Jo Ann Weiss Sawitz Bass, the matriarch of the landmark Joe’s Stone Crab, died Saturday in hospice at her Miami Beach home across the street from her family’s restaurant. She was 94. Bass helped lead ...

“Miami bass is the ghetto-style hip-hop that came out of Miami in the ’80s,” says DJ Jerry Pulles. From 1989 to 1994, he drove a van loaded with speakers and records from Miami Lakes to Hialeah to ...

Back in Miami’s bass music heyday, music video director Dario L. Jaramillo was making a killing creating, producing, directing and editing music videos for Joey Boy Records and Warner Bros. artists. I ...

Jo Ann Weiss Switz Bass, the matriarch of the iconic Florida restaurant Joe’s Stone Crab, has died at 94. Bass began working at her family's restaurant at age 13 and continued until she was about 88.

For decades, she oversaw a money-gushing South Florida restaurant that has drawn celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Muhammad Ali and Madonna. By Alex Williams Jo Ann Bass, the matriarch of Joe’s Stone ...