For more than four decades, Ofelia Fox and Rosa Sanchez always shared a car. They could easily have afforded two cars, but driving places separately would have robbed them of time together.
Miami Beach author Gerald Posner is known for plunging into a juicy investigation the way a pit bull goes after bloody meat. He can be obsessive, relentless. So can his wife Trisha, who researches alongside him. It helps that Posner was a Wall Street lawyer for a time. There is no impenetrable pile of court records that can put him off.
Maryel Epps is at the mike, eyes closed, tambourine beating against her hip, voice climbing to the heavens. This isn't church. Not by a longshot. This is Sunday brunch on South Beach.
Veteran TV journalist Fernando del Rincón got his start in Mexico when he was just 16, scraping to become an anchor of TV Azteca's national news before landing an even bigger dream job: A gig in the United States as co-host of Primer Impacto, Univision's investigative news magazine show.
Black clouds charge across Indian Creek Island on the morning that Miami architect Rene Gonzalez visits the construction site of his latest project -- a sleek, eye-poppingly expensive house that is so vast it could almost double as a resort.
You're a South Beach player. You're living the music video with your slick ride and your sick pad. You have made-for-TV looks, too. The girls want you. The boys want you. Well, maybe not all of them, not all the time. But you go through life operating as if they did. Even better, you have VIP-room carte blanche, proof you're all that.
This has to be a rare moment at Sonia's Seafood Market & Restaurant, the boisterous, only-in-Miami fish joint on an unglamorous canal off Calle Ocho.
Spirituality guru Deepak Chopra has just checked into his room at Casa Casuarina, Gianni Versace's winter palazzo-turned-hotel/party venue. He has been put up in the Safari room, he tells you when you meet down by the mosaic-bottomed pool, and he's trying to get over the fact that he's going to have to spend the night there.
Bobby Flay, the native New Yorker who champions Southwestern cuisine and made his name by elevating chile peppers, cilantro and corn, may put his culinary career on the back burner one of these days, he says.
It's hard to believe Ina Garten ever worked for the government, given her straightforward style. The Barefoot Contessa is not into complicating things.
Everything goes dark as you drive through rows of dramatic Easter Island-inspired columns to get to the valet at Icon Brickell, the newest project by über developer Jorge Perez featuring madcap opulence by famed, Paris-born designer Philippe Starck.
Antonio Banderas, casual in a long-sleeve T and olive cargo pants, is being bad. He is in the middle of a long press day, talking to one reporter after another about his role as the suave (if hairball-hacking) Puss In Boots in Shrek the Third, which opened Friday.
Halle Berry looks flawless even with the harsh noon sun invading her hotel suite. At 40, she can play characters much younger. But genetic blessings and an Oscar in 2002 for Monster's Ball are not enough to help her feel secure in Hollywood.
Paris Hilton, willowy in a floor-length dress, speaks in a certain sing-song that comes and goes as she munches on fruit at the Shore Club's Ago. She can so speak in that little girl high-pitched thing where everything ends, like, in a question mark? And she can speak straight, punctuating thoughts with periods, her voice a normal grown-up pitch.
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