For days after Hurricane Matthew battered the coast of Haiti Tuesday, October 4, people living in the country's most remote areas looked for ways to communicate with the outside world. With cell towers down, they couldn't talk to faraway loved ones or send photos of the damage. Journalists from all over the world parachuted in to survey the destruction in larger cities such as Port-au-Prince, but accessing rural villages was out of the question at that point.
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Well, here we are. It's been 17 months since Donald Trump announced his candidacy by declaring that Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists. It's also been two days since the FBI announced it won't charge Clinton for her deleted emails, but those last 48 hours somehow managed to feel longer...
Each Saturday morning, Tawin Thongsodchareondee rose early in his hometown of Phuket, Thailand, and loaded a tall dented pot with a pig's backbone, mounds of pork trotters, and chicken feet. As it boiled, he made fresh rice noodles before cleaning pigs' livers, stomachs, and kidneys. Then he'd stuff pig intestines...
There is a new high-protein energy bar on the market thanks to a pair of Miamians. Shanti Bar, a handheld snack packed with power and flavor, is now available on shelves at South Florida Whole Foods Markets. Even U.S. soccer star Hope Solo gives the product a thumbs-up.
The Handmaiden, Korean director Park Chan-wook’s Gothic lesbian tale of romance, revenge and (light) bondage, is the kind of electrifying indulgence only he can make. The film is a loose adaptation of Welsh novelist Sarah Waters’ 2002 thriller Fingersmith, about a female pickpocket who poses as a maid for a...
In the wake of the Ferguson unrest — and after years of questionable police-involved shootings in South Florida — the Miami Police Department began equipping its officers with body cameras in late 2014. The cameras, officials promised, would lead to more transparency and better policing.
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When listening now, one hears no shortage of foreshadowing from legendary Paul van Dyk tracks such as “We Are Alive” and “For an Angel" because, well, he kinda should be dead. People don’t often fall 20-plus feet, collide with concrete, and survive. Saturday, February 27, 2016, in Utrecht, Netherlands, was supposed...
This week, fresh off flexing his right to vote, Rick Ross dropped his remix of one of Solange’s stand-out tracks on A Seat at the Table before blessing us with a touching visual for his Black Market single “Free Enterprise,” featuring John Legend.
Avid fans of the 3:05 Cafecito movement are boycotting Café Bustelo. The founder and principal of the Miami public relations firm JLPR, publicist JennyLee Molina, says the popular coffee company Café Bustelo, owned by the J.M. Smucker Company, has been plagiarizing her brand 3:05 Cafecito.
In the '80s and '90s, there were action movies. They starred muscly guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone, or martial artists from Jean-Claude Van Damme to Cynthia Rothrock, or actors who were dedicated to the physical demands of the genre, like Bruce Willis or Wesley Snipes. They mostly told...
Vagner Dapresa walked into the West Flagler convenience mart looking for justice. He'd been pumping gas the night before when another customer had shouted at him: "You've been looking at me a lot — and I don't like faggots looking at me." The remark stung Dapresa, a 31-year-old genderqueer Cuban-American...
Attention, Miami fans of Florida Supercon: If you want to go to next year's convention, you’re going to have to plan a road trip. The four-day event for all things comics, cosplaying, anime and beyond, will be held next year in Fort Lauderdale, after eight years of hosting the festivities...
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Tranicia and Tramecia Scipp are 32-year-old identical twins. They grew up on NW Eighth Street and attended Booker T. Washington High School as teens. All their lives, people have had trouble telling them apart. "They say I'm meaner and she's the nice one," Tramecia deadpans. Both women are single moms...
Perhaps the most cliche thing you can do in this town is stick your head through a hotel-room window or luxury-car sunroof and scream something dumb, like "I love Miami!" or "Here's to the life!" into the warm night air. It's pretty much a rite of passage in South Beach, and...
It's been a long, tough, and overall stinky sports year in South Florida. Thankfully, we have only a month left of a 2016 that has mostly brought us tears and heartache. Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh left the Heat. Jose Fernandez tragically died. But it hasn't all been bad in Miami sports. There have been moments of greatness that make even the worst of times not so bad.
The historic Colony Theatre will now be operated by Miami New Drama, the City of Miami Beach announced this week. Miami Beach, which owns the historic theater, says that the company assumed operations at the resident theater company on October 1. Miami New Drama Artistic Director Michel Hausmann and Managing...
Since the first settlers sank a boot into the swampy expanse of Florida's Everglades, the area has been under near-constant threat from environmental issues. These days, under the not-so-watchful eye of Florida's governor, the assault continues. From lowered water standards being legally challenged by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, to...
Today the United States selects a new president. This year, Americans were given the choice between political wonk Hillary Clinton and businessman Donald Trump in an election filled with surprises, allegations, and contention the likes of which aren't usually seen. Miami New Times reached out to several culinary professionals about their views regarding today's election.
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Around the nation tonight, Americans will continue to grapple with political division and unrest. But inside the Jewel Box at the National YoungArts Foundation, dancers and audiences will celebrate a unique collaboration of creative forces, with local and international arts groups coming together to create a uniquely Miamian masterpiece.
Murder evidence is pretty important, so you'd think the Miami Police Department would have a good place to store all of those key items in unsolved cases. But it turns out that for years MPD has kept vital evidence in a metal storage container under an I-95 overpass. As blogger Al Crespo revealed last month, the container rusted, letting in water and pests that destroyed evidence in more than 500 cases.
Thanks to the National Rifle Association, academic studies examining the impact of gun laws on public health are hard to come by. The gun lobby helped force the federal government to ban funding for studies that track how gun rules affect the homicide rate.
For most of us, mornings mean waking up to ten alarms, checking for social media notifications, and downing a cup of cafecito for that early boost. But Liza Pitsirilos wants to change the way Miami wakes up. Specifically, she wants you to dance. In April, Pitsirilos attended a retreat concentrating on...