Ultra Music Festival
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The City of Miami has decided to bring Ultra Music Festival back to Bayfront Park.
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Just when you thought the drawn-out soap opera between the City of Miami and Ultra Music Festival had reached its finale, Commissioner Keon Hardemon is staging an encore. Hardemon has sponsored a resolution to negotiate the return of Ultra to Bayfront Park, its longtime home until this year. The resolution will be discussed at a commission meeting Thursday, June 27.
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After two hours of public comment, commissioners ultimately voted five to two against even entertaining a conversation with Ultra's leadership team. But more importantly, the discussion revealed Miami Beach's own worst impulses when it comes to tourism, class, and race. Multiple hoteliers and commissioners spoke in favor of attracting elite, moneyed visitors — supposedly the "right" kind of tourist.
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What do you picture when you imagine Miami? Even if you’ve lived here and felt the full brunt of the city’s realities — the oppressive summer heat, the preternaturally shitty drivers, and so on — it’s likely you’re charmed by the same romantic notions that have permeated pop culture. Whether...
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Last year, the City of Miami kicked Ultra Music Festival, one of the best-known electronic music festivals in the world, out of its longtime home at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. And now, after what can only be described as a challenging edition on Virginia Key this past March, Ultra's...
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In a preliminary recap, Miami's city manager says Ultra "had issues" managing the first night's mass exodus, and also experienced a couple of brushfires. On the whole, though, the event "proceeded relatively smoothly."
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