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Vicky’s House Offers Sweet Nostalgia and a Golden Girls Milkshake

Vicky’s House is the latest undertaking by the Kush Hospitality Group. Founder Matt Kuscher enlisted the help of his director of operations, Laurie Grasty, who birthed the idea of serving milkshakes. The result is a 12-seat waiting area for his Lokal restaurant in Coconut Grove in honor of Kuscher's mother’s house, kitchen towel and all.
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After Years of Renovations, the Bass Reveals Its New Look

After over two years and $12 million worth of renovations, The Bass —Miami Beach's only contemporary art institution—finally opens its doors to the public. The construction completely transformed the museum’s interior without altering the building’s footprint, nearly doubling the programmable space and adding a new cafe and Creativity Center for...
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Best Car Wash

El Car WashWhether you spend your days kicking up mud and dust in the Everglades or smashing love bugs on I-95, the result is the same: Your car is dirtier than a Bob Saget standup special. Get thee to El Car Wash, where the only thing better than its $5 basic wash is its discounted $3 basic […]
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Miami PD Waits Six Years to Suspend Cop for Shooting Unarmed Man

When Miami SWAT Officer George Diaz fired eight shots into a moving car outside Club Space in 2011, his case should have been clear-cut for internal affairs investigators: Miami cops aren't allowed to shoot into moving cars because they could cause an accident or hit innocent people inside the vehicle.
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Zeds Dead Reps New Label and Eclectic EDM at Mana Wynwood

In conversation, Zachary “Hooks” Rapp-Rovan is modest about his success. As one-half of Zeds Dead, he and creative partner Dylan Mamid (DC) have built a veritable EDM empire that has allowed them to travel the world, command an army of adoring fans, and collaborate with some of their musical heroes. If any of this has fazed Hooks, it doesn’t show. Beyond the joy of making music for a living, Hooks and DC seem to relish the opportunity to share their passion — rather than just their work — with followers.
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Best Fried Chicken

Bird & BoneThis is fried chicken food porn at its finest. After all, you are sinking your teeth into a golden breast or thigh, crisp on the outside, moist and juicy on the inside. What could make it even more sensual? A tingle on the lips. Richard Hales’ obsession with Nashville hot chicken led him to bring […]
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Best Arepa

Macita's Restaurant & BakeryDecades ago in the city of Medellín, Isabel Amaya’s grandmother used to prepare arepas on a wide metal plate, spreading the batter thin before popping it into an ad hoc oven made of stacked logs. The result was almost a pancake. “It was crispy and tender, the perfect bread for eating anything,” says Amaya, whose […]
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The Best Free Events in Miami This Week

It's time to get in your last pool party of the season, 'cause fall is officially here. That doesn't necessarily mean it won't be pool weather, but swimming will probably go out of style until all the Art Basel celebrities get here, so squeeze in South Beach Brewing's Pop Up...
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Best Electronica Artist

Nick LeónA swampy tribalism coats everything Nick León does. His sound is warm with the muggy air of South Florida. It wraps you in the haze of the midday sun and traps you with the soothing subtlety of crickets chirping in the dead of night. His is a lo-fi style inspired by the likes of Aphex […]
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Cosleeping Kills Scores of Babies in Florida Every Year

On a Thursday in November 2007, Sherkendra Burch breastfed and burped her 6-week-old daughter, S'marri, and laid her down for the night on a queen-size bed. At midnight, Burch crawled in beside the girl and fell asleep gently holding her, the same way she did every night. But when the...
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Miami’s Five Best 4/20 Parties

Much like Super Bowl Sunday (and the Hangover Monday that follows), April 20 — or 4/20 — has become an unofficial holiday. Employees will call in sick and students will skip classes. It’s a national day of stoned joy resulting from the now-mainstream embrace of those three simple numbers: 4, 2, and 0.
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Best Falafel

The Original Daily Bread MarketplaceSome people spend years driving down South Dixie Highway before realizing this Middle Eastern bakery and café is there. It hides in plain sight. And like the more-than-four-decade-old place, Daily Bread’s falafel ($5.95 sandwich, $7.95 platter) are magic. Some falafel boast emerald-green interiors fragrant with parsley and sumac. Others perfectly balance a crisp shell with […]
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Best Farmer

Chris FrenchSwiss chard was this sandy-blond 35-year-old’s gateway vegetable, leading from the world of hobby gardening into something more serious. Two years ago, Chris French leased a one-acre tract of land in Homestead and began sprouting everything from tomatoes to greens. Almost instantly, Miami’s sophisticated chefs began buying up everything he could grow. His field was […]
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Best Actor

Wesley SladeGableStage audiences may have discovered Wesley Slade as a manic director in 2016’s It’s Only a Play, a neofarce performed in broad strokes. There was little in that performance that suggested the depth of feeling and shattering emotional resonance of Slade’s return to GableStage 11 months later in Hand to God. The dark comedy about […]
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Best Place to Get Your Eyebrows Done

Beauty Wellness by ArletteCara Delevingne is to eyebrows what Terry Crews is to pecs. The model-turned-actress has 40 million Instagram followers in large part because of those ludicrously perfect arcs above her eyes. But before you grab your tweezers and begin plucking away in despair, know this: Even Delevingne uses a stylist to get those tiny hairs just […]
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How Coconut Grove Used Technology to Get FPL to Restore Its Power

Power is a loaded word, and Miami is ready to blow its top. Nine days into the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, thousands of residents across Miami-Dade and Broward remain without power. Many locals feel powerless in the face of the brute force of nature and also Florida Power & Light, the state's regulated electricity monopoly, as evidence mounts that the company wasn’t ready to handle Irma when it knocked out power to roughly 90 percent of customers.