Roll back closing time in Miami and we become a bigger Tampa. We become Houston with a better beach. We lose our image and we create more problems

Miami has never been known for its Irish culture, but that doesn’t mean we all don’t become Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. While the biggest party takes place at John Martin’s in Coral Gables,  the most curious party will take place at Washington Street and 13th Street on Miami Beach where you have two Irish pubs directly across the street from each other. [...]

Miami Beach 411 won the award for Best News Blog and several Miami Beach 411 contributors also won awards. [...]

Some of you college boys may have seen places like Mansion and Set on TV and, seeing the endless parade of 9s and 10s in there, said to yourselves, “Man, we GOTTA go to Miami for Spring Break.” But those girls, those girls are sirens. Those girls are there to call you in only to watch you crash and burn to the tune of a $250 bar tab.

Without a doubt, the main draw of the Wine and Food Festival are the celebrity chefs.  Names like Rachael Ray, Emeril, Bobby Flay, Masimoto, Daniel Boulud and Guy Fieri, just to name a new were able to draw thousands of people, each of them paying several hundred dollars to attend the events last weekend. And then there’s Jorge Montes.  [...]

Before they went on to change the world, the hijackers who flew the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center spent extensive time in Florida strip clubs.  This fact, apparently, was the inspiration for Andre Dubus’ “Garden of Last Days,” a tale of intertwining lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida the weekend prior to 9/11.

The Burger Beast proved once again that he is the master of self-promotion by leading 25 people on a burger tour through three Miami dining establishments. [...]

Home appeared an oasis of creature comforts. The night I arrived, the pool was sparkling blue, the house was immaculate, clean cotton-scented candles burned in every room. The refrigerator was stocked and large bud of purple haze lay drying under a light. [...]

Some Beach residents with a bird’s eye view of Tremont’s tow lot took it upon themselves to document Tremont doing what it does best: breaking into cars. The residents then turned the tapes over to NBC6, who reported the story to widespread outrage. The city responded by doing what it always does when one of its contractors is exposed as a lying, cheating crook: absolutely nothing. [...]

At the Zoological Wildlife Foundation in Miami-Dade, members of the public can pet tigers and hold monkeys, which they are not allowed to do at the zoo. [...]