Download or read book South Beach Star written by and published by Gramercy Park Press. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Beach Star is a modern day Valley of the Dolls set in South Beach. Life is sweet for Jamie Kidd, a thirty-something writer, till he wakes up one morning to discover that his lover has left town after cleaning out the bank account and leaving Jamie heartbroken, penniless, and somewhat suicidal. Jamie makes the entirely sensible, or so he believes, decision to escape to South Beach where he finds success and quasi-celebrity as a nightlife columnist for the SOUTH BEACH STAR, a weekly tabloid that covers the trendy South Beach scene and the celebrities that populate it. South Beach opens its arms to Jamie, who, like an actor taking on a new role, throws himself into his fabulous new lifestyle covering the notorious celebrity-studded party scene where nightly he mingles with beautiful shallow fashionistas, famous models, and wealthy jet-setters. His coveted lifestyle masks an out-of-control roller-coaster ride of late-night parties and photo-ops, fueled by a gradual addiction to crystal meth. Like many before him, Jamie loses control and falls victim to his fast lifestyle.

Download or read book South Beach Star written by James Cubby and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Beach Star is a modern day Valley of the Dolls set in South Beach.Life is sweet for Jamie Kidd, a thirty-something writer, till he wakes up one morning to discover that his lover has left town after cleaning out the bank account and leaving Jamie heartbroken, penniless, and somewhat suicidal. Jamie makes the entirely sensible, or so he believes, decision to escape to South Beach where he finds success and quasi-celebrity as a nightlife columnist for the SOUTH BEACH STAR, a weekly tabloid that covers the trendy South Beach scene and the celebrities that populate it. South Beach opens its arms to Jamie, who, like an actor taking on a new role, throws himself into his fabulous new lifestyle covering the notorious celebrity-studded party scene where nightly he mingles with beautiful shallow fash- ionistas, famous models, and wealthy jet-setters. His coveted lifestyle masks an out-of-control roller-coaster ride of late-night parties and photo-ops, fueled by a gradual addiction to crystal meth. Like many before him, Jamie loses control and falls victim to his fast lifestyle.

Download or read book South Beach Sizzle written by Suzanne Weyn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Enrique trying to win her over -- or just trying to win? Road trip! Lula Cruz has her last summer before college all mapped out. She's checking out of NYC and checking in to the sizzling hot "SoBe" scene with her best friend, Jeff. When their day jobs get to be a drag, they spice things up by entering a local band contest. And spicy it is! Turns out that the hottie Lula keeps running into is also her band's toughest competition! Enrique might seem like the perfect guy, but as things heat up Lula has to wonder: Can she trust her biggest rival with her heart?

Download or read book South Beach Love written by Caridad Pineiro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Hallmark Channel original movie!!! From New York Times Bestselling Author Caridad Piñeiro and Hallmark Publishing comes a story about rival quinceañeras, glorious Cuban cooking, friendship, family ties—and romance. Two chefs are catering the fifteenth birthday parties of two girls who are definitely not friends. Only one of the celebrations will be chosen to be featured in the local paper. And both chefs have something to prove. Tony Sanchez, the established executive chef of a New York restaurant, is on a long-overdue visit home to Miami. He’s committed to making the celebration the best it can be—for the sake of his niece, the rest of his family, and his reputation. Sara Kelly hadn’t known much about quinceañeras before she agreed to cater one for her niece. It’s a chance to both help her family and to promote her brand-new restaurant in Miami. From her Cuban sister-in-law, Sara learns about quince traditions, appreciating the meaning behind them. When Tony was growing up, Sara was his best friend’s little sister; now, he sees her in a very different light. But his last relationship with another chef ended in disaster…and Sara knows that, once the parties are over, he’ll be gone. Can either of them entertain the idea of a new romance? This irresistible romance includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Tres Leches Cake with Banana and Coconut.

Download or read book The South Beach Diet Supercharged written by Arthur Agatston, M.D. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides meal plans, easy-to-prepare recipes, workout and body-toning program, and additional research on the South Beach Diet including which foods are high in vitamins, minerals, and fiber.

Download or read book Fool s Paradise written by Steven Gaines and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows–a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s best works of social portraiture. Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up barrier reef, Miami Beach has always been one part drifter-mecca and one part fantasyland, simultaneously a catch basin for con men, fast-talk artists, and shameless self-promoters, and a Shangri-La for sun worshippers and hardcore hedonists. In Miami Beach it’s often said that "if you’re not indicted you’re not invited." But the city’s mad, fascinating complexity resists easy stereotyping. Fool’s Paradise is more than just a present-day profile of a dark Eden. Gaines journeys back into the city’s social and cultural history, unearthing stories of the resort’s past that are every bit as absorbing–and jaw-dropping–as those of its present. The book begins with a snapshot of the city’s current excess (this is, after all, a sun-washed hamlet that boasts, on a per capita basis, more bars–and breast implants–than any other place in America), then plunges into the Beach’s origins, chronicling the audacious rise of such hoteliers as the Fontainebleau’s Ben Novack and the Eden Roc’s Harry Mufson, the sharp-elbowed tactics of Al Capone and Frank Sinatra, and the Mac-10 shooting sprees of the Marielito and Colombian drug lords. From there, the narrative shifts to two wildly eccentric souls who gave their lives to preserving the city’s architectural dazzle and creating its color palette, introduces us to "the Most Powerful Man in Miami Beach," and arrives finally in the modern day, where we meet, among others, a kinky German playboy who once owned a quarter of South Beach and publicly flaunts his sexual escapades; a fabulously successful nightclub promoter whose addictive past seems to have given him a portal into the night world’s id; and a gaggle of young sexy models, dreamers, and schemers on a mission to achieve significance. Evoking the Beach’s surreal blend of flashy Vegas and old Hollywood glamour, as well as its manic desperation and reckless wealth, Gaines persuasively demonstrates that though the Beach is–in the words of its most famous drag queen–"an island of broken toys . . . a place where people get away with things they’d never get away with anyplace else," it casts an irresistible spell.

Download or read book Miami Beach written by Horacio Silva and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many as the country’s most dynamic, fastest growing and sexiest city, Miami is more popular than ever before. Yet, it is a city that doesn’t merely change but evolves, never rewriting the past, just adding to its illustrious heritage. And this is the real beauty of Miami. The chic Surf Club and the vibrant Faena Hotel did not replace the emblematic Raleigh of the 1940s nor the Ritz Carlton of the 50s, rather they complement them. Classics like Joe’s Stone Crab continue to serve their signature fare to sell-out crowds each night, as new establishments attract with name chefs. The iconic art deco architecture remains on full display as the modern Herzog & de Meuron-designed Perez Art Museum stands in stark contrast. Replete with arts and culture year round from the international art at The Bass to the street art of Wynwood Walls, each December, the city is taken over by the global cultural elite for Art Basel Miami Beach, a fair that attracts over 80,000 visitors who turn out for the momentous art, such as Maurizio Cattelan’s show stopping “Comedian”, and the exuberant festivities hosted each evening.

Download or read book The South Beach Diet written by Arthur Agatston and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned cardiologist discusses the importance of understanding the glycemic index values of foods and presents a weight-loss program that includes meal plans and recipes.

Download or read book The South Beach Diet Dining Guide written by Arthur Agatston and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide for those following the South Beach diet plan to food selections in all types of restaurants, ranging from chain and family to ethnic and fast-food, along with a cities guide for those having to dine during business travel.

Download or read book Ghetto Prophecy 7Th Street written by Malcolm A. Rowe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban street culture has since changed with the passing of the times. There is no such thing as respect, honesty, trustworthiness, or loyalty anymore. Most of these young street guys who are now running around controlling the hustle game has all but lost their moral integrity. Brothers are crossing their own brother while sisters are crossing damn near everyone, solely on the strength of their commitment to their baby daddies. There is no such thing as love anymore, at least not the deep-down-satisfying kind of love that sits on your heart and influences every single decision and action that one may think about making. There is no real reason for any street hustler to be celebrating the hustling lifestyle. A lifestyle that has brought the African American communities so much hurt and pain should not be looked upon as a thing of beauty by todays youth. It is crack, dope, pills, and weed smoke that has led todays youth down the wrong path and toward the pipe dream. With this novel, Ghetto Prophecy 7th Street: The Untold Story, I will be making a desperate attempt to bring the dysfunctional plight of a race of colored people who had so much hope and promise to the worlds stage. The sheer brilliance of the average street hustler is so amazing that the talent can only be compared to major business CEOs. Crack cocaine dens, well-thought-out business moves, calculated gestures, financial arrangements, and the strong stench of gun smoke are all things of the past. Todays modern-day hustler moves with such ease that there is an air of legitimacy hovering over his every move. Ghetto Prophecy 7th Street: The Untold Story will forever change the urban storytelling game. This remarkable, marvelous, emotionally gripping, thought-provoking street epic will be praised by mainstream society. This is a powerful Philadelphia story, so Philly readers definitely should not be left out of the loop.

Download or read book South Beach Suicide written by Lisa FORD and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mafia princess from Star Island kills herself, all hell breaks loose in South Beach. A celebrity blogger from Miami receives handwritten letters from everybody involved in Elena's death, including murderers and mobsters, then risks her own life making these letters public, to avenge her best friend's death by suicide.

Download or read book Shtetl in the Sun Andy Sweet s South Beach 1977 1980 written by Brett Sokol and published by DAP Artbook Editions. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forget the jokes about late ‘70s South Beach being the Yiddish-speaking section of “God’s Waiting Room”; yes, upwards of 20,000 elderly Jews made up nearly half of its population in those days — all crammed into an area of barely two square miles like a modern-day shtetl, the small, tightly knit Eastern European villages that defined so much of pre-World War II Jewry. But these New York transplants and Holocaust survivors all still had plenty of living, laughing and loving to do, as strikingly portrayed in Shtetl in the Sun, which features previously unseen photographs documenting South Beach’s once-thriving and now-vanished Jewish world — a project that American photographer Andy Sweet (1953–82) began in 1977 after receiving his MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a driving passion until his tragic death"--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Stories from South Beach written by Sunday Lee and published by Bouncing Ball Books Inc.. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday Lee's debut in fiction brings the reader into the glamorous and mundane life of Miami's South Beach. Using her humorous, rhetorical style, Lee ties visions of the high-life to the difficult reality of being a high school teacher at Hurricane High. Through the myriad of small revelations, Stories from South Beach tells of love's losses and gains that flow like the tide in the larger than life world of Miami Beach.

Download or read book HowExpert Guide to Celebrity Sightings written by HowExpert and published by HowExpert. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to turn your passion for celebrity spotting into unforgettable experiences? Whether you’re a casual fan or a dedicated enthusiast, HowExpert Guide to Celebrity Sightings: The Ultimate Handbook for Celebrity Spotting, Memorable Encounters, and Navigating Fame with Confidence and Respect is your definitive guide. Packed with insider tips, advanced techniques, and practical tools, this guide empowers you to navigate the world of celebrity sightings with confidence and respect. - Introduction: Discover how this guide will transform your celebrity encounters with strategic tips and a respect-based approach. - Chapter 1: The Celebrity Phenomenon - Explore the psychology behind celebrity fascination, different types of celebrities, and how fame shapes culture. - Chapter 2: Advanced Research Techniques - Learn expert methods for tracking celebrities in real-time using social media, event calendars, and mapping hotspots. - Chapter 3: Prime Locations for Celebrity Spotting - Identify top cities and hidden gems where you’re most likely to encounter celebrities, and maximize success at public events. - Chapter 4: Mastering the Art of Celebrity Spotting - Learn to spot celebrities discreetly by recognizing patterns, gaining access to exclusive locations, and staying under the radar. - Chapter 5: Confident and Respectful Approaches - Approach celebrities with confidence while maintaining ethical interactions, and handle rejection gracefully. - Chapter 6: Essential Tools for Success - Equip yourself with the best apps, gear, and advanced tips for capturing the perfect celebrity moment. - Chapter 7: Navigating Safety and Legal Boundaries - Stay within legal limits, manage crowd safety, and know when to step back to keep your spotting ethical. - Chapter 8: Insider Stories and Strategic Insights - Get inspired by success stories, close encounters, and expert advice from seasoned spotters. - Chapter 9: Building a Celebrity Spotting Network - Connect with fellow enthusiasts, share tips, and organize group events for greater success. - Chapter 10: Turning Your Hobby into Influence - Transform your passion into a platform through blogging, vlogging, and monetizing your celebrity encounters. - Chapter 11: Celebrity Spotting in the Digital Age - Explore the role of AI, social media algorithms, and virtual reality in celebrity tracking, and the future of AI in public relations. - Chapter 12: Advanced Interaction Strategies - Master the art of reading a celebrity's mood, building rapport, and getting the perfect photo respectfully. - Chapter 13: Understanding and Leveraging Celebrity PR - Gain insider knowledge on how celebrity PR works, using publicists to your advantage, and navigating endorsements. - Chapter 14: The Social Dynamics of Celebrity Sightings - Understand celebrity body language, group dynamics at events, and unspoken etiquette rules. - Chapter 15: The Psychology of Celebrity and Fan Interactions - Explore the mindset of celebrities, fan psychology, and power dynamics in celebrity-fan relationships. - Conclusion: Reflect on your journey, embrace personal growth through celebrity sightings, and explore future trends in celebrity spotting. - Appendices: Access practical tools, including planners, checklists, legal resources, and a glossary to support your adventures. With HowExpert Guide to Celebrity Sightings, you'll gain the confidence, knowledge, and skills to make every celebrity encounter memorable. Whether you're a beginner or sharpening your expertise, this guide empowers you to approach celebrity sightings with enthusiasm, respect, and a keen eye for detail. Start your star-studded adventure today and master the art of celebrity sightings! HowExpert publishes how to guides on all topics from A to Z.

Download or read book The Five Star Review written by Cat Ellington and published by Quill Pen Ink Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quill Pen Ink Publishing presents The Five-Star Review: A Collection of Cat Ellington’s Top-Rated Book Reviews from 1981-2021. Spanning 40 years of Cat Ellington’s work as a critic of literature, the reference features an alphabetized list highlighting all of her five-star reviews composed throughout that time. Part of the Cat Ellington Literary Collection, this stand-alone selection is an excellent read for both reviewers and book lovers alike.

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Florida written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in PDF format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Florida will lead you straight to the best attractions Florida has to offer, and provides the insider travel tips you need, whether you are making the most of the nightlife or discovering historic towns. Fully illustrated, it covers all the major cities and sights, from Miami Beach and the Florida Keys, to the Everglades, the Gulf Coast, and more. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Florida explores the culture, history, architecture, wildlife, beaches, and scenic walks. You'll find 3-D illustrated cutaways and floor plans of all the must-see sights, as well as street maps and reliable information for getting around the state. Plus, this guidebook is packed with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops, and nightlife in each area for all budgets. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Florida truly shows you this state as no one else can.

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