The Miami Design District is a destination for luxury shopping and celebrity chef-driven restaurants, but with the Dec. 1 opening of the three-level Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, the northeast Miami neighborhood got a hefty boost as an arts district, too. Craig Robins, president and CEO of Miami-based real estate company Dacra, and the developer
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Ruth Pointer keeps the legendary sister act going She’s the last of the original Pointer Sisters, but, at age 71, Ruth Pointer says she still has energy to spare. And a lot of songs left to sing. In the early 1980s, the sisters from Oakland, California, had four consecutive top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits.
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Developer Jorge Perez, credited for creating Miami’s skyline, has a vision for South Florida in the next decade. He sees one connective region, from Miami all the way to Palm Beach—with Fort Lauderdale as the center of this universe. Perez’s Fort Lauderdale urban center would be a downtown, where people worked, lived and played. Walking,
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Twenty-two years. That’s almost half of 41-year-old Roben Farzad’s life. More than two decades ago, he beganhis research for a book, but the spark ignited even before that while he was a senior at North Miami Beach Senior High School. Farzad, who arrived as an immigrant by way of Iran, was selling frozen lemonade on the
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Emily Estefan saunters in to an office inside a deep-blue building on the corner of Jefferson Avenue in Miami Beach, clearly comfortable in her own skin. The building houses Estefan Enterprises, the hub for parents Gloria and Emilio’s multimedia company. Awards, letters of commendation to the Gloria Estefan charitable foundation, and tributes to the couple
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South Creek resident Alexis Mitchell didn’t know she’d spend her weekends imitating and singing almost every song made famous by Ann Wilson and the rock band Heart. But now, Mitchell is the lead singer of LifeLine, a tribute to the music of Heart. They’ll be performing at the Township Center for Performing Arts on Nov.
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South Florida’s public art is just as colorful and creative as its millions of residents. Craig Robins, an art collector and developer of Miami’s Design District, says public art “gives people a sense of place.” Developer Jorge M. Perez, who is responsible for Miami becoming the permanent home to “Awilda,” a 39-foot sculpture of a
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South Florida’s public sculptures have stories to tell South Florida’s public art is just as colorful and creative as its millions of residents. Craig Robins, an art collector and developer of Miami’s Design District, says public art “gives people a sense of place.” Developer Jorge M. Perez, who is responsible for Miami becoming the permanent
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Art Sotloff remembers the nightly video calls with his son, Steven, as if they were yesterday. “No matter where he was, in Syria or Turkey, in Egypt, we would talk, even if it was 3 or 4 in the morning here.” Steven and Art would chat about their favorite sports teams, the Miami Heat and
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Harlene Zweig remembers the special gifts her son Jacob possessed. One of his favorite pastimes was volunteering with Parkland Buddy Sports, helping special needs children. “He always treated everyone equally regardless of ability, or whether they were wealthy or not,” she says. “Whoever they were, whatever their status, he always made everyone feel like they
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Ask Suzi Fierstein Cruz if she’ll ever give up entertaining and she’ll tell you she already did it once—and isn’t ready to do it again anytime soon. The Coconut Creek resident performs in the musical duo Cruzin’ with her husband, Steve. She also performs a one-woman musical comedy act, which includes impersonations of everyone from
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Theater presents Broadway-style shows for 25 years Theatergoers in South Florida most likely can’t remember a time when Stage Door Theatre wasn’t presenting live theater in what was previously a cineplex behind a strip mall on Sample Road in Coral Springs. But Dee Wilson-Bunn says she’ll never forget the day her career changed from professional
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