It’s common to see star chefs, ballplayers, celebs of all sorts and a cross section of Miami powerbrokers lunching at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink in the Design District. What’s odd is to see Chef Michael Schwartz himself sitting down for a bite.

At the opening for Miami artist Jillian Mayer’s exhibition “Precipice/PostModem” at Locust Projects in the Design District, visitors were asked to do something that is never asked of them in traditional museums and galleries: Touch and interact with the art. For example, in the piece Swing Space, guests are invited to take a ride on one of four swings hanging from the roof of the gallery while they watch a projection of digitally manipulated cloud imagery in front of them. This came as a pleasant surprise to many of the art patrons who passed through the gallery’s doors, including freelance photographer Tesoro Carolina.

Brother Antwan Carl Walker, 27, ran under police crime-scene tape, spurring a struggle as officers tried pushing him away from the body.

A Miami developer plans a massive, privately financed new convention center and hotel on the site of the old Miami Arena downtown, but details remain scant.

Over 250 people attended the inaugural “Out of the Kitchen” Dinner & Silent Auction, held May 2 at the St. Regis Bal Harbour. The event, which featured top area chefs preparing food table-side for guests, netted $75,000 for Pride Outside: Building Better Playgrounds for Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbour K-8 Center.

Miami Dade College President Eduardo J. Padrón will be honored next month by the South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Property values are exploding and skyscrapers are rising in Edgewater, located at the intersection of funky and trendy. It’s the latest sign of a recharged real estate market.

Temaris or ball sushi — warm mounds of rice with thin-sliced toppings drizzled in spicy sauces — was almost impossible to find in South Florida until Temaris opened on Brickell.