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August 2009 Serving the communities along the Biscayne Corridor, including Arch Creek East, Bay Point, Bayside, Biscayne Park, Belle Meade, Buena Vista, Design District, Downtown, Edgewater, El Portal, Hibiscus Island, Keystone Point, Miami Shores, Morningside, North Bay Island, North Miami, Oakland Grove, Palm Grove, Palm Island, Sans Souci, Shorecrest, Star Island, Wynwood, and Venetian Islands www.BiscayneTimes.com Volume 7, Issue 6 A Chance to DanceAfter 33 years in a North Miami strip mall, Dancemasters studio still swings By Karen-Janine Cohen Photos by Silvia Ros t 4:00 p.m. on a late June afternoon, Christopher and Deana, practice a night- Watching from a nearby table is the dozens of couples, wedding-day-bound, the sun hammers down while the club two-step for their upcoming wedding. dance master himself, Milt Derek Mell- dance through his studio. They are only Ahumidity steams. But shaded win- They glide, tall and graceful, while man. Even sitting down, Mellman exudes a fraction of the students, social dancers, dows mute the glare in Derek Mellman’s longtime Dancemasters teacher Sharon suavity. A trim man in his 60s, his hair hobbyists, and aspiring competitors who Dancemasters studio, upstairs in a nonde- Butler hovers nearby. is Brillo gray, and he wears a match- have found their way to Dancemasters, script North Miami strip mall. Smooth pop “These are my fi rst dance lessons — ing mustache and neat goatee. Over the music also cuts the heat as a young couple, ever,” admits Christopher. past three decades, Mellman has seen Continued on page 14 CALL 305-756-6200 FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ADVERTISING SPACE Keystone Point waterfront on quiet cul-de-sac, 4/3, pool, A+schools. 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August 2009 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com 3 CONTENTS COVER STORY 1 A Chance to Dance COMMENTARY 6 Feedback: Letters 10 Miami’s King: Jack King 12 Word on the Street 27 OUR SPONSORS 8 BizBuzz & Advertiser Directory NEIGHBORHOOD CORRESPONDENTS PO Box 370566, Miami, FL 33137 www.biscaynetimes.com 20 Jen Karetnick: Out With the Manicured Lawn 32 22 Frank Rollason: Local Legal Eagle Makes Good PUBLISHER & EDITOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES 24 Wendy Doscher-Smith: Creatures Mythical and Real Jim Mullin Marco Fernandez COMMUNITY NEWS [email protected] [email protected] 26 The Ultimate Ugly Neighbor INTERN Marc Ruehle 26 School Dazed in El Portal, Part 2 Brian Horowitz [email protected] 27 Biscayne Boulevard: Bring on the Green [email protected] OFFICE MANAGER 27 Village Place: Flush with Promise CONTRIBUTORS Wilmer Ametin POLICE REPORTS Victor Barrenchea, Erik Bojnansky, [email protected] 30 Biscayne Crime Beat Pamela Robin Brandt, ART DIRECTOR ART & CULTURE Terence Cantarella, Bill Citara, Marcy Mock 32 TM Sisters: Big, Wet, and Fast Wendy Doscher-Smith, Kathy Glasgow, [email protected] 34 Art Listings Margaret Griffi s, Jim W. Harper, ADVERTISING DESIGN 37 Culture Briefs Lisa Hartman, Jen Karetnick, DP Designs PARK PATROL Jack King, Derek McCann, [email protected] 38 Eaton Park: Lots of Potential, All of It Unrealized Frank Rollason, Silvia Ros, CIRCULATION COLUMNISTS Jeff Shimonski South Florida Distributors 40 Harper’s Environment: Canaries in the Oceanic Coal Mine 41 Kids and the City: Never Too Busy for Fun 42 Pawsitively Pets: Big People with Little Dogs FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION CALL 305-756-6200 44 Your Garden: First the Rain, Then the Pain All articles, photos, and artwork in the Biscayne Times DINING GUIDE are copyrighted by Biscayne Media, LLC. Any duplication or Member of the 45 Restaurant Listings reprinting without authorized written consent from the publisher Florida Press Association 44 is prohibited. 46 Wine: Red, White, and You Thursday, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:30 pm St. Martha in the Shores, Miami Shores 4 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com August 2009 August 2009 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com 5 COMMENTARY: FEEDBACK LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dialing for Dollars in the As for the patron who lost her phone, Finally, Strouse’s mean-spirited Digital Age we profoundly apologized that our lost- Calling All Writers! Well, public jibe at Mullin regarding the and-found policy had not been followed, Art Teele affair is as low as it gets. He Allow me to provide a few more details Maybe Not All Writers and only because our staff member had crossed over a line of professional de- and facts relating to an incident in which the phone in his possession but did not We here at Biscayne Times World cency, responding with a bomb to what a customer at the News Lounge lost turn it in to management, we agreed to Headquarters are looking for some was essentially an arrow from a colum- her iPhone. It was reported in an item pay for a replacement phone to the tune new correspondents to supplement our nist — not the publisher. headlined “Clearing Tables — Literally” of several hundred dollars, even though stellar cast. If you live in a condo in You’re a classy guy, Strouse.