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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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The Florida Film Critics Circle has named Slumdog Millionaire as the best picture of 2008 - an award I could not concur with more. The movie also nabbed the Best Director prize for Danny Boyle and Best Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy.

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A public hearing on Miami 21, a major rezoning plan, drew scores of complaints, indicating tough issues ahead for the city leaders.

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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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So what’ll it be? The place with the six infinity-edge swimming pools or the one with the bathroom chandelier that doubles as a shower head? The resort where beach butlers roam the premises with champagne carts or the hotel where no guest even on the most scorching of days is far from a chilled facial towel?

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Dutch design star Marcel Wanders lounges in the back yard of the new Mondrian South Beach. A sparkling panorama of Biscayne Bay lies beyond his feet. The setting he imagined, this enchanted white palace of fantastical proportions, rises behind him.

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The year was 1931, not long before his death. Thomas Edison was gathered with two of his friends, fellow industrial titans Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone. Peering into the future, the man who harnessed the power of electricity for everyday use spoke words that are remarkably relevant more than 75 years later. ”I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy,” Edison said. “What a source of power. I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

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The 37th annual Winterfest Boat Parade will launch on Saturday in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
In South Florida, we take our holiday traditions with a twist.

Holiday lights wrap around palm trees. Carolers travel in flip-flops.

And Santa Claus rides into town on the river, gliding atop a glass barge and flanked by two snow bunnies and four hunky South Florida firefighters.

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JetBlue Airways said Tuesday that it plans to further expand its service at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport with two new international routes.

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