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…
Is it possible? Just plain wrong? Sacrilege? You can no longer get a colada in Miami Beach in a Styrofoam cup. At David’s Cafe, the iconic Cuban restaurant at 9th and Alton that’s been a staple for more than four decades, the coffee is now served in tan-colored paper cups…
Sana Ullah and her sister were shopping at Sawgrass Mills Mall when they realized it was time to pray. They grabbed “probably the ugliest shirt” in the store, she recalls, and hurried into a changing room. The whole situation had Ullah laughing to herslf. It was hardly the first time…
Aprille Hinnant thought WEDR 99JAMZ radio host Maestro Powell was protecting her from the belly of the beast of the industry,” she says. He told her not to talk to anyone else at the station. Don;t mention the training, he said. As the program director and main personality of 99JAMZ’s Sunday morning…
Since classes started this year, Miami Dade schools have tried desperately to keep kids away from the deadly Zika virus. They’ve handed out bug spray, encouraged long pants and shirts, and monitored for mosquito breeding grounds. So it was curious to see a proposal from school board member and county…
In a video making the rounds online, a man toting a pair of pruning shears rushes up to people posing for selfies and cuts their selfie sticks in half, running away as their cellphones crash to the ground. Some scream; others chase after him. Filmed in New York City, the…
Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco doesn’t remember exactly what the signs said, but he says the message was basically, “No bicycles, no fun, no breathing.” When someone sent him a picture of the new signage, which was being installed at Lummus Park, he was furious. Hours later, the signs were…
It’s no secret that Florida International University has struggled to fill its stands for home football games. The Panthers dipped below the NCAA-mandated average attendance of 15,000 in both 2012 and 2014, putting its Football Bowl Subdivision status at risk. So this year, FIU is offering rewards to students who go…
“Got ’em on!” Mark “the Shark” Quartiano roars while his first mate stabs a shark with a gaff and hauls it out of the placid Atlantic Ocean. “In the boat, get him in the boat! Yeah, got ’em on!” Thwacking its tail and flipping over so the white of its…
