Santo Domingo

Russia's Pompeya Talks U.S. Tour, Miami Debut: "Hot Show, New Friends, Lots of Sun"

For a band that hails from Moscow, where winters are long and summer heat waves send citizens into daytime revelries of a life beyond their crowded, artificial riverbank beaches, Pompeya's sound is something like diving into a deep blue Caribbean lagoon, where lush green foliage dips into sparkling ... More >>

De La Cruz Family Yacht Used By Corrupt Officials in $3.4 Million Drug Deal

For Miami power couple Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, wealth has begotten cultural influence. The Cuban immigrants have built a business empire and used the profits to assemble one of the best private art collections in the country.Last week, however, the De la Cruzes' wealth became a liability when th ... More >>

MasterMind Awards 2013: The Ten Finalists for Miami New Times' Arts Contest

Ruben Ubiera: King of the Walls

A Caribbean Thanksgiving: Kris Wessel Shares His Recipe for Pigeon Pea Rice

It's a muggy, hot afternoon in mid-November and Santo Domingo's congested streets are packed with whizzing motorcyclists and banged-up taxis. Sidewalks are lined with vendors selling dried-up holiday pine trees. Across the bustling Caribbean city, eateries offer a variety of catered Thanksgiving din ... More >>

Wynwood Second Saturday Art Walk sizzles with Mikhail Baryshnikov's photos

MasterMinds finalists: Meet the nine artists competing for $1,000 grants

Top Five Restaurants For Outdoor Dining: Beyond Best of Miami 2011

Sitting outdoors at Red Light won't cost you a fortune.​Last year, we bestowed our Best Restaurant for Outdoor Dining to Cecconi's Miami Beach for its lovely garden patio with retractable roof. And, of course, we like the food there too, a factor too often overlooked in "Best Outdoor Dining" compi ... More >>

Ivanhoe Smester: Mortgage Fraud Fall Guy Was Set Up By His Childhood Buddy

​"Where is Julio Llanessa!" screamed the lawman's voice on the phone. Ivanhoe Smester was baffled. The Dominican immigrant hadn't spoken to his childhood friend in more than a year, even when Llanessa was arrested for mortgage fraud. So why were U.S. Marshals calling him now? Unbeknownst to S ... More >>

Guns online: No permit needed

Little Haiti Rebirth

Chimi Churri Los Primos Food Truck Dishes Out Late-Night Dominican Burgers

​In the wee hours of the night, white trucks decorated with flashing neon lights line the streets of the uptown neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City, dishing out burgers and fried finger foods to club-goers on their way home. The chimichurri, a Dominican street food burger, is b ... More >>

'Pablo Escobar' of the Caribbean Arrested in Puerto Rico After Tony Montana-Worthy Career

via U.S. Marshals ServiceJose Figueroa Agosto was arrested this weekend after a decade-long run from the law. ​He moved boatloads of Colombian cocaine through the Caribbean to U.S. shores, bought dozens of luxury homes and built a house in the Dominican Republican with his own personal zoo, police ... More >>

Baseball Wants to Replace Blacks with Dominicans

Alex Izaguirre​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. This week, Luke claims Major League Baseball has a plan to phase out African American players and replace them with black H ... More >>

Caliente! Music Festival, This Saturday at the AAA

​I'm going to resist the urge to use the name of this weekend's festival in question in some ill-conceived pun or a shoddy play on words, and just power through right into the info you seek. I'm also going to try to ignore that little bit of track music that begins to wrack my head from within at ... More >>

Run, Don't Walk

The Wynwood season began fast, with larger spaces and some sizable sales.

No Washout for Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery During Saturday's Wynwood Art Walk

Luciano Goizueta's la-olla de oropoel, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 75", 2009​Despite the dismal economic climate and a gloomy weather forecast, last Saturday night's Wynwood gallery walk season kickoff opened with a roar, featuring expanded spaces, stellar shows, and even some brisk sales."I was worr ... More >>

Behind These Gates

Peek inside Miami Beach’s most infamous mansion.

Standing Tall

Juan Luis Guerra has never bent.

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Island Tease

A shapeshifting artist's first major U.S. survey lands in Miami.

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Fernando Villalona

Little Havana Heights

Flourishing among kitsch, a couple of gems off Calle Ocho

Slow V and Retrospect

Room to Show

Four Cuban-American women get their due at the Frost

Last Resort

Middle-age sex tourists fail to get their groove back

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Current shows

From Ring Rust to Riches

These galleries offer different takes on panning for gold

City Views and Latin News

A Miami artist's singular vision and the collective vision of Arte Américas

Traffic Jam

What is the Urban Latin sound?

The Food, The Film, The Artist

A quirky series celebrates Latin food and culture on the big screen

Grabbed by the Roots

Celebration of America's Tribal Spirit

Erin Go Merengue

Is merengue's next standout an Anglo?

The Bitterness of Sugar

Activist Inoelia Remy came to Miami to tell the harrowing story of working in the Dominican Republic's cane fields

Welcome to America. Now Go Home.

Granted sweeping new powers by Congress, the INS is quickly earning a global reputation for cruel and capricious conduct at Miami International Airport

MIA at MIA

Luggage isn't the only thing that gets lost at Miami's bustling airport. There's Volvos and Hondas and Fords -- oh, my!

Living for the City

Rotations

Bottom of the Heap O Top of the World

Just how popular is Juan Luis Guerra? If you have to ask, you haven't been listening.

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