Today the Miami Herald extolled the virtues of Miami culture and identity:

Paris had the last tango.
Venice had death.
Miami?
We had Vice. And it's back.

Thats right you guys 'Vice Sheik' is all the rage in Miami. The funny thing is that most locals had no idea.

''If you go to [South] Beach, and any of the clubs, you still see guys wearing sport jackets and T-shirts underneath,'' said Dee Miller, who did some casting for the TV series and now owns The Casting Directors Inc., in Miami.

What Ms. Miller fails to share with you its that those guys are all overweight nerds in for a boat convention from Oklahoma City. They travel in packs practicing their lamest pick up lines at the 'in' hotel bar, are the only people buying cigars from the poor Portenas on Ocean Drive, huffing and sweating on everyone in their path.

Occasionally the closeted homosexual will break from the pack and wind up in the back bar at Twist*.

There he:

• Manhandles every go-go boy
• Gets obscenely drunk
• Manhandles anything that looks under 25
• Gets belligerently drunk
• Falls off the bar stool
• Is escorted out by security

Did I mention that he never remembers to take off his name tag?

'Vice' Grip [Miami Herald]

* Please note that Twist's website in no way does it justice. Or maybe I am seeing some of these people in the light for the first time