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 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.

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. [...]

You may believe that relapse begins the moment one ingests a drink or drug. That is what I always believed. This is a myth. Relapse begins with a sense that you’ve got it down, this sobriety thing. [...]