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Book lovers will take to the streets Friday with the opening of the street fair of the 25th annual Miami Book Fair International. And if you’re an experienced fairgoer, you’re not worried. You know the drill.

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Pinned to Kimmie Briley’s back: a tag that read “This one is for my mommy.”

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It’s been a bad year for sports venues. The Orange Bowl went boom. The Miami Arena imploded. Even the House that Ruth Built is no more.

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About 130 pounds of explosives brought down the roof of the Miami Arena — long considered the city’s ‘Pink Elephant’ — on Sunday morning. The arena marked its opening back in 1988 with a Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis Jr. concert.

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Enrique Iglesias turned a sold-out AmericanAirlines Arena into his living room on Saturday night. All it took was some couches onstage, four beyond-hysterical fans invited up to sit and Iglesias’ gift for uniting pop heroics with boy-next-door charm. ”C’mon, you’re in my house,” Iglesias kept saying. He even brought them drinks before launching into his early hit Experiencia Religiosa, sending the most rabid onstage guest, a man named Roberto, into the kind of rapture that only happens when you’ve been suddenly transported inside your favorite star’s music video.

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Unknown to many locals and tucked away on downtown streets, small restaurants and shops cater to homesick foreign cruise-line workers.

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Thanks to the cruise industry, downtown Miami is a feast for fans of ethnic food — and you don’t have to board an ocean liner or pay first-class fare to enjoy it. It’s a Miami masala — a spicy Indian and Southeast Asian blend.

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Celia Cruz was such an enthralling and beloved musical icon that it was natural to want to know more about her. But her very private life, whose great drama was being separated from Cuba, made her an elusive figure. What we got from Celia was music and energy.

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So how big is Miami’s downtown building boom?

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