With even more locally transmitted Zika cases announced this week in Wynwood and Miami Beach, officials are squabbling about who's to blame and what we can do to end the outbreak. Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine accused Gov. Rick Scott of "blindsiding" him with news that Zika was on the...
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What do you do once you've already seized the hearts and ears of millions around the globe? For those lucky few who have ascended to pop stardom, this is a predicament that has — and likely always will — pose a steep challenge for the newly minted Biebers and Swedish...
Hand to God, which opened this weekend at GableStage at the Biltmore, is an irreverent black comedy whose greatest strength lies in one of the best casts ever assembled by the local theater company. The play, written by Robert Askins, takes place mostly in the basement of a fundamentalist Texas...
Tension and release is the driving principle of a tearjerker, where every good fortune is countered by something worse. And as dismissive as critics often are of the genre, it’s actually quite difficult for a director to make people cry en masse and genuinely feel things. Derek Cianfrance’s foreboding melodrama...
For three short months in 2011, Aniece Meinhold and Cesar Zapata spent nights running the wildly popular Vietnamese pop-up Phuc Yea inside downtown Miami's Crown Bistro. Then, like a midsummer squall, the place vanished. At the time, contemporary Miami cuisine was just taking shape. Michael Schwartz's James Beard Award was...
Had Miami Beach Police fired a rifle at 51-year-old David W. Winesett in December 2016, he might have survived. Last December, police say Winesett escaped a halfway house, robbed a bank, and allegedly waved a razor blade at police before they fired their guns directly into his chest in broad daylight...
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It can be hard for non-pregnant Miamians to gauge how much they should really worry about Zika. On one hand, a new University of Florida study predicts South Florida's outbreak should top out at 400 locally transmitted cases and end by the winter. But another new study paints an more...
Looking back at this dismal summer of superhero adaptations, I am reminded of something Chris Rock said during the 77th Academy Awards: “There are only four real stars, and the rest are just popular people.” This was February 2005, mind you — a few months before Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins...
Miami Beach Police issued a dire warning to residents last week: Stay off the beach when the sun goes down. The warning came after a string of high-profile robberies culminated in a Texas woman getting sexually assaulted by a trio of men on the beach after dark. They also robbed...
By the time you first heard of Leon Bridges, it felt like you were the last person on Earth to have done so. The 27-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas, started his career in a slingshot. After gaining some buzz on the local music scene, one of Bridges’ songs, the megahit...
The crew behind Emulsifi Hospitality Management have a knack for turning unusual spots into places they'd like to hang out at—and hope you do too. After the incredible success of their string-lit bunker-like taqueria serving some of the best Mexican street food in the city, the guys behind Taquiza have...
Three years after her father's death, Annette Libeskind Berkovits could still barely surmount the grief. She kept avoiding the inevitable task of going through his clothes and belongings, instead keeping them out of sight, if never out of mind. When she finally decided to venture into his old room and navigate...
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Do we call Anthropoid a thriller? Sean Ellis' earnest, day-ruining WWII bullet-a-thon is rooted in fact but comes on like pulp fiction in its first reels, hitting secret-mission story beats old enough to have served in the big war. As freedom fighters Josef (Jamie Dornan) and Jan (Cillian Murphy) skulk...
A lot of weird stuff happens in Florida. Most of those things tend to involve meth, alcohol, or combinations thereof. Every Friday, we bring you the three weirdest stories of the week. This week: A dark reminder that hard drugs and scotch will get you nowhere in life, save the...
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With a confident grin, Mark Gold strides into a Broward County courtroom and waltzes up to a podium. Dressed in a dark suit and silver striped tie, the five-foot-five attorney tells Chief Magistrate Brenda Di Ioia that his client, a man caught speeding in his mother's 1995 Saturn, will not...
Amidst all the Zika madness there is some good news. Arial spraying and quick action by Wynwood businesses is working. The Florida Health Department has cleared a portion of northwest Wynwood of the virus. Additionally, The Wynwood Yard announced it would reopen as of today, August 10. The outdoor food...
In the heat of their quest to nail baseball stars buying banned drugs from Coral Gables steroid den Biogenesis, Major League Baseball's investigators admittedly went overboard. Some witnesses were offered stacks of cash to cooperate. Others were threatened with lawsuits. MLB's lead investigator even slept with one potential witness. And...
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An English-speaking teacher says Miami-Dade County School Board discriminated against her by not hiring her for a job. The position? Teaching an hour of Spanish per day. Tracy Rosner, a third-grade teacher at Coral Reef Elementary, filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida last week claiming employment...
Set aside your visions of histrionic, paranoid fireworks. Oliver Stone’s whistleblower biopic Snowden finds the director in an unusually somber and controlled mood, perhaps because of the introverted, awkward nature of Edward Snowden himself. The former CIA employee and National Security Agency contractor, who in 2013 exposed the U.S. government’s...
Last night the Associated Press announced that Hillary Clinton had secured the support of enough delegates (both super and otherwise) to clinch the Democratic nomination for president. Tonight, she's widely expected to shore up a majority of the popular vote and pledged delegates during the final round of primary contests...