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Ultra 2016: 67 Arrests Reported, Felonies Way Up UPDATED

After continued efforts to increase safety and security at Ultra Music Festival, Miami police report a decrease in arrests from last year. Felony arrests, however, were up almost 50 percent. For the second year in a row, former Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez served as the festival's head of...
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Five New Rums to Try From the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival

Once again, this year's Rum Renaissance Festival was filled with pirates, tiki aficionados, and rum.  The spirit, which conjures up visions of white sand beaches and swaying palm trees, is distilled anywhere sugar is grown, which makes it the most universally loved liquid in the world.  This year's festival set...
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Despite Its View, Drone Drama Eye in the Sky Sees Nothing New

Drone warfare is a moral grey area, and this movie is on it. Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky stands alongside Drones and Good Kill as the cinematic equivalent of online commenters shouting “First!” on on a hot topic but not bothering to say anything new or insightful about it...
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Listen to Modernage’s New Single, Named After a Happy Days Actor

Last April, locals Modernage broke a hiatus with their first show in almost two-and-a-half years . The thrill of the single moment was enough to inspire the group — consisting of guitarist Xavier Vazquez, guitarist/keyboardist Garcia Freundt, bassist Izzy Silva, and drummer Alex de Renzis — to create again, which...
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A Blatant No-Call Robbed Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat in Game 5

The Miami Heat's season is on the brink. And it got there thanks to an inexplicable no-call at the end of Game Five from the referees on a blatant foul against Dwyane Wade.  With 4.5 seconds remaining in the game and Miami down by two, Goran Dragic saw his three-point...
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In Florida, Cops Flout the Law and Continue Working

The call came in to police at 1:16 a.m. November 22, 2009: a burglary in progress at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, a former yacht club that had become a resort hotel perched on the Intracoastal Waterway just off the 17th Street Causeway. Kenneth Post, the burglar, was a 46-year-old,...
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Longtime Friends and Brazilian Icons Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso Unite in Miami

International music icons and lifelong friends and collaborators, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil will make their first concert appearances as a duo in Miami and Miami Beach this weekend. The pioneering Brazilian singer-songwriters, both 73, share a musical chemistry that’s by turns complementary and telepathic. They’ve obliterated stylistic barriers, nimbly...
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The Sarsaparilla Club Presents American Dim Sum

There are many places in Miami that serve Chinese dim sum, but only one restaurant offers an American version. The Sarsaparilla Club at the Shelborne Wyndham Grand South Beach is named for a root that happens to be the main ingredient in root beer. During the appetizer portion of the...
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SEC Closes Investigation Into Marlins Park Funding

Marlins Park has been open for four years now. The team continues to lack in both wins and attracting much attendance. The county Mayor who oversaw the deal was long ago recalled by voters, and other politicians who went along with the deal are also out of office. However, it appears...
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Donald Trump Is Annihilating Jeb Bush in Florida

You already know that Jeb Bush is struggling. He's scuffling so bad that his mom is pleading his case in campaign ads and DJ Khaled is jumping on late-night TV to try to light a spark under the former governor.   But even the most cynical Jeb hater had to...
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Donald Trump Adopts Tea Party’s Raging Racism

With the Florida primary less than two weeks away, about 250,000 Republican voters have already cast their absentee ballots. That can't be a good sign for onetime Tea Party golden boy Marco Rubio and the other three remaining Republican presidential contenders dreaming about knocking off frontrunner Donald Trump. Last week,...
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Coconut Grove’s Ariete Hides a Bit of Cuba

Wisps of Cuba hide in everything Michael Beltran cooks. You'll find them when you push aside the green spigarello leaves and shaved radish curls — a plantain sliver here, a dash of sour orange juice there. Such touches are natural for the stocky, goateed 30-year-old who was raised in Little...