The Miami New Drama production, playing April 25 to May 19, captures the spirit of the town through singer Betsayda Machado and La Parranda El Clavo, a real-life eight-person party band from a small village in Barlovento, Venezuela.
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The jailhouse surveillance video clearly shows the deputy violently wrenching inmate Audra West up out of a chair, throwing her around the room, and dragging her into a strip-search room. Other female deputies then run into the room with the door shutting behind them. West says that inside the room,...
In December, 38-year-old Mabel Perez-Ordonez received good news. A letter from Miami-Dade Police stated she'd been the victim of indecent exposure. That meant the Nicaraguan native would be eligible for a U visa — a path to legal status for undocumented crime victims who cooperate with cops. The Hialeah mother...
Empire Ink celebrates its 10th year in South Florida by opening a buzzworthy (pun intended, all around) new spot in Wynwood.
Wayne Messam is, for reasons that are difficult to explain, still running for president. When he announced his run, the mayor of tiny Miramar, Florida, tried to position himself as a Pete Buttigieg-style outsider, the sort of political newcomer who wouldn't be indebted to Washington elites and could spout tough truths on the campaign trail.
October If you can’t snap a mesmerizing Instagram photo from 34 beautifully crafted lantern exhibits, well, that’s on you. Luminosa Festival of Lights will make the Jungle Island grounds glow this fall in a partnership with the Chinese lantern festival heavyweights Zigong Lantern Group and China Lantern International. This is...
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The press leaped on the Santa Anita story — and in the process brought the sport's stubbornly devil-may-care establishment to its knees.
Jerry Falwell Jr. inherited Liberty University, a Tennesee Evangelical Christian college, from his dad, Jerry Sr., who founded the school to create, what he hoped, would become a Christian competitor to the Ivy Leagues. Instead, Falwell Jr. is, reportedly, in the process of running the place into the ground. According...
Sakaya Kitchen and Blackbrick chef and owner Richard Hales will undergo emergency brain surgery this morning following a procedure to remove an 8-year-old brain tumor at the beginning of this year.
After Ultra was forced to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit from a festivalgoer who was beaten up by officers including former union boss Javier Ortiz, the controversy-prone cop was banned from working future editions of the EDM festival. Well, what a difference a few years make: Ortiz, now a...
Last year, the City of Miami kicked Ultra Music Festival, one of the best-known electronic music festivals in the world, out of its longtime home at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. And now, after what can only be described as a challenging edition on Virginia Key this past March, Ultra's...
When he was ordered deported from the United States, Diego Alejandro Rojas didn't think of himself. His mind didn't turn to the chaos that awaited him in Venezuela. He didn't linger on the death threats from the local paramilitary thugs who forced him to flee in the first place.
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It was as if the bridge appeared out of nowhere. Carlos Badillo had driven past Florida International University before, but on March 15, 2018, he noticed something he hadn't seen just a week earlier. It was a little before 2 p.m., and he was driving east on Tamiami Trail with his wife, Martha Plaza Cevallos. Up ahead, a 174-foot bridge had been erected in front of the Modesto A. Maidique Campus.
When Noel Lanzas read about a Miami Beach woman who’d called a black, would-be London visitor a “monkey” and other racial slurs, he wasn’t surprised. For almost a year, he says, the same woman — Giulia Ozyesilpinar — had been harassing him for being gay and HIV-positive. She sent emails calling him a “fucken AIDS infested Faggot” and tried to have him fired from his job. Lanzas had already filed a complaint about the harassment with the Miami-Dade Commission on Human Rights, which investigates discrimination, and was awaiting a hearing.
A pop-up burger restaurant that's been hitting the streets of Miami since October, USBS (United States Burger Service) was inspired by a brainstorming session among friends Dave Bailey, Agustin Gamboa, and Michael Mayta.
The Miami Beach Convention Center's makeover is a stunner. So naturally, the public art incorporated into and around the renovation has to equally wow onlookers. The first six works selected for the site by the Miami Beach Art in Public Places program are designed to achieve that goal. The...
Melly’s hit song “Murder on My Mind” went gold last month, moving half a million units — and this past Wednesday, the 19-year-old turned himself in to Miramar Police on two counts of first-degree murder in the October deaths of his friends Anthony Williams, 21, and Christopher Thomas Jr., 19.
Midtown Miami’s Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill is asking, "How Miami are you?" The restaurant, led by chef/partner Timon Balloo, posted an online quiz that asks questions like "Where are the best croquetas in Miami?" and "What's your favorite Little Havana activity?" to calculate how Miami you are.
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Interpol is one of the hardest-working low-key bands on the indie scene. So it's no surprise that when the trio completed its sixth album, Marauder, there was plenty of leftover material. Last August, the bandmates released Marauder, on which they collaborated with Flaming Lips and MGMT producer Dave Fridmann. Interpol guitarist and...
The Miami Film Festival's opening night documentary, "This Changes Everything," is a bold call for gender equality in the film industry. It cites devastating statistics that measure women's participation in some roles as low as 2 percent, and includes testimony from directors, producers, television network executives, and women actors from...
It was the happy ending heard 'round the world. When New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft visited Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, two Chinese women gave him a massage. According to the billionaire's arrest report, the women, aged 45 and 58, followed up with a hand job, which the Jupiter Police tell us is...
Last month, when Marlins CEO Derek Jeter was asked by the Sun Sentinel whether the team planned on attracting Broward County fans, he replied: "I think for us, we have to worry about obviously getting the fan base that’s closest to us. Whether that’s Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, Brickell, Pinecrest..."