Miami Recap: The Week in Miami (5/8/09 to 5/15/09)

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:

• Michelle Moore: Travel and Customer Service Expert My wife has spent the last 10 years providing expert travel advice and customer service.  So, who does the Miami Herald newspaper call when they need a quote from a local business owner in the hospitality industry? They call Michelle, of course. [...]
• Hontoon State Park: A Secluded Island in Central Florida! When considering an escape from civilization to an island retreat in Florida, most people would set their sights on the Keys, Marco Island, Sanibel or Captiva.  But few would expect to find one in landlocked Central Florida.  Hontoon Island may be one of the region’s best kept secrets. [...]
• An Open Letter to New York Visitors and Snowbirds Proclaiming you are from New York City when you are down here may sound to you like “I’m from a big, fast-paced city and am therefore more cultured, hardened and exponentially cooler than you.” What it says to us is “Obnoxious tourist.” [...]
• Do You Suffer From New York Envy? Take it from this Miami native: If there is one city that Miami has always tried to emulate, it is the Big Apple.  It is the only American city that Miami has any respect for. The rest might as well be Mayberry for all we care. [...]

More News From Around The Web:

Local

• Feds Bust Yacht Pimped Out With Endangered Animal Hides, Riptide 2.0
• What Defines Miami’s Architectural Skyline, Brickell Life
• The Miami Herald Doubles Down on Boring, Discourse.net

Real Estate

• Condo Stats for 1st QT 2009, South Beach Condo Blog
• Top 5 Distressed Condo Sales Closed in April 2009, Lucas Lechuga
• The Bentley Bay Condos, Miami City Diggs
• Owner of “The Forge” Lists Home For Sale, South Beach Condo Blog

Sports

• Gumball 3000, Miami Fever
• Marlins Stadium Update (Webcam edition), The Business of Sports
• Welcome Back Jason Taylor…Miami Re-Signs DE!, PhinPhanatic

Travel & Recreation

• Where are you going for your vacation: to Doral!, Eye on Miami
• Coitus Interruptus on the Beach, Sex and the Beach

Food, Nightlife & Entertainment

• Is MiamiNights Down For The Count?, South Florida Daily Blog
• 5 Guys coming soon to Miami Beach, Random Pixels
• Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy at Adrienne Arsht Center, Brickell Life
• Bad, How Was Your Day, Dan?
• Racks Italian Bistro, All Purpose Dark

Other Items

• Over one million readers served, Carlos Miller
• How To Stop Receiving Negative Feedback, Man or Maniac
• For The Love of Miami, From Lola’s Lips
• Nostalgia, 305: Misadventures in the MIA

Hot Topics From Our Forum

• Is it possible to grow tobacco plants for cigars & banana trees?
• “Miami Vice” and “Scarface”
• How to limit internet time
• Is this art?
• Landshark Stadium: I dig the name change… Do you?
• Medical Services in Miami
• Salaries in Miami
• I had a BLAST in SoBe!
• The Everglades (Pictures & Videos)
• Dog Beaches in Miami
• Joe’s Takeaway closed for the summer
• Late Night Eating in Miami’s Nightclub District?
• McDonalds Lincoln and Washington
• A new place to carouse. The W at South Beach
• Best Party/Young Adult Hotel?

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