It's hard to churn the waters over which the pencil-thin island city of Miami Beach glimmers. While its big sister across the causeway burns with big-city issues -- police brutality, fiscal ruin, election fraud -- the weightiest concern on the Beach, especially during the summer doldrums, are the bumps in the road of its pleasure economy. How has the Wall Street slump affected the hotels, nightclubs, and beaches that keep things humming in sybaritic bliss? In other words, the worry is that the party may stop. That almost happened in a micro way recently, when city officials closed down the South Beach club Opium Garden because... More >>>