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Second Saturday Art Walk Guide: January’s Best Gallery Shows

Beatriz Monteavaro's enigmatic work is not exactly primitive stuff. These aren't works you'd expect to find on a caveman's wall. Instead, the Miami artist's early inspirations stemmed from sources as disparate as horror movies, 1980s British subcultures, and America's fading theme parks. Her haunting creations are on view in Monteavaro's...
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Two Salvadoran Generals Ordered Deported for Civil War Torture

The memories are etched in Melecia del Carmen Casco's face. They show in the deep, thin lines that run across her caramel-colored forehead and in the prominent half-star patterns that surround her small brown eyes. Casco wears a turquoise cotton shirt with matching earrings. Her silver hair is pulled into...
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Which Team Is Florida’s Worst: FIU or USF?

More often than not the loser of the annual FIU-FAU game gets crowned the worst FBS team in Florida. This year something weird and strange is happening. USF, who once touted itself as part of Florida's "big four," sucks in historic measures. They opened their season with a 53-21 loss...
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Miami Named One of America’s “Least Fit” Cities

For all the emphasis Miami places on looks, apparently as a city we aren't spending nearly enough time in the gym. According to the annual American Fitness Index, Miami ranks in the bottom ten of major American cities when it comes to keeping that booty in shape...
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South Florida Police Departments Now Hiring

The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display...
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Study: Miamians Slightly Less Miserable Than in 2011

Congratulations, we're 119th!Gallup has once again released its annual Well-Being Index, and of the country's 189 metropolitan statistical areas, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano area came in 119th. Which still isn't that great, but it's a stark improvement from our 146th ranking in 2011...
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George Zimmerman Jury Selection Bores Everyone, Ruins Twitter

George Zimmerman's trial for the fatal shooting of Miami teen Trayvon Martin is expected to be the case of the summer, a scintillating battle for justice played out on cable TV and Twitter updates. Eager to get into the game, we checked out the scene at Sanford's courthouse as jury...
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Colombian Women Are the World’s Sexiest, Survey Finds

You can call it the Sofia Vergara effect. You can call it racist fetishism. Or you can just call it the hot, wet truth. Either way, Colombian women are now considered to be the sexiest lady specimens the world over. That's according to a poll conducted by MissTravel.com, which asked...
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Florida Is the Tenth Least Stressed State

On one hand, we have nice beaches and warm weather. On the other, you could get eaten by a python or bath-salts-addled zombie, so we really weren't sure where Florida would fall on Gallup's ranking of the least stressed states. Turns out the Sunshine State made the top ten...
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Miami Heat Fans Ranked Most Loyal in the NBA

It wasn't that long ago when it seemed like the entire world hated the Miami Heat, and during the worst of those times it seemed like people were attacking the fans almost as much as they were attacking LeBron James. "Miami doesn't deserve this team," they said. "They don't even...
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Taylor Swift’s Top Ten Awkward Dance GIFs

Taylor Swift is coming to town. She'll be singing about heartbreak and no-gooders and bad romantic decisions. Of course, that's all swell and splendid, but we want to see Tay-Tay's other talents on display. And no, we're not talking about her ta-tas. Girl has some dank dance moves. And by...
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Japanese Chopstick Etiquette: Stop Rubbing Your Waribashi Together!

Waribashi are wooden, disposable chopsticks -- the kind available in just about every Japanese restaurant in Miami. The tapered eating utensils are packaged in white paper, which is typically printed with instructions for use. But most patrons skip these instructions. They already know where to place their thumbs and index...
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Miami Among Cheapest Cities to Buy Beer, Study Says

When you've evolved past the days of Natty Light and Bud Select, beer drinking can become an expensive habit. Lucky for brew hounds in the 305, a new study says Miami actually ranks among the cheapest cities to buy beer. According to Nerd Wallet's calculations, MIA comes in at #9...
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Minor League Baseball: A Journey

If you've experienced a minor league baseball game in the past 20 years, it's hard to believe there was a time when it was viewed and treated as a virtual throwaway by its Major League parents. In the 1960s, minor league baseball was rotting and dying a slow death. With...