Subject: Overtown

• Fireworks Over Overtown

  February 22, 2007

• StreetWorks - Uncompleted Mural

  July 2, 2008

• In the Shadow of New Towers

  March 10, 2005

• Hope for Overtown

  At 11:45 this morning, Jackson Soul Food restaurant at 950 NW Third Ave. was standing-room-only. Overtown and Liberty City residents packed every booth, table, and counter inside the storied and recently  remodeled soul food eatery as they watched President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony on three brand-new flat-screen TV sets on the walls. It was an appropriate venue for Miami's black community to celebrate America's first black president.Jackson Soul Food started business in 1946 when

  January 20, 2009

• Diary of an Overtown Pimp, Part 2

  In a second entry of the handwritten autobiography he recently wrote in jail, Overtown hustler Big Red talks about an unusual robbery for which he received six years in state prison. He leaves out names and some important details, but offers a peek at a different side of Miami street crime. He writes: Outrageous. I been a pimp, a hit man and a dealer. And for all the wrong I've done, they put me in the pen for stealing a pack of pork chops. When the cops drove by, I heard the sirens and I ha

  January 22, 2009

• Marlins Deal Kaput?

  The Florida Marlins are in desperate need of a great closer. Someone who can seal the deal with the Miami City Commission and the Miami-Dade County Commission over the team's sweetheart $630 million stadium deal. Right now the Marlins dreams of a new domed home on the former Orange Bowl site appears to be falling apart. Already facing skepticism from City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff and several county commissioners, the Marlins now have to find a way to make City Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jone

  February 27, 2009

• Three Cheers for the Volunteers

  September 14, 1995

• Art & Soul

  October 26, 1995

• Meet Purvis Young

  September 11, 2008

• Police Patrol Park West and Overtown Clubs

  So be careful where you party.

  September 11, 2008

• Overtown’s Own

  February 8, 2007

• Flickering Brightly

  May 3, 2007

• Changing Times

  June 30, 2005

• Free to Party

  June 16, 2005

• Blood in the Streets

  December 30, 2004

• BEST NEWS FOR OVERTOWN

  May 13, 2004

• The Sociology of Suds

  January 8, 2004

• When You Strike at a King You Must Kill Him

  March 27, 2003

• What Did You Do in the War on Poverty?

  October 3, 2002

• Letters from the Issue of August 29, 2002

  August 29, 2002

• Teele’s (Or)Deal

  August 15, 2002

• O-Town Art

  July 25, 2002

• Sylvia's Story

  November 1, 2001

• Best Fried Chicken

  May 17, 2001

• Urban Scorecard

  March 29, 2001

• Parental Consensus

  March 1, 2001

• Less for Moore, Part 2

  September 21, 2000

• Jazz Returns to Overtown

  June 22, 2000

• Best Mile Of Miami

  May 11, 2000

• Best Restoration

  May 11, 2000

• Best Flop

  May 11, 2000

• Lyric Revival

  March 2, 2000

• Less for Moore

  November 25, 1999

• The Apartment Building from Hell

  August 12, 1999

• The View from Buddy's

  February 11, 1999

• Black Beauty

  February 12, 1998

• There's a Riot Goin' On

  January 15, 1998

• The Teele Deal

  November 20, 1997

• Black in Blue

  November 13, 1997

• Reverb

  April 24, 1997

• Letters

  November 21, 1996

• Letters

  November 14, 1996

• The Heat Is Off

  October 24, 1996

• Duane Starks Goes Out In Style

  Duane Starks started his football career at the age of eight in a local optimist club program, he became a star quarterback for Miami Beach Senior High, briefly attended Miami-Dade Community College and then played as a starting cornerback for the University of Miami Hurricanes. He entered the NFL, and memorably returned an interception for a touch down, securing a win for the Ravens in Superbowl XXXV. Now he's retiring, and is basically taking over the city next weekend for an all-star bas

  May 7, 2009

• Miami PD Arrest 50 Drug Dealers In Overtown. Not Everyone Is Impressed.

  Surrounded by a circle of grinning undercover cops in jeans and polo shirts, their badges swinging from silver chains around their necks, Miami Police Chief John Timoney stands on the most dangerous corner in Overtown."The vast majority of homicides in Overtown happen within two blocks of this corner," Timoney says, speaking into a forest of television microphones at NW 2nd Court and 12th Ave. "And the vast majority of those homicides are related to drugs."Earlier this week, Timoney announces, M

  May 8, 2009

• Dead Shark in the Dirty Street

  via N3T10's flickrSometimes Miami deserves its reputation as slightly Third-World. Police last night found a six-foot nurse shark lying in the middle of a street in Overtown. It apparently had been there since 7 p.m., but no one bothered to call the cops for two hours. "It was a relief that it was a shark. When I first saw it, I thought it was a body because of all the shootings that have been going on. I was surprised and happy because of my concern for human life,

  July 22, 2009

• All That Glitters Is Not Gold

  August 20, 2009

• Video: Group Sings "Lean On Me" at Lotus House Thrift Grand Opening

  Lotus House Thrift (203 NW 36th St., Miami) is a Wynwood extension of Overtown's Lotus House Women's Shelter. It is a thrift shop that specializes in selling clothes, furniture, electronics, and household goods to help fund shelter meals, housing, health services, job training, and more. I bought a Sony amp there for $10. Check 'em out.Here's video of some ladies from Lotus House singing "Lean On Me" at last Saturday's grand opening. Log on to lotushouseshelter.org/thrift.html for more in

  October 1, 2009

• Tonight at Urbanite Bistro - Wine, Dine, and Gator Meat

  via urbanitebistro.com​ Fourteenth street between Overtown and the Arsht is full of wild game: zombified crackheads, worse for wear working-girls, artists, musicians, promoters, creatives, thugs, drugs, and po nine.Now, with Urbanite Bistro in the mix, we can add the literal interpretation: animals hunted for food, not domestication, according to Wikipedia.Urbanite Bistro (62 NE 14 St) is a new restaurant in the heart of Downtown Miami's late night district, blocks from Space and a stone's thr

  October 12, 2009

• Is Watson Island the New Overtown (With a Mega-Yacht Club)?

  Miami.fly me via Flickr CC​Watson Island is the redheaded stepchild of Biscayne Bay. Star Island gets Shaquille O'Neal and Madonna. Fisher Island has its own private ferry. And poor Watson is stuck with a field of dry grass and a theme park full of restless parrots. Sure, it's home to the Japanese garden and has one of the best views of the Miami skyline. But it's in rough shape, says Jim Villacorta of the city's Community Redevelopment Agency. "It's counter-intuitive," he says. "You drive p

  November 17, 2009