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Dr. Scott Ross Answers His Calling

Now he’s chief medical officer of Cleveland Clinic in Weston.

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Bill Feinberg’s profound impact on the local community extends far beyond a kitchen and bath business that’s celebrating 40 years.

Lifestyle Q&A: Marlins General Manager Kim Ng

The general manager of the Miami Marlins talks about lessons learned and the responsibility that comes with breaking a glass ceiling for women.

Leading the Way

As impressive as it’s been to see United Way of Broward County dive headfirst into the deep end of community challenges created by COVID-19 and its pandemic waves, there’s far more to the scope of its overall impact. That’s why it takes the better part of 50 pages in its 2022 directory just to touch

Q&A: Pete Townshend

Two years ago, The Who were set to play Hard Rock Live in Hollywood as part of their “Movin’ On” tour. Lifestyle was thrilled to snag an exclusive interview with Pete Townshend, the band’s iconic guitarist, for an April 2020 issue promoting the concert. So much for best-laid plans. COVID-19 put the entire live music

Lifestyle Q&A: Bill McKibben, Part 2

It’s been more than 30 years since The End of Nature was published. Can you contrast the interest, awareness and pushback you encountered then compared to now? This is a crazy story. In 1989, when I published that book, people were like, “Yes, let’s get on this.” And I don’t just mean environmentalists. The Republican

Lifestyle Q&A: Bill McKibben, Part 1

The 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference didn’t exactly have Bill McKibben doing a happy dance. The man who literally wrote the book on climate change—The End of Nature, published in 1989, introduced people around the globe (it’s appeared in 24 languages) to the subject 17 years before Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, won

Lifestyle Q&A: Ana ViegaMilton, Part 2

The wife of Cecil Milton—CEO of United Property Management, the firm launched in 1976 by his late father, José, that oversees some 9,000 residential units—may lead a life with its share of blessings, but rarely does a day go by where she isn’t actively paying it forward. Indeed, the quest to better people’s lives is

Lifestyle Q&A: Ana ViegaMilton, Part 1

The United Way of Miami had organized a bus tour of the city for a group of philanthropists who had donated $10,000 or more to the organization. Though it was a sightseeing trip of sorts, Ana ViegaMilton still couldn’t believe her eyes. “They showed us how I-95, instead of going straight, was designed to curve

Lifestyle Q&A: Rebecca Fishman Lipsey, Part 2

As CEO and president of the region’s philanthropic backbone—a community foundation that oversees an endowment with some $400 million in assets—Rebecca Fishman Lipsey works with 30 full-time staffers (and 20 board members) to identify issues important to Miami and to the foundation’s funding partners. But in a major metropolitan area with so many needs, it’s

Lifestyle Q&A: Rebecca Fishman Lipsey, Part 1

In another life, perhaps Rebecca Fishman Lipsey would have topped the Billboard charts by now as a singer/songwriter. After college, while living in New York City, she’d perform original material behind the piano at open mic nights in Greenwich Village. She describes the songs as “soulful, jazzy, and bluesy, with a touch of angry chick

The Undisputed Champion, Part 2

In the second part of this online version of the Lifestyle Q&A, Monica Skoko Rodríguez, executive director/program officer of Miami-Dade County Commission for Women, weighs in on everything from gender equity to COVID-related issues that have disproportionately affected women. For our full interview with the impressive 30-year-old, click on one of the digital editions of