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Miami
Why Go?
Miami is so many things, but to most visitors, it's mainly glamour, condensed into urban
form.
They're right. The archaic definition of 'glamour' is a kind of spell that mystifies a vic-
tim. Well, they call Miami the Magic City. And it is mystifying. In its beauty, certainly: the
clack of a model's high heels on Lincoln Rd, the teal sweep of Biscayne Bay, flowing cool
into the wide South Florida sky; the blood-orange fire of the sunset, setting the downtown
skyline aflame.
Then there's less-conventional beauty: a poetry slam in a converted warehouse, or a
Venezuelan singing Metallica
en español
in a Coral Gables karaoke bar, or the passing
shalom
/
buenas días
traded between Orthodox Jews and Cuban exiles.
Miami is so many things. All glamorous, in every sense of the word. You could spend a
fun lifetime trying to escape her spell.
