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That's a song from my upcoming musical "Miami Beach Memories"....the Current Big Event here in the Magic City is of course the annual Boat Show, as announced by the march of mega-yachts, the traffic lights being re-strung to accomodate their girth.

So let's discuss. There's three venues, thus three different experiences.

The section on the city of Miami side of Biscayne Bay, by the soon-to-be-ex-Herald building, lends itself to exploring a couple ...

Whew! I'm bushed, ya' knowwhatI'msayin'? As we prepare for the Next Big Event (the Boat Show) Miami Beach and Beachbum in particular reflect on the last week...

Speaking personally, Beachbum is new to hotelsbycity but a veteran chronicler of the South Beach scene, reported in his humorous fortnightly These Bitter Times. He's a he, a Taurus, of Irish-German descent, ruddy-faced and always braced for the worst, yet hoping for the best, ...

It does rain here. But usually it just passes through; mercifully we don't get too many daylong gray drizzly affairs such as today, Super Bowl Day. I'd say the Chamber of Commerce is "wringing its hands" but quite frankly no matter what we do here people keep coming, even when we do 'bad.'

You've fought your way through traffic (that's meant literally) and found a place to park your rental. Or, better, rolled ...

Here is where Beachbum planned on a clucking, finger-wagging, beard-stroking lecture on the over-hype and excesses of this Whole Event, especially given the poverty in the world and global warming--but honk that for a weekend, and let's have some fun! You have TV's and local newspapers and they can tell you about the big-name celebrity get-togethers and high rollers getting massaged by extinct dodo birds while Madonna screams at them ...

Hello again gentle reader...just to remind you of our last confab, I was saying what a shame it was so many things are happening at once here on the Beach...even in slow times there's something to do here, so by necessity something has to go....

Although the crowds they attract are vastly different, both the Supe and the BS are hotel-fillers, restaurant-crowders, street-cloggers...to have the Hype Bowl come in then leave ...

Alas, gentle reader--it's a shame Beachbum has only only just now happened on the scene in conjunction with my good friends at hotelsbycity...there is so much background I needed to give you; instead we're thrown into this huge week like a stuffed trash bag into a dumpster...so be it...

Much like Lovie Smith or Tony Dungy, you need to adapt a strategy. Offense or Defense? If you want the End Zone ...