We take pride in our diversity here in Miami, and growing Little Haiti neighborhood is posed to be one of our city’s next hotspots. So when we heard about 27-year-old Belgian photographer, filmmaker, artist, and teacher Alice Smeets’ latest project shot in the largest ghetto in Port-Au-Prince, our multi-cultural ears...
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The Claudia Quintet brings its signature sound to Miami Beach on Saturday as part of this year's Subtropics XXIII of music and sound art. "The great thing about this band is that it is unconventional music, but very accessible," says John Hollenbeck, who formed the group in 1997 in New...
A year ago, Telescope Thieves' Mario De Los Santos was feeling pretty lonely. "I always felt like the odd guy out," he says. "At the time, if you were a producer or a beat maker, you'd get booked for shows and be the only beat maker among guys with bands."...
When sexy bad boy, and self-proclaimed old man, Anthony Bourdain heads to your town, and invites nearly every person in town (unless you're in the media, ahem) to appear on his incredibly popular CNN show, Parts Unknown, you watch the goddamned thing when it airs. I figured as a sort...
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office recently spent $81 million on a sparkling new palace of law enforcement on Florida's Gulf Coast. There's a state-of-the-art 911 center, top-of-the-line hurricane protection built to withstand Category 5 devastation, and a high-tech data center. There are also some spiffy accoutrements, such as a bright-green...
Miami Seaquarium's resident orca, Lolita, may be one step closer to winning her freedom. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today it has ruled to include her in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing of southern resident killer whales. This ruling means Lolita is now granted the same...
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Miamians have found it all but impossible to separate the comedy from the politics in Conan O'Brien's historic late-night special filmed in Cuba. Either you thought the visit -- the first by an American TV host since Jack Paar flew down to interview Castro in 1959 -- was an embargo-smashing...
Ever since Buju Banton, one of Jamaica's most talented and controversial reggae singers, was convicted of cocaine trafficking and gun charges in 2011, there have been signs his trial was not on the up-and-up. You may recall he was sentenced to ten years and lingers in federal lockup. That sentence...
The Raleigh Hotel's gorgeous poolside oasis was the setting for the LuckyRice festival, where neatly two dozen of Miami's best chefs gathered to serve Asian fare while the city's finest bartenders mixed cocktails with Bombay Sapphire East gin. The result? A sophisticated soiree filled with upscale and delicious food and...
A video posted on YouTube this weekend shows what appears to be a Florida Highway Patrol officer tasering an elderly man with his hands up. The video, reportedly filmed on the way to Key West, shows two angry patrolmen pulling an unidentified old man from his minivan during a traffic...
Jeremiah Bullfrog has been hard at work lately. The chef and owner of GastroPod recently announced he would open up shop in Aventura Mall while almost simultaneously reaching his fundraising goal on Kickstarter to keep his converted shipping container in Wynwood going. The mastermind never stops creating or thinking about...
The 14th annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival might be over, but we're still recovering from Death by Chocolate, the late-night cocoa soiree hosted by none other than donut creator Dominique Ansel. While many of the guests at Death by Chocolate were secretly hoping that Ansel saying his doughnut-hybrid...
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As the sun sets on the 2015 edition of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, it's time to take stock of the weekend. The festival saw an improved Grand Tasting Village that had better flow in the massive tasting tents. There was also a roster of new parties that...
Long-distance relationships aren't exactly an easy thing to depict. This isn't to say certain filmmakers haven't tried, but the results -- like Going the Distance and Like Crazy -- have been of middling quality, at best. But 10.000KM understands exactly how distance plays a factor in the way some relationships...
In the action thriller The Gunman, Sean Penn, at age 54, looks neither old nor young. He’s been in training to look this age for a long time. Even as a relative kid, in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High, his sailor-on-shore-leave mug had a wry, quizzical roughness to it;...
Long before the recent craft beer craze, with hundreds of small breweries opening around the United States monthly, there was Jim Koch. As co-founder of the Boston Beer Company, Koch is the leader of the company that brews Samuel Adams beers, the country's largest-selling craft beer.Even with that distinction, the...
There are two kinds of humanist movie. One kind shows human beings struggling against the most unspeakable horrors, sorrows, or injustices and still, somehow, emerging with their essential goodness intact. The second, thornier type portrays people doing terrible things to one another — screaming, cheating, and generally making life hell...
Rick Scott and his fellow Tallahassee Republicans' strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act has resulted in the state refusing to allow the federal government to expand Medicaid in Florida. But their refusal could cause Florida hospitals to miss out on billions in funding, with Miami's cash-strapped Jackson Memorial Hospital...
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In what was a tense competition, Tongue & Cheek emerged victorious after a rough start on last evening's episode of Best New Restaurant. The SoBe restaurant competed against Austin's Porter Ale House for the "Battle of the Burgers." Once again, Tom Colicchio was joined by Maggie Nemser and Jeffrey Zurofsky...
Miami Artist Magnus Sodamin is obsessed with size. Large canvases, broad brushstrokes, sides of walls, Sodamin's chaotic aesthetic is barely contained by the large surfaces on which he paints. There's nothing too big for Sodamin, in 2014 the artist wrapped an entire roller coaster. Sodamin debuted his first solo show...
Would you call your Instagram feed art? Are the 140 characters you spin on Twitter poetry? According to Paddy Johnson, founder of Art F City and a featured speaker in the Miami Rail's Visiting Writers Program, these forms of blogging are analogous to art. Last week during her Knight Foundation...
Richie Incognito is officially out of timeouts -- and so ends one of the most ridiculous suspensions in National Football League history. This weekend, the Buffalo Bills decided to take a chance on Incognito, signing him to a one-year, $2.25 million nonguaranteed deal. The signing of Incognito fits right in...