Just after sunrise on a muggy September morning, Steve Dutton and Tom Lang sip coffee at a sidewalk table in downtown Miami. Steve, who has warm brown eyes and an easy smile, drinks black coffee from La Provence; his husband of 11 years, Tom, blue-eyed behind the oval-shaped lenses of…
Three years after Israel “Reefa” Herandez’s Taser-induced death, his family still clings to the young artist’s dreams as a way to keep him alive. This Sunday, they’ll make one of them come true by displaying his artwork at a Wynwood gallery.
A former Miami Gardens Police officer says he was fired for blowing the whistle on the department’s practice of stopping and frisking all 15-to-30-year old black men, which sparked outrage after it came to light through a man stopped more than 400 times.
Two of Donald Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominees hail from the Sunshine State.
When volunteers discovered a roost of Florida bonneted bats in the roof of an abandoned million-dollar house in Coral Gables two years ago, it was big news. The critically endangered species numbered in the hundreds, and a roost hadn’t been found in decades.
Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, a handful of Miami residents are turning to the internet to crowdfund their way out of the country.
Donna Thomas-Jones fears she’ll soon be squeezed out of the neighborhood she has called home for most of her life. For years, she’s watched rent climb and apartment buildings crumble in the West Grove, forcing out families who have lived for generations in this historically Bahamian enclave.
As a salesperson at a Miami boutique, Irma Martinez used to dress the mannequins in the windows. Customers loved the way she put the outfits together — so much so they’d come in and buy all the pieces. Irma has always been a creative dresser, skipping the rules and mixing…
Twelve years ago, Emile Milgrim was starting a graduate program in sociology and envisioning a career in academia. But it didn’t feel right. So when the bass player from her old band suggested they start a record label, she was sold. “It was definitely a hard thing to break to…
The first couple of walls Douglas Hoekzema ever painted were at his high school. He thinks the murals are still there today: three large faces and the school’s mascot, a shark. Almost 20 years after leaving Spanish River High, the artist now known as Hoxxoh has graduated to bigger things…
Styrofoam would also be prohibited from public and private waterways in Miami Beach under a proposed resolution.
Forty feet above Hollywood, Raymond Brown helps his friend Douglas “Hoxxoh” Hoekzema sketch out a design on the side of a new luxury high-rise. The two stand side by side on a narrow platform suspended over the side of the towering condo building. After weeks of work, they’re nearly finished…
Kate Jacobson had already picked out her seats and keyed in her credit card number for a last-minute flight to Fort Lauderdale when she decided to check the mailbox one last time. For weeks she’d been waiting at it “like a lovestruck teen,” but her absentee ballot was a no-show.
Bernard Williams was driving down busy Washington Avenue when a trio of police officers stopped him and ordered him to turn down his radio. Reaching for the volume control, though, he accidentally turned it up. That mistake, says Williams, who is black, set off a brutal beating.
Dr. Ivan Rusilko is a strong believer in the power of intravenous vitamin therapy. The Miami Beach physician, who’s also a former model, two-time Mr. USA, and erotic-fiction novelist, custom-mixes IV concoctions he says can boost energy levels, improve sex lives, and strengthen immune systems.
One January day last year, a North Miami Beach science teacher allegedly used his school computer for some R-rated research. His sixth-grade students saw the results when he projected his screen onto the classroom whiteboard — presumably by accident. Among the things that showed up on the board, according to the…
When Harvey Daniels, trim and broad-shouldered in a V-neck tee, walks into the one-room office with views of Biscayne Bay, the IV bag is already waiting for him. Its liquid a shade of amber, the bag dangles from a chain hooked to the ceiling. Dr. Ivan Rusilko stands from behind…
A nonprofit wants to turn shipping containers into temporary homes for people living in Miami’s slums.
Among modern, industrialized countries, the U.S. is pretty much alone in not forcing employers to give paid leave to new parents. But in the last year, a handful of local municipalities in South Florida have decided to give that benefit to their own workers. In February, Miami-Dade County approved six…
Steven Machat is confident he’d win Florida’s U.S. Senate race — if only he was allowed to get on the debate stage. The music industry veteran running as an independent last month sued the Federal Communications Commission and hosts of two upcoming televised debates, arguing that “as a proper candidate,”…
When Grant Stern sent a critical tweet at Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine over the summer, the politician quickly blocked the local activist. So Stern took his comments to the mayor’s official Facebook page and was swiftly blocked there, too. Soon, he says, he heard from dozens of others who…
“An alien invader.” “Pretty much appalling.” “An eyesore.” “Cheap looking, inappropriate and ugly.” A “monstrosity.” It’s no secret some Coral Gables residents dislike the million-dollar sculptures that now grace two traffic circles on Segovia Way, but emails sent to the city commission reveal the depths of their distaste for the brightly…
