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Rage Against the Machinima

As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks that contract with them battle for money and creative control.

An Adopted Miami Shores Woman's Search for Her Korean Family Pays Off

Chromeo's Dave 1 Talks Daryl Hall, Weird Al Yankovic, and the Miami Sound Machine

​Enter Crossfade's contest for free Chromeo tickets! With the 2004 debut release She's In Control, an original sense of humor, and supersexy songs, Canadian duo Chromeo managed to delight bored folks stranded on lonely dance floors in megaclubs all across the globe. Friends since high school, ... More >>

FAIR-y tales: The immigration saga continues

Fred Hobson, City of Miami solid waste official, hired despite sketchy record

Miami Book Fair: Poet Tom Healy

Tom Healy​There was no indication, early on, that Tom Healy would become a poet. Growing up on a farm in upstate New York, in an environment he describes as "brutalizing in every aspect," Healy didn't get much intellectual encouragement. Mostly, he spent his time doing the hard work required on a ... More >>

Peace, Love, and Terror

The investigation into a cop killing in the '70s leads to a law professor who helped launch Barack Obama's political career.

Kill Gus Boulis's Killer?

Paul Brandreth didn't want to murder anybody. Or did he?

Joyce Kaufman Hates Immigrants!

Well, not exactly. But she sure doesn’t speak well of them.

Return of the King

Tego Calderón hasn't got time for a crossover

Congo Square's Miami Debut

Wynton Marsalis and Odadaa! leaven America with Africa

The Whole World Keeps Watching

The BBC's man in Miami says the war for public opinion is as intense as the war for Baghdad

Soundman God

Who knew you knew Tom Dowd, or at least heard him

God's Eye on the Sparrow

Should 2700 little birds be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

New Face, Old Connections

Miami mayoral candidate Manny Diaz may look like an outsider, but his political history places him squarely on the inside

Double Exposure

If you believe NBC 6, he's an unethical businessman who exploits the poor. If you believe him, NBC 6 tossed ethics aside in a desperate bid for ratings

It Takes a Cuban

After a legendary career as president of the Miami ACLU, John de Leon is heading even further south

Exiled in Havana

With the FBI in pursuit, black activist Nehanda Abiodun a decade ago fled to Cuba, where she still dreams of fomenting a socialist revolution in the United States

The Elian Effect

Sandra Luckow thought the time was right for a documentary about Operation Pedro Pan. Boy was she wrong.

Truth Is More Lucrative Than Fiction

Collected Stories

Night & Day

March 4 - 10, 1999

Cottage Beaten, Held for Ransom

How some of Miami's brightest lights nearly trashed a piece of local history

Mudslinging Matriarchs

Georgia Ayers and Eunice Liberty came together under less than ideal circumstances. They've made the worst of it.

Fair Play

Cause For Return

Haitian radio host Marcus Garcia's work in Miami is done. It's time for him to go home.

Adventures in Metaphorland

7-Elevens, Laundromats, bowling alleys, People magazine, the Discovery Channel, Elvis. Poet Campbell McGrath mines deep into pop culture and hits a vein.

Queen of the Kingmakers

If you're a political candidate with big ideas and little cash, the first call you make is to Irene Secada

The Voice of Haiti

Paris, Ghana, Senegal, Miami. Poet Felix Morisseau-Leroy spent half his life in exile, but his heart never left home.

A Case of Date Rape

Art, the Masses, and How to Swing It

Conni Gordon would like to teach the world to paint in perfect harmony

Writes of Passage

Charlotte Leibel knows all about the handwriting on the wall, and she uses it to unlock the secrets of personality

Shelter Fallout

After years of doing nothing Dade County now plans to put 500 homeless people under one roof. It won't be in your neighborhood, of course.

Edifice Rex

The establishment hated him, but resort-goers thought his designs were the best thing since room service. If it was fun, funky, and Fifties in Miami Beach, chances are Morris Lapidus dreamed it up.

The Collector

What do Armando Valladares, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Miriam Alonso, Xavier Suarez, Alex Penelas, Steve Clark, and the Miami Herald editorial board have in common? They're just a few of the big names enlisted by accused embezzler Roberto Polo in his fight to a

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