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Best Brewery

J. Wakefield BreweryMiami’s beer scene is lighting up, with breweries making suds that really reflect the Magic City’s diverse cultures. But of all the fantastic new concoctions, J. Wakefield’s are the most innovative. Key limes, hibiscus flowers, and exotic teas are some of brewer/owner Jonathan Wakefield’s flavor muses. The result is beers that are sophisticated and playful. […]
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Heat Fans Proved This Year They’re the Best in the NBA

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...
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Meet the 2015 Miami Heat, a Legit Threat in the East

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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Best Restaurant Worth the Wait

Finka Table & TapWhen this hip restaurant first opened its doors in the middle of a shopping center anchored by a Publix on Coral Way, the throngs of people waiting to get a table extended beyond the parking lot. Among the excited chatter from hopeful customers was the phrase, “This restaurant feels like it belongs in Wynwood.” It’s […]
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PAMM’s “Poetics of Relation” Probes the Immigrant Experience

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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Best Artist

Emmett MooreA room partition decorated with busty beach babes. A love seat constructed out of concrete dividers. Planters made of South Florida earth and tiny treasures, like action figures, that the artist himself dug up. Emmett Moore’s exhibit at Design Miami last year brought peak 305 flair to the art fair — and cemented the gallery […]
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Mad Cat’s Lazy Fair Needs a Better Payoff

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...
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III Points 2015 Day Two: Run the Jewels, Toro y Moi, and More

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...
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Pubbelly Boys Closing L’echon Brasserie

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...
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Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink Embroiled in Wage Lawsuit

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...
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Chicago Repertory Ballet Leaves Few Stones and Tones Unturned

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...
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Best Bar, Central

Ball & ChainBall & Chain likes to tout its history — for good reason. The joint opened in 1935, after all, near the tail end of the Great Depression. For two decades, it reigned as one of Miami’s most celebrated nightclubs, where greats like Billie Holiday and Chet Baker belted it out nightly. However, it closed in […]
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Viniloversus Lead Singer Brings Rodrigo Solo to Miami

“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...