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Ultra 2015: 76 Arrests Reported at This Year’s Festival

Ultra Music Festival promised to up security and safety this year after a number of troubling incidents increased calls to boot the EDM-fest from Downtown last year. They brought in former Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez as head of security, and changed policy to no longer admit minors to...
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MGLFF 2015: Kristen Wiig Shines in Nasty Baby

Making and/or having a child seems like such a struggle, or at least film has injected that mentality to someone like myself: someone who will eventually resort to adoption or in vitro fertilization (IVF) because of my queerness. With that said, a film like Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby doesn’t make...
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Culoe de Song on African Dance, Innervisions, and New Album in Progress

The South African electronic dance music scene may not be as prominent as those of North America and Europe, but house music has certainly found a more than worthy representative in native son Culolethu Zulu. Back in 2008, the then-18-year-old production wunderkind would attend the Red Bull Music Academy held...
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Romance I’ll See You in My Dreams Is Itself a Catch

As a middle-aged woman, I rarely have a conversation with other middle-aged women in which the subject of movies "for us" fails to come up. As a critic, I don't really think of movies in terms of which ones are "for" me and which are not, but I know what these women mean.
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Five Richest Rappers of 2015

A man don't need to rap to be rich. Even if he is, in fact, a rapper. After all, in recent years, the world's wealthiest hip-hoppers, as tracked by Forbes Magazine, have been those homies with a flair for big business, like Diddy and Dr. Dre, who've basically retired from...
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Lucali

At first sight, Lucali, the Miami outpost of Mark Iacono’s famed Brooklyn flagship, looks like a regular pizza joint. Furnishings are unassuming – mismatched tables and chairs, an open kitchen, a working bench manned by T-shirted pizzaiolos – but by candlelight, everything glows. Men in white shine with sweat as they use empty wine bottles […]
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The Miami Woman’s Club Has Lost Its Legacy

There's a golden palace on Biscayne Bay. An imperial porte-cochère, vaulted ceilings, and grand fireplaces make the Miami Woman's Club one of the most elegant structures in the American Southeast. Taxpayers recently forked over almost $4 million to freshen up the 89-year-old Spanish Renaissance structure, which was among the first...
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MasterMind 2015 Finalist: TM Sisters

When Monica and Natasha Lopez De Victoria were growing up in Miami, did they ever imagine they'd work so closely together as adults? The pair laughs at the question. Their decadelong collaboration as one of Miami's most mind-bendingly creative duos came together by happenstance, not planning. "No, not at all,"...
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Scarpetta

Scarpetta docked at the Fontainebleau fresh from the flagship’s successful launch in New York. Chef Scott Conant’s “Italian soul food” is basic and the technique classical. Most ingredients are traditional, and the resultant flavors meld rustic and earthy with streamlined and refined. The simplest of the succinct menu’s offerings is the yellowtail crudo with olio […]
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Spiga Ristorante Italiano

Not much has changed at Spiga since the pretty, romantic, slightly secluded Italian trattoria opened more than a decade ago. The veteran chef and crew are still baking the breads and foccacias, rolling out pasta doughs, and preparing desserts on the premises. The result is fresh, uncomplicated, moderately priced Italian cuisine. Don’t miss the quadretti […]
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Sábado Gigante to End 53-Year Run, Twitter Mourns

Sábado Gigante, the world's longest running variety show and an iconic part of Spanish-language broadcasting, has announced it will end its 53 years run in September. Originating in Chile, the program has taped for thirty of those years in Miami. The final broadcast is scheduled for September 19th.  No official...
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Kalinka Euro Deli

This Russian and European deli and grocery store draws customers from several counties away, who come to buy the herring, halvah, kasha, caviar, candies, kefir, Georgian wines, bottles of bouncy Baltika beer, and all manner of marinated and pickled vegetables in glass jars — including full garlic bulbs as well as whole tomatoes with the […]