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Taste Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Through October, many Miami restos debut their most creative eats and drinks and offer special month-long deals in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The campaign was founded in 1985 as a partnership between the American Cancer Society and the pharmaceutical division of...
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Rachael Ray’s Okay: Stop Hating on Food Network Stars

Food Network stars often get a bad rap. Many self-proclaimed foodies and professional restaurateurs alike will tell you that their sensationalizing of cooking desecrates the art of the industry by turning it into a cheapened, profit-driven entertainment source. I happen to disagree. Whether you find these people to be cultural...
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Keep Ocean Drive Tacky

There's something almost all great destination cities across the globe have in common: a tacky tourist zone that locals have almost completely ceded to visitors and tend to avoid like the plague. In New York it's Times Square with its Guy Fieri restaurants and Sesame Street-knock off character. In New...
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Zach Fagenson’s Best Miami Restaurant Dishes of 2015

Aside from a handful of dearly departed closures (think Kris Wessel’s Oolite) 2015 was a banner year for dining in Miami-Dade. Blood began pumping through the burgeoning MiMo District as The Vagabond opened its doors and Cake Thai Kitchen became a fast favorite. The beach continued to flood with celebrity...
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Lila Downs Fights to Keep Native Languages Alive Through Her Music

Sometimes we look to our parents' lives to find guides for our own future. Some of these guides trace our path directly; others are more circuitous. Mexican-American singer Lila Downs followed her parents' paths in that second sense, from traditional Mexican singing to academia and back again. Downs is the...
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Izzy’s New England Fare at Home in Miami

Each bite-size clam belly bursts like a seawater-flavored Gusher. The fried, slightly bitter orbs are an acquired taste, but at Izzy's Fish & Oyster on Washington Avenue, the $24 appetizer is a bona fide hit. This came as a shock even for chef-owner Jamie DeRosa, who says his wife Amy...
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Two Miami Stars at Pulse Highlight Growing Visibility of Local Artists

Jenny Brillhart gestures around the stark industrial interior of her Little River studio to explain the visual inspiration for her paintings of cool, dark shapes and empty urban scenes. "My previous work was much more insular within this space only," Brillhart says, calling the works "pretty abstract." Fairgoers at Pulse...
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Teenage Girl Arrested in Crazy Wynwood Purse Snatch Attempt

Early on a Tuesday afternoon, Valentina Baiz, an 18-year-old FIU student, was walking in Wynwood with a friend and carrying a large purse. According to a police report, as she strolled east along Northwest 22 Street — just a couple blocks from Panther Coffee and Wynwood's main business district —...
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Billy Corben’s Rakontur Studios Wins Emmy for The U Part 2

The most recently eligible batch of 2014 ESPN 30 for 30 documentaries  included Miami-based studio Rakontur's Billy Corben directed  The U Part 2,  won the Emmy for Most Outstanding Sports Documentary Series this past week. Corben's "The U Part 2" picked up where his original 2009 film about the University of...
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Nilo Cruz’s Tsunami Brings Disaster to Life

When the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan in March 2011, plenty of people filmed it and posted the footage. It takes a strong constitution to finish watching even one of those YouTube videos, which conjure a surreal apocalypse more horrifying than anything Hollywood has produced. A seemingly endless black...
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Margaret Cho Gets PsyCHO Advocating for Change

When you read about all the impressive things comedian and actress Margaret Cho does in the span of a year — both the volume of activity, level of impact, and quality of its humanity — it's hard to think of her as anything other than a role model. It seems...
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UM Sued Over Colin McGinn Philosophy Department Sexual Harassment Scandal

Three years ago, a female graduate student at the University of Miami accused her professor — the most prominent member of the philosophy department — of sexual harassment. Her case against Colin McGinn, a world-renowned author, grew into a contentious battle detailed by New Times earlier this year, with UM...
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Mia Alvar on Her Debut Book, Travel, and How She Gets in the Zone

If you think you can’t get down with short stories, then you haven’t read Mia Alvar. Her debut short story collection, In the Country, was published in June featuring Filipino characters living under martial law in their own country in the 1970's and working and saving up in the Middle...
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Butch Davis Is the Wrong Coach for the University of Miami

Now that the ink is dry on Al Golden's walking papers and the initial jubilation has subsided, it's time for Miami Hurricanes fans to come down from the clouds and accept what might be a painful realization: Butch Davis isn't the right choice to take over the program moving forward. ...
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Poll: Florida Republicans Really Don’t Like Donald Trump

Donald Trump may be the leading Republican candidate nationally according to both the Real Clear Politics and Pollster average of polls, but in Florida he's an also ran candidate. In fact, a recent poll found that Trump is in a distant fourth place in the Sunshine State behind native boys...