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Newsletters for Tuesday and Wednesday – vacation newsletters TNT

THURSDAY:
GOOD TO KNOW THEME

Quiz – exotic fruits in Miami

Miami Grime – a tour of beloved Miami dive bars  drink like a Viking!
Miami’s nightlife continues to reinvent itself as it caters to both locals and tourists looking for a way to escape the everyday life and bask in the sexiness of our city. With craft cocktail culture taking the city by storm, and bars multiplying in the trendier parts of town, sometimes what the spirit needs is just a good old watering hole to seek refuge. No frills. No bullshit. And no $13 drinks that take an hour to make and burn a hole in your pocket faster than you can say “Cheers!” Take a tour of our favorite Miami dive bars.

Miami life hacks: How to spend the day at the beach for free: Playa, park, picnic at Miami Beach on the cheap. 
Although there’s more beach than we know what to do with, going to the beach in Miami isn’t cheap. Between parking and entrance fees alone, most beach days can end up costing unseemly amounts of money.

Technology companies that help the Magic City – and one is homegrown
After the tragedy of the Surfside condo building collapse, the Coastal Risk Consulting business is even more important, offering a FICO-type “flood score” that assesses flooding risk on a property over the next 30 years. Plus, read about four other technology companies that are doing good stuff in town.

Mead in Miami It’s hard to get a nice, cold glass of mead in these parts.
(Don’t know what mead is? We won’t judge. I didn’t either.) It’s pretty much the OG alcoholic beverage — dated way back to 3,000 B.C.E. It’s wine, but instead of grapes, it’s made out of honey. The drink has been around for centuries and consumed all over the world, from early South Africa to ancient Greece. It’s known as the drink of the Vikings and often shows up in Norse mythology. (GOT fans: you’ve seen Tyrion Lannister imbing on a glass or two.)

This Miamian started an eye-popping greeting card shop, keeping an eye on anti-sweatshop production
After spending months in Vietnam learning how to make the intricate cards, she returned to Miami and found an affordable place in Buena Vista, just north of her previous home.
“I now know how coconuts are lacquered, how water buffalo horn eyeglasses are made, and how to pull coconut taffy”

FRIDAY:
HISTORY THEME

Miami History Trivia
In what hospital did patients eat food made by a French chef from New York’s Waldorf Astoria? Think you can answer that question? We have more!

Shtetl by the Sea – Jewish history and culture in Miami
How did the Jewish community make their way to Miami? Evidence of Jewish individuals was recorded as early as 1565 in St. Augustine. Over the centuries, due to global migrations and societal persecution, Jewish communities from all over the world – Romania and Eastern Europe in the 1880s, Russians and Spaniards in the early 1900s – immigrated to Florida. The route was from St. Augustine to Tampa and Key West to Miami. However, the population group was not allowed to settle until 1763, and because of that, Florida was one of the last to develop a substantial Jewish population.

A brief history of James Bond in Miami
The opening lines of Goldfinger (1959) by Ian Fleming are as follows: “James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.”
We’ve all been there, James. We’ve all been there.There are a few major takeaways from the leading sentence of Goldfinger. First and foremost, the airport can be terrible. But also, Bond fits right in. Looking sly, getting boozy, and drinking something he usually doesn’t. MIA is no place for a martini, shaken not stirred. Finally, the dread that sets in after a tough weekend at the beach is something we’ve all shared but we don’t talk about in the tourist guides.

A ‘serious museum‘ in a tourist playground, and don’t be surprised to see historical propaganda there.
In focusing intently on a select slice of history, objects in The Wolfsonian represent a much larger range of society than is typically displayed in museums, according to Rodgers. The museum digs deep into a century of time, representing people from the poorest pauper to the richest moguls. The library has an especially robust collection of objects from international exhibitions like the world’s fairs, propaganda materials, and design and art.

A curious fish tale from long, long ago the Frost Museum of Science
Eighty million years ago, a school of scaly Gillicus darted through the prehistoric seas that surged above modern day Kansas. Most likely searching for their next meal, Gillicus were predators, but not the top of the primitive marine food chain. There were far bigger fish found in the semi-tropical waters that during the Cretaceous period split North America right up the middle, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Circle—predators such as the Xiphactinus, (zy-FAK-tin-us) a species that would have swooped in to swallow a four-foot long Gillicus whole. To begin to understand the Xiphactinus, it helps to know it was a fish (and fish seems like such an inadequate term for a creature that could be up to 17-feet long) that swam and battled it out with primeval sharks and mosasaurs.

 

From Nicaragua to MiamiDeacachimba!

Decades after the first waves of Nicaraguans moved to Miami en masse, generations have grown up here, and they’ve put down roots. Fleeing instability, like so many of the other immigrant communities Miami is built on, Nicaraguans have carved out a new home for themselves, with old traditions harkening back to the mother country. And their cuisines, traditions, and slang have become just another part of Miami’s diverse landscape.

 

NEWS BITES

A slice of Miami portrayed in The New Yorker Magazine in the fictional piece The Theresa Job by Colson Whitehead

Faena Theater’s Tryst – A Lovers’ Rendezvous – explicit escapades from our bewitching mistress’s past, present, and future loves.

Biscayne Bay – With different groups communicating, there may be hope for its future.

Life’s A Beach – See how Victor Ubah is heavily influenced by Picasso, Braque, and the greats of Cubism

Bear repellent is no longer only for storming the Capitol

Just wow! Sex acts and the summer in Miami (NSFW)

Superblue in Miami – What is the distinction between art and attraction?

Pressure Machine – See how a pandemic and a world of silence shaped the Killers’ new album

Gordon Ramsay arrives in South Beach with his new restaurant – Lucky Cat

Possible stabbing at a strip club involving a red Mercedes-Benz

By The New Tropic Creative Studio
The WhereBy.Us Creative Studio helps clients big and small engage locals, through campaigns that use creative marketing, storytelling, events, and activations to build community, conversation, and impact.