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Cuba is now open for business — this morning, John Kerry is in Havana to officially inaugurate reopened diplomacy between the nations by re-christening the U.S. embassy there. There's still plenty of debate about the pros and cons of the move: Kerry isn't going to meet with dissidents, which has...
It's official; the 2014-15 Miami Heat season will end in shocking disappointment on the court. Last night, the team was finally mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. A mixture of bad luck and bad performances the second-half of the season resulted in the Heat missing the postseason for the first time...
New York has often been the setting for films about heroin addicts, with titles ranging from Shirley Clarke’s cinéma-vérité-tweaking The Connection (1961) to Slava Tsukerman’s new-wave cult classic Liquid Sky (1982) mining the drama of smack freaks tying off, shooting up, and nodding out. But Josh and Benny Safdie’s tough,...
Welcome to a brand-spanking-new Miami Heat basketball season, folks — hold onto your butts, because this one's gonna be exciting. Last time we saw the Miami Heat, all of our pets heads were falling off. Everyone was sick or hurt, and by the end of it all, a guy we...
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Miami is constantly in flux, negotiating and renegotiating its sense of self, in large part because of its ever-changing population. It's a city whose identity is formed by constant change, by absorbing and adapting to new immigrant populations who — for myriad reasons — have sought a home in the...
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What is money, really? You may think you know the answer, and you could probably produce a few bills as proof. But physical currency is on its way out, like the printing presses that produce it. Money today is an ephemeral thing, as invisible as radiation, digits shuffled and wired...
You ever wonder how Florida has more Democratic voters than Republicans, has voted for Obama in the past two presidential cycle, has razor-close Gubernatorial elections and yet still send 17 Republicans to the House and only 10 Democrats? It just doesn't make sense, does it? Well, Gerrymandering and the way...
With names like Run the Jewels, Toro Y Moi, AlunaGeorge, Ghostface Killah and Doom, the second day of III Points was stacked. There was something to listen to in every direction you faced, and good music was never more than thirty yards away. The crowd was big and eager on...
As the number of music cruise choices increase, so does the diversity. No longer the novelty they were as little as ten years ago, these excursions are now becoming as diverse and plentiful as the number of genres represented. In Miami alone, we have the ever-popular Holy Ship, Motörhead's MotörBoat, and...
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It's been almost a decade since Jared Galbut and Keith Menin teamed up to take over the Sanctuary South Beach. The cousins had long run businesses like car washes together as kids and worked in hotels as teenagers, but 2005 marked a next step for the then-20-somethings. Since then, the...
Two hours before her redeye Greyhound was scheduled to snort out of the lot, Valerie Bozeman walked into the bus station in Oakland, California. She was traveling light: $93 in her pocket, a tote bag full of underwear and toothpaste courtesy of the Bureau of Prisons, and the blessings of...
On May 28, 2013, 44-year-old Anthony Lee — a drag queen who went by South Beach Wanda — went to his friend Tiffany McKinney's house in East Tampa. He heard she was sick and came over to make her dinner. When someone knocked on the door, Lee answered it. McKinney...
The Pubbelly Boys are closing L'echon Brasserie as of today. The Miami New Times learned of the closing in an email that contained the following brief statement: As of July 1, 2015, "L'echon Brasserie", a French concept developed by The Pubbelly Restaurant Group, will no longer operate at the Hilton...
Michael Schwartz, one of Miami's most revered restaurateurs and James Beard-winning chef, has been named in a collective action lawsuit by former employee who claim their place of employment withheld wages, practiced illegal tip sharing, and didn't pay overtime. In a 16 page complaint filed in United States District Court...
Unlike most of its competition, Locust Projects was a trendsetter on the Miami art scene. In the late 90s, the art collective got the jump on the incredibly cheap rents available in Downtown adjacent neighborhoods. Almost twenty years later, and Locust Projects keeps opening up new shows and exhibits that...
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The South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center will present The Chicago Repertory Ballet Company this coming Saturday night, the first chance for Miami audiences to see this company, just three years old, and already being heralded by the Chicago Tribune as “wonderfully dramatic.” One might add “mightily varied” as well. “I...
Just nine months after rejecting a medical marijuana amendment, Floridians overwhelmingly say they're ready to approve it in 2016. Continuing on that surprising progressive street, most Floridians also agree that the minimum wage should be raised to at least $10.00 an hour. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the vast income inequality that...
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“To have done a rock album without my crew would be treason," the troubadour who is currently calling himself Rodrigo Solo told us. "I love the label of rock and roll but I wanted to do a more diverse project. I wanted to try to generate feelings without using a...