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Overtown

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Overtown Music Project's Gospel Brunch: A Short Video Documentary

    Back in the days of the Sir John Knight Beat, the Harlem Square, Rockland Palace, Birdland Fiesta, Mary Elizabeth Hotel, Cafe Society, Red Tap, and many more, the streets of Overtown were filled with music spilling out of the many clubs, bars, and restaurants that lined its streets. For now, those ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Overtown Gospel Brunch: A Day of Soulful Music and Food

    Hundreds of people hungry for good food and music filled the pews of the Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church on Saturday afternoon for the second annual Gospel Brunch, organized by Overtown Music Project.As Bishop Margaret Reynolds (who, by the way, is a former backup singer for KC and the Sunshine Band) w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Overtown Gospel Brunch Tomorrow: Worship, Music, and Red Velvet Waffles

    On Saturday, musicians and community leaders will gather to celebrate one of Miami's oldest and most historic communities, Overtown. It was once known as the "Harlem of the South," a community filled with artists, writers, and musicians. There were many music clubs and ornate churches filled with so ... More >>

  • News

    March 22, 2012

    Occupy Miami descends into drugs and chaos in an Overtown apartment building

    On Saturday, musicians and community leaders will gather to celebrate one of Miami's oldest and most historic communities, Overtown. It was once known as the "Harlem of the South," a community filled with artists, writers, and musicians. There were many music clubs and ornate churches filled with so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Overtown Music Project's Eight Sounds of Overtown

    Overtown once rocked with the sounds and soul of musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie. A hotbed of music and culture, Overtown's heyday has passed, but not entirely. This neighborhood just northwest of downtown Miami is being revitalized, with help from Amy Rosenberg ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Overtown Via South Beach

    Overtown once rocked with the sounds and soul of musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie. A hotbed of music and culture, Overtown's heyday has passed, but not entirely. This neighborhood just northwest of downtown Miami is being revitalized, with help from Amy Rosenberg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Twelve-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Shot by Brother

    ​A 12-year-old girl was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital last night after she was shot by her brother. The brother, in his early 20s, was carrying a gun when it accidentally discharged and sent a bullet into the girl's leg. She's recovering and in stable condition. Update: The brother has now b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Soul Food and Gospel Music at the Overtown Gospel Brunch

    ​It's going to be pretty hard to think of a better way to celebrate a pre-Mother's Day meal after you've read about the first ever Overtown Gospel Brunch.Bring your best church hat for lookin' fancy, a big fan because it's hot in Miami, and a loose dress, because there will be lots of chow. Brunch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    University of Miami Disciplines Student Group Protesting Overtown Project for Writing With Chalk on Sidewalk

    ​The University of Miami is constructing a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art Life Science and Technology Park in the heart of the historically impoverished Overtown neighborhood near downtown Miami. But the project has been wrought with controversy. Neighborhood activists claim the project, bu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    Get Cornerstoned

    ​The University of Miami is constructing a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art Life Science and Technology Park in the heart of the historically impoverished Overtown neighborhood near downtown Miami. But the project has been wrought with controversy. Neighborhood activists claim the project, bu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2011

    Rebirth of Cool

    ​The University of Miami is constructing a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art Life Science and Technology Park in the heart of the historically impoverished Overtown neighborhood near downtown Miami. But the project has been wrought with controversy. Neighborhood activists claim the project, bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Hip-Hop Stars Over Miami Politicians In Overtown

    ​This past Saturday night, Banana Republican witnessed a magical moment in Overtown proving that Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell has got it right when he says hip-hop has the power to bring people together. A true cross section of Miami's hip-hop lovers came out to Ice Palace Studios to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Miami Cops Shoot and Kill Another Suspect Near Pork And Beans Projects (Update)

    ​The Magic City's violent summer just keeps boiling on, as Miami police shot and killed another suspect early this morning-- the fourth police shooting in just over a month.Details on the latest clash, which ended just a few hours ago, are still sketchy. Sometime after midnight last night, cops we ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 2010

    Blackman: Overtown comic-book hero saves Miami

    ​The Magic City's violent summer just keeps boiling on, as Miami police shot and killed another suspect early this morning-- the fourth police shooting in just over a month.Details on the latest clash, which ended just a few hours ago, are still sketchy. Sometime after midnight last night, cops we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    "Blackman" to the Rescue: Comic Book Artist Re-imagines Overtown's History

    Click to enlarge.​It's a comic about "Blackman," an Overtown superhero with powers inspired by African myth. The character's nickname: the Colored Crusader. And it's conceived and drawn by a white guy. Yeah, we cringed too.

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Tourist Couple Walks In On Burglary in South Beach Hotel Room

    via Flickr​In today's roundup of horrible things and other news: a tourist couple is robbed at gunpoint, a 15-year-old is fatally shot in Overtown, an 11-year-old is accidentally shot by his own mother, and two people are found hanging in a South Florida park. 

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2010

    Overtown Farmers' Market

    via Flickr​In today's roundup of horrible things and other news: a tourist couple is robbed at gunpoint, a 15-year-old is fatally shot in Overtown, an 11-year-old is accidentally shot by his own mother, and two people are found hanging in a South Florida park. 

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Rebuild Liberty City and Overtown Instead of Tearing Down City Commissioners

    Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Up this week, Luke assesses the latest criminal charges against his pal Michelle Spence-Jones and what he would do to fix Overtown and Liber ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    Stop Screwing Miami's Inner City; Hire A Black Guy

    Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court Newscom​stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Up this week: Miami is in trouble again. The town's top bureaucrat -- City Manager Pete Hernandez -- has resigned and the U. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    City's Stray Chickens: Friend or Foe?

    Until last October, the city used to pay a guy $14,000 a year to round up the thousands of stray chickens that roam our pockmarked streets. In a story in this week's New Times, Lesther Jorge, the last Chicken Buster, toured some old battle sites, like Overtown, the Gaza of stray fowl. ​He found t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Lotus House and People's Barbeque Partner for Thanksgiving In Overtown

    image via lotushouseshelter.orgThe Lotus House​Lotus House Women's Shelter in Overtown (217 NW 15th Street) will celebrate Thanksgiving by serving over 500 holiday meals including turkey, all the fixin's, and dessert to their friends and neighbors in the city.This will be the shelter's "Fifth Annu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 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: animal ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2009

    All That Glitters Is Not Gold

    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: animal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 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 corne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 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 appear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 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 writ ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 11, 2008

    Meet Purvis Young

    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 writ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2007

    Fireworks Over Overtown

    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 writ ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2005

    Free to Party

    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 writ ... More >>

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    In the Shadow of New Towers

    Overtown is under pressure to change as property values skyrocket but violence remains pervasive

  • News

    December 30, 2004

    Blood in the Streets

    In Overtown drugs and death go hand-in-hand

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST NEWS FOR OVERTOWN

    Criminal investigations

  • News

    January 8, 2004

    The Sociology of Suds

    Overtown gets clean at Mister Lee's

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    When You Strike at a King You Must Kill Him

    Miami Commissioner Art Teele survived an attempted coup d'état. Now it's payback time.

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Teele’s (Or)Deal

    A nightmarish chapter in the annals of Miami government ends. Or does it?

  • Finest Foods

    May 17, 2001

    Best Fried Chicken

    People's Bar-B-Que

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2001

    Urban Scorecard

    Miami Urban Renaissance Conference

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Less for Moore, Part 2

    The wheels of economic justice in Miami-Dade County are back in motion

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2000

    Jazz Returns to Overtown

    Legends of Jazz

  • City Life

    May 11, 2000

    Best Mile Of Miami

    Fourteenth Street from North Bayshore to NW North River Drive

  • City Life

    May 11, 2000

    Best Restoration

    Lyric Theater

  • Finest Foods

    May 11, 2000

    Best Flop

    People's Bar-B-Que

  • Calendar

    March 2, 2000

    Lyric Revival

    The Lyric Theater Grand Reopening Weekend

  • News

    November 25, 1999

    Less for Moore

    Times are tough for grocer Lawrence Moore and his Overtown neighbors. Will the county help out? No way.

  • News

    August 12, 1999

    The Apartment Building from Hell

    Pay a visit to Overtown's New Jack complex, where drug dealers rule, kids play in sewage, and multimillionaire owner Garth Reeves makes excuses

  • News

    January 15, 1998

    There's a Riot Goin' On

    The long-delayed film East of Overtown may finally get the Hollywood treatment, which has Leo Casino ready to explode

  • News

    November 13, 1997

    Black in Blue

    More than 50 years ago, five daring young men put on police uniforms and began patrolling Miami's "Colored Town." A couple of them are still looking for justice.

  • News

    November 14, 1996

    Letters

    More than 50 years ago, five daring young men put on police uniforms and began patrolling Miami's "Colored Town." A couple of them are still looking for justice.

  • News

    October 24, 1996

    The Heat Is Off

    More than 50 years ago, five daring young men put on police uniforms and began patrolling Miami's "Colored Town." A couple of them are still looking for justice.

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