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The Art of Eating: 9 Great Food Spots to Hit During Art Basel Miami
Art Basel Miami is not just about the art and fashionable fetes, it’s also about the food. Here’s a guide to savory sustenance and sweet treats to fortify your staying power during Miami’s world famous blowout this December 3–6.
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Miami Like a Local: You've Been Seeing This City All Wrong
By Charles McCool / McCool Travel In the late 1970s, Miami launched a memorable ad campaign, using the slogan: “Miami. Since I spent more than 90 percent of my school time in South Florida (in other words, I grew up there), I feel qualified to present attractions that actually speak to the point of this notorious old PR stunt, places where you really can see Miami like a local. Read on so you can really see Miami. Escape to Off-the-Beaten-Path Beaches Cape Florida beach on Key Biscane (Photo:
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11 Hotel Breakfasts Worth Traveling the Globe For
In fact, these hotel restaurants boast prized dishes guests wait in line for — you may even need reservations (for hotel breakfast, people!). Miss Jean Kelly, maitre de of Tradewinds restaurant at Peter Island Resort in the British Virgin Islands, has been perfecting her coconut French toast for so long — almost 40 years! — that it’s become somewhat of a legend on the islands.
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Caribbean Blues: Mosquito Virus Is Sickening More Travelers
Thousands of travelers to the Caribbean and nearby regions are coming home with an unwanted souvenir: a mosquito-borne virus that recently settled there. The virus, called chikungunya (chih-kihn-GOON’-yuh), causes severe, often disabling joint pain, and few U.S. doctors are prepared to recognize its signs. Since it spread from Asia and Africa in late 2013, chikungunya has infected a million people in the Caribbean, Latin America and parts of South America and Mexico.
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Step Aside, South Beach: Miami Is All About Mid-Beach Now
Set mid-way between South Beach and Bal Harbour, Mid-Beach is Miami’s ‘hood-of-the-moment. Roughly spanning Collins Avenue from 25th to 50th streets, Mid-Beach is a quiet escape from the Ocean Drive madness close to all of Miami’s main attractions.
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Street Art Smackdown: Wynwood Walls in Miami vs. Beco do Batman in São Paulo
This week it’s Wynwood Walls in Miami vs. Beco do Batman in São Paulo, Brazil, in an art-world showdown. Just over the bridge from South Beach is the Wynwood Walls, an open-air outdoor gallery and mecca for street art dreamed up by developer and visionary Tony Goldman in Oct. 2009. Inspired the graffiti that already was on abandoned warehouses, empty factories, and crumbling buildings in the manufacturing district along NW 2nd Avenue between 26th and 25th Streets, Goldman and famed curator Jef
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The New Power Lunch: the Hottest Spots to See and Be Seen Across the Country
Forget steak and martinis — the power lunch has gotten a makeover with new flavors for a diversified palate. These are the Hotspots you need to know now.
