Overtown

Fireworks Over Overtown

In the Shadow of New Towers

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

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 >>

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 >>

Meet Purvis Young

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 >>

Flickering Brightly

Read and listen at The Firefly

Free to Party

Read and listen at The Firefly

Blood in the Streets

In Overtown drugs and death go hand-in-hand

BEST NEWS FOR OVERTOWN

Criminal investigations

The Sociology of Suds

Overtown gets clean at Mister Lee's

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.

Teele’s (Or)Deal

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

Best Fried Chicken

People's Bar-B-Que

Urban Scorecard

Miami Urban Renaissance Conference

Less for Moore, Part 2

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

Jazz Returns to Overtown

Legends of Jazz

Best Mile Of Miami

Fourteenth Street from North Bayshore to NW North River Drive

Best Restoration

Lyric Theater

Best Flop

People's Bar-B-Que

Lyric Revival

The Lyric Theater Grand Reopening Weekend

Less for Moore

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

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

Black Beauty

In an era when race relations were ugly, the Sunlight Beauty Academy did its part to make black Miami a more lovely place

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

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.

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.

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.

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 >>

All That Glitters Is Not Gold

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Take down slums, not politicians like Michelle Spence-Jones

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 >>

Overtown Farmers' Market

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 >>

Miami Art Legend Purvis Young Dies at 67

​Purvis Young, who in the later years of his life rose from poverty and obscurity to become one of Miami's most well-known and respected artists, has died today at the age of 67 from cardiac arrest following a battle with diabetes that had left him in a wheel chair. Young lived and worked in ... More >>

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. 

"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.

Blackman: Overtown comic-book hero saves Miami

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.

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 >>

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 >>

Rebirth of Cool

​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 >>

Get Cornerstoned

​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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>