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via the Miami Herald:

Spotted at Bella Rose’s sizzling hot Black Sunday party, Laguna Beach, uh, star, Kristin Cavallari. Amusingly, Cavallari starred in the night’s Black Sunday video, a slasher-meets-South Beach flick in which, according to its brainchild Alexis Mincolla, “I’m, for lack of a better term, a Sweeney Todd or Jack the Ripper of Miami Beach nightlife. A new person, usually of some prominence to the Miami scene, is murdered every week and put into our video — all in good fun.”

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• Miami Sun Post calls Bella Rose “Best New Beach Hangout” http://tinyurl.com/5u82d8 #
• watched the final webisode of Clubland today - announcement about premiere VERY soon - like next week… #
• Working out details for the Cocaine Cowboys 2 Miami premiere. Looking at Thur 7/24…. #
• At Smith and Wolensky with James D #

• @ photo shoot for Businessweek feature on rakontur. Got rained out of the Marine Stadium location. @Bella Rose #

from the Miami Sun Post:

BEST NEW BEACH HANGOUT

Bella Rose

423 16th St., Miami Beach

305-673-8634

Forget who Keith P.’s brother is, and forget too the fact that his partner Alfred Spellman co-produced Cocaine Cowboys; instead, revel in the retrofit feel of the joint, which evokes the kinda bygone time when whispers rather than screams made right the night. It’s a feel that harkens back to an era long before models and bottles became the norm on South Beach, and an evocation that’s utterly reverent. That’s not to say there aren’t a lotta long and leggy dames hanging about, mind you, or that copious amounts of liquor aren’t being consumed. It’s just to say Bella Rose puts a premium on being a place for people who know that cool can’t be bought — at any price.

• 2 deaths raise 2008 homicides to 136 (Miami Herald)
  Two suspected drug dealers, one just 15, were killed in what has been a spike in homicides across Miami-Dade County in 2008.
  (tags: public)
• Marine Stadium closer to historic status (Miami Herald)
  Proponents of saving the iconic but neglected Miami Marine Stadium easily cleared a significant hurdle Tuesday when they persuaded the city’s historic preservation board to consider designating the modern structure as a protected landmark.
  (tags: public)

• German version of Cocaine Cowboys just arrived at the office. Out on DVD in Germany on July 17th #

• Marine Stadium a landmark? (Miami Herald)
  Miami Marine Stadium may get the designation of a historic landmark if the city’s historic preservation board agrees the Virginia Key site deserves protection.
  (tags: public)
• Judge moves school killing trial to Orlando (Miami Herald)
  A Miami-Dade teenager charged with first-degree murder in the 2004 stabbing death of a classmate will be tried in Orlando, not South Florida.
  (tags: public)
• Americans are world’s top drug users: study (AFP)
  Americans are the world’s top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine.
  (tags: public)