Diary of a South Beach Party Girl

South Beach in the late 1990s is a town of blink-and-you''ll-miss-''em nightclubs populated by celebrities, models, mobsters, heiresses, drug dealers, drag queens, and fun seekers of all stripes. It''s a place where the famous come to party like locals, the locals party like rock stars behind velvet ropes, and the press is savvy enough to know what not to report.

Rachel Baum is a sheltered, care...