More than 127,000 people signed petitions demanding that Miami-Dade reform its campaign finance laws to keep big money out of local politics. So why did the commission vote 9-4 last night to effectively kill the measure? Mostly because the group that collected the petitions, Accountable Miami-Dade, used its own big...
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By now you've dropped off all your orange ties at the local Goodwill and picked up a pair of Mark Richt shades instead. The Mark Richt Era is barreling through its first offseason, and in a few short months, you'll be able to witness the results firsthand on a football field...
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Like American Sniper (2014), Clint Eastwood’s Sully is a movie of nightmares. In Sniper, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sits rigidly in the living room, imagining the gunfire, roaring helicopters and wailing bystanders of Fallujah playing out on a turned-off television as his children race through the house. In Sully, Chesley...
Just over a minute into the third season of the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman, an entertainment-news interviewer asks our hero, “What would an Oscar nomination mean for BoJack Horseman?” The rest of the season is dedicated to answering that question, tracking BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) from press junkets...
Pablo Alvarez could feel his throat swelling. His tonsils were becoming raw and enlarged, and his sinuses started to clog. “I didn't understand that part. My body was shutting down on me — I could tell.” But he still had many hours left to go. Alvarez, of the Miami bred,...
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Other Body has been relentlessly pacing around the Miami alternative scene for over a year now, turning venues around town into pressure cookers of condensed punk vitriol. Formed in the wake of local acts like Teepee and Lil Daggers, the band includes Jacob Israel on bass, Melvin Zantua on drums,...
You don't get to see a whole lot of Kanye West during the Kanye West concert. The light above him is hazy and pallid, somewhere between brown and yellow. Sometimes he's just a spasming shadow. Instead, the real show is below him, where his floating stage lights up the general admission...
When Carolina noticed the bus advertisements in 2011, she had already run out of hope. What had begun as a low dose of Percocet to manage back pain three years earlier had spiraled into a full-blown opioid addiction. The 30-year-old had lost her job. Relationships with her family were strained...
Compared to many American cities, Miami has a relatively short history. Much of that history involves real estate development booms and busts. The end result is that many of the area's city and neighborhood names are either shockingly obvious, highly descriptive, or a result of someone just thinking the name...
A little over a year ago, as Peter Beach was riding his bike across the Venetian Causeway, something caught his eye. He turned around to get a closer look. There, lying in the grass in front of Biscayne Bay, was a person huddled under a blanket, the bridge and luxury...
Do you have cash to burn and no conscience about gentrifying historically poor, majority-minority areas of town? Good news! The website RealtyTrac has just finished a study on where to start buying up property. The site found that the zip code 33150, which encompasses parts of Little River, Little Haiti, and...
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Ernesto García Sánchez paints with brushes that are works of art unto themselves. One is a double-ended pole that he holds over his shoulder to color one canvas in front of him and one behind. Another is a rake-like contraption for creating three images in a row. A third looks...
Into the quiet, a voice rang out amid the trees. "Everyone remain in prayer!" a man in a brown jacket instructed. "Keep your prayers focused! Keep your intentions pure!" Beneath the blue Suwannee County sky, someone tapped out a beat on a tribal drum. Two young women sat cross-legged behind...
Although it may have taken some time, Marea Stamper’s rise to the forefront of electronic music has been nothing short of remarkable. Since her days peddling mixtapes outside of raves in the American Midwest, she has steadily become one of the most beloved and in-demand DJs on the international stage...
In a result widely forecasted in polls, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has won their party's perspective primaries in Florida by hefty margins. Clinton is besting Bernie Sanders all across the state, but is doing particularly well in the tri-county area of South Florida, which is home to the state's largest...
33 Kitchen 3195 Commodore Plaza, Coconut Grove; 786-899-0336; facebook.com/33kitchenmiami. The man behind the Asian-influenced Peruvian food at 33 Kitchen in Coconut Grove is Chilean-born chef Sebastian Fernandez. He worked at the Coral Reef Yacht Club for 14 years before leaving to open 33 Kitchen with his Peruvian wife, Leslie Ames...
Jean-Michel Basquiat's art has always been steeped in language. From the beginning of a spectacular career that began with graffiti and continued with partnerships that included Andy Warhol and Blondie, he blended art with words. Enigmatic phrases such as "Make soup, build a fort, set that on fire" and "A...
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Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins is a likable study of delusions of grandeur. Working from real-life material, Frears creates an alternately funny and mysterious portrait of someone whom most viewers either don’t know at all or regard as an odd footnote in musical history. We first see Florence (Meryl Streep)...
On a Sunday afternoon back in December 2014, Charlie Silberman boarded a county bus at the Omni Bus Terminal with his psychiatric service dog, Oscar. He was grateful for the ride — at that point Silberman says he had already watch two separate buses pass him by. But as he...
It’s always intriguing to see how outsiders portray Miami in their work. When artist or authors use Miami as inspiration and research in their work, reflecting our city’s strange sense of normality back at unsuspecting consumers, it sometimes presents an even more authentic version of ourselves. Lauren Weisberger, author of...
The futuristic dystopia of the arty sci-fi romance Equals will be familiar to anyone who’s seen the likes of Gattaca, The Island or THX 1138. It’s a cool, rational, lifeless world, blanketed in whites and grays and blues, and peopled with unfeeling faces — a world whose citizens will express...