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Cop's-Eye View
Miami-Dade Det. Kenny Veloz took a call from a buddy cop, Kendall District Sgt. Carlos Dominguez, in December of 2000. Dominguez's parents and grandparents...
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Eye pressed to a digital video camera, Chris Blackwell pans the view from the wood hut on stilts overlooking an inlet in the Caribbean that he calls his main office. A long...
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Since sabor is the Spanish word for flavor, one wonders: Why did the owners so name an Italian restaurant? Was sapore taken already? According to a quick look in the Miami...
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Where in hell does all this stuff come from?
That's a question constantly posed by readers, moviegoers, and half-soused nightclub audiences. What are the sources of an...
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Lili Renteria believes the stage doesn't exist just to present theater. The stage exists to present possibilities. Hence the choice of an elegant hand fan as the logo of her...
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Many playwrights draw from their personal experiences, but Edward Albee appears downright obsessed by his. The veteran, venerable playwright returns again and again to...
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Mel and Eunice Safra run a wonderful, authentic bagel shop on Alton Road near 41st Street in Mid-Beach. The tilapia, or salmon with sweet potato and healthy green and yellow...
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In Brazil, choro continues to be heard amid a rich musical landscape. After nearly becoming extinct during the emergence of bossa nova in the early Sixties, choro (pronounced...
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Boats, beaches, bingo, and beer would all make the lengthy list of "Things Floridians Like More Than Books." Yet while we are not, overall, the most literate of Americans,...
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It was only in 1967 that Great Britain struck from its jurisprudence the "common scold," essentially a crime of catty insolence for which the convicted party -- almost always...
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Thursday 3
Active girls and guys gone wild. Before the late 1980s, Ocean Drive's Art Deco hotels boasted a slew of Jewish immigrant radicals, many of them retirees from New...
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Cournisha DeMonick won't get to see justice served in the slaying of her boyfriend, Jerry St. Pierre, one of several young men murdered in North Miami's Eastside vs. Westside...
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For the past twenty years, through surviving lineup changes that could rival Spinal Tap's; helplessly watching white, manufactured ska-punk outfits climb the pop charts; and...
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Pay close attention to the following restaurants, listed in alphabetical order: Carmen's. Chispa. Elia. Il Giramonde. Isabela's. Locanda Sibilla. Mundo. Pao. The Prime Grill....
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More than 40 years into her career, composer and performance artist Meredith Monk describes her intricate vocal arrangements and particular style of dance as primordial, raw,...
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Going to meet the imam
It was 10:00 a.m. on a steamy, sunny morning just a few days after American soldiers began dying in Iraq. Zuhrah Abdu Akmed opened the door of her tiny...
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Barring some major misstep -- like releasing an album of gamelan-styled Monkees covers -- the White Stripes' followup to White Blood Cells was the preordained album of the...
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"If you can imagine it," Nahum Frenkel says, "I can make it out of chocolate." The new owner of Confection Connection, a specialty chocolate shop in North Miami, already...
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SAT 4/5
Home to prehistoric Tequesta Indians, used as U.S. Army headquarters during wars against the Seminole Indians, the southernmost terminus for trade along the east...
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The first sign that something dramatic was unfolding was the eerie quiet. About 200 young hipsters had poured into Austin, Texas's Urban Outfitters store for an impromptu...
