Features: Find out what you need to know about the most important issues affecting you in Florida and in the nation. Deadbeat war criminals. Florida¹s death penalty. Your shrinking civil liberties. Tune in to what your senators get up to when your back is turned. We've got our finger on the pulse, our eye to the magnifying glass, our ear to the ground.

Entertainment: We're networking for you. Meet the funkiest, funniest, wisest, most talented and outrageous folks from Palm Beach to Miami‹ fashion designers, musicians, chefs, DJ's, painters, poets, filmmakers, performers, kids who go bump in the night. Consider it our personal introduction to the people you need to know.

Creative: The weirdest and most wonderful fiction. The riskiest cartoons. The most unexpected photography. Artists well known, known to friends, or completely overlooked. When other magazines get cold feet and turn back, we'll keep walking.

Design: We've been told we're the finest-looking magazine in South Florida. But that won't stop us from making every single issue even finer, until we¹re right off the map.

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