Miami Recap: The Week in Miami (5/22/09 to 5/29/09)

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:

• The New and Improved South Beach Hostel Not so long ago, the South Beach Hostel was considered party central for the South of Fifth set.  But lately, it’s completely changed its tune.  What’s different about its new incarnation…and will it take? Find out here! [...]
• [Video] Hip Hop Weekend Sends Locals Out Of Town and Tourists to Jail Businesses on South Beach are recovering from the festive, but controversial, weekend that sends many of the locals out of town, and many of the tourists to jail. [...]
• Burn Notice: A Thrilling Spy Story Made For TV Burn notice sets off right in the middle of a covert mission in Nigeria which turns sour for our hero Westen who finds himself burned by his agency, battered by enemies and sent off to his hometown of Miami Florida. [...]
• How to Really Stop Drunk Driving in Miami While the good people at M.A.D.D. love to tell everyone not to drink and drive, they don’t bother telling the cops not to tow the drunk person’s car. [...]

More News From Around The Web:

Local

• Cat Killer Strikes Again, WPLG
• 1979 – Nazi Collaborator Found Living on South Beach, Brickell Life
• A New Perspective on the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, South Beach USA
• Liberty City Seven, Six, Five…, Burnettiquette
• FIU Makes a High-Stakes Bet on Alex Acosta, Discourse.net
• Miami preacher con man gets ‘jacked!, Random Pixels
• Engaging Creative Communities, Soul of Miami
• Burn Notice receives city permission to stay, Coconut Grove Grapevine

Real Estate

• Miami Herald finally reports the implosion of suburbs, Eye on Miami
• The Cosmopolitan in South Beach, Miami City Diggs

Sports

• Heat’s giant LED marquee, Business of Sports

Travel & Recreation

• Cops Bust More People For Drugs at Urban Beach Week, Riptide 2.0
• A Memorial Trip to Key West, 305: Misadventures in the MIA
• Miami’s Wild and Incestuous Exotic Rental Car Scene, Riptide 2.0

Food, Nightlife & Entertainment

• BLT Steak Miami at The Betsy Hotel, All Purpose Dark
• Pizza crawl part I, Mango & Lime
• Taste of the Gables & Restaurant Week, Coral Gables
• Miami Social, South Florida Daily Blog

Other Items

• The long way home, Ipanemic
• Eggs Over Done, Restaurant Gal
• Miami: Stop Complaining and Get Off Your Ass, Sex and the Beach
• TESOL, How was your day, Dan?
• Where Am I Now, A Mom, a Blog, and the Life In-Between

Hot Topics From Our Forum

• Show us your creativity for free Sneaker Pimps tickets!
• Cat Killer - When will it end?!
• Italian and German Communities?
• What is wrong with a 15-year-old boy sexually involved with a 32-year-old woman?
• Finding a Rental near FIU University Park Campus
• Staying alone in South Beach
• Tips on smoothly getting in to a Miami club
• Deco Fridays: Happy Hour to quench your thirst
• Top 10 restaurants in Miami area
• Cool restaurants
• Wave, Winterhaven or Newport Beachside?

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