Chris Paciello

Miami Filmmakers Keeping Busy

Rags to Riches to Rags to A&E

SoBe Queen Shelley Novak Plots her Retirement

Networking

Bizarre Love Triangle: Madonna, A-Rod and Chris Paciello?

News Roundup

Sorry Mobster Is Sorry

Swelter 20

Social Promotion

Empire Events parties attract the high rollers and boldface names who are the life force of clubland

Letters from the Issue of April 15, 2004

Empire Events parties attract the high rollers and boldface names who are the life force of clubland

The Hard Fall

Money and glitz made Richard Bronson a South Beach luminary, a memory he now ponders in prison

Tracy's Tempest

Tracy Young is the biggest circuit DJ in Miami. What's next?

Still in the Hood

Can Ray "Benzino" Scott's new hip-hop club survive his reputation?

BEST CLUB TO DIE IN THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS

Liquid

All Shook Up

Outgoing music editor looks back on three years in the life of Miami's music

Lounge Wizard

DJ Ursula 1000 swings home triumphant

A Midsummer Night's Scheme

Miami Beach is a party town, so the party must go on -- no matter what

BEST PULP FICTION

Mob Over Miami

By Michele McPhee

Can't Knock the Hustle

Hip-hop is South Beach's new problem child -- culturally potent and very, very profitable

The Comeback Kid Does South Beach

Angry Jewish machers, a SoBe club mogul, and Bill Clinton in the middle

BIG Names

When opening a hot new restaurant, be sure to CAP it

A Rumi Rumination

Rumors of its debut have been greatly exaggerated

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of March 29, 2001

Goon Over Miami, Part 4

South Beach clubland tough guy Chris Paciello may soon show himself to be not so tough after all

The Education of Shawn Lewis

Lesson #1: Hard work and an aptitude for computers can make a young man rich. Lesson #2: Some rich young men take to South Beach like fish to water. Lesson #3: South Beach is the shark. A young man with money is the bait.

Foiling the Union

Raul Casares, Ingrid's dad, wobbles toward financial success

Riptide

Hung up over a goon

Best Bar To Model-Watch

The Living Room

Best Local Phantasmagoria

The Living Room

Best Hamburger

Morton's of Chicago

Riptide

Placards for the implacable

Dish

Not So Hot Spots

Goon Over Miami, Part 3

If Chris Paciello returns to South Beach, he'll find his empire in shambles and local cops hungry to arrest him

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of March 9, 2000

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of February 24, 2000

Goon Over Miami Part 2

Clubland king Chris Paciello ain't exactly a Mafia don. But it sure seemed he was headed that way.

Kulchur

Mob ties? Fine. Cheesy tunes ... criminal.

Riptide

Balls club blues: John Henry, Carroll Williams, and Ingrid Casares

Goon Over Miami

Chris Paciello, the dangerous darling of the SoBe nightlife set, has a reputation for fisticuffs. And mob ties.

Kulchur

Chaos in clubland

Deconstructing Tommy

How a Bensonhurst boy rose to the summit of South Beach's promotion biz

Conflict in Clubland

Streets lined with rowdies, fistfights, gunshots, cops in ski masks. Is this what an entertainment district is supposed to look like?

Swelter 32.10

Streets lined with rowdies, fistfights, gunshots, cops in ski masks. Is this what an entertainment district is supposed to look like?

Gerald Posner Plagiarized Several Passages in Miami Babylon, Author Says

Last month, when Miami Beach journalist Gerald Posner got caught lifting from the Miami Herald in stories he wrote for the Daily Beast, he blamed the "warp speed" of the Internet. Photo by Bill Cooke Gerald Posner​So what's his excuse for plagiarizing at the presumably snail pace of book wr ... More >>

Gerald Posner plagiarizes again, this time at book speed

Last month, when Miami Beach journalist Gerald Posner got caught lifting from the Miami Herald in stories he wrote for the Daily Beast, he blamed the "warp speed" of the Internet. Photo by Bill Cooke Gerald Posner​So what's his excuse for plagiarizing at the presumably snail pace of book wr ... More >>

Exclusive: Keith Paciello Becomes a Full Partner at Rokbar

Keith Paciello has become a full partner at Rokbar. ​Good news for all of you Bella Rose fans out there: Keith Paciello has become a full partner at Rokbar on South Beach. Expect the same laidback, anything-goes experience now that Paciello has taken over creative control at the Collins Avenue wat ... More >>

Rokbar taps Keith Paciello as its new creative director

Keith Paciello has become a full partner at Rokbar. ​Good news for all of you Bella Rose fans out there: Keith Paciello has become a full partner at Rokbar on South Beach. Expect the same laidback, anything-goes experience now that Paciello has taken over creative control at the Collins Avenue wat ... More >>

Finding MiMo

Keith Paciello has become a full partner at Rokbar. ​Good news for all of you Bella Rose fans out there: Keith Paciello has become a full partner at Rokbar on South Beach. Expect the same laidback, anything-goes experience now that Paciello has taken over creative control at the Collins Avenue wat ... More >>

Florida Room at the Delano Closing at the End of the Year UPDATED

Say goodbye to the lucite piano at the Florida Room.​As reported today on our food blog, Short Order, the Delano's basement bar and lounge, the Florida Room, will be closing right before the new year. We had heard rumors that the Lenny Kravitz-designed space was facing closure, but this is the fir ... More >>

Limelight: Billy Corben's new documentary screens at O Cinema

Say goodbye to the lucite piano at the Florida Room.​As reported today on our food blog, Short Order, the Delano's basement bar and lounge, the Florida Room, will be closing right before the new year. We had heard rumors that the Lenny Kravitz-designed space was facing closure, but this is the fir ... More >>