Miami Beach Convention Center needs upgrades

Miami Beach Convention Center needs upgrades, top meeting planner says - Business Monday - MiamiHerald.com: "One of the things that this city lacks is a convention headquarter hotel ... In addition to that, the center needs to be expanded. As I stated, I’m building rooms in there, but there should be more rooms there, more ballroom space, more larger space. A lot of meetings do general sessions — general sessions seat from 1,000 people to 2,500 people — and that doesn’t have that capability right now"

Miami Beach's Former Procurement Chief Arrested On Corruption Charges
Miami New Times (blog)
For more than a decade, Gus Lopez ran Miami Beach's procurement department, directing bids for multimillion projects. It's a vital job in a development hub like South Beach -- and a job rife with opportunities for collusion and corruption. Earlier this ...

Miami Beach's Love/Hate Lounge Will Soon Be Serving Food, Expanding Its Brand
Miami New Times (blog)
While the bar caters to the average Miami Beach local (no red velvet ropes or Lambos required), Davis says he's still popular with certain celebs. "Gabrielle Union and D-Wade love the place. They come through late at night and hang out, where they're ...

Miami New Times (blog)

The Cake Boss Coming to the Fillmore Miami Beach
Miami New Times (blog)
Buddy is bringing his whisk and spatula to the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theatre on Sunday, January 13, 2013 when his Bakin' With The Boss tour comes to town. In the show, Buddy will talk about the family business, and will have ...

Pianist Fodere sparks lively South Beach Chamber Ensemble program
South Florida Classical Review
Piano quintets by Dvorak and Shostakovich were on the menu when the South Beach Chamber Ensemble opened its sixteenth season Sunday afternoon in the Banyan Room at Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Existing slightly under the media and local...

South Florida Classical Review

Olga Kurylenko's Miami Beach Day
The Gossip Girls
Enjoying a refreshing dip in the ocean, Olga Kurylenko was spotted on the beach in Miami, Florida with her boyfriend Danny Huston on Sunday (October 21). The "Oblivion" star looked great in a teeny black bikini while her beau's daughter briefly joined ...

Get Your SBWFF Tickets
Joonbug.com (blog)
South Beach Wine & Food Festival takes place at various venues in Miami Beach from February 21st through February 24th of 2013. Permalink: http://joonb.ug/h5L5. Tags: CULINARY OCCASIONS, MIAMI, MIAMI BEACH, FIRST COURSE, FOOD FESTIVALS, ...

Did We Inadvertently Jinx The Eden Roc Miami?
HotelChatter
Remember back in April when we found out that Eden Roc had decided to sue Marriott? Well, it looks like now it's Marriott's turn to be pissed off. BusinessWeek reports that some shady business went down in Miami Beach the other week. Well, in addition ...

HotelChatter

Kourtney Kardashian: Dash Store Shopper
The Gossip Girls
... search of a new location for her DASH boutique today (October 22). Joined by her assistant, the “Kourtney and Kim Take Miami” babe donned peach pants, an orange top, and sunglasses as she checked out several spots in the South Beach neighborhood.

Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine gets new net to help manatees ...
Press of Atlantic City
Those curious-looking, slow-moving sea animals are a rare sight in New Jersey because their normal home range is much closer to Miami Beach than Atlantic City. But manatees have been known to wander as far north as Massachusetts, and a few have ...

Miamilicious Media Announces New Electronic and Dance Music Label
PR Web (press release)
Miamilicious Media announces Miamilicious, a new electronic and dance music label based in South Beach, offering an easy, direct route, for new artists to get their music into the marketplace while helping them mature as artists and giving established ...

Russell Simmons on Obama, Hip-Hop, and Why "This Guy Romney Is Against ...
Miami New Times (blog)
That's why we here at Crossfade recently met him at a Miami Beach hotel for a vegan breakfast and a rollicking, in-depth discussion of hip-hop, politics, health care, the value of voting, and Obama vs. Romney. Crossfade: Why is it important that every ...

Claudia Romani Wears An Obama Thong, Provides Our Favorite Political ...
VH1
But by far and away our favorite celeb endorsement belongs to Italian supermodel Claudia Romani, who appeared on Miami Beach this morning wearing a black bikini with an Obama thong! With the final Presidential Debates happening tonight in nearby ...

Murphy puts up an ad that's all about Allen West
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
And it's been an ugly race, with West running an ad about Murphy's arrest — at age 19 –for disorderly intoxication and having a fake driver's license outside of a Miami Beach club. Murphy has brought up the fact that West was fined $5,000 by the Army ...

Nobody Mentions Climate Change. But Somebody Did Something About It.
TIME
Activists held a Climate Silence rally last week in ankle-deep water at a Whole Foods just a few blocks from my home in Miami Beach, where rising sea levels are forcing salt water from Biscayne Bay into our streets at high tide. It's certainly annoying ...

TIME

Do the Math: Party Matters in the Fight for LGBT Equality
Huffington Post
Ros-Lehtinen, who represents South Miami Beach, Fla., and other areas, is the only Republican who is equally supportive as more than 100 Democrats. Her voting record is not 100-percent, but she is very close. Currently, there are three other ...

Senator From South Dakota Lost to Nixon in '72 Landslide
Wall Street Journal
Mr. McGovern was nominated on the first ballot at the Democrats' Miami Beach convention, but the country watched a party that seemed to have been taken over by activists. Then the campaign was shaken when it was revealed that the vice-presidential ...

Obama vs. Romney is all about the ground game
Chicago Sun-Times
Obama's Florida operation has 102 local headquarters. Romney has 48, the Beast reports. I saw its footprints all over Miami Beach on a visit two weeks ago. An Obama operative working an outdoor mall there told me she registered 200 voters in one day.

Top Spas of South Beach | Inspirato
By Bob Curley
ELLE Spa, Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach. The iconic Eden Roc hotel has been a South Beach landmark for more than half a century, and its appeal is only enhanced by the addition of the first ELLE Spa in the world. The spa is a mix ...
Inspirato

Bikini Pics: Olga Kurylenko & Danny Huston Still Vacationing in ...
By Devon
Bikini Pics: Olga Kurylenko & Danny Huston Still Vacationing in Miami Beach · Post-John Mayer's 35th Birthday Sex: Katy Perry Looked Pretty Damn Exhausted · George Clooney Flaunts Arm Candy Stacy Keibler @ “Argo” Premiere ...
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Gale South Beach & Regent Hotel brings the Italian Riviera to South ...
Welcome the weekend at Eden Roc Miami Beach · Get fit & save at W South Beach · The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove celebrates 10 years with discounted rooms ...
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Morning Links: Art Basel Miami Beach Catalogue Edition | GalleristNY
(Courtesy Art Basel Miami Beach). Sarah Thornton shares the 10 reasons not to write about the art market. Number five: “Oligarchs and dictators are not cool.
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Miami Beach Convention Center Needs Upgrades and a ...
In August, voters passed a referendum to allow for an increase in Miami Beach hotel room taxes in order to partially fund improvements to the facility. Miami ...
www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2012.../Oct12_MiamiCC.html

McGovern candidacy a cultural landmark
Ct Post
George S. McGovern makes his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. At left is his running mate, Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, and at right, convention chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien. A family spokesman says, ...

ID Theft Fuels 'Tsunami' of Tax Fraud in South Florida
LoanSafe
He obtained their Social Security numbers through online LexisNexis research services at his employer's law office in North Miami Beach, according to a search warrant. Authorities say some of St. Fleur's information ended up in the hands of Frantz ...

Vessix Vascular to Present 3-Month, 6-Month Results From REDUCE-HTN ...
Sacramento Bee
... the treatment of hypertension, announced today that it would present the latest REDUCE-HTN renal denervation clinical study data at this year's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting to be held Oct. 22-26 at the Miami Beach ...

Improving the safety of angioplasty in patients with coronary bypass graft disease
Medical Xpress
Their findings will be presented on Tuesday, October 23rd, at 8 a.m. at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, at the Miami Beach Convention Center by Michael P. Savage, MD, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at ...

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