Swelter

Lots of them lately in South Beach society, an eternal inevitability much marveled at by London Times correspondent Peter Millar, in town to do a profile of the ever-fabulous Deco district. Millar awash in culture shock, and over the course of an exceedingly pleasant dinner at I Tre Merli, entertaining about a long weekend of clubbing: "It's so strange here. You have this very small, self-appointed, select group, spending every night together, and most of them seem to have absolutely no depth at all. And they're always writing about each other in this ridiculously glowing way. In England no one expects to read nice things about prominent people - the idea is to uncover stuff that people don't want known. But the scene here is so...masturbatory. Really, South Beach is just one big wank.