Cris Cab's mellow sounds mixed with heavier dubstep and reggae influences have attracted the likes of Wyclef Jean and Pharrell Williams.

There was a time not long ago when no one would have believed bowling would become trendy. So there’s no reason to believe that ping-pong won’t suddenly catch on as the drunken hipster activity of choice. South Beach’s new nightspot Chalk, in fact, is counting on it.

If you see me out and about this week you will notice my lingering tan obtained in just two days in the sun in fun Miami Beach last week. I was lobster red when I headed north and now I'm heading to beige, but I have no complaints. I left New York cold, tired, and snow-white and returned a better man. ABSOLUT Miami had me down south for a nightclub panel moderated by Cocaine Cowboys and Limelight producer Alfred Spellman. Limelight will come out on DVD tomorrow and I'm all up in that. Sunday's New York Post did a story on it and I was there putting my two cents in. I put $1.75 in the flick. 

Foxhole (Miami Beach) - Hidden in a Miami Beach alleyway; a very high-priced trip down the Foxhole to a universe of arcade games, DJs, vintage firearms, and grafitti-covered walls.

Blackbird Ordinary (Brickell Hammock) - With a DJ, live music acts, and the option of picking out the ice cubes they put in your drink, this Bird is worth tweeting about.

The night began, as many a dynamite Miami night begins, at Wynwood Kitchen and Bar [http://wynwoodkitchenandbar.com/], which, like its nearby sibling Joey’s and its adjacent Walls, is the kind of spot that puts the hot into any evening. This being but an early stop, we opted to back our booze with a swirl of chef Miguel Aguilar’s bar bites. Then it was over to the Arsht for the wham bam boom of Million Dollar Quartet. For some folks, a quick nosh and a crack re-imagining of the night four rock ‘n’ roll legends collided would be an eventful enough evening. Not us though. We’re the type to let our million dollars ride. Good thing, too, because it took us right over the causeway to The Setai, where we had a feast not even money could buy.

Last Saturday night Miami’s Electric Pickle was once again the scene of some real keen spin, and in a town that counts itself a veritable Mecca for all the world’s wiliest DJs, that’s saying something else indeed. In this case the dizzy came courtesy of a racket-maker known as Heartthrob, who joined Ghostly pal Ryan Elliott in a Blkmarket party that served as a kinda homecoming for both ex-pats. I’m exaggerating a bit of course; neither DJ is actually from the MIA, but the two Americans call Berlin home these days.

Camille Austin was so fantastic as a 2010 Midnight Mixologist, that we just had to ask her back this year. Here is the bartending beauty on Miami nightlife, her go-to ingredient, and that pompadour. Also, see below for her top ten favorite spots to grab a cocktail in Miami.

As a bartender at a Miami art space, Cricket Nelson is a long way from the farm she grew up on. But the professional pourer has brought the principles she learned growing up—namely a dedication to fresh ingredients—to the mixology game. Here she is on the perfect setting to enjoy a cocktail, her ideal customer, and Miami at night. Also, see below for her top ten Miami hot spots.

Art Basel is one big, enticing, honey pot of rich folks, semi-rich folks, and broke folks posing as rich folks, and generally a lot of inebriated folks with expensive things. In other words: a grifter’s paradise.