If you’re queer or in the know, you’ve likely spent the third Sunday of any month in the past two years at the Corner in downtown Miami, having a kiki with every king and queen during Counter Corner. Behind the bar, you’ve found Sleeper, pouring drinks and chatting with everyone who passes by at the event that he and Juleisy y Karla founded. What you might not know is just how interesting he is.
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Wins haven't been easy to come by for the Miami Heat this season, but according to a new study, Heat fans keep winning off the court. They don't need science to prove they are among the best fans in all of sports — but science keeps stepping in to prove it's true.
At a dilapidated Knights Inn in Homestead, Almlak Benitez stood in front of a camera with a black mask covering his hazel eyes and a long robe obscuring his tattooed biceps. Cockroach carcasses lined the worn-out carpet of the $69 room, which he and his friend Mohammad Skaik had pooled...
It's safe to say that Miami had a rough summer. Between an insane heat index and the threat of Zika looming over Wynwood and South Beach, not many restaurants opened during our historical slow months. In September, however, Miami started to come back from its doldrums. Wynwood is alive and...
Thursday Art and politics are almost inextricable in Cuba, largely because the postrevolution government oscillated between brutally censoring artists and enthusiastically championing the arts. This is why looking at Cuban art can feel like looking into an alternate reality — movements like pop art and surrealism are recognizable enough, but...
During the second presidential debate, in early October, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton “a fighter.” He said, “She doesn’t quit. She doesn’t give up.” While that’s very much true, the same can be said of Bernie Sanders, who’s endured quite a few blows, many of them from his own party.
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Tons of Miamians start their own businesses. Many maybe dream of running worldwide empires out of corner offices in Brickell office buildings. Turns out few of those would-be empires ever grow to employ more than 5 people. Back in August, The Kauffman Index crowned Miami America's second hottest metro for...
Last week, Miami-Dade County Police Director Juan Perez announced in a press conference that the department will spend $2.6 million over the next five years, and possibly another $3 million in the following five, on ShotSpotter, a police technology that uses microphones to listen for gunshots. Perez did not mention...
Miami is a city that thrives on youth. Who else but the young is supposed to fill up the decks of party yachts, regularly dance until five in the morning, and still look good frolicking on the beach the next day? Yet, Miami is not a city where the young...
Woodrow Wilson described D.W. Griffith’s notorious Civil War epic Birth of a Nation as “writing history with lightning.” Gary Ross’ Free State of Jones, which covers roughly the same period as Griffith’s film, is more like writing history with index cards. Diligent and informative but also fragmented and inert, it...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...