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Cuba Nostalgia
Yesterday I went to the Cuba Nostalgia fair, a yearly event where the Cuba of yesterday is both remembered and celebrated. There was music, food, vendors, memorabilia, food, guests, food, artists and...
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Took this pic at the Cuba Nostalgia show, where as you can probably imagine, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is not exactly the most loved of people. The word is a play on the Spanish for assassin, replacing a...
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Steping Onto the City
One of the things they had at Cuba Nostalgia was a large map of the city of Havana as it looked in 1953. It was actually one of the highlights of the show, as pretty much everyone went by it so they...
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Freedom of the Seas
Royal Caribbean's new Freedom of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world and ever made, pulled into port here in Miami early this morning. The ship was christened last week in New York and has...
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Freedom Tower
Completed in 1925 as the headquarters of the Miami News & Metropolis Newspaper, the Freedom Tower became in the 1950's the Ellis Island of the Cuban exile community as they arrived in Miami fleeing...
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The Triple A
Completed in 1999 to replace the venerable Miami Arena, the American Airlines Arena (AAA) has taken over as Miami's main venue for pretty much any show in town, as well as the home for our local NBA...
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Bayside
I've been taking you on a small tour of Downtown Miami the past two days, and today we continue with Bayside Marketplace, a very pretty, very touristy pedestrian mall situated right on the Miami bay....
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Downtown
This is a shot of the southernmost part of Downtown Miami, looking towards the Brickell financial district. The track is for the Miami Metromover, a series of three Downtown-area automated minitrains,...
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Lounge by the Bay
A very tranquil shot of Bayfront Park, in Downtown Miami, just down from Bayside Marketplace. In the middle of the very busy city, this spot just whisks you away to peace and calm of the bay. (If you...
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The PAC
The brand-spanking new Miami Performance Arts Center (PAC for short) is set to open this fall, giving Miami a world-class, state-of-the-art fine arts venue for everything from plays to concerts to...
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The Herald
First established in 1903, the MiamiHerald (name acquired in 1910) is South Florida's oldest newspaper. It has won 18 Pulitzer Prizes during it's run and is considered to be one of the best newspapers...
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Double Helix
Tucked in one corner of Bayfront Park is this metal pipe sculpture which I had always thought was some strange monument to DNA. Turns out I wasn't that far off. The sculpture is called the Challenger...
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House of Law
The Miami-Dade County Courthouse is one of the coolest buildings in Miami, mainly because it has a slightly gothic thing going on (though it is actually classified as a neo-classical structure with...
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Past Quitting Time
This is just a simple shot of NW 1st street in Downtown Miami, taken from the Metromover, at about 6:00 PM, an hour past quitting time for the mainly-business oriented core of the city. To the left is...
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Metromover
Though in my opinion the Miami public transit system is just incredibly sub-par for a city this size, it does have a small crowning gem, the Miami Metromover, an automated, elevated train system that...
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The Miami Daily Photo blog is going into a short, forced hiatus.My cat bit into my laptop's power cord this morning, severing the insides, and rendering it useless, a fact I discovered when my laptop...
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Mi Familia
Back from my forced hiatus, I bring you a local fad you are unlikely to see in many other places, the Mi Familia (My Family) stickers. I first saw these on my Mom's car on a visit to Puerto Rico. The...
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Sunflower and Cat
I had been chronicling the birth of this sunflower, the first in my (and my neighbor's) small garden, and on this shot, my neighbor's cat decided he wanted to make a cameo appereance. Sadly, the...
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And We're Off!
Alberto became the first name tropical system of the 2006 Hurricane Season. Though it only reached Tropical Storm strength, and quicly downgraded to Tropical Depression, it doesn't bode well for the...
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Go Heat!
Shot of Downtown Miami on Tuesday night (6/13) when the Miami Heat were playing game 3 of the NBA Finals at home. They went on to win 98-96 vs. the Dallas Mavericks, putting the series 2-1 in favor of...
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