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  Marty Wolfson Was Broke and Homeless Until a Horse Saved His Life

  Mike Clary | November 13 at 8 a.m.

  Beneath live oaks draped with Spanish moss, the lush grasslands of Marion County roll on for miles, sectioned off by two-lane highways and black wooden fences. From more than 600 farms around here come thousands of equestrian champions, show...

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  Black Residents at South Beach Condo Say Racist Board Members Made Their Lives Hell

  Jessica Lipscomb | November 5 at 8 a.m.

  At least nine former and current residents and employees have come forward with accusations of racial discrimination inside the Mirador 1000, an upscale condo building with its own hair salon and convenience mart where two-bedroom units are...

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  Miami's Francis Suarez Wants to Be Strong Mayor

  Brittany Shammas | October 30 at 8 a.m.

  It's just before 7:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in October, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is glad-handing with constituents at the Shenandoah Park recreation center. He shakes hands with a couple of uniformed cops and plants a kiss on an older woman's...

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  Nothing Is Scarier This Halloween Than Florida's Nightmarish Politics

  Miami New Times staff | October 23 at 8 a.m.

  Florida might not seem like a natural setting for bone-chilling horror. Gothic mansions on dark hillsides are tough to come by in the Sunshine State. Dracula would wilt in ten seconds flat in the tropical sun, and Michael Myers would probably...

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  A Miami 7-Year-Old Fights for Acceptance of Gender-Nonconforming Children

  Brittany Shammas | October 9 at 8 a.m.

  Cooper Solomon had long dreamed of being a ballerina, but when the teacher came to lead him into the studio the first day of dance class, the normally boisterous boy was quiet. The 7-year-old with big brown eyes and a gap-toothed grin stood up...

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  Music Shapes Miami Restaurants

  Wendy Rhodes | October 2 at 8 a.m.

  If you're walking through Wynwood and see a tangle of neon lights suspended over a small bar while Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" blares overhead, go on in. You're at Alter. You can chill out to some Talking Heads and Doobie Brothers while you...