Subject: Fontainebleau

• News Roundup

  LocalFather Lay Minister Cutié gave his first sermon as an Episcopalian, and apparently his old Church is a little pissed he's made such a big deal about the switch. [USAToday]No, but seriously. It's not a good week for the Catholic Church in Miami. They'll be closing 13 churches. [Herald]An amber alert had been issued for a two year old boy, but authorities have found the child with his mother. [CBS4]The Florida Democrats had a big fancy party at the Fontainebleau. [JaxObse

  June 1, 2009

• SoBe Wine/Food Fest Tix Go On Sale

  October 24, 2008

• Celebrities Come Out for the Fontainebleau's Reopening

  I think you’ll agree that the following pictorial essay, although composed of just four photos, provides a concise overview of The Fontainebleau’s dazzling opening party on Friday evening. In fact, perusing these snapshots is almost like being there. Without the champagne and cocktails, that is. And sans the shellfish buffet of lobsters, stone crabs, jumbo shrimp, clams, mussels, ceviches, and so forth. Come to think of it, you won’t get to savor the hand-crafted pastries and confections o

  November 16, 2008

• Over the Weekend - Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Shine 3 Year Anniversary and Joe Jackson

  What's up with the sudden chill? It ruined our plans to hangout poolside on Sunday with plenty of stiff drinks to go around. Well, the drinking still happened, but we were bundled up indoors. The biggest news this weekend, of course, was the reopening of the Fontainebleau Hotel. Plenty of celebrities, including A-listers like Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and P. Diddy, were all spotted in the Magic City over the weekend. And yes, plenty of F-listers like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton were

  November 17, 2008

• Report Says Miami is Full of (Broke) Ballers

  Image via Little Miss Sunshine.'s flickr/CCMaybe Riptide has been living off of spaghetti and buying beer with couch change for too long. Maybe seeing the parade of Hummers and yachts in South Beach rubs salt in the wound. Maybe. Because it's not very nice. It's kind of mean, actually, that a recent study gives us such an enormous amount of catty pleasure. A few days ago, Forbes Magazine and Equifax Credit announced the top American cities guilty of overspending. They looked at the 50 largest u

  June 1, 2009

• Fontainebleau Spends Sexily

  The Fontainebleau's marketing department is one entity that seemingly won't need a bailout anytime soon. Last weekend's festivities certainly must have cost a pretty penny, and inserting a 16-page booklet into December's Vanity Fair doesn't come cheap. The thing is supposed to be a calendar, but basically is just semi-erotic shot after semi-erotic shot of a single sultry model overlaid with tiny number and months. In fact, it's not even clear that they're advertising a hotel. There're few words,

  November 26, 2008

• Diddy Will Deny The Bearcat's Fancy Hotel Stay

  It is football day here on Riptide apparently, so we'll keep this post short. The Cincinnati Bearcats will be playing in the Orange Bowl on New Years Day against Virginia Tech (a game the Canes, theoretically, could be playing in if they didn't have such a deep commitment to ruining everything). So they made hotel arrangements, and decided to go full out for rooms at the Fontainebleau. Yeah, a hotel on the beach that just got a $1 billion face lift. How thrifty! Problem is P. Diddy will be ho

  December 30, 2008

• Second Chance For SoBe Wine & Food Tix

  This coming Monday morning, January 12th, a second block of tickets for previously sold out events will go on sale. So if you were bummed at being shut out of Rachael Ray's Burger Bash or The Best of the Best at the new Fontainebleau, you've been given a second shot. You can get your tix  at www.sobewineandfoodfest.com or by telephone at 877-762-3933. The Festival takes place February 19th through the 22nd. --Lee Klein

  January 9, 2009

• Bill Clinton Charms the Fontainebleau

  As easy as he is to mock with decades-old jokes, we've got to hand it to Bill Clinton -- the dude can warm a room like Wayne Newton on crystal meth.  Not that last night's Fontainebleau crowd was a hostile audience. About 300 of Miami's glitterati -- among them sunglass mogul and philanthropist Sanford Ziff, who just looks like money, former Heat baller and consummate good guy Alonzo Mourning, Mayor Manny Diaz, and Schools Superintendent Alberto "Don't Shave" Carvalho -- packed a dining room f

  January 9, 2009

• Head Spins: DJ Vertigo

  Like the architecture degree he keeps sequestered, and the dizzying heights implied by his name, DJ Vertigo structures some truly classic nights on the town. Sure, the head spinner's using sound, rather than steel and concrete, to create what he envisions. But that doesn't make the edifices any less enduring, or formidable.Born and raised right in Lauderdale, with bouts at both UM and FIU under his belt, DJ Vertigo's been putting the BPM back and forth between Dade and Broward for nine years

  January 27, 2009

• Edifice Rex

  October 20, 1993

• Winter Music Conference Event Listings

  March 26, 2009

• Winter Music Conference Event Listings

  March 19, 2009

• Fischerspooner DJ Set

  March 12, 2009

• Batty over Gotham

  January 15, 2009

• Miami Beach's New Fontainebleau Set to Debut

  A billion bucks later, the home of the stars is back.

  November 6, 2008

• Salsa That You Dip

  No chips necessary at the Miami Salsa Congress.

  July 31, 2008

• Shake It Like Your Favorite Condiment

  July 24, 2008

• Crazy Delicious

  March 2, 2006

• Play It as It Lays

  July 21, 2005

• The Life in Nightlife

  August 8, 2002

• BEST LOCAL LANDMARK

  May 16, 2002

• Mambo Years

  November 15, 2001

• "I Rode for Lansky"

  August 30, 2001

• Best Piano Man

  May 17, 2001

• Schmooze It or Lose It

  March 9, 2000

• Oh No, He Can't!

  March 2, 2000

• The Slap of Luxury

  July 8, 1999

• Isn't He Lovely?

  November 12, 1998

• The Fidel Fixation

  April 17, 1997

• Uncommon Law

  November 7, 1996

• King of Clubs

  July 25, 1996

• Skin Deep

  March 21, 1996

• When the Beach was Hot

  February 3, 1993

• Baby, It's Côte Outside

  The Miami Beach RivieraThe Fontainebleau's heralded Hakkasan opening perhaps overhadowed another of the hotel's newly debuted eateries, La Côte. Inspired by the Côte d'Azur (as opposed to the Côte d'Jersey), this seaside beach club and restaurant (with open-air second level) offers guests "the flavorful cuisine of the French Riviera" -- plus a DJ inspired bar scene with cocktails and tapas-style snacks, and a Rosé wine bar developed by master mixologist MIchael MacDonell (didn't he used to b

  April 23, 2009

• For the Fashionably Conscious

  April 30, 2009

• The Great Miami Restaurant Bubble of 2009

  We alluded to the bubble in this column yesterday. Here is a list of many, maybe most, but certainly not all of the mid-to-high end restaurants that have opened over the past 6 months (actually, the majority are fairly expensive). We're leaving out lower end ethnic joints, pizza places, and the like (except for a couple of high-profile low-enders like Bulldog and 8-Ounce). Read into the list as you will. I think it adds up to trouble ahead.Area 31; Sra. Martinez; Meat Market; 1 Blue at The Regen

  May 5, 2009

• News Roundup

  Local The Fontainebleau has decided to tone down its sexy image to attract families. A little less Dirty Hairy, a little more dirty diapers. [Herald] Costumes officials found bottles of "snake wine." Which is basically posionous snakes stuffed inside bottle of alchohol, and then served. [NBCMiami] A Father Cutié article from the Times. Low on new information, but well written. [NYTimes] Do you really want to read a longer, serious article about Paris Hilton being sUed? [AP] The Real Estate ex

  May 7, 2009

• Section of the Roof at the Fontainebleau Hotel Collapses

  via Alfred Spellman's TwitpicWe aren't entirely sure what has happened, but Twitter updates from Cocaine Cowboys producer Alfred Spellman indicate that a piece roof in the lobby at the Fontainebleau Hotel, near the entrance to LIV, has caved in. The area has been roped off and sandbagged presumably in order to prevent water from rushing into the downstairs Blade restaurant. The damage to the hotel comes as a surprise, considering it just went under a $1 billion makeover.If you are currently stay

  June 5, 2009

• Weekend Restaurant Weather Report: As Nobu, Blade Sushi Sink... BLT, Sosta Swim

  NBC McFlood. Can you blame me for not heading over MacArthur to snap my own pics?When things got a little more wet and wild than usual on South Beach this weekend, some restaurants rose to the occasion thanks to lucky locations, while others were bogged down in high waters.  And the Miami Twittersphere tweeted both real and rumor.The Shore Club's Nobu was said to have taken on two feet of water, and the roof incident at the Fontainebleau rendered Blade Sushi soggy, even "destroyed" a

  June 8, 2009

• News Roundup

  LocalOnce-great writer visits once-great newsroom. [Herald]The death of two infants in March at Miami Children's Hospital is being blamed on bad plumbing that spread a virus. [NBCMiami]More poll numbers confirm what everyone knows: There is a snowball's chance in Hell that Marco Rubio is going to win the primary. [NakedPolitics]$15K is being offered to anyone who has information about a Florida panther shooting that happened in April. [CBS4]Well, this is nice. Mayor Manny Diaz gets to be on a 16

  June 10, 2009

• Diary of a Flasher: Underwater Adventures at the Fontainebleau

  photo by JipsyTo read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. There's a side of me people hardly ever see, simply because I am old enough to understand the business and the attitudes people carry. Like me or not, if I get hired to do a job, get out of my way and have the decency to respect what I do and the people who hired me to do so.I try to be a lady and keep my domineering streak in check. But by nature, I can easily snap, especially when I am being stopped from doing the job t

  June 12, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: "Carl On" by DJ Chachi, at LIV on June 26

  It would be enough of an accomplishment if 24 - year - old DJ Chachi simply spun at Tenjune -- after all, it is one of the Big Bad Apple's hippest hotspots. But that's not nearly enough for this go-getter, who also counts to his credit residencies at both Mur.Mur in the Borgata in Atlantic City and Shrine in the MGM Grand in Foxwoods, Connecticut. And then there's that AOL radio show (tuned into by apparent millions), as well as an onslaught of celebrity head-spinning, for everyone from Paris to

  June 15, 2009

• A High Degree of Liquidity

  July 2, 2009

• Rye Rye Cancels Tour Appearances

  Poplife has confirmed Baltimore club-hop artist Rye Rye has canceled the remainder of her U.S. dates; no specific reason was given. She was scheduled to appear at yesterday's Just Add Water pool party at Blade at the Fontainebleau and Wednesday at LIV's Dirty Hairy party.

  July 6, 2009

• News Roundup

  LocalGeorge Novack, Jr., son of the Fontainebleau's original owner and a Ft. Lauderdale convention planner, was found beaten to death in his hotel room in New York City. [USAToday]A North Miami Beach imam is facing deportation, so he's reaching out to Kendrick Meek. [Herald]The express lanes on I95 are not attracting as much traffic as anticipated. [SFBJ]The top 20 money grabber for in state races for the previous quarter. [NakedPolitics]We haven't checked in with Herald columnist Jackie Bueno S

  July 14, 2009

• News Roundup

  Ben Novak, murdered prince of the Fontainebleau, once claimed his wife tried to have him killed. They got back together, though, but now he is mysteriously dead. [Herald]Three Miami residents are accused of buying pills from Medicaid patients and then selling them out of state. [SunSent]The teen who killed his city commissioner dad says the shooting was an accident. [Herald]Marc Anthony, the thing J.Lo keeps around the house and calls her husband, might buy into the Fins. [NBCMiami]The Great

  July 17, 2009

• WSJ: Fontainebleau on the Verge of Defaulting On Huge Loan

  It's been a tough summer for Miami Beach's most iconic hotel. via Wikimedia Commons ​The global Arma-recession has grounded flocks of would-be vacationers at home in Hamburg and Milwaukee and Bogota. A massive storm collapsed the roof at LIV. And Ben Novack Jr., heir to the Fontainebleau fortune, got himself murdered in New York, keeping the hotel's name in the news for all the wrong reasons (unless you're trying to attract the amputee porn crowd.) Now comes a rep

  September 4, 2009

• News Roundup

  WTVJ has found a replacement for Julia Yarbough. Meet Kevin Corke, former national correspondent for NBC as well as a SportsCenter anchor. [SFLTV]Should we save Miami Marine Stadium, or should we let it be a cute place for raccoons to hang out? [AP]President Obama will be in town Monday attending a fundraiser at the Fontainebleau. [CBS4]Happy (belated) 19th anniversary, 2 Live Crew, for not getting thrown in jail for scarring white folk in Broward. [RandomPixels]The Republican candidate who happ

  October 20, 2009

• On the Presidential Menu: Health Care Reform and Sinking Chocolate Ball?

  Jackie SayetThe President's "Sinking Chocolate Ball"? Nah, this one's from Meat Market. ​Health care reform may not yet be a slam dunk for the President, but sinking was a theme on the menu at the Democratic Party fundraiser last night at the Fontainebleau Hotel on South Beach.A source present at the affair reports that guests enjoyed a three-course dinner, including tomato and eggplant terrine with white balsamic vinaigrette and goat cheese toast, filet mignon with wild mushrooms and gnocchi

  October 27, 2009