Mitch Glazer's ode to Miami Beach, Magic City, returns Friday on Starz

'Magic City's' second round is sinfully satisfying
San Antonio Express
The setting is a luxury hotel in 1959 Miami Beach called Miramar Playa, where patrons spend their days sizzling by the pool and their nights enjoying the fresh ocean breezes. “Magic City” also is stocked with gorgeous women, either beautifully dressed ...

From Slovenia to South Beach: Twice-cut Danny Green plays pivotal role for ...
Washington Post
MIAMI — Danny Green smiled as he stepped behind the interview podium and a crowd of reporters gathered around him to talk about the NBA Finals. On a San Antonio Spurs team that steps into the spotlight reluctantly, and occasionally petulantly, Green ...

'Magic City,' Mitch Glazer's ode to Miami Beach, returns Friday on Starz
MiamiHerald.com
Mitch Glazer and half a dozen of his buddies were sitting in a booth at Wolfie's Restaurant in Miami Beach one afternoon in the late 1960s, chattering and laughing and generally being teenage loudmouths, when a waitress walked over to ask them to keep ...

Hotel Review: Gale South Beach in Miami Beach
New York Times
On the corner of Collins Avenue, among such South Beach classics as the Delano and the Sagamore, this 87-room hotel, built in 1941, has the same Art Deco appeal. The Gale, which reopened in December after the original shuttered in the 1960s and later ...

Pole dancing contestants in Miami Beach vie for big bucks
MiamiHerald.com
When Greta Pontarelli walks across the stage, the lights make the red rhinestones adorning her bra glitter. The crowd erupts. They really came for her and she knows it. As a bass-heavy techno remix of Adele's “Skyfall” starts to boom over the speakers, ...

Pete Wentz: Miami Beach Day with Meagan and Bronx!
GossipCenter.com
Spending a day at the beach before the weekend crowd hits, Pete Wentz brought his girlfriend and son to Miami on Thursday (June 6). The Fall Out Boy bassist showed off his tatts in black swim trunks and a baseball cap while his gal Meagan Camper wore a ...

Drogerie Opens on Miami Beach
Eater
Well, it's long past January and this outpost is actually called Drogerie and resides in Miami Beach's Albion Hotel, but it is as of yesterday officially open. Miami.com says that "everything goes back to the European apothecary days at Dragorie" and ...

Coast Guard Shows Off $3 Million In Seized Marijuana
WBFS
Crime Coverage. MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) – The U.S. Coast Guard, working with a Royal Netherlands Navy vessel in May, seized approximately $3 million in marijuana during a drug patrol in the Caribbean Sea. Friday, those drugs arrived in South Florida.

Beach commissioners balk at 'labor peace' deal for convention center
MiamiHerald.com
A suggestion to include a “labor peace” agreement in contracts to operate food, beverage or hotel services on city property within the Convention Center District was kicked back by Miami Beachcommissioners to the city's finance committee ...

Travel Picks - Top 10 city beaches around the world
Yahoo!7 News
South Beach isn't just a beach where Floridians and visitors alike go to sunbathe; it's a hot spot for top-rated restaurants, world-class hotels, excellent shopping and rambunctious partying. Located inMiami Beach, South Beach has transformed in ...

South Florida county mayors join together to present a unified vision in ...
Sun-Sentinel
"We all supported the city of Miami Beach going after a [solar and water energy] grant," said Jacobs, after realizing that Miami Beach would most benefit from the money. "Generally, in the past, you would have seen us all compete for that grant." ...

more news below

Follow @LaPlayaIsla