Miami Recap: The Week in Miami (8/17/07 to 8/24/07)

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:

• Matt Meltzer Says Adios, Miami. Hello Gainsville! If you live in Miami long enough, you know that your time here is limited. In a city that lets you do pretty much whatever you want, whenever you want it becomes apparent that in order to get on, you have to get out…
• I’m Bored, What’s There To Do? I’ve been spending more time than usual on the Event Calendar this week and have lots more to add! Check it out (and check back often) to see all the exciting events coming up. Here are the highlights for this weekend…
• Michael Bay (Director/Producer) Is Moving To Miami Beach, FL Hollywood movie director, Michael Bay, is moving to Miami Beach. He purchased Hulk Hogan’s home on North Bay Road for a little more than the $18.9 million asking price. Hogan paid a reported $12 million in 2006…
• If Miami was a toilet For all those the commenters who like to hate on Miami and call it a toilet, this picture is just for you…

Hot Topics From Our Forum:

• How to get a bartending job?
• Should I attend University of Miami School of Medicine?
• Florida parasail accident (Videos)
• Rapist caught at Nikki Beach
• Place for couple sex in Miami and Fort Lauderdale
• Ice cream truck robbed!
• Hurricanes leaving the Orange Bowl
• Ritz Carlton Hotel Pool (Pictures)

More News From Around The Web:

Local

• No Confidence In Timoney, Stuck on the Palmetto
• Unfounded Castro rumors grow in Miami, Florida Today
• There Goes the Neighborhood?, Discourse.net
• Green Dreamin’ on Miami Beach, Riptide 2.0

Real Estate

Savoy Hotel in Financial Trouble

• Miami Condo Index - Brickell - August 2007, Miami Condo Investments
• Mortgage Foreclosure Filing Statistics in Miami Dade, Eye on Miami
• Rethinking Brickell’s Interior (west side), Boom or Bust

Sports

• What I’ll be watching on Saturday night, The Phinsider
• Miami Dolphins Web Site Adds New Fan Video Reports, MiamiDolphins.com
• Miami FC ends harsh weekend in Puerto Rico with another defeat, soccerFLA

Travel

• Spirit Airlines Sucktacular Goes National, Stuck on the Palmetto

Food, Nightlife & Entertainment

• Why? Seriously, Why?, Restaurant Gal
• Let’s cut the Coconut Grove Playhouse some slack, Critical Miami
• College Guide: The University of Miami, Menu Pages
• Cocaine Cowboys II - Coming This Fall, Rakontur

Other Items

• The best place to ride a motorcycle (NOT), A European in Miami
• Where and how to make friends?, A European in Miami
• Idol Mania, Plum
• City of Miami Cemetery, mkhall

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