Miami Recap: The Week in Miami (4/17/09 to 4/24/09)

Below is what happened in Miami, Florida this week, as reported on Miami Beach 411 and from other places across the web.

From Miami Beach 411:

• Pow Wow Website Fails at Basic Usability and Design I have a bone to pick with you, Pow Wow. I find it surprising that the largest travel convention in the world has such a poorly designed website. What makes your site so bad is [...]
• Why I Left Crazy South Beach For Lazy Central Florida Despite the allure of the coconut palms and sexy beaches, the vast majority of people who’ve made the leap from tourist to resident in Miami choose to move again within five years’ time.  Here’s some insight into why [...]
• Pow Wow Says “No Press Pass For You!” Who better to report on a convention of travel people than a website that caters to, well, travel? Apparently pretty much everyone, as it seems that the good folks over at Pow Wow have opted not to give our beloved little site here press credentials to their convention.  [...]
• Calle Ocho Street Festival Depicts The Real Miami The Calle Ocho street festival started out as a way to mend race relations in a city that was experiencing increasingly high tensions between white, black and Hispanic residents. And it quickly turned into the largest Hispanic street party in the country. But today, after 31 years of its inception, it has earned a reputation among locals as a ghettoized orgy [...]
• Hooray! Clevelander is Finally Open The time has come that we’ve all been waiting for. That’s right, the world famous Clevelander Hotel is opening the patio and sports bar, this weekend. And we are all invited to attend! [...]

More News From Around The Web:

Local

• Miami: North American Major City of the Future, Mayor’s Blog
• New documentary outs Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Rakontur
• Miami photographer/blogger departs to California on a scooter, Carlos Miller
• Herald photographer Pat Farrell wins Pulitzer Prize, Random Pixels
• Gay Pride parade brightens South Beach, Miami Herald
• Ford Fiesta: Meet the Agents, Sex and the Beach
• Frank Gehry vs Miami Beach, Miamism
• Dark neon., Superbee’s Philosophy
• UM Tops In “Scientific” Ranking, Discourse.net
• I went to Jimbos, Miami Bro
• Boating today, Suvine
• Lincoln Road Market, 305: Misadventures in the MIA

Real Estate

• $50M Idyllic Gables Estates Mansion on Market, South Beach Condos Blog
• Fisher Island Deals, Miamism

Travel & Recreation

• Nomad’s Land, Day 1, Ipanemic
• Toursist’s Meningitis Infection Not an Isolated Case, Riptide 2.0
• Losing Its Luster, Blind Mind

Food, Nightlife & Entertainment

• Happy Birthday Talmage, Soul of Miami
• Mansion Nightclub Doing a Dinner Show Twice Weekly, South Beach USA
• Film Review: ‘Earth’ Big Blue Marvel, The South Florida Traveler

Other Items

• Studies in Comparative Stress Reduction, Discourse.net
• Who Would Jesus Torture?, SFDB
• miami groovin’, AshAndBurn
• The Boy From Ipanema, Sex and the Beach
• You Know How I Like It, Restaurant Gal
• Bradley Ogden Burger, Brickell Life

Hot Topics From Our Forum

• What clothes should I bring this time of the year?
• How to control cats without actually eating them!?
• Where to buy pills on SoBe?
• I’m Bored…
• 1/1 Available in the Beach
• How much money should I save before moving
• Moving today!
• Transportation from FLL Airport?
• Memorial Weekend Hip-hop party information
• 1 guy and 5 girls…where to go?
• Looking for a nice steakhouse for dinner

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