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Serial Killer Ted Bundy Found the Spotlight During His Miami Trial

In June of 1979, during a break in Ted Bundy’s murder trial, Judge Edward Cowart walked into a room tangled with wires, screens, and television lights five floors above his courtroom in the Miami Metropolitan Justice Building. “It was really something,” he said. “I thought I was in a space...
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A Disheveled History of Miami’s Shopping Malls

Until the mid-'50s, Miami's definitive shopping district was nestled on bustling Flagler Street in downtown. Many amenities standard in today's shopping malls could be found there: department stores (most important, the Burdines on South Miami Avenue), restaurants, general retail, and movie theaters. The area was a place to eat, drink,...
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27’s Pablo Lamon Brings His Top Chef Memories Home to Miami

For years, Top Chef has been a platform for culinary professionals to show their stuff and jump-start their careers. Jeremy Ford won Season 13 of the competition and went on to open Stubborn Seed in Miami Beach, and chefs Jeff McInnis, Janine Booth, Kenny Gilbert, and Nina Compton are but a few of the show's contestants who have garnered major success despite not winning the coveted title.
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Miami-Dade Prosecutors Charge Cops Filmed Hitting Handcuffed Suspect

This past October, New Times obtained a video clip of Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Manuel Regueiro throwing an utterly unnecessary punch to the face of a handcuffed suspect named Bryan Crespo. It wasn't the first time Regueiro had been accused of using excessive force. Today, Miami-Dade County prosecutors announced they'll charge more...
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What Floridians Should Know About CBD, Pot’s Nonpsychoactive Sibling

Last week, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried — the only Democrat elected statewide in the 2018 midterms — shook up her 4,000-employee agency by appointing Holly Bell the state's first-ever cannabis director. While Fried campaigned on a promise to increase medical marijuana access, both she and the new...
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Miami Film Fest Apologizes After Pulling Support for Film Critical of ICE

Claudio Rojas is sitting in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, quite likely for political reasons. Rojas, an Argentine immigrant, was detained by ICE and later reported on conditions inside the Broward Transitional Center, a for-profit ICE detention facility in Pompano Beach run by the Boca Raton corporation GEO Group...
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday Ever wanted to shake your ass in a fountain? Well, here's your chance. The City of Miami Beach is turning the picturesque Normandy Fountain into a full-fledged Buenos Aires-inspired fiesta. The affair, Milonga Under the Stars, will offer a tango class and performance by True Tango, libations for purchase,...
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Nightmare Traffic on the MacArthur Causeway Is Over — for Now

At the end of July, the Florida Department of Transportation closed two westbound lanes on the MacArthur Causeway, kicking off a two-year, $12.9 million rehabilitation project on one of the two main links between Miami and Miami Beach. The repairs must take place, FDOT says, because the causeway is dangerously corroded, in large part as a result of years of salt spray from Jet Skis blasting the structure.
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Judge Rules Hollywood PD Shouldn’t Have Arrested Gay Men for Private Sex Acts

A Broward County judge has confirmed the Hollywood Police Department ruined the lives of ten gay men for no reason at all. This past July 26, Hollywood PD raided a gay-cruising hangout and arrested eight men allegedly caught masturbating in a private backroom and two others accused of performing oral sex on each other. The police department then sent the men's photos and names to the media, and many outlets happily blasted out the men's identities. One man said he was outed and fired from his job as a result.
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Tarpon River Brewing

The idea was born in 2013, when founders Julien and Lisa Siegel – proprietors of craft beer bar mecca Riverside Market and Craft Beer Cartel – partnered with Native Brewing founder Adam Fine and TRP’s Tim Petrillo. The team originally planned to name their project New River, but a trademark conflict led to Tarpon River […]
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South Florida QAnon Cop Gets Demoted From SWAT Team

This past Friday, Broward Sheriff's Office SWAT member Matt Patten wore a QAnon conspiracy-theory patch while greeting Vice President Mike Pence at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Today Patten was reprimanded and demoted from the SWAT team and BSO’s Office of Homeland Security.
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Miami Soul Legend Betty Wright Kicks Off National YoungArts Week

When 20 National YoungArts voice finalists in pop, jazz, classical, and singer/songwriter categories take the stage at New World Center January 7, they’ll surely wow the audience — which will include YoungArts Week voice master teacher Betty Wright. The soul singer with deep gospel roots and an impressive seven-octave range...
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More Than 200 McClatchy Employees Take Buyouts; CEO Calls Efforts Good “for the Future of Our Republic” UPDATED

McClatchy Company CEO Craig Forman announced Wednesday "a bit fewer" than 225 employees had accepted buyout offers and would leave newspapers across the country. Among them are longtime and highly accomplished Miami voices in the gay community, in state politics, and in sports. Also departing is one of the nation's most important reporters covering international politics.