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Drinking, nightlife and entertainment
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Miami's nightlife is still unsurpassed.
Drinking
tends to take second place to eating and partying, but a number of friendly local bars double as very good
live music
venues.
Reggae
is particularly strong; Miami has a sizable Jamaican population, and local as well as flown-in acts appear regularly. Miami's
clubs
- especially those specializing in salsa or merengue and hosted by Spanish-speaking DJs - are among the hippest in the world, with most of the action at South Beach. Door policies are notoriously obnoxious at current in-spots; the places listed below include laid-back local haunts and some of the hotter bars.
Friday's Miami Herald carries full weekend entertainment listings ; the free weekly New Times has reliable information on cafAŠs and clubs, while the free TWN ( The Weekly News ) is the key source of gay and lesbian info .
If you want to try out the local
sports
scene, the
Marlins
pro
baseball
team, who won the World Series in 1997 in only their fourth season, and the
Dolphins
, Miami's pro
football
team, play at the Pro Player Stadium, sixteen miles northwest of downtown at 2269 Dan Marino Boulevard (box office Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; tel 305/620-2578). Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
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United States,
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