Seventeen months after the City of Miami signed an agreement allowing police officers to hand out civil citations instead of arresting people for certain minor misdemeanors — including possessing small amounts of marijuana — Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina says his officers will finally begin doing so by the end of this month.
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It was the early '90s, and a couple of effortlessly cool juniors at Sunset Senior High decided they wanted to start a band. Confident, brash Luis Garcia and stylish, shy Ben Carillo ran through a couple of failed cohorts before Carillo suggested his friend, musician Justin Gracer. The group later added...
Just before the November 2016 election, a federal judge forced the Florida Division of Elections to allow rejected absentee-ballot voters to correct mistakes on their mailed-in forms. Yet somehow even more ballots ended up being rejected in that election than in 2012 — and younger voters and voters of color, who overwhelmingly lean to the left, had their ballots invalidated at a far higher rate.
Calling all Rick and Morty and Stranger Things fans. Tonight downtown Miami's Zest Bar & Lounge will transform into Schwifty Things, a pop-up bar serving spooky cocktails, food, and free shots.
Reportedly, the Miami Heat and Carmelo Anthony are both considering swiping right on the NBA free agency Tinder app. They should do it. The timing is right. They need each other. The whole idea makes too much sense. Seal the deal. Carmelo Anthony is coming off, somehow, both...
Miami Police Officer Rony Rodriguez's cruiser was idling in Brickell this past March when he turned to the camera and joked about whether he should really be filming a vlog while working on-duty as a cop.
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Florida Republicans are using an utterly debunked study to try to slam Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum's support for a federal, Medicare-for-All-style health-care plan. And because the study has been thoroughly torn apart, it's pretty fair to assume the GOP is lying to smear Gillum.
Festivals draw droves of music lovers to parks and fairgrounds across the nation for a variety of reasons: the hours of live music, the feeling of community, the outdoor ambiance. And, yeah, some revelers show up to get high with the beats.
Teachers will get a raise if MIami-Dade voters approve a referendum that would allow the county to raise $232 million a year through an increase in property taxes over the next four years.
A bundle of nerves and anticipation, a young, fresh-faced New Yorker steps off of a plane onto a ground ripe with rich cultural heritage. It’s 1961, and the student has arrived in Bogotá, Colombia, for the first time. In a time before cell phones, the girl’s parents wring their hands...
Florida voters really blew it in 2016. They elected Donald Trump. They reelected Marco-effing-Rubio. Both of those guys now spend every morning tweeting in their bathrobes while marching the nation ever closer to fascism and the climate-change apocalypse. Things are very, very bad right now, and it is largely Florida's fault.
Two more blocks and Polini Sanon would have made it home. The 31-year-old father of five had just left his job as a Wells Fargo banker on a Friday night in 2017 when his life took an unexpected turn. It was just a few minutes past 6 p.m. but already...
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For years, the Civilian Investigative Panel (CIP) has been warning the Miami Police Department that its cops keep refusing to use their body cameras. Despite the fact that more than $1 million in federal and local public money had been spent on the cameras, the CIP — an independent group that looks into complaints against police — found in 2016 that dozens of cops still weren't recording or uploading footage. In 2017, the CIP criticized MPD a second time for not fixing the problem.
In 2014, Franco Parente ran a filmmaker's dream of a Kickstarter campaign. After it was announced Churchill's Pub was changing owners, he sought funding to make a documentary about the legendary bar with the clever title Little Haiti Rock City. There was anxiety over the future of the venue that had been Miami's live-music oasis since 1979...
Jane woke up early. It was five days into the cruise, and the Celebrity Summit would be docked in Bermuda for the rest of the day before setting sail for New Jersey. The night before, the 19-year-old had gone to a show with her parents and her childhood best friend...
... I imagined how whatever scene I was watching might have been staged and shot and acted out in a more traditional film — and I was inevitably disappointed by what has been lost ...
Los Angeles-based dancer Jay Jackson says that when she was a child, her parents placed her in soccer. It was quickly clear sports weren’t the right fit for the future RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 contestant. She ultimately found her niche in a dance class where the girls accepted her femininity and where she discovered herself as she watched her movements in the mirror.
Miami has the Dolphins, the greatest football team. To some, those are the opening lyrics to the best fight song of all time: "Miami Dolphins Number One," penned by Lee Ofman prior to the Fins' undefeated 1972 season. To others, that sentence is a good sign someone needs to be Baker Acted or has been in a coma for the past three decades.
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The best journalism gets results, and in 2017, Miami New Times staff raised serious hell and changed the city for the better.
By the middle of 2016, it seemed like Marco Rubio had become a failed presidential candidate doomed to sit at home on his couch going bald while watching Donald Trump confuse the lyrics of "God Bless America" with the theme song from Growing Pains. Improbably, since he took office, Trump has instead let Senator Rubio influence every major Latin American policy decision...
The Miami Beach Kizomba Festival is back for a fifth year. What is kizomba? Well, it's an Angolan word that translates to "party," so it's already off to a great start. The four-day fest celebrates African culture, music, and dance. Highlights of this year's edition include the Classy All...
The film’s wrenching centerpiece is the 2014 death of Eric Garner, killed due to “compression of neck, compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police” who suspected him of selling loose cigarettes