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Fans Wait 13 Hours for J. Wakefield Big Poppa Beer Release

Deerfield Beach resident Bryan Turner was first in line for J. Wakefield Brewing's most recent bottle release this past weekend. He arrived at the Wynwood taproom just after 9 p.m. Friday, June 9, and set up chairs in front of the brewery bay doors about 13 hours before bottle sales began.
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BoJack Horseman: the Smartest TV Show About Major Depression

BoJack Horseman streams on Netflix It’s not a huge surprise that my sensitive and kind-hearted spouse could be left sobbing by an episode of a popular TV show. She’d say herself that she’s an easy mark, TV showrunners. But it’s definitely a surprise when any show even tries. TV writers...
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Florida Cops Give Black and Hispanic Drivers Harsher Speeding Tickets

In Florida, speeding tickets cost a heck of a lot more if you're driving more than 10 mph over the speed limit. As anyone who's ever been pulled over knows, the interaction with an officer can sometimes resemble a negotiation: If you play your cards right, you could get off with a warning or perhaps a cheaper ticket for, ahem, getting caught driving exactly 79 mph on the highway instead of 80.
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The Democratic Party Will Get Crushed in 2018

The Democratic Party is in desperate need of a major overhaul. Nationally, the party lost the crucial special election for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District earlier this week. And here in Florida, the state's Democratic Party chairman, Stephen Bittel, badly alienated black Democratic lawmakers by calling them "childish," sparking accusations of racism.
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Florida Environmentalists Race to Save Threatened Gopher Tortoises From Developers

Carissa Kent was working at the Seminole County Sheriff's Office in 2006 when she heard the news: While building a new outlet in Lake Park, Walmart had destroyed the homes of dozens of gopher tortoises, a threatened species that lives in burrows deep underground. Worst of all, the megacompany had done so legally. The State of Florida simply required Walmart to pay only $11,409 in extra costs to level the animals' habitat.
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Leaked Climate Change Report Warns Only Massive Carbon Cuts Will Save Miami

Seawalls. Hotel lobbies designed to flood. Raising roads. Installing pumps to suck floodwater underground. Miami-area politicians have undertaken a smorgasbord of projects designed to mitigate the effects of climate-change and sea-level-rise in America's most ocean-vulnerable city. But a massive federal report on climate change leaked to the New York Times today...
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Tim Canova Deletes Tweet Implying Debbie Wasserman Schultz Fried His Surge Protector

As Democrats go, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a dreadful candidate. Her donor pool is dominated by corporate raiders and predatory capitalists, the list of important bills she's written is slim, and she helped drive her party toward catastrophic losses while she was the head of the Democratic National Committee. In theory, it should be easy to challenge her by refusing to take money from corporations, supporting single-payer health care, and generally being progressive in a post-Trump, post-Brexit world.
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Miami Beach Buys Insurance for Terrorism, Active Shooter Incidents

After 9/11, local governments began tightening security like never before. Surveillance cameras now monitor nearly every inch of municipal buildings, while courthouses have beefed up their entrances with TSA-style checkpoints. In an urgency to protect residents and employees, some architects even began designing government buildings specifically to prevent mass shootings, acts of terror, and other crises.
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Five Reasons LeBron James Is Missing the Miami Heat Right Now

Well, well, well. Rumor has it the milk has begun to sour in good old Believeland. LeBron James was already bothered by the Cavaliers' lack of free-agent signings and the inexplicable decision by owner Dan Gilbert to let go of the team's universally respected general manager, David Griffin. But then came Kyrie Irving's shocking demand for a trade.
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Miami Could Pay $79,000 to Veteran Who Says Cops Falsely Arrested, Injured Him

The case of former City of Miami Police Officers Reynaldo Irias and Yesid Ortiz remains strange: Both are being sued for allegedly falsely arresting and injuring an ex-Marine because the veteran tried to record the two cops harassing him. In a move that made matters much more interesting, both officers also resigned earlier this year, on the same day, by turning in identical resignation letters.
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Subtropics Festival Immerses Miamians in Experimental Sounds

Venezuelan-born, Miami-based composer and sound artist Gustavo Matamoros might be the most approachable man in Miami music. Speaking with him about his artistic passions — theories of harmonization, ideal listening experiences, and, above all else, experimentation in sound — is almost a symphony unto itself, sweeping in its scope and ambition but grounded by a relatable presence and a smiling face.
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Racist Hollywood Street Names Might Finally Be Changed

With its cobblestone streets and quaint shops framed by moss-laden oaks, Savannah, Georgia, is among America's most charming cities. Though picturesque, it's a place with a complicated history: Before the Civil War, white families owned slaves there. In the few decades after the war, however, despite the continued racism, Savannah became a city with a robust black population.