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Letters From Haiti

Letter From Haiti

Tap Tap Sunday

This Sunday evening, recording artist Farah Juste will be at Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant on South Beach for "a CD signing and celebration". Ms. Juste's career as a passionate singer of Haitian folk songs took off with her debut solo album in 1977, and since then she has performed from Paris to Switze ... More >>

Inside Little Haiti

From an island in the sea to an island in the heart of Miami

The Vodou They Do So Well

From an island in the sea to an island in the heart of Miami

The Spirits Are Willing

From an island in the sea to an island in the heart of Miami

Ghosts of Cité Soleil

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A Community United

Haitian culture gets a dramatic showcase

Unintended Consequences

After thirteen years in Miami, Omila Foufoune Cesaire faces deportation to the Haiti she fled in fear

What Haiti Teaches

Starving children don't respond to military firepower

Guns & Haiti

When your country is bristling with weapons, peace and democracy begin to look like targets, not dreams

Haiti, Miami, and Violent Rebellion

The Metayer brothers and the fall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide

The Royals

Long live los viejitos

BEST PLACE TO PEOPLE-WATCH

El Presidente supermarket

The Good Fight

Forget those fake WWF wimps, these wrestlers really go mano a mano

Best Haitian Club

Tap Tap

Fusion of the Spirits

Boukman Eksperyans doin' that vodou they do so well

The Secret Life of J.M. Denis

By day he manages the parking facilities at the airport. By night he's Jan Mapou, Miami's guardian of Haitian culture.

Best Haitian Restaurant

Fidele Restaurant

Nice Indictment, Nobody Home

When there's a huge drug trial in Miami and no one watches it, does it even matter?

Night & Day

May 14 - 20, 1998

His Music Rules in Haiti

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

Catching the Spirits

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

Things to Come

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

Touching Up Haiti's Roots

Sweet Micky's provocative music moves Haitians with an infectious beat and political overtones

The Voice of Haiti

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

Haiti Stories

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

The Haitian Twoubadou

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

'The World Is Coming To An End': YouTube Video Of Disastrous Haiti Quake

A massive 7.0 earthquake struck just south of Port-au-Prince last night, devastating a Haitian capital still rebuilding from multiple serious hurricanes two summers ago.Even in this age of instant information, news is only trickling out of Haiti. CNN reports this morning that there's no casualty cou ... More >>

Help a Real Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort: Send A/C Units to Port-au-Prince

The folks who set up the Haiti earthquake relief donation site at First Street and Alton Road by Carl KruseRelief supplies boxed up and ready for delivery to Haiti​in Miami Beach need to raise $50,000 to send air-conditioning units and generators for the Project Medishare hospital being set up in ... More >>

Wyclef Live From Jacmel Beach, Haiti, Free Concert

Here's our footage of Wyclef live from Haiti back in 2006 for a free concert to 50,000 on Jacmel Beach. The show was sponsored by his foundation, Yéle Haiti.Wyclef admits that his Yéle Haiti organization has made mistakes in the past, but denies that he ever personally profited from them. He has ... More >>

Still Grieving, Hundreds of Haitians Apply for TPS

American Red CrossAmerican Red Cross volunteers attend to earthquake survivors.​Kerlyne Paraison helplessly saw the drama unfolding on television the way one watches a loved one flat-line through a hospital window. The 26-year-old Haitian had lived in Port-au-Prince until just two years ago. When ... More >>

The Haitian Hillbilly is Miami's unlikely DJ link to the island

American Red CrossAmerican Red Cross volunteers attend to earthquake survivors.​Kerlyne Paraison helplessly saw the drama unfolding on television the way one watches a loved one flat-line through a hospital window. The 26-year-old Haitian had lived in Port-au-Prince until just two years ago. When ... More >>

Head Spins: The Haitian Hillbilly

​Spearheading much of mainland Miami nightlife's response to the tragedy in Haiti is a man known as the Haitian Hillbilly. Born Alain Maximilien, this hipster redneck (of sorts) not only spent many of his more formative years in the island nation; his father runs Maison des Anges, a 120-child orph ... More >>

Miami International Film Festival Announces This Year's Films

​The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced their program of films even though you, the general public, won't be able to buy tickets until February 19th. As usual, the 10-day festival has a strong Ibero-American focus, featuring many big screen creations from Spain, Portugal, and L ... More >>

As Haitians begin to rebuild after the earthquake, a Miami photographer captures the catastrophe

​The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced their program of films even though you, the general public, won't be able to buy tickets until February 19th. As usual, the 10-day festival has a strong Ibero-American focus, featuring many big screen creations from Spain, Portugal, and L ... More >>

Peanut Butter Miracles: Amid Haiti's chaos, an American pediatrician has made ending child malnutrition her life's work

​The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced their program of films even though you, the general public, won't be able to buy tickets until February 19th. As usual, the 10-day festival has a strong Ibero-American focus, featuring many big screen creations from Spain, Portugal, and L ... More >>

Road Trip by Tap-Tap

​The Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) has announced their program of films even though you, the general public, won't be able to buy tickets until February 19th. As usual, the 10-day festival has a strong Ibero-American focus, featuring many big screen creations from Spain, Portugal, and L ... More >>

Tap Tap Hosts Fundraiser for Haïti Liberté, Newspaper Crippled by January Earthquake

Michael E. MillerManno Charlemagne plays at Tap Tap the night of the Haiti Liberte fundraiser​When a 7.0 earthquake hit Léogâne, Haiti on January 12, the shock waves completely destroyed the small town and much of the nearby capital of Port-au-Prince. The damage was horrific: at least 230,000 de ... More >>

Miami's Haitians Brace For Catastrophe As Tomas Bears Down On Port-Au-Prince

via National Hurricane CenterBad news for Haiti.​As Miami's Haitian community has struggled to help their homeland since January's earthquake, one fear has lingered always in the back of their minds: What if a hurricane blows through while half of Port-au-Prince is still stuck in tent cities?That ... More >>

Archbishop Wenski to Deliver Mass Tonight to Commemorate One Year Anniversary of Deadly Haiti Earthquake

Marco Dormino (UN) via Wikimedia CommonsA year after a devastating earthquake, Haiti still struggles to recover.​At 4:53 p.m. this afternoon, the church bells of St. Mary's Cathedral will ring out over Little Haiti and the rest of Miami. Sadly, the occasion won't be a wedding but the remembrance o ... More >>

Horror in Haiti: Kidnappings are big business

Marco Dormino (UN) via Wikimedia CommonsA year after a devastating earthquake, Haiti still struggles to recover.​At 4:53 p.m. this afternoon, the church bells of St. Mary's Cathedral will ring out over Little Haiti and the rest of Miami. Sadly, the occasion won't be a wedding but the remembrance o ... More >>

Against All Odds

Marco Dormino (UN) via Wikimedia CommonsA year after a devastating earthquake, Haiti still struggles to recover.​At 4:53 p.m. this afternoon, the church bells of St. Mary's Cathedral will ring out over Little Haiti and the rest of Miami. Sadly, the occasion won't be a wedding but the remembrance o ... More >>

Sweet Micky's masquerade

Michel Martelly is Haiti’s new president. But the musician has a dark side.

Praying for Life: Haiti's Health Care Crisis Examined in This Week's New Times

George MartinezA woman prays in Port-au-Prince's Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, in ruins since last year's devastating earthquake​The squad car tears through the dark streets of Port-au-Prince. It screeches around tight corners well after midnight. Then it slams to a gravely stop in front o ... More >>

Bernard Mevs: A hospital saves Haiti

George MartinezA woman prays in Port-au-Prince's Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, in ruins since last year's devastating earthquake​The squad car tears through the dark streets of Port-au-Prince. It screeches around tight corners well after midnight. Then it slams to a gravely stop in front o ... More >>

"Haiti's Wounds" Video: Scenes From Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince

George MartinezA man is brought to the Bernard Mevs emergency room in the back of a pickup.​This week's cover story tells the tragic and inspirational stories of three patients at Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince: from a young man born anew after his amputation to a teenage girl cut down by ... More >>

Island Strife

George MartinezA man is brought to the Bernard Mevs emergency room in the back of a pickup.​This week's cover story tells the tragic and inspirational stories of three patients at Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince: from a young man born anew after his amputation to a teenage girl cut down by ... More >>

Andre Berto: Right Hooks for Haiti

George MartinezA man is brought to the Bernard Mevs emergency room in the back of a pickup.​This week's cover story tells the tragic and inspirational stories of three patients at Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince: from a young man born anew after his amputation to a teenage girl cut down by ... More >>

Top Five Second Saturday Art Walk Parties in Miami

Rock out at the art walk afterparty.​Art sucks. Get drunk. Music sucks. Dance harder. The lights are too bright. Turn them all off and let the bass drown your body till your heart rattles in your ribcage. Throw your phone against the ground, quit paying your internet bill, never trust a wireles ... More >>