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Try Vegan Bubble Tea at North Miami’s Shing Wang

When I made the decision to go vegan, I was as mentally prepared as possible to sacrifice milk and dairy, but there were a few favorite items that made the choice more challenging. Namely, cheese, Wet Willie's Bahama Mamas, and boba milk tea. For anyone not lucky enough to have...
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Trauma on the Thames

A household name in the Spanish-speaking cultural world, Mario Vargas Llosa is a novelist, journalist, and playwright who has won a Nobel Prize in Literature, run for the presidency of Peru under the Democratic Front ticket, and seen his works translated into 30 languages in a career spanning some 50...
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Miami Heat’s Ten Most Dramatic Playoff Moments

The NBA Playoffs begin Sunday for the Miami Heat against the Charlotte Bobcats, and lord knows it's not their first time at the dance. It will be the team's 18th appearance in their relatively young 26-year history. That of course has led to a lot of dramatic playoff moments. Here...
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Huahua’s Todd Erickson Teaches Us How to Make Hot Sauce

On a recent trip to St. Augustine, I bought some fresh datil peppers at a local market. A cousin of the habanero, the datil starts out sweet and fruity -- and then goes in for the kill with its heat, averaging about 200,000 units on the Scoville scale. These little...
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Biogenesis Scandal: MLB Drops Its Lawsuit Against Tony Bosch

From the start, it was obvious why Major League Baseball filed suit against Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch and his partners. Months after New Times revealed how Bosch was selling drugs to ballplayers, MLB was still trying to get his records and the testimony they needed to suspend Alex Rodriguez, Ryan...
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Reader Mail: Ban Tasers Already

Smashing Perceptions Way to be: Bravo! Your piece about Máximo Caminero, the local artist arrested for smashing an Ai Weiwei piece at Pérez Art Museum Miami, is really interesting ("Breaking Point," Michael E. Miller, March 20) and brings to light the many perspectives of this event that until now have...
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Ultra Ban on Miami City Commission Agenda

Chaos. Gatecrashing. Drug use. Graffiti. Crime. In the wake of Ultra Music Festival 2014, Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff have hyperbolically enumerated the evils of the EDM fest in pursuit of a city-wide ban. There were two undeniable tragedies at this year's fest: the trampling of security...
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Naked Taco: Ralph Pagano’s SoBe Spot Opening for SOBEWFF

The joint finally has a name and an opening date. Naked Taco, formerly known as "Ralph Pagano's Yet-Unamed Mexican Joint," is set to open Friday, February 21 -- just in time for South Beach Wine & Food Festival attendees and celebrity chefs to seek refuge from the elements and enjoy...
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Bill Would Ban Release of Mug Shots in Florida

When you're arrested in Florida your mug shots gets splashed across the internet in a matter of days. That's because Florida police agencies and sheriff's departments release the photos online in compliance with Florida's progressive public record laws. Though, in recent years several commercial websites have popped up that keep...
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Endless Love Earns Its Title the Bad Way

The endless love in question unfolds in that universe where shy, bookish teenage girls are always catalog-model beautiful, not a pimple in sight or a pound overweight, not a garment from Hot Topic darkening their closets. The movie tells us that 17-year-old Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde) is “awkward” and has...
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Behold the McFruffin: Frita Meets McMuffin at Bread + Butter

Alberto Cabrera faced an earth-shattering dilemma. His wife really loves McMuffins -- the breakfast sandwich proffered at every McDonald's near you. But Cabrera, the chef behind Bread + Butter in Coral Gables, believed she deserved something greater than this mundane morning meal. "I had to make it bigger and better,"...
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Pinball Wizard Atticus Palmer Aims for National Gold

Suburbs don't get much tidier than Coral Springs. The boxy patch of West Broward is made up of neighborhoods of modest ranch homes planted evenly on shady, manicured lawns. It's Mayberry 2.0, a David Lynch movie before shit goes bad. Behind the front door of one such modest suburban house...
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Muppets Most Wanted Is a Great Caper

If you count forward from Jim Henson's mid-1960s TV appearances with a fringy pup named Rowlf and the lizard, made from an old winter coat, who would later become Kermit the Frog, the Muppets have outlived most of their early puppet peers by more than two generations: You don't see...
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Bring Me the Head of Han Solo

Harrison Ford has been a good soldier in the Star Wars. He did whatever was asked of him by his commanding officer, George Lucas, even when his commanding officer was wrong. Now that Ford is back in Star Wars, and J.J. Abrams is running the show, Abrams's first order of...