article_snippet: Happy Birthday, Miami Beach,' yelled one of the party promoters through a loudspeaker from one of the bars along Ocean Drive - the seaside avenue lined with hotels, bars and restaurants.
article_snippet: It was closed to traffic all day for the festivities.
article_snippet: People strolled about sipping mojitos or beer, riding bikes or walked to Miami Beach in swim trunks to enjoy a gala concert featuring opera singer Andrea Bocelli, Gloria Estefan and ex-Bee Gee Barry Gibb as a week of celebration came to a close.
article_snippet: Drag queens arriving at the Warsaw Ballroom on Washington Avenue, for the South Beach Drag Queen Competition of the Yea .
article_snippet: Shalom Barber Shop in South Beach .
article_snippet: and This has been non-stop,' said Matias Pozo, a young Chilean event promoter who came for an electronic music festival called Ultra in Miami.
article_snippet: But he crossed over Biscayne Bay to South Beach when he heard about the birthday party.
article_snippet: Miguel Gonzalez, who arrived from Cuba in 1980 and has lived in South Beach ever since, celebrated the day's fun with friends and family.
article_snippet: The festivities lasted all this week and included a mass wedding of 50 couples on South Beach, a drag queen festival, photo retrospectives of the city and lots of parties at night.
highlights_snippet: People  enjoyed a gala concert featuring opera singer Andrea Bocelli, Gloria Estefan and ex-Bee Gee Barry Gibb .
  