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Coral Reefs Are Being Decimated, All for a Few Gaudy Trinkets

Forget Facebook: Twitter is for minorities

Forget Facebook: Minorities Prefer Twitter

​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 explains why Twitter is the social media network preferred by minorities.Everybody is talking about Facebook's forthcomin ... More >>

Rio Acai Bowl Epidemic Strikes Apple A Day

​When a friend tipped me off about some acai concoction at Apple A Day that was selling at speeds that bordered on lunatic, I wondered whether I'd fallen back in time four years or so. That's when the real acai craze was in full swing, when people were buying $25 bottles of the juice, swearing it ... More >>

Worst Cooks in America: Handicapping the Miami Hopefuls

We wouldn't eat this for a million dollars.​View photos of Friday's casting of Worst Cooks in America at the Epic Hotel.Friday, Food Network's Worst Cooks in America brought hosts Bobby Flay and Anne Burrell to Miami's Epic Hotel to audition contestants for Season 2. People came from as far a ... More >>

Miami Communes at Alex Cuevas' Vegan Potlucks (Video)

Camille LambThe entrance fee for a vegan potluck is an animal product-free dish, like this "fruits of the forest quinoa."​At 7 p.m. Sunday, Short Order pulled up to the quiet block near Brickell where Om Garden used to be. It was a little dreary outside, but we followed some smiling, healthy looki ... More >>

ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

An Immigrant's Heart: To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia Amparo-Alvarado needed a big heart — but not this big

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

Blast From the Past and MP3: Pin Kai - Greasy Kid Stuff

​Pin Kai Greasy Kid Stuff (Smooth Lips Records)pinkai.com Truants? Cute Catholic High School kids in leather jackets? Social deviants? Future business leaders of America? All of the above? Yes and no. But mostly yes. Pin Kai's small reign of terror was one marked by incredible creativity and ... More >>

Miami Free Times: Cold War Kids, The Hold Steady, Daisy Martinez

Mark SeligerThe Hold Steady tries to get you to drink Heineken on Friday.​This week, the music gods have looked down upon thee and deemed you all worthy of a smattering of free live shows. Oh, and the usual gratis art and book events are in here too. Monday: While some artists are putting their he ... More >>

Stay-at-Home Psycho

Mark SeligerThe Hold Steady tries to get you to drink Heineken on Friday.​This week, the music gods have looked down upon thee and deemed you all worthy of a smattering of free live shows. Oh, and the usual gratis art and book events are in here too. Monday: While some artists are putting their he ... More >>

The murder of Stevie Febonio: South Florida's marijuana grow houses can be a deadly business

Mark SeligerThe Hold Steady tries to get you to drink Heineken on Friday.​This week, the music gods have looked down upon thee and deemed you all worthy of a smattering of free live shows. Oh, and the usual gratis art and book events are in here too. Monday: While some artists are putting their he ... More >>

She's too skinny for my sausage

Mark SeligerThe Hold Steady tries to get you to drink Heineken on Friday.​This week, the music gods have looked down upon thee and deemed you all worthy of a smattering of free live shows. Oh, and the usual gratis art and book events are in here too. Monday: While some artists are putting their he ... More >>

Bon Appetit for Cheap

Mark SeligerThe Hold Steady tries to get you to drink Heineken on Friday.​This week, the music gods have looked down upon thee and deemed you all worthy of a smattering of free live shows. Oh, and the usual gratis art and book events are in here too. Monday: While some artists are putting their he ... More >>

A Lunch Worth Working For

Or at least showing up late and being on Facebook all day.

Basel's Odysseus

Overnight with an artist through the hurly-burly of the very rich.

Local Luminaries

Celebrate with the Wolfsonian

What's for dinner?

Celebrate with the Wolfsonian

What's for dinner?

Celebrate with the Wolfsonian

Hookah Hunt

It's easier to find Middle Eastern tunes and tobacco than you'd think

Forever Missing Part 2

Donna Weaver hoped to get help from the FBI in finding her husband. Instead she got crooked agents working with violent drug dealers

La Gata

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Argentine tango goddess María Angelica Milán remembers her nine lives

Sa-Weet!

Deadpan irony is the rule in this triumphant high school geek comedy

When Trekkie Met Buffy

The galaxy, or at least the hotel, makes room for fans of television's cult hits at Vulkon

BEST RESTAURANT FOR INTIMATE CONVERSATION

Perricones Marketplace & Caf

Miami's Rag Trade Serenade

Chorus: Gay is okay but it must sell or it's hell

Donato's Closet

When an INS officer confronted el Pescador and Elian, he didn't know what he was facing

Sacred Gowns

Eusebio Escobar may dream of a career as a fashion designer, but his current line is doing well: Haute couture Santería

Letters

Eusebio Escobar may dream of a career as a fashion designer, but his current line is doing well: Haute couture Santería

When a Burp Is Not a Belch

Eusebio Escobar may dream of a career as a fashion designer, but his current line is doing well: Haute couture Santería

News of the Weird

Eusebio Escobar may dream of a career as a fashion designer, but his current line is doing well: Haute couture Santería

Five Days That Kind of Shook the World

Eusebio Escobar may dream of a career as a fashion designer, but his current line is doing well: Haute couture Santería

A Sleighful of Yays and Nays

Eusebio Escobar may dream of a career as a fashion designer, but his current line is doing well: Haute couture Santería

Why Recycle?

It feels good to do it. But recycling doesn't always save money or protect the environment.

24 Hours a Stray

The Humane Society's animal rescue drivers work hard to save the wounded, to rescue the sick and abandoned. But usually the endings are not so happy.

When you think of a new bridge opening, or a subway debut, or a highway inauguration, you think of Omero Catan. Or is it Michael Katen? For these two brothers, it's no joke. For them it's

The Importance of Being First

Holy Smoke

Deep in the heart of Little Havana, El Credito's expatriate artisans quietly go about the business of hand-rolling the creme de la creme of Cuban cigars

In Sickness and in Health

Deep in the heart of Little Havana, El Credito's expatriate artisans quietly go about the business of hand-rolling the creme de la creme of Cuban cigars

Art, the Masses, and How to Swing It

Conni Gordon would like to teach the world to paint in perfect harmony

Kitchen Magician

Conni Gordon would like to teach the world to paint in perfect harmony

Cracking Up

Conni Gordon would like to teach the world to paint in perfect harmony