News of Ultra Music Festival‘s departure is barely sinking in but the fallout is already starting to take hold. The festival calling Miami home for 21 years was all but pushed out of the area this year. Then, after its first year on Virginia Key Beach, organizers are pulling the plug and moving to a
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Dear Editor, The county and city of Miami will fulfill their obligation to build and operate what is now called the Historic Civil Rights Museum at Virginia Key Beach Park A concerted effort is being made with my office and the city including Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioners Keon Hardemon and Ken Russell to
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As other suitors debate asking Ultra out, Miami has second thoughts about breakup Weeks after Ultra Music Festival left the city of Miami, the city’s elected leaders are wondering if they should try to woo the electronic dance music event back. “It just reminded me of being in a relationship, then breaking up with someone
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Squabble between the county and city lets Black museum languish: Each accuses the other of dropping the ball A museum to house the history of Black Americans in Miami and Miami-Dade County’s former Blacks-only beach has been a project in search of funding for more than a decade. The Historic Virginia Key Beach Park museum
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