 541 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. Ticket prices vary. 305-428-6733, www.nws.edu. See story, pg. 52.

Guests will gather for a “Wicked Good Time” at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina for the Fort Lauderdale Children’s Theatre’s 2011 Grande Crystal Ball, The Emerald City. The event, drawing inspiration from The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz and Wicked, will feature dinner, dancing and a performance by FLCT’s “Glee” Show Choir. Reservations start at $200. Call 954-763-6901 for information.

-30 25th Annual Outdoor Juried Art Festival, named one of the top 100 art festivals in the country. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mizner Park, Boca Raton. Free. 561-392-2500, www.bocamuseum.org.

“Fine Wines and Hidden Treasures” Gala, including a wine tasting, auctions, entertainment and dinner, all to beneﬁt Food For The Poor’s homebuilding program for destitute families in Haiti. 6:30 p.m. at The Breakers, Palm Beach. $450. 888-4044248, www.foodforthepoor. org/palmbeach.

February

American Fine Wine Competition Gala, featuring a “Sparkling Reception” with some of the finest Americanproduced wines, a fivecourse dinner, a performance by artist Michael Israel and a chance to win a 2011 Lexus bejeweled with a $12,500 diamond necklace from Jewels in Time. Proceeds benefit the Diabetes Research Institute and the Sun Sentinel Children’s Fund. 6 p.m.-11 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Resort, Fort Lauderdale. $200. 561-504-8463, www. americanfinewinecompetition. com. (See story page 49)

-21 Miami International Boat Show & Strictly Sail Miami, one of the world’s largest boating events, showcasing thousands of the newest powerboats, sailboats, engines, electronics and marine accessories from over 2,000 manufacturers. Times, events and venues vary. Adults, $16; ages 15 and under are free (discounts available for multi-day passes). 954-441-3220, www.miami boatshow.com.

-27 Take a ride through history at the 5th Annual Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance. The weekend’s events, which beneﬁt Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County, include the “duPont Registry Live!” Hangar Party at Boca Raton Airport, as well as a gala dinner and auction with a live performance by Jay Leno, and a stroll among an exquisite display of cars and motorcycles from a wide

time period. Boca Raton Resort & Club. Times and ticket prices vary. 954-537-1010, www.bocaratonconcours. com. (See story pgs. 31)

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10th Annual Delray Beach Home Tour, showcasing seven spectacular homes in the Seagate area of Delray Beach, ranging from eclectic contemporary to historical cottages, as well as a luncheon and doorto-door trolley service. Proceeds beneﬁt the Achievements Centers for Children & Families. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $100. 561-266-0003, www.delray child.org/ hometour.html.

Save the date . . . April 30, 2011 American Heart Association’s Broward Heart Ball, a black-tie social event, themed “Heart to Heart,” with over 300 attendees from the medical and corporate ﬁelds, as well as community leaders. 6 p.m. at The Ritz-Carlton, Fort Lauderdale. $500. 954492-6909, www.heart.org/ browardheartball.

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NIGHT A grand launch for Fort Lauderdale’s annual boat parade at the Gray Robinson, PA Winterfest White Party at the Harbor Beach Marriott BY ELLEN FORMAN

ith a cool nip in the air and a sea of white-clad partygoers dancing the night away, Winterfest kicked off its 39th season with the Gray Robinson, PA Winterfest White Party at the Harbor Beach Marriott. It was a night for glamour, glitz and plenty of movin’ and shakin’ – a fitting start to “Dancing thru the Decades,” the theme for the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade and a bevy of lead-up events. As guests promenaded down the walkway to the beach side ballroom, they were greeted by elegant fashion models clad in allwhite evening gowns modeled and designed by students at the Art Institute of Florida, as well as elegant wedding attire from Zola Keller. Inside the ballroom, Winterfest president and CEO Lisa ScottFounds introduced parade officials and honored guests, among them 17-year-old Alison Marchessault, the parade’s junior captain, who battles recessive poly cystic kidney disease. Scott-Founds also shared a video introduction of Brooke Burke, co-host of Dancing with the Stars and the Grand Marshal of the parade. As classic film videos of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and their Hollywood brethren played in the background, the dancers of Sixth Star Entertainment showed their stuff to a Michael Jackson tune. Guests also got into the spirit, doing the bump to Jackson’s Don’t Stop till You Get Enough. Guests dined on a buffet provided by Timpano, Anthony’s Runway 84, Coral Ridge Yacht Club, Coral Ridge Country Club, 3030 Ocean and the Harbor Beach Marriott. Culinary students from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale served their original creations made from Butterball Turkeys, Lindt Chocolates and Crunchmaster Crackers. The men of the 2011 South Florida Firefighters Calendar flexed and posed with guests, all for fun – and several good causes. All proceeds from the sale of calendars would go to local charities including Safe Haven for Newborns and Here’s Help – which inspired the participation of Oliver Tansy, a.k.a. Mr. September, a five-year veteran fighter for the City of Miami. “And it’s fun,” he added. Also on hand was singing sensation Julia Dale, 9, of Davie, who sang at the White Party for the second straight year. She fell in love with My Fair Lady as a preschooler and has sung and danced ever since. Charles Fazzino’s vibrant 3-D nautical celebration, complete with fireworks over the downtown skyline, was chosen as this year’s official Winterfest poster. The New York artist was on hand to sign copies of the poster for guests and reminisce about his introduction to Fort Lauderdale, as an artist exhibiting at the Las Olas Art Fair. For the event hosts, it was also a night for surprises. ScottFounds was honored as “Alumna of the year” by Broward College president and honorary parade chairman J. David Armstrong Jr., who adorned her with a pageant-style sash and tiara. MC Paul Castranovo, Big 105.9 DJ and long-time Fort Lauderdale booster, got a surprise from Mayor Jack Seiler: a key to the city. Castranovo also gave the all-important weather forecast: “We’re predicting perfect weather for this year’s boat parade.” It was.

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Original designs by students of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale set the theme.

Charles Fazzino presents his vibrant 3-D depiction of the Boat Parade, the ofﬁcial poster of the 2010 event.

the party

Alison Marchessault, the 17-year-old parade junior captain, and her parents.

MC Paul Castranovo (third from left) receives key to the city from Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler as Winterfest CEO Lisa Scott-Founds (far right) looks on.

Beauty pageant winners were among the featured guests.

Culinary students at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale competed for cash prizes and the opportunity to have their creations served at the party. Jessica Cuetos won best of show from a panel that included Chef Tony Seta from Butterball, Chef Ann Czaja from Lindt Chocolate, Chef Bil Mitchell of Publix Aprons in Plantation and Chef Jack Kane from the Art Institute.

White-clad guests enjoyed the party.

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DAY 1 FEB. 25, 2011 FRIDAY NIGHT’S DUPONT REGISTRY LIVE AT THE BOCA RATON AIRPORT: This year’s event will revolve around the centennial of the Indianapolis 500 with an exhibit of Indy cars and memorabilia. The evening will also feature exotic cars, custom motorcycles, extravagant boats, private jets, vintage aircraft, and luxury motorcoaches. Guests will also experience a selection of the world’s finest cuisines presented by the areas most prestigious restaurants while enjoying wine tastings, live entertainment and more.

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FEB. 26, 2011 THE CONCOURS d’ELEGANCE GRAND GALA AT THE BOCA RATON RESORT: The evening’s festivities will include the presentation of the Automotive Lifetime Achievement Award to H. Wayne Huizenga, founder of AutoNation, and The Lee Iacocca Award to Jay Leno. Plus this year, in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Indianapolis 500, we will be presenting The “Legends of Indy Awards” to A.J. Foyt, the Unser family, Rick Mears, Helio Castroneves, Roger Penske, Honda, and Firestone. Also, each year during the live auction, guests have the opportunity to own the very first of some of the world’s very first all new exotic and luxury cars. But no great Gala would be complete without a celebrity entertainer. And this year, we are proud to welcome back world-renowned comedian Jay Leno, our founding host.

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FEB. 27, 2011 THE BOCA RATON CONCOURS d’ ELEGANCE AT THE BOCA RATON RESORT: On Sunday, over 200 of some of the finest collector cars and motorcycles in the world will gather at the famed Boca Raton Resort. Join Jay Leno and thousands of enthusiasts as we celebrate the history of the automobile. A variety of manufacturers will be exhibited, including vintage, antique, and exotic. Plus, guests can enjoy delicious foods, wines and beers from some of South Florida’s finest restaurants at the Concours d’Gourmet venue. We are also planning a special tribute to the Indianapolis 500, promising to make the 5th Anniversary of the Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance one for the ages.

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THE WE SAT DOWN WITH 10 SOUTH FLORIDA STYLE-SETTERS TO LISTEN – AND LEARNED.

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BY ELYSE RANART, FASHION AND STYLE DIRECTOR

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Paris68

STYLE IS ALL ABOUT EXUDING CONFIDENCE IN WHAT YOU WEAR.

Alexandra Dillard

Merchandise Manager for Exclusive Labels, Dillard’s

C&S What does style mean to you?

A.D. It’s all about feeling great and exuding conﬁdence in what you wear. The biggest style icons throughout history have also been some of the most self-assured.

C&S What style advice do you have for your clients?

M.B. Timeless! Fashion is ﬂeeting, but true style stands the test of time. C&S What is your personal style signature? M.B. I like traditional tailoring with a few eclectic pieces mixed in - like my over-sized eyewear frames, which people always compliment me on.

A.D. Part of having great style is knowing that not all trends are right for everyone. You have to dress for your body type and know what looks best on you.

Hermès

C&S What does style mean to you?

A.D. I am all about new trends, but mixing them back to classics. I’m a huge believer in “investment pieces.” Some of my favorite wardrobe staples are things I have had for years, like my leather motorcycle jacket.

HER ADVICE: DRESS TO YOUR BODY TYPE.

Associate, Daoud’s Fine Jewelry, Fort Lauderdale

TIMELESS STYLE: THE DUCHESS AND DUKE OF WINDSOR.

Mary Broderick

C&S What is your personal style signature?

C&S What style advice do you have for your clients?

JEWELRY SHOULD SUIT THE INDIVIDUAL WEARING IT.

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Badgley Mischka

(SHOWN, A PIECE OWNED BY WALLIS SIMPSON.)

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M.B. No matter how beautiful a piece of jewelry may be it has to suit the individual wearing it. When you look at the provenance of iconic pieces, those jewels truly suited their original owner’s.

Bill Feinberg

Owner, Allied Kitchen & Bath, Fort Lauderdale C&S What does style mean to you? B.F. Feeling good! I feel great when I’m wearing something that makes me stand out.

Tony Espinosa

B.F. My colorful shirts. I love wearing them because it’s something a bit unique.

General manager, Nordstrom, Aventura Mall C&S What does style mean to you?

T.S. Personal expression. To me style is about how someone portrays the way they are feeling.

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C&S What is your personal style signature?

STYLE IS ABOUT PORTRAYING THE WAY YOU'RE FEELING.

B.F. Being in the design industry, I like to think out of the box and give our clients something different. That is exactly what people come to us for.

Trussardi

C&S What style advice do you give your clients?

Canali

HIS STYLE SIGNATURE: MODERN, CONTEMPORARY.

Paul Smith

C&S What is your personal style signature?

STYLE MEANS ❝WEARING SOMETHING THAT MAKES ME STAND OUT.❞

T.S. Modern, contemporary. I like things that are current without being too trendy and the ﬁt is very important to me. You can wear a very expensive garment but if it doesn’t ﬁt properly it doesn’t work. C&S What style advice do you have for your clients? T.S. I love fashion, so I feel like a kid in a candy store when I’m here and I want to translate that excitement to the customer - by giving them lots of choices that help them to look and feel great.

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Joan Lamonica

Owner/designer, Sara Mique, Coconut Creek C&S What does style mean to you?

STYLE SIGNATURE: FEMININE AND ROMANTIC.

J.L. Cultivating your own personal look, not just wearing the trend. C&S What is your personal style signature?

J.L. Feminine and romantic, with a little bit of funky thrown in.

Owner/Designer, Zola Keller, Fort Lauderdale C&S What does style mean to you?

Z.K. Fashion is dictated by few, while style is dictated by many because it’s individual. C&S What is your personal style signature? Z.K. Although I’m known as the queen of beads, I actual love classic tailoring.

❝FASHION

IS DICTATED BY FEW...

C&S: What style advice do you have for your clients? Z.K. Don’t let your 13-year-old tell you what to wear!

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...WHILE STYLE IS DICTATED BY MANY.❞

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ON STYLE, ❝GO WITH YOUR INSTINCTS.❞

Zola Keller

I think it is very important to try clothes on to see how they will look and feel on you. I also think that if you really like something a lot, go with your instincts, not what someone else is telling you.

Marc Jacobs

Moschino

C&S What style advice do you have for your clients?

STYLE IS,

❝BEING

COMFORTABLE IN YOUR OWN SKIN...

Susan Pullin

Director, Graff Jewelers, Bal Harbour Shops

...NOT JUST FOLLOWING FASHION TRENDS.❞

Hermès

Ralph Lauren

Prabal Gurung

C&S What does style mean to you? S.P. Being S.P comfortable in your own skin, not just following fashion trends that don’t relate to your personal style.

C&S What is your personal style signature?

Robin Levinson

Co-owner, Levinson Jewelers, Fort Lauderdale C&S What does style mean to you? R.L. The conﬁdence someone exudes when they are comfortable in what they are wearing.

❝I LIKE QUIET

ELEGANCE WITH A SENSE OF STRUCTURE.❞

C&S What is your personal style signature?

Anne Valerie Hash

STYLE TRANSLATES TO CONFIDENCE.

R.L. I like quiet elegance with a sense of structure, so I gravitate toward more tailored pieces that are still feminine. Even with my personal jewelry, although I wear large stones, the cut and design is always very classic.

S.P. Classic American style with modern pieces mixed in to keep it fresh. C&S What style advice do you have for your clients? S.P. The ﬁrst question I ask is how they intend to wear it. A piece of jewelry is married to the wearer - hopefully for a long time - so it really needs to suit a client’s lifestyle and enhance it as well.

❝A PIECE OF

JEWELRY IS MARRIED TO THE WEARER HOPEFULLY FOR A LONG TIME.❞

C&S What style advice do you have for your clients? R.L. One size does not ﬁt all. I can tell in under ﬁve minutes what suits someone and what they will be comfortable in, so my advice is different for every client. It’s especially helpful to my male clients, when buying for their wives.

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BASIC PIECES... AND PAIR WITH A TRENDY BLOUSE AND SHOE.❞

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Susan Rindley

Realtor Associate/One Sotheby’s International Realty C&S What does style mean to you? S.R. Good bones, as in classic pieces that you can build on.

S.R. Real Estate is like style, in that they are both about good bones, so I tell my clients to focus on location, ﬂoor plan and view and then they can add on all the bells & whistles later.

Badgley Mischka

C&S What style advice do you have for your clients?

BUILD ON CLASSIC PIECES.

S.R. Taking basic pieces, like my Dolce & Gabbana pencil skirt and pairing it with a trendy blouse and shoe.

Stefano Pilati for Yves Saint Laurent

C&S What is your personal style signature?

Jonie Sabo

Manager of public relations, Neiman Marcus Fort Lauderdale

C&S What does style mean to you?

STYLE IS ABOUT, ❝ATTITUDE! BEING SELFASSURED IN HOW YOU LOOK.❞

J.S. Attitude! Being self-assured in how you look is what personal style is all about. C&S What is your personal style signature? J.S. The little black dress. It can take me from day into evening by just changing my jewelry and shoes.

Chanel

C&S What style advice do you have for your clients?

THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS: ❝CAN TAKE ME FROM DAY INTO EVENING.❞

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Don’t take your wardrobe too seriously. Mix and match - try new things!

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Tribalism: Globalization never looked so good

10 YEARS WILL WE REMEMBER THE DOUBLEOHS? HOW COULD WE FORGET? BY ROD STAFFORD HAGWOOD

5. Momma Got A Brand New Bag: The status bag – or “it” bag – became an accessory Holy Grail for a lot of women (see Sex and the City). Denim overdone E-mail your questions to Rod Hagwood at fashionguy@sunsentinel.com

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The accessory? The status bag

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Has the past decade contributed anything to fashion? When we reflect on the past 10 years, what will we remember? I believe it was King Solomon – who knew a thing or two about luxury goods – who said in Ecclesiastes 1:9, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Yes, there were plenty of trends - from bling to BoHo - but when I think of the Noughties I think of two things: the rise of Unruly tresses rule celebrity fashion and the democratization of fashion. First of all, if you attained any level of fame in the Double Ohs and didn’t have some sort of fashion connection in your portfolio (fragrance, clothing line, endorsement deal, etc.) then you just weren’t really trying, were you? The red carpet rolls on And the world of fashion became a game everyone could play, thanks in part to masstige (mass produced goods com- 1. Sex and the City: Do not underes- 6. Military Might: Ever since 9/11 timate girl power. The ladies who love, and the subsequent wars in Iraq and bined with designer prestige) or high-low lunch, leer and live had so much influence Afghanistan there has been a rise in dressing where women began pairing on fashion they made Manolo Blahnik and the popularity of camouflage, khaki and their luxe items with down-market duds: Jimmy Choo household names. Even more, cargo looks. picture, for example, a Chanel jacket they ushered in the ultra-femme feeling in worn with Levi’s jeans. fashion after the manly minimalism of the 7. Overdone Denim: Just when we Here are some other global trends ’90s. were getting a tad overwhelmed by from the Double Ohs: the oh-my-goodness embellished and 2. The Rise of the Red Carpet: rhinestone festooned denim, along It used to be just Joan Rivers and her comes skinny jeans and now everyone Sex and the City muses looks like an Emo garage band. mini-me daughter. Now the red carpet at Hollywood events is a crowded, full- Somewhere in the middle was the return blown media event with everyone asking of designer jeans. With a vengeance. the same question: who are you wearing? Designers are thrilled for the publicity 8. Green is the New Black: Ecoand the public hungrily consumes the friendly sustainable fashion material used trends for less through inexpensive in fashion became as important as Fair copies on the internet (DressMe.com, Trade manufacturing. Take that Kathie Lee. Unique-Vintage.com, Net-a-Porter.com). We even came up with a term for it: Fast 9. The Right To Bare Arms: Michelle Obama, surely one of the most fashionFashion. You know, like fast food. conscious First Ladies since Nancy 3. Messy Manes: From women Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, ushered in wearing updo’s with loose strands to the sleeveless sheath dress as the go-to guys sporting faux hawks, hair was uniform for moms everywhere. mostly artfully unarranged. 10. Size Matters: Accessories were either 4. Tribalism: A tramp stamp tattoo downsized (skinny neckties, tiny bowties) or Accessories live large here, a few face piercings there. lived large (oversized sunglasses, costume jewelry). Throw on an animal or ethnic print and globalization never looked so good.

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Roundabout glam Sometimes a design takes your breath away and this is one of those. Circles of glass hang like shiny earrings from this elegant chandelier with a trendy barrel shade. The ﬁxture measures 33 inches high and 31.5 inches wide. A matching table also is available. Prices available upon request. Available at Farrey’s Lighting & Bath, 1850 NE 146th St., North Miami, 305-947-5451; and 3000 SW 28th Lane, Coconut Grove, 305-4452244, www.farreys.com.

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LED with panache Baccarat, the company synonymous with fine crystal, reinvented its traditional Solstice chandelier in 2010 to be eco-friendly with the use of LEDs, light-emitting diodes that consume 80 percent less energy than conventional, incandescent bulbs. Light intensity is controlled with a dimmer switch and can range from bright illumination to a gentle candlelight flicker. The Solstice Comete chandelier ($60,000) was designed under the direction of Chafik Gasmi, Baccarat’s artistic director. It is available on special order at Neiman Marcus Florida stores in the gift gallery department. See www.neimanmarcus.com for locations.

Out of this world Designers love the interesting shape of this floor lamp, which manufacturer Global Views has dubbed the Extraterrestrial. The base is polished chrome and the drum shade is covered in white linen. It stands 72.5 inches high and is 15 inches in diameter. Available at Baer’s Dania Design Center, 1025 S. Federal Highway, Dania Beach, 954927-0237, for $1,979. 80

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New moon The 33-inch high Moroccan Satin Spar lamp by JohnRichard is guaranteed to be a conversation starter with its unusual column of Selenite, a natural gypsum mineral. Selenite is derived from the Greek word that means “moon stone” because of the mineral’s glowing, pearly surface. Selenite can be found in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains from crystals believed to have formed 200140 million years ago. Some say it has healing powers, removing negative energy. Available for $1,850 at Robb & Stucky Interiors, 200 Plaza Real in Mizner Park, Boca Raton, 561-347-1717; 3801 Design Center Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, 561-904-7200, www.RobbStucky.com.

Back to nature Palecek, one of the most creative home furnishings manufacturers, is always on the cutting edge of trends. This natural petrified wood lamp is harvested from rough-hewn petrified wood and hand-cut and inlaid in a mosaic pattern and is topped with a rectangular natural raffia shade. Suggested retail is $856. It is available at Black & Lenet, Design Center of the Americas, 1855 Griffin Road, Suite C-328, Dania Beach, 954-9295882; Design Depot, 8935 S. Dixie Highway, Miami, 305-669-1840.

Sexy spiral Contemporary lighting, such as Corbett Lighting’s Vertigo Pendant, can be as artsy as a piece of sculpture. The 30-inch wide fixture features twisted pieces of hand-crafted iron with a gold-leaf finish on the inside and a caramel ice diffuser. The style is also available in a One Light Sconce and different size pendants. It sells for $1,750 at Imperial Electric and Lighting, 1125 SW 101st Road, Davie, 954-370-3000, www.IE-L.com.

Surveying the design If you have a home that Mies van der Rohe would love, the Surveyor Floor Lamp is the right choice. Z Gallerie designers created their rendition of a classic surveyor’s instrument in black-stained wood accented with shiny silver metal feet, braces and stem. The 66-inch tall lamp is adjustable to different heights and features a sassy black linen shade. Available for $399 at Z Gallerie stores and at www.zgallerie.com.

Crystal-ball solution We have seen plenty of table lamps with columns of stacked crystal balls, but this 59inch high floor lamp makes an even more dramatic statement. The hand-polished globes rest on a crystal base and the lamp’s wiring is concealed through the center. It can be paired with the linen straight drum lamp shade or a variety of others. Shades are sold separately. It sells for $290 at Pottery Barn stores or at www.potterybarn.com.

New wave Who says contemporary lighting can’t be high glam? Geometrix, a sparkling collection of high-tech lighting from Schonbek, includes shapes such as spheres, spirals and pyramids that combine halogen, xenon and LED light with STRASS and Spectra Swarovski crystals to change how light interacts with interiors. The collection includes chandeliers, pendants, sconces, bath bars, track lighting, spotlights and crystal trim for recessed lighting. Pictured here is the Refrax 8 light Swarovski crystal pendant in a wave design. Prices available upon request. Available at Hill Lighting, 3340 Powerline Road, Pompano Beach, 954-971-5870, www.hillighting.com.

Elegant edition Perhaps you are a traditionalist who wants your guests to be greeted with elegance. Some of the grandest homes in South Florida can set the perfect tone with this Bohemian crystal, 24-light bronze foyer chandelier from Metropolitan Cristafano. It is 58.5 inches high, 47.5 inches wide with a 12-foot chain or cable. Available for $17,100 at Capitol Lighting, 7301 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, 561-9949570, www.1-800lighting.com.

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ISLAND IN THE DREAM

A 6,660-square-foot custom home in Fort Lauderdale’s Rio Vista neighborhood has a real feel for the British West Indies. This 6,660-square-foot British West Indies-style custom home, at 1716 SE Ninth St. in Fort Lauderdale’s Rio Vista neighborhood, sits on 90 feet of deep water and can accommodate a 70-foot yacht. It features five bedrooms, five and one-half baths, a gym, home office, game room, 500-gallon salt-water aquarium, custom salt-water pool and spa and lush tropical landscaping. Built in 2005, the estate - known as Island House - has over $400,000 in custom upgrades, including a sophisticated full-house surround sound system. $3.195 million. Contact Brian Hero at ONE Sotheby’s International Realty. 954-522-2831 or www.onesothebysrealty.com. – Robyn A. Friedman 82

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Ask South Florida designers to pick a favorite TH decade and it’s like asking them to room from the past pick a favorite child. ANNIVERSARY Their final answers are as varied as their decorating styles. One choosesISSUE the room that began her furniture collection. Another cites the joy of working with classical architecture. Others say the room stands out because the client gave them creative freedom … or an unlimited budget. And they all had stories to tell.

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Shanghai Generally we travel to visit the past: the magniﬁcent monuments of earlier centuries, the picturesque lives of people without iPhones. In China’s most populous and vibrant city you can get a sense of history through the Art Deco hotels lined up like toy soldiers along the Bund. But the real reason to visit is for the stupefying glimpse into the future. The brash, bombastic skyscrapers of Pudong, on the other side of the Yangtze River, soar like a metaphor for the country’s spirit.

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A WORLD TRAVELER PICKS THE BEST PLACES TO VISIT IN THE NEXT DECADE – FAR FROM HOME, AND CLOSE TO IT.

THE STELLAR CELLARS A GREAT WINE LIST CAN MAKE A GREAT RESTAURANT – AND THESE EIGHT WINE-WISE, CUSTOMERFRIENDLY ESTABLISHMENTS KNOW IT.

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BY BOB HOSMON What does it take for a restaurant to have a good wine list?

Despite what some may opine, it’s not the number of bottles of wine on a list that matters, it’s the wines in the bottles. The wine list should include several choices in red, white, rose, sparkling and dessert libations and, most importantly, the wines offered should complement the restaurant’s cuisine. Each wine should be fairly priced in relation to retail, not two to three times retail (after all, the restaurant pays wholesale prices to distributors). Ideally several wines should be available by the glass, and the choice should not be just one red and one white. And certainly the wait staff should be somewhat familiar with the wines. (I’m tired of being told I can have a glass of red, but the waiter doesn’t know what red it is.)

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ohnny Depp. Barbra Streisand. Andy Roddick. The Kardashians. A dog named Marley. An A-list of personalities have graced the covers of City & Shore over the past decade. In this special 10th Anniversary Issue, we’ll catch up with 10 of the fascinating people whose star appeal still lures

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us into their worlds of fame and fortune. We’ll also ask noted South Florida designers to look back and cityandshore.com

pick their favorite room of the past decade, get some expert advice on how to look 10 years younger, get a world traveler’s picks for the best places to travel off to in the next 10 years and, as we get ready for one of our favorite parties, the American Fine Wine Competition gala in February, we’ll toast our anniversary with the best South Florida restaurants for wine.

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April/May 2003

Ricky Williams: What Makes the Dolphins Star Run?

Ricky Williams has always been an enigma strapped into a football helmet, and he’s OK with that. “I’ve learned the last couple of years, at this point in my life I am who I am,” Williams told us in spring 2003. “I don’t get upset about what people say about me. I’m not searching. When you search too much you don’t enjoy what you have. And even when you get to where you’re going, the joy lasts five minutes. That’s it.” We all know what happened after Williams’ five minutes: The 1998 Heisman Trophy winner comes to Miami in 2002 in a trade with the New Orleans Saints, leads the NFL in rushing and makes first team All-Pro. Battling depression and social-anxiety disorder, he retires from football in 2004, returns apologetically to the Dolphins in 2005 and is suspended for the 2006 season when he violates the NFL drug policy, again. He rejoins the Dolphins in 2007 a model citizen, renewed in body and spirit from therapy, yoga and clean living. The father of five marries long-time girlfriend Kristen Barnes in 2009 and concentrates on football, raising his family and the Ricky Williams Foundation, which helps at-risk kids learn skills for success. Williams, now 33 and presumably no more the benighted soul, had “always been attracted to things that are taboo. I’ve never been afraid to go to that dark place.” After watching the 2010 ESPN Films documentary Run Ricky Run, in which he spoke about his odd journey from darkness to light, Williams said: “I think it’s very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad. What I wanted to do was give an accurate picture of a football player as a human being, ups and downs, good and bad. The people that I see on the street [now], they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.” After a modestly productive 2010 for a Dolphins team that missed the playoffs, Williams hasn’t said whether he will return next season. He has learned to stand in the light of today and not dwell on the dark that tomorrow could bring. “If I wake up every morning and just do my best,” he says, “then everything will be OK.”

December 2004/January 2005 Johnny Depp: South Florida’s Gift to the World

When wayward “little Johnny Depp” was growing up in Miramar, no one pegged him for the phenomenal success he would become, least of all himself. “As a teenager I was so insecure,” he says. “I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing.” The pirate of Miramar was headed down a one-way street the wrong way. At 12, he began smoking, and at 13 he lost his virginity. “By 14, I’d done every kind of drug there was,” he said in his 2004 proﬁle. “It wasn’t hard to get into drugs when you lived near Miami.” He dropped out of Miramar High at 17, joined a rock band as a guitarist, and then seemingly overnight became a superstar after being cast in Nightmare on Elm Street. Street Since then he has made more than 40 movies – including Edward Scissorhands, Scissorhands Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Public Enemies, Enemies Alice in Wonderland and his latest, The Tourist – which have grossed more than $6 billion worldwide. He has been called Hollywood’s “most perverse superstar” and twice been named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive.” “I’m shy. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it,” says Depp, yet he admits, “Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.” That is, of course, a not-so-sly reference to being Jack Sparrow, the witty pirate captain he portrays for the fourth time in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Tides which hits the theaters in May 2011. That franchise alone has grossed more than $2.6 million, earned Depp well over $100 million and made him the most famous actor in the world. When not making movies, the reclusive Depp, 47, lives in the south of France with longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis and their two children. “My whole experience on the ride since day one has been pretty surreal and deﬁes logic. I had no idea where anything was going,” Depp says. “I’m completely shocked that I still get jobs. But I guess, more than anything, it has been kind of a wonderland.”

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October/November 2005 Ivana Laughs Last

In January 2010, just weeks after announcing she was divorcing her fourth husband, the millionaire socialite-entrepreneur stripped down to her bra and panties for the British reality show Celebrity Big Brother. She was a month shy of her 61st birthday. So it had come to this for Ivana Trump. Things were decidedly different for the former model and ski champion when we spoke with her in the fall of 2005. Trump’s beauty and personality burned bright in the celebosphere then: She had a $50 million windfall from her 1992 divorce from The Donald, millions more from entrepreneurial endeavors including real-estate, perfume and cosmetics lines, speaking gigs and books, and she maintained a string of homes from Palm Beach to St. Tropez. On top of all that, women from around the world admired her and asked for advice in putting their lives back together after humiliating break-ups. Ivana had, after all, run into her husband’s mistress, Marla Maples, on the ski slopes of Aspen during a family vacation. “The way I handled it gave a lot of women courage – you know, if she can do it, I can do it,” Ivana told us. “I did not look at the end of the marriage as the end of anything. I looked at the end of the marriage as bad and sad but also a new beginning. I turned adversity into an opportunity to do other things.” She wrote The Best Is Yet to Come (Pocket, 1996) for the ordinary folk, but now, apparently divorced from her fourth husband, Rossano Rubicondi, Ivana faces a future in which the best years may have come and gone. Until then, she’s displaying the wealthy Trump resilience. “Life goes on for all of us,” says Ivana who turns 62 in February. “And, yes, every single day I remember I am luckier than most people. I have worked hard to create all that luck, and continue to work hard, because I think that’s what makes life exciting, fun and challenging.” It is, of course, a philosophy she can well afford.

February/March 2006

Peter Max: Our Cover Artist Talks About Everything

Under Our Sun

Peter Max has been awing the world with his artwork for so long there’s one question people always ask him: What’s next? We asked just that in 2006 when Max painted City & Shore’s 5th anniversary cover, “Rise & Shine,” featuring a “cosmic flier” cruising over a psychedelic sun. “What’s next for me is always a surprise,” he said. “I have no big plans. I take life as it comes. I walk around looking at the world in awe.” At 73, he is still awing us.. Working out of his huge studio in Manhattan, Max continues to paint people whom we’re endlessly curious about, including Barack Obama, NBA star Shaquille O’Neal (a life-sized portrait, no less, of the 7-footer) and country-music sensation Taylor Swift. Those works were added to a massive Max gallery that already included six U.S. presidents going back to Gerald Ford, dozens of renditions of Lady Liberty, butterflies and hearts, Mick Jagger, racing cars and more. He has also been the official artist for the Grammy Awards, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, five Super Bowls, the World Series, the U.S. Open, the Indy 500 and the Kentucky Derby. While he earned his fame as a pop-art icon in the “Cosmic ’60s,” Max is anything but old hat in the 21st century. His creativity flows nonstop, and he couldn’t stop it if he wanted to. “Creativity,” he told us, “is a living thing that wants to happen.” Max, who visits Florida frequently for business and pleasure, describes himself as “an average Joe,” but clearly he is more than that. His paintings and posters have the power to transport Max and his millions of admirers to other worlds. “For me, it’s a wonderful time when I paint. It is timeless,” he says. “I don’t know if I’m in the 21st century or the 19th century or the 23rd century when I’m painting. I’m in the middle of this atmospheric thing with color, canvas, paints, backgrounds, foregrounds, subjects – and I love them.” In one respect, he hasn’t left the “Cosmic ’60s.” “With every single painting that I do,” he says, “I allow myself to just be totally free and let what wants to happen, happen.”

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April/May 2006

Andy Roddick: Hitting the Sweet Spot

Back in 2006, we declared that at age 23, Andy Roddick was no longer the Future of American men’s tennis. Turns out we were wrong. He was the future – at least for the past five years. At the end of 2010, Roddick was No. 8 in the ATP rankings. No other American cracked the top 10. When asked if he can beat the odds and stay there another five years, Roddick, 28 and an elder by pro tennis standards, says: “It will be based on whether I’m still playing at a high level. As long as I feel I can enter a tournament and win, then I’m more than happy to play.” Roddick won the U.S. Open in 2003, was ranked No. 1 in the world, has won 29 career titles, including the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, collected nearly $19 million in winnings and millions more in endorsements. He credits his success to a relentless competitive nature. “I don’t like being second-best at anything,” he says. His accomplishments off the court mean just as much to Roddick, if not more. Nowhere has he shown more heart than with the Andy Roddick Foundation: Serving Children Today for Tomorrow. Since establishing the organization in 2001, he has raised more than $8 million for various charities. The foundation also helps the world-famous athlete keep his perspective on what he does for a living. “This is tennis, it’s not brain surgery,” says the former Boca Raton resident who now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker. While regaining the No. 1 ranking is a long shot, Roddick figures to play at least through 2012, when he hopes to team with Serena Williams in mixed doubles at the Olympic Games in London. After that he could be content to start a family and cheer from the sidelines as Decker, a fledgling actress, pursues her career. She co-stars with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Just Go With It, due for release in February. “I’m comfortable with the spotlight, but it’s definitely not something I crave,” Roddick says. “Brooklyn’s going to be working a lot longer than I will. I’m sure I’ll be changing my fair share of diapers.”

August/September 2006 Niki Taylor: Greener Pastures

The car seat wouldn’t fit in Niki Taylor’s 1978 Pontiac Trans Am. So she put dear Heather up for sale in July, accompanied by photos of herself reclining on the gold Firebird-design black hood from her City & Shore photo shoot in spring 2006. We had photographed the supermodel from Cooper City High near a ramshackle barn in a rolling field next to her Brentwood, Tenn., home. Niki was a single mom of twin 11-year-old boys – the only men in her life, she said. A cellphone call she took with obvious delight made us wonder, however. Five years later, the barn still stands, but the surrounding fields, which Niki co-owns, has been subdivided into lots for houses. The twins are 16, starting to drive and, at 6-foot-3, a foot taller. And there’s another man in her life, her husband, racecar driver and personal trainer Burney Lamar. “I knew the day I met him that I wanted to marry him,” she says. That was in January 2006. They were engaged that September and married in December. Then there’s the reason for the car seat – and the sale of Heather – their blonde, hazel-eyed daughter, Ciel, who will turn 2 in March. “She’s 1 going on 25, so smart and alert and speaking very clearly. She’s very much a tomboy … no princess stuff yet.” Ciel can be heard squealing with joy as her father comes into the house after a training session with a client. “I’m learning so much from my husband about health and fitness,” Niki says, adding that they follow a paleo-type diet, eating simple, unprocessed foods. She’s also jogging three miles and training with Burney several times a week. “He’s a tough trainer. I’m probably his worst client,” she says, laughing. It seems to be working. Niki at 35, looking youthful and lean, recently appeared in catalogs for Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom and in a Macy’s holiday commercial. So, life is good. Falling in love and getting married were always her heart’s desire, she says, and, yes, more babies. Now that these desires are being met, is there anything missing? “I am so content. I have everything I need…and then some.”

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October/November 2008

When Legends Fall in Love

It was a love match the likes of which the sporting world had never seen: the Ice Princess tennis legend and the Shark golf legend. This time they were getting it right after her two failed marriages and his one. “We feed off each other in a lot of ways,” Norman told us in October 2008. “We both have been the key that fits in the door that neither one of us could unlock.” It was an upset in the making, though, despite Norman’s romantic declaration on a paper towel to his soon-to-be bride: “Happy Mother’s Day to the most perfect, loving, giving, caring, beautiful person in the world and a person I love so very much and will continue to love as long as there is breath coming out of me. You are my partner and soul mate and never forget that you have AML [all my love].” Rumors speculated that they had begun an affair before their previous marriages had been officially dissolved, Evert’s to skiing stud Andy Mills, father of her three sons; and Norman to Laura Andrassy, mother of his two grown children. Evert insisted that she and Norman did not become “physically, emotionally and spiritually committed” until their marriages were irretrievably broken – at a cost of $7 million to her and $107 million to him. Then both 53, they were married at the One & Only Ocean Club in the Bahamas in June 2008 and honeymooned in five countries. But their marriage was indeed a papertowel romance, and it quickly shredded. They were divorced in December 2009. There’s been no word on the financial cost of this misplayed match. As for the emotional costs, they appear negligible for Norman, who married fellow Aussie interior decorator Kirsten Kutner, 41, in November. Evert, on the other hand, says she healed her marital wounds in Aspen and has sworn off serious romance, at least temporarily. “I got the wind taken out of my sails on this last one,” she says, “and so I’m not considering [marriage right now]. It’s the furthest thing from my mind.”

December/January 2008-2009

The Dog That Made South Florida Famous Who would have thought that a crazy, accident-prone, big-hearted mutt would go Hollywood? “It was very much an out-of-body experience,” John Grogan, the former Sun Sentinel reporter and columnist, told us two years ago. He was referring to the filming of Marley & Me,, based on his phenomenally popular memoir, which began its run as a major motion picture that Christmas. “Seeing Jennifer Aniston as my wife trying to buck up Owen Wilson who is being me, that was very otherworldly.” Grogan’s life in general has been otherworldly since Marley was published in 2005. The book has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, millions more have seen the movie version, and Grogan has introduced his lovable pooch to generations of new young fans through a series of Marley-centric children’s books, including Marley and the Kittens (2010). “The Marley roller coaster has slowed down, but I still receive e-mails every day from readers all over the world telling me how that book touched them,” says Grogan, who, after 12 years in South Florida, now lives in a 1790s Pennsylvania farmhouse with his wife, three teenage children and two pooches: Gracie “the anti-Marley” and Woodson, one of the puppy stars from the movie. “Marley also continues to find new viewers who reach out to me. Of course, they think I look like Owen Wilson and am married to Jennifer Aniston.” Grogan, whose 2008 growing-up memoir, The Longest Trip Home, is now out in paperback, is contemplating his next writing project, which figuratively speaking, will surely be covered in paw prints. “Marley taught Jenny and me a lot of lessons during his 13 years about what really matters in life,” Grogan says. “He taught us about patience and accepting those we love flaws and all. In his second life as a posthumous book and movie star, he has taught even bigger lessons. Because of Marley’s ambassadorship, I have made friends with good people all over the world, and I have had my eyes opened to the fact that, despite all our cultural and national and ethnic differences, we humans are all basically the same, with the same hopes, dreams and aspirations.”

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October/November 2009

The Sisters Kardashian

You can try, but the reality is, no one keeps up with the Kardashians. Even one of the three divas finds their hyperkinetic schedules exhausting. “I never get time off,” Kim complains half-heartedly. “I just want 10 minutes to myself.” But in the next breath, she adds, “It’s work. I’m not going to turn it down.” Tabloid magnets Khloe, Kim and Kourtney don’t seem to turn down anything if it means selling another bikini or fragrance or shoe or exercise video or keeps their famous faces in front of the cameras. When we last visited with the “K” clan, Khloe and Kourtney were in South Florida promoting the opening of DASH, their glitzy boutique on Miami Beach, and pulling down big E! channel ratings with Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami,, a spinoff of the family’s hit reality series Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Since then, the sisters have been working and partying nonstop from coast to coast: Khloe, 26, married Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom. Kourtney, 31, gave birth to her son, Mason. Kim, 30, well, where should we start? She posed Barbarella-like in a curly blonde wig for Beach Bunny Swimwear, reportedly recorded her first album and tweeted her thumbs numb responding to 5 million Twitter followers. Wait – there’s more. Kim’s sisters spent the fall in Manhattan filming Kourtney and Khloe Take New York York, which premieres in January. All three pitch Skechers shoes with their “Kardashian Collection,” and the Kardashian Prepaid MasterCard briefly hit the marketplace – only to be withdrawn after complaints about its high fees. When it comes to their business savvy, Khloe revealed to us that “Kourtney is the brains of the business, Kim is the body, and I’m the legs.” Need still more of their brains and bodies? Check out the recently published Kardashian Konfidential, a combo childhood memoir, self-help book and beauty guide. “We’re not actresses or performers,” the K’s write. “We are business women, sisters, a mother, a wife, entrepreneurs, fashion designers … we didn’t set out to be celebrities. We’re just living our lives, and our claim to recognizability is that we do it in front of the cameras, and people like watching it.” Really.

January/February 2010 Fresh Start: Dara Torres

When Dara Torres stands in front of an audience telling stories about her storied career, she leaves them with the same message: “You shouldn’t put an age limit on your dreams.” Who could be more authoritative on that subject than Torres, now as famous for sculpting the body of an Olympian goddess as she is for producing an Olympian performance in the pool at the 2008 Summer Games. Her goal in Beijing was to add to her medals collection, and she did just that at the unprecedented age of 41: three more silvers for a total of 12 over ﬁve Games. When we visited with Torres in January 2010, she told us: “I’m very big on setting goals in life, and when I’m tired or don’t really feel like training, I think about my goals.” Despite the tens of thousands of laps swum, she set yet another goal. The University of Florida graduate and Parkland resident is training for the 2012 Olympics in London. Even after surgery on her knee and shoulder, Torres wants to go for the gold again – when she’ll be 45! “They may become harder to achieve, but your dreams can’t stop because you’ve hit a certain age or you’ve had a child,” says the mother of a 4-year-old daughter, Tessa Grace. Since 2008, Torres has displayed her six-pack on numerous magazine covers, delivered dozens of inspirational speeches, worked as product spokesperson, TV commentator and model and has published two books, Age Is Just a Number (Broadway 2009) and Gold Medal Fitness (Crown Archetype 2010). “It’s kind of fun” seeing whether she can swim in a sixth Olympics. “It’s different this time because I don’t feel like I have anything to prove. I’m doing it for myself.” To doubt that she will add to her medal total would be silly, because, as she says, “I learned that the water doesn’t know your age.”

Editor’s note: Special thanks to cover-story writers Nicole Brochu (Andy Roddick, Chris Evert & Greg Norman), Chelsea Fuller (The Sisters Kardashian), Jonathon King (John Grogan), Lyn Millner (Peter Max), John Parkyn (Johnny Depp), Elizabeth Rahe (Niki Taylor, Dara Torres) and Deborah Wilker (Ricky Williams, Ivana Trump). 92

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ROOMS TO KNOW BY CHARLYNE VARKONYI SCHAUB

Ask South Florida designers to pick a favorite room from the past decade and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like asking them to pick a favorite child. Their final answers are as varied as their decorating styles. One chooses the room that began her furniture collection. Another cites the joy of working with classical architecture. Others say the room stands out because the client gave them creative freedom â&#x20AC;Ś or an unlimited budget. And they all had stories to tell.

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Giselle Loor and Brett Sugerman are proud of this guest suite in Aspen because it was never supposed to happen. The rest of the project was all about the view. They transformed this basement with no windows into a functional and fun escape. Photo by David O. Marlow

Giselle Loor and Brett Sugerman, b+g design, Hollywood Background: A husband and wife team, with more than 20 years experience, they have designed projects in Florida, California, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Colorado and Mexico. Their work has appeared in Florida Design, Florida Design Miami and Luxe. They received the “Best Kitchen and Bath” award in the 2010 Florida Design competition for the Aspen house. Signature style: They call their style “warm contemporary,” clean-lined design using neutrals with a pop of color. Some of their new work takes more risks with color and uses more texture. “We don’t want to be one dimensional,” Loor says. “We want to evolve and change.” Favorite room: A guest suite in an Aspen house designed in 2008. Why favorite: “It’s a basement with no views and was never supposed to happen,” Loor says. “The rest of the project was all about capturing the view. What we loved about this room was it was so unexpected and so multifunctional.” Details: The living area was big enough to allow the designers to create zones for seating, a bar, a theater and a small kitchenette with a sink, refrigerator and microwave. The theater section features a sectional with ottomans and a high bar table to make it easy to eat while watching a game. A Holly Hunt ﬂoor lamp with a tripod base echoes the house’s concrete block and steel architecture. A dramatic piece of art, featuring colorful faces, sets the tone for red and brown throw pillows. Why signiﬁcant: This automated Smart House has a sophisticated video and lighting system. “More and more designers are not just making their spaces pretty,” she says. “They design the space so it can be totally utilized by the family.” cityandshore.com

This dining room in Weston, featuring a table and wheeled console from the Toby Collection, is classic Toby Zack – clean and minimal with an emphasis on art by David Renfry. Photo by Joseph Lapeyra

Toby Zack of Toby Zack Designs, Fort Lauderdale Background: Zack, a staple in the South Florida design community, has been in business more than 30 years. She created The Toby Collection, a contemporary furniture line, and has received several awards, including Top 25 Designers for creativity from Opustone and Interior Design Excellence Award in 2005. Her work has appeared in national magazines ranging from Better Homes & Gardens and Metropolitan Home to Architectural Digest. Signature style: Contemporary, minimalist, clean, classic design. “I love the art as the third dimension,” she says. “I think it’s the most important part of the design.” Favorite room: Dining room from a home in Weston’s Windmill Ranches, done in 2005. Why favorite: This room reminds her of how The Toby Collection began. She couldn’t find a Parsons’ style table with a glass top so she designed it and it became the inspiration for the collection. Details: Everything is simple and clean lined. The Zen dining chairs come from Catherine Memmi in Paris. The white flowers are displayed in a clear vase because she didn’t want to distract from the table top. The console under the watercolor by David Remfry is also from her collection and is on locking casters so it can be moved to seat 12 for dinner. The Belgium lamps are telescopic and can adjust in height. Why significant: “I don’t think the room has a date,” Zack says. “It certainly is 20th century. It shows a desire for clean lines and is restful.”

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Jennifer Garrigues, Jennifer Garrigues, Inc., Palm Beach and New York City Background: Garrigues, a former high-fashion model for Christian Dior, James Galanos, Hanae Mori and Jean Muir of London, has designed suites for clients in New York’s Carlyle Hotel, a villa for HRH Prince Charles and CEOs worldwide. Her work has been shown on HGTV and in magazines such as Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, House & Garden, Southern Accents, Florida Design and Traditional Home. She was named a “Star of Design” in 2008 from the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach. Signature style: This English-born designer includes furnishings from all over the world to give the room personality. She loves mixing old and new with the exotic and contemporary. “If the room has a lot of personality, it is probably mine,” she says. Favorite room: Living room in Greenwich, Conn., done in 2000. Why favorite: It is almost like a European house, with 12-foot ceilings and great architectural detail such as a bay window with stained glass. Details: The clients love color, texture, interesting furniture and art. Garrigues thought outside the box – painting dark paneling white to lighten the room and hanging a large painting overlapping the paneling. She found the 8-by-10 foot painting in a Los Angeles antique shop and knew she had to buy it because it has a similar view of an island that the clients have from their home. She mixed their furnishings, including an Indian settee and camel table, with her finds – a colorful 100-year-old Aubussson rug, a pair of slipper chairs, two pedestals with urns filled with hydrangeas and an unexpected punch of blue from the table lamp and ottoman. Why significant: The room is timeless, but if she designed it today it would have fewer fabrics, tassels and trims. “It’s elegant, it’s cozy and they can entertain two people or 10 people,” she says.

Jennifer Garrigue’s favorite room, a living room in Greenwich, Conn., illustrates her love for mixing old and new with the exotic. Notice how she hung the painting over the paneling, a bold gesture that works. Photo by Tria Giovan cityandshore.com

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Todd Davis and Robert Brown love this room they created for a Washington, D.C., showhouse because of the architecture and timeless design. The modern painting by Lee Krasner contrasts with the 18th century Waterford chandelier. Photo by Gordon Bell.

Todd Davis and Robert Brown of Brown-Davis Interiors, Miami Beach and Washington, D.C. Background: This famous duo is best known for creating interiors for Hillary and Bill Clinton in Washington, D.C., and Chappaqua, N.Y., as well as the British Embassy residence in Washington, D.C. They have been published in Architectural Digest, Veranda, Southern Accents, Interior Design, Florida Design and Traditional Home. Television shows include Architectural Digest Live in New York, Interiors by Design, Fantasy Open House and Lynette Jennings Design. Signature style: Their look is classic, timeless and sophisticated. Nothing is overdone. Art often provides the link that ties the room together. “We always say comfort is the greatest luxury,” Davis says. “Our responsibility is to help clients push boundaries and break the rules.” Favorite room: The drawing room in a Georgian Revival house, designed in 2000 for the National Symphony Decorators’ Show House in Washington, D.C. Why favorite: Davis adored the architecture in this large, symmetrical room. “I am still really proud of that room 10 years later,” he says. “It is a beautiful, timeless room. As time goes on, it is still very suitable.” Details: Modern art combined with antiques creates an eclectic mix. The clean-lined transitional furniture and the purple, gold and cream color palette are brought together in the abstract Lee Krasner painting, which was brought in after the design was completed. An 18th-century Waterford chandelier provides elegance and contrast to the modern art. The roundabout, which Brown-Davis often uses in their designs, ﬁlls the center of the room and provides extra seating for parties. Faux fur draperies in the adjoining room provide whimsy. Why signiﬁcant: French country was the rage for designers, but Brown-Davis pushed the envelope for a modern, sleeker style. cityandshore.com

The clients of this Palm Beach island condo wanted their new home to resemble an elegant cruise ship and told Louis Shuster to “work your magic.” Photo by Kim Sargent

Louis Shuster, Shuster Design Associates, Wilton Manors Background: Shuster, a native of Philadelphia, has been in the design business for 30 years and has clients ranging from New York fashion designer Wayne Diamond to Chuck Wolf, founder of Wolf Camera. Accolades include the Life Achievement Award from the Design Center of the Americas, HALO award for excellence in lighting design and the GUILDA Designer of the Year Award. He has been published in Florida Design, Florida Architecture, Florida International, Veranda, Elle Décor and Metropolitan Home. Signature: Timeless, clean design. Favorite room: Living room of a 30-year-old penthouse condo in Palm Beach, designed in 2003. Why favorite: The clients were open to ideas. “They had seen my work and basically said, ‘Work your magic.’ I could be creative, and that’s why it’s my favorite.” Details: They had just returned from a cruise around the world and wanted it to look like an elegant cruise ship. Shuster gutted the apartment and dropped the ceilings for lighting. Wood accents – Brazilian cherry and toned maple – cover the floor, walls and doors. The floor plan is open with glass walls separating the different rooms. The design is all about comfort – with seating in the living room for 12 and a sofa height 5 ½-by-5 ½ foot coffee table. Why significant: It has clean lines reflecting the Asian trend, and it reintroduced the popularity of mid-century modern. 100

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Kenneth Crawford had a large budget in this South Beach dining room allowing him to create a design with a lot of custom built-ins and accessories such as the sea-creature like chandeliers and panels of crystal glass that hide the kitchen. Photo by Barry Grossman

SOURCES Giselle Loor and Brett Sugerman: b+g design, 2001 Tyler St., Hollywood, 954-929-6949, www.bandgdesign.com. Toby Zack: Toby Zack Designs, 3316 Grifﬁn Road, Fort Lauderdale, 954-967-8629, www.tobyzackdesigns.com. Jennifer Garrigues: Jennifer Garrigues, Inc., 308 Peruvian Ave., Palm Beach, 561-659-7085, www.jennifergarrigues.com. Todd Davis and Robert Brown: Brown-Davis Interiors, 235 E. Rio Alto Drive, Miami Beach, 305-401-7565, www.browndavis.com. Louis Shuster: Shuster Design Associates, 1401 NE 26th St., Wilton Manors, 954-462-6400, www.shusterdesign.com. Kenneth Crawford: Robb & Stucky, Mizner Park, 200 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, 561-347-1717. A. Keith Powell: 3850 N. Miami Ave., Miami Beach, 305-756-8010, www.akpinterior.com.

Kenneth Crawford, Robb & Stucky, Boca Raton Background: Crawford, who has been a designer for 22 years, has created interiors for several high-profile clients, including actor Lee Majors, singer Bob Marley, and a member of the Kuwaiti royal family. His work has been published in Florida International, Broward Design and Florida Design and he has appeared on WSVN’s Deco Drive. He owned his own design firm and worked with Fine Decorators before joining the Robb & Stucky team. Signature style: Clean lines. Pattern is minimal and colors are neutral. Favorite room: A dining room in South Beach, designed in 2006. Why favorite: “This is the type of client every designer wants,” Crawford says. “The budget was large, and it was a great opportunity to do a lot of custom built-ins, beautiful lighting and accessories. It is a huge showplace, and the client really appreciates it. ” Details: The client wanted a sophisticated look that brought in beach colors. Crawford covered the pass through to the open kitchen with panels of crystal glass that slide behind each other. The two custom dining tables are zebra wood and can be pushed together for large parties. All woodwork is custom. Ceiling wood panels provide a visual link to the tables and a contrast to the sea creature-like chandeliers in a Chihuly style. Art is provided by a mosaic wall of leaves in blue, orange, teals and red. Why significant: Comfort is important. The message is you can have a beautiful apartment without being stuffy. 102

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A. Keith Powell, A. Keith Powell Interior, Miami Beach Background: Powell began his career designing display windows for Ralph Lauren. After leaving to start VIU Design, he created window displays for Calvin Klein, Gucci, Versace and Tiffany & Co. His new company, A. Keith Powell Interior, specializes in residential design. He was one of 14 designers who participated in the Design Center of the Americas first show house and is currently working on former tennis star Jennifer Capriati’s home. Signature style: “I don’t have a signature look,” he says. “It has been a blessing and a curse. One thing people notice in my work is the continuity of detail, texture and eclecticism.” Favorite room: Great room in a Coconut Grove condominium, designed in 2008. Why favorite: The budget was open ended, which allowed Powell creative freedom. He wanted to use as many textures as possible in a small space. “The room is cozy and organic but still feels extremely modern,” he says. Details: Powell dropped the ceiling 16 inches to include lighting and speakers for the sound system. A glass panel separates the dining area without feeling closed in. Part of the warmth comes from the Brazilian walnut floors and the cerused finish on the oak-paneled walls. The rug, by Stark Carpets, is thick shag in russet and ivory. Texture ranges from the crackle-glaze porcelain Buddha on the buffet to the suede sofa and coyote throw. Why significant: “It’s timeless,” he says. “You can always throw in a new side table and take away the orange one. Even 20 years from now it will endure.”

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WHETHER YOU’RE LOOKING TO BURN CALORIES OR BEAUTIFY, A NEW YOU MAY BE ONE APPOINTMENT AWAY. EXPLORE WAYS TO TIGHTEN, TONE, TRIM AND BEAUTIFY – OR, SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE WHEN THOSE TACTICS CAN’T QUITE CORRECT THE ISSUES. EITHER WAY, A NEW YOU COULD BE ON THE WAY.

Kick ballet up a notch with ProPilates’ Cardio Ballet workout. The 60-minute class blends ballet, cardiovascular training, Pilates and Gyrotonic movements to tighten and tone. Squat and press 1-lbs. weights while listening to pop music – it’s a sustainable effort level designed to produce results. The Fort Lauderdale studio reports an average 4 percent reduction in body fat and 5-lbs. weight loss in a four-week case study. ProPilates: 1861 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale, 954-767-8005, www.propilates.com.

Beautify

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Billed as a “doctor of hair,” celebrity colorist Jody Jack keeps locks looking luscious at Boca’s Peter Coppola Salon. Jack prescribes a color and maintenance regime, just as a Crank outdoor exercise up a notch this winter dermatologist would prescribe skincare, to ensure hair remains with the ElliptiGO, a new piece of fitness healthy and vibrant. Trained in New York and London and a reality equipment that’s a happy marriage between elliptical machine and TV veteran (The Style Network’s Split Ends), Jack has been bicycle. Billed as the “world’s first elliptical bicycle,” the ElliptiGO correcting color and creating natural contrast in Boca for 18 years. pairs the intensity of running with the low impact of biking for a Peter Coppola Salon: 2200 Glades Road #107, Boca Raton, great workout or cross training experience. Hop on the machine (you’ll be standing nearly straight up), pedal your feet and you’re 561-447-4474, www.jodyjack.com. off. You’re virtually guaranteed to get a few second looks – and Traditional nail, waxing and facial services are available at Fort burn an average of 600 calories per hour. Lauderdale’s Casbah Spa & Salon, but we suggest splurging for something new. Lay down for a Tibetan bowl-sound massage ElliptiGO available exclusively at Busy Body Gyms to Go, and melt into the table as singing bowls are placed on your various locations throughout South Florida, 877-GYM-TO-GO, body and gently tapped to produce calm, harmonizing sounds. www.gymstogo.com. Or, get wet with a water-fantasy package blending a hot shower, Try something new this year with a VIPR personal aromatherapy steam, aromatherapy soak and a tropical marine training session at Equinox. Imported from sea-salt glow. Alternately, tackle (or prevent) stretch marks with the United Kingdom, the VIPR program utilizes a Lierac program that utilizes botanical ingredients to minimize a series of hollow rubber cylinders (ranging stretch marks. from about 10 to 45 pounds) you exercise Casbah Spa & Salon: 1000 Seminole Drive, Suite 200, Fort with to burn calories and build muscle. Invest about 30 minutes of education time and you’ll be Lauderdale, 954-630-0633, www.casbahspa.com. dragging, lifting, throwing, lunging and shuffling the tubes around the gym. Expect to sweat and be impressed – the Indulge while doing good at Lyn Anthony Salon, where 5 percent tubes look harmless, but they can be surprisingly challenging. of your service fee will be donated to charity. Focus on your digits Experienced athletes will like the VIPR as a workout complement; with an OPI Axxium or Shellac Manicure (signature for basic, spa amateurs will love the entertainment value. for a mask and extended massage) and your polish will remain

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Equinox Aventura: 19501 Biscayne Blvd., Aventura, 305-9359514, www.equinox.com. Find inner peace and outer beauty (toned legs, sculpted arms) via a season of yoga at Boca’s Yoga South. The studio’s classes follow an improvisational, free ﬂow vinyasa style, meaning yoga postures (asanas) are strung together to create challenging, evolving workouts. Expect to lunge, squat and push-up while working on breathing techniques and balance. Alternately, target your hips with Yoga South’s Happy Hips class. The 60-minute class combines standing and seated postures to focus on hip extension, ﬂexion, abduction, adduction and rotation. Yoga South: 3500 NW Boca Raton Blvd., Boca Raton, 561-3689887, www.yogasouth.net.

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perfect for roughly two weeks. Both manicures utilize special polish that’s cured with a UV light to ensure chip-free staying power (build in extra time for removal at your next appointment).

Lyn Anthony Salon & Spa: 1870 N. Young Circle, Hollywood, 954-404-7474, www.lynanthonysalon.com. Saddle up to the brownie buffet at Bliss Spa at the W Fort Lauderdale and kiss one of your resolutions goodbye. But, grab hold of another with the national chain’s signature tripleoxygen facial. Nearly as addictive as the brownies, the facial utilizes oxygen in three ways (pre-extraction wrap, calming post extraction mask and vitaminized spray) to clean, exfoliate and hydrate skin. It’s 75 minutes of relaxation and restoration. Bliss Spa at W Fort Lauderdale: 401 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 877-862-5477, www.blissworld.com.

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Opt for authenticity at Wilton Manors’ Chi Spa, where imported Thai artwork adorns the walls and the massage menu is split into Eastern and Western selections. We suggest sticking to the Eastern half and paying special attention to the Thai ceremony and floor massages. The first uses traditional herbal compresses to resolve chronic pain in hyper-tender areas and increase energy (similar to acupressure techniques) and the later stretches clothed clients in a traditional fashion that has become known as “lazy-man’s yoga.” Alternately lay out for an Ashiatsu massage, where a therapist uses ceiling-suspended parallel bars to balance while pressing, sweeping and swirling her feet to relax your muscles and stimulate your lymphatic system. Chi Spa: 2415 N. Dixie Highway, Wilton Manors, 954-563-0001, www.chiasianspa.com. Say aloha to holistic beauty at Boca’s Maui Spa. Billed as a “destination spa and wellness sanctuary,’’ the tri-level spot honors its Hawaiian namesake with traditional treatments and interactive lessons. Balance heart, mind and body with a Hawaiian massage based on flowing forearm techniques; find your grove in a rooftop hula lesson; or train your ear with a ukulele class. Maui Spa: 2100 NW Boca Raton Blvd., Boca Raton, 561-395-7733, www.themauispa.com.

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WHEN COSMETICS, EXERCISE AND DIET CAN’T QUITE GET THE JOB DONE By NANCY McVICAR So, you’ve been to the spa, enjoyed the experience, faithfully followed the recommended regimen of creams and lotions. You skillfully apply top-of-theline cosmetics, but one day your mirror tells you it isn’t enough anymore. There are lines on your forehead that can’t be hidden, or grooves around your smile, or your eyes are no longer your best feature. Your best friend just had Botox, and she looks – well – younger than you, even though you’re younger than she. You decide you want to look that good, too. What’s the first step? Do your research. Ask your friend about her doctor; go online and search for plastic surgeons in your area, read their websites and then check their credentials, says Dr. Zoran Potparic, (www.drzoran.com) a Fort Lauderdale board-certified plastic surgeon with more than 30 years experience. “Look for board certification,” he says. “It doesn’t guarantee the highest quality of work, but it’s a good indicator. Working on the face, you can’t make many mistakes, because it shows. You have doctors coming out of medical school who think they are really good, and some of them are, but the best skill comes after seven to 10 years of experience.” And, don’t assume that what worked well for your friend will do the same for you. It’s important to sit down with the doctor you have chosen and discuss what it is about your face or body that is bothering you, Potparic says. Dr. Shashi Kusuma, a board-certified plastic surgeon who practices in Plantation and Miami, (www.suriaplasticsurgery.com) agrees. “You have to do your homework, and it may take several different consultations to find the right match for you. Interview the doctor, just like they will interview you. And don’t believe all the marketing hype – anything that says ‘this is the greatest thing since sliced bread.’ People want to believe in miracles. Most want miracles, but find a person who sits and explains to you what would work for you,” Kusuma says. Ask about costs and whether follow-up care is included in the price, because with surgical options there is some pain involved. Find out how much the doctor will be involved or whether it will be his nurse or physician assistant, he says. “You need a physician who will help you through the healing process,” Kusuma says. But with all those caveats, he says, the rewards can be high. “There are some great outcomes, and it’s a very good thing for people to do. Looking younger can make them feel better about themselves,” he says, “but go into it for the right reasons, and make sure you are financially, socially and emotionally ready.” Dr. Eugene Strasser, a Coral Springs board-

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certified plastic surgeon, also stresses the importance of the initial consultation. Sometimes a patient will come in and say “I want Botox,” but from his experience, he knows Botox isn’t going to help that person. “It’s important to have a consultation about what it is you want improved. There are a variety of modalities, from skin resurfacing – dermabrasion, chemical peels, to injectables, to surgical procedures. It depends entirely on the patient and the type of skin,” says Strasser, (www.cosmeplast.net). Botox or fillers such as Juvedérm, Restylane or Radiesse, may last a year or so, but a facelift is expected to last from 12 to 15 years. “I recently saw a patient 17 years post-op and she still looked good. The neck [skin] was a little loose and we planned on fixing that,” Strasser says. In addition to the quick-fix injectable fillers, some doctors are using the patient’s own fat to fill in the grooves and plump up the cheeks. Dr. Jacob Steiger, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Delray Beach, (www.drsteiger.com) prefers this method to dermal fillers and says the results last longer. “And, we have an unlimited supply of it,” Steiger says. “It allows the surgeon to have creative freedom without being limited by the cost of each syringe of an injectable dermal filler.” Fat grafting has been around for years, but what has changed is the method of extracting the cells in a way that doesn’t destroy them. He removes the fat cells from the thigh or abdomen, processes them in his own lab, and transfers them to the patient’s face all on the same day. Steiger often asks patients to bring in photos of themselves when younger, and uses the fat cells as a scaffold for restoring that youthful look. “The key to any procedure is that it be tailored to each patient. If they say they want to look younger, Continued on page 132

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TOP 10 DESTINATIONS FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS BY THOMAS SWICK

Shanghai Generally we travel to visit the past: the magnificent monuments of earlier centuries, the picturesque lives of people without iPhones. In China’s most populous and vibrant city you can get a sense of history through the Art Deco hotels lined up like toy soldiers along the Bund. But the real reason to visit is for the stupefying glimpse into the future. The brash, bombastic skyscrapers of Pudong, on the other side of the Yangtze River, soar like a metaphor for the country’s spirit.

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Sunset in Cape Town, South Africa.

South Africa affords some of the best viewing of the continent’s wildlife, including meerkats, left, and giraffe.

South Africa The country became popular with travelers long before the recent World Cup, and the success of that event only enhanced its profile. It produces excellent wines, contains vast reserves which afford some of the best viewing of the continent’s wildlife, and has one of the world’s most beautifully situated cities: Cape Town. It is also, we now know, the perfect place to buy a vuvuzela.

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Ipanema and Leblon beaches in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio Carnival is the biggest carnival in the world.

Rio de Janeiro The old maxim that Brazil is the country of the future may at last be coming true. There is a feeling of excitement and optimism as the nation prepares to host the 2014 World Cup, and as its glam city – abutted by mountains, lapped by the sea – gears up to be the site of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rio has its problems, but the attention of the world could help it solve some of them. Imagine if the city became as benevolent as it is beautiful.

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It’s right next door – one of America’s greatest natural treasures, as well as one of its most subtle. Which means to really appreciate it you need to get off the boardwalk and into the soup. You can hike in the Everglades anywhere and any time (the park is open 24 hours a day). Alligators, and other denizens you may not want to meet while knee-deep in water, will feel the vibrations from your movements and stay far away. At least that’s what the rangers tell you. Best to go with a ranger. On your way back, by the way, don’t hesitate to visit Miami. The city keeps getting better – not because it attracts famous men in big shorts, but because it continues to upgrade its neighborhoods. When people tired of South Beach they moved to the Design District; when that got old, Wynwood, Midtown and the MiMo District emerged. Feeling left out, South Beach built a new (world) symphony hall, designed by Frank Gehry, and a parking garage that got an article in The New Yorker. The city once famous for beaches and clubs now dazzles with culture and architecture.

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Peruvians with alpacas at Sacsayhuaman, near Cusco, Peru.

The Hiram Bingham Orient-Express, from Cusco.

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Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca city in the Andes, Peru

Here’s your past – a relatively intact Inca estate built in the 15th century for the emperor Pachacuti at an elevation of nearly 8,000 feet. Perched atop its green mountain, backed by peaks, and often wreathed in clouds, it appears like something out of a dream. The posters have become a bit of a cliché, but the combination of nature and architecture, landscape and history, makes this a transcendent and unparalleled place. cityandshore.com

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Sunset in Nashville, along the Cumberland River.

There are few cities that are as inextricably tied to a genre of music as this one is to country. And country is probably the most purely and inherently American music. Which makes a visit to Nashville a trip to the heart of the USA. You feel this at the Grand Ole Opry of course, listening to the sounds of guitars and fiddles, but also in the downtown honkytonks, which fill nightly with some of the friendliest and happiest people on earth.

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Parthenon in Nashville’s Centennial Park.

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The Queen Mary 2 A lot of people have been on a cruise, but how many have been on a crossing? All three Cunard ships – the Queen Mary 2, the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Victoria – make transatlantic crossings, but the Queen Mary 2 is, well, the queen of the Atlantic. And if you want to extend the (normally) seven-day passage, some of the itineraries include Quebec (before arrival in New York), or Hamburg, Germany (after Southampton). And if you desire more ports, you can always go the other way, on the Queen Victoria, from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles through the Panama Canal.

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Most of us, no matter how much we earn, have it better than the majority of the world’s citizens. So instead of just going to look at them we can go to help them. Working vacations, run by organizations such as Global Volunteers, in a wide range of countries, get travelers doing everything from building houses to teaching English to providing health care. And they enrich equally those who give and those who receive.

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Cave dwellings in Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey.

Turkish carpet bazaar.

Cappadocia The surreal in central Turkey. It is not just the fantastic rock formations but the life around and within them. Centuries ago, houses, churches, entire underground cities were carved out of the stone, while in today’s above-ground towns – Urgup, Goreme – it is sometimes difficult to tell where geology ends and town planning begins. If your hotel isn’t a cave, it probably has one in the back, doubling as a café, homey with rugs and chiseled seats.

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A sadhu at the ghats in Varanasi, India.

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Train station platform in Delhi, India.

The Taj Mahal, reflected at sunset in the Yamuna river.

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THE STELLAR CELLARS A GREAT WINE LIST CAN MAKE A GREAT RESTAURANT – AND THESE EIGHT WINE-WISE, CUSTOMERFRIENDLY ESTABLISHMENTS KNOW IT.

BY BOB HOSMON What does it take for a restaurant to have a good wine list?

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These eight restaurants, presented in alphabetical order, meet all criteria to be called wine-wise and customer-friendly. If you see wine as a major component of a terrific meal, you’ll be happy here. East City Grill 1800 Bell Tower Lane, Weston, 954-659-3339, www.eastcitygrill.com What is there not to say about this user-friendly restaurant in Weston Town Center? It’s rated “best” by Zagat, has been nominated for a coveted James Beard award, and is on The Wine Spectator’s “Award of Excellence” list. It’s also a participant in the “Fresh from Florida” campaign, serving fresh produce from Florida as often as possible. Did I mention that it also is a comfortable place to please your senses, from the dining area furnished with contemporary art to a creative cuisine and a lengthy list of wine that caters to every taste and budget? The eclectic menu includes pan-Asian inspiration like almondcrusted pork tenderloin made with Asian barbecue sauce and served with stir-fried vegetables and spring roll (pair the Stag’s Leap Petite Syrah with this one) and sautéed yellowtail snapper dusted with rice flour and served with a sesame rice cake and sweet soy. (I’d choose the Hogue Gewürztraminer from Washington State). The garlic-and-honey barbecue glazed skirt steak is terrific. And when combined with buttermilk smashed potatoes, crispy fried onions, grilled asparagus and corn salsa, it’s a hungry man or woman’s feast. Pair it with a Ravenswood Zinfandel from California’s Amador County (where some of the best zins are made) or the outstanding Robert Biale Zinfandel from Napa, and the entire experience can be ethereal. 124

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The same could be said about everything on the menu, like the truffle-crusted sea scallops in a Madeira cream sauce (I’d opt for the Bonny Doon Le Cigare Volant) and the crab-crusted grouper topped with shrimp (delightful with a chardonnay from Sanford in Santa Barbara County or Liparta from Carneros). What’s to like about East City Grill? Everything. Grateful Palate 817 SE 17 St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-467-1998, www.thegratefulpalate.net David Learmonth, executive chef at this very special dining spot, has a background as a chef on yachts where he proffered his talented skills to prepare awe-inspiring cuisine before he decided, some two years ago, to open a place that would cater to yacht owners’ needs and a restaurant that would satisfy landlubbers alike. The result is the very popular Grateful Palate. In a user-friendly setting with well-done appointments in the dining and bar area (a nice place for single diners to sup) Chef Learmonth offers a menu that offers something for everyone and a wine list that would elate even the most sophisticated oenophile. Consider starting with fresh foie gras seared in a port-wine sauce served with a glass of Venta La Ossa or Puerta Bonita G5 Garnacha from Spain; or Golan Moscato, a delightful white from Israel. Mini lump crab cakes are perfectly paired with a glass of Domaine Girard La Garenne Sancerre from France or the hard-to-find Daniel Gehrs Chardonnay from California. Grateful Palate, to its credit, offers some three dozen wines by the glass with a choice of a 3- or 6-ounce pour. Main course temptations include the tempura soft-shell crab with a bottle of special white like the Reichsgraf von Kessel Kabinett Riesling from Germany or the rare J. Hofstatter Kolbenhof

Gewürtztraminer from Italy. A charred Wagyu burger can be turned into a dining feast when paired with a bottle of Betts & Scholl Black Betty Shiraz from Australia. As any visitor can attest, Grateful Palate offers excellent food and an eye-popping wine list. The most casual diner will be happy here, and the serious wine consumer will be in vintage Nirvana. (Think Plumpjack Cabernet and Ramey Ritchie Vineyard and Dutton Ranch from California’s famed Russian River Valley. They’re all here — and much, much more.) Marcello’s La Sirena 6316 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, 561-585-3128, www.lasirenaonline.com For some 20 years this Italian stand-out has provided the best in dining for South Floridians and visitors alike. The secret to their success: great Italian cuisine where the food and wine take center stage, creating a dining experience that is familiar but takes itself seriously at the same time. The wine list here, with some 700 bottles, includes French and California options, but it’s the Italians that get our attention. Consider starting your gustatory experience with the antipasto la Stalla (Bresola dried beef) paired with a nice Chianti Classico from Fontodi. The same wine can carry over to one of the restaurant’s winning pastas (half orders or full orders). Two great choices for your consideration: the penne pasta with diced eggplant, melted mozzarella in a spicy tomato sauce and the cannelloni handmade crêpe filled with veal, spinach and cheese in a light cream sauce. Wine, anyone? Then opt for a bottle of Le Difese from Tenuta San Guido.

Selecting a main course can take some time as so much here is alluring. Diners may decide on the saltimbocca alla Romandis of veal with prosciutto di parma sautéed in white (paired with La Massa’s Girogio Primo or the Brunello from Conti Costanti). And for seafood fanciers, the guaranteed-to-please choice is the scampi Marcello in a sauce of garlic, mustard, sherry and white wine (sip on either the Pinot Grigio from Jermann or the Cervaro from Antinori). Indeed, choose anything you fancy from the menu at La Sirena. Whether it’s the food, the wine or the handsome dining room featuring old oak beams and Murano glass, nothing here will disappoint. Olio Bistro 42 SE Second Ave., Delray Beach, 561-278-6633, www.oliobistro.com Another Italian winner, both in food and wine, this favorite of locals deserves national recognition. The wine list is comprehensive and includes 18 chardonnays (Plumpjack Reserve lovers, take note), 8 Amarones and lots of wines from around the world, including the highly prized and hard-to-find Château Musar from Lebanon (yes, great wine can be - and is - made in Lebanon). My choice of starters would be the seared fresh foie gras served with a cassis sauce and paired with Argyl Pinot Noir from Oregon or, if someone else were paying, a Louis Jadot Gevrey-Chambertin from Burgundy. Other first-course food and wine selections include calamari fritte (Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand) and fried smelts (Pascal Jolivet Sancerre, a unique white from the Loire Valley). And there’s always pizza Margherita with Radanovich Zinfandel from California Sierra Foothills.

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For the main course, I would toss a coin: heads for the pappardelle pasta with Bolognese sauce and tails for the rack of lamb with sautéed spinach. If the coin landed “heads”, I’d order a bottle of Bertani Amarone or Castiglione Vietti Barolo. If it were “tails,” then, for me, it would be Château Clerc Milon from Bordeaux or the Turkey Flat Vineyards Shiraz from Australia. No matter how the coin lands, however, both heads and tails always signal a winner for wine and food at Olio’s Bistro. This comfy, restaurant/wine cellar off Atlantic Avenue deserves our attention. L’Escalier, The Breakers One South Country Road, Palm Beach, 561-659-8480, www.thebreakers.com There are restaurants in Florida (Bern’s in Tampa comes to mind) that have larger wine lists than L’Escalier, but none has one that is better, more carefully chosen to complement the menu than the one in this dining paradise in one of the world’s great hotels. Also, unless I’m mistaken, no other restaurant in the southern United States has two Master Sommeliers in residence. Virginia Philip, who won the title “Best Sommelier of the United States” in 2002, oversees the entire operation at the hotel (every dining spot on the premise offers exceptional wine choices); and Juan Gomez, who was one of eight individuals who earned the hard-toget Master Sommelier title in 2007, oversees the wine operations at The Breakers’ signature restaurant, L’Escalier. I could cite numerous wines on the restaurants’ list that I would love to sip, but I decided to go to the “master” himself and ask 126

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Juan Gomez what food and wine pairings he would suggest for those who sup at L’Escalier. He favors starting with the foie gras Torchon paired with the S.A. Prüm “Graacher Himmelreich” Spatlese Riesling. That spectacular German white beautifully complements the richness of the foie gras and enhances the taste sensation of the accompanying raspberry gelée and ice-wine sponge. As a main course selection Gomez opted for a fish and a meat dish. With the striped bass, he suggests the Vincent Girardin “Vieilles Vignes” Puligny-Montrachet from Burgundy. (Who couldn’t love this ethereal white?). If the choice is Colorado lamb tenderloin and sausage with cinnamon infused cous cous, Gomez goes for the Buil & Giné “Baboix” from Montsant in Spain. Produced in the esteemed wine region of Priorat, this rich red perfectly complements the gamey qualities of the lamb and offers a unique pairing taste treat for the cous cous. There are so many tantalizing dishes and extraordinary wines at L’Escalier, the next time you dine there you might want to ask Juan Gomez what he suggests. This is one man who really knows his wine and food pairings. After all, he is a “master.” Grille 66 & Bar Hyatt Regency Pier 66, 2301 SE 17 St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-728-3500, www.pier66.hyatt.com This waterfront restaurant’s voluminous wine list is one of the best I have seen anywhere. Choices include first-rate wines from the Americas, Europe and the Pacific Rim. Prices are high, but fair, for the wines served here are some of the world’s best. Best

of all, for the benefit of serious oenophiles and novices alike, each wine listed includes a description and a rating given the wine by national publications like The Wine Spectator. Start with a delicious Maryland crab cake, perhaps paired with a glass of Patz & Hall chardonnay, and then move on to one of the restaurant’s famous prime steaks like the 22-oz. bone-in rib-eye. As the red choice for steak, nothing goes better than the Joseph Phelps Insignia or, if by chance “your ship” has come in, think about the Harlan Estate Cabernet Sauvignon. The management at Grille 66 & Bar clearly gets it when it comes to great food and great wines.

winter night in South Florida, especially when accompanied by a bottle of Trimbach Gewürztraminer from Alsace or a Château Liversan from Bordeaux. On future visits to Sage, I’d order the coq au vin with a bottle of Laboure-Roi from Burgundy, then the steak minute (accompanied by real frites) with a bottle of Jaboulet Parallèle from the Rhône Valley, and next the magret grilled duck breast with any of the Burgundies on the restaurant’s wine list. Even after all that, I’d just be starting in my quest to sample more of Chef Laurent’s cuisine. I guess I’m going to have to make a lot of visits to Sage Café.

Sage Café 2378 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-565-2299, www.sagecafe.net

Via Luna, The Ritz-Carlton, 1 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-465-2300, www.ritzcarlton.com

As befits the menu of this French winner owned by Chef Laurent Tasic, the wines in this charming Gallic restaurant are predominately French. The choices are manageable and well chosen, perfectly complement the cuisine, and are often proffered at very affordable prices. The appetizers that grab my attention here are the homemade pâtés, the soufflé de crottin de Chavignol, and the escargot en croute. If I were to choose the pâté, I’d opt for one of the delightful roses from Provence on the wine list; to complement the soufflé’s chevre (goat cheese), I’d select the white Sancerre from the Loire Valley; and the snails would warrant Pierre Sparr Reserve Gewürztraminer from Alsace or the Simonet Chablis from Burgundy. (Of course, as is my wont when I know I’m in authentic French food territory, I’d start my dining experience with a glass of Laurent-Perrier Brut). After the champagne and the starters, I must admit I have a problem: there are so many items on the menu that call to me, and I know I can’t answer every call. However, on my first visit I’d go for the cassoulet l’Armagnac. This dish of duck and garlic sausage with white haricot beans is a favorite of mine, and it’s not often found in the United States. It’s the perfect choice for a cool

Another hotel-based restaurant and one of the area’s newest and best, Via Luna specializes in Italian cuisine, offering everything from flat bread “pizzas” to slow-braised veal osso bucco. The restaurant’s name translates as “by way of the moon,” and it’s a moniker the restaurant embodies. On the right night, visitors can see the moon from its beachfront location, and the food and wine options will, to twist the phrase a bit, “take you over the moon.” I love the choice of six rose champagnes, as well as the well-considered dinner selections from the United States and France. But it’s the Italian options that are so superb that it’s, quite frankly, difficult to make a decision. Two might choose to start by sharing the risotto di mare and a bottle of Gaja Alteni di Brassica (a white sauvignon blanc). Next, consider the 12oz. rib veal chop with fresh herb polenta, broccolini and red-chili pepper paired with a bottle of Masi Amarone della Valpolicella, my favorite Italian (after Michelangelo). Or you can opt for Merry Edwards Sauvignon Blanc with the Ahi tuna crudo and the Turley Wine Cellars Zinfandel with rigatoni constructed with Italian sausage, broccolini, garlic, chili pepper and shaved Reggiano. Whatever the choices in food or wine, nothing will disappoint here. Welcome to Fort Lauderdale, Ritz-Carlton.

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dining guide BROWARD COUNTY American } Brimstone Woodfire Grill

14575 SW Fifth St., Pembroke Pines, 954-430-2333. At Brimstone Woodfire Grill, we offer “top-of-the-line” steaks and fresh seafood. Our steaks are from Black Angus cattle that are Midwesterncorn fed. The variety in our menu allows us to appeal to a broad range of guests, with eclectic offerings for both lunch and dinner. With an exceptional wine list to match, the menu caters to those looking for lighter fare, as well as those seeking the classic steakhouse experience.

} J. Mark’s Restaurant

1245 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-390-0770 and 1490 NE 23rd St., Pompano Beach, 954-782-7000, www.jmarksrestaurant.com. J. Mark’s offers incredible food at casual prices. You’ll be impressed with the extensive menu featuring the freshest fish and Certified Angus Beef Steaks/Prime Rib. J. Mark’s warm, glowing atmosphere, along with attention to detail in both cuisine and service, makes it a memorable dining experience. Join us inside our gorgeous dining room or outside on our breezy covered patio. Call-ahead seating is accepted, but not necessary. We specialize in large and small parties, serving Lunch, Dinner, Mid-day and Late-Night menus. Outside Bar and Happy Hour twice a day.

} The Grateful Palate

817 SE 17th St., Fort Lauderdale, 954467-1998, www.thegratefulpalate.net. Join us at the Grateful Palate Wine Bar to experience and enjoy the fascinating world of wine, featuring boutique wines produced by small, family-owned wineries from around the world. Our evolving wine list offers 40 wines by the glass and 300 additional selections by the bottle. Our sommelier and wine team will cater to the wine aficionado or to the novice in an unpretentious environment. Join us Monday-Saturday and allow us to assist you in choosing a delicious bottle of wine

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to enjoy at your home. Lunch MondayFriday, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Wine Bar and Dining Monday-Wednesday 5-10 p.m., Thursday-Saturday 5 p.m.-midnight. Johnny V 625 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-761-7920. Top-notch ingredients used in a menu executed by an adept kitchen plus outstanding wine list. Moderate-expensive. Lunch, dinner. Reviewed 5/29/09. – J.S.

Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

} Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

2525 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-565-2338; also at 225 NE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton, 561-3926746. Casual, elegant dining in a warm, inviting atmosphere with genuine Fort Lauderdale hospitality. Great for foodies, late- night dining, or a romantic or special occasion. Complimentary valet and vibrant bar scene. Private room available.

} Village Tavern

14555 SW Second St., Pembroke Pines, 954-874-1001. Bringing people together, Village Tavern celebrates classic American food, elevating traditional tavern standards with a wide-ranging menu, stellar service, handcrafted cocktails and an award-winning wine list. Village Tavern is your neighborhood spot for a business lunch meeting, a romantic night out, drinks with friends or a relaxing Sunday brunch with the family.

Asian China Grill Hilton Fort Lauderdale, 1881 SE 17th St., Fort Lauderdale, 954-759-9950. Excellent menu featuring meant-tobe-shared Asian influenced fare as well as individual portions. Moderateexpensive. Reviewed 2/26/10. – J.S.

Italian } Brio Tuscan Grille

14576 SW Fifth St., Pembroke Pines, 954-431-1341. Brio (meaning “lively” or “full of life”) is a casual white-tablecloth restaurant serving premium-quality

steaks, chops, fish and pasta. We believe in the Tuscan philosophy of “To Eat Well is to Live Well.” Weekend Brunch, Outdoor Dining, Carry Out, Kids’ Menu available. Reservations recommended. Casa Macaluso 1825 E. Sample Road, Pompano Beach, 954-788-0255. Show-stopping Southern Italian fare. Homemade limoncello is a bright finish. Moderateexpensive. Reviewed 3/12/10. – J.S. } Via Luna

The Ritz-Carlton, One Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-4652300. Via Luna (“Moon’s Path” in Italian) is the new, sexy oceanfront spot in Fort Lauderdale. It’s absolutely worth a visit for the best Italian grill cuisine, whether it’s a casual business lunch, a beautiful dinner, or the most elaborate Sunday Brunch in town. Whether you choose the spaghetti pomodoro ($16), a recipe Chef

dining guide de Cuisine Jason Coperine borrowed from his Sicilian grandmother; Italian Flat Breads or the hand-selected, hand-cut beef from a local butcher, the menu items are as delicious and approachable as the prices, making it an everyday Italian restaurant, not just a special occasion locale. Start with Happy Hour every day from 4 to 7 p.m. for a mouthwatering “10 for $10” – a selection of gourmet Bar Bites and signature cocktails for just $10 each.

Mediterranean } Sage French Café & Oyster Bar

2378 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, 954-565-2299; and 2000 Harrison St., Hollywood, 954-391-9466, sagehollywood@gmail.com. Experience superb French cuisine with a casual French bistro ambience. Enjoy ultra fresh seafood, prime meats and decadent crêpes. Our oysters are flown in daily and go well with our well-priced wine list. Chef Laurent will wow you with his creativity, from appetizers to dazzling desserts. Open for lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch.

Seafood } Billy’s Stone Crab Restaurant

400 N. Ocean Drive, Hollywood, located one mile north of The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa on A-1-A, 954-923-2300 or 800-435-2722. World famous, with a view! Now in its fourth decade in business, Billy’s Stone Crab Restaurant and Market is a South Florida institution offering some of the freshest stone crabs and seafood. Specialties include stone crab claws, Key West pink shrimp, Florida lobster, fresh Florida fish, as well as steaks and chicken. Billy’s second floor dining room with floorto-ceiling windows has a magnificent view of the Intracoastal Waterway, capturing its nightly yacht parades as well as outdoor dining on their dock. Open for dinner and lunch daily. Nationwide shipping. Private party room available. For more information about Billy’s or to order online, visit www.crabs.com or call 800-4FLCRAB. 3030 Ocean 3030 Holiday Drive, Fort Lauderdale,

954-765-3030. Innovative and sophisticated seafood, featuring a menu that changes daily. Top-notch service matches the kitchen creativity. Expensive. Dinner. Reviewed 9/10/10. – J.T.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY AltaMare 1223 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, 305532-3061. Chef-driven, intimate seafood restaurant puts the focus on local fish paired with the fresh produce. Expensive. Dinner. Reviewed 6/26/10. – J.T. Michy’s 6927 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305759-2001. Chef Michelle Bernstein and her husband, David Martinez, serve inspired contemporary classics in an elegant, modern setting. Dinners. Reviewed 5/7/10. – J.T. Scarpetta 4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 877-3267412. A reimagining of classic Italian fare without straying from tradition. Do not miss spaghetti with tomato and basil. Expensive. Dinner. Reviewed 3/12/10. – J.T.

PALM BEACH COUNTY American Absinthe Boca Center Marriott, 5150 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton, 561-620-3754. Sophisticated, good food. Highlights include Seared Tuna Provençal. Expensive. Lunch, dinner. Reviewed 9/10/10. – C.S. III Forks 200 E. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, 561-416-2185. This modern, elegant spot is the fourth for the Texas-based chain. Steaks are superb, but so are many of the seafood choices. Expensive. Dinner. Reviewed 7/17/09. – J.T. } New York Prime

2350 NW Executive Center Drive, Boca Raton, 561-998-3881, www.newyorkprime.com. New York Prime is the true steakhouse experience. We serve only the

very best USDA Grade Prime for every cut of beef, including filet mignon. Our triple cut lamb chops, double-rib veal chops and live Maine lobsters are also best sellers. Serving Dinner 7 nights from 5-11 p.m. The Office 201 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561-276-3600. The gastropub has arrived, with great beer, wine and elevated casual fare in a chic atmosphere. Moderate-expensive. Lunch, dinner. Reviewed 4/30/10. – J.T. } Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

225 NE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton, 561392-6746. Casual, elegant dining in a warm, inviting atmosphere with genuine South Florida hospitality. Great for foodies, late-night dining, or a romantic or special occasion. Complimentary valet and vibrant bar scene. Private room available.

Mediterranean } LOLA Restaurant & Ultra Lounge

16950 Jog Road, Delray Beach, 561-496LOLA (5652), www.loladelray.com. LOLA (Love Often, Laugh Alot) is a modern Restaurant-Ultra lounge (New York & South Beach meets Boca /Delray) which awakens Jog Road with its glowing lights and bustling energy. LOLA’s culinary team utilizes seasonal ingredients to create an eclectic range of Mediterranean/Italian dishes with choices that appeal to all. A stellar wine list and signature cocktails make LOLA the place to be. Two relaxing bars, inside or outside, are complemented by a stylish dining room inside and a relaxing fire pit and full patio outside.

} Wild Olives by Todd English

5050 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton, 561-544-8000, www.wildolives.com. Come and savor the delicious, awardwinning cuisine of celebrity chef Todd English at Wild Olives by Todd English in Boca Raton! The rustic, Mediterranean menu includes stellar starters and yummy salads, soul-satisfying grilled flat breads, hand-crafted pastas and a fetching array of fresh fish, along with inventive meat and chicken dishes. Serves lunch and dinner daily. For reservations and information, please phone cityandshore.com

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American Fine Wine Competition, convened at the Lincoln Culinary Institute in West Palm Beach. This year, she’s expecting 600 at the Hyatt Pier Sixty-Six in Fort Lauderdale, a more central location chosen to entice people from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties to the followup gala dinner on Feb. 12. Some of the wines are from well-known estates; some are from wineries only producing 300-400 cases a year - Brochelle syrah and Mithra cabernet sauvignon, for example, two relatively unknown Napa standouts. Last year, the judges awarded Best of Show in the white wine category to a 2008 Pinot Grigio from Ferrante Winery in Geneva...Ohio. Ohio! Who knew? I will tell you, now that I’ve participated in an official, unofficial winetasting preview: A room full of clear-minded, hard-working judges we can depend on to sample the wines for us. This year’s 20 judges – among them sommeliers from the RitzCarlton Fort Lauderdale, The Breakers in Palm Beach, Michael’s Restaurant in Santa Monica and La Toque in Napa - will sit and sample all 600 wines, Gherman says. All the wines will be paired with a five-course meal prepared by the hotel’s chef for the gala dinner, which benefits the Diabetes Research Institute and the Sun Sentinel Children’s Fund. Because of the judges, and their hard work, we will not have to worry what wines to drink with the meal. Even if it includes red cabbage.   

The preview tastings at the Jet Runway Café ends, and I’ve swirled, smelled, sipped – and spit – all 16 glasses of wine. And, because I didn’t really drink the wines – just tasted them – I am as sober as a judge. Well, a wine judge. It’s been an excellent exercise. But it’s like running a few laps around the block compared with the 600-wine marathon the real judges are training for. We mere aﬁcionados could, of course, set out to try wines on our own. But, as Sara Preiser reminds from her experience as a judge, we’d almost certainly drink a lot of poor wine over a long period – at considerable expense - before we found the gems. And “seriously,’’ Gherman says, “life’s too short to drink poor wine.’’

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I look at the face and see what it is that is making them look older. The key is, and where the artistry comes in, is how to make you look 10 years younger, surgery or not, and how to make it look completely natural.” Laser skin resurfacing is another option to consider, says Dr. Ryan Greene, a board-certified surgeon fellowship-trained in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, who practices in Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton (www.drryangreene.com). “It helps the skin to return to a more youthful state. Here in South Florida almost every patient I see has some degree of sun damage and I think most of these patients would benefit from resurfacing,” Greene says. “You’re targeting the entire face and patients can have a great result. He uses a fractionated CO2 laser which he said is excellent for removing wrinkles, brown spots and other elements of sun damage. As far as cost, laser resurfacing falls somewhere between the injectables and a face lift, and the results can last for many years, Greene says. “But I tell my patients they have to protect their skin from the sun for the rest of their lives.” The face is not the only area of the body that can make us look older than our years. In South Florida, with swimsuit weather all year, the legs can be just as important an asset as the face, and varicose veins can ruin the effect. “The big bulging ropy veins also make people look older,” says Dr. Richard Kimmel, a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon in Boca Raton. “If they’re not treated, you can get discoloration of ankles, the skin breaks down and you get an ulcer.” Kimmel (www.thebocaveincenter.com) uses a special laser, the D940, to treat both spider veins on the face and varicose veins on the legs. “It’s a very powerful laser, mostly used by cardiovascular surgeons,” Kimmel says. “You wouldn’t see a dermatologist using it.” Varicose veins occur in the leg when valves that are supposed to prevent the blood from flowing backward stop working properly, and are most common in the superficial veins that are subject to high pressure when standing. Under local anesthesia, and guided by ultrasound, Kimmel advances a tiny laser fiber into the vein. The laser is activated as the fiber is slowly withdrawn, closing the incompetent vein and eliminating the bulges.

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