Extracting a straightforward answer from the City of Miami was like pulling teeth, but at last came a confession: The new billboards plastering the walls of the city's high-rise buildings are illegal. At press time 21 of the signs, which contain gargantuan images of beer and vodka bottles, gyrating iPod iPodsters, sports cars, and guys in swimsuits, were polluting views from Brickell to the Design District. They join 31 free-standing billboards that have gone up in that area since the Eighties, despite a countywide ordinance that prohibits any whatsoever between I-95 and Biscayne Bay, and allows just ten along expressways running through... More >>>