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Shoe-throwing journalists and lassoing pirates lampooned the year’s events at the annual King Mango Strut.

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I didn’t have a place for it in my interview with Will Smith that ran in the Weekend section, but here’s the actor talking about why he loves our city so much.

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Sunny Isles Beach’s sole strip club — Thee Dollhouse — is fighting the city’s plan to regulate where adult businesses can operate.

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The place to be in the universe around 10:15 Friday night: The Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Star watchers got whiplash at the first of two fabulous parties celebrating the seaside icon’s $1 billion rebirth.

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Mauro Mozzani, the Italian starring as a possibly dead clown in Corteo, the Cirque du Soleil production opening Thursday at Bayfront Park, finished rehearsal one recent morning and retired to the dressing room he shares with Russian acrobats and at least one seven-foot clown colleague.

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For celeb watchers, a recession can put a crimp in the plans. Nobody’s got a half a grand to blow at the Ritz to maybe get a glimpse of a bikini-clad someone-or-other by the pool.

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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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It’s hard to say which is more audacious: Miami’s Spanish Broadcasting System tossing aside the telenovela model that’s been the backbone of Spanish-language television since the dawn of TV, or the grisly subject matter of its first full-blown dramatic series: vampires. But the minute Angelica Celaya heard about the new SBS show Gabriel, she knew she wanted to be part of it.

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Comedy is on the house at JohnMartin’s in Coral Gables; it comes with serious cuisine at Laffing Matterz in Fort Lauderdale, and it has those you-gotta-be-there moments at Just the Funny in Miami.

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Which U.S. city rocks it the hardest? Hmm, that shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. New York, of course.

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