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Miami is undergoing an amazing transformation as culture and career find a place among the snow birds and sun worshippers.
Although many of the people you meet here are vacationing the year round community is growing Whether Miami is your future — or simply the location of your favorite party — the sun, the contton candy deco and the critical mass of beautiful people make South Beach a prime destination.

Miami is a non-stop party if you know where to go. Check out our Nightlife links for suggestions. The trendy clubs of South Beach are world famous. While out and about keep an eye open for celebrities. Many of them call Miami home. If you want a quieter day, there are miles of uncrowded beaches in the area, perfect for the afternoon on the beach. Remember though, there won’t be sunsets over the water, but there are spectacular sunrises.The Miami area has a subtropical climate with plentiful sunshine year-round. Most of the rain falls during the summer and early fall, keeping the area lush and tropical. Virtually all buildings are air-conditioned. Due to the powerful rays of the sun, it is a good idea to wear a hat and sunscreen when outdoors.

Usually men and women will be most comfortable in lightweight resort wear. Depending upon personal preference, there are plenty of opportunities to dress formally.The Miami area has some of best sporting events around. The Hockey team the Florida Panthers play from October until April each year, the Super Bowl winning NFL team the Miami Dolphins play nearby along with the former World Series Champion the Florida Marlins. Prefer college sports?

The University of Miami’s Hurricanes have a championship football team, basketball team and track and field. Interested in basketball? Miami has the Miami Heat one of the newest basketball teams. Other local sports include many horse racing and greyhound racing at Flagler Dog Track, The are a few annual events each year. The Genuity – Doral Championship is played nearby at the Doral Golf Resort.

For tennis there is The Erickson Open . Miami also has the one of a kind, Homestead-Miami Speedway. Located in Miami-Dade County Greater Miami, along with the Beaches, is spread over 2,000 square miles at the southeastern tip of Florida. The Intracoastal Waterway separates Miami from Miami Beach , located on the Atlantic Ocean. The beaches stretch along almost the entire length of the county.With more than 2 million people, the area is rich in cultural diversity.

Exploring all Miami has to offer can take awhile. The magnificent cruise ships at the Port of Miami come and go daily. The world famous Everglades and Biscayne National Parks are close by, as well as lovely Key Biscayne, historic Coconut Grove, beautiful Coral Gables, and trendy South Beach.

Some of the area’s unique attractions include the Miami Seaquarium, the Miami MetroZoo – one of the world’s top 10 Zoos, Parrot Jungle, a world famous bird sanctuary,Vizcaya, an Italian Renaissance-style villa and formal gardens built in 1916 and the Spanish Monastery, The Oldest Building in North America.

In 1895, a record freeze enveloped most of the north of Florida, where Henry Flagler’s railroads were disgorging thousands of rich and powerful northerners who were coming to stay at his hotels and resorts. The freeze wiped out citrus crops and sent vacationers scurrying, and legend has it that Julia Tuttle (who owned large tracts of property here and had approached Flagler with the offer of partnership in exchange for the extension of his railroad to Miami, which he’d refused) went into her garden, snipped off some flowers and sent them to Flagler, who hightailed it down to Miami to see for himself.

What he saw was a tropical paradise. Flagler and Tuttle came to terms, and Flagler announced the extension of his railroad. At that, thousands of people whose livelihoods had been wiped out by the big freeze, including citrus growers and service industry workers like doctors and merchants, began heading down to Miami in anticipation of the boom that was to come. Passenger train service to Miami began 22 April 1896; in that year the city of Miami incorporated and development kicked off.

The early 20th century saw Miami still riding a wave of prosperity. It peaked during WWI, when the US military established an aviation training facility here. After WWI, the first full-fledged Miami boom (1923-25) was fuelled not just by the area’s idyllic beachfront location and perfect weather, but also by gambling and the fact that it never really took to the idea of prohibition – though it was illegal, liquor flowed freely throughout the entire Prohibition era.

But the boom was cut short by a devastating hurricane, which was immediately followed by statewide recession and national depression. In the mid-1930s, a mini-boom saw the construction of Miami Beach’s famous Art Deco buildings, and this reasonably prosperous period continued until 1942, when a German U-Boat sank an American tanker off Florida’s coast. The ensuing freak-out created a full-scale conversion of South Florida into a massive military base, training facility and staging area.

After WWII, many of Miami’s trainee soldiers returned and settled, and the city maintained its pre-war prosperity. In the 1950s, Miami Beach had another boom, as the area began to be known as the ‘Cuba of America’: gamblers and gangsters, enticed by Miami’s gambling, as well as its proximity to the fun, sun and fast times of Batista-run Cuba, moved in en masse. After the Castro coup in Cuba in 1959 Miami’s Cuban population swelled.

In 1965, the two ‘freedom flights’ that ran every day between Miami and Havana disgorged over 100,000 Cuban refugees. Tension built up between Cubans and the town’s African Americans, who were relegated to an area north of downtown known as Colored Town. Riots broke out, skirmishes and acts of gang-style violence occurred. In the late 1970s, Fidel Castro opened the floodgates, allowing anyone who wanted to leave Cuba access to the docks at Mariel. The largest flotilla ever launched for non-military purposes set sail in practically anything that would float to cover the 90 miles (145km) between Cuba and Florida. The Mariel Boatlift, as it was called, brought 150,000 Cubans to Florida (including 25,000 prisoners and mental patients), and the resulting economic, logistical and infrastructural strain on South Florida only added to still-simmering racial tensions, which would explode on 17 May 1980, when four white police officers, being tried on charges that they beat a black suspect to death while he was in custody, were acquitted by an all-white jury. When the verdict was announced, fierce race riots broke out all over Miami, and lasted for three days.

In the roaring 1980s, the Miami area gained prominence as the major East Coast entry port for drug dealers, their product and the unbelievable sums of money that went along with them. A plethora of businesses and buildings sprung up all over Miami, and the downtown was completely remodeled. But it was still a city being reborn while in the grip of drug smugglers: shootouts and gangland slayings by cocaine cowboys were common. The police, Coast Guard, Drug Enforcement Agency, Border Patrol and FBI were in a tizzy trying to keep track of it all. And then it happened: Miami Vice .

The show, about two narcotics detectives clad in outrageously expensive designer pastels driving around in a Ferrari and million-dollar cigarette boats, was responsible for Miami Beach rising to international attention in the mid-1980s. The show’s slick look, soundtrack and music video montages glamorized the rich life in South Florida, and before long people were coming down to see it. By the late 1980s, Miami Beach had risen to international Fabulousness. Celebrities were moving in, photo shoots from all over the world were being shot here, and the Art Deco District was going through a renovation that turned the city into a showpiece of fashion and trendiness.

The area is riding the peak of a boom that’s been going on for the past several years. Hurricane Andrew in 1992 barely affected the tourist industry, which is the city’s backbone. And despite highly publicized crimes against tourists in 1993, Miami is now the third most popular American city for international tourists after Los Angeles and New York. Its revival as a popular destination was largely due to a highly visible anti-crime campaign that saw tourist-related crimes decrease by 80% between 1992 and 1998. Despite the Miami murder of Gianni Versace in 1997 and the ruckus over Elian Gonzales, the young Cuban boy who was rescued from the sea after his mother drowned trying to bring him to Florida, Miami continues to flourish: the blithe, brash boomtown has a few tricks up its glittery sleeve yet.

Nightlife:

Amnesia 136 Collins. 305/531-5535
Boardwalk 17008 Collins. 305/949-4119
Club Liquid 1439 Washington. 305/532-9154
Eagle 1252 Coral Way. 305/860-0056
El Carol 930 SW Le Jeune. 305/448-9148
On the Waterfront 3615 NW South River Drive. 305/635-5500
Ozone 6620 Red Road. 305/667-2888
Score on Lincoln Road 727 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL. 305/535-1111
Splash 5922 South Dixie Highway. 305/662-8779

Courtesy of miamigayguide.com

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