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North Miami Woman Admits to Torturing 3-Year-Old Son to Death

By the time the boy arrived at Jackson North Medical Center, he'd already been dead for three hours. His face, lips, and fingers were all burned. And it was clear to investigators that he had "suffered." The child's mother, 21-year-old Fafane Caze, initially told police the injuries marring the boy,...
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Miami Rum Renaissance Festival Returns: VIP BOGO Offer

The Miami Rum Renaissance Festival returns to the Doubletree Hotel Miami Airport Convention Center for three days of rum tastings, seminars and festivities April 25 to 27. Now in its sixth year, the festival features more than 80 rum producers worldwide offering tastes of over 200 rums to rum enthusiasts,...
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Florida Panther’s Return Spells Doom for Gladesmen

Jack Laban swears a cat was out here raising hell just this morning. Mosquitoes slurp blood through the 94-year-old shirtless Gladesman's baggy skin as he hobbles across a landfill of empty Pepsi cans and settles into a folding chair. The former Miami plumber with a full head of white hair...
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Phresh James on New Album, The Greater Good

The sun is setting as Kaleem Muhammed, AKA Phresh James, sips a glass of Cabernet at an outdoor café near Little Haiti. Relaxing after dropping his kids home from school, the Carol City born rapper pauses to chat with two girls as they walk past. Keeping the conversation light yet...
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A $189,000 Wristband to Enter the Club

Hey there, shopper, do you have a spare $189,000? Do you love clubbing at the world's most exclusive places? Have you ever seen a Ferrari glide by and thought, Nice car. When will someone design a bracelet that looks like that? Funny you should ask. It just happened. Miami's Cristophe...
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Miami’s Ten Most Unusual French Fries

The term "French fries" may refer to elongated pieces of fried potatoes, but it can mean so much more. You can have them straight, curly, fat, thin, sweet, garlicky or crinkle cut. Although the options don't end there. This is Miami, we like our papas accessorized, blinged out. We have...
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In Russian Hit Stalingrad, the Block Busters You

In the admittedly dubious interest of using national stereotypes as a way of understanding human nature, let's posit that while Americans have always emerged from the womb cheerfully, pleased with their right to pursue happiness, Russians were born to suffer. That may help explain why Fedor Bondarchuk's 3D spectacle Stalingrad...
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Reader Mail: Teens Tied Down and Drugged

Torture Center Citrus is the worst: My nephew is bipolar and has been in almost every psychiatric hospital in both Broward and Dade counties, so I was interested in reading your investigation into the troubled Citrus Center in Hialeah ("Throwaway Kids," Kyle Swenson, February 20). The story confirmed what we...
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Miami City Ballet “Triple Threat” Soars, With Occasional Slips

--Octavio Roca, artburstmiami.com Emotions ran high even before the dancing started. Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet's artistic director, stepped in front of the curtain Valentine's night to speak lovingly about her two teachers, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, and announce that George Chakiris was in the audience. Chakiris, who starred...
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Mastermind 2014 Finalist: Jordan Marty Gives Old Technology New Meaning

Miami New Times' Mastermind Awards honors the city's most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30, and finally, nine. We'll be profiling those finalists in the days to come. This year's three Mastermind Award winners will be...
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Flaunt Magazine Didn’t Pay Its Art Basel Bills, Locals Say

Well, that didn't take long. The dust hasn't even settled yet on this year's Art Basel but already accusations of broken promises and unpaid bills are emerging. Los Angeles-based fashionistas Flaunt Magazine, for instance, hosted a much-hyped party at Wynwood's Mana warehouses featuring Kendrick Lamar. But locals say Flaunt founder...
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Chavez, Matisse, and the Heist That Shook the Americas

In the dark of the hotel room, the ultraviolet lamp ignited like Promethean fire. A middle-aged American with gray hair leaned low over the bed, his gaunt face glowing in the purple light. Beneath him lay a weathered canvas, its edges cracked and crumbling. The man inhaled deeply. Then, with...
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Viral Rapper Stitches: Some Truth, Many Questions

A gleaming white Cadillac Escalade lurches to a stop in a grimy South Beach alley. A slender, olive-skinned dude in a T-shirt steps out holding a bulky duffel bag. He approaches a husky, Mohawked young man with gold teeth and a face full of startling tattoos that include a microphone,...
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Chris Christie Gone in Florida. Rubio Rising.

Big news today is that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fulfilled everyone's political expectations and killed his own candidacy for the Republican nomination for presidency in 2016. A top aide, it seems, pushed for "traffic problems" in the city of Fort Lee as retribution against a mayor who wouldn't back...
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Poetry, Meet Therapy

For its December production of one-act plays, Miami’s new kid on the beachside block — the hardworking Collins Avenue hot spot Storycrafter Studio — is transporting audiences to a Noh man’s land before settling them into more familiar and modern territory. The first of the two plays, Music of Broken...