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Shake Shack

Before LeBron James signed with the Miami Heat, the biggest hype in town was centered around Shake Shack. With ongoing, breathless media coverage, this New York City-based burger joint was hailed as the Second Coming. The results have been mixed at the self-serve South Beach hot spot. Some patrons are already addicted to the thick […]
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Ten Characters to Watch in Orange Is the New Black Season 3

Prison life is reliably repetitive, but conditions can be frighteningly unstable, too. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, which returns for its third season on June 12, reflects that paradoxical state of affairs by delivering more of the same — heartfelt but complicated relationships, inspired capers, compelling personalities, stomach-twisting flips...
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National Book Award Winner, Phil Klay, Reads from Redeployment Tonight

Tonight Books and Books welcomes National Book Award Winner, Phil Klay. Klay's story collection, Redeployment, sketches the lives of the young American men deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Klay, a former Marine who served in Iraq, draws fully-formed characters, and his collection is no mere celebration of military heroics. Rather,...
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Ted’s at YoungArts: More Fun Than a Restaurant

The afternoon crescendos suddenly. Just as the rose-petal-infused Plymouth gin shaken with lemon juice and sweet pear purée takes hold, singer-songwriter Rachel Goodrich appears brandishing a kazoo and a ukulele. Soon, the musician (who turned 31 this past Sunday) begins cooing a mélange of indie-sounding, almost-Vaudevillian tunes. The sun slips...
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Miami Has Fourth Highest Income Inequality in America

The vast income inequality in Miami is no secret. Barring traffic, you can be driving around and surrounded by mansions with well manicured, fenced in lawns one moment and then surrounded by slums ten minutes later. Homeless people sleep on sidewalks blocks from glittering luxury condo towers designed by some...
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Heat Twitter Reunited a Fan With Wedding Band Lost at Game

Every once in a while — even in Miami — a story will emerge to restore your faith in humanity. This is one of those stories, and it all started in a place that's hardly been a well of good feelings lately: American Airlines Arena, home of the floundering, injury-wracked...
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The Dolphins Should Draft UM Star Duke Johnson

The NFL Draft is mere days away, and the Miami Dolphins are in desperate need of some offense. Of the many holes the Dolphins have to fill this offseason, one the biggest problems is at running back. The Fins have a dynamic, proven back in Lamar Miller, but it's anyones...
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Racks Italian Bistro and Market

The concise menu here is slightly more extensive than at owner Gary Rack’s other venue, Table 42 Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar in Boca Raton (formerly Coal Mine Pizza). Both spots specialize in coal-fired pies but also offer starters, salads, and pastas; Racks adds a handful of fish, meat, and poultry entrées to the mix. […]
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Miami Dance Festival Kicks Off at the Colony Theater

Whether or not you have a background in modern dance, Delma Iles and her company of dancers at Momentum Dance Company want spectators to look beyond the movements they see on stage. Drawing inspiration from modernist paintings, classical music, and devastating real life experiences, the company's artistic director and her...
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Spectacular Scandals Have Plagued Miami Beach Police For a Century

It's been a rough month for the Miami Beach Police Department. First came video of a detective punching a handcuffed woman in the face, followed closely by a press conference announcing that more than a dozen officers had sent or received boatloads of racist and pornographic emails. But don't be...
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Fooq’s Blends Persian and European Comforts in Downtown Miami

On the bum-ridden downtown Miami street corner where Micah Edelstein's Nemesis Urban Bistro once stood, French-Persian owner David Foulquier strives to deliver some continental European and Middle Eastern comfort. The 25-year-old is a first-time restaurateur who grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His family often hosted large dinner parties...