MIAMI – Terms like “Hollywood East” have been tossed around Florida for years. Now, Downtown Miami is taking steps to mark itself as “Hollywood South.” The City of Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency Board unanimously approved a $1 million allocation to begin planning, design, permitting and initial retrofitting of the Miami Entertainment Complex. MEC will [...]
Miami – We already have a Hollywood in South Florida, but what about turning Miami into the Hollywood like the one on the West Coast where all the big movie are made? Well, steps are being taken to make it happen. A movie set isn’t the norm for Miami, but the “Rock of Ages” movie [...]
Miami – The City of Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency Board has approved a $1 million allocation for planning, designing, permitting and initial retrofitting of the Miami Entertainment Complex, GlobeSt.com reported. The project will see an 82,000-square-foot building transformed into a state-of-the-art mixed-use film production facility. “Downtown Miami is in a unique position to nurture [...]
Miami - The historic Coconut Grove Playhouse may no longer host plays, but it’s still getting its share of drama. The stage that once hosted the American premiere of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and a Streetcar Named Desire revival starring Tallulah Bankhed… …Now windows are boarded gates are rusting and trash litters the property in the heart of the [...]
MIAMI – Will Miamians brave the summer heat to use outdoor rowing machines and elliptical trainers? They already are, according to city officials, who have spent more than $150,000 installing complete sets of exercise machines in four parks. A fifth is on the way. The equipment varies from park to park, but generally includes step [...]
MIAMI — With a little imagination and an abundance of space, movie producers can make anything happen, and the question is whether they will choose to bring the once-lucrative business back to South Florida. The plot has recently thickened. A few months ago, Miami’s Community Redevelopment Agency purchased a warehouse near 29th Avenue and Northwest [...]
MIAMI (CBS4) – From across the street, one building in Miami looks like any other in an industrial area, but the window coverings are made of steel. The heavy duty covers are protecting the building which is abandoned. Many of the windows are literally broken. The inside is just an empty shell. Officials say the vacancy attracts all [...]
Like many Americans growing up during the 1960s, the Bay of Pigs invasion was for me simply another chapter in our country’s long struggle to stamp out communism. It all became personal for me in 1990 when I met Felix I. Rodriguez, a charismatic veteran of that doomed invasion and a central figure in the [...]
Miami (CNN) — Waves gently lap at the shore. Palm trees rustle in the breeze. A boat drifts by. For those who like to work out, there’s no better place. This is one of Miami’s new outdoor gyms. Miami — known for its lively nightlife, tanned skin and tiny clothing — was slapped with a [...]
