Miamism Fridays – Cruz Diez at MAM
I was so excited to hear that Cruz Diez had an exhibit at The Miami Art Museum. I grew up with this Venezuelan Artist’s sculptures around me and sometimes think that he was instrumental in my…
Top 3 Most Expensive Miami Beach Condo Sales – April 2010
There were 157 Miami Beach Condos sold in the month of April 2010, ranging from $5.9 million to $39,952 for a 406 square foot efficiency at The Beverly Arms. Ironically, 1/2 a year of condo fees…
Top 4 Most Expensive Miami Beach Home Sales – April 2010
There were 17 Miami Beach homes sold in the month of April of 2010, ranging from $3.5 Million to $200,000 for a Short Sale in Normandy Island. Seven of the 17 sales were properties over a…
Mojito Review – Q American Barbeque, Miami Design District
Mojito Review Q American Barbeque Miami Design District 4029 N Miami Ave Miami, FL 33127 Phone: (305) 227-2378 www.qamericanbarbeque.com **Another Jonathan Eismann restaurant, together with Chef Brian Bell, whose family has been making great barbecue for…
Miamism Fridays – Mother’s Day Gift
Mother’s Day is Sunday and we wanted to give our readers a double gift, a photograph of a beautiful Bromeliad Specimen taken by an extremely talented friend, Marc Kevin Hall (aka @mkhall) at Fairchild Tropical Gardens. …
Miami Shores – not so good- News
Don’t like to post bad news here in Miamism – but this is something all neighbors need to know. It happens in the best places and our “Miami Shores Village Beautiful” is not exempt from corruption. …
April 2010 Real Estate Market Reports for Miami Shores, Bay Harbor Islands, Surfside, Fisher Island and Aventura
This is a Miami Real Estate Market Report for April 2010 – an evident decrease in number of sales this month but doesn’t really mean a thing when it comes to describing a recuperating market. Our…
Shaq’s Star Island $19 Million Tear-down
Only in Miami does someone buy a gorgeous Star Island Mansion for $16 Million and completely guts it! The big talk last Summer was how Shaquille O’Neil had dumped his Star Island home for a mere…
Steffi Graf’s House for Sale in Miami Beach
**UPDATE – Steffi Graf’s House finally sells for $2,175,000 on July 30th, 2010** I wrote this article back on September 3rd, 2007 (that’s 2 1/2 years ago!) and unfortunately, Steffi Graf’s house is STILL on the…
Top 3 Most Expensive Miami Beach Condo Sales – March 2010
There were 195 Miami Beach Condos sold in the month of March 2010. The least expensive Miami Beach Condo sold in March was a bank owned studio at The Alden Hotel located at 2925 Indian Creek…
Miamism Fridays – M is for Miami
Here we have the Riverwalk Metromover Station designed by Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt and photographed by My Little Photo Album (who we have featured here a few times before). Although Behar happened to be one…
Miami Shores Village News – April 2010
Sad news for many here in Miami Shores – Vice Mayor Shockey resigns! This doesn’t mean he won’t be back. Here is the latest from Donald Shockey himself. Either way, we wish him the best of…
Top 3 Most Expensive Miami Beach Home Sales – March 2010
There were 22 Miami Beach homes sold in March 2010 ranging from the most expensive, which will be featured here at $2.85 Million, to the lowest sale in Miami Beach at $102,500 for a dry lot,…
March 2010 Real Estate Market Reports for Miami Shores, Bay Harbor Islands, Surfside, Fisher Island and Aventura
This is a Miami Real Estate Market Report for March 2010 – Some areas of Miami have reached normalcy (as unbelievable as it may sound). There are regular amounts of sales, inventory has dropped, so has…
Miamism Fridays – Marine Stadium
There is amazing historic architecture in our city that gets taken for granted – sometimes I feel like we are a disposable society….it is so much easier to “tear it down” than to preserve it (and…