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Seen at The Forge on Sunday, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, with duty-free tycoon Bernard Klepach. Gorby and Klepach were part of a group of nine who ate in The Forge's private Library room, which was hovered over by three Russian security guards. Sporting a casual jacket and shirt -- no tie -- Gorby had tomato soup and a bone-in filet steak. Link To Original Article

Karaoke is an old Sanskrit word which loosely translates to: the act of singing quite appallingly in public, usually accompanied by a sugary instrumental track and severe inebriation. Link To Original Article

October already? Soon the staff at CVS will be marking down the plastic pumpkins and making room for Yuletide fare. Thankfully we can endure this rapid time warp with a slew of seasonless events, including Vino's new extended Tuesday happy hour, every week this month, featuring special prices from 5 p.m. until 1 a.m. Eight hours of happiness, now that's our kind of happy hour. Link To Original Article

Football season is now in full swing, and with that marks the return of the sports bars as ritualistic meeting grounds for guys on Sunday afternoons. Link To Original Article

Top Chef may have packed its knives and left Miami, but there's plenty of food to go around. Starting tonight, Miami joins 20 U.S. cities in hosting the James Beard Foundation's Taste America. It's at Azul at the Mandarin Oriental, and features two award-winning chefs, Mark Militello and Norman Van Aken (who packed his knives and went to Key West and Orlando), along with more top chefs for a pricey cocktail party and dinner -- $240 per person, including gratuities, but benefiting Daily Bread Food... Link To Original Article

Although I love the beach, you wouldn't consider me a true outdoorsman. I don't hunt, fish or camp. I guess you would call me a classic air-conditioning man. Fishing looks like it could be fun, but I can't help but think of that old joke: ``I used to spend many hours fishing until I realized I can just go to the store and buy fish.'' Link To Original Article

One of the other stops on The Dating Game's summer (vacation) tour was on the coast of Costa Rica, known for its beautiful beaches and splendid surfing. Link To Original Article

Uber producer Scott Storch had dinner with a few of the Terror Squad hip-hop crew at The Forge on Saturday night. After dinner, they moved to Glass, where Storch asked the DJ to play a preview of his new song featuring The Game. It's not coming out for a few months. ''The place went crazy,'' says a source. ``Looks like he's got another hit coming out.'' Link To Original Article

The Autumnal Equinox falls on Sunday. According to a friend of mine, who obviously knows less about Earth science than I do, the Autumnal Equinox ''deals with moon cycles and stuff.'' But according to my Internet research, it's one of the two days of the year when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator and thereby indicates the beginning of autumn. Or something like that. Link To Original Article

For some, September means back to school, but for others it means back to BED. The long running South Beach hot spot has closed for a much needed, highly anticipated image renovation and revamp. New owners Lance Tinkler and Lee Lyon say ''We thought it was high time to air out and change the sheets.'' Amen! The new look will include a more accessible bar area and cosmetic makeovers for the worn out and wrinkled old beds. A new culinary direction is in store for the place, too, but it will still focus... Link To Original Article

One thing that has taken some adjusting to in the Miami dating scene is the varying definitions of ``marriage.'' Of course, most of us enter into marriage thinking it will last forever -- or at least for a very, very long time. The generations before ours notably stayed in marriages that lasted 30, 40 even 50-plus years. If you were as lucky as I was to have parents who have been together for more than 25 years, you most likely grew up thinking that when you got married it would last at least that... Link To Original Article

Easter Passion Celebration A Gospel concert with singers Dorothy Norwood, Troy Ramey and Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson War Memorial Auditorium 800 NE Eighth St. Fort Lauderdale, FL. 33304 Time & Date Info: 6 p.m. April 8 Link To Original Article

Washington has a pretty active beer scene, but lately most of the good news has concerned Belgian beers. Link To Original Article

Just because summer's not quite as sultry these days doesn't mean it's time to stop feeling sexy. Head for Mansion at 11 Saturday night as the traveling groove-party Aquabooty presents Miguel Migs and his eight-piece live band, Petalpusher, along with DJs Julius Papp and Marques Wyatt. Migs' soulful vibe will be enhanced by Lisa Shaw singing live -- she's the vocal force on his Latin-tinged CD Colorful You; 305-531-5535. Link To Original Article

Already mid-September and it's beginning to feel fall-ish, not from the changing leaves or a chill in the air, per se, but based on the flurry of invitations blanketing our in-box. Although we needed to breathe into a paper bag when we saw the invitation for an Art Basel event, there was no hyperventilating when we finally got word that the long-anticipated 530 Ocean Drive Indian eatery, Ishq, would be opening to the public tonight. In addition to the delicious-sounding samosas and tikka masalas... Link To Original Article

``Merlot makes me think silly things. Bordeaux makes me say silly things. Champagne makes me do silly things.'' This doesn't apply to me. I'm certainly not impervious to the effects of alcohol: It's just that my taste buds haven't matured past Ovaltine. Link To Original Article

This weekend one of South Florida's most unsung and unheralded bachelors is leaving for Turkey, of all places. He's going to continue his career as a physical trainer for one of the wealthiest country clubs in the world (or so he claims!). Link To Original Article

The slogan at Bukom, a West African cafe in the heart of Adams Morgan, is: "A place where great minds meet and cultures merge." Once you step inside, you understand what they mean. Link To Original Article

The intimate Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater -- just what South Florida's live music scene needed -- has three fantastic shows coming in October: Link To Original Article

Thanks to the zany world of online dating, singles and looking types may have not yet found their soul mates, despite the fact that Forbes ranks Miami as the 20th best city out of 40 for singles (San Fran is No. 1), but many of them have found new careers as stand-up comics. Take your typical corporate attorney type, throw him into the lair of e-whatever dot com and instead of inert cocktail conversation stunted by torts and cases, you get a world of riotous new bar jokes such as ``I can take one... Link To Original Article

I get depressed and even a bit anxious when I see back-to-school sales. How can the summer be over already? It seems like just yesterday I was finishing my last final exam. Link To Original Article

I received an e-mail recently from Jordan, a reader in the Bal Harbour area who is concerned with the actions of his roommates. The three guys are in their late 20s and early 30s, and have been living together for more than a year. But Jordan said he was mystified by what his roommates -- a pair of brothers -- have been doing whenever Jordan brings a date to the apartment. Link To Original Article

The Idols keep coming: Chris Daughtry, the rocker with the powerful, radio-ready voice who finished fourth on American Idol's fifth season, heads with his band to Hollywood's Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Oct. 9. Link To Original Article

High school, Brady Bunch and Growing Pains notwithstanding, every reunion isn't a dreadful, depressing experience reminiscent of, well, a bad TV episode. Some are kind of exciting and nostalgic and not nearly as cheesy as the aforementioned. Knots Landing's reunion show wasn't terrible if you were a diehard fan, and we think the same will apply to the 10-year GrooveJET reunion tonight at Shine at the Shelborne, 1801 Collins Ave. Sure, some fans of the legendary club from South Beach's fabled halcyon... Link To Original Article

Here's my prediction for the upcoming professional football season: My friends will invite me out to watch the games, and I'll say, ``Thanks, but I have deadlines on top of deadlines.'' Link To Original Article