South Beach

Miami Beach businesses aren’t looking to rekindle things with spring break’s wild past — they just want a healthier relationship. After last year’s tough crackdown, many South Beach businesses say this season’s lighter touch will strike a better balance between safety and sales.

The South Beach Jazz Festival has evolved over its ten years in Miami Beach as a cultural event that hasn’t just survived the city’s constant reinvention—it has grown along with it, inviting audiences to encounter jazz not as a venue-specific experience, but woven into the everyday rhythm of Miami Beach.

From Oct. 20 to Oct. 27, just under two dozen car-shaped artificial reefs will be lowered off the coast of South Beach, to create an underwater sculpture park and an artificial reef that organizers called the “first of its kind.”

We’re joined by the director of the film South Beach Shark Club, Robert Requejo Ramos. He grew up in Miami Beach and was inspired to make the film after hearing family lore about a group of Cuban exiles and shark fishermen in the 1970s.

Jeremy Glazer read his story Club Kid at a live event produced by Under the Sun and Lip Service at the Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral…