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Barton G. Weiss | |
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| Born | May 15, 1956 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, restaurateur, event planner, author |
| Children | Tyler & Jadin |
| Parent(s) | Norman and Eleanor Weiss |
| Website | bartong |
Barton G. Weiss (born May 15, 1956) is a Miami-based event designer, producer, restaurateur, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
Weiss was born in Philadelphia, on May 15, 1956, the son of Norman and Eleanor Weiss.
Weiss lived in New York [1] before moving to Miami and founding his eponymous event production business in 1993. [2] Weiss is a former professional ice skater. [3] After his athletic career ended, he moved into costume and set design. His previous clients included Chita Rivera and Cher. [4] In 1993, Weiss moved to Miami to help a friend produce a charity gala, [1] which led him to form his own events production company. His restaurants are recognized as a "Willy Wonka-style" dining experience. [5]
Barton G. provides events management and production, weddings, off-site catering, destination management, and restaurants. [6] In addition to private clients, the company has created more than 20,000 events for celebrities, Fortune 500 companies, and sports associations, including BMW, Giorgio Armani, NBC, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Cartier, the NFL, and PGA. [6]
He opened Barton G. The Restaurant (previous Kerry Simon's Starfish) in 2002. It's known for its theatrical, over-the-top presentations. [7] The restaurant has been described as “the Cirque de Soleil meets Ultra Music Festival meets the Indy 500 of the dining world - with the quality and flavors of a Michelin-Starred restaurant.” [8] In 2017, the restaurant was included in OpenTable's list of the country's top 100 "hot spots." [9]
Following the success of the Miami location, Weiss opened the second location of Barton G. The Restaurant in Los Angeles in June 2014. [10]
A third Barton G. restaurant opened in Chicago, in February 2019, [11] inside the former Sullivan's Steakhouse on N. Dearborn. It closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2009, Weiss opened Prelude by Barton G. located inside the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. [12] In 2010, he took over operations of the Casa Casuarina Versace Mansion to open The Villa by Barton G., a boutique hotel and restaurant destination. [13]
Weiss has appeared as a guest judge, and guest blogger for Bravo's Top Chef. [14] He was an inaugural member of Town and Country magazine's Wedding Advisory Board. [15]
Weiss co-founded the Barton G. Weiss Kids Hear Now Foundation with Jill Viner (former wife of Cliff Viner) in 2009 when he learned his daughter was born deaf and would require cochlear implants. [4] Partnering with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine for the past 20 years, the Cochlear Implant Program has helped restore hearing to more than 1,000 deaf children and adults. The Barton G. Kids Hear Now Cochlear Implant Family Resource Center, which opened in 2010 and is housed at the UHealth Ear Institute, emphasizes the viability of cochlear implants and auditory verbal therapy as an option for deaf children to become part of the hearing world. [16]
Weiss is divorced from Bobby Alpert; they have two children. [17]
Hearing loss is a partial or total inability to hear. Hearing loss may be present at birth or acquired at any time afterwards. Hearing loss may occur in one or both ears. In children, hearing problems can affect the ability to acquire spoken language, and in adults it can create difficulties with social interaction and at work. Hearing loss can be temporary or permanent. Hearing loss related to age usually affects both ears and is due to cochlear hair cell loss. In some people, particularly older people, hearing loss can result in loneliness.
A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provides a person who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with sound perception. With the help of therapy, cochlear implants may allow for improved speech understanding in both quiet and noisy environments. A CI bypasses acoustic hearing by direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. Through everyday listening and auditory training, cochlear implants allow both children and adults to learn to interpret those signals as speech and sound.
Lip reading, also known as speechreading, is a technique of understanding a limited range of speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue without sound. Estimates of the range of lip reading vary, with some figures as low as 30% because lip reading relies on context, language knowledge, and any residual hearing. Although lip reading is used most extensively by deaf and hard-of-hearing people, most people with normal hearing process some speech information from sight of the moving mouth.
Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication. When used as a cultural label, especially within the culture, the word deaf is often written with a capital D and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. When used as a label for the audiological condition, it is written with a lower case d. Carl G. Croneberg coined the term "Deaf Culture" and he was the first to discuss analogies between Deaf and hearing cultures in his appendices C/D of the 1965 Dictionary of American Sign Language.
Unilateral hearing loss (UHL) is a type of hearing impairment where there is normal hearing in one ear and impaired hearing in the other ear.
Neuroprosthetics is a discipline related to neuroscience and biomedical engineering concerned with developing neural prostheses. They are sometimes contrasted with a brain–computer interface, which connects the brain to a computer rather than a device meant to replace missing biological functionality.
Audism as described by deaf activists is a form of discrimination directed against deaf people, which may include those diagnosed as deaf from birth, or otherwise. Tom L. Humphries coined the term in his doctoral dissertation in 1975, but it did not start to catch on until Harlan Lane used it in his writing. Humphries originally applied audism to individual attitudes and practices; whereas Lane broadened the term to include oppression of deaf people.
The Miller School of Medicine, officially Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, is the University of Miami's graduate medical school in Miami, Florida. Founded in 1952, it is the oldest medical school in the state of Florida.
Graeme Milbourne Clark is an Australian Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne. Worked in ENT surgery, electronics and speech science contributed towards the development of the multiple-channel cochlear implant. His invention was later marketed by Cochlear Limited.
A child of deaf adult, often known by the acronym CODA, is a person who was raised by one or more deaf parents or legal guardians. Ninety percent of children born to deaf adults can hear normally, resulting in a significant and widespread community of CODAs around the world, although whether the child is hearing, deaf, or hard of hearing has no effect on the definition. The acronym KODA is sometimes used to refer to CODAs under the age of 18.
Manually coded languages (MCLs) are a family of gestural communication methods which include gestural spelling as well as constructed languages which directly interpolate the grammar and syntax of oral languages in a gestural-visual form—that is, signed versions of oral languages. Unlike the sign languages that have evolved naturally in deaf communities, these manual codes are the conscious invention of deaf and hearing educators, and as such lack the distinct spatial structures present in native deaf sign languages. MCLs mostly follow the grammar of the oral language—or, more precisely, of the written form of the oral language that they interpolate. They have been mainly used in deaf education in an effort to "represent English on the hands" and by sign language interpreters in K-12 schools, although they have had some influence on deaf sign languages where their implementation was widespread.
Ingrid Hoffmann is a Colombian-American television personality and restaurateur, who hosts the Food Network series Simply Delicioso and the Spanish-language cooking and lifestyle show Delicioso on Galavisión. Her cookbook, Simply Delicioso: A Collection of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist, was published on February 8, 2008, by Clarkson Potter. The Spanish version is titled Delicioso: Una coleccion de mis recetas favoritas con un toque latino.
Jonathan Felix Ashmore is a British physicist and Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at University College London.
The history of deaf education in the United States began in the early 1800s when the Cobbs School of Virginia, an oral school, was established by William Bolling and John Braidwood, and the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, a manual school, was established by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. When the Cobbs School closed in 1816, the manual method, which used American Sign Language, became commonplace in deaf schools for most of the remainder of the century. In the late 1800s, schools began to use the oral method, which only allowed the use of speech, as opposed to the manual method previously in place. Students caught using sign language in oral programs were often punished. The oral method was used for many years until sign language instruction gradually began to come back into deaf education.
Clifford G. Viner is an American businessman who founded the III Finance hedge fund and is a co-owner of the Florida Panthers.
Language deprivation in deaf and hard-of-hearing children is a delay in language development that occurs when sufficient exposure to language, spoken or signed, is not provided in the first few years of a deaf or hard of hearing child's life, often called the critical or sensitive period. Early intervention, parental involvement, and other resources all work to prevent language deprivation. Children who experience limited access to language—spoken or signed—may not develop the necessary skills to successfully assimilate into the academic learning environment. There are various educational approaches for teaching deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Decisions about language instruction is dependent upon a number of factors including extent of hearing loss, availability of programs, and family dynamics.
Language exposure for children is the act of making language readily available and accessible during the critical period for language acquisition. Deaf and hard of hearing children, when compared to their hearing peers, tend to face more hardships when it comes to ensuring that they will receive accessible language during their formative years. Therefore, deaf and hard of hearing children are more likely to have language deprivation which causes cognitive delays. Early exposure to language enables the brain to fully develop cognitive and linguistic skills as well as language fluency and comprehension later in life. Hearing parents of deaf and hard of hearing children face unique barriers when it comes to providing language exposure for their children. Yet, there is a lot of research, advice, and services available to those parents of deaf and hard of hearing children who may not know how to start in providing language.
Temporal envelope (ENV) and temporal fine structure (TFS) are changes in the amplitude and frequency of sound perceived by humans over time. These temporal changes are responsible for several aspects of auditory perception, including loudness, pitch and timbre perception and spatial hearing.
Treatment depends on the specific cause if known as well as the extent, type, and configuration of the hearing loss. Most hearing loss results from age and noise, is progressive, and irreversible. There are currently no approved or recommended treatments to restore hearing; it is commonly managed through using hearing aids. A few specific types of hearing loss are amenable to surgical treatment. In other cases, treatment involves addressing underlying pathologies, but any hearing loss incurred may be permanent.
John Oghalai is an American physician and scientist. He is the Leon J. Tiber and David S. Alpert Chair in Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and chair of the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology. Oghalai is an otolaryngologist. His research focuses on anatomical and molecular mechanisms in hearing and in ear and hearing disorders.
Bobby Alpert, the ex-boyfriend of 23 years of high-profile Miami Beach restaurateur Barton G. Weiss and the father of their two children...
