This is because they're practicing grinding while running M.I.A. Skate Shop Skateboarders, longtime friends, and business partners Chris Williams and Ed Selego aren't the wordiest fellows in town. At a time when mass-produced wines are becoming more and more homogenized by global corporate conglomerates, the Wolfes offer a valuable alternative: wines with character. Not huge producers but family-owned operations in Spain, France, Italy, California - people a lot like the Wolfes themselves, for whom quality always trumps quantity. They've visited the wineries and met the winemakers whose products they sell. This business is something personal for them. Jeffrey and Christie Wolfe are specialists. But there is a good reason this place takes the honor once again: Sometimes less is more. You can't even buy beer or liquor or sodas or beef jerky at Wolfe's. The closest you'll get to that is Crown Wine and Spirits. Wolfe's doesn't stock every big-name winery on the planet. Most Publix supermarkets carry more labels. Wolfe's does not have the largest selection of wines in town. At ten years and counting, Fly Boutique is one of the last truly original places left to shop on Lincoln Road.īEST WINE STORE Wolfe's Wine Shoppe 124 Miracle Mile The friendly and knowledgeable salespeople have a keen eye for what's retro cool or ironically hip, and the velvety boudoir interior makes for a more pleasant shopping experience than dingy, mothball-redolent thrift and vintage stores. There are loads of purses, belts, boots, and shoes, bowling shirts and two-tone guayaberas, truck-stop caps, and even a mesh shirt that could've come straight off the back of Epstein from Welcome Back, Kotter. Whether a dandy, a mod, or a dude, name your era and design preference and the Fly Boutique is sure to have what suits you. And there's a heap of Stetsons to go with. Feeling nostalgic for a Dennis Weaver suede jacket heavy on the fringe? No problem. And right next to that, a deep-red silk smoking jacket made in Hong Kong (pipe optional). For that Seventies look, there's the multicolored poly-print shirt from Sears ("never needs ironing") with lapels as wide as sails. But will iTunes or Napster sell you Skittles, fake tattoos, and a twelve-inch record with your CDs?īEST VINTAGE STORE Fly Boutique 650 Lincoln Roadģ0 How do they do it? How do the proprietors of Fly Boutique manage to thrive year after year while all around them on Lincoln Road loom heavyweight national chains and high-end designer wares? The green-and-white-checked Geoffrey Beene suit for one, the kind of electric Saville Row redux that looks especially smart topped with a fine feathered bowler or a raffish tam. But not just CDs: You'll find a wide array of dance-oriented vinyl here, with a steady stream of DJs jostling past the lava lamps, vintage lunchboxes, and incense - heck, it's like an old-fashioned head shop in here - to nod along in time to the latest club offerings. And sign language is the communication of choice at Uncle Sam's, with rows of listening stations allowing you to slap on a pair of headphones and preview selections to your ears' content.
Indeed, any N section whose contents run from New Order to Laura Nyro, and from the New York Dolls to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - all at $7.99 a pop - gets a big thumbs up from these quarters.
Uncle Sam's is beginning to become a lock for this award, but as long as it keeps its bins stocked with one of the most diverse musical assortments around, we're hardly going to begrudge it local supremacy.
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But it's with Floridiana that this store really shines, the shelves full of odd little treasures ranging from a rare first edition of Charles Willeford's crime classic Miami Blues to back issues of the Fifties Beach glossy mag Panorama, a precursor to Ocean Drive and a reminder of this burg's colorful history - a history found in abundance at Eutopia.īEST USED-CD STORE Uncle Sam's Music 1141 Washington Avenue Bargains abound here: A recent browse turned up a three-dollar mint hardcover copy of short-story master Donald Barthelme's collected works, as well as a spate of forgotten novels from arch WASP pundit William F. Five years on, Eutopia is thriving, and proof that Lincoln Road's quirky heart still beats in the shadow of the Gap and Victoria's Secret. BEST USED BOOKSTORE Eutopia 1627 Jefferson Avenueģ0 Upon its 2000 opening, Eutopia was a tentative outpost for the Beach's bibliophiles, who - previously accustomed to hitting the highway to root through the bounty at the Kendall Bookshelf or Fort Lauderdale's Robert Hittel Bookseller - curiously poked their heads inside this shop's doorway.
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