South Florida is a place of sunshine, fresh produce and a healthy simple lifestyle. But once a year when Art Basel comes to town a darker more sinister climate descends upon the swamp like a heavy fog of doubt and dare i say debauchery and delirium.

The service was good and the views are unparalleled. As it is well off the main road, the water views are quiet, peaceful and are a good reminder of why the Keys are such a wonderful place to live (or visit).

Would I go back? In a heartbeat.

You’re a seasoned live painter. How do you prepare? Do you ever get nervous?

Painting is my passion. Usually I gesso my canvas to prepare for painting. Gesso is applied to smooth the surface in order to ensure an easy and level painting area. Once this is done, I like to sketch the general dimensions of whatever subject that I am painting. On two occasions in my art career I found myself nervous. The first time, I was painting for a charity event in front of about 60 people, and I could barely hold my brush. I was shaking so badly I had to stop and take a break. Thank goodness I had a friend to calm me down from the anxiety attack. The other time I was painting for an Art Nouveau event in West Palm, and the cure was a PBR and a few cigarettes. But overall, I find painting for an audience to be an engaging experience. The vibe is positive when you have great feedback, and the rush is rewarding.

Musicians’ union members plan to distribute leaflets at a concert Friday night in Fort Lauderdale of the South Florida Symphony to protest the struggling orchestra’s failure to pay musicians for previous concerts.

Jeffrey Apana, secretary-treasurer of Local 655 of the American Federation of Musicians, said the orchestra still owes musicians about $25,000 in wages and travel costs for concerts last season. He said the orchestra recently made payments to musicians of $200.

I hope that Sound Bite will be a notebook, a workshop and a conversation about food in South Florida. It’s where Nancy and I will share sights and sounds of food in South Florida and our collected scraps as we work on new projects. It’s also where we invite you to help us answer the question, “What does South Florida taste like?” and to share your thoughts, ideas and photos.

According to Soto he wanted to, in a public arena “break the barrier of how people set aside their own space.” When folks go to the beach, the towel is their real estate for the day. He said, “I wanted to subvert that with a big ass one that is for everybody. It’s everybody’s beach towel.”

In the end, though, EVA & ADELE identify foremost as living art, as suggested by their catchphrase: “Wherever we are is museum.”

The fact that wherever they are is often actually a museum is besides the point. EVA & ADELE are worth the price of admission.

It's got an old-world elegance about it, sort of the 1920s. At least, that's what I get from seeing the bar and the main dining room layout, a vison of designer Francois Frossard, the master artist behind Miami Beach's The Forge, Liv and Arkadia.

The list of failures is long: the administration failed to be more aggressive pushing for a stimulus, it failed to demand, much less get, an equity stake in the banks you and I paid to bail out, it failed to do anything at all meaningful to help underwater homeowners, and did next to nothing to punish anyone responsible for the financial debacle economically — much less criminally. Those are clear, real failures, they were not (with the possible exception of the stimulus which required Republican support that certainly could not have been guaranteed even with a more confrontational strategy) hard to foresee nor all that hard to prevent. Nor, unlike the underlying economic problem itself, are any of them things you can blame on George W. Bush.

That the GOP seems poised to choose its nominee between someone utterly unprincipled and someone crazy and dangerous as well as unprincipled, suggests Obama may be lucky. That luck may get him re-elected. It’s a certainty that if re-election happens, it won’t be because of his handling of the economic crisis.

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