For those of us old enough to remember, Homestead is the area that was decimated by Hurricane Andrew. For the rest, it’s one of the few places left in the 305 with affordable housing (if you’re willing to add an hour or longer to your morning commute). It may not...
Search the results for: index
Showing 111 - 132 of 470Use quotes to search for a phrase or name: "toy story", or "brooklyn bridge".
Every year Christie's International Real Estate compiles it's list of the world's top luxury real estate markets. Miami's made frequent appearances in the top ten, but its ranking in the newly released 2015 study is the highest it has ever sat. In fact, we overtook both Paris and San Francisco to...
US News and World Reports, the also-ran news weekly famed for its rankings of colleges and universities, has decided to try and work its rankings magic on cities. The magazine ranked America's 100 biggest cities by livability. Miami came in 93rd out of 100, or 8th worst. To come to...
Miamians tend to enjoy their lives. They feel that they have purpose, enjoy their close network of friends and family, and are in some of the best physical shape of anywhere in the country. Just don't bring up Money. Locals are also some of the most financially stressed in the...
Richard Florida, the country's most famous urban studies scholar, and the FIU-Miami Creative City Initiative came out today with a major, in-depth and incisive report on the state of the Miami and what we must do to truly become a global city. Dubbed "Miami's Great Inflection: Toward Shared Prosperity as a Creative...
How do you quantify "charm?" Well, the website RentLingo thinks its figured out the mathematics behind what makes an area "charming" and have ranked Miami as America's most charming mid-sized city. That's a nice counterpoint to yesterday's assertion that Miami was the 8th worst city to live in America by...
advertisement
In the dim light of South Florida's most famous gay hangout, two dozen men curl around the center bar to down two-for-one drinks on a Monday evening. Some are balding with graying hair. More rugged gents sport baseball caps. A few clean-shaven yuppies in suits scroll through social media feeds...
On Saturday, thousands of beer fans enjoyed live music and cold beer at Sprung, Miami's first beer festival of the Spring season. For the first time, the event was held in Wynwood, moving from its Coconut Grove home in Peacock Park. And, although the cool grass under our feet and...
Next time you're sitting in gridlock on the Palmetto Expressway or spending a half-hour to drive four blocks on South Beach during rush hour, console yourself with the fact that six other metro areas in the United States have worse traffic. Does that relieve you? As your grip slowly tightens on your...
Gary Catronio stands in the middle of his daughter Marisa's small bedroom inside a tidy Coral Springs home. A portly New Yorker with a head of white hair and a trimmed white beard, he is careful not to bump or knock anything over. He points to a pile of women's...
A blue thicket of braided, industrial nylon rope winds through the four-story atrium gallery at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami) in the Design District. A foot wide at one end, the rope narrows and wraps around the museum's white support beams and columns like a giant cobra. By...
Just when you think the Miami Heat are dead-and-buried, they come out of the All Star break looking like they spent the time off filming an NBA-themed edition of Extreme Makeover. This pleasant rejuvenation has coincided with the complete absence of both Chris Bosh and the Dwyane Wade, proving sports continues...
advertisement
For years the University of Miami has coasted along on a reputation as a relatively LGBT-friendly campus in a relatively LGBT-friendly city without actually having much infrastructure and services in place for its LGBT students. The ranking of UM as merely a three-star school when it comes to LGBT inclusiveness...
Sixteen years ago, hanging chads sent the nation into a spiraling constitutional crisis. For a month after the November 7, 2000 election, America panicked. Would Texas Gov. George W. Bush or Vice President Al Gore become the new commander-in-chief? Election night ended in a virtual tie. Bush had the edge,...
How funny, really, are dick pics? Millions of them must be snapped and shared each year, as inducement or harassment, celebration or shaming. Perhaps Harper's Index could tell us the tonnage of coal mined each year to power the transmission of American crotches. So when a dick pic turns up...
#HeatTwitter, here is your chance to use your terrifying social media powers for good; stuff the ballot box and send Udonis Haslem to the NBA All-Star game. No, I'm not joking. Years ago you almost got Joel Anthony there. You're capable of anything. Udonis has just about it all. He's...
As crowds stumble along South Beach's most iconic strip of art deco hotels and restaurants on a hot Saturday in July, the chipper sidewalk hostesses do a quick mental calculation, looking for a phrase that might lure passersby. "Table for two?" they hawk. "Happy hour!" "Two-for-one drinks!" It's 5:45 p.m...
Critics rarely receive love from filmmakers. Last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman, featured a vengeful harpy of a theater reviewer (played by Lindsay Duncan) hellbent on annihilating a play before she’d even seen it. Birdman was joined in its release year by other unfair portraits of critics in Top...
advertisement
Given its private and non-religious nature and its location in cosmopolitan Miami, one might expect the University of Miami to be a leader in accommodating LGBT students ...at least in the South. Turns out that's not the case. Not even close. They're not even one of the best schools for...
Another year, another listical that claims Miami wouldn't survive a zombie invasion. Which is, excuse my language but we're talking about a life and undeath situation here, just pure bullshit. This year CareerBuilder.com analyzed the skills of the workforce of the country's 50 biggest metro areas to decide which have the...
Miami is a city constantly trying to improve ourselves and our image. We're gleeful just about anytime we wind up on some positive city ranking list. "Miami is the 17th best city in America for hamster enthusiasts? Fuck yeah!" "We're 9th for art galleries specializing in neo-post-modern figurative art! Let's...
July was a scorcher, both in terms of the heat index and the pace restaurant openings. More than a dozen new restaurants opened in the midst of a Miami summer, proving once again that there really is no off-season lull. The new offerings are as varied as our city itself...