Winter Music Conference Hits Miami Full Force

Winter Music Conference Hits Miami Full Force
Fox News
A pool party at the Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach, FL at the Shelbourne Hotel in 2005 by Richard Patterson (www.RichardPattersonImages.com) Winter Music Conference.Courtesy of Winter Music Conference  ...

Miami's Surfrider group to remove invasive plants
MiamiHerald.com
AP MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- An environmental group is removing invasive plants from dunes near Miami Beach. The Miami chapter of the Surfrider Foundation will remove by hand on Saturday a non-native plant that the group says crowd out native plants and ...

The New Retirement Resorts
Wall Street Journal
Here's What You Need to Know By KELLY GREENE Instead of moving his mother into an assisted-living apartment three years ago, Eli Portnoy rented condos for both of them, two floors apart, at Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa in Miami Beach, Fla.

Wall Street Journal

Sadly, the news from the teaching front isn't good
Charlotte Observer
A successful Advanced Placement World History teacher at Miami Beach Senior High School and a mentor teacher for Miami-Dade County, Zanariri is calling it quits after nine years. Not because her high school is a challenging urban school with a mix of ...

Coast Guard seizes cocaine worth $43 million
Sun-Sentinel
The US Coast Guard Cutter Northland offloaded 3532 pounds of cocaine at BaseMiami Beach, on Friday. The Northland crew confiscated 54 bales of cocaine, worth an estimated $43254000 wholesale, from a 35-foot go-fast boat in the Caribbean Sea on March 3 ...

Sun-Sentinel

4 arrested in sea drug bust
7Online WSVN-TV
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- Four men have been arrested after the US Coast Guard made a major cocaine bust on the high seas. On March 3, the US Coast Guard cutter Northland was on a mission when they spotted a speeding boat on the Caribbean Sea in the ...

Tickets on sale for Slow Food Miami awards party
Sun-Sentinel (blog)
By John Tanasychuk March 16, 2012 05:43 PM Slow Food Miami will honor chefs, food producers and purveyors at the first Snail of Approval awards party at 7 pm March 23 in Miami Beach. Here are the honorees: Kris Wessel, Red Light Little River; ...

In South Florida, crowd for iPad 3 small as many order online
MiamiHerald.com
While the scene was a bit-more subdued than previous launches, iPad 3 fans started lining up before dawn Friday outside the Apple stores at Aventura Mall,Miami Beach's Lincoln Road and Galleria Mall in Fort Lauderdale. About 500 people at Aventura ...

MiamiHerald.com

West Encounters East at arteaméricas
Social Miami
SocialMiami was at arteamericas 2012 at the Miami Beach Convention Center for the debut of West Encounters East "Light and Shadows.” In this exclusive SocialMiami docu-short, we learn about West Encounters East (WEE) and how Asian culture plays an ...

Social Miami

Coast Guard offloads 3500 pounds of cocaine
Local 10
The US Coast Guard offloaded more than 3500 pounds of cocaine intercepted in the Caribbean at Coast Guard Base Miami Beach on Friday afternoon. Coast Guard officials said the Coast Guard Cutter Northland found the 3532 pounds of cocaine on a 35-foot ...

Fins star lounges with reality galpal, Pharrell munches on salad
MiamiHerald.com
Ludacris was spotted hanging in a cabana Wednesday at the Mondrian South Beach. Joe Jonas is still here, seen Tuesday pumping iron at Equinox South Beach and on Wednesday night, grabbing a late-night dinner with two dudes at the Delano's Bianca.

MiamiHerald.com

Top Winter Music Conference 2012 Parties For Friday, March 16
Miami New Times (blog)
Word to wise, if you are heading to South Beach car pool or cab it, we're hearing traffic and parking has been a nightmare as of late. And for those who want to avoid WMC all together, fear not, lots of venues, particularly the SoBe megaclubs, ...

Miami New Times (blog)

Miami Beach Gay Pride Out-Standing Line-Up of Performers 4/15/12 ...
By soulofmiami
Miami Beach Gay Pride “Out”-Standing Line-Up of Performers Sunday, April 15 from Noon to 7 p.m.. Lummus Park Ocean Drive between 10th and 14th Streets Miami Beach, FL 33139. Can you say “divas?” Miami Beach Gay Pride will be ...
Soul Of Miami

Cruise Shipping Miami: Potpourri of News From the Conference
Travel Agent
As the annual Cruise Shipping Miami conference drew to a close, we looked at some final tidbits of news or cruise happenings from the annual show in Miami Beach, FL. Here's a sampling... Carnival Cruise Lines (www.goccl.com) provided Travel Agent with ...

Travel Agent

Marijuana Smuggler Who Served 30 Years in Prison Wants to Convince Florida Old...
Reason Online (blog)
From a posh suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, he operated an auto auction, a marina club, and a barbershop. He used canal-front stash houses and wore stylish plaid leisure suits with broad collars as sharp as spearheads.

Reason Online (blog) 

China to be hotbed of luxury hotels
AsiaOne
Judging by its hotels, though, Sanya may already be a step ahead of the city of pink flamingos and South Beach. Plans now exist to complete 40 five-star hotels in five years in a 19-kilometer stretch of Haitang Bay in Sanya.

AsiaOne

Should Floridians worry about rising sea levels?
Palm Beach Post (blog)
Waves hit the jetty at Haulover Beach in Miami Beach when Hurricane Floyd approached the state in 1999. Scientists warn that global warming could be bringing higher sea levels and stronger storms. (AP file photo) Rising seas will make life pretty bad ...

Palm Beach Post (blog) 
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