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Back story: Principal of her eponymous Miami Beach-based firm since 2001, Schwartz specializes in estate planning and probate, family formation (including adoption and surrogacy), name and gender marker changes, and counsel/services related to relationships and divorce. Over the past two-plus decades, she’s also been on the front lines of countless battles involving legal protections for

Elizabeth Schwartz is the first to admit that many would-be attorneys of her era probably had their epiphany to leave law school while listening to the Allman Brothers at the famed New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. But the South Florida native never has been one to play by everyone else’s rules. During her 1994

As the only operating halotherapy franchise in the United States, Salt Suite aims to spread the health benefits of halotherapy throughout its Palm Beach locations. Halotherapy, also known as salt therapy, entails sitting in immersive salt caves. The treatment is created through a halogenerator that replicates the therapeutic environment of salt mines to reduce the effects

Simbi, a female-founded fashion accessory brand with a mission of improving lives in Haiti, recently released its latest line of accessories for hair. The Swimbi Scrunchies collection is lightweight, non-bulky, and sewn out of quick-dry swimwear fabric. The newest product is a sleek version of a retro trend to serve as an essential accessory for

What are some of the critical needs that the LGBTQ community is facing right now? Jobin: In addition to elder isolation, I think that LGBTQ youth is going to be a real focus. There’s a mental health aspect for young people to be seeing their lives volleyed in the public square. You don’t realize what

Given its backstory as an overdue concept in South Florida, it’s no surprise that a community foundation created to unite donors with nonprofit organizations that support LGBTQ initiatives has wasted no time making an impact. A little more than a decade after five founding members launched it in 2011, Our Fund Foundation already is the

By Nick Moschella It’s less than a month to showtime, and Michael Goodman is experiencing a dose of diva-like anxiety. Do his pumped-up cheekbones need another shot of filler? Will Botox relax his furrowed forehead? Is he skinny enough to strut through a rack of skin-revealing outfits? Oh, how Michael Dean as Cher wishes he

The Gabriel Miami is now offering brewery tours around Miami as part of its partnership with Miami Brew Bus to provide Beer Concierge to its hotel guests. The collaboration allows people staying at the five-star hotel to take tours to breweries and bars in Miami in a vintage VW van.  The patrons are guided through the local brewery

The Easton Rooftop Pool & Lounge recently hired Warren Zinn as Food and Beverage Asset Director of Prime Group, the owner of the Fort Lauderdale venue and Mubashir “Mo” Qureshi as General Manager of The Easton Rooftop.  “We had a national executive search to find these two highly qualified gentlemen for our ever-growing customer base at

It’s not as if the LGBTQ+ community needs further reminders that they’re under siege, even here in what should be the friendly confines of South Florida. Even in 2022, two years after the Supreme Court agreed in Bostock v. Clayton County that non-discrimination based on sex—as stated in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights

Legends Tavern & Grille recently opened its sixth location in South Florida with the launch of its Palm Beach Gardens location on May 20. The neighborhood gastropub offers food and craft beers to produce a lively dining experience.  “We’re beyond thrilled to open our first Legends Tavern and Grille location in Palm Beach County, an area

Three monthly magazines published by Lifestyle Media Group have been recognized in nine categories as Charlie Award finalists—for a total of 10 awards—by the Florida Magazine Association. Each magazine will be honored with either a first (Charlie), second (silver), or third (bronze) prize for each citation. South Florida Business & Wealth (sfbwmag.com) nabbed five finalist