As a manager and partner at 4AM DJs, I’m constantly arranging performances, events, and photo shoots around the world. Every day, I get reports back from my DJs filled with the kind of wild adventures I rarely get to be a part of as a desk - rather than a disk - jockey. The people who flock to these stellar international events get to experience the end result of months of prep, but do they really know what a day in the life of a DJ is like? In this monthly column, you'll hear first-hand accounts of DJ war stories, with photos and videos from the world’s best to show for it. In this second 4AM DJ Tour Diary, you'll read about DJ Price's insane Halloween weekend in Miami. Yours truly, Adam Alpert.

In the past two years alone, there were more than 30 hotel openings in Miami, which meant 30 more scene-y rooftops to choose from in a city of plein air quaffing. The hotel boom saw the rebirth of some major hotel landmarks, like the Betsy and the Fountainbleau. Coming this December, Miami will welcome the highly-anticipated, multi-million dollar restoration of the Shelborne Hotel. And nobody knows the Shelborne better than managing partner Keith Menin, who actually worked there as a bellhop when he was a teen. We caught up with him to get the 411 (or 305, rather) on the mega hotel, his thoughts on the Kardashians, and where to get the best meatballs in town.

The cat's co-head of one of the coolest - and coolest named - collectives in the music biz. He co-owns one of the hippest joints in our nation's capital, the Eighteenth Street Lounge, where his band and label were birthed. He's mined some of the most sublime strains in the history of sound, and he's done so accompanied by some of the most sublime singers and soundslingers ever to make a racket. His name is Eric Hilton, and along with Rob Garza, he is Thievery Corporation. And he just made Miami stir.

Lee Schrager, the man behind the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, as well as its recent New York incarnation is prepping for his big event in South Florida from February 25th to February 28th. For the upscale foodie celebration, the vice president of corporate communications and national events for Southern Wine & Spirits has recruited kitchen all-stars such as Paula Deen, Daniel Boulud, Emeril Lagasse, Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay to cook, attend events and lead demonstrations for guests. The former Miami club owner gives us the inside view on the festivals, celebrity chefs and his love/hate relationship with food bloggers after the jump.

Right now, the New Orleans Saints are knights in shining helmets—they can do no wrong. The whole country (save the state of Indiana) is in love with the fifty men who rescued an entire city's spirit from the brink. But they'd better be careful, because squandering all that goodwill is easier than they might think. Take Saints wide receiver Lance Moore for example, who was caught Sunday night at the Fontainebleau hotel celebrating the big win with a dude that makes the cast of Jersey Shore look like Rhodes scholars. The incident was caught by TMZ cameras, and upon seeing this overgrown gremlin, we couldn't help but wish the Colts had won, so that he wouldn't have had what was probably the best night of life.

Sandra Novas is the co-owner and chief creative director of the events firm the Siinc Agency in Miami. Novas handles clients such as Discovery Networks (Discovery Channel Latin America, Discovery Channel International and Discovery US Hispanic), Nokia Latin American and HSBC. For Art Basel, Siinc partnered with Audi to conceptualize and construct the 42,000 square foot Audi Art Pavillion in honor of the world premiere of the new Audi A8. Novas fills BlackBook in on the exciting project and tells us what she loves most about Art Basel.

They are not your average married couple. The dynamic and outspoken duo that call themselves House of Diehl has a daughter, a party-filled life in New York City, and an avant-garde fashion company. Roman and Mary Jo have redefined the American dream and cultivated their own cutting-edge vision of what life and fashion mean. To them, life is fashion, especially when it's deconstructed and made into something revolutionary. Roman and MJ have taken their high-energy, one-of-a-kind show, Style Wars, on the road, dazzling fashionistas, style mavens, celebs and plain old party people across four continents. Style Wars kicks off with a whole new season of Scotch Tape binding, safety pin fastening, and jewel bedazzling this November. After watching the duo give a lecture on “how to cheapen your couture” at an event they call Glambulance at 92YTribeca in downtown Manhattan, they sat down with me for a vibrantly colorful chat.

For a decade now, Miami's citizens have flocked en masse to a party called Poplife. Initially created as an antidote to all that’s tried-and-trite in nightlife, the weekly throwdown blew up into a bona fide event-hosting group. The Poplife principals are Barbara Basti, Jake Jefferson and Aramis Lorie. Basti and Lorie are two of the original four founders; Jefferson came on board after he’d been sneaking into Poplife parties for so long that the other members decided to induct him into the crew. Together, the current threesome have devised some of the most incredible evenings in Miami, from bringing in record labels Fool’s Gold and Ghostly International during the town’s much-heralded Winter Music Conference to one-offs with everyone from Calvin Harris to Black Moth Super Rainbow.

These are getaways for lovers -- or lusters -- only, without the family, just-good-friends, kids, laptops (lap dancing and clothing optional) or other encumbrances. Either you want to see and be seen, or you don’t. Whether you’re after an in-room Jacuzzi, couples massages, meals, or just a fireplace and a view, read on.

Sure, you could pay to stay and play, but why limit yourself to just one aquatic experience?