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DJ Laz Conquered Disability, Tragedy, and Miami's Airwaves; Now He's Aiming Higher

DJ Laz on Drugs: "I Did Ecstasy for About a Six-Week Period"

We've all been there. And now we totally realize that two months' worth of rolling balls was a bad idea. But shit ... It was fun. And drugs are what your 20s are for, right? DJ Laz did it. "When I was 27 or 28, I did Ecstasy for about a six-week period," Lazaro Mendez says in this week's Miami ... More >>

Ricky Williams: NFL Football Healer

Firefighter busted, commissioner goes free

Target Identified

A battle over a shooting range speaks volumes about a commissioner's tactics

Baghdad West

In Opa-locka, gang warfare, drug dealing, and decay are a way of life

The Drink-'Em-Up World Cup

America's most international city was scandalously lubed

The Cuban Kong

What's $28 million a year and added jobs for the poorest American city mean next to big cubanismo, bro?

Inside the Wasp's Nest

In the cloak-and-dagger world of a Cuban chief spook, Puerto Rican music magazines, wet beepers, and pregnancies can cause unexpected turbulence

The Education of Shawn Lewis

Lesson #1: Hard work and an aptitude for computers can make a young man rich. Lesson #2: Some rich young men take to South Beach like fish to water. Lesson #3: South Beach is the shark. A young man with money is the bait.

Second Effort

Cuban boxing legend Luis Ernesto Delis arrives in Miami and rekindles his dreams of the ring

The Salsa Doctor Is Out

Finding one of Cuba's most famous stars on either side of the Florida Straits can be downright impossible, as the musician navigates between big dreams and political realities

A Portable Feast

In the world of the lunchero, the food is hot, the drinks are cold, and the turf wars are downright dangerous

Portrait of the Artist As a Communist Bureaucrat

Cuba's Minister of Culture Abel Prieto faces a daunting challenge: Sell Cuban culture to the world, but don't sell out the revolution

Deconstructing Tommy

How a Bensonhurst boy rose to the summit of South Beach's promotion biz

The New Miami Sound

It's straight from contemporary Cuba and it has taken root in a most unlikely place: Little Havana

Il Signatore: A Synopsis

Dateline Havana

Tenacious Cuban journalists Olance Nogueras and Lazaro Lazo were strangers in their homeland. Now they are strangers in ours.

Family Baggage

Smuggling goods into Cuba for profit requires nerves of steel, a flair for dramatics, and a strong back

Bring on the Cubans!

The Castro government is marketing music, and the whole world is buying. Except Miami.

Havana Does Not Believe in Tears

Prize-winning author Roberto Uria landed in hot water in Cuba. Granted refugee status in the U.S., he must now sink or swim.