Jean Carey

For nearly a decade, the giants of electronic dance music, a cold-blooded cadre mostly from northern Europe, lumbered across the earth. Tiësto, Paul van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, Seb Fontaine, Judge Jules, and Fatboy Slim dominated small suburban dance floors and Ibizan caverns with crafty disco assembled from chest-rattling bass lines...

So Art Basel is finally over, leaving in its book-fair-fatigued, film-festivaled wake a gasp of air before Winter Music Conference lethargy sets in. Barely a single installation, gallery, or wine-and-cheese reception was devoid of condescending hipster irony. In Miami Beach, limos did their regular thing, filling three parking spots and...

Following the ambitious (some would say exhaustive) disc that was 2005's George Is On, which featured the inescapable "Flashdance" single, the members of Washington, D.C.-based Grammy-winning duo Deep Dish are taking some amicable time apart to work on solo projects. But Ali Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi, though not particularly prolific...

Miami-Dade Animal Services faces an insurmountable task of education and control amid an unstaunchable flow of ignorance — the drama embodied by the 32,000-plus unwanted pets turned in to its shelter intake areas each year. (And those are just the dogs and cats that make it to the shelter; many...

Clothing in Miami is impermanent. There's the resurgence of Eighties-inspired punk gear, the sometimes sky- high hemlines, leopard prints, and rhinestone-speckled handkerchief tops. They're all like bottles of the new Beaujolais, to be consumed quickly and disposed of rapidly. Enter Karelle Levy, whose Krelwear line includes garments of lasting significance...