Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Chris Paciello (born Christian Ludwigsen, [ 1] September 7, 1971) is an American former Cosa Nostra associate, member of The Untouchables car-theft ring, and government informant who was convicted of racketeering. [ 2][ 3] During the 1990s, and again in 2012, he became a prominent night club owner in the South Beach section of Miami Beach ...
Warsaw Ballroom. Coordinates: 25.7869°N 80.1305°W. The Warsaw Ballroom, or more commonly referred to simply as "Warsaw" was a gay night club located in South Beach, Florida, at Collins Avenue and Espanola Way. It had previously borne that name when it was a dance club for seniors. Then it changed hands, becoming the "Ovo" and the "China Club ...
The Historic Bath Club (Miami Beach, FL) In 1999, after becoming the first black member in 1996, Peebles purchased The Bath Club, an exclusive social club opened in 1926. [ 12 ] The Bath Club expands 3 acres, including 540 feet of beachfront along the Atlantic Ocean, as well as 20,000 feet of indoor and outdoor private event space, a spa, a ...
The hotel, now a museum, was a mecca for Black performers and tourists when Miami was a segregated city and Miami Beach was a “sundown town” — where Black people were banned at night unless ...
Date: Feb. 3, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Location: Walt Frazier Park at Carol City, 18500 NW 32nd Ave., Miami Gardens. This annual event pays tribute to racially-profiled and slain Black teenager Trayvon ...
February 21, 2024 at 12:34 PM. The seeds of change were planted in Miami Beach in the late 1970s and into the ‘80s. The first two renovated Art Deco hotels, the Cardozo and the Carlyle, reopened ...
Clubs and music venues on and around Ocean Drive, South Beach are the center of Urban Beach Week's activities. Urban Beach Week is a hip-hop festival held in Miami's South Beach over the Memorial Day weekend since the 2000s. [1] Urban Beach Week has been likened to a de facto continuation of Freaknik 's cultural activities. [2]
Fontainebleau Miami Beach. / 25.81806°N 80.12222°W / 25.81806; -80.12222. The Fontainebleau Miami Beach, also known as Fontainebleau Hotel, is a hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. Designed by Morris Lapidus, the luxury hotel opened in 1954. In 2007, the Fontainebleau Hotel was ranked ninety-third in the American Institute of Architects ...