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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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Despite a significant drop in gas prices, many businesses are still adding fuel surcharges to customers’ bills.

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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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Thousands of people will participate in a sleep-a-thon at Markham Park Friday night to bring attention to homelessness.

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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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The cottage industry orbiting the immigration building at Biscayne Boulevard and 79th Street is moving on as federal agencies move to new digs.

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Between the real-estate downturn and the national credit crunch, South Florida may soon face its worst recession in decades, analysts say.come through it together, and come through it without panicking.”

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The 2008 election officially began at dawn Monday with long lines, singing union members and a handful of hiccups.

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

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