Miami Recap: The Week in Miami (4/24/09 to 5/1/09)

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:

• A Girls Guide To Shopping and Style in South Beach You may arrive in Miami new to the nightlife scene and notice that virtually every girl going out to a club is wearing a dress.  The majority of SoBe club girls subscribes to the same concept-short, skintight, lots of cleavage, and paired with sky-high platforms or stilettos. [...]
• Five Myths About Living in Central Florida They say that the grass is always greener, and in Central Florida, it may well be.  But after a year of living here, I’ve found that I had a few of misconceptions coming in, some of which have made me think twice about leaving South Beach. [...]
• Staying at the New and Improved Clevelander Hotel The Clevelander has always been one of the few places on Ocean Drive that most of my local friends agreed was a decent place to hang out. The majority of the places are considered too “touristy”, whatever that means. But, the Clevelander was different. [...]
• South Florida: America’s Medicare Fraud Capital It seems that every month we hear about a new group of doctors in South Florida being charged with Medicare Fraud, and anyone who has lived here long enough barely bats an eyelash. Because lord knows if there’s two things this region is known for, it’s old people and fraud. [...]
• Party Like a Rock Star at the Clevelander Hotel I knew I was onto something when I told Angie that I was staying at the Clevelander Hotel and she shrieked. “You’re staying at the Clevelander!? You don’t know how hard I tried to get a room there this weekend.” And then when I later told her that I had been upgraded to the Rock Star Suite, she could have strangled me. [...]
• What’s There To Do? (Dining Out for Life & More) Dining Out for Life, an HIV/AIDS fundraiser you support just by eating at participating restaurants, happens today in South Florida and around the country. Read on to see what events May will bring our way. [...]

More News From Around The Web:

Local

• Traveling Miami photographer makes it out of Florida on scooter, Carlos Miller
• Circulation continues to plummet at the Herald, Random Pixels
• Matt Haggman goes local, Eye on Miami
• The Details on Nordstrom Rack at Miracle Marketplace, Coral Gables
• Brickell Trolley Proposal, Brickell Life
• Venetian Causeway; Bureaucratic Run-Around Continues, Transit Miami
• Air Potatoes in Miami, 305: Misadventures in the MIA

Real Estate

• Unit 1508 at Brickell on the River North Revisited, Lucas Lechuga

Sports

• Heat Gonna Burn Some Hawks, The Daily Pulp
• Lingerie Football League, South Florida Daily Blog

Travel & Recreation

• Miami Summer Camp Time, Miamism

Food, Nightlife & Entertainment

• Kobe Club has a beef with The NY Times, Scene in the Tropics
• Gym Class Heros, Fanless
• New Club Space Opens This Weekend, Soul of Miami
• Eos brings sophisticated dining to the heart of Miami, South Florida Traveler
• Restaurant Review - Bulldog Barbecue, Foodtastic

Other Items

• Remember My Stolen Car?, Man or Maniac
• The Elephant in the Room, Hidden City
• In Which I Gripe About My Employer, Discourse.net
• When You Wake Up in the Morning, Restaurant Gal
• 042509, Miami Fever
• Elaine Lancaster to Perez Hilton: “Leave Miss California Alone!, Riptide 2.0

Hot Topics From Our Forum

• MB411 Meetup: The Clevelander Bar Grand Opening Party!
• Is the media overhyping the Swine Flu story?
• Should marijuana be legalized?
• Kayaking in the canals
• Mystery Island in the bay
• Want to hang out with a Miami Repo Man?
• FIU vs UM for MBA
• Moved into our new Apartment
• Where to live with kids?
• When you go to “the beach”, where exactly do you go?
• Where do South Floridians Go On Vacation?
• First trip to Miami
• Favorite South Beach Breakfast Spot

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