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Real Deal Launches South Florida Edition

The Real Deal magazine this month launched a South Florida edition. The flagship New York edition has been around since March 2003; and much of the business side, including all of the production, of the South Florida edition, currently at 48 pages, will remain out of New York as well. (Full disclosure: I was an editor at the New York one for nearly two years.) The South Florida Real Deal has eight employees so far, including one salesperson.

As to whether this is the best time to launch a real estate magazine there, given South Florida's famously imploding housing market, Real Deal founder and publisher Amir Korangy emailed me this statement on Monday afternoon:  read more »

In New ‘Quality TV,’ Dark Is New Light: CSI-ing of America

David Caruso.
Robert Voets/CBS
David Caruso.

Did you realize that, according to the BBC, CSI: Miami—the one starring David Caruso—is  read more »

Making Faces: At the Met, Middle Age’s Stony Features

<i>Head of an Apostle</i>, ca. 1280-1300.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Cloisters Collection
Head of an Apostle, ca. 1280-1300.

It sounds like a medical procedure you’d hope to avoid, or like something you’d see in a  read more »

Celebrity, Real Estate, Fashion— Oh, and Art—in Miami Beach

Shopping break? A quiet spot at Art Basel Miami Beach, the Mother of All Art Fairs.
Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Art Basel
Shopping break? A quiet spot at Art Basel Miami Beach, the Mother of All Art Fairs.

Few people play the zipper quite like Ken Butler.  read more »

Toni, Greg Make Sunshine

In the annual festival of humidity, it’s hot enough without so many dismal movies polluting the oz  read more »

Hillary: A Job America Has To Do

We cannot cede sovereignty over critical infrastructure like our ports. This is a job that America has to do.
-Hillary at a Miami fundraiser earlier today, reports NBC.

Hillary is scheduled to attend the Jewish Community Relations Council's legislative breakfast this Sunday at the 92nd Street Y.

Maybe there will be an encore performance of this part of her speech.

--Azi Paybarah

Zut Alors! Zey Hate Us!

Pierre Battu, frisky Frenchman of the New York night.
Nina Roberts
Pierre Battu, frisky Frenchman of the New York night.

On a recent frosty Tuesday night, taxi doors slammed as people piled out and streamed towards Pacha,  read more »

Where the ‘It’ Boys Are

Last week at Art Basel Miami Beach, any nervous talk of an art bubble was drowned out by the roar of  read more »

Where the 'It' Boys Are

Last week at Art Basel Miami Beach, any nervous talk of an art bubble was drowned out by the roar of  read more »

Noah and the Wonder Class

Somewhere uptown, a mother is standing in a pediatrician’s office.  read more »

Noah and the Wonder Class

Somewhere uptown, a mother is standing in a pediatrician’s office.  read more »

Media Mob Mailbag

Readers write:

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Subject: Luther Vandross Funeral

Hi, will Luther's funeral be re-aired anytime this week, and if so, what time? Thank you.

- P.T., Miami, Florida

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Subject: Video of Luther Vandross Funeral

For those of us who are big fans of his and do not live in NY, how do we get a video of Luther's funeral?

- S.H.

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UPDATE: Reader questions answered!

Armory But Not Dangerous

If last week's contemporary art fair, the Armory Show, and its 162 galleries is any sampling of the  read more »

It's All Greek to Me

"I was born with a charisma!" Cyprus-born singer Anna Vissi declared.  read more »

For Crobar Party Maven,'04 Race Was Woodstock II

It was Election Night 2004, and in the massive and spanking-new Miami-import nightclub Crobar, Lee B  read more »

Harvard's Know-Nothing Sounds the WASP Alarm

Sam Huntington rides again!Sam is the Harvard professor who, from time to time, puts on his Paul Rev  read more »

Crime Blotter

Gutsy Gal Busts a Move AndMakes Off With New Bosom  read more »

Community Boards

Flatiron B.E.D.-Fellows:Board O.K.'s Chairless Lounge  read more »

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 22nd We think hosting a breakfast to celebrate a new diet book is like holding an A.A.  read more »

Something About South Beach-Where to Be Nude, Classy

"It's just so much easier to be a pig in Miami," a recently transplanted New Yorker told me.  read more »

Women Confront Latest Idea of 'High Maintenance'

With 2001 upon us, I've heard much talk of "time capsules,"selected artifacts to be stored and studi  read more »

Old-Fashioned Necking at a Modern Supper Club

White refrigerator trucks were pulling out of the building next door as we walked past a couple of b  read more »

Is a Passive Populace Government's True Goal?

In the last two weeks, Mayor Giuliani has been like a train station in which several lines of argume  read more »

Janet Reno Fumbles Again

With the pre-dawn Miami raid now etched in the minds of citizens around the world, U.S.  read more »

Healing Elián

Now that wiser heads have prevailed, and 6-year-old Elián Gonzalez is likely to soon be back where  read more »

Celebrations of Diversity Ignore Questions of Loyalty

Of late, we have been treated to a continuous spouting and fuming emanating from the general directi  read more »

Little Elián's Still Not Safe From the Sharks

Some winter days are so bleak I feel as if I am the groundhog's shadow willing itself to be visible.  read more »

Portrait of the Artist at 63: A New Chapter for Frank Stella?

If there is one art gallery that has controlled most of the heavy-hitting contemporary artists in re  read more »

The Hamptons Menace? Jason Binn Is Everybody's New Best Friend

Donald Trump stammered when asked if Jason Binn, the 31-year-old publisher of Hamptons , Ocean Drive  read more »

Van Gundy: Warrior in Nebbish Clothing

In Miami, not long before the start of Game 2, Walt (Clyde) Frazier, symbol of faded New York Knick  read more »

Rescued From Years of Decline, Joe Allen Is the Joint-Again

Restaurants aren't just about food. They are also about having fun.  read more »

The U.S. Export to the Biennale; A SoHo Art Scene in Miami

Since it was first organized in 1895, the Venice Biennale has been one of the main events of the art  read more »