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The Luxe Life

As the Great Hotel War of 2006 looms, South Beach's Delano tries a new tack: Magic

By Brett Sokol
Oct 20, 2005

The Sanctuary hotel has a customized Bentley to whisk its guests around South Beach in style. The Ritz-Carlton offers a hunky poolside "tanning butler" to help schmeer sunscreen onto those hard-to-reach body parts. And, should musical inspiration strike in the wee hours, the $1000-a-night Setai features a Lenny Kravitz-designed recording...
Perception Is Reality

Drugs, guns, violence, beauty, style, and the illusory world of Miami Vice

By Brett Sokol
Oct 6, 2005

As father-and-son moments go, this one was downright surreal. Forget about Sunday-afternoon baseball games, weekend camping trips, or even a shared whoop of applause at a stadium rock concert. Instead, one grinning dad, sitting with his young son in the auditorium of downtown Miami's Hyatt Regency hotel, leaned over and...
Lotus-Eaters and Literati

Novelist Bret Easton Ellis has skewered the demimonde of Los Angeles and New York City. So what about South Beach?

By Brett Sokol
Sep 29, 2005

For all of University of Miami president Donna Shalala's talk about a new spirit of academic rigor, no one's going to mistake her school's palm-lined environs for Oxford anytime soon. Strolling across the Coral Gables campus last Friday, past fresh-faced coeds padding off to class in their flip-flops, shorts, and...
Beach Brawl

Money and ethnicity narrow the race for Miami Beach City Commission to two men

By Brett Sokol
Sep 22, 2005

Forget about calling it the American Riviera. When election season rolls around, Miami Beach begins looking less like a well-oiled resort town and more like Caracas, complete with all manner of backroom intrigue: anonymous flyers alleging anti-Semitism, cryptic Spanish-language radio ads intimating pro-Castro sympathies, and whispers of secret payoffs. The...
The Gaza Dialogues

With more than 100,000 Jews in Miami, it's no wonder the debate here is hot

By Brett Sokol
Aug 25, 2005

Labels matter. Just as one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, the tiny sliver of Middle Eastern land that some refer to as the "Occupied Territories" is to others an integral part of Israel. Indeed for a growing faction of Miami's Jewish community, even the term "West Bank" is...

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