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.

Wavy Gravy, who was a figure of the peace, love and mud blowout that was Woodstock, who hung out with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, was a homey of the Grateful Dead and continues to be head of the famed Hog Farm commune where he lives with his wife and a gang of other aged hippies, is eating beef sliders at Wynwood Kitchen & Bar and reminiscing with his old pal, Miami publicist Susan Brustman.

Sushi master Nobu Matsuhisa operates 31 restaurants on five continents — in Beijing, Budapest, Cape Town, London, Melbourne, Moscow and more. He has published five cookbooks and acted in movies such as 1995’s Casino, 2002’s Austin Powers in Goldmember and 2005’s Memoirs of a Geisha.

In 1989, when Arsenio Hall broke into late-night television talk, the game was a lot simpler. There weren’t a gazillion cable networks making mincemeat out of the once-comprehensible ratings pie. There was no Facebook, no Twitter. The Internet itself wasn’t even a thing yet.

Richard Blanco, Barack Obama’s inaugural poet, doesn’t have to think too hard about where he wants to meet for an early lunch. He wants La Carreta on Calle Ocho.

For 8 years, photographer Sharon Socol had a backstage pass to top fashion shows in New York, Paris and Milan

Yardbird and Khong River House are just the beginning for Lime Fresh founder John Kunkel

Chef Kris Wessel’s set to put his laid-back Little River mark on the hip, South Beach dining scene

Elsa Patton, she of the unfortunate countenance and the quirky one-liners, the breakout star of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Miami and a poster child for that malady that afflicts too many plastic surgery enthusiasts — not knowing when to say when — is busting her daughter’s chops over lunch.

Dylan Lauren, daughter of Ralph Lauren and a sunnier, hipper incarnation of Willy Wonka, comes to the door of her bayfront suite at the Standard Hotel wearing a red camp dress and no shoes. She has just gotten off a plane, so she doesn’t have her usual stash of gummies and gumballs and cookies to share.

Chef Ralph Pagano has a new TV series

As a youngster, Myra Wexler was something of a Coral Gables socialite. Her father, Irving, was president of Muzak South Florida. Her mother, Reva, was a community leader involved with the National Council of Jewish Women and the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.

José Andrés, in a gleaming white chef’s coat drawing out blue eyes that dart here and there and never quite stop, because he never quite stops, is not happy with the yellowtail escabeche that has just landed on the table at Bazaar, his new South Beach restaurant at the arty Philippe Starck-designed SLS Hotel.

When Sony Pictures decided to scrap a planned fourth entry in director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man film series and start again from scratch, lots of big-name directors were considered for the job.