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In addition to annual festivals like the Calle Ocho Festival Miami is home to many entertainment venues theaters museums parks and performing arts centers the newest addition to the Miami arts scene is the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts home of the Florida Grand Opera and the second-largest performing arts center in the United States after Lincoln Center in New York City the center attracts many large-scale operas ballets concerts and musicals from around the world Other performing arts venues in Miami include the Olympia Theater Wertheim Performing Arts Center the Fair Expo Center the Tower Theater and the Bayfront Park Amphitheater. BB&T Center home of the Florida Panthers Seminole Manor Boca Raton 84,392 74,764 Palm Beach. 1998 44.7% 1,773,054 55.3% 2,191,105 As with all vernacular regions South Florida has no official boundaries or status and is defined differently by different sources at different times a 2007 study of Florida's regions by Ary Lamme and Raymond K Oldakowski found that Floridians surveyed identified "South Florida" as comprising the southernmost sections of peninsular Florida That area includes the Miami metropolitan area (generally defined as Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties) the Florida Keys included in Monroe county and the interior region known as the Glades Additionally Southwest Florida representing the state's southern Gulf Coast has emerged as a directional vernacular region Some respondents from as far northwest as the southern Tampa Bay area identified their region as being in South Florida rather than Southwest or Central Florida However the University of South Florida founded in 1956 is located in Tampa at that time prior to the changes quickly brought by the Florida Constitution of 1968 south Florida was much less important politically and the term was used more loosely Tampa is not usually considered part of south Florida.

Omni Loop Many beach towns are popular tourist destinations particularly during winter and spring break Twenty-three million tourists visited Florida beaches in 2000 spending $22 billion the public has a right to beach access under the public trust doctrine but some areas have access effectively blocked by private owners for a long distance. . Miami is also the home of many college sports teams the two largest are the University of Miami Hurricanes whose football team plays at Hard Rock Stadium and Florida International University Panthers whose football team plays at Ricardo Silva Stadium, In 2013 the state of Florida announced it would replace the FCAT statewide with Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exams the PARCC exams were planned for introduction during the 2014-2015 school year Concerns over PARCC include longer testing times in comparison to the FCAT's 12-day testing window PARCC would be spread out over 20 days There were concerns over the fact that PARCC had not yet as of 2013 been "developed designed nor tested.". Lamme and Oldakowski's survey also found some cultural indicators distinguishing South Florida South Florida is the only region of the state where ethnic foods are as popular as general American cuisine Additionally while there was little geographical variation for most styles of music there was regional variation for both country and Latin music Country was significantly less popular in South Florida than in North or Central Florida while Latin was more popular than in the other regions. .