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Top Chef Winner Jeremy Ford’s Stubborn Seed Hints at Greatness

At Washington Avenue's Stubborn Seed, homemade buttermilk glosses the bottom of a dish. Raw, dense slices of Hawaiian kajiki, also known as blue marlin, are added along with jalapeño paste culled from fermented and dried peppers. There's also a purée of Japanese seaweed and ginger perfumed with tarragon. Sour apple...
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Miami Hurricanes Turnover Chain Inspires New J. Wakefield Beer

Wynwood brewery J. Wakefield Brewing is working on rushing out its new Turnover IPA in the hopes it will be ready to hit Canes fans' lips in time for their team's bowl game. The beer is named for the chunky gold necklace that Canes coaches award players on the sideline after they record turnovers.
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Miami Rents Cost Nearly $7,000 More per Year Than Historic Average, Study Shows

New Times howls, roughly once a week, about how expensive Miami is for the vast majority of its residents. But rarely is the city's affordability data placed into historic context, likely leaving many people to wonder whether the city's spiraling rents are really that much worse than they've ever been. "Sure, it's expensive to live in Miami, but it always has been," you say. "Quit yer bellyaching."
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Tanuki Launches Asian-Inspired Dim Sum Brunch

About a year and a half ago, the Russian-based Japanese chain Tanuki opened its first U.S. location on Alton Road. This past October, the South Beach spot debuted an Asian-inspired brunch. The 3,500-square-foot restaurant, which serves more than 80 items during lunch and dinner, offers a small but mighty brunch menu that's available from noon to 4 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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Dan Froot’s Live Radio Play Pang! Tells Stories of Overtown Families

Overtown resident Tranée and her young son Tremaine are the real-life inspirations for the Miami performance of Pang! The show, which will be performed at Miami Light Project’s Light Box at the Goldman Warehouse, consists of three installments of live radio plays that focus on the story of a local family struggling with poverty from three cities: Los Angeles, Cedar Rapids, and Miami.
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Miami Beach Must Repay $1 Million to the Federal Government in Housing Debacle

Miami Beach's complete ineptitude when it comes to building affordable housing would be funny if it weren't screwing over taxpayers and the poor. Earlier this year, the city admitted its affordable-housing practices had failed to create homes that the city's workforce can use, thereby forcing many of the food-service workers and housekeepers to make hours-long bus commutes on and off the barrier island every day.
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Sunshine and Soul Festival Shows Overtown Artists Some Love

Iyanna the Model, better known as Iyanna James-Stephenson, set out to remedy this outsourcing of talent by creating her own festival spotlighting local artists and musicians as well as the historic contributions of Overtown's creatives. The result is Sunshine and Soul, an art, music, and soul food festival presenting local singers, painters, dancers, spoken-word artists, live painting performances, and even a fashion show.
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Here Are the Photos That Got Six Miami Firefighters Fired UPDATED

What the hell is going on with racist South Florida firefighters lately? Months after a Pompano Beach firefighter was canned in August for hanging a noose over a black firefighter's seat in a city truck, Miami now has its own disgusting racism scandal. Six firefighters were terminated this week for...
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Florida Bill Could Require Sea-Level-Rise Studies for Publicly Funded Buildings

As sea levels continue to rise, Florida has taken a licking for its bad habit of climate-ignorant development. But despite warnings from the state's most brilliant and respected scientists, Gov. Rick Scott has more or less disregarded the issue, infamously banning the Department of Environmental Protection from using the term "climate change" in 2015. And though national publications such as Scientific American have taken developers to task for their reluctance to stop building along the coast, state law does little to discourage the practice.
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Miami Beach Mayoral Candidate Has History of Eviction, Debt Cases

After Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco dropped his bid for mayor following a scathing Miami Herald report on his sketchy campaign finances, Beach residents were left with just four candidates to choose from. Two of them haven't raised any money, while former federal prosecutor Dan Gelber has pulled in close to a half-million bucks.
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Donna Shalala Won’t Discuss Working for Lennar During Housing Bust, Profiting Off Health-Care Work

Here's a sentence that perfectly explains the state of Democratic politics in 2018: Former Clinton Foundation chief Donna Shalala, who helped lead a major homebuilder during the 2008 housing crash and also made $5 million after sitting on the board of a massive, for-profit health insurance company, is poised to steamroll a crowded field of Democratic competitors in a race for the U.S. House.
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Here’s Why There Are No Pedicabs in Miami

A Miami ordinance allows for up to 100 pedicabs to operate within city limits, but unnecessary obstacles in permitting have stifled pedicab companies from breaking in. Consequently, Miami is one of few major cities without pedicabs as part of its public transportation system.