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Barnes & Noble Ain't Down With Photog Carlos Miller's Brand Of Blogging

Read "Carlos Miller: Freedom For Photographers."Blogger, photographer, and cop watchdog Carlos Miller is looking for a new home on the Internet. Yesterday, he announced that Pixiq, the web company that hosts his blog Photgraphy Is Not A Crime, informed him that he has a month to move to another home ... More >>

NATO 3's Bumbling Miami Background

June 5 Will Be "Michael Bay Day" in Miami-Dade County

Well, it's better than Brett Ratner Day.Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman has issued a proclamation officially recognizing June 5 as "Michael Bay Day." Yes, Michael Bay the director of Bad Boys, Transformers, and the upcoming Pain and Gain.Unfortunately, the day will probably not be celebr ... More >>

Occupy Miami Evicted By Hundreds of Cops, Though Few Are Arrested UDPATED

​Hundreds of Miami and Miami-Dade police dressed in riot gear forcibly evicted the Occupy Miami campground last night outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, about 10 hours after the Occupiers had been served with an eviction notice. At least four people were arrested, including photojourn ... More >>

Occupy Miami Ordered To Leave Government Center By Sundown UPDATE

Two days after Oakland police arrested hundreds of protesters in violent clashes, Occupy Miami activists are facing their own impending deadline: Miami-Dade County has ordered them to leave their campsite outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center by sundown tonight or face arrest for trespassin ... More >>

Xavier Suarez Wants to Fire Overpaid Bureaucrats and Sell Off County Buildings

We've never really bought into Xavier Suarez's hokey, at times egomaniacal, approach to governing. And it's difficult to get past the fact he is forever linked to the 1997 Miami mayoral voter fraud scandal that had dead people casting ballots. That said, the X-Man has devised a bold plan to slash Mi ... More >>

Miami's top news stories of 2011

Dude, where's my city? Miami wakes up with a pounding headache.

Lil' Anthony's Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria Closing Friday

​Lil' Anthony's Restaurant and Pizzeria, the pizza staple for Miami lawyers, judges and police known for its Italian menu of pizzas, sandwiches is closing for good. Its last day is Friday.Strategically-placed across the street from the Stephen P. Clark Government Center and one block from the Miam ... More >>

Occupy Miami: County hall isn't the only Miami institution that needs protesting

Immortal Technique at Occupy Miami, Arrives Three Hours Late, Swarmed by Fans

​Immortal Technique (AKA Felipe Andres Coronel), the politically outspoken Peruvian-American hip-hop artist, gave Occupy Miami a shout out at his Grand Central show on Tuesday night. He announced that he'd be making an afternoon visit the next day to the campsite where protesters have been living ... More >>

Immortal Technique Performing Last-Minute Show at Occupy Miami Today

​Last night, the official Facebook for Occupy Miami -- the Dade County wing of the international, autonomous financial reform protest movement, Occupy Wall Street -- shouted out superlefty MC Immortal Technique (AKA Felipes Andres Coronel) for giving them props while performing at Grand Central. ... More >>

Occupy Miami Needs to Expand: Five Places Worth Protesting the Crap Out Of

Lead on, Pied Piper. To Star Island!​"Occupy Miami is hidden," one woman randomly complained to us over the phone earlier this week. "No one even knows that they are there!"To be fair, she may have a point. Tucked behind the Stephen P. Clark Government Center like a cozy small-town college tailgat ... More >>

Occupy Miami Presents Occupalooza II With Raffa and Rainer This Saturday

Photo from myspace.com/raffaandrainer ​Sleeping in tents and marching the streets with Occupy Miami has been more pleasurable than painful, thanks in part to the protesters' spirited musical showcases. In contrast to a slew of other more serious events designed to dilate your political mind, the ... More >>

Graffiti artist Above hangs anti-Wall Street art along I-95

Robert's Drug Store busted for illegal oxycodone at Government Center

Reader mail: Occupy Miami article is "lame"

Occupy Miami's Protests Remain Peaceful While Other Movements Taste Pepper Spray

photo by Liz TracyPolice and protesters have been on the same page in Miami so far.​In Oakland last week, police at an Occupy protest shot a military vet in the head with a rubber bullet, landing him in critical condition; other video showed officers lobbing dangerous flash bombs into peaceful cro ... More >>

Occupy Miami Protesters Target Bank of America, Plan Mass Account Cancellations UPDATED

photo by Brian Katt via Wikimedia CommonsThe Occupy movement started with mass outrage against Wall Street, and while Miami may not be home to the slimy realm of Gordon Gekko, protesters outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center are turning their economic outrage onto the local equivalent: the ... More >>

Bank of America Announces End to Debit Card Fees As Occupy Miami Descends

​Hey, Miami, you're welcome. Thanks to the nationwide Occupy movement -- including the 305's very own budding revolt at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center -- Bank of America just announced it's no longer planning to rip off debit card users by charging them five bucks a month. One for Occ ... More >>

Aiman Aryan, Accused Of Slinging Oxy, Ran Pharmacy In Downtown Government Center

photo by Daniel Christensen via Wikimedia CommonsCounty Hall, oxy central?​In true South Florida fashion, a pill mill that trafficked thousands of illegal oxycodone tablets was operating right in the heart of Miami-Dade County government, the feds say.Recent charges filed against Robert's Drug Sto ... More >>

Occupy Miami: Snoring, politics, and Dead Can Dance

Occupy Miami Presents Occupalooza Music Festival This Saturday

TwitpicDon't expect these guys at Occupy Miami.Occupy Wall Street has been swarming with acoustic appearances by musicians like Tom Morello, Talib Kweli, and Jeff Mangum. But Occupy Miami still hasn't drawn in Pitbull or Gloria Estefan. Guess that's no big surprise. As the Occupiers round out a sec ... More >>

A Night in the Life of Occupy Miami: Snoring, Politics, and Dead Can Dance

It is 8:30 p.m. and Occupy Miami's general assembly is raging outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami. This gathering of about 60 borderline yuppies, people stylin' with handbags, bike folks, and South American grandfather revolutionaries started two hour ... More >>

Occupy Miami protests for something

Occupy Miami Theme Song Proclaims "We Are the 99%"

Via wearethe99percent.tumblr.com​It's been three days since the Occupy Miami movement massed at the foot of Bayfront's Torch of Freedom and marched on Stephen P. Clark Government Center, pitching tents, staging sidewalk sit-ins, and generally fucking with business as usual. Last night, the occupi ... More >>

Occupy Miami Hip-Hop & Rock Jam Featured Black Bobby, Politics, and Poetry

​After only three nights occupying part of Miami, a committed group of activists managed to throw together quite the successful concert in under 24 hours. In order to keep the movement's momentum up in this truly offensive weather, organizers set up a covered stage outside Stephen P. Clark Govern ... More >>

Occupy Miami Hip-Hop & Rock Jam With Bredcrumbs Tonight

​Randy Jackson is a member of Bredcrumbs, a local rock, hip-hop, and R&B five piece. Though his crew's usually playing every other night around the 305, he's taking a temporary break from shows. Why? He's too busy occupying Miami. Since Saturday, this city's most dedicated activists ... More >>

Occupy Miami: Soggy But Peaceful Outside Government Center

​It appears the greatest threat to Occupy Miami's tent city outside Stephen P. Clark Government Center, at this point, is the rain. After only one night, it seems the dedicated activists are forming a little community complete with a medical tent, security teams, and clean up crews.Between 30 and ... More >>

Food Not Bombs fights to give away food in parks

Stephen P. Clark Government Center installs spikes to ward off the homeless

Downtown Government Center Gets New Hobo Spikes

Since the beginning of time -- or at least the Reagan era -- the courtyard of downtown Miami's Stephen P. Clark Government Center has been a hot spot for Schlitz-addled homeless dudes, toothless bag ladies who will gum your shoulder if you get too close, and Bible-waving Old Testament screamers who ... More >>

Back in Black History

Baby Got Fatback!

Why are so many cities laying off little guys and not cutting executives' porcine salaries?

To Each People Watcher, Their Own

Cyclists Court Death Daily

It's dangerous, but Miami is getting friendlier to bikes.

Danger in the Redland

A legendary Dade building official battles a homeowner ... and his own inspectors.

No Protests at Super Bowl Time, Baby!

Prosti-dude Polygraph

Art's Public Agenda

Appreciating art means slowing down long enough to look

One Wild Ride

Mission Man

Miami's Downtown commissioner is still fighting, and still hopeful of big change

Now Entering Miriamville

Miriam Alonso may be under criminal investigation but that hasn't distracted her from creating her own city

Not Just a Song

If music be the stuff of controversy, Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler says, “Play on”

Queen of the Oldies

Josefina Carbonell, Miami's queen of viejo politics, goes to Washington

Class Act

If you want to know where many of Miami's social and political elite got their start, check the playgrounds at Belén

Dan Ricker Wants You!

He's Miami's premier citizen advocate. He attends scads of boring meetings so you don't have to. He's on a mission. And he's going broke in the process.

Have Bullhorn, Will Travel

Most anti-Castro groups shun partisan presidential politics, but not Miguel Saavedra and his merry band of protesters

That's Rich

Wanna know how county commissioners earn their keep? Don't bother checking financial disclosure forms.

Lawbreakers Beware!

Until the county's Cuba ordinance is rescinded, it remains the law of this land. Which is precisely why we must support the Cuba Affidavit Citizens' Auxiliary.

Signs of Negligence

Despite this newspaper's best efforts, drivers still must suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous billboards