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Last week Miami Mayor Manny Diaz unveiled an assortment of...
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A new Levi's commercial shows a couple plunging their car into murky water to the tune of Air's "Playground Love." Techno duo Orbital makes a cameo appearance in this summer's...
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Early last spring I got an e-mail from a reader recommending a restaurant I'd actually noticed myself while reviewing another place in the same neighborhood, the increasingly...
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Brad Silberling's instincts are right about half the time, which means that, depending upon your point of view, his films are either half-empty or half-full. His last picture,...
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In her 1993 novel In Troubled Waters, Beverly Coyle depicts tensions arising in the fictional Central Florida town of Point Breeze when Tom Glover, 91-year-old patriarch of a...
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Theater in South Florida was once the realm of musicals and light comedies, with dramas mighty scarce. Now the scene features theater of all kinds -- fierce as well as frothy....
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Surely by now someone somewhere in Miami's bureaucracy must have...
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In the bad old days of segregation, wasn't nobody black and famous come to sing in the white-only nightclubs of Miami Beach who didn't make a late-night stop for a show in...
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Pita Loca is a place I usually frequent alone, even when my wife comes along. She pretends she doesn't know me. She'll stand a few feet away, as if she's a separate customer,...
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The catering company that provided sustenance to the cast and crew of Just a Kiss, the feature directorial debut of actor Fisher Stevens, is named Cecil B. Demeals. It's one...
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"People don't expect such sophisticated expression from an underdeveloped country," observed Cuban graphic designer Félix Beltrán during the recent opening of...
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Naomi wouldn't be quite so desperate now if she hadn't spent her...
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It's 4:25 a.m. when the nightlife vampires stir. The time between late night and sunrise is no place for the faint of party. The weak and weary have already retired their...
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Skepticism, I'm told, is an unattractive trait. Well, call me homely and be done with it. My nature refuses to allow me to take things at face value and endorse them blindly,...
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It's the women who keep ramshackle, decaying Overtown held together...
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The gliding ease of Specialist in All Styles doesn't even hint at the long and tortuous road that led to its arrival. Orchestra Baobab no longer existed when World Circuit...
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A small misunderstanding about Medicaid and Medicare coverage...
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Is there something in your eye? Oh, it's just Carlos Vives, singing "Let me in through your gaze" -- you know, the windows to your soul and all that -- a lyric from the song...
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Ted Lucas grew up in Carol City, a black neighborhood close to the...
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Miami underwent significant change between 1990 and 2000, not least...
