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Viernes Culturales: Little Havana's Rebirth Begins

Marlins Traffic Disaster: We Raced by Bus, Car, Bike, Kayak, Rickshaw, and Potato Sack (VIDEO)

For months, anyone writing about the Marlins' new ballpark has had to mention the catastrophe sure to ensue whenever 37,000 fans descend on Little Havana's tiny side streets, only to find that Miami's finest civil engineers included only 5,000 new parking spots. But how bad would it really ... More >>

Fakes Cops Tie Up Woman, Steal Money in Little Havana Home

Two men pretending to be cops ransacked a Little Havana this morning and tied up a woman in front of her two children. The incident occurred in the 300 block of SW 12th Ave this morning shortly before 11:30 a.m. 

"Photography by Women" at 6th Street Container through April 16

Snackdown: Little Havana vs. Coral Gables

​Over the next few weeks, Short Order will pair eight Miami-Dade neighborhoods in a "Snackdown". This is the third entry. Today pits Little Havana against Coral Gables. Which one is the better neighborhood for dining?Read our arguments and VOTE! Tweet it. Facebook it. Google it. Comment.For north ... More >>

Miami Ranked 8th Most Walkable City in U.S. by People Who Apparently Don't Live in Miami

Bobak Ha'Eri via wikimedia commonsLittle Havana, a pedestrian paradise according to Walk ScoreWalking anywhere in Miami often feels like running the trenches in World War I: randomly placed barbed wire tears at your clothing, errant bombs -- or in this case, cars -- send you diving into muddy ditche ... More >>

Rooster Statue Stolen from Calle Ocho

via ChrisGoldNY​From rubber penises to fiberglass cocks, the wacky news in the wang-shaped state never ends.One of those 70-pound fiberglass rooster sculptures that dot Calle Ocho in Little Havana has been stolen, according to the Miami Herald. The rooster once stood guard proudly outside El ... More >>

Four-Year-Old Boy Shot in Groin by Brother After Playing with Rifle

​It's almost too crass to state, but it remains obvious that nothing mixes worse than kids and guns. Forget oil and water.A four-year-old boy in Little Havana was accidentally shot in the groin after his 17-year-old half brother found and then began playing with a rifle.

Calle Ocho 2011's Street Soundtrack Was Musical As $%#*

​Little Havana throws one hell of a party. Yesterday's Calle Ocho festival gave a million people the best food, drink, and music on the streets of Miami. We fucking love this city.The Power 96 stage was jam-packed all day. And SW 17th Avenue was so thick with bodies, it felt like one huge sea of ... More >>

Animal Art That Doesn't Suck

New Miami art galleries reflect the grit of downtown and Little Havana

Calle Ocho art walk features work not found in Cuban nostalgia shops

Teachers at Shenandoah Elementary School Say Mold Is Making Them Sick

polkadotplaid via flicker ccLast October, teachers began to disappear from the white hallways inside Shenandoah Elementary School. Substitutes replaced them. Kids wondered what had happened. It turns out the teachers had checked into emergency rooms. Some couldn't breathe, and several had pulsing ... More >>

Gloria Estefan to Lead March in Support of Cuban Dissidents

Gloria Estefan, perhaps the most famous Cuban exhile, announced today she will lead a march in support of Cuban protesters in Little Havana.The Ladies in White, or Damas de Blanco, are the wives and relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents. They marched on the Capitol last Wednesday to protest ... More >>

Pitbull Bites Back at a Wiseguy in Aspen

Colorado just doesn't know: Don't mess with Little Havana. This is a couple days old (and thus a million years in blog years), but in case you missed it, Pitbull bit back at a rowdy fan in Aspen. It's really weird, actually, to imagine the rapper performing in the Rocky Mountains at all.... Bu ... More >>

Is the Megaplan dying? Port of Miami tunnel plan squashed

You may have heard of the Global Agreement- the ominously titled, outrageously ambitious $3 billion project that will basically solve all of Downtown Miami's debt problems, put a new Marlins stadium in Little Havana, build of Port of Miami tunnel, and cure genital warts.  Okay, we threw that last o ... More >>

Little Havana Heights

Flourishing among kitsch, a couple of gems off Calle Ocho

Neighborhood Flavor

Today’s perfect for a Little Havana jaunt

Café con Retché

Little Havana struggles to reinvent a once-growing arts scene

Beyond Beans and Rice

Domino Jones

The competition is fierce at Carnaval Miami

Our Crossing

Sharing the stories of those who come by sea

BEST PLACE TO SAVOR THE FLAVOR OF MIAMI

Maximo Gomez Park

BEST TAPAS

Casa Panza

BEST FAJITA

Taqueria El Mexicano

BEST PUBLIC RESTROOM

Jimmy'z at the Forge

How to Organize a Peace Protest in Little Havana

First, get unified; next, give out food

Latin Quarter

Yet another venue opens its Calle Ocho doors to culture

Ah, Youth Art

Little Havana celebrates summer, youth, art, and dance

BEST DANCE SUPPLY SHOP

StarStyled

BEST PLACE TO BUY A SHIRT AND CHAT WITH A LEGEND

La Casa de las Guayaberas

BEST UNKNOWN RESTAURANT

Little Havana

Catch It Live

BreakFest

Queen of the Oldies

Josefina Carbonell, Miami's queen of viejo politics, goes to Washington

Best Spanish Restaurant

Casa Panza

Best Cuban Sandwich

El Nuevo Siglo Supermarket

Best Mile Of Miami

SW Eighth Street between 12th and 21st avenues

Best Local Solo Musician

Roberto Poveda

Urban Scorecard

Miami Urban Renaissance Conference

Bikes in the 'Hood

Little Havana Bike Tour

Best New Performance Space

lab6

Best Band To Break Up, Recombine, And Multiply In The Past Twelve Months

Grupo Nostalgia

Elian Nation

Scenes from a splintered city

Hood Crawl

The Little Havana studio crawl

The Bard of Memorial Park

Cuban immigrant Eduardo Campa writes darkly astonishing accounts of life in Little Havana

Best Baby Store

Lavin Baby Center

Don't Drink on an Empty Stomach -- Or Else!

Thanks to a recent Miami police crackdown, sipping a beer without ordering food can be a costly proposition

Three Cheers for the Volunteers

And one big raspberry for the supervisors who allowed Dade's AmeriCorps to go down the tubes