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FRONT RUNNER Captain Bill Gray displays some of the abundant marine life he caught in the waters off of Miami’s Dinner Key, in 1949.

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From the beginning, Miami was about the water. The 2,000-year-old Native American Miami Circle, at the foot of Icon Brickell, was laced with the remains of sharks, Caribbean monk seals, and sea turtles when it was discovered in 1998. The sea made Miami and its beaches a destination at the end of the 19th century, which led to today, where South Floridians pay some of the highest square-footage rates in the world for blue (not brown) ocean views. In this photo, taken at Dinner Key on April 18, 1949, Captain Bill Gray unloads Biscayne Bay’s bounty onto the deck of his boat. Gray made a name for himself as a treasure hunter of sorts, catching the then-abounding sea life of Miami’s waters, which would eventually lead him to become the Miami Seaquarium’s director of collections. He even once captured an albino porpoise that became a key attraction. Times have changed and so has the ocean. Captive cetaceans are now controversial, climate change is upon us, and the Bay doesn’t have nearly the

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bounty it once did. “The average black grouper in the ’50s was probably about 50 pounds,” says Dr. Jerald Ault, who studies fish at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. “Today that same fish is probably eight pounds. [Models indicate] the present spawning stock is 1 percent of its historical abundance.” Unbridled 20th-century real estate destroyed habitats that would otherwise be home to shrimp and fish, on up the food chain to dolphins. As recently as 2013, the sewage system was in such disarray that the federal government had to file suit against the city. Yet nature is resilient if you give her half a chance. Manatees—prop scars and all—still feed here, and swordfish, once decimated by long-lining off our beaches in the ’80s, have made a comeback via regulations. Nature—the azure water from which bathers emerge in barely there bikinis, the clean snapper we dig into at Scarpetta and Seagrape—is why Miami is so special. To mark this month’s Earth Day, how about giving her a whole chance? OD

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FRONT RUNNER Prince pulled out all the stops during his performance at Miami’s Orange Bowl in April 1985 before a crowd of some 55,000 ecstatic fans.

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On April 7, 1985, Prince and the Revolution brought their Minneapolis sound to the Orange Bowl for the final stop on their 95-city Purple Rain tour. It was Easter Sunday, a fact that dismayed Miami city commissioners, who thought the eccentric singer—and his naughty lyrics—unfit for the Christian holiday. After all, it was Prince’s libidinous songs that were the impetus for the creation of advisory labels on albums deemed explicit. Despite the city commissioners’ disapproval, the show went on. Prince greeted the crowd with, “Happy Easter, Florida,” according to Jean Marbella in a Sun Sentinel recap the next day. “My name is Prince, and I’ve come to play.” And play he did—to 55,000 fans who flooded the stadium in purplecolored garb (as instructed on their $19 tickets). Lavender leotards, purple Mohawks, and purple paired with leather and lace were the perfect

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complements to the performer’s Magic City-appropriate metallic blazer with purple accents. Adding a bit of gravity to the event, Prince announced that he would be taking time off from performing live, and the concert was expected to be his last for some time. (Unable to stay away, he returned to the stage the following year.) But in 1985, Prince was a superstar, joining the ranks of worldwide pop stars like Michael Jackson and Madonna. Purple Rain, which was the soundtrack to his film of the same title, would end up selling more than 13 million copies in the US and held the number-one spot on the Billboard 200 chart for 24 weeks straight. With hit singles like “When Doves Cry,” “Let’s Go Crazy,” “Purple Rain,” “I Would Die 4 U,” and “Take Me With U,” it’s arguably one of the best, if not most successful, albums of the ’80s. OD

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Groundbreaking designer Naeem Khan is making another bold investment—this time in Miami real estate.

42 // Front runner 64 // letter From the editor-in-ChieF

66 // letter From the publisher

68 // ... Without Whom

this issue Would not have been possible

70 // the list 151 // shot on site

style 75 // setting up shop Designer to the stars Naeem Khan plans to consolidate his fashion empire in a new hub in Miami.

78 // on pointe Summer’s most ethereal accessories are inspired by the barre.

82 // she’s a gem Alexis Dawn Geller’s edgy, unisex jewelry, Roxhouse, is rising in popularity with Miami’s A-list.

84 // When the apron Comes oFF

From Italian suits to chic sneakers, Siena Tavern chef Fabio Viviani shares the Miami shops that match his style.

New boutiques from Ermenegildo Zegna, Bally, and Louis Vuitton open in South Florida.

88 // model moment Global supermodel and Miami resident Karolina Kurkova is also the face of Swiss watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen.

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86 // style spotlight

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Louis Vuitton launches a tropical modernist flagship in the Design District.

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Amanda Keeley’s roving Exile Books pops up at YoungArts this month.

culture

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101 // Tech Beach

117 // The docTor iS in

The annual eMerge Americas showcases innovations in global technology in true Miami style.

The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center is a leader in talent and technology thanks to the guidance of director Dr. Stephen D. Nimer.

EMerge’s keynote speaker Deepak Chopra talks about meditation and the importance of protecting the planet.

106 // LiSTen for a whiLe Icon Roberta Flack performs for one night only at the Broward Center.

108 // Throwing cauTion Painter Joanne Greenbaum displays a series of contrarian clay sculptures at Michael Jon Gallery in Little Haiti.

110 // penned To paper

135

Scott Conant’s Corsair marries chic farmhouse with rustic yet sophisticated fare.

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Nomadic artsy book purveyor Exile Books launches a pop-up at the National YoungArts Foundation.

114 // cuLTure SpoTLighT From odes to one-liners, Miami offers much to talk about this month.

120 // Spin crowd SoulCycle opens its frst Florida studio in Coral Gables, featuring dance-minded instructor Soeuraya Wilson.

122 // The JeweL of SouTh MiaMi

Morays Jewelers’ Beau Hequin recalls his upbringing in the Falls as an idyllic mix of movie dates, wakeboarding, and hibachi dinners.

128 // for The BeeS Tending to a bevy of bee hives across Dade County, and even on South Beach rooftops, Ian Wogan brings Miami-grown honey to local restaurants.

130 // cenTer STage This month’s gala at the Adrienne Arsht Center raises money to help bridge the gap between highend cultural events and the local community.

photography by gary james (corsair); mary beth koeth (keeley)

104 // Super power

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He may be the Miami Marlins’ $325 million man, but outfielder Giancarlo Stanton is a modest, home-run-hitting team player.

tastE 135 // farmhouse oN the 18th hole

Both the dishes and décor at Scott Conant’s new eatery at Turnberry Isle feature rustic comfort and decadent simplicity.

138 // florida GreeN From healthy juice to organic deliveries, local entrepreneurs are developing ways to sate our craving for mindful eating.

142 // taste spotliGht Natural ingredients shine in enticing elixirs, sweet treats, and hearty entrées at these new South Florida establishments.

144 // sustaiNaBle susteNaNce A number of upscale Miami restaurants are committed to being both epicurean and ecological.

146 // rare fiNd At Ted’s, Executive Chef Nicolas Caicedo crafts an unconventional shrimp ceviche.

fEaturEs 164 // GiaNcarlo at the Bat

EminEnt Domain

172 // spriNG fliNG

199 // Need for GreeN

As the temperature rises, fashion in Miami gets hotter and hotter.

To help combat climate change, Miami hotels, residences, and attractions are incorporating ecological initiatives into their design and construction.

182 // the coNNectors These dialed-in locals are the ones to know to secure the best tables, top-of-the-line rides, or an A-list celebrity appearance.

190 // Nature iN the eye of the storm Climate change is putting everything from Miami’s landscape to coastal roadways at risk. Are we paying enough attention?

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202 // home iN the raNGe A look at what $5 million buys in different Miami neighborhoods.

204// BiGGer is Better Two power players in the $10 millionplus real estate market talk about the trends moving Miami.

photography by randall slavin

A $325 million contract with the Marlins gives Giancarlo Stanton lots of reasons to celebrate, but it’s his low-key lifestyle that just might help him build a championship team in Miami.

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Artist Julio Larrazâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home is his canvas, which he fills with art and objets from his far-flung travels.

April 2015 208// LittLe Havana The Coral Gables home of artist Julio Larraz features a global array of treasures and a sophisticated collection of art.

214 // WaLk tHe Line The power players behind the proposed Biscayne Line discuss how this magnifcent waterfront park just might happen.

218 // eco-Smart DeSign Interior designer David Scott demonstrates how using earth-friendly home accents can be stylish and chic.

220 // SHine on Stretched lacquer-looking ceilings from Miami-based High Tech Ceiling are crossing the new frontier of home design.

222 // DeSign SpotLigHt Designers and architects offer exciting, eco-friendly options for Miami living.

Parting Shot 240// going

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BaseBall players have Been laBeled the “boys of summer” for

With Nathan Lieberman at Ocean Drive’s February “The List” fête at the Hotel Croydon.

generations. But here in Florida, they casually attain the label of “boys of spring,” as 15 Major League Baseball teams call our state their spring training home as part of the Grapefruit League. The Philadelphia Phillies kicked things off in Clearwater on March 1, and everyone from the Minnesota Twins in Fort Myers to the New York Mets in Port St. Lucie to the Washington Nationals in Viera followed suit. But if there’s a particular team South Florida pays attention to most, this year it’s the reenergized Miami Marlins (the team opened its spring training a few miles to the north in Jupiter). Sports critics are excited, as recent player pickups and off-season moves have the Marlins in a very good position for the upcoming season. And at Ocean Drive, we’re excited too, as we feature superstar outfielder Giancarlo Stanton, who made international headlines by signing a $325 million contract with the Marlins—one of the largest professional contracts in the history of pro sports. This month, you’ll hear a lot of “I can’t believe it’s baseball season already” as visitors to town continue to thaw from the epic winter that spread

across the Northeast. For locals, it’s kind of been baseball season weather all year. We were featuring sexy bikini models in February and sizzling hot spring fashion in March. Green and eco-sensible initiatives in both the real estate and culinary sectors, and retro fashion shot on location at the Surfcomber, highlight our splashy April pages, while some of the world’s greatest thinkers arrive on our shores May 1 for the annual eMerge Americas convention. We speak in depth to one of those guests, spiritual leader Deepak Chopra, this month, along with singer Roberta Flack, Miami-based supermodel Karolina Kurkova, Top Chef ’s Fabio Viviani, and all of Miami’s tastemakers, innovators, and familiar faces for a jam-packed April issue full of concerts, festivals, new restaurants, and personalities. I guess you could say this issue, like all of Miami right now, is a home run.

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from left: With March cover star Zoë Kravitz at our March issue release party hosted by Kravitz at Wall at the W South Beach; with David Pulley, Stephen Macricostas, and Emily Gamboa at the All Star Dinner

hosted by Paul Liebrandt, David Kinch, and Mathias Gervais and sponsored by Merrill Lynch; with Paul Chevalier at our February edition of “The List” event at Hotel Croydon.

While April promises thAt summer is right Around the corner, events in miAmi Won’t be Winding doWn Anytime soon.

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This month, things are picking up for our cover star, Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton, as baseball season kicks off. We’re thrilled that Stanton, who signed a record-breaking contract to stay in Miami last fall, will be sticking around for a while. The 25-year-old led the league in home runs last season and is the focal point of the Marlins’ future, as he’s said he hopes to establish a winning baseball culture in this city. From the monster deal Stanton signed to David Beckham’s ongoing efforts to bring us a major league soccer team, the sports world has been generating a good deal of buzz around Miami—further evidence that the Magic City is more than just a place to vacation. Another of this month’s highlights is the 20th annual VeritageMiami, a four-day wine and food festival, April 15 to 18. We can’t wait to sip craft beers in Wynwood, taste fine wines at Merrick Park, and dine on our greatest gastronomic delights to benefit United Way of Miami-Dade. Ocean Drive is honored to be partnering with this nonprofit organization, which supports local programs that work to improve education, help families reach financial stability, and promote good health in people of all ages. There’s a lot to look forward to this month, as our days and nights heat up with the turn of the season. Maybe we’ll get a chance to take a bit of a break as locals—but only if we want to, of course. Hope to see you around town.

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Randall Slavin Photographer

Rachel FeldeR Style Writer

Jill Sigal Writer

caRla ToRReS Journalist

Jen RobbinS Photographer

Born in Hollywood, California, Randall Slavin was working a dead-end job in a gas station when he wandered into a local photography studio. The owner took the young Mr. Slavin under his wing and taught him some photography basics. Since then, his photography has appeared in the new york times magazine, gQ, esquire, rolling stone, and many other publications. In this issue, Slavin photographed cover star Giancarlo Stanton. “I’m an old-school baseball fan who left the game, but baseball is in my DNA, and to shoot Giancarlo was quite an experience,” says the 2011 “Photographer of the Year” Hollywood Style Award winner. “I wanted to showcase Giancarlo’s obvious physical presence. I wanted clean, bare architecture lines surrounding him so nothing would draw the eye away. And to top it all off (sorry, Miami), he’s a SoCal boy like myself, so that made me extra happy.”

Rachel Felder, who interviewed Naeem Khan for “Tastemaker,” has written about fashion, beauty, and travel for a wide range of outlets, including the new york times, the financial times, women’s wear daily, travel + leisure, and departures. Author of manic pop thrill and coauthor (with designer Reed Krakoff) of fighter, she is currently working on her third book, the stylish guide to Brooklyn, to be published next spring by Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. “The sex appeal of Naeem’s clothing—even when necklines are high or hemlines are low—makes them particularly well suited to a night on the town in Miami,” Felder says of the designer’s work. “Naeem’s designs are somehow ultraglamorous and extremely wearable at the same time, and that combination makes them truly modern.”

Jill Sigal is vice president of US government policy at Conservation International and also serves as chief of staff to CI’s chairman and CEO, Peter Seligmann. As the assistant secretary of energy for congressional and intergovernmental affairs during the George W. Bush administration, she led the effort to pass the Energy Policy Act of 2005. “What motivates me to work in the conservation field and what inspires me is one and the same—my son, Harrison,” says Sigal, who wrote “Nature in the Eye of the Storm.” “I see the stresses on nature’s ability to provide for human well-being due to the growing world population, and the changing climate. I was motivated to write this piece to help raise awareness of the importance of nature in our daily lives and to inspire people to get involved and take actions to help sustain nature for generations to come.”

Describing herself as “gluttonous and knowing no limits when it comes to food,” Carla Torres has written for food & wine, Brickell magazine/Key Biscayne magazine, thelatinkitchen.com, and the miami herald; she is also travel + leisure’s Miami expert. In this issue, she interviews beekeeper Ian Wogan for “Before the Dawn Breaks” and explores Miami’s ethical dining options in “Taste.” “The way people look at food is starting to change,” says Torres. “People want to know where the food they’re eating is coming from, and more than that, feel like they are supporting their community in some way or just making the earth a better place. In turn, localization of ingredients is bigger than ever before, and restaurants are educating diners in new ways.”

Photographer Jen Robbins is a native New Yorker who loves Helmut Newton, Mozart’s “Exsultate, Jubilate,” karate, rescue animals, salt, and vanderpump rules. In this issue, she traveled to Miami for “the weather, the sun, the breeze, the authentic cafe con leche,” but mainly to shoot ocean drive’s feature “The Connectors.” “As a New York Jew, Miami was really just the sunnier, warmer counterpart for me, and it feels like a second home in a way. I’m also a Latin-ophile! I lived in Mexico for almost three years, and I love hearing Spanish being spoken in all different accents. That, mixed with the sun and the familiarity, [makes Miami] a perfect place to work (and to get a little tan in the downtime).”

“I dIdn’t realIze that naeem Khan felt such a deep connectIon wIth mIamI and such a fervent enthusIasm for maKIng posItIve change In the cIty.” —rachel felder

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PhotograPhy by Millie Felder (Felder); Courtesy oF JenniFer robbins (robbins)

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Conrad Gomez

Matt Dugow

Jay Jiggins

Mat Latos

Navin Chatani

Thomas Griese

Gary James

Mara Schwartz

Allison Strongin

Cody Patrick

Carl Hiaasen

Al Diaz

Jeff Newbauer

Yona Puri

Dora Puig

Nobu Matsuhisa

Nancy Batchelor

Michael Martin

Lourdes Lopez

Dan Haren

Nicky Tesser

Carla Pellegrino

Timothy Priano

Henderson Alvarez

Rachel Silverstein

Albert Trummer

Manny Medina

Christian Yelich

Eric Eikenberg

Charles Khabouth

Eric Guedj

Dee Gordon

Jack Nicklaus

Alan Roth

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

Jarred Cosart

Patricia Frost

Dara Ogulnick

Tom Colicchio

Tom Koehler

Phillip Frost

Goran Dragic

Nina Agdal

Jose Fernandez

Colin Foord

Zoran Dragic

Peggy Fucci

Anastasia Koutsioukis

Samuel Gruber

DJ Irie

Giancarlo Stanton

Dena Marino

Eldredge “Biff” Bermingham

Elena Vertlib

Mike Redmond

Marcel van Gemerden

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STYLE Tastemaker Naeem Khan in his New York City showroom, surrounded by some of the elaborately beaded gowns that have won him fans from Beyoncé to First Lady Michelle Obama.

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INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED DESIGNER NAEEM HAN CHOOSES MIAMI AS HIS HOME BASE TO FURTHER GROW HIS FASHION EMPIRE. BY RACHEL FELDER When designer Naeem Khan, who is best known for creating elaborately beaded gowns for women like First Lady Michelle Obama, Lea Michele, Beyoncé, and Jennifer Lopez, decided to move his international production to an American city, he knew exactly where he wanted to go. “Miami will be the perfect place,” says Khan, who plans to relocate his operation to the Magic City in the next two to three years. “What interests me about Miami is that it’s so culturally diverse. You have people from all over the world, and geographically it’s so beautifully located that you have access to the world from here. There is so much art and craft available in Miami CONTINUED ON PAGE 76

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Style tastemaker “What interests me about miami is that it’s so culturally diverse.” —naeem khan

Two looks from Naeem Khan’s Spring/ Summer 2015 Fashion Week presentation; models getting ready backstage at the Spring 2015 show in New York.

because of the Latin culture, in which craftsmen are used to doing things by hand. The weather is amazing, the tax breaks are amazing, and it’s so close to New York that I can be [here] within two and a half hours, so why not?” Khan struck a deal last year to rent a massive waterfront property owned by the city of Miami at 1175 NW South River Drive, an area that’s currently used mostly for boat building. In exchange for creating many new jobs at his headquarters, the designer will get a deeply reduced rent and tax incentives. To accommodate his operation—which at the moment is divided between New York City, Mumbai, Italy, and France—Khan will erect a bold new building to replace what’s currently on the site. The location is expected to serve as a

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community magnet as much as a clothing studio, in which more than 100 craftspeople will be based. “We’re going to build a magical place where the minds of art meet,” he says. “It’s not going to be just a place for my production and design facilities. It is going to be large enough to have conferences, to have dialogues between architecture and fashion, and have the world of art meeting in this place.” Khan is currently in conversation with several architects who are, as he puts it, “of an international standard” (his friends include major players in the field such as Zaha Hadid and Chad Oppenheim). When the building is completed in a couple of years, all of the company’s creative and production departments will relocate to

Miami, although sales, public relations, and the line’s colorful biannual runway shows will remain in New York City. To ensure that newly hired staff can create his handcrafted pieces, artisans from Khan’s facility in Mumbai—where his family has specialized in heavily detailed embroidery for generations—will come to Miami to provide training. Khan is also hoping that a Miami-based university will begin offering a fashion program. “The technique is dying,” he says of the craftsmanship that goes into his precisely made dresses, on which beads that are misplaced or too heavy can throw off a garment’s drape and fit and for which delicate tulle lace is made and applied by hand. “This craft runs in my blood, and I’d like to bring it to America

and see it not die. It needs to be maintained.” An added business perk for Khan is Miami’s proximity to South America, where his popularity is quickly growing, particularly with women looking for one-of-akind occasionwear, including opulent wedding gowns. “Being so close will make it so much easier to do my couture and my high-end glitz and glam,” he says, adding that South Americans “will have access to come and work with me.” Khan’s love of Miami isn’t new. He and his wife, Ranjana, a jewelry designer, have been spending time here for the past five years, ever since they bought a 50th-floor penthouse triplex apartment in the performing arts district. (He commutes so regularly between South Florida and his downtown

Manhattan loft that he says the flight to Miami “is like getting on the bus.”) The idea to relocate his production and create more US-based jobs was inspired by a visit to the White House at the very end of 2013. “The first lady and the president were asking me these wonderful questions about my business and about my life, and I just felt like I had to do something,” Khan recalls. “It’s very much an emotional thing for me, because of what this country has done for me and how this country has embraced me, with the first lady and movie stars wearing my things, and having a successful business. I want to give back to a country that has given me so much.” Neiman Marcus, Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., 305-993-4620; naeemkhan.com OD

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Jumpsuit ($5,290) and skirt ($4,500), Valentino. Miami Design District, 140 NE 39th St., 305-6398851; valentino.com. Gem clutch, Rauwolf ($990). Barneys New York, 832 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-421-2010; barneys.com. Kallie flats, Michael Kors ($550). Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., 305-864-4144; michaelkors.com

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1. Headdress, Jenny Packham ($347). Chic Parisien, 3308 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, 305-448-5756; chicparisienbridal.com. Zoe envelope clutch, Max Mara ($425). Miami Design District, 106 NE 39th St., 305-770-6200; maxmara.com. Mariposa flat, Alejandro Ingelmo ($625). Neiman Marcus, Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., 305-865-6161; neimanmarcus.com. 2. Patent pump, Brian Atwood ($855). Saks Fifth Avenue, Bal Harbour Shops, 305-865-1100; saks.com. Crystal headdress, Jenny Packham ($733). Chic Parisien, see above. Specchio resin clutch, Judith Leiber Couture ($1,495). Saks Fifth Avenue, see above. 3. Monili wallet, Brunello Cucinelli ($955). Bal Harbour Shops, 305-864-4833; brunellocucinelli.com. Lana pump, Bionda Castana ($805). Intermix, 634 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-531-5950; intermixonline.com. Comb, Jenny Packham ($376). Chic Parisien, see above. 4. Lyssa flat, Jimmy Choo ($795). Village of Merrick Park, 358 San Lorenzo Ave., Coral Gables, 305-443-6124; jimmychoo.com. Crown Goa clutch, Oscar de la Renta ($2,250). Bal Harbour Shops, 305-868-7986; oscardelarenta.com. Tribal earrings, Dior (price on request). The Webster, 1220 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-7899; thewebstermiami.com 80 oceandrive.com

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Style Buy the Beach INSIGHT WHERE Do You lET looSE? “Rec Room (Gale Hotel, 1690 Collins Ave., Miami Beach). It attracts a good crowd; there’s always good music.” YouR fAvoRiTE WAY To DEcoMpRESS oTHER THAn JEWElRY-MAking: “Strength training. I work out a lot.”

WHAT’S YouR pERSonAl STYlE? “I’ve always been more of a basic tank top [and] jeans kind of girl.” ADvicE foR flEDgling “pASSion EnTREpREnEuRS”? “Say yes to more things and take [yourself] out of [your] comfort zone. Tell the universe what you want, then take the steps necessary for it.”

Alexis Dawn Geller wearing some pieces from her Roxhouse jewelry line. below: Roxhouse Get Funked bracelet ($145) made from vinyl records with a druzy gemstone.

She’s a Gem

MiaMi jewelry designer Alexis DAwn Geller’s roxhouse collection Melds natural stones and vintage-inspired Mixed Metals. by julia ford-carther With a newly unveiled collection, a high-profile men’s collaboration, and a growing A-list fan base, jewelry designer Alexis Dawn Geller is making a statement with Roxhouse, her strong yet sexy unisex pieces with an au naturel appeal. You’ve only been designing for less than a year. How did Roxhouse come about? I’ve been in the social work field for 10 years, working with people in the most difficult times of their life. Every day, I would come home and make jewelry—that was my escape. I did start noticing that everybody loved my pieces, and I started giving them as gifts—it had nothing to do with making money. I’m honored my friends want to wear Roxhouse, and I just want to help decorate people. Describe your love affair with jewelry. Jewelry is, in my opinion, the most important part of the wardrobe. The stones that I use and the pieces that I end up creating have so much energy

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to them and so much focus that everything else takes a backseat. What trends in jewelry are you seeing now? Vintage bronze and antique brass are my two most popular [metals]. I see people’s tastes are going toward that. It’s in between gold and silver. Guys are becoming more comfortable with that. Talk about the inspiration for your current collection. I’m using new white druzies. Druzy is my favorite stone—it’s crystallizations that can form on any stone, so it has a lot of different varieties. I have ones that look like mountains, icicles, and snow. I kind of work backwards: I create [a piece] every single night, and once I have [a grouping], I start informing the collections. Ashlee Simpson, Evan Ross, Quincy Jones, and Matisyahu all have Roxhouse pieces. DJ Ruckus is also a fan—so much so that he’s doing a Ruckus for Roxhouse collaboration for spring. How did this partnership come about? I ran into him at Drunken Dragon with a mutual friend of ours and gave him the piece I was wearing that night. And he just looked so flattered—he put it right on. It was such a compliment. I have a lot of respect for him because even though he’s so in the scene, he still has a certain class to him. He’ll have final approval on what he wants to stamp as Ruckus for Roxhouse. Unknwn, Aventura Mall, 19501 Biscayne Blvd., 305-937-2103; Blush Boutique, 1935 West Ave., #103, Miami Beach, 305-531-3050; roxhouse.com OD

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is slim-fit. “It’s not the ’80s anymore; you can’t wear an XL T-shirt with the sleeves cut off,” he offers. When not pounding the pavement in his Converse sneakers, the chef swears by supple leather shoes from Harris (Barneys New York, 832 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-421-2010; barneys.com) when he needs to “dress to impress.” As a final touch, Viviani never leaves home without a spritz of his favorite cologne. Currently, he’s wearing Creed (Neiman Marcus, Bal Harbour Shops, 305-8656161; neimanmarcus.com), switching between the Aventus and Millesime scents. “Cologne is another problem I have,” he chuckles. “I bathe in it, really.” OD

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Karolina Kurkova is one of the world’s most suc cessful fashion models, most widely known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, Bottega Veneta, and Rag & Bone. In recent years, Kurkova has expan ded her résumé to acting, including appearances on 30 Rock and Person of Interest; humanitarian work with several nonprofit organizations such as God’s Love We Deliver and Born Free Africa; and motherhood. In 2012, the Czech native formed a working relationship with the IWC Schaffhausen watch brand while flaunting the timepieces on the red carpet and in print advertisements. A Miami resident for the past two years, Kurkova talks about her growing watch collection, balancing family and career, and finding time for herself. What motivates you to represent a brand? I am always interested when I work with brands to understand their background. If it is something you put on your body, of course it has to be your taste and your style, but even more important is

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to learn about the people behind it. Did you collect watches before you got involved with IWC? And what do you think of them now? I had a few watches but wasn’t a big collector. Now I have watches from all of their collections and I enjoy wearing them. I do like a bigger watch, something substantial and tougher; I’m not a girlie girl, but it is nice with the Portofino Midsize to have the option of being more feminine or delicate. You have to appreciate a watch for what it represents—a classic, timeless accessory that helps us guide our lives. How does time play a role in your life? Time is important—and it is very precious. I feel this especially having a child and a family, and becoming older. With these things, you start to look at time in a very different way. You are always examining how you spend [it] because a day is really only 12 [waking] hours and so you have to make the best of it and be sure you are using it correctly.

What prompted your move to Miami? [My husband, Archie Drury, and I] have a 5yearold, and we started spending more time here when he was 3. [My son, Tobin,] has a lot of energy, and we wanted him to be able to spend time outdoors, so Miami was perfect. Of course, he also travels the world with us on business and when I go back to the Czech Republic to visit family. Tell us what you love most about Miami. The lifestyle, the weather, being close to the ocean, and being able to spend so much time outside. It is also nice to see all the amazing architects coming here, building museums and hotels. Miami is the place where people want to come to create their next invention because it still has room to grow; there is space. It will be interesting to see what Miami will become in 20 years. Miami Design District, 140 NE 39th St., 305-5077488; iwc.com. For more watch features and expanded coverage, go to oceandrive.com/watches. OD

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In Its second year, MIaMI’s eMerge AMericAs acts as a vIbrant rendezvous poInt for tech-world Innovators and global Investors. by becky randel In the last few years, Miami’s growing technology sector has gained substantial buzz: Tech companies are moving here, start-ups are being incubated, and venture capitalists are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in homegrown companies. Furthering this progress, Cuban-American tech billionaire Manuel Medina, backed by the Knight Foundation, launched eMerge Americas last year, a four-day conference that explores the trends and advancements in the tech realm in areas such as health, finance, education, and urban planning. Medina and eMerge Executive Director Xavier Gonzalez spoke to Ocean Drive about the event’s astonishing success, what to expect when the conference returns May 1 through 5, and Miami’s intensifying IT scene.... cOntinueD On page 102

Founder of eMerge Americas Manuel Medina and Pitbull discuss the impact technology has on Miami during last year’s conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

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culture Hottest ticket What CliCks Not-to-be-missed speakers and events at this year’s eMerge Americas.

“Being spiritually centered and knowing yourself are critical to doing business and evolving with the high pace and the evolution of technology,” says eMerge Executive Director Xavier Gonzalez of Chopra’s inclusion in the event. WIT—Women, InnovaTIon & TeChnology:

A one-day summit on May 4 showcasing female professionals in technology. haCkaThon: The US Secret Service is bringing a (former) criminal hacker to hack someone’s identity in the audience, while everyone watches on screen. They will then discuss what the US government is doing to stop hackers.

IBM Venture Capital Group’s Claudia Fan Munce, Trident Capital’s Alberto Yépez, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year Bryan Pearce offer pointers on how to fund a company at the right time at the 2014 summit.

“WE FELT IT WAS THE PERFECT TIME TO HELP ESTABLISH MIAMI AS THE TECHNOLOGy HUB OF THE AMERICAS.” —manuel medina Why did you decide to launch emerge? manuel medina: In 2012, we felt it was the perfect time to help establish Miami as the technology hub of the Americas. There was a significant amount of growth in the Latin American technology market, and the large, established technology companies were beginning to take notice. But there was a void that needed to be filled—[there needed to be] an event that served as a platform to connect the world’s leading technology companies, entrepreneurs, and investors with the key decision makers and innovators from the Americas. Xavier gonzalez: We thought eMerge was something that could spark the evolution and the maturation of the technology ecosystem here. Is this a miami event, a global event, or both? mm: This is a global event focused on the Americas that is meant to connect industry leaders from around the world…. What we’re trying to do is bring attention to Miami for reasons that transcend beautiful beaches and hot spots. Xg: If you bring entrepreneurs from Latin America to Miami, you connect them with investors from around the world. They all start to

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think, Miami is really a place I can set up my business, I can expand there, I can grow there. how did you define success in emerge’s first year? Xg: We were thinking if we got anywhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people for our first event, big homerun. We had 6,000 attendees and an additional 3,000 students. We had 400 companies and 150-plus speakers. We also had 115 start-ups that participated in a start-up competition. We had 31 countries represented. We had well over 100 sponsors. What can people expect to see at emerge? Xg: When you walk in, you will see the latest innovations that are coming from the companies that everyone has heard of—the IBMs and the HPs—but you’ll also see the companies that are the next big thing. This year, we’re also expecting 12 to 15 countries to have pavilions—think of it like Epcot. you just announced nBC as your media sponsor. how will that play into the event? Xg: The NBC piece is a game-changer, not only about the shows and the interviews but the personalities that are going to be here, the buzz it will bring, and the eyeballs of the world. You’re going to be able to walk in, and there’s going to be a

College ShoWoffS: Education plays a

large part in eMerge, and local universities are “doing

very innovative things,” says Gonzalez. Examples? FIU’s Aquarius, the only underwater research lab in the US, will live-feed to its habitat. Not to be outdone, UM had softwarecontrolled robots playing soccer last year. e-gov governmenT InnovaTIon SummIT: Politicians

from around the world discuss how they are using technology to develop urban cores and solve municipal issues with keynote speakers including Florida Governor Rick Scott. parTIeS: Networking and fun are big goals of eMerge. Opening night will be at 1111 Lincoln Road, with a second event at the New World Center. Gonzalez says getting into sponsors’ private parties (like HP’s fête at The Raleigh pool) is also “part of the fun.”

set of NBC and its different properties (MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo) where they’re going to be hosting shows. Tell us about the simultaneous growth of the miami tech scene. Xg: You see numerous companies and organizations that are moving into Miami and setting up operations. For instance, the one and only Microsoft Innovation Center in the US opened in Miami, in addition to many others. The next piece that’s very significant is on the investor side—since eMerge Americas, we have seen two new VCs open offices in Miami, specifically to invest in tech. Why is miami so appealing to tech and start-up companies? Xg: The growth in terms of the use of technology in Latin America far outpaces any other emerging or mature market. The amount of social media use in Latin America is higher than any other population on the planet. Being based in Miami is like being based in Switzerland—this is neutral. You have the ability to scale the whole region. eMerge Americas takes place May 1–5 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Dr.; emergeamericas.org. OD

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The keynote speaker at this month’s eMerge Americas, Deepak Chopra’s latest book, The 13th Disciple: A Spiritual Adventure, is a novel about a chosen group who explore a shared sacred vision about the final days of Christ.

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“Life purpose is achieved when your job, career, and higher caLLing are in aLignment.” —deepak chopra

Super power

As the keynote speAker At this month’s emerge AmericAs conference, spirituAl leAder Deepa Chopra brings enlightenment And trAnsformAtive methods to miAmi. by erica korman One of the most important new age thinkers of our time, Deepak Chopra is the author of more than 80 books. Living a life full of reflection and meditation and espousing a diet free of anything “manufactured or processed,” Chopra is a pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, specifically overall well-being, and has won accolades from world leaders, 2.32 million Twitter followers, and yes, Oprah. Here, the founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing connects with Ocean Drive to talk technology, spirituality, environmental woes, and the future of humanity. What are you going to speak about at the eMerge Americas conference? I am going to focus on the future of well-being in several areas—career; purpose; social, physical, and emotional; spiritual; financial; and community, and specifically how all of that interfaces with technology and what the drivers are of change and behavior. How can we use technology and metrics and content and products and services to drive change in personal behavior, and ultimately, even social behavior? You are able to merge the spiritual and technological worlds very well. Many people have a hard time with that. Yes, because people confuse “spiritual” with “religion,” and when I talk about spirituality, I mean more than anything else the capacity for expanding awareness—awareness of who we are and awareness of the universe. There are only two things we can be sure of—one is that there is existence, and second, there is awareness of existence. The rest is a story. You speak so much on life purpose. What’s your own life purpose? Life purpose is achieved when your job, career, and higher calling are in alignment with each other. Mine would be summed up in one word: healing. How many times a day do you meditate? I meditate for two hours in the early morning from 4 am to 6 am and then 15

minutes to 20 minutes in the afternoon at about 4 o’clock. If more people began to meditate, would world peace be possible? I think yes, but I doubt a critical mass of people who would explore unconsciousness would make a difference. We basically ruined the planet in more ways than one. It’s not just “let me change.” It is the destruction of the ecosystem, it’s all the weapons for mechanized deaths; it is still very primitive, barbaric thinking. So if we were to really look at the situation soberly, it would definitely [lead to] the conclusion that we are an insane asylum and that the human experiment may have failed. And it is okay. Nature knows how to take care of herself, so it might decide that the human species was not a good idea and it might move on to something else. In the meanwhile, we do what we do. Why do you think now more than ever people are turning to meditation or spirituality? Because they are looking for meaning and purpose. They are looking for happiness, they are looking for deeper understanding of their own selves, and they do find that fame and fortune do not get you there. With regard to the environment, Miami is ground zero in the US for rising seawaters and climate change. It is important that we do something. It is like our house is burning and we [continue] as normal. Already the technologies exist for tackling climate change—from simple things like planting more trees in the world to using alternative fuels and even technologies that harness the power of gravity from the ocean waves. But we are not paying much attention to it. Do you have any worries about technology? We can’t stop technology—it is part of our evolution—and we’ll have to adapt to it and also, as we move along, I think technology will become safer. The only danger is that we don’t allow technology to use us; we should be using technology. Either you adapt or you become extinct. OD

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Culture Now Showing “Through music, i have been able To communicaTe To people all over The world.” —roberta flack

Listen for a While

The legendary RobeRta Flac headlines an exclusive engagemenT aT The Broward cenTer for The Performing arTs. by greg stepanich Roberta Flack’s father located a piano for his young daughter in an unlikely place. And it was in questionable condition. “My father got my first piano from a junkyard,” Flack, who will perform at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale on April 24, tells Ocean Drive. “It was green and smelled of rodents. He got it fixed up, and I played the heck out of it!” Now 76, the vocalist will present an evening of songs, including several tunes from her most recent release, a 2012 assemblage of Beatles covers called Let It Be Roberta. Flack’s extraordinary career began early when she was recognized for her pianistic and vocal talent in suburban Washington, DC, where she enrolled in the historically black Howard University at age 15, graduating at 19 with a music

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education degree. While teaching at area junior high schools, Flack performed at a Washington club called Mr. Henry’s, where she built a strong local reputation that led to a deal with Atlantic Records. The singer came to fame in 1971 when her recording of Ewan MacColl’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” was added to the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood’s film Play Misty for Me. The following year, a collaboration with singer Donny Hathaway, “Where Is the Love,” won a Grammy along with “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”; the next year, she recorded the track “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” which cleaned up at the 1974 Grammys. “A song touches me because it speaks of a part of my life, a feeling I’ve had, an experience I know, or a story that I feel needs to be told,” Flack explains. “‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ has been about relationships I’ve had, pets I’ve had, people I’ve known, babies who are now grown up.” Other big hits followed, including “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” “The Closer I Get to You,” and “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love.” Yet, with all her great songs, Flack’s most lasting legacy may be the Roberta Flack School of Music at Hyde Leadership Charter School in the Bronx. “I believe that every child has the right to have music as an integral part of their education,” she says. “It’s documented that music augments learning, and music and math are integrally related. Government cutbacks eliminated music from many schools and I founded the [school] to help children have music in their lives.” Flack says she’s planning to continue recording and touring, and sees music as a universal healer. “When we can see each other for who we are as people—without race, religion, gender, sexuality—like John [Lennon] said, ‘Can you imagine?’” she says. “Through music, I have been able to communicate to people all over the world. When they don’t speak English, they understand the language of love as told through music.” Roberta Flack performs April 24 at the Au-Rene Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-462-0222; browardcenter.org. OD

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Roberta Flack will perform many of her greatest hits as well as songs from her 2012 album Let It Be Roberta at Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center for the Performing Arts on April 24.

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Give Joanne Greenbaum credit for refusing to stand still. On the heels of rave reviews for the New York City-based painter’s latest work—wall-size canvases sporting a Technicolor Twombly-esque sea of furiously intertwined lysergic lines— Greenbaum dramatically changed gears. For her current show at the Little River neighborhood’s Michael Jon Gallery, Greenbaum has set aside painting entirely, instead exhibiting a selection of small sculptures. “Painting is more intellectual and in my head,” she explains, citing the inevitable subconscious pressures that arise from having spent nearly three decades honing her practice, both in and out of academia. “The whole history of painting goes into it; everything I am goes into it. Sculpture is a much more physical, instinctual process. I allow something else to take over.” To be fair, Greenbaum’s sculptures aren’t entirely divorced from her paintwork. Many have been left purposely unglazed with a bright white surface, onto which she draws and, yes, paints, in styles that evoke her familiar hypnotic looping. If the overall effect remains strikingly raw, almost primordial, credit Greenbaum’s self-taught aesthetic. When she first enrolled in an advanced sculpture class near her home, in order to access their kiln, “I’d never even touched clay before,” she admits. “I thought I’d just wing it. It was awkward at first, but eventually I figured out how to construct something that wasn’t going to fall apart or blow up. The teacher looked at me like I was nuts: ‘Who is this crazy woman?’ Everybody else was making pots and functional objects, and I’m making stuff that looks like a 5-year-old dreamt it up. But no one ever said anything. I guess that’s just New York!”

Untitled, 2014, by Joanne Greenbaum.

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“Jean-Baptiste Bernadet & Joanne Greenbaum” is on display through April 25 at the Michael Jon Gallery, 255 NE 69th St., Miami, 305-521-8520; michaeljon gallery.com. OD

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For her show at MiaMi’s Michael Jon Gallery, painter Joanne Greenbaum trades in her canvases For clay. by brett sokol

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Amanda Keeley in her roving pop-up, Exile Books, housed here at downtown Miami’s Bas Fisher Invitational.

Penned to Paper champions the tome as an art object—and as a community builder.

“I always did art on the side, but I never considered it something you could make a living at,” says Amanda Keeley, chuckling at her earlier naiveté. After all, she’s the woman behind the artist-book-focused roving pop-up, Exile Books, a store whose sales now directly contribute to the bank accounts of scores of creatives. Moreover, she’s become an accomplished artist in her own right with a solo show of book-centered sculpture this fall at the Fredric Snitzer gallery, the top dog among Miami’s art dealers. Part of her earlier disbelief, Keeley explains, stems from coming of age in Miami in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Whatever adventurous culture was percolating at the time failed to creep out to her suburban home in Kendall. Like so many others at the time, Keeley fled north, but rather than heading for Manhattan, she joined the famed Bradenton, Florida, tennis academy run by Nick Bollettieri, the legendary trainer credited with molding star players from Andre Agassi to Serena and Venus Williams.

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“Your whole education is focused around being on the courts eight hours a day,” Keeley recalls of the grueling experience. And while she eventually decided life as a professional tennis player wasn’t her true calling, choosing instead to hang up her racquet and attend the University of Vermont (“I wanted a return to normalcy”), she credits the strict discipline fostered by Bollettieri as key to her present-day approach. In fact, to hear Keeley tell it, art school curriculums could use a little more tennis time: “Working with artists is like herding cats,” she quips. It’s a lesson learned first-hand following her 1995 graduation and subsequent MFA at New York’s Parsons The New School for Design. Immersing herself in that city’s art scene, she eventually became a manager at Printed Matter, an artist’s bookstore dedicated to popularizing the book as art object. Later, she worked as a personal assistant to Yoko Ono, managing her extensive continued on page 112

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ExilE Boo

Culture Magic City archives as both an early Fluxus artist and as a playful conceptualist in tandem with John Lennon. Working for Ono was instructive—she says Ono’s avant-garde sensibility happily coexists with her business savvy. But by late 2013, Keeley found herself, like so many other New Yorkers, intrigued by the buzz surrounding Miami. “I never thought I would move back. There was a lot I really didn’t like about Miami growing up here,” she admits. “It was very shallow.” But that was then. “Seeing all the energy now, there really is an artistic renaissance happening!” Yet there was still one gaping hole: “To think of ourselves as an arts and culture mecca, but not to have an artist’s bookstore, or anything like Printed Matter, seemed like a shame.” And also an opportunity. Thus was born Exile Books, its name an homage to Miami’s defining demographic, to Keeley’s own idyllic vision of rootless cosmopolitans tethered only

to their creativity, and not least, to the store’s nomadic nature, moving from spot to spot around town; hosts so far have included Locust Projects, Books & Books, and the Bas Fisher Invitational. It’s a novel business plan that avoids the draining expense of maintaining a brick-and-mortar storefront while capitalizing on the art-minded audiences already frequenting its temporary homes. Sales are only part of the equation, though. Keeley aims for Exile Books to become “a space dedicated to print culture and creating a community.” In fact, rather than being eclipsed by the digital era, she insists old-fashioned ink-on-paper is all the more vital: “For a younger generation raised on the Internet, they’re being turned off by having communication only be on and via a computer. There’s a huge resurgence of interest in having something you can physically hold, along with the immediacy of contact. That’s what’s happening with the exchange of zines.”

“To Think of MiaMi as an arTs and culTure Mecca, buT noT To have an arTisT’s booksTore, seeMed like a shaMe.” —amanda keeley

Accordingly, Exile Books’ next roost is at the National YoungArts Foundation, featuring an exhibition of seminal fanzines curated by the University of Miami’s head of Special Collections, Cristina Favretto, all drawn from that school’s extensive library holdings. There will also be a zine fair, as well as zine-making workshops, each aimed at bringing writers and their readers face to face. “Having a space that dedicates itself to books allows people to truly connect instead of just being Facebook friends,” Keeley says. “It’s not anonymous like so much of the Internet, where people don’t take responsibility for what they’re saying. Print takes us back to a reality where we’re talking to one another.” Exile Books opens

Keeley at Exile Books. right: Rather than being eclipsed by the digital era, “Print takes us back to a reality where we’re talking to one another,” she says.

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on April 10 at the National YoungArts Foundation, 2100 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; exilebooks.com. OD

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Festival founder P. Scott Cunningham at O, Miami.

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The annual O, MiaMi PoeTry fesTival reTurns, wiTh less rhyme and more reason. by stephanie dunn The goal of the monthlong O, Miami Poetry Festival is to have every person in Miami-Dade County encounter a poem. Translation: Residents will be lavished with guerrilla-style verses in unexpected places. The festival, now in its fourth year, is trying to shift the perception of poetry from an elitist pastime to an approachable artistic medium. “So much of the neon-and-whitewalls side of Miami takes itself very seriously, and so much of the poetry world takes itself very seriously,” says festival founder P. Scott Cunningham. “We like to do things that break out of those constrictions and reach people directly in surprising ways. This year, we’re going to have a poetry ice cream man. We’re going to have poems written in Braille. We’re going to have a gigantic mural on Biscayne Boulevard…. Plus, Miami is a great place to collaborate, and it’s weird, which is perfect for poetry.” April 1–30 at various locations throughout Miami; omiami.org

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2015 marks five decades together for Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey of The Who, and to celebrate they’re embarking on an extensive North American tour. When the acclaimed British band plays Miami, fans will get to hear the classic hits—“My Generation,” “The Kids Are Alright,” “Pinball Wizard,” “Behind Blue Eyes,” and many more—that have made The Who rock ’n’ roll royalty for 50 years. Fellow legends Joan Jett & the Blackhearts open the show. “We’ve been very close friends with Joan Jett for a long time,” Townsend says. “She is the real deal. This will be a great night of rock ’n’ roll for everyone.” April 17; AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; aaarena.com

the long-standing broadway musical Rent comes to aventura.

The defning rock musical of the ’90s, Rent follows a tight-knit group fghting to save their music—and relationships—amid the growing scourge of HIV/AIDS. With a hit score featuring the songs “Without You” and “Another Day,” the show artfully reveals truths just as relevant today as they were 20 years ago. April 30–May 3; Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, 3385 NE 188th St., Aventura, 305-466-8002; aventuracenter.org OD

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Made in Mexico Frida Kahlo, whose riveting self-portraits made her a heroine for the marginalized, and Diego Rivera, the celebrated muralist 20 years her senior, were married in 1929, and despite—or perhaps fueled by—their tempestuous relationship, they went on to become Mexico’s most acclaimed artists, producing scores of hypnotic, insightful works. This month, check out “Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection and Mexican Modernism from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Collection,” an exhibition of more than 30 of their pieces, including Kahlo’s Self Portrait As a Tehuana (Diego on My Mind) (shown) and Rivera’s Portrait of Natasha Gelman. Through May 31. NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd., 954-525-5500; moafl.org

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SylveSter ComprehenSive CanCer Center direCtor Dr. Stephen nimer leadS a team of world-renowned doCtorS that iS helping make South florida a leading deStination for treatment and innovation.

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Dr. Stephen Nimer is helping create cutting-edge cancer programs and studies at Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (here pictured at UM/Sylvester).

In most places around the country, cancer patients will tell you what treatment center they visit—in Boston, for instance, they say, “I go to Dana-Farber” or “Massachusetts General”—but in New York City, they call out their doctors by name. For some 20 years, there was no bigger point of pride among New Yorkers battling cancer than being able to say, “I go to Nimer.” That’s Dr. Stephen D. Nimer, one of the world’s most acclaimed hematologists, who treated everyone from Nobel Prize winners to awardwinning playwright Susan Sontag and fashion icon Oscar de la Renta during his tenure at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in Manhattan. Now at the helm of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (UM/Sylvester) since 2012, Dr. Nimer has brought his considerable clout, intellect, and drive to the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where the noted leukemia and stem cell transplant researcher and clinician is putting the state’s only university-based cancer center on the map. “We’ve increased our philanthropy by 70 to 80 percent since I’ve come here,” says Nimer. On April 25, the center will host its annual fundraiser, the 2015 Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center gala, appropriately titled “Brave,” at the JW Marriott Marquis Miami. continued on page 118

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PEOPLE View from the Top With (from left) Pharrell Williams, Ofira Sandberg, and Georgia Nimer at the Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research Angel Ball in New York in 2013.

Dr. Nimer and oncologist Dr. Pasquale Benedetto (right) in the Cancer Center courtyard.

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Sloan Kettering, and a lot less like they were talking before they got here. We let people follow their own dreams a little bit longer down here.” One recent addition he’s enthusiastic about is Dr. Brian Slomovitz, the new director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology. “He set up the Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Clinic,” Nimer says. “If you look around the country, there’s almost nobody who’s doing early detection in ovarian cancer. It is not that we have something that’s so unique that nobody else could do, but in a year from now we will, because we’re focused on it in a new way.” In the center’s quest for National Cancer Institute certification, which it hopes to achieve by 2017— which would make it one of only 41 institutions with NCI certification—Nimer has helped create numerous cutting-edge cancer programs and studies in which Sylvester is striving for national impact. “We have an amazing program in viral oncology, which employs viruses to kill cancer. We have one of the world’s best groups of people, including somebody we recently recruited from UCLA and someone from Harvard. And we’re going to have novel programs.” While his reputation as a leader in his field has helped pave the way for other talent to join him, it doesn’t hurt that he genuinely seems to love the lifestyle of South Florida. Nimer and his wife of 27 years, Georgia, reside by the beach, and he takes hours-long bike rides on weekends, to stay in shape for the 12-hour-plus days and all-nighters that are frequently part of the job. “Miami’s been a great place for us to live, an up-and-coming city with booming reserves to make the best possible cancer center, and I’ve been able to convince a lot of these people to come out to buy into the dream.” Treating Miami’s elderly residents—a group of the overall population that’s been underserved in general, he notes—was also a compelling reason for his decision to head south. “I was raised in a

household where I was taught it was important to give back,” says Nimer, who still sees roughly one new patient a week. Every one of his patients has had his cell phone number ever since he first got one 20 years ago. “Having cancer is hard,” he says. “It’s an honor and a privilege taking care of people in their greatest time of need.” Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1475 NW 12th Ave., Miami, 305-243-5302; sylvester.org OD

On Call Although he’s one of the most sought-after doctors in the country, Dr. Stephen Nimer finds time to enjoy his Miami. Bike route: “Usually we go across the

Venetian Causeway into downtown Miami, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables—I think it’s a 38-mile bike ride. I do that on the weekends and sometimes do a longer ride and go down to Black Point [or] Key Biscayne. The city’s a beautiful city.” Date nights: “My wife and I love to eat. We go

to Joe’s Stone Crab (11 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; joesstonecrab.com), Miami Juice (18660 Collins Ave., Sunny Isles Beach; miamijuice .com), and I love Zuma (270 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; zumarestaurant.com).” Cultural immersion: “I work a lot, but

we like to take in a fair amount of cultural things. We go to New World Symphony (500 17th St., Miami Beach; nws.edu); we like to go to the Adrienne Arsht Center (1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; arshtcenter.org). We’ve been to the Pérez Art Museum Miami (1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; pamm.org); we’ve been to ICA (4040 NE Second Ave., Miami; icamiami.org).” BeaCh Bumming: “Next year, we’re planning

on taking more walks along the ocean. We have done it, but not as much as my wife would like.”

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Dr. Nimer is seeing that the funds raised are being put to good use. To date, he’s brought in more than 57 top-tier physicians and scientists from around the world, drawing from the likes of MSKCC, Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and other international centers of academic acclaim. For starters, UM/Sylvester built a program in hematologic malignancies, or blood cancers, recruiting a team of more than 10, plus another nine medical physicists, radiation oncologists, and laboratory people for the radiation oncology group. Most recently, says Nimer, “we just brought down a new head of surgical oncology from Vanderbilt; he’s focused on pancreatic cancer.” Thanks to a $3.3 million appropriation from the State of Florida legislature, the center was able to enlist a world leader in the burgeoning field of epigenetics—which studies the ways in which cells maintain their identity. Last year, Sylvester hosted an epigenetics symposium in Miami, attended by experts from 10 different countries around the world. The symposium fostered the sharing of new knowledge, collaboration, and new ways of thinking about cancer—and also netted them a new recruit, a scientist from Barcelona, who just started at Sylvester this March. Given his experience and stature in his field, Nimer could have gone to any number of prestigious university centers after MSKCC. “I didn’t want to be bound by the traditions of the institution” at a Harvard or Yale, he notes. At UM, the opportunity for sustained innovation was too good to pass up. In the words of University President Donna Shalala, that rang true for Nimer: “She told me she found it messy” down here in Miami when she arrived. Meaning there’s more room to grow and explore and create the kind of institution he wanted. “When I was at Sloan Kettering, we would bring somebody who would have all these ideas, and then three years later they were talking a lot like everyone else at

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coffee. I’m addicted. You can get good coffee in New York, but you can’t get Cuban coffee.” TaTToo Tales: “I’m very

spiritual, and I do believe that we all come from kind of these natural causes. I also have the phases of the moon down my side.” pre-ride Meal: “I try to fnd the right balance between proteins and carbohydrates. I always have a green juice

or a banana with peanut butter [before class]. Jugofresh (1430 S. Dixie Hwy., Coral Gables), which is about a mile from the studio, has açai bowls and really great wraps.” BesT BeaTs: “There is

always room for some Queen B, some Beyoncé, [also] really good Robyn remixes, Avicii, Britney’s a classic, “Uptown Funk,” and Kiesza—she’s got really good energy.”

Spin Crowd Soeuraya WilSon is leading the pack of renegade riders at soulcycle’s new coral gables studio—the state’s first location. by jill sieracki Soeuraya Wilson remembers the exact date and time she discovered SoulCycle— Tuesday, March 15, at 10:30 am. “I’d heard of SoulCycle but was a little intimidated,” says Wilson, who first went to the indoor cycling studio at the encouragement of a friend, SoulCycle’s VP of talent, Halle Madia. “I went and took [instructor] Marvin Foster’s class and fell in love. I love the collaboration, the solidarity you gain from the room. Nobody really knows each other, but you’re still connected. It was a really beautiful experience.” It’s that kind of “energy of the pack” fitness experience that has caused legions of indoor cycling enthusiasts—reportedly more than 10,000 each day—to form a devout allegiance to SoulCycle, which opened its first Florida location in the Village of Merrick Park in Coral Cables this year. (A second location is set to open in South Beach in late summer.) The calorie-torching workout, launched by Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice in 2006, has since spread to more than 30 studios in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Fans like Kaley Cuoco, Bradley

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Cooper, Katie Holmes, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Lady Gaga regularly attend classes to “tap it back” to club-like tempos in candlelit studios. Studying to be a dancer, Wilson gravitated to SoulCycle’s core-building choreography, which combines high-intensity cardio mixed with toning exercises using hand weights. “I always thought I would be an actor, I would be a performer. I never thought in a million years I would become a fitness instructor,” says Wilson, who joined SoulCycle’s instructor training program just six months after discovering the studio. “And then, here I am; I can’t really imagine life being anything else now.” Wilson moved to Miami from New York to open SoulCycle’s Coral Gables location: a 52-bike studio, plus a lifestyle boutique. Instructors choreograph their own 45-minute indoor cycling programs using signature moves like “tap backs,” pushups on the handlebars, or oblique crunches. “Everybody here is into being fit—that’s definitely one thing I’ve noticed,” says Wilson of her adopted hometown. “Riders come to the studio and they already spin, but the solidarity and the community that SoulCycle brings is something different.” Classes also include some level of body-positive affirmations, which is another reason fans have taken to SoulCycle with an almost cult-like enthusiasm. “I have myself had these ‘come-to-Jesus’ moments in classes before; you never think that a fitness class is going to bring you to that,” says Wilson, who leads several classes each day. “I always think about my first moments in Soul when I’m teaching and what I wanted and things that were said to me. We give affirmations during the class that help riders push themselves and give them that idea that it starts in that room, if you can just say yes to those little things in there, think about what you can say yes to in the bigger world.” Village of Merrick Park, 358 San Lorenzo Ave., Coral Gables, 305-7403600; soul-cycle.com OD

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SoulCycle instructor Soeuraya Wilson’s indoor-cycling classes combine cardio, free weights, and spiritual affirmations with a nightclub-like vibe.

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Morays Jewelers’ Beau Hequin in front of the Alfred I. DuPont Building in downtown, where his family’s fine-jewelry business is located. below: The Falls’ open-air shopping mall that is the centerpiece of Hequin’s childhood neighborhood.

The Jewel of South Miami

There are pockets of Miami that are less about glitz and glamour and more about family values and a sense of community. For Morays Jewelers President Beau Hequin, a seventh-generation purveyor of fine jewelry and timepieces, his childhood home was just that kind of place. Born and raised in an unincorporated area of MiamiDade County that rests between Kendall and Pinecrest, Hequin—like many from that area—will tell you he grew up “by The Falls.” With the well-known open-air shopping mall as its centerpiece, Hequin’s neighborhood is more everyday Americana than the luxury lifestyle he sells at Morays in the Alfred I. DuPont Building downtown, yet the area’s beautiful homes, neighborhood dining experiences, and parks packed with young kids playing sports mirror the family tradition of Hequin’s business. His earliest childhood memory, though, was of it all almost falling apart. “Hurricane Andrew hit when I was really young,” Hequin says of the 1992 storm that devastated the area. “That was a pretty scary one. Our whole family

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was hiding in my mom’s closet, and when we came out, our whole house was pretty much gone. There was no ceiling, nothing. We moved into a hotel and rebuilt our house.” Hequin’s family rebuilt, and so did the rest of the neighborhood—“Everyone had to help each other,” he recalls—and the result was a community that was stronger, prouder, and more beautiful than before. “It wasn’t long before we were back to trick-or-treating around the lake,” says Hequin, who as a child was known to don a Star Wars, vampire, or zombie costume for Halloween. “I’d go around with my younger sister, and everybody knew who we were. It was a very safe, tight-knit community.” As a kid, Hequin went wakeboarding on E Lake (where the family home was located) with his father’s ski boat, played pickup games at Tropical Park, and frequented Samurai, the hibachi restaurant that locals will brag is better than Benihana, with a pink sauce that is one of a kind. “That was my favorite place continued on page 124

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During his high school years, Hequin often played golf at Deering Bay Country Club. right: Hequin at Morays, where he learned the business from the ground up.

“I Went on My fIrSt Date to the fallS MovIe theater. I reMeMBer BeInG really nervouS.”—beau hequin

When working at Morays, Hequin likes to have lunch and espresso at the nearby Havana Coffee & Tea.

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temple-based league in the country) when I was in middle school,” says Hequin, who attended Alexander Montessori for elementary school and moved to Gulliver Academy and Gulliver Prep to round out his middle and high school years. “A lot of kids who went to Gulliver also played in that league. It was competitive.” The area was home to kids’ play places like mark twain’s riverboat playhouse and fun spots like hot Wheels (now Super Wheels) skating Center and Bird Bowl, but as Hequin entered his high school years and moved across US-1 to Deering Bay, he was more interested in playing golf at the Deering Bay Country Club and lacrosse for his high school team. “There were only maybe three schools that were good at lacrosse when I was playing,” he says of the sport that was then more popular in the Northeast. “When we used to play teams from up north, we’d get our butts kicked. But in the past 10 years, it’s grown significantly in Florida.” The rest of Hequin’s free time was spent with his family, learning the business, which was founded in Austria in the early 1900s, from the ground up. Beau has been a staple in the store “since as young as I could crawl,” he says, and has held every job in the place—from sweeping floors to sales to now running the whole business. As a boy, his parents took him around the world to trade shows, where he was wowed by the giant displays of diamonds, jewels, and watches. It was his late mother, Sandy, who had the foresight to move the business into the heart of

downtown, providing heirloom pieces to an expanding population of luxury shoppers. “It was just so impressive, especially as a young kid,” he says. “It really grew my interest. Now, when it comes to watches, I see them as little works of art.” Many would agree that his childhood neighborhood is a work of art as well. It’s just a little less IWC Schaffhausen and a little more Norman Rockwell. Morays Jewelers, 50 ne Second ave., Miami, 305-374-0739; moraysjewelers.com OD

Hequin’s Hot spots Deering Bay Country CluB: “[In high

school] I played golf… a lot of golf.” 13610 Deering Bay Dr., Coral Gables, 305-2542111; dbycc.com the Falls: “The mall has grown a lot since I lived there. There are different shops and chains like P.F. Chang’s.”

8888 SW 136th St., Miami, 305-255-4570; simon.com/mall/the-falls samurai: “[This hibachi restaurant] was my

favorite place to go when I was a kid.” 8717 SW 136th St., Miami, 305-238-2131; samurairestaurant.com tropiCal park: “We’d go there for school

[lacrosse] practices, and any kind of off-season training was always there, too.” 7900 SW 40th St., Miami, 305-226-8316; miamidade.gov/parks/tropical.asp

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to go when I was a kid,” Hequin says. “I used to go there every year on my birthday.” In the neighborhood, you could also grab a burger at Fuddruckers, frozen yogurt at the nowdefunct Flamingo’s Frozen yogurt, or a steak at one of Hequin’s favorites, Fleming a taste of Denmark. “They had a really great rack of lamb,” he says of the now-closed neighborhood joint. And the Falls mall in the center of town holds a spot in Hequin’s heart as well. “I went on my first date to The Falls movie theater,” he says. “I remember being really nervous.” A sports enthusiast, Hequin spent his childhood watching many of Miami’s pro teams with his grandparents, but at home he had hoop dreams of his own. “I played Beth Am basketball (the largest

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Nature eNthusiast Ian Wogan gave up a job iN the food aNd beverage iNdustry to focus oN his coloNy of bees. how sweet it is! by carla torres As a child, Ian Wogan wasn’t allowed to watch any television other than National Geographic. “My parents thought staying inside was a waste of time,” says Wogan as he walks among a series of wooden beehives buzzy enough to make one uncomfortable. Pointing up to a lone wild hive visible against the sun, he squints. “Bees are amazing.” An all-around caretaker and environmentalist, the Miami native tends a constellation of hundreds of hives from South Beach to Key Biscayne and even Homestead, adding up to well over a million bees that pollinate crops throughout Dade County. First he sells landowners and farmers on the age-old practice, then he trucks bees in from Homestead. “Key Biscayne is one of the best areas because it’s between two huge ecosystems—Biscayne Bay and Crandon.” To combat the current honeybee colony collapse—a phenomenon where worker bees disappear—Wogan places hives near native plants, which require fewer pesticides. His subsequent sweet delight, branded Garden of Ian, can be found by the Mason jar at local roaster Panther Coffee (2390 NW Second Ave., Miami; 1875 Purdy

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The MiaMi naTive Tends a consTellaTion of hundreds of hives froM souTh Beach To Key Biscayne.

Ave., Miami Beach), while cocktail bars The Regent Cocktail Club and The Broken Shaker use Wogan’s honey to mix up their handcrafted libations. Out of Garden of Ian’s plethora of flavors, South Florida wildflower is unique to Miami, and an amalgamation of our ecology. Wogan’s childhood may have set off his love and appreciation for nature, but it was his environmental science studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara that catapulted it. “Seeing how environmentally responsible they are in California made me want to come back and implement that same awareness here.” He finished his studies at FIU, where he established the school’s first farmers market and was heavily involved in the garden club. This path led him to managing Paradise Farms after graduating. For a long time, Wogan was an eco-friendly arborist and beekeeper by day, while serving chef José Andrés’s culinary wonders to diners at The Bazaar at the SLS South Beach. He’s since given up the job to focus on pollinating South Florida and tree management, but The Bazaar is now a customer, buying his honey. Next up? He’ll be working with 1 Hotel & Homes South Beach. “There are a ton of trees, mangroves, and palms around the area, as well as all of the coastal dune flowers,” he says. “[Bees] go to the nectar and then do a little geometric dance to show the other worker bees where the water sources are as well as the food sources.” “I love Miami, and as much as there’s been evolution in the natural context of things, there’s still a certain level of catching up,” says Wogan, who has certainly given us a delicious way to do it. OD

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Ian Wogan at his bee farm. right: The honey produced by Wogan’s bees goes into dishes and drinks served at some of Miami’s top restaurants and bars.

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Adrienne Arsht in front of the Ziff Ballet Opera House. “Performing arts centers really define how civilized a community is, and it makes it a great city,” she says.

Center Stage

“I think the arts really define us as a civilization, and creativity is the foundation of thought,” says philanthropist Adrienne Arsht, whose eponymous cultural center on Biscayne Boulevard hosts its annual black-tie gala this month. The fête, a centerpiece of the Miami social calendar, helps raise money for arts education and community outreach at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Benefiting from those donations are such cultural initiatives as a six-week children’s summer camp with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company or a program that allows all public-school fifth- and seventh-grade students to attend a performance and tour backstage, among other experiences. “The gala really raises money for things that will resonate throughout Miami-Dade County.”

To further connect with the Miami community, the Arsht Center fills its year-long calendar with a diverse array of programming, ranging from performances by Haitian dance company Ayikodans, monthly Sunday morning gospel, an annual flamenco festival, and yearly Jazz Roots program, which most recently featured the sounds of Cuban jazz performers such as Arturo Sandoval, that Arsht declares was “packed to the rafters.” “The programming does relate to every one of the many nationalities in our city,” she says. “The exciting thing in Miami is that, with such a diverse population, our programming reflects that. So, unlike many other cities, we get to experience the music of many different cultures because they all live right here.” continued on page 132

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A view of the 2014 Adrienne Arsht Center Gala. below: Honorary Chair Adrienne Arsht with Kevin Spacey, who performed at last year’s event.

Opportunities to give.

AmericAn cAncer Society The Miami Cancer Institute’s annual American Cancer Society Miami Gala helps save lives by raising funds for research and prevention efforts. When: Saturday, April 11, at 6:30 pm Where: JW Marriott Marquis, 255 Biscayne Blvd. Way, Miami Contact: acsmiamigala.com

PhilAnthroFeSt Join 120 nonprofts for games, rides, performances, and more during the fourth annual Carnival of Dreams, an event that connects potential volunteers and donors with nonproft organizations. When: Saturday, April 11, at 10 am Where: Museum Park, 1075 Biscayne Blvd., Miami Contact: philanthrofest.com

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“We get to experience the music of many different cultures because they all live right here.”

Support the National Tropical Botanical Garden at Bali Ha’i at The Kampong, an afternoon of gourmet dining and fne wine set among the locale’s exotic tropical botanical collection. When: Sunday, April 12, at 4 pm Where: 4013 S. Douglas Road, Coconut Grove Contact: balihaiparty.com

United WAy oF miAmi-dAde Enjoy the 20th annual VeritageMiami, a four-day culinary celebration featuring celebrity chefs, craft beer, and wine tastings. The event supports local programs that improve education, fnancial stability, and health. When: Wednesday, April 15, to Saturday, April 18 Where: Wynwood Walls, Village of Merrick Park, InterContinental Miami, and Marlins Park

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Miami’s Performing Arts Center, and has helped steer the growth of what is now the Adrienne Arsht Center alongside President M. John Richard. “I’m known for jumping and developing wings on the way down,” says Arsht of her role in the center of today. “I didn’t know what it should be, specifically. I just knew that there had to be a performing arts center. The acoustics in the concert hall are just terrific; Itzhak Perlman always tells me that it’s one of his favorite places to perform. The American Ballet Theatre performs in the opera house; they feel that the stage is second only to the Metropolitan Opera in size. I didn’t dream of [it being any certain way]; I just knew it had to exist.” The Friday, April 24, gala takes place at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 786-468-2020; arshtcenter.org. OD

PAtriciA And PhilliP FroSt mUSeUm oF Science Support the development of the new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science with a night of dinner, dancing, and entertainment at the 13th annual Galaxy Gala: Aqua Lumière, followed by the Frost Science Young Patrons Big Bang afterparty. When: Saturday, April 18, at 6:30 pm Where: Hilton Miami Downtown, 1601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami Contact: miamisci.org

KriSti hoUSe The ninth annual Breaking the Silence luncheon raises awareness about child sexual abuse and ways that community members can aid Kristi House’s efforts to meet the legal, medical, and emotional needs of the children affected. When: Friday, April 24, at 11 am Where: Jungle Island, 1111 Parrot Jungle Trail, Miami Contact: kristihouse.org

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Arsht’s own involvement with the arts in Miami began when she moved to the Magic City in 1996 to run TotalBank. “I felt that I was really blessed to have spent 10 years in Miami, one of the most fascinating cities in the world, and it felt right for me to give back to that city,” says Arsht, who initially donated $250,000 to what was then the Carnival Center for the water feature in the central plaza that was renamed in her honor. “I was quite sure that the performing arts center was one of the greatest institutions—or had the potential to be one of the greatest institutions—of the community. Performing arts centers really define how civilized a community is, and it makes it a great city.” In 2007, Arsht sold TotalBank to Banco Popular, and her commitment to the local arts deepened. In 2008, she donated $30 million to

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TasTe This Issue: earth-Friendly eats Short rib of beef “lasagna” with Taleggio fonduta and shaved black truffles is one of the hearty-yetrefined dishes served at Corsair.

A FArmhouse on the 18th hole

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Scott conant’S Corsair SeduceS with ruStic fare and flouriSheS of SophiStication. The contoured fairways, rolling emerald greens, and lush tropical backdrop make Turnberry Isles’ Miller golf course one of the country’s prettiest. It is the 18th hole, however, that distinguishes Miller from any other: Scott Conant’s new Corsair restaurant is situated right alongside. “Sitting down, looking out over the golf course—what a great place to be able to have brunch or afternoon cocktails,” says the affable, nationally heralded chef. The verdant vista is surely a boon to the Corsair customer,

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but seeing breakfast plates of poached eggs with brioche and truffled fonduta or polenta waffles with ripe berries being carried to the outdoor patio must tempt many a hungry golfer to hurry that final hole. Conant looks at it from the opposite perspective: “Eventually I hope it will help me brush up my golf game,” he says with a laugh, perhaps realizing there will be little time for that. Not only is Corsair a three-meal establishment (“Being here sometimes at 5 am and leaving at midnight continued on page 136

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tAste so Many dinners (so little time)

All AboARd woods, Moroccan floor tiles, and leather banquettes add to Corsair’s “urbane farmhouse” theme; grilled octopus with stewed seafood, fregola, and squid ink; chef Scott Conant. top right: Pineapple Spice and Concord Express cocktails.

“There’s a Term in iTalian ThaT i always use called sprezzatura, which is The arT of making The eleganT look easy.” —scott conant makes for a long day,” he notes), but Conant must also attend to scarpetta in Miami Beach, as well as his multiple restaurant properties in New York and Las Vegas. at Corsair, which debuted in December, Conant whips up american and Mediterranean farmhouse fare, and logically focuses on seasonal, locally sourced menu items. the cuisine may claim rustic roots, but it also displays an understated complexity and sophistication. “there’s a term in Italian that I always use called sprezzatura,” explains Conant, “which is the art of making the elegant look easy.” It isn’t so easy. For one thing, the food contains very little butter and no cream—“mostly olive oil, infusions, vinaigrettes, things like that.” so to achieve “a full extraction of flavor,” which is something of an obsession with Conant, intricate and labor-intensive preparations are required. For instance, he and his team braise veal cheeks in a broth

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extracted from dried porcini mushrooms, surround them with roasted vegetables, and top them with “a take on togarashi: crispy parmesan cheese, herbs, and a little bit of aleppo pepper.” Duck breasts, crisped in a pan and accompanied by chickpea panisse and pickled mustard seed reduction, are first soaked in hot, balsamic-boosted brine for three days and dried out, “so great texture and depth of flavor permeate it.” Octopus is gently simmered in olive oil “for an extended period of time” until it achieves a melting tenderness, then plated with mussels, clams, caper relish, and little spheres of sardinian fregola blackened in squid ink. Desserts by pastry chef Michael Brock, who worked under the iconic François payard, likewise run the gamut from bucolic (brown sugar cake served home-style in a skillet) to opulent (Valrhona chocolate soufflé with coffee-

cardamom ice cream). the “urbane farmhouse” theme gets visually reinforced throughout the 5,400-square-foot space by way of Meyer Davis studio design elements such as reclaimed woods, Moroccan floor tiles, rich tufted leather banquettes, an open kitchen clad in marble and subway tile, and a stylish bar featuring cocktails crafted by virtuoso mixologist rob Floyd. “It resonates with the golfers, the guests and members, and with local people from the area who are coming in,” says Conant of the décor. this is no small matter to the chef, who hasn’t hesitated changing menu items in response to clientele feedback. “the goal is always the same, and it’s simple: We’re just trying to make the customers happy. that’s it.” He makes it seem so easy. 19999 w. country club dr., aventura, 786-279-6800; turnberryislemiami.com OD

Rustic Roots

“My father grew up on a farm in the north of Maine, and my Italian grandfather had a garden, so it was always about getting stuff from his garden, or from ours,” says Scott Conant, who has been practicing farm-to-table all his life. “We’d get eggs from a farmhouse right over the hill—that was just a normal part of our life.” Now it is a defining feature of Corsair, which not only culls its produce from nearby growers, but makes honey-rosemary ice cream with nectar cultivated from Turnberry’s onsite beehives.

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Renowned mixologist Rob Floyd provides libations for Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy ceremonies. His elegant elixirs can now be savored at Corsair, where the “liquid chef” balances textures and flavors in each glass. Try the Concord Express: Bombay gin and St-Germain liqueur get a sweet/tart heightening via muddled red grapes and a jolt of freshly squeezed lemon juice. The final touch is a float of Pinot Noir, a fruity and floral red-carpet entry to each luscious sip.

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Endlessly Organic’s Cheryl Arnold, Arden Karson, and Lindsay Scherr Burgess at Surfside Urban Gardeners Community Garden.

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Take a stroll along the sandy beaches of South Florida or the catwalks of the Design District and Lincoln Road, and you’ll see gorgeous bodies and perfectly groomed faces. But no less important than what’s on the outside is what’s on the inside. As American consumers devour organic products (sales in the United States jumped to $35.1 billion in 2013, according to the Organic Trade Association), nowhere is that more evident than in Miami, where the fruits, vegetables, grains, and overall clean-eating trend has become all the rage. And a number of local companies have popped up to meet the demand. Surfside-based organic buying club Endlessly Organic (endlesslyorganic .com) lets members bring home the harvest with boxes of 100 percent

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USDA-certified organic produce, ready for pickup at more than 80 locations from Palm Beach Gardens to Cutler Bay. Helmed by Cheryl Arnold, Lindsay Scherr Burgess, and Arden Karson, the company has a simple mission: to bring color to your kitchen, to make it as convenient as possible, and to build community in the process. Every other week, members take home a box geared to one of five themes—Mixed, Juicer’s, Fruit Lover’s, Very Veggie, or Paleo—brimming with goodies such as crisp kale, jewel-toned beets, sun-ripened berries, and other seasonal staples that are locally sourced wherever possible, and free of pesticides, GMOs, and radiation. While the ingredients themselves are continued on page 140

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simple, each box comes with access to recipes, storage tips, educational videos, and cooking classes for “organic produce virgins.” When the team finalize their home delivery service, you’ll be able to have garden goods delivered straight to your doorstep. When it comes to healthy living, Ginny Simon, founder of Miami-based Ginnybakes (305-6385103; ginnybakes.com), insists you can have your cake (and cookies, muffins, and bars) and eat it, too. A certified holistic nutritionist and health coach, Simon mixed her passions for baking and education by creating DIY bake mixes for clients with celiac disease. The demand for her healthconscious confections became so great that she developed a line of bake-at-home products for commercial sale, and ultimately launched a full-blown industrial kitchen in 2011. “I don’t think anyone should have to sacrifice taste for health,” says Simon. “We add flavor with whole foods like coconut and raisins, or high-antioxidant organic chocolate. If you’re going to indulge, let it be on something that’s mindful and tastes great.” Today, Simon offers fresh-baked cookies, brownies, biscotti, bars, and bake mixes that are gluten-free, organic, non-GMO, vegan, paleo, and kosher. She owes her success entirely, she says, to her hometown of Miami. “I think South Florida is a bit like California in that it’s a little more cuttingedge, a little more aware. And with Miami being a coastal city, it’s been positioned at the forefront of the clean, locally sourced movement.” Bunnie Cakes (2322 NE Second Ave., Miami, 786268-9790; bunniecakes.com) is another homegrown success story, this one born out of necessity. Founder Mariana Cortez’s son needed a dairy- and glutenfree birthday cake, but no local bakers had any. So Cortez took matters into her own kitchen, modifying her grandmother’s cake recipes to cook up delicious treats free of common allergens. Now, her kitschy Wynwood storefront sells her bite-size cupcakes, cookies, brownies, doughnuts, cakes, and even items like empanadas and cacao chia pudding, which she makes without soy, gluten, or peanuts. “Our most popular flavors are guava, passion fruit,

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Ginnybakes provides gluten-free treats, created by holistic nutritionist Ginny Simon; Mariana Cortez’s bite-size Bunnie Cakes cupcakes cater to those with common food allergies; Miami-based Velu is a tasty shot of healthy wheatgrass.

and dulce no leche,” Cortez says. “These are flavors I grew up with; each of them takes me to my infancy. I just adapted them to make them vegan and vegan gluten-free so everyone can enjoy them.” It’s more proof of an evolving palate in the South Florida region, where preservatives, fillers, and artificial flavors are disappearing while innovative ideas, natural foods, and forward thinking are driving a new wave of culinary entrepreneurship. “You never see a wild animal that’s out of shape,” says Scott Joseph, whose four flavors of the Hollywoodbased Chimp Food (chimpfood.com) are available at more than 50 health food stores and green markets across South Florida. “And because our DNA is 99 percent the same as a chimp’s, it hit me that eating whole, raw fruits and vegetables is the way to go.” When Joseph says whole, he means it: Each 16-ounce bottle of Chimp Food contains 25 veggies, fruits, berries, nuts, and seeds that are blended whole—peel, stems, and all—so your body can absorb the extra vitamins and minerals that would typically be thrown away. Wheatgrass, high in concentrations of vitamin C, vitamin E, iron, calcium, and other nutrients, is another diet staple of healthy eaters, and Jason Magrisso has developed a company to make sating that need in Miami more convenient than ever. Magrisso is the owner of premium wheatgrass beverage Velu (lovevelu.com). Derived from the Spanish words ver luz, meaning “see the light,” Velu combines two shots of organic wheatgrass with apple and lemon juice to provide a flavorful immunity boost without the bitter aftertaste that sometimes comes with shooting the green stuff straight. “We live in a society that’s constantly moving and need a healthy beverage we can grab on our way out the door,” says Magrisso of Velu, which is stocked at about 40 stores throughout Florida and will be rolling out mango and peach flavors within the next year. “Velu is packed with vitamins A, B, C, and K, and it’s also high in chlorophyll, which cleanses and builds the blood. Plus, it tastes delicious, kind of like a cross between green tea and plum juice.” OD

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There’s nothing quite like a rum festival to raise your spirits. Back for its seventh year, Rum Renaissance will bring the largest collection of rum makers in the world together under one roof, April 17 through 19.

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The folks behind Sunset Harbour’s beloved Lucali pizza have turned the adjoining space into the Bay Club, a bar that channels Lucali’s ingredient-driven philosophy into irresistible cocktails. Have a dose of the Peoria Penicillin—a mix of cantaloupeinfused Scotch, Canton ginger, lemongrass, basil, and lemon juice. “In New York, they used to hang out behind the pizzeria in these little watering holes where it wasn’t about décor, but just about relaxing,” says Cristina Ventura, managing partner and general manager of the Miami offshoots of the Brooklyn original. 1930 Bay Road, Miami Beach, 305-695-4441; bayclubmiami.com

Sip and study the intricacies of rum at this month’s Rum Renaissance festival.

“You could say our basic premise is to dispel the notion that rum is ordinary and prove that it’s fascinating,” says founder Robert Burr. Fascinated you’ll be with the amount of experts, distillers, and off-the-beaten-path

rums (some of which aren’t yet distributed in the States) that you’ll discover during the three days of grand tastings. Miami Airport Convention Center, 777 NW 72nd Ave., Miami; miamirumfest.com OD

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“It’s not ice cream or gelato—it’s helado,” says Jimena Duran, franchise co-owner of Argentina’s premier and all-natural heladeria, Freddo. It takes a month for the handcrafted ice cream-gelato hybrid— made with milk from grass-fed cows, pure cane sugar, fruits, and raw ingredients—to make its way via boat from Argentina to the Florida location on Lincoln Road. Try the grand dulce de leche—whole almonds, pecans, and golden raisins amid caramel. Want to take it to the next level? Get your helado in panini form. 610 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, 305-604-0065; freddo.com

At Bodega Taqueria y Tequila, a South Beach taqueria with an actual Airstream trailer as its kitchen, chef Bernie Matz serves al-pastor-style tacos with meat sliced from a rotating spit, a plethora of paletas (go for the mango chili), and four secret hot sauce recipes (think garlic serrano and Caribbean lime). But that’s not the only secret—behind the faux bathroom door is a hidden bar that slings tequila cocktails and smoked horchata shots. 1220 16th St., Miami Beach, 305763-8627; bodegasouthbeach.com

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ESSENSIA Chef Julie Frans uses ingredients from her organic garden for dishes like this Local Lobster, with avocado, mango, cucumber, hearts of palm, and a spicy cilantro dressing.

CAFE 221 The all-organic bistro’s house salad combines mixed greens, pear, almond, carrots, red cabbage, raisins, and goat cheese, and is served with a honey vinaigrette on the side.

CHOICES CAFÉ Miami’s ﬁ rst fully vegan restaurant, Choices serves wraps like the Chicken Homie (FAR LEFT), made from gluten-free tortillas, La Pixsa “pizza,” and smoothies such as the Monkey Business—banana, spirulina, dates, and almond butter.

For restaurateurs to forgo a freezer in the kitchen is a risky move, but at 27 (The Broken Shaker’s culinary offspring), Bar Lab guys Gabriel Orta and Elad Zvi don’t need one. “I know a lot of people say they do local, but we don’t [just] say—we do,” says Zvi. The staff pluck herbs straight from the rooftop or The Broken Shaker garden before mixing them into cocktails, or sprinkling them, along with Florida citrus, onto the whole fried daily catch of the day. Says Zvi, “Today we got sea urchin and octopus that came in from Little River Farms, but it won’t be available tomorrow.” Florida middleneck clams swimming in a chorizo broth, however, are a sure thing every night. 2727 Indian Creek Dr., Miami Beach, 305-531-2727; thefreehand.com

ORGANIQUE: Cafe 221 Don’t want to take a trek down to Homestead to get your dose of fresh heirloom tomatoes from Teena’s Pride? Pick some up at Cafe 221 (formerly the Filling Station) in downtown. In addition to produce to go, the all-organic bistro proffers java from Panther Coffee, fresh juice, and Zak the Baker sandwiches or toasts (try the roasted red peppers with artichokes and feta). “In France, farm-totable isn’t something people say, it’s all there is,” says owner Carène Zaragoza, who moved from her home country with her husband, Jean, just a year ago. “We thought Miami was a good place to bring that type of food.” 221 NW First Ave., Miami, 786-536-2268; 221cafe.us

VEG HEAVEN: Choices Café

Owner Matt Kuscher uses only fresh, local, and clean ingredients for dishes like the famed chicken and wafﬂes that’s topped with homemade maple syrup.

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Choices Café creator Alex Cuevas believes that you are what you eat. “People are too busy to think about food and where it comes from,” he says. But he started thinking about it as a child: His father was a butcher in Mexico, which led him to become a vegetarian at the age of 10 and, decades later, to open Miami’s first fully vegan eatery. Here, the chorizo is made of soy, the produce is 95 percent

organic, and the cheesecake is dairy free. Bite into La Pixsa, Choices’ version of pizza made with a gluten-free tortilla and topped with cashew cheese, black beans, walnut paté, carrots, onions, and either pesto or chipotle mayo. “We make choices every day,” says Cuevas. “Why not make good ones?” 2626 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, 786-534-5806; choicescafe.com

ESSENCE OF ENERGY: Essensia If Executive Chef Julie Frans can’t be found in the kitchen, chances are she’s with her “baby”: a secret organic garden at The Palms Hotel & Spa growing everything from shishito peppers and kale to tomatoes and holy basil (India’s most sacred plant). “This is where I come for inspiration,” she says. From “beyond organic” Strauss grass-fed American beef to Amazonian paiche (an exotic freshwater fish) caught by conscientious fishermen in Peru, and even local links from Proper Sausages, Essensia’s offerings all have one thing in common: They are salubrious. “Just like with our bodies, energy flows through food, too.” The Palms Hotel & Spa, 3025 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-908-5458; essensiarestaurant.com

SUNSHINE STATE OF MIND: ush From the selection of rare craft brews to the hormone-free beef ground in-house daily, Wynwood’s hippest burger and beer joint keeps it as local and clean as possible. “Everything is made from scratch every single day—even the ketchup,” says owner Matt Kuscher, who abandoned a life of corporate stability (he was the general manager of Houston’s) to spread his dogma of fresh, local, and clean. It’s a feat Kuscher has accomplished, in part, by Kush being the first restaurant in Miami-Dade County to purchase clean energy from windmills. Start your meal with the Florida alligator bites and finish with a slice of fresh Key lime pie. 2003 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-576-4500; kushwynwood.com OD

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The off-menu Key WesT shrimp ceviche aT Ted’s is a clever inTerpreTaTion of The raW classic. by carla torres “Everyone in Miami does ceviche,” says Executive Chef Nicolas Caicedo. The 27-year-old chef makes a valid point: Fresh seafood tossed in cilantro and lime is a staple on menus all over town—except at Ted’s, the Stephen Starr (Makoto, Verde) concept on the seventh floor of the Bacardi Building on the campus of National YoungArts Foundation, which has fostered talent the likes of Adrian Grenier and Nicki Minaj. Beside chef Caicedo’s globally inspired tapas menu, Ted’s proffers live entertainment (courtesy of YoungArts alumni).

Ted’s Executive Chef Nicolas Caicedo preparing his Key West shrimp ceviche (which uses house-made ketchup and mayo, along with the traditional leche de tigre).

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TasTe The Dish “EvEryonE usEs whitE fish for cEvichE. wE wantEd to bE diffErEnt.” —nicolas caicedo

Left-of-center ingredients Only those in the know would order Caicedo’s innovative (and thus far off-menu) take on the Miami staple. “Everyone uses white fish for ceviche. We wanted to be different,” says Caicedo, who earned his culinary stripes working alongside Spain’s highest-Michelin-starred toque, Martín Berasategui (Bodegón Alejandro, Restaurante Martín Berasategui, Lasarte). He spoons a rather unusual ingredient—house-made ketchup—into a bowl of already salted and marinating crustaceans. “I don’t want it to be the typical Miami ceviche,” he says of the dish. But ketchup isn’t the only atypical element: “I also throw in a tiny bit of mayo.” That’s in addition to his tiger’s milk. The evocatively named Peruvian citrus-laden marinade, piquant with ginger, is what

it’s aLL in the timing For ceviche, timing isn’t just crucial; it’s everything. “We make it à la minute because we don’t want to risk the shrimp overcooking.” A five-minute soak in his marinade will get it to the right point of citrus-cooked perfection. “Instead of blanching for a minute and cooking it, I want to cure it with the lime juice in the tiger’s milk, but I don’t want it to have too much acid.”

deft BaLance Caicedo garnishes the dish with micro-cilantro from R. Pontano Produce in Lake Worth and homemade plantain chips, which provide a crunchy, salty sidekick to the sweet and citrusy tiger’s milk. “That

sweetness comes from the ketchup and mayo; it balances all the flavors and pulls them together,” he says cracking a half smile, before asking, “Good? This batch is going to Stephen Starr’s corporate chef so he can decide if we want to add it to the menu permanently or keep it as a special.” Off menu or not, it’s a dish that’s special in every way. 2100 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 786-618-3210; youngarts.org/teds OD

Homemade plantain chips provide a crunchy, salty counterpoint to the finished ceviche.

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Caicedo in the dining room at Ted’s. above right: The dish is garnished with cilantro from R. Pontano Produce in Lake Worth.

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Padma Lakshmi at Veuve Clicquot’s Carnaval brunch at the Thompson Miami Beach. Dress, Emilio Pucci.

Veuve Clicquot brought the spirit of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval to Miami for a poolside extravaganza at the Thompson Miami Beach, where Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi was one of several notable women to attend the Champagne fête. It was a tropical scene bursting with color and the sound of corks popping as ornately dressed samba dancers put on a show among the crowd. Lakshmi sipped Champagne out of the brand’s trademark-yellow flutes and mingled with other guests at the cabanas by the pool, including singer Solange Knowles and model Emily Ratajkowski, for the Brazilianthemed brunch. Lakshmi wore a leg-baring Pucci maxi dress of swirling colors, a nod to the vivacious atmosphere. With her hair tied back in a simple ponytail and wearing minimal accessories, the former model looked breezily cool. While the 12th season of Bravo’s Top Chef recently finished airing, Lakshmi has been spending her time raising her daughter and speaking out about endometriosis, a disease from which she suffers. No doubt her jaunt through the Magic City provided welcome relaxation.

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Rebekah Keida, Joe Jonas, and DJ Ruckus at LIV at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

John Richard, Harry Connick Jr., and Lynn Richard at Connick’s performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Atrak and Scottie Pippen at LIV at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

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HUGE NAMES IN MUSIC partied at LIV one Sunday, including

DJ Ruckus and Joe Jonas, who also managed to catch a Heat vs. Knicks game while in town. In other pockets of the Beach, R&B artist Miguel chilled at FDR at the Delano with girlfriend Nazanin Mandi, Ellie Goulding got pumped at Barry’s Bootcamp, and Solange Knowles displayed effortless chic at the Thompson Miami Beach. Covering the spectrum of music genres, Harry Connick Jr. returned to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts for the second time, delighting fans with a collection of his hits.

Reid Heidenry, Nina Agdal, and DJ Irie at the LeSutra Model Beach Volleyball 2015 presented by Wildfox.

Miguel and Nazanin Mandi at FDR at the Delano.

Omar Miller and Ismael Garcia at the LeSutra Model Beach Volleyball 2015 presented by Wildfox.

Nick D’Annunzio, Mike Daniels, and Ryan Phillippe at FDR at the Delano. Ellie Goulding at her class takeover at Barry’s Bootcamp Miami Beach.

Andy Cohen and Jon Jay at the fourth annual Jon Jay FMSbonds Celebrity Bowling Challenge benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade.

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Jamie Chung, Solange Knowles, and Emily Ratajkowski at the Veuve Clicquot Carnaval at the Thompson Miami Beach.

Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg at E11even Miami’s one-year anniversary.

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Louis Birdman, Gregg Covin, Harvey Birdman, and Harvey Daniels at One Thousand Museum’s evening of award-winning live music.

Bruce Weber, Charles “Lil Buck” Riley, and Paul Lehr at the YoungArts Salon Series with Riley.

David Grutman and Mark Roberts at the one-year anniversary of E11even Miami presented by World Red Eye.

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year round, fitness is always a priority. Thanks to Gabrielle Anwar’s Gangsta Yoga event and LeSutra Model Beach Volleyball by Wildfox, Miami’s hottest denizens got to be social while working out. They strengthened their cultural minds, too, at the YoungArts Salon Series and One Thousand Museum’s night of live music.

Alicia and Mike Piazza at their National Italian American Foundation event at their home.

Matt Chevallard and Chandler Parsons at the Del Toro X Chandler Parsons Limited Edition launch at The Webster.

Keith Menin, Daniela Swaebe, and Michael Comras at the Lionheart Capital VanDutch pop-up showroom to kick off the Miami International Boat Show.

Eliana Michaelichen and Lorenzo Martone at The Brazil Foundation Gala event.

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Shareef Malnik and Gabrielle Anwar at Anwar’s Gangsta Yoga event at Anatomy at 1220.

Mick Jones and Carlos Cruz at Seaspice.

Mitchell Gold, Alicia Dahill, and Tim Gold at the Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams grand opening in the Miami Design District.

Julian Machann, Jena Skrzypek, Jessica Soler, Jessica Klaas, Andrea Cronberg, and Elizabeth Zayas at the LeSutra Model Beach Volleyball 2015 presented by Wildfox.

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Jacques Azoulay and Pierrick Bouquet at La Nuit En Rose Festival at The Edition Miami Beach.

Donald and Mera Rubell and Vicente Todolí at the PAMM opening of “Tàpies: From Within.”

Irene Pariserband, Stephen Brunelle, and Katharine Rubino at the fourth annual Wine, Women & Shoes presented by Sergio Rossi at the JW Marriott Marquis.

Alexa Wolman and Lesley Griffith at the Small Tea grand opening.

Greta Jimenez and Alex Mijares at the American Social Brickell launch. Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Susanne Birbragher at Glamsquad’s Miami launch at the Mondrian South Beach.

Silvia Karman Cubiñá and Eduardo Marturet at the third annual MISO@thebass Concert at Collins Park.

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Sam Robin, Kristin Ducote, and Iran Issa-Khan at the fourth annual Wine, Women & Shoes presented by Sergio Rossi at the JW Marriott Marquis.

Ines Rivero and Mica de la Cruz at the Intermix Bal Harbour reopening.

Maria Gomez, Ye Hongxing, and Lexing Zhang at Art Lexing Presents “The Dazzling World of Ye Hongxing.”

Julio and Belkys Nerey and Demetri Mouratis at Ball & Chain.

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Debra Koch, Marc Buoniconti, and Jonathan Buckner at The Brazil Foundation Gala.

George Crowley and Toby Lerner Ansin at Miami City Ballet’s Artist’s Circle Meet & Greet.

Jeff Berkowitz, Craig Robins, Debra Scholl, and Aaron Podhurst at the Miami Design District cocktail reception with the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Brian Elias, Philip Levine, and Andres Asion at the Miami Children’s Health Foundation fundraiser hosted by Asion at La Piaggia.

Susannah Shubin and Jennifer Valoppi at the Miami City Ballet luncheon at The Setai.

Alicia Cervera and Jim Hitchcock at the Cervera Top Producer Club recognition at Tamarina Restaurant.

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Tina Carlo and Lisa HeidenKoffler at the Tui Lifestyle Design District grand opening.

Jessica GoldmanSrebnick and Ana Barlick at the Miami City Ballet 2015 Gala.

Jenny Zalkin, Dina Friedman, and Courtney Crown at the DCOTA 2015 Winter Market and Stars of Design and Stars on the Rise ceremony.

Jhon Jairo Santos and Angeles Almuna at the Ted Baker London Miami Beach grand opening.

Dan and Lynne Golob Gelfman and Carlos Rosso at the opening night of Diego Bianchi’s “WasteAfterWaste” installation at PAMM.

Sean Drake and Michelle Leshem at Epcot Miami, Episode III.

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Kevin Spacey, Adrienne Arsht, and Tony Bennett at Bennett’s performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Michael Tilson Thomas and Sylvia Weinstock at the New World Symphony Gala celebrating Tilson Thomas’s 70th birthday.

Lourdes Lopez at the Miami City Ballet Gala at Soho Studios.

Masaharu Morimoto at the Amstel Light Burger Bash presented by Schweid & Sons and hosted by Rachael Ray at the Food Network & Cooking Channel SOBE WFF.

Al Roker at the Amstel Light Burger Bash presented by Schweid & Sons and hosted by Rachael Ray at SOBE WFF. Kazuo Yoshida and Michelle Bernstein at La Fonda at the Marlin Hotel.

Bronwyn Miller at Gala in the Garden at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

Frances Sevilla-Sacasa, Martina Navratilova, and Julia Lemigova at Gala in the Garden at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

Emilio and Gloria Estefan at the New World Symphony Gala celebrating Michael Tilson Thomas’s 70th birthday.

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stars showed their love for the arts. At the New World Symphony Gala, powerhouses Emilio and Gloria Estefan celebrated conductor Michael Tilson Thomas’s birthday, while at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Kevin Spacey attended legendary crooner

Tony Bennett’s concert. Over on the sand, attendees of the Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival got a mouthful from some of the industry’s most highprofile chefs and culinary connoisseurs, including Masaharu Morimoto and Al Roker at the Amstel Light Burger Bash.

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SHOT ON SITE Photography by Manny Hernandez Rian Maercks at the Pawpurrazzi On Camera Safari at Jungle Island to benefit the Humane Society of Greater Miami.

Steven and Dorothea Green with Hellô Campos and Sidney Taurel at the Vacheron Constantin PAMM dinner.

Mayor Tomás Regalado, Duaiv, and Raquel Regalado at the 52nd Coconut Grove Arts Festival breakfast at The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove.

Christian and Melody de la Fe at the Pawpurrazzi On Camera Safari at Jungle Island to benefit the Humane Society of Greater Miami.

Andres Garcia Jr. and Lady Monica Hefler at the Jackson Memorial Foundation Golden Angels Gala at Soho Studios.

Michael Grieco and Christine Klingspor at the fourth annual Wine, Women & Shoes luncheon at the JW Marriott Marquis to benefit Miami Children’s Hospital.

Leanna Rinaldi, Rachel Sparreo, Lexie Overholt, and Ellen Grocki at the Miami City Ballet gala at Soho Studios.

Ana Mari Ortega and Luly Valls at the Pawpurrazzi On Camera Safari at Jungle Island to benefit the Humane Society of Greater Miami.

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Giancarlo at the bat With a recently signed $325 million contract, the Marlins’ Giancarlo Stanton is not only the new face of baseball, he’s its new attitude. by jon warech photography by randall slavin

People around the world know the names of America’s highest-paid athletes. Names like Kobe Bryant, Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Tiger Woods roll off the tongue because these superstars not only dominate their respective sports, they also rule the gossip pages and water cooler chatter. Then, this past November, Giancarlo Stanton signed a 13-year, $325 million contract with the Miami Marlins, surpassing Rodriguez’s deal as the largest in both length and value in baseball history, and sports fans were left speechless. Stanton is not just a man of mystery when it comes to his personal life; it wasn’t too long ago that even the most educated baseball fan was unsure of his actual name. From the fifth grade until 2012, the 25-year-old slugger was known as Mike Stanton because, well, it was just easier. “I always liked Giancarlo better, but when I was a kid, no one pronounced it right,” says Stanton, whose full name for the record is Giancarlo Cruz Michael Stanton. “So I was like, you know, my middle name is Mike, call me Mike. That was my thought process. People call me everything still. My mom calls me Cruz. My dad calls me Mike. It doesn’t really matter to me.” In an industry dominated by egos, Stanton’s shrug of the shoulders with regard to his name is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to his unusual modesty. The two-time all-star led Major League Baseball’s National League in home runs last year; at the Home Run Derby during All Star Weekend, he

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hit one so far out of Minneapolis’s Target Field, it seemed like it might go into orbit. Yet, if you ask him if he’s the new face of the “long ball,” he says, “I don’t self-proclaim myself anything, so I’m not going to sit here and say I’m the face of power in baseball. Other people can say that.” The Los Angeles native won’t even say he was the best athlete at Notre Dame High School, the private school in Sherman Oaks, California, where he transferred to take his career to the next level. “There were a lot of good players there,” he says. “I would say I fit right in pretty well. It was a good challenge for me to step up my own game.” And step up he has—after being drafted in 2007 in the second round to

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“I’m not going to sit here and say I’m the face of power in baseball. Other people can say that.” the Marlins, Stanton has risen in the ranks to warrant a deal worth a third of a billion dollars. And not only did he not pat himself on the back, he barely wanted to celebrate—further proof that unlike many other marquee professional athletes, Stanton won’t be making headlines outside the sports pages. “I can’t tell you a certain tactic, really, but I like it that way,” he says of his low-key lifestyle. But this is South Beach, and the locals weren’t going to stand for a feat without a fête. That’s why after signing the contract of the century, a party was thrown in his honor at FDR at The Delano with a special-edition bottle of Moët Nectar Impérial Rosé Leopard Luxury Edition Methuselah. “Like you said about staying out of the gossip pages, that night wasn’t that,” Stanton admits. “I didn’t want that to be a huge night, but I had my friends around me, and they didn’t let it be as chill as I wanted it to be. I look back now and I’m glad that I could at least have fun and enjoy it. I was pressing a little bit. I didn’t know how to react to [the contract]. I’m glad I stepped out and had my fun and got that out of the way.” He’s modest, but Stanton is certainly not shy. In 2013, he posed in the nude for ESPN The Magazine’s annual Body Issue, a move that put both his outer muscles and inner strength on display. “I had zero clothes the whole time, so I had to get over that speed bump in the first five minutes,” he says. “I knew if I was going to be worried about it the whole time that it was going to be a long day, so I just let it happen.” Stanton also recently judged the Miss Universe pageant, a perk of his newfound fame and fortune. But instead of ogling the talent, he observed and studied them. “I enjoyed understanding pageants and learning what you need to look for,” he says.

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And when Miss Netherlands seemed flustered by his charm, he didn’t flinch. “I would say it was more the language barrier than [being] star-struck,” he says of their interaction. It’s the kind of attitude that will keep Stanton from ever becoming too “Hollywood.” He’s more likely to be lying on the beach at Key Biscayne than partying on South Beach, and in the off-season, when he’s home in Los Angeles, he avoids the Tinseltown scene almost entirely. “Living in LA, it does stay relatively quiet,” he says of his social life. “Hollywood is right there, but that ‘Hollywood’ label is not always the best label to have anyway, so you find the hybrid of whatever you want to be.” The Stanton mantra to observe from afar while “learning what you need to look for” applies to his own life as well, and he’s confident the right girl will win there, too. Who knows, maybe that groundedness may one day turn a Miss Universe into a Mrs. Stanton. “You see some of the players with their families and kids in the clubhouse, and it’s really cool to watch their development,” he says. “So, yeah, I definitely want a family. The future family, the future wife could be anywhere. You don’t necessarily go searching for it on all these match.coms and stuff, but she’ll come. I’m not worried about it.” For now, Stanton’s focus is on baseball and turning the Miami Marlins into champions once again—a tall task for the right fielder, who says the contract doesn’t add pressure but does enhance the need for success. “There’s no one that’s more critical or has higher expectations than I do,” he says. “I’m not worried about living up to those expectations. I want the attention to be on the performance on the field and hopefully see some successes rather than just being labeled Mr. Contract.” The skeptical Marlins fan would see that Stanton’s 13-year deal is heavily backloaded with only $30 million coming over the next three seasons, and think the Marlins are up to something. The team made big promises just a few years back, spending $200 million on free agents

“There’s no one that’s more critical or has higher expectations than I do.” to create buzz around the new Marlins Park, before dumping $236 million in salaries via trade less than a year later. One of the biggest critics was Stanton, who is now singing a different tune. “Anytime you get a knee-jerk reaction, something big happens like that, everyone is going to be critical,” he says. “I was as well. It’s just something that took a couple of years to pan out. In 2012, fans were thrown back, they didn’t understand; they see now that it took a couple of years to reinvent that.” In fact, the young guys who stepped in after those trades are a big reason why Stanton committed to the Marlins moving forward. “The young core group of guys that we have—no one knows how good they are just yet because they’re just coming up,” he says. “Being able to play with them, being in the same locker room and seeing their development, it’s something that I want to be a part of, and I look forward to breaking through with these guys.” This Stanton-led team will not only be trying to win games, they’ll also be winning back a fan base. As Stanton says, it starts with commitment on his part, which is why he won’t be opting out of his contract and heading to bigger-name teams, like the Yankees or Red Sox, anytime soon. “There’s a lot of negativity that people will want to instinctively react to when they hear my team name, but that’s why I committed here—to change that and bring a positive vibe to Miami and our franchise,” he says. “Changing that wouldn’t mean leaving in three years. It’s a long process. It’s what we need.” So Stanton is in it for the long haul, and at age 25, he’s thrust into a leadership role not only within the team (where, he says, “Guys are going to struggle at times and need a little guidance. That’s what I’m here for”), but throughout Major League Baseball as a whole. This is the dawn of a new

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“I love living in Miami more than LA. It’s the perfect place to be.” era, a post-steroids generation, where, whether he admits it or not, Stanton is the new face of power. “It’s not like my power has changed from when I was in the minors to now, so there’s nothing to debate on that,” he says to those who would see his home runs hit the upper deck and assume foul play. He even has a strong stance on players who did cheat their way through the generation before. “If it’s confirmed that they did it, they shouldn’t be allowed in [the Hall of Fame],” he says of steroid users. “None of those guys got fined or anything, so really they got away with all of that. The one thing that should stop them is the Hall. That’s my view on it.” Over the course of the next 13 years, Stanton will do his best to carve out his own Hall of Fame career. For now, it’s all bat, ball, and hard work. It’s why South Beach is reserved for special occasions, the gossip pages will have to find another target, and Mrs. Right will come a-knockin’ when he’s ready. It’s part of the Stanton way of life that includes the Miami skyline and Biscayne Bay views from his downtown condo, haircuts at Headz Up barbers in Miami Lakes, and meals at Prime 112. “There’s always something to do here,” he says of Miami. “If you’re not going to be on the beach, hanging, there’s some great places to eat, a downtown area, a beautiful art district. You can go inland to the Everglades and visit wildlife sanctuaries. The whole vacation vibe is the best part about it. Everyone is really friendly and having a good time. I love living in Miami more than LA. It’s the perfect place to be.” Oh, and about that $325 million contract? “I’m working on my parents’ houses first,” he says. “I don’t need to necessarily gift myself right away. I’ll be fine.” Call him Giancarlo. Call him Mike. Call him whatever you’d like. For Stanton, it’s the name on the front of the uniform that matters most. The team-first mentality is the Stanton way of life, and it’s here to stay. OD

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on jessica: Orchid print silk jacquard dress, Fendi ($2,650). Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., 305-861-7114; fendi.com. Russian gold twist rope drop earrings ($150) and Aliah sandals ($1,090), Oscar de la Renta. Bal Harbour Shops, 305-868-7986; oscardelarenta.com. Milkyway bracelet, Lele Sadoughi ($285). Mayda Cisneros, 4102 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, 305-448-5848; maydacisneros.com. on lucas: Peak lapel tuxedo ($3,580), evening shirt ($790), and interlace Richelieu shoes ($1,350), Louis Vuitton. Miami Design District, 170 NE 40th St., 305-573-1366; louisvuitton .com. Bow tie, Tom Ford ($250). Neiman Marcus, Village of Merrick Park, 358 San Lorenzo Ave., Coral Gables, 786-999-1000; neimanmarcus.com. on gui: Smoking Soho tuxedo ($3,575) and evening shirt ($475), Giorgio Armani. Miami Design District, 174 NE 39th St., 786-501-7215; armani.com. Greggo flat oxfords (in hand), Christian Louboutin ($945). Miami Design District, 155 NE 40th St., 305-576-6820; christianlouboutin.com

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shirt ($475), Giorgio Armani. Miami Design District, 174 NE 39th St., 786-501-7215; armani.com. Greggo flat oxfords (in hand), Christian Louboutin ($945). Miami Design District, 155 NE 40th St., 305-5766820; christianlouboutin.com. on lucas: Peak lapel tuxedo ($3,580), evening shirt ($790), and interlace Richelieu shoes ($1,350), Louis Vuitton. Miami Design District, 170 NE 40th St., 305-573-1366; louisvuitton.com. Bow tie, Tom Ford ($250). Neiman Marcus, Village of Merrick Park, 358 San Lorenzo Ave., Coral Gables, 786-999-1000; neimanmarcus .com. on jessica: Black crepe belted swimsuit, Michael Kors ($396). Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., 305-864-4144; michaelkors.com. Postmodern cuff, Lizzie Fortunato ($205). Neiman Marcus, see above. Regina sandals, Charline De Luca ($750). Saks Fifth Avenue, Bal Harbour Shops, 305-865-1100; saks.com

Amy dress, Tanya Taylor ($1,050). Saks Fifth Avenue, Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., 305-865-1100; saks.com. Arm band (worn as bracelet), Jennifer Fisher (price on request). Barneys New York, 832 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-421-2010; barneys.com. Hercules sandals, Paul Andrew ($945). Capretto, 5822 Sunset Dr., South Miami, 305-661-7767; caprettoshoes.com beauty: Dior Diorskin Nude in Medium Beige ($50), Diorskin Nude Tan Matte in Matte Cinnamon ($52), Dior Addict It-Line in It-Black ($32), Dior Addict It-Lash Mascara in It-Black ($28), Cheek & Lip Glow ($37), Rouge Dior Baume in Primerose ($35), and Rouge Dior in Trafalgar ($35). Neiman Marcus, Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., 305-865-6161; neimanmarcus.com. Nars Illuminator in Orgasm ($30), Blush in Orgasm ($30), and Audacious Lipstick in Carmen and Lana ($32 each). Neiman Marcus, see above. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A 10 Hair Care Miracle Finishing Spray ($20), Miracle Styling Potion ($20), and Miracle Shine Spray ($20). Rickyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 536 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, 305-674-8511; rickysnyc.com

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Lou La Vie founder John Temerian behind the wheel of his 700-horsepower Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4, in front of The James Royal Palm.

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John Temerian: Founder, Lou La Vie

as founder of exotic car rental company Lou La Vie, John Temerian is living life in the fast lane, providing the world’s elite with the ride of a lifetime, right here in miami. Justin Bieber’s notorious January 2014 Lamborghini joyride? Thank Lou La Vie. rick ross, Jason Derulo, The Game, ace hood, and Deadmau5 are all clients. if you want to cruise around town in a $500K Lamborghini or one-of-a-kind Ferrari, Temerian holds the keys. Who are you hooking up with exotic rides?

Ceos, entrepreneurs, celebrities, and icons have come into our showroom; by building on the relationships of my family, friends, and colleagues, i have been able to amass an amazing rolodex of who’s who. What mix of personality versus business savvy does it take to do your job? my passion is the main reason

why i have been able to achieve my greatest goals. First and foremost, i am a car nerd. i have an encyclopedia-like knowledge of postwar european sports cars, and i love meeting new people. What’s a typical workday like for you? i am on the phone from 9 am to 6 pm, buying and selling Lou La Vie fleet vehicles, planning events, marketing campaigns, or networking. in between machine-gunlike text messaging and conference calls, i try to get behind the wheel of our cars. i find that the quality, maintenance, and condition of our fleet vehicles are so important. having grown up working on cars, i like to check everything myself. What’s a “connection” you’ve made recently that you’re most proud of? our

partnership with Formula one driver Felipe massa and our association with [italian car design firm] Pininfarina have been two of the most exciting connections i have made. What’s the craziest thing someone has asked for? We imported the last production Ferrari enzo [only 400 were ever made] in the world from milan last year. Clients and friends ask [us] about everything from nightclubs, hotels, investments, watches…. it is really quite amazing. 1444 Biscayne Blvd., Ste. 113, Miami, 305-974-1914; loulavie.com

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ALFREDO J. GONZALEZ: Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Alfredo Gonzalez at The James Royal Palm, one of the many properties in Miami he’s had a hand in shaping.

Land development and government lawyer Alfredo J. Gonzalez is the go-to guy in Miami when developers are building a new hotel or residential community. The permits, the boards, the neighbors—he deals with them all. A master of navigating Miami real estate regulations, he’s wined and dined by some of the most important players in town, often brokering that all-important compromise. Your job starts from a project’s very beginning, but never really ends. While a lot of my work is

on the front end, getting the project approved and guiding them through permitting issues during construction, once they open I’m still involved in getting special permits or dealing with overcrowding or noise issues. [Before] the Thompson Hotel could open, I took them through their conditional use permit, and we were able to [open] Seagrape, the secondary restaurant, their outdoor pool venue, the [1930s House] bar, and their inside club. On all those components, we have to work with the board to get the authority to have the venues. Does that make this an around-theclock job? You have to become accessible. The problems don’t occur Monday though Friday during business hours. One time, under the former owners of The Raleigh hotel, the general manager called me at home on a Sunday, back when they had a lot of problems with noise violations, and said, “I need you to come to the hotel tonight.” I ended up spending part of the evening down there to make sure [that] if code compliance showed, they wouldn’t be in violation. What’s a “connection” you’ve made recently that you’re most proud of? The projects that continue to

evolve Miami Beach into a world-class city, including the Thompson Hotel, One Ocean, The James Royal Palm, and the ongoing redevelopment of the iconic Shore Club. One I am particularly proud of is 321 Ocean, a project by renowned architect Enrique Norten. The former hotel on the site consistently had the most annual calls to the police, and today the location, almost completed, is a world-class condominium. It sounds like a rewarding job. To take a blighted site and watch it become one of our crown jewels of Miami Beach after dealing with the city, the neighbors, the boards, the structural realities, it’s the type of law practice that does give you a lot of satisfaction because you see the impact that you’re having. I get to admire all the connections I have helped facilitate as I drive throughout Miami Beach. 333 SE Second Ave., Ste. 4400, Miami, 305-579-0500; gtlaw.com

“To take a blighted site and watch it become one of our crown jewels of Miami Beach does give you a lot of satisfaction.”—ALFREDO GONZALEZ

YOUR BEST FRIEND

JIMMY VARGAS: Vice President of Marketing, MMG-SFX Nightlife

As part of the elite company that operates LIV at the Fontainebleau and Sun Life Stadium, as well as Story, Jimmy Vargas can get you beyond the velvet ropes, but his connections are what make the brand the best in the business. Tables at his venues (depending on the night) can go for anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000, and while there’s probably no such access that money can’t buy, it’s always good to know Jimmy. Beyond throwing some of the world’s best parties, how do you market your nightclubs on a global scale? The best way to reach a

global audience is through the Internet and social media marketing. We put a lot of emphasis on creating unique content, such as our ESPN spoof of the LIV headquarters, which brings the DJ out of his element with a scripted video piece. We had Michael Bay work on a promo for Cedric Gervais, which definitely had people talking. And you’ve used the power of the LIV name at events around the country? Bigger festivals and calendar events, like All-Star weekend and the Super Bowl, where the brand makes the most sense, that’s where we’ll be. Recently the producers of TomorrowWorld were looking for the right team to run their VIP Skylofts, so we packed our bags and hit the road to Atlanta. We re-created the LIV experience in the hills of Chattahoochee where we had VIPs helicoptered in and transported in custom LIV golf carts to the best seat in the house. What’s the craziest thing someone has asked for? Things happen every day around here, but an old memory that stands out was when we were asked to help pull off Joaquin Phoenix’s debut performance as a hip-hop artist. It turned into quite a spectacle with him vomiting before he went onstage and then jumping into the crowd to fight with a heckler. We pulled off the performance, but I haven’t seen him at LIV on Sunday, so maybe his hip-hop cred never took off. What makes Miami the perfect city for your job? Miami is a gateway for so many cities in the world; then, once you’re here, the mind-set is very much about having a good time and letting loose. What people don’t realize, though, is all the work that it takes during the day to make the night fun. But we have a strong team that are amazing at what they do, so I just make sure all the pieces fit the puzzle. 305-5347101; miami-mg.com

“What people don’t realize is all the work that it takes during the day to make the night fun.”—JIMMY VARGAS

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CHANTEL CHRISTOPHER: CEO, Flip Flop Management

Need playoff tickets? How about a star running back to attend your charity event? As the CEO of Flip Flop Management, Chantel Christopher’s list of VIP contacts in the sports and entertainment world reads like an all-star team, making her the go-to person in town for connecting athletes and entertainers with marketing, promotional, and charity opportunities. Look closely at the person standing next to some of Miami’s premier talents—it’s probably Chantel. You’ve worked with everyone from Heat star Dwyane Wade and actress Gabrielle Union to retired NFL stars Jim Brown and Marshall Faulk. What type of personality does it take to do your job? People want to deal with

someone who is cool and who understands who they are and their needs, but they also need someone who is business savvy to get things done. What’s the difference between working with athletes and entertainers?

Athletes are hungrier; they’re not asking for the dollar sign first—they’re trying to get their name out there. If they need to do an appearance for 45 minutes for $1,500, they’ll do it because their face is going to be out there. An entertainer will be like, “Forty five minutes? That will be $10,000.” Why is Miami good for business? When I got here, I started working with Drama Sports. They dealt with nearly every athlete who came through Miami, and I realized this was the sports hub. I fell in love with the city—the weather, the people—and it made it easy for work. When I was doing a football camp or a charity golf tournament, it was just easy to get the athletes here. No one turns down coming to Miami. What’s a “connection” you’ve made recently that you are most proud of? Recently a friend of mine

built a gym in Midtown, and he was looking for someone who does graffiti art. I told him to go look at a friend’s Instagram, and he hit me right back and said, “Can you get him?” Long story short, I connected them and they made magic happen. What’s the craziest thing someone has asked for?

One of my clients wanted a zebra and monkeys at their event. Did they get what they wanted? Why, yes, they did. flipflop management.com

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“No one turns down coming to Miami.” — chantel christopher Chantel Christopher taking a call at LIV.

THE GAME CHANGER

LESLIE WOLFSON: CEO, Connect The Dots

A Miami native, Leslie Wolfson has been connecting people for more than 20 years— first in fashion and retail, then in publishing, and now with her business development and strategic partnerships company Connect The Dots, where she’s making things happen for lifestyle, technology, and real estate companies on a national scale. Part consultant, part adviser, full-time team player and partner, Wolfson is currently advising everyone from burgeoning tech giants Rokk3r Labs to hot products like the Miami Cocktail Company. What’s a typical workday like for you? I have

never had a typical day, whether [it’s] a conference call with a real estate investor in the Middle East or working on creating strategic partnerships for University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center or helping someone get a table at Prime 112. You spent time in New York but moved back to Miami in 2012 to start your company—why? It was just a natural

progression for me to be here. I never would have pulled off what I pulled off so quickly if I had stayed in New York. I came back to Miami, and I had five clients within a month. I was doing everything nontraditionally, which is how I built my career. I didn’t have a business plan, and I just took everything that felt right and only with people I liked. What’s a “connection” you’ve made recently that you are most proud of? I attended a conference in Dublin

with my client Realconnex.com and received a call from Google asking us to come present the platform to their marketing team to be included in an amazing opportunity that only 40 companies a year are chosen for. From the initial phone call to being in Google’s inspirational offices presenting to their team, I will always remember this connection. What’s the craziest thing someone has asked for? A friend at Elle Decor called me in a

Leslie Wolfson shot on location at The James Royal Palm.

panic because their Modern Life Concept House location for Art Basel 2013 fell through four months before the opening and she needed a perfect location—fast. I found them a $16.5 million house on Sunset Islands in 24 hours, and it ended up being the most successful show house Elle Decor had on record. The Wynwood Building, 2750 NW Third Ave., Ste. 14, Miami OD

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I N T H E E Y E of T H E S T O R M The world’s growing population and the impact of the changing climate are putting nature’s ability to provide for all of us at risk. Are we paying enough attention to this looming threat?

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When you see the abundance of food at the local supermarket—the bins of fruits and vegetables, the seafood on ice, the water bottles on the shelves—you may not always think about where it all comes from or what would happen if nature could no longer provide for us. Currently there are 7.3 billion people on the planet. According to a report by the United Nations, the world’s population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by the year 2050. Global demand for food, water, and energy is predicted to increase by 35 percent, 40 percent, and 50 percent, respectively, by 2030. This will further test nature’s ability to provide for us, as will the expanding middle class around the world. The unprecedented consumption of critical natural resources poses enormous challenges for the entire planet. Some countries are already feeling the effects with depleted fisheries and diminished food stocks resulting from the inability of agricultural production to keep pace with demand. In recent years, more food was consumed around the world than was produced. The changing climate compounds these trends, as the increasing number and severity of storms (like Hurricane Sandy, which battered the East Coast in 2012), floods, and droughts threaten global food and water supplies. Competition for increasingly scarce resources can lead to social and political instability, conflict, radicalization, and possibly even failed nations. According to the US National Intelligence Council, “[resource] scarcities are likely to hit hardest on poorer states, leading in the worst case to internal or interstate conflict and spillover to regional destabilization.” Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, the country’s premier foreign-policy think tank, agrees. “Resources are linked to both the stability of countries and to the stability of regions,” he says. Resource shortages and competition need to be on “the list of possible sources of friction or conflict” and are “potentially a contributing cause of instability within countries and conceivably a source of instability between countries.” But resource scarcity is not just a problem for other countries; it is also a threat to the United States’ economic interests and national security.

is there hope? Given the stress on nature’s ability to provide for the growing population due to increasing demand and the serious impacts of the changing climate, are we doomed, or is there still hope? According to Peter Seligmann, a leading conservationist and the founder, chairman, and CEO of Conservation International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting nature for the well-being of people, there is reason to be hopeful. “Many governments,

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businesses, and local communities are realizing the importance of nature to the global economy, livelihoods, and security,” he says. “They are not standing on the sidelines watching as nature is depleted. They are engaging and taking actions to ensure nature is sustainable.” Seligmann cites what might seem like an unlikely example, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, which is leading the charge for sustainability among corporations with its three goals: to sell products that sustain both people and the environment, to create zero waste, and to run on 100 percent renewable energy. Due to its vast size, Walmart can have a significant impact on sustainability up and down its supply chain. “Walmart executives see that their supplies of fish and food depend upon the health of ecosystems,” Seligmann explains, “and they see that ecosystems are being stressed out by shifts in climate. That affects their supply. They’re thinking long-term.” According to Rob Walton, the company’s chairman and the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, “For Walmart, it’s about our responsibility as a business, but partly about how many of our sustainability efforts allow us to be more efficient and to continue to pass those savings on to our customers.” Ensuring a sustainable supply chain so that its shelves are always fully stocked is critical to the company’s business. If you’ve noticed a difference in the size of laundry detergent bottles in the last decade, you have Walmart to thank. The company has single-handedly driven the industry to embrace more eco-friendly packaging. And at Walmart’s 2014 Sustainability Product Expo, it introduced an initiative challenging manufacturers to reduce by 25 percent the amount of water in every dose of detergent in North America by 2018. Also announced at the Expo was a new initiative to increase recycling rates in the US by providing low-interest loans to municipalities for recycling projects. Increasingly, companies—including Disney, Starbucks, and Marriott—are realizing that environmental sustainability is not only in their economic self-interest; it is also in the interest of their customers and the communities in which they operate. For example, The Walt Disney Company is implementing major changes designed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, improve its energy efficiency, reduce its water consumption, minimize waste, protect natural ecosystems, and inspire action on environmental health. The company is also funding a flagship project in the Peruvian Amazon to address the main causes of deforestation. Many are aware of Whole Foods’ eco-friendly policies, which include supporting sustainable agriculture and sound environmental practices. The company has also designed Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design [LEED]-certified stores

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ake a look around and it becomes clear that nearly everything surrounding us—the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the butcher-block table in your kitchen, the paper used for this magazine—comes from nature. The simple truth is that humanity cannot survive without nature: for our food, fresh water, lifesaving medicines, and so much more.

The unprecedented consumption of natural resources

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“Protecting nature is not an option— it is essential for the well-being of people.

it is not someone else’s problem. We are all in this together.”

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and initiated recycling programs, and it offsets 100 percent of its energy consumption with renewable-energy credits. And through its sustainable coffee-sourcing program, known as CAFE (Coffee and Farmer Equity) Practices, Starbucks is maintaining the quality of its brews while encouraging higher environmental, social, and economic standards. The initiative has had a significant impact on forest conservation and coffeefarming communities, and the company is expected to meet its goal of serving 100 percent ethically sourced coffee this year. (See sidebar for other eco-conscious companies.)

how is the changing climate affecting us now? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international body that reviews scientific research on the changing climate, stated in a recent report that it is “unequivocal” that the global climate is warming: “The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen.” The IPCC notes that concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased and projects that if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continues, the climate and oceans will continue to warm during the 21st century. That could result in sea levels rising anywhere from 21 inches to three feet by 2100, endangering cities worldwide, from New York and Miami to London and Sydney. Coastal flooding and erosion are expected to increase with rising sea levels. The panel also found evidence that human health, agriculture, water supplies, and in some cases people’s livelihoods have already been impacted by climate change. Increased acidification of the oceans (from the absorption of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere) has harmed marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs and fisheries, potentially threatening our food security. The IPCC predicts climate change is projected to impact the availability of fresh water and increase water scarcity, which could result in competition for the resource. The production of crops like wheat and rice is also projected to be negatively impacted by the changing climate. Risks to human health may also rise due to stronger heat waves, decreased food production, and a greater prevalence of disease, according to the panel. One place that is already feeling the impact of the changing climate is the remote nation of Kiribati, which sits just a few feet above sea level in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, more than 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. Kiribati is composed of 33 tiny islands and has a population of just over 100,000. If sea levels continue to rise, this republic, which is directly in the eye of the storm, could literally be swallowed up by the sea. According to the country’s president, Anote Tong, rising tides have damaged property and infrastructure, and sea water is intruding on freshwater plants and damaging food crops. “The future is a very real concern,” he says. “My grandchildren will have a very difficult future. We really have to do a lot of work. We need resources to be able to build up the islands in order to be resilient to the impacts that will come in the future.” Although people living thousands of miles from Kiribati may not yet feel the effects of climate change directly, eventually they will, Tong adds, and the world should act now, before it’s too late. “It is better not to look back and say, ‘Oh no, we should have done something,’” says Tong. He sees this issue as “the most serious moral challenge for humanity,” adding that “humanity will, at some point in time, see the need and the obligation to respond to what is happening. If it’s later, we will go down the drain, but hopefully it will be a lesson. I hope that lesson is well learned to ensure that whatever further damage would be caused will not happen.” Here at home, the third National Climate Assessment, published last year, reports that people across the United States—from corn growers in Iowa to oyster farmers in Washington State—are already feeling the impact of our changing climate, and that impact is growing. The first decade of the 21st century was the world’s hottest on record, and 2012 was the warmest year recorded in the continental United States. According to the report, temperatures in most areas of the country are expected to rise by as much as four degrees Fahrenheit in the coming decades, which threatens US agricultural production, worth about $330 billion annually. The US defense and intelligence communities are increasingly focusing on the impact of climate change on resource scarcity, food security, and stability within and among nations. The US Department of Defense’s 2014 Quadrennial Defense

Making a

Difference

These global brands are leading the way in environmentally responsible practices.

Chipotle Mexican Grill has made a commitment to “Food with Integrity” by serving organic, locally grown, and familyfarmed foods. The company has also pledged to offer sustainably produced food and dairy products without synthetic hormones. The Coca-Cola Company is working to achieve its 2020 environmental goals, which include improving water efficiency by 25 percent, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent, raising the recovery rate of its cans and bottles to 75 percent in developed markets, and sustainably sourcing key ingredients. The company has also participated in hundreds of Community Water Partnership projects, providing access to safe water in countries around the world. Hewlett-Packard, through its Living Progress program, employs its technological expertise to help build a sustainable world. As part of the program, the Earth Insights project uses a groundbreaking early-warning system that allows scientists to monitor endangered species in tropical ecosystems in almost real time. Marriott International, a Bethesda, Maryland-based company, is implementing a comprehensive sustainability strategy that includes commitments to reduce energy and water consumption, green its supply chain, and inspire its guests and associates to conserve natural resources. The company has also provided support to forest and water conservation projects in Brazil and China. Omega partnered with the GoodPlanet Foundation in 2011, and within a year the company showcased the beauty of the world’s oceans in the documentary Planet Ocean, examined the stresses on its ecosystems, and offered solutions. To further foster conservation, Omega designed a special timepiece, the Seamaster Planet Ocean 600M GMT GoodPlanet, a portion of whose sales proceeds fully fund a project to preserve mangroves, sea grasses, and coral reefs in the seas of Southeast Asia. Starwood Hotels & Resorts is committed to sustainable practices while continuing to offer a great experience for its guests. The company has set a target of 2020 to decrease energy and water consumption by 30 percent and 20 percent, respectively, and to reduce emissions and waste. Stella McCartney’s line features an array of environmentally friendly products, such as eyewear produced with materials like castor oil seeds and citric acid; shoes with soles made from a bio-plastic called APINAT, which degrades when placed in a compost pile; and a faux-leather line created with more than 50 percent vegetable oil, which allows the company to use less petroleum in its products. Tiffany & Co. employs only paper suppliers that have been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council for the brand’s famous blue boxes and bags. Unilever has established the goal of sourcing 100 percent of its agricultural raw materials sustainably by 2020. In the same time period, the company has also committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions, per-customer water use, and waste.

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adapt to the changes that have already occurred and prepare for those to come. Ecosystem-based approaches, such as conserving and restoring forests and coastal mangrove swamps, as well as building seawalls to protect against the rising oceans, are adaptive measures that can reduce the impact of climate change by increasing a locality’s resilience. “Those actions require a change in our behavior,” he says. “Those actions require a change in how we supply our energy. Those actions require an increased recognition of the importance of securing ecosystems and their health.” What can individuals do to make a difference? “There is much we can do, in terms of whom we vote for and in terms of making good choices with our dollars to make sure we purchase things that are manufactured by companies that are really helping to find solutions rather than exacerbating the problem,” Seligmann says. “Protecting nature is not an option. It is essential for the well-being of people. It is not someone else’s problem. We are all in this together.” No one can predict the future with 100 percent accuracy, so we cannot know for sure how the changing climate will alter nature’s ability to provide for the world’s growing population. Nor can we be certain of the long-term impact that resource scarcity will have on the global economy, security, and people’s livelihoods. But what we can see are the consequences of the changing climate today. We can either take action now to ensure the health of our natural world, or we can wait and see whether the predictions come true and hope we don’t end up looking back and saying, “We should have done something.” Nature and all it provides for us—fresh water, fertile soil, food, and so much more—is the lifeblood of human well-being. The pressures on its ecosystems have never been greater. The stakes have never been higher. Protecting nature from the changing climate and ensuring its health is of strategic importance to our economy, our security, and our survival. The planet will endure, with or without us. As Harrison Ford, vice chair of Conservation International, says, “Nature doesn’t need people. People need nature.” OD

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Review characterizes climate change as a significant global challenge. “The pressures caused by climate change will influence resource competition while placing additional burdens on economies, societies, and governance institutions around the world,” the report states. “These effects are threat multipliers that will aggravate stressors abroad such as poverty, environmental degradation, political instability, and social tensions—conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence.” In a 2013 speech, Chuck Hagel, then the US secretary of defense, spoke about how climate change can “significantly add to the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict. Food and water shortages, pandemic disease, disputes over refugees and resources, and more severe natural disasters all place additional burdens on economies, societies, and institutions around the world.” Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations agrees that the changing climate is potentially a source of social instability, possibly resulting in large-scale population movements and a humanitarian nightmare as well as political destabilization. The changing climate raises real questions of economic viability, he says, and if it leads to failed states, “that can create breeding grounds for terrorism or other forms of behaviors that we do not want to see.” Despite the concerns expressed by scientists and world leaders, Americans rank addressing global warming near the bottom of their policy priorities. In a poll conducted last year by the Pew Research Center, global warming came in 19th among 20 policy concerns, with the economy, jobs, and defending the country from terrorism being the respondents’ top priorities. Yet, according to Conservation International’s Peter Seligmann, the changing climate could be devastating in all of those areas—threatening our food and water supply, our economic stability, and ultimately our security—and he believes that something must be done now. Nations and communities need to take measures to mitigate climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, Seligmann says, adding they must also

Miami Beach’s geography makes it particularly vulnerable to a rise in sea levels due to climate change. right, from top: The Miami skyline with construction cranes seen from Biscayne Bay; a fire truck responds to flooding on Alton Road in South Beach.

Keeping Our Heads abOve Water

Miami Beach is developing infrastructure innovations to protect our city from the adverse effects of climate change. by bill kearney

“Miami ranks number one in terms of vulnerability to sea-level rise associated with climate change,” says Ben Kirtman, professor of atmospheric sciences at University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. The US National Climate Assessment, put together by government agencies such as NASA and the Department of Defense, predicts a two-foot sea-level rise by 2060 (other estimates predict six feet by the year 2100). A rise of only one foot could mean losing between 500 to 2,000 feet of land along Dade County shorelines; meanwhile, South Beach is only about 4,000 feet wide. To further complicate things, much of Miami Beach sits on porous limestone, allowing water to seep in, regardless of dikes and levees. What will Miami look like in 50 years, 100 years? For a gentle preview, look back to the October “king tides,” which raise incoming water a mere foot above normal, submerging a swath of valuable real estate on South Beach and covering commuter routes during high tide. “We coined the term ‘sunny day fooding,’” says Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine of the king tides. “We’ve seen the sea-level rise, and we’ve seen corresponding fooding on peak high tides. It’s something we believe has not happened in the past.” Is there time to solve the problem? “This strongly depends on what happens with greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades,” says Kirtman, “and on how much we are willing to invest in maintaining the

built infrastructure.” Mayor Levine’s administration has come up with a three-pronged program that he claims should address the issue for the next 30 to 50 years. First, engineers created custom one-way fex valves for all the city’s outfall pipes, allowing foodwater out but not back in (previous systems were clogged and broken). Next, the city identifed fooding “hot spots,” mostly low-lying areas around West and Alton Avenues, and tested a high-power pump program that seems to have worked well this past fall using four to six pumps. The next step is installing 50 to 70 more pumps around the city. “It was a positive step in a long battle,” says Levine. “We know that with that existing technology, for the next 50 years, we can keep our streets dry. It depends, of course, on what [degree] of sea-level rise we believe is going to be the case, which is up for debate.” The third prong is the most ambitious, and involved changing building codes. “We’re going to be requiring all new construction to be built at a higher level. We’re going to be raising our sea walls in our code,” says Levine. What about those who say Miami Beach will be a subsurface relic in a century? “I believe in the ingenuity of humankind,” he says, likening it to trying to envision FaceTime 50 years ago. “What you can’t imagine today will be invented to make our coastal cities resilient.”

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The Need for GreeN MiaMi developers are taking the lead in eco-friendly construction. by sean mccaughan Rising sea levels around South Florida are probably the most important issue facing our megalopolis right now. To counter the deluge— literally and metaphorically speaking—and to respond to consumers’ demand for environmentally sensitive enterprises, developers are employing smart, new construction methods in big and small ways, from innovative HVAC systems to passive cooling methods and various ways of reusing water. Miami Beach is even beginning to elevate its streets. Of course, the green initiatives happening so far only represent a drop in the bucket of what is really needed to save South Florida.

A sign of things to come starts with the oceanfront 1 Hotel & Homes South Beach (homes.1hotels .com/southbeach). Originally built in 1969, in an era of air-conditioned boxes and cheap fossil fuels, the former Roney Palace has been radically retrofitted to become a sustainable, LEED-certified project for living, and vacationing. Guest rooms feature ecologically responsible amenities such as low-environmental-impact irons and hair dryers, a shower timer, organic bath products and linens, and digital newspapers “delivered to your in-room device daily.” An on-site plant lab provides terrariums for each guest room, while the building’s restaurant Beachcraft from famed chef continued on page 200

The pool deck at 1 Hotel & Homes South Beach. The LEED-certified hotel includes in-room amenities like shower timers and digital newspapers, an organic restaurant concept, and self-sustainable gardens, as well as electric Tesla vehicles for quick complimentary rides.

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A rendering of the Living Core Aquarium Mezzanine at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science.

Brickell city centre’s MucH vaunted “cliMate riBBon” could possiBly Be tHe largest passive sHading and ventilation device in tHe country. Tom Colicchio will serve seasonal, organic fare. Need a lift? Access to a fleet of electric Tesla vehicles for quick complimentary rides will be available. Another feature is a block-long vertical garden that canvases the hotel’s entry and is made of indigenous plants like various ferns, philodendrons, liriope, Asparagus densiflorus, jasmine, and zoysia grass. The garden will be “self-sustaining through its own inherent irrigation system,” meaning contained and reused rainwater. Gunning for LEED platinum status, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science (miamisci.org), under construction in Museum Park, has plans to incorporate sustainability into seemingly every

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science will be a model of sustainability. right: Museum Park under construction.

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aspect of its design and construction. As the museum’s construction blog proudly declares, when the Frost opens in 2016, it will be “designed to be one giant exhibit, and this includes the stories of the science and technology involved in its construction,” essentially encompassing every aspect of its architectural design. The building’s orientation on its site will capture prevailing winds off of Biscayne Bay, cooling outdoor programming areas (they’ll employ fans on less windy days). Cisterns the size of buses will retain and reuse massive amounts of rainwater throughout the museum. Road runoff will feed into an outdoor wetlands exhibit that will also filter the water as it reenters the ground. A rooftop solar farm,

with photovoltaic panels donated by Florida Power & Light, will complement the museum’s extensive green roof and provide renewable power. Inside, a dance floor will generate a portion (albeit small) of the museum’s electricity needs by capturing the energy of people dancing. Other South Florida developers are implementing a variety of technological systems to up their sustainability game. The McKafka Group’s Crimson building in Edgewater (mckafka.com) and Lionheart Capital’s Ritz-Carlton Residences (residencesmiami beach.com) in Miami Beach’s Nautilus neighborhood both utilize Variable Refrigerant Flow, a Japanese climate control system that uses refrigerant to cool air and adjusts the flow to give greater control over interior temperature. Additionally, Nest thermostats, which automatically learn the temperature habits of a home’s occupants, have become more common than ever in new projects, including the Aria Development Group’s 321 Ocean (321ocean.com). Some of Miami’s greatest green planning comes from doing more with less and designing buildings in such a way that they are inherently more sustainable, even when the power is off. Currently under construction, Brickell City Centre’s much vaunted “climate ribbon,” designed to cool shoppers en plein air, could possibly be the largest passive shading and ventilation device in the country, according to the Miami Herald. When the first phase of the megaproject is completed next year, the highly engineered $30 million canopy, designed by Paris-based Hugh Dutton Associés, collaborating with Carnegie-Mellon and Cardiff Universities, will cool shoppers strolling through the center’s outdoor mall by channeling the breeze off Biscayne Bay at a continuous six knots. Computer models were used to predict hot spots at various times of the year, which the canopy’s louvers were then precisely angled to prevent. The ribbon will also angle up in areas to let warm air escape, thereby sucking more cool air in. The overall project, of which the ribbon is the headlining green amenity, is designed for LEED certification for neighborhood development, as well as LEED gold for some of the towers. These efforts are part of the ingenuity and problem-solving we badly need on a crowded planet, but they won’t slow Miami’s waters from rising. That’s why the City of Miami Beach has begun to raise itself up along with the tides. West Avenue, which city engineer Bruce Mowry has called “ground zero” for the effects of rising sea levels, is being built up itself between one and a half to two feet. “I’m not going to stop sea-level rise,” he says. “But we are here to try and mitigate.” This sums up Miami’s path in the new climactic realities: We can’t stop them, but with gradual steps, perhaps the future can be mitigated. OD

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Home in the Range Whether you’re looking in miami beach or aventura, $5 million buys different variations on luxury, convenience, and a piece of paradise. by sean mccaughan Ocean Drive Condo: As you descend below Fifth Street on Ocean Drive, you leave the tourists behind. At the Ocean House, located at 125 Ocean Drive, Unit 0204 is a three-level, three-bedroom loft listed for $5.75 million. The unit features 2,800 square feet of living space, as well as a 1,000-square-foot roof deck, for an urban experience near the sea. Broker Dora Puig emphasizes South of Fifth’s walkability, beach access, and its desirability to jet-setting types in the market for a plush second, or third, home. Attractions within mere blocks include the “Miami Beach Marina to hop on your boat, and 20 of Miami’s finest dining establishments and lounges, all wrapped by South Pointe Park,” says Puig. Dora Puig, Luxe Living Realty, 407 Lincoln Road, Ste. 9D, Miami Beach, 305-613-2118; dorapuig.com Sunset Island Single-Family: “It was exclusive then and continues to be to this day,” says broker Nancy Batchelor of Sunset Island. Batchelor remembers how her husband, who moved there in 1964, would take his Boston Whaler to classes at St. Patrick’s. The broker recently listed a meticulously restored historic house, dripping in architectural details, on the island for $4.975 million. Buyers would have to dock their boat somewhere other than at home, because the house, located at 2830 Lucerne Avenue, is a block off the water, and it would be remiss not to mention that, yes, sea-level rise is a consideration. The house itself, however, is spectacular. Built in 1936 by leading Miami Beach architect

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Carlos Schoeppl, it combines elements of Art Deco and Mediterranean architecture, many of which were meticulously restored in 2014. With marble fireplaces, fine metal fixtures throughout, and elegant Deco chandeliers, the four-bedroom, 3,643-square-footer “is not a house for someone with 18 kids,” says Batchelor, although a family with two youngsters raised to appreciate the finer things in life might do very nicely. They’ll be close to “top dining, shopping, schools, a hospital, and golf,” she says, while still being on a gated island. Nancy Batchelor, 419 Arthur Godfrey Road, Miami Beach, 305-329-7718; nancybatchelor.com Aventura Penthouse: “Aventura has great shopping. All of the conveniences, like markets, and delis, are close by,” says Diane Lieberman of South Beach International Realty. “The [condominium] units that border the golf course have amazing bike/ skating/walking courses for three miles.” One of those units is the largest penthouse in Aventura’s Hamptons South tower, PH 8/9, which Lieberman has listed for $5.15 million. Built in 2004, the huge 8,500-square-foot unit has six bedrooms and 7.5 baths. On the 1,200-square-foot rooftop terrace, you’ll survey Aventura’s resort-like setting, including readily accessible marinas, golf, and tennis, and of course the mall for which Aventura is known, off in the distance. Diane Lieberman, South Beach International Realty, 1680 Meridian Ave., Ste. 102, Miami Beach, 305-532-7771; sbirealty.com OD

from the top:

Combining Art Deco and Mediterranean elements, the meticulously restored historic 2830 Lucerne Avenue on Sunset Island is listed for $4.975 (seen here, the family room); Ocean House Unit 0204, a three-level, threebedroom loft in South of Fifth listed for $5.75 million, comes with its own 1,000-square-foot roof deck; Aventura’s spacious Hamptons South tower PH 8/9, for $5.15 million, has six bedrooms and 7.5 baths, with ready access to marinas, golf, and the Aventura Mall.

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eminent domain Real estate Roundtable “Larger units in sought-after buiLdings were bringing premiums over the smaLLer units.” —louis birdman

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Peter Fine and Louis Birdman at the sales office for 1000 Museum, designed by the famed architect Zaha Hadid and developed by Birdman; a rendering of 6440 North Bay Road, a private residence in Miami Beach from Fine’s To Better Days Development.

Bigger Is Better Louis Birdman, developer of famed Zaha Hadid building 1000 Museum, and Peter Fine, cofounder of To Better Days Development, a New York firm building single-family homes along the celebrityheavy North Bay Road, discuss the big ticket items on the Magic City market and reveal what makes a high-end buyer close.

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Louis Birdman: We noticed a [buyer] trend where they were looking for larger properties. They don’t always want a home, but because they couldn’t find large units in a lot of the buildings that were built, other than the specialty units (a penthouse or a big duplex), very often they’d end up buying homes. In downtown, when the market

started to pick up again, we noticed that the larger units in sought-after buildings were bringing premiums over the smaller units, which is counterintuitive to how things have traditionally been in Miami. When we saw that trend and noticed that the inventory of units over 3,000 square feet, especially in the downtown market, was pretty thin and

they were trading at a premium, we thought it was a good opportunity to introduce a really luxury building with a limited number of units and make them all large so there also wouldn’t be a disparity in size and price of the units. Peter Fine: Sometimes it might be the same buyer who looks at the kind of units that you are building and the

homes that we’re building. LB: [Those] buyers come in all the time. I sold a wholefloor unit to a buyer out of Lebanon, and he was here in Miami looking at a house in that $10 to $15 million range. It’s about what fits their lifestyle. PF: What we’re trying to bring to the market is a higher-quality product. continued on page 206

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As the mArket continues to grow, buyers in the $10 million-plus price rAnge hAve increAsingly more options in the mAgic city. moderated by julia ford-carther

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6010 North Bay Road, shown from the front and back (above).

Fine and Birdman at the 1000 Museum sales office.

That’s the niche for us. We have four houses that are all between 10,000 and 15,000 square feet—two are on North Bay Road, 6440 and 6010. One is about a 14,000square-foot house; one’s about an 11,000-square-foot house. They’re all on the water. We’re going to get at least $2,000, if not north of $2,000 [per square foot]. LB: When you start pushing

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$10, $15, $20 million, buyers are not necessarily looking at what they’re paying on a price per square foot. They look more at what they’re getting, and that absolute price that they’re comfortable with. PF: We’re cost-conscious, but one of our design motifs is we’re trying to build new houses that feel like they’ve been lived in. We’re trying to combine the best

elements of traditional Mediterranean-style architecture and modern. LB: As a luxury condominium product, what really separates us from everything else is the design. Having Zaha Hadid design this project makes it extra unique. Our model for our building was to have very similar units in terms of size and price range, and to not

be competing with other condominium buildings per se, but competing with the type of product that you’re building. Our smallest unit is 4,600 feet: four bedrooms, five and a half baths. Our largest typical unit is 10,000 square feet. In between that, we have a small number of duplex units that are 8,000 square feet, and then we have one large unit that’s around

16,000 square feet. The idea was to create these real residence-size condominiums. Instead of spreading them out on the land, we’re stacking them up. 1000 museum sales gallery, 1040 biscayne blvd., Fifth Fl., miami, 855-663-6873; 1000 museum.com. to better days development, llc, 183 madison ave., ste. 1601, nyc, 212-3822575; tobetterdaysdev.com OD

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Glance around the rooms in Julio Larraz’s South Florida home and it’s immediately clear you’re in the abode of a seasoned traveler. A carved Roman angel sits atop a Colombian console in the foyer; a Venetian mirror occupies a corner of the living room. In the dining room, a Bavarian chandelier hangs over the table, while colorful Moroccan rugs cover the floors throughout. “We’ve gathered these things as we moved around the world—New York, then France, then New York again, and Miami for a while, then Italy for several years,” says Larraz, 71, recalling the places in which he’s lived over the past several

Julio Larraz in his home in Coral Gables.

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Throughout the house, artworks and antiques from different eras form a dreamlike composition reminiscent of the artist’s own fanciful paintings.

decades with his wife, local interior designer Pilar Larraz, and three children. Now, however, Larraz— who is recognized as one of the most notable Latin American artists on the international stage today (the average price for his work hovers around $250,000 per piece)—lives in a stately old home in Coral Gables, where his worldly mix of furnishings and art fit perfectly, like hand in glove. These antiques and curios—from different eras and disparate places—also offer glimpses into the imagination of their owner, as they coalesce here in a dreamlike composition, not unlike one of the artist’s fanciful paintings. Larraz’s journey around the world began many

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years ago in Havana, Cuba, where he was born and raised before moving to Washington, DC, with his parents in 1964, when he was just 16 years old. The son of a newspaper publisher, he began to draw at a very early age and later, after moving to New York, he started his career drawing political caricatures for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Vogue magazine, among other publications. His early illustration work eventually evolved into the paintings he’s become known for and continues to create in his studio—a former farm equipment shed—not far from his home. “The images that take shape in my paintings and sculptures come to me in dreams, sometimes

daydreams,” explains Larraz, whose most recent works were shown at a solo exhibition at Art Basel in Miami Beach last year. “I have the ability to see things clearly in my mind, to visualize images of objects and people. The things in my paintings or sculptures, they’re all invented by me.” Some of his paintings also hang on the walls of his home alongside works by fellow artists, like Sandro Chia, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, and Marino Marini, and together—along with the furnishings and objets—hint at the story of Larraz’s colorful life. A 19th-century Swedish clock and a cowhide-covered Colombian settee, for example, CoNTINued oN Page 212

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“IT’s as Close To lIVINg IN a house IN mY home CouNTrY as I CaN geT.” —julio larraz

eminenT DomAin Abode & Beyond The Color Green Artist Julio larraz is committed to living sustainably both with his home furnishings and on the grounds of his Coral Gables estate.

In the living room, a red Moroccan rug is offset by splashes of green and blue, including a Calder sculpture suspended from the ceiling. left: The Mediterranean-style house was originally built in 1924 by the brother-in-law of James Deering, owner of the Vizcaya estate.

look almost like 3-D extensions of a painting by Larraz hanging in the foyer, while a massive English armoire—a gift from his friend Mikhail Baryshnikov—sits snug in an alcove in the dining room and contrasts with a pair of pre-Colombian frames on an adjacent wall. Even the Mediterranean-style house itself weaves neatly into the visual tale—it was built in 1924 by the brother-in-law of James Deering, owner of the renowned Vizcaya estate, one of Miami’s treasured landmarks. Its travertine floors, terracotta tiled roof, and arched window panes dovetail seamlessly with Larraz’s eclectic furnishings and contribute to closing the circle of the artist’s lifelong journey as he now settles nearer to the place of his birth. “It’s as close to living in a house in my home country as I can get,” he says. OD

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A diverse mix of pAlms: To enhance

the grounds and the long pool that leads to the house’s entrance, Larraz planted a few of his favorite trees—royal, traveler’s, and coconut palms—in key locations throughout the lawn. fruit trees: A large

avocado tree and two small orange trees yield bounty that contributes to meals at breakfast and lunch. flowering shrubs: Although he

favors a simple palette— most of the grounds consist of green plants and grass—Larraz planted some fowering bougainvillea to inject a few pops of color outdoors.

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Sensitive not only to his inner world, where the visions that appear on his canvases emerge, but also to the world around him, Julio Larraz lives an intuitively sustainable life. Preserving a historic house and collecting antiques are eco-friendly actions in themselves; cultivating grounds in keeping with his home’s tropical locale is another. The plants Larraz has added to his garden to enrich his good and green life include:

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For a city with miles and miles of stunning bay shoreline, Miami has a dearth of public waterfront parks. That may soon change. The University of Miami School of Architecture created an 84-page study, “On the Waterfront,” which ambitiously envisions a walkway called the Biscayne Line running seven miles along the western shores of Biscayne Bay, from the Julia Tuttle to the Rickenbacker Causeway, and another five along the Miami River. The path would connect existing public areas, and jut around private land via piers, or inland sidewalks. The three-mile stretch of Edgewater seems to be garnering the most attention right now, due in part to the involvement of heavy hitters such as property developer The Related Group. Ocean Drive sat down to talk with three key players in the project—Carlos Rosso of The Related Group, District Two City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, and architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia of the firm Arquitectonica—to better understand the project’s development, goals, and chances of coming to fruition. Why is the Edgewater section of the Biscayne Line getting your attention? Bernardo Fort-Brescia: The Edgewater section is big because it connects the northern neighborhoods to downtown. This finally provides a place for bikers, joggers, people walking, to link a neighborhood in Miami with amazing geographic attributes. Why is this idea gelling now as opposed to 10 years ago? Carlos Rosso: With Bernardo, we picked up the study at the University of Miami. With all

the jobs we were doing here in Edgewater [Icon Bay and the four-tower Paraiso complex], and with Bernardo involved with Genting [the developers of the former Miami Herald site that links Edgewater and Museum Park], we thought there is already critical mass to start pushing the idea through. How realistic is this? Marc Sarnoff: I think the Biscayne Line will inevitably be built. With Edgewater, you’re looking at a blank canvas, in that an entire community is being built in a 10-year span. Creating the Biscayne Line is imperative. BFB: Since 1979, every new developer has been required to convey 20 feet of land for public access [along the waterfront], so we’re way ahead of the game by the fact that there is legislature that actually forces that to happen. CR: It’s very real. There’s a couple of old buildings [built prior to the 1979 law], but that’s where UM, the city, Related Group, and Arquitectonica come together to try to put this issue on the table and see how we can do this. How will the walkway get around those old, private areas? BFB: There is a way to bypass the private space—the water. That’s where the government has a role. You can do it with floating docks; there are other ways. We’re going to have University of Miami students doing this investigation. Often students think out of the box, and it’s good to hear what ideas could be out there. How have residents and other developers responded? cOntinueD On page 216

photography by gesi schilling (Fort-brescia)

A rendering of the Biscayne Line walkway that may eventually run along Biscayne Bay. above: Architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia, City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, and The Related Group’s Carlos Rosso in Edgewater.

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The Biscayne Line will connect different parts of the city while drawing on the natural beauty of Miami’s waterfront.

“There are no greaT ciTies wiThouT greaT public space. in MiaMi, we are seeing ThaT for The firsT TiMe.” —carlos rosso

CR: The neighbors said, “Look, instead of having dead-end streets, we would prefer to have something that feels more secure and gives us identity.” The board of the Arsht Center—they loved it. As for the developers—for example, the Melo Group owns property here—the Melos have already told us that they would be willing to give that [walkway] space ahead of them building their building. Some would argue that with public space comes crime. What’s the solution here? MS: Developers are catalysts for taxes. We intend on policing the public space by using [the developers’] ad valorem dollars. CR: This would make the neighborhood more secure, because you have people living in front of the spaces. The more public the spaces are, the more people watch what happens. What’s in it for developers such as The Related Group? CR: We think it’s better for us to sell if there is a

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way of connecting those buyers to those public spaces. It’s more value to the city and to us. At the same time, [Related Group CEO] Jorge [Pérez] wants to give back. It’s part of a legacy. How will this be paid for? CR: We [The Related Group] are willing to pay for it, so it’s not about money. Other than raising property value, why do this? CR: I think there are no great cities without great public space. Great cities have great parks and museums. In Miami, we are seeing that for the first time. For the maturity, it’s important to involve the universities, like UM. BFB: Here we have beauty, which is the geography of Biscayne Bay. Logic says that we should take advantage of it and not separate ourselves from it. The most important message from our city is this bay and the connection with the water. To not try to experience that amazing dimension that we have is a pity. OD

UM’s “On the Waterfront” study tapped student creativity and unlocked the potential of Miami’s shoreline. In 2008, the University of Miami School of Architecture mounted a school-wide effort exploring the potential of Miami’s waterfront and its public access. “Once in a while, we mobilize the entire school around one idea, so every course takes on this ambitious task and produces a study that becomes useful for the city,” says Rodolphe el-Khoury (above), dean of the School of Architecture. “The former dean, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, saw an opportunity to constitute that uninterrupted promenade along the water and mobilize the school to demonstrate the potential.” Students this fall will be tasked with fnding ways to connect public land interrupted by private lots. “Those sites are diffcult,” says el-Khoury, “but they are minutia when you look at the big picture. I would like us to pick up this vision this fall and see how far we can push it.”

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Yana Poly and Elena Vos at Mynt Lounge.

Andrea Yurko and Max Baum at Rec Room at the Gale South Beach.

Amanda Rosa and Pablo Mancuso at Rec Room at the Gale South Beach.

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Maria Manzanares, Annette Figueredo, and Jose Lanzar at Aromatherapy Under The Stars at the Hotel Croydon.

Lyndsey Mayer and Yakir Shoushan at the Heat versus Thunder game at Hyde AmericanAirlines Arena.

Yan Sanchez, Stephen Owens, and Fadia Bassi at the Rise tower topping-off ceremony at Brickell City Centre by Swire Properties.

Savannah Buffett at the La Nuit En Rose festival at The Edition Miami Beach.

Yasiel Puig and Jonathan Lopez at Ball & Chain.

Scott Hauser and Danny Jelaca at Fusion at The Edition Miami Beach.

Jonathan Morr and Fabian Basabe at the Vacheron Constantin Miami Design District grand opening event at PAMM.

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Angelo Rodriguez, Tui Pranich, and Matthew Macdonald at the Tui Lifestyle Design District grand opening. Ace Hood and Micha Porat at Story.

Yann Bouillonnec, Thom Collins, and Vincent Brun at the Vacheron Constantin Miami Design District grand opening at PAMM.

Uncle Luke and Phil The Mayor at Rec Room at the Gale South Beach.

David Castillo and Pepe Mar at the Vacheron Constantin Miami Design District grand opening event cohosted by Craig Robins.

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Lisa and Leonard Hochstein at the Vhernier Miami Design District grand opening.

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LISTINGS

Villa Azur A taste of South of France combining exquisite food, fine wines, friendly service and inviting atmosphere. 309 23rd St., Miami Beach, 305-763-8688

COCONUT GROVE, CORAL GABLES, KEY BISCAYNE

George’s in the Grove Lively, casual bistro featuring French classics. 3145 Commodore Plaza, Coconut Grove, 305-444-7878

Town Kitchen & Bar Global comfort foods and an irresistible brunch special. 7301 SW 57th Ct., South Miami, 305-740-8118

Love Is Blind A culinary adventure that takes you all over the globe. 225 Altara Avenue, Coral Gables, 305-748-6118

Versailles The authentic and famous Miami-Cuban classic.

305-365-6003

Bizcaya Mediterranean-influenced cuisine serving fresh fish and prime cuts of beef, at the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove.

Monty’s Raw Bar Scenic waterside spot offering seafood goodies. 2550 S. Bayshore Dr., Coconut Grove, 305-856-3992

DESIGN DISTRICT, MIDTOWN, WYNWOOD

Ortanique on the Mile New World Caribbean cuisine, island elegance. 278 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, 305-446-7710

Bocce Bar Midtown’s latest addition distinguishes itself from the rest with a bocce ball court and its rustic feel and cozy ambiance. 3252 NE First Ave., Miami, 786-245-6211

Palme d’Or Fabulous French fare, at the landmark Biltmore Hotel. 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables, 305-913-3201

The Butcher Shop Trendy addition to Wynwood that fuses retail, restaurant and beer garden into one gourmet hot-spot.

Artisan The newest hot spot in Key Biscayne perfect for sandwiches or tapas. 658 Crandon Blvd., Key Biscayne;

3300 SW 27th Ave., Coconut Grove, 305-644-4680

Cantina Beach Miami’s only oceanfront, coastal Mexican restaurant located at The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne. 455 Grand Bay Dr., Key Biscayne, 305-365-4622

Caffe Abbracci Dine beneath the glow of a ruby-red starlight chandelier and the brilliance of Venetian glass on Italian-inspired foods including great carpaccio’s, the freshest fish, homemade pastas or succulent NY meats.

3555 SW 8 St., Miami, 305-444-0240

165 NW 23rd Street, Miami, 305-846-9120

Pascal’s on Ponce Contemporary French cuisine. 2611 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, 305-444-2024

Cafeina Diverse hot-spot offering intriguing art, nightlife and tasty cuisine in the heart of Wynwood. 297 NW 23rd Street,

318 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, 305-441-0700

Peacock Garden Cafe The ideal setting for outside dining at anytime of day. 2889 McFarlane Rd., Coconut Grove,

Miami, 305-438-0792

Christy’s Restaurant The steak house meets the piano bar at this Miami staple. 3101 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables,

305-774-3332

305-446-1400

Red Fish Grill Romantic, waterside seafood dining experience. 9610 Old Cutler Rd., Miami, 305-668-8788

The Cypress Room The Genuine Hospitality Group’s latest Design District haunt gives an elegant nod to 1920’s American fine dining. 3620 NE 2nd Ave., Miami, 305-520-5197

Cioppino Tuscan cuisine capturing the romance of Old World Italy, at the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne. 455 Grand Bay Dr., Key Biscayne, 305-365-4156

Sushi Samba The finest fusion of Japanese, Brazilian and Peruvian cuisine at the Westin Colonnade Hotel.

The Federal Tackling comfort food classics like pot pies, biscuits and gravy, this eatery will rock your world. 5132 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-758-9559

180 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, 305-441-2600

Eating House Not your typical steakhouse, this hipster-esque hotspot is known for its eclectic menu serving playful dishes such as “Cap’n Crunch” pancakes for brunch. 804 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, 305-448-6524

Swine Southern Table & Bar This joint is a place to hang with friends, sip a little whiskey, and indulge in genuine Southern cooking. 2415 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Coral Gables,

Harry’s Pizzeria Chef and owner Michael Schwartz’s newest creation offers a cozy and comfortable neighborhood spot to enjoy some creative, wood-oven pizzas, craft beers, and a selection of delectable desserts. 3918 N. Miami Ave., Miami,

786-360-6433

786-275-4963

LISTINGS Gigi Bustling and hip hot spot featuring Asian-inspired fare. 3470 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-573-1520

Mandolin Aegean Bistro Authentic countryside cuisine from Greece and Turkey. 4312 NE 2nd Ave., Miami, 305-576-6066 MC Kitchen Modern Italian cuisine offering seasonal dishes with ingredients selected on the basis of quality, harvest maturity, and farming integrity. 4141 NE 2nd Ave., Suite 101A, Miami, 305-456-9948

Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink Michael Schwartz’s highly successful Design District eatery. 130 NE 40th St., Atlas Plaza, Miami, 305-573-5550

Mignonette A raw oyster bar with a welcoming environment where seafood lovers can share a bottle of bubbly while enjoying a dozen of the freshest oysters. 210 NE 18th Street, Miami, 305-374-4635

Morgans Modern, home-style comfort food for brunch, lunch and dinner. 28 NE 29th St., Miami, 305-573-9678 Oak Tavern This Design District eatery cooks up modern home-style fare including hearty dishes such as “grown-up mac and cheese.” 35 NE 40th Street, Miami, 786-391-1818 Sakaya Kitchen This delicious offering from chef Richard Hales re-imagines Asian fast food in a decidedly gourmet way. 3401 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-576-8096 Salumeria 104 Authentic Northern Italian salumi shop and trattoria serving traditional dishes and cured meats. 3451 NE

Seagrape Floridian brasserie helmed by James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef Michelle Bernstein located at the Thompson Miami Beach. 4041 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, 786-605-4043

CVI.CHE 105 This bustling Peruvian eatery has quickly become a hip downtown landmark. 105 NE 3rd Ave., Miami, 305-577-3454

Seaspice A seafood brasserie and lounge, is a celebration of the sense that marks the return to the core values of gastronomy. 422 NW North River Drive, Miami, 305-440-4200

db Bistro Moderne The New York sensation from chef Daniel Boulud, in downtown’s JW Marriott Marquis.

Soya y Pomodoro Intimate Italian located in a quaint Neoclassical alcove. 120 NE 1st St., Miami, 305-381-9511

255 Biscayne Blvd. Way, Miami, FL 33131, 305-350-0750

1st Ave., Miami, 305-424-9588

Toscana Divino Brickell’s Italian trattoria features an Italian happy hour, “Aperitivo Italiano,” every Wednesday. 900 S.

Sugarcane From the creators of Sushi Samba, a raw bar and grill with a South American spirit. 3252 NE 1st Ave., Miami,

Dolores But You Can Call Me Lolita Located in the heart of Brickell’s Financial District, the restaurant, offers a unique selection of International fusion cuisine.

786-369-0353

1000 South Miami Ave., Miami, 305-403-3103

Wynwood Kitchen & Bar Affordable global Latino cuisine meets cutting-edge art. 2550 NW 2nd Ave., Miami, 305-722-8959

Edge Steak & Bar This stylish departure from the traditional steak house is the new crown jewel of The Four Seasons Hotel Miami. 1435 Brickell Ave., Miami, 305-381-3190

DOWNTOWN/BRICKELL

Garcia’s Seafood Grille & Fish Market Fabulously fresh fish, right on the river. 398 NW North River Dr., Miami,

Touché Rooftop Lounge & Restaurant From celebrity chef Carla Pellegrino, featuring an array of dishes ranging from meat to pastas to seafood and sushi. 15 NE 11th Street,

Area 31 Great seafood from the namesake region encompassing the Florida coast and Central America.

305-375-0765

Miami, 305-358-9848

270 S. Biscayne Blvd. Way, Miami, 305-424-5234

Il Gabbiano Decadent, exquisite Italian cuisine served inside or out, overlooking Biscayne Bay. 335 S. Biscayne Blvd.,

Atrio Restaurant and Wine Room A contemporary restaurant and lounge offering guests an innovative and international menu paired with a minimalistic setting to complement the view of an incandescent Miami skyline.

Miami, 305-373-0063

Truluck’s Seafood Steak & Crab House A fantastic combination of the freshest Florida Stone Crab, juicy steaks and a selection of over 100 wines. 777 Brickell Ave., Miami,

1395 Brickell Ave., Miami, 305-503-6529

Azul French inspired cuisine with an Asian twist at the Mandarin Oriental. 500 Brickell Key Dr., Miami, 305-913-8358 Batch Fresh off a successful opening, this Gastropub, with cocktails on tap, is soon to be Brickell’s favored hotspot.

305-358-4555

Tuyo Sitting atop Miami Dade College’s new Miami Culinary Institute, Tuyo is an exquisite fusion of New World flavors. 415 N.E. 2nd Ave., Miami, 305-237-3200

Miami, 305-913-8358

Naoe Experience natural Japanese cuisine as Chef Kevin Cory serves a unique Chef’s Choice menu. 661 Brickell Key

Wolfgang’s Steakhouse Wolfgang Zweiner’s famous steak house has finally arrived in Miami. 315 S. Biscayne Blvd., Miami, 305-487-7130

Dr., Miami, 305-947-6263

Novecento Argentinean and Mediterranean cuisine.

Zuma Internationally acclaimed Japanese “pub fare” from London restaurateur Rainer Becker, at the Epic Hotel.

1414 Brickell Ave., Miami, 305-403-0900

270 Biscayne Blvd. Way, Miami, 305-577-0277

The Oceanaire Ultra fresh seafood and American Steak house. 900 S. Miami Ave., Miami 305-372-8862

MIAMI BEACH

Cantina La Veinte A cultural expression of true Mexican cuisine featuring traditional Mexican decor with an art deco flare and over 100 brands of Mexican wine pairings. 465

OTC Comfort cuisine is served as the name suggests — overthe-counter. 1250 South Miami Ave., Miami, 305-374-4612

Brickell Ave., Miami, 786-623-6135

PM Buenos Aires Fish & Steak House Born from the nostalgia felt from the “Porteño”-like cuisine, PM has the influence of not only the parrilladas but also all the different styles all over the world. 1453 S. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-200-5606

Cipriani Exquisite Italian restaurant with impeccable service and elegant design. 465 Brickell Ave. CU1, Miami, 786-329-4090

Tamarina Specializes in Italian cuisine inspired by the Mediterranean coast incorporating freshly caught seafood and local produce which is prepared using classic Italian techniques. 600 Brickell Avenue, Miami, 305-579-1888

305-579-0035

La Mar by Gaston Acurio Features the acclaimed Peruvian cuisine of celebrity chef Gastón Acurio in a high-energy setting with dramatic water views of Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline, at the Mandarin Oriental. 500 Brickell Key Dr.,

30 SW 12th St., Miami, 305-808-5555

Biscayne Tavern Located in the B2 Miami downtown, this casual neighborhood gathering post serves up the next evolution of comfort food. 146 Biscayne Blvd., Miami,

Miami Ave., Miami, 305-371-2767

15 Steps Seasonal farm-to-table dining at the Eden Roc hotel. 4525 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-5594 A Fish Called Avalon Contemporary tropical menu featuring award-winning seafood dishes. 700 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach, 305-532-1727

AltaMare Neighborhood gem with great seafood and pasta. 1233 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, 305-532-3061

Crazy About You A truly unique lounge setting, and picturesque water front dining experience. 1155 Brickell Bay Dr, Miami, (305) 377-4442

Pollos y Jarras Authentic Peruvian cuisine with an extensive selection of BBQ, grilled meats, and tapas all ideally complimented by signature cocktails. 115 NE 3rd Ave., Miami, 786-567-4940

Baires Grill This casual and trendy establishment satiates your appetite with an authentic, high-quality Argentinian cuisine. 1116 Lincoln Rd. Mall, Miami Beach, 305-538-1116

LISTINGS De Rodriguez Cuba Reminiscent of the exhilarating nightlife of old world Havana, Cuba, serving Modern Cuban Cuisine in South Beach’s chic South of Fifth neighborhood, at the Hilton Bentley. 101 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach, 305-672-6624

La Locanda Classic Italian just south of Fifth Street. 419 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-538-6277

La Piaggia A St-Tropez beach club without the jet lag. 1000 South Pointe Dr., Miami Beach, 305-674-0647

DiLido Beach Club A casually elegant oceanfront restaurant and lounge with ocean-table cuisine and a relaxed, chic ambiance perfect for people-watching, at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. 155 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach 786-276-4000

La Savina Offers a simple mix of amazingly fresh crudos, grilled meats and fish in South Florida, served alongside unmatched views of Biscayne Bay, at the Mondrian Hotel. 1100 West Ave., Miami Beach, 305-514-1500

Dolce Italian Contemporary take on Italian classics located at The Gale Hotel. 1690 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-673-0199

Larios on the Beach Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s award winning go-to destination for cuban cuisine. 820 Ocean Drive,

Drunken Dragon South Beach’s first Korean barbecue restaurant presents a unique method of table side cooking while offering a combination of Asian inspired dishes as well as tropical, exotic cocktails. 1424 Alton Rd, Miami Beach,

The Lido Restaurant & Bayside Grill Stunning waterside dining featuring chef Mark Zeitouni’s cuisine, at The Standard.

305-397-8556

40 Island Ave., Miami Beach, 305-673-1717

The Dutch A roots-inspired restaurant, Bar and Oyster Room at the W South Beach. 2201 Collins Ave., Miami Beach,

Lucali Brooklyn’s most coveted pizza in the heart of South Beach. 1930 Bay Rd., Miami Beach, 305-695-4441

Miami Beach, 305-532-9577

305-938-3111

The Bazaar by José Andrés Masterfully re-imagined Spanish cuisine, at the SLS Hotel South Beach. 1701 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-455-5000

Escopazzo Excellent romantic Italian cuisine with an organic emphasis. 1311 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-9450 Estiatorio Milos Costas Spiliadis Celebrates the arts, culture and cuisine of Greece and is committed to providing guests a true understanding of fresh ingredients simply prepared with integrity. 730 1st St., Miami Beach, 305-604-6800

305-695-4550

Macaluso’s Restaurant Staten Island home-cooked Italian. 1747 Alton Rd., Miami Beach, 305-604-1811

Fogo de Chão The original Brazilian steak house with continuous tableside service and 15 cuts of meat. 836 1st St., Miami Beach, 305-672-0011

Bâoli Miami A dining experience that truly excites the senses: an elegant and vibrant ambiance with an alluring menu. 1906 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-8822

Lure Fishbar A seafood-driven menu, overseen by Josh Capon, includes raw bar, sushi bar and Miami-inspired plates. Robert Ferrara helms the beverage program with nautical-themed libations including the Catch and Release, at the Loews Hotel. 1601 Collins Ave, Miami Beach,

The Forge Restaurant & Lounge Chef Christopher Lee brings his award-winning talent to this culinary institution with an innovative take on the classic American steakhouse. 432

Macchialina Taverna Rustica The Italian spot for locals with rustic, seasonally inspired cooking by acclaimed chef Michael Pirolo. 820 Alton Rd., Miami Beach, 305-534-2124 Maxine’s Bistro At The Catalina Hotel & Beach Club, is somewhat of an institution on Collins Avenue, serving American bistro fare with an international twist, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 1732 Collins Ave, Miami Beach,

Barceloneta Catalan Bistro and Mercat that will transport you to Spain through taste alone. 1400 20th St., Miami Beach,

41st St., Miami Beach, 305-538-8533

305-538-9299

Fratelli La Bufala Sumptuous pizzas and pastas prepared with the freshest buffalo mozzarella imported from Italy.

305-674-1160

Barezzito/One Lounge A nighttime hangout spot with live music, djs, and a Latin-Asian fusion menu.

437 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-532-0700

2000 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-397-8882

Fung Kú Asian Cuisine Korean BBQ and Sushi Bar, at The Catalina Hotel & Beach Club. 1720 Collins Ave., Miami Beach,

Barton G. The Restaurant Upscale American eatery, plus lots of dazzle. 1427 West Ave., Miami Beach, 305-672-8881

305-534-7905

Michael Mina 74 Award-winning chef Michael Mina, brings sophisticated, American bistro-style fare to the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach, with a dynamic menu that features whimsical dishes and handcrafted cocktails from across the globe. 4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-4636

Hakkasan The exquisite Chinese creations of London restaurateur Alan Yau, at the Fontainebleau. 4441 Collins Ave.,

Meat Market Chef Sean Brasel has created an imaginative, top-flight menu with flair at this packed hot spot.

Miami Beach, 786-276-1388

915 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, 305-532-0088

HaVen Gastro-Lounge An intimate, high-tech gastro-lounge featuring global small plates by Chef Todd Erickson and innovative craft cocktails. 1237 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach,

Monty’s Sunset Miami’s ultimate Seafood Bistro features a raw bar and ceviche bar with breathtaking sunset views and a bay front location. 300 Alton Rd., Miami Beach, 305-672-1148

Bianca Modern Italian fare at the Delano’s signature restaurant. 1685 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-6400 Big Pink Bright and fun diner, serving full-bodied classics. 157 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-532-4700

BLT Steak at The Betsy Hotel Laurent Tourondel’s interpretation of the American steak house. 1440 Ocean Dr., Miami

305-987-8885

Beach, 305-673-0044

Icebox Offering the finest deserts in Miami Beach. 1855 Purdy Ave., Miami Beach, 305-538-8448

Bodega Taqueria y Tequila “Shepard Style” Mexican street food straight out of a vintage Airstream taco truck filling the area’s void for vibrant, authentic Mexican cuisine. 1220 16th Street, Miami Beach, 305-704-2145

Il Mulino From Abruzzo to South Beach, Il Mulino New York presents unforgettable, classic Italian cuisine in a chic, modern dining experience. 840 First St., Miami Beach, 305-466-9191

Moreno’s Cuba At the Riviera South Beach A Cuban-inspired eatery developed around an authentic Havana-style café, with a culinary ethos based around Cuban Tapas and small plates made for sharing. 318 20th St., Miami Beach, 305-538-7444

Morimoto South Beach Famed Iron Chef Morimoto seamlessly integrates Western ingredients with traditional Japanese techniques inside the Shelborne Wyndham Grand South Beach. 1801 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, 305-531-1271

Café Prima Pasta Authentic Italian meats, cheeses, pastas and desserts since 1993. 414 71st St., Miami Beach,

Joe’s Stone Crab A must-see Miami institution since 1913.

305-867-0106

11 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-673-0365

Canyon Ranch Grill Wholesome seasonal dishes with an emphasis on local farming methods. 6801 Collins Ave., Miami

Juvia Artistic food presentation and an innovative take on Asian fusion, with stunning views of South Beach.

2201 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-695-1695

Beach, 305-514-7474

1111 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, 305-763-8272

Casa Tua Italian restaurant with a private upstairs lounge and la dolce vita vibe. 1700 James Ave., Miami Beach,

Katsuya Traditional Japanese cuisine with a provocative twist, at the SLS Hotel South Beach. 1701 Collins Ave., Miami

My Ceviche This indoor-outdoor eatery will flaunt the brand’s signature seafood selections alongside seasonal, craft, and local beer options. 235 Washington Ave., Miami Beach,

305-673-1010

Beach, 305-455-5000

Cecconi’s The Italian sensation from Mayfair and West Hollywood has brought its A-list vibe to the Soho Beach House. 4385 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 786-507-7902

Khong River House Authentic Northern Thai cuisine served in a farmhouse-styled interior. 1661 Meridian Ave., Miami

Mr Chow Iconic Chinese showplace at the W South Beach.

Beach, 305-763-8147

305-397-8710

News Cafe This 24-hour spot remains the heart and soul of South Beach. 800 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach, 305-695-3232

LISTINGS Traymore Restaurant and Bar Locally sourced seafood fare, as well as the hotel’s signature COMO Shambhala cuisine by Executive Chef Jonathan Lane at Metropolitan by COMO, Miami Beach. 2445 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, 305-695-3600

Umi Sushi & Sake Bar A communal, Japanese-style dining experience in the lobby at Delano. 1685 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-5752

Yardbird Southern Table & Bar Farm Fresh Southern Cooking, Bourbon and Blues. 1600 Lennox Ave., Miami Beach, 305-538-5220

Villa Azur A taste of South of France combining exquisite food, fine wines, friendly service and inviting atmosphere. 309 23rd St., Miami Beach, 305-763-8688

Joe’s Stone Crab A must-see Miami institution since 1913. 11 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-673-0365

Vintro Kitchen Committed to the craft approach of food. A place where you can escape, live in the moment, explore the flavors, taste, experiment and share with your friends. 2216 Park Avenue, Miami Beach, 305-674-9200

Nobu Legendary Japanese seafood delicacies, at the Shore Club. 1901 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-695-3232

is locally sourced and designed to be shared.

Yardbird Southern Table & Bar Farm Fresh Southern Cooking, Bourbon and Blues. 1600 Lennox Ave., Miami

1100 West Ave., Miami Beach, 305-514-1940

Beach, 305-538-5220

Orange Blossom A modern bistro featuring internationally, high-quality, affordable fare inside the Boulan South Beach Hotel. 2000 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-763-8983

The Restaurant at The Setai Five-star, trans-ethnic cuisine with a strong Asian influence. 2001 Collins Ave., Miami Beach,

NORTH DADE, BROWARD

305-520-6402

Carpaccio Bal Harbour Shops’ most bustling spot for delicious Italian fare. 9700 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour,

Porfirio’s A contemporary take on flavorful Mexican cuisine.

Scarpetta Ravishing Italian cuisine from chef Scott Conant, at the Fontainebleau. 4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach,

305-867-7777

305-538-2000

Corsair Award-winning chef and television personality Scott Conant has crafted a rustic, seasonal menu rooted in the farmhouse cooking of America and the Mediterranean, located within the Turnberry Isle Miami. 19999 West Country

850 Commerce Street, Miami Beach, 786-453-2657

Prime Fish Fish shack meets sophisticated fine dining; renowned restaurant owner Myles Chefetz has done it again with his new restaurant that is sure to please all seafood lovers. 100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-532-4550

Seagrape Floridian brasserie helmed by James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef Michelle Bernstein located at the Thompson Miami Beach. 4041 Collins Avenue, Miami

Club Drive, Aventura, 305-932-6200

Beach, 786-605-4043

Prime Italian Upscale American-Italian sister restaurant to Prime One Twelve. 101 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach,

La Goulue Fantastic French bistro in the Bal Harbour Shops.

305-695-8484

Serendipity 3 A famous New York original, known for the best desserts in town. 1102 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, 305-403-2210

Prime One Twelve Extraordinary, modern take on the classic steak house. 112 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach,

The Setai Grill Prime steak house with the finest seafood selections, accompanied by The Setai’s impressive wine list.

9700 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour, 305-864-8600

305-532-8112

2001 Collins Ave., Miami, 305-520-6400

Palm Restaurant Old New York-style steak house.

Pubbelly Gastropub This innovative tavern features a menu of homemade pâtés, specialty terrines and braised dishes, and its signature Asian street food. 1418 20th St., Miami

Siena Tavern Top Chef Fabio Viviani & DineAmic Group head south with their Chicago outpost. Located in the South of Fifth neighborhood, Siena Tavern blends Italian elegance with Miami’s electrifying energy. 404 Washington Avenue, Miami

9700 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour, 305-865-2181

Makoto Modern Japanese cuisine in the Bal Harbour Shops.

9650 E. Bay Harbor Dr., Bay Harbor Islands, 305-868-7256

Beach, 305-532-7555

Beach, 305-534-5577

Pubbelly Sushi Japanese small plates with Latin, Indian and Italian influences. 1424 20th St., Miami Beach, 305-531-9282 Pura Vida Serving raw Brazilian organic acai bowls, fresh made fruit protein smoothies or cold-press veggie juices with soups, salads, sandwiches, pitas & wraps with vegan options. Eat-in, pick-up or delivery. 110 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-535-4142

Quality Meats Rated top steakhouse in Manhattan in Zagat 2014 and named best new steakhouse by Details, Quality Meats has opened in the heart of South Beach at Collins and 15th. 1501 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, 305-340-3333 Quattro Gastronomia Italiana Twin chefs Nicola and Fabrizio Carro stir up traditional Northern Italian cuisine. 1014 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, 305-531-4833

Red, The Steakhouse Hot Mediterranean-influenced steak house. 119 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-534-3688 Restaurant Michael Schwartz Locally inspired dishes and a fantastic ambiance at the iconic Raleigh Hotel pool deck.

20475 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura, 305-937-2777

Smith & Wollensky Classic steak dishes, outstanding seafood, and an award-winning wine selection. 1 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-673-2800

Stripsteak With its classic menu, dynamic dining and bar scene, and sophisticated atmosphere, acclaimed Chef Michael Mina breaks new ground with Stripsteak, the modern alternative to the traditional steakhouse setting. 4441 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, 877-326-7412

ROK:BRGR Gourmet burger bar and gastropub with a modern approach on American comfort foods, located at The Village at Gulfstream Park. 600 Silks Run, Suite 1210, Hallandale Beach, 954-367-3970

S3 An island-chic retreat with indoor-outdoor seating, lush patio with fire pits and custom-designed lounge seating with breathtaking views of the ocean serving steak, seafood and sushi. 505 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale,

Sushi Samba Dromo Japanese-Brazilian fusion fare amid a bustling ambience. 600 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach,

954-523-SURF

305-673-5337

St. Regis Bar & Sushi Lounge A modern Miami atmosphere with a Japanese twist, this Sushi Lounge is nothing short of luxury, at the St. Regis Resort. 9703 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour,

Terrazza at Shore Club This casual, Italian chophouse offers the ultimate in indoor-outdoor dining with the cool vibe and energy of Shore Club. 1901 Collins Ave., Miami Beach,

305-993-3300

305-695-3226

Taco Beach Shack World famous gourmet farm fresh tacos and cocktails, at Hollywood Beach Hotel. 334 Arizona Street,

Texas De Brazil A unique concept that offers diners a parade of meats and an extravagant seasonal salad area.

Hollywood Beach, 954-920-6523

300 Alton Rd., Suite 200, Miami Beach, 305-695-7702

Tongue and Cheek Upscale American cuisine with a trendy, yet relaxing ambiance. 431 Washington Ave., Miami Beach.

Tap 42 Enjoy a combination of Fort Lauderdale’s finest American Craft Beers, hand-crafted cocktails made from fresh local ingredients, a creative menu of burgers and other inventive dishes. 1411 S Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale,

305-704-2900

954-463-4900

1775 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, 305-612-1163

The Restaurant at Mondrian South Beach Modern American brasserie and sushi bar serving globally inspired cuisine that

Pilar Named after Hemingway’s famed fishing boat, this Aventura neighborhood gem offers seafood-focused, modern American classics from Executive Chef Erica Nicholl using locally-sourced and peak-of-the-season ingredients.

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E11EVEN MIAMI A unique 24 / 7 No Sleep international cabaret, nightclub, and after-hours experience that features beautiful entertainers and 11-style theatrics in an environment that is as sexy as it is sophisticated. 29 N.E. 11th Street, Miami, 305-829-2911

DESIGN DISTRICT, WYNWOOD Bardot Intimate lounge featuring live music and an edgy scene. 3456 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-576-557 0

The Broken Shaker Laid-back indoor-outdoor bar featuring exotic handcrafted cocktails, at the Freehand Miami Hostel.

Nikki Beach Mostly outdoor hot spot to see and be seen. 1 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach, 305-538-1111

2727 Indian Creek Dr., Miami Beach, 305-531-2727

Purdy Lounge The perfect dark and laid-back local bar. Gavanna “Vibe dictates the night” at Wynwood’s hot-spot. 10

Club Deuce Everyone’s favorite timeless dive bar.

NE 40th St., Miami, 305-573-1321

222 14th St., Miami Beach, 305-531-6200

Wood Tavern Artsy and relaxed indoor-outdoor enclave where hipsters, art-walk crawlers, and collectors mingle.

Drawing Room Bar & Lounge Mixologist Albert Trummer brings his signature libations and one of a kind blend of apothecary and designer cocktails to the Shelborne Wyndham Grand South Beach. 1801 Collins Ave, Miami

Miami Beach. 305-397-8382

Beach, 305-531-1271

305-673-0199

FDR Subterranean lounge at the Delano.

The Regent Cocktail Club Dimly lit and classically elegant cocktail bar and lounge, at the Gale Hotel. 1690 Collins Ave.,

1811 Purdy Ave., Miami Beach, 305-531-4622

Radio Bar Hip local bar, new to the SoFi area. 814 First St.,

2531 NW 2nd Ave., Wynwood, 305-748-2828

DOWNTOWN, BRICKELL Blackbird Ordinary Catchy and energetic vibe with delicious cocktails hidden downtown. 729 SW First Ave., Miami,

1685 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-5752

Miami Beach, 305-673-0199

305-671-3307

Blue Martini Upscale atmosphere with a local-bar mentality, at Mary Brickell Village. 900 S. Miami Ave., Miami,

Rec Room New York-influenced upscale basement lounge, at the Gale Hotel. 1690 Collins Ave., Miami Beach,

Foxhole New watering hole and neighborhood bar owned by nightlife veterans. 1426A Alton Rd., Miami Beach, 305-534-3511

Set A modern South Beach tribute to Old Hollywood glamour. 320 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, 305-531-2800

305-981-2583

Hyde Beach Enjoy artful mixology and José Andrés cuisine at Hyde Beach — the first oceanfront location of sobe’s premier nightlife brand at SLS Hotel South Beach. 1701 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-1701

Story “A new chapter in Miami Nightlife”. 136 Collins Ave., Miami Beach 305-479-4426

Jazid Intimate, live jazz and blues and nightly drink specials. 1342 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-673-9372

Grand Central Former railRd. station turned contemporary event space with weekly events for Miami’s most discerning music lovers. 697 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-377-2277

SkyBar The Shore Club’s exclusive nightlife setting overlooking the ocean. 1901 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 786-276-6772

Kill Your Idol Hipster kids plus cheap drinks plus high irony equals a perfect night. 222 Española Way, Miami Beach,

Sunset Lounge Mondrian South Beach’s indoor-outdoor lounge is comprised of multiple spaces, offering the only bayside destination for watching the sunset over Miami’s downtown skyline. 1100 West Ave., Miami Beach, 305-514-1941

305-672-1852

Hyde AmericanAirlines Arena A posh VIP lounge on the court-level of the Arena. 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami,

LIV The hip, high-energy megaclub, at the Fontainebleau.

Ted’s Hideaway A laid-back local bar with a pool table and a delightfully grungy scene. 124 Second St., Miami Beach,

855-777-4933

4441 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-674-4680

305-532-9869

Tobacco Rd. Miami’s oldest bar, serving patrons for more than 95 years. 626 S. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-374-1198

Mansion Plush, oversized dance club with copious VIP nooks. 1235 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-695-8411

Twist Popular gay pit stop with late-night action and seven uniquely themed bars. 1057 Washington Ave., Miami Beach,

MIAMI BEACH

Mokaï A modern lounge with New York sensibility and Miami joie de vivre. 235 23rd St., Miami Beach, 305-673-1409

Basement Miami A one-of-a-kind entertainment venue at the Miami Beach EDITION, complete with a nightclub, bowling alley and ice-skating rink. 2901 Collins Ave., Miami Beach,

Mynt A vibrant club that plays host to South Beach’s fabulous crowd. 1921 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-532-0727

305-538-9478

786-641-7119

Wall The W South Beach’s on-site hot spot from a dream team of nightlife innovators. 2201 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, 305-938-3000

12th Annual Par for the Horse 2015 Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and adoption of abused, abandoned and neglected horses and other farm animals in Miami-Dade. To learn more or to donate, please visit helpthehorses.org.

Golf Tournament & Fundraiser Benefting South Florida S.P.C.A.

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 Miami Beach Golf Club 2301 Alton Road, Miami Beach, FL 33140

18 Hole “Scramble” Format Tee Time 1pm • $190 per player Not a golfer? Attend the auctions & after party!

Buffet, Live & Silent Auctions, Raffle Prizes 5:00pm • $65 per person “ONE OF MIAMI SOCIAL SEASON’S BEST”

purchase tickets & register at: www.helpthehorses.org For more information email par@helpthehorses.org Your support will help provide veterinary treatment, food and shelter for abused, abandoned and neglected horses and other farm animals!

AMERICA’S PREMIER INDOOR KARTING CENTER

www.helpthehorses.org South Florida SPCA @HelpTheHorses P.O. Box 924088, Homestead, FL 33092 • 305-825-8826 • info@helpthehorses.org

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PARTING SHOT

GoinG (Sort of) Green

Here, In tHe most beautIful cIty In amerIca, we can all do more to save tHe planet, so do as I say, not as I do. by betsy f. perry Although some of us feel virtuous grocery shopping with fabric tote bags or drinking water from a box, realtor with a heart of gold Allison Cotter of EWM has spent years nurturing the endangered local turtle population, playing crack-of-dawn traffic cop with ping-pong-ballsized baby terrapins. “Development on the beach has affected their light,” she explains, “so hatchlings get confused and instead of heading to the ocean, they go towards the street.” Miamians may seem more fern than forest green, but it’s the next generation, like Cotter’s 17-year-old son, Ivan, that was born green, never throwing a piece of paper on the ground, recycling plastic bags for school lunches, and looking horrified when food or clothing goes to waste. While we may not always do a good job ourselves, our preaching to the next generation is not going unheard. Although not the perfect planet protector, I’ve given up disposable pet wipes, instead using filched threadbare Equinox towels soaked in eco-friendly soap suds, and I recycle Dylan’s Candy Bar bags for pup poop. (No, those aren’t malt balls you see me throwing away.) On occasion, I cook a naturally raised chicken rather than buying one with a questionable pedigree (and toxic hormones) enclosed in a plastic dome. Litter, however, is my personal ground zero, so beware of tossing a cigarette, a beer can, or chicken bones on my Miami streets: I’ve got two ravenous ankle-biting rescue Chihuahuas on call. OD

illustration by Paul Dickinson

Organic fruits and vegetables at the farmers market, solar panels on our roofs, electric Tesla cars zipping through the HOV lane, recycling bins on Lincoln Road—we’ve come a long way as a society toward softening the conscience (and guilt) of leaving a polluted world. We do what we can. Of course, we also fly private to Vail, throw out smartphones and TVs after about two years’ use, and leave just about every appliance in the house plugged in. We’re guilty of speed-demon boats exhaling plumes of fumes, 10-mpg Lamborghinis, 24/7 A/C when only the plants are home, showers with jet-propelled spigots, and buying an extra pair of Adidas even though the only footprint we’re leaving is a large carbon one. Every little change counts, however. At my favorite tush-tightening exercise studio, Barre Motion, founder Julie Jacko encourages clients to recycle plastic bottles—refilling them from her Gr8Taste water cooler, which filters Miami Beach tap water—and maintains that she washes just one load of towels a day. But because Jacko also holds multiple PhDs in industrial and systems engineering, she says, “I have a big issue with recycling, because while people think they’re saving the planet, they’re not.” Better to not use plastic at all! It’s the thought that counts—or is it? We are, after all, surrounded by water: a dangerously fragile bay and an increasingly polluted ocean. It’s more than just a water-bottle epidemic; it’s a way-of-life epidemic.

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